The Only Favorite Ugly Husband

Buying goods like Jiang Zhen and selling them in various villages is actually quite profitable, but not many people choose to do so, at least none of the sea goods merchants in Hecheng County who went to buy goods with Jiang Zhen chose to do so Yes, because doing so is actually dangerous.

Small shopkeepers pick goods and only sell them in familiar villages. There is no danger, after all, everyone knows each other; poor people, such as Wang Haisheng before, shake a broken boat to unfamiliar places , Generally, there is no danger, after all, even if such a person is robbed, he will not get much money.

But a small businessman like Jiang Zhen brought a batch of goods to a completely unfamiliar place...

Most people in this world are honest common people, but there is never a shortage of robbers and bandits, and those robbers and bandits like to rob the most are small businessmen like Jiang Zhen.

Small businessmen generally don't bring too many people, it's easy to deal with, and they must have no power or power, and they have no ability to cause trouble for those robbers and bandits if they are robbed, so they can only consider themselves unlucky, if they are killed...

Died in a different place these days, he died when he died, and his family members couldn't find anyone even if they wanted to. As for reporting to the official... Who would report to the official when someone they didn't know died?

Even if it is reported to the government... the government usually just throws the corpse to the mass grave.

If there is a bandit group that gathers tens of hundreds of people under the rule, and these people cause trouble, the government may send people to wipe it out, but the kind of thing where a few people gather together to snatch a small businessman , the government doesn't care at all, and they can't catch people.

The people who stopped Jiang Zhen this time were a group of water bandits.

They were just ordinary people in the neighborhood, but they didn't like to work in the fields, so they began to do some crooked things. First, the owner stole a chicken and the west beat a dog. Later, after robbing a small businessman, they found out about the robbery. The money came quickly, which was much better than stealing, so he simply became a water bandit.

They have two boats, and they take turns looking for robbery targets in this piece of water, especially those small businessmen who transport goods to and fro. Although they didn't become rich by robbery, they can usually eat big fish and meat, eat hot food, and eat spicy food. It was a very happy day.

But this time, they focused on Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng.

The two knew they were foreigners at a glance. Not to mention a lot of goods on board, most of them also had some money in their hands. If they robbed them, they could make a fortune.

"You obediently hand over all the silver and goods, and we will let you live. If not... There are too many people who drowned in this river!" The leader of the water bandits said, already waiting for Jiang Zhenhe The two of Wang Haisheng handed over everything.

Small businessmen like this basically dare not resist them.

However, Jiang Zhen was an exception.

Jiang Zhen has always known that the ancient times are not as safe as the modern ones, but he didn't shrink back because of this, he only dared to do business in the city, because he knew one thing, that is the boundary of Jiangnan, except for those who specialize in selling illegal salt , In fact, there is no big gang of robbers.

There are many wealthy families and big landlords here, and they will not allow large groups of robbers and bandits to appear on their land.

And those small groups of bandits... those guys who can't even get steel knives, Jiang Zhen is actually not afraid.

He not only brought his self-made weapons on board, but also brought some small things such as lime powder. Even if he encountered danger, he would always have no problem escaping.

"Jiang...Jiang Zhen...what should I do?" Wang Haisheng asked tremblingly. He had encountered water bandits who wanted to rob him even if he was hungry. And those people did not find anything from his boat.

But now...they have not only goods on board, but also silver and copper plates, and there are two boxes of copper plates alone!

"What else can I do, quickly take out the silver!" A water bandit laughed.

"Their boat is pretty good, so let's take it too." You said humanely.

The moonlight tonight is very good, and the lake sparkles beautifully under the moonlight, but these bandits laughing and laughing in the moonlight are terrifying.

The leading bandit looked at Jiang Zhen's boat and said with a smile: "This boat is not bad! You two come here, search us and you can leave, leave everything else!"

These people didn't take Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng seriously at all. They just opened their mouths and demanded all of Jiang Zhen's belongings.

Jiang Zhen narrowed his eyes slightly, and at the same time observed the surrounding situation, at this moment, he suddenly heard some whimpering.

