The people sent by the Liu family brushed their sleeves away, and the nightmare of the village chief's family began.

First of all, the Lu family boy was found to be entrained in the exam, and was disqualified from the exam on the spot, and was dismissed from Xiucai's reputation and never hired, and then the village chief was accused of raping the stupid girl in the village, and was sentenced to ten years in prison after three trials.

The village chief's wife fell ill after this blow, and went within a month, his mother died and his father was imprisoned, and Lu Liang became half-crazy and half-stupid after leaving home in the middle of the night. ，

"Listening to what the old man said, the village chief seems to be wronged, in this case, why didn't Lu Liang sue for injustice?"

"It's useless to shout." The old man shook his head: "The county lord and the officials of Liu County protect each other, how can we little people win." ”

"Then you leave it at that." After being silent for a moment, Xu Qingyan said again: "Also, what does this have to do with you not taking in passers-by?" Could it be that the village chief received the rich lady that caused such a disaster, so you were afraid, and from then on refused all those who passed by to ask for help? “

"It's not."

"Why is that?"

"Because the fall of the village chief's family is just the beginning." The old man's face was solemn: "Not long after Lu Liang disappeared, the village began to lose people one after another, at the beginning it was only a ten-year-old boy, and then gradually even the adult male disappeared, at first I only thought it was taken by the beast that came down the mountain, so I organized people to go up the mountain to search, but I didn't find it, not even the body, I was about to report to the official, I received a letter from someone who claimed to be a bandit." “

"Letter, what does the letter say?" The fairy asked with wide eyes.

The old man glanced at her: "The letter said that if you want to ransom people, you have to pay five taels of silver per person, or you will be killed directly." ”

"Five taels!" The fairy covered her mouth and exclaimed.

"Yes, five taels of silver, people like us have to go without food or drink for a year to save this money, not to mention that some families have been arrested more than one, and they can't get these ransoms at all, so someone proposed at that time to pretend to be down first, and then gather the only remaining strong men in the village to go to the agreed ransom land, and directly snatch people back."

"At that time, there were more than 50 men in the whole village, and so many people could completely beat the bandits, and even if they couldn't get all the people back, they could take back some of them. But who knew that these fifty men went, and never came back. “

"The whole village looked forward to it at home for a day, and did not look forward to people coming back, so they panicked, and discussed going to the county government to report the case early the next morning.

"It's just that the next day, before the person assigned to report the case to the county government has not yet left the village, he met a group of people with guys entering the village, led by Liu Laohu.

"Liu Laohu?"

"Well, Liu Laohu is a well-known bully in our county, this person has lived in the county seat for a long time, and he lives on protection money on weekdays, and ordinary people who enter the city to sell goods can't escape being exploited by him."

"Collect taxes and money privately, doesn't the county lord care?"

"it." The old man looked excited, and seemed to have a great opinion of the county master.

"You, you go on."

"Liu Laohu entered the village to demonstrate, he said that he sent people to arrest the lost men and children in the village, and then arrested all the people in the village who were over eight years old and under 30 years old, and my family's Erniu and Cuiying were also arrested at that time." By the end, the old man had already cried.

"How can it be?" Xu Qingyan shouted angrily.

"Then why did he take those people and your children?" Lingxian asked.

"It's not for free labor, I heard that it was to mine stone mountains, and there were no more capable men in our village at that time, Liu Laohu only took a dozen people to arrest the young people in our village, and threatened not to report to the officials, nor to tell anyone about this incident, otherwise our family will suffer, and the serious ones will die."

"Then you guys forget it!" The fairy couldn't believe it.

"If you don't accept your fate, they don't talk about playing, there were people in the village who resisted in the past two years, that is, the old Lin family next door. It was also a rainy day, and a group of more than a dozen carriages entered the village to take shelter from the rain and chose his house. Boss Lin saw that the other party was dressed richly, and he was not a local, and he looked quite powerful, so he told the situation in the village, hoping that they could help report to the official when they went to Fucheng, and the man agreed, but he didn't know what went wrong, and the next day, the body of the boss of his family was thrown outside the gate, the flesh and blood were blurred, and there was almost no good meat. ”

Boss Lin and his wife fainted on the spot, and it was the villagers who found out and carried them in. Then it didn't take long for Liu Laohu to come, and viciously said that this was the end of disobedience. “

"How does Liu Laohu know?"

The old man shook his head: "I don't know, maybe someone sent someone to keep an eye on us." “

"So, since then, you no longer dare to take in the passing merchants. For fear of attracting the other party's retaliation. “

The old man nodded: "So girl, this matter is out of this door, you are still rotten in your stomach, Xiao Lao'er does not expect you to help us report to the official, I just hope you can understand and run quickly, Liu Laohu is not only greedy for money and violent, but also extremely lustful, and the matter of robbing the people's girls is not less, the girl and his party, the person is weak, if he accidentally bumps into it, then he can't go." ”

Seeing that the old man was genuinely thinking about them, Xu Qingyan was moved in her heart: "Don't worry, it's okay if Liu Laohu doesn't come, if he comes, I will let him come and go!" ”

"Don't you dare to boast, I don't know how many people are under Liu Laohu, there are more men and fewer women in your group, and you are not opponents at all, when the rain stops, let's leave quickly." As the old man spoke, Zeeland came out of the kitchen.

"Miss, the chicken soup has been stewed, should you bring it now?"

"Come on, by the way, set aside two bowls for my father-in-law and mother-in-law."

"Yes." Zelan answered, and all the maids standing in the hall went down to serve the soup.

"Miss Xie, just give a bowl to the old woman, and the little old man doesn't need it."

"You're welcome, uncle, it's just a bowl of chicken soup, where can it compare to your kindness in taking the risk. For the sake of your kindness, I have to help you get rid of this evil today. People are good, the sky will read, if it is evil, it will also be punished, Liu Laohu has done many evils, and retribution should come. “

"Oh, I'm telling you these things to let you run for your lives, how can you ......." The old man stood up anxiously.

"Don't worry, since I dare to say this, I will definitely be able to solve it, you feed the chicken soup to your mother-in-law first, and when the rain stops, I will help you solve this matter." As he spoke, he pushed the soup bowl in his hand.

"This, this is too much......" Looking at the big soup bowl pushed in front of him, the old man was a little stunned.

Where is the amount of one person's serving, that is, three people can eat more.

"It's not much, if you can't finish one meal, you can drink it in a few meals, my mother-in-law has had repeated illnesses in the past few years, and she has to make up for it."

couldn't resist her, so the old man had to accept the kindness, thanked him, and entered the Westhouse with the soup bowl.