What was looted last night was Shanggu Village, Liujia Town, 30 miles away from Hongzhou, with 100 and 3 households in the village, a large village not far from the official road.

The terrain is flat, there are branches of the river, and the land is fertile and there are many fields. Compared with other villages, the white walls and green tiles here, the Xiaoqiao ancestral hall seems to be more affluent.

When Zhuang Rou rode over, he saw the villagers standing at the entrance of the village with sticks and hoes in their hands, and the posture seemed to be confronting the officials, and the atmosphere was very bad.

She got off the horse in confusion, didn't the government come to help them? Why are there still confrontations.

"What's going on?" Zhuang Rou walked over and asked, but the official in front of her blocked her vision and couldn't see the situation in front of her clearly.

When the official saw that it was her, he immediately gave up his position, "My lord, these villagers have caught two homeless people, and we want to take them away, but they are not allowed." ”

"We take it away and don't let it go, we also have to be convicted, and we should have been relieved when we were caught. Only by convicting them and cutting off their heads at the entrance of the vegetable market can they take revenge more relieved, right? Zhuang Rou knew what these people thought, five people were killed, and naturally they wanted to take revenge.

But she also had a way to persuade them to hand them over, and beheading them was not more exciting, and more relieving than quietly killing.

When she walked to the front, she saw two homeless people lying on the ground, and she was stunned.

The two homeless people were one big and one small, the eldest was a woman who had been beaten to the point of bleeding, she was lying on the ground and holding a boy of six or seven years old, her whole body trembling slightly.

"This is the homeless who robbed and killed people tomorrow night?" Zhuang Rou looked at the villagers of Shanggu Village.

A man in his fifties from the villagers walked out and said, "My lord, I'm Lizheng from Shanggu Village. Last night, our village was ransacked by the homeless people, and five people in the village were killed. ”

"Lizheng?" Zhuang Rou looked at him, pointed to the two people on the ground and asked, "These two people are homeless people who rob food and kill people?" ”

Li Zheng paused, thinking about what to say, but before he could speak, a hot-blooded young man next to him shouted: "This is the person we caught during the day, who usually lives in a ruined temple a few miles away, and always comes to our village to beg for food." ”

"It must have been that she was jealous that we were doing well, so she lured those homeless people here, robbed us of our food and killed people. If you catch them today, you must pay them with blood! ”

Zhuang Rou smiled slightly, "So, you just went to the broken temple to arrest this girl and child, beat people like this, and wanted to kill them, just because they are homeless?" ”

"None of the homeless people are good people, this woman stole persimmons from the tree in front of my house last month!" The young man shouted unconvinced, the scene of those murderous homeless people last night, slashing and killing five people, was still in his mind, and it made him feel a wave of fear!

Zhuang Rou glanced at him deeply, turned his head to the yamen and said, "Bring these two people back to the yamen and let the doctor come and see." ”

Seeing that she didn't even ask about last night, and was about to take the two homeless people, the villagers immediately boiled, and the young man shouted, "Why take them! People are what we caught, and killing pays for life! ”

Zhuang Rou ignored him, but looked at Li Zheng and said, "Li Zheng, do you think I should take people away?" ”

Li Zheng looked at her in embarrassment, and a villager next to her shouted: "Uncle, you can't agree!" My brother was killed by the homeless last night, and I must repay this blood debt. ”

"My lord, if you take people away, I can't be angry." Li Zheng said stubbornly, his distant second uncle is over seventy, and he was hacked to death yesterday for protecting the family's belongings, and the people in the clan are waiting for revenge.

Zhuang Rou looked at him carefully, and sighed after a while, "As a village leader, I think you should be a person who knows what is wrong, but I didn't expect it to be a confused person." ”

"Your village has been attacked by displaced people, we will definitely investigate this matter, and I will cut off the heads of any displaced people involved in this matter. But you want to vent your anger, but you choose to arrest two homeless people, one big and one small, what can these two people do? ”

At this time, a woman screamed: "Women can also do bad things, she also steals persimmons!" Maybe in order to survive, they took refuge in those homeless people and let them kill people! ”

Zhuang Rou didn't bother to talk nonsense with them anymore, took out an iron rod and looked at the villagers of Shanggu Village and said, "Now I'm going to take them both away, you just have to try to resist me." Last night, the homeless people came to the door to grab food and kill people, and I didn't see you catch half of them, so I'm standing here today and see which of you can stop me. ”

"Come on, bring these two back!" She shouted.

The officials looked at each other with a look at each other, and this one could not be provoked, so he hurriedly stepped forward to carry the two homeless people.

As soon as she saw that the homeless people were about to be taken away, the daughter-in-law of the second uncle's family, a sturdy woman, rushed out, howled and grabbed a pair of scissors and wanted to pierce those officials.

Bang!

Zhuang Rou kicked up and kicked her directly in the lower abdomen. The woman screamed and fell into the crowd, clutching her stomach and screaming and vomiting on the ground like a pig.

"On the ground in Hongzhou, I say yes, don't challenge my patience." Zhuang Rou turned the iron rod, her gaze swept over the villagers, and fell on Li Zheng's body, "The homeless people robbed you of your grain and killed the five of you, and I can slaughter your entire village." ”

She looked fierce and said gloomily: "Armed with iron weapons, they form bandits and kill children and women in broad daylight. Attacking the officials of the four grades of the imperial court, resisting the government and attempting to take advantage of the disaster to rebel, the leading village chief and Li Zheng wanted to add a yellow robe, and the country name was: Shanggu. ”

"According to the law, destroy the nine tribes." Zhuang Rou suddenly grinned at them, and when she looked at them, it seemed as if the villagers were already a pile of dead corpses.

As soon as she said this, Li Zheng and the village chief were taken aback, why did this crime be directly deducted. Just as he was about to refute, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old scholar was squeezed out from behind, and he arched his hand and said, "My lord is so majestic!" ”

"When I was attacked by the displaced people last night, where were the government and my lordship? When our loved ones were killed alive in front of our eyes, we couldn't be at ease. The two homeless people have been around the village of Upper Valley, how there is no suspicion. ”

"The villagers arrested two people because of grief and anger, and that was also for a reason. The adults opened their mouths and deducted the charge of rebellion, could it be that they would create a great injustice case of nearly 1,000 people in the entire village who rebelled? The scholar said righteously, full of literati style.

Zhuang Rou looked at him and asked rhetorically, "Then can I take people away?" ”

"Your Excellency!" This person didn't expect Zhuang Rou not to answer his words, only to take people away, and asked angrily, "If the adults don't give an explanation to the villagers, I'm afraid you can't take people away." ”

The officials all looked at Zhuang Rou to see how she would answer, and what they hated most was these literati, who had a lot of words and were difficult.

Zhuang Rou suddenly reached out and pulled out the Yanling knife of the official next to him, threw it at the scholar's feet, and then dragged out the child who was almost fainting and was holding her.

She grabbed the child's clothes, looked at the scholar and said, "I'll give you an explanation now, you pick up the knife and stab him in the chest, if he doesn't die, you die." ”

The scholar looked at her with wide eyes and incredulity, and did not dare to pick up the knife on the ground.

"Go, let him pick up the knife for me!" Zhuang Rou shouted, so frightened that the official hurriedly ran over, picked up the knife and stuffed it into the scholar's hand.

The child in Zhuang Rou's hand trembled all over, tears kept flowing, looking at the scholar timidly, and crying timidly, "Please, don't kill me, my mother and I are not robbers......"