The officials laughed merrily.

What a bunch of schadenfreude bastards! Leng Yi thought to himself, how could he meet such a group of people as bosses.

The corners of Governor Liao's mouth just changed slightly, and when he saw Leng Yi's embarrassed and pitiful appearance, he frowned and glanced at all the officials. Only then did these officials retract their smiles.

Governor Liao said to those officials: "You all disperse, this government has something to say to Leng Zhixian alone." ”

One by one, the officials walked past him with their heads tilted and laughing, as if he didn't exist at all. Leng Yi just lowered his head, still full of shame.

Governor Liao waited for them to be gone, and then said gently: "Leng Zhixian, please take a seat!" ”

Hearing this kind sentence of "please sit", Leng Yi felt a little moved in his heart, how to say, this prefect is quite humane. Hurriedly bowed down and thanked him, and sat down with his ass tilted at the bottom.

Governor Liao looked at him, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Huang Zhuan's envoy came to our Bazhou to inspect, do you know about this matter?" ”

Leng Yi shook his head in panic.

"Oh, you shouldn't know that he has just arrived, and he is a surprise visit with no prior news, so of course none of you have heard of it. -- Huang Zhuan's envoy went to Bazhou this time, well, specifically mentioned the suicide case of the concubine in your Yinling County, as well as the tax theft case, which is very accountable! - By the way, what happened to these two cases? Today is the deadline, and there are taxes, and the deadline is only ten days away, but there are already eyebrows? ”

Leng Yi heard that since Huang Zhuan was in these two cases, he had to find out the situation first. Pretending to be frightened, he looked at Governor Liao's mansion and didn't speak. In many cases, not speaking is actually the best answer. Especially with him now.

Liao Zhifu nodded, sighed lightly, and said, "This is very troublesome!" Huang Zhuan suspected that you were taking advantage of the concubine to ask for your convenience, ** the woman, so that she could not bear the humiliation, and committed suicide in anger in the latrine. Huang Zhuan's envoy said, the little concubine inserted the knife into her lower body, which is the proof of your **, she hated her humiliated place because she was insulted by you, and inserted the knife to show her resentment. What do you say? ”

As soon as he heard this, Leng Yi couldn't help but move in his heart, he somewhat understood, why Lai Yuanwai instructed Deputy Ding to kill the concubine in such a way, and faked it as a suicide method, it turned out to be to further frame himself! It turns out that there is such a vicious trick hidden behind it!

Perhaps, Lai Yuanwai is just to pay less taxes, why use such painstaking tricks? Can this only be explained by the viciousness of his surname? Or is there something else going on?

These were just momentary moments, and they flashed through his mind. He immediately made a yellow mud and fell into the crotch of his pants, not but and an incomprehensible embarrassment, his hands moved wildly, not knowing what to do.

Governor Liao hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, he said this, he said it himself, there is no more evidence, it is just a speculation, and this government does not believe that you will do such a thing." However, it seems that Huang Zhuan's envoy is holding on to two things! You have to be prepared. ”

Leng Yi arched his hand gratefully and said, "Thank you, Lord for your understanding!" ”

Governor Liao sighed again and said, "It's useless to see this mansion!" Now it's the yellow transporter who grabs your pigtails! ”

Leng Yi said cautiously: "I don't know who is the black man who sued the lowly in front of the Huang Zhuan envoy?" ”

"I don't know about this mansion, but being able to speak in front of the Huang Zhuan Envoy, and still make the Huang Zhuan Envoy convinced, I'm afraid it's not something ordinary people can do. - Don't worry about that, think about how to make up for the tax first! ”

Leng Yi turned around and brought the small box of gold to Governor Liao's mansion and opened it.

Liao Zhifu was stunned when he saw the boxes full of yellow and clear gold, and looked at Leng Yi: "It turns out that you have already raised money, why didn't you say it earlier!" It's so bad that the government is worried about you! ”

Leng Yi looked frightened, and said: "I'm sorry, the lowly position has bothered the adults, -- these are the newly collected taxes of the lowly position, and all the taxes this year have been collected, except for a small part of the taxes stolen last time." ”

Liao Zhifu said happily: "It's okay now!" Most of the taxes are there, and the rest is easy to do! - However, there are still more than ten days left, what are you going to do with the rest of the taxes? ”

"The lowly is trying to figure out a way."

"Well, that's good!" Liao Zhifu said: "You sit down for a while, and the house will call the household secretary to collect it." With that, he hurried out the door.

