There is a small mountain village seven or eight miles northeast of Duozhuang Town, called Maohuang Village, built by the mountains and rivers, about 20 households, most of the villages are thatched houses, it can be seen that the villagers are not rich, and Chen Tiesheng's house is one of the few tile houses in the village.

Chen Tiesheng lost his father since he was a child, and he was raised by his mother who farmed the land, but this kid was smart and hardworking, and at the age of twelve he went to the pharmacy in the town as a small worker, and learned the ability to recognize medicine, and at the age of eighteen, he quit his job in the pharmacy and ran home by himself.

However, Chen Tiesheng has been quite worried recently, because his father-in-law and his third brother-in-law's family came to live in his house, and they lived for more than two months, which has seriously affected the life of his family, and the old mother complained endlessly in private.

It is said that Chen Tiesheng's daughter-in-law is a native of Yan Shenzhen, the eldest daughter of Sun Dasheng, a glass-burning craftsman.

As mentioned above, Sun Dasheng had five sons, named Ren, Righteousness, Propriety, Wisdom, and Faith. Wang Tang insulted the daughter-in-law of Sun Xin, the fifth elder of the Sun family, in the name of Kaiguang, and Sun Lao Wu came to Wang Tang with a kitchen knife to settle accounts, but was killed by Wang Tang by mistake, and then Wang Tang simply summoned believers to rebel and occupied the entire Yanshen Town.

Sun Dasheng was afraid that his family would be poisoned by Wang Tang, so he fled from Yanshen Town with his family, the eldest and the second and fourth went to their mother's house in a foreign country, and Sun Dasheng took the third Sun Li family to his son-in-law, as for the fifth daughter-in-law has hanged herself, the news spread, and those women who had been opened by Wang Tang also hanged themselves, not ordinary miserable.

Early in the morning, a room of people had breakfast in the hall, and the daughter-in-law of the third grandson Li was obviously dissatisfied with the sparse millet porridge, so she complained a few words. Chen Tiesheng's old mother suddenly seemed to have been stepped on by the tail, and said sneeringly: "It's good to have something to eat, our family is not a rice shop, but we can't afford to live for a few months, if you want to eat thick, you have to buy rice yourself." ”

Sun Dasheng's eyes sternly stopped his daughter-in-law who was about to refute her mouth, and said with a smile: "It's so embarrassing to disturb my in-laws for so long, Tie Sheng, go back to the town to buy some food!" ”

"Father-in-law, look at what you said...... Uh, well! Chen Tiesheng originally wanted to refuse, but the old mother glared at him and immediately changed his words.

At this moment, the third grandson Li happily ran in from outside and said: "Dad, good news, the officers and soldiers have recovered Tai'an City, and all the thieves have been exterminated, but the beast in Wang Tang has escaped alone, and the government is offering a reward for his arrest." ”

"Really!" Sun Dasheng stood up suddenly, his white beard trembling with excitement.

"Of course it's true, the town of Duozhuang has spread, and I heard that Lord Qincha ordered that anyone who provides the whereabouts of the palace to the government will be rewarded with ten taels of silver; 500 taels of silver for capture alive; Get a head reward of 300 taels of silver! ”

"Great, God has eyes, God has eyes, this beast who killed a thousand knives finally has retribution, my life is bitter!" Sun Dasheng gritted his teeth, and then burst into tears.

The third grandson Xin comforted his father with red eyes, and then instructed his mother-in-law to pack up and prepare to leave for Yanshen Town immediately, disturbing his brother-in-law's family for more than two months, and he himself couldn't help it, now that Wang Tang is a grasshopper after the autumn, naturally he doesn't have to be afraid of him anymore, or hurry home at ease.

While the Sun family was busy packing their luggage, there was a sudden sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping outside the yard.

"Damn, it's not going to be a weasel running out in broad daylight to steal **!" Chen's mother scolded and walked out of the yard to check.

Sun Xin looked out of the window curiously, and saw a guy with a cloak and dirt covered in dirt probing his brain in the yard, looking like he wanted to catch a hen squatting in the chicken coop.

Mother Chen was startled and exclaimed: "Where is the beggar, who wants to steal my family's chickens?" Get out of here, or I'm going to shout! ”

The man hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't shout, I don't want to steal, I want to buy it from you, I have silver!" After speaking, he took out a silver ingot from his bosom, and it seemed to weigh five taels.

Chen's mother's eyes lit up suddenly, but Sun Xin's face in the room changed greatly, because when he asked Huazi to take the silver, he flicked his loose hair, and he recognized this person at a glance as the beast Wang Tang.

"What's wrong?" The daughter-in-law, Meng Shi, who was packing her luggage, glanced at her trembling husband strangely.

Sun Xin pointed out the window, lowered his voice and said, "Wang...... Wangtang! ”

Meng Shi was taken aback, and then overjoyed, and said in a low voice: "Master, capture this beast alive for five hundred taels of silver, and kill three hundred taels, let's get rich!" ”

Sun Xin rolled his eyes and said, "You said it lightly, Wang Tang, this beast is extremely ferocious, how can I beat it!" ”

"Why can't you beat it, isn't there still a father-in-law and brother-in-law, and the three men can't beat it? Boss, five hundred taels, five hundred taels! Meng Shi excitedly grabbed her husband's arm and shook it vigorously.

