"No food!

A hoe swung awkwardly, and the farmer holding the hoe cried out resolutely and numbly.

He became a fugitive and sold himself and his children to beg for a bite to eat without paying food. Although I don't know how the lord told him, the county lieutenant came to clear the fields and acres and it can be said that he wanted him to hand over the grain again.

"Didn't you pay the grain?" Xue Bai took a step forward and asked, "You have planted the land for a year, how much do you pay to your master's family, and how much do you keep?!" ”

The farmer apparently did not understand the truth, and glared back with stubborn eyes. The master told him that he was not a household, and he was not under the control of the county government, so he did not have to be afraid of the county lieutenant.

The hoe was raised high, and it was about to smash on Xue Bai's head.

Hundreds of people shouted violently, hoping to scare off this county lieutenant who had not grown all his hair with this surging public opinion.

"Get out of the way!" Ren Mulan hurriedly shouted, waving a broken whistle stick.

Xue Bai didn't have to let these children protect him, and reached out to grab the two children who were in front of him.

"The county lieutenant beware of the hidden knife.

The next moment, the sound of breaking wind started, and someone had already waved a stick at Xue Bai.

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Xue Bai had already taken precautions, his body retreated, and he immediately ordered: "Take it." ”

He still wanted to go to get Ren Mulan, but he saw this tomboy screaming "ah" and pounced on the man who was wielding a stick.

The scene was chaotic, some farmers were so frightened that they dispersed, and some sturdy men crowded in and surrounded Xue Bai and his party.

With a "bang", Jiang Hai kicked the big man in front of him away.

At the same time, Quanfu had already been beaten, and someone pulled out a dagger and threw himself at Quanfu, but he still regarded him as Wang Yi, and in broad daylight, he still wanted to kill people in front of the county lieutenant.

With a "bang", Jiang Hai pulled out the horizontal knife and slashed it down, directly unloading the big man's dagger-holding arm.

"Poof.

In a flash of cold light, the knife accurately penetrated the joint bone, the arm fell to the ground, and the blood spurted out of the big wound at the mouth of the bowl and sprayed on the face of another man, followed by a terrifying scream.

This surprise surprised the thugs, and the originally hot brawl scene suddenly stopped.

Ren Mulan was also startled, she was desperately putting on a fierce expression, waw wow screaming and beating people with a broken whistle stick, looking down, the arms and fingers on the ground still moved, and she couldn't help but feel that she was a little troublesome.

"Poof.

They should not be surprised.

Jiang Hai kept moving, and the knife in his hand slashed together, directly slashing into the neck of the man closest to Xue Bai, splitting the person's neck in half, and the horizontal knife was stuck on the opponent's neck bone, and he raised his foot and kicked the corpse down.

He is neither a scoundrel nor an official, he is a soldier, he can't fight him, he can only kill, and he can only kill people on the battlefield, and he pays attention to fast, accurate and ruthless.

"Dead!

People exclaimed, stopping what they were doing.

Jiang Hai didn't care about it, glared at Xue Xian, and asked, "Still watching?!" ”

Xue Xian didn't say a word, raised the horizontal knife, and stabbed into the heart of the man who was rolling on the ground screaming because he had a broken arm, ending his life.

"Run."

The thugs who had just surrounded turned around and wanted to run, but they found that at some point, dozens of people had been surrounded behind them, all of whom were Xue Bai's subordinates who had been transferred from Luoyang to measure the acres of fields.

"Assassinate the imperial court officials and take it!

Ren Mulan raised her hand and shouted, "Ma blind! Don't let the blind man run away! ”

Yin Liang had seen dead people, but it was rare to see such a fresh severed limb, and he was slightly uncomfortable, and he was thinking about whether Jiang Hai's hand was too heavy, when he turned his head, he saw a one-eyed man in the distance turning around and running towards the river.

"Take him down ....."

It was too late, the blind man jumped up, "plopped", and jumped into the cold Yishui.

Xue Bai didn't care, Guo Ashun died before, and he had the patience to see if the blind man died.

