Chapter 12: Anger (Part 2)
The most important thing now is not to hunt down those bandits, but to extinguish the fires in the residential areas, so as not to cause greater damage, otherwise his sin will be even greater. I'll tell you that the fastest update of the novel is the eye. Hurry?
Besides, even if you get on a boat and chase it now, you won't be able to catch up.
After arranging the firefighting, Zhao Hua led several sergeants to hurry to the Zhang family's mansion and went to ask Li Yuntian for his guilt.
The Baishui Town Inspection Department was stationed in the middle of the town, closer to the dock than Chen Bozhao's house, and it was said that they should have rushed to the dock first, but they fell behind Li Yuntian, and then Li Yuntian was humiliated by the water bandits, which was simply an unforgivable crime.
As the inspector of the Baishui Town Inspection Division, Zhao Hua naturally couldn't escape the blame, saying that he was dereliction of duty, and if he was reorganized, he would escape from the battle, and he would be beheaded according to military law.
Zhao Hua was very depressed now, he didn't expect that Li Yuntian would come to the dock to suppress the bandits in person, let alone that those water bandits would make such a big fuss, so that he was now roasted on the fire.
If he had known that things would get to this point, he would definitely have brought people to the dock as soon as possible, and he would not have been so passive as he is now.
At this moment, the Zhang family's mansion is in a bedroom with a spacious courtyard.
"Master Zhang, Master Chen, Lord County is angry, and you can recover after a while."
After a middle-aged doctor checked the pulse of Li Yuntian, who had his eyes closed, he bowed down and said to Zhang Youcai and Chen Bozhao who were guarding the edge, which made the two of them breathe a sigh of relief.
"Brother Chen, what do you think should be done tonight?" The middle-aged doctor gave Li Yuntian a prescription to recuperate and left, and after he left, Zhang Youcai sat on a chair and asked Chen Bozhao quietly while sipping tea.
"What does Brother Zhang think?" Chen Bozhao was frowning and standing in front of the window looking in the direction of the dock, where the sky was red by the fire, and when he heard this, he turned around and looked at him expressionlessly.
"The county lord encountered this kind of thing when he first arrived, and if he was known by the imperial court, he would inevitably be punished." Zhang Youcai put down the teacup and said with a smile, "I don't think it's as good as this, big things are small, and small things are small." ”
"Just what I want." Chen Bozhao nodded, he, like Zhang Youcai, didn't want tonight's incident to affect Li Yuntian's career.
A smile appeared on the corner of Zhang Youcai's mouth when he heard this, he had long expected that Chen Bozhao would agree, because if he helped Li Yuntian in this matter, Li Yuntian would definitely repay the two of them in the future.
To put it bluntly, this is not how deep their feelings for Li Yuntian are, but just an exchange of interests, although the two spent a sum of money because of this matter, they can get greater returns from Li Yuntian in the future, and at the same time, they can also promote the relationship between the two parties.
Due to the urgency of time, the two then discussed countermeasures, the burned houses and the lost materials in the warehouse are easy to say, can be solved with some money, the key is that those who were killed by the bandits, to do a good job of comforting their relatives, so as not to leak out.
As the two giants of Baishui Town, Zhang Youcai and Chen Bozhao are like the soil emperors of Baishui Town, since they have reached an agreement, then who in the town dares to disobey.
"What a painstaking effort!" Li Yuntian listened to the discussion between the two word for word, and couldn't help sneering in his heart.
In the early morning of the next day, Li Yuntian, who was "asleep", woke up leisurely, and Zhang Youcai and Chen Bozhao, who were guarding the house, hurriedly came to the side of ** to wait for his orders.
"Gong Chen, Gong Zhang, have those bandits been taken?" Li Yuntian sat up, patted his head and asked.
"Inspector Zhao has already driven those water bandits away." Zhang Youcai looked at Li Yuntian with a smile, "My lord, you can rest in peace, and leave the rest to us." ”
"What about the casualties?" Hearing that the water bandits had run away, Li Yuntian's brows furrowed, and he asked with some disappointment.
"Two died, and the wounded have been properly settled." Zhang Youcai had been prepared and replied in an orderly manner.
He is completely nonsense, because he saved the fire last night, so it is impossible to know the specific casualties now, and there are more than a dozen corpses that have been found so far.
However, even if there were more casualties, he would tell Li Yuntian that only two were dead, and he and Chen Bozhao would find a way to cover up the other dead.
"Thankfully!" Li Yuntian breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, looking relieved, if he suffered heavy casualties, he would be held accountable by his superiors.
Seeing this, Zhang Youcai and Chen Bozhao couldn't help but glance at each other, if Li Yuntian knew that more than a dozen people had died, he didn't know how he would react.
"By the way, what about Inspector Zhao?" Then, Li Yuntian remembered something, and his face turned cold.
"Inspector Zhao saved the fire and is now directing people to clean up the scene." Chen Bozhao sighed in his heart and replied quietly, what should come sooner or later.
"Gong Chen, you send someone to ask him to roll over to this official!" Li Yuntian sneered and said to Chen Bozhao.
Chen Bozhao bowed his hand to Li Yuntian, walked away quickly, and found someone to convey Li Yuntian's order to Zhao Hua.
