On the night of February 28, the gathering of rivers and lakes at the Tongfu Inn in Rongxian County became a joke in Zhang Xiang's eyes.

Originally, he thought that he would become the ghost of these Jianghu people in this meeting, after all, in this situation, he really has no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the earth.

Even if there is a first-class master like Yuan Shen on the side to protect him, in front of so many masters in the rivers and lakes, Yuan Shen himself is already unable to protect himself, and he never thought that he would be able to survive.

All the calculations he can do have been done, and the summary is four words: 'There is no way out'.

Maybe Yuan Shen can still have a way to live if he fights desperately, but he doesn't have it at all, if Yuan Shen takes care of him, then both of them will die.

Coming here to attend the meeting is also in response to Yuan Shen's words, 'Die with dignity'.

But Zhang Xiang never thought that Dugu Liuying would come forward to help him and poison everyone.

He finally understood why Dugu Liuying let those people in the rivers and lakes drink that glass of wine before the fight.

The poisonous skills of the strange people in the rivers and lakes really live up to their reputation.

That night, after he and Yuan Shen left the messy Tongfu Inn, they met Dugu Liuying who blocked their way halfway down the road.

Seeing Dugu Liuying's appearance, Zhang Xiang was jealous, if he had this appearance in his previous life, he would definitely be the top traffic niche.

"Thank you Dugu Gongzi for your help tonight." Zhang Xiang gave him his hand and took the lead in expressing his gratitude.

Dugu Liuying's voice was warm: "No need, I was ordered by the master to help you get out of trouble tonight, and the master said that you are his little friend." ”

"Iron Senpai?" Zhang Xiang was surprised: "How did he know that I was in Rong County?" ”

"Master wanders the rivers and lakes, and what he wants to know, he will naturally know." Dugu Liuying first faced Zhang Xiang, and after speaking, he didn't seem to feel very comfortable, and then he turned halfway (shēn) and stood sideways facing him.

Zhang Xiang didn't know what he meant, and gave his hand again: "No matter what, today (rì) is Dugu Gongzi's shot, and Ming Heng is spared." ”

"Today (rì) to help you, this is not my intention, just the master's order, you can't disobey, after today, before you leave Rong County, you can act on your own, those Jianghu people have lost their internal strength, and they don't pose a threat to you for the time being, but after you leave Rong County, I don't care about this matter, whether you can escape the next time, I don't know, but don't worry, I will give them the antidote when you leave Rong County, I hope you can grasp your chance to escape."

After Dugu Liuying finished speaking softly, he turned (shēn) and left.

Zhang Xiang was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses, and muttered to himself: "Drag a (pì)!" ”

Yuan Shen on his side said coldly: "The fame of the Dugu family in the rivers and lakes of Baiyue Jianzhou is headed by morality, and Dugu Liuyingjin (rì) helps you, offending a lot of people in the rivers and lakes, which is considered to be a violation of the family motto of the Dugu family, and the Dugu family will inevitably be gossiped by outsiders on the rivers and lakes because of this matter, and he will definitely be punished when he goes back this time." ”

"When you say that, I don't think I'm sorry for him."

"It's okay, he's on the orders of his master anyway."

"You're not kind."

"I am also on the orders of my master, otherwise your life or death has nothing to do with me."

"Actually, you don't have to be so honest."

"Elegy likes my honesty."

"I don't like it."

"I don't need you to like it."

“……”

When Zhang Xiang returned to the county office, the night was already (tǐng) deep, and in addition to a few officials on duty, Zhang Xiang also saw Li Yanzhi standing at the gate and looking around.

This made Zhang Xiang a little surprised, three hours have passed since he went out, this Li Yanzhi shouldn't have been standing here waiting for him, right?

"Pony..."

When Li Yanzhi saw Zhang Xiang walking back, the surprise was self-evident, and he hurriedly walked up.

"You're finally back." Then he looked at Zhang Xiang and saw that he was intact, and then the worried god (qíng) disappeared.

Zhang Xiang asked curiously, "You have always been here?" ”

Li Yanzhi shook his head: "After you left, I went to find Peng Zhixian, I wanted him to take the official messenger to the Tongfu Inn, but after meeting him, I thought that this method might not be appropriate, if the official messenger appeared in the Tongfu Inn, maybe those Jianghu people would jump over the wall in a hurry, so I dispelled this idea, just chatted with him for a while, and then he left me for dinner." ”

Zhang Xiang said with a smile as he walked in: "I didn't say that it was good, this kind of matter between me and them is a matter of the rivers and lakes, and it has to be solved according to the rules of the rivers and lakes. ”

Li Yanzhi followed behind him, and whispered in fear: "It's a good thing that the horse can return safely, otherwise I really don't know how to explain to Princess Gaoping when I go back to Pingzhou." ”

"Originally, I thought that this time there would be more luck and less luck, but there were some variables that I didn't expect." Zhang Xiang smiled mysteriously.

