Chaotic footsteps came down the mountain, breaking the seemingly relaxed and tense scene here.
Some of the corpses of bandits were brought down.
Yuan Ji and others are the main force, and the officers and soldiers are more like supervisors than helping.
Probably because they had searched and carried the corpses of bandits together, the general who came down from the mountain became very polite: "This place is far from the county seat, and the bandits are hidden deep. The county does not know that they are doing evil here, and they have disturbed Mrs. Wu."
Zhang Xiaoqian testified for his hometown: "Yes, these bandits came suddenly. We didn't have them here before."
The general glanced at Zhang Xiaoqian. Zhang Xiaoqian had avenged his revenge and rescued his wife. He was so excited that he didn't notice anything strange, but Li Minglou could see the murderous intent in the general's eyes.
It was stressed that these bandits came suddenly, which made the general feel guilty for being a thief.
"The incident happened suddenly and we are eager to save people. Please forgive us for not notifying you." Li Minglou was very polite in his courtesy.
The general looked at the woman: "Mrs. Wu."
The woman nodded slightly and said nothing.
Li Minglou said: "She is not in good health and was frightened."
The general immediately said: "Please come to the county to rest quickly, ladies."
Li Minglou looked at the woman, a little embarrassed: "We have to rush to the capital, and we have been delayed for a while. I'm afraid that Governor Liang is worried."
"We can ask the post soldiers to deliver a message to Governor Liang." The general said sincerely, "Mrs. Wu was frightened here. Please have a good rest and let the doctor take a look. We must personally escort the lady to feel at ease."
"They are all soldiers, causing you trouble." Li Minglou said without any further refusal, "In this case, I will disturb your county."
The general was overjoyed and hurriedly asked the officers and soldiers to escort Li Minglou and his party back to the city. He also thanked Yuanji and others for continuing to help: "Your mission is to escort Mrs. Wu, and we will deal with the bandits here."
The general also asked Zhang Xiaoqian to take the rescued women back to the county town: "They are witnesses of the bandits' evil deeds. After telling them about the bandits' evil deeds, the county magistrate arranged for them to return to their relatives."
As a county government officer, Zhang Xiaoqian is very familiar with this process, so he should stand tall and hold his head high.
The general did not forget the brave villagers: "You have done great work in suppressing the bandits, and the county magistrate will definitely see you."
Without asking for any reward, it was already a great honor to meet the county magistrate. The villagers followed Zhang Xiaoqian excitedly.
Li Minglou watched as the general gathered together the people who needed to be silenced in an orderly manner. No one cared about the dead bodies.
There is a Li Minglou who cannot be forgotten.
"We have a maidservant." Li Minglou said to the general, pointing to the bodies of the murdered women carried down from the mountain, "The loyal and brave savior died, we will take her away and bury her."
Of course, the general would not embarrass a dead person. Yuan Ji led his men to put Que'er's body away. The group of people left here and headed towards the county town under the escort of officers and soldiers. The general stood at the foot of the mountain and watched until no one could be seen.
His face darkened.
"Sir, there are no survivors on the mountain." A deputy general stepped forward and whispered.
Even though it was his own conclusion, the general still had to ensure that nothing went wrong: "Are the number of people correct?"
The lieutenant general looked troubled: "The fire was so intense that the bones could not be identified clearly."
The people who were burned by the fire couldn't be counted clearly, and the weapons were all covered up under the fire. This was the most important thing. After personally inspecting it, the general felt much more at ease and admired him very much: "They can burn themselves to cover up."
Secret, he is indeed someone carefully selected by Governor An."
If such an arrangement can be made, even if there are any survivors, they can escape and report the news, as long as they do not fall into the hands of those people.
The deputy general whispered: "Are they really the Zhenwu Army?"
The general looked at the corpses of bandits piled aside. The fatal wounds on them were sharp and sharp. This is not something ordinary guards or bodyguards can do: "I would rather believe that they are there than trust them. Zhenwu Army is better to say that Liang Liang of the capital city
Don’t take it lightly.”
Liang Zhen was also well-known throughout the Zhou Dynasty. The deputy general's expression was a bit disdainful and funny: "That old guy will be a joke all his life."
