The Li brothers and sisters traveled all the way to the vicinity of Pengshan County, and when they saw that it was still early, they were not in a hurry to enter the city, and when they heard the sound of gurgling water in the woods on the side of the road, they wanted to draw water to quench their thirst and rest their feet by the way.

The two of them rested by the stream for a long time, and suddenly saw another group of passers-by coming to get water, those people seemed to be in a hurry to enter the city, and after drinking water in a hurry, they were about to leave to continue their journey, and the Li brothers and sisters wanted to wait for these people to go far before going on the road. But unexpectedly, one of the men inadvertently saw the faces of the two, and gave up the right and right orders, but he gave up the road and came over alone to talk.

The man first stepped forward and greeted him very politely, and Li Zongyu saw that this person was gentle and elegant, and his words and demeanor did not seem to be a frivolous and rude person, so he also returned the salute. The man also reported his family background, saying that his name was Liu Pu, a native of Suzhou, who served as an observer in Chengdu Prefecture, and went to Pengshan County for business, and then diligently inquired about the family history of the two.

When the Li brothers and sisters heard that this person was an official, they were a little vigilant, they didn't want to reveal their own details, and only perfunctorily said that they were rural people, and they didn't have much family background, so they didn't dare to offend the officials, and they wanted to get out and leave.

Li Zongyu saw that Liu Pu looked like he would not give up easily, so as not to annoy him and increase his trouble, he had to hold back his anger and answer truthfully.

Speaking of this, Li Zongyu suddenly glanced at Wang Ran, and said with a strange expression: "After I told our names, Liu Pu shook his head and said, "Huai Jin holds Yu, what a name." ”

Wang Ran was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart that this Liu Pu is also a wonderful person, and the way he slapped the horse coincided with me.

Li Zongyu continued: "Then he said proudly, "The two of you met me and met the right person, my son has been an official in my family for generations, and I am also one of the best in Suzhou, I am the son of the family, I have been ringing and eating since I was a child, and I am full of poetry and books, Jin'er girl might as well follow me, and in the future, I can enjoy the brocade clothes and jade food, glory and wealth, hehe, "Huai Jin holds Yuxi, poor do not know how to show", into my arms, you no longer have to worry about being poor and not knowing how to show." ”

Everyone was desperate when they heard this, and they said in their hearts where did this person get his confidence, but Pingshui dared to say such things when they met. Wang Ran suddenly realized why Li Jin'er was angry when she heard her ass just now, it turned out that she had been belittled by someone with the same words.

I really praise it, and I don't have any provocative meaning, how can I suffer this unjustified injustice in vain, and I am angry. Although they had never met, Wang Ran had secretly hated Liu Pu.

At that moment, Li Jin'er was of course even more furious when she heard Liu Pu's words, and she was about to attack on the spot, ready to let this slut know what trouble comes from his mouth and what is sinister in the rivers and lakes.

Although Liu Pu still has two attendants, Li Zongyu is still full of confidence in his and his sister's martial arts, and he is not worried that he will suffer a loss if he starts to do it. It's just that this slut is an official after all, and if he beats him, it may be very troublesome in the future, so Li Zongyu hurriedly grabbed Li Jin'er's hand, signaled her not to act rashly, and then politely refused: "Liu Gongzi said that he laughed, we vulgar mountain people, we can't afford to climb Gongzi's noble family." ”

Liu Pu didn't know if he had been arrogant since he was a child, or he was really stupid, or both, he didn't even notice that the Li brothers and sisters were already angry at this time, but instead added fuel to the fire and said: "It's okay, it's just a concubine, you don't need to be a good person, you don't need to be well-read or reasonable, I can serve a good son on weekdays, and the affairs of the house are handled by the wife of the main house." ”

As soon as these words came out, even Li Zongyu couldn't hold back his anger anymore, and Li Jin'er even started directly.

The result is self-evident, Liu Pu and his two attendants were rubbed by the Li brothers and sisters, and the two of them also stuffed Liu Pu's body with stones and hung them on a tree, so that he could have a good taste of "Huai Jin Holding Yu".

Liu Gongzi, who has been pampered since childhood, has suffered such humiliation, and he was hung on a tree and still threatened the Li brothers and sisters, saying that he was ordered by the transfer envoy to Pengshan County on business, if he did not enter the city before sunset, the Pengshan County Commander would inevitably send someone to find him, so that the Li brothers and sisters would quickly release him, otherwise after he was saved, he would definitely assassinate Li Zongyu and send Li Jin'er to the army, and Li Jin'er to be sent into slavery.

Liu Pu's appearance of not knowing life and death made the Li brothers and sisters happy, and naturally rubbed them again, allowing him to understand another idiom - "Life is better than death".

