Chapter 135: Killing the Officials
For three days in a row, the team walked nearly forty miles under the persecution of Zhu Rong, but the food became worse and worse, and it was also difficult for the official in charge of the food.
On this day, it was the second watch time before the meal was made, Wang Yin squatted on the edge of the shack built next to the car with a broken bowl, while eating the old grain rice and pickles in the bowl, while coldly looking at Zhu Rong and others eating wine around the fire, not long a young villager in his early twenties rubbed over with a bowl, and said in the local dialect of the township: "Brother Yin, all ask me to inquire, Zhou Gui's disaster is related to this big flower stone, I heard that this Zhu Rong is what Zhu Mian's relatives and nephews, so he wanted to swallow the credit of this big flower stone, so he made people bite Zhou Gui, He pretended to be public and private, and greedy for money to raise flowers and stones. ”
Wang Yin took two mouthfuls of rice and asked, "What is the reputation of this Zhu Rong?" ”
The little fellow thought for a while, scratched his head and said: "I listened to the official who was familiar with him, and told people that he was a trouser brother, and he didn't distinguish between grains and grains." I waited for such a bad meal, and the messenger in charge of the grain and vegetables told him that it was five yuan and one stone, and he also tolerated it. ”
"Brother of the pants?" Wang Yin's cultural level is also not high, so naturally he can't hear anything wrong, but he just thinks that this word is novel, but he doesn't take it to heart, so he said: "I will cross Wulixi tomorrow, but I told the brothers to eat enough tonight." ”
The little fellow nodded and said, "I'll take care of it!" ”
He also got up and poured out the bowl and ran away, and explained Wang Yin's instructions, but Wang Yin was secretly speculating about this while picking up the rice. At present, their team is composed of 163 people from Wu County, 155 people from Suzhou, 33 craftsmen and turners from the Ying Feng Bureau, and 25 officials who escort the car, a total of more than 400 people.
It is said that such a team would not have been united, but in the past few days, Zhu Rong has commanded indiscriminately and deducted the food of the big guys, and everyone has more or less buried resentment in their hearts, which has made Wang Yin see a glimmer of opportunity.
Early in the morning of the second day, the team went on the road as usual, because this section of the official road because it was fifty miles away from Suzhou, it has not been repaired for many years, and the flowers and stones that have always been sent directly to Bianliang by the Hangzhou Bureau and Suzhou should be sent directly to Bianliang and take the canal, so it was calculated that Wuli Creek should have arrived before noon, and it was not seen until the end of the afternoon that the old craftsman in charge of the car carefully stepped forward to explore the stream that was almost more than ten zhang wide, and then returned to Zhu Rong: "Zhu made the envoy, although the water is dry now, but the stream is full of rocks, and it is easy to trek, Or can only follow the old method, let people cut down trees to build temporary bridges. ”
Zhu Rong pointed to a wooden bridge built on the stream in front of the official road and said, "Quack! If there is not a bridge, what other bridges need to be built? ”
The old craftsman could only smile bitterly: "Zhu Zhizhi, the bridge is only two zhang wide, and we can't pass this car, so we can only build a temporary bridge." ”
When Zhu Rong heard this, his face turned red, but he stepped forward to check, and when he saw that the stream was very shallow, he drove his horse to wade, and after running back and forth in the stream, he came back and said: "The stream is very shallow, and it is to wade directly, how can there be so much effort to build a temporary bridge." ”
The old craftsman hurriedly crossed his hands and said: "Zhu makes an envoy, you can't do it, although the stream is shallow, there is no road in the water, and most of it is gravel......"
"Hugh be noisy! I'll let you get by, where is all this nonsense? Zhu Rong raised the whip in his hand, and he was about to fight, but the old craftsman hurriedly dodged, so he could only pause and say: "Okay, good!" I listened to Zhu's envoy, and this will pass. ”
At that moment, he turned slightly from the official road, chose a wider place, and asked the people to cooperate with the big flower stone to drag it over.
