The crowd separated, some people followed the Li family father and son to the entrance of the village, some stayed where they were and hesitated, and some watched the excitement not far away, Zhuge Liang did not force them, he accepted the arrow, turned around and got off the earthen platform.

Watching the complainant walk away, some hesitant villagers were also moved, and a flame ignited in their hearts, like martyrs who rushed to the battlefield, with a desperate high fighting spirit, rushed to the entrance of the village.

Xixiang is not far from the county seat of Pixian County, some people are driving ox carts, some are walking, all the way without stopping, two hours later, they have seen the city tower of Pixian County. Before they reached the gate of the city, they saw a number of horsemen flying from afar, and the sound of horses' hooves shook the ground like thunder, and the dust raised was thrown out like a great cloak.

These horses whipped up and flew like eagles past the villagers, led by a black-helmeted general, whose light armor shone like black sunlight.

"Huh!" Two exclamations rang out at the same time, one from the horsemen and the other from the villagers.

The Black-Helmeted General pulled the reins hard, his mount neighed, and the horse's hooves knocked two pits in the ground, and he looked at his horse with a look of ecstasy on his face.

"Strategist!" He shouted for joy, jumped off his horse in excitement, and flew like a bird to an ox cart, "I have found you!" ”

Zhuge Liang, who was sitting on the ox cart, also jumped down: "Yide, why are you here?" ”

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "Big brother said let me help you, and didn't say what I helped, it's strange." Strategist, what are you going through? ”

Zhuge Liang was suddenly moved: "The lord is really a charcoal in the snow, I was a little hesitant just now, just when Yide came, he solved my problem, Yide and go to Pixian County with me first!" ”

"What are you going to do in the county government?"

"Sue!"

"Sue?" Zhang Fei was confused, "Who are you suing?" ”

"Walk first, I'll tell you slowly on the way!"

Zhang Fei ordered a personal soldier to dismount and give his mount to Zhuge Liang, and he and Zhuge Liang walked side by side, leading the way towards the city of Pixian City.

"Who is this general?" Li Laoyou waved the whip, and the ox cart rattled into the city.

Xiuyuan grabbed the shaking car board: "He is General Zhang Fei." ”

Zhang Fei? Li Laoyou has no impression, he is an ordinary person, he only cares about the quality of the harvest in his own field, where can he be known as a hero in the world. Whoever gallops across the field is invincible, and whoever descends to the temple late, for the common people, it is just a strange pampas grass.

Some of the people walked, some rode horses, and some drove cattle, marching mightily towards the county government. The pedestrians on the road saw this strange team, they all stopped to look, and asked curiously, hearing that it was a peasant who came to the county government to complain, thinking that this excitement would not work, and also ran behind the team, shouting in groups.

When they arrived at the gate of the county government, Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei got off their horses and walked straight towards the vermilion lacquer gate.

The guards at the gate stopped him: "Who are you?" What to do? ”

Zhang Fei pushed him away: "Go aside, grandpa, I'm here to sue, what about your county order?" ”

The soldiers were pushed by Zhang Fei to their bones, staggered back a few steps, and lay in the corner of the wall and moaned. Zhang Fei didn't bother to ask him, he dialed in the east and blocked in the west, and threw away the government soldiers who were blocking him.

"The county order is out, grandpa wants to sue!" The noisy voice was like a gong and drum beating in the sky, which shook the county government and swayed, and the dust on the roof flew down.

A few people ran out of the hall, and one of them said sharply: "Which one is making a noise in the county government!" ”

Zhang Fei stared at the teacup-sized eyes and threw a whip-like gaze at the man: "You are the county magistrate of Pixian County?" ”

"What you, you, you, there are no rules!" An official next to him scolded.

Zhang Fei spat him: "Bullshit rules, I'll just talk about you, what's the matter!" He shook his arm and brought the county order over, "Grandpa wants to sue, you hurry up and accept the lawsuit!" ”

The county commander was dragged by him all over the body, and he didn't know where he came from, seeing that he was fierce and vicious, and he was as solid as an iron tower, he couldn't figure out how this wicked man could have such courage.

"Who are you, who are you, and what are you going to do?" He wanted to break free of Zhang Fei's wrist, but it was like a sheep being bitten by a tiger, and there was no break to breathe.

"Yide, let him go!" Zhuge Liang said in the back.

Zhang Fei threw away his palm, and the county order almost fell, he rubbed his arms and shoulders, and shrank back: "You, you ......"

Zhuge Liang approached him steadily and said, "Are you the county magistrate of Pixian County?" There are people outside the gate of the house to redress their grievances, please accept the lawsuit as soon as possible! ”

"Who are you?" Although the county order was scared, after all, the official authority could not be lost.

