C76

Chapter 76 - Suppressing the Riots

Mad thugs stormed into every house in the Huang Family, moving everything within sight — porcelain, jade, gold and silver, the calligraphy and paintings on the walls, the low screens on the beds, even the copper pots and the porcelain spittoons.

The Huang Family mansion was described as like a Grand View Garden in a red house dream by ignorant commoners. Today, they could finally be snatched away as they please, who would care about the life and death of a fat woman like you.

"Put it down …" That's my fur coat... "What a sin, that's our master's Moral Proclamation Furnace, you can't snatch it from him …" The fat woman's body was covered in mud, her face was covered in tears and snot. She struggled back and forth in the crowd, trying to catch the robbers, but she couldn't.

"Mom …" "What should we do, these people are crazy …" Very quickly, a man as fat as her stumbled over from the backyard. He knelt on the ground and hugged the fat woman as he wailed, "Mom, my concubine, Qiao'er was snatched away by them. These bastards even tried to snatch her away …" "Where's my dad? Let my dad come and save us …"

The fat woman was so angry that she slapped him. "You don't even have money, and you're still thinking about girls. That bitch who bought the pill for three taels of silver is really a lost cause. There's nothing good about her ever since she entered the door …" This slap was so ruthless that it stunned the fat son. The two of them hugged each other and cried bitterly.

The entire Huang Family courtyard had been turned into a mess, all the money on the surface had been looted as quickly as possible, and in the end, even the women in the mansion had become the targets of robbery. A red-eyed man, a peasant who could not marry a wife, would leave after seeing a woman carrying the money.

At that moment, many people had already made up their minds. They would find a secluded village and cook their rice until it was cooked. When that time came, even if they wanted to flee, they would have no face to complain about it.

Adding his son to the High Scholar Huang, there were fourteen concubines in total. Adding to that, all of the twenty odd maids in his family had disappeared on this day. However, there was an exception. No one wanted to buy the fat daughter-in-law from High Scholar Huang. If she could eat and sleep, she would not know how to work.

"Son, don't be afraid. It's fine as long as we live. We have treasures. As long as we can live, we can make a comeback …" The mother and son pair hid in a corner and watched as all their wealth disappeared. However, they did not despair.

At this moment, the back courtyard of the Huang family mansion was surrounded by over ten men. The one leading the group was the one wearing gray clothes, the one who had incited them.

"The confessor surnamed Huang is inside the stable, but he can't go down there directly. This old thing is so crafty. He actually dug out an underground silver vault. In fact, the silver was hidden in the underground streets outside the walls."

"My god, if he didn't know, he would have gone down there and dug foolishly. Who would have thought that he would move the soil out of the way?" "Damn it, it's a good thing our advisor had such a brilliant plan. Otherwise, I would've lost another chunk of fat …"

The man in gray took a bunch of shovels from the room and threw them on the ground. As the shovel flew through the air and mud flew into the air, a huge hole as deep as a man was dug out in a short amount of time. Just as they were about to dig diagonally, two large meatballs suddenly rushed in from the front yard.

"Oh ancestor, I'll fight it out with you … "You bunch of animals, why didn't the heavens strike you down? You're so wicked …" The people who rushed up were the fat woman and her son. They went to the stable in the backyard after they saw the thugs leaving.

Never in their wildest dreams would they have thought that the most hidden treasure trove of the Huang family, the third master's accumulated wealth of over a hundred years, would be discovered by these bandits. This was the last hope of the Huang family.

"All of you stop, all of you stop … "I'll fight you guys to the death …" The two meatballs rushed up, but with two crisp bangs, the meatballs rolled back against the ground.

The grey-clothed person stuck the shovel into the ground, curled his lips and said, "Fuck, I'm a bandit, I've been robbed for a lifetime yet there's no lightning from the heavens taking me away …" "Tie them up, and let them see all their belongings …"

Too cruel, just what kind of weapon did Xiao Letian choose, it was really as insidious as him. Whoever stole their wealth in front of a miser would not be able to take this kind of torture.

Wu wu wu … The two girls broke down and lay on the ground crying in despair.

Not long after, the hole touched something hard. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a green brick wall. When the iron hammer smashed the brick wall, piles of wood box appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

"Sure, these silver boxes …" He opened the damp box and saw that it was filled with silver ingots. They were densely packed and were a little black. It seemed that they had been there for a long time.

He casually picked up one and flipped it over: "Damn, Kang Xi, 35 years? The Huang Family was really a miser, saving money ever since Kang Xi's era? Is this the wealth that the advisors often talk about? "

"That's right. It's very clear in the Military Advisor's book that our wealth accumulated over thousands of years far surpasses the wealth of all of Europe. However, the Chinese can control business and wealth cannot circulate, so many of our wealth is hidden underground like this … "Aiya, Mister's explanation is too complicated, I don't understand it either. Anyway, I knew Mister was right …"

"Yes, mister came down from the heavens. If he said that collecting money was wrong, then it is wrong. We are helping them circulate. He is doing a good deed …" "Hey, you two pigs listen up. We helped you spend the money to do good deeds for you, stop howling and wailing …"

"Ah …" "Sob, sob, sob …" The fat woman and her son were so angry that their legs kicked wildly on the ground. The two couldn't even speak.

