"Li Liangjin is dead?"

The next day, Li Xiuyuan received such a message.

The news surprised him a little, but it seemed to be expected.

Li Liangjin, the king of the Nine Mountains, was defeated and fled into the mountains, and it was only a matter of time before he died, and he had already sent men and horses into the mountains to search.

"Yes, General, a thief under Li Liangjin's command has come to receive the reward with Li Liangjin's head. All of them said.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Even the trouble has been taken down, where is the thief?"

"I'm waiting outside the yamen. Du Tong said.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Let him come in." ”

"Yes, General. ”

The Dutong walked out with his fists clenched, and soon a thief soldier with an embarrassed appearance was escorted in by two armor soldiers, he looked haggard, his face was panicked, his body was stained with blood, and he was holding something wrapped in torn clothes in his hand, which was also stained with blood, and it looked like a head.

"Don't kneel down when you see the general. The armor soldiers on the left and right snorted.

The thief immediately knelt on the ground in fright: "The little one meets the general." ”

Li Xiuyuan glanced at it: "What is Li Liangjin's head in your hand?"

"Yes, yes. The thief replied.

Li Xiuyuan gestured: "Take it and open it." ”

The armorer next to him answered, immediately took the package, opened it, and saw that it was indeed a bloody head.

Although it was a little messy, Li Xiuyuan could clearly identify that this was Li Liangjin's head.

"Yes, it's Li Liangjin's head, where is his body?" asked Li Xiuyuan.

The thief said cautiously: "General Hui, lying in a forest on the mountain, that place is very remote and ordinary people can't find it." ”

Li Xiuyuan said: "Really, so you killed Li Liangjin?"

"Yes, it's the little one who killed. ”

Li Xiuyuan stared at him coldly: "Even if you have the guts, you dare to assassinate Li Liangjin? General Ben must listen to the truth, if you take the reward money and are found out by General Ben, you will be beheaded, if you tell the truth now, General Ben will not only forgive you for your innocence, but also give you a reward of one hundred taels of silver, you have to think clearly,

Although a thousand taels of gold are good, you have to be famous to take them. ”

This person has a roe head and a rat-eyed look, and his expression is flustered, not like such a timid person, and he is deceitful.

The thief immediately lay on the ground in fright, and hurriedly said: "No, don't dare to deceive the general, Li, Li Liangjin was not killed by the small one, he had already died in the forest when the little one found him, and then he thought of the general's reward so he had the courage to cut off his head to receive the reward, and asked the general to forgive him.

The little ones really didn't know that they would lose their heads if they took the bounty. ”

"It turned out that you picked up a bargain, look at your guts, you know that you don't dare to assassinate Li Liangjin, when Li Liangjin was defeated and retreated, there were personal guards around him, even if he was down, he couldn't easily succeed. Li Xiuyuan said coldly: "For the sake of you telling the truth, plus bringing Li Liangjin's head,

This general will forgive you not guilty, and reward you with another hundred taels of silver. ”

"Thank you, General, thank you, General. The thief was also overjoyed, and although he could not get a thousand taels of gold, he could get a hundred taels of silver for a while.

Li Xiuyuan said, "Li Liangjin's head is not enough here, I will send a team of men and horses to you, you go to show the way, help General Ben bring back Li Liangjin's body, and you can leave after doing this." ”

"Yes, yes, yes, the little one must bring Li Liangjin's body back. The thief hurriedly answered.

"Let's go down. Li Xiuyuan waved his hand.

After waving off this thief, he thought about it again, took out the book of life and death from the ghost king's cloth bag, flipped through it directly, and found Li Liangjin's name.

It turned out that he was assassinated by a chaifu named Kim Dayong. Li Xiuyuan's eyes moved slightly, and he closed the book of life and death.

"I gave an order before, who can take Li Liangjin's head to reward a thousand gold, although the thief just now brought back his head, but I can't give him a reward, otherwise I am afraid that there will be an endless stream of deception and impostpious deeds, but I can't help but give him a reward, otherwise I can't convince the public, but this reward is returned

I have to send it to this Jin Dayong's chaifu, otherwise my reward and punishment will not be fair enough. ”

Brother Wang's words are reasonable, but that person does not seem to be receiving the reward in the future. Wang Ping, who was dealing with government affairs in the yamen, raised his head and said.

Li Xiuyuan said: "So you have to send it to him, King Yangzijiang, you can take a trip, find a suitable opportunity to send a thousand taels of gold to that Jin Dayong, the gold and silver seized this time are all in the treasury, go and get it yourself." ”

"Please rest assured that Mr. Li, I'll do it. The king of the Yangtze River stood up and saluted,

Wang Ping also quickly wrote the note, and then stamped it and handed it to the king of Yangzijiang: "This is a note for receiving 1,000 taels of gold, please take it." ”

The king of Yangzijiang nodded, and after taking it, he quickly left.

"Later, Li Liangjin's body will be taken and buried with his head, and he will be buried outside the county, and an inscription will be erected. Li Xiuyuan said.

Wang Ping said: "What if the imperial court needs to see Li Liangjin's body?"