Zhuge Liang said calmly: "The people should be sued first, why bother with others? ”

The county order didn't move, he thought that he was also the head of a county, how could he be at the mercy of two intruders, who knows what the background of these two people is, in case they are Jiangyang thieves who are abducted and deceived and killed.

Zhuge Liang saw that he didn't move, but just sighed: "Okay, you don't accept it, I accept it!" He ignored the county order and walked towards the main hall.

"What are you sued for, and who are you?" The county commander shouted, thinking that someone had driven them out, but he found that the soldiers were all lying on the wall with their eyebrows raised, wriggling like earthworms, and dozens of majestic armored warriors poured into the door. Look at this posture, how can it be a Jiangyang thief, but it looks like a big official who has a private interview with Weifu.

Zhuge Liang was already sitting in the hall, holding the arrow on the case: "Come, the people who have sent the complaint!" ”

This clear shout dissipated the soul of the county order, he already faintly felt the prominent identity of the person who came, his legs trembled involuntarily, and he didn't watch out for being pushed by Zhang Fei from behind, pushing him into the main hall.

The villagers waiting outside the gate of the mansion poured in, Li Laoyou handed over the lawsuit on behalf of the villagers, and the rest of the people waited in the courtyard.

Zhuge Liang pushed the lawsuit forward: "County order, come and see!" ”

"Oh, oh, it's good to ......" The county magistrate no longer dared to doubt it, and looked at the lawsuit with fear, the words were all vague, and it took him a lot of effort to read the lawsuit, and he shouted in shock, "This ......" suddenly closed again.

Zhuge Liang said in a straight voice: "The county order, the people of Pi County sue Liu Xun of the county's wang clan, and they can immediately arrest the defendant and go to court, ask questions and confront him, so as to bow down!" ”

The county order's face was as embarrassed as an overripe apple, rotten and wrinkled: "This ......"

Zhuge Liang's face sank slightly: "Why don't you take people?" ”

The county magistrate took a few steps closer and said in a low voice: "Liu Xun is not easy to take!" ”

"What's so bad about it!" Zhuge Liang raised his voice.

The county order seemed to have been suddenly exposed, and his face was blue and red. He didn't expect Zhuge Liang to leave him with dignity so much, as if he had pulled out his clothes in public and whipped naked in favor of him.

Zhuge Liang said coldly: "If you don't take it, okay, don't work for you!" He looked at Zhang Fei, "General Zhang, I bother you to go and bring Liu Xun to the hall!" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Fei agreed loudly, and rushed out of the county government with a group of personal soldiers like a hurricane.

All kinds of scenes are like twists and turns on the stage, and the people in and out of the hall are talking in a low voice: "This future life is really a big official!" ”

Someone quietly asked Li Laoyou: "Who is he?" ”

Li Laoyou was also confused: "I don't know, he said that he was a guest from Jingzhou, but he ......" He shook his head in confusion and wanted to ask Xiuyuan, but found that Xiuyuan had already gone to the hall and waited quietly beside Zhuge Liang.

What kind of character is he?

The county order was as troubled as an ant in a hot pot, he wanted to ask Zhuge Liang's true identity, but he was afraid that the question would be inappropriate, in case Zhuge Liang was really a prominent and noble figure, wouldn't he be killing himself? But if he didn't ask, he was deceived, and he offended Liu Xun, which was also a matter of losing his head, asking or not asking, making his brain torn apart like numbness.

The county order's brain was struggling, the courtyard was already noisy, several pro-soldiers escorted Liu Xun in, Zhang Fei took the lead in jumping up to the main hall and shouted: "Liu Xun bring it!" ”

"What are you going to do, you are so bold!" Liu Xun was escorted into the hall while holding his neck and howling. He had just been playing with his concubine at home, and he was very happy and relieved, when suddenly, a group of armored soldiers broke into the house, twisted his arm and left. The family members in the house came out to intercept them, but they were all beaten half to death by these wolf-like armor soldiers, where to wait until they got close. watched them throw Liu Xun on the horse like a chicken, and ran away without a trace. At this moment, the house is crying and grabbing the ground, and I thought it was a ringing horse.

"Liu Xun!" Zhuge Liang shouted coldly in the hall.

