Jiang Chuan came to the living room, and Xiao Ran hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"Thank you, Mr. Mei." Xiao Ran looked at Jiang Chuan and said sincerely.

She had already gone to see her parents, and when she saw that they were all right, she was relieved to come and thank her.

"With a gesture, Miss Xiao doesn't need to be polite. Compared to Miss Xiao's life-saving grace, this is nothing. Jiang Chuan shook his head and smiled.

Let the tea be served, the two sat down, Xiao Ran shook his head, and said very seriously: "Mei Gongzi is serious." I'm not here to save you, I'm just here to save myself. Mei Gongzi is obviously a person of noble status, if I was really coerced by those killers to assassinate Gongzi, I would not be able to escape death afterwards. So, you don't have to be polite, I just did what I was supposed to do. ”

Jiang Chuan was a little surprised, and took a deep look at the woman in red in front of him, but he didn't expect her to be so frank and straightforward, but he was really surprised.

"Although the girl is young, she has the demeanor of a general, and I admire it." Jiang Chuan said sincerely.

Xiao Ran smiled bitterly: "What kind of general's demeanor, but he is just a homeless person who lives in the rivers and lakes and is displaced." If I had a choice, I would also like to read and play every day, be free, and be a carefree little daughter, why worry about whether I have three meals a day as I do now, and always beware of those open guns and arrows that I don't know where to shoot.

It's just that I have been living with my parents since I was sensible, passing through the state and the world, and I am used to seeing the hot and cold world and the sinister hearts of the people, and now the only thought is to live well with my parents. ”

Xiao Ran didn't know why, in front of the young man in front of him, he actually had a strong desire to confide, and unconsciously said the sourness in his heart, as if he was a big brother who could be trusted very much.

You must know that after many years of wandering in the rivers and lakes, although she is young, she is used to seeing the viciousness of the world, but she will no longer trust others easily, and she will remain vigilant in the face of any outsider.

Not to mention opening up to a man who has only one side of the relationship, telling the pain in his heart.

After she finished speaking, she realized that something was wrong, and her face couldn't help but blush, and she secretly blamed herself for being too casual.

Although Jiang Chuan was also slightly surprised in his heart, his face was still calm, and he listened to her quietly.

Seeing that she looked flustered and ashamed, she probably guessed her thoughts at this time, and comforted: "The girl doesn't have to feel guilty for a momentary loss. The vast majority of people are alive, and they have to face all kinds of survival pressures every day when they open their eyes, and they inevitably have all kinds of sadness and pain in their hearts. If these heartaches and pains have been accumulated in the heart and do not talk to others, after a long time, they will either be sad or hurt their bodies. The girl's willingness to speak out today is naturally a good thing, and it is also a trust in me, and there is no need to blame herself. ”

Xiao Ran was stunned for a moment, and said with a grateful look on his face: "Thank you for your relief." ”

Although Jiang Chuan was curious about the identity of their family, he did not take the opportunity to ask. After chatting a few more words, Xiao Ran said goodbye and left.

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The three days passed quickly, and the matter of being beheaded in the city because the prefect was arrested quickly fermented, and the people in the city knew about it, and on this day, many people came to see the excitement.

The execution ground is set up at the entrance of the vegetable market, the holy place of murder and beheading in the past dynasties, and a high legal platform has been erected in the middle, on which the execution pillar and guillotine have been set up, and a high platform opposite is where the prison and beheader sit.

The inner circle around the court was surrounded by a group of officials with waist knives, and the outer circle was surrounded by a group of officers and soldiers with muskets on their backs, preventing the crowd from watching the excitement.

The people who came to see the excitement when they heard the news had already blocked the water around the Dharma field, and the noise was unusual.

Sitting on the opposite platform was a purple-robed four-rank official, who was the official Jiang Chuan transferred from Jinan City.

In this kind of thing, Hei Bingtai is not suitable for showing up, in order to act in a full set, Jiang Chuan transferred a four-rank civil official from Jinan to supervise the yamen.

According to the local official position of the Ming Dynasty at this time, the highest governor of each province is the political envoy who coordinates the affairs of the province. In addition, a yamen was set up to be in charge of judicial and criminal law, and the chief official was the procurator for the prosecution.

In addition, there is also the commander of the yamen, and the chief officer is the commander of the envoy and manages the local garrison, for example, the guards in various places are managed by the commander of the yamen.

Of course, under Jiangchuan's reform, although the Yamen has not been officially abolished, it has basically lost its command of the local garrison, and all the local garrisons have been handed over to the war zone.

If the local yamen has a request to suppress bandits, they will contact the war zone through the capital commander, and then the war zone will send troops to cooperate with the local government to suppress the bandits.

Basically, the command made the yamen a liaison department between a local yamen and a war zone.

The prefect was impersonated for three years, and was convicted of colluding with local gangs, and one-third of the people in the yamen were imprisoned.

This kind of shocking case made Qingzhou's political envoy and the criminal envoy both frightened and sweated coldly.

The most important thing is that this case was still found out by the Black Ice Terrace, although Jiang Chuan's identity has not yet been revealed, but everyone knows that such a big case must not be hidden.

All the first and second leaders of a prefect's yamen have been taken down, and if they are strictly investigated, they will not be able to escape responsibility as the political envoy of Qingzhou and the envoy of the criminal prosecution.

If nothing else, one sin of negligence was enough for the black gauze hat on their heads to be removed.

Think about His Royal Highness the regent who killed people without calculation, they can't save their lives.

Therefore, when he received a letter from Hei Bingtai requesting that a prison officer be sent to Jeju City, the two bigwigs, the political envoy and the probationary envoy, were eager to come over in person to alleviate their own responsibility.

But in the end, they didn't dare to leave Jinan easily, for fear that Jiang Chuan would ask them a charge of leaving their posts without permission, so they finally filmed a deputy envoy who was sentenced to prison and beheaded.

At this time, a prisoner wearing a black hood and prison clothes was escorted to the guillotine by two soldiers, with a sign reading "Prisoner Wang Ke" stuck around his neck.

The prisoner hung his head and his hair was scattered, and he was tied to the execution post.

Behind him were two executioners with shy chests and bulging bellies, dressed in red, and carrying ghost-headed broadswords with indifferent faces.

When the prisoner was brought over, the surrounding people were boiling, many people cursed loudly, and some people began to throw rotten vegetable leaves, rotten eggs, rotten fruits, and so on at the prisoner.

The soldiers did their best to stop it, but by the time they reached the guillotine, the prisoner was covered in a mess, with a blue nose and swollen face, and a lot of foul-smelling egg wash in his hair.

But the prisoner did not say a word, but hung his head, as if he were unaware.

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