A guard lit a torch to illuminate the people who came, and found that there were about thirty people, equivalent to most of the servants, here.
Bai Shan pushed away the guards blocking him and stepped forward to look at them, "Why did you come here late at night?"
It was a bit noisy all the time, you pushed me, I pushed you, there was a lot of chatter but no one came forward to speak. The crowd suddenly fell silent. After a few people standing at the front hesitated for a moment, they knelt down on the ground with a simple plop, "Please
Sir, please spare my life——"
One of them knelt down, and dozens of people behind him knelt down on the ground without thinking, regardless of whether it was dirt or stones, and kowtowed indiscriminately, "Sir, have mercy on me, my lord, have mercy on me..."
Bai Shan:……
The guards and government officials also fell silent and turned to look at Bai Shan, but did not loosen their grip on the handle of the knife.
Bai Shan took a step forward and said, "Speak slowly if you have anything to say."
However, everyone did not stop. Instead, they became even more anxious and shouted: "Please forgive me, please forgive me. We don't dare to do it anymore."
Bai Shan was shocked by the noisy voice and became furious. In his irritation, he shouted angrily without waiting for the people behind him to step forward to take his place: "This county tells you to shut up!"
The crowd suddenly fell silent. The people who kept kowtowing raised their heads in fear and looked at Bai Shan with some fear.
Bai Shan's face was extremely ugly. The anger that had been accumulated since yesterday afternoon when the problem was detected suddenly burst out, "Is it because you can't understand the words, or you don't want to listen to what this county has to say?"
"If you don't want to listen to what this county has to say, go back to where you came from. You don't have to come and kneel in front of this county. If you don't understand..." Bai Shan's face became darker and his voice became a little gloomy, "This county doesn't find it difficult to speak.
I understand, but it seems you still don’t want to listen.”
The servants were startled, and most of them were reluctant to speak. The few kneeling in front quickly said: "My lord, please forgive me, there are too many people. I didn't hear what you said. It's not that you don't want to listen..."
"
Bai Shan sneered. Everyone knew the truth in their hearts. He tilted his head slightly and looked behind him.
However, the guards were not in trouble, and no one could understand what he meant. However, Bai Erlang, who was lying at the door and looking out, saw him tilting his head behind him, so he immediately reacted, went back into the house in the dark, carried a chair, and sent him out.
Bai Erlang placed the chair behind Bai Shan.
Bai Shan glanced at him, then lifted up his robe and sat down. More and more torches were lit around him, and he could see the kneeling people more clearly.
He looked down at the kneeling group of people and asked expressionlessly: "Tell me, what do you want this county to spare you for?"
The servants were silent for a moment.
Bai Shan suddenly slapped the chair hard and asked angrily: "Why, you forced yourself to the door of this county's house late at night just to howl like this?"
The servants who knelt in front and looked directly at Bai Shan's face doubled their pressure, and cold sweat rolled down their foreheads. Several of them swallowed their saliva and had to say on behalf of everyone: "Sir, we know we were wrong, and we will never dare to cut corners again. Please let me go."
Let's spare our lives."
Bai Shan looked at them coldly, his eyes sliding over their faces one by one. He had a good memory and quickly connected their faces with their names.
"Sheng Shangen? Are you a person who pulls stones and grinds them?"
The person kneeling in front was stunned for a moment and then said "Yes", feeling something bad in his heart.
Bai Shan called the names of several more people and asked, "Are you the ones who pulled the stone and crushed it?"
Those people were also very uneasy. They didn't expect Bai Shan to remember their names.
Several people nodded "yes" nervously.
Bai Shan moved his eyes to the side, called a few more people's names, and asked, "Are you the pickers?"
"yes."
The kneeling person became even more uneasy.
Bai Shan sneered and said: "Originally, the county planned to punish all sixty of you to serve in Guantian for ten days in exchange for wages. But today the county has changed its mind. You all go to Longchi to build the ferry.
Well, sixty people will be punished with twenty days of work, and those who come to disturb the officials tonight and kneel here will be punished with twenty days more."
The kneeling person was frightened and shouted quickly: "Sir, you can't do this..."
Some excited people even stood up and rushed forward to speak to Bai Shan.
A guard immediately pulled out a knife and held it in front of Bai Shan, shouting: "How brave, do you want to rebel?"
The murderous aura came out, and the crowd suddenly became silent, not daring to look directly at the guard and the cold-gleaming sword in his hand.
Bai Shan said slowly: "This is the cold guard of the princess palace. He is a royal guard. If anyone rushes into the consort, he has the right to kill the person under the horse."
The person standing in front couldn't help but take two steps back, and the person who wanted to rush forward to plead even took a few steps back, not daring to step forward.
Seeing that they were honest, Bai Shan looked at them quietly without any expression on his face.
As time passed, the servants subconsciously avoided Bai Shan's gaze and looked down at the irregular soil under their feet. They regretted in their hearts that they would not have followed them if they had known better.
Doesn’t it mean that if there are too many people, the county magistrate won’t punish them?
Bai Shan looked down at all the servants and then said in a deep voice: "It is a serious crime to disturb the officials late at night. This county will punish you according to the law. If you are dissatisfied and continue to make trouble here, this county will not mind if you upgrade the crime to
To assassinate officials, we have killed a lot of people in this county this year anyway, so it doesn’t matter if we send a few more heads to the vegetable market.”
The servants ran away in fright.
Even those who were standing at the front, who felt they were more courageous, turned pale, their legs trembled, and finally they ran away shaking their legs.
Fang Xian Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and said to Bai Shan, "Fortunately, they were just asking for mercy and did not want to hurt you. Otherwise, I would have been blamed for my death."
Mr. Cui said: "Fortunately, we have enough guards and government officials."
Originally, they were just a few groups of people, because they were going back to the county town, and this was the only way to go, so they were destined to meet here.
Before, when Bai Shan went out, he not only brought his yamen servants, but also three of his family's guards. Bai Erlang also brought two yamen servants and several bodyguards.
Not to mention Yin, he always travels with at least ten people, so they have a lot of escorts.
Fang Xian Cheng exhaled and hurriedly comforted Bai Shan, "Sir, please go back to your room and rest first. Will you lecture them tomorrow?"
Bai Shan asked: "Why tomorrow?"
"ah?"
Bai Shan immediately turned to the officials and guards and said, "Go, bang the clapper, wake up all the generals, and go to the flat area in front where the food is placed. The county wants to lecture you."
He sneered: "Since everyone is not sleepy, then don't sleep tonight."
Yin may have calmed down and had the energy to joke with him, "Are you going to be a strict county magistrate?"
Bai Shan said with a sullen face: "I think Fang County Cheng is right. Some unruly people don't know what to do if they don't punish them severely, and they can't serve as a warning to others."
In this case, he fulfilled them.
There is a price to pay for scaring him!
What do you mean by begging for mercy? So many people came to the door in the middle of the night. It was more of persecution than begging for mercy. You really thought that he was just a fool, and he didn't have a temper, right?