The four officials put the half-cut waist knives into the sheath, each snatched a wooden stick from the hands of the servants, and were about to step forward to beat Li Daning. Suddenly, I heard a voice from behind: "Stop it!" "The voice was very loud, and there was a majesty that could not be questioned.

The four officials were stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but look back, only to see a young man dressed in a long robe walk in outside the door. Generally speaking, Xiucai wears a long shirt, and Xiucai is likely to be an official in the future, and generally no one dares to mess with him. The laborers moved to both sides, and even the head of the fast-paced squad was a little confused, subconsciously moved to the side, and said suspiciously: "Are you?" ”

Li Feibai was too lazy to take care of it, walked to the four officials holding wooden sticks, pushed away one of the officials who were blocking him, walked straight to Li Daning and stopped, gave a salute, and said, "Dad, I'm back!" Then he lifted up his mother, who was sitting on the ground, and said, "Mother, the child has come back late, and you have suffered." ”

Li Daning asked, "Son, why did you come back?" ”

Li Feibai said: "I'll come back to do something!" ”

Deng Bantou couldn't help but feel nervous, and said that Zheng Haoran, who was on an errand in the yamen, came back, and if he confronted him, this year's imperial grain would indeed be less than half, and the villagers would make a fuss at that time, and they were afraid that they would run away in vain today. Not only will they have to run for nothing today, but as soon as these laborers go back, the whole township will know that the plan to scrape money this year will be completely bankrupt. It would be nice if Zheng Haoran didn't come back. As for copying Li Daning's house, what should I do if I let Zheng Haoran know about it afterwards? He also had a countermeasure, and when he returned to the Yamen, he would return all the money he had obtained from Li Daning's house, and make up for it more or less, thinking that Zheng Haoran would not shout about it. Everyone is on an errand in the yamen, and they will understand each other's difficulties when they are on an errand, and who can never use anyone, it is natural that the blind man eats dumplings and knows it in his heart.

He turned his head and asked the lieutenant chief: "Is this Zheng Haoran?" ”

Jiang Guoxian said: "No, it's Li Daning's son Li Feibai." ”

It turned out that it wasn't Zheng Haoran, Deng Bantou was relieved and asked, "His son is also a talent for reading?" ”

Jiang Guoxian snorted and said, "A showman who reads, and he doesn't know a few words in the soil." The family's poor clothes don't cover their stomachs, thinking that they are going to the county to serve Jun, Zheng Haoran saw that the clothes were really not presentable, so he took an old dress for him to wear! ”

Deng Bantou let out an "oh", sneered, and said, "Who is that, what are you doing when you don't serve in the county, and you run back to the village?" ”

Li Feibai said: "I'll take leave and come back to do something!" ”

Deng Bantou has been on a business for more than 20 years, and he has never heard of the saying that Fu Junzi still has leave, so he immediately decided that Li Feibai was lying, and said: "Take leave and come back to do business?" I think you can't stand the suffering of Junxi, so you secretly ran back! ”

In the meantime, he ran away, and this crime is not big, but it is not small. If it is small, you can pay money to bear the guilt, or you can be sentenced to wear a flail for five to ten days to show the public as a punishment. If it is big, it is at most 30 to 100 rods, which is nothing compared to other crimes. The size of the sentence depends mainly on whether the official is happy or not, and if he is happy, he will be sentenced to a minor crime, and if he is unhappy, he will be sentenced to a major crime. Although the most serious crime is 30 to 100 rods, you can't control some of the officials' hands are black, and if you don't give you the money, he can beat you to a disability with a few sticks.

Li Daning is in confrontation with the food urging, which can be regarded as offending the head of the fast team to death, and the errand in the yamen is a family, how can a family not help the family. He was even more worried about his son, as if he had seen the tragic situation of his son being killed on the spot by the officials, and asked: "Why are you so disobedient, you can't stay up for a few months, and you only ran back after a few days!" ”

Li Feibai smiled: "Dad, don't listen to his nonsense, I really came back from leave." ”

Jiang Guoxian also didn't believe that Li Feibai came back from leave, as the lieutenant chief, it was his duty to arrange conscription every year, if Li Feibai escaped back, he was afraid that he would be implicated, so he immediately asked: "Who did you sue for leave?" ”

The chief is also the head of a township. In the Ming Dynasty, the chief was not appointed by the county order, as long as the grain received was the most in the township, and did not belong to the officials in the yamen. To put it bluntly, he is actually a common man, no different from other people, and he should have helped other people. But often the elders help the cool officials and the people for their own interests.

