By the time we arrived at the station, it was already completely dark.

Ning Wan, I hurried into the house to rest under the service of my personal attendant.

It's different when I'm older, and I feel sore all over my body after a little exertion.

The inn is not big enough, there are only a dozen rooms, and I can only live with my relatives. As for the hundreds of Qing soldiers who guarded them, they could only live around the post station and set up camp tents for the night.

When the post station learned that it was the new governor of Shandong, he hurriedly put on a smiling face and stepped forward to serve with delicious food and drink.

After Ning, I felt very tired, so I ordered the post station to prepare a bucket of hot water and prepare a bucket bath.

Soon the postman brought hot water and poured it into the barrel.

I pulled my clothes off and jumped into the barrel.

Hiss!

It's so hot!

At this moment, Ning Wan felt that his whole body was trembling, and the heat was so hot that his brain swelled up.

It's so comfortable!

After getting used to this water temperature, Ning Wan felt very comfortable. He leaned against the edge of the barrel with his eyes closed and enjoyed the rare moment.

At this moment, Ning Wan suddenly heard a shout of killing outside the house, which frightened him to open his eyes.

It can't be that he heard it wrong, right?

He pricked up his ears to listen, and heard the crunch of swords clashing.

Hiss!

Ning Wan gasped, stood up from the barrel with a swish, jumped out of the barrel as fast as possible, and put on his clothes directly without bothering to wipe his body.

"Someone, someone!"

I shouted loudly.

Then the guards hurriedly ran over, and when they saw Ning Wan and me opening the door with a panicked look, he squeezed out a smile and said, "Master, what do you command?" ”

"Who's out there? I distinctly heard the sound of weapons. ”

"Back to my lord, it's a group of bandits and bandits who want to rob the post station, but they never thought they would run into us. Now they've all been subdued. ”

The person said slowly, not panicked at all.

Ning Wan was surprised: "Bandits? Isn't this official? How can there be bandits? ”

How do you know this, scratching your head; "Do you want someone to tie them up, and the master will interrogate them personally?"

Ning Wan nodded.

He's an inquiring man, and he has to find out the truth no matter what happens.

"Bring them here."

"Yes!"

Retreat with your fists clenched.

After Ning, I remembered that he was a little disheveled, so I hurriedly came to the bronze mirror to take care of his clothes.

After a short time, he turned back and knocked on the door of the house and said, "The old man has brought it." ”

After Ning Wan, I pushed open the door, only to see more than a dozen strong men kneeling in the courtyard.

These men were all tied up with flowers, and there were dozens of Qing soldiers standing beside them, pressing them to the ground and unable to move at all.

Seeing this, I'm a little relieved.

He walked forward with his hands behind his back, cleared his throat and said, "Who are you and why did you come to assassinate this official?" ”

"Dog Tartar, phew!"

One of them spat at me directly at Ning Wan, and Ning Wan was so frightened that I took a few steps back.

He was annoyed and said angrily: "I'm tired of being crooked, right, come on, cut him down for me." ”

Anyway, there are so many people present, and I'm not worried about not being able to ask for a confession.

Killing one person can also establish authority, so that the rest of the people dare not be stubborn.

The two Qing soldiers dragged the scolding man out for a few steps, and then the two pressed him down, and another Qing soldier drew his knife and slashed at the man's neck.

But with a pop, the man's head was cut off. Blood gushed out of his neck like a fountain.

The head rolled to the ground for a long time before it stopped.

As a result, the scene fell silent for a moment.

Everyone stared at me, but they didn't dare to speak ill of me again.

"The official asks again, who are you and why did you come to assassinate the official!"

Ning Wan glanced at everyone coldly and repeated the question again.

"I, we..."

A younger man tried to say something, but was stopped by a fierce glare from his companion.

Ning Wan, I walked closer and lifted up the head that had just been cut off.

"Don't say yes, do you? The official counted to five, and no one could speak, so he beheaded another person. ”

"One... Two..."

As soon as I read the second word, the young man who had just opened his mouth burst into tears.

"I said, I said."

Ning Wan snorted coldly and said: "Toast without eating and drinking, just like you, you want to learn from others to be heroes, it's really a joke." ”

"We are indeed local bandits, and when we saw that the world was starting to mess up again, we thought about taking the opportunity to come out and make a profit. Although the post station is not too rich, there is still some oil and water to be fished. Unexpectedly, our hundreds of people rushed over, only to find that there were hundreds of soldiers here... God is pitiful, we would never dare to make a mistake if we knew this. ”

Ning Wan stroked the beard on my chin and asked, "You just said that this world is starting to mess up again, do you know what you're talking about?" ”

The young man heard the killing intent in Ning Wan's words, and was so frightened that he hurriedly explained: "My lord, I don't mean anything else, but this world is really chaotic." Let's not talk about the south, let's talk about Shandong. Qixia Mountain revolted in Seven and occupied the entire Denglai, isn't this world chaotic again? At this time, who doesn't want to take advantage of the chaos to get more things. ”

Ning Wan carefully analyzed what this person said, and felt that it really didn't seem like he was lying.

He took a closer look at the clothes of the dozen or so people who were being bound, and they were indeed no different from bandits and bandits.

Originally, I thought that someone deliberately came to intercept and kill him, and I didn't want him to arrive in Jinan smoothly.

It seems that he is overthinking.

"How many people have been captured?"

But this is for the relatives.

"Master Qiqi, there are a total of one hundred and three people."

"All of them."

Ning Wan said without a trace of emotion.

At the beginning of the rebellion of the Han people in Liaodong, Ning Wan suggested that Nurhachi kill all the Han people who rebelled.

Although Huang Taiji changed this strategy after his accession to the throne, the Han people in Liaodong were still slaughtered.

Ning Wan, but I feel that Huang Taiji is soft-hearted, in essence, he is a cold-blooded and ruthless person who does not recognize his six relatives.

Don't say that it is some Han people who have nothing to do with him, that is, if his own mother Lao Tzu betrays the Qing Dynasty, he will not hesitate to kill his relatives in righteousness.

It is so naïve for these bandits to think that the world will be in chaos just after the seventh uprising.

However, this also tells Ning Wan that I must put down this rebellion as soon as possible, and only in this way can I have a role in calming people's hearts.

Otherwise, if the seven control Denglai does things, there will be more and more people like these bandits who want to fish in troubled waters.

"Yes!"

He hugged his fists and took the order, and then signaled the Qing soldiers to drag these thieves out to kill, so as not to disturb his master's rest.

Ning Wan kicked the severed head away, and said coldly: "Don't lose the head after it is cut off, hang it on the horse's back, and you can show it to Ji Xiha after entering the city." ”

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