Godfather is dead! Li Lintang couldn't believe his ears when he got the news. If it weren't for the little boy standing in front of him wearing Liu Jiazhuang's clothes and carrying a letter from his godbrother, Li Lintang would definitely kill this person on the spot.

"You, say it again." Li Lintang's voice trembled slightly.

"Old lady...... Old lady, he ......" the boy's voice trembled even more, "he let the foreigner beat him to death!" It's been three days since today, and the eldest lord asked me to come to you and say...... Go home and mourn. ”

Li Lintang left the boy who came to report the news, and did not inform anyone in the dart bureau, so he took the fastest horse in the dart number and hurriedly turned back to Gaomi.

Li Lintang held back a fire in his heart, burning his cavity tightly. Old man Liu Henglu is dead! He still remembers that the year before last, the old man Liu Henglu celebrated his sixty-sixth birthday, and he joked at the banquet, "Godfather looks younger than me." Now, he actually died unexpectedly, separated by yin and yang.

Li Lintang has no father or mother since he was a child, and he follows his master's surname. In Li Lintang's heart, this old man who cares about himself is his own father!

Li Lintang thought, how good it was for him to be by his godfather's side at that time? Even if you help your godfather block that gun! But he just wasn't there, he just couldn't save his godfather. From today onwards, Li Lintang is an orphan again.

Along the way, Li Lintang spared no horsepower, and the horse was a fast horse and a good horse, and in one day's work, Li Lintang completed the distance that should have been more than two days. Looking up, the Zhuangzi was full of dazzling white from the lantern to the curtain.

The horse loosened its strength, foamed at the mouth and fell at the door of Zhuangzi, and Li Lintang also fell from his horse. The two men at the door saw that the young master surnamed foreign was back, and hurriedly stepped forward to help. Li Lintang just stood up and fell to the ground again.

It turned out that Li Lintang was in a hurry, he didn't change into the protective gear for riding a horse for a long time, and he was running all the way with a whip in a desperate posture, and a layer of skin on his two thighs was worn off! The blood was leaking through the trouser tube, and it looked so embarrassed.

"Help me to the mourning hall." Li Lintang couldn't believe that this was his own voice when he opened his voice. Shui Mi didn't hit his teeth in one day, and his heart was anxious and angry, and his voice was as hoarse as an old smoking gun for more than ten years.

"Young master, you hurt ......" A little man looked at Li Lintang like this, only felt scary, and once again helped Li Lintang up, and said, "I'll help you go to the wing room to rest." ”

"Help me go...... Help me to the mourning hall. Li Lintang grabbed the shoulder of the little man who spoke.

This little doorman was pinched by Li Lintang and felt painful, so he had to say yes, and asked another doorman to invite Langzhong, and then helped Li Lintang into the door.

After entering the door and passing the shadow wall, Li Lintang saw a coffin parked in the main hall of the big house, behind the coffin was an incense candle offering table, and a big word "lay" was hung on it.

Li Lintang arrived at the gate of the main hall, waved his hand and opened the door supporting him, and knelt on the ground upright.

Li Lintang startled the people in the house at this time, and at this time, the doorman came back to his senses and reported loudly: "The foreign surname is the eldest young master, and the old lady's righteous son Li Lintang is returning home for funeral!" ”

There were people in the house who wanted to help Li Lintang, but Li Lintang threw his hand away. Li Lintang knelt in front of the coffin, leaving two shocking blood marks behind him.

"Dad, Lin Tang is back to give your old man a ride." As Li Lintang spoke, his head knocked loudly one after another.

The people around were frightened by this posture, and no one dared to step forward and pull it. Li Lintang kowtowed more than 30 times in a row, and Liu Henglu's eldest son, Liu Bing, couldn't stand it anymore, so he grabbed Li Lintang's shoulder and wanted to pull him up. But no one knows where Li Lintang got such a strong force, his brother dragged him, it didn't seem to make any difference to him, it was still a bang.

"Brother Lin!" Liu Bing finally shouted in Li Lintang's ear, making Li Lintang stop moving. Li Lintang turned his head, his face was full of tears, he looked at his younger brother Liu Bing, and said a sentence tremblingly: "Dad, let's go......"

After speaking, he fell to the ground, unconscious.

By the time Li Lintang came to his senses, it was already past the middle of the day. He was lying in his room, covered with a thick blanket. Li Lintang stretched out his hand to lift the blanket and wanted to get out of bed, but his thighs hurt in his legs.

Li Lintang took a breath between his teeth, looked down, and saw that he was wearing a pair of calf nose pants all over his body, and his two thighs were tightly wrapped in bandages, but they were not bloody, and there was a faint smell of medicine coming from above.

"Young Master Li, you're awake!" The maid who was waiting next to her immediately stood up, "I'll go get you the soup and food, you lie down for a while." ”

After saying that, the maid went out. Li Lintang still felt pain, afraid that he would open the wound again when he moved, so he honestly lay back.

After a while, Liu Bing, who was dressed in linen and filial piety, entered the house with food and drank soup and medicine, and put it on the small table at the head of Li Lintang's bed.

"Why are you here?" Li Lintang asked, "You shouldn't be able to get out of your body now." ”

Liu Bing sat on the edge of Li Lintang's bed, helped Li Lintang sit up, and said, "Brother, I want to discuss with you, I think this matter can't be left like this." ”

"Of course you can't just forget it," Li Lintang dried all the medicine in one gulp, so bitter that he grinned, "But the Germans are too open-minded, if we go to make trouble again, we have to let people beat them to death." ”

"That's what I thought too." Liu Bing said.

The two of them were speechless for a while, and only the sound of Li Lintang snoring and drinking porridge could be heard in the room.

