Hu Xiaotian said calmly: "Did something big happen? I feel that the atmosphere in the Yamen is very different today."
Liu Baoju said: "Master Xu called us to a meeting, why? You didn't come here just for this matter?"
Hu Xiaotian cursed in his heart, "Xu Qinglian, you old turtle, you want to exclude me from the circle of power. You didn't even notify me when such a big thing happened. I'm going to put you in the loop, but you said with a smile on your face: "
Hahaha, I was also notified to come here."
Of course Liu Baoju understood the reason and secretly laughed in his heart. The brat is trying to put money on his own face. Xu Qinglian wants to step on you. Who doesn't know who doesn't know?
The two of them entered the lobby together and saw almost all the subordinate officials in Qingyun County. The county magistrate Xu Qinglian was sitting in the lobby with a solemn expression. The master Xing Shan was standing next to him, with a bruised nose and a swollen face.
Even his biological parents couldn't recognize him, and he became a veritable dog-headed master.
When Hu Xiaotian saw his appearance, he couldn't help laughing. This smile attracted everyone's attention to him. This guy completely ignored everyone's eyes and pointed at Xing Shan and said: "Master Xing, what's wrong with your face?
"
Xing Shan looked at Hu Xiaotian with a look of resentment on his face. On his way home from Hongyan Tower today, someone suddenly blindfolded him with a sack, beat him up and down, and finally stripped him of his clothes and hung him upside down.
On the old locust tree, half of the Qingyun family knew about this incident. Xing Shan had never suffered such a shameful humiliation in his life. After thinking about it, the only person he had offended recently was Hu Xiaotian, the new county magistrate. It must be someone from this sect.
He was plotting against himself, so the first thing he did after being rescued was to file a complaint at the county government office and ask the county magistrate Xu Qinglian to seek justice for him.
But only after Xing Shan came here did he know that a big event had just happened in the county. No one would pay attention to the small things that happened to him. Hu Xiaotian's question aroused Xing Shan's old and new hatreds. He gritted his teeth and said: "I don't know who killed him."
Thousand Swords plotted against me!"
Hu Xiaotian sneered secretly, you are unrepentant, it seems that Hu Tianxiong's fat beating has not changed you, okay! Just wait for me. I'll knock out your front teeth later, let's see if you still dare to be such a bitch.
Dare to talk nonsense.
Xu Qinglian's face looked very ugly, and he said solemnly: "Master Hu came at the right time. A big event just happened in the county."
Hu Xiaotian lazily yawned and said, "Big deal? What else is bigger than the flood control embankment? Master Xu is really exaggerating."
Xu Qinglian said: "Wan Yuanwai's third daughter-in-law was kidnapped by horse bandits from Tianlang Mountain!"
Hu Xiaotian's expression was calm: "It turns out that I lost someone. I heard that Tianlang Mountain has been troubled by bandits for a long time. Countless merchants are robbed every year, and many are missing and dead. Since I lost it, I'm afraid there will be no trace of it."
It’s so easy to get it back.”
Xu Qinglian felt unhappy in his heart when he saw this guy acting like he was just hanging up his sleeves. He sighed, waved his hands and dismissed everyone, leaving only Liu Baoju and Hu Xiaotian, and invited them to sit down respectively.
, and took a long sigh and said: "Do you know that this matter is not a trivial matter. Wan Yuanwai's brother-in-law is Mr. Yang, the governor of Xiezhou. If the third daughter-in-law of the Wan family is kidnapped in Tianlang Mountain, we still have an excuse.
.But the place where she was kidnapped is less than five miles outside the city. If we fail to solve this case in time and Mr. Yang is held accountable, I'm afraid the three of us will not be able to keep the hair on our heads."
Xu Qinglian's words are by no means alarmist. With the relationship between Wan Boping and Yang Daoquan, the governor of Xiezhou, he can indeed achieve this.
Liu Baoquan cupped his hands and said: "Master Xu, something is not right about this matter. Horse thieves from Tianlang Mountain have been operating in the southern mountainous area of Qingyun. They rarely come to cause trouble nearby, and they have never happened within ten miles outside the city.
"
Hu Xiaotian said: "It seems that Mr. Liu is very familiar with these horse thieves."
Liu Baoquan felt that this sentence sounded awkward, as if he was saying that he had colluded with the bandits. He laughed dryly and said: "As a local county lieutenant, I am responsible for deploying local soldiers and horses, and I have participated in many bandit suppression operations, so what?
Isn’t it familiar?”
Xu Qinglian said: "Master Liu has fought against the horse bandits of Tianlang Mountain many times. He took the lead and was injured many times."
Hu Xiaotian said: "This banditry seems to be getting worse and worse. Now they are all running outside Qingyun City to rob people. Mr. Liu has not had much success in suppressing the bandits." Just yesterday, he had the intention of joining forces with Liu Baoquan, but later he found out
Liu Baoquan actually pretended to be drunk to deceive himself, and his impression of this person was immediately reduced. Hu Tianxiong's arrival today made him understand one thing. It turned out that his future father-in-law had already known about his coming to Qingyun. Since there was this official in the border area behind his back
Support him, he is still afraid, so he will naturally throw his arms away to fight with these blind officials and arouse public anger, so what? Even if you share the same hatred and form a united front, I can still defeat you all.
