Chapter 137: The Underworld
Civilians have a natural fear of bows and arrows, something that ordinary people don't have, except hunters and the military. The hunters did not dare to carry them to the market, and they only used them in the mountains.
Bows and arrows always give people the feeling of an army, and for the ordinary people, it means killing.
Although Zhuang Rou and Chen Mufeng were the two of them, the sharp arrows that fell from the sky shot through the human body. The shocking lethality made the Tian family so scared that they just wanted to escape.
The crowd that was still majestic and guarded at the gate of the yamen and flaunted their might now scattered while shouting. Like ants drowning in the rain, they frantically escaped from the street, went straight into the alleys, and soon ran away without a figure.
Even those people who watched the excitement were scared away by this momentum, for fear that the knife and arrow would injure them by mistake, it would not only be in vain, but there was no way to explain it clearly.
The street at the entrance of the Hongzhou prefect's yamen has never been as quiet as it is today, except for the stones, bloodstains, and vegetables that are trampled on the ground, there is not half a living thing in the whole street.
Zhuang Rou stood on the top of the wall, with an arrow in her hand, her gaze swept over every corner where anyone could hide, looking for any fish that slipped through the net.
Except for Ying Ying, the others in the yamen are all civilian officials, and they have not fought in the past few decades, so where have they seen such a scene. Although they didn't see the scene outside, the screams that could be heard through the wall still made them imagine for themselves, and they only felt that there must be corpses everywhere outside.
This official must have come to an end, and several officials even wiped their eyes, and tears of fear and anxiety flowed out.
After studying for decades, once I returned to the palace before the exam, it seems that this time I can only go home and plant sweet potatoes.
"What are you frustrated, there's no one outside, and you don't send a few people out to bring in the incriminating evidence. There are murder weapons all over the ground, and these are all evidence, and there is no way for the bandits to deny it. Zhuang Rou really didn't even find anyone watching the excitement, so she walked down the ladder.
Ma Dezheng, who had never seen a figure, ran out of nowhere and reached out to help her catch the bow, "Sister Zhuang, I'll help you get it." ”
"Where have you been?" Zhuang Rou wanted to look for him just now, but he didn't find anyone at all.
He laughed and whispered, "I opened a small door in a corner where no one was around, and I usually block it with heavy objects, and just now I went to remove the things." When I came back, sister, you had already gone up the ladder, so I didn't come. ”
Zhuang Rou looked at him with some surprise, which head catcher would do such a thing, and he didn't come to be a spy, "You're thinking too far, aren't you, even the small door to escape out of the yamen is ready?" ”
"Be prepared, Sister Zhuang is fine." Ma Dezheng really worked hard to prevent her from having an accident.
He worked so hard to protect himself, which made Zhuang Rou feel a little weird, so he asked casually, "My brother is looking for you?" ”
Ma Dezheng hurriedly explained: "I just helped to be a follower, and I didn't stare at it." ”
He knew this sister's thoughts, so he wanted to play freely, and he had to make it clear, and he didn't guard her as a secret stake.
This attitude is low enough, and it is pitiful to be threatened by my brother. Zhuang Rou didn't embarrass him, smiled and said loudly: "Ma Zhutou, you take a few people out to clean up the outside, if it is a bandit, there must be weapons such as knives." ”
After a pause, she slowed down and said word by word: "If not, just look for a few, I shouldn't need to remind you of this kind of thing." ”
"Understood, I'll do it." Ma De is answering the way of understanding, and they can do this kind of thing easily.
If the two of them discussed shameless things without others, completely ignoring everyone standing by and watching, it was simply lawless to the point of outrageousness.
Ma De was handing the bow and arrow into the hands of the servant, calling the person who could shout, and carefully removed the iron rod from the top door, and looked out. It was a mess outside, and there was really no half of it.
Zhuang Rou rubbed her shoulders, looked at the gloomy faces of everyone, raised her eyebrows and said: "My lords, the bandits besieging the yamen have been killed, whether you want to continue to send people out to search the whole city, it is up to you to decide, I can't overstep my authority." ”
even had the face to say that they couldn't overstep their authority, but they had already treated them as nothing and made their own claims for a long time. Now that the people have been killed, she has become humble.
The hearts of the officials are like thousands of horses galloping by, although the local people block the door all day long, but almost all of them are local big families, and they are all related to them. This Tian family has suffered such a big loss today, and if they have to fall into the ground, other families will not be happy.
"Zhuang Dianshi, those people who were just worried about their families just now are not bandits, let's stop if they are expelled away." The governor of Hongzhou had the courage to come out, and his sister married into the Tian family, so he naturally didn't want to see the Tian family unlucky.
He had already expected that it would definitely not be so easy to convince, but just now he had privately agreed with a few people who had a relationship with the Tian family to stand up and defend the Tian family together, and Zhuang Rou must not be allowed to make a big deal about it.
Unexpectedly, he just spoke, and before the others could follow, Zhuang Rou nodded and agreed, "Okay, the Four Seas Gambling House will hand over thirty percent of the shares, and today's matter will be written off." Otherwise, he would be a bandit, a rebel leader, and a thief who wanted to be the emperor. Seeing that he likes that, just pick one. ”
Xu Tong couldn't judge the anger, and said for a long time that it was still for money, he blew his beard and said with a glare: "After doing it for a long time, Zhuang Dianshi used bows and arrows to shoot the people as beasts, it turned out that it was just for silver!" ”
"Nonsense!" Zhuang Rou looked at him unpleasantly, and scolded angrily, "If you hadn't made Hongzhou so poor, there was no silver in the government, and all poor things couldn't be done, what kind of money did I earn so hard!" ”
"It's as if all the money I earn is used by me, and it's not all in your divisions, and if it's not an order from an adult, I don't care if you live or die!"
"I tell you, don't think that I can't get the money, and look at the jokes of the adults in a month. If you don't have any money, you are also poor, if you want to have a high-quality evaluation when you pay taxes for food, let alone a local family, even you have to sell houses and land from between your teeth to make up this tax! ”
She gritted her teeth and stared at everyone, and said viciously: "The tax-paying grain is third-class, not to mention the Shangfu and the Zhongfu, a county like yours only pays less than 50,000 taxes and grain, and it is the lower government every year." ”
"I'm still proud to stand here one by one, if you go on like this, I see that you are all running out of food to pay, so let's directly evaluate a levelless underground. At that time, it will really respond to your face, the wild ghosts of a state, and the rotting corpses of the whole house, and then we will see if the household department will let you see the king of Yama! ”
scolded everyone fiercely, Zhuang Rou whitened their eyes a few times, didn't want to look at them, and went away directly with Chen Mufeng.