thirty-four
Liu Jing went to Lijiazhuang again, and it was already noon. There was still no figure in the village, only snow on the ruins of the broken walls, and occasionally the withered grass exposed in the snow shook in the cold wind. Liu Jing walked to the door of a house casually, knocked for a long time, heard a faint voice inside, and asked who it was. Liu Jing said that he was a foreigner, and he was so cold that he wanted to come in to take shelter. Hearing the voice inside, Liu Jing pushed the door and went in. It was very dark inside, Liu Jing looked at the boss for a while, and then saw a blind old man sitting on the kang.
The old man said, "Stranger? Let's sit on the kang. ”
Liu Jing sat up, and the kang was cold.
Liu Jing asked, "Old man, are you alone at home?" ”
The old man said, "Everyone in the family went to the ancestral hall to recite the holy message. ”
Liu Jing asked, "What kind of oracle do you want to memorize?" Sounds so fresh! ”
The old man sighed: "Blame that Qincha!" ”
Liu Jing asked, "What Qincha?" ”
The old man said, "You are a foreigner, I don't know!" In the past few days, there has been a messenger in the capital, and he also visited our Lijiazhuang yesterday, and the county government is afraid that we will startle him, so we are not allowed to go out. ”
Liu Jing said: "I won't tell you anything, I am a businessman from the capital, and the emperor has seen it when he travels." When the emperor travels, he can't help the people go out! ”
The old man shook his head and said: "You don't know, Yangqu is the county magistrate, and Li Jiasheng is the one who has the final say." I am ninety-five years old this year, and after two dynasties, I have never heard of an emperor who asked the people to recite the holy edict. ”
Liu Jing said: "Old man, I just came from the capital, why don't I know that the imperial court wants the people to recite the holy message?" It must be your Li Jiasheng who is playing tricks! ”
The old man said: "I don't dare to say this! ”
Liu Jing already knew in his heart, guessing that Li Jiasheng was likely to be an inferior gentleman, so he tried to trick the old man's words. The old man sighed for a long time, thinking that it would be okay to talk to the villagers, so he said: "Li Jiasheng has a human face and a beast's heart, and he keeps saying that he is good for the villagers, and pays the silver, taxes and grains for the villagers, and secretly increases the weight every year, harming the villagers!" ”
Liu Jing deliberately said: "You can hand it over yourself!" ”
The old man said: "It's a long story. A few years ago, we had a major disaster here, and the small families could not afford to pay for the food. Li Jiasheng is done for everyone. Since then, every family owes Li Jiasheng's Hades debt. The more the accounts rolled, the more and more the land of many people's families was given to Li Jiasheng. The land property belongs to Li Jiasheng, and the account is still owed year after year, and the people who don't have the land property even belong to Li Jiasheng! Work for his family in vain! ”
Liu Jingdao: "This is obviously an inferior gentleman, you can go to the yamen to sue him!" ”
The old man said, "Where can I file a complaint?" Li Jiasheng is the brother of Master Dai in the same county government, and Master Dai supports him! Li Jiasheng also raised dozens of people with guns, who can afford to mess with them! ”
Liu Jingdao: "There are so many people in the whole village, and no one dares to sue him?" ”
The old man said: "It's just a village, the fields of more than a dozen villages around are all about to become Li Jiasheng's!" There are thousands of men, women, and children, and no one dares to squeak! Today, Li Jiasheng asked everyone to recite the holy oracle, and those who can't recite it will be fined 30 catties of white noodles! ”
Liu Jing said: "I have walked thousands of miles along the road in the capital, and I have never heard of where the people are required to recite the holy oracle and punish the big white noodles, which is really strange!" I said, you really have to sue him! ”
As he was talking, he heard a cry outside. The old man listened sideways, and the cry was getting closer and closer, and it was coming to the old man's house. At this moment, the door was slammed open, and a thin black man rushed in, who turned out to be the grandson of the old man. He cried out, "Grandpa, my mother hanged herself!" ”
The old man couldn't believe it, and asked tremblingly, "Oh my God! Heizhu, what's the matter with your mother? ”
Heizhu cried: "My mother recited the holy oracle, and she didn't recite it three times, and Li Jiasheng said that she would be fined 100 catties of white noodles!" My mother couldn't think about it, so she ran to the old elm tree behind the ancestral hall and hanged herself! ”
Liu Jing went out to see that Hei Zhu Niang's body was placed upright on a wooden board, and a middle-aged man was standing next to him and crying bitterly, it was Hei Zhu's father. Liu Jing listened to the persuasion of the villagers and knew that Heizhu's father was called Da Bolt.
Suddenly, Heizhu rushed out of the house with a kitchen knife. Several women ran up and hugged Heizhu and persuaded: "Heizhu, don't do stupid things, you are going to die!" ”
Heizhu roared angrily: "I'm going to kill Li Jiasheng!" ”
The old man leaned against the door and shouted loudly: "The villagers are doing well, he snatched the knife of the black pillar, he can't go to death!" ”
An aunt persuaded Heizhu: "He has raised so many vicious dogs, can you kill him?" ”
Liu Jing answered and said, "I can kill him!" ”
Only then did everyone realize that there was a stranger here, and they all looked at him in surprise. Liu Jing said: "Li Jiasheng has done a lot of evil, and he should be cut with a thousand cuts!" ”
A man asked, "Where is this good man?" ”
Liu Jing said: "Don't care who I am. Li Jiasheng used the excuse of reciting the holy oracle, blackmailing the villagers, and forcing people to die, and his crime deserves death! ”
The man asked again: "Listening to your official tone, isn't it someone from the yamen?" ”
Liu Jingdao: "I said, you don't care who I am. Li Jiasheng should be handed over to the yamen for questioning, and the villagers must not act recklessly! ”
Da Zhu wiped his tears and said: "The more I listen to you, the more like a person in the yamen, Li Jiasheng wears the same pants as the county yadai, who will ask him about his crimes?" ”
Liu Jing only said: "I led you to arrest Li Jiasheng and send them to the yamen!" ”
Everyone will be skeptical, and someone will say: "Good man, you are afraid that Erlang God will descend to earth!" Li Jiasheng has dozens of families! ”
Liu Jing said: "You come with me, I can naturally get him!" ”
Liu Jing said, turned around and walked out. The Black Pillar father and son the guy and followed closely behind. Several men next to him gathered together and muttered a few words, and they all followed. Several women rushed from house to house to report the news, and in a short time all the men of the village came out. Everyone was armed with flat poles, shovels, and kitchen knives, and followed Liu Jing to Li Jiasheng's house.
