coobybook Chapter 228 Yangzhou Bully
Chapter 228 Yangzhou Bully
The next day.
Su Tang and the others rested for a day at Qi's house.
The next day, Su Tang changed into casual clothes and left through the back door of Qi's mansion, preparing to have a good look around Yangzhou.
Yangzhou, a prosperous town located in the Jiangnan region, is like a shining pearl inlaid on the earth.
The city is bustling with people, and there is an endless stream of vendors coming and going. Some of them are carrying heavy goods on their shoulders or driving horse-drawn carriages loaded with goods slowly forward, their faces filled with longing and expectation for life.
It is not only an important hub for commercial trade, but also a center for cultural exchange and integration.
The most praised thing about Yangzhou City is its vast expanse of water.
The crisscrossing rivers are like green ribbons, tightly surrounding the entire city.
The crystal clear river water sparkles, and ripples appear when the breeze blows, as if telling people an ancient and touching story.
Willows droop by the river bank, and their tender branches dance in the wind like the graceful dance of a girl in green; small boats sway by on the water from time to time, and the boatmen at the bow row their oars leisurely, leaving traces of water, forming a beautiful scene that is as beautiful as a poem and a painting, which is intoxicating.
Wandering among the crowd, Su Tang finally felt the true joy of shopping.
Su Tang kept buying things along the way, whether it was street snacks or some local handicrafts, Su Tang would stop in front of the stalls and choose carefully.
Seeing that Su Tang was in a good mood, Qi Lingheng was also very happy.
Chunmei and Xiamei, who followed behind them, were carrying large and small bags of things in their hands. However, they were very happy to be able to travel to the south with Su Tang. Although the journey was busy, the two girls were also very happy.
After all, they are all in their teens and it is the time when they like to have fun.
"Make way, make way..." A loud scolding voice suddenly came from the front.
Su Tang and Qi Lingheng were selecting items at a street stall selling trinkets. When they looked in the direction of the sound, they saw several fast horses galloping on the crowded street.
From the front, people were screaming and children were crying.
"Hey, that bully from the Song family is here again." The vendor next to Su Tang moved his stall towards the wall, not wanting his goods to be damaged by the crowded crowd.
Qi Lingheng, Chunmei and others also protected Su Tang and retreated to the sides of the street to prevent Su Tang from being accidentally injured.
"Get out of the way!!"
"Snapped!"
"what!!"
Along with the crisp sound of a whip, a woman's cry of pain was heard from the front.
"Oh, what a world this is..." The people crowded around Su Tang sighed.
Qi Yan, who was following Qi Lingheng, saw the look Qi Lingheng gave him and immediately leaped forward.
Soon, a man's loud shout came from the front, "How dare you! Where are you from, wuuuu..."
"Master!!"
"Protect the young master!"
"Get out of my way!"
"Go back and invite the master!"
Suddenly, noisy shouts were heard from the front, and Qi Yan pulled two people to Su Tang and the others.
A woman was holding a young child, looking around in fear.
"This is my master. They asked me to save you." Qi Yan's cold voice sounded behind the woman.
The woman held the child in her arms, looked up at Su Tang and Qi Lingheng, quickly knelt down, kowtowed and thanked them, "Thank you, my Lord, thank you, my Lord, Shanzi kowtows to you..."
The woman not only knelt down to worship Su Tang and the others, she also pulled the child out of her arms and asked the child to kneel down to worship Su Tang as well.
"No need to kowtow, get up quickly, are you hurt anywhere?" Su Tang touched the child's wrist and felt her pulse. Fortunately, the child was just frightened.
Su Tang calmly felt the woman's pulse again, and it turned out that the woman's pulse was just a sign of weak qi and blood, and there was nothing serious.
"No." The boy shook his head, staring at Su Tang without blinking.
"Since everything is fine, you can go home quickly."
It's a bit chaotic here. Those who were just injured by Qi Yan will probably call for reinforcements soon. Su Tang is not afraid of those people, but there is no guarantee that they will not vent their anger on the mother and son.
"Thank you, my lord." The woman stood up and looked at Su Tang and Qi Lingheng again, as if she wanted to memorize their faces so that she could repay them when they met again.
She seemed to know that now was not the time to stay here. After bowing to Su Tang and the others again, she quickly walked into an alley and left, carrying her child.
