In the sudden commotion, there were four government officials who rushed into the inn. Some were holding fire sticks, some were holding knives, and some were dragging chains. Seeing Lu Wenke and others getting up, they already pointed their hands at everyone and left with loud shouts.
Come here, the evil spirit is quite strong.
"No one is allowed to move! Anyone who moves will be guilty of the same crime as the gangster!"
"I am Lu Wenke of the Lu family in Hongzhou. What crime did he commit?" Although the yamen officer spoke harshly, Lu Wenke and others still came forward. Fan Heng, Chen Junsheng and others also signed up for their titles. As a group of scholars, they
In principle, we are not afraid of these government officials. If it were a normal situation, everyone would have to give them some face.
"He is a repeat offender! Get out of your way -"
During the moment when the two parties came into contact, the leading yamen officer pushed Lu Wenke away, and a yamen officer behind shouted: "You want to be arrested too!?"
Fan Heng slapped his palm on the table: "Is there any more Wang Fa?"
Chen Junsheng said: "You have to give a reason."
In the commotion, Wang Jiang fell to the ground covered in blood. Ning Ji quickly checked his injuries. Wang Jiang was a performer from the Green Forest. He had practiced rough hard qigong for decades and did not have much fighting ability.
, but his ability to withstand beatings is far higher than that of ordinary people. It is also for this reason that he was beaten dozens or hundreds of times all over his body. Although most of them were just simple flesh wounds, the injuries on his head, inside and outside
Injuries to the muscles and bones may cause serious trouble, but it is difficult to check clearly for a while.
Such many injuries would not occur in a fight.
After a little inspection, Ning Ji has made a quick judgment. Although Wang Jiang is said to be a green forest man who runs around in the world, he himself is not very skilled in martial arts and has little courage. If these government officials arrest him, he will not escape. In this situation, it is obvious that
It was only after he was captured and beaten for a long time that he rose up and ran to the inn to fetch reinforcements.
Although he fell to the ground, Wang Jiang could not forget about his daughter at this moment. He reached out and grabbed Lu Wenke's trouser legs nearby: "Master Lu, save, save Xiuniang...Xiuniang was...by them..."
With these words in his mouth, the government servant who came over also came nearby and kicked Wang Jiang hard on the head. At this time, everything looked chaotic, and Ning Ji pushed the man next to him.
A bench was opened, and there was a bang, and the bench made of logs was kicked up and flew up? The yamen servant screamed? He jumped with his calves in his arms, and cursed hysterically: "Fuck--"
Is there either the Eight Immortals table or a long stool in the lobby of the inn? The yamen servant kicked the stool violently? Others could not tell what happened specifically. Several scholars were shouting: "If you have something to say, please tell me -" The yamen servant from behind had already rushed over,
Someone opened the table and said: "You have to protect the murderer!" Fan Heng and others said: "Is this person traveling with us? He is definitely not a murderer. We will not run away."
Wang Jiang vomited blood from his mouth and cried: "Xiu Niang was captured by them... Mr. Lu? If we want to save her, we can't be saved by them, by them... ah -" He started to cry when he said this.
Ning Ji stood up from him and walked to the square table where he had been playing cards in the chaos. He took a bowl and poured out the hot water, melted a pill, and prepared to give Wang Jiang emergency treatment first. He was not old,
He also had a kind face, and the policeman, scholar, and even Wang Jiang didn't even care about him at this time.
At this time, Lu Wenke was already questioning several police officers: "You also arrested his daughter? What crime did she commit?"
The yamen servant came over in a hurry to kick Wang Jiang? It was to interrupt him, but at this time he had already told the story of Wang Xiuniang's arrest? He immediately said: "This father and daughter are very similar to the people who spied on the military plane outside the city the day before yesterday.
Like, there's a war ahead? Do you dare to protect him? Or are you all accomplices?"
"Their chief has arrested Xiu Niang, their chief has arrested Xiu Niang... in the north yard? You guys go quickly -"
Wang Jiang shouted on the ground. When he said this, everyone probably knew the clues to the matter. Someone looked at Lu Wenke. Lu Wenke’s face turned red, blue, and white. The police officer cursed: "How dare you spit blood?"
people!"
Ning Ji took the pills and quickly returned to Wang Jiang: "Uncle Wang, drink these first." At this time, Wang Jiang only thought about his daughter and struggled to grab Ning Ji's clothes: "Save Xiuniang..." but refused.
Drink the medicine. Ning Ji frowned and said, "Okay, save Sister Xiu. You drink it and we will save her together."
