Chapter 56: No One Can Protect You

An Yi looked at the raging fire in the back camp, his heart tightened, he didn't know if Jin Mingyin and Jiang Ruyue were fine, and hurriedly asked Lin Muzhi to take someone to the back camp to investigate.

Then with a cold gaze, staring at Chaang in front of the horse,

"Take them all!"

An Yi gave an order, and several sergeants behind him stepped forward with ropes wrapped around them that had been prepared long ago.

"Who dare!"

Xia Ang stood up from the ground trembling at this time, pulled out the sword on his waist with a "bang", pointed at An Yi and the others and shouted: "I am Xia Ang, the garrison general of Chengdu Mansion, a dignified four-grade imperial court official, without the edict of the Sichuan Commander, who dares to touch me!" ”

An Yi snorted coldly and said, "You still know that you are an official of the imperial court, and you don't say anything about conniving at the Wugu Sect to cause chaos everywhere and brutalize the people. He also led troops late at night, disturbed the people in the village, trespassed into my military camp, and if you can't cure your crime, it is a matter for the imperial court, first meet with me tomorrow and the commander! Bundle it up! ”

As he spoke, several five big and three thick sergeants around him swarmed up, unloaded the sword in his hand, tied it up and threw it on the ground.

"Brother Yi!"

An Yi looked up and saw Lin Muzhi walking over from a distance with Jin Mingyin and Jiang Ruyue.

Seeing that the two of them were fine, he was very happy for a while, and hurriedly stepped forward and hugged the two of them excitedly, "It's good that you two are okay, you two are responsible for such a big fire?" ”

Jin Mingyin pouted at Jiang Ruyue a little helplessly, and said to An Yi: "Brother Ruyue's 'big gift flower' not only burned my half-month's 'grain storage', but also almost blew up this back camp to the sky. ”

"However, it is also thanks to Brother Ruyue's brain, otherwise Brother Yi, you may not be able to see us." Immediately afterwards, he praised Jiang Ruyue with a dark face.

An Yi patted Jiang Ruyue's shoulder, sighed and said, "It's my problem, I regret not listening to you." ”

Jiang Ruyue smiled, looked at Xia Ang who was tied to the ground, and said to An Yi: "If Brother An doesn't leave, we don't know about a good show performed by this dog official to kill the people and take the merits!" ”

"Killing people and risking merit?"

An Yi was a little puzzled when he heard what he said, but when he remembered the words of the villagers who cried around him when he first entered the village, he roughly guessed a thing or two in his heart.

Jiang Ruyue pointed at Xia Ang and snorted coldly: "Brother An, do you know why this dog official left this way?" That's to take the heads of the people of Songling Village and paint his merit book! ”

Although An Yi was born in an official family, he has heard of the darkness of officialdom and the exploitation of the people and the bottom. But when you really come to these bloody things, it is hard to guarantee that there will be some ups and downs in your heart.

After listening to what Jiang Ruyue said, he felt that his chest was full of anger for a while, like a fire thunder that ignited the fuse and was about to explode, and looked at Xia Ang and said angrily: "You! Are you still an individual? Aren't you afraid of ghosts at night? ”

Seeing An Yi's angry appearance, Xia Ang laughed wickedly, and that laughter was squeezed with mockery, uneasiness, fear, and disguise, all of which made his smile stiff as a convulsion.

"Don't pretend to be a saint in front of me, this group of untouchables, even if they die and become ghosts, they are also a group of lonely ghosts, what can they do with me? What can you do with me? You are just lucky to please the king of Shu for a while, and you are a small official who is not in the stream, I will kill them all, and you have to go through the copywriting of my garrison office before you impeach me! Who do you think you are? Just by your words, will the court take off the black veil on my head? Stop dreaming! ”

The louder he spoke, the louder he became, until at last he went berserk like a roaring beast. When things got to this point, he knew in his heart that it might not end so easily, but his long-term disdain for the people and these low-level officials made him not take comfort in his eyes at all. If it weren't for Zeng Ziren's orders, I'm afraid An Yi wouldn't have even wanted to see him at the beginning.

However, now in his opinion, An Yi stood in front of her, speaking like a victor, and even reprimanded him, which was very unacceptable to him.

