Chapter 43: Tragedy

When the officer escorting the prisoner saw Yang Yi blocking the middle of the road, he scolded: "Don't you have long eyes?

Yang Yi turned a deaf ear, beat his horse forward, waved his halberd away a soldier guarding the prisoner cart, arrived next to a prisoner cart, and asked softly: "Brother Duan, what's wrong with you?" The person in the prisoner cart in front of Yang Yi was Duan Yuanqing, who had been separated from Yang Yi not long ago.

It's just that at this moment, Duan Yuanqing's nose and face are swollen, his face is blank, his hands and wrists are tightly handcuffed by iron shackles, and he is already red and swollen. After hearing Yang Yi's question, he slowly turned his head, glanced at Yang Yi blankly, and then gradually his face began to change, his pale face began to show redness, and his eyes suddenly widened, obviously caused by excitement. He opened his mouth a few times, "Ahhhh

Yang Yi's face turned gloomy, "Brother Duan, what's going on, have you suffered any grievances?"

"Yes, you just nod. ”

Duan Yuanqing's head was frantic, and his forehead hit the frame of the prisoner car again and again, and his head was bleeding instantly.

Yang Yi took a deep breath and said, "I understand!"

At this moment, the officer who led the team came on horseback and scolded: "What a bold man, you dare to move the prisoner car! Your grandmother ......" Before he finished speaking, his shoulders suddenly sank, and a halberd had been placed on his neck, and the white blade of the halberd shook and grabbed people's eyes, and at first glance it was extremely sharp, and the officer was taken aback, and the words that had not yet been scolded were swallowed into his stomach by him, and he raised his hands and shouted: "Hero and slow!

At the same time that Yang Yi put the halberd on the officer's shoulder, his other hand had already drawn out the long sword on his back, and with a swing of the sword, the prisoner car was suddenly torn apart, and the shackles on Duan Yuanqing's body were also cut off by his sword, but Duan Yuanqing's body was not broken by a piece of oil.

The prisoner cart shattered to the ground, and Duan Yuanqing's rickety body in the prisoner cart slowly stood upright, but then his knees weakened, and he fell head-down to the ground. Yang Yi leaned over and stretched out his arms, pulled him to his horse, and asked, "Brother Duan, what's going on?"

Looking at Duan Yuanqing again, his eyes were closed, his teeth were clenched, and he was already unconscious.

Yang Yi turned over and dismounted, gently placed Duan Yuanqing on the bottom plate of the prisoner car, and asked the officer who led the team, "Let me ask you, what crimes did these prisoners you escort commit?"

The officer was held by his halberd, and he didn't dare not answer, and said in a trembling voice: "This little hero, I also acted on orders, and I didn't deliberately embarrass your friend, and I also ask your subordinates to be merciful and let the small one live." ”

"Long-winded!"

The halberd in Yang Yi's hand was pressed down suddenly, and the officer was pressed by him, and a somersault fell down the horse, and his eyes were full of gold and his body was numb. He staggered to his feet, with a look of fear on his face, and said, "The master just asks, the villain will never say much, never be wordy!"

Yang Yi pointed at Duan Yuanqing, who was unconscious, "What heinous crime did he commit that made you put him in iron chains and imprisoned in a prison car?"

The officer trembled and said, "I heard that it is...... It is a refusal to pay taxes and silver, and he also kills his wife and children."

Yang Yi said: "Fart!"

The officer said, "Yes, yes, yes!

Yang Yi vomited the strength in his hand, and the halberd shook, and the officer had been thrown a few meters away by him, and after smashing a few soldiers, he rolled on the ground a few times and fell unconscious.

Yang Yi held the thin horse pulling the prisoner cart, and in the attack and shouting of several soldiers with guns and knives around him, the halberd in his hand waved again and again, and in a moment he was already out of the encirclement, without stopping, and ran forward.

The escort officer behind him shouted loudly for a long time, but his body was motionless, until Yang Yi's shadow could no longer be seen, and then he scolded. These soldiers escorting the prisoners had very poisonous eyes, and naturally knew that they had met the legendary martial arts master today, so how dare they say anything, and they watched Yang Yi rob the prisoners, pretending to shout, and they didn't dare to pursue again.

The soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty were so weak that it was a wonder in the world.

After Yang Yi found a place to put Duan Yuanqing down, he pointed to it, Duan Yuanqing woke up in response to the finger, and after being confused for a while, he realized that he had been rescued by Yang Yi......

Seeing Yang Yi looking at him intently, Duan Yuanqing struggled to get up, wanting to say something, but when he opened his mouth, he couldn't say it. After coughing a few times, he opened his mouth and bit his fingers, and wrote four blood-colored characters on the bottom of the prisoner car under him: Avenge me!

Yang Yi's eyes jumped a few times, and he said, "Don't worry! Where did Mrs. Sister-in-law and Ling Lang go? After you were caught by the officials, did they know?"

Duan Yuanqing saw Yang Yi ask about his wife and children, his body shook violently, he hugged his head and cried bitterly, and after crying a few times, he squatted on the ground and wrote with his fingers that were still bleeding: "Dead!"

"Dead?"

Yang Yi was shocked: "Are they really dead? How did they die? Who killed them?"

Duan Yuanqing was stunned, it seemed a little difficult to tell who the enemy who killed his wife and child was, after thinking about it, he bit his finger again and wrote on the bottom plate: "Imperial court!"

"The Imperial Court?"

Yang Yi was a little incomprehensible, but seeing that Duan Yuanqing's body was shaking now, and seeing that he was in a coma again, he didn't want to ask too much, so he said to Duan Yuanqing at the moment: "Brother Duan, you recuperate from your injuries now, and I'll ask you again tomorrow." Stretched out his hand and tapped on Duan Yuanqing's body, and Duan Yuanqing immediately entered a coma.

The next day, after Duan Yuanqing woke up, after Yang Yi gave him a few bowls of decoction, his body obviously began to improve, but his throat was made dumb by someone and it was difficult to recover for a while.

In the past few days, Yang Yi has figured out what happened.

Because of Duan Yuanqing's stubborn temper, he once offended many people, and as soon as he returned home a few days ago, he was called by the local official, saying that he would let him contribute to the current New Year's coins and donate more money, so that the current Great Song Dynasty could stabilize the Jin Kingdom, save the two countries from fighting, and countless deaths, so as to prevent the people from being displaced again.

Today's imperial court is weak and incompetent, and it has to pay the annual currency to the Jin State every year to guarantee that the country will not come to attack. And the people who bear these coins can only be the people of the Golden Country. Originally, Duan Yuanqing had long been used to paying taxes, but this time the amount was extraordinarily large compared to previous years, which was a bit abnormal.

Duan Yuanqing is not a fool, strangely, he went to the nearby county town to ask, and found that only his family had more taxes, but the rest of the families were the same as in previous years. Knowing this, he hurried home, ready to ask the local officials what was going on.

But when he arrived at home, he found that his wife and son had just been found missing. When he asked the neighbors, the neighbors around him spoke flickeringly and couldn't speak clearly, and Duan Yuanqing asked again and again before he knew what was going on.

It turned out that after Duan Yuanqing went out, his wife led the children to the market to buy things, but was teased by several bad people. But those bad people were so bold that they followed his wife all the way to the door of the house, and the neighbors saw that there were many of them, and they looked fierce, and they didn't dare to offend them, but fortunately, after a few bad people lingered at the door for a long time, they saw that the door of Duan's house was closed, and they laughed a few times and dispersed.

But after a while, a team of people came, slammed open the door, and arrested Duan Yuanqing and the child together, and disappeared.

Several neighbors in the neighborhood are timid people, and when they see these people so vicious, they dare to rob people in broad daylight, knowing that they can't afford to provoke them, they have become turtles with shrunken heads. Therefore, when Duan Yuanqing asked about this, he was a little afraid to face him.

After Duan Yuanqing asked about this, he was shocked and angry, and rushed to the local county government to beat the drum and shout grievances, but he didn't expect that after the third class of officials saw him, they directly arrested him into the prison without asking, and beat him unconscious with a board, and when he woke up again, he had already entered the prisoner car, and there were two corpses, one large and one small, next to the prisoner car, which were his wife and son.