"What do you mean by that?" Lu Qingyi's brows furrowed.

But when the woman heard this, she stopped talking, but had an unfathomable smile on her face. When Lu Qingyi saw his smile, he understood in his heart, it seemed that his guess was not wrong.

"Tell me, what can you give?" After a long silence, the woman suddenly asked.

After hearing this, Shen Xi and Lu Qingyi glanced at each other, and then said, "Then what do you want?" ”

"What else can you have but money?" The woman smiled softly.

Lu Qingyi rubbed his chin with his hand, they came today to find out the news, as for the matter of cooperation, it was just a pretext.

"We still need to discuss this matter, after all, the two of us don't have the final say." Shen Xi opened his mouth and said, "Why don't I come back tomorrow." ”

When the woman heard this, the expression on her face did not change much: "Yes, I will wait for you here." ”

Shen Xi and Lu Qingyi came out of this restaurant, they already had a result in their hearts, and it seemed that it was really a joint effort between County Magistrate Zhang and the proprietress of the restaurant.

In the room on the ground floor of the restaurant, the woman sat on a chair with her eyes flashing. Suddenly, he felt that something was wrong, and beckoned to the man next to him: "You went to follow the two people just now, I always feel that they are a little wrong." ”

Lu Qingyi and Shen Xi walked towards County Magistrate Zhang's courtyard, and suddenly Lu Qingyi stopped his steps and whispered to Shen Xi: "We can't go back now, someone is following us behind." ”

Shen Xi secretly turned his head and glanced back, the man who had taken them in before quietly followed behind them, and after seeing Shen Xi turn his head, he quickly got into a store next to him.

"So what are we going to do now? Do you just avoid them all the time? Shen Xi was a little puzzled in his heart.

Lu Qingyi shook his head: "We are not unsightly, why should we avoid them?" They should be the ones who are hiding. ”

"We'll go to County Magistrate Zhang now and have a showdown with him directly." Lu Qingyi said slowly.

Shen Xi was not only a little worried in his heart, but after all, this was still the territory of County Magistrate Zhang. After walking a few steps, Shen Xi asked, "Shall we go directly to him?" In the end, County Magistrate Zhang is a native here, and his means should be wider than ours. ”

"Under the bitter sky, it is not the king's land, we have the emperor's holy decree in our hands, now go to the barracks first." Lu Qingyi took out the holy decree that had been stuffed in his arms.

Because of the emperor's decree, the military camp can be said to be very cooperative. directly sent a full hundred people, followed Lu Qingyi and Shen Xi into the yamen.

County Magistrate Zhang was still dealing with the most basic official business, and before he could react, he saw a bunch of people walking into the yamen. And there are also his familiar faces in it, County Magistrate Zhang hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Chief Song at the front.

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Chief Song's face looked a little bad, and he waved his hand at County Magistrate Zhang: "I don't know what the specific matter is, but today Lu Qingyi and Shen Xi ran to the barracks, and they had the emperor's holy decree in their hands." ”

"We can no longer disobey the Divine Decree." Chief Song sighed.

As soon as they finished saying this, Lu Qingyi and Shen Xi walked over from behind. Lu Qingyi had a light smile on his face: "County Magistrate Zhang, we are already a little eyebrow about yesterday's incident. ”

"Lord Lu is amazing, we have investigated this matter for a long time and have no eyebrows, but I didn't expect Lord Lu to solve it as soon as he came." County Magistrate Zhang had a flattering smile on his face, and he didn't know what Lu Qingyi and what they didn't know now.

The smile on Lu Qingyi's face became even brighter: "That's because County Magistrate Zhang's vision is too narrow, and he didn't expect that this incident would be due to your internal ghosts." ”

"How could such a thing be?" County Magistrate Zhang's face quickly showed a little panic, but after many years of officialdom, he quickly stabilized his expression: "Then I don't know if Lord Lu has evidence now?" ”

Shen Xi sneered, and directly took the holy decree in Lu Qingyi's hand before: "A few of us are the ministers appointed by the emperor to suppress bandits, if anyone stops the bandits, it will be disobeying the holy decree." ”

"I don't know how County Magistrate Zhang explained that you and the owner of the restaurant set up a bureau to intimidate us." Shen Xi said word by word, his voice sonorous and powerful.

When County Magistrate Zhang heard this, his expression suddenly couldn't hold back: "This ...... Does this lady have proof? I, Zhang, have been working hard here for decades, how can I do such a thing? ”

"Evidence? Not sure what evidence you really want. Do you want us to arrest the proprietress of the restaurant and interrogate them together? Lu Qingyi smiled, his eyes drooped, looking at the floor tiles on the ground.

Shen Xi took a slow breath: "We know that many people may lose themselves under the temptation of power, but ...... If you are lost, it is not impossible to forgive. ”

"County Magistrate Zhang, as long as you explain it clearly now, we can consider letting you go. Otherwise...... Not only will you not be able to be the county magistrate, but your whole family will probably have to stay in a prison cell. Shen Xi took a few steps forward and circled around County Magistrate Zhang.

County Magistrate Zhang already had sweat on his forehead, and touched his forehead with his hand: "I don't know what you're talking about." ”

"Aren't you going to admit it?" Lu Qingyi suddenly snorted coldly.

County Magistrate Zhang sighed when he heard this, shook his head, and said, "Alas, at this point, I won't hide it from you." ”

"When you're new here, you don't even know what's going on here. They keep saying that they want to suppress bandits, but do you know that the existence of those bandits is not without benefits to our small county? County Magistrate Zhang shook his head.

Lu Qingyi was a little puzzled when he heard this, he really couldn't understand how bandits who did all kinds of evil could bring benefits to a county town?

I only heard the county magistrate Zhang speak: "Those bandits only went up to the mountains to become bandits because their families were poor." On weekdays, they work on their own in the mountains, and they can even provide us with some food. In a sense, he was a large factory, providing hope for some poor people who did not have land to work and live. ”

Shen Xi thought about it for a while, and found that what County Magistrate Zhang said still made some sense. Gently scratching his head a few times, Shen Xi said slowly: "But...... They're bandits, too! Robbery is a kind of thing that is just done less, not not done, and it does not mean that they are not regarded as wicked people because they have done less evil. ”

"This is indeed the truth, but after all, the advantages of their existence outweigh the disadvantages." County Magistrate Zhang shook his head.