Sun Xin gritted his teeth and said: "Damn, fight hard, wealth and wealth are in danger, I will go to my father to discuss, your mother is hiding in the room, don't come out." ”

Meng Shi nodded, excited and nervous, and said in a low voice: "Then you should be careful!" ”

Sun Xin turned around and walked out of the room, and hurriedly found his brother-in-law Chen Tiesheng and Lao Tzu to discuss countermeasures.

At this time, in the courtyard, Mother Chen handed over the hen to Wang Tang, and at the same time took the ingot of silver, and happily showed the few remaining teeth in her mouth, five taels of silver for a chicken, this is called Huazi wouldn't be stupid, right?

A hint of banter flashed in Wang Tang's eyes, and the performance of this greedy old woman made him relax a little, glanced at the open door, and asked, "Old man, who else is in your family?" ”

As soon as Chen's mother wanted to answer, Chen Tiesheng came out of the house and shouted vigilantly: "Who are you, why are you catching my chickens?" ”

Mother Chen immediately raised the silver in her hand happily and said, "Give birth, people will buy the silver." ”

"So much silver?" Chen Tiesheng was surprised.

Wang Tang's eyes flashed, and he arched his hand and said: "This brother, who is a foot merchant below, was attacked by bandits halfway, and lost all his goods, and finally escaped, and now he is hungry and tired, so he wants to buy some food and clothing with you." ”

Chen Tiesheng shook his head and sighed: "Alas, thieves are rampant in this world, and you are also unlucky, brother, by the way, what do you call your brother?" ”

"My name is Wang Zhong, and I live in Jinan City!"

"Let's go into the house and warm up, you can still eat this chicken raw, so I'll let my mother-in-law kill it for you and stew it!"

Wang Tang hesitated, but still followed into the house, and Chen Tiesheng immediately pushed the old mother and daughter-in-law into the kitchen.

Wang Tang looked around and asked, "Who else is in the brother's family?" ”

Chen Tiesheng poured a bowl of water for Wang Tang and said with a smile: "My mother, daughter-in-law and two babies, my old son is gone!" ”

Wang Tang was relieved when he heard this, that is to say, there was only one adult man in the room, which was completely within his control.

Chen Tiesheng and Wang Tang chatted with each other, and the smell of rice and meat soon came from the kitchen. Wang Tang smelled the aroma of the food, and suddenly fidgeted, and his stomach kept rumbling. It is said that in order to avoid the pursuit of the Ming army, this goods hid in the woods for two days and two nights, and relied on eating insects and ants to eat grass roots.

About half an hour later, the meal was finally served, a bowl of white rice, and a pot of fragrant stewed chicken soup. Wang Tang was already so hungry that his eyes were full of gold stars, and at this time, even if the knife was on his neck, he had to fill his stomach first, pick up his rice bowl and eat Hu stuffed in the sea.

Soon, three bowls of rice and a large pot of chicken were all in the stomach, and there was not even half a drop of soup left.

Wang Tang burped comfortably, feeling warm and strong, and then he had time to look at Chen Tiesheng's daughter-in-law, only to feel a little familiar, but for a while he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

"Oops!" Wang Tang suddenly had a sharp pain in his stomach, and a stream of heat went straight to the chrysanthemum, but fortunately he forcibly endured it, or his pants were all yellow.

"Grandma's, I must have eaten worms and eaten bad stomach in the past two days!" Wang Tang cursed secretly, stood up with his chin and asked, "Brother, where is the toilet in your house?" ”

Chen Tiesheng pointed to the outside of the courtyard, Wang Tang hurriedly ran out of the courtyard, but as soon as he opened the door of the latrine, a turbid wave rushed out of the pylorus, and the crotch of his pants was hot.

Wang Tang also took care of it at this time, hurriedly took off his pants full of filth, squatted in the toilet and poured wildly, the sound of ping-pong came and went, and the amount of croton in the stewed chicken was too much.

Just when the sky was dark in the royal hall, Sun Dasheng, Sun Xin and Chen Tiesheng took dung forks and walked quietly to the door of the latrine, and several women in the distance covered their mouths, so nervous that their hearts seemed to jump out.

The three men hesitated outside the toilet for a moment, and finally Sun Dasheng kicked on the door of the toilet, and there was a sudden plop sound from inside, and General Wang, who was soft, was hit by the door and fell into the pit on the spot.

Seeing this, the three men swarmed in, and stabbed Wang Tang in the pit with a dung fork, and the latter roared to climb out of the pit, but his neck was forked by the dung, and he was pressed into the dung water, and he fluttered for a while and then did not move.

It was enough to pass the tea, Sun Xin let go of the dung fork, and Wang Tang floated up with a grunt, lying on his back in the pit, dead that he couldn't die anymore.

"Kill Wang Tang, I kill Wang Tang!" Sun Xin was so excited that his face was red, and he danced and shouted.

Sun Dasheng was so excited that his white beard trembled, and he sat on the ground and cried: "Wu'er, my father has avenged you!" ”

The villagers who heard the movement came one after another, and heard that Wang Tang, the leader of the anti-thieves, was drowned in the thatched toilet by the Chen family's son-in-law, and suddenly the whole village was boiling, envy and jealousy, three hundred taels of silver! Three hundred taels of silver!

Soon, Li Zheng arrived from the town with a team of Ming troops. It is said that in the past few days, the Ming army has been focusing on Duozhuang Town, searching for Wang Tang, the leader of the anti-thieves.