Home/ The General Is As Urgent as Law/ Chapter 6
After being on the road for two days, they finally arrived in the main city of Yanzhou.
Wei Lin got out of the carriage with a sad face and tied the front of the car, and Jiang Ye also got down and stretched himself.
“This car ride is so tiring.” Jiang Ye said.
“You’re still tired of this, ah, it’s really a rich people’s world.” Wei Lin said, looking around, “After two days of eating dry food, let’s go and have a good meal.”
Jiang also nodded his head, agreeing to him.
The two went to a noodle shop and ordered two bowls of hot beef noodles. A talkative person like Wei Lin didn’t say a word, but waited anxiously for the noodles to be served, then took the chopsticks and started eating. He ate without fear of the noodles being too hot. In comparison, Jiang Ye seemed much more refined. He still took his time, picked up the noodles, shook them in the air, blew on them, and waited for the noodles to cool before putting them into his mouth.
“Boss, another bowl!” There was still a mouthful of noodles in front of him, and Wei Lin couldn’t wait to eat another bowl.
“okay.”
There was still less than half a bowl of Jiang Ye’s noodles left. Hearing this, he looked up at Wei Lin, only to see Wei Lin picked up the bowl and gulped down the noodle soup. He doesn’t know if it was a coincidence, or if Wei Lin’s calculations were accurate. He finished the soup and just put down the bowl when the second bowl of noodles arrived on the table.
In the end, Wei Lin finished two bowls of noodles, and Jiang Ye also just finished one bowl. Wei Lin burped and couldn’t help but admire: “It’s really delicious, I feel like I can eat ten more bowls.”
“You are a pig.” Jiang Ye wiped his mouth with his sleeve and said. After the past few days, Jiang Ye also didn’t pay much attention to cleanliness, and now he didn’t think there was anything wrong with wiping his mouth with his sleeve.
Wei Lin went to check out with the boss with a playful smile, and asked for directions: “Boss, your noodles are really delicious.”
“Thank you, dear guest, as long as it is delicious.”
“I want to ask you whether Yanzhou is still recruiting soldiers.”
“Isn’t there a big war looming in Hanzhou? They are recruiting people everywhere? Fortunately, my family has only a girl, otherwise…”
“We two brothers have always wanted to protect our family and country since childhood, can you tell us how to get to the government office?”
“The government office is a bit far from here, but if you walk along this street to the end, there will be a conscription notice. Why don’t you go and have a look?”
“Then thank you boss.”
“You are welcome.”
Wei Lin turned and walked back to the table, Jiang Ye also got up: “Let’s go.”
“Um.”
Wei Lin thought that Jiang Ye would also want to change his clothes when he was in the city, but he didn’t expect Jiang Ye to not care about it anymore. He didn’t mention it at all, and he was happy to save money. Although all the money he hid was exposed under Jiang Ye’s coercion, somehow Jiang Ye still put the money on Wei Lin, and Wei Lin paid for everything, and he felt like Jiang Ye’s servant. The two walked quickly towards the end of the street at this time, Wei Lin couldn’t hold back and said, “Hey, don’t you think I look like your servant?”
“Huh? Is there something wrong with it?”
“Aren’t we in a team relationship?”
“Heh, aren’t you a servant of my Jiang family?”
“That was a few days ago, now, if you don’t admit that I am your teammate, I will…”
“What will you do? Cry in front of me?” Jiang Ye also smiled, he already had a certain degree of immunity to Wei Lin’s indiscriminate tricks.
“I’m really going to cry. I will cry when I say so.” Wei Lin started to hold back his tears as he spoke, which really made people laugh. After holding back for a long time, his eye sockets were wet, but he couldn’t squeeze out a single tear.
“You’re the only one who plays too much.” Jiang Ye also reached out and flicked Wei Lin’s forehead with a bad expression on his face.
Just as Wei Lin was about to fight back, Jiang Ye suddenly looked not far away with a solemn expression, and Wei Lin followed his gaze to look there. It was a restaurant, and there were two people standing at the gate. Judging by their movements and expressions, they must have just eaten and prepared to leave.
“What’s wrong?”
“The figures of those two people…” Jiang Ye lowered his voice and said, “It looks familiar.”
“Now when you say that, it seems a little bit familiar.”
Wei Lin looked again suspiciously, and the two men had already gone in the direction they were going.
“It’s those two bastards who robbed us!” Wei Lin remembered and said loudly. As soon as this remark came out, Jiang Ye immediately covered his mouth: “Keep your voice down, don’t startle the snake. Shall we follow?”
“Um.”
The two immediately agreed and quietly followed behind the two of them.
