Falling stone well, inside a dilapidated tiled house.

"I said you're only coming back now, have you found it?"

"Find a fart!"

"What then? If someone picks it up, won't our heads fall off? ”

"Don't say it, it's all you, you have to sign someone to write a document! It's really a sin created in the previous life! ”

……

The lights flickered, and two middle-aged men with basil hair paced back and forth in the room, anxious.

"It's too late to say anything now, why don't you just do it and let's go to the streets tomorrow?"

"Trouble?"

"Yes, our second uncle and third uncle didn't just kill the former prefect back then? Hum! We have to have that courage, and we have already eaten the golden rice bowl! ”

Hearing this, one of the men laughed angrily:

"Fuck you! When that Huang Youwan is the little white face of his predecessor? Let's not talk about making trouble, what I'm most afraid of now is that we won't survive tomorrow morning! ”

"Huh? Brother, don't... Don't talk nonsense..."

"Am I talking nonsense? It's all from Luoshi Village, the first day you met Huang Youwan? … Hey? What is it? ”

While the two were talking, a gust of wind suddenly blew the candlelight hard, and when they were frightened, a hoarse and old voice floated out in the dark corner of the room:

"Don't quarrel with the two brothers, it's still right to be the elder brother, you won't live tomorrow morning."

"Who... Who?! What people! ”

Poof——!

After a trembling exclamation, one of the men directly opened his eyes, and finally looked at the blood hole that appeared two fingers wide in his chest in disbelief, and then fell straight down with a blank face, and his death can be said to be extremely fast and decisive.

"My lord! My lord! ”

For ordinary people, the remaining man is calm enough, in the case of his brother's tragic death in an instant, he just suppressed the trembling all over his body, and he knelt down directly towards the dark place that he couldn't see clearly, and slammed his head on the potholed ground with a "bang":

"Spare your life! The villain confesses his guilt! It was all his idea! I'm willing to give it all! ”

Obviously, with the worst prediction in his heart, he had instantly understood why the other party came to kill.

"Don't worry."

At this time, Old Dengwei Yifeng finally took a few steps out of the corner, and gradually revealed his true face under the light, grinning gloomily:

"I'm not going to kill you."

"Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir! ”

"Lord Huang said, one person at a time, your life, let this young man take it."

"Huh?!"

The man kneeling on the ground suddenly raised his head, and then the moment he saw the expression on Qin Lang's face, a little hope suddenly appeared in his heart.

"Young man... This young man! Spare the villain! The villain was completely forced to be helpless, Lord Huang, he really forced the people of our stone well to a corner, my brother he just asked me to sue Lord Huang for the royal warrant, please Shaoxia Mingjian! ”

"Hey, hey, it's almost there, this young man is also Lord Huang's person, not Lord Huang himself, what is Mingjian? Do you think you're beating the drums? ”

“……”

I don't know if we don't work together, it turns out that this Lao Deng is such a noisy person, Qin Lang frowned when he heard it, and immediately reprimanded:

"Shut up."

"Shhhhh

Lao Deng was not convinced at that time, Qin Lang directly cast a cold look at him, and Wei Yifeng suddenly took a few steps back.

And after this short scene was captured by the man kneeling on the ground, he also made a lot of judgments, gritted his teeth, and simply held the mentality of treating the dead horse as a live horse doctor, and suddenly hugged Qin Lang's legs, and cried:

"Lord Shaoxia! Young Heroes! Be the master of the small people! ”

“……”

To be reasonable, Qin Lang has never encountered such an encounter so far, and after being a little at a loss for a moment, he shook his legs and said:

"If you have something to say, either say it well, or don't say it."

"No, Qin Lang, I said you..."

"Shut up."

“……”

Lao Deng tried to stop it, but was choked back by Qin Lang, and the man immediately knelt down again, let go of Qin Lang's legs, and whispered:

"Lord Shaoxia doesn't know, the villain's name is loess, counting, and the current Yangzhou prefect Huang Youwan is the family, all born in this falling stone well, it stands to reason that our village has worked hard to cultivate a prefect, it's like a chicken nest flying out of a golden phoenix..."

