Xu Sanshui and others looked very imposing, standing on the spot with a long knife, with "I drive this road" written all over their faces. Ning Weiguo, who had the characteristics of a robber, originally stipulated that they would not be allowed to speak, but at this time he was even more frightened. And silent.
They didn't speak, and they didn't move closer as planned, lest they rush forward with their bare hands and be hacked to death with long knives, ruining Ye Tongpan's important task.
So he stood ten steps away from Ning Weiguo and others and pretended to surround the four of them.
When Ning Weiguo saw this, he gritted his teeth and said to the one-eyed boy: "It seems that today's battle with the robbers is inevitable. When the fight starts, you take care of them both, and I will go and compete with them!"
Ordinary robbers were nothing to fear in Ning Weiguo's eyes.
If you can't beat him, you can still run.
But there is also a one-eyed boy and two guardians here. If everyone wants to escape unscathed, he is the only one who can act as the vanguard and fight a bloody path.
"Since you don't have to drink wine as a penalty for toasting, I don't have to be merciful. I just want to capture you and go to the government office to receive your merits!"
Ning Weiguo shouted loudly and was about to break out of the siege.
Suddenly, the ground shook, causing his movements to stop.
Wuyangyang's head rushed towards their location from the direction of Liujiazhuang, still shouting: "The robbers ahead, catch them without a fight!"
Ning Weiguo was overjoyed when he saw the official and soldier uniforms worn by the newcomers, and thought to himself: It seems that I am not unlucky. I encountered robbers on the front foot, and then met Governor Huang's soldiers on the back foot.
"Old boy, we can work together with the officers and soldiers to take down these blind robbers!"
Ning Weiguo explained.
Little did they know that when his words came out, the eyes of the masked men around them flashed with amusement.
Close.
Closer.
Just as Ning Weiguo was waiting for the opportunity, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.
"Old boy, do these robbers have nothing in their hands?"
As soon as these words came out.
The one-eyed boy and the two nurses hurriedly looked at the group of masked men whom they regarded as robbers.
You won’t know if you don’t look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it.
These ten people were indeed bare-handed and did not bring any weapons.
How can a robber go out without bringing something with him to scare others into paying?
Ning Weiguo hadn't figured it out yet, but he was thinking: Why are these robbers acting like this? Did they drink too much fake wine last night and come out to rob them before they wake up today?
Sudden.
The dozen or so people who had surrounded them just now turned around and ran in the opposite direction to the officers and soldiers.
Because their movements were so fast and uniform, by the time Ning Weiguo and others reacted, they had already escaped into the dense forest.
"Are they sick? If you don't run away in the morning, you won't run away in the evening. They will know that they have run away when the officials are in front of them."
Ning Weiguo thought the behavior of this group of people was very funny.
Since the distance was not far, and a large number of officers and soldiers came from behind, he thought that the rumors of banditry in the city had seriously affected the travel of surrounding villagers, so he wanted to catch up with a long knife.
Whoosh——
It's too late, it's fast.
The moment Ning Weiguo turned his back to the officers and soldiers, a sharp arrow grazed his ear and was nailed to the carriage board.
Duh!
A blood flower bloomed on the carriage board, causing the two horses pulling the carriage to stamp their hooves in shock.
If the one-eyed boy hadn't caught them quickly with his quick hands, they would have disappeared into the mountains and fields.
"Damn it!"
Ning Weiguo searched for his scratched earlobe and turned around, looking at the officers and soldiers surrounding them with weapons raised, pointing in the direction of the woods and yelling: "Are you blind? If you don't chase the robbers when they run into the mountains, you will. Come and shoot me?”
Are these officers and soldiers sick?
Who knows.
Ning Weiguo had just finished speaking.
A group of officers and soldiers who had just set up their bows and fired arrows aimed their arrows at them again.
"Bold robber! Put down your weapons and capture them without mercy! Otherwise, we will kill them on the spot!"
What? !
Even the well-informed Ning Weiguo and the one-eyed boy were stunned by the words of the officers and soldiers under Governor Huang.
Robbers?
Say who?
Ning Weiguo looked at the encirclement of hundreds of people in front of him and was so angry that he almost swung his knife at them. He said patiently: "Official gentlemen, we are not robbers, we are..."
