Chapter 48 A false alarm

Jian Bing was also a big scene, but she was still scared this time. She thought that although bandits in Nantai County were rampant, the county town was always safe. Who would have expected that in broad daylight, the two bandits rushed into the city to steal people, and the robbers were still the wife of the military envoy.

The group was full of female relatives, maids, old mothers, etc., with no combat power at all. Moreover, things were too sudden, no one could react. The first one to rush forward was Xiao Wukong. Yao Yilei was usually very nice to it. This beast was eager to protect his master, and he grabbed and scratched it. He was thrown on the stone on the side of the road and fainted.

The bandits came and went quickly, and rushed out of the city gate. The troops rushed to pick bullets from the bullet belt and filled them into the chamber. When the guns were fired, the two horses had long disappeared.

Chen Zikun had to report to come, but he had no time to blame him, so he hurriedly asked about the bandits' appearance. Of course, no one could see clearly. He just said that he had worn a straw hat and rode two red horses.

The two platoons of officials chased out. The horse hoof marks left by the bandits were very clear and they were heading northwest. However, they lost their traces when they chased the King River. It was obvious that the bandits wade away, but no one could guess which direction they were going, so they had to divide the troops into two groups to continue searching.

Chen Zikun was anxious and regretted it. The bandits were too arrogant and dared to enter the city to kidnap them. He was too negligent and did not send troops to protect his wife. Even if any of Wang Degui and Li Changsheng followed, the bandits would not leave so easily.

This is the second time Yao Yilei has been kidnapped. Last time he was tied up by bandits from Hebei in Xiangshan, Beijing. This time he was tied up by bandits from Nantai. Chen Zikun firmly believes that a person's good luck can only be used once, especially when encountering the same disaster, Yao Yilei is afraid that there will be more misfortunes this time.

The search was not seen until the night, and the soldiers complained. Chen Zikun looked at the pocket watch. The man had been kidnapped for five or six hours. He was probably back to the parody. It was meaningless to search outside. It would be better to go back to the county town to wait for news.

A team of soldiers returned to the county town dejectedly, and the soldiers returned to the barracks to eat and sleep. Chen Zikun dragged his heavy steps back to the back house. Jian Bing looked at him with joy: "Leilee is fine, he has come back."

"What!" Chen Zikun was shocked and rushed into the room to see that Yao Yilei was indeed sitting by the bed to check Xiao Wukong's injuries.

Seeing Chen Zikun come in, Yao Yilei immediately had tears in her eyes, screamed and pounced on Chen Zikun's shoulder and started crying.

After crying for a long time, Chen Zikun's shoulders were wet. He finally persuaded her and asked her, "Who tied you up and how did he come back?"

Yao Yilei said: "Someone rescued me halfway, but the man didn't leave, waiting for you."

Chen Zikun was furious: "Where are the people?"

“In the living room.”

Chen Zikun hurriedly turned to the living room, and a man of medium size was holding his hands behind his back, admiring the calligraphy and paintings on the wall.

"What do you call this brother?" Chen Zikun said with his fists.

The man turned around, his eyebrows were full of vitality, and a faint scar on his face showed his true nature.

"My younger brother's surname is Chen, his name is Shou, and his courtesy name is Xingwu."

Chen Zikun knew this name, Chen Shou, the famous bandit leader in Nantai County, and Xia Dalong's enemy, was the one who ambushed himself in the Qingshiang tent.

"Oh, it turns out it's Chen Dayuan. Why did my wife fall into your hands?" Chen Zikun sat down and asked calmly. Yao Yilei was tied up and sent back there. She couldn't help but make people wonder what was wrong with it.

Chen Shou said: "It's a coincidence that I took my brothers out to do business this afternoon. I happened to meet two old friends who came back from the city to do business and brought a flower ticket. Oh, it's Mrs. Zun. I shouldn't have done this business by following the rules of the law. But Mrs. Zun has kindness to my Chen family, so I advised these two old friends to let go, for fear of worrying the guards, so I sent them over here. This is how things happened."

Chen Zikun said: "So that's it. Zhuojing has kindness to your Chen family. Why don't I know about this?"

Chen Shou said: "I have a younger brother named Shuangxi, and it was his wife who saved him."

Now Chen Zikun understood that the little bandit was Chen Shou's younger brother, but the person who saved him was clearly himself, so why did he become Yao Yilei? But this is not the problem. In short, the person came back safely and a stone fell to the ground in his heart.

"Brother Chen, did you eat it?" Chen Zikun said.

Chen Shou was stunned and then said without hesitation: "I didn't eat supper."

"If you don't eat, eat together. Can you drink alcohol?"

"able."

"Come on, hold a banquet and bring two jars of good wine."

After a while, there was all the wine and food. It was summer. Without cooking, all of them were ready-made cold dishes, braised donkey meat, sauce elbows, fried cicadas, cucumbers, cold peanuts. The wine was a famous wine in Nantai.

Chen Zikun called Yao Yilei out to accompany her. During the meal, Yao Yilei told about what happened.

After the bandits kidnapped her, they went straight out of the city and fled westward. There was a section in the middle that was walking in the river, probably to cover up the traces. When passing through the Kushui Well, they met Chen Shou's pole. The bandits in Nantai each had their own sphere of influence, but anyone could do the business in the county. Chen Shou originally planned to let them go, but Shuangxi recognized Yao Yilei.

Shuangxi met Yao Yilei in the back house of the county government office. She was in a high fever at the time. In a trance, she thought she had gone to heaven and saw a fairy. Now that she saw her life-saving benefactor tied up, how could she stand by and watch?

