Chapter 149: Did Wang Xiaoguan fall into the water?
In the next few days, the summer tax revenue in She County was very smooth this year. Among the grain chiefs in District 15, it was Wang Fulin's legitimate uncle Wu Tianbao, the first to complete the collection task.@On the evening of the tax payment, Wang Fulin invited Wu Tianbao from the levy and expelled the family. The whole family had a lively meal. Wang Erniang and Wang Xiaomei all smiled and ran to the kitchen and said that they wanted to help Liu Hong cook together, but in fact it caused a lot of trouble. Despite this, the yard was filled with laughter and a happy atmosphere.
After the meal, Wu Tianbao pulled Wang Fulin alone and asked in a low voice. When talking about the big players who had been stumbling on him at the beginning, they finally paid all the summer taxes they should pay, and he did not compensate him for this result. As a result, Wang Fulin calculated Wu Tianbao's slowest progress at the time, but now he was the first to complete it. Thinking about the words Mr. Cheng had given before, he didn't understand that it was this person who helped him. But this was a favor between him and Mr. Cheng, and he was not convenient to say it clearly to this uncle who had been working hard for two months.
After staying overnight at Wu Tianbao, he left the city early in the morning the next morning and went back to Yan Town. He wanted to take Cheng Naixuan, who was forced to stay at his home, and went to the Cheng family mansion with him. He first thanked him and explained the matter of escaping the house clearly. However, Cheng Naixuan was just a mouse and saw the cat, so he didn't dare to go at all. He just begged him to get the fragrance out of the moist, and he had to go there alone. When he arrived at the Cheng family, he first thanked Mr. Cheng for his strong support for the summer tax work in She County, especially for helping his uncle. Seeing that Mr. Cheng was humble and did not make any contribution, he directly sold the boy Cheng Naixuan.
"I originally wanted to bring Brother Cheng with me, but he said he had escaped for so long and had no shame to see you, so..."
"You don't need to say anything. What kind of temper is my own son? I don't know?" Mr. Cheng raised his eyebrows and then snorted coldly, "I'm not satisfied with his fiancée but dare not tell me truthfully, timid! By the way, you turned around and brought Mo Xiang to him. There were so many servants in the family, he only won over one Mo Xiang, and the others were just fooled by tricks. If it weren't for his departure, he would have left a letter to his grandmother and mother. I wouldn't want this son, I really don't know where he looks like me!"
Regarding Mr. Cheng's harsh evaluation, Wang Fulin had to sigh that being a tiger father is very demanding. He was about to explain another thing slightly, but Mr. Cheng suddenly changed his mind.
"As for the evil dog that chased him all the way when he said he had met Miss Xu before, I went to check it out. I couldn't ask about the ghost face, but the evil dog was broken by a servant of the Xu family. The Xu family was not rich, so there was a dog raising at home to prevent stealing. This was just an accident." Seeing that Wang Fulin's expression was subtle, Mr. Cheng knew that the little scholar had a good relationship with his son. He might not believe this statement. He could only sigh, "Go back and tell the boy that he would continue to mess around like this. The Xu family might not be able to like his son-in-law!"
If that was true, Master Cheng would definitely be happy!
Wang Fulin came to see Mr. Cheng today, and another thing was to inquire about the movements of the wealthy families in the village. He learned from Mr. Cheng that the white grain was sent to the point that these people didn't care about anything else for the time being. He felt relieved and lingered for a while before saying goodbye. But this time, there were people outside waiting for him, which was Cheng Naixuan's grandmother and mother whom he had never seen before. These two women were very polite to him and repeatedly told him to ask for one thing.
Be optimistic about Cheng Naixuan, don’t let that guy do anything randomly. If you cause trouble again, Master Cheng will be angry. As mother and wife, they may not be able to stop Master Cheng’s family law!
Because of this, after returning home with the joyful Mo Xiang, Wang Fulin immediately pulled Cheng Naixuan by his side and asked Qi Liang and others to go to the countryside to visit Xixinan. Now it is the end of July, the heat is reduced, and the mountain is gradually getting early autumn. Qi Liang has already entrusted the entire 3,000 taels and wants to further contact with Wang Xiaoxiu, so he agreed.
These generals and soldiers had horses to travel with, which was more convenient than Wang Fulin and Cheng Naixuan. Along the way, Wang Fulin tried to find out whether Ti could learn to ride a horse from them. Cheng Naixuan immediately intervened, and Qi Liang agreed. With such a good start, Wang Fulin used eighteen solutions, tempting and fooling each other. When he arrived in Xixinan Village, his name and Qi Liang had changed from the initial small official and Qi Baihu to the first brother Wang and Qi Lao Ge. The other old soldiers were still a little restrained, but they were not as unfamiliar as they were at the beginning.
Before leaving, Wang Daokun explained to all the talents of Fenggan Society and his friends and old friends in Xixinan Village. After he left Huizhou Prefecture, Wang Fulin took care of the external affairs of the Wang family in Songmingshan. In addition, Wang Fulin had recovered property for the deceived Fumin people in the village, so this time he returned to his hometown and took Qi Liang and others to Xixinan Village. As soon as he arrived at Xixinan Village, he was immediately invited to invite him. Wu Shouzhun, the nephew of the owner of the Wu family orchard, even went to ask his uncle for instructions and generously asked everyone to stay in the orchard.
Although Qi Liang had already sent someone to inquire about the great achievements of Wang Xiaoshaocai, facing such courtesy at this moment, his evaluation of Wang Fulin could not help but be raised to another level.
