The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Yang Erbo came to the clan brother's inn and grabbed his clan brother Yang Shuigen.Suddenly someone outside shouted that bandits were coming, and immediately shouted: "Don't run around! Don't be beaten to death by officers and soldiers as bandits!"

Yang Shuigen shouted: "Where did the officers and soldiers come from! There have been no officers and soldiers here for many years!"

Uncle Yang also shouted: "Master Zhifu has seconded [-] armed policemen from the Taiwan government! Each of them carries two black barrels of Western firearms on their backs, and they can discharge several bullets at a time!"

Yang Shuigen became anxious: "Second brother, don't talk nonsense!"

Uncle Yang gave him a hard pinch: "I saw it with my own eyes! They all wore round steel helmets on their heads, and two muskets fired left and right." He paused, his voice still loud, "It turns out that the prefect of Su is afraid that Lvlin Fang borrowed it when there were too many people in trouble. Second, after a few days, I can help drill the Jiangxi militia police. Who knows that there is no trouble in the green forest, and Xu Hong's eccentric son ran here. He is not very capable, and he just arrived. Feihongshan was spotted by the scouts of the Taiwan government and killed with a single shot. It was the one named Xu Qi." Yang Shuigen's expression changed drastically.Yang Erbo stumbled, his face was full of hatred for iron and steel, and his hands were not loose.

Several green forest people in the hall looked at each other in blank dismay, not daring to act rashly.Yang Shuigen was silent for a while, and the room was suddenly very quiet.After a while, I heard the sound of gongs outside, and someone shouted loudly: "Fathers, folks, listen - outside the west gate, there is Xu Qi, the son of Xu Hong, the former Jiangxi general soldier. ——has been blocked by officers and soldiers, Xu Qi is dead——remaining thieves are being wiped out—the city gates on all sides are temporarily closed—please don’t go to the west gate to join in the fun—please don’t go to the west gate to watch Lively, join in the fun--bullets don't have eyes--onlookers must be cautious--"

Uncle Yang glanced at the crowd and said, "Did you hear that? Bullets don't have eyes, so watch carefully. Don't watch the fun and join in the fun."

The people in the inn were dumbfounded.The young man said after a while, "Isn't there no officers and soldiers in the city?"

Yang Erbo said: "That's because you didn't see it. Since the soldiers from the Taiwan government came, the prefect of Su used thunderbolt methods. Why? With soldiers in hand, ghosts and gods are not afraid!" Nai looked down at Yang Shuigen, and poked him He put a finger on his forehead. "When someone gives you a stick, you just think it's a needle." Yang Shuigen and the waiter looked at each other, not daring to move.

On the other side, outside a tea shop, there were people shouting for bandits.Before the green forest people who were sitting idle had time to discuss, the one who shouted was already strangled by the neck.Liu Hu caught this man and carried him into the tea shop, threw him on the ground and asked, "Does anyone recognize him?"

The shopkeeper Liao Shouping hurriedly said, "I don't know."

Liu Hu said: "This person must have been sent by Xu Qi to do the internal work. Please turn around and ask Mr. Su for interrogation." Liao Shouping understood after a little thought, and nodded slightly.

The man struggled and shouted: "How can I be a meticulous worker? I'm just an ordinary person." Someone in the tea shop also asked.

Liao Shouping said: "Just now a signal firework was set off at the west city gate, did anyone see it?" Everyone looked around in a daze.He then explained.The signal fireworks just now were released by the guards at the west city gate, which meant that the bandits gathered outside the city, and there was another kind of signal fireworks when the bandits attacked the city.The man shouted, "The bandits are coming."Liao Shouping said, "If it's a commoner, how would you know what the fireworks mean? If you're not an internal response, how would you know that bandits gather at this hour?"

Liu Hu crossed his arms and said: "There are many green forest customers in this shop. They yelled at this place specifically, clearly intending to coax the green forest people out to make trouble and take the blame for Xu Qi." The man was dumb.

A green forest man stood up excitedly: "Have the bandits come yet? I'll go out and have a look!"

"No." Liu Hu said.

The man raised his eyebrows: "Why?"

"You can't get out."

The man put down his tea bowl and ran out, and Liu Hu kicked him down.The man shouted: "He is the grandson of Chiziyao Yingclaw! Let's go together!"

Liao Shouping said calmly: "If you fight in my shop, you will have to pay for the damage to the tables and chairs." As soon as he said that, someone pulled out a knife and hit him on the head.Liao Shouping raised the Eight Immortals table in front of him with both hands to support it, flipped his hands over and smashed the person under the table, the steel knife fell to the ground with a clang, and the teapot and bowl on the table fell to the ground.

Everyone was shocked.Someone praised: "The shopkeeper's strength!"

The Eight Immortals Table was turned upside down, Liao Shouping stepped on the back of the table, and the man shouted "Ouch" across the table.Liao Shouping said: "The money for the teapot and bowl is yours."

The man hurriedly said: "Fuck me, pay me! The shopkeeper, please forgive me!"

Liao Shouping let go of his feet, and said in his mouth: "Don't go out to watch the excitement, Ansheng will have some tea, so as not to offend people you can't afford. Besides, since that lord is here, you can't go out either." He raised his eyes and glanced at Liu Hu.