Chen Shou was not vague. After hearing what his younger brother said, he immediately stopped the people. He was all in the same way. He also relied on the number of people to bully the few, and personally competed with the other party, comparing with the shooting skills, fists, and arm strength. He finally narrowly won, defeating Yao Yilei.

This story is told from Yao Yilei that although the language is poor and not vivid enough, Chen Zikun can fully imagine how intense the scene at that time.

"I dare to ask Chen Dazhuan who robbed my wife, who was the one who robbed me?" Chen Zikun wanted to know who dared to make ground on Tai Sui's head.

Chen Shou said, "I know them, but I can't tell you that this is the morality of the world. Please let Lord Chen let me go."

Chen Zikun nodded, not forcing her.

After drinking and eating, Chen Shou stood up and said goodbye: "Mr. Chen, the two accounts between us have been cleared, and no one owe anyone from now on, say goodbye."

Chen Zikun said: "Let's go, the account has not been settled yet."

Chen Shou's eyebrows flipped: "Mr. Chen still wants to keep someone?"

Chen Zikun said, "Come on, bring the gift up."

A team of soldiers brought ten long wooden boxes. Chen Zikun personally pried open one with a crowbar, filled with shavings. A Hanyang-made rifle lay quietly in the box. The bolt was covered with butter, and the gun barrel was shining with a faint blue light. The butt and guardrail were maroon red, brand new and translucent.

Chen Shou couldn't help swallowing.

"I reward Chen Dada for these ten rifles. If you can see them all, please accept them."

How could Chen Shou want it? What he lacks most at the moment is fast guns. Even the old local cannons are rare, let alone this brand new guy. In Nantai, guns are more important than anything else. With guns, everything, food, oceans, and women.

"Mr. Chen, thank you!" Chen Shou clasped his fists.

"You're welcome." Chen Zikun replied with a gift.

Although it was already late, the troops guarding the city gate were fed by Chen Zikun. The guards greeted him and opened the door unceasingly. Ten rifles were loaded on the carriage and were transported out of the city with a box of bullets. Chen Zikun personally escorted two miles away. A group of bandits emerged from the woods. The leader was Shuangxi, who obviously had been waiting for a long time.

"I'm sorry to send it to you not far." Chen Zikun bowed.

"There will be a date later." Chen Shou also bowed and ordered people to unload the box in the car and disappear into the night.

When he returned to the back house of the county government office, it started to rain again. Chen Zikun hesitated and knocked on Yao Yilei's door. The little maids came to open it and lowered their eyebrows and said: "Hello, Master."

"You go down." Chen Zikun sent the little maid and entered the room. He saw Yao Yilei and Yi half lying on the bed with a double-barrel hunting rifle in his hand. It seemed that she really left a psychological shadow this time.

"Why are you here? It's midnight, and you're not afraid of gossiping." Yao Yilei's face turned a little red. Although she was given the title of a guardian's wife, she had not yet completed her room. The three of them had their own bedrooms, and they were nominally sleeping separately.

Chen Zikun sat down beside the bed, pulled Yao Yilei's tenderness and said, "I'm here to see you, it's all my fault, I'm scared you."

"I'm fine. I've been used to being tied up by the bandits." Yao Yilei said this on purpose, turned sideways and shined her back to Chen Zikun.

"I, Chen Zikun, swear to the sky, that you will never let you suffer any grievances. If you violate your oath, you will hit thunder..." Before he finished speaking, Yao Yilei hurriedly turned around and covered Chen Zikun's mouth: "Don't say these unlucky ones."

"Then do you believe it?"

"Well, I'm fine, you go and accompany Jianbing."

"No, I sleep by myself these days." Chen Zikun argued in vain.

"Hmph, don't think I don't know that the vixen was so loud at night." Yao Yilei curled her lips, her face turned even redder.

Chen Zikun said in surprise: "You're still going to listen to the wall?"

"No, Xiao Cui went to listen to it, I told me when I came back." Yao Yilei lowered her head deeply, feeling embarrassed. Xiao Cui was her personal maid, a very smart and delicate little girl.

"Xiao Cui is only thirteen or fourteen years old, so why would you let her do this?" Chen Zikun widened his eyes exaggeratedly, blew out the candle, and the room was pitch black.

"Don't come here, I have a gun."

“I have, too.”

The next day, Yao Yilei didn't get up all morning and all lunch was delivered to the room for food. Jian Bing went to visit her in person. She was a person who came and immediately understood what happened last night. Although she knew it was a matter of time and night, she still felt a little uncomfortable.

"Sister, I heard that you are sick, so my sister came to visit you and brought you two watermelons, which were frozen in the well and eaten to relieve the heat." Jianbing asked the maid to move out two big watermelons and cut them open. It was just right in red flesh and black seeds.

"I don't like to eat watermelons, let Xiao Wukong eat it. This little beast is loyal and better than humans." Yao Yilei waved his hand, and the monkey rushed over, picked up a piece of watermelon and ran to the corner of the wall to feast.

Jian Bing knew that Yao Yilei was ridiculing herself and was unable to deal with bandits when robbing people, but in that environment, what could she do?

After a moment of embarrassment, he was about to get up to say goodbye, but suddenly Chen Zikun came in and said, "Everyone comes with me."

When the two ladies came to the yard, they saw a row of small watermelons in the distance, and two pistols and a large box of bullets were placed on the table.

"If you don't shoot all this box of bullets today, you are not allowed to eat." Chen Zikun said.
Chapter completed!