They followed for a long time, until the two found an open-air tea shop to sit down and drink tea, the two of them looked at each other, they also went to the tea shop in tacit understanding, and sat down in an inconspicuous place to hear those two talking.
“…Yanzhou is still quite comfortable, isn’t there a war going on?”
“Yes, big brother, you are right in everything you say!”
“Look at you, so stupid, it’s fucking embarrassing.”
“Hey, yes yes yes. But brother, how much did you pawn the leather for?”
“Hah, weasel fur, how much can it be worth, only got five taels for it. Our meal just now cost about the same.”
Hearing this, Jiang Ye was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
That fox fur, that was at least worth a hundred taels, was said to be worth five taels of silver by Wei Lin, who was full of nonsense. The two of them actually believed him, how stupid they are.
“Then what should we do if we run out of money?”
“I’m afraid of farts!” The man took out something from his waist and slapped it on the table, “You forgot where that the money came from? Just go to the outskirts of the city again to rob someone.”
“But brother, you are not a real robber….”
“Where do they know….” Before he finished speaking, a chill rose from behind him, with an ominous premonition, he turned his head and saw Wei Lin and Jiang Ye standing behind him, with a sinister smile on their faces.
They saw the two of them sitting down slowly, one on the left and one on the right next to the robber. Jiang Ye kept smiling, he reached out to pick up the cloth bag, and unwrapped it unhurriedly.
Inside was a long piece of wood, with its one end sharpened, wrapped in cloth, it really looked like a dagger.
“I didn’t expect that there would be robbers with pieces of wood. You’re really brave.” Wei Lin said. Jiang Ye also played with the piece of wood and poked the robber hard on the waist. His smile was always hanging on his face, and he said in a low voice: “If you dare to rob someone with a piece of wood, what will happen if you are discovered, don’t you have any idea?”
The robber’s face was pale and blue, he looked only twenty years old, and his little follower looked even younger, maybe fifteen or sixteen years old. He didn’t say anything for a long while, and swallowed, but the little follower spoke first: “You, don’t scare my elder brother!”
“Huh?” Jiang Ye turned his head to look at him, and the little follower was immediately too frightened to make a sound by the look in his eyes.
Wei Lin grabbed the robber by the hair and lifted him up from his seat: “Let’s talk about it and deal with it slowly. Don’t interfere with other people’s business.”
As he spoke, he took a piece of broken silver and put it on the table. The robber was in pain, so he could only stand up with Wei Lin’s movements, which was very funny.
Jiang Ye also snorted coldly: “You also come along.”
The two brought the robber and his follower to a nearby corner where there was no one around, and Wei Lin kicked the robber on the ground: “If I don’t blow your head off today, I won’t be named Jiang!” With all his strength, he punched the robber one after another. Jiang Ye also watched, not forgetting to correct Wei Lin’s speech: “Your surname is not Jiang, okay?”
“If you blow my head off, you’ll go to jail, are you blind to the law?”
“Then what nonsense are you talking about?” Jiang also wanted to hit someone when he heard this, so he simply followed Wei Lin and started beating those two people.
“Don’t you think it’s cool?” Wei Lin was busy beating people, but he didn’t forget to talk to Jiang Ye.
“I don’t think so.” Jiang Ye replied while typing.
“Two masters, I was wrong, I was very wrong!”
“We were so wrong! Stop hitting!”
“Ouch! I beg you, if you hit me again, I will wet myself!”
……
This one-sided beating lasted for a while, and it didn’t come to an end until Wei Lin twisted his wrist because of too much force.
The two of them sat on the ground with bruised noses and swollen faces. Wei Lin and Jiang didn’t hesitate at all when it came to hitting people, especially Wei Lin. He didn’t treat people like humans and only focused on the areas that could withstand the beating, such as their arms and legs. After hitting them in the front, they even had them turn over and kick their buttocks.
“Where are you from?” Jiang Ye stood aside, straightening his not-so-good clothes, as if it wasn’t him who had just hit someone, and asked expressionlessly.
“Shang…Shangzhou, Qinguan people….”
“Ha, let me just say he is from the south.” Wei Lin interjected.
“Professional robber?”
“Hey, what are you asking about, these two pustules don’t look professional at first glance.”
“Then you ask yourself.” Jiang Ye gave Wei Lin a blank look, and then stopped talking.
The robber looked at himself, and then at the little follower, the little follower was already in pain and couldn’t speak, his face was so swollen that his own mother wouldn’t be able to recognize him, and he himself wasn’t much better, so he could only tremble and look at Wei Lin and Jiang Ye, waiting for their questions.
