The officers and soldiers chased for a while and captured a few Liangshan soldiers, but they didn't even see the shadows of Yang Xiong, Yan Qing and others, so they had no choice but to withdraw their troops.

In the next few days, the development of events was indeed as expected by Song Ting.

On the Liangshan side, Lu Junyi actually escorted Dong Cheng back to Liangshan early during the day, leaving Yang Xiong, Yan Qing and others to delay in the broken temple.

Song Jiang, Wu Yong and others in Liangshan saw him come back alone, and they also captured a third-grade master, and they were overjoyed and entertained him with a big banquet. At this time, the government has encircled and suppressed Liangshan several times, and the government has returned in vain, and it must attack Liangshan.

Later, Yan Qing, Yang Xiong and others came back and told the people of Liangshan how Lu Junyi set up a plan to deceive the officials and soldiers, and how he tricked the officers and legions around.

For a time, Lu Junyi's prestige in Liangshan reached its peak, and all the brothers expressed their admiration. Song Jiang, Wu Yong and others expressed faint worries about this, but it was not easy to show it.

Song Jiang asked Yang Xiong, Yan Qing and others who came back later: Why hasn't the reckless man come back yet? Yan Qing told Song Jiang how Li Kui killed innocents indiscriminately and how he did not cooperate. Song Jiang scolded: "What a reckless man!"

Li Kui didn't return for a long time, so Song Jiang asked Yan Qing to return to Yongtai County to look for him, to see if he had committed another crime, or was accidentally arrested by the official army.

The day before Yan Qing's departure, Lu Junyi took the people of Liangshan to Qingshui County, Qingzhou, and asked Yan Qing to bring something to a family in Yongtai County after returning.

The thing was contained in a large wooden box, which was impermeable, Yan Qing carried the wooden box on his back and went down to Liangshan, and set off for Yangzhou.

On the government's side, because they couldn't change Lord Dong back, Wu Kui and the others were anxious for a while, and they didn't know what to do.

The prefect Wu Kui called Song Ting and Gan Hong, and Song Ting naturally pretended not to know anything, and deliberately flashed his words, pointed the finger at Gan Hong, and stretched his face and said that only three people knew about this plan, one was him, one was the prefect, and the other was his deputy general, I was afraid that someone deliberately leaked the news to Liangshan's people......

Hearing Song Ting say this, Wu Kui was also a little suspicious of Gan Hong, after all, most of the people who defected to Liangshan were military attachés, like Lin Chong, the head of the 800,000 forbidden army, in fact, he was a coach in charge of the martial arts of the forbidden army, the so-called "800,000 forbidden army leader", just a good name, as well as Hu Yanzhuo, Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi and others, these military attachés, all have the same temper, and they went to Liangshan when they were angry.

Gan Hong, as a military general, doesn't understand the fancy intestines of civil officials, and naturally can't get rid of these civil officials in terms of his ability to throw the pot, but there is only one sentence in the defense: "It's all because this Lu Junyi is too cunning!"

In this way, the prefect Wu Kui's suspicion of him deepened. Wu Kui secretly wrote a secret letter to Taishi Cai Jing, reporting what happened here to Cai Jing one by one.

It's just that he asked the Song court to use the Spring and Autumn period penmanship to write the people from Liangshan as 500 people, and described how the thieves in Liangshan were cunning, how they killed innocents indiscriminately, how the government soldiers fought hard to resist, and how they protected the people...... For example, in order to protect the people, Yang Kui, a great Confucian in Yangzhou, regarded death as his home and sacrificed his life for righteousness; and Qin Hui, although he is a scholar who has no power to restrain the chicken, he is not afraid of danger and kills the Liangshan thieves in anger; There is also Master Song of the Song Dynasty, how he worked with him, the prefect, day and night, made suggestions, and made a strange plan, and almost rescued Master Dong.

The front is full of heroic deeds, and the back of the pen turns, saying that this deputy general Gan Hong, how to protect poorly - the dignified seven-rank general of Liangshan can't even beat a few little thieves in Liangshan, and let these thieves kidnap Lord Dong, he is good, except for a slight injury on his leg, his whole body is completely good, he must not have tried his best to protect Lord Dong; That's it, it was not easy to set up a strange strategy and exchange the death row prisoner for Lord Dong, but the Liangshan thieves actually knew in advance, when the plan was made, only three people were present, and it was impossible for a fourth person to know about the plan. As the prefect, it is absolutely impossible for him to collude with Liangshan; After Master Song is a loyal minister, he is still seeking fame, and it is impossible for him to collude with Liangshan and ruin his good future; And only this deputy general Ganzuo may be afraid that the court will blame him for poor guarding, so he took risks and colluded with Liangshan.

The ciphertext was written, stamped with the prefect's seal, sealed and waxed, and sent to the Bianliang Taishi's Mansion in an expedited manner for 600 miles that night.

The next day, Gan Hong was taken down by the prefect Wu Kui on charges of "colluding with Liangshan and trying to rebel", and was imprisoned in Yangzhou Prison, waiting to be released.

