The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 29 Cold Sweat
"Iron mines are a major event, and the imperial court is using its troops. If there is news of iron mines here, it will be considered a great achievement."

"That man is really clever. Knowing that my brother and I can't avoid this matter, he simply beat the gongs and drums to let the whole city know."

"The crouching dragon is reborn, hehe."

The sound of 'treading' horseshoes sounded on the bluestone bricks of the long street, above the hoofed brown horse. The county captain swung his whip and tapped it lightly on the shaking mane. The horse's head turned sideways suspiciously, looking at the The former caressed it, and said to the other knight beside him: "This man from Geng's Village can't read big characters, and he is quick-witted to be able to do this. It's rare that he knows how to honor you and me."

The knight next to him is his brother. The two brothers are called Gao Jun and Gao Sheng. They look about the same, and they are also burly. Gao Sheng is dressed as a warrior, with long beard and thick eyebrows. With a big knife, sitting on the horseback with a solemn face.

"My brother was assassinated on the street that day, and someone among them called the brothers of the Golden Knife Gang to rush to help. Later, it was described from the mouth of the gang that it was this Geng Qing."

Speaking of this, seeing his elder brother looking over, Gao Sheng stroked his thick beard, and continued: "My brother has a confidant, who is good at skills and average intellect, but he can give me the idea of ​​making buns and collecting firewood. He is a farmer, and he was the one who told the report just now that Geng Qing asked me to inform my elder brother, and now it seems that this young man is also the one who made up his mind."

"Is there still such a thing?"

Gao Jun bared his teeth and smiled, it was the first time he knew about this matter from his brother, including the current iron mine matter, he immediately had a good impression of the young man named Geng Qing, he could help him in times of crisis, even if he took the initiative to call out twice , that is also kindness.

"Brother, we are short of manpower anyway. This kind of illiterate and quick-witted, it's even rarer that the other party can show favor to my brothers. Why don't you come in."

The leader of the Golden Knife Gang also has an imposing manner not inferior to his elder brother. He glanced at the north side intentionally or unintentionally, "The Khitan people always need people to take care of it. Geng Qing is a clean man with no bottom line in doing things, but he can do it." Use it."

Over there, Gao Jun looked at the gradually increasing number of people in the city in front of him, gently waved his hands, and lowered his voice.

"Don't worry, this kind of person is trying to please both sides. We still need to observe for a few more days. Just take advantage of the iron mine incident and try it out at that time. If we really rely on our brothers, we can be pulled around by our confidantes."

After walking for a while, the people gathered at the gate of the yamen over there became noisy, and someone shouted: "The corpse is right in front of you, why do you need evidence!"

"That's right, the county lord should not cover up the murderer, or we won't do it!"

The pawn waved the obituary to persuade them to calm down, but someone threw a stone from the crowd and hit them on the head, breaking the scalp and bleeding.

On the street not far away, Gao Jun stopped talking, frowned, and turned his head to invite a pawn to pass.

"Scatter the people aside, the county lieutenant will enter the county government."

Several cavalry soldiers received the order and galloped over on their horses. The people surrounding them fled in all directions in shock. Those who couldn't escape were brushed by the running horses and directly crashed into the crowd.

sigh -

The horse neighed, and the pawns who reined in their horses separated from the left and right, and with a 'Clang' they drew out their horizontal knives and yelled loudly at the staggered and dodged crowd, forcefully opening a path.

"Back off, back off!"

The sound of trampling horseshoes approached from far away. On the horse's back, Gao Jun looked around, threw off his cloak, got off the horse, and led Gao Sheng towards the gate of the county government office. Said: "County lieutenant."

"En." Gao Jun glanced at him, then stopped talking, took off his saber and handed it to his deputy, beckoning the officer to give him the obituary, opened it in his hand, looked at it twice, snorted softly, and glanced aside to manage the Liu family, He waved at him.

"come over."

The steward hurriedly stepped forward, and before he could speak, a big hand slapped him on the face, the whole person staggered and slammed into the wooden pillar under the eaves, dazedly covering the five red fingerprints on his face, ". County lieutenant."

Gao Jun didn't bother to look at him, threw the obituary in his hand on the ground, and waved to the people outside who dared not make a sound: "It's all gone, the county lord has said it, there is not enough evidence, you still want to mess around and attack the government. It’s just rebellion.”

A hat of rebellion was put on, and no one could bear to change it. The few scholars who had been the loudest suddenly dispersed, and those who called for friends squeezed out of the crowd in twos and threes and ran to nowhere.

The rest of the people also left without a sound, only those orphans and widows, and the Liu family's thugs standing there, seeing the eyes of the surrounding soldiers, a moment later, the women and children in sackcloth and mourning also untied their sackcloth. He got down, threw the child on the ground, picked up the child, turned around and ran away, making Liu's steward smile awkwardly.

