After leaving the village, Yan Liqiang rode his rhinoceros dragon away from Longqi Mountain.
Originally, Yan Liqiang wanted to go to the Ganzhou Guild Hall to meet Lu Peien and tell Lu Peien that he would be having a blind competition in a few days. However, at this time, Yan Liqiang was afraid that his meeting with Lu Peien would implicate Lu Peien, so he did not go to the Ganzhou Guild Hall again, but just asked Fang Beidou to find time to go there on his behalf to inform Lu Peien and tell him about it.
The two stalkers waiting outside the manor were waiting by the roadside for Yan Liqiang to come out. They were extremely arrogant and did not hide their arrogance at all. After seeing Yan Liqiang leave the manor on a rhinoceros horse, they each rode on a rhinoceros horse and followed Yan Liqiang. They were simply unscrupulous.
After leaving the village for a few miles and reaching the main road, Yan Liqiang glanced behind him and suddenly made Wuyun Gaixue run wildly. The two people behind him saw this and also rode their horses to catch up.
When turning around a forest on the side of the road, Yan Liqiang suddenly slowed down and stopped the rhino horse behind a bush on the side of the road. After waiting for just a few seconds, the sound of violent hooves came from behind.
The two people who followed Yan Liqiang did not seem to expect that Yan Liqiang stopped at the bend of the road. As soon as they turned around, they came face to face with Yan Liqiang.
"Whoa..." The two men were originally following Yan Liqiang. When they saw Yan Liqiang stop, they also stopped when they saw Yan Liqiang.
"Who are you and why are you following me?" Yan Liqiang rode his rhinoceros horse a few steps towards the two men and entered the sensing range of the Nian Snake.
"What a joke! The roads in the capital city are wide and wide, and we can go our separate ways. Today we two brothers are just in the mood to travel, and we like to ride horses for a ride. We can walk when we want, stop when we want, and go wherever we want. What's it to you?" One of the men with a dark complexion looked at Yan Liqiang and said with a specious argument.
"That's right. When did the laws of the Han Empire stipulate that only you can walk this road? You said we follow you, and we said you follow us! Why don't you try to report to the police and see who is right!" A man with a long and thin face next to him immediately added, looking at Yan Liqiang without fear, with a hint of sneer on his face.
As expected, they were from the Ministry of Justice. In just a blink of an eye, Yan Liqiang obtained enough information from the two people's heads through the snake recitation. These two people were ordered to watch him outside the Deer Garden. There was another group of people with them, but the road that the other group blocked was in the other direction after leaving the Deer Garden, so he didn't meet them today. The order they received was to watch him and report his whereabouts to the higher-ups. This was only the people during the day. At night, there were two other groups of people from the Ministry of Justice who watched the roads in all directions outside the Deer Garden, fearing that he would run away.
These small fry are certainly no match for Yan Liqiang, and Yan Liqiang will naturally not let anyone get hold of them just for the sake of these small fry. The person who sent them here might be hoping that he could kill these two people himself...
After getting the information he wanted, Yan Liqiang snorted coldly and stopped entangled with the two small characters. He rode his horse back to the Deer Garden. The two men laughed behind Yan Liqiang, and then continued to follow him on horseback. They followed him until Yan Liqiang arrived at the Deer Garden, and watched Yan Liqiang turn from the official road to the road leading to the Deer Garden, and then they stopped following him.
When Yan Liqiang dismounted, the soldiers guarding the gate of the Deer Garden saluted him at the same time. The officer also walked over with a smile on his face, "The deputy chief steward came back early today..."
Yan Liqiang directly handed the reins of the rhino horse to a sergeant and asked the sergeant to lead the rhino horse in. Then, he suddenly had an idea and pulled the officer aside, lowered his voice and muttered a few words.
When the officer heard this, he immediately patted his chest, laughed strangely, and rubbed his hands, "Don't worry, deputy chief steward, I'm good at this. They are just two bastards from the Ministry of Justice. As long as they are not wearing official uniforms, it will be easy to deal with them. Just wait and see how I deal with them. Leave it to me. I'll bring a few tough brothers with me and beat the shit out of them..."
"Just don't kill anyone!"
"Don't worry, Deputy Chief Steward. I know how to handle this matter. I guarantee that they will be bedridden for three months at a time. Besides, those people in the Ministry of Justice are not qualified to show off to our Imperial Guards. Even if the incident is brought to the court, we are not afraid..."
"Take the brothers who are going out to do business to have some wine..." Yan Liqiang said, and directly took out a silver note of one hundred taels and stuffed it into the officer's hand.
"Deputy General Manager, no, how can I take your money? We brothers will be so happy to be able to do something for you!" The officer quickly declined and returned the banknote.
"The emperor doesn't need hungry soldiers. Don't be polite to me. It will be too polite!" Yan Liqiang directly stuffed the banknote into the officer's belt. Seeing Yan Liqiang's enthusiasm and courtesy, the officer did not refuse. "Okay, then I will thank the deputy general manager on behalf of my brothers!"
