Chapter 041: The Road Encounters Injustice (I)

During the turmoil of the Five Dynasties, separatist forces emerged in various places. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAlmost every city is building walls, and even if it is not a large state, there is a boom in wall building.

Liangcheng is a small place, and the city walls are certainly not as tall as the state capital, but in the eyes of Chen Ao, a "hillbilly", it is also majestic and majestic enough.

These walls may not be as ornate as the tourist attractions of a thousand years later. But the rows of wooden fences erected at the head of the wall, and the walls are still hung with sasswood and other sharp weapons to defend the city. The sharp iron objects flashed in the sunlight, making people's hearts palpitate.

Although it is not a troubled time now, there are not many of these war preparations.

The existence of these weapons and blades really makes people feel the meaning of slaughter. This kind of atmosphere is incomparable to that of tourist attractions.

Liang Cheng stopped at the gate of the city for a long time, looked up at the two ancient seal characters, and couldn't help but feel related. Is this my city? I haven't graduated from college yet, and I'm going to be the master of such a big city!

This feeling is very strange, both exciting and apprehensive.

Chen Ao is gearing up, planning how to show his strength here and do a career, and it is not in vain to travel through such a trip. There was a loud shout next to him, which instantly woke him up from his fantasy.

"Hey, what the hell!"

Chen Ao was taken aback, and turned his head to see that a strong man with the appearance of an official was staring at a pair of bull's eyes, shouting at him.

Liangcheng was not a state capital, nor was it a place of turmoil, so there was no army. The guards at the gate of the city are the soldiers and horses of the city patrol division under the county government. In addition to guarding the door, these people also have to act as city managers, which cannot be underestimated.

The two yacha were sitting on a bench, gossiping about one and the other. Suddenly, I saw Chen Ao standing at the gate of the city, shaking his head and talking to himself. The behavior was so strange that they naturally wanted to ask questions.

But they were more of a scare, and they didn't mean to get up and come over at all. Seeing that Chen Ao was honest, he didn't bother to care about him.

Chen Ao knew that these people would all be his subordinates. When he took office as a new official, he must first be sympathetic to his subordinates and be a good official, so when he was drunk by this person, he didn't get angry, smiled slightly, ignored him, and walked straight into the city gate.

He led the donkey, and when he entered the city, he walked up a wide street. Liangcheng is far more prosperous than Chen Ao imagined. Because it is close to the official road from south to north, merchants often enter the city to rest. Therefore, there are many inns and restaurants in the city, and there are many department stores, and the business is also very prosperous.

Chen Ao looked at it as he walked, nodding again and again. It seems that my luck is not bad, this place seems to be rich in things and people, and life is good!

It was nearly noon, and Chen Ao was a little hungry in his stomach, so he wanted to quickly find the county government and have a meal first. I was about to find someone to ask for directions, when I saw a circle of people at the end of the long street to the west of the alley, noisy and noisy, I don't know what I was looking at.

Chen Ao stepped forward slowly, standing outside the crowd, wanting to take a look. I heard an old man's voice crying in the middle of the crowd, "Master Lu, please do well...... Ping'er is only sixteen years old...... She ......"

Then I heard the woman's sobbing. Another old-fashioned voice scolded: "Old thing, let go! If you don't let go, I'll report to the official!"

Although Chen Ao couldn't see the situation, he knew that there must have been some kind of dispute. As soon as he heard the man say that he reported to the official, he immediately became energetic. Isn't he the biggest official in the locality? It just so happens that on the first day of taking office today, I came to see what happened!

Thinking so, he loosened the reins of the donkey and squeezed the burden into the pile. I finally squeezed in, and I saw a dilapidated room.

This room is at the mouth of the alley. Two dilapidated houses, in decay. When you look through the open door, you really have four walls and are destitute.

Chen Ao looked around, and most of the houses in this alley were dilapidated rammed earth houses, and he thought that this was the so-called slum. And the house in front of me is even more dilapidated.

At the door of the house, there were three people pulling and pulling. A thin old man, dressed in a black satin-faced robe and a round hat, was holding a young girl's hand in one hand and pulling it outward.

This man has a little rickety on his back, a pair of triangular eyes, and two mustaches on his lips, and looks very obscene. Chen Ao glanced at it twice, and his heart was a little disgusted.

