In fact, although the children of the original Kong family are not as many as the Liu family, they have always been quite united, and they were not very afraid of the Liu family before, but in this generation, the Kong family has a problem. Historically, the patriarch of the Confucian family has come from the long house of Kong Deshan's branch, and their branch is from the lineage, and his family's property and fields are the most in the Confucian family, and the repair of the ancestral hall of the Confucian family has always been the most spent by this one.

In this generation, the patriarch of the Kong family is Kong Deshan, but this Kong Deshan has been idle since he was a child, but he is not active in helping the clansmen to regulate clan affairs, so the cohesion of the Kong family is very poor in this generation, and he often interacts with some indiscreet people, many people in the Kong family have a lot of complaints about this, but Kong Deshan is the patriarch after all, so although he is dissatisfied, no one can stop Kong Deshan.

This Kong Deshan is more and more presumptuous, more and more reckless, this year even colluded with the largest bandit in this area, Ma Da Scar, secretly robbed the finances of the past merchants, in this business, Ma Da Scar is responsible for the use of force, kidnapping-robbery-theft-intimidation These things are done by Ma Da Scar and his men, and Kong Deshan is responsible for playing a good person, appeasing the robbed and stolen merchants as the elder of the village, he ostensibly mediated in the name of Lijia, but in fact he used various means to prevent the victimized merchants from reporting to the official, In the end, most of the merchants could only lose dumbly, and the money they grabbed and the ransom they received for the meat tickets, Kong Deshan and Ma Dascar divided it fifty-fifty, Kong Deshan therefore shared a lot of black money, he took out a part of the money to a few children of the Kong family and the Lin family as a small favor, and those who received the money of the Kong family and the Lin family followed him with all their hearts, willing to be his accomplices, and Kong Deshan also secretly preached that if any shopkeeper or guy in the town saw that a foreign merchant was a suitable meat ticket, as long as he reported to him, After the deed is completed, there will be a reward for the shopkeeper or the guy, and the guy who framed the three masters and apprentices yesterday as Jiangyang thieves probably did it because of Kong Deshan's reward.

As he spoke, Kong Deshang sighed, "Kong Deshan did this, although he made a lot of money, but after all, this is all a crime, and what he did is also a depraving act, except for the children of the Lin family of the Kong family who received his money, he is now becoming more and more unpopular in the town, especially that Liu Huaming, who gathered the people of the Kong family, can be regarded as a bar with Kong Deshan." ”

As a few people were talking, they heard someone shouting outside, "Where is the monk and Taoist?" All came out to talk back. ”

Several people looked at each other, and then they heard the shouting outside: "We have been ordered by the county magistrate to investigate the robbery of the bandits last night, and the people inside came out to reply." ”

A few people came out of the house, and there were five messengers standing in the middle of the courtyard, and the messenger at the front saw the people who came out, pointed to a few people, and said, "Are you those monks and Taoists who pretended to be gods and ghosts last night?" ”

Yao Guangqi came out and replied: "We didn't pretend to be ghosts, obviously that group of bandits took advantage of the darkness to kill us. ”

"Go back to the county government and tell the county magistrate to go, handcuff a few of them, and take them away." The leading officer did not listen to the explanation, and his attitude was very tough.

Jiang was angry, but just took a step forward to defend himself, but he was blocked by Bu Operator taking a step across the step, Bu Operator raised his foot and stepped on Jiang Sheng, Jiang Sheng understood, so there was no further action.

The three masters and apprentices were escorted out of the small courtyard, Kong Deshang also followed not far behind, and the group stopped after walking for a while, and the leading messenger looked at the courtyard by the roadside and pointed to the gate, "Go and knock on the door of this house." ”

The door of the house was quickly knocked open, and the leader said, "Is this the home of Liu Shantong and Liu Huaming?" ”

The man who opened the door inside nodded yes, and the leading officer said, "Call them out, and the county commander will send them back." ”

Liu Shantong and Liu Huaming soon came out, and a man in his forties bowed down and said to the leading officer: "Down there is Liu Shantong, this is the little girl Liu Huaming, what do you call the official?" What's your business? ”

The leading officer said: "My surname is Kong, they call me Kongtou, we were assigned by the county commander to send you back to ask questions, someone raised the local bandit Ma Da Scar last night to come to Laolin Town to commit murder, the county commander wants to pass the relevant people to the county government to ask for clarification." ”

When Liu Shan heard this, he was taken aback at first, and then said with a smile: "A few officials came just in time, and the big scar of the horse is now tied in the backyard of my house, and we are about to escort them to the county to bring them to justice, but I didn't expect the county to send someone first, so let's go together." ”

"Dada" immediately became angry, "Ma Dascar is a local bandit, and the arrest and escort are the affairs of our government, you grass people, how dare you detain and escort without authorization, and there is no royal law in your eyes." ”

At this time, Kong Deshang suddenly came to the front from the back, lay on Kong Tou's ear and muttered a few words, the Kong Tou nodded, stretched out his hand and pointed at Liu Huaming, "It was she who cut off Ma Da Scar's hand, handcuffed her, and took her back for trial." ”

Liu Huaming immediately became angry when he heard this, and faced the errand who came over to prepare to shackle himself, and pushed the errand out with a shake of his hand, the errand man staggered and kowtowed, and the hole immediately became angry: "Okay, you are a Diao Min, do you still dare to fight against the government, do you want to rebel?" I see that you don't know whether you live or die, come on, tie her up for me. ”

Two more messengers jumped out from behind Kongtou, holding the rope and rushing towards Liu Huaming, Liu Huaming was not panicked, and when the two messengers stood firmly beside her and raised the rope to tie her, she suddenly pulled the rope with both hands, turned around on the spot and threw it off, and the two messengers were also thrown out, staggering and falling to the ground.

Kong Tou was even more angry: "Diao Min, it's the opposite, it's the opposite, come on, let's go together, take it for me." The hole shouted together, but he took a step back, and the other servants were very jealous of Liu Huaming, and none of them dared to go up, so the situation froze.

At this time, it was Kong Deshang who stood up, came to Liu Shantong with a smile, first bowed and then said: "Uncle Liu Shi, you have always been highly respected, and you have tried your best to maintain many things in the town. ”

Liu Shantong felt reasonable, and was about to turn around to persuade Liu Huaming, but Liu Huaming took the initiative to stand up: "It's no problem for us to go to the county government to talk back, but we are not prisoners, we arrested Ma Da Scar, and the government doesn't give us meritorious awards, even if they want to tie us up, is it wrong for us to maintain local tranquility?" ”