"Junior sister, why are you looking at me all the time?"
In the carriage, Ouyang Rong closed his eyes to rest and asked calmly.
Xie Lingjiang hesitated for a moment: "Senior Brother's actions...are somewhat beyond Junior Sister's expectations."
She opened the car curtain again and silently stared at the knights escorting the two back to the county office for a while. They were all equipped with swords, crossbows, armor, and strict discipline. These were the black-armored cavalry of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Xie Lingjiang still feels a little buzzing in her head, not because she has never seen the world before, but because everything is too sudden. Things that are very far away suddenly jump in front of you, and they are crushed before you can react.
...No wonder not long ago, the wealthy gentry in Yuanming Tower were so frightened that they were trembling with shame.
From when Ouyang Rong opened the window and "showed his cards", to when he very politely said that his house was being confiscated, to when he fluttered his sleeves and walked downstairs to leave, Xie Lingjiang followed him the whole time, looking at the back of his senior brother's calm head, a little confused.
It wasn't until I followed him out and got into the car that I finally felt better.
Ouyang Rong did not open his eyes, as if he was thinking about other things, and said casually: "It seems that junior sister still doesn't understand me."
The noble lady of the Xie family looked at him with a bit complicated eyes: "Now I understand a little better... But why didn't Senior Brother tell Junior Sister in advance?" Could it be that she wanted to see her shocked and stunned demeanor?
There was originally a subconscious sentence behind it, but she refrained from saying it because she felt that the tone was a bit too much like a woman complaining coquettishly.
"Forgot to say."
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Xie Lingjiang seemed angry and turned his head. He didn't want to talk to his senior brother anymore today, but Ouyang Rong opened his eyes and looked at her with a smile, and took the initiative to confess:
"Actually, I didn't expect that they would come as soon as they came, and the momentum would be so great. Well, Rokuro is getting better and better at doing things."
Xie Lingjiang, who was tilting his head with a cold expression, couldn't help but glance sideways at his helpless expression. The girl dressed in men's clothing couldn't help but smile softly, "It turned out to be unexpected, senior brother, but it just shocked the whole audience.
It's decent...next time this happens, you have to take me with you."
Ouyang Rong couldn't help laughing, "Okay, next time I'll arrange a domineering line for junior sister."
Xie Lingjiang glared at him, "What do you mean by showing off your domineering attitude? Senior brother made up the lyrics randomly again."
The two bickered and laughed for a while.
Xie Lingjiang turned around and asked seriously:
"So, senior brother sent Yan Liulang to Jiangzhou not only to supervise the transportation of three thousand stones of relief food, but also to dispatch troops? But... how was this done?"
She frowned in confusion: "Also, Captain Qin just said he would help handle the case. What case is he trying to handle?"
The young magistrate smiled and said nothing.
In fact, he simply wrote a letter and asked Liu Lang to send it to Jiangzhou.
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"Being greedy for money, greed for sex, greed for power, he must be greedy for one or the other. Could it be that a saint has come to Longcheng County?
"Even if he is a saint, he still covets his holy name! What kind of food does this bullshit Magistrate Tanhua want to beg for?
"How about pretending to be a virgin? It's so hard to show your face. Turn over the table? Don't you just want more? Damn it!"
Liu Zilin was in a violent state again, angrily poking his index finger in the direction of the county government office on the east side of the door.
It's just that he didn't throw things around today, because this time his two brothers were in the house.
One person was cleaning his sword with a white cloth. He was Liu Ziwen, an ordinary-looking man with a somewhat meek temperament.
One is looking at the other, who is cleaning his sword. He is a sickly young man in a brocade uniform.
This young man has a pair of triangular eyes, and should have a ferocious face, but instead his eyelids droop, and he looks like a sick tiger all day long.
The sickly young man stared at the famous sword in Liu Ziwen's hand, nodded and said, "It's so bold to raid your home just after taking office."
Liu Zilin turned around fiercely: "Why did you go there earlier? Brother, I was cheated on that day and I should have found my place immediately. Nothing happened after that. It's fine now. This Ouyang Lianghan really pushed us to the limit and treated us like soft persimmons.
I have no respect at all for our Dragon King, the Liu clan!"
That day in the street, the most annoying thing was not that the tough girl had her legs broken, but that the third young master of the Liu family kowtowed to a barbarian slave. Liu Zilin had his teeth broken and had to swallow it.
.
