Chapter 505: Old Things
He really doesn't understand how this beautiful girl grows into such a "yin and yang" look?
At this moment, he really had a feeling of "being a beautiful woman, why should I be a thief".
The Shanxi Road prison was not bright, except for the torches stuck in the walls of every few cells, and it was probably dark in the cell, and the girl who came in carried a lantern in her hand.
The pockmarked face turned her head to look at the girl who had come out of the end of the aisle.
Dressed in white and red dress, with a small plush ball hanging from a red cloak and a deerskin boot on her feet, it seemed that as soon as she appeared, the entire dim prison was much brighter.
Walking from afar, it looks like a girl coming out of a painting. He hadn't read much, and he didn't know how to describe the feeling of a sudden light in front of his eyes, as if coming out of a painting was the best description he could think of.
Just looking at her appearance, it is really ...... I really can't imagine that this is such a person. I really know people and faces, but I don't know my heart!
Ma Yan wiped the cold sweat that came out of nowhere on his forehead, and was about to speak, when he heard that the other side didn't know if he had eaten too much pumpkin pie today, and Lord Qin, who was full and had nothing to do, said "Huh" and spoke.
"Did she get you in?" Lord Qin opened his eyes and looked at the girl who suddenly appeared in the prison, paused, then turned his head to look at Ma Mian, nodded solemnly, and said, "We are really different, it is the Great Inspector who arrested us, and this Lord Qiao is just a female official of Dali Temple." ”
The numb face was even more sore, and he always felt that he seemed to hear the previous ridicule from this sentence, and at this moment, he couldn't help but glance at Qiao Ran, who was walking over with a lantern, and looked at the two of them for a long time.
If it's so bad, I don't know how hard to work hard, how can I not compare to the official position of the Great Governor at this age...... Oh, no, at this age, it's strange that the official position is comparable to that of the Great Governor.
An ordinary female official of Dali Temple is normal.
Lord Qiao, the normal female official of Dali Temple at the moment, looked down at them for a moment, then squatted down and looked at him first.
Ma Yan's heart trembled when she saw it, and she hurriedly said: "Miss Qiao, no, Master Qiao, you can raise your noble hand and let me go!" I didn't do anything, I just helped pass the word. ”
The girl only smiled at him, did not reply to him immediately, stared at him for a moment, and then turned her head to look at the Lord Qin on the side, and then said in a loud voice: "General Qin." ”
That Lord Qin raised his eyes, his gaze was no longer as sharp as when he first saw him, the whole person looked quiet and honest, he nodded and shouted, "Lord Qiao".
"I don't have much to do right now," the girl smiled at him, "so I wanted to come to this pockmarked face and tell me about this Shanxi Road." ”
Lord Qin's face was blank, as if he hadn't heard her words at all, he just closed his eyes and still sat on the straw to meditate.
Qiao Ran turned her head to look at the numb face that was taken aback by her, and said, "Tell me about this Shanxi Road......
Ma Yan grabbed the cell door in his hand, looked at the girl, and said, "Didn't ......you say it before?"
As soon as these words came out, I saw the girl say with a straight face: "I specially sent someone to ask before, and you led the way with ten copper plates, but you took ten taels of silver from me, so deceitful is really too much." ”
The corners of Ma Yan's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but say to the girl's serious face: "So, I'm ...... Wasn't you locked me up? ”
This is deliberately cheating him! Ma Face was a little angry.
"Don't you want to get out?" The girl only smiled, obviously not caring about his anger, her eyes were slightly raised, and the hand holding the lantern shook it in her hand, and said, "Do you want to give money......
Hearing this, Ma Yan's face became even more ugly: "Money is not ...... by you"
Before the words "take it away" could be spoken, I heard the girl's voice sound again.
"Or tell me a story, I like to listen to stories, and I tell a story to ten copper plates, and you say this," said the girl, putting the lantern aside, and looking at him with a smile, "I'll listen." ”
The look in those beautiful eyes deepened.
"Well said and rewarded." The girl said quietly.
The numb face that was originally bitter suddenly had a stirring spirit, and something seemed to flash through his mind, and he suddenly opened.
Why did this "gentle and beautiful" arrest him? Was it because he was talking to the young man who was carried away by beauty? He wasn't very sure, but after thinking about it, it seemed that he only said this one thing on the day he was arrested.
And the reason why he was stopped by that young man and brought a message to that young man...... Could it be that he was specially selected because of his talent? Don't be funny, it's weird that this is the case.
