Chapter 24: Brain Damage and Fool
An Xin asked Da Zhuang to deliver the tiger and two wolves that were allocated to him to a shop that specialized in nitreizing furs, and to sell the meat of the tiger and the two wolves to the restaurant.
Several items that can be used as medicine, such as tiger bones and tiger penis, were sold to the pharmacy.
When Second Aunt An came back in the evening and heard about it, she also wanted to use a ruler to teach these two daring people a lesson.
In the end, the brother and sister were just given a verbal reprimand, and the matter was over.
It was just before the New Year that Uncle An received orders from Aunt An.
He watched them like prisoners every day, and whenever the two of them left the academy, Uncle An would follow them.
He was determined not to let the two siblings have another chance to go up the mountain.
*The end of the year is approaching.
There are only four people left in the two branches of the An family. Aunt An’s own embroidery shop made two sets of clothes for each person at one time to wear during the New Year.
An Xin didn't let Second Aunt An's family worry about other things that the family would need for the New Year. She and the servants bought them all at once.
After the college was on vacation, An Rui spent his time happily except for the homework assigned to him by An Xin every day.
He would either go to his ancestral home outside the county town to play with his cousins, or go to the teahouse to listen to stories. He was rarely seen at home.
That day, An Xin was sitting in front of the window reading a book when he saw his cousin An Rui rushing in with big strides.
No matter how naughty he is, he has never behaved like this.
An Xin looked up at An Rui, who was frowning, and asked, "What's wrong? Why are you so anxious?"
"Cousin, Jiang Zhou and I were drinking tea and listening to books in a teahouse just now, and we met a student from the same village as Leng Xiangbai. He said that not long after Leng Xiangbai returned home, he was beaten by his brother and sister-in-law." An Rui said angrily with anger in his eyes.
An Xin's eyes gloomy. Someone actually dared to hit her student.
An Xin, who is very protective of his son, believes that Leng Xiangbai is not someone who would take the initiative to cause trouble.
Then it must be someone else who caused the trouble.
Anyway, our students did nothing wrong, it was other people who were wrong.
An Xin put down the book in his hand and stood up. "Xiao Rui, tell Da Zhuang to harness the carriage. Let's go to Wushi Town."
An Rui: "Oh! Liu Boxing went to look for Zhu Shijing, Li Ziyu, Jiang Zhou and the others. He said that everyone should go together, so that more people can intimidate Leng Xiangbai's heartless brother and sister-in-law."
An Xin did not comment on this.
Qingfeng saw An Xin walking out, and quickly took a thick cloak from the house and chased after him, "It's cold outside, if you go out, put on this fur cloak and be careful not to catch a cold."
An Xin stood in the corridor and let Qingfeng tie it for her. She said, "When Second Uncle and Second Aunt come back, tell them that Xiao Rui and I went to Wushi Town. Tell them not to worry."
Mingyue also put the hand warmer she had just changed into in her sleeve and followed.
Qingfeng saw the north wind blowing outside and said with concern, "Mingyue, take good care of the master on the way."
Mingyue nodded seriously: "I will."
Now An Xin is the only backbone of the family, how can I not serve him well.
An Xin took the hand warmer and instructed: "The weather is cold, and the New Year is coming in a few days, Mingyue, you stay at home and help Qingfeng.
Take Aunt Gu, Uncle Yong and a few others with you to clean up the house, outside, front yard and back yard, and don't follow them."
"master."
After An Xin finished speaking, he saw Dazhuang driving the carriage to the gate of the backyard where he lived, so he walked over.
The two maids were left standing there looking at each other.
"Cousin, let me pull you up." An Rui, who was standing on the carriage frame, reached out and pulled An Xin up, and the two of them entered the carriage.
The carriage was covered with thick cotton padding, and on top of that was a piece of wolfskin that had been tanned last time.
This carriage was the original owner's father's exclusive means of transportation during his lifetime. Naturally, both the exterior and interior are very grand and practical.
Da Zhuang was wearing a thick gray cotton coat and a hat on his head, wrapped tightly up, and sitting in the front driving the cart.
The carriage rattled away from the academy.
Wanhua Academy is a ten-minute drive from the county town. Halfway there, An Xin was holding a hand warmer, listening to his cousin talking about the situation at Leng Xiangbai's family.
I felt the carriage shaking and bumping.
An Xin quickly steadied himself, reached out his hand to support An Rui to prevent his head from hitting the carriage, becoming even more innocent and silly.
“Oh—”
An Xin heard the sound of Dazhuang struggling to steady the carriage outside.
"What happened?" An Rui asked after calming down his panic.
Da Zhuang: "My Lord and Master Rui, there is a group of thugs outside who have stopped our carriage."
An Xin's eyes showed it clearly.
It seems that those two idiots haven't given up after all this time, and they are sending people to keep an eye on her whereabouts all the time.
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The wealth and academy in their hands were of great attraction to both of them.
An Xin frowned. If she had encountered this situation in the past, she would have beaten up these thugs, sent them to the yamen, and found out the mastermind behind it.
But she didn't have time to play with them today.
So, An Xin started to hit straight balls.
He stretched out his hand to push open the door of the carriage, and looked at the seven or eight thugs blocking the carriage. The leader was a sloppy thug with a scar on his face.
I don't know where he learned this bandit rhetoric from, "I opened this mountain, I planted this tree, if you want to live here..."
"Leave some money for passage, right?!" An Xin raised the corners of his mouth.
"How do you know that?" the gangster asked in surprise. He had just learned this from a gangster who had just come down the mountain.
An Xin ignored him. Since the hero was going to save the beauty and the show had already begun, the hero who was going to save the beauty couldn't be far away.
After looking around, An Xin turned his gaze towards a small forest not far away.
Under An Rui's puzzled gaze, he raised his voice and said, "Mr. Zhao and Mr. Wang, you took these bastards away by yourselves.
Or wait for me to beat them up and send them to the government office, so that the county magistrate can interrogate them. Why did they lie in ambush here for no reason? Was it just to block my carriage? "
Wang Yaozong and Zhao Kui, who were hiding in the woods with a group of followers, were both surprised.
Although An Xin only called out two surnames, there were so many surnames, but she chose to call out these two.
As long as her brain is not too stupid, this would show that she really knew that these people were hired by them to play the role of a hero saving a beauty.
Obviously, although Zhao Kui was narrow-minded and a little vicious, he was not stupid since he was able to pass the examination to become a student.
He promptly stopped Wang Yaozong, who was still trying to continue his plan, and asked one of his followers to run over with his face covered and take the thugs away.
"Why did you order people to withdraw those thugs?" Wang Yaozong had waited for such a long time for this opportunity, and of course he was unwilling to give up so easily.
He also planned to negotiate with his father after obtaining Wanhua Academy in exchange for the opportunity to be with his beloved.
A hint of contempt flashed across Zhao Kui's eyes.
Everyone has guessed that this is a plot. What's the point in continuing this drama of a hero saving a beauty?
Zhao Kui patiently explained, "That woman already knows about this. Even if you go out and bravely beat those hooligans away, do you think she will still be fooled?"
Wang Yaozong's eyes widened in astonishment. "How could she know that?"
Zhao Kui really wanted to roll his eyes. Damn it, how the hell did he know that?
(End of this chapter)