The general was not as shallow as the lieutenant. He sneered: "He is just a joke in front of Li Fengan. His status as a military commander is not a joke."
The lieutenant replied ashamedly.
"Especially now that Li Fengan is dead, Liang Zhen has a chance to prove that he is not a joke." The general said calmly, "This old guy is just a cat now. We can't let him smell the fishy smell."
The lieutenant general was convinced: "Your Excellency, you have thought carefully."
"Wu Ya'er was single-handedly promoted by Liang Zhen and pampered like an illegitimate child. Wu Ya'er also relied on Liang Zhen to dominate the Zhenwu Army and became domineering. The superiors were very troubled and helpless." The general thought, "Liang
It’s not surprising that Zhen wants to drink his wedding wine and meet his mother and daughter-in-law.”
The deputy general was surprised by another thing: "Isn't Wu Ya'er an orphan? Never heard of a mother and a daughter-in-law?"
The general looked at the rocks and seemed to see the woman and the woman sitting before, with a clear expression: "A blind madman, a neither human nor a ghost. If you have such a mother and daughter-in-law, you will also tell the world that you are a
orphan."
He didn't want to think about these things anymore.
"Aren't they going to deliver a message to the capital? We'll find out after we send someone to follow them."
When dusk fell, Li Minglou and his party walked to the county seat. Wang Zhi, the magistrate of Dou County, had received the news in advance and greeted them at the gate of the county seat.
The county magistrate went out and the officers dispersed the people on the street. Li Minglou and his group entered the county government office quietly and smoothly without attracting onlookers.
Zhang Xiaoqian assisted the policemen in relocating the villagers and rescued women, while Wang Zhi personally arranged for Li Minglou.
Wang Zhi was a man in his forties. He had nothing to say to the little girl and couldn't talk to the crazy woman, so he left the entertainment to Yuan Ji.
Wang Zhi did not insist on his status as a county official, nor did he look down on a martial artist. He warmly entertained Yuan Ji by expressing his respect for Liang Zhen, served wine and food to express his apology and calm down his shock, and did not leave until both of them were drunk.
The drunken Wang Zhi returned to his inner house. What was waiting for him was not a lovely wife and concubine, but a skinny scribe with a beard.
"You are so smart!" The scribe said with anger on his face, "Little Governor An arranged for them to come here to pretend to be bandits, not to really be bandits."
Wang Zhi, who smelled of alcohol, did not have the slightest trace of drunkenness in his eyes: "It was good for them to do this. They pretended to be whatever they wanted. Of course the bandits wanted to rob and plunder and harm the neighbors, but they were just unlucky. Who would have thought
Any woman you rob will be Wu Ya'er's mother and daughter-in-law."
The scribe's small eyes were full of suspicion: "I personally asked the women who were rescued. The woman who was locked up with them did not say that she was Wu Ya'er's mother. She just said that her daughter-in-law would go to the government to ask for help.
Don’t worry, everyone.”
"Can anyone in our government be manipulated at will? To be so sure is to be confident." Wang Zhi said confidently, "What's more, he is a crazy fool, and what he says is confusing, so just listen to it."
"
"Dewey said that the family general told him that they were kidnapped on the way and were caught off guard. He only protected the woman and escaped. The woman and the maid were captured. They came to Zhangjiazhuang to rest, and then they went up the mountain with the villagers to suppress the bandits and save the people.
"The scribe reached out and pinched his mustache and squinted his eyes, "Zhang Xiaoqian and the villagers also confirmed that this group of people entered the village in the middle of the night. Did the general's words reveal anything?"
"That family member knows Liang Zhen very well. I have never heard of many of the things he said." Wang Zhi rubbed the smell of alcohol from his face.
What he doesn't know, he certainly doesn't know whether it's true or false.
"Dewey said they were going to send a letter to Liang Zhen. If we go and investigate, we will know whether it is true or not." Wang Zhi was not interested in discussing this anymore and yawned lazily. "Leave them in the county government until we find out more. If it is true,
They are Wu Ya'er's relatives, so let them go."
"If not, they don't have to leave."
"Of course, the premise of all this is that they really haven't discovered the secrets we have here."
"If they know anything, let alone Wu Ya'er's relatives, even if they are Liang Zhen's relatives, they won't be able to leave Dou County alive."