Be...... It's because of the fact that some time ago he led the way for two middle-aged men in their forties.
One side is two middle-aged men, the other is a girl, and the only thing that the two sides have in common is that they bring several guards.
What did he say in front of the girls earlier? It was as if the two men had asked him a lot of questions, and he had thought of something.
Do you want to ask about this?
After thinking about it seriously for a long time, and after confirming that only this matter was possible, Ma Mian suddenly became excited, and hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, I said." ”
That day, the middle-aged man who was like a scribe seemed to have asked a lot of things, he patted his head and sorted out the wording: "Those literati who repair books on the Geography Chronicles have to praise a sentence of Wuhua Tianbao almost everywhere, you find the Geography of various places to take a look, if there is no word Wuhua Tianbao, I will take off my numb face and head for you to kick as a ball!" Ma Mian said and pursed his lips disdainfully, "In fact, our Shanxi Road is very barren, if there were no bandits, the merchants who traveled south and north could also make some money, but after the bandits, the merchants did not dare to leave." Because it is also cheap for the bandits to leave, it makes our people more and more miserable, and they live a hard life on that one-third of an acre. ”
I said this because the old scribe asked a lot of people about their livelihoods. He remembered blurting out a lot of complaints, and although he couldn't remember what he said, he thought about it and said that.
"The land on Shanxi Road is barren, the vegetables planted are just mediocre, and there is not much game in the mountains, but there are many tigers and wolves that eat people, of course, the most ferocious tigers and wolves are still those bandits in the village."
"Oh, by the way, a few years ago, after Lord Qian took office, he helped suppress the bandits, and personally led the team to the mountains to suppress the bandits, Lord Qin should know more about this matter," as he spoke, he went around to Lord Qin on the opposite side, swallowed his saliva with a numb face, glanced at the look on the girl's face, and saw that she was listening seriously, so he continued, "It was Lord Qin who took off the head of the bandit back then, and the head of the bandit head was hung in the city for many days before it was put down!" ”
Although he was talking to Ma Mian, Qiao Ran's attention never left Qin Shu from beginning to end. When Ma Mian mentioned "bandits", Qin Shu, who was sitting on a straw pile and meditating, had already opened his eyes.
It was indeed he who knew this best, for it was the head of the bandit that he had taken off with his own hands, and hung it above the city.
This was a terrible thing, but the people's hatred of the bandits for many years was so fearful that many people still came to watch and even applauded.
During this period, many relatives in the family who died due to banditry came over and cried bitterly.
At that time, it was also winter, but instead of the warm sun at this time, it was a snowy day, and the bloodstained head hung on the city gate, dragging a long blood mark on the city wall.
A little dazzling, Qin Shu lowered his eyes.
At that time, the people of the whole city cheered, and even many people lit firecrackers at home to celebrate happily.
Everyone thought that the bandits that had plagued Shanxi Road for a long time had to be eliminated, but what happened after that told them that this was just the beginning.
Qin Shu frowned, thinking of another person who handled this matter, his Shangfeng Master Qian.
The new official took office three fires, Lord Qian was transferred to Shanxi Road five years ago was placed high hopes by His Majesty, after all, he was born as a military general, and then he put pen to paper, Lord Qian can be described as a real civil and military double, before there were small-scale groups of evil in the local area have been solved by him I don't know how many times.
Even in the face of bandits that are difficult to eradicate, Lord Qian was determined to exterminate the bandits in one fell swoop at the beginning of his tenure, and by coincidence, they saved a former bandit.
People want nothing more than money, power, and sex. The brutal bandit who had his limbs cut off was because of sex. Because a woman is the enemy of her former bandit brother, the result is naturally outnumbered and the end is extremely miserable.
However, the bandit was careless that the bandit was not dead, not dead, and he naturally wanted to take revenge if he fell into such a fate. He only had one breath left, but he could fake the hands of others.
For example, Mr. Qian, who was a new official at that time. This once famous figure in the bandit village naturally knows the most about the former bandit brothers.
Then, after they tried everything to verify and test, and after confirming that what this person said was correct, they asked the imperial court to increase their troops, and then almost slaughtered the bandits in Shanxi Luhuanshan.
The bandit leader was also caught red-handed and later died by the knife.
At that time, they were in high spirits, thinking that they would solve the stubborn disease that had plagued Shanxi Road for many years in one fell swoop, but they were just ......