Picking up Quanfu, he then ordered the thirteen "assassins" he had taken down to be brought back to the county office for interrogation.

County Office, Capture Office.

Shiba Gou'er took out a wine bag from his arms, handed it to Qi Chou, and said with a smile: "Handsome, don't be angry with your brother."

"Don't take me, don't you eat with that evil evil?" Qi Chou threw off the wine bag, "I'm not handsome anymore, I'm not as young as others." ”

"Ha, it's young, handsome, your baby is as big as Xue Xian, right?"

Qi Chou was amused by this sentence, and finally took the wine bag, took a sip, and sighed: "Guo Lushi's move, it's time to give the county lieutenant a dismount, and then....

"It's back!

Suddenly, an errand shouted, and everyone looked out, only to see that half of Xue Xin's body was covered with blood, holding a horizontal knife in one hand and holding a hemp rope in the other, and the hemp rope was strung with a row of evil men on the luck, but they were all depressed.

Further back, several people were carrying stretchers, on which were two bodies, one with an arm removed and the other with a broken neck.

"Gross!

One of the officers couldn't hold back, and threw up on the steps, the stench was terrible.

Xue Xin rolled his eyes and glared fiercely, and said, "Clean it up."

In fact, he usually looks like this resentful person who owes his grandfather 800 yuan, but before others only thought this kid was funny, and today he realized that he was really ruthless.

Shiba Dog hiccups inexplicably, and hurriedly stepped forward to help sweep the sand and cover the vomit.

"If you don't open the cell door yet, I'm going to use the torture cell."

"The handsome man is going to be tortured, so don't go and get the key quickly."

Xue Xin stood there impatiently waiting, and his eyes turned and fell on the wine bag in Qi Chou's hand.

Qi Chou swallowed his saliva, his throat rolled, and at the end, he handed over the wine bag.

Xue Xian was not polite, he took it and poured it into his mouth, drank the whole bag of wine in one go, and still felt that he was not satisfied, so he took out a small string of money from his arms and threw it on the table.

"Let's get another drink.

Qi Chou only felt embarrassed, standing there with a calm face and not moving, Shiba Gou'er hurriedly stepped forward to pick up the wine bag and coins, and said with a smile: "The villain will go."

"Don't be in a hurry, hang up the prisoners for me first."

"Yes, yes."

Shiba Gou'er did as she was told, only to see Xue Xian picking and choosing in the torture room, picking up a pair of toe clamps and beckoning to the prisoner.

"Ah.....

"Say! Who told you to assassinate the county lieutenant?! ”

Shiba Gou'er lowered his head and retreated, just as he bumped into Qi Chou, he rubbed his hands hatefully, wanting to explain a few words.

Qi Chou didn't bother to scold him, and muttered: "Damn, the young man is not light or heavy.......

Wei Lang.

Yin Liang glanced out of the door, rushed to Xue Bai's side, and whispered: "Guo Lian should also come over, he hasn't come yet, and it is estimated that he is also in a mess." ”

"Let's get the kitchen to bring food first, get more."

"Wow.

Ren Mulan and the children were brought in and looked around in the corridor dirty.

"It's so warm...... Qu Shuai, what's that? It's a fairy mount. ”

"It's a flask, and the saddle takes it out of its mouth and comes out of its mouth."

"What's that?"

"Candlestick, don't talk."

Ren Mulan finally appeased these kids, scratched her legs, and looked up at Xue Bai.

Xue Bai asked, "How do you know it's a wine jug?"

"I've been to Wei Xie before, and Captain Wang gave me food...... By the way, County Lieutenant Wang was poisoned, and the county lieutenant should not drink the wine they gave.

"How can you help me?"

"Pen'er saw the blind man talking to the ghost Chongchong of the county government, I guess the blind man is going to be unfavorable to you, and he is embellished.

Pen'er, a ten-year-old boy, small and with an ugly fetal mark on his face, added: "It's Sun Balbi's nephew, and it is said everywhere that the county lieutenant is a dog who has taken obscene drugs, and he gave a sum of money to the blind man." ”

Xue Bai asked, "Why are you called Pen'er?"

