Chang Feng and Fatty Xu stayed on the flower boat for eight days.
It is no exaggeration to say that Fatty Xu lost a lot of weight. The three chins under the head turned into double chins.
Eight days later, Qian Ning returned from Yongning Guard.
Qian Ning came to the flower boat and found Chang Feng.
Chang Feng asked: "Have you brought back all the clothes of the Japanese pirates?"
Qian Ning replied: "I brought it back. The clothes were washed in sea water and the blood stains were washed away. The torn places were also sewn up."
Qian Ning is very good at getting things done. Otherwise, he would not become the leader of Jinyiwei in the future. Of course, that was twenty years later.
Chang Feng said: "Very good. Send all the Japanese clothes to Luoquan Lane in the north of Hangzhou City. Shi Wenyi is over there."
If Chang Feng wants to implement a big plan to punish traitors, he needs a base camp.
He asked Shi Wenyi to rent six full courtyard houses in Luoquan Lane in the north of the city. It's very quiet there and suitable for secret errands.
midnight that day. Chang Feng and Fatty Xu gave the boat girl the sweat medicine. After the boat girl fell asleep, the two of them got off the flower boat and landed.
Fatty Xu said: "Master Chang, is it necessary to give those little ladies the sweat medicine? Although the medicine is not fatal, it still hurts the brain."
Chang Feng said: "You can't go wrong with being cautious in everything. How do you know that the boat girls are not the spies of the gentry in Hangzhou?"
Half an hour later, the two came to Luoquan Lane in the north of the city and entered one of the courtyard houses.
Shi Wenyi was already waiting there.
Chang Feng asked: "How have you been doing with Chief Yang, Eunuch Li, and the two young uncles in the past seven or eight days?"
Shi Wenyi replied: "Master Yang writes poems and competes with a group of literati every day."
"Eunuch Li is busy socializing with the gentry during the day and accepting their filial piety. At night, he is busy playing hard games. I didn't expect that a person without roots in the palace would have more fun playing than a person with a lot of money."
"Two little country uncles"
Shi Wenyi wanted to speak but stopped.
Chang Feng was shocked: "They are in danger?"
Shi Wenyi said: "They are not in danger. They are creating danger for the people of Hangzhou City."
"The day before yesterday, they drove a carriage and ran wildly in a crowded place, hitting a passerby and seriously injuring him."
"Yesterday, they set a fire at Yanxitang Restaurant in the city. They set Yanxitang on fire. Fortunately, the water dragon team from the Hangzhou Prefecture Yamen arrived in time and the fire did not spread."
Chang Feng couldn't laugh or cry: "These two demon kings! Not to mention, they have the same interests as Admiral Ye Guangye of the Fifth Army Camp and like to set fires."
"You will go to the flower boat later. There are two large silver boxes on the flower boat. You can collect a hundred taels to pay for the soup and medicine of the passerby who was seriously injured."
"Take another three hundred taels as compensation to Yan Xitang."
Shi Wenyi cupped his hands: "Yes."
Chang Feng lowered his voice: "Is Ma Youlu being watched to death?"
Shi Wenyi replied: "Start him to death. You can't escape from our grasp."
Chang Feng said with satisfaction: "Okay! Let's start working tomorrow night."
Fatty Xu was confused: "What are we doing? Mr. Chang, Zhao Sanhu's confession has been burned! People have also been killed! There is no solid evidence for the Sihaihui incident."
"If we act rashly."
Chang Feng laughed dumbly: "Fat man, you slept too much with the boat girl, are you dizzy?"
"How could you forget that our Jinyiwei's specialty is kidnapping!"
"When Shang Ming was in power, how many wealthy people were kidnapped by our Jinyiwei people to extort money?"
"Let's kidnap Ma Youlu and torture him to extract a confession. He is a profiteer. If he can't stand two punishments, he will do everything."
"His confession is not more reliable and useful than that of Zhao Sanhu, a cosmopolitan little Gaga?"
Fatty Xu gave a thumbs up: "Good morning, Mr. Chang!"
