Mei Changyuan was in a good mood these days. Under the guidance of his master He Ruiliang, he took in a new concubine. She was eighteen years old and was one of the most beautiful women in Yongcheng. Her parents were kind-hearted people in the county. Wen Zhixian
The elder fell in love with his daughter, so he gave her away for a hundred yuan as a betrothal gift. After marrying his concubine, Mei Changyuan was really like mandarin ducks spending the night in bed, with a pear tree weighing on the begonias.
The misfortune of the upper concubine was forgotten, and she and her concubine lingered until noon every day. Master He Ruiliang was afraid that his cousin would be injured, so he specially ordered several bottles of aphrodisiac wine to be collected in the county town.
On this day, Mei Changyuan was still enjoying the pleasures of the boudoir with his concubine. He heard someone banging on the door outside, shouting anxiously: "County Magistrate, County Magistrate, something big has happened!"
Mei Changyuan knew as soon as he heard that the person knocking on the door was his cousin master. He heard that something was wrong with He Ruiliang's voice, so he pushed the twisting concubine aside, put on his clothes and got out of bed. When he opened the door, he saw He Ruiliang's full body.
His face turned anxiously.
Mei Changyuan's heart sank and he quickly asked: "What happened?"
He Ruiliang lowered his voice and said: "County magistrate, Ding Zuopeng took action against Pang Yumin. All the properties in the county were confiscated by the militia for colluding with bandits. Even Pang Yumin's in-law Song Qiyuan's Changsheng Bank was bankrupted. I heard that Song Qiyuan took his family's small business with him.
He escaped from the city and was kidnapped by bandits. I guess this was also Ding Zuopeng's handiwork."
Mei Changyuan's face was frighteningly ugly, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, it depends on the owner when beating a dog. Ding Zuopeng is killing a chicken to scare the monkeys!"
He Ruiliang said: "County Magistrate, what should we do?"
"Cold salad!" Mei Changyuan couldn't help but get angry. After a while, he calmed down and said, "I can't remain indifferent to this matter, otherwise no one will dare to seek refuge with me in the future."
"Not bad!" He Ruiliang nodded fiercely, resumed his role as a dog-headed strategist, and gave some ideas to Mei Changyuan. Mei Changyuan nodded after hearing this: "That's it, do it quickly!"
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Just when the people of Yongcheng regarded the contradiction between Ding and Pang as a topic of conversation after dinner, another incident caused an uproar. The Pang family store that the militia had just sealed in the morning was opened again. The seal was thrown away by the police. It was nonsense to declare that Pang Yumin was a bandit.
, is an unfounded charge.
As soon as the police moved, the vigilante group quit. Xue Lin immediately slammed the table and sent a team to beat up the policeman who had broken the seal. The police were weak and they hurried back to the police station with a bruised nose and face to call for reinforcements. But
Not to mention, Xue Lin had long wanted to teach the police a lesson. He commanded the militiamen to directly break into the police station. No matter how cowardly the police were, they could not bear the militia to come and make trouble. A fight broke out immediately. In the end, the police were outnumbered. From the chief to
Everyone was beaten to the ground, and the group arrogantly withdrew, leaving the police station in a mess.
When Ding Zuopeng heard about this incident, he only said that Xue Lin was still young and energetic, but nothing more went on. In fact, he tacitly supported it.
When Mei Changyuan learned that the police station had been seized by the regiment, his first reaction was fear. He only had the police, the only armed force he could control in the city. The newly formed militia squadron was still stationed in Luoshuihe Town in the north of the city.
The city became lonely again, especially now that he had just married a concubine, and he thought of his former concubine who was abducted by the bandits. He suddenly panicked and sent people to summon the police. They distributed live ammunition and stood guard outside the county government office.
Some even built barricades.
This peep show immediately attracted the attention and discussion of the people in the city. For a time, conspiracy theories and various gossips spread all over the city. Everyone said that the county magistrate was guarding against President Ding. Some people were afraid that the matter was not big enough.
, saying that Chairman Ding was going to have a war with the county magistrate because of his jealousy.
The commotion outside finally reached Ding Zuopeng's ears. When he first heard it, he just wanted to laugh, but later he realized that this was not a good thing. No matter how weak or bullying the county magistrate was, he was still a government official, so he did not mention the secret matters.
, but it would be bad if it was revealed to the public. He hurriedly took remedial measures and asked the group members to apologize to the police. He personally visited the county government and scolded Xue Lin in front of Mei Changyuan to show that he
There is absolutely no malice, and there are too many rumors outside, so let the police withdraw.
Mei Changyuan never gave Ding Zuopeng a good look from the beginning to the end. He, the county magistrate, had lost all face. He hated Ding Zuopeng so much that he felt itching his teeth. He thought that his visit was just a weasel paying New Year greetings to a chicken. He had no good intentions and wanted to make himself
It is absolutely impossible to withdraw the police defense.
The two of them had a quarrel at first about the dismantling of the defense, and then brought up the matter of Pang Yumin's collusion with the bandits. They refused to give in to each other, and finally pushed Mei Changyuan to the edge, shouting: "You should do the job for this county magistrate."
Yes, you have the guts to kidnap my new concubine too!"
Ding Zuopeng's face suddenly darkened, and he stared at Mei Changyuan coldly, and said slowly: "County magistrate, you are talking nonsense. The person who kidnapped the concubine was Zhu Chunzi, and the person who instigated Zhu Chunzi was Luo Huzi. Luo Huzi was
You’ll know whose person it is as soon as you look it up.”
Mei Changyuan gritted his teeth and said: "I will definitely find out who Luo Huzi is, and I will not let go of the mastermind no matter what!"
"What you say sounds like a man, but what you do is like a girl. If you are afraid that I will harm you, just hang up and leave. I guarantee that you will leave Yongcheng safely." Ding Zuopeng dropped these words firmly.
He left without even saying goodbye.
Mei Changyuan's face changed drastically, and he was extremely angry. In his anger, he became emboldened inexplicably, and shouted: "I'm afraid of your eggs. Come, get rid of them all. Let's see who dares to murder the head of a county."
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This farce finally came to an end, but the relationship between Ding and Mei also dropped to the freezing point. Mei Changyuan could not sleep day and night guarding his beautiful wife, always afraid that the bandits would break in again, so he went out as little as possible and secretly wrote to Han Baihang.
Numerous letters were sent to him, asking him to come to the county seat to calm down the panic.
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On the other side, Zhou Qing led the militia squadron to search hard for the whereabouts of Song Qiyuan's family, and finally found a disheveled female corpse in a small river. The body had been soaked in river water and turned white. After repeated identification, it was recognized that it was Song Qiyuan's son.
After Zhou Qing personally inspected the body of his daughter-in-law, Pang Yumin's second daughter, he found that the woman had been abused before her death. From this, it can be concluded that the Song family had almost no chance of survival.
While he sent people back to report the news, he expanded the search area and found many messy footprints and blood stains in a mountain stream. From this, he judged that these might be left by the bandits who kidnapped the Song family, so he followed the footprints and chased them. It was very hard.
Finally he caught up with a group of bandits who were resting at the foot of the mountain. He hurriedly led his men to charge up. Although most of the bandits had swords and spears, the number and momentum scared the bandits so much that they could only run away. In the end, more than ten of them were captured by the bandits.