Chapter 28 The Royal Guards parachuted in front of Dong’s house
The scholar who tried his best to dissuade Dong Zuchang was named Gu Shouqian. His grandfather Gu Mingshi was a Jinshi during the Jiajing period. He was in charge of the jade seal for the emperor. The Gu family was also a famous family in Songjiang.
Among the younger generation of the Gu family, Gu Shouqian, the second-in-law's grandson, is the most handsome and handsome. Although his father died young, he is quite popular among several uncles.
Gu Shouqian was extremely talented in calligraphy and painting. When he was in his early tenth year, he happened to meet Dong Qichang who resigned from office and returned to Songjiang. His grandfather Gu Mingshi took him to the Dong Mansion to become his disciple, and he became Dong Qichang's disciple. Dong Qichang treated Gu Shouqian like a teacher and a father.
Sui even personally acted as a matchmaker to negotiate the marriage between Han Ximeng, the eldest daughter of the Han family, and Gu Shouqian.
Gu Shouqian and Han Ximeng, one good at painting and the other good at embroidery, had known each other since they were young. They had seen each other several times during the Lantern Festival and Dragon Boat Festival festivals, and they had already had a vague affection for each other.
Dong Qichang was lucky this month, it was just a sesame that fell into the eye of a needle - it was just a coincidence.
Today, Han Ximeng, regardless of his uncle and aunt's obstruction, personally took Zheng Shoukuan to Songjiang Mansion to find Huang Zunsu and ask if there was any news about Zheng Haizhu.
Not wanting to go to Dong Mansion, many strong men holding wooden sticks suddenly came from all directions, blocking several passages aggressively. Immediately, a shirtless strong man came up and was about to approach Han Ximeng and Zheng Shoukuan.
, someone suddenly pulled them in at the door of Dong's house and closed the door again.
The person who rescued Han Ximeng was Gu Shouqian who came to greet Dong Qichang early in the morning.
At that time, Gu Shouqian saw that the momentum was not right, and wanted to recruit a few strong young men and women with Dong Zuchang, and send Dong Qichang, Dong family women and Han Ximeng into a carriage from the back door of the house that had not yet been surrounded, and go to the Dong family's house in Huating County.
Grange to avoid disaster.
However, Dong Qichang saw that Huang Zunsu, the new official of Songjiang Prefecture, had evacuated the villagers yesterday, and thought that the situation would not get out of control today. He was also worried about the hundreds of calligraphy and paintings collected in the house, so he was unwilling to evacuate.
After such a hesitation, in less than half a stick of incense, Dong's house was completely surrounded, and no one in the house could get out again.
Gu Shouqian often went in and out of Dong's house, and now he was standing in front of the door. His young face was calm and calm, and he seemed to be more experienced than Dong Zuchang, who was nearly ten years older than him. He was quite admired by the Dong family's servants.
"Move the ladder in the corner of the courtyard and lean it against the wall. I'll go up and have a look." Gu Shouqian ordered.
"Gu... Second brother Gu, be careful." Han Ximeng said from the side, his voice was not loud, but he was not hesitant or shy.
Today was the first time that Gu Shouqian was so close to Han Ximeng, and it was also the first time that he heard her call him "Second Brother Gu". Even though he had been happy to be engaged to her for a long time, this kind of sweetness was right at his fingertips.
, still makes Gu Shouqian's heart surge.
He said gently and comfortingly: "It's okay. I heard someone shouting outside, and there is someone who seems to be an acquaintance. I'll ask him a few words."
Gu Shouqian lifted up his robe and climbed up the wooden ladder.
But outside the high wall, under the stone steps of the gate of Dong's house, there were hundreds of villagers gathered in the crowd, most of them holding hoes, shovels, wooden sticks and other equipment.
More people gathered around the courtyard wall. Some of them did not look like farmers, but like green-skinned rogues. They did not utter insults, but had sinister eyes.
The villagers at the door were shouting and making a fuss when they suddenly saw a frail and white-skinned scholar emerging from the wall of Dong's house. They felt strange and all shut up.
In this moment of silence, Gu Shouqian's eyes had caught the person he was looking for.
"Weng Yuansheng, was it you who just said that Mr. Dong was asking for bribes in Hubei?"
The man named Weng Yuansheng was under forty, a native of Songjiang, with little literary talent. However, he failed to succeed in many attempts, and his poor family could no longer support his education.
Fortunately, his mother had worked as a nanny for the Gu family in the past, and when she cried and asked for help, Gu Shouxian's uncle arranged for Weng Yuansheng to be assigned a job in the government office, sorting out official newspapers and copying them. He was regarded as an official, and at least he could make Weng Yuansheng happy every day.
I receive one tael of silver per month to support my mother, wife and children.
During the holidays, Weng Yuansheng would visit Gu's house according to etiquette, so Gu Shouqian was very familiar with his voice.
Weng Yuansheng, who was standing in front of the villagers, did not expect that the second young master of the Gu family was actually at Dong's house today, and when he came up he questioned him in a questioning tone, apparently trying to stand up for Dong's house.
Although Weng Yuansheng was often nagged by his mother to be grateful to the Gu family, he actually disagreed with it in his heart. Occasionally he would see the nephews and nephews of the Gu family dressed in elegant clothes in the streets. After a moment of envy, he would immediately curse to himself with jealousy: "You just have money."
