Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Siege of the Cottage (I)
In the official office of Gulan Town, Lord He, the grain officer who was beaten by the thieves in Anle Village last night and returned in defeat, was lying in Liu Dapang's official office at this time, beating his chest and scolding in anger like a full splash.
"Damn, Lao Tzu has been escorting grain and grass for so many years, and there has been today's humiliation. Li Qiusheng, you dead boy, one day I will catch you, if Lao Tzu doesn't break your body into ten thousand pieces, it will be difficult to solve the hatred in my heart. ”
After scolding, he waved his fat big hands desperately and slapped them on the desk, and suddenly picked up his palms in pain and screamed "ouch" and "ouch".
Liu Dapang said half frightened and half surprised, "Lord He, don't worry, don't be angry." It's not good to be anxious about your heart and liver, and it's not good to be angry and your body is not good. You've got to settle down slowly, let's think about the long term, think about the long term. ”
"Cut, go to her grandmother's, mom pull a bar, think long-term. If I continue to think about it in the long run, I won't be able to keep my head. You Liu Dapang are just waiting to see my jokes, it can be regarded as the end of our friendship for so many years. ”
Lord He didn't wait for Liu Dapang to finish speaking, he calmed down and slowed down, and immediately slapped the case and said angrily. It seems that at this time, the words of any person are a thorn in the ear for him, and he can't listen to them at all.
"Ah", Liu Dapang was suddenly stunned for a moment, looked at the panicked Lord He in front of him, shook his head and sighed, and finally frowned and said flatteringly.
"Lord He, don't say that, aren't I trying to think of a good way to break the thief? If you think about it carefully, Li Qiusheng is a yellow-haired boy, and he dares to rob the wife of the Prime Minister's Mansion in the capital alone, how can he not think that he is now a coward, and he will take the green forest of thieves in Anle Village to rob the grain and grass of the imperial court? Abominable, abominable, really abominable. ”
"Oh, in this way, we can't help this kid Li Qiusheng now." Master He suddenly stood up from his seat and answered in agreement, and said this sentence to himself.
"Of course not, we can still do this." Without waiting for Liu Dapang to answer the question, the dog master next to him stretched out his head and said to the topic. His appearance, dressed like a bear and a dog, squinted at a pair of rat eyes as small as black beans, and glanced brightly at Lord He, who was as disproportionate and rational as a madman.
Master He dropped Liu Dapang next to him and came directly to Master Dog, and asked anxiously. "Could it be that Master Dog has any good way to help me accept Li Qiusheng and the thieves in Anle Village? If so, it will be a miracle for you. ”
Master Dog didn't dare to make a mistake, glanced at Liu Dapang, and stopped talking.
Lord He suddenly realized, and hurriedly turned around and stared at Liu Dapang.
Liu Dapang stared at his eyes in horror, and said with his fingers trembling slightly. "Master Dog, if you have any opinions, you might as well say it directly. At this time, Lord He is burning his eyebrows, and you are still hiding it, see that I don't break you. ”
"This, this, the bell must be tied to the bell. Otherwise, with this point of our officials and officers and soldiers guarding the city, they will probably be powerless. Master Dog finally said the method he had come up with for a long time, as if this was the best masterpiece he had ever given in his life.
"Phew, what the hell is this idea, isn't it the same as not saying it?" After listening to Master Dog's clever plan, Master He looked at Liu Dapang disapprenorovingly and said coldly. The sneer revealed in his eyebrows seemed to say, See, this is the good idea of your official master? It's not as good as a dog in my house that has a sense of smell, it's really an old pig for nothing.
Liu Dapang said half-aggrieved and half-innocent, "Lord He, don't rush to conclusions first, let's see what Master Dog says." It's not good to say, it's not too late for us to punish again, why rush for a while. ”
"When is this coming, do you think you're in a hurry?" Lord He scolded angrily.
Master Dog listened to the master's words on the side, and he hurriedly stepped forward and said. "Lord He, since the shopkeeper of the 'Dafu Rice Shop' can introduce Li Qiusheng who suffered from the heavenly killing and the thieves of Anle Village to fool us, I can't say what this shopkeeper He must have to do with them. Why don't we start with the shopkeeper? Let's see what happens to him first. ”
"Well, that's a good idea. It's just that it takes a lot of time to peel off silkworms, and I'm afraid it's not good for us. Liu Dapang said in fear again, as if he deliberately let people hear it.
Master Zhihe waved his hand and said, "Then why don't you hurry up and arrest the shopkeeper He of the 'Dafu Rice Shop', interrogate him for three days and six nights, and ensure that everything can be dug up and come out." ”
"Well, I'll send someone to invite Shopkeeper He over." Liu Dapang hurriedly added on the side, and then turned around and shouted. "Come on, go and arrest the shopkeeper of the 'Dafu Rice Shop' in the center of the street."
The servants in the hall hurriedly answered the 'whoosh' and scattered in all directions.
After a short time, the servants arrested the shopkeeper of the 'Dafu Rice Shop', put him in the hall, and said, "The prisoner has been brought, please show me." ”
The shopkeeper of the 'Dafu Rice Shop' was unknown, and he was suddenly arrested by many officials in the store and placed in the hall.