“What are you two called? Why are you robbing people?” Wei Lin squatted down, holding a straw in his mouth at some point, “Huh? You don’t have eyes, robbing us, do we look easy to bully?”
Didn’t you all run away in fright, the robber thought to himself, but he didn’t dare to say anything on the face, so he had to reply timidly: “No, no, it’s not like we have no money, I didn’t expect the two masters to be so powerful. It’s because we are stupid… My name is Jia Da, he’s Jia Er. We came all the way from Qinguan, we have no money, so we can only… I am really to the two masters…”
“Hah, two brothers. What are you doing in Yanzhou?”
“No, Jia Er is an orphan. I have been with him since he was a child, so I named him Jia Er. We offended a nobleman in Qinguan, and wanted to escape to Yanzhou, but ran out of money on the way, so we robbed you… “
“Forget it, it’s already done, and they have already spent all of the money, so it’s useless to ask so many questions.” Jiang Ye said suddenly.
Wei Lin stood up and looked at him, feeling a bit incredulous. “So that’s it?” The straw in his mouth moved up and down with the movements of his lips as he spoke. Jiang Ye, who was also irritable, directly reached out and pulled the straw out from his mouth, throwing it fiercely on the ground. “Don’t do this kind of thing, it’s dirty.”
“You don’t care about me at all.” Wei Lin said unhappily, but he didn’t dare to pick it up and put it in his mouth again, “That’s all?”
“What else do you want?”
“It’s okay to take in two younger brothers.” Wei Lin said and glanced at them both.
“This is also……”
“We can, we can do it! The two of you will be our big brothers from now on!” Before Jiang Ye could say anything, Jia Da nodded hurriedly. Seeing Jia Da, Jia Er also nodded frantically.
“No, we are going to war, are we taking these two brothers with us?” Jiang Ye said.
“Let’s go, let’s go!” This time it was Wei Lin’s turn to speak but he was blocked. As if dissatisfied with these two younger brother’s words, Wei Lin looked at Jia Da and Jia Er fiercely, and scolded with a wave of a fist: “Big brother didn’t speak yet, how can the younger brother speak? Are there no rules!”
“Yes, big brother!”
Wei Lin nodded in satisfaction, and Jiang Ye also said: “It’s okay, wouldn’t it be good to have two more brothers? How imposing would it look…”
“Don’t be deluded, everyone is a pawn after enlisting in the army, what kind of younger brother would you have?”
Jia Da stretched out his hand weakly and asked, “Can I talk?”
“Yes.” Wei Lin enjoyed the feeling of being a big brother, and quickly agreed.
“Actually, Jia Er and I also had the intention of enlisting in the army.” Jia Da glanced at Jia Er while talking, and Jia Er followed up with his words to prove it, “Yes, yes, that’s right!”
Jia Da continued: “The two of us don’t know anything, but we still have a strong body with strong bones. Let’s join the army, at least we will be full!”
“Yes Yes Yes!”
“Well, let’s see.” Wei Lin looked at Jiang Ye very proudly.
Jiang Ye was also a little helpless. He originally wanted to join the army, but now he’s going with them, and there was nothing unreasonable. Besides, the two of them just beat people up and they still want to recognise them as brothers, are these two people out of their minds?
As soon as Jiang Ye’s thought of this in his mind, Wei Lin asked them: “However, we beat you like this, and you still recognise us as big brothers?”
Jia Da said: “Hey, robbing is not what we thought, and we felt what we were doing was right, we are very sorry now, and you two big brothers are so good at fighting, it’s not a loss to be your younger brother.” As he said this, he smiled at Wei Lin with a bruised and swollen face.
“You see, he’s a nice and honest person. Let’s just forget about the past, as we’ve already vented our anger about the robbery.” Wei Lin leaned into Jiang Ye’s ear and said, “If you’re away from home, you should have more trustworthy people around you.”
Jiang also felt that what Wei Lin said made sense, so he didn’t say anything more, acquiescing to it.
“Okay, wipe your face clean, and go to the government office with us.” Wei Lin said.
“Okay, but what should we call the two brothers?”
“My name is Wei Lin, and his name is Jiang Ye. As for the eldest brother, of course I am the eldest brother.”
“Huh?” Jiang also looked at him.
“Well, he’s the big brother.” Wei Lin changed his words resentfully, and added in a low voice: “What are you pretending to be? I don’t want to be the big brother either”
“Wei Lin, do you want to be beaten again?”
“…”
Jia Da supported Jia Er to stand up, and said wittily, “Then it’s Brother Jiang and Brother Wei!”
“Let’s go, we might have to wait until tomorrow.”
“Let’s go.”
Just like that, Jiang Ye and Wei Lin’s two person team suddenly became a four-member team.
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