The Li brothers and sisters tortured Liu Pu to death several times before they got rid of the evil anger in their chests and calmed down to think about countermeasures. Since they have done it, they will have to bear the consequences, of course the two will not tie their hands and feet and go to the government to ask for guilt, so there are only two ways left in front of them: one is to run away, go incognito, and steal their lives; The second is to advance in the face of difficulties, since the matter has come to this point, it is better to play with the camera to the end.

With the bold nature of these two people, they naturally chose the latter without hesitation. Li Zongyu splashed the half-dead Liu Pu with water to wake up and interrogated him carefully.

It turned out that this Liu Pu was an observer of the Xichuan Road Transfer Envoy Division, and he was sent here to investigate the corruption and tyranny of Wu Jindong, the commander of Pengshan County.

It is said that this transshipment envoy was first seen in the Tang Dynasty, and in the second year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, Tang Xuanzong began to set up a water and land transshipment envoy to take charge of the food and grain transportation affairs between Luoyang and Chang'an. Later, in the Qianyuan period, Tang Suzong placed the transfer envoy in all the provinces, and knew that the transfer and cashier of all the goods and goods in the whole country, and most of the national system of this dynasty inherited the old practice of the Tang Dynasty, and also set up the transfer envoy in each road, commonly known as "Cao Si", so the transfer envoy was in charge of all kinds of money and grain at the beginning, and there was no right to supervise.

Until today, after the ascendion to the throne, he thought that the authority of the various festivals was too much, and it was easy to have a heart of disobedience, and he was afraid that the dynasty would repeat the old mistakes of the five dynasties at the end of the Tang Dynasty, so he selected loyal and available imperial ministers to be sent to various roads as transit envoys, in addition to taking charge of the wealth along the way, but also let them "assassinate officials" and gave them the right to supervise local officials, so today's transit envoys are actually the highest officials all the way, worthy of the name of the feudal officials. The current Xichuan Road transfer envoy is named Fan Zhigu, who took office in the early years of Duangong.

Fan Zhigu received a report from someone, saying that Pengshan County had ordered Wu Jindong to be ruthless and ruthless, and to expropriate and extort money in the land, causing the local people's livelihood to wither and displace, so he sent Liu Pu to Pengshan County to make an secret visit to the matter.

Hearing the word secret visit, Li Zongyu suddenly remembered that Liu Pu had threatened them before, saying that if he was not allowed to enter the city before sunset, then the Pengshan County Order would definitely send someone out of the city to look for him, so he asked him why he knew his whereabouts since he was going to make an unannounced visit, and whether he was bluffing and deliberately intimidating their brother and sister.

Liu Pu refused to explain, so Li Zongyu rewarded him with another old fist before forcing him to tell the truth, saying that although Fan Zhigu ordered him to investigate secretly, he did not intend to do so.

It turns out that Wu Jindong has already accumulated thousands of family fortunes by exploiting the people over the years, which is not a secret in the entire Xichuan Road, and there are naturally rumors in Chengdu Mansion, and Fan Zhigu sent an observer to investigate here at the beginning of this year.

But although Wu Jindong is notorious, he is not a fool, he has already opened up the relationship between the government and China, and he has received the news in advance and made sufficient preparations. As soon as the observer arrived in Pengshan County, Wu Jindong, who had been waiting for a long time, personally connected him to the best local restaurant, and gave him a thousand taels of silver.

Money can make ghosts grind, and it can make people degenerate, the observer was entertained by Wu Jindong for a few days, and then returned to Chengdu Mansion with silver, and replied to Fan Zhigu that Pengshan County under the governance of Wu Jindong everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, and has enough food and clothing, and the upper and lower roads in the county are not forgotten, the door is not closed, and there is no withering situation, someone deliberately slandered Wu Jindong and wanted to frame him.

Fan Zhigu was born in a famous family, he was handsome and had officials, starting from a division to join the army, and became a feudal official before he was forty years old, and he has always seen a lot of officialdom treacherous, and human nature is sinister, so he naturally won't believe these nonsense words of the observer, but thinking that there is no evidence in his hand, it is not good to attack immediately, so he let him go down first. A few days later, he called Liu Pu to him and sent him to investigate and make a secret visit again.

Liu Pu just went to Xichuan Road to take up his post last year, and he didn't have much intersection with the bureaucrats here, and he had never met Wu Jindong, plus Fan Zhigu and Liu Pu's uncle were officials in the same dynasty, and they knew that the Liu family in Suzhou was noble and clean, and the children of the Liu family were known to be honest and virtuous, so in the eyes of Fan Zhigu, Liu Pu was the best candidate for the secret visit of Weifu.

There is a way that "under the fame, it is actually difficult to deputy", Fan Zhigu only knows that the Liu family is noble, but he doesn't know that the good family also has slight flaws, Liu Pu is the outlier among the children of the Liu family, who is known for his integrity, or scum.