Hearing that Brown Sugar had escaped from prison, Zhou Xuan was not in a hurry, stretched his waist, and responded: "Lord Huang, wait a minute, I'll come right away." ”

But I heard Huang Tingshi's voice eagerly: "Master Hou, Brown Sugar has really escaped from prison!" ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhou Xuan turned over and sat up, put on his clothes and shoes, went over to open the door, let Huang Tingshi into the room, and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?" Did Brown Sugar Really Escape? ”

Huang Thorn Shi also lowered his voice and said: "According to the plan of the Hou Ye, the Fenghua Mansion soldiers guarding Brown Sugar and Xie Lao Liu deliberately neglected to take precautions, let the two of them escape, and then chased and killed them, Xie Lao Liu gave it on the spot, but he didn't expect that Brown Sugar was extremely fierce, and he actually broke down two wooden fences and injured five government soldiers, jumped out of the wall and escaped, General Qi has personally led people to chase him." ”

Zhou Xuan frowned slightly, then stretched out, and said with a smile: "It's okay, this kind of prison escape is more real, immediately order the township and town to charge the division, organize the villagers to round up, and create a momentum, even if the brown sugar escapes, but the villagers have the momentum of the same hatred and hatred, and they will not be so afraid of evil like a tiger in the future, of course, catch the best, cut off the head to show the public, so that the bandit brown sugar and the main evil Xie Lao Liu are dead, and they will be very happy." ”

Huang Tingshi bowed down and said, "Yes, the lower official will do it immediately." ”

After Huang Thorn Shi left, cumin came in to serve Zhou Xuan to freshen up, and after being well-dressed, Zhou Xuan ordered someone to invite Li Tao to have something to talk about.

Li Tao tried the case together with the state assassin and the judge of the Metropolitan Protectorate in the past few days, and the yamen respected him very much, and the land deed of the 25 acres of fertile land lost by his uncle was the first to be recovered, and the 850 taels of silver lost before were also returned, and the accounts of Xie's casino were very clear, and all wins and losses of more than 10 taels of silver must be recorded, which provided great convenience for the return of gambling silver to the villagers.

When Li Tao saw Zhou Xuan, he threw himself to the ground: "Xiaosheng visited Hou Ye Zhou, I don't know what Hou Ye commanded?" ”

Zhou Xuanhan said with a smile: "Brother Li, we are friends, we don't have to be stubborn, I will leave Xinzhou the day after tomorrow." There are still a lot of things to ask Brother Li for here. ”

Li Tao hurriedly said: "Master Hou commanded." ”

Zhou Xuandao: "Judging from the trial of the cases of the Zou and Xie clans in the past two days, Brother Li is not a person who reads the book of death, he is quite talented in practical work, I intend to promote Brother Li to temporarily replace the position of Shangrao County Commander, does Brother Li have any concerns?" ”

Li Tao was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, generally speaking, only those who were born as jinshi could give the county order. He is just a township, although he is famous, but he never dreamed that he could become a county magistrate all of a sudden, and said in a loud voice: "No worries, no worries, thank you for your promotion." ”

Zhou Xuan smiled: "Your county order is only temporary, and in a year, the state government will inspect your political achievements, and you will also visit your political voice to the people under your rule. ”

Li Tao said solemnly: "Please rest assured. Xiao Sheng will not cause Hou Ye to be ridiculed for improper employment and unknown knowledge! ”

Zhou Xuan nodded and said: "I have three things for you to do, one is to set up a academy in Yongfeng Xishan, and all the children enrolled are free, so that my Yongfeng people can learn to be knowledgeable, and put an end to vicious gambling, of course." Small gambling can't help it, entertainment is still needed. ”

Li Tao responded: "Yes." ”

Zhou Xuandao: "The second is to build a righteous village in Yongfeng, take in the lonely elderly, raise orphans, and the villagers will treat their diseases free of charge. You don't need to worry about the money in the academy and Yizhuang, you just need to help me prepare it. ”

Li Tao is overjoyed, after these two good deeds are done, his political reputation can not be good!

Zhou Xuan said: "6 Yuquan, the tea shrine is well renovated, Chashan silver quill tea is also very good, next year to participate in the Shezhou tea party, and strive to raise the price of tea, so that tea farmers will expand planting, and also, the annual salary of the ferries in Shangrao County is too low." Changed to eight stone rice per person per year, I can't manage it if I don't see it in other prefectures and counties, so I will take care of my hometown first. ”

Zhou Xuan called Laifu again, asked Laifu to stay in Xinzhou to assist Li Tao in supervising the construction of Yizhuang and the academy, and then asked Judge Fan to send six government soldiers to stay and listen to Laifu to use.