All afternoon, Wang Fulin's old acquaintance, Song Bo, who sold candied haws, didn't even make candied haws, and personally served as a guide to everyone. Wu Yourong's neighbor, the hunchbacked master Wu Qi, also volunteered to explain to everyone the whole story of the Wu family moving from Xiuning in Xixi, which made Wang Fulin really take a history class. Qi Liang and others who were traveling with him could only listen, regardless of whether they were interested or not, but they rarely appreciated the treatment of being surrounded by people and being listed as guests of honor before. They all held their heads and felt that their faces were shining.
That evening, when he came to the Fengle River, Wang Fulin thought of his sight of Wang Daoguan swimming in the wild for three consecutive days. Now that the idle man is not here, he is happy to say this as a joke. The second master Wang, who is famous on both sides of the Fengle River, has always been known as a voluptuous person. When he heard that he still has such a preference, the Wu students around him suddenly laughed. Wu Shouzhun even held his palm and said, "Let me see the second master, I must let him swim well and let me cheer for him!"
When Qi Liang was a child, he grew up by the sea and went into the water a lot. He was very good at water. When he was fighting against the Japanese, he once chased Japanese pirates into the sea. He heard that the second master Wang, who was quite famous in Fujian, had such a good mood. He felt that the distance was closer and he was in a daze at the river. Wang Fulin, who was beside him, saw it and felt calculating in his heart.
Wu's orchard is designed completely according to the standards of Jiangnan water town gardens. For Qi Liang, who had rarely set foot in such a place in the past, living in this real garden house was a fresh experience. Although the environment here is better than that of the ancestral home of Wang Fulin's family, he still tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. He woke up as soon as the sky was dawn, so he simply put on his clothes and got up and left the yard. Walking to the orchard, he brought the live water of Fengle River into the garden, he immediately felt an impulse when he thought of the clear Fengle River. It should be noted that since he arrived in Jizhen in the north, he rarely went down the river. After all, as a personal soldier of Qi Jiguang, he cannot be criticized.
At this moment, he suddenly heard a voice coming from behind: "Brother Qi can't sleep? Do we want to rush to Fengle River early in the morning and also take a tour?"
Qi Liang immediately came to his senses and turned to see that it was Wang Fulin, followed by a clever servant. He couldn't help but smile: "Brother Wang can swim?"
"But don't let people hear it." Wang Fulin looked around and said with a smirk. "Let me know that I just laughed at my uncle yesterday. Now I want to go to Xiahe myself, so I will definitely laugh at me!"
Wang Fulin and Ye Qinglong walked in front of Qi Liang to lead the way. In the Wu family orchard like a maze, he only walked around for a while yesterday, but he could remember the journey. At this moment, he found the side door and woke up the doorman, and the three of them slipped out. Soon, they arrived at the Fengle River and saw that the river surface was quiet in the morning light and there was no one.
Wang Fulin ordered Ye Qinglong to look at the wind by the river, and then asked Qi Liang with a smile: "How is Brother Qi's watery nature?"
"I grew up by the sea. How do you think water is?" Although Qi Liang blinded his eyes, he felt a sense of confidence in breaking the wind and waves at this moment, "Why, Brother Wang, don't you believe it?"
"No, I learned swimming secretly without hiding it. It's been a long time since I got into the water. If something goes wrong, I'm afraid you will have to rely on you to save the person."
Wang Fulin brought Ye Qinglong with him, purely for the sake of asking for help if there is any problem. Now that he heard Qi Liang brag about his water nature, he immediately entrusts his safety issues. While the other party was staring at him incredible, he had already taken off his clothes and moved to the water. This was the first time he had been inexplicably in the water since he came to the water for no reason. In the past, his body had not recovered, and his fame crisis was in front of him. Later, he did not have a strong lifeguard. Now that there is a person who claims to be a beach, he finally doesn't have to worry. He first sprinted in the shallow water area on the shore to find a feeling, and he recovered his hands and feet coordination ability. He gradually swam forward.
After a while, he felt the sound of water behind him, and he thought he knew who had caught up. He hadn't been in the water for so long. Whether it was freestyle or backstroke he had learned before, he had long been out of standard way. But when Qi Liang surpassed him, he saw that although the opponent was fast, he could not be called a good-looking movement, and his little depression was thrown into Java and quickly chased after him. When he followed the people across the Fengle River and reached the border of Songming Mountain on the other side, the shore was about to arrive, and he dragged his tired body, but he developed a sense of pleasure that he had never felt since the time of this era.
No wonder, as Wang Daoguan's identity, he actually swims in the river early in the morning. It feels so good that he is unrestrained and unscrupulous!
Qi Liang stared at the comfort-looking scholar Wang Xiaoxiuai, suddenly looked at Songmingshan Village behind him, and then said with a smile: "Brother Wang, there is a woman from the noble village here to wash clothes."
Wang Fulin raised his head and saw several women coming from the entrance of the village. He glanced at his shorts and thought to himself that he hadn't swim naked, otherwise he would have to show his bare butt. However, the women looked at him and shouted in a moment: "Come on, Xiaoguan Wang has fallen into the water!"
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It was not until this time that Wang Fulin realized what Qi Liang meant by a meaningful glance. In the eyes of the villagers, he was a weak scholar with no power to tie a chicken. There was only one possibility of falling into the water when he was soaked in Fengle River!
Seeing Qi Liang's sudden plunge into the water, he swam back to the direction of Xixinan Village on the other side of the river, and he was even more angry.
Who are these people? It’s so unfaithful to leave him under the noses of a group of aunts and aunts!
Chapter completed!