Something happened in the ancestral hall, and Li Jiasheng didn't care. He had already returned home, lying on the kang and smoking a hookah. The people below heard the wind and hurriedly reported the news. Li Jiasheng was furious: "Li Dazhuan he dares!" Call everyone to me! ”
The subordinate said: "Master, there is still a person in it, like he followed Lord Qincha yesterday!" ”
Li Jiasheng was shocked and asked, "Am you right?" ”
The next said: "That's right. ”
Li Jiasheng lowered his head and thought about it, slapped his thigh, and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll tell him to beat him to death with a stick!" ”
The door of the Li family was closed, and dozens of families were waiting inside. The villagers banged on the door for a long time, and Li Jiasheng shouted: "Let them in, don't break the door!" See how dare they! ”
The villagers swarmed in and shouted at the Li family. Li Jiasheng crossed his hands on his hips and shouted loudly: "What do you want? I've been instructed to do my job! ”
Liu Jing shouted: "Li Jiasheng! ”
Liu Jing was about to speak, but Li Jiasheng pointed at him and shouted: "Folks, this is Lord Qincha's subordinates!" Ask him! ”
Liu Jing said angrily: "Li Jiasheng, you are so bold!" ”
Heizhu was indiscriminate, and opened angry eyes at Liu Jingyuan: "It turns out that you are a Qincha person?" It's you who killed my mother, I'll kill you first! ”
Heizhu raised his knife and slashed at Liu Jing with a loud roar. Liu Jing dodged and grabbed Heizhu's knife with his backhand. The villagers felt that they had fallen for Liu Jing, so they turned their sticks and hit Liu Jing. Liu Jing didn't have time to speak, so he parried a few rounds first, jumped out of the circle, and shouted loudly: "Folks, listen to me!" ”
Da Zhu's eyes were red, and he said: "We don't believe the words of the government, let's kill you first today!" ”
The big bolt pounced forward as he spoke, Liu Jing slapped him back, turned around and angrily reprimanded Li Jiasheng: "You are already a capital crime if you falsely spread the will of the Qin Mission!" You still fish and flesh the people, forcing people to die, you should be cut with a thousand knives! ”
The villagers stopped holding their sticks, not knowing what to do, and were stunned. Li Jiasheng also wanted to provoke the villagers to kill Liu Jing, and shouted: "Lord Qincha specially came to Yangqu to supervise the construction of the Dragon Pavilion and ordered me to teach the villagers to recite the holy oracle." Otherwise, how could I, Li Jiasheng, have such courage? ”
Liu Jingdao: "Are you still timid? You forced the villagers to recite the oracle, and you have already killed people! You are also taking over taxes, increasing the weight without authorization, exploiting the people, and being bold! ”
Li Jiasheng laughed and said: "Tax? Our Daizhi County is called a big household co-ordination, and Lord Qincha will also put my method on the court! ”
Liu Jing said: "You don't want to incite the villagers! I'm just going to take you to Chincha-sama! ”
Li Jiasheng laughed: "You want to take me? The strong dragon can't overpower the ground snake! I'm going to take you again! I'll kill you today!" ”
The family members hugged each other, and Liu Jing swooped left and right, gradually unable to resist. The villagers have no idea what way to start.
Heizhu shouted: "Dad, it seems that Qin Cha is a good official!" ”
The big bolt said: "He is a good official, we will help him!" ”
The father and son said goodbye and stepped forward to help Liu Jing. Seeing this, the villagers also shouted and called the family. Li Jiasheng saw that the villagers were numerous, after all, he was afraid in his heart and wanted to sneak back into the house. Liu Jingfei stepped forward, grabbed Li Jiasheng, and shouted to Jiading: "You all stop!" Otherwise, I will behead this wicked man first! Seeing that the situation was not good, the family members all withdrew their hands.
It was getting dark. Liu Jingtong, Dazhu, Heizhu and a few young and strong men, took Li Jiasheng to the county government overnight. Dai Mengxiong had already fallen asleep, heard the report, and hurriedly ran to the lobby. He asked the reason, pointed at Li Jiasheng's nose and scolded him, and ordered the officials to put him in prison immediately. Li Jiasheng shouted injustice, but Dai Mengxiong ignored it with a black face, like an iron-clad man.
When Ma Ming saw that Li Jiasheng was brought in, he knew that Liu Jing had returned from Lijiazhuang. He had already quietly revealed the details to the county Cheng. Xiang Qi was called to the name of the county, because he privately said that he wanted to participate in Meng Xiong, but he was passed on by the evil villain a few days ago. Just as the Qin mission was coming, Dai Mengxiong locked up Xiang Qixian, and then found a way to clean him up.