After a while, Fatty Xu hesitated again: "But the officials and gentry in the entire southeast are like a tiger's butt. Are you really asking for trouble?"
Chang Feng said confidently: "Don't worry. I will naturally have a way to escape unscathed. You taught me this method in Putian."
Fatty Xu was confused: "Master Chang, don't be so confused. When did I teach you any tricks?"
Midnight the next day.
Ma Youlu had just played with Yangzhou's thin horse in Yicui Tower, and was returning home in a small sedan with a glowing face.
He was humming a little tune happily in the sedan chair: "We, old horse, are feeling happy in our hearts. We are acting like a little bitch. We are stunned."
Ma Youlu's ancestral home should be Shandong, and he can even sing in Lu Opera.
According to the Ming Dynasty etiquette, businessmen were strictly prohibited from riding in sedan chairs.
Ding Yao, the famous snake and scorpion woman in later generations, once said: As long as there are Chinese people in the world, it is the same. If you have money, you will find a solution.
The wealthy merchants in Hangzhou have long trampled on the etiquette established by Master Hongwu.
Ma Youlu amused himself by singing a ditty in the sedan chair. Suddenly, he noticed something was wrong.
Normally, it only takes two seconds to get back home from Yicui Tower. I've been gone for half an hour today. Why haven't you arrived yet?
He opened the sedan curtain and looked around. This is no way home at all. Why did you enter an alley you've never been before?
He shouted to the bearer: "What are you doing for food? Do you know that you are going the wrong way?"
At this moment, the sedan stopped.
Chang Feng and Fatty Xu came to the sedan.
Chang Feng smiled and said: "Brother Ma. We meet again!"
Ma Youlu got off the sedan chair and glanced at the bearer. He looked very strange, and he was not his own bearer at all!
A wealthy businessman like him would never look squarely at the bearers and servants below.
When he walked out of Yicui Tower just now, his mind was full of reminiscing about the beauty of Yangzhou's thin horse. He didn't even notice that the bearer had changed.
The four bearers are all Chang Feng's royal guards!
Ma Youlu asked tremblingly: "Shang Chao, you are here in the middle of the night. Who are you?"
Chang Feng said: "You invited me to play with the boat girl on the West Lake for eight days. It is rude to come and not go back. I found a good place tonight. There are Aunt Datong and Aunt Taishan."
"Let's go, let's have some fun with Brother Ma."
The moon was dark and the wind was high, and the atmosphere in the alley was strange. Ma Youlu had goosebumps all over his body, he didn't want to stay here.
Ma Youlu shied away: "I'm on duty. I just slept with Yangzhou Shouma in Yicui Tower. I'm exhausted. Let's do the elegant things tomorrow night. Let me recover my strength."
Fatty Xu directly put his arm around Ma Youlu's shoulders: "Master Ma Hui, our Mr. Chang has a kind intention. Don't be ignorant of good and evil."
Ma Youlu felt something pressing against his lower abdomen. He looked down and saw that it was a dagger.
Chang Feng said: "Okay, Brother Ma, come with us."
Chang Feng and others escorted Ma Youlu into a courtyard.
Ma Youlu asked: "May I ask my superior, where are Aunt Datong and Aunt Taishan?"
Chang Feng pointed to the main room: "Nuo, it's inside. They are all smooth and slippery. Let's go in."
Enter the hall. Ma Youlu didn't see any woman. The room was empty except for a large wooden pile, a brazier, and a soldering iron inside.
Ma Youlu said: "It's such a hot day. Why are you making a fire on this hot day?"
Chang Feng said nothing.
Fatty Xu pushed Ma Youlu to the big wooden stake and said, "Come on!" Then he tied him up tightly.
Ma Youlu shouted hysterically: "Sir, you can't cross the river and burn the bridge! You have already collected the three thousand taels of silver."
Fatty Xu gave a lewd smile: "You can just scream. Birds don't have shit in this place, and no one will come to save you even if your throat is broken by shouting!"
(End of chapter)
