The patriarch of the Li clan, Li Ping, is over sixty years old, and he is old, although he still holds the position of the third elder, he has long been unconcerned about the affairs of officialdom, and his mind is only on how to continue to develop and continue the clan.

Last night, the clansman Lixian came to report that the county magistrate and the county lieutenant had a matter about a certain local child who had not graduated from the school for a long time and wanted to evade military service, and that Liping needed to go to the county to discuss.

"How can there be such a thing?"

Liping is highly respected in his hometown, and the townsman has something to do with him, so he has to visit him in person, but the county magistrate and the county lieutenant have invited him to at least give some face, so the old man reluctantly accompanied by his son, take an car to the direction of the county seat, Lixian volunteered to drive for him, Liping along the way, but also chatted with the most present children of this clan......

"Lixian, how old is Ruzi Licang?"

"Five years old."

Liping nodded: "I look at this son smart, just like when you were young...... You are in the county seat and don't often return home, so it's better to let him come to Dazong often, get along with his brothers more, and learn to read and write by the way. ”

"Patriarch Lao bothered." Although Liham did not look back, his hand clenched the bridle (pèi) of the car.

When they left the countryside and arrived at the familiar Huyang Pavilion, there was already a team of bow and crossbow officers waiting here, it was the tun chief Xiao Tao and his men.

Seeing Ritchie's carriage and horses coming, Xiao Tao nodded at these carefully selected subordinates, and silently surrounded him, as if protecting, with wings on both sides of the car.

"The county lieutenant is really good, the old man is not a foreigner, and he has to be so courteous when he comes to the county seat."

Although Liping is a little strange, he only regards it as a preferential treatment given to him by the county, and he doesn't take it seriously.

He looked at the Huyang Pavilion passing by and began to sigh about the past, saying that he really didn't see it back then, Heifu could have such ability, from a small pavilion chief to an official doctor, although the rank is only two hundred stones, he is still an assistant, but it is much higher than the status of a Cao chief official in the county.

"It's a pity that the in-laws didn't work out after all."

The old man was a little sorry that after Layue was rejected by Heifu last year, he sulked for a month. When he learned that Heifu was recommended by the county lieutenant as a county official, he regretted it a little, and then wanted Lixian to help his family marry Heifu's brother, only to learn that the Yan family in Yunmengxiang had already taken the lead......

"The Heifu family may become the third chief of the county under the Yun family and the Li family! My family is not a friend, if not an enemy. The patriarch could only comfort himself with this.

Just walked slowly, and in the afternoon, the last pavilion before arriving at the county seat was already in sight, and Lixian, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke, and the terrible words pierced the old man's heart like a sword!

"Patriarch, you have a correspondence with the Chu Guodou Clan, and you have lost ......"

Liping thought that he had heard it wrong because he was too old, and looked at Lixian in front of him in astonishment.

"You...... What did you say? ”

Li Xian said: "Dou Ran has already said everything, the patriarch previously leaked to Dou Ran in the letter, almost exposed Heifu's identity, made Liyang fail to surrender, and put the county lieutenant Li You in danger. Now that the county guard has been assassinated, the Jiangling Dasuo assassin and the inner room, this matter has been thoroughly investigated by the county, and the county officials will come to arrest it soon, and the county commander and the county lieutenant asked the patriarch to go today, not for any school disciple who evaded military service, but to inquire about this matter! ”

The old patriarch was so shocked that he almost didn't sit still, and it took a while to come back to his senses, and then look at the soldiers on the left and right wings, where is the protection! It was clearly armed with a bow and arrows to escort him and send him to trial! And Liham was even ordered to deceive him!

"Liham!"

After coming back to his senses, Li Ping pointed to the most promising child and scolded: "Why didn't the old man see it before, you actually gave birth to a beast's heart!" ”

"Patriarch, keep your voice down."

Lixian still drove the car steadily, and sighed: "If I really had the heart of a beast, I wouldn't have told the patriarch this, and the reason why I told you was to do my best to save the patriarch's children and grandchildren." Does the patriarch know what it is to be an inner and a prince? ”

Li Ping has been the third elder of the township, and he also understands the laws of Qin, and it is said in the "Law of Thieves" that in order to rebel and do the inner room for the enemy country, in addition to his own beheading, his parents, wives, children, and brothers and sisters, regardless of age, will be executed. As for the crime of passing through the princes, he abandoned the city, and his parents, wife, children, and brothers and sisters were all in the city!

