The streets of Suzhou were decorated with lights and colorful decorations, and the sound of gongs and drums was deafening. Countless people were happily chasing the two cars in front of them and throwing rotten eggs and vegetable leaves at them.
The carriage was piled with corpses of ferocious-looking Japanese pirates dressed in black, short in stature, with topknots, and looking ferocious.
This is the standard authentic Japanese product. You can tell it’s not wrong at a glance.
He was so fierce when he was alive, and he would be so fierce even after he died?!
The common people have suffered from the Japanese pirates for a long time. The Japanese pirates have been wreaking havoc in the south of the Yangtze River for so many years. Almost every common people has distant relatives or relatives who have been killed or abused by the Japanese pirates. If not now, when will they take revenge
So, rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves were thrown onto the carts like rain, and the common people had no practice and no aim, so the soldiers driving the carts were inevitably affected and had several rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves hanging on their bodies.
"Men and women, please be careful when throwing things. I am one of us, not the Japanese pirates." The soldier driving the cart could not help but complain to the people who were throwing things around.
"Hahaha, I'm sorry, brother, we were too excited." People laughed.
"Young man, your parade is over today, come to our 'Xilaibu' cloth shop, we will give each of you a piece of fine cotton cloth for free, enough for you to make four sets of clothes. Don't worry, don't worry that I will break my promise, business requires integrity, and besides, the neighbors are here, I will keep my word."
A man who looked like a shopkeeper threw a rotten vegetable stalk onto the cart and made a promise to the soldier driving the carriage.
The common people around all clamored to testify for them, and if Manager Wang went back on his word, they would make him unable to do business.
"Thank you, Manager Wang, and thank you everyone."
When the soldiers driving the cart heard that they could get a piece of cloth after the meeting, they happily clasped their fists and expressed their gratitude without any complaints.
"You know, at least more than a thousand Japanese pirates died this time, more than 500 died on land, and more than 500 died on the seabed to feed the fish. In addition to the two carts that were pulled to parade in Suzhou, there are also several cities that are pulling the bodies of Japanese pirates through the streets."
"What do you mean more than a thousand? It's more than two thousand. Also, did you know that the Zhejiang Army stationed in Suzhou is the great hero of this time? More than half of the Japanese pirates who died on land were killed by the Zhejiang Army. I heard that every member of the Zhejiang Army can cast palm thunder."
"What palm thunder? That's a musket. Haven't you seen the Wei-style general cannon on the gate of our city? A musket is a smaller version of a cannon. It is said that every soldier in the Zhejiang Army has a musket. They are all sharpshooters and can shoot whatever they point at, especially the commander-in-chief of the Zhejiang Army, Lord Zhu. It is said that he can kill two birds flying in the sky with one musket."
"They are so powerful, no wonder they were able to kill so many Japanese pirates. Now that the Japanese pirates are rampant, we can finally feel at ease with such a capable army stationed outside Suzhou."
"In the past, the Zhejiang Army camp was full of noise, and I complained about their noise. My wife even went to their door to make a scene once. Now I really regret it. I won't say more. I will go home and give my wife a lesson, and then send a sheep to the Zhejiang Army camp to express my gratitude."
"And me, I'll go too. I'll buy half a pig and deliver it with you."
"I'll go too. Although my family is not well off, the meat buns my wife makes are absolutely amazing. I'll buy ten pounds of pork and ask my wife to make a few big pots of meat buns. After they're ready, I'll send them to the Zhejiang Army so that they can also taste my wife's cooking skills."
The onlookers threw rotten vegetables and rotten eggs at the bodies of the Japanese pirates on the car, while talking to each other.
As they were talking, many ordinary people spontaneously and without any prior arrangement went to the Zhejiang Army camp to express their condolences and rewards.
For a time, there was an endless stream of common people coming to the gate of the Zhejiang Army camp to reward the soldiers. Even the soldiers stationed on the river bank wall and the bridge outside the camp were surrounded by fruits, cakes and cooked food...
When the common people spontaneously went to the military camp to reward the soldiers, three beggars in rags and disheveled hair came to the outside of Suzhou city, leaning on sticks. Looking at the prosperous ten-mile outer city of Suzhou, they raised their hands tremblingly, pointed at things, laughed and cried, and were extremely emotional.
"We're here, we're here, we've finally arrived in Suzhou. The journey has been so difficult... But now that we're in Suzhou, it's great. Suzhou has everything. This city is so prosperous, much more prosperous than Yingtian. My nephew is in charge of this city, which shows how much trust His Majesty and the Governor have in him. This is a lucrative position."
The beggar in the middle of the three, who was about forty or fifty years old, raised his hand to touch his greasy hair, straightened his dirty robe, raised his head, straightened his waist, and tried to put on the demeanor of a scholar, and said with excitement on his face.
However, a beggar doing this not only lacks the elegance of a scholar, but instead appears ridiculous.
An old dog came over with its teeth bared, and the beggar waved his stick at it, yelled at it to get lost, and chased it away. He used the stick very skillfully.
"Hey, Brother Zhu, if we had gone directly to visit your nephew when we arrived in Yingtian instead of going to Liuxiang Tower to rest, we wouldn't have ended up like this."
After hearing the sigh of the beggar in the middle, the beggar on the left couldn't help but frown, sigh and complain.
"Yes, otherwise there wouldn't be so many troubles and we wouldn't be in such a mess today."
The beggar on the right couldn't help but complain too. Thinking of what happened in Yingtian, he couldn't help but cover his face and sigh.
"Ahem, I just felt that we were exhausted from the journey and our appearance was not decent enough. If we went directly to visit, people would look down on us, which would bring shame to my nephew. That's why I thought of going to Liuxiang Tower to bathe and change clothes, rest for a day, and then go to visit my nephew in high spirits..."
The beggar in the middle couldn't help but blush, but luckily his face was so dirty that it wasn't noticeable. He coughed and tried to save his dignity.
"You can take a shower, change clothes and rest, but you don't have to go to Liuxiang Tower." The beggar on the left still complained with a frown.
"That's right, what kind of place is Liuxianglou? It's a place of ecstasy for beautiful women. You can take a bath and change clothes in an ordinary restaurant."
The beggar on the right also complained.
"Ahem, I was thinking that us men are clumsy, but the girls in Liuxianglou are clever. We can bathe and change clothes in Liuxianglou, and ask the girls to fix our hair or something..."
Although the beggar in the middle was blushing, he was able to come up with excuses to save face effortlessly.
"The whole hairdo is done on the bed... Is it the hairdo on the top or the hairdo on the bottom?!"
The beggar on the left ruthlessly exposed the lies of the beggar in the middle, for he had long been fed up with him.
"It would be fine if it was the girl from Liuxiang Tower, but why did he have to look for a married woman, causing us to end up in this situation."
The beggar on the right also asked a lot of questions.
"Cough cough cough..."
The beggar in the middle had a red face and kept coughing to cover it up.