His eyes had completely darkened at this time, and of course he was a little confused in his heart: Should he kill someone, or should he take it slow first? Wang Jiang's side could certainly hang his hat for the time being, but Xiu Niang's side might be the real one.
At the critical point, perhaps bad things have already happened. Should we risk exposure to seize this little time? In addition, can people like the five corrupt people be able to settle things...
Hearing Ning Ji's quiet voice, Wang Jiang started to drink the medicine with trembling lips. Several policemen exchanged curses with the scholars and tried to show their strength, but since the matter had been exposed, they did not let him go.
Take action, because no matter what, Wang Jiang and these scholars will still have to go to the Yamen. In such a chaotic scene, several people have no idea that they have been back and forth on the death line several times.
"Where did you arrest his daughter?" Lu Wenke shouted with red eyes, "Is it in the Yamen? Do you have any humanity like this?"
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Wang Jiang on the ground shook his head: "Not in the Yamen, not in the Yamen, in the north..."
"You are setting up a private court!"
Amidst the voices of everyone, Ning Ji watched Wang Jiang finish drinking the medicine and was about to make a decision. At this time, there was another noise outside the door, and someone shouted: "Madam, over here!" Then there was another sound.
A mighty motorcade came over, and more than a dozen young men rushed in from outside. There was also a woman's figure, with a gloomy face, and she quickly entered the inn's door.
Seeing such a battle, several government officials showed flinching expressions for a moment. The woman who was guarded by the young man was wearing a white dress. Her appearance looked okay at first glance, but she had gained a little weight.
Walking in with her skirt on, she glanced around and identified the yamen servant who had given the order earlier: "Xiao Lu, let me ask you, where are Xu Dong and others?"
The yamen servant named Xiao Lu frowned: "Captain Xu is now... of course serving as an errand in the yamen, but I..."
Before he finished speaking, the woman in white grabbed a tea cup on the table next to her and threw it at it. The cup missed, but it still shocked people: "Not in the Yamen! Not in the Yamen! Don't do it to the person named Lu.
I'm being rude! Don't let me hold a grudge against you! I heard you captured a woman, where did she go!?"
The woman's voice was quite loud. The yamen officer surnamed Lu was still hesitating, but Fan Heng had already jumped up: "We know! We know!" He pointed at Wang Jiang, "The one who was arrested is his daughter, this...
Madam, he knows the place!”
This group of government officials are naturally bad people. I originally thought that it would be difficult to fight against them for a while. Who knew that another group of good people came to oppose the government officials and obviously had huge power. Wang Jiang seemed to have seen hope and struggled to get up from the ground while holding on to the table.
, also said: "I know... it's a courtyard in the north. I... I, I, can lead the way."
The woman in white glanced at Wang Jiang and waved her hand fiercely: "Go help him and let him show you the way!"
Wang Jiang staggered out, and Ning Ji supported him on the side, saying: "Get a stretcher! Remove the door panel!" But no one paid attention to him for a moment, not even the anxious Wang Jiang.
Stop.
The group of people came out of the inn in a mighty manner and walked along the road in the county. Wang Jiang's steps staggered, and Ning Ji's body was covered with blood. He was used to seeing this on the battlefield, so it didn't matter.
I'm just worried that the previous medicine will overdraw the vitality of this middle-aged busker.
After a while, everyone arrived at a small courtyard in the north of the county. This seemed to be the place where Wang Jiang escaped. There was even a yamen guard at the door. Seeing this group of people approaching, he opened the door and headed into the courtyard.
Run. The woman in white said: "Surround me up and beat anyone I see! Tell Xu Dong to get out of here! Do it!"
Her orders were scattered and disorganized, but her men around her had already taken action. Some people broke down the door, some protected the woman and went into the courtyard first, while others blocked her from the back door. The four government officials here were in quite a dilemma.
, shouting from behind: "Sister-in-law, you can't..." followed in.
When Ning Ji helped Wang Jiang into the courtyard, people were already smashing the house and beating people. A loud voice came from a side room in the courtyard: "Who dares!"
The woman in white shouted: "I dare! Xu Dong, how dare you play with women behind my back!"
"You are playing with women, which eye of yours saw it?"
What came out of the side room was a burly man with a fierce appearance. He walked out from there, glanced around, and shouted: "Stop!" But no one stopped, and the woman in white rushed up and slapped him.
Head: "Xu Dong, you deserve to die!"
"Did you tell me?" The head catcher Xu Dong's voice was majestic and majestic, and the woman slapped him again, knocking his hat off.
"That's a human criminal!" Xu Dong shouted. The woman slapped her again.
