Inspector Song watched anxiously as Zhou Man led two teams past them.
A yamen servant couldn't help urging, "Inspector Song, let's go back quickly, Brother Ping's leg needs to be healed."
Song Xunjian glanced at him, then turned around and said, "Let's go."
To go to Dongyuzhuang, you have to pass the edge of Xiaojing Village and Dajing Village.
Because of Zhou Man's words, the villagers were very dissatisfied with Chief Jia. Although he had a few yamen servants behind him to prevent them from doing anything, verbal conflicts were still acceptable.
Some villagers said resentfully: "The head of the village, we are all of the same clan. If the children have done something wrong, please tell us. What's the matter with telling the truth?"
"That's right, do you look good when they become bandits?"
"Now our two villages are ashamed to death, you shouldn't tell the truth."
The head of the district who had already explained the whole morning was exhausted, and said in a hoarse voice again helplessly: "I didn't inform you, the county magistrate himself found out."
No one listened to him, "The adults said that you were the one who informed me that week. If it weren't for you, how could the county magistrate know about the robbery?"
Chief Jia was furious, and shouted again: "Master Zhou clearly said that Jia Dalang and the others confessed themselves, and the bandit capital recruited. Can I, the chief of the village, continue to conceal it for them?"
The villagers didn't listen at all, they only believed what they believed, and they only chose to believe what they wanted to hear.
When the village head was exhausted, Zhou Man led a large army and ran quickly on the road outside their village.
That's right, there are more than two hundred people, it seems that there are a lot of people, and everyone is either carrying a knife or a bow and arrow, which is very scary to look at.
The villagers surrounding the village chief who wanted to explain the matter fell silent, watching Zhou Man and his group of people running over the road not far away in silence, looking at Dongyu Village in that direction...
Jia Lichang waited for them to run away before looking back at the villagers, and said angrily: "Did you see it? This is the reinforcements, do you understand the reinforcements?"
He said: "Where are there so many soldiers and horses in Beihai County? Don't they have to be transferred from Qingzhou City? Do you know how long it will take from Qingzhou City to our place?"
Villager: "I don't know!"
They have never been there, how do you know
Many people have never even been to the county seat.
Jia Lichang: "... It will take at least four days to run like this. What does this mean? It means that the Bai county magistrate has already asked for help from Qingzhou City, maybe before he came to our village!"
"Do you really think that Xiaoliu Village was robbed by them for nothing? The county government didn't say a word before, maybe it had received the news and was investigating this matter. The last time County Magistrate Bai and the others came, they came here after Jia Dalang and the others. Let's go." I took them all away, captured the bandit leader, can the rest escape?"
Seeing that they were silent, Mr. Jia let out a breath, and said earnestly, "You just saw that the county government can mobilize an army. If they resist stubbornly, they will not surround Dongyuzhuang, but our Dajing village." And Koimura."
He asked: "Are you really planning to follow the grasshopper at home and go up the mountain to become a bandit?"
Those villagers whose family members were arrested didn’t say a word, and some others were not happy, and immediately shouted: “We have been wronged, Li Zhang, we can’t let County Magistrate Bai really designate our village as a bandit den, our family members But be honest."
Jia Lichang sneered, "Are you honest? Are you honest, what did you have to do with them last night?"
The villagers choked, paused, turned around and left, and dragged the family members away, "Go back, go back, this matter has nothing to do with us."
The crowd dispersed in half immediately.
The other half refused to leave for a long time, and asked persistently: "Li Chief, County Magistrate Bai won't behead them?"
Others were worried, "A bandit has appeared in our family, what reputation do we have? What about the remaining children?"
"God, I only have one son."
There was a lot of crying at the scene, and Jia Lichang's head hurt even more.
At this time, Bai Shan and the others had already called all the youths on the list to Sun Lichang's house in Dongyu Village.
Of course, the reason used was that someone came from the county yamen, one was to admonish them, and the other was to select yamen servants. Captain Dong led the soldiers and hid outside the village without moving.
Not all the people came, some were because they were not in the village, Bai Shan didn't mind, and when he had called all the people he could, he put down his tea bowl and got up and said, "Let's go out of the village and have a try. "
A young man asked, "Try what?"
They looked Bai Shan up and down, not knowing who he was.
Bai Shandao: "I'm an official in the county yamen who selects yamen servants. Jia Dalang said that you people have brute force and you can't do other things. It's okay to patrol the streets in the county town and arrest them. So I'll choose and see."
Sun Lichang's voice was a little trembling, and he followed what Bai Shan taught him in a strong and calm manner: "What's the matter, if you tell you to try it, just try it."
The young people looked at each other in blank dismay, but seeing that Bai Shan had already taken someone out, they could only follow with their hands.
When the people in the village saw these people, they would move away a little, not to mention that the ones walking in front were still officials wearing official uniforms.
That's right, except for Bai Shan, everyone who followed him was wearing official uniforms.
Walking out of the village entrance, there is a road in front of you, forests on both sides, and fields on both sides behind you...
A few young people faintly felt that something was wrong. Although the chief gave a reason, the reason was unreliable no matter what they thought. They were very tempted at first, but when they got here, they felt something was wrong.
Especially the performance of the chief just now...
So the young men looked at each other and walked forward a few steps hesitantly. Bai Shan noticed that their footsteps were getting slower and slower. Instead of stopping, he quickened his pace and walked forward, dragging Sun Lichang along with him. , and after a while, he distanced himself from them...
After walking for a while, Bai Shan turned around to look at them, and said in a deep voice: "The county government arrested the bandits, everyone squatted down and obeyed—"
A young man heard this, and before Bai Shan could finish speaking, he shouted loudly: "Run—"
Most of the people turned around and ran away, and a few stayed where they were with a confused face. After hesitating for a while, they also turned and ran along...
As soon as they jumped off the field, soldiers rushed out of the nearby woods and wheat fields, and rushed straight towards them.
They directly skipped those who were stunned in place just now, and headed towards those who left first...
The young man who was the first to run jumped and ran all the way with his people, chasing a group of soldiers behind him, because the other party was familiar with the path, and the soldiers did not have a good rest last night, so they could only follow from a distance...
The young people jumped onto the road and continued to run forward. As soon as they turned a corner, they collided with Zhou Man and others who were riding a horse. They almost couldn't stop and ran to the foot of the horse...
Zhou Man was so frightened that he reined in his horse and was about to speak when he heard a faint shout and curse from the front, "Grandma, let's shoot arrows if you run away—"
If the county magistrate hadn't said that these people were unidentified bandits, they would have shot out with bows and arrows long ago...
When Zhou Man heard this, his eyes lit up, and he immediately waved to the soldiers behind him, "It's them, take it down!"
Before inspector Li could speak, the soldiers behind hula-la rushed up to encircle them, forming a siege with the people behind.
Li inspector and inspector: ... who is the inspector