Red Mansion: Seizing Jiangdong, starting with pirates

Chapter 4: Officials Force the People to Revolt

The grain collector glanced at Fang Yong, with a hint of mockery in his eyes.

"How dare you refuse to kneel before me, you rude commoner?"

Upon hearing this, the officers immediately shouted, "Kneel down!"

After hearing this, Fang Yong raised his head and took a deep look at the grain collector. He memorized the man's appearance in his mind and swore in his heart that when he achieved fame or an official position in the future, he would kill this petty official!

"Please have mercy, sir!"

Fang Yong knelt down.

The grain collector laughed.

Silence for a long time.

The silver and money in Fang Yong's hand were taken away.

"I pity the relationship between you and your son. I will let you, the filial son, bear the lash! Execute!"

After saying this, the officers stepped forward, tied up Fang Yong, and prepared to execute him.

The old man said, "It's unfair, sir. There's something wrong with the scale. I haven't lost any grain!"

The grain collector slammed the table upon hearing this.

"What a wicked man! He doesn't know how to appreciate my kindness. Catch him and torture him together. Beat him to death!"

Upon hearing this, the officer immediately whipped the man with a powerful whip.

With one whip, the old man's linen clothes were instantly torn, and the whip scraped deeply into the flesh on his back, causing blood to ooze out instantly.

"Too deceiving!"

Fang Yong was completely furious.

He originally thought that he was strong and could just take the beatings for the old man, but the other party was so persistent that he took the money and wanted to torture the old man.

Fang Yong didn't want to endure it any longer. Although he was a time traveler, the old man was still his father after all. He had saved money to marry him a wife. Even if Fang Yong had a heart of stone, he couldn't bear to let the old man be beaten half to death.

At worst, I can become a pirate!
With a system in place, there is nothing you cannot accomplish!
Fang Yong made up his mind, struggled to his feet, and used brute force to tear the hemp rope off his body.

The officers on both sides were shocked when they saw this and rushed forward to arrest Fang Yong.

But they couldn't hold it down.

Fang Yong swung his arm and threw the two officers away.

The grain collector stepped back in fear.

"Tiaomin, what are you doing? Hurry up and catch him."

Seeing this, other officers rushed forward and one of them swung a whip at Fang Yong. Fang Yong raised his hand and grabbed the whip tightly in his hand.

At this moment, the palm of his hand holding the whip felt a slight pain and blood oozed out. Fang Yong took a look and found that there were several sharp iron pieces tied to the whip head. It was really vicious. No wonder the old man's flesh and blood flew all over the place after one whip. This was going to torture them father and son to death!
Fang Yong no longer held back. Since he had already taken action, there was no room for regret.

Fang Yong pulled hard, and the officer holding the whip was pulled over to him in an instant.

An officer behind him took the opportunity to launch a sneak attack, hitting Fang Yong hard on the back with a water and fire stick.

Fang Yong didn’t know any martial arts, so he just took it head-on.

The next moment he kicked out, hard on the officer with the whip whom he had dragged over.

With a scream, the officer's body was kicked into the air and flew more than ten meters.

Fang Yong turned around and, with all his strength, slapped the officer who was attacking him with the water and fire stick from behind.

The officer didn't even make a sound. His head turned sideways three times. His eyes popped out from the blow and blood was gushing out.

"Killing!"

The people were frightened and fled.

The other officers were so frightened that they kept retreating and surrounded the grain collector.

Oh my God, where did this vicious person come from? He kicked someone more than ten meters away with one kick. Is he still a human being?

Fang Yong stepped forward to help the old man up, then walked towards the officers step by step.

The grain collector was so frightened that he lost his official demeanor and his hat fell off in panic.

He trembled and said, "Diao, Diaomin, are you going to rebel?"

Fang never answered and continued to move forward.

The grain collector was even more frightened when he saw this, and he quickly patted the tallest and strongest officer beside him. "Captain Wang, hurry up, you are a great martial artist, quickly arrest this troublemaker."