Ren Mulan said: "His grandmother didn't want him, so he floated down from the upper reaches of Yishui in a wooden basin, and was picked up by the little old monk of Xingfu Temple and sent to the nursing workshop."

"That's Tang Xuanzang?

"That's right, they have children every year, but Tang Xuanzang has only one, and I don't know how many floated into the Yellow River to feed the fish."

Ren Mulan is ruthless, and she has an indifferent attitude when she talks about these things.

"Which little old monk in Xingfuji Temple?"

"Dead." Ren Mulan said: "The more sick fields there are, the less food is given to orphans, and the more children are sold, the little old monk can't stand it, and he is angry to death by those people, and the relics are placed on the temple tower, to see his relics, ten yuan at a time." ”

"Damn." Jiang Hai stood outside the door and took a sip.

Xue Bai asked again: "Why are you so bold, dare to follow the blind man, and dare to rush up to protect me?" ”

"The little old monk died, and the basin couldn't have survived, but fortunately, the disaster relief envoy came, and then the disaster relief envoy left, but the county lieutenant Wang was transferred, the county lieutenant Wang died, and the county lieutenant Xue came again, I can't let the good people disappear."

"I'm not afraid of being killed

Ren Mulan patted her chest and said with a grin: "Twenty pieces of Hu Cake can't buy us as slaves, but it's enough to buy us to work hard."

asked about the situation in the county again, and to Xue Bai's surprise, these children were quite familiar with Yanshi County, and the things on the dock were also very familiar.

"If you want to make a secret knife to the county lieutenant, Li San'er will definitely dare, he has many lives under his hands. Just last year, Deng Axu's family refused to sell their daughter, and Li San'er killed six members of his family and planted them to the thieves in Wuzhiling..."

Wuzhiling, that is, Fuxi Mountain, Fuxi Mountain, belongs to the remaining veins of Songshan Mountain, outside Yanshi County, at the junction of Dugi and Zhengzhou in Henan Province, and thieves are rampant.

These thieves occasionally come to Luoshui and the Yellow River to rob boats, but obviously they don't just kill six people from a farmer and rob a girl and leave.

After chatting for a while, when the food arrived, there was a roast goose on the big plate, accompanied by green onion cakes, and the children couldn't help cheering.

Xue Bai watched them eat, and he pondered alone.

From today's events, it can be seen that Wang Yi really escaped with some evidence.

Strangely, how could these people go to such lengths to find a slave? Are you really afraid that he will not be able to present the evidence of their encroachment on people's land and persecution of the people to the saints? They don't seem to care.

For example, Song Mian's attitude when he spoke was obviously that he didn't look down on Guo Wanjin, although these people cooperated to make profits, they may not have a deep friendship with each other, it is likely that there is a big interest that binds them together, and it is bigger than the acres of land in a county.....

"County Lieutenant."

Ren Mulan was full of oil, and she was still gnawing on a goose leg in her hand, and said, "We ate yours, and there is something to use in the future, just open your mouth." ”

Yin Liang couldn't help laughing, and asked first, "What?" You kids, can you still help? ”

"Why not?" Ren Mulan said: "I am also one of the canal commanders on the dock, and there are more than a dozen people under my hands, and I can be regarded as a land snake in Yanshi, and the county lieutenant is an outsider, how can I do it without help?" ”

Before Yin Liang could speak again, the pot that was sitting on the threshold outside and nibbling on goose meat had already run back and said, "Old man Guo is here."

Old man Guo looked at it and smiled, he has a share of the bad things in the county, you have to be careful, county lieutenant.

"Do you still know about Guo Lushi?"

"How can I not understand, his family has been a Yanshi for several generations, and the fields south of Horseshoe Spring are all theirs..."

Xue Bai asked Yin Liang to take these people to the back and met Guo Jian alone in the front room.