"Didn't those Jianghu people embarrass the horses?" Li Yanzhi also felt strange.

Zhang Xiang said with a smile: "It's okay, I also ate a big meal for free and drank some wine, which can be regarded as a thrill." ”

Li Yanzhi didn't understand.

Zhang Xiang didn't explain much, and asked, "You didn't tell the little slave about this, did you?" ”

"After I came back from Pengzhi County, the little slave girl came to me, and she asked me where the colt had gone? I just told her, "You're out to meet your friends," and the little slave girl didn't ask again. After that, I wanted to rest earlier, but I couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, so I came out and waited here, and I thought that the colt should be fine. ”

"Then your feeling is still (tǐng) accurate."

"By the way, don't you have a good horse, now that you have come back safely, can you still see Xu Song Wenming (rì) in this prison?"

"明 (rì) is tried, and I still look at it (pì)! Well... However, before Xu Songwen is interrogated, Shi Meng must be interrogated first, and in the morning of Ming (rì), you will bring someone to escort Shi Meng back..."

When Zhang Xiang returned to the house, the candle light in the room was on, and the little slave fell asleep on his desk.

Zhang Xiang tiptoed closer, and then carefully picked her up.

The little slave didn't know if he slept too deeply or too lightly.

When Zhang Xiang picked her up, she also opened her hazy eyes, and then said vaguely: "Concubine, slave... Slaves, maids, etc... I've been waiting for you for a long time.... ”

With that, she fell asleep again.

Zhang Xiang also tried to call her twice, but she didn't wake her up.

This made Zhang Xiang speechless for a while, so he carried her back to her own room and covered her with a quilt.

It's just that as soon as Zhang Xiang left, the little girl in the dark opened her eyes suddenly, and then her cheeks turned crimson, and she hurriedly buried her head in the quilt in shame, very angry with herself, and her little feet kept patting......

In the early morning of the next (rì), Zhang Xiang called Peng Zhixian over and asked him to send someone out to post the list article, saying that Shi Meng would be interrogated at noon today, and the people of Rong County would come to watch, and by the way, he would send a team of officials to surround the Shi family's house first.

This made Peng Zhixian stunned for a while, wasn't Shi Meng robbed?

But he didn't dare to ask, so he nodded quickly and went to do it immediately.

The small Rong County became known all over the city in less than an hour after the post of the list.

After Shi Liangyu was arrested, these sons were always restless and often sent people to the county government to inquire about the news.

At first, he could often know about his son's condition in prison (qíng), which made him worry and relieved a little, but after the night before, no news came out of the county office, and the entire county office suddenly became like a dark cage overnight, making him unable to see the situation clearly.

As soon as I finished breakfast today, the next person came to report that the county government was going to interrogate Shi Gongzi, and many people in Rong County rushed to watch.

"What?" Shi Liangyu was taken aback.

As a result, before he could come back to his senses, another subordinate came to report: "Master, the official of the county government has fenced off the house." ”

Shi Liang Yuyi (pì) sat down, his eyes glazed over, and the whole person instantly aged for dozens of years.

Under the expectations of many people in Rong County, at around noon, Shi Meng, who was embarrassed and shackled, was brought into the yamen by an official mission.

Peng Shuhuai sat in the hall with a mighty face.

Zhang Xiang sat on the side and listened.

"Smack"

The startling wood sounded, and Peng Shuhuai shouted and asked: "Shi Meng, this official asks you, what do you and your father Shi Liangyu mean by starting to accept the grain of the people in the county at a low price in mid-January?" ”

In the face of these problems, he knelt on the ground as calm as a wooden fish, and said in a wooden voice: "Back to my lord, it's none of my business, it's my father's idea, my father said, as long as these people's grain is received in their hands, once the imperial court's grain collection is over, these grains can be sold at a high price, the original grain of 1,000 yuan a stone, when the time comes, it will be sold for 4,000 yuan a stone, those people also have to buy, if they don't buy them, they will starve to death, Now the grain of the entire Rong County is in our hands, and we can sell it as we want when the time comes. ”

The mask of the Shi family's hypocrisy was finally torn off at this moment, and at that moment, hundreds of people's rotten eggs, rotten vegetable leaves, baskets, etc. were thrown in

"I'll just say, why is this Shi family so kind, it turns out to be our food!"

"The sky has eyes, the sky has eyes!"

"The official master is mighty, he saved the people of Rong County!"

"Let's go, let's go to Shi Liangyu to settle accounts..."

“……”

Looking at this group of angry people, Zhang Xiang had mixed feelings in his heart.

A month ago, these people regarded the government as a dog official who committed the most heinous crime and robbed them of their food.

Half a month ago, he was blocked by these people and scolded as a dog official.

Now, this heinous dog officer has become their master.

This is the people!