A few days later, the Taishifu sent an official document from the imperial court. Cai Jing made this matter clear to the imperial court, and Prime Minister Wang Cheng was furious, and asked the emperor to ask the emperor to remove Wu Kui, the prefect of Yangzhou, Wu Ruxiong, the prefect of Yongtai, Gan Hong, and Wu Liao, the commander of the capital, and other large and small officials, all of whom were dismissed from their posts and punished, after some discussion by several ministers of the imperial court, the final result was: Wu Kui, the prefect of Yangzhou, remained in office for observation, and ordered Liang Zhongshu, the prefect of the Daimyo Mansion, to transfer troops and horses to encircle and suppress the bandits in Liangshan, and give a chance to atone for his crimes; and Wu Ruxiong of Yongtai Zhi County, relegated to Hainan, still serving as Zhi County; Deputy General Gan Hong was escorted into Beijing and beheaded to show the public; Others, such as Yang Kui, Qin Hui, Song Ting and others have been rewarded, Yang Kui is righteous and awe-inspiring, high wind and bright festival, posthumously awarded Zhongyilang, Tianzhangge doctor; Qin Hui was not afraid of danger, and he was meritorious in protecting the people, and was promoted to the head of Yangzhou Academy, taking over Yang Kui's position; Because Song Ting had no fame, he only gave 100 taels of silver and 10 horses of silk.

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After this incident, some changes have taken place in Yongtai County.

The county yali knew that the county lord was demoted, and he was also demoted to Hainan, where there were few villagers in the barren mountains and mountains, birds don't, and there were few villagers in the whole county.

Song Ting refused this time, and the reason for refusing was to make Wu Kui happy. He wrote a letter to Wu Kui, and the content of the letter basically said: Since I am already your person, and your nephew Wu Ruxiong has been demoted again, let me stay here, and I will also watch Xinzhi County for you.

Wu Kui felt that he was very reasonable, and after commending him, he let him stay in the county government as a master, and as for the monthly salary, he could come out, and when Xinzhi County arrived, he recommended him to Xinzhi County again.

For so many days, Song Ting was busy thinking and deducing day and night, and sometimes even locked himself in a room alone, not sleeping all night, writing and scribbling with pen and paper. Zhao Yuanzhen looked at the strange feeling sorry for him, so he asked Xiaoman to take him to the street, but don't suffocate him.

Xiao Man smiled and pulled Song Ting's shirt, talking and laughing all the way. At this time, the street is sad for a few days, it will resume the liveliness of the past, there are all kinds of stalls on both sides of the street, the food stalls are varied, exuding a burst of fragrance, the jewelry stalls are also dazzling, rouge gouache, gold and silver jewelry, there is no shortage.

Xiaoman kept chatting with Song Ting, wanting to infect him with cheerful emotions and let him come out of the state of hard thinking, hoping that he would talk to her for a while, but she chattered for a long time, but Song Ting only said one sentence: "It's time to give me an answer."

Xiao Man muttered this sentence, but he didn't hear what it meant at all.

At this time, there was a sudden quarrel in front of him, and in a blink of an eye, a large number of people surrounded him, pointing and discussing, Xiao Man liked to watch the excitement, so he took Song Ting's hand and squeezed into the crowd, so the two saw a rather funny scene:

Two women are squatting on the ground at the moment and tearing, you insert my nostrils, I pull your hair, one of the lower skirts is pulled, in broad daylight, Bai Huahua's thighs are exposed, she scolds "Sanba woman!" Go and pull the other bandeau......

"You three-eight woman! That gold bracelet was obviously bought for me by my master! ”

"You vixen! When did the lord say that he bought it for you? ”

The two women scolded and beat at the same time, and most of the onlookers were men, looking at the spring light on their legs and chest, they all showed a lustful expression.

At this moment, a man with a big waist and a round waist staggered to the two women, took out some silver and silver tickets from his arms, threw them in front of the two women angrily, and wailed with a grumbling face: "Master, I am going to Hainan, can you save me some face...... Ancestors! My aunt and grandmother!! ”

The two women immediately picked up the silver and silver tickets, got up and crossed their waists, and glared at Wu Ruxiong with horizontal eyes: "Hmph! Master, you wasted my good youth, you said to take a break, but give such a little silver? Are you sending Hanako? ”

The man with a big waist and a round waist is no one else, but it is Wu Ruxiong, the former county magistrate of Yongtai County, he is now relegated to Hainan, and he will set off one day, he has eight concubines, and at this time the concubines are unwilling to follow him to Hainan, so he had to take a letter of resignation and leave them all.

But they were all like the women in the Qinglou, crying and making a fuss to force him to give money, and snatching things from the house if they didn't give money......

Wu Ruxiong patted his forehead and looked up to the sky and wailed: "God! What kind of iniquity have I made! ”

Seeing this scene, Xiao Man covered his mouth and smiled, leaning on Song Ting's arm and whispering: "Hehe, eight wives...... Who let him marry so many wives, he really deserves it......"

Song Ting was thinking about something else, and he didn't feel any sense of this boring farce, so he took Xiaoman home.

"Hey, I haven't finished reading it yet!"

Xiao Man reluctantly followed Song Ting home.

On the way, Xiao Man secretly pulled the corner of Song Ting's clothes, raised his little face and asked, "Master Horse, how many wives do you plan to marry?"

Song Ting stared at her, but did not speak.

Xiao Man saw that he was suddenly so serious, he knew that he had said the wrong thing, he lowered his head, his face was full of shame, and the flush spread from the red neck to the little face, and he looked cowardly.

As soon as he returned home, Xue Yan brought a wooden box to him and said, "Master Ma, this is a man named Yan Qing."

This wooden box is a bit big, like a small wooden box, boxy, airtight, Song Ting found a ghost sword to split the lock, opened the box and looked, I couldn't help but be startled!

Xiaoman and Snow Goose were even more frightened and screamed.

Youjian said lightly: "Isn't it just a human head?"

What was contained inside was a human head.