A burly soldier, carrying a box, walked out from behind Dongchuan Hou Shizi.
The soldier waved his hand and threw the box at the door of the government office with a bang.
The lid of the box popped open, and the contents inside were immediately scattered out. It turned out to be a pile of burned letters, most of which had turned into carbon ash.
Prince Dongchuan, who was sitting on the four-wheeled vehicle, raised his feather fan and pointed towards the pile of ashes.
"These are the letters between you and Qingtang. You realized that your collusion with Qingtang was exposed, and you wanted to burn these letters. Unfortunately, our people noticed and snatched these letters while you were safe.
Remains."
Immediately afterwards, Dongchuan Hou Shizi reached into his arms again, took out a few dominoes made of unknown animal bones, and threw them into the ashes of the letters.
"These things are tokens of your contact with Qingtang. In addition, we also have witnesses. Do you need me to call them over and hear what they say?"
Xu Qing's eyes were red with anger, and he gnashed his teeth and yelled angrily: "You are framing this! In my opinion, you should be the one who has colluded with Qingtang!"
Dongchuan Hou Shizi looked calm: "Every guilty person refuses to admit his guilt and falsely accuses others. It seems that our Magistrate Xu is no exception. But it doesn't matter. The evidence of your collusion with Qingtang is conclusive. You don't have to admit it even if you want."
Useless!"
Then his face darkened, and he shouted loudly at the group of policemen and government servants at the gate of the government office: "Are you standing in front of the government office to help the tyrants and become enemies of the imperial court?"
Although these police officers and government officials did not believe that Xu Qing would be a spy in Qingtang, Dongchuan Hou Shizi led his troops to surround the government office. Obviously, he would not give up until Xu Qing was killed. They were involved in this kind of fight between gods, not only themselves.
Their lives could not be saved, and their families would also suffer. So under the threat of Dongchuan Hou Shizi, they all threw away their weapons and wanted to surrender.
Seeing this, Prince Dongchuan shouted again: "Pick up your swords and help us hunt down the Qingtang spies in order to atone for our sins!"
The policeman and the government officials looked at each other, not understanding that Dongchuan Hou Shizi was asking them to submit their names.
If they didn't take action against Xu Qing, they and their families would be among the spies who colluded with Qingtang.
"Prefect Xu, I'm sorry..."
After a moment of hesitation, a policeman leaned over to pick up the knife that had just been thrown on the ground.
Seeing someone taking the lead, other policemen and government officials also went to pick up the sabers and water and fire sticks that they had just thrown to the ground.
Xu Qing also understood clearly that Prince Dongchuan wanted him to die.
Although he didn't understand why Dongchuan Hou Shizi did this, he definitely couldn't sit still and wait for death!
Seeing the police officer and the officer going to pick up the weapon, Xu Qing immediately used the power of mantra and shouted: "It's as heavy as a thousand pieces of stone!"
After being arrested, the weapons still on the ground by the officers suddenly increased in weight. Although they were not so critical, they made it difficult for the officers and officers to pick them up in a short period of time.
At the same time, he successively released mantras such as 'Be fearless in the face of danger' and 'Be brave and courageous' to himself and his servants and servants in the mansion, and ordered: "Protect the family papers in the mansion and follow me to break out of the siege!"
Being able to be sent to the frontier as a prefect, Xu Qing was no ordinary civil servant.
In addition to the Confucian mantra, he is also very good at archery and fencing among the six arts. In addition, he also has a good swordsmanship. It can be said that he can kill thieves when he mounts his horse and governs the people when he dismounts.
At the same time, these servants and servants in Xu Qing's mansion are also trained according to the standards of the elite in the army.
Originally, this was done so that when the Qingtang barbarians attacked, it would come in handy to help defend the city and kill the enemy.
Unexpectedly, before the Qingtang barbarians arrived, they were going to have a life-and-death fight with their own people.
Prince Dongchuan was not surprised at all by Xu Qing's reactions.
He has long known Xu Qing's abilities, and since he led the team to eliminate dissidents, he was fully prepared.