Laifu said reluctantly, "Uncle." Laifu is willing to follow his uncle. ”

Zhou Xuan soothed: "Come to Fu." Do these two things well for me, and you will do two great things. At most, you can come to Beijing to find me in half a year, and I will have a big reward at that time. ”

Laifu had no choice but to agree. Brown sugar made two wooden fences break through the encirclement of the soldiers, climbed over the earthen wall, struggled to tear the flail around his neck, and strode away, he knew the terrain, jumped into a small ditch, flowed to the opposite bank, heard the neighing of horses on the side of the prison wall, and a large number of people were chasing, so he did not dare to run again, and hid in a nearby farmhouse pigsty.

A big black pig in the pigsty saw the invasion of the living, "吭吧吭哧" with the pig's mouth to arch, brown sugar was afraid of startling the farmer's owner, one hand clamped the pig's neck, the other hand covered the pig's mouth.

This big black pig has a lot of strength, its four hooves are shaving, struggling hard, the pig's mouth is crooked, the brown sugar is not covered at once, and it is bitten on the hand.

Brown Sugar screamed in pain, the nest fire in his heart, Lao Tzu was unlucky, even pigs bullied Lao Tzu! Make a strong effort to clamp the pig's neck, and kill a pig alive, "Beat Tiger Brown Sugar" to beat the pig today, and I was so tired that I was out of breath, I didn't eat for two days and three nights, and I was a little weak, and then I looked at the body, there was pig and pig urine everywhere, and the brain was beaten by the three idiots where the pain was throbbing, and I was dizzy.

Brown Sugar stayed in the pigsty until noon, and when he heard the old peasant woman mixing pig food to feed the pigs, he quickly climbed out and ran away quietly.

Brown sugar ran back to the small river ditch, floated from the small river ditch to the Fengxi River, swam to the other side, all the way to the south, walked to the deserted place, passed by a village, heard the gong was beating the gong to inform the villagers to pay attention to the arrest of the bandit brown sugar, brown sugar did not dare to enter the village to find food, encountered the village and took a detour, came to Shanxi Township in the evening, ready to go to the old nest of Jiuxian Mountain from the cross ridge mountain road, he was not afraid of anyone on the Jiuxian Mountain, and suddenly remembered that there were three hundred taels of gold sent by the Xie family under the bed of Meizhi's house, and it was inconvenient to bring the silver money at this time, and the three hundred taels of gold had to be taken away. Mei Zhi is locked up in the state government women's prison, he can't save her now, and he will talk about it later.

Brown sugar quietly came to the vicinity of Shanxi Station and climbed a big locust tree. waited until it was completely dark, and saw that there was no movement in the village, so he slipped down the tree and touched the plum branch's house, believing that he had martial arts, even if he was revealed. He took the gold and left, forgiving the villagers and not daring to chase them.

Brown Sugar jumped over the wall into Mei Zhi's house, Mei Zhidi's old lady sat in the yard and cursed, this old woman was really evil, she dared to scold this and that at this time, saying that she would wait for Brown Sugar to come out and clean up those people.

Brown sugar didn't greet the old lady of Meizhi, and when he entered the room of Meizhi, he took out the package from under the bed, weighing about 300 taels of gold and twenty pounds, and went out with it in his hand. Screamed.

Brown sugar didn't explain much, pushed away the old lady of Meizhi and ran away.

Although Brown Sugar was embarrassed, the old lady of Meizhi still recognized him and shouted in the back: "Brown Sugar, where is my Meizhi?" Where's my plum? ”

Lizheng's gong rang out: "Grab brown sugar, grab brown sugar!" ”

Brown sugar rushed out of the village, and out of the village was the mountain. As soon as he entered the mountain, no one dared to chase him, and two men rushed in front of him, one of whom had a hoe in his hand, and dug at the head of the brown sugar.

Brown Sugar slung the package over his shoulder, dodged two hoes, and struck out with both fists in succession, knocking down the two peasants, and ran away, hearing the sound of the wind, he was now tired and hungry. The reaction was a little sluggish, and it was too late to dodge, and a pebble hit him on the sun, and he was dizzy and almost fell.