Li Xiuyuan said, "With his handsome seal, the handsome flag is enough, is it possible that we still need to take a corpse to ask for merit?" Since he is dead, the corpse will be buried in the ground." ”

"Brother Li is benevolent and righteous. Wang Ping said with a smile.

"This is not benevolence and righteousness, it is just a normal treatment, that is, if any thief dies, I will also send someone to bury it, I will go out, and the affairs in the yamen will be handed over to your brothers. ”

Li Xiuyuan bowed to Wang Ping and several other scholars' staff, and then left.

He didn't go far, but walked to a place where no one was there and called out, "Li Liangjin died at the beginning of his life, and his soul should still wander in the mountains and forests, and at night he sent Yin soldiers to detain him and send him to the underworld, so that this person will not raise his arms and shout after becoming a ghost, occupy the mountain as the king, and continue to plague the world." ”

As soon as the words fell, a dark wind rolled up in the dark corner of the annex, and then a whispering voice sounded, but soon disappeared without a trace.

And the next day.

The Chai Fu Jin Dayong who killed Li Liangjin left the mountain along the mountain road at this moment and walked in the direction of his hometown.

He was lucky, when he was about to go down the mountain, he picked up a lost war horse, rode the horse, and returned to the county seat somewhere in Yangzhou in the afternoon.

Thinking that there might be thieves entrenched in the county, he didn't dare to enter the county like this when he saw that he was covered in blood, so he came to a river to wash the blood, dressed up, and prepared to enter the city.

Jin Dayong was originally a thief, and it was not difficult to get in.

But when he was washing the blood, suddenly a strange wind blew on the surface of the river, which blinded his eyes, and he couldn't help but reach out and rub it.

"Knock~!"

Accidentally, the blood-stained firewood knife at his foot fell into the river.

"My knife. ”

Jin Dayong exclaimed in surprise and hurriedly reached out to fish, but his firewood knife had already fallen into the water and disappeared.

When he was a little depressed, suddenly a voice sounded from the other side of the river, a boy about twelve or thirteen years old, squinting at the moment, looking at him with a smile on his face: "Brave woodcutter, I am the river god of this river, I saw your firewood knife fall into the river just now, and I don't know that you fell."

Is it this wood knife made of gold, or this wood knife made of silver?"

The king of the Yangtze River floated on the surface of the river with a firewood knife made of pure gold in one hand and a firewood knife made of silver in the other.

Kim Dayong's eyes widened, and the two looked at each other for a few breaths.

Jin Dayong immediately screamed in fright: "There are ghosts." ”

After saying that, he fled as if he were crawling, and as soon as he came ashore, he rode away as fast as he could.

“......”

Yangzijiang held two firewood knives, watched this Jin Dayong leave with complicated eyes, and muttered after half a sound: "Could it be that this method of this king does not work?"

Although Jin Dayong dared to assassinate Li Liangjin, he was still as frightened as ordinary people in the face of ghosts and gods, and finally ran directly into the county town in fright.

The county town is chaotic, and there are thieves everywhere.

However, the discipline was loose, and he easily got into it and returned to his old father-in-law's house.

In the dilapidated house was nothing more than an old man struggling to survive, freezing and starving in the turbulent county town.

"Is it Dayong? Dayong is back?" called the old man's feeble voice.

Jin Dayong strode in, "Old man, it's me, it's me who is back." ”

The old man held Jin Dayong's hand and said excitedly: "It's good to come back, it's good to come back, you will come back to those men who were captured by the rebels in the county, Tietou, Yellow Dog, they haven't heard from them until now, I'm afraid they're dead, these damn thieves are still robbing and killing everywhere in the county, in the next room."

Zhang's daughter, hiding in the cellar for ten days, was still found by the thieves, when she was sent back yesterday, there was only one breath left, no clothes, last night I heard that Zhang's daughter was dead, and stabbed her throat with scissors. ”

"My daughter is better if she leaves early, so she can suffer less. ”

As he spoke, he wiped his tears from his eyes.

"Old man, those damn thieves have a good life in a few days, the Shaodong family has become a general, with tens of thousands of troops in the quelling chaos, Li Liangjin, the king of Jiushan, has been defeated, just in Fengyi County, in less than ten days and half a month, the Shaodong family will come over, and I will avenge my daughter-in-law's revenge, then Li Liangjin one

I wanted to carry his head here, for fear that people would scold me for betraying my lord for glory and disgrace my ancestors and descendants, so I only cut off a piece of his flesh. Kim Daeyong said and took out a piece of meat from his arms.

The old man nodded excitedly: "Okay, okay, my daughter's revenge is finally avenged, and my death is worth it." ”

"Don't say that, the hard days will pass soon, and the dart game of the young owner will definitely be rebuilt, and I will go to the dart again, and I will give you a pension when the time comes." Kim Dayong said.

"You are a filial person, take pity on my daughter, you died a miserable death. The old man began to cry again.

Jin Dayong was also sad when he looked at it, and couldn't help but wipe his tears and bow his head and cry.