Judging from the current situation, he may be able to clear his name of guilt, but the "princes" can't escape, and Liping can already see the fate of himself and his family.

Li Ping looked at the county guards who escorted him around him, as well as the eldest son who was in the dark in front of him, knowing that he couldn't escape today, and asked a little dejectedly: "How are you going to save it?" ”

"If any of the parents, wives, children, and siblings report their crimes to the government in advance, they will be exempt from joint punishment."

"Patriarch, if you want your children and grandchildren to be exempt from blame, when you get off the bus and go to the toilet in Shili Pavilion, you will be instructed to report you first after entering the county seat!"

Leham stopped the carriage, turned his head for the first time, looked into Lipin's desperate eyes, and said:

"This is also considered Lixian, to repay the patriarch's teachings from childhood to adulthood!"

……

An hour later, a dramatic scene was staged in the official temple of Anlu County.

Just when Liping and his eldest son walked into the hall, the county commander, the county commander, the right lieutenant, and the left lieutenant glanced at each other, and were about to attack, but Liping's son suddenly fell to the ground and said on the spot that he wanted to denounce his father and had a correspondence with the Chu Guodou clan!

"I found out about this first and sued Leham for ......"

Liping's eldest son's eyes were red, and although his heart was dripping blood, his father had to kneel down for him in the toilet before, and he had to recite the lines that Liham had taught him......

Zheng Shui, the right lieutenant of the county, glanced meaningfully at the silent Lixian, "If you sue the officials first, you will be removed from the sins" There is something strange in this...... But since Liping successfully threw himself into the net, he didn't say anything.

"Rebel!"

Liping didn't seem to have come to such a scene, tremblingly raised the dove cane in his hand, and hit his son hard, while beating, he was still in tears.

He recalled that decades ago, when the Qin State captured Anlu, several Li children who resisted the Qin people on the orders of the Ruo Ao clan were injured and returned home, but they were tied up by the patriarch at the time, that is, Liping's grandfather.

His grandfather personally cut off his head and gave it to the Qin army as a sign of sincerity.

Lipin, who was not yet 10 years old at the time, looked at the bloody heads and was stunned.

Afterwards, his grandfather sighed and said to him that the survival or extinction of local clans and heroes like them is related to hundreds of lives, and it has long been not the loyalty of one person, or the honor or disgrace of a few people.

"See that gecko?"

He still remembers that his grandfather pointed to a gecko crawling on a dim wall, and suddenly reached over and caught the gecko's tail! Frightened, the gecko broke its tail and crawled forward as fast as it could, burrowing into the cracks in the wall and disappearing......

"Those who were beheaded are the tails of this gecko."

With his soiled hands, his grandfather picked up the tail that was still struggling and showed it to Liping: "Only by sacrificing everyone can the clan continue." ”

Over the course of several hundred years, each family has learned the trick of "gecko tail breaking", and when the clan is threatened, some of the clansmen will be sacrificed.

But Liping didn't expect that one day, it would be his turn to break the tail......

After he was pulled away by the officials, he looked at the four county officials, and bowed down angrily: "The law has a word, the son sues the parents, the woman sues the prince, the slave sues the master, the master's parents and the wife, but it is not the public office, don't listen to the city and abandon the accuser, and I hope that the monarchs will abandon my rebellious son to the city!" I don't have such a son! ”

At this time, Yun Man, the county lieutenant who had been watching coldly for a long time, spoke: "Lijun claims to be proficient in the law, but he is so old that he forgets the law behind it. ”

……

Looking at the farce in front of him, Yun Man, the left lieutenant of Anlu County, couldn't help but be a little funny.

Although there is no major conflict between him and Ritchhe, he has never been at odds, and today he can see that he has always betrayed his old decay with his nostrils, and Yun Man is still useful in his heart.

"It seems that when I came to the official temple today, I didn't get nothing."

