"Boom boom boom——"
After the gong rang several times, no one came, and the whole village became even quieter.
"Keep knocking!" Yang Fang ordered Li Zheng.
Li Zheng ignored him, his mallet and gong were hanging down in his hands.
A school captain looked around, tilted his body and said to Yang Fang: "Sir, something is wrong!"
At some point, every household had quietly closed their doors and windows. Wasn't this guy sounding the alarm?
"That's unreasonable!" Yang Fang also realized that something was wrong. He raised his whip and pointed at Li Zheng, "Aren't you afraid of death if you stop the Jin Yiwei from doing their job?"
"Why do you say this, Your Excellency? I have done all this according to Your Majesty's instructions." Li's face did not change.
"You are using strong words and you dare to quibble!" Yang Fang got angry, "Get this guy first! The others will search from house to house!"
A captain behind him picked up the reins and was about to spur his horse forward. Li Zheng banged the gong and said, "No need to search, I am the person you are looking for!"
"..." Yang Fang stared at him, "Do you know who we are looking for?"
"The Jianwen Party you call." Li Zheng also stared at Yang Fang.
Yang Fang remained silent and waited for Li Zheng to continue explaining. If the answer dissatisfied him, he would still order a search of the village.
Li Zheng also knew what Yang Fang meant. He threw the gong and wooden mallet in his hand on the ground, raised his head and shouted: "Father and son Cheng! I am Huang Gui, the son of Huang Zicheng!"
Huang Gui, the eldest son of Huang Zicheng, fled here with his parents and brothers. His name was changed to Tian Guiheng in the yellow book.
Yang Fang nodded: "Take it."
The two school captains rode out, ran to the courtyard gate and dismounted, grabbed the shackles on the horses, and kicked open the Chaifei courtyard door.
Huang Gui kept his head high and let them lock him up.
The school captain took Huang Gui to Yang Fangma.
Yang Fang asked: "Do you have three other brothers?"
Huang Gui's expression changed slightly, then he shook his head and said, "Not here."
"where?"
Huang Gui looked at Yang Fang: "I don't know."
Yang Fang stared at Huang Gui for a long time and saw that he had no fear, so he jumped off his horse and walked to him: "If I ask you now and you answer now, it is better than going to prison and being tortured."
"Then, my lord, just take me to prison. It's nothing more than torture!"
"Okay, very good!" Yang Fang nodded, "Did you know that you would harm the people in this village? For harboring the Jianwen Remaining Party, you, the top ten in this area, and one hundred and ten families, are all involved. !”
"It's none of their business, just take me away!"
"This is not your decision." Yang Fang said, "Tell me the whereabouts of your brothers, and they will be safe. Otherwise, I will take action according to the law!"
Huang Gui thought for a while and said the same thing: "I don't know."
"Sir, don't talk nonsense to him. I think all the men and women in this village are rebels against the party!" a school captain shouted, "so I tied them up and escorted them all to Beijing!"
Captain Wang Meizheng was carefully wiping the three-eyed fire gun in his hand: "Why bother? Just cut off their heads and go to Beijing!"
"This method works! In terms of merit, rewards will depend on who cuts off more heads!"
"Hahaha……"
Huang Gui listened to their unscrupulous teasing, feeling fear and hatred in his heart! His face also turned gray and cold.
"Search!" Yang Fang ignored his captains and waved his hand heavily.
The captains of the school moved together and reined in their horses before they could even run two steps. They saw dust flying on the village road not far away, and a large group of villagers were approaching menacingly. They were all men, holding hoes, hatchets, knives and forks in their hands. Waiting for weapons.
"Zheng——" The captains each held their swords in their hands and stood ready.
Seeing this scene, Yang Fang lifted Huang Gui onto the horse with one hand, then jumped on the horse himself, rode up to the front of the captains, and unsheathed the embroidered spring sword.
The villagers rushed to the front of the cavalry and stopped fifty steps away. The leader was a bearded man in his thirties, with a strong back and waist, and a fair face, not like a farmer.