That...like a woman's cry?Jiang Zhen glanced at the cabin of the ship that hit him, and suddenly made a move.

Taking a bamboo pole from the boat, Jiang Zhen stabbed directly at the belly of a person on that boat.

Now that the weather is getting hot, these people don't wear much clothes. When Jiang Zhen deliberately sharpened the bamboo pole and pricked it, the man's abdomen was bleeding profusely.

Before in Hexi Village, Jiang Zhen was very careful when dealing with people. These days, the medical conditions are poor, and even a small injury can kill someone if he is accidentally infected. Since he doesn't want to kill people, he must be careful.

But for such water bandits, there is no need to show mercy.

The water bandit who was stabbed by Jiang Zhen screamed and fell back immediately, losing his ability to move. The people around him were startled, and before they had time to react, Jiang Zhen jumped onto them with a bamboo pole. on board.

Jiang Zhen swept one of them into the water with a bamboo pole, and then shouted at Wang Haisheng: "What are you doing in a daze? Can't fight?"

Wang Haisheng...he really doesn't know how to fight.

But he can't do nothing.

He also took a bamboo pole, and when the people on the other boat tried to come and attack him, he poked it with it.

At first, he was a little scared, but after finding out that the water bandits on that boat were also afraid of his bamboo pole, he became ruthless: "You bastards, I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"

Compared to Jiang Zhen, Wang Haisheng actually hates these water bandits even more. He has been living on the water, and he has often seen those water bandits robbing and killing people. He had fought before, but all the years of paddling gave him a lot of strength, and now he can't get close to a tiger with a bamboo pole.

It’s just that they have bamboo poles, and there are similar ones on the water bandits’ boats. One of them came out with a bamboo pole for punt, but at this time, Jiang Zhen threw the bamboo pole again, grabbed the punt pole in this person’s hand, and pushed Pull, just snatched the bamboo pole from his hand, and hit him hard on the neck.

These days, even the officers, soldiers, and yamen servants have not received special training, let alone these water bandits. Jiang Zhen made them see blood when he came up, and then he killed several people one after another, which immediately made the rest of them afraid.

"There are only two of them, so what are you afraid of!" The leader of the group of water bandits scolded the people around him. He was very tall and fierce, and he was not as afraid of Jiang Zhen as the others.

However, he was not afraid, but the people around him were: "There are only two of us..." The people around the leader said, and while they were talking, another person was picked up by Jiang Zhen with a long bamboo pole. stamped...

They... have encountered a tough problem!

Of the five water bandits, two ran away after being swept into the water by Jiang Zhen, but the rest were subdued.

When subduing the leader of the water bandit, even Jiang Zhen took him several times, and finally fell into the water with him, but Jiang Zhen has always been able to swim, and he has adapted to the water these days. People took it down.

Binding the four captured water bandits together, Jiang Zhen began to search them without hesitation, and asked Wang Haisheng to go to the cabin where he had heard some movement before.

Wang Haisheng responded, then carefully lifted the curtain of the cabin and walked in. As a result, he had just entered the cabin, and ran out in a panic after a while: "Jiang Zhen, there... there are people inside!"

"There are people inside, what's the matter?" Jiang Zhen was a little puzzled, the people inside should not be water bandits, why is Wang Haisheng so scared?

Jiang Zhen walked over and lifted the curtain, looked around warily, and then frowned.

By the moonlight, Jiang Zhen discovered that there were two naked women lying in the cabin!

The hands of the two women were tied, and there was probably something stuffed in their mouths, so they could only make some intermittent whimpers.

These two women are definitely not the wives of the water bandits, most likely they were snatched by these water bandits and locked up in the cabin as tools to vent their desires.

Seeing the quilts beside them, Jiang Zhen directly took them and covered them, then cut the ropes around their wrists, found two candles and lit them, only then did he see the appearance of the two women clearly.

One of them is older, probably about 27 or 20 years old, and the other is younger, at most [-] years old. Both of them are actually very average in appearance, but they are not bad in the countryside.