He still remembered that when he received a notice at noon inviting him to come to the official temple, his suspicious nephew Yun Xiong blocked the way and persuaded bitterly: "I hope my uncle will think about it again, this matter is quite strange, Li Xian is a henchman of Heifu, and he suddenly sued the head of his family for what he wanted, so why did Li suddenly have the crime of communicating with the princes?" Could it be that the relationship with Dou Ran was discovered? In that case, my family may be implicated as well! Uncle don't rush there! ”

Yun Xiong knew very well that their home was not clean, and they did not have much contact with the Chu State before the Qin and Chu wars, exchanging leather feathers for the gold and tin that Nanjun lacked. But in the past few years, as the two countries have become enemies, they have converged a lot, and after hearing that Ruo Ao's Dou Ran was captured, he didn't dare to cross the rules even more.

However, because Dou Ran was secretly sent to Nanyang County, and only a few people knew about the case during the trial, Yun Man thought that Dou Ran was still detained in Nanyang County.

So he said disapprerovingly: "Dou Ran has been captured for more than half a year, if the matter is leaked, there will already be a prison emperor with a county guard to come to the door, and now it is just Liping who was denounced by his family, dog eats dog." Li is a local tyrant, this matter has alarmed the county order, the county Cheng, and now the three chiefs want to interrogate Liping together and call me to go, how can I be absent? ”

With this mentality, Yun Man sat in the official temple, the old opponent in the past, and now he is a prisoner, which made him feel very comfortable.

But this feeling is fleeting, and the next thing is the sadness of the rabbit and the fox.

Although he told his nephew not to worry and that his family would be fine, Yun Man was still very worried about being retaliated against by Heifu.

He now regrets it very much, why did he make such an enemy in the first place, and he failed to slap him to death, and now the backstage backer of this guy is even harder than their family.

"Fortunately, Ritchie had an accident first, so at least it can attract the attention of the county......"

Just when Yun Man thought that with the arrest of Liping, today's matter was over, Zheng Shu, the right lieutenant of the county, whispered a few words to Wei Shi Lixian, but suddenly got up, stopped everyone from leaving, and announced one thing.

"There is another matter that has not been reported to the county order and the county government, and the county knows about it, and has sent a public doctor to investigate the case thoroughly, and now it has gone outside the city."

As soon as these words came out, the county order and the county were very surprised, and Yun Man's face changed greatly.

Wait, it takes at least ten days to walk from the county government to Anlu, so why did the doctor from the county go outside the city?

In this way, this case was first found out in the county?

At this time, he suddenly discovered that he didn't know when a team of county guards with bows and crossbows stood on the side of the door outside the hall of the official temple, and their eyes were not staring at Liping, but at him! Leham, the black man's confidant, looked at him with a smirk.

Yun Man felt that something was wrong, and sweat broke out on his forehead, but before he could excuse himself to go to the toilet and leave, there was a sound of footsteps outside.

It's the "public doctor" that the county lieutenant said, and he has arrived!

Seeing that he couldn't get out, Yun Man could only desperately think about who the doctor might be, his family was quite well-connected, and the officials and doctors had some connections.

At this time, the visitors have arrived at the lintel of the hall, but they see a crowd in front of them, and there are really a lot of people who come! And the one who walked in the front was a black-faced Qin official wearing a long crown with a double board, but the black tassel under his chin had been replaced by a yellow tassel......

Yun was full of eyes, then Qin Officials are not black husbands, who else can there be!? When did he become a doctor?

Heifu held a sword in one hand, and held high the official slip issued to him by the county in the other, and entered the hall, and everyone in the hall, including the county order, stood up and saluted him, because Heifu was under the order of the county!

"On the orders of the county guard and the county lieutenant!"

Heifu looked at everyone in the hall, all of them were familiar old faces, except for Yun Man, who all obeyed him.

"According to the thorough investigation of the prison Cao and the thief Cao, Yun Man and Liping are suspected of having the crime of communicating with foreign countries, and they have a friendship with Hu Gong of Chu State, and the left soldier Cao Shihefu was ordered to arrest the two and go to Jiangling for trial!"

After speaking, he looked at Yun Man, who was not bowing or bowing, and his face was like ashes throughout the whole process, and said with a smile: "Jun Yun, don't be in a daze, then hand over your official seal, crown, and official uniform, and go with me!" ”

(Chapter 2 at night)