I heard the voice of a half-grown child shouting, "Wow, I hit it, I hit Brown Sugar in the head." Then a group of children were screaming, and stones rained down on the brown sugar, which frightened the brown sugar into its head.

Brown Sugar was running, and several big dogs were chasing after him. One of them bit Brown Sugar's leg and was kicked away by Brown Sugar, and the other two dogs were urged by their owners to rush up and bite and bite Brown Sugar's baggage. Pull it off. The burden broke, and thirty small ingots of gold rolled to the ground.

Brown Sugar kicks a few dogs away. Leaning over to pick up gold quickly, he suddenly received a knife in the back, screamed, jumped two steps away and looked back, it was Mei Zhidi's husband, the craftsman he drove to Pucheng.

The craftsman didn't return to his hometown for four years, this year's Dragon Boat Festival arrived, and he wanted to come back secretly to see, but he was ecstatic to hear the news that Brown Sugar was arrested, and he didn't have to leave his hometown anymore, but at noon, he was beating the gong to inform that Brown Sugar had escaped from prison, so that the villagers should pay attention, whoever can catch the brown sugar, Xinzhou Hou Zhouxuan will have a heavy reward.

Brown Sugar yelled: "You damn craftsman has eaten the gall of the bear's heart and leopard, and you dare to cut Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu wants your life!" ”

The craftsman took a step back, and saw that Brown Sugar looked down, bare-handed, and he had a sharp knife in his hand, and he had already cut Brown Sugar just now, and he was afraid of a fart, so he also roared: "You thief still dare to be murderous, today I told you to go out of this village sideways!" Gripping the knife tightly, he stared at the brown sugar.

Other villagers arrived with wooden sticks and firewood knives and surrounded the brown sugar.

Brown Sugar covered the knife marks on his back waist and threatened: "Whoever dares to stop me, I will destroy his whole family in the future!" ”

The craftsman cried out, "Kill him today, and see how he destroys the whole family!" ”

The blood on the back of the brown sugar flowed more and more, knowing that the enemy could not be the enemy of so many people, he begged for mercy: "Folks, let me go of brown sugar, my brown sugar will be repaid, and you will take all this gold." ”

If the brown sugar is hard to the end, these villagers have accumulated in him for many years, and they really don't dare to step forward to do it face to face, and then they saw him showing weakness and begging for mercy, and scolded one by one, and the idler who was forced to kneel down the street because he was drunk and molested Mei Zhi angrily: "Dog thing, you also have today." "A stick slammed into the head of the brown sugar.

As soon as Brown Sugar let go, the stick smashed on his left shoulder, and suddenly the sticks, knives, and wood knives slashed, and the Brown Sugar fell to the ground, like a dead dog, only panting and bleeding.

Shanxi Yicheng came, remembered the craftsman's skills, and Li Zheng called a few post guards to carry the half-dead brown sugar to the county seat overnight, and the carpenter also followed, he was worried about Meizhi in prison, and wanted to reconcile with Meizhi.

Early in the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, Shanxi Yicheng took his men to carry brown sugar to ask for credit from Xinzhou Hou and Yellow Thorn Shi. Thousands of people gathered in front of the state yamen, Xie Laoliu died yesterday, brown sugar also died today, and the people of Xinzhou can finally sleep peacefully, singing and dancing, gongs and drums.

Zhou Xuan ordered Huang Thorn Shi to reward the villagers who had killed the meritorious work of brown sugar, and the craftsman knelt down and said: "Hou Ye Zhou, the villain does not ask for a reward, but only asks the Hou Ye to release the villain's wife." ”

Shanxi Yi said: "Marquis Zhou, Xu Mingjiang is Mei Zhi's former husband. was driven away by brown sugar, and only returned to his hometown the day before yesterday. ”

Zhou Xuan saw that this Xu Mingjiang had thick eyebrows and thick lips, and he was a simple man, so he said: "Except for enjoying some money and goods from brown sugar, Mei Zhi has no evil deeds and can be released." But the question is whether she wants to go with you? Twisted sweet potatoes are not sweet, you have to think about this. ”

Xu Mingjiang said: "Back to the Hou Ye, the villain has always been very good to Mei Zhi, and now that the brown sugar is dead, Mei Zhi will live a good life with the villain." ”

Zhou Xuan nodded, rewarded Xu Mingjiang with fifty taels of silver, and ordered someone to take him to see Meizhi and let him and his wife return to their hometown.