The other man squeezed his fists: "How can you pass me by when you meet a tall man." Slowly approaching Liu Hu.Everyone held their breath and waited intently to watch the excitement.Hearing a "plop", before many people could see clearly what happened, the man had already fallen to the ground.Then the crowd was uproarious.

Liao Shouping hurriedly said: "Since everyone wants to compete with this lord, why don't you move the tables and chairs to the side, and you fight in the middle."

Everyone laughed and said, "The shopkeeper is so stingy!"

Liao Shouping also laughed and said, "I'm not stingy. These things are all well-made, and it's not easy for craftsmen to make them. Why bother to break them? My teapots and bowls are not cheap." Open tables and chairs.Anybody who wants to push people out to see that the bandits can't move anymore, and everyone lines up to take turns to fight Liu Hu, just like fighting in a ring.

There are also some inns in the city where many green forest people live, and they are all guarded by the Yang family's children, who beat or persuade or scare them, and few of them make trouble in the street.And many yamen servants took to the streets to beat gongs and shout.When the common people heard that it was Xu Hong's son who came to commit the crime, they first thought of rebels instead of bandits.He also heard that he was dead, although he was frightened, but he had more thoughts of watching the excitement.

Now the bandits have attacked the city.Fortunately, Zhenming's ears were better than others, and when he heard the noise from afar, he ordered someone to shout, "There are bandits—" The horse-drawn cart driver who was setting up a stall outside the city gate was so frightened that he ran into the city gate.A child ran slowly, stumbled over the stone, and lay on the ground crying loudly.In the next second, I felt my body soaring into the air, and when I turned my head to see, an old man grabbed the back of his neck and ran into the city gate like flying.Many men in yellow, brown and green floral clothes poured out from outside the city gate, shouting "Go into the city quickly", and helped the crowd back into the city, and they came in last by themselves.Yang Guotai was sitting inside the city gate drinking tea, but he put down the tea cup and gave an order, and the city gate slowly closed.

On the main road outside the city gate, bandits swarmed over like locusts.At first there were three horses, two leaned down and ran quickly, one picked up a bow and set an arrow while running, looked at a figure on the city gate and raised it up.Hearing a "bang", before the arrow was shot, the man had already pierced a hole in his chest, turned over and fell off the horse.Immediately there was a gunshot, and more than a dozen bandits fell down in the formation, including the two leaders.However, there were too many bandits, and the corpses were trampled underfoot in the blink of an eye.Yang Guotai stood on the city gate with his helmet on, and assigned soldiers to shoot arrows and smash stones.Just now, someone rushed to a few oil workshops to pack up the oil for the whole store, and some have been transported to the left of the city gate, and a large pot is lit to cook the oil for later use.

A sentry looked around with a binoculars, and saw a few long-sleeved Taoist priests running over like the wind, stepping on the heads of the bandits.Zhen Ming said: "Leave these few to the poor."

Yang Guotai said: "It's best to kill them with fire and gun. If the fire and gun can't hit you, go ahead."

A special soldier said: "With their speed, I can predict where they will move and shoot."

Yang Guotai nodded: "You go first."

The other said with a smile: "I haven't hit such a fast moving target before. The actual combat is more interesting than the drill."

The one in the front shouted: "Comrades! The high-speed moving target is about to enter the shooting range. Each person is limited to one bullet at a time. Let's see who hits it."

Someone shouted, "How many?"

"Five. Order from south to north, count!"

Then I heard the soldiers upstairs reporting five numbers in turn, "one, two, three, four, five" and "one, two, three, four, five," and the leader gave the order: "Prepare for the first round."

The soldiers raised their guns and took aim.After a while, several shots were fired, and two Taoist priests fell down in the blink of an eye.The other three ran faster.The leader shouted again: "Prepare for the second round." Only one fell down this time. "Prepare for the third round." There was also one down in the third round.In the end, the old Taoist escaped the fourth round of gunfire and ran under the city gate. He jumped up and stuck his limbs to the gate like a gecko, dodging arrows and stones.Everyone watched helplessly as he ran to the top of the city wall, shouted, and jumped over the city gate.Ten muskets had already been aimed at the track where he landed.This person was in mid-air, he had nowhere to focus, so he couldn't dodge, and he took several bullets abruptly.As soon as his feet touched the ground, he saw Zhenming, an old Taoist priest in gray clothes, standing in front of him.

Zhenming looked at him and said: "Brother Qingyang."

This Taoist priest named Qingyang also made a speech: "Brother Zhenming."

Zhenming said: "I don't want Brother Dao to collude with bandits."

Qingyang's face was ferocious: "Win the king and lose the bandit, see the truth under your hands!"

Zhenming glanced at the holes all over his body, and sighed: "Forget it." He shook his sleeves, "Brother Dao, please first."

Zhenming is highly skilled in martial arts, and Qingyang was shot again, so he did not dare to underestimate the enemy.While opening his posture, he was thinking about how to make a move.It's a pity that he hasn't thought through the first three moves, and a blood hole has been opened on his forehead-this is not a green forest contest.