In Suzhou and Hangzhou in November, although there was no snow, the weather was also cold, and now everyone was forced to wade into this cold stream, although everyone was resentful, they did not dare to speak. The old craftsman was also conscientious, and before the stone cart entered the water, he took people back and forth to wade back and forth to investigate the path, and brought stones to lay them carefully, and only then did he order to wade into the stream at the beginning of the day.
However, only half of the wading, I heard a bang, the left wheel of the stone car because of the crushing of the stone foot directly in the stream, the rear wheel because of the sudden struggle is the hub burst one after another, the body immediately tilted, then look at a foot more than six feet high big flower stone dumped to the left, although the right side of the people mission to pull the traction rope, but dozens of people how to pull the fear of tens of thousands of pounds of big flower stone, so they can only watch the big flower stone crash into the stream, immediately shattered into several pieces.
"Woe to you!" One of Zhu Rong's followers howled miserably, and then pounced on the old craftsman who was pulling his face like ashes and shouted: "You old dog, how dare you destroy Huashi? ”
Zhu Rong's face also turned blue normally on the spot, and then turned red from blue, and then he felt that the roots of his hair were fried, his scalp was numb, and his blood surged to his brain, and then he pulled out the Pu knife under his waist, and slashed at the old craftsman's neck with a knife, and even shouted: "Old dog, dare to ruin my future and die for me!" ”
As soon as they saw that Zhu Rong actually pulled out a knife and killed someone, the surrounding people were immediately so frightened that they threw the rope and wanted to scatter in a hurry, but Zhu Rong, who was angry, lost his mind and raised his knife and pointed at everyone: "Do you still want to run?" Destroying the Imperial Flower Stone is a capital crime, and I want you to bury me today! Sons, don't let any of them go! ”
The officials and messengers who followed also changed their faces, but they didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this order, so they took out their weapons one after another and made it look like they were going to round up everyone. However, at this time, I saw a figure suddenly jump in front of Zhu Rong, and then I heard a tom sound, the figure raised a mallet in his hand and quickly smashed it on Zhu Rong's head, and then reached out and snatched the Pu knife from Zhu Rong's hand, and then threw the mallet with the other hand and grabbed his hair bun, wiped the Pu knife in the neck, and cut off a big head.
Then he saw this man retreat quickly, quickly jumped onto the flower and stone cart, raised his head and shouted, "Brothers! Now that the flowers and stones are destroyed, we are all capital crimes, if we kill these dogs, everyone will rebel! ”
The people looked at it, and the people from Wu County naturally recognized him as Wang Yin, and the people of Suzhou also knew that this person was a stonemason who was in charge of the car, and he had a lot of prestige among the people of Wu County. It's the other way around! Anyway, it's a capital crime, it's better to kill the official and do the opposite! ”
Immediately, many Wu County citizens lost their ropes, leaned over and scooped up stones in the stream, and killed the dumbfounded officials!
More than 20 officials, how can it be enough for more than 100 Wu County people to slash and kill, it is only the blink of an eye, the people and car workers in Suzhou have not yet reacted, they are all killed like chopping melons and vegetables, and even most of them were thrown alive by stones.
And because of the proper cooperation of the Mingjiao disciples under Wang Yin, not only did not let go of a single official, but even the Suzhou people who had a bad experience in the rear team and wanted to escape were all stopped.
After killing all the officials, Wang Yin ascended to the top and shouted: "Brothers! I was originally a servant of the people, only for a hundred and ten pennies, but I came to transport this flower stone. Now it is obvious that Zhu Rong did not listen to the advice, forcibly crossed the stream, destroyed the flowers and stones, but asked me to wait for the funeral. Now that we have been forced to kill officials and cook food, we have only one way to go down to Taihu Lake and fall into the grass, if the brothers can trust me Wang Yin, they will go with me to seek a fortune. If you can't believe it, go home! I have the responsibility to bear! ”