Meng Xiancheng died in prison, but the murderer escaped without a trace. The reason why he was able to escape from prison was because too many prisoners broke the prison wall. This absurd reason made Huazhi faint on the spot.
But he went to the prison to check afterwards, and the prison walls were indeed too thin. Guizhou is not too cold in winter, so even the masonry houses are not as thick as the walls in the north, but places like the prison should be extra reinforced, but... the county There is no money in it.
Huazhi County learned from the painful experience and decided to wait for the imperial court to allocate money this year, and no matter what, it must squeeze out a part of it to completely repair the prison, so that such absurd things will never happen again. However, it is a matter of the future to make up for it after a dead sheep, and the immediate matter still needs to be resolved.
When this matter was reported to the court, it was inevitable that there would be a stain on his exams. Fortunately, Meng Xiancheng was already a prisoner for crimes at this time, and the murderer was a commoner who was oppressed and persecuted by him in collusion with local tycoons. The nature of the vendetta and the current status of Meng Xiancheng's current status are far less serious than Yixian Dianshi who was harmed by robbers just after he took office.
But he is very concerned about another matter, and this matter is Ye Xiaotian. Ye Xiaotian is a fake history. According to Meng Xiancheng's original plan, he was to wait for him to take office for a period of time before killing him silently. Unexpectedly, Ye Xiaotian was too troublesome. Wei Jie died first.
Now that the big event has just come and the turmoil is over, even if you want to act according to the original plan, you have to wait for a while, but Huazhi County can't wait. Because he just received the news that a large group of people from Ai's family are already on the road, heading straight to Hu County.
Ai's family heard that Ai Dianshi was in danger on the road, and he was lucky to survive, but his family and guards were all killed, and he was shocked. Although it was inconvenient to travel far away at that time, Ai Dianshi's younger brother came to visit in person, and brought some family members of the dead guards with him.
In addition, Huazhi County saw the hope of regaining power. Ye Xiaotian overthrew Mengxian Cheng and killed Qi Mu. meat, but the limelight was robbed by Ye Xiaotian.
The judiciary, which was originally controlled by Meng Xiancheng, is now impenetrable by water and needles. He obeys Ye Xiaotian's orders, and the master Wang has no chance to reach in. If he takes this opportunity to kill Ye Xiaotian, he will have It is very likely to take over the power vacuum left by the successive deaths of Meng Xiancheng and "Ai Dianshi".
Therefore, Huazhi County secretly convened the chief officials and assistant officials who had participated in the secret meeting that day to discuss how to solve this difficult problem as soon as possible. Hua Zhixian sat in the hall, and there were three seats in a row on the left hand side, only the middle one was occupied, and that was the pedantic Master Wang. The seat of Meng Xiancheng is vacant, and the seat of Ai Dianshi is also vacant.
Other low-level miscellaneous officials, such as Gu Qingge, the Confucian teacher of the county, Huang Xuan, the inspector, Luo Xiaoye, the postman, the tax ambassador, the county warehouse ambassador, etc., were all sitting there, all silent, and the atmosphere in the hall was very depressing. .
Some of them have already had a deep friendship with Ye Xiaotian these days, so naturally they don't want to kill them, such as Luo Xunjian. There are also people who see Ye Xiaotian's actions these days and appreciate them, so they can't bear to harm him, such as Gu Jiaoyu and Huang Xundao from the county school.
Others have their own considerations. For example, Master Wang considers: Will the biggest benefit of letting Ye Xiaotian disappear at this time fall into the pocket of Huazhi County? Others didn't want to risk being the first to suggest murder.
Huazhi County has been in Huxian County for three years, carrying two big mountains on his shoulders, Meng County Cheng and Wang Zhuzhu, and Qi Mu, the Tai Sui, on his head, and behind him there are tribes in the mountains who make trouble for him from time to time, making him burnt out and gradually cowardly. When I got up, the burden on one shoulder suddenly went away, and it was more than half relaxed.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Hua Zhixian, who had never dared to take the initiative to speak out to Meng County Cheng and Wang Zhubu, coughed and looked at Wang Zhubo with dignity: "Ai's family is on the way and will be there soon. Come on, just wait for them to arrive, and the matter will be ruined immediately, you and I will not be able to escape the responsibility, the most urgent thing is to solve this matter as soon as possible, what does Master Wang think?"
Master Wang really didn't want Ye Xiaotian to die now, but thinking of Ai Dianshi's family, Master Wang also felt troubled, he frowned slightly, but didn't speak, but Luo Xiaoye couldn't hold back, and said: "My lord, it was Meng Qingwei's idea to discuss Ye Xiaotian's replacement at the beginning. Now that I think about it, the lower officials think it's not right. Ye Xiaotian must kill him? Why don't you let him go and say that Ai Dianshi died of a serious illness?" , this matter is so important, how could Ye Xiaotian make it public? If we give him a lot of money... "
Hua Zhixian widened his eyes and said, "Inspector Luo, can you guarantee that he will keep the secret absolutely? When he is overjoyed, people will reveal secrets. When he is drunk, he will also reveal secrets. If he has a difficult life in the future , it’s hard to say that he won’t use this secret as a coercion to ask us for various benefits, and it won’t stop!”
Gu Jiaoyu said: "My lord, Mr. Gu looks at this person's various actions, and he doesn't look like that kind of person."
After hearing this sentence, Hua Zhixian sighed with sympathy: "People will change..."
This time, Gu Jiaoyu had nothing to say.
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In the back house, Su Xuntian sometimes sat, sometimes stood up, sometimes walked around the pool and artificial hills, and sometimes stood under the tree in a daze, looking absent-minded.