When Liu Baoju heard that Hu Xiaotian was clearly targeting him, he couldn't turn his back seriously because of his official position. He coughed again and said: "Master Hu doesn't know much about the situation here. The horse bandits in Tianlang Mountain are powerful and fierce.
Abnormally, not to mention the old and weak remnants of our troops, even the Hutou Battalion sent by Xizhou suffered a setback there not long ago, with more than 200 people killed, and the entire army was finally wiped out."
Xu Qinglian nodded slowly and said in a low voice: "Two adults, this matter is not a trivial matter. We must resolve it as soon as possible. Mr. Liu, you mobilize all soldiers and officers to launch a search inside and outside Qingyun County, and strive to find Le Yao's whereabouts as soon as possible."
Liu Baoju nodded.
Xu Qinglian turned to Hu Xiaotian and said: "Master Hu, you have a close relationship with Wan Yuan Wai. As long as Wan Yuan Wai doesn't pursue this matter, we won't have to bear so much pressure. So Wan Yuan Wai still needs you to comfort us."
A few words." He also heard about what Hu Xiaotian did after coming to Qingyun, so there was such an arrangement, otherwise Xu Qinglian would not be so kind to Hu Xiaotian.
Hu Xiaotian said: "I have only been in Qingyun for a few days, how can I have any friendship with him?"
Xu Qinglian said: "Master Hu, don't refuse. If this matter gets serious, it will not be good for any of us."
Hu Xiaotian said: "But I still have to protect the embankment and repair the Qingyun Bridge. Master Xu thinks that I have three heads and six arms, so many things are left in my hands?"
How could Xu Qinglian not understand that this guy was bargaining? He forced out a smile and said: "The weather has cleared up and the flood situation has eased. I have ordered others to guard the embankment. Things have to be prioritized. There are still more people who need to be there outside of ten thousand people."
Go and persuade in person."
Hu Xiaotian said in his heart that you are really realistic. Now you are encountering a problem. He was worried that Wan Boping would go to Xiezhou Mansion to sue you, so he thought of me. Do you think I am so easy to talk to? He nodded and said: "That's fine.
, I’ll go talk about it.”
After Hu Xiaotian left, Liu Baoju lowered his voice and said, "Sir Xu, this thing doesn't seem right. How come the horse bandits from Tianlang Mountain came to rob people outside Qingyun City? I don't think it was necessarily done by the Tianlang Mountain gang.
have to."
Xu Qinglian was upset. He sighed: "It doesn't matter who did it. What's important is to find out her whereabouts as soon as possible. Just now Wan Boping came to me to ask for her life. He said that he wanted to see the person dead or the body."
Liu Baoju said: "Why don't you leave this matter to him to investigate?"
Xu Qinglian turned his eyes, and of course he understood that Liu Baoju was referring to Hu Xiaotian. He whispered: "Don't be too hasty in everything. If I leave this matter to him to investigate now, wouldn't everyone think that I am in trouble?"
Against him?"
Liu Baoju secretly laughed in his heart, Xu Qinglian is a typical example of someone who wants to be a bitch and also wants to build a memorial arch. Now that you don’t push this matter to Hu Xiaotian, everyone knows that you are targeting him at every turn. Since you want to be a bad person, why not do it?
It needs to be more thorough.
Just after Liu Baoju left, the chief clerk Guo Shouguang walked in accompanied by the master Xing Shan who had a bruised nose and face. To say that the two of them have become out-and-out brothers in need, the bruises on Guo Shouguang's eyes have not faded, and Xing Shan
She was even worse than him, her face was swollen even bigger than the previous two, and she couldn't speak clearly with her cheeks puffed out.
Xu Qinglian knew immediately when he saw them coming in. No need to ask, these two people must have come to him to help seek justice.
Xing Shan said vaguely: "Sir... you want to make the decision for me..."
Xu Qinglian said: "Have you ever identified the person who hit you?"
Xing Shan shook his head and said bitterly: "Who else can there be besides Hu Xiaotian?"
Xu Qinglian said: "How can you conclude that he did it without any evidence?"
Guo Shouguang, the chief clerk, helped him and said: "Sir, before you helped him, he pushed me to the ground while there was no one around. It's pitiful that I am old and frail, so I am no match for a young man like him. My eyes are too weak.
It was swollen after being kicked by him, and it still hurts. Sir... this person is really arrogant and domineering. You must seek justice for us." Xing Shan also said with a cry: "Please punish the murderer severely."
Xu Qinglian's mind was full of troubles, and when he heard the two of them complaining and screaming, he suddenly became impatient. He sighed and said: "Even if he beat you, there is no evidence, and you are looking for
How can you prove him without a witness? Qingyun is in a lot of troubles now, so please don't add to the trouble, okay?"
Xing Shan said with a bitter face: "Sir, on the surface, he is beating us, but in fact, he is trying to slander you. If you let us go, won't he be even more serious in the future?"
Guo Shouguang said: "My lord, you must not encourage this person's bad habits. You must punish him in time, otherwise I'm afraid he will deal with you next." But in his heart, he thought, you were forced to pee your pants by Hu Xiaotian, and now you are singing a high-pitched tune.
, I’d be surprised if you believe me. In fact, through observation during this period, Guo Shouguang found that the new county magistrate was not so easy to deal with. Although Xu Qinglian repeatedly used dirty tricks, he had not done any substantial harm to him so far.