"No one is allowed to mess around, I told you!"
The woman jumped up and slapped her again.
"She seduced me!"
The woman then slapped her again. Xu Dong slapped him one after another, but he didn't resist, he just yelled, and the surrounding area was smashed into pieces. Wang Jiang struggled forward, and several scholars
Seeing this ridiculous scene, he wanted to step forward, but was stopped. Ning Ji had already let go of Wang Jiang and moved forward. A young and strong man stretched out his hand to stop him. He dwarfed, and in the blink of an eye he was already there.
Walk to the inner courtyard and run towards the room behind Xu Dong.
Xu Dong was still yelling. The woman was beating people, cursing and accusing them in an unintelligible dialect. Then she pulled Xu Dong's ear and walked into the room. She may have said something about "Hu Meizi".
Xu Dong still repeated: "She seduced me!"
The woman dragged Mr. Xu into the room, and Ning Ji had already followed him. The woman seemed to want to beat the "Hu Meizi", but when she saw the scene in the room, she frowned and stopped.
Ji passed by the two of them. At this time, the room was filled with the smell of blood and stench. Wang Xiuniang was huddled in the corner of the room. There was not only blood on her body, but also traces of feces and urine.
Ning Ji knelt down and saw that only half of her clothes were torn. The corners of her eyes, mouth, and cheeks were swollen, and there were traces of feces on her face. He looked back at the couple who were fighting, and his anger quickly subsided.
Suddenly, Wang Xiuniang seemed to feel some movement, woke up, opened her eyes, and identified the person in front of her.
"Sister Xiu Niang." Ning Ji held her hand.
"Lu... Xiaolong." Wang Xiuniang said weakly, and then smiled, "It's okay... sister, sister is very smart, and she didn't... didn't let him... succeed..."
"How did you..." Ning Ji frowned, not knowing what to say for a moment.
"Don't touch my hands... they smell..." The woman took out her hands as hard as she could, wiped the smelly stuff on herself, and smiled weakly.
Ning Ji was silent for a moment with difficulty, then gritted his teeth and smiled: "It's okay... Brother Lu is... worried about you, I will take you to see him."
He picked up Wang Xiuniang from the ground and walked towards the door. At this time, he didn't even notice the couple who were fighting. He had already prepared in his mind that if anyone tried to stop him at this time, he would chop him on the spot.
Went over like that.
The couple was also stunned, and Xu Dong yelled: "She is going to commit a crime! I am interrogating her!"
The woman jumped up and hit him on the head: "Trial her! Trial her!"
"I won't tell you, you shrew!"
The woman kicked his butt and hit him on the head: "Shrew——"
"You are a shrew!" The two walked out of the room, and Xu Dong yelled again: "Don't smash it!"
Ning Ji took Wang Xiuniang out and went to Wang Jiang. Wang Jiang knelt down beside his daughter and cried. Fan Heng and others were filled with indignation: "This is unreasonable! This is unreasonable! There is no Wang Fa in Tongshan County!"
"You have to give an explanation for things like this!"
Xu Dong was still shouting: "Whoever has trouble with me Xu Dong today, I will remember you!" Then he saw Wang Jiang and others here, he stretched out his finger, pointed at everyone, and walked towards this side: "It turns out it's you.
Ah!" At this time, his hair was beaten to a mess. The woman continued to beat him from behind and pulled his ears. His face was ferocious as he stared at Wang Jiang, then at Lu Wenke, Fan Heng and others.
"I remember you!"
The woman slapped him on the back of the head. He spoke word by word, then spread two fingers, pointed at his eyes, and then pointed here. His eyes were red, and his mouth was full of saliva.
"I! Remember! Remember! You! We!"
"Is there any royal law here? I will go to the county government to sue you!" Fan Heng shouted.
The woman cried and cursed, then grabbed her husband Xu Dong's ear and shouted: "Kick these people out -" but this was directed at Wang Jiang and his daughter, Fan Heng, Ning Ji and others.
People shouted.
Some of the young men she brought with her started to persuade and push everyone to leave. The woman in the yard continued to beat her husband, and because she thought the outsiders were walking too slowly, she held her husband's ear and shouted hysterically.
: "Get out! Get out! Let these things get out of here——"
Finally, more and more young people came towards this direction. For a moment, the blade of a scalpel slipped out of Ning Ji's sleeve, but looking at Fan Heng, Lu Wenke and the others, they finally put away the knife, and followed by
Everyone left the courtyard.
