Chapter 223: Exploring the Bandits' Lair

Wang Lun speculated: "I have just checked the official documents of Wang County's commander, and most of the bandits are only a few dozen, and 100 people are already rare, never more than 200 people. But his meritorious service was to suppress more than 300 bandits, and only ten days later, a group of bandits rushed into the county office, so where did these remnants come from? ”

Qing'er looked at Wang Lun blankly, looked at the list in his hand again, and asked suspiciously, "Do you mean ......?"

Wang Lun's eyes were full of excitement, and he trembled the list and said: "There are a total of three hundred and twenty-seven people on this list, and the number is exactly the same as the reward given by the officials to Wang County's order. In other words, what I have in my hand is the list of bandits obtained by the Huang County Order. But look here, here...... Alas, iniquity! Not only women, but also children! ”

Wang Lun pulled over the roster of Pingxian County again, and pointed out the names crossed out on the paper to Qing'er one by one.

Qing'er was shocked to find that all the people with horizontal lines under their names were in the Pingxian roster, which means that the people who drew the lines on this piece of paper were all the people of Pingxian County, and most of them were lowly!

Three hundred and twenty-seven lives!

Qing'er can't believe it, but the facts are in front of her!

She stared at Wang Lun with wide eyes, only to find that he also had a sad look on his face.

How can there be such parents in this world? Accusing the people of "bandits" to kill them to invite merit?!

Qing'er slammed the table angrily, gritted her teeth and scolded: "His heart can be punished!" I can't wait to ......."

"Shh

Xiao Er suddenly rushed over to cover her mouth, and before Qing'er could react to what was going on, Wang Lun said shrewdly:

"Forget it. In the past few years, there have been frequent bandits here, and we don't know the details, so let's wait until we find Lord Huang to discuss it. ”

Xiao Er withdrew his hand and whispered, "The person has left." Listening to the movement is not a practitioner, so I shouldn't have heard anything. Adults, do you want to change stores? ”

Qing'er looked at Wang Lun hesitantly, and Wang Lun put away the note in his hand properly before saying: "The county seat of Pingxian County is so small, we can find it wherever we move, and we will pay more attention to what we talk and do in the future." ”

Qing'er nodded yes, and said: "It seems that Huang County Ling discovered this big secret before reporting it to Dali Temple!" It's just that he can't see anyone now. There is no body to be found, this piece of paper cannot be presented as evidence, and a lot of case files have been lost...... It's better for us to have a private interview with WeChat. Maybe you can find a clue? ”

Wang Lun frowned and sighed: "It's not easy to talk about! You see that these people who crossed the line are all lowly, and there are women and children in the list, they must have cut the grass and eradicated the roots, leaving no living mouth. ”

When Qing'er heard this, she only felt that something was stirring in her stomach. Cheap!

This damn bastard dog officer. They killed the poorest and most helpless untouchables.

No wonder he died unexpectedly, without a whole body. It's a pity that these "bandits" are too kind, and they should kill him alive!

Qing'er took a long breath, secretly thinking that Pingxian County was so small, and he was afraid that he would have lost all his lives in the "bandits".

Thinking of this, her heart couldn't help but shrink to one place, and said coldly: "No matter how difficult it is, you have to try!" Since Huang County Ling can make this list, we will definitely be able to find out, and Xiao Er and I will go to investigate tomorrow. ”

This sentence is not a consultation. It was Qing'er's decision. Ignoring Wang Lun's objections, she insisted on taking Xiao Er to investigate as a businessman.

She only had a dozen or so names verified from the roster. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

However, Qing'er is determined to do something for the untouchables in Pingxian County, although people can't be resurrected after death, at least they must be given justice!

But they visited for six days, but they found nothing. Although there was no progress in the case, I learned more about the Wang County Commander who died unexpectedly.

It didn't take long for the two to find that the local people were very indifferent to the violent death of the two county commanders, especially the death of the Wang county commander, and even had an indescribable happiness.

It turned out that although the land in Pingxian County was not particularly rich, it had been healthy for thousands of years, until Wang County's order arrived seven years ago, and everything began to be different.

As soon as the Wang County Order came, it began to raise taxes, such as land tax, poll tax, and purchase tax, all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which gradually exploited the people to misery.

After three years like this, ordinary people have already been emptied of their families by him. This year, there was a drought again, and every family had no income, but the tax had to be paid!

At this time, the people of Ping County couldn't stand it at all, and every family had starved to death.

In this situation, the rich families moved one after another, and most of the poor fled to other counties, while the remaining poor people were left in the surrounding mountains and forests, and the untouchables were mostly mixed in.

Qing'er never expected that the so-called "bandits" in Pingxian County were actually forced to Liangshan by the government!

What's even more tragic is that after these "bandits" robbed for a while, because there was no robbery, they gradually adapted to life in the forest under the guidance of an old hunter, and began to hunt animals for a living.

Hunters often use the game in the forest to go to the market to exchange some rice, flour, oil, salt and other things, and slowly settle down in the forest, and even build a village without disturbing the people.

But he didn't want the tax collector of Wang County's order to have great powers, and it was not enough to collect taxes from hunters in the market, so he shrugged his nose and touched the forest to collect taxes.

Later, because the hunters refused to pay the tax, they set off several mountain fires, forcing these hunters to fall into the grass twice!

The more Qing'er and Xiao Er dug up the inside story, the more indignant they became at this Wang County Commander, and the more sympathetic they were to the people here, and they slowly came up with the idea of wanting to go into the forest to find bandits.

She thinks that if you want to solve the "fake bandit meritorious service case" of Wang County's order, you must unite the bandits in the forest, and there will definitely be evidence dug up!

Xiao Er objected fiercely, he thought that Qing'er took the initiative to ask Ying this time to take the opportunity to pretend to be dead and get out, and he didn't want her to come for real!

Go into the woods to find bandits, are you crazy?!

Qing'er saw that she couldn't do Xiao Er's work, so she simply went directly to Wang Lun to discuss. I don't want Wang Lun to be a bad person, the two hit it off!

Xiao Erwan didn't expect these two people to be crazy in one place, but it's a pity that others are soft-spoken, and they don't have the slightest problem with these two living ancestors!

It's just that Gongsun Xi is in the central capital, and the whip is beyond his reach, so he can't count on it at all. The secondment of the manpower of the Pingxian county government will only startle the snake and increase the danger.

Xiao Er couldn't persuade him, so he had to follow the two into the dense forest to commit danger.

On this day, the three of them dressed up as fur merchants and entered the forest to investigate the case under the pretense of buying mountain goods.

Everything went well, they didn't have much trouble finding the hunter, because the price was high and the quantity was large, the hunter bluntly said that he could not be the master, and led the three of them into the mountains without any warning.

The business negotiations were dominated by Wang Lun, Qing'er only pretended to be his deputy and didn't talk much, and Xiao Er's body was naturally more silent as a casual indulgence.

Wang Yan is a cautious person, and he has handled old cases again, and this time he went into the mountains just to find out, and he didn't want to startle the snakes, so he successfully negotiated the fur deal and went out of the mountain.

But they didn't want to capsize in the gutter, and the group was actually ambushed after getting out of the bandit's nest! (To be continued......)