Upon hearing this, Captain Wang had no choice but to muster up his courage, draw his sword and fight Fang Yong.

Captain Wang had attended a martial arts school and learned some sword techniques, so his moves were quite methodical.

He first made a feint, then used very little strength to chop towards Fang Yong.

Fang Yong saw it, not knowing it was a feint, so he dodged sideways.

Captain Wang drew his knife back instantly upon seeing this. Fang Yong had no time to turn around, leaving his body exposed. Captain Wang took the opportunity to stab Fang Yong in the right leg.

The sword instantly pierced through the hemp clothes and stabbed Fang Yong's thigh.

Captain Wang sneered upon seeing this and felt a little more confident, thinking that a peasant is a peasant who only knows how to rely on brute force and doesn't know any tricks.

If this move is used, ordinary people will immediately bleed profusely and lose the ability to move.

Captain Wang had a smile on his face, but the next moment, he felt a huge resistance from the knife and his smile instantly stopped.

The knife was actually blocked by Fang Yong's skin and only penetrated about half an inch before being unable to move forward any further.

Captain Wang was so frightened that he stood still, his face showing an expression of extreme fear, as if he had seen a ghost.

"Invulnerable to swords and guns! You, are you a human or a ghost?"

Fang Yong didn't want to talk to a dead man, so he kicked Captain Wang's wrist, snatched the knife from his waist, and then beheaded him.

A stream of blood spurted out, and Captain Wang's severed head flew off, and everyone was terrified.

The remaining officers no longer cared about the grain collectors and fled in all directions.

As there were too many people, Fang Yong was unable to catch up with them all, so he could only kill the ringleader and chase after the grain collector.

The grain collector was so frightened that he was shaking all over and crawling out using his hands and feet.

He couldn't understand. Wasn't it just a small punishment? Wasn't it done this way in the past? Why would this unruly citizen rebel?
Fang Yong caught up with him in three or two steps, and then stepped on the grain collector.

The grain collector no longer had any official manners at this time. He was so frightened that tears streamed down his face. He kept saying, "Please spare my life, please spare my life. You can't kill me. Killing an official is like rebelling. You won't survive if you kill me. Please spare my life. I will definitely repay you for sparing my life in the future."

There was no way Fang Yong would listen to his nonsense.

He has already killed someone, so there is no way out.

It's all because of that dog official who was too harsh. He originally wanted to serve the court with both civil and military skills, and then take revenge on this petty official after he became an official. However, the other party insisted on forcing him to become a bandit, and now he wants to die.

Fang Yong raised his sword and stabbed the grain collector hard in the heart.

The old man shouted desperately behind him.

"Yongwa, stop it now, you can't kill the official!"

Fang Yong was so frightened that he didn't listen at all. He cut with his knife, made a horizontal circle, and dug out the heart of the grain collector.

"Humph, it's actually red? Pah!"

Fang Yong spat at the grain collector's body, then turned around to pull the old man.

"Yongwa, how could you kill an official?"

The old man looked at Fang Yong with some fear.

The blood on Fang Yong's body made the old farmer feel strange and fearful about his son.

Fang Yongdao:
"If we don't kill the official, will he kill us?"

The old man was trembling.

"He just whipped us a few times, we just took it, how could you kill him? He is an official, even if he did a thousand things wrong, we would not kill him. Do you know how big a mistake you made?"

As Fang Yong listened to the old man's scolding, his expression became increasingly gloomy.

Weak, too weak!
It's no wonder that such weak people are bullied like that!

Perhaps in the old man's eyes, being bullied by those adults has become a habit, and no matter how oppressed he is, he dare not resist them.

Fang Yong didn't want to listen to the old man's nonsense. The most important thing now was to escape to a safe place.

Fang Yong remembered the arrow that Gan Ba had given him, and he pulled the old man home without saying a word.

On the way, they met some villagers, and when they saw Fang Yong, they all avoided him like the plague.

Fang Yong couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this group of people are so pitiful!
When I got home and opened the bed, the arrow was there.

(End of this chapter)