In this street, in addition to the soldiers crowding around Dongchuan Hou, there are also many crossbowmen hiding on the surrounding roofs and courtyard walls, all of them are preparing their bows and arrows, aiming at Xu Qing.
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Even if Xu Qing is a master of Confucianism, he will inevitably show his flaws when faced with random arrows.
At that time, these elite soldiers around Dongchuan Hou Shizi will be able to take advantage of the chaos and take Xu Qing's life!
Even if these personal soldiers are not good enough, Dongchuan Hou Shizi still has a trump card in his hands.
So at this moment, seeing Xu Qing trying to break out of the encirclement, Dongchuan Hou Shizi acted very calmly, with a cat-and-mouse sneer on his lips.
Just when the fighting was about to break out, a burst of rapid horse hoofbeats suddenly sounded on this street, accompanied by a loud shout: "Stop - everyone stop!"
At the same time, the visitor was afraid that no one would listen to his words, so he activated Wen Qi and released a mantra: "Stop the war and fight the war!"
As soon as these words came out, the fighting spirit of everyone on both sides was suppressed, and some of the weaker ones even obeyed and put down their weapons.
Prince Dongchuan Hou, who was sitting on the four-wheeled vehicle, followed the sound and saw Liao Tixue coming at full speed on horseback. Behind him, there were more than a dozen elite people and scholars from Yizhou.
Liao Tixue, who rushed to the government office, blurted out the first words after seeing Dongchuan Hou Shizi: "Little Marquis? Are you not dead yet?"
Facing Liao Tixue, Dongchuan Hou Shizi's face remained unchanged, and he started telling lies: "I was lucky, I only lost one leg, but my life was saved. The reason for spreading the news of his death before was to lure out the Qingtang spies.
Now we have determined that Xu Qing is the Qingtang spy! He is eating the salary of our Daxia Kingdom, but he does not want to serve the country loyally. Instead, he has fallen into disgrace and colluded with the enemy chieftain. He really deserves to be killed! Just as Master Tixue arrived, he
Please bear witness to this matter..."
Xu Qing, who was furious, shouted and interrupted Dongchuan Hou Shizi's words: "Jiafu, they are setting up a frame of reference. I swear to God, I have never done anything to collude with Qingtang!"
Liao Tixue's face was as dark as water. He glanced at the fragments of letters and the ashes on the ground, then glanced at Dongchuan Hou Shizi and Xu Qing, and said in a deep voice: "These things alone are enough to convict the chief official of a palace. Isn't this a bit too childish? Why don't you let me release a mantra that says, "Be true to your word and do it straight". Don't resist, both of you, and see who is telling the truth and who is telling a lie."
"Okay." Xu Qing immediately nodded in agreement without any hesitation.
Dongchuan Hou Shizi shook his head and sighed: "It seems that Master Tixue and Xu Zhifu are in the same group. They have betrayed the country and taken refuge in Qingtang, so we can only get rid of them together. Although I don't want to do this, but I As a soldier on the border, I have the responsibility to protect the country and the people, so naturally I have to eliminate traitors for the country!"
The last words he said were righteous and stern, without blushing at all, as if what he did was really to eliminate traitors for the country.
After hearing this, Liao Tixue smiled instead of being angry: "I betrayed the country and took refuge in Qingtang? Haha, there is no excuse for wanting to incriminate me!"
Then he drew his sword, glanced at Dongchuan Hou Shizi and his soldiers, and shouted sternly: "I want to see, which of you dares to come forward and die? Although we are scholars, we are not helpless people. , the sword in your hand is not bad at all, it is designed to kill rebellious ministers and traitors!"
Prince Dongchuan didn't say anything more, he just waved his feather fan and said calmly: "Do it!"
The soldiers surrounding him immediately rushed towards Xu Qing and Liao Tixue like wolves and tigers.
At the same time, several scholars and scholars who were following Liao Tixue suddenly drew their swords and launched a sneak attack on Liao Tixue.