When the bearded man saw Huang Gui locking his hands on the horse, he couldn't help shouting: "Brother!"
"You...you shouldn't have come." Huang Gui lowered his head sadly and shouted this through gritted teeth.
The bearded man is Huang Run, the third son of Huang Zicheng and the third brother of Huang Gui, now named Tian Shupeng.
"You fellow servants! Let my eldest brother go!" Huang Run waved the steel knife in his hand - only he and the four or five brothers around him had similar weapons.
It seems that this person is not a serious farmer after all. The group of people behind him may also be strong thieves who usually cut trails and robberies with him.
Yang Fang knew it well and did not dare to take it lightly.
"Do you know what the consequences will be if you stop the Jin Yiwei from doing their job?" Yang Fang asked sternly. Although he was a little frightened after seeing such a large group of unscrupulous people, relying on the identity of the Jin Yiwei, no matter how unscrupulous the unscrupulous people are, they should not dare to act rashly, let alone this key point. At this moment, as the superior officer giving orders, he cannot show weakness.
"Do you have any driving instructions?" Huang Run was not to be outdone.
He's quite a knowledgeable guy.
"Capture the remnants of Jianwen Party, no need to post!"
"If you don't have a driving license, let me go!"
"Let them go, let them go!" The villagers raised their weapons and shouted in unison, with great momentum.
"Sir," one of the captains retreated a little, turned his head and whispered to Yang Fang, "it's hard to offend with public anger, why not..."
"Hmph! The mob, as I see it, if you kill them as a warning, you can drive back the enemy!" It was still the captain Wang Mei who was holding the three-eyed blunderbuss. "Sir, why don't you let me shoot the leader, to ensure that this group of unruly people will be fooled?" And disperse!"
"Don't act rashly." Yang Fang said, thinking about countermeasures in his heart.
Wang Mei had already taken out the fire folder from her sleeve, and at the same time pulled out the ramie silk from the leather guard on the back of her hand and prepared to light it...
Speaking of these three-eye fireguns, there are generally two ways to ignite them. One is to use a fire breaker to ignite the match rope added in advance to the fire gun. When the match rope burns out, it ignites the internal gunpowder and shoots.
The other method is used by Wang Mei mentioned above, which is to stuff the ignited ramie silk into the fire hole of the gun tube and directly ignite the gunpowder. This method is faster. Moreover, the ramie silk in the gauntlet can keep burning, so there is no need to take out the fire stick to light it again.
"Let them go, let them go!" the villagers still shouted loudly, while slowly approaching.
The horses under the Jin Yiwei were a little frightened and raised their front hooves one after another. Yang Fang and the others tried their best to rein in the reins to stabilize themselves and not be thrown off the horse's back.
At this critical moment, Huang Gui spoke: "Third brother, take the neighbors and let's go!"
"Brother, the Jin Yiwei have come to our door. Do the brothers still have a way to survive?" Huang Run shouted, "Rather than just sit back and wait for death, it is better to fight them to the death!"
Most of the village brothers under him had guarded the city with Yao Shan, the former prefect of Suzhou, and resisted Zhu Di. They were loyal ministers and righteous men of Emperor Jianwen. They fled here after the city was destroyed, or they were related to the local aboriginal villagers. At this time, they met Huang Gui was arrested, how could he let it go?
And they all have one thing in common: they hate Jin Yiwei.
Most people in Suzhou Prefecture hate Jin Yiwei!
As for the reason, it has to do with one person. This person is Suzhou rich Shen Wendu, the son of the famous God of Wealth Shen Wansan!
This person will be mentioned later, but will not be mentioned here for now.
"Don't hurt the folks." Huang Gui felt a dull pain in his heart and shed tears.
Wang Mei blew the fire stick and lit the ramie silk in her gauntlet.
The sparkling ramie silk was emitting thin green smoke, pointing at the fire hole of the blunderbuss, and the fire blunderbuss was aimed at the bearded Huang Run...