In the next interrogation, Zhang Xiang didn't have to look at it, at this point, if Peng Shuhuai didn't know how to do it, then the hat on his head could also be removed.

He called Li Yanzhi (shēn) and went to where Xu Songwen lived.

Half an hour later, Shi Liangyu was dragged by officials in a prison cart to the county office, and along the way, his head was smashed with countless eggs, and his (shēn) was covered with rotten vegetable leaves.

An hour later, the Shi family was copied by the officials, and the grain in the Shi family's granary was pulled to the county government by carriage.

At the same time, Zhang Xiang and Li Yanzhi also searched for a box containing 1,000 taels of silver and many valuable gold, silver and jewelry in the place where Xu Songwen lived.

Don't think about it, these are all the property that the Shi family bribed Xu Songwen.

At three o'clock in the Shen period, the Shi family's father and son were thrown into prison, and Peng Shuhuai, according to Zhang Xiang's instructions, asked the people of Rong County to come to the county granary to receive back the grain purchased by the Shi family at a low price.

Around the end of the day, Zhang Xiang came to the prison.

At this time, Xu Songwen didn't seem to know what was happening outside.

When he saw Zhang Xiang, he also shouted a few times that he was wronged.

Zhang Xiang put Shi Liangyu's confession in front of him: "Lord Xu, what else do you have to say?" (shēn) is an official of the imperial court, corrupt and bribery, and joins forces with the Shi family and other (jiān) merchants to pit the people of Mengrong County, and this (shēn) official uniform is worn on you (shēn), which really disgraces the imperial court. ”

At this time, Xu Songwen was like a bolt from the blue, he still didn't know what was going on, and in the face of Shi Liangyu's confession, he was in a daze for a while.

Zhang Xiang continued: "I came to Rong County, not only for the grain requisition of Rong County, but also for you, Zheng Governor had already thought that you would be like this, so before I came, he told me some of your things (qíng), originally after he (rì) Zheng Governor was promoted, you had the last chance to become the Governor of Pingzhou." ”

"I know you have a lot of questions and puzzles in your heart, but these are not important, if you want people to know, unless you don't do it, you don't have to beg me for mercy, because I won't let you go, if you have something to say, you can stay back in Pingzhou and tell Governor Zheng, whether he will let you go, I don't know."

After a long time, in the face of Zhang Xiang's footsteps in the prison, Xu Songwen roared vigorously: "Donkey, wronged..."

……

Yang (chūn) March, (chūn) warm flowers bloom.

It is a small place like Rong County that feels the arrival of twilight (chūn) the most.

The flowers are as promised, and (chūn) is light for another year.

It coincides with the new rain, and it is rare to have a cold day.

On the first day of the first month of March, the county government opened all the grain collected from the Shi family, a full 3,000 stones, and returned to them the share that should have belonged to the people of Rong County, and left the grain that the imperial court should have received according to the number of households.

Zhang Xiang didn't go to the place where the grain was collected, he didn't need to come forward in person for this kind of thing, just let Li Yanzhi take care of it for him.

Instead, at the request of the little slave, Zhang Xiang took her to a place with good mountains and rivers outside Rong County.

The night before, she said something muttering to Zhang Xiang, saying that she was about to leave, and it was difficult to make a long trip, and she didn't have a good look, so she went back like this, which is a pity.

This little girl fled from Yingzhou to Xuanzhou with her parents at the age of ten, and then entered the palace to follow the princess (shēn), and now it has been almost six years.

In this era, (shēn) is a maid who may not have lived for herself in her life.

For a girl of her age, the rare freedom is the most precious.

On this day, the little slave was like a wild monkey, running all over the mountains, Zhang Xiang took Shi Ming, and Shi Guang's two guards followed her all the way, for fear that she would be lost.

It wasn't until he went back in the evening that Zhang Xiang said to her, who was still unsatisfied: "Little slave, I heard the princess say that you will be sixteen years old in April this year!" ”

The adult age of the woman in Nanchu is fifteen years old, and the current slave is already an adult woman.

The little slave nodded happily: "Yes, donkey, the slave will be sixteen in a month!" ”

Zhang Xiang said with a smile: "When I go back this time, I will tell the princess to take you back to Yingzhou once, it's good." ”

"Really?"

"Have you forgotten, this is what I promised you, if I have the chance, I will take you back to Yingzhou once, and bring the bones of your parents who are in exile on the road back to Yingzhou for burial."

"The great kindness of the horse to the slave and the maid, the slave and the maid dare not forget in this life, the slave and the maid have long passed the age of the slave, but they have not been able to bring the bones of their parents back to Yingzhou, the slave and the maid are really unfilial."

"Eh, just talk, why did you suddenly cry again, wasn't it okay just now!"

"The colt... The slave didn't cry, she was just too happy. ”。

"I shed a lot of tears, and I said I didn't cry."

"The slave just didn't cry... Woooooo

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