Sitting down with each other, Guo Jian smiled and said: "Some Diao people have frightened the county lieutenant, it seems that they are very resistant to Qingzhang Tianmu."

"It has nothing to do with the common people, there are some thieves who want to assassinate me." Xue Bai said, "I suspect that they are related to Liu Hua, the demon thief who assassinated Lishan, and I plan to interrogate them strictly."

Guo Jian was still smiling, but his eyes were not as bright as they had just been.

"County lieutenant, it's better not to make a big fuss, Tianbao is prosperous, how can there be so many demon thieves?"

"Maintaining the peace of one side is a matter within the county lieutenant's responsibility, and Guo Lushi advises me to settle the matter.....

Guo Lian was stunned for a moment, and said, "Xue Lang is too funny. ”

He patted his knee and said slowly: "By the way, if Xue Lang takes another step forward, he should be appointed as the lieutenant of Chi County, right?" ”

"I've just come to Yanshi, haven't I?

Could it be related to the thief? ”

"There are some things that don't have to be fixed." Guo Jian said: "After the New Year's Festival, that is, the eighth year of Tianbao, after the beginning of spring, the Ming Mansion Bao Xue Lang is a Chixian lieutenant, how about it?" ”

"Oh? Lu Xianling didn't think about his official career, but he planned for me wholeheartedly, which is grateful. ”

"The icing on the cake, Xue Lang is a champion, talented, and trustworthy, which is incomparable to others, deserves a promotion, some good words, recommendations, icing on the cake."

Xue Bai thought about it for a while, and wondered: "But the errand that the sage has explained........

Guo Jian was already prepared, and said: "When the Ming Mansion asks the right minister, it has its own arrangements, and Xue Lang will be able to explain." ”

In this way, all problems seem to be solved.

Xue Bai asked again: "But I heard that Wang Yanxian has a servant Wang Yi who escaped with key evidence. What if he finds out the truth?

Guo Jian was stunned for a moment, shook his head, and smiled lightly: "No, no, there is no evidence and I am not afraid that he will poke it out." ”

After a sentence, he realized that he had said too much wrong, and when he looked up again, he found that Xue Bai was staring at him with a scrutinizing gaze.

"Xue Lang is ready to be promoted, Xiao Lao'er won't bother and leave."

"I'll send Guo Lushi."

When Xue Bai turned back to the Wei Corridor, he saw that Ren Mulan and the others had already swept the clouds, eating all the roast goose and cakes, and even the bones turned white.

"Do you know, does Wang Yi have any evidence in his hands?"

"I don't know, but ...... If I had said it, would the county lieutenant be able to protect her? ”

Once Ren Mulan was full, she regained her vigilance and glanced at Xue Bai again.

She didn't say this last time, but this time it was because the county official sent someone to deal with him, so she believed him more.

Xue Bai said: "If there are key witnesses, I can send them to Chang'an."

Ren Mulan responded: "Sister Abo may know." ”

"Who is she?

"After we saved Brother Ayi, we had no money and no medicine, so we hid him with Sister Abo."

"Where?

I took the county lieutenant there, and the county lieutenant changed his clothes. ”

In the evening, a bell rang.

It is not the drum that urges the curfew in Chang'an City, but the bell in the temple that tells the time, which seems very far away.

Xue Bai only took Jiang Hai and followed Ren Mulan to the west of the city.

In the southwest corner of the city, there are many Buddhist temples, showing a sense of quiet and peaceful.

The sanatorium is located in the temple. Ren Mulan raised her hand and pointed to the solemn Xingfu Temple.

But instead of going to Kofukuji Temple, they walked into an alley next to Kofukuji Temple.

It was already completely dark, and there were no fingers in the alley.

Jiang Hai lit a lantern.

"Give it to me."

Ren Mulan, who was walking in front, turned around and took it, carrying a lantern and walking in front.

In this dark small county town, in the end, it was this humble refugee who illuminated the road ahead for Xue Bai.

The little bit of fire flickered and swayed, but it was so bright that it was not blown out by the wind.