Liu Xun was still struggling, and he didn't see who was sitting in the hall, so he just scolded in a loud voice: "You dare to arrest me, it's such a big dog, and you don't look at who grandpa is!" ”

Zhuge Liang condensed his voice: "You are a criminal, you are taken to the public office, you don't know how to admit your guilt, you are arrogant and shouting, what kind of system!" He slapped the arrow, "Kneel!" ”

Liu Xun earned a swollen muscle: "Why did grandpa kneel for you!" ”

Zhang Fei went over and kicked him in the back of his knee, causing him to break his leg bones several times. The two pro-soldiers pressed him, forcing him to fall to the ground on his knees, and knelt firmly, he was angry and hateful, and glanced up at the hall, but he was shocked as if he had touched a poisonous thorn, and his whole body was shocked.

Zhuge Liang! How could he not recognize this face! After Liu Beike settled in Chengdu, he had several banquets for the Yizhou wang clan, and he was also invited, but he only went once, and after going to the banquet, he only reluctantly drank two glasses of wine, and then found an excuse to leave. During the banquet, he saw a handsome man in white with a feather fan sitting next to Liu Bei, and he secretly claimed to be surprised at that time, sighing that Liu Bei still had such a handsome face under his account, but his eyebrows and eyes could not hide the vigorous manly talent.

"You, you ......" he stumbled out a few broken sounds, and then turned his head to see Zhang Fei. He hadn't paid attention to the leader on the way he had been escorted just now, and once he had identified it at this moment, he knew that the person who had come was not good.

Zhuge Liang shook the lawsuit: "Liu Xun, the people of Pixian County have filed a complaint against you, and today I specially mention you to confront you in court!" ”

"Sue me, sue me? What crime have I committed? ”

Zhuge Liang looked at the lawsuit and said: "Sue you for disobeying agricultural orders, increasing land endowments without permission, bullying women, forcing people to die, and colluding with greed for ink!" ”

Liu Xun listened to this series of crimes, and shouted urgently: "False accusation! ”

Zhuge Liang sneered: "False accusations? How can it be a false accusation? ”

"Without evidence, framing is a false accusation!" Liu Xun said in a voice.

Zhuge Liang raised his head and smiled: "There is no evidence!" Liu Xun, open your eyes and see who is standing in this hall, they are all farmers who were forced by you to ruin their families, aren't they credentials? If they are not, who are? ”

The loud and eloquent questioning made Liu Xun's back chill, where did he really dare to look at those peasants? Occasionally, when his eyes bumped, he felt the hatred that penetrated his bones, but he didn't want to give in, and still said stiffly: "They, they planted it!" ”

Ling Jian slapped the case heavily, and Zhuge Liang said in a solemn voice: "What a planting!" Could it be that so many farmers are all working together to frame you? One person planted the blame, two people planted the blame, and there were three, ten, hundred, and thousands of people? ”

"I ......" Liu Xun was silenced by this harsh question.

Zhuge Liang continued to ask sharply: "As a famous family, you are rich and noble, and you don't want to serve your family and country, but you brutalize the people, repeatedly do the law, arrogant and arrogant, causing the people's resentment to boil, can you be guilty?" ”

Liu Xun swallowed his saliva: "I, I ......" The stubbornness that refused to admit his guilt supported the last line of defense, and he said sharply, "What's the crime?" ”

Zhuge Liang said angrily: "Stubborn! He knocked on the lawsuit, and pointed to the peasants in the upper and lower halls, "The evidence is conclusive, your crimes are too numerous to mention, and in the face of this mountain of evidence, you still do not admit your guilt, do you want to fight the national code to the end?" ”

"I didn't fight against the Code, I am not guilty, why plead guilty!" Liu Xun is stubborn to the end, he knows that as long as he confesses his guilt, he will be a sure thing, and he will not be able to escape the head.

Zhuge Liang coldly hung up a bitter smile: "Not admitting guilt is also a big crime, there is a judicial code, and repeat offenders do not admit guilt in court, but the evidence is conclusive, the case file is detailed, and the guilty can be convicted in court, plus a crime of not being guilty!" ”

Liu Xun was taken aback: "You, what do you want?" ”

Zhuge Liang stared at him, and a cold gaze shot at him: "Convict you!" ”

Cold sweat oozed out of his forehead, Liu Xun instantly had a sense of fear that the building was about to collapse, and he screamed: "You can't convict me, I am a Yizhou family, and I have a knighthood, I can't convict you!" ”

Zhuge Liang laughed loudly: "Liu Xun, I am the general of the military division of Yizhou, and I have the right to hold the criminal law of Yizhou!" He took out the golden arrow from his sleeve and raised it forward to Liu Xun, "Open your eyes and see, what is this?" ”

Through his vision blurred by sweat, Liu Xunqing clearly saw the five words engraved on it: "General Zuo's Mansion Order".

