The city gate was heavily guarded, and on both sides of the gate stood more than twenty soldiers, all of them fully armed, armed with spears and knives at their waists.

Although these soldiers stood in an uneven queue, quite a little crooked, but the victory was in the large number of people, such a large group of soldiers stood at the door, the people in and out of the city were a little afraid, everyone bowed their heads, silent, and their steps would speed up when entering and leaving the city gate.

Li Rizhi led everyone to the city gate, he got off the horse, grabbed a person who had just left the city, and asked: "This old man, the guards here at the city gate are very strict today, is there an accident in the city?" ”

The people shook their heads and said: "Nothing happened, since the new county order took office, it has been like this, I heard that it will be stricter in a few days, only this one city gate will be opened in the entire county, and the rest of the city gates will be repaired, when it can be repaired is not necessarily, and you have to detour in and out of the city!" ”

Alas, sighing, the people went away with their burdens.

Li Rizhi frowned, the county order of Bocheng County did this, from the perspective of officials, there is nothing wrong with it, after all, he is the county order of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor and the empress of the Tang Dynasty are coming, he repairs the city walls and city gates, and strengthens vigilance, which is true, but is it necessary to start martial law so long in advance, it is too much.

Leading the horse, Li Rizhi arrived at the gate of the city, and one of the leaders who seemed to be the leader of the soldiers stepped forward and shouted: "Who are you, what are you doing in Bocheng County, looking at the face, it doesn't look like a person from the city, where did you come from, what are you going to do, tell Ye Ye clearly!" ”

What the leader of the soldiers said was inexplicable, and it didn't look like a soldier at all, let alone a soldier guarding the city.

If you want to say that the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, the most proficient in reading people are the city gate guards, and the most talkative are also the city gate soldiers, even if they are newcomers, there will be old people who teach him what to say when he sees someone, after all, the city gate guards need to understand one point, that is, some people can be bullied, and some people can never afford to offend, so they have to have eyesight!

But this leader of the soldiers seems to have no understanding of the "rules of trade" at all, and he offends people when he comes up, which is quite surprising, not like a soldier, but a bit like a bandit blocking the road.

At this time, it is better to do business and not give the soldiers any "hard money", which will make things complicated, and there is no need for this!

Li Ri knew: "This official is the supervision envoy sent to Bocheng County by Zhongshu Province, and he has come here to see the Wu County Order, where is the county office, you can lead the way in front of your head!" ”

At one end of the shelf, Governor Li Ri immediately startled the leader of the soldiers!

I saw that the leader of the soldiers took two steps back, his face suddenly turned red, as if he was drunk, his expression became very exciting, and he couldn't tell whether he was afraid, shocked, or defensive, or wanted to rush up and stab Li Rizhi, anyway, all kinds of expressions were mixed together, and it was indescribably weird!

Li Rizhi was also taken aback, what's the matter with this person, why did he react so much, haven't you ever seen someone wearing civilian clothes as an official!

At this time, he wanted to take out his official seal to prove that although he was not wearing an official uniform, he was indeed an official, not a fake!

But the leader of the soldiers seemed to be so nervous that he forgot about it, or maybe he didn't know about the official seal at all, and he even shouted: "What kind of official are you, and what province did you come from, I haven't heard of it!" ”

A small soldier came up behind the leader of the soldiers, and this little soldier was also full of horror, but he could bear it, and he did not act as wonderful as this leader.

The little soldier said: "It's from Chang'an, anyway, it's an official sent by Chang'an!" ”

The leader of the soldiers said heavily, it seemed that he remembered something, glared at Li Rizhi, and said, "You guys are waiting here, yes, yes, I'll go in and report!" ”

With a wave of his hand, he asked his soldiers to surround Li Rizhi and them, and he himself ran to the city!

This time, not only did Li Rizhi feel that something was too wrong, Fu Guibao and they walked up together, they all felt that something was wrong, this soldier leader was caught in the door by the door!

It's still caught by the city gate, and it's quite ruthless!

If it is at the gate of the county government at this time, then let them wait at the gate, and then someone goes in to report, then whether it is after the county order is notified, whether it is to go out to greet them, or let Li Rizhi and them go in directly, it is a normal way, the difference is only in respect or not!

But this is the gate of the city, so I just let them wait, and sent a team of soldiers to surround it, what do you want to do, is it possible to kill the official and rebel, or to attract people to hate for the county order, I don't know if the Tang Dynasty officialdom wants to carry people in a sedan chair, this is too ignorant of the rules!

Li Rizhi felt that this matter was very strange, but the more strange things were, the more he couldn't show surprise.

Li Rizhi tried his best to keep his expression as usual, and he didn't make a fuss, but led everyone to stand at the edge of the city gate, so as not to block the way in and out of the city gate.

The soldiers who surrounded them did not listen to orders very much, and when they saw that Li Rizhi and these people did not resist, they immediately relaxed their vigilance, and after a while, they all dispersed, not seeing Li Rizhi and them standing at the gate of the city before, but they went their own way.

These soldiers give people the feeling that there is no military discipline at all, and they seem to be waiting for Li Rizhi and others to arrive, maybe they are waiting for someone else, but they misunderstand Li Rizhi and others as the people they are waiting for.

Cheng Zizi whispered to Li Ri: "Senior brother, these people don't look like regular soldiers, could they be fake horses?" ”

Li Rizhi frowned and said, "It feels a bit like it, could it be that Xiangma has occupied the entire Bocheng County?" But this is absolutely impossible, the people in the city are normal, and this situation is not a day, if it is really Xiangma occupies the county seat, even if Zhen Mengde doesn't care, but other officials will take care of it, how can it be left to it! ”

Cheng Zizi and Fu Guibao nodded together, this is indeed the case.

But Chen Yingying said: "Could it be that the county order was kidnapped by the ringing horses, forcing the county order to do this and that, and the county order did not dare to disobey, otherwise the ringing horses would kill the county order, or kill the county order's family?" ”

This situation is very likely to happen, Li Ri knows: "Maybe that's the case, let's wait here and improvise!" ”

It didn't take long for less than a quarter of an hour to hear the sound of horses' hooves on the street, and a large group of people wearing official uniforms came, the first of whom was wearing a green official robe, which seemed to be the county order of Bocheng County.

When Li Rizhi saw the appearance of this county order, he secretly said in his heart: "This Wu county order is not like a ringing horse, it is an authentic scholar!" ”

The county magistrate of Bocheng County is named Wu Penghui, born in Jinshi, he used to be a county in the old Yandi, he has meritorious service in governing the jurisdiction, and he was promoted here to make a county order.

I saw that Wu Penghui had a white face, delicate facial features, and was only in his early thirties, he could be regarded as very young, with chic manners, if he took off his official uniform and changed into a Confucian shirt, he could really be called a merry scholar!