Chapter 143 The beautiful girl saves her brother
Just as the two of them were still trying to comment on the good and bad things of officials from all over the country, a fierce sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded outside the tea shed. In an instant, all the merchants in the shed stood up.
Everyone looked around in surprise. Under the rule of the Jiangnan Army, few people were galloping around the city, let alone hundreds of war horses. Could it be that there were wars in Kuaiji County, which had been calm for two years?
As the sound of horse hooves approached quickly, Song Qian, dressed in plain clothes, hurried into the shed and reported in a low voice: "Lord, hundreds of war horses came from the direction of Shanyin. For some reason, they rushed directly into the melon field! Those horses should not be our army's war horses."
Hundreds of war horses rushed into the melon field. Without asking, it is clear that the hopes of these melon brothers and sisters will be shattered this year. The melon seedlings that are half a foot long are trampled by horse hooves, and even if they want to replant, they have missed the solar term. This can almost be regarded as murdering the brother and sister.
Just ten miles away from Shanyin City, such a deception incident could occur, which made Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's faces instantly cold.
"Zhuge Jin!" Sun Ce gritted his teeth and recited three words.
Zhou Yu, who was standing beside him, also frowned, and could not understand: "Why did this young prefect, who has always been valued by the elder brother, have such a bad situation? He was even touched by the Governor!
Not to mention that these people disturb the people first and destroy the people's land. They can only condemn hundreds of war horses and run wildly between counties and counties, and they can be punished with death according to the law.
As the prefect Zhuge Jin did not rectify such a force, but he still didn't know the situation. No matter what, this is at least a crime of indulgence!"
The merchants in the shed saw that the war horses were not coming to rob goods, so they breathed a sigh of relief and walked up to the official road to see the big scene of the horse walking on the melon field.
Seeing that Sun Ce had a gloomy face and had no intention of speaking, Zhou Yu said directly to Song Qian: "Go, order the lion guards on standby to come up and take down these people. Those who resisted will be killed. Send another guard to summon Zhuge Jin and Xu Shu here!"
The guards were all smart people. When they saw the two bosses, they all looked ashen. They knew that the matter was serious, so they took their orders and left quietly.
In a blink of an eye, the melon field, which was originally fresh in the air, was shrouded in the smoke and dust. Most of the merchants who were waiting and watching were locals. They had recognized the ownership of this group of horse teams in a moment.
"They are Jiao Zhengqian's family soldiers. These guys are still so arrogant because of Jiao Zhengqian's protection. Are you not afraid that the prefect Zhuge will send troops to wipe them out? Jiao Zhengqian is really arrogant! He dares to trample on the fields of the people!"
"Hey! Didn't the prefect issue a restriction order? No matter which aristocratic family, they must raise more than a team of more than fifty soldiers? Otherwise, they will be punished with treason. How could Jiao Zhengqiang have such a great power? Doesn't he want to live?"
"If you guys don't understand, don't talk nonsense. The land here belongs to the Jiao family. It should be that the scholar planted melons without contacting Jiao Zhengqiang. However, this scholar has planted melons for two or three years here. Does the Jiao family want to take back the melon fields?"
"It's a bit strange. If you want to talk about the origin of these cavalry, it is because the Jiao family drove the largest Jiaoji carriage in Yangzhou in the city, and specialized in a large number of transportation merchants between prefectures and counties. These should be the Jiao family's friends.
The prefect restricts the family soldiers. We can’t let others not do business. Even the train-driven workers have limited the number of people!"
"Actually, these guys are already soldiers of the Jiao family. They have just changed their identities. However, with restrictions on government orders, they dare not bring swords, spears and weapons openly now!"
"But stop talking nonsense. If they hear it, they will inevitably be beaten! Jiao Zhengqiang is not a good person to talk to! If they are beaten by them, we little people can only admit that they are unlucky!"
The merchants and traders were not very quiet, which made Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, who were still sitting in the teahouse, gradually understood the reason. Their faces slowly relaxed.
The main mistake seems not to Zhuge Jin. Sun Ce said in a deep voice: "What is this Jiao Zhengqiang? He dares to trample on the melon field. No matter whether it is his family's field or not, he cannot act so recklessly!"
While the two brothers were discussing, the merchants outside suddenly exclaimed: "Little girl, don't go, there is danger ahead!"
Wei Jing, who was in a state of resentment, suddenly saw countless horses rushing into the melon field that he and his elder brother and the younger sister had worked hard for a whole month to finish sowing. The green melon seedlings turned into dust under the hard horse's hooves.
Why didn't he let blood drip in his heart? This is the harvest of the next year. Wei Jing, who was passionate, turned around and rushed into his thatched house. He carried two big swords to cut melons and rushed towards the horses that were having fun.
With red eyes, he didn't care whether his fragile body could block the impact of these hundreds of people.
"Ah! The thief was killed!"
Wei Jing, who rushed to the front of the first horse, lowered his body and slashed his sword and cut it with all his strength towards the war horse's shin. As long as the horse's feet were broken, it would never be possible to trample on the ground again.
The knight on the horse looked contemptuous: "Hmph! You have that ability to kill the horse," he said.
Just as Wei Jing's blade was about to reach the foot of the horse, the rushing horse suddenly stood up. Two huge horse hooves rushed straight towards Wei Jing's face and chest. When the horse hooves came down, even if Wei Jing was not dead, he would probably have to break countless bones.
Wei Jing was shocked and suddenly turned backwards, trying to block the kick in front of him with his right hand. The knife in his left hand slashed towards the foot kicking in front of his chest.
There was a rumbling sound, and the roar of a man and the horse's neigh suddenly echoed the entire melon field. Wei Jing finally cut off a horse's hoof with a knife in his left hand. But his head and the melon-cutting knife kicked back by the horse's hoof on his right hand were heavily collided with the melon-cutting knife on his right hand.
A heavy kick suddenly made a big mouthful of blood splash on his head. Without even saying a word, he fell down softly. The originally a little dumb Bu Zhi rushed towards the fallen Wei Jing like crazy.
The beautiful girl who sold tea also cried and ran towards her two brothers along the path in the fields. No matter what, she had to rescue her brothers who depended on each other. If it really didn't work, then only the brothers and sisters would face it together.
The Jiao family's horses running wildly were still rushing towards this side without stopping, afraid that in a blink of an eye, the three people would be submerged under the horse's hooves.
In desperation, a group of onlookers shouted in chaos.
"Little girl, the horses are in danger, come back soon!"
"Stop, keep people under the horse!"
"I've killed someone, I've killed someone, Jiao Zhengqiang's family soldiers have killed someone!"
Chapter completed!