I originally thought that the brothers had their own arrangements, and the eldest brother also said that he would give the scholar magistrate a hard time, but now it's better, he really turned into an eagle, and pounced on him and pecked his eyes!
So he just endured the thought and became more and more angry, and took a step back to get angry.
"You guys who are riding horses, have you ever been so angry? Big brother and second brother, we are dragons, tigers, not sheep!"
Liu Ziwen wiped the sword silently. He concentrated on it and used a clean white cloth to wipe the sword body very carefully and shiny, as if he didn't hear what his brothers were saying.
"I don't seek wealth, sex, power, or even fame. I just seek relief from disasters and flood control." Liu Zian, the second young master of the Liu family, shook his head: "To deal with such a gentleman, hard knives are troublesome, but soft knives are easy to deal with."
Liu Zilin walked around the house and said anxiously: "People don't care whether we choose hard knives or soft knives, but they have put knives on our necks. Isn't it just an excuse to check the accounts? He can flip the table as he wants.
Search the house! Let’s go to the state and ask people to punish him..."
Liu Zian did not look at the impetuous third brother, but turned around and continued to say to his eldest brother:
"This matter is very strange. How did he mobilize the cavalry from Zhechong Prefecture in Jiangzhou? There are only six military mansions in Jiangnan Road. To mobilize more than ten people or ten horses, you need the imperial edict from the central government and the copper fish; he
How can a demoted seventh-grade county magistrate have extraordinary abilities? Then he will still lack the food and silver for disaster relief and flood control?"
Liu Ziwen finally paused to clean his sword, nodded and said: "We have sent people to investigate. This is the key to this situation. It is not difficult to break the current situation, but the difficult thing is that there is a bigger situation waiting for us later."
Liu Zian suddenly asked: "Could it be that family who helped?"
Liu Ziwen shook his head: "I don't know if Ouyang Lianghan is one of theirs, but if they dare to touch the military power, even Master Di will not be able to protect them."
He lowered his head and continued to clean his sword, "Just continue to pretend it doesn't exist."
Liu Zian thought for a moment and nodded.
Liu Zilin couldn't help but interject: "A bigger situation? Who gave him the courage to set it up? Do you know who is behind our Liu family? Looking for death! If the sword of the noble man is delayed..."
Liu Zilin suddenly stopped, immediately shut up and lowered his head, because the two brothers suddenly looked at him, one frowned, the other coldly.
It seemed like a moment had passed, and it seemed like a long time had passed. As if nothing had happened, the three Liu brothers returned to the original topic.
Liu Ziwen glanced at his second brother.
Liu Zian received it, turned to Liu Zilin, the only fool in the room, and said coldly:
"Still not convinced? Is the current game he set up just to compare the size of the nobles above us? Doesn't Ouyang Lianghan know that there are people above us country squires and wealthy families? He dares to overthrow us thirteen at once.
Table at home, why?”
"He's looking for death!" Liu Zilin gritted his teeth.
"That's right, he's just looking for death." Liu Zian finally smiled once, but his smile was more sinister than not smiling: "But he didn't want to ask for death himself, and he wanted to drag several others to die with him. Idiot! Our family has a big business, can
Will you die with him?"
"Is he worthy?"
"But he can do it."
Liu Zian rubbed his face, feeling a little tired from teaching his younger brother:
"Because of the Jimincang rice case, the officials we have good friends with in Jiangzhou are now either suspended or dismounted. No one in the state can immediately intervene in Dragon City, but Ouyang Lianghan now has a 300% off Chongfu cavalry in his hand.
"This is a close fire. Except for Jiangzhou, we have distant water, but how can we pour it out now?"
Liu Zilin seemed to have been poured cold water on him. He immediately calmed down. He stopped wandering around. Like his two brothers, he sat back at the table, leaned his head and asked:
"These are elites who have just returned from the frontier. Their swords are still stained with the blood of the Tibetan people."
"What should we do?"
Liu Zian turned to look at his elder brother and simply stated one thing: "We can't let him check the accounts."
Liu Ziwen finally wiped the sword, and he carefully put the dagger in excellent condition into its sheath. The scabbard was inlaid with emerald agate, pearls and gems, which was extremely luxurious; this sword was to be given to a family on a routine basis.
As a nobleman from Luoyang, he prepares it regularly every year.
Liu Ziwen calmly spoke to his two younger brothers:
"The Liu family is not just about fertile land, beautiful houses, and fat sheep with gold and precious stones. The Liu family is about this scabbard, and what's inside is a sword!"