"Seeing the order is like seeing the king, and the order will stop when it arrives!" Zhuge Liang put down the golden arrow and stared at Liu Xun with cold eyes, "Liu Xun, you have committed all crimes, and the criminal law does not tolerate it. ”

"You, you ......" Liu Xun's tongue no longer obeyed, and it shook like chaff.

"Come on!" Zhuge Liang raised the golden arrow again, "Escort Liu Xun out and behead him!" ”

The last four words of Zhuge Liang were like a huge stone hammer pressed down by gravity, smashing Liu Xun's head and bleeding, and the cold fear of death was like a mountain roaring tsunami, surrounding him heavily, and a hot bubble of liquid in his crotch flowed down his thighs.

The soldiers dragged him out, he kicked the ground desperately with both feet, and a desperate howl came out of his throat: "Zhuge Liang, you can't kill me!" ”

Zhuge Liang was expressionless, listening to Liu Xun's ghostly screams, motionless like a sculpture.

The soldiers dragged Liu Xun to the outside of the yamen like a dog, one of them pressed his head desperately, one pulled out his waist knife, spit into the air, rubbed his hand, waved the knife, and a head fluttered to the ground, and a cavity of blood rushed out and sprayed onto the opposite street, bluffing a group of people at the door to watch the excitement screaming and scattering in all directions. A few bold people came closer to take a closer look, the head was still swinging on the ground, and a pair of eyes were wide open.

There was silence outside the house for a moment, only the smell of blood spread in the air, and after a while, someone cheered, and then, one spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and the jubilant call resounded in the sky.

Li Laoyou took the lead in kneeling down, so excited that he burst into tears, he opened his hands and whimpered: "God has opened his eyes, God has opened his eyes!" He turned to Zhuge Liang, gratitude, sadness, and excitement were intertwined, and he knelt down solemnly, "Thank you, sir!" ”

The farmers in the hall knelt down with Qi Shushu and shouted in unison: "Thank you, sir!" ”

Zhuge Liang got up and walked to Li Laoyou, and helped him up with both hands: "Don't thank me!" He shouted to the farmers who bowed down to thank him, "Don't thank me! ”

The farmers still kowtowed, and some of them were so excited that they fainted from crying, and tears crossed their faces after the vicissitudes of life.

Zhuge Liang arched his hand and said: "Folks, don't thank me, if you want to thank General Zuo, he asked me to be the master of the big guy!" ”

General Zuo? The farmers were surprised for a while, and someone reminded the governor: "It's the new monarch of Yizhou." Only then did people come to their senses, and once their wounded hearts were comforted, they were like drought and rain and dew, and suddenly they gave birth to the most innocent and simple gratitude.

"Thank you, General Zuo!" The crowd shouted from the bottom of their hearts.

Zhuge Liang said loudly: "General Zuo asked me to tell you that we Jingzhou guests are not enemies with everyone, Jingzhou people can also be the masters of Yizhou people, whether Jingzhou people or Yizhou people, they are all born in the world, regardless of each other!" ”

Li Laoyou raised his voice and said: "Okay, from today on, we will no longer call Jingzhou people Jingzhou dogs, from now on, Jingzhou people and Yizhou people are one family!" ”

The peasants also shouted, excitement and joy, sadness and emotion, so that they all lost their suspicions in this moment.

Zhuge Liang sighed, these simple people are distressing, a little favor can make them happy, what hatred, what grievances, what suspicions, it doesn't matter. In fact, the people under the world are the same, there has never been a grand wish of heroes, they just want to live like an ant in a peaceful corner, have food, clothing, and a breath to live, which is the greatest happiness in life. It's a pity that the world is cruel, and even this little wish has to be stifled, asking this vast world, if you can tolerate the magnificent ideals of the heroes, how can you not tolerate the humble wishes of the people?

He turned around and looked at the county magistrate who was trembling and kneeling: "You immediately go to Liu Xun's house to get all the land and property vouchers, and burn them on the spot to be invalidated." When the judge arrives, you should wholeheartedly assist the ruler of the field, divide his land among the tenant farmers, and give the rest of the land to the landless peasants. If you work hard, you can make up for it! ”

"Yes, yes, the next official will do it immediately!" The county order no longer dares to push back, he has been restrained by Liu Xun for many years, and he has held a lot of puff in his stomach, and today he saw Liu Xun killed, and his heart was very happy. But he did too many things against his heart every day, for fear of being punished by Zhuge Liang, and now listening to Zhuge Liang's words, he should have the meaning of forgiving his crimes, which really made him overjoyed.

In the crowd of cheers and weeping, Zhuge Liang raised his head, and the bright midday sun fell into his eyes, but he dimmed his gaze.

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