"She them"

snort!
Over there, Gao Jun snorted coldly, turned around and walked into the yamen with his deputy, Gao Sheng, and the officials and officials he met on the way all retreated to one side and bowed their hands to salute. After asking the county magistrate and where Geng Qing was, they went straight to find past.

The daily offices are all on the side yard, there are several side rooms there, and the county captain's office is also here. When Gao Jun went looking for it, the county magistrate who was talking to Geng Qing in the open office room in front received a report from the officer. The two stopped talking.

Footsteps came.

The latter pursed his lips, sat on the chair and moved, but still stood up, the open door showed a tall figure, Geng Qing hurriedly stepped forward to welcome him in.

"The little one has seen the county lieutenant."

"You're Geng Qing?" The tall figure who stepped into the threshold nodded at the well-mannered young man, and after a few casual compliments, he looked at the fat county magistrate over there.

"Xianzun, how are you doing these days?"

"The magistrate of Bu Lao is concerned. The county is doing very well, and he is too busy every day to be free." The county magistrate dare not offend the other party, but as a chief official, he can't be too low-key and belittle himself.He lowered his gaze, brushed his wide sleeves casually, and turned sideways.

"I don't know the county lieutenant, but he suddenly returned to the yamen. What do you need to report to the county?"

Lieutenant Gao just smiled.

"It's nothing, I just heard that Niujiaji dug up iron ore, so I'll come back and have a look." He said, and he cast his eyes on Geng Qing who was near the door, "Good job, you go back first, tomorrow I will talk to the county Ling Hui will come to Niujiaji, and then you will take us to look for it. As for those people outside the door, don’t worry about it.”

After saying that, he waved his hands and repeated: "Go out, I have business matters to discuss with the magistrate."

"Yes."

Geng Qing looked over there, carefully arched his hands, buried his face and slowly exited the door, and outside, there was a big man smiling at him with a wide knife hanging from his waist, then he smiled too, and hurriedly left the crescent door and walked out The county government, joined the three of Dachun who were waiting outside, and asked him how the inside was going.Will he be arrested and thrown in jail?

"It'll be fine, let's go back."

"stop!"

The steward of Liu's family rushed over with his face covered, how could he let him go at this point, stretched out his hand to grab, Geng Qing who was walking in front stopped, turned around abruptly, and raised his hand.

Snapped--

Another crisp sound resounded on the other side of the manager's face, making the other party stunned.

"The yamen is an important place, how can you allow you to be presumptuous!" Geng Qing hung his palms behind his back, looked at the Liu family's nursing home that was about to rush over there, the cavalrymen and yamen servants at the door also stepped forward, forcing people back, He cupped his hands in thanks, and asked Shang Dachun and the others to leave.

Speeding up the pace, crossing the streets and alleys, once out of the city gate, Dachun suddenly talked about Geng Qing's slap just now, and Geng Qing, who was following behind, smiled and did not speak, but a layer of blood was secreted from his clothes on his back. cold sweat.

It was too dangerous just now.

Unexpectedly, Liu Mang's people came to the county government one step earlier than him. If he hadn't thought about publicizing the ore in advance, the county magistrate might be bribed by the other party and put himself in prison. There is no way to display it.

Not long after the four of them left, a group of guards from the Liu family returned along the road, holding the dead bodies by hand. As the sky fell, Liu Mang, who moved up the chairs and sat in the front yard waiting for news, saw him come back, and the four dead bodies were also pulled back. Put it outside, pick up the chair angrily and throw it over.

Clap!

The chair was broken on the ground, and one of the chair legs rolled not far away. Liu Man blushed and asked the servant girl to help him stabilize his body. He pointed at the steward for a long while before he could speak.

"what happened?!"

"Go back to the master's house. Geng Qing found out that the magistrate of the iron mine had already moved, so he turned his back on it, and the county lieutenant who heard the news also rushed over and put the matter on hold."

County lieutenant?

Liu Man was stunned, and was silent for a moment, "It seems that I still have to prepare a gift, what's the matter with the redness on both sides of your face?"

"It was hit by the county lieutenant"

"On both sides?"

The old steward raised his face slightly, looked at the master's house, swallowed hesitantly, and under Liu Mang's urging, he said, "Yes, it's Geng Qing, he asked me to bring you something, he said he said"

"What did you say? You said it, but I'm so anxious!" Liu Man waved his hands around anxiously because of his hesitation, wishing he could go over and slap him again.

"He said... he was going to demolish the master's ancestral house."

Damn it!
The plump figure over there cursed angrily, and was so angry that he was shaking when he stood still, and was held by the maid in time to prevent him from falling down.

Breaking away from the servant girl, she clenched her teeth and almost growled.

"Okay. I want to see what he's doing!!"

　I'm late tonight, with few recommendations and few comments, it feels like it's all stand-alone.

　　


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