Chapter 320: Draw the sword
Li Liuqi only knew at that time that the second brother probably knew from the beginning that the young master of the Fan family had killed the children of the rich family in the town after drinking in the Qinglou, and he needed someone to take the blame.
Otherwise, how can you pull yourself to the landlord's house to borrow rice? How can the rice of the landlord's family be so easy to borrow?
The landlord asked himself who would follow the two of them, and he ate the broth, and his blood was up, so he agreed without hesitation, but at this time he was in prison.
But Li Liuqi didn't blame the second brother in his heart, let alone regret it. Drought and flood, the disaster year has reached this point, a mouthful of food has to change the son and wife, that is, brothers, some of their own thoughts are also a matter of course.
But for the sake of his family, if he were asked to choose again, he would still do it, and he was ready to take the blame.
However, what Li Liuqi didn't expect was that when he arrived in the county, his crime was not just a mistake!
It's the leader of the chaotic people who gathered in Qingping Boli to make trouble, and he will correct the law as soon as possible!
According to the "Da Ming Law", the condemned prisoners in various places must be sent to the emperor for approval, and then beheaded in the autumn.
Unless it is Jing Qing and Mei Yin, who deal with it as soon as possible, the emperor directly issued a special order to click it, and did not wait for the autumn beheading.
Therefore, at the beginning, Li Liuqi thought that he would either be sentenced to exile, and he admitted it, if it was a death sentence, and then find a way to escape on the escort road, the death row prisoner would generally be escorted to Wujin City, not in the county seat.
But Emperor Yongle ordered the local governments to first try to quell the civil unrest on their own, and they were immediately recited by the local monks.
The original intention was to deal with it by itself, and if it couldn't be handled, the court would use the army again.
This is a very normal countermeasure, you can't have a civil unrest of dozens of people, and you have to sit back and wait for the army to arrive, right? Under these traffic conditions, if you have to wait for the army to deal with it, it will only make the situation worse.
The local government did not shirk the blame, and almost unanimously chose to deal with it quickly and severely.
However, what was dealt with was not entirely civil unrest, but that under the pretext of civil unrest, revenge and revenge were started, and those who had no revenge and no grievances should also be pushed to the top of the civil unrest.
As for whether there is civil unrest, if you say that you have it, you will have it, just find a few "bandit leaders" to deal with it.
As a result, Li Liuqi naturally retracted his confession, and still refused to give in after being tortured. I really admit it, I'm afraid that I will be killed in a few days, and it will affect my family.
As for the so-called Chaoren in Qingpingbo, they are the people who appear in the village with tigers and leopards, although these people look like green-skinned scoundrels, they are not completely ignorant of industry, but in peacetime, they rely on fishing and shrimp as their main business, and help people ferry as auxiliary businesses.
At this time, they did not make a mess, but it was a pity that the puppet was not guilty.
There are several gentry in the county who have taken a fancy to the land of Qingpingbo, and plan to clean up the latter half as a fish pond and half as a paddy field.
Therefore, they have also become "chaotic people", and Li Liuqi, whose life trajectory does not seem to have any intersection with them, has become the "leader of the chaotic people".
But what neither the landlord Fan nor Huang Xianling didn't know was that Li Liuqi had to retract his confession when he was killed, but it was because the leader of Qingpingbo's green-skinned scoundrels, "a tiger", was really his old acquaintance, the same teacher and nephew who practiced martial arts when he was a teenager, was the apprentice of his senior brother, and learned martial arts with him, but according to his generation, he became his uncle.
Li Liuqi was beaten to death in the county for the sake of his family and his nephew, and it was the handprint of the corpse.
Before he died, his wife, Aunt Liu, went to visit him and got all this information.
However, the Li family did not escape the fate of being ruined.
After the second child came back with rice, he heard that his favorite youngest son had become the one who took the blame, and even though Chen passed out, he never woke up.
The old man of the Li family didn't wait for the big bag of rice to come back, and swallowed on the bed.
As for how the eldest brother of the Li family died, the woman Aunt Liu was secretive, and this time point was between the death of the Li family's father and mother and Aunt Liu's departure to the county seat.
only said that he heard from the villagers that the second child was wrapped in a straw mat and buried his parents and eldest brother, and then when he saw himself going out, he took rice, his sister-in-law and nephew, and fled to the countryside at night.
So much so that when Aunt Liu came back from visiting Li Liuqi in the county town, she saw that the original family of nine was left with only herself and her son who stayed at home alone.
In this regard, Aunt Liu did not complain anything, she originally took her son to remarry to the Li family, since the people accepted their son, at the beginning, I am afraid they did not treat their mother and mother as their own family, but just married a daughter-in-law for the old bachelor Li Liuqi.
So when they fled, they left them behind, and they could only accept their fate.
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"And what's going on?"
After listening to Aunt Liu's not-so-nonsense narration, Jiang Xinghuo pointed to the porridge shed in the distance, and then pointed to the shouting and killing in the north of the village.
"This is our local custom, severed head porridge, this porridge and I can't eat even if we starve to death, they robbed the rich families in the village to make porridge, this is to rebel." Aunt Liu looked at the porridge shed and said fearfully.
