Chapter Thirty-Seven: In order to avoid disaster, the grass falls
Fan Xu came to Chen Laohan's house with his head. When everyone saw it, they were all shocked. Fan Xu put his head on the ground, poured a bowl of wine, and knelt in front of Chen Laohan's spirit, and said: "Old man, I know that you died unjustly, I have killed this king and lamb, and use his head to sacrifice you!" Fan Hao bowed twice, then got up and gathered his neighbors and said, "I have avenged the old man's revenge, but the body cannot be buried." He pointed to his neighbor and said, "You go to the market town and buy a coffin at once, and I will pay for the materials, and don't worry about other things." Then he pointed to his neighbor and said, "Choose a place outside, dig a pit, and leave the rest alone." Then he pointed to the neighbor to the north and said, "You wait patiently here, and when the coffin arrives, put the old man in and carry it to the grave." Then he pointed to his neighbor and said, "Prepare a shovel for each of you, wait by the grave in advance, and bury the coffin as soon as it arrives." The neighbors didn't dare to listen, and everyone prepared to go.
Fan Hao sat at home, quietly guarding. It wasn't until midnight that the eastern neighbors brought the coffin. Fan Xu personally packed up Chen Laohan and let him carry him to the burial. Fan Hao said to Yingzi's uncle again: "Your niece will stay at my house and let her accompany my wife." If I meet a good family in the future, I will marry her and let you know when the time comes. Yingzi's uncle was very grateful and said, "Everything is subject to the benefactor's arrangement." It's just that the benefactor killed someone, and the government will come to arrest you, so you better hide! Fan Xu smiled and said: "You don't have to worry about this, I have my own opinions!" And he said, "There is nothing left in this house, it is better to burn it, so as not to be nostalgic for Yingzi!" With that, he lit a fire. At this time, it was already dawn, and Fan Xu and Yingzi's uncle left Chenzhuang.
Fan Hao came to the house, and at this time, Zhuang Ke had already sent Chen's mother here. As soon as Fan Hao entered the door, his wife saw that he was covered in blood, so she panicked and said, "You have committed a murder now, what should I do?" Fan said: "I have a big axe, come a hundred, cut fifty pairs; Come a thousand, slaughter five hundred, what are you afraid of? Lu Huan cried: "You are really a butcher! When they are all pigs and dogs, can you kill them alone? That's a Great Qin State? Run away now, go far, and you'll die if you're too late! Fan Hao said: "What should you do when I leave?" One person does one thing and one person does it, I can't leave you behind! Lu Huan said anxiously: "Yingzi and I, as well as Mother Chen, will go to my brother-in-law's house to hide, and with my brother-in-law's reputation, he will protect us." You go! Fan Hao said: "No, that will affect my brother-in-law's family." I have a place to go, you go with me, and keep the food and spicy food!" Lu Huan asked where it was. Fan Hao didn't speak, and told everyone to hurry up and pack their things.
Fan Xu then gathered all the men in the family and the townspeople, and said: "Now the Qin Emperor has no way, repairing a house, building Li Mountain, building the Great Wall, digging five mountains, and building a large number of civil engineering projects, we can't do it if we want to be a good people." People are fleeing from hard labor. Recently, the county is recruiting migrant workers to serve the Qin State, and it is impossible to say where they will be assigned, if it is better nearby, if it is to the north to build the Great Wall, then it may not be able to come back alive? I've heard that Mangdang Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, it's really a good place to go, and if we can occupy the mountain as the king, we can live a comfortable life like a fairy! I'm killing someone now, I'm going to go there to fall into the grass, and if you want to go, go with Lao Fan! At this time, two big men said in unison: "Now the Qin State is recruiting more soldiers, if they don't go, they will come to arrest them." If we are caught, we will die, and if we don't go, we will also die, so it is better to go to the mountains and fall into the grass, maybe we can still live! Fan Xu looked at it, and the two people who spoke were his friends Wang Su and Xue Ou, who practiced martial arts, and they were also two heroes of Benyi. Wang Suck is delicate and strong, with a long face and fine eyes; Xue Ou has a purple face and a round face and short beard. After the two finished speaking, more than 100 people responded, and they gathered together and said in unison: "We are willing to follow Fan Ye with us!" Fan was overjoyed, so he went home, took his beloved black horse, took out the mountain-opening horse, and came out and said to Wang and Xue, "You two are leading the way." After Fan Hao finished speaking, he jumped on horseback, and then stood at the entrance of the village, shouting at everyone to go quickly. When the people were finished, he also roared and left Fanjiazhuang and ran towards Mangdang Mountain.
