In the Southern Tang Dynasty, there were two rich roads, one was to learn martial arts, and the other was to be an official.

However, these two paths are not easy roads, whether it is learning martial arts to become a martial artist, or learning literature to test fame, they all require talent and perseverance, not just if you want to go.

The population of the Southern Tang Dynasty is tens of thousands, although the martial arts are spread all over the world, but there are only a few people who can achieve martial arts after all, and those who have achieved fame and entered the officialdom are even more thousands of troops crossing the Duqiao Bridge, and there are very few.

The most people in the Southern Tang Dynasty are still living a small life, and peace and security are blessed ordinary people, these people do not have high requirements for life, self-sufficiency is enough, and the last thing they want to see is probably that their peaceful life is disturbed.

The people with a large population are the foundation for the long-term development of a country, but the ordinary people, who are the cornerstone of the Southern Tang Dynasty, are the most humble existence in the country.

Zhang Song has been on an errand for nearly ten years, and from this ten years of experience, he has discovered a very strange phenomenon, most of the people are most afraid of not those masters of the rivers and lakes who can take their lives at will, but the government that should have sheltered the people under their wings.

The reason for this situation is, of course, the existence of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, but more importantly, the corrupt bureaucracy. The pedantic, tyrannical, indifferent, and the government that treats the people like ants is what makes people lose confidence.

Because of this, Zhang Songcai did not feel strange about Meng Rou's thoughts, the government lost its trust to the people, and I have to say that this is the sadness of this era.

Zhang Song slowly walked in front of Meng Rou and looked down at this stubborn girl who was young but already had a good look.

"Little girl, in this world, not everything can be satisfactory, on the contrary, unsatisfactory things account for a greater proportion. Today, I summoned your father to investigate the truth of the matter, and if you stop it any longer, I have reason to think that you are deliberately covering up, and not only will you not save your father, but you will also harm him. ”

"You can't do that. Zhang Song's tough attitude was like a hammer, hitting Meng Rou's heart, destroying all the defenses in her heart, after all, her father's safety was her most concern.

Zhang Song said indifferently: "In fact, if you block here again, I do have the right to execute you on the spot, on the grounds that it is to shield criminals and hinder the handling of the case." ”

"Enough!" Meng Jiangxi, who had been silent before, suddenly shouted, he looked at Zhang Song, and said with a gloomy face: "I'll just go with you, don't embarrass my family." ”

Wang Ergou smiled and couldn't help but say, "It seems that your family has been embarrassing us!"

Zhang Song glared at him fiercely, "Say a few words, no one thinks you are dumb." ”

Wang Ergou, who realized that he had made another mistake, hurriedly shut up and made a silent gesture.

Liu Hui looked at Meng Jiangxi and said, "Old Meng, you really want to go with them, I think it's better to wait for the village chief to come back." ”

After entering the official palace, the saints have to take off a layer of skin. This was originally a joke in their village, but it happened to say that the people were afraid of the government like a tiger in their hearts. In the end, Li Hui is still not at ease, if the old village chief is here, at least he can mediate from it.

Liu Hui's meaning, of course Meng Jiangxi knows, but it's a pity that far water can't quench his thirst, if he wants the old village chief to come back, it will probably take a few days, he is willing to wait, but the two of them may not be willing to arrest him.

Glancing at Meng Li hidden in the crowd, Meng Jiangxi breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that this kid would do something stupid on the spur of the moment, but fortunately, this kid was far more mature than he thought.

Last night's unexpected discovery made Meng Jiangxi understand something, although there was no clear evidence that Meng Li was the murderer who killed Meng Huaiyang, but his intuition told him that this was probably the case, because Meng Li's father was such an unexpected person.

"Get out of the way!" Meng Jiangxi sighed secretly, and for some reason, a trace of guilt flashed in his eyes when he looked at Liu Hui's mother and daughter. As a brother, he was benevolent, but as a husband and father, he was not qualified.

"I'll be waiting for you at home. Although she was very unwilling, Liu Hui still let go of the door.

Outside the door is a straight path, leading directly to the outside of the village, patrolling this road, walking for half a day, you can appear in the backing town dozens of miles away.

"Let's go!"

Zhang Song waved his hand, raised his legs and walked out of the door, but at this moment, something happened again.

Meng Rou, who had collapsed before, poured out a force from nowhere and blocked Zhang Song again.

"What do you want to do?"

Zhang Song looked at the stubborn little girl in front of him, and a wave of anger arose in his heart, persistence is indeed an excellent character, but blind persistence is the same as stupidity.

Biting her lips, Meng Rou, whose lips were even stained red with blood, looked at Zhang Song with a firm gaze. To be honest, she knew she shouldn't rush out, but her intuition told her that this separation was likely to be a farewell to her father.

"Can you not take my father away, our family really can't live without him. Meng Rou's eyes were instantly soaked with tears, and a series of tears flowed down his cheeks.

"Do you want your stubbornness to kill your father?

Helplessness and crying, in exchange for not sympathy, but the anger in Zhang Song's heart that surged due to irritability.

The wrist holding the long knife was sent forward, and the long knife that had been held by Zhang Song in his hand suddenly came out of its sheath, and the handle was in front of it, pointing at Meng Rou's right shoulder like an arrow from the string.

