After a short conversation, Li Xiuyuan finally got to know the situation of this middle-aged man who sharpened his knife all day and night.
His name is Wei Hu, and he is a native of Guo Beicheng. Because he was born tall and tall, he usually makes a living by looking after people's homes and nursing homes. He even went to Shunfeng Escort Agency a few times to pass by Biao, and he was somewhat similar to the Li family.
It's fate.
Because the SF Escort Agency in Guobei City is also run by his Li family.
Li Xiuyuan said at this moment: "Wei Hu, although I am not an official of the imperial court, nor a powerful person here, as a scholar, if I encounter someone who has no place to redress his grievances, I should write a lawsuit for him and give him justice.
, otherwise what is the use of reading this sage’s book?”
"It's just that it's not me who has the final say whether you have any grievances. After all, the world is big and the fists... No, the truth is the most reasonable. If it is unreasonable, even if I write a complaint for you and submit it to the Yamen
Inside, it’s useless if you can’t win the lawsuit.”
"Young Master Li is absolutely right, but I do have grievances that are difficult to explain." Wei Hu said sadly.
"Since you have grievances, why don't you talk about it? If I don't know your grievances, how can I write a petition for you?" Li Xiuyuan said.
Wei Hu gritted his teeth and hesitated before saying, "It's not that I can't trust Mr. Li, but this matter has something to do with the Chu family."
Chu family?
Li Xiuyuan was stunned for a moment; "Which Chu family?"
"Of course it's the biggest Chu family in Guo Beicheng." Wei Hu said.
"Do you think I am also afraid of the power of the Chu family and dare not write a petition to redress your grievances?" Li Xiuyuan said.
Wei Hu was a little disappointed and said, "There was a scholar who promised to write a petition for me before, but when he heard that the matter was related to the Chu family, he immediately rejected me and said that this case does not need to be fought and cannot be fought."
"I can't control what other people think, but I'm not afraid of the Chu family. If you trust me once, tell me the details of the case. If there is any grievance, I will write a complaint on your behalf." Li Xiuyuan said.
It is very common for scholars to write petitions to redress people's grievances. He is not the only one to do this, because when a lawsuit is filed in the yamen, scholars must be invited to present and state their grievances. If no scholar is invited, the lawsuit will be lost.
The possibility is very high that even if you don't lose, the big case will become a small case and the small case will be settled on the spot.
Although it sounds a bit childish, it is actually the case.
When Wei Hu heard what Li Xiuyuan said, he immediately knelt down with tears in his eyes and said, "Thank you, Mr. Li."
"I haven't redressed your grievances yet. It's too early for you to thank me now. Get up quickly and don't kneel down." Li Xiuyuan quickly helped him up.
Wei Hu was still very grateful and said: "No matter whether this thing succeeds or not, I will never forget Mr. Li's great kindness in my life."
"Let's not talk about it now. You have to tell me your grievances in detail. Then I can write the petition and redress your grievances." Li Xiuyuan said.
Wei Hu nodded, seeming to recall the unbearable past, and said with a somewhat sad expression: "This happened last year, around this time, my wife Wei died because her mother was seriously ill.
Because of this, I hired a carriage one morning and went back to my parents’ home to visit my mother. However, not long after the carriage left the city, the wheels broke, so my wife Wei had to abandon the carriage and walk back to her parents’ home alone.”
"But, who would have thought that my wife met Wang Tong, the housekeeper of the Chu family, when she was on the way. When Wang Tong saw that my wife was traveling alone, he actually got angry and ordered his men to kidnap my wife, along with Wang Tong.
There were more than a dozen people inside, a dozen or so people, and these beasts insulted my wife in the nearby woods. When I received the news and arrived, my wife had already hanged herself from a tree."
At this point, Wei Hu's eyes turned red, filled with grief and anger, and he clenched his fists tightly, wishing to cut those beasts into pieces with a thousand knives.
"Master Li, you don't know, my wife was still pregnant at that time, she was already three months pregnant."
Hearing this, Li Xiuyuan was immediately shocked. Not to mention Wei Hu, who was filled with grief and anger, he was also filled with anger.
There are such beastly people in this world.
"Master Li, I reported it to the government afterwards, but the people of the Chu family are so powerful that the government only sentenced my wife to a bandit on the road and it had nothing to do with other people."
Wei Hu knelt down again and said excitedly: "Since that day, I have not thought about revenge all the time. I want to kill Wang Tong and more than a dozen subordinates of the Chu family...
..I sharpen my knife every night and look for opportunities to kill Wang Tong during the day, but it’s useless for me. I’m useless. I’m obviously only five steps away from Wang Tong, but I don’t dare to kill him with the knife in my hand.”
"This man harmed your wife and children, so why don't you dare to take five steps with blood splattered on him?"
Li Xiuyuan stood up and said angrily: "Is it possible that your wife and children were killed, and there is such a blood feud that you don't dare to fight with your life?"
"Master Li, it's not that I don't dare. I'm not afraid of death, but what will happen to my mother if I die?"
Wei Hu knelt on the ground and cried loudly: "My mother is already in her seventies. If I kill Wang Tong and be detained by the government, who will support my mother? So I can only sharpen the knife every night, but I still can't."
If you dare to attack, even five handles of your waist knife will be worn out, but I haven’t killed that bully until now.”
"That Wang Tong is really hateful."
