Chapter 16 Guo Jiazhuang

[16] Guojiazhuang

Yao Fan called He Shicheng and Wang Chuannian and ordered them to send 10,000 silver tickets wrapped in layers of cloth to Wei Guofu's garrison camp.

As the saying goes, "one person is private and two people are public", Yao Fan dares not ask only one person to send money. In case he makes his parents in his hometown and don't swallow the money and run away, Yao Fan will lose a lot.

Yao Fan told He Shicheng uneasly, "You two must give this burden to Lord Wei in person. No one else is allowed to hand it over, and you are not allowed to open it."

He Shicheng and Wang Chuannian were also honest. He Shicheng stuffed the small cloth bag into his arms and ran to the garrison with Wang Chuannian.

At this time, Wei Guofu had ordered 3050 people in the small school yard in front of the camp. Wang Chuannian hurried forward and said, "Lord Wei, my owner has something to you."

Wei Guofu knew in his heart that this was Yao Fan's money.

He silently took the two of them into the back hall of the government hall. When he saw the silver ticket, he was happy and ordered his servants to take the silver and rewarded each of them one or two.

It is said that Wei Guofu received silver tickets here, and immediately took the soldiers of the garrison battalion bravely and went to Jimo County to the north.

Why is Wei Guofu so bold?

It should be noted that his guard is on an equal footing with Sun Maowen, a judge from Jiaozhou from the seventh grade, and Liu Ziming, a customs inspector, but in fact, he is a fifth-grade official.

Since ancient times, China has been noble and worshipped scholars, so military officers have never dared to look down on low-level civil servants. But if you really want to be more serious, where is the grade? Therefore, Wei Guofu theoretically said that Jimo County, where the county magistrate is a seven-grade official, can walk horizontally.

In addition, as the so-called unique journey of literature and martial arts, ordinary civil servants can't interfere in the army at all. Even if they meet civil servants with a higher grade than Wei Guofu, the other party can only stare. Although the Guo family has an old man who is a supervisor in Jiangxi, it is thousands of miles away from Jiangxi. Wei Guofu, the Shandong army under the direct governor Li Hongzhang, is not good at all.

So Wei Guofu didn't take Yao Fan's job seriously at all. He was happy all the way and said that it was easy to get 10,000 taels.

If this matter is a big deal, you only need to take two or three thousand taels of silver and send it to the general's office of Laizhou Prefecture, and it will be flat.

So Wei Guofu took a hundred soldiers with a sentry, 30 of whom were all equipped with birds, and the rest were equipped with bright knives and guns. I guess he felt that the gun was too heavy to bring them out, but when he marched like this, it looked quite the same thing.

The group followed Wei Guofu, who was riding a horse, and came to Guojiazhuang, more than ten miles north of Qingdao.

Guo Jixiu is now in charge of the old house of the Guo family. His father Guo Weizhong is the imperial historian of Jiangxi, and his ancestors still have two scholars, so he did not regard Wei Guofu as a great role.

Guo Jixiu heard that Wei Guofu came and brought soldiers to ask him for someone. Suddenly, he jumped up in anger.

He did not open the door to greet him. He went up to the wall of his house from the horse-running slope, held the deed in his hand, and shouted to Wei Guofu below:

"Lord Wei, go back and talk nonsense here! Then Su Sanjie, I spent money and redeemed it from Chunmian Hall. This is the deed, you can see it clearly!"

Wei Guofu said*, although I don't know much, I still recognize the word "fate". Today, I received the money. If I can't do this, wouldn't it become a joke!

Wei Guofu rode on a horse, raised his neck, and shouted at the five-meter-high wall of Guo's house: "Guo Jixiu, the third sister's fixed money was first by my brother Yao Fan! Here is the receipt of the mother of Chunmiantang, and the evidence is conclusive.

Guo Jixiu, there is a first-come, first-served basis, and my brother paid the deposit first. Naturally, this third sister is already my brother's woman. Don't argue with me, otherwise I will definitely treat you for a serious crime of forcibly abducting a people's daughter!

Master, I'll wait here for a moment. If you don't let people go, I will light your turtle shell with fire!"

As the saying goes, when a scholar meets a soldier, it is unreasonable, not to mention that Guo Jixiu is an unreasonable party. He immediately blushed angrily and shouted on the wall:

"Wei Guofu, don't be ashamed! You are a little guard, how dare you threaten to burn my Zhuangzi? My father is the imperial historian of the current dynasty. As long as I write a letter, he will definitely participate in your great crime of blasphemy and bullying the squire! At that time, I will ask you to lose your top!"

But Wei Guofu has been angry for a long time.

He, a five-grade military officer, came here to bask in the sun for a long time. The Guo family did not open the door to welcome him with tea. Guo Jixiu did not come to see him, but stood high on the wall and shouted at him. Wei Guofuxin, who was angry, said, "If you don't pinch out the egg yolk of your surname is Guo today, you are not fucking five. Officer, you are not a fucking civilian. From now on, I will call you uncle!

Wei Guofu almost roared and said, "Come on! Surround the gate! Horse hanging and dog treasure, you took a corps of people into the village to look for firewood and burned the door of this thief's nest that boldly hid and abducted women! Rush in and rob people!"

Seeing the shouting of those soldiers, the gate of the village was in chaos, and Guo Jixiu jumped angrily on the wall.