For many ordinary people, they may really rather starve to death than dare or have no ability to rebel.
"As for what's going on in the village, I don't know."
Jiang Xinghuo nodded, although this was Aunt Liu's words, but the original situation of the matter was probably clear.
Untied a bag of dry food from the guard, handed it to Aunt Liu, looking at the other party's thanksgiving look, Jiang Xinghuo was silent for a few breaths, and finally didn't say anything.
There are too many people who need him to save.
"Go over there."
Wang Bin grabbed Jiang Xinghuo's sleeve, pointed behind him and asked, "Do you use it?" β
What he meant was that there was no need to call the army from afar, and that it would be safer.
Jiang Xinghuo waved his hand, several of the guards here are elite veterans, and this kind of small-scale village-level battle is enough to protect and be thorough.
Although it is a big village, it is also a village after all, and a few people walk for a while, and the situation ahead is already far away.
When they saw what was happening, the eyes of these guards suddenly became fierce.
At the north end of the village, more than 20 men in black suits armed with steel knives gathered in a group, led by a young man in a brocade robe, staring at a man in front of him.
Half of his shoulder had been cut off, and a blade was stuck in his abdomen, and blood flowed down the wound, staining the soil red.
His lips opened slightly, as if he wanted to utter a final cry, but he couldn't make any more sounds.
It is the leader of Qingpingbo's tattooed green skin.
And more than a dozen of his companions with homemade weapons were also cut to the ground, and the family members of the Fan family also paid the price of nearly ten casualties.
"Humph! Waste, just want to make it happen? β
The brocade-robed young man was the son of Landlord Fan, he raised his foot and kicked on the chest of the man who fell to the ground, sneered and cursed, then turned his head and stared at Jiang Xinghuo and the others viciously.
"Who are you? It's greasy and tasteful! β
His gaze swept over Jiang Xinghuo and the others, and his gaze fell on several of the guards.
It can be seen that these guards have killed people, so the son of the landlord Fan gave a little "respect".
"You don't know?"
Wang Bin asked with interest.
The son of the landlord Fan shouted coldly: "I don't care who you are, get out of here quickly, otherwise, don't blame us for being polite!" β
Hearing that the fishermen of Qingpingbo had gathered to make trouble and plundered the village, he hurriedly came with his family, and most of the land here was their family's property, and no accidents were allowed.
The reason why he didn't let the family members do it was because he had already lost a lot of manpower in order to kill these Qingpingbo rebels today, and he didn't want to continue to lose.
But if the other party continues to be obsessed, then he has no choice but to kill the killer.
Jiang Xinghuo looked at him calmly and asked, "Is the will of the imperial court to quell the chaos for you to use it like this?" Or do you also fall in love with the paddy fields of Qingpingbo? β
Hearing this, the brocade-robed man laughed twice, but a trace of killing intent flashed in his eyes.
"Good! It's really daring, I might as well tell you clearly, Qingpingbo is a piece of land, and there are several big people in the county who have taken a fancy to it, and some of the chaotic people there are now lying here, and the rest of the people can't run away! β
"What do you call a rioter?"
Jiang Xinghuo saw the killing intent in the other party's eyes.
"Those who do it against Lao Tzu are chaotic people!"
"Don't say anything about the emperor's will."
The young master of the landlord of the Fan family sneered: "Here, Lao Tzu is the emperor!" β
At this moment, the leader of the Qingpingbo fishermen, 'a tiger', who fell to the ground, opened his eyes like a flashback, his throat was full of blood, but he still shouted at Jiang Xinghuo silently: "Hurry up."
I looked at each other's mouths.
"Okay."
Jiang Xinghuo nodded, turned around and walked towards Wang Bin.
The young master of the landlord of the Fan family felt that Jiang Xinghuo was afraid, so he glanced left and right, but he didn't plan to stay alive.
However, at this moment, Jiang Xinghuo waved his hand.
Wang Bin frowned slightly, he was already impatient in his heart, in his opinion, it was a waste of time for the national teacher to deal with these country heroes and have to talk to them.
Now that he saw the signal of the national teacher, he was not polite at the moment, and several guards shook off the things wrapped in strips of cloth.
"βEmbroidered Spring Knife! Are you Jinyiwei?! β
The young master of the landlord of the Fan family was so frightened that his face turned green, he never imagined that Jiang Xinghuo was actually a person from Jinyiwei.
How could he not know that Jinyiwei was powerful, it was a terrorist agency specializing in investigation and torture.
If you are targeted by Jinyiwei, the consequences are unimaginable.
"Wait a minute, there's something to discuss!"
Seeing this scene, the young master of the landlord of the Fan family finally coaxed.
"Don't be in love, fight quickly."
Jiang Xinghuo reminded lightly, and a strong killing intent spread from his words, as if it was about to freeze the surrounding air and turn it into ice and snow.
Wang Bin didn't bother to explain anything to him, except for the two guards who left two to guard the national teacher and Lord Song, the remaining four people met him with swords, and they were going to fight with five enemies and twenty.
(End of chapter)