Su Ya threw the fish food into the pool water, teasing the fish to jump up one after another, making the pool water rippling, she smiled and clapped her hands, raised her eyes to her fidgeting younger brother, and joked: "Want to see the water dancing girl? Then go, I didn't stop you."
Su Xuntian said: "It's not."
Su Ya smiled slightly, and said: "What is that because, you are causing trouble outside again?"
Su Xuntian said: "I've been following the rules recently, what trouble can I cause?"
Su Ya said: "That's it?"
Su Xuntian waved his hands in annoyance, and said, "Hey! You women don't understand this kind of thing."
After Su Xuntian finished speaking, he turned his head and left. Su Ya stood there blankly, shaking her head with a broken smile.
Su Xuntian left the back house, bypassed the third hall where Huazhi County discussed affairs, and just passed the gate of the second hall, when he saw Li Yuncong walking there step by step as if he had lost his soul.
Today's discussion, Huazhi County sent a lot of people to block the entrance of the third hall, and even sent more people to the second hall, but Su Xuntian and Li Yuncong are both insiders, and they were sent to monitor Ye Xiaotian. In order not to guard against them.
Su Xuntian stopped in front of Li Yuncong. Li Yuncong held his hands behind his back, his eyes straightened, as if there was an extra pillar in front of him, he subconsciously walked around him, continued to walk forward, took six or seven steps, turned around and walked back, and arrived at Su Xuntian. In front of Xuntian, he subconsciously walked around and walked over.
Su Xuntian sighed, and called out: "Li Lidian."
Li Yuncong turned a deaf ear, so Su Xuntian had to raise his voice and call again: "Li Lidian!"
Li Yuncong was stunned for a moment, but when he turned around and saw that it was Su Xuntian, his face collapsed immediately.
Su Xuntian said in a low voice: "My brother-in-law...is calling people to discuss how to deal with him."
Li Yuncong said: "I know."
Su Xuntian took a look at Li Yuncong, and said: "Li Lidian, I, Su Xuntian, have never obeyed anyone, but him. An insidious person like Meng Xiancheng and an arrogant bastard like Qi Mu were all brought down by him. If he ends up being caught by this... this..."
Su Xuntian gritted his teeth, and said, "I'm not reconciled to being victimized by such a villain's tricks!"
Li Yuncong's eyes lit up: "How about we inform him about this?"
Su Xuntian struggled in pain, and said, "But, that's my brother-in-law."
Li Yuncong said: "So what, let's tell him, let him escape early, does he still have the ability to deal with your brother-in-law?"
Li Yuncong intertwined his fists and palms, gritted his teeth for a while, and then said, "Let's go! Let's go find him!"
The two hurried out of the county office, went to Ye Xiaotian's residence first, turned a street, and before they got into the alley, they saw Ye Xiaotian coming from a distance. When Ye Xiaotian went to the banquet in Luo Mansion, Hong Baichuan, who was pregnant with comfort, was so drunk that he was helped to rest. Ye Xiaotian and Luo Daheng talked for a while, seeing that it was getting late, they got up and said goodbye, and rushed to their residence .
Since Qi Mu was killed, the Qi family has been scattered by trees and hogs. Ye Xiaotian has been through for a few days and sees nothing dangerous, so he usually doesn’t need Bantou Zhou to send people to follow him. He likes to be free and feel like he is always being watched. uncomfortable.
At this time, Ye Xiaotian was slightly drunk, and he wandered the streets casually, and those who knew him respectfully saluted him, Ye Xiaotian also nodded with a smile, and the journey was quite pleasant.
When Su Xuntian and Li Yuncong saw Ye Xiaotian, they immediately went up to meet Ye Xiaotian, holding him from left to right, Su Xuntian said in a low voice: "My lord, please take a step to speak."
Seeing the strange expressions of the two, Ye Xiaotian didn't feel a little strange, so he didn't ask any more questions, and followed them obediently into an alley with few pedestrians. Su Xuntian and Li Yuncong immediately told each other what happened .
Ye Xiaotian was stunned when he heard this. He had thought about the blackness of these officials, but he didn't expect their hearts to be so dark and courageous. Maybe the words of Li Qiuchi, the litigator in Shuixi, made sense. Far away, the more courageous the officials are, the more petty officials they are, the more arrogant and domineering they are.
Li Yuncong urged: "Hurry up, there are people who are ordered to watch you besides me, but don't worry, with our help, we will definitely arrange for you to leave without being discovered. In fact, if you want to leave now, even if you do so brazenly." Go, I believe no one will dare to stop you."
Su Xuntian said anxiously: "Yes, don't be dazed, just pack your bags and leave immediately!"
Ye Xiaotian took a deep look at him and said, "Then what about my sister?"
Su Xuntian thought that as soon as Ye Xiaotian left, that lovely person would also leave with him, and he felt very sad, but could he keep her, so he gritted his teeth and said: "I will help you pick her up, I don't believe it, the back house Someone inside dares to stop me!"
Ye Xiaotian shook his head, and said softly: "I came here from Jingzhou, I was hunted all the way here. I don't want to be chased and left all the way!"
Li Yuncong stomped his feet anxiously and said, "Then what do you want?"
In the third hall of the county government office, the originally quiet lobby has turned into a vegetable market again. Officials who hold different opinions are arguing red-faced with each other. Watching everyone arguing.
At this time, the closed door was suddenly pushed open with a bang, a beam of golden light shone in, the hall was silent for a moment, everyone looked towards the door in unison, and saw Ye Xiaotian walking away with a smile in his sunset glow He came in and cupped his hands: "Hi everyone, are you discussing how to die? I'm here to die!"