Outside the Weinan County Ya, the huge dragon head hangs high.

In the crowd that refused to leave for a long time, the two veterans glanced at each other from afar.

"He really slashed the dragon, has he already entered the realm of immortals?"

"That's nature. If he hadn't entered the Immortal Realm earlier, how could he have killed the Dragon King of the Wei River?"

"This son's strength is unpredictable, could it be that even the national teacher has looked away and failed to see his true realm?"

"This ...... It's hard to say. However, under the Jade Emperor's throne, the dragon king who ranks in the immortal class is suspended above the government like this, which is not good in the end. The young man is still too arrogant, so arrogant, he will get himself into trouble!"

"After all, he is still young, less than twenty years old, and he has such cultivation attainments, which is stronger than the realm of you and me at the beginning. ”

"It's still a small sect, the elders in the door have a short experience, and the juniors are naturally not thoughtful in doing things, but it's a pity that it's ......."

The two veterans shook their heads and staggered westward. It wasn't until he walked far away that the closed door of the inner wing opened slowly.

In the lobby, everyone is deliberating.

On this trip to the Wei River, the task was finally completed.

The scouts and caravans have been found and arranged to rest in the back hall, Li Qiang has seen the situation, and he can wake up in the next two days.

Only one pair of boys and girls were found, the couple who lost their children cried into tears, and the parents who found their children also cried with joy, and after a while, they dispersed.

Now the hall was full of men, women, and children.

"This is the family of Fan County Order, and the soldiers caught it yesterday on the trail to Huazhou. At that time, they were about to go up the mountain, and if our people arrived any later, they might have run away. Sun Jie whispered and stepped aside.

According to the usual practice, Li Qiang had to interrogate these people first.

But there's nothing to ask.

In two days, these people will be escorted to Chang'an City. Although Fan Wenhong committed suicide in Weinan County, the case has not yet been closed, and the case will be submitted to Dali Temple for processing.

At this moment, the old Gao of the pile of evidence in Li Qiang's hand was all handed over after sorting out the Li Zheng and the villager who led him to the horse in the evening.

Sacrifice of living people, collecting wealth by sacrificing rivers, encroachment on land, bribery, **, Longyang......

It's hard to distinguish between true and false, but as long as you sit on a few solid pieces, these family members in front of you, the male is exiled to the frontier as slaves, and the female dependents are either filled into the Huazhou prostitute or sold to the rich or Qinglou by the government-run tooth shop.

"You killed my daddy!"

A little girl in the hall pointed at Li Qiang, her immature voice full of hostility and hatred.

"Huan'er, don't talk nonsense......"

Beside the girl, a beautiful woman in her thirties trembled in fright, and quickly covered the girl's mouth.

"The little girl is looking for death, and she dares to talk nonsense in front of the general!"

Sun Jie rushed up and slapped the little girl hard, but when he fell, he hit the woman.

"Captain Sun, step aside. ”

After Li Qiang's reprimand, Sun Jie waved his fist at the people under the hall and took a few steps back.

He is a martial artist, and this slap is not light, and the woman who protects the girl has not spoken for a long time.

This beautiful woman is the wife of Fan Wenhong, the commander of Weinan County, surnamed Lu. Just a few days ago, the family was still living a life of fine clothes and food, but now they have become prisoners overnight. The whole future life will be bleak and devoid of light, and this will be the case for future generations.

The head of the family is dead, and it is not a good thing to bully their orphans and widows.

It's just that......

Li Qiang saw the extremely resentful eyes in the eyes of the little girl, and the eyes were talking to Li Qiang.

You killed my daddy!

Li Qiang really wanted to knock on the file on the table with his hand and explain to her: Your father committed suicide in fear of crime, your father is a corrupt official, and here is all the evidence of his crime.

But these seem to be too cruel to the little girl.

"The adult is a fairy Linfan, magnanimous, begging the adult to spare the little girl. ”

The beautiful woman knelt under the hall, throwing her body to the ground, although it was late autumn, sweat still wet her clothes. She knew what her husband had committed. She also knows what will happen to her after being escorted into Beijing.

But none of this can be a reason to offend Shangguan at this moment.