After Gao Guan escaped, he was very angry when he heard that Fan Hao had killed dozens of his family and burned down the village, so he wanted to take revenge. A small leader said: "Fan Hao can slaughter cattle alone, we are not his opponents!" Gao Guan said angrily: "Then what should I do, could it be that my cousin's family and dozens of my brothers died in vain?" The little leader said, "Childe, isn't my uncle in the county?" Why don't you go and ask him for help? As long as he comes forward, the entire Pei County will be a sensation, are you afraid that one Fan will not succeed? Gao Guan suddenly realized, and came to the county to find his uncle to complain.
Gao Guan came to Xiangcheng, and after seeing his uncle, he made up nothing to say that Fan Xu was a villain who oppressed the people, and also said that Fan Xu killed his cousin's family, occupied Yingzi, and burned down the village. When the county supervisor heard this, he was furious, first placed his brother and sister-in-law, and then ordered dozens of soldiers and generals to come straight to Pei County.
On this day, Pei Ling Zhao Feng heard that the county supervisor had arrived, and hurriedly came out to greet him. The county supervisor came to the lobby angrily, saying that Fan Hao had killed someone and sent someone to arrest him quickly. At this time, Zhao Feng had not yet received the report, so he was surprised: "Lord Gao, the people of Pei County are simple and simple, and everyone abides by the law, how can there be such a thing?" The county supervisor said angrily: "Dog officer! As the lord of a county, you are talking nonsense, what a confused dog official! Zhao Feng said: "Please calm your anger, who killed someone?" Could you please tell us more about it? While he was talking, an official ran over in a panic: "Report!" My lord, Fan Xu, who used to make a lot of trouble in the martial arts field, killed someone in Chenzhuang in Shangyang last night, and the villagers rushed to tell each other and cheered and celebrated, I don't know what the reason is? Zhao Feng asked who he killed. When the official saw that the county eunuch was also there, he knew that they were relatives, and he didn't dare to speak ill of Chen Sanye, so he replied: "He killed Chen Sanye and Gao Guan's family." The county magistrate scolded the county order: "Dog officer, don't arrest Fan Hao immediately, if the murderer escapes, I will ask you for the crime!" Zhao Feng panicked, so he immediately summoned Zhou Bo and ordered him to take the official messenger to Fengyi to arrest Fan Xu.
Zhou Bo went out of the city, thinking that Fan Xu was a good man, he was kind to me, and it was not righteous to arrest people now. But if you don't go, you can't go, so you keep your head down and walk slowly. Among the accompanying officials, there is also a jailer who is also a good man, his name is Ren Ao. At this time, he saw Zhou Bo's thoughts, so he said: "Let's arrest the criminals, if we go slowly, some people will say that we are deliberately delaying time!" Zhou Bo said: "Fan Hao is a strong man, I am thinking of a way to deal with him." Ren Ao whispered to Zhou Bo: "He killed someone, how could he wait to be arrested?" We're going to go with great fanfare, he's already gone away! This sentence reminded Zhou Bo, and he roared and galloped forward.
Everyone came to Fengyi, and when they arrived at the gate of Fan Xu's village, they saw that the courtyard door was wide open. Zhou Bo knew that Fan Hao had run away, so he called left and right to go in and search. After a while, the official came out and said that there was no one inside. Zhou Bo said to Ren Ao: "If we go back now, the county supervisor will definitely be angry." It's better to stand by here, and then send someone to report and wait for instructions. Ren Ao also said yes. So he sent someone back to the county to report. Zhao Xianling heard that Fan Xu had fled and disappeared, and there was no master of the six gods for a while. The county supervisor was furious and said, "He must have fled to Mangdang Mountain!" It turned out that most of the criminals and deserters of the Qin State took refuge there, which was a well-known thing at the time, so the county supervisor definitely came to this conclusion.
The county supervisor ordered the county to immediately send troops to arrest the fugitives. Zhao Xianling said worriedly: "My lord, that Fan Xu's power is infinite, I'm afraid that no one can hold him?" The county lieutenant Wan Qi suddenly said beside him: "There is a person who can catch Fan Xu!" The magistrate asked who it was. Wan Qi suddenly said: "Liu Ji." He was originally the pavilion chief of the Surabaya Pavilion, but because he won the rank in the exam, he was just promoted to the county as the captain of the city gate. He and Fan Xu are brothers-in-law, Liu Ji is afraid of implicating his family, and he will definitely find a way to catch Fan Xu, but the city gate captain can't lead the troops. The county supervisor said to the county order: "You temporarily appoint Liu Ji as the right county lieutenant, and let him go with Zhou Bo to catch the fugitives!" Zhao County Ling promised and hurriedly complied.