However, even a clay man who listened to Xia Ang's cynicism inevitably became angry, not to mention that An Yi had long been annoyed by what he had done just now, and after listening to what he said, he was even more angry for a while, pointing at Xia Ang and scolding: "Xia Ang! I'll tell you in peace! Don't say that you are a military attache of the four grades of bullshit, you are the governor of the five armies in Wang Jingli, and Lao Tzu must also ask the holy decree to cut off your dog's head! ”

Then he waved his hand at the sergeant next to him, "Take him down for me!" Watch close! If I lose him, I'll ask you! ”

"Yes, yes!"

These sergeants had never seen such a big anger in the regimental training department, and hurriedly agreed to take Xia Ang down, not daring to slack off at all.

Nachaon struggled, and kept shouting, "You can't move me!" Then he was dragged by two sergeants and disappeared into the night.

Jiang Ruyue looked at the ease of anger on her face, and she looked a little ready to speak.

"Ruyue, if you have something to say, just say it." Jiang Ruyue's little expression happened to be seen by An Yi who turned his face, he calmed down the anger just now, and said to Jiang Ruyue.

Jiang Ruyue nodded and said, "Say something you don't like to hear, what Xia Ang said just now is indeed the truth." We belong to military attaches outside the rank, even if the evidence is conclusive, the twists and turns must first pass through the garrison office before they can reach the hands of the imperial court, not to mention whether Zeng Ziren and his ilk will make an obstruction from it, even if everything goes well, the imperial court agrees to return the 'three divisions' for trial, it will be a month or two later, and I am afraid that the human and material evidence will have been swept away by him a long time ago.

"What's more......" Jiang Ruyue paused and continued, "Not to mention the fire just now, I'm afraid that Zhou Shibiao would have been turned to ashes long ago." ”

After listening to his words, An Yi lowered his head and did not respond, he knew in his heart that what Jiang Ruyue said was everything, if he wanted to use this matter to kill Xia Ang, he had to fight quickly, and if it dragged on for a long time, I was afraid that in the end, it would be a bamboo basket to draw water. But now even Zhou Shibiao is gone, and the conditions for a quick battle are gone.

Thinking like this, An Yi slowly fell into deep thought,

suddenly

He raised his head sharply and looked at Jiang Ruyue, his expression was full of cunning, Jiang Ruyue even saw a glimmer of light flash in his eyes,

"Ruyue, tomorrow I will take Ming Yin, and the three of you will command the envoy with me! I will have the envoy of Zeng Commander personally behead his Chaon! ”

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early morning

Sichuan is the commander of the embassy

Inner hall

"You came to me in a hurry this morning, just to tell me about this?"

Zeng Hanru sat on the Taishi chair in front of the main hall, threw the official documents in his hand on a few cases, looked up at Zeng Ziren who was bowing in front of him and asked,

Zeng Ziren smiled and hurriedly took the teacup from the maid's hand, gently placed it in front of the old man's table and said: "Isn't it, didn't you hear about the bandits in Jiangning Village last time, but General Xia Ang rushed over overnight, not only defeated the bandits, but also showed the head of the bandit to the public, and the people of Jiangning Village all high-fived and remembered the good of your commander, and said that you are a good official who is dedicated to the people." ”

After Zeng Hanru heard what his son said, a smile finally appeared on his face full of ravines, he took a sip of the tea cup on the table, and said, "Is that really the case?" ”

"That's true! No, there were bandits in Songling Village last night, and General Xia rushed over with the cavalry overnight. Zeng Ziren danced on the side, comparing to the old man how heroic Xia Ang was, as if he was there at the scene.

Zeng Hanru suddenly frowned and asked Zeng Ziren: "I heard that there are people from the Five Grains Sect who have often harassed various villages recently, are these two sudden bandits related to the Five Grains Sect?" ”

The reputation of the Wugu Sect has risen many years ago, Zeng Ziren and Zeng Hanru have known about it for a long time, but firstly, they are not the villagers in the village who have direct contact with the Wugu Sect, and secondly, they are not the objects of the Wugu Sect in the imperial court, so they only have a vague concept of this Wugu Sect.