Li Feibai hated this kind of person the most, he didn't think about how to help the people, he thought about how to harm the people, so he didn't have a good impression of him, and said: "If you tell Lord Zhenfu about the leave, why don't you ask him?" ”

Jiang Guoxian has never seen such a big official in Zhenfu, and the one he sees the most is the official servant. He knew what kind of official Lord Zhenfu was, it was a six-grade official, an official who was bigger than the county order, and he didn't dare to ask Lord Zhenfu if Li Feibai had taken leave. He shrank his head and wanted to retreat, but suddenly thought that Lord Zhenfu belonged to the military attaché, as if he was an official in the guard, and there was no guard in this county, so there was no such an official as Lord Zhenfu, and said with a smile: "You sued Lord Zhenfu for leave?" I wonder where this calmer is? I'd better ask if you've taken a leave of absence from his old man. ”

Li Feibai said: "Lord Zhenfu is in Yin Hotel!" Don't you know? You don't know, you can ask the head of the fast team, see if there is a town in the Yin Hotel? ”

Jiang Guoxian looked at Deng Bantou suspiciously, and when he saw Deng Bantou nodded, he stopped talking. Li Feibai didn't intend to let him go, and asked: "By the way, Chief Lin, when will you go to the Yin Hotel to ask Lord Zhenfu!" ”

Jiang Guoxianping is also a majestic figure in the territory of Wangwu Township, how can he be provoked by this, and said: "Why don't you take leave with the elder, but take leave with Lord Zhenfu." At such a young age, you can't tell a lie. Come on, arrest this evasion and send it to the county to be dealt with strictly! ”

A few forced forces were about to start immediately, but Deng Bantou was a person who had seen the world, and seeing that Li Feibai was fearless, he had more eyes and stopped: "Wait." He said to Li Feibai again: "Why don't you give leave to the old man in your hometown, but you want to give leave to the Zhenfu Lord who is treating his injuries in the Yin Hotel?" ”

Li Feibai said: "I went to serve in the conscription, and the elder asked me to go to the Yin Hotel to listen to the errand, and it happened that Lord Zhenfu was injured, so I cured the injury for Lord Zhenfu." The county magistrate saw that I still had some means, and asked me to take care of the magistrate. In the past two days, I saw that Lord Zhenfu's injuries were almost healed, so I took a leave of absence from Lord Zhenfu. ”

Jiang Guoxian suddenly burst out laughing. He covered his stomach with one hand, pointed at Li Feibai with the other, and said, "You said you would heal your injuries?" Others don't know about your family, I don't know about your family? Your ancestors have been digging in the soil for eighteen generations, and when have you ever been a doctor? ”

Deng Bantou also laughed, and said in his heart: "You said that you are working in the Yin Hotel, and I heard that there is no medicine to treat the injuries of the adults in Zhenfu, and it happens to be near Xiapan Village, and you came back to take the medicine." Maybe I'll believe it, but you say you've healed your wounds! I don't know how serious my injuries are? Liu Houde, the medical training department, has no choice, he has to wait for the royal doctor Wang to come back to treat, and you can heal the injuries of the adults in Zhenfu as a farmer! He laughed for a while, his face suddenly became serious, he looked up at the sky, and said, "It's not early, first arrest this evasive servant, and then go into the house to search for things to arrive at the emperor's grain." ”

Li Daning's face was also pale, and he understood that his son was lying. His son himself knows best whether Li Feibai will heal his injuries, and who else in the world knows better than him. It seems that his son can't escape this catastrophe, so he just hopes that the cane of the official will be lighter in his hands and leave a root for their old Li family. He wasn't going to resist anymore, he could do whatever he wanted. Not only did he not intend to resist, but he was also ready to give in, as long as he could keep Li Feibai safe and sound, even if he kowtowed to Deng Bantou and admitted his mistake, he would admit it.

Li Daning squirmed his lips and was about to speak, when he suddenly heard someone say: "Deng Bantou, do you want me to persuade Lao Li again?" ”