nucmednet Chapter 334: Encountering Unfairness on the Road 3
Chapter 334: Encountering Unfairness on the Road 3
After thanking Bai Jingzhou and others again, the three injured scholars all got on Tao Chang's carriage.
Bai Jingzhou and others did not stay here any longer. Gu Wenxuan asked the Fang brothers to string together the tied up thugs and bullies and tie them to the back of the carriage.
The carriage was moving forward, and if they didn't want to fall or be dragged by the carriage, they had to take big strides and run along.
Gu Wenxuan didn't intend to exhaust them to death or drag them to death. When they arrived at the nearest county government office, Gu Wenxuan would send them to the government office and hand them over to the government for punishment.
Before this, in order to prevent them from causing any trouble, Gu Wenxuan arranged Fang Youfu and Fang Yougui to patrol back and forth on horseback to supervise these people in real time.
Following behind them were still Su Yunzhan and Hua Zhihe. The two were also from the same hometown. They met by chance on the way to Daming Prefecture and got along quite well. Su Yunzhan then invited Hua Zhihe, who was also on the road by chance, to join him.
Behind the two men in the carriage were two scholars who knew how to seek benefits and avoid harm. Both of them came from ordinary families, and they rented the carriage together with the other two scholars. The two scholars did not get off the carriage because they were not feeling well.
The group walked one after another on the official road and did not encounter any emergencies afterwards.
In the evening, they finally arrived at the next county town. Bai Jingzhou, Bai Jingshan, Su Yunzhan and Hua Zhihe, as witnesses, immediately accompanied Tao Chang and the other four victims to the government office, while Gu Wenxuan led the team to find an inn.
Tao Chang wanted to make friends with Bai Jingzhou and his friends, so he took the initiative to propose staying in the same inn with them.
He also warmly invited Su Yunzhan and Hua Zhihe to join them. Although it was Gu Wenxuan and the Fang brothers who took down the group of bad guys, Su Yunzhan and Hua Zhihe were also willing to help at that time.
Tao Chang had been favored since he was a child and had a relatively simple mind. He wanted to thank the benefactors who had helped him, so he focused his attention on the two groups of people who had done him favors.
The two scholars who came over to talk to them after the situation had completely calmed down were ignored by him.
What he didn't know was that after seeing how powerful Gu Wenxuan and the others were, and how rich and generous he, the landlord's silly son, was, those two people were tempted to travel with them, on the one hand to get some material benefits, and on the other hand to let them escort them for free.
They had walked all the way here from the place where Tao Chang and his companions encountered the robbers. Before that, the two of them had specially gone to greet Bai Jingzhou and his companions and exchanged names. With these two things, the two of them thought that they could naturally integrate into their team. However, they did not expect that Tao Chang, a fool who only wanted to host a banquet to express his gratitude to his benefactors, simply ignored them because they were not among the "beneficiaries".
Tao Changdu said that he wanted to treat Bai Jingzhou and others to a meal to thank them for their enthusiastic help, so he invited Su Yunzhan and Hua Zhihe to the same inn. If the two scholars who had been watching from the sidelines had the audacity to follow them, they would be suspected of trying to take advantage of others and get a free meal.
Although they really wanted to take advantage of this small advantage, as scholars they still had to be careful about their reputation and naturally could not leave this impression on others in public.
While the two men cursed Tao Chang in their hearts, they racked their brains to think of how they could reasonably stay in the same inn with them.
What's more, they actually thought of a barely plausible excuse - there were two sick scholars in their car, and Bai Jingzhou seemed to be a good doctor.
Bai Jingzhou also didn't expect that this small group of people who went to the yamen were just angry because of the county magistrate and others' excuses, and now they have to face some troubles deliberately created by others when they should be resting.
Tired and upset, Bai Jingzhou and his companions followed Yang Wandong, who was sent by Gu Wenxuan to lead the way, to the inn. Before their companions or servants could greet them, the two scholars who were deliberately waiting at the entrance of the inn lobby quickly blocked Bai Jingzhou and his companions.
One of them reached out to pat Su Yunzhan and Hua Zhihe on the shoulders, while another smiled and bowed, stopping Bai Jingzhou and Tao Chang to ask questions.
Although Su Yunzhan and Hua Zhihe have different temperaments, no one dares to have physical contact with them because one of them is too outstanding, like a flower on the mountain, and the other is sickly and looks like he will fall down at the slightest breeze.
The two of them never expected that someone so unreserved would suddenly appear and pat them on the shoulders.
Hua Zhihe's servant was very agile and swiftly inserted himself between the man and his own young master. Su Yunzhan, on the other hand, couldn't help but reveal an expression of great fright.
He dodged the other's hand that was about to reach out to his shoulder, and said frankly with a distressed look, "I don't like to interact with strangers, so please don't extend your hand to me again."
Hua Zhihe also said: "I am weak, so in order not to bring trouble to your reputation, please keep a certain distance from me."
The man missed with one hand and slapped the boy on the head with the other. He was so embarrassed that he just wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
His companion, who greeted Bai Jingzhou and Tao Chang with a familiar attitude, was not as embarrassed as him, but he only received a lukewarm return gift from Bai Jingzhou and Tao Chang.
The two men were in a bad mood and did not want to deal with unimportant people. After fulfilling their courtesy, they walked around the man and entered the inn.
Fang Youfu and Tao Chang's servants had also seen Bai Jingzhou and Tao Chang at this time. They stood up one after another and went to greet Bai Jingzhou and others.
Tao Chang's servant had a difficult task. When he saw his master, he immediately trotted over to report the progress of the task. "Master, I have already booked a room for you and Master Jiang. I also asked for a private room at the restaurant across the street and ordered their specialty dishes. You can bring your people over for dinner anytime."
The silly son of the landlord was very generous. Out of gratitude to Bai Jingzhou and the others, he originally planned to cover the accommodation expenses of all his benefactors and those who had shared hardships with him. However, Bai Jingzhou, Su Yunzhan and Hua Zhihe all disagreed. The only thing was that the three scholars who had no one to serve them refused to do so, so he directly sent his servants to help them book a room.
However, these three people were different from the two people who were blocking the door and trying to make friends with them. They had no intention of taking advantage of this.
It didn't matter that Tao Chang had someone book the room. They could secretly go to the shopkeeper and pay the room fee themselves.
In addition, they planned to express their gratitude to Bai Jingzhou and others who had helped them by treating everyone to a meal tomorrow morning.
As the saying goes, there are many kinds of people in the world. There are scholars like them who are poor but have good character, but there are also scholars who try their best to take advantage of others and scheme against them.