"Does the old man know about this?" Li Lintang put down the dishes and chopsticks and asked. The old man he asked was Liu Henglu's youngest son. When Li Lintang first arrived in Liujiazhuang, this old man was just thirteen. Now this child is out of business, and he has been studying in Japan for more than a year.

"I asked someone to report to you, didn't I," Liu Bing said, "I also asked him to take a telegram to the old man, this kind of thing can't be hidden." From Shandong to Shanghai, then from Shanghai to Nagasaki, and finally to Tokyo, there are a lot of troubles in the middle, and you have to wait for half a month to receive a reply from the old man. ”

Li Lintang nodded and said, "Yes, this kind of thing must not be hidden from the old man." ”

There was silence again.

"Let's report to the police," Liu Bing said, "I can't think of anything else." ”

"Reporter?" Li Lintang felt that it was not very reliable, "Can the government manage this matter?" It's the Germans on the other side! ”

Liu Henglu thought for a while and said: "The government didn't care about it before, because the foreigners were powerful, but now it's a cause of death, and the government just doesn't want to take care of it, so it has to stand up and say a few words and ask for justice." The Germans died two foreign monks, and they were about to leave a large piece of land in Shandong, and we died so many villagers, can't the yamen ask the foreigners about the matter? ”

Li Lintang thought about it carefully, and it seemed to be the same reason: "Okay, when the first seven days have passed, our father will be in the ground, and we will find the person who died in this matter, and go to the yamen to complain together!" If the yamen can't control the foreigners, the Qing Dynasty will be finished......"

I thought of it, and no one was willing to take over the case, so Liu Bing personally drafted the pleadings. Li Lintang went to visit people's homes one by one, and asked these people who had lost their husbands, sons, and fathers to put their fingerprints one by one.

Finally, one day after the burial of the old man Liu Henglu, more than 40 villagers wearing linen and filial piety sounded the drum of injustice in Gaomi County!

"Might~Martial~"

As soon as the killing stick sounded, the county magistrate knocked on the case and ascended to the hall, and the county magistrate was stunned as soon as he sat down, and there were more than 40 people kneeling at the bottom, all dressed in white, wearing filial piety and linen! How could this little county government ever see such a battle?

"Who beats the drum and cries out? Who is the plaintiff and who is the defendant? What is being told? Send one of you to answer. Although Gaomi County was taken aback by such a scene, it quickly calmed down: he was the magistrate of a county, and he had to keep his face unchanged when he encountered anything in the yamen.

Liu Bing took out the paper from his sleeve and unfolded it, and presented it with both hands: "Back to my lord, everything we have told is written on the paper, please look at it and administer justice for us." ”

"Your Excellency...... Justice, ......"

"My lord, my life is hard...... Adult ......"

As soon as Liu Bing's voice fell, a cry sounded in the court, mostly women, children, old and young, and goosebumps rose all over Gaomi County when he heard it - he had a bad premonition.

"Silence!" Gaomi County was shocked, and the hall fell silent for a moment, "Bring the paper up and I'll take a look." A servant took the paper and handed it to Gaomi County, who first saw fifty or sixty bright red fingerprints, and then read down to the text. The more I looked, the more panicked Gaomi County became. By the time I finished reading this small piece of paper, Gaomi County was already sweaty.

When the incident first happened, Gaomi County immediately reported it, and it didn't take long for Jinan to issue a document asking him not to let the villagers make trouble again, and to "make peace with the good of the two countries as much as possible, and not to disturb the people and hurt the blind date between the two states". I thought that these people were just going to the railway company to make trouble, and they sent the officials to arrest and scatter the sticks, where could I guess that these people had an amazing complaint against the railway company! Who doesn't know that now the railway company is the lifeblood of the Germans, and no matter how sympathetic this small county order is for these villagers, it is impossible to put his own future or even his head on behalf of these people!

After thinking about it, Gaomi County made a decision in his heart. He coughed twice and said, "The official has already read the complaint." At the time of the incident, the official already knew about it. I will report this matter to Fu Yin, and the draft of the case is now returned, and it has been decided! Eight days ago, a mob stormed the 'Shandong Railway Company' for no reason, injured more than a dozen laborers, and demolished more than 20 construction site facilities. The headquarters of the Shandong Railway Company was surrounded by a mob, and the company was forced to fight back and mistakenly killed 21 mobs, which was an act of self-defense. The mob is rampant, ignoring the royal law, and deserving of death. However, the company is benevolent and righteous, and recently entrusted me to transfer the pension on behalf of the government, and each household will be issued by the end of this month. Today, you and others came to complain, reversed black and white, and sat back according to the crime. For the sake of the loss of a loved one, the official will not pursue it, and it will ...... Disperse yourselves, all of you. ”

"My lord! It can't be like this! My lord! ”

"Your Excellency, you have to call the shots for us, Your Excellency!"

For a while, there was another uproar in the courtroom.

"Silence!" There was another startling sound. Gao Mixian sighed and waved his hand to the master.

The master nodded and stood up: "The case has been closed, and the lord is clear!" If any of you do picking quarrels and provoking troubles again, the big board will wait! Liu Bing's forehead was bruised, and he suddenly raised his hand and pointed at Gaomi County, and shouted: "You dog ......"

Before Liu Bing could say a few words, Li Lintang covered Liu Bing's mouth and pressed his head on his chest.

"Anything else?" Gaomi County asked.

"It's okay," Li Lintang said, "Your Excellency, you are 'clear and decisive', we will obey the verdict and never go to the higher level." Gaomi County sighed again, and knocked on the shocking wood again: "Retreat!" ”

For a while, only the sound of women and children sobbing slightly remained in the hall.