After handing the matter over to the officer, Yan Liqiang entered the Deer Garden.
Seeing Yan Liqiang leave, the officer rubbed his chin, then called to a personal soldier beside him and whispered a few words. In less than a few minutes, led by the officer, seven or eight strong soldiers in casual clothes walked out of the Deer Garden. In just a short while, the seven or eight people came directly to the teahouse on the official road where the two lackeys of the Ministry of Justice were staying and watching. After the officer arrived, he took a quick look and saw the two rhinoceros horses in the stable of the teahouse, and the two people who were sitting in the shed outside the teahouse drinking tea with their eyes fixed on the official road. The clothes and appearance of the two people were exactly the same as what Yan Liqiang had just described.
Seeing so many people coming to the teahouse at once, the two men looked a little wary, but unfortunately...
There is no prelude or transition at all...
The officer pointed at the two men and shouted angrily, "These two are dog thieves, beat them up..."
The soldiers who had been prepared for a long time took out short iron sticks from their sleeves at the same time, and then pounced forward like tigers descending from the mountains.
"We are the constables from the Ministry of Justice, how dare you..." The two men shouted in shock and anger.
"Bullshit, I think you are just like the dog thieves who were wandering around in the woods outside the Deer Park last night. Several rare hunting dogs in our Deer Park are missing. It must be your doing..."
The two men who were following Yan Liqiang were not weaklings, but it was fine for them to face two or three soldiers. But facing a group of people who were four times their number, two of whom were even stronger than them, they could not hold out for even a minute before several short iron rods hit their calves hard. With the sound of broken bones, the two men fell to the ground screaming, and then their faces and bodies were mercilessly stepped on by a bunch of stinky big feet...
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Yan Liqiang returned to the small courtyard where he lived and sat quietly under the big tree in the courtyard, watching the nest of birds under the eaves chirping happily. The birds he rescued that day have now grown wings and can fly out of the nest. They come to the branches in the courtyard and jump around to practice flying...
Looking at the nest of little birds, Yan Liqiang's brain was also turning rapidly, thinking about the crisis in front of him and his own response. Slowly, Yan Liqiang's mind became as agile as the little bird on the branch...
Yan Liqiang sat quietly in the yard for several hours until the sun set. He finally became determined and had a plan to deal with it. He felt relieved all of a sudden!
Yan Liqiang stood up and walked out of the courtyard...
Not long after he walked out of the courtyard, Yan Liqiang felt something in his heart. He turned around and saw a brave little bird flapping its wings and flying out of the courtyard for the first time...
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"How ridiculous! I'm really pissed off..." With a slap, the furious Eunuch Liu slapped the rosewood tea table in front of him. The entire tea table instantly broke into countless pieces, scaring Xiao Lizi and Xiao Chunzi next to them. Eunuch Liu looked at Yan Liqiang with a terrible expression, his eyes almost spitting fire, "That guy surnamed Gu is so audacious, so audacious..."
Yan Liqiang also had a look of righteous indignation on his face, and his expression was extremely tragic, like a warrior holding a pack of dynamite and standing under the enemy's bunker. "A soldier can be killed but not humiliated. They thought they could use death to make me betray the emperor and do treason, but that is absolutely impossible. Although I, Yan Liqiang, am young, I also know how to write the words loyalty and righteousness. They want me to sell the newspaper to them for one or two taels of silver as a token of my surrender to Lin Qingtian. How could I do such a thing? Even if I die in a blind competition in a few days, I will never agree. So I am here today to hand over everything about the newspaper to you, Eunuch Liu, and let you present it to the emperor to put an end to their idea. If I really die in a few days, this newspaper is also my hard work. I can continue to work for the emperor and cheer for the emperor in the imperial capital. It can also be regarded as a thank you for the emperor's respect for me..."
At this time, Eunuch Liu was really moved by Yan Liqiang and patted Yan Liqiang's shoulder vigorously, "Liqiang, the emperor really didn't misjudge you..."
"Eunuch, this matter must not be known to too many people. I am afraid that once this news is leaked, some people will be angry and take it out on the village, which will not only implicate innocent people in the newspaper, but also destroy the newspaper. The workshop and warehouse where the newspaper is located are full of flammable materials. All it takes is a fire to turn them into ashes..."
"Don't worry, I will go to the palace to see the emperor right now. The emperor told me before that your newspaper is just a small thing made by a few writers in the market at first glance, but it is indeed very useful if you look closely. Li Qiang, you are very loyal, and the emperor will never sit idly by. As long as the emperor nods, I will personally select a group of people from the Imperial Horse and Infantry Department to take over your farm in the newspaper. I don't see who dares to touch it!"
"Then I'll have to trouble you, eunuch..."
Watching Eunuch Liu leave Luyuan and head for Imperial Capital City again, Yan Liqiang felt completely different than before, because from this moment on, he was no longer a chess piece controlled by others, but began to make his own moves for his own destiny...
(End of this chapter)