Li Yuntian didn't have the heart to sleep anymore, so he got up to wash, and when he was having breakfast in the living room with Zhang Youcai and Chen Bozhao, Zhao Hua hurriedly came in.
"Zhao Hua, the lowly Baishui Town Inspection Division, knock to see the county lord!" His body was blackened by thick smoke, and there were several bubbles on the back of his hands and face, and he looked very wolf, kneeling on one knee in front of Li Yuntian.
"Inspector Zhao, are you guilty?" Li Yuntian glanced up at him, slapped the chopsticks in his hand on the table, and asked angrily.
"The two sergeants on duty last night drank wine and did not find out in time that the water bandits were coming, which led to this catastrophe." Zhao Hua looked at Li Yuntian with a guilty face, and pushed the responsibility out cleanly.
"Zhao Hua, you think this official is a three-year-old child, and he will believe your nonsense!"
Li Yuntian was immediately angered by Zhao Hua's words, picked up the chopsticks on the table and threw them over, and said angrily, "Don't think that if you are a member of the Ministry of War, the official can't do anything about you, don't forget that you are a subordinate of the official, believe it or not, the official will play you to the saint, and treat you as a greedy person who is afraid of death and escapes from the battle!" ”
Although Zhao Hua found two sergeants to be substitutes for the dead ghosts, but this reason is too far-fetched, even if the two sergeants on duty drank and misbehaved, he should have heard the warning gong sound on the street, you must know that Li Yuntian knew about the attack of the water bandits after hearing the gong.
Therefore, it was natural for Li Yuntian to be angry, and he decided to take this opportunity to rectify the Baishui Town Inspection Division, at least to make Zhao Hua afraid of him.
Daming's inspection department is a bit different, although it is subordinate to the Ministry of War, but it is under the jurisdiction of the local government, so Li Yuntian is Zhao Hua's top boss, and his performance can affect Zhao Hua's fate.
According to the laws of the army, it is a capital crime to escape from the battle, and once Li Yuntian reports to the imperial court, then Zhao Hua will lose a layer of skin if he does not die.
"Big ...... My lord, humble ...... Guilty of despicable duties, please ...... Adult, please...... Mercy. Zhao Hua didn't expect Li Yuntian to be so angry, he was suddenly startled, he didn't dare to dodge at all, let the chopsticks fall on his body, knelt on the ground, and stammered.
Zhang Youcai and Chen Bozhao looked at Zhao Hua who was silent with sympathy, the two fully understood Li Yuntian's anger, if Zhao Hua could have arrived in time with his troops last night, how could Li Yuntian be humiliated by Wang San.
Although the two had a friendship with Zhao Hua, Li Yuntian was angry at this time, so it was naturally impossible for them to intercede for Zhao Hua and touch Li Yuntian's moldy head.
"Kaien?" Li Yuntian glared at Zhao Hua coldly, "Say this to the two people who were killed by the water bandits, and see if they can spare you!" ”
With that, Li Yuntian brushed his sleeves away and strode out of the living room, and Zhang Youcai and Chen Bozhao hurriedly followed when they saw this.
Zhao Hua's body was weak and he sat on the ground with no blood.
Just like he used those two sergeants as substitutes for the dead, if Li Yuntian put all the blame on him, then he would definitely die this time.
Zhang Youcai and Chen Bozhao thought that Li Yuntian was going back to Chen's house to visit Lucalyx, but when they didn't think of a crossroads, Li Yuntian did not take the road to Chen's house, but walked in the direction of the dock.
"My lord, where are you going?" Vaguely the two of them had a bad premonition, so Chen Bozhao stepped forward and asked tentatively.
"Go and see the people who have been afflicted." Li Yuntian replied lightly.
"My lord, there are still small groups of bandits wandering in the town, and my lord should wait until the remnants of the bandits are cleared before visiting the people." Chen Bozhao's brows furrowed slightly, and he said in a deep voice.
"Chen Gong is right, adults are parents of one party, how can they take risks lightly, it is better to go back to command to avoid accidents." Zhang Youcai hurriedly echoed when he heard this.
The scene of the fire was in a mess, and those dead people were placed on the dock, and there was no time to settle them, if Li Yuntian went, then the lies of the two would be self-defeating, so that Li Yuntian knew that there were more than two dead people.
"Hmph, little thief, isn't this official afraid of him!" Li Yuntian sneered and said proudly.
Zhang Youcai and Chen Bozhao glanced at each other helplessly, and the corners of their mouths invariably showed a wry smile, neither of them thought that Li Yuntian would go to the scene to check so soon.
At this point, Zhang Youcai had no choice but to whisper a few words to a big man beside him, and the big man immediately rushed to the dock and rushed to transfer the corpses in front of Li Yuntian.
Looking at the back of the big man, a trace of disdain flashed in Li Yuntian's eyes, and he quietly quickened his pace, so that he would not accept Zhang Youcai and Chen Bozhao's kindness of "turning big things into small things and small things into small things".
On the surface, it seems that Zhang Youcai and Chen Bozhao are helping him, but in fact, they have become a handle in the hands of the two, and they will be subject to the two in the future, and he will not be stupid enough to do this kind of loss-making business.