Zhenming shook his head, retreated back to the city gate.Seeing that the old Taoist's expression was normal, Yang Guotai said casually, "Aren't you unhappy all the time?"

Zhenming glanced at him: "Do I look like a green forest man?"

Yang Guotai hurriedly said, "It's not like that."

Zhenming said calmly: "I was also a member of the imperial court." Yang Guotai suddenly realized.He actually forgot that the old Taoist's surname was Shi, and he was the great general's uncle.

Seeing that there were too many bandit soldiers gathered in the city, Yang Guotai ordered the small artillery to be moved over and hit from top to bottom.There was a rumbling sound, the city tower shook slightly, and the bandit soldiers under the city had been blown up to a mass of flesh and blood, and blood and broken limbs were everywhere.

At this moment, a buddy from Chulongzhai rushed to Su's mansion and asked to see Su Cheng on an urgent matter.Su Cheng is busy right now.Hearing that the bandits were coming, Su Tao really went to the city gate to meet the enemy.The old man Su Zheng scolded him, but he didn't listen and insisted on going.Su Zheng was so angry that he smashed the teacup to beat him.Naturally, Su Cheng couldn't watch Lao Tzu being beaten, so he blocked both ends to persuade him.Jia Cong and his wife watched the excitement with their hands folded, and ordered the servant girl to bring two more plates of dim sum.

Liu Xiaoqi sat on an old camphor tree next to the gate of Su Zheng's courtyard and guarded it.Seeing the door running over in a hurry, Nai jumped lightly from the tree to the outside of the courtyard gate.A person fell from the sky, startling the door.Liu Xiaoqi asked: "What's the matter?"

The door was stunned for a moment, and he blurted out: "Someone came from Missy's shop, saying that the young master of the Lao family is willing to go home and beg their ancestors to send the nursing home raised by the Lao family to our master to guard the city."

Liu Xiaoqi frowned: "Is it just people from Missy's shop, or people from Lao's family?"

"Master Lao is also here." Menzi said, "He said that if a pawn from the yamen goes with him, he is [-]% sure. If he goes to ask the old ancestor himself, he is only [-]% sure."

Liu Xiaoqi sneered: "Sure enough, he's a businessman, he doesn't make drafts when he talks nonsense." Nai glanced at Menzi, "Come on, I'll go see him." Menzi glanced into the yard.Liu Xiaoqi said, "Don't disturb the old man." The door still didn't move, so Liu Xiaoqi picked up the clothes on the back with one hand, and ran towards the gate of Su Mansion like an arrow.

I saw Lao Yanhe sitting in the front hall, surrounded by several clerks holding him, some from his family, some from Su Cheng's subordinates.Liu Xiaoqi put down the door, and the door took several breaths before it settled down.Liu Xiaoqi walked in with his hands behind his back, greeted Lao Yan and cupped his hands: "Master Lao."

Lao Yanhe hurriedly stood up and returned the salute: "Mr. Liu."

Liu Xiaoqi smiled and said: "Our master said it, thank you for your trouble, Master Lao. It's just that guarding the city is the duty of the officers and soldiers, and the well-trained officers and soldiers are not comparable to ordinary people's house guards."

Lao Yanhe frowned and said: "But Nanchang Mansion doesn't have any officers and soldiers available, only King Yan's idea of ​​guarding food soldiers, how can they resist the bandits."

Liu Xiaoqi smiled slightly: "Those thousands of grain guards are just helping out. Don't worry, Young Master Lao, Mr. Su has already borrowed enough soldiers from the Taiwan government to defend the city."

Lao Yanhe suddenly opened his eyes wide: "Taiwan government?"

"Besides, the bandit leader Xu Qi has already died in the hands of the scouts, and the rest are nothing more than mobs. It doesn't matter if they don't retreat. This is the age of firearms, and one shell is enough to destroy a group of enemy soldiers. Besides, we have more than fire. Guns and artillery. Lao The young master just go back with peace of mind. The people probably don’t have much interest in shopping today, and business is not easy to do. Even if the bandit soldiers don’t die tomorrow, the reinforcements should arrive.” Liu Xiaoqi shook his head and sighed, “What a good middle-aged man, that’s it Dead. Pu Dao, bow and arrow are no match for firearms."

Lao Yanhe's eyes were filled with disappointment: "...It turns out that Mr. Su has invited reinforcements from the Taiwan Government."

Liu Xiaoqi nodded and said: "Although it's not necessary, I still have to thank Master Lao for his kindness. It's rare that you have the heart, so I accept it for our master." Nai bowed deeply.

Laoyan and return the gift without falling.After straightening up, he was slightly taken aback for a moment.Liu Xiaoqi looked at him in confusion.Lao Yan and Nai cupped their hands and said, "I'm sorry. I heard that Mrs. Su's surname is Zhang. Dare I ask Mr. Su's relatives?"

Liu Xiaoqi thought for a while: "Not bad."

Lao Yanhe's face turned reddish: "It's possible to discuss a marriage."

Liu Xiaoqi puffed out her chest and said with a smile, "I already have someone."

Lao Yanhe was suddenly disappointed, bowed and left.