“… But who knew that after Huang Youwan made his career, he turned his face and didn't recognize people for us poor fellows, and... He also dislikes us for tarnishing his background, and since he took office, he didn't say anything about eating and drinking spicy food with everyone, but he wanted to press us to death in this place..."

“… He himself became an official and enjoyed it with the rich, and threw us honest poor people here to die, and the annual assistance was not enough to make ends meet, and now we want to go to the capital to seek justice, he Huang Youwan also asked Shaoxia to kill us and kill us, almost hurt Shaoxia's reputation, please Shaoxia is the master of the people! …”

……

The man burst into tears, and after Qin Lang heard these words, his heart was also a little messy.

After all, he is a rough man, and he is not suitable to do such a thing to avenge the people.

However, there is one point, Qin Lang was not moved by the other party's tears, but thought of Lao Deng's previous words, so he became more vigilant.

"You stand up first."

"Lord Xie Shaoxia."

"No thanks, you... It's called Huangtu, right? ”

"Loess."

"Oh, loess..."

Qin Lang nodded, he didn't think of what to do next, and Lao Deng on the side couldn't help it again.

It's just that this time, in order to prevent Qin Lang from murdering him again, Lao Dengwei Yifeng still smiled in front of Qin Lang without smiling:

"What, Qin Lang Shaoxia, for what this person said, the old man really has something to say, can he..."

"You say."

"Good, good."

Wei Yifeng scratched his chin, and his mocking gaze turned to the man's loess, and the loess only felt his heart chuckle for a moment.

"Lord Huang turned his face and didn't recognize people, you said it, right?"

"It's... It's something that the village knows! ”

"Yes, yes, yes, a raccoon dog, hehe."

Wei Yifeng sat down at the table:

"When Huang Youwan first took office, hundreds of people of all sizes in Luoshi Village moved into the newly built new mansion uninvited, eating and drinking every day, in the words of the villagers of Luoshi Village, eating all the official meals, no need to spend money, hundreds of people just ate and lived in the yamen for several days, that scene can be called a spectacular."

"You..."

"Shut up."

This time, Qin Lang told Loess to shut up, and then glanced at Lao Deng, who continued:

"Huang Youwan also thought about it at the time, they are all villagers in the township, and they are also raised by one side of the water and soil, so they can't be ignorant of Entubao, so they immediately said that within two years of taking office, they will renovate and rebuild Luoshi Village, and reclaim the land of Luoshi Village, so that Luoshi Village will not have to worry about food and clothing from now on..."

“… It's just that what Huang Youwan didn't expect was that these people in Luoshi Village thought that they had such a relative as him to climb, where did they want to go back to the village, and they would live in the government if they said anything, and if they couldn't live, they asked Huang Youwan to repair it for them, and repair the same big mansion, one for each person in the village..."

“… At that time, Huang Youwan naturally couldn't take out the money, but the local rich businessmen took the initiative to start digging up their pockets, Huang Youwan didn't accept it, and he couldn't stand his hundreds of good folks who collected it in his name, and in a year, he really built a lot of magnificent mansions..."

“… And when these honest and simple villagers of Luoshi Village live in, it is even more unbelievable, the men are the masters, the women are the wives, the old ones are disrespectful to the old, and the small ones are squirrel, and they are idle every day to make trouble in the streets and alleys of Yangzhou City, and they bully people under the banner of Huang Youwan..."

“… Huang Youwan naturally couldn't bear it, so he used a heavy punishment for a person from Luoshi Village who was molesting a folk girl, and the next day, hundreds of people from Luoshi Village beat gongs and drums at the door of the Yamen, angrily accusing Huang Youwan of being a dog official and oppressing the people... Ha ha! ”

Lao Deng even laughed himself when he said this:

“… Don't say it, these people, in terms of identity, they are really ordinary people! They can only show off their power in front of other people, under the banner of Huang Youwan, and in front of people like Huang Youwan, who are really officials, they are more simple than the other, and they are all the targets of oppression..."