The girl he was pulling must be the Ping'er who just shouted. This girl has thick eyebrows and big eyes, her face is white and clean, and she has a fresh and natural beauty. Her clothes are very plain, washed white, and there are many patches, but it is difficult to hide her delicate figure.

This dress is very old, it must have been worn for many years, and this sixteen-year-old girl is at the time of her most ferocious physical development, and the clothes of a few years ago naturally look small. Wear it on the body, and the bumpy body is tightly outlined.

When Chen Ao saw this young girl, somehow, he suddenly remembered Xuanning. It's just that this girl is crying with pear blossoms and rain, delicate and weak, which is very different from Xuanning's heroic demeanor.

Behind the girl, there was an old man, who looked like he was already fifty or sixty years old. He was dressed in tattered clothes, with a calf exposed, and a tattered hat on his head. This dress is not an exaggeration to say that he is a beggar.

Chen Aoguang looked at their appearance, and he couldn't guess who was talking for a while, let alone understand the inside story. I had to stand aside and watch carefully.

The ragged old man's strength seemed to be a little weak, and his body was almost on the ground, but he was still dragged by others, and he kept moving forward. Under the pull of both sides, the old man didn't grasp it steadily, took off his hand, and sat on the ground with his buttocks.

Seeing this, the girl actually mustered up all her strength, broke free of the entanglement of the old man in the fancy clothes, threw herself to the old man's side, and said hurriedly: "Grandpa, are you okay......?"

How could the old man in the fancy dress let her run away? stepped forward and hugged the girl's weak waist, trying to pull the girl away. He pulled and couldn't stop laughing: "Don't struggle...... Come with me!"

The old man in rags crawled in a hurry, rushed to the front, knelt in front of the old man in fancy clothes, kowtowed again and again, and shouted, "Master Lu...... Please give me a few more days...... I'm going to pay you the money......"

"Hmph, how many days of grace?" the corner of Master Lu's mouth twitched, "Old man Wu, you said that I have been giving you a few days? This has been a month, right? How can you still give me a grace?"

Seeing this, no matter how stupid Chen Ao is, he should always understand. Dare to love the scene of robbing the people's daughters here! This kind of scene has long been common in TV dramas. I didn't expect that today, I would really meet in reality.

I just don't know if this old man owes money to others. Chen Ao also knew that in ancient times, there were no human rights at all. Humans can be bought and sold as livestock. Even if he is a county magistrate, I am afraid that he will not be able to resist the conventions of the whole society.

Besides, the most important thing for me now is to live well. Secondly, I also want to help the people in Biqingzhai settle down. At times like these, it's best not to get in too much trouble.

Therefore, Chen Ao was not impulsive. He was still standing in the crowd, wanting to know more about what was going on. He asked a person next to him who was watching the excitement: "Brother, what is the origin of this Master Lu? How can you openly rob other people's girls?"

The man looked at Chen Ao as if he was from a foreign country, and he didn't care, and sneered: "Hmph, what kind of old man is he......"

He lowered his voice and said, "He is just a steward of the Liang Mansion, and he usually takes care of some cattle, sheep and livestock. But in front of us people, it's the big man!"

Chen Ao nodded, and listened to the man continue to whisper: "This old man Wu is a tenant here, just because he has a granddaughter of Shui Ling. I'm afraid that this surnamed Lu will take a fancy to it, and I don't know how to use it to fight this woman's idea! Alas, ......"

Chen Ao saw that everyone had a look of resentment on their faces, but he allowed this Lu steward to be arrogant, and no one was willing to come forward to help, and he didn't even dare to say a few words of justice. Even the Nalu steward pulled people forward, and they actually took the initiative to get out of the way, as if they were afraid of getting in the way and annoying each other.

People's hearts are cold, and that's it. What's even more hateful is that this Lu steward, who is about the same age as his grandfather, actually started the idea of this little girl! Chen Ao's heart trembled, and he gritted his teeth with hatred.

PS: Forgive me, dear readers, for only updating one chapter a day during this period. Actually, I have a lot of manuscripts. It's just that I'm a person who pursues perfection, and even if I can't achieve perfection, I want to do as well as possible. So I left enough chapters so that I had time to revise them, and even cut out large sections if I found the story wasn't exciting enough. I want to be as responsible as possible to my comrades readers. Even if you didn't spend money, it took time. I try to make my book worthy of everyone's efforts.