In this blow, Zhang Song didn't even use two points of force, the purpose was just to overthrow Meng Rou aside, and punish the big one with a small punishment. However, even if it was only two points of strength, with the strength of his five forging martial artists, Meng Rou's weak body could not easily withstand it, and he would not be able to lift his shoulders for at least three days.

If young people want to grow, they must suffer some losses. Zhang Song, who sent the handle of the knife lightly with his wrist strength, also felt a lot of emotion in his heart at the moment of his shot.

It would be a good thing if this move could teach the other party a lesson and avoid future disasters caused by character.

The blade is half-hidden, and it doesn't take the long knife to completely unsheath to reach Meng Rou's blow, how can she, a weak girl, dodge? Before she could react, the fine iron hilt inlaid with gold wire was already on her body.

Meng Rou was hit by this blow, and her right arm was like being bitten by a poisonous snake, and she suddenly lost consciousness and hung down weakly. At the same time, the power from the hilt of the knife also pushed her upside down.

Shout!

With a cold iron roar, the knife returned to its sheath without exhaustion. Zhang Song held the knife with one hand, and the true qi that had just boiled up on his body was all restricted, he looked at the girl who was about to be stabbed to the ground by him, and said with emotion: "You are still young, some things are still incomprehensible, there are many things in this world that have long been doomed, and it is not useful to stick to the end." ”

What can Meng Rou say? After all, she is only twelve years old, and she doesn't know much about the truth, and she only knows that she can't give up easily when she does anything. Her father once praised this as an excellent quality, how did it become worthless in the mouth of this saber official?

Meng Rou didn't know what was right and what was wrong, she only knew that she couldn't lose her father, no matter how difficult it was, she couldn't give up.

"I don't know if what you're saying is right, but if you can't even persevere, then what's hope!" she shouted, and took another step forward under her feet, under the pressure of Zhang Song and her, this step had almost exhausted the strength of her whole body, but even if it was only a small step, it was also significant, because this step represented her determination.

"Why don't you listen to persuasion, you boy?"

It was this step of determination far beyond his ability that made Zhang Song completely angry. He looked at the girl whose face was already pale, but his eyes were becoming more and more determined, and there were only four words in his heart: stubborn!

Zhang Song decided that today we must teach her a lesson, so that she knows how to be restrained and respectful, in this world, knowing how to respect a strong person is the basis for survival.

The left hand of the knife is slightly forced, Zhang Song's right hand is dexterously flipped, and the next moment it has fallen on the handle of the knife, and the action is skillful, like a swallow returning to the nest.

Ten years of holding the knife, countless repetitions, so that Zhang Song and his knife almost became one, when his palm smeared the handle of the knife, the long knife slashed out.

The light of the knife flickered, like the fangs of a beast that flashed cold light in the dark night, deadly and terrifying. The long knife, which had never been fully scabbarded before, finally showed its power this time.

Among the people, except for Zhang Song himself, who knows the most about this knife, he can only detain Wang Ergou of Meng Jiangxi with both hands on the side.

Zhang family is a family of knife skills in the town of water, especially for the art of drawing knives, Zhang Song has practiced knife techniques for several years, and has already practiced the knife technique of drawing a knife is a knife to the realm of purity and proficiency, and when the knife is drawn, it is a thunderous blow, which is not inferior to the chopping technique that a knife player has practiced hard for ten years.

He slashed out with this knife, even if he didn't need to be urged by his true qi, but with the sharpness of the long knife itself, it could make Meng Rou's little girl pay the price of her life.

However, Zhang Song is not a murderous person after all, and he thinks more about small punishments and big commandments, and a knife is sent to the heart, not only is it a little less grandiose, but it is also a long knife instead, giving up the blade and taking the back of the knife. But even so, this knife had to hit Meng Rou hard.

"Bastard, you dare to hurt my daughter!" Meng Jiangxi's eyes were cracked when he saw this scene, and he didn't know where to burst out of a force to break free from Wang Ergou's clamps.

Suddenly encountered, Wang Ergou only felt a huge force attacking, and then looked at Meng Jiangxi, who had already broken free of his hands and rushed towards Zhang Song.

Meng Jiangxi, who broke out with all his might, was extremely fast, but no matter how fast he was, he couldn't get the fast knife out of the sheath.

A knife out, the cold light arrives, the speed is so fast, it can't blink an eye. If you want to stop such a knife, if you don't have the strong strength of the last-strike-first-in-command, then you can only preemptively strike and take shortcuts.

Meng Jiangxi, who rushed out with all his might, already knew that the pursuit was hopeless when he took the first step, but he could see his daughter hit hard, how could he do it? All he could do now was run with all his might, and at the same time he longed for a miracle.

But how can miracles happen so easily?

Just when Meng Jiangxi was disheartened, a miracle really appeared, a bamboo pole that suddenly flew to the point of being successfully stopped at the critical moment.

No one could have imagined that a bamboo pole that fell on the side of the road and no one cared about would become the only turning point to save Meng Rou, and the one who threw this bamboo pole was Meng Li, who had been hiding in the crowd before.

Before Zhang Song entered the village, Meng Li had seen all his knife skills outside the village, although he was forcibly instilled by Yan Xingguan's cramming, but with his super high understanding of knife skills, he did have a general understanding of Zhang Song's knife skills.

Perhaps it was from the intuition of fellow swordsmen, when Zhang Song was about to make a move, he had already sensed the impending crisis, and instinctively, he picked up a bamboo pole on the side of the road and threw it out.