Zeng Ziren listened to the old man say this, and quickly shook his head like a rattle. He didn't have the heart to protect the Wugu Sect, he was afraid that the old man would hear that the Wugu Sect below was harassing the villagers and the people, and ordered all battalions to stand by at any time to encircle and suppress the troublemakers, so Xia Ang would have no "bandits" to suppress, and as soon as Xia Ang lost his merits, the silver tickets in his pocket would be less.

"Father, as far as my son knows, these two bandits are the refugees who fled to our Chengdu Mansion due to the continuous war in the northwest, and they gathered to make trouble, and did some things like robbing houses and houses, which have nothing to do with the Wugu Sect." Zeng Ziren explained to the old man on the side.

Zeng Hanru always had a sharp look in his eyes, and gradually said with some ease: "That's the case, then it's good, tell Xia Ang, the bandits are the bandits, but the people in the village must be appeased, and the people must feel that the government is doing those things like combs and soldiers like grates in the name of suppressing bandits." ”

Zeng Ziren saw that his complexion eased slightly, and he was overjoyed, and said in his heart that this time he had touched the old man's heart, and hurriedly added a fire while it was hot, "Father, my son thinks that General Xia Ang can be a candidate for the commander of the affairs by your side, so let's take a closer look." ”

Zeng Hanru looked at his son, he didn't expect that he had matured a lot after not seeing him for many days, and knew that the recommender let him refer to it, instead of directly reaching out to his own officials, he nodded with satisfaction, although he was happy in his heart, his face was still Gujing Wubo, and he responded: "Well, I will consider this." ”

Needless to say, this must have been taught to him by Zeng Ziren's concubine Yang. Zeng Ziren saw that his father had expressed an attitude towards Xia Ang's promotion to the post of servant, who had never been very recognized, and he was naturally very happy in his heart, and secretly said that he didn't expect that this Yang family's teaching was really good, and he couldn't help but get a little carried away, and then he said to his father: "Father, then you see that your son is about to reach the age of establishment this year, can you also entrust me with an errand?" I promise to do a good job and never disgrace you. ”

After hearing this, the tea that had already been drunk in his mouth was suddenly dropped into his throat, and he choked violently. The maid on the side hurriedly stroked his back, and finally let him gasp for breath and gradually calm down.

Zeng Ziren was still at a loss next to him, he was fine just now, how could the old man with a smile on his face hear that he wanted an official, so he reacted so much.

Zeng Hanru drank two sips of tea in a row, and then he eased up, and said in his heart that he had just said that this Ziren was mature, but fortunately he didn't boast about it, and immediately stretched out his hand to ask for an official. However, it is not easy to grow, and you can't ask too much of him, so I still forced the urge to scold him, and waved his hand at him lightly: "Your business, let's discuss it again!" Let's get out first. ”

Zeng Ziren saw that the old man had already ordered him to be expelled, and he didn't dare to mention it again, so he had to get up and bow his hand and exit the main hall.

Every time he mentions this, he is always deflated, and Zeng Ziren is even a little accustomed to it. Today is still a good attitude, if it was in the past, he knew that his father would definitely take the case, and he was furious and asked him to participate in the scientific examination by himself and make a name for himself.

In fact, Zeng Ziren knew very well in his heart that the people around him, including Xia Ang and the military attaches of each battalion, looked politely when they saw him, and it was not because the old man was wearing a commander's hat on his head. But the old man is also old, and he can count the days when he can enter and exit at will, and at that time, who will take care of him who has been established for a long time but has no size?

But it just so happens that Zeng Hanru is a person who cherishes feathers, and he prides himself on sitting upright all his life, and always thinks that it is enough for him to be a rich man. But I'm afraid he doesn't understand that some things are much more difficult to accept from having to nothing than it is to obtain from nothing.

"Young master, it's not good!"

Zeng Ziren heard the sound and looked, only to see the porter hurriedly running to the courtyard from the outside, and he was already upset and was even more impatient when he was shouted by the porter. He raised his foot and kicked the galloping porter head-on, turned his horse on his back, frowned and asked, "What about your funeral?" What to shout! ”

The porter couldn't care about the pain of Zeng Ziren's foot, and hurriedly rolled and crawled from the ground, arched himself and knelt on the ground, pointed to the door and said anxiously to Zeng Ziren:

"No... Oh no! General Xia Ang of the garrison office was tied up by a group of villagers, and knelt at the door of our command envoy! ”