In the early morning, several members of the team went online one after another.

When I went out of the room, I saw that the inn was in a mess.

In front of Li Qiang, there was a chubby man kneeling, and the old couple of the inn were tied up tightly, and they didn't know whether they were asleep or dizzy.

Looking at this situation, several of them roughly guessed that something big happened last night.

Zhou Fa pointed to the man kneeling in front of Li Qiang and asked, "Qiangzi, who is this?"

Li Qiang: "Zhang Lao Wu." ”

Zhou Fa: "Who is Zhang Lao Wu?"

Li Qiang: "The one who led the way into the courtyard and beat people yesterday." ”

Li Qiang's words were a little helpless, and Zhou Fa and the others were taken aback after hearing this, the fat man with a ruddy face in front of him was not like the fierce and vicious strongman yesterday.

"Tsk, fat, unrecognizable. ”

"Well, it's a little swollen. ”

......

After everyone arrived, Li Qiang told everyone about Daddy Wu sneaking into the room with Zhang Lao Wu last night to kill people and seize money.

Zhou Fa, Qi Xu and others are all Li Qiang's brothers, their own people who eat and live together. Although Li Qiang is the strongest in terms of strength, he is the youngest in terms of age, and everyone usually takes care of him as a younger brother.

Someone actually wanted to kill Qiangzi, or the old man and wife they just helped yesterday!

Qin Xian drew his sword and came out: "I'll kill that vicious old man!"

Ding Liang wanted to stop it, but he felt that this old man was really hateful, and his hand just touched Qin Xian's wrist, and he didn't move.

"Or ......" Qi Xu said two words and stayed there.

"After all, it's still two lives...... Zhou Fa frowned, and he didn't know what to do.

Although they all wanted to kill the three people in front of them as soon as possible, they each had their own considerations.

Several of them grew up in the city, not to mention killing people, even chickens have never been killed. Although he is now mixed with the military rank of a lieutenant, and he usually wields knives and guns, after all, he has not been trained in war.

Qi Xu felt that the two old couples were already so old, and "Fantasy" was still a game after all, so it didn't have to be like this.

Zhou Fa felt that "Fantasy" was by no means just a game, so he was more cautious about killing.

"Brother Qin, don't kill it yet. Woke up the two old ones for trial, and there might be something else going on here. Li Qiang stopped Qin Xian and found a reason.

Two basins of cold water.

The two old men on the ground were woken up and begged for mercy.

"The immortals spare their lives, and the little old man has eyes and does not know Mount Tai. ”

The weather in late autumn was already a little cool, and with the cold water, the old couple shivered from the cold, but no one cared.

After a little interrogation by Li Qiang and others, Daddy Wu and his wife summoned everything.

Mr. and Mrs. Wu have an only son who works as a farmer in the county for a living. Four years ago, their son and daughter-in-law added a granddaughter to them. It was originally a happy thing for the family, but he was born in Weinan County.

Decades ago, Weinan County had the habit of worshipping the river god. Every year near the Chongyang Festival, the government and the squires began to do this, and a pair of boys and girls were selected from among the school-age children to worship the river god.

Families with school-age children can remove their children's names from the government's bamboo tube as long as they can pay the ransom money.

At this time of year, even the poorest families, as long as they have children, tighten their belts for the safety of their children, and squeeze out a sum of money to hand over to the government.

Once all the families have paid the money, the bamboo tube where the government put the name tag is empty. I'm sorry, everything has to be done again, and everyone pays again.

When you have paid enough money and the candidate is determined, the government will allow you to hang a red lantern outside the door, and on the day of Chongyang, the official will not go to your house to arrest people.

Zhang Lao Wu set up a pawnshop thug, and he also ate the bowl of rice of the river god. Every year when Chongyang is approaching, many people don't have money, and they will take things to pawn at pawnshops. If there are no valuable things in the house, the pawnshop can also mortgage the house, the land, the property, and the people.

That's how Daddy Wu's money is owed.

Two or three months ago, the government urged him to pay the money, but Father Wu's son and daughter-in-law couldn't take it out, so they just had to ask their father for help. But Daddy Wu doesn't have any money, and the land can't be sold, otherwise this year, the whole family will run out of food rations next year. I had to find Zhang Lao Wu, press the inn, and exchange it for ten taels of silver.

I thought that after exchanging the cooked wheat for silver, I could pay off the debt. But the caravan did not enter Weinan County this year, and the silver was not paid off for a while. The pawnshop's silver is so easy to owe, after the profit, originally only borrowed ten taels of silver, and after repaying more than ten taels, he still owed the pawnshop more than twenty taels. So there was a scene of Zhang Lao Wu collecting debts yesterday.

At that time, Li Qiang made a move and returned it for Daddy Wu. This favor of more than 20 taels, Father Wu thinks that he will not be able to repay it for the rest of his life, and next year's granddaughter is not yet old enough to sacrifice to the river god, and next year's redemption silver is far from being settled.

Starting this year, Weinan County will hand over two pairs of boys and girls every year! I am afraid that the amount of silver to be paid every year will only be more, not less......

Father Wu thought that Li Qiang had a generous hand, just a few taels of silver in the morning to buy a Luban lock, and at noon he made a move and three silver ingots, there must be a huge amount of money on his body! If he could take it for himself, his granddaughter's life would be saved.

Father Wu comforted himself, killing Li Qiang was just killing an adventurer, and his little granddaughter was his precious lifeline. So he brought Zhang Lao Wu over that night and conspired to kill Li Qiang.

It's just that I didn't expect Li Qiang to be a monk with high mana, and he ended up like this.

The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty.

Daddy Wu's motive is just that he doesn't have Li Qiang's favor and covets his silver.

After listening to Daddy Wu's explanation, everyone only felt that this old man was pitiful and angry. This Weinan County is terrible, there is no good person among the county officials, village elders, pawnshops, and officials, and even the old man Wu, who looks kind and honest, is a villain with a black belly and eats people.

Several people scolded one after another:

"Isn't the adventurer's life his life?"

"This county official is also hateful, out of such a thing as the river god, he doesn't think about subduing demons, but also tries to collect money. ”

"It's a shame that we saved you during the day, it's really wolf-hearted. ”

After hearing this, Father Wu waved his hand again and again: "Don't you dare to say that about the river god, the river god is not a monster." If it weren't for the blessing of the river god, our Weinan County would not have been free of floods over the years, and every family would have food to eat. ”

"Phew. Zhou Fa quenched: "Qiangzi saw the demon qi floating from the Wei River yesterday, and said that it was not a monster." Everybody is going to eat your granddaughter, and you're still talking for the monsters. ”

"The river god is a monster!?impossible, impossible......" Daddy Wu's eyes were full of empty and helpless eyes, trembling while repeating the impossible.

Li Qiang stood up and said to Zhou Fa: "Ignore him, let's go." I can't live here, let's go to other inns to see if there are any rooms. Tomorrow I will go to the Wei River and see their ritual of worshiping the river god. ”

"Will you let them go?" Qin Xian pointed indignantly at Father Wu and his wife and Zhang Lao Wu who were still kneeling on the ground.

Li Qiang sighed and walked in front of Zhang Lao Wu: "Be a good person after you go back, don't do those hurtful things, if you do any dirty things again, I will kill you when you come back." Not only you, but your whole family. You know I have the strength!"

When Zhang Lao Wuyi heard this, he kowtowed again and again, his face was swollen, and he shouted inarticulately: "Don't dare, don't dare anymore." ”