Over there, the man who was knocked off his horse by Qi Yan's punch has woken up, and with the help of his servants, he is looking for the person who knocked him off his horse.
"Young master, that man ran in that direction." A servant shouted, pointing in a direction.
"Then why don't you chase him!" The man raised his leg and kicked the servant who had just reported the news, "If you don't chase him, I'm going to skin him alive!"
"If anyone dares to knock me down, no one in Yangzhou City dares to attack me. I will definitely raid his house and his ancestral grave..."
"Who wants to confiscate your property? Are you the emperor?" At this time, a voice interrupted the man's roar.
At this time, the crowd surrounding those people had already dispersed consciously, but there were still many people who liked to watch the fun and were unwilling to leave.
Just as Su Tang was about to follow Qi Lingheng over there, the vendor who was selling wooden hairpins behind her immediately grabbed her sleeve and said, "You'd better not go. That guy over there is the young master of the Song family. He loves to bully men and women. He will take any good-looking man or woman back home. His uncle is the prefect Hong of Yangzhou. No one in Yangzhou dares to mess with him."
"Thank you." Su Tang didn't expect the vendor to say so much to her, so she put down a silver ingot as a thank you fee to the vendor.
He turned around and walked forward under the protection of Chunmei and Xiamei.
In front, Qi Lingheng and Qi Yan were standing in the crowd, facing the Song family.
"Master, that man was the one who knocked you off your horse." The servant of the Song family, who had just been kicked by Young Master Song, did not dare to lose his temper with his master after he stood up. He was about to go to the front to find the person who kicked Young Master Song, but he did not expect that the person would appear by himself.
"Come here, capture that man for me. I'm going to take him home to play with for a few days, then I'll skin him and ransack his house..."
The man surnamed Song was still shouting and didn't hear what Qi Lingheng just said. This shows how arrogant he is in normal times and what other people say is completely unheard of in his ears.
"Slap!" At this time, Su Tang also walked to Qi Lingheng's side. She looked at the person on the opposite side who was still shouting and shouted.
As Su Tang finished speaking, Qi Yan flew forward again and several loud slaps rang out in succession.
The surroundings suddenly became quiet, and the servants following Master Song were all stunned. The only figure at the scene was Qi Yan who had returned.
"Hiss... Wu Sisong Xuemin, hiss... Mi Sisong... "Mr. Song was slurring his words. His face was swollen and several teeth were missing.
Song Xuemin?
It’s just a human name, why not do human things?
Soon, the servants of the Song family also reacted. Except for a few people who were still supporting Young Master Song, the others rushed towards Qi Yan with long swords in their hands.
It seems that these servants were used to being domineering in Yangzhou. Without hearing Song Xuemin's orders, they rushed towards Qi Yan with knives.
There was no way Qi Yan would let these people get close to him, so he raised his palm slightly and pointed his fingers a few times at the people who were rushing towards him.
In an instant, several people who were still running on the opposite side had several holes on their foreheads. The blood on their foreheads seeped out directly from the holes and flowed down their instantly pale faces.
"Murder!" I don't know who shouted.
The crowd became agitated again, and the timid ones immediately dispersed, leaving some space where Su Tang and the others were.
"You!! You, killed someone!" Young Master Song pointed at Qi Yan with trembling arms, his eyes full of disbelief.
In Yangzhou, he always killed other people, but no one had ever killed his people, let alone killing people in the street in front of so many people! !
"Don't you want your hands anymore?" Su Tang spoke again.
Qi Yan flashed close to Master Song again and cut off the hand he had just raised.
The onlookers did not see when Qi Yan drew his sword. When they saw Qi Yan return, one of Young Master Song's hands had already fallen to the ground.
There was blood all over the ground, and before Master Song could even scream, he fainted again.
The only two remaining servants of the Song family were so frightened that they forgot to stop the bleeding of their master.
Soon, there were blood stains under Master Song's body.
“Who is the one who is bullying my son?!” A loud shout came from behind the silent crowd.
Then the crowd automatically made way for them, and a middle-aged man walked quickly over with a dozen people who looked like guards.
"Xuemin!!!" The man had only taken a few steps when he saw Song Xuemin lying in a pool of blood. He ran up to him and shouted in surprise again when he saw Song Xuemin's severed hand.