The two women tightened the quilt given by Jiang Zhen, removed the cloth from their mouths, let out a "wow", and finally burst into tears.

"Where are you from, how did you end up on this boat?" Jiang Zhen asked.

The two women were still crying, and after a while, the older one finally spoke: "My lord, I am from a nearby village, and I was tied up when I went out to visit relatives..." She said as she spoke. , cried again.

The other woman was still crying. At this time, the previous woman said: "The girl next to me originally started a small business with her husband, but she was robbed and her husband was thrown into the river..." She was tied up a little earlier, before they would let her go and let her cook and wash clothes, so they knew something.

As for why they looked like that today, it was because they wanted to run away and were arrested.

"When you die, you lose everything. Your parents and relatives are the ones who suffer the most." Jiang Zhen looked at the woman who had been silent and said that something was wrong with this person. Jiang Zhen was really afraid that she would commit suicide.

But he doesn't know how to enlighten others... In fact, he doesn't think women are to blame for such unlucky things, but obviously others don't think so, and these women themselves don't think so.

"I have a child at home, and I won't seek death." The older woman said, and then pulled the remaining woman to talk.

"Clean up." Jiang Zhen breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and left the cabin.

"What should we do now?" Seeing Jiang Zhen coming out, Wang Haisheng asked, and looked at the cabin with a complicated expression. He was startled when he entered just now, and then ran out in a hurry, not daring to go at all. Looking at the two women inside, Jiang Zhen stayed inside for a while.

This...Jiang Zhen already has brother Zhao Jing, isn't that good?

"We'll talk about the specifics tomorrow morning." Jiang Zhen said, then took a knife and walked towards the water bandit leader.

He still knows a little bit about extorting confessions by torture.

Knowing that these water bandits had killed people, Jiang Zhen showed no mercy to them. During the interrogation, he naturally took out some real guys, and dug out all the old backgrounds of these water bandits.

These water bandits have an old lair, but most of the money they robbed is carried with them and placed on the boat.

According to what they recruited, Jiang Zhen finally found more than 200 taels of silver and some copper coin jewelry from the two ships.

When Jiang Zhen left the Jiang family, he had 37 taels of silver in his hand. He spent some and gave Wang Haisheng 20 taels, and there were only a dozen taels. It was Zhao Jinge who gave him a little, so he had almost 20 taels of silver as capital.

He later earned some and used some of it as a dowry to the Zhao family. Now including the goods on board, the total is only more than sixty taels of silver. Of course, if he could sell all the goods and sell them at a price of about There can be seven or eighty taels of silver.

He tossed and tossed for so long, couldn't even sleep well, and still only had such a small amount of money. Now he just spent a night of hard work and robbed a few water bandits, and he got more than 200 taels of silver at once.

If he goes back and uses this money to buy land, if he can buy paddy fields and then buy two acres of dry land, he will no longer have to worry about going hungry...Of course, he doesn't plan to use all the money to buy land.

Jiang Zhen moved the heavy silver to his boat, and then went to look at the two women: "What are you going to do?"

"Let's go now." The older woman said, Jiang Zhen saved her, she was grateful, but she was also a little afraid of Jiang Zhen, afraid that she would be imprisoned again, so she wanted to leave quickly .

In fact, Jiang Zhen also wished for them to leave quickly. Both he and Wang Haisheng had families, so it was not good to keep such two women.

"Okay." Jiang Zhen nodded, and threw a bag of things to them: "This is for you."

These water bandits had a lot of jewelry in their hands. He didn't want these things, and it was troublesome to deal with them, so he simply gave them to these two women... They have suffered in the end.

There were still clothes for the two women on board, and after they put on their clothes, they supported each other and left in the dark.

Jiang Zhen looked at the sky and said to Wang Haisheng, "We will send these people to the Yamen."

It would be better for these people to be sent to the yamen. Of course, he would not send them himself. After all, compared with these miserable-looking people, he looked more like a robber at the moment.

But he could get them into town and leave a note, couldn't he?