On this day, the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race was more lively than in previous years, and people from the four towns and eight docks poured into Shangrao County, the first was to see Xie Lao Liu and the brown sugar corpse. Confirm it, the heart is steady, and the second is to watch the dragon boat.

The overall situation in Xinzhou was initially decided, and six of the main culprits in the Zou and Xie major cases were to be sentenced to death, and 30 others were sentenced to exile, and the verdict has already been sent to a special person to be submitted, and it can be executed after the approval of the Criminal Department. Huang Tingshi also handed over 50,000 taels of stolen silver, and Zhou Xuan kept all these silver, as well as his own 7,000 taels, for Yongfeng Yizhuang and Xishan Academy, and Laifu and Li Tao were jointly in charge of the silver.

Originally, Zhou Xuan wanted to accompany the Lin sisters to see the Xinjiang dragon boat battleground, but Lin Hanyun has been unwell since the sunset before, and he didn't get better after taking two patches of medicine, and Fairy Jingyi was not in the mood to go to see the dragon boat. Tell Laifu and Li Tao some things.

On the sixth day of the fifth month, Zhou Xuan and his entourage set off to Hongzhou, it was really an empty alley of 10,000 people, and there were people who came from dozens of miles away to see off the villagers of Xinzhou Hou, and tens of thousands of people saw off the team, the scene was really touching.

Zhou Xuan was infected by this atmosphere, and he also burst into tears, waving his hand frequently, and tens of thousands of people kept sending them out for five or six miles, and only stopped and did not send them under Zhou Xuan's repeated advice. shouted: "Hou Ye Zhou, go back to your hometown next year to see, the villagers have to appeal to Hou Ye if they have grievances, and Hou Ye will be the master for us." ”

Zhou Xuan said to Li Tao: "Brother Li, see it." ”

Li Tao said respectfully: "Master Hou rest assured. Li Tao will not do anything that is sorry for the people and has no conscience. ”

Zhou Xuan appeased Huang Thorn Shi a few more words. Let him wait for the arrival of the new assassin history and do a good job of handover. said: "Lord Huang, the unofficial body is light, Xiao Ao Lin is faster to live, good health is really good, take care of yourself." ”

Huang Tingshi said yes again and again on the surface, and said in his heart: "My official is almost gone, and the silver is gone, where can I still be happy!" But I managed to keep my head to eat, and a good body is really good, and that's right. ”

Li Tao sent Zhou Xuan one ride after another, hesitating again and again, not daring to speak.

Zhou Xuan asked, "What else is going on with Brother Li?" ”

Li Tao blushed and said, "The lower official wants to ask the Hou Ye for a letter-"

Zhou Xuan understood as soon as he heard it, and laughed loudly: "Brother Li, you are now the commander of Shangrao County, and you are also worthy of Miss Xuanzhou Kongmudi, why do you need my letter!" ”

Li Tao said in a daze: "It's the clumsy Jing who wants me to ask the Hou Ye for this letter." ”

Zhou Xuan smiled: "That's good, the beauty of a gentleman." He immediately got off the horse and wrote a short message to Xuanzhou Confucius in the roadside pavilion, praising Li Tao's character, saying that Li County's order and Miss Confucius were really a match made in heaven, and then stamped the seal of Zhou University's scholar and handed it over to Li Tao, and asked him to send someone to send it by himself.

Laifu and six Fenghua soldiers sent twenty miles, until Zhou Xuan ordered them to go back, and then they said goodbye in tears.

The convoy headed westward toward Hongzhou.

Xiahou Tassel sat in the carriage, feeling uneasy, the letter she sent to Gongzi Lianchang had been sent, but Gongzi Lianchang should still be in Xuanzhou, and it would take several days to return the horse quickly, and now Zhou Xuan was going to leave again, she couldn't get Gongzi Lianchang's reply, it was really annoying.

The little maid comforted: "Miss, don't worry, there are also our Qingyuan people in Hongzhou, maybe Gongzi Lianchang will be waiting for us in Hongzhou." ”

Xiahou Tassel nodded, and felt stunned in his heart: "If Gongzi Lian Chang orders me to leave Zhou Xuan, then what should I do?" ”

Now Dixiahou Tassel is already in love with Zhou Xuan, but she doesn't know what kind of ending it will have? If Qingyuan has a bad relationship with Tang Guo, then she definitely can't stay by Zhou Xuan's side, or if Gongzi Lian Chang orders her to kill Zhou Xuan, can she do it?