It's just a bit of good luck in reincarnation.
This time, Weng Yuansheng was chosen as a pawn by a well-connected person, and he was full of thoughts of risking his life to win. Not to mention Gu Shouqian, the grandson of the Gu family whose beard had not yet grown thick, even if the old man Gu Mingshi came here in person, he Weng Yuansheng
It won't shrink back even half an inch.
Then, Weng Yuansheng looked sternly and said in a loud voice: "Young Master Gu has learned that Mr. Weng has been working as a yamen official for six or seven years. He has handled newspapers and listened to the advice of all the adults, not just a thousand times a hundred times? Dong
This official has a bad official reputation, and it is known both inside and outside the capital. Now that he has been expelled from the court, his personal ethics after returning to his hometown have turned out to be so bad. He allows his children to do wrong and do evil, which is intolerable!"
Gu Shouqian had met Weng Yuansheng at home before and felt that the man's facial expressions were evil. After seeing what he did today, he concluded that he was probably being used by someone to make the first rafter.
The second young master Gu then said tit for tat: "Weng Yuansheng, don't fool the folks with your nonsense about Wenzou Zou. Tell me, what is the wrongdoing of the Dong Mansion and what evil has it done?"
A strong man carrying a hoe next to Weng Yuansheng rushed to answer: "Well, Dong Shichang's second son wants to snatch the Lu family's youngest daughter as a concubine."
Gu Shouqian raised his hands to the strong man and said, "My friend, the daughter of the Lu family you are talking about is called Luying. Her mother wanted to remarry and went to the Lu family and did not want to take her with her, so she sold her to a man long ago.
She is the daughter of a couple whose surname is Chen. The Chen couple are employed by Mr. Dong’s family on a long-term basis. Luying also comes to do some needlework on weekdays. A few days ago, Luying’s mother claimed to be seriously ill and wanted to see her.
The Chen couple kindly sent Lu Ying away for their daughter, but they didn’t see her come back for more than ten days. They came to ask for her daughter, and then they learned that Lu Ying’s mother-in-law, together with the Lu family’s husband, wanted to sell their daughter to Suzhou as a concubine. The Chen couple
I called some of the servants I know well in Dong's house and came to argue with me again."
When Gu Shouqian said this, he climbed up a ladder again, bravely exposed more of his body, and said to the people outside the wall: "This matter is both emotional and reasonable. It's all wrong between the Lu family man and Luying's mother. How did it happen?"
How could a yamen clerk tell a story about slandering the Dong family? You keep talking about people's women, but did you see a people's daughter and her own mother going to the yamen to beat drums and cry out for injustice?"
There was a murmur among the crowd.
Someone said: "Ah Ertou, haven't you seen that Lu Ying going to sue the government?"
"Ah? I didn't, I'm not. Did you hear it wrong? The little lady I met was from the theater troupe. She said that someone wrote a play for them to play Dong's Mansion robbing a woman. After the performance, the person didn't come.
Pay the money."
When Weng Yuansheng heard this, he turned around and said angrily: "Because Fan Dashan, the man who wrote the play script, was pissed to death."
After saying this, Weng Yuansheng simply abandoned the politeness of a half-hearted scholar and rushed up the steps of Dong's Mansion.
He pointed at a group of strong men in the front row and spat: "The one on the wall is the young master of the Gu family in the east of the city. They, the rich kids, wear a pair of trousers. Folks in Fanjiazhuang, your village has finally produced a talented scholar named Fan Chang.
, Lu Jianbuping wrote a play that satirized the Dong family for their evil deeds. As a result, Dong Zu often came to the Yamen to make trouble and asked the prefect to put Fan Xiucai in jail. Fan Xiucai was so angry that he died of anger. The Fan family's mother and his wife went to the Dong family
When I asked for an explanation, Dong Zu ordered me to strip him of my clothes and humiliate him. Are you guys from Fanjiazhuang still the ones in charge, so you let others bully you?"
"My surname is Weng, my Dong family has no enmity with you, why are you so confident?"
There was a "bang" sound, and the door of Dong's house was opened. Dong Zuchang finally lost his temper and rushed out to confront Weng Yuansheng.
Weng Yuansheng could not get enough of this view. He glanced proudly at the open ebony door, smiled solemnly at Dong Zuchang, and then called on the greenskins on both sides of the wall to rush in.
However, as soon as he turned around, he screamed "Oh!" and fell down on the stone steps.
A wooden arrow flew through the air and hit him on the shoulder without any bias.
The arrow was not equipped with a head, but it was powerful. Although it could not penetrate the flesh, it still caused Weng Yuansheng severe pain, and he lay on the ground wailing.
The people who were about to rush to Dong's house immediately froze instinctively and froze in place.
"Soldiers, soldiers, soldiers, officers and soldiers..." someone from the back row of the crowd finally shouted.
Immediately afterwards, everyone saw a man in a floral robe and a scarf and a helmet jumping down from the big camphor tree behind him. His figure was light and neat, like a young general from the gods.
He took a few steps to the steps of Dong's Mansion. He first made sure that Weng Yuansheng, who was howling like a killing pig, was fine, and then turned around to face the stunned people.
There were a few people in the crowd who usually loved listening and reading. After seeing clearly the red flying fish with white horns embroidered on the man's chest, they exclaimed: "Jin, Jin Yiwei."