Wang Hanshui, the housekeeper on Guo Jixiu's side, quickly persuaded him, "Master, if the people don't fight with the officials, let's return the money and hand over the woman. Besides, you have slept with the third sister, and you have not officially entered the house as an aunt. Why are you angry with her and the garrison? In the future, it will spread out, or tell the master to know that even if the master's original reference to Wei Guofu, he will blame the uncle for your misconduct.

Guo Jixiu stamped his feet with hatred and scolded, "Damn, what is Yao Fan! An outsider! Unexpectedly, Wei Guofu instigated to come to my Guo family to find trouble! Wait another day, uncle, I have to fix that blind dog!"

Seeing Guo Jixiu's words, Wang Hanshui knew that he had been soft and quickly arranged it. He asked his mother-in-law to set up the third sister Su locked in the cellar in the backyard, opened the side corner door of Zhuangzi, and sent the third sister out of Zhuangzi from the narrow long corridor.

Wei Guofu got someone and laughed. He asked Bingyong to send Su Sanjie into a mule car and asked Bingding to give 1,500 silver tickets to the Guo family and exchange it for a marriage contract. Then he clenched his fist and shouted at the wall, "The Guo family is worthy of being a big family. Haha, it's okay to be so cheerful. It took me a lot of words."

Only Guo Jixiu's figure had long been lost on the wall, and only Wang Hanshui, the housekeeper, bowed politely there.

Guo Jixiu has now rushed into the cellar in the backyard. There was a crazy light in his red eyes.

This spacious cellar is well connected, with an ice room, a wine cellar and a warehouse for vegetables in winter, as many as eight rooms. Cellars are not rare in the north, but such a large scale is indeed rare. This cellar is lit with turpentine lamps, which is not stuffy because of vents.

The top of the cellar is firmly wrapped with lapis lazuli and rare cement. The walls are still made of lapis lazuli. The soil between the stone strips is sealed with three-ite soil, and the ground is covered with green bricks. Because of some water seepage on the ground, the green bricks are also covered with a layer of raised wooden shelves.

Guo Jixiu rushed into the cellar and locked the door. He picked up his sleeves and took off a black whip from the wall. The corners of his mouth grinned but said nothing. His whole body revealed a kind of beastly ferociousness.

He stared at the ** woman in the room in the cellar, whose hands and feet were tied to a wooden shelf by the soaked cow tendons. In the crackling sound of the pine oil lamp, the dim yellow light dyed the woman's ** body into orange.

Guo Jixiu grabbed the braid and staggered the black oily whip in his hand.

There are some horsetails in the whip, more than three feet long and the arms are thick.

As Guo Jixiu began to vent, he beat the woman who was tied to the wooden frame like crazy. The woman's mouth was stuffed with peaches, and the cloth was tied tightly. She could only whine and howl, and tears flowed down. The thick twisted leather whip was soaked with tung oil and people's sweat. It was black and shiny, and it was stained with blood in a few times. It was even more crackling on the snow-white and trembling *. The terrible sound echoed in the cellar, which was extremely frightening!

Wei Guofu won the army and proudly returned to the garrison, and immediately ordered his own soldiers and mules to send his third sister to Yao Fan's store.

Wei Guofu himself ran into his room in the backyard of the government, took out a large red lacquer box one foot wide from the bedside box and opened it, counting the silver tickets accumulated in his hand. He hung by the bed cross-legged and said to himself to the silver ticket while counting: "I paid 1,500 taels of silver to the Guo family, but it was a little at a loss. I had to tell Yao Fan about this account..."

It is said that Yao Fan sent silver to Wei Guofu in the morning. As soon as he returned to the store, He Wannian rushed over.

"Brother Yao, I heard that you and the Guo family have been in a place?"

Yao Fan said lightly, "I have used the money. Wei Shoubei went to help me get someone."

He Wannian advised Yao Fan and said, "Brother Yao, as the old saying goes, it's safe. People don't fight with officials, especially when we do business, we pay attention to harmony and wealth wherever we go. The Guo family has a deep connection with the official, and there are several officials in the family. Why do brothers have to be angry with him for a woman?

Yao Fan said angrily, "Is that Guo Jixiu the current head of the Guo family? He can crawl on my head and shit today! Isn't tomorrow going to kill me! In order not to be trampled to death by him, I spent money to ask Lord Wei to uphold justice. This is really a big loss! If I didn't have to force it, why should I be so tough? Brother He, don't think I'm angry. Let me tell you, it's not easy.

Yao Fan feels that if he doesn't say it more seriously, He Wannian probably won't pay attention to it.

"Brother He, think about it, as soon as our business name Guo opened, he came to show me the color. It was obviously to test my softness and hardness. If I am soft, he will definitely come to fight me. This is like fighting between the two armies, but if you can't come up, you will lose."

He Wan began to hesitate and whispered, "Isn't it for a woman? Why do you seem to be immortal..."

Yao Fan continued to advocate: "Brother He, you have to learn to look at problems through appearances and the essence through phenomena. If it's really just a woman, why doesn't this Guo discuss with me and ask me to give it to him? In this matter, it's just an appearance. His real intention is to let me understand who has the final say here.

He Wannian's eyes lit up as if he had heard something new, and muttered: "Look at the problem through the appearance, look at the essence through the phenomenon... This is very reasonable."