There were already large animal s and carriages in the Huang Family mansion. More than thirty wooden boxes with slippery mud were loaded onto the carriage.

When the sky turned completely dark, the fat woman and her son stopped crying. They struggled with their backs to each other for a long time before they finally untied the rope.

"Mother, what do we do now?" "There's nothing left in our house …"

"Don't worry, the money is gone but our Huang Family still has connections. I know the cause of this matter, let's go to the Beijing and let the people behind the scenes avenge us." With that, she pulled her son and walked out.

"You want to leave? "This will not be an easy task. If you leave, we will be in for a ride of misfortune …" Following the sound, a group of familiar faces appeared. They were the constables and helpers from The yamen of the same knowledge. In the past, they had always been very respectful to the young master of the Huang family, but today, they were all looking at him as if he was a dead man.

"My brothers, our family has suffered a great calamity. All of our wealth has been dissipated, so I hope that for the sake of the past, everyone can spare our lives …" After saying that, Young Master Huang took out the jade ornament that he had on him, and his mother took out all the jewelry that she had on her head.

constable head took the valuable treasures and casually threw them into his disciple's hands. "Take good care of this, this is the evidence to bribe officials …" "Young Master Huang ah, don't say that I'm heartless, I came personally because I was being emotional, because I have to let you know that I'm not."

constable head whispered in his ear, "Don't even think about it, we know that Lord will have to hand over his vote no matter what, if you guys don't die, then we will die." Catch him! " A group of police officers rushed forward to tie them up, squeezing out all the fat from their bodies.

"Please leave, your Yellow Lord is waiting for you in the dungeon …"

The sky had already turned completely dark. Tanggu City had fallen into a sleepless night, the surviving citizens carefully tidied up their broken houses and took care of some of their limited belongings.

The streets were filled with the sound of horses' hooves, and the shouts of the heralds could be heard incessantly. The Residence of Prefect had now become an Asura hell. All of the constables and bailiffs used the skills passed down from their families. The sinners took turns to go through the halls, and these people even mentioned how they stole the sweet potatoes when they were young.

High Scholar Huang had already been beaten to the point where he no longer had a human face. He even confessed to bribing the examiners during the Elementary Scholar examination. Including the two civil mutiny that Tanggu did this year, how he harmed Qing San Ye, and how Beijing gave him the approval, he confessed everything in one go.

Even if he confessed, he would still die. In any case, if he confessed, he wouldn't be beaten up. The old man really couldn't help but feel pained. In the end, Zhou Mingkui held onto the confession, his entire body shivering like a sieve, every single name on the confession was enough to scare him to death. He really wanted to destroy this confession, but with Jiu Shuai's men, Xiang Shaolong and the eagle under Jiu Shuai's command, constantly accompanying him on both sides, he did not dare to hide even a bit of his secret.

At midnight, the army sent by the Tian Jin main force finally arrived. However, they did not expect that even after Jiu Shuai gave the order, these three thousand troops would not dare to enter the city. Jiu Shuai had only sent out more than ten Zigzag Camp cavalry soldiers, but he had intimidated these soldiers, making them afraid to move. That was a dream.

He slept through the night. When the sun had just risen on the second day, a small boat by the side of the sea river carried Jiu Shuai's and's memorial. It went straight to the Beijing and even sent over the circumstantial evidence Xiao Letian had gotten from the foreigners.

A report and a foot of thick confession was the final conclusion of Tanggu's riot. What was laughable was that until now, the Forbidden City simply did not know that such a serious riot had taken place in the Tanggu City.

Once again, countless people gathered at the pier. Today, people came here for only one purpose, and that was to personally witness the rebellion's main culprit.

The bluestone floor of the harbor was washed three times with seawater. The corpses had been cleaned up long ago, but the thick smell of blood couldn't be washed away. One could still see the black blood in the cracks of the slabs.

Originally, the merchants and commoners of Tanggu did not want to come to this Fearful Land so quickly. However, the soldiers that were invited were too fierce and none of them dared to refuse.

High Scholar Huang, Ma Bao, his disciples and grandchildren, along with the families of the High Scholar Huang s, numbered a total of thirty to forty people scattered around. And at this time, they were already beaten up to the point that they couldn't even talk, in here, the only one who suffered was Ma Bao, after all, he was the leader.

However, so what if it was the banner holder? If he met Ceng Titou, unless he was a member of one of the big families in the top eight flags, no one would be able to protect him.

"Allied Ma Bao, Scholar High Scholar Huang … Conspiracy to provoke the citizens, crime and evil were not enough to pacify the people, Jiu Shuai had orders... "Kill!" Zhou Mingkui trembled as he said that, only to see High Scholar Huang's head rolling on the ground with a flash of the blade light, blood spitting out from his mouth.

But surprisingly, Ma Bao was not beheaded. Just as Xiao Letian was reeling in shock, a burst of bowstring sounds came out as hundreds of arrows flew out from all directions. Ma Bao had turned into a hedgehog on the spot.

Standing on the second floor of one of the trading stations in the pier, Jiu Shuai lightly said to Xiao Letian, "After all, he is a standard-bearer. I wrote on the paper that he died after being shot by an arrow during battle, leaving them some face …"