Leng Yi is a little strange, how can he call a secretary need the prefect to go in person? After sitting there bored and waiting for a long time, Governor Liao came back quickly, and said with a regretful face: "This, I'm really sorry, the secretary in charge of tax collection today has asked for leave, and it won't be until tomorrow, so you better wait until tomorrow to come back." ”

Leng Yi was stunned for a moment and said, "Then ......, can you store these taxes in the prefect's treasury?" ”

"This, isn't it appropriate?" Governor Liao was very embarrassed, "The amount of gold is not small, and it needs to be counted before it can be put into storage, otherwise, it will be difficult to explain anything except for any problems!" ”

Leng Yi glanced at Liao Zhifu, nodded, and said, "This is natural, then I won't bother with my humble duties, and I will pay off the taxes tomorrow." ”

"That's great!" Governor Liao was relieved.

Leng Yi laboriously carried the box out of the prefect's yamen, and the horse-faced Xiaoer, who was waiting at the door, hurriedly greeted him, took the box from his hand, put it on a donkey cart, and helped Leng Yi to get on the donkey cart, and then ordered the handlebar to go back.

Without saying a word all the way, back to the inn.

The name of this inn is Yinling Inn, because the shopkeeper of the inn is a native of Yinling, Bazhou, so it took this name. In the past, Leng Yizhi County took a fancy to the inn opened by the people of this county, so every time he went to Bazhou, he lived here. Because of this, he owed a lot of debts, and the innkeeper Jia had no choice.

Last time, Leng Yi paid off most of the debts owed by Nazhi County, and Shopkeeper Jia was very happy, this time Leng Yi took his wife Zhuo Qiaoniang to the inn in casual clothes and told Shopkeeper Jia that he had a private visit, so in this dress, Shopkeeper Jia naturally did not doubt that he had him, and he was much more affectionate than before, arranged a room for the two, and asked the horse-faced Xiaoer to carry the box for Leng Yi to go to the prefect's yamen.

Before Leng Yi went to the Yamen, he asked Shopkeeper Jia to arrange for his men to go to inns all over the city to find Master Dong and Wu Hunting Chief. Master Dong and they actually came to Bazhou before Leng Yi, but the place where they lived was not the Yinling Inn, and they didn't know that Leng Yi had also come to Bazhou, so they didn't come to the Yinling Inn to find Leng Yi and them

Leng Yi and Ma Mian Xiao Er returned to the Yinling Inn and looked at Master Dong and them at the door.

It turned out that the shopkeeper of Jia found them and told them that the husband and wife of Leng Zhi County had also arrived in Bazhou, and after Master Dong learned about it, he was happy and ashamed, and immediately moved to the Yinling Inn, and heard that Leng Yi went to the prefect's yamen, and was about to go out to the prefect's yamen to greet him, but he didn't expect to meet Leng Yi at the door and came back.

Wu Zhutou was attacked on the road, the tax was lost, the prisoner was killed, Wu Zhutou rode back to Yinling County, learned that Leng Yi took his wife Weifu for a private visit, and hurriedly rode back to Bazhou overnight, ready to deal with the handover of prisoners here. Although the prisoner is dead, he has to be handed over if he dies, and he didn't expect Leng Yi and them to also arrive in Bazhou.

When Wu Zhutou and Song Deputy Zhutou and others saw Leng Yi, they didn't care about the people coming and going in the courtyard of the inn, turned over and knelt down and kowtowed, and cried loudly: "Master, I am incompetent, and the tax has been robbed by bandits...... the small ones are willing to be punished, and after they go back, all the Yamen soap subordinates and Minzhuang who participated in the escort have to make up money to make up for the deficit!" Please rest assured! ”

After that, knock knock kowtow. The other soap Li Minzhuang were all depressed, crying and kowtowing with sad faces, thinking in their hearts where to make up for the shortfall.

Although Leng Yi had already expected it, but when he learned that he was robbed again, he still gasped, this time it was almost the third class of the Yamen in Yinling County who went out to protect the tax, but they were still robbed by the bandits, it can be seen that these bandits are not ordinary characters! You have to do a lot of mental maneuvering.

Leng Yi hurriedly helped them all up and said, "It doesn't have to be like this! Get up! ――You've suffered, but your injuries are all right? ”

"Thank you for your concern, it doesn't matter if the injured brother is injured, there is no worry about his surname."

"Alright, let's go in and talk!"

Wu Zhutou and the others hurriedly agreed, and Wu Zhutou didn't seem to be too anxious when he heard Leng Yi, he was slightly surprised, and got up busily. took the third class of officials and followed Leng Yi into the hall of the inn.