"Disobey official orders! Shoot without mercy!"
The officers and soldiers waved their arms forward.
The first row of officers and soldiers holding sabers began to narrow the encirclement and swung at the four Ning Weiguo people.
"Damn it! I told you we are not robbers!"
Ning Weiguo was so angry that he cursed loudly, but the person who ordered the order was a close aide of Governor Huang, and he was still an unfamiliar young man. He had never been in contact with the government office. He was a scholar who encountered soldiers, so he couldn't explain why.
What made him even more crazy was.
The officers and soldiers misjudged that they were robbers. If they fought back, even if they were not robbers, according to the law, it would be a big crime for civilians to attack the officers and soldiers who were on errands.
If he had not been dismissed from his post, even if he was just a gradeless scribe, he would not have been in such danger. He would have rushed to kill the boy who gave the order with a knife.
Ning Weiguo made a decisive decision: "We surrender!"
only.
Before he could throw away the long knife in his hand, a familiar saber struck from behind his head. He dodged sideways and turned his head in shock to look into the dense forest where the robbers were escaping.
A dozen government officials wearing Jinling government office uniforms, just like the masked robbers who had just rushed over, quickly surrounded them.
The leader was Xu Sanmao, a confidant who usually worked for Ye Tongpan.
"Brothers, the robbers who ran away just now said that there are still their accomplices here. Go ahead! Take down their accomplices!"
Damn it!
Ning Weiguo became furious when he saw Xu Sanmao deliberately pretending not to know him and slandering him as a robber.
Looking at the patrol officers and soldiers who were waiting to kill them, he tightened his grip on the long knife in his hand.
Can't drop!
Can't die!
Otherwise, he will be slandered as a robber by Ye Tongju, and this shit basin will be blamed on the whole Ning family!
When fighting against officers and soldiers, at most one person should do the job. Whether it was beheading or exile, he would rather admit defeat to Weiguo!
"Good for you, Ye Tongpan! Good for you, Liujiazhuang! Good for you, Governor Huang! If you want to turn good people into thieves, you should first ask about the knife in my hand!"
…
Perfume shop.
Jiang Yan reined in his horse and stopped in front of the plaque, admiring the words "Go to the secret fragrance" on it.
At this time, he should have been studying the specific situation of the classification and placement of wounded soldiers with General Ning at the garrison.
But a reply he had been waiting for for many days made him decide to come and see Ning Wuhao, the famous poet in Jiangnan Road, in person.
"Sir, we came by chance. Mr. Ning and Mr. Ning went to Hanshan Temple." Jiang Yang walked out of the door and got on his horse. "Are we going to Ning Mansion or Hanshan Temple now?"
Jiang Yan didn't expect that he would break into the empty door after such a long time, and asked in confusion: "Why are the two of them going to Hanshan Temple?"
"Mr. Ning bought a piece of mountain land and seemed to want to grow flowers. Not long ago, the Ye family and the owner of Jinling Flower House refused to allow the flowers to be sold to Anxiang to make perfume. Mr. Ning took charge of this matter himself."
"Mr. Ning is helping the perfume shop deliver goods. The Ye family's in-laws, the Liu family, are organizing a tea party with An Hou, Mr. Huang and others at their own village, Liujiazhuang. They have ordered twenty bottles of perfume, and Mr. Ning has delivered them in person."
Ning Weiguo was able to bend and stretch. Jiang Yan smiled with satisfaction and turned his horse's head.
When Jiang Yang and Jiang He saw the horse's head facing north, they knew that the master had made up his mind to see Ning Wuhao today.
"I came here specially to tell them the good news. Do you think Mr. Ning will be generous enough to tell me his family's brewing recipe, so that I won't be greedy for that drink all the time?"
Jiang Yan joked half-jokingly and half-seriously.
It was a joke to ask the Ning family to tell him the brewing recipe.
After all, it was about the secret recipe of the perfume, and he had to remind Mr. Ning to keep it secret.
But Jiang Yan felt that, based on the fact that he personally delivered the letter, it was definitely not too much to ask the Ning family to supply his new friend with some home-brewed wine for a long time.
"Hurry up and go to Hanshan Temple!"
