Because of the hard work last night, Liang Zhen decided to spend an extra day in Zhongling County to renovate.
Wei Changtian didn't care about this. After getting up in the morning, he ran around the county town and didn't prepare to return to the inn until lunch.
Sitting in the carriage, he looked at the scar on Zhang San's face and asked boredly:
"Zhang San, what did you commit before?"
The members of the Freemasonry are all prisoners awaiting trial in Dali Temple, so Zhang San must have been charged with crimes before.
"Sir, are you asking about all the things I have committed? Or only those things written in the files?" Zhang San asked back without changing his expression.
"Yo? It sounds like you've committed a lot of things."
Wei Changtian suddenly became interested: "Tell me everything!"
"yes."
Zhang San nodded, and after a moment of recollection, he began to "confess" one by one: "Sir, the first time I committed a crime was when I was ten years old. Because a bully in the village robbed two ducks from my family, I secretly killed three of his ducks.
ox……"
"The second time was when I was eleven years old..."
Half an hour later.
"...The thirty-sixth time I committed a crime was when I was twenty-five years old. At that time, I had reached the seventh level and joined a small gang..."
"Stop it first!"
Wei Changtian was confused and interrupted Zhang San's rambling: "How many of these things have been recorded in your file?"
"Not a single thing."
"What?"
Wei Changtian was stunned: "Then what crime were you arrested for?"
Zhang San answered truthfully: "There are twelve charges in total, the first one is..."
"Stop, stop, stop! No more words!"
Wei Changtian looked this "outlaw maniac" up and down and sighed: "No wonder your name is Zhang San."
Zhang San looked puzzled: "What do you mean, Master?"
"It's not interesting... Is Zhang San your real name or a pseudonym?"
"Pseudonym."
"Then what's your real name?"
"Zhang Quandan."
"...I'd better continue to call you Zhang San."
Wei Changtian was speechless for a while. After a while, he came back to his senses and changed the topic and asked: "By the way, how do you remember what happened in the past so clearly?"
"Back to the young master, I am not good at anything else, but I have a very good memory."
Zhang San said seriously: "I can basically remember everything I saw and heard clearly."
Wei Changtian was a little surprised: "Is this true?"
"I dare not deceive the young master."
"Then this is quite a skill..."
Wei Changtian dragged his chin and thought for a while, his face gradually became serious.
"Zhang San, I don't know why Wang Er wants you to stay with me, but since I trust him, I will trust you too."
"This time when we go to Shuzhou, I may ask you to do a lot of things... Do you know how to do it?"
"Know."
Zhang San immediately replied: "Just do it and don't ask any questions."
"Then what if I tell you something you can't do?" Wei Changtian asked again.
"A villain should do his best."
"wrong."
Wei Changtian shook his head and corrected: "No matter what you do, if you feel you can't do it, you should tell me in time, and you must never try to do it yourself..."
"And don't make your own decisions."
"Don't trust too much in everything, especially in a place like Shuzhou where you are unfamiliar with your life."
"Being cautious can lead to great things, remember?"
Zhang San nodded seriously: "Remember, Master."
Wei Changtian glanced at him and suddenly asked: "What is the first word of the four sentences I just said?"
"Nothing, also, ordinary, small."
Zhang San didn't hesitate at all and blurted out word for word immediately.
"good!"
Wei Changtian nodded with satisfaction.
"It does have some ability!"
…
It was already noon when the carriage returned to the inn.
Yuan'er has been waiting at the door, saying that the thin county magistrate is here again and has set up a table in the inn, and everyone is waiting for him to come back and start a banquet.
As soon as Wei Changtian heard this, he hurried into the lobby. Sure enough, the food was on the table, and Liang Zhen and others were drinking tea and chatting while waiting for him to come back.
"My dear nephew! You came back just in time. Dinner will be on the table soon!"
Liang Zhen put down his tea cup and said hello, while Wei Changtian quickly apologized to everyone and said, "Everyone, I'm really sorry."
"I didn't know that Mr. Wang was holding a banquet before, so I went to the city for a tour and came back a little late."
"Hahaha, it's not too late, it's not too late."
Liang Zhen laughed twice, sat down at the front seat, and asked casually: "How do you feel about Zhongling County, my dear nephew?"
"This... the street is spacious and spotless."
Wei Changtian really had nothing to praise, so he could only find two words at random.
However, these words sounded a bit sarcastic to the ears of the thin county magistrate.
All the people have fled. Isn’t the city spacious?
His old face turned red, he lowered his head and cupped his hands and said, "It's my incompetence that makes the young master laugh."
"Lord Wang..."
Wei Changtian didn't bother to explain, so he simply followed his words and comforted him: "You don't have to blame yourself too much. As long as the bandit troubles can be quelled, Zhongling will definitely be prosperous again in the future."
"Borrowing your good wishes..."
The thin magistrate forced a smile, but anyone could see the bitterness in the smile.
Although they killed a group of bandits yesterday, this was just the tip of the iceberg of banditry in Zhongling County.
Other bandits may not have monsters controlling them behind them, and their actions may not be so extreme, but it is certainly commonplace to enter villages and rob.
Therefore, the problem of banditry has not been solved at all.
"father……"
I don’t know if he saw that the thin county magistrate and the people of Zhongling were too pitiful, but Liang Qin suddenly suggested: "How about you write a letter to the governor of Tanzhou and talk about the incident in Zhongling..."
Tanzhou is not a frontier, so there is no general military position, and all military and political power is concentrated in the hands of the governor.
In terms of rank, the governor of Tanzhou and the commander-in-chief of Shuzhou are both in the third rank. If he really wrote such a letter, the other party would definitely send troops to suppress the bandits in order to save face.
But how could Liang Zhen be willing to owe such a favor to a little Zhongling?
"Ahem, Master Feng and I don't know each other. I'm afraid it would be inappropriate to write a letter rashly..."
"Dad! How do you know that the Tanzhou governor's surname is Feng if you don't know him?"
"I……"
Liang Zhen was going crazy and wished he could shut Liang Qin's mouth.
But at this time, he couldn't get angry, so he could only speak more plainly: "Qin'er, after all, this is Tanzhou's matter. We are just passing by, so it is not appropriate to interfere randomly."
"Why are you meddling indiscriminately?"
Liang Qin earnestly advised: "You can save countless people in Zhongling from fire and water with just one letter. Why don't you do this?"
"this……"
Liang Zhen was speechless by such a righteous reason, and for a moment he didn't know how to make his silly daughter understand the point.
Fortunately, Wei Changtian opened his mouth to come to the rescue at this time.
"Qin'er, actually there is a way to get the state government to send troops to suppress the bandits without Uncle Liang writing a letter."
"ah?"
Liang Qin hurriedly asked: "Brother Changtian, is there any other way?"
Wei Changtian smiled and said: "That's what I said yesterday, as long as the wealthy businessmen in Zhongling are willing to donate money."
"But……"
Liang Qin glanced at the thin county magistrate and hesitated: "Didn't Mr. Wang say that they are unwilling to donate money?"
"That was before."
Wei Changtian played with the wine glass and said softly under the curious eyes of everyone: "I have a way to make them obediently go to the county government office tomorrow morning and hand over the money with both hands."
"Master!"
The thin county magistrate asked eagerly before Liang Qin: "May I ask what we can do?"
"This matter is very simple. It only requires the cooperation of Mr. Wang and Uncle Liang..."
Wei Changtian smiled, raised his neck and drank the wine in one gulp.