At a glance, he saw his distant cousin He sitting in the hall angrily, and immediately crawled over, shaking the placket on Lord He's calf to grab the white road. "Big cousin, what crime did I commit as a cousin? Tired of the eldest cousin so frightened, he ordered the death order to send someone to arrest the cousin for interrogation? ”
Master He sat on the master's chair when he glared, and said angrily patting the startled wood. "Rebel thief, you have to pretend to be crazy and stupid. Let me ask you, how did you design to let Li Qiusheng and the bandits in Anle Village pretend to be officials and soldiers to hijack the grain and grass I escorted? Hurry up and recruit from the truth, spare you from death; Otherwise, you will be destroyed. ”
"Wronged, old cousin, where did you hear the crooked words? How could I be so confused as to frame my distant old cousin. Besides, my rice shop business, after so many years, hasn't I been taken care of by you? Even if you asked me to kill my father, I wouldn't dare to frame you. The shopkeeper He was escorted by two servants to kneel under the hall and confess, looking like he had been innocently wronged, kneeling under the court in the cold, bursting into tears.
Seeing that Lord He was so cold and infiltrating and urging the shopkeeper He to ask the shopkeeper couldn't ask any useful results, he thought that this distant old cousin would not be like what Master Dog said, and the thieves who secretly conspired with Li Qiusheng and Anle Village took the opportunity to rob my grain and grass. There must be nothing to do with this, thinking about it, he hurriedly found a step and lowered it and said.
"Lord Liu, I don't think there is any need to ask about this matter. It is useless to ask. Why don't you take someone to escort him to the east checkpoint of Anle Village tomorrow, lure the thieves out, and ask him to understand? Why waste time here? ”
Liu Da Pang pondered for a moment, and hurriedly played a round. "It's okay, just do what Lord He wants. What is the shopkeeper and how to deal with it? ”
"Hey, they're all cousins, so I can't beat them, so I have to impound the prison first." Master He said disgustedly.
After that, the shopkeeper He under the hall was escorted down, and he and Lord He in the hall were worried about the robbed grain and grass.
At that time, the shopkeeper of 'Dafu Rice Shop' He was interrogated for no apparent reason, and his heart was extremely depressed. He couldn't wait to put these two fools who only knew how to eat, drink, and have fun, and he had to reach out and curse a transparent hole with the fool you were about to take and rob the silver. Otherwise, I can't swallow the breath of this meal in vain.
The guy who thinks that he is a brother and a brother, once he encounters something heartwarming, it doesn't matter if you are a brother or a grandparent. Catch you and beat you up first, and then make you a scapegoat that they can't reproach against.
When the shopkeeper of 'Dafu Rice Shop' thought about it, his heart was about to explode. But when he was angry, the images of Li Qiusheng and Di Jinyan suddenly appeared in his mind, and he became depressed and sighed again.
This is the bad luck of eight lifetimes in that life, and I accidentally bumped into such a big evil star. Mom, how did this situation where money can make ghosts grind, why did it fall on the head of the shopkeeper of his 'Dafu Rice Shop'? At the beginning, Li Qiusheng took out the allure of the 'golden egg' in his hand, why was he so obsessed.
A little light flashed in the pitch-black prison, and a gratifying thought flashed in Shopkeeper He's head.
Tomorrow, when he went to confront Li Qiusheng and the thieves in Anle Village tomorrow, he sketched such a wonderful pattern in his mind. Then, calmly in the prison where he could not see his fingers, he obediently closed his eyes and waited for the light of the sunrise tomorrow.
Early the next morning, Lord He and Liu Dapang walked out of Gulan Town with a group of people, majestic, and high-spirited. Escorting the shopkeeper of 'Dafu Rice Shop', he went straight to Anle Village under the stone peak of Gulian Mountain.
When he arrived at the east checkpoint of De'an Le Village, Lord He ordered someone to escort the shopkeeper of 'Dafu Rice Shop' to the front of the pass to call for battle. Shopkeeper He couldn't resist, so he only shouted aggrievedly before the pass.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am the shopkeeper of 'Dafu Rice Shop', and I am not here to fight with you. I'm here to catch up with my old friends Li Qiusheng and Di Gongzi. I would like to ask you to report it, and I would like to thank you here. ”
Without waiting for the shopkeeper to finish speaking, there were already minions guarding the customs and the golden knife in the village.
There was a sound of gongs and drums in the village, and the golden knife guest rushed out with Li Qiusheng, Di Jinyan, Old Man Dong and other people in the village, and came to the east checkpoint.
When Shopkeeper He saw Li Qiusheng and Di Gongzi walking out of the crowd, he hurriedly greeted him and wept before the pass. "Two sons, don't come unharmed. He is really killed by you now. Will you save me? Otherwise, the 'Dafu Rice Shop' is over, and I'm done playing with someone. ”
Li Qiusheng stepped forward and laughed, "Shopkeeper He, don't act like this." Your 'Dafu Rice Shop' will be fine. Although Di Gongzi and I robbed some grain through you, but for Lord He, who held the grain, it was just a drop in the bucket, and it couldn't hurt his muscles and bones. Besides, after so many years of exploitation and collusion, Anle Village has only taken it occasionally, so what is the loss of the shopkeeper? ”
"Ouch, now that Master He and Liu Dapang have hung knives on my erection, Li Gongzi and Di Gongzi have to clear their relationship and charges for me and someone. Otherwise, our shopkeeper is a wronged ghost, and he has to be related to your thief Green Forest in this life, isn't this a lie to the world's disapproval? Even if I die, I can't help but admit that I have anything to do with the bandits and the green forest. ”
Shopkeeper He said with a frightened look like a lost dog for a while, his feet kept shaking, and he seemed to be a little weak, but after all, there was no sign of stopping.