"The bandit leader is dead, but there are always fish that slip through the net." Qin Shu said lightly, and raised his eyes to look at the girl in front of him who looked harmless to humans and animals.
Of course, this girl can't be as harmless to humans and animals as she appears on the outside, she has been paying attention to herself, and obviously talking to this pockmarked face is also for herself.
Since these things have been mentioned, as long as they are checked, they can always find some, and he doesn't mind telling what he knows.
After all, his intuition after many years of watching people told him that the harmless-looking girl in front of him was the one who really made the decision compared to Zhou Shilin.
"Yes, the bandits have not been eliminated, and they are even worse." Ma Face nodded and followed Ying He and said, "Although it is not as diligent as it appeared before, once it appears, it will not leave even a single hair ......."
The original bandits sometimes only robbed the money and released the person, or they would leave a message, but the bandits after that were really "fine" to rob.
As soon as a person encounters a bandit, it is completely "gone", and even a corpse cannot be seen.
At the mention of this, the numb face couldn't help but shrink his neck, glanced at Qin Shu, who spoke lightly, and said: "And they all came out at night, someone once saw it, saying that the group of bandits were masked and couldn't see their appearance clearly, and they even took people and things away, and they took them away without leaving any of them." ”
However, Lord Qian is not a good-tempered person, and if he can suppress it once on the spot, he can suppress it a second time, and he must make Shanxi Road free of bandits.
And then...... There is no then.
The matter is over.
Naturally, no one dared to run to Lord Qian's side and stab this face-losing thing.
"But I don't usually go out of the city at will after nightfall, I'm afraid that if I run into those bandits again, I can't run out, of course, this kind of thing is rare, and it is generally not encountered. But if you do, you're gone. The numb face sighed with emotion, "So the bandits still haven't been eliminated!" It's just that Lord Qian didn't dare to come openly. ”
Qiao Ran listened and nodded.
That's right, therefore, after Lord Qian took office, bandits were not as rampant, which was a little different from the previous three Fu Yin, who died mysteriously.
If this is the case, she prefers that the first three were all killed at the hands of the original bandits, such as the one whose head was taken and hung at the city gate, and the bandits encountered by Lord Qian after that should not be the same as before, no wonder it is different.
This is also explained, but in the eyes of foreign officials who don't know the news, the changes before and after will make Mr. Qian suspected of colluding with bandits.
"Lord Qiao," Qin Shu, who was sitting on the straw, spoke up again at this time, he looked at Qiao Ran, and said, "If you want to hear any news from me, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you, I don't know much, most of the time it's ordered by Lord Qian, and I'm responsible for leading the troops to carry it out." ”
"Except for that crackdown on bandits, there was no major crackdown on Shanxi Road after that, and I didn't do anything except patrol and garrison in the city every day and occasionally train officers and soldiers." Qin Shu said, "Also, the fish that slipped through the net that time to suppress the bandits was the only son of the bandit leader, but he was the only one, he just wanted to take revenge, and it was really strange to gather so many people again in less than five days, and the two groups of people before and after have changed too much." ”
"So, what does General Qin mean that these two groups of people are not the same group?" Qiao Ran asked rhetorically.
Qin Shu nodded: "Maybe!" I don't know. Lord Qian should know more about this, but he did not mention it to us. ”
"What's so strange about bandits coming out of a dangerous mountain?" The numb face on the side listened to it with excitement and excitement, I don't know if I was too happy to have a new conversation in the future, so I was fascinated by it, and blurted out, "There is a village, naturally another village!" This mountain is here, and the bandits will not go, and unless the mountain is leveled, this bandit problem cannot be solved. ”
After finishing speaking, he noticed that the two over there didn't make a sound, but they all looked at him together, and the excitement of the numb face suddenly disappeared, and he quickly covered his mouth and moved to the corner.
These two themselves don't avoid him when they talk, do you blame him? It won't be because he hears this, and he wants to kill him!
The frightened girl chuckled, did not reprimand him, but suddenly asked him a somewhat abrupt sentence: "Have you heard anything in the city all these years?" Like a haunted? ”
...... Haunted? Ma Face's frightened face turned pale, and she asked what the haunting was doing? Do you still want to catch ghosts?
If you are really "gentle and beautiful", will you not be afraid of ghosts? Looking at this calm appearance without the slightest fear, they are almost catching up with Lord Qin who has a solemn face over there.
The numb face slandered, and his heart moved: However, when it comes to hauntings, there are really them, and they are precisely related to bandits.