"My son's hand! Go get a doctor quickly! You bastards, why don't you stop the bleeding for the young master!!!" Men shouted in shock.
Soon one of the guards he brought with him came forward to help Song Xuemin stop the bleeding.
However, in Su Tang's opinion, Song Xuemin had lost too much blood, and without modern medical treatment, he would not live long.
The man quickly arranged for Song Xuemin, and then looked at the dead servants of the Song family around him.
"So many people died here, why haven't the detectives from Yangzhou City arrived yet?!"
The man turned around and looked at the guards he brought with him. Immediately, one of them nodded and walked out of the crowd.
Then the man looked at the direction where Su Tang and the others were. Now in this circle surrounded by people, there were only Su Tang and the others on the opposite side and the people on his side.
It is easy to tell that the people who had just had a conflict with his son were the ones on the opposite side.
Although the other side did not have many people and there were three women, there were no casualties there. It was true that so many servants died on their side.
Not to mention that the other party must have someone with great skills, the other party must have something to rely on if they dared to kill so many people in the street in broad daylight.
I have to admit that Song Xuemin's father is no ordinary person. With just a little observation, he can see through the gap and situation between the two sides at a glance.
"What happened just now?" Song Xuemin's father glanced at Su Tang and the others, then looked away and looked at the two remaining servants who followed Song Xuemin out.
"Yes, yes, they blocked the master's way and then beat him. They were so angry that they wanted to help the master vent his anger, so they were killed by that man. The master was so angry that he pointed at that man and said a few words, and that man chopped off the master's hand..." Although a servant was shaking all over, he still quickly recounted what had just happened.
But he didn't mention at all that it was his master who did something wrong first, which led to the other party attacking them.
If the other party were ordinary people, it would probably be those people on the opposite side who would die today.
The servant kept talking about right and wrong, and it seemed that he was used to doing this.
Qi Yan listened to the servant's words and then shouted, "Think about it, is there anything wrong with what you said?"
"No, no." The servant had just finished speaking when Qi Yan turned his palm over again, and a bloody hole immediately appeared on the servant's forehead.
The servant immediately opened his eyes wide as if he was dying, and fell straight backwards.
"How dare you kill someone in the street!!" Song Xuemin's father was also frightened by Qi Yan's move.
He was standing next to the servant at this moment. If Qi Yan had attacked him, he would have been killed instantly.
He immediately realized that Qi Yan opposite him was the master among this group of people, and was probably the guard protecting the others.
However, he only dared to exclaim and didn't dare to say anything else, in case Qi Yan tried to kill him again.
He also had guards around him, but none of them were a match for Qi Yan.
Everything still has to wait for the yamen runners from Yangzhou Prefecture to arrive.
Fortunately, the yamen runners from Yangzhou Prefecture arrived soon.
The reason they didn't arrive quickly before was, firstly, no one had gone to the government office to report it before, and secondly, in their opinion, those who were bullied on the street were weak and there was no need for them to come out.
They could never have imagined that it was the Song family that usually bullied the people in the city, but today it was the Song family that suffered a great loss.
"Make way, we are here to do business at the Yangzhou government office, please disperse." The crowd made way for a path again, and seven or eight men dressed in government office uniforms walked in.
"Hey, isn't this Master Song? Who is the one who has made you unhappy again today?" The leader of the yamen runners subconsciously greeted Song Xuemin's father when he saw him.
"Boss, there seem to be dead people over there, and they seem to be members of the Song family." The bailiff behind him saw the Song family servant lying on the ground.
He immediately pulled the clothes of the person in front of him who was walking towards the head of the Song family and exclaimed.
"What dead people! How can dead people...what did you say!! A member of the Song family is dead?!" The bailiff opened his eyes wide and shouted in horror, as if he had just discovered the abnormality at the scene.
Hearing the words of the yamen runner, the head of the Song family couldn't help but frown and was secretly angry.
This person speaks so recklessly and has absolutely no sense of propriety.
You have to know that these dead servants were just slaves who signed death contracts with the Song family. How could they be called real members of the Song family?
However, at this moment, the head of the Song family did not speak out to correct the words of the yamen runner. He still wanted to vent his anger for his son and demand that the person who hurt his son pay with his life.