The woman has followed her husband for many years, and she understands this in officialdom too well.

The young adult in front of him, although he is not the final chief judge of this lawsuit, can also add a little more strength to their fate of falling into the abyss.

Some misdeeds against them, making them have more scars on their bodies, and even making them completely disappear from the world, no one will be held accountable.

The family members of several convicts and a four-rank man of the imperial court will be more important, and everyone knows the answer.

There was no light in the woman's eyes, and she knelt straight down the hall with her hands to protect the girl beside her. The other men and women, bowing their heads or prostrate, were silent, trembling like chaff.

By now, these people's lives are over. The only thing they hope for at the moment is to live. Even in the most humble way in the world, even if there is no dignity to be a human being.

The generals in the hall, the escorted soldiers, the officials of Dali Temple, the leather whips of the frontier soldiers, the steward of the tooth shop, and the mother of the Qinglou, everyone can decide their future fate, and none of them can afford to offend.

The only hope is that the little girl around her, if she can be more well-behaved and clever, and then win the mercy of God, she will be favored by the rich in the future and be taken in as a concubine, so that she can get rid of her slavery and eat a full meal.

"Take it with you. ”

Li Qiang didn't show his prestige too much, he was a military position, and the verdict was still made by those officials of Dali Temple.

The family members of the convicts in the hall got up at the urging of the guards, and the bracelets and anklets rattled.

The beautiful woman's eyes flickered when she looked at Li Qiang, as if something jumped under her eyes, and she knelt down again: "My lord, in this Weinan County, the real sinners are those villagers who do evil.

The concubine does not seek to exonerate her deceased husband, but only to prevent the culprit from getting away with it, and beg the adult to call the shots. ”

"Pull it down. Sun Jie said to the soldier with an expressionless face.

"What nonsense, my lord told you to go down!" the guard got the order, and roughly pulled the woman up and led her down with the others.

"Okay, everything in Weinan is done, we have to pack our things, and we can go back to Chang'an in two days." ”

"We've done a great job this time. ”

"The main thing is that our adults are powerful, and they cut a dragon as soon as they shot!"

......

There were no outsiders in the hall, and the atmosphere was a little more lively.

Only Sun Jie's face was even worse than just now: "My lord, what this woman said has some truth, and the villager must investigate." ”

Meng Fei asked strangely: "I said last time that I wanted to investigate, but you stopped and said that this matter should be handed over to Dali Temple." Today, you said you wanted to check it yourself. ”

Sun Jie replied, "Captain Meng, I didn't mean that. The situation was different then and today...... I mean, what happened outside the city today is strange. ”

Outside the city......

What Sun Jie said was that outside Weinan City this evening, the people knelt down the mountain and shouted long live.

Originally, it was just the people spontaneously welcoming Lord Lang to triumph, but after this long live, the nature has changed. No matter what generation of emperors it is, it is impossible to accommodate a long-lived courtier.

Weinan is not far from the capital, once this matter reaches the court and His Majesty, Li Qiang's resignation is the lightest, and maybe he will have to worry about his life.

Sun Jie is an old man in the army, and he is also the most vigilant of everyone about this kind of thing. So the first one jumped out and resolved the crisis.

"Are you saying that this incident is not accidental, but the instigation of the villagers behind the scenes?" Li Qiang followed the meaning of Sun Jie's words and thought through the glimmer of inspiration in his heart in the evening.

"The subordinates just said, it's not impossible!" Sun Jie bowed his hand and stood down.

Li Qiangtang paced in front of him.

It seems that this matter, both public and private, has to be investigated.

"It's just that we don't have roots in Weinan County, and we don't know where to start. ”

"In two days, we'll be going back, and there's not enough time. ”

......

Everyone also agreed with Sun Jie's words, but how should this case be investigated? No one here can believe it, and even the helpers and servants in the yamen are all the foundation left by Fan County's order. After Li Qiang and the others entered the county government, they had all been dismissed and replaced with soldiers and horses from Yifu.

"It's not impossible. Li Qiang stopped pacing: "Captain Sun, early tomorrow morning, you will go to the alley in the east of the city for me to find someone." ”