Li Xiuyuan was also angry in his heart and slammed the wooden table next to him. The hard wooden table exploded into pieces with a bang.
"Master Li, Master Li, please Master Li, please write a petition for me to sue Wang Tong and give me justice."
Wei Hu cried while kneeling in front of Li Xiuyuan and kowtowed.
Li Xiuyuan scolded: "What kind of pleadings are there to be written now? How can we be fair? This case has become a dead case. There is no evidence to prove it. How can we win the lawsuit? Besides, the government has been bribed by the Chu family a long time ago. Didn't you sue last year?"
Don’t even expect to win this year.”
"Then, what should we do?" Wei Hu was confused for a moment.
"Who told you that you have to go to the government for revenge? If the dog officials here were reliable, Wang Tong would have been killed long ago. Since the government is unreliable, you have to rely on yourself. Let me ask you, do you dare to kill someone?" Li Xiuyuan asked
road.
"Dare, I dare to kill. I never think about killing Wang Tong, the housekeeper of the Chu family, with my own hands. But what about my mother?" Wei Hu said.
Li Xiuyuan said: "If you dare to kill, it will be easy. I will support your mother and ensure that you have no worries about food and clothing. And after you kill Wang Tong, don't surrender. I will arrange for you to go to Wangchuan Mountain and Luocao.
It's better to be a robber than to be scorned here every day. If such a big revenge is not avenged, even living will be boring."
"Li, Mr. Li, are you serious about this?" Wei Hu suddenly raised his head and asked excitedly.
"Of course you take it seriously, I will help you arrange everything, but don't back down when the time comes to take action." Li Xiuyuan said.
"Absolutely not, Mr. Li, don't worry, I will kill that Wang Tong even if I risk my life." Wei Hu stopped crying and said through gritted teeth.
"That's good, I will give you a chance to kill Wang Tong, but before that everything is up to my arrangement." Li Xiuyuan said with twinkling eyes.
Wei Hu nodded repeatedly, indicating that he was willing to obey orders.
"Haha, your nephew really doesn't look like a scholar at all. Other scholars go to the government to file lawsuits to redress others' grievances. It's better for you. Not only do you not go to lawsuits, but you actively help others arrange murders. You are really serious in your eyes.
There are no laws or regulations.”
A somewhat obscene laugh rang out, and a slovenly-dressed Taoist strode in from outside.
"Uncle, you cannot rely on the law. It is better to rely on yourself, kill people to repay debts and pay back money. This is the greatest truth, my nephew thinks that there is nothing wrong in doing so." Li Xiuyuan was surprised at first, and then saw Taoist Mu approaching.
, but he breathed a sigh of relief, and then gave a salute.
Mu Taoren looked at Wei Hu and chuckled: "You helped him plan the murder and arrange a way out, but have you ever thought about what would happen to you if this matter came to light?"
"As long as you have a clear conscience, you will never accomplish anything by caring about so many things, looking forward and backward, and cherishing your reputation and feathers." Li Xiuyuan looked calm and unmoved.
"What a clear conscience. You really should be a knight, not a scholar."
Mu Daoren smiled and said: "My senior brother has long said that your personality is too strong. It is true when I see you today. However, your method is slightly risky. How about you try this method of my uncle?"
"Uncle Master, does he have a better way?" Li Xiuyuan asked.
Mu Taoren pretended to be mysterious and said: "I'll make some calculations. After dawn today, the Chu family's son Chu Tian will send someone to your house to deliver an invitation, inviting you to go out to the city for hunting tomorrow. By then, the Chu family's steward Wang Tong will still have something to do."
All my subordinates will accompany me."
"Oh? Is what uncle said is true? That would be better. I will have Wei Hu lie in ambush nearby tomorrow, waiting for an opportunity." Li Xiuyuan said.
Mu Taoren shook his head and said: "Stupid, stupid, Wei Hu is just a person, how can he kill people under layers of guards? He is afraid that he will be killed by the guards of the Chu family before he can rush in front of him, and even if he is killed, if
Being captured is just one life for another, it's not worth it, it's not worth it."
"Uncle Master, what are your suggestions?" Li Xiuyuan asked.
Mu Taoren walked up to Wei Hu and looked at him, then nodded and said with a smile, "Your name is Wei Hu? Well, what a good name. You are destined to be a tiger. How about being a tiger tomorrow?"
"Tao, Taoist Master, what do you mean by this?" Wei Hu asked with some confusion.
"Nephew, do you have any tiger skins in your house? Can you lend me one?" Mu Taoist turned around and asked without answering.
Li Xiuyuan said: "I hunted the Black Tiger a few days ago, skinned it and left it at my house, but it was at the house in the county, not here. If my uncle wants it, I will have the guards ride back overnight to get it."
"Your guard is too slow coming back and forth. I'll go and get it."
Mu Taoren said as he came to the door of the lobby and waved to the night sky in the distance: "Come, come, come, where is the tiger skin of Lord Montenegro?"
At this moment, in a house in Li Mansion in Guobei County, there is a black tiger skin placed here.
The skin of an ordinary tiger is only a little over half a foot long, but the skin of this black tiger is nearly two feet long. Its teeth are as sharp as daggers, and it is ferocious and powerful, making people intimidated at first sight.
This is the skin of the thousand-year-old demon, Black Tiger.
But at this moment, the skin suddenly turned on its own without any wind, then hit the door and window with a bang, flew towards the distant sky, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.