In the quiet of the night, Taiping County has quieted down, there are no pedestrians on the road, only a food stall under the Yichun attic still receives nightlife customers.

In the dark night, there was a figure sneaking into the city, and then quietly came to the back gate of the county ya, and after two clicks to report the code, a pawn led the person into the yamen.

At this time, the county magistrate Zhang Shengguan was doing a series of indescribable things with his concubine in the inner courtyard of the yamen, and because the movements were too violent, he was covered in sweat and his blood was boiling. But just as he was in the middle of his life, he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door.

"Who!" Zhang Shengguan was a little annoyed, and when he knocked on this door, he suddenly lost his interest, so he had to stop what he was doing and asked.

"Report to your lordship, Li Shun asks to see you. The pawn on duty whispered.

When Zhang Shengguan heard this name, his heart immediately tightened. You must know this Li Shun, but he tried his best to install him next to Wang Batian as an undercover agent, after all, a dangerous force like Wang Batian, who knows if he will do it to himself. In order not to expose Li Shun, Zhang Shengguan rarely had direct contact with him, and this time he came to ask for a meeting late at night, something terrible must have happened.

"Tell him to wait for me in the study. Zhang Shengguan ordered him to get up and get dressed, gave the concubine a few taels of silver, and sent her away.

When I came to the study, I saw Li Shun's face was pale, he was sweating all the way, and his legs and feet were shaking, it seemed that something really happened to Wang Batian, and this matter was not small.

Seeing that Li Shun seemed to be scared stupid, Zhang Shengguan ordered someone to pour him a glass of water, and when he came to his senses, he asked, "Tell me carefully, what's wrong?" Also, what Wang Batian said last night, has it been done?"

Li Shungang took a sip of water, and almost choked himself when he heard this, he put down the teacup and said, "My lord, don't mention Wang Batian's idiot! ”

"What the hell is going on?!" Zhang Shengguan heard Li Shun say this, and quickly became nervous.

"My lord, don't you know, Wang Batian's gang originally planned to take hostages, lead those two masters who are in the way to the cottage, and then kill people when they are done. When Li Shun said this, he patted the table angrily and said, "But I never expected that these two people were too capable of fighting, and the 100 people in the cottage couldn't beat them! Even Wang Batian himself was killed by the man's two punches." I saw that the situation was not good, so I escaped immediately, and finally saved my life, and I didn't immediately report to you......"

Zhang Shengguan thought badly, the day after tomorrow the Heavenly Patrol will come here according to the imperial history, in case those two people find out about their relationship with Wang Batian, and thus expose him, he will be in prison at best, and lose his head at worst.

Thinking of this, Zhang Shengguan hurriedly asked, "Then what can you see these two people torture them?"

At that time, the man's eyes were red, and he beat people when he saw them, and a hundred people couldn't suppress him. I was so scared to death that I ran for my life without much observation. Li Shun said while reminiscing, with a trace of fear on his face, "But those two people are just here to save those little babies, and they probably won't ask about superfluous things, please rest assured." ”

Where can Zhang Shengguan rest assured, if there are bandits who know that they are still alive, they may be able to say something, and only the dead can keep secrets.

So he hurriedly found two henchmen and ordered: "You two and Li Shun will go back to the cottage to check it out, and if you meet someone alive, kill them all!"

"Ah, do you want to go back?" Li Shun's legs softened when he heard this, he didn't want to meet Su Duan again, he finally picked up a life, and he had to send it again in the blink of an eye. So he said, "My lord, the man No. 100 is not his opponent, and if the three of us run into him, we will never return." ”

Zhang Shengguan's eyes rolled, since this Wang Batian was dead, he simply used the dead horse as a live horse doctor, turning the disadvantage into profit, so he had a plan, and instructed his subordinates: "Now you don't have to pay attention to those two Diao people, you just need to go with the seal of the government." Kill all the living bandits, and finally put the cottage again, so that we can justifiably say that we are going to suppress the bandits. When the time comes, the patrol will come according to the imperial history, and it can be regarded as a credit to us, isn't it beautiful. ”

This move crossed the river and demolished the bridge, so that even Zhang Shengguan himself admired himself. Although most of the bandits in the cottage were cleaned up by Su Duan, even if he killed the bandits, if there was no approval from the government, it could only be regarded as a civil fight, even if he killed the bandits, but after all, killing so many people, it was also a felony, and he didn't dare to come out and grab credit from himself.

The people on the side listened to Zhang Shengguan's clever plan, and hurriedly praised him, and slapped his ass by the way. So Zhang Shengguan hurriedly ordered someone to prepare a seal, and by the way, he called the chief bookkeeper to sort out the bad debt documents handled by the yamen over the years.

After the seal was ready, Zhang Shengguan handed it over to one of the pawns and ordered the three of them to hurry up and seal the cottage. This pawn is worthy of Zhang Shengguan's loyal doglegs, and when he left, he asked very intimately: "My lord, then Aunt Mei in Chengxi, do you need to do it?"

Zhang Shengguan thought for a while and said, "If there is a death in the city right now, it will be very bad for me. Ignore them for now, and forgive them and don't dare to act rashly. ”

After getting ready to go, Li Shun left with someone through the back door of the yamen.

Aunt Mei in the west of the city——

When Su Dui and his party returned, it was already a moment of time.

From a distance, I found a person standing at the door waiting, and when I got closer, I realized that it was Aunt Mei. It turned out that Aunt Mei hadn't slept all the time, and when she saw the children returning safely, she hurriedly stepped forward to hug her, and she cried into tears. Suddenly, he saw Su Du still pressing someone in, so he hurriedly asked, "Who is this person who is being tied?"

"This man is the bandit who kidnapped the children. Su Du explained.

Hearing this, Aunt Mei was angry, found a broom from the ground, copied it, and beat the bandit fiercely. This bandit had already been beaten by Su Dui, and his body was still in a hot pain, and when he saw Aunt Mei rushing up violently, he quickly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

Seeing this, Su Duan hurriedly persuaded him: "Aunt Mei, please dissipate your anger, I have already taught you a lesson from these bandits." And this person still needs to testify in court later, but don't kill him now. ”

The bandit also hurriedly said yes, kowtow to Aunt Mei to make amends, and after Aunt Mei led the children into the house, Su Du tied the bandit in the firewood room in the backyard. Since Liu Rushi was temporarily living at Aunt Mei's place, after settling the children, she said goodbye to Su Du and agreed to go together tomorrow morning to find out the news. It wasn't too early, and he was sleepy, so after saying goodbye to everyone, Su Du turned around and walked in the direction of the inn—