…
Everyone did not have lunch and returned to the inn. Ning Ji bandaged the injuries of Wang Jiang and his daughter, while Fan Heng and others went to the Yamen to inquire about the situation and prepare to file a lawsuit and seek justice.
After the bandaging was completed, Wang Jiang, whose injuries were complicated and not sure if something serious would happen, fell asleep. Wang Xiuniang suffered various skin injuries. She was not seriously injured, but she was in low spirits. She said she wanted to rest in the room and was unwilling to do so.
To see people.
She was at a youthful age, and she had been romantically involved with Lu Wenke in the past two months. In order to please her appearance, the girl's usual dress became even more beautiful. Who knew that this time when she went out to perform, she would be arrested by the man?
Spotted, knowing that this kind of entertainer had nothing to do with him, he caught her and tried to force her. In an emergency, Wang Xiuniang wiped her own body with feces and urine. Although she was beaten severely by the angry Xu Captou, she still kept her virginity.
.But it is hard to say what Lu Wenke will think after this incident.
Ning Ji could not think of these things for the time being. He felt that Wang Xiuniang was very brave, but Lu Wenke, on the other hand, was a little uncertain after returning. But this was not an important matter right now.
Not long after the father and daughter were bandaged, Fan Heng and Chen Junsheng came back from outside. Everyone was sitting in the room exchanging information, their eyes and words seemed complicated.
"...This Xu Dong is said to be the chief arrester of the local government, but he is not a big shot. There are still many people who can cure him. But the problem lies in his wife Li Xiaoqing. This woman is Li Ruoque's daughter and Li Yanfeng's sister.
, When I married Xu Dong, the Li family was not considered a big family, but now...especially after the Jin Bing war disaster has passed, the Li family here can be said to be the only emperor of the country..."
"...We have spent some money, and those who are willing to speak tell us that this lawsuit cannot be fought. What happens to Xu Dong and Li Xiaoqing, it is their family matter, but if we insist on suing Xu Dong for this matter... Yamen
I’m afraid I can’t get in, and some even say it’s difficult to leave.”
"...Then why don't we sue?"
"...Then go and sue."
When everyone said this, they were all in a dilemma. After discussing for a while, someone said: "What do you mean by Brother Lu?"
Lu Wenke clenched his hands into fists and his eyes turned red: "What can I mean?"
When everyone saw him in such a condition, it was hard for them to say anything more.
In the middle of the afternoon, the mid-autumn wind blew in the courtyard, and the sky began to turn cloudy. Then the owner of the inn came to send a message that a big shot had arrived and wanted to meet them.
Everyone went to the inn lobby, and what appeared there was a middle-aged man wearing a long gown. He looked like a scholar, with a bit of Jianghu air about him, and a scar on his face. He passed his name to everyone:
"I am the steward of the Li family, my surname is Wu, and my name is Wu Tian."
"Manager Wu is here to solve today's matter?" Fan Heng asked.
"That's right." Manager Wu nodded, then stretched out his hand to signal everyone to sit down. He sat down at the table first, and the servant next to him came over and poured a cup of tea.
"You are all scholars." Manager Wu said to himself, "Hello scholars, I heard that scholars are sensible and know how to handle things. The matter between my young lady and Mr. Xu today could have been settled well, but
I heard that someone among them made rude remarks."
"...Is it rude?" Fan Heng, Chen Junsheng and others frowned, and Lu Wenke's eyes turned red again. Ning Ji sat aside and watched.
"What happened today is a family matter of the Li family. As for the father and daughter, they are suspected of collaborating with the enemy, and someone has sued them... Of course, this matter can be over now, but if you are shouting randomly today, it will not
Too particular... I heard that you went to the Yamen to send money again, saying that the lawsuit will be fought to the end or you won't let it go. This matter has reached the ears of my young lady..."
"My young lady has just encountered such a bad thing. She is upset, and you are here to cause trouble. You are still a scholar, but you don't know how to do things." He paused and took a sip of tea: "So my young lady said, these people,
Don't stay in Tongshan, otherwise something will happen... So you should leave now, before dark."
"Alas." He reached into his arms, took out a few ingots of silver and put them on the table. Manager Wu sighed: "Tell me, what does this mean..."
The autumn wind was blowing, and there were clouds outside the inn. The silver ingots on the square table were dazzling. Fan Heng and others sitting here had their eyes full of anger. Ning Ji calmed down, and remained indifferent in an inconspicuous corner.
Watching all this.
The lobby of the inn was quiet. After a while, Fan Heng was about to answer the call. Manager Wu took a knife from the hand of a young man beside him, raised it, and then banged it, like a silver coin.