“… Although the people in Yangzhou City knew what was going on at the beginning, they couldn't stand the shouting of hundreds of people in Luoshi Village, and over time, the three of them became tigers, and many things became unclear, especially when it was spread out by those outsiders who didn't know, Huang Youwan was really a dog official who oppressed the people..."

“… In the end, Huang Youwan also wanted to open it, since they all said that he was a dog official, then he had better really be a 'dog official', in terms of specific performance, for example, when there was a drought in the second year, Huang Youwan deliberately did not give relief food to the people of Luoshi Village, and if the villagers dared to make trouble, Huang Youwan would directly let people kill them on the street..."

“… This incident can also be regarded as a big outbreak of contradictions between Luoshi Village and Huang Youwan, Huang Youwan also heard from this incident that the former Yangzhou prefect was too honest and benevolent, and as a result, during the famine in a certain year, because he really couldn't get food, he was rushed into his house and raided by the victims of Luoshi Village..."

“… Although it turned out that the former prefect's family was indeed poor, and all his personal money had been used to help the victims, those people who usually claimed to be simple and honest did not care about that. No matter how good I am or not, I have to make you unhappy, even if you are an official? …”

“… So, the poor former prefect I was incorruptible, so he was killed and the whole family was killed, and when it was reported to the imperial court, the victims of the disaster said in a unified voice that the prefect had been wilted for many years, and the food hidden in the family caused public indignation..."

“… And since Huang Youwan learned about this, people have changed, how to say it, hehe, he has become sober. ”

……

Wei Yifeng didn't say anything more after saying this, and there was no need to say much about the rest, looking at the current situation of Luoshijing, Qin Lang could probably guess Huang Youwan's attitude and behavior after that.

And the loess was tensed with an iron-blue face, standing in the corner without saying a word.

……

How can people be judged by whether they are good or bad?

Qin Lang was silent for a long time, and finally remembered a sentence he had seen in his dream.

[It's not that the old man has become bad, but that the bad guy has become old]

This sentence, which seemed to have nothing to do with the situation in front of him, was actually converted into another sentence in Qin Lang's heart.

[It's not the bad guy who is the official, but the bad guy who is the official]

The former prefect was honest and benevolent, but because he was an official, he was forcibly killed by the "simple" people such as the villagers of Luoshi.

A gang of bandits in Luoshi Village are scoundrels, but because they are the people, on the one hand, they forcibly oppress the good in the name of Huang Youwan, and on the other hand, when they need it, they hold high the banner of "civilians" and falsely accuse them of being bullied by Huang Youwan.

Although Qin Lang couldn't verify the authenticity of these things at the moment, he believed that similar things must have happened or were happening in other places in the world at other times.

An old man with a cane can also be a bad person.

A young master with a good family background can also be a good person.

Even a person can be a bad guy at the same time as he is a good person.

In general, whether a person is good or bad has nothing to do with identity.

As for the loess in front of you...

"Qin Lang, do you know the real reason why these two brothers sued the royal court? In fact, these two people were molesting the folk girl on the street a few days ago, and Huang Youwan sentenced these two people to no longer go out of Shijing for life, so these two people held a grudge. ”

Well, unsurprisingly, Loess is really not a good person.

As for the reason why Huang Youwan directly sent someone to kill him, Qin Lang was also very easy to understand, undoubtedly afraid that if he sued the royal court, he would involve something other unnecessary.

After all, although Huang Youwan has suffered a lot of grievances from the implementation village, he may not be a good person himself.

Of course, this has nothing to do with his prefect status.

Hmmm——!

In the end, the knife rose and fell, the silver light and the blood light appeared, Qin Lang completed the "entry test" of the Juxian Pavilion, and after a night of sleep without any waves, the next morning, he took a sign given by Huang Youwan and officially stepped into the fourth floor of the Juxian Pavilion by the West Lake.

"Seven Signatures of the Clouds... Could it be on this level..."

(End of chapter)