The First Great Ancestor of the Five Dynasties

Chapter 80 The Death of Li Guangbo

Chen An was ordered to take custody of Li Guangbo.

He took Li Guangbo to the county government office and tied him to a pillar under the eaves with a rope.

Li Guangbo received a stick from Shi Xiangwen and vomited so much that he even vomited all his bile.

Shaking his dazed head vigorously, Li Guangbo found that he was tied up, and a young man with a dark face and a knife stood in front of him, looking at him expressionlessly.

Li Guangbo first cursed a few words in Dangxiang dialect, but when Chen An ignored him, he switched to Chinese and yelled and cursed. The words were very ugly.

The Dangxiang people have a language but no written language, which sounds somewhat similar to the Xiqiang dialect. Chen An grew up in Zhangyijun and had frequent interactions with the Qiang people. He understands the Qiang dialect and can also understand some Dangxiang dialect.

Chen An replied to him in Qiang dialect with a very indifferent tone.

Li Guangbo was stunned for a moment, then cursed and roared angrily, with a ferocious look on his face, and the braids hanging down from his forehead kept swaying.

Chen An ignored him and walked to the door to the courtyard to chat with a few Yabing brothers.

After a while, a man in Tsing Yi and a small hat dressed as a boy came holding a tray with several bowls of water on it. Chen An stopped him and asked about his purpose.

The boy raised his head, revealing a face full of cunning. It was Tao Wenju, Xue Xiuliang's close confidant.

Tao Wenju glanced furtively towards the back hall, bowed his waist and said with a flattering look on his face: "Several military masters, I am a follower of Young Master Li, and I came here specially to bring a bowl of water to my Young Master. My Young Master likes to take elixirs on weekdays. My body is dry and hot, and I am often thirsty. If I don't drink more water, I'm afraid I will burn out my body. Several military masters are affected, so please drink some!"

Chen Angang wanted to refuse, but an old soldier picked up the bowl and said, "Go, go, don't play tricks."

The old pawn drank a bowl of clear water, wiped his mouth, looked at the others and said with a smile, "Drink! I don't know when Deputy Envoy Zhu will come to interrogate this guy. We all have to wait for a while. "

The other soldiers also picked up the water bowl and drank it, then put down the bowl and kicked Tao Wen's butt: "Hurry up! Don't let that gangster boy die of thirst!"

Tao Wenju smiled apologetically, nodded and entered the hospital.

Chen An didn't drink. He wanted to follow up and keep an eye on him, but he was stopped by the old soldier: "Oh~ you are so honest. With our brothers watching, what can happen? Don't pay attention!"

Chen An thought for a while and stood in front of the door, watching from a distance as the servant went to deliver water to Li Guangbo.

Tao Wenju picked up the water bowl, turned his back to the partition door, took out a thin tube from his arms, bit off the stopper, and poured the silver-white liquid inside into the bowl.

The silver-white liquid sinks to the bottom like silver beads when it enters the water.

"Come on, let's have a drink, and then we'll be on our way."

Tao Wenju muttered, holding Li Guangbo's mouth and pouring it in.

Li Guangbo drank a few sips in a daze, choked and coughed repeatedly. He opened his bloodshot eyes, and the figures in front of him gradually became clearer: "It's you."

"Oh, it's a good thing Mr. Li still remembers the villain."

Tao Wenju sneered in a low voice and forced him to drink a few more mouthfuls.

Li Guangbo was probably thirsty, so he took a few big sips and smacked his lips: "This is water, not wine!"

Tao Wenju exclaimed, "It's wine. If you drink more, you can taste the wine."

Li Guangbo took a few more sips, but the bottom of the bowl was dry.

"Ahem~ Where is Brother Xue? Didn't you say that you want to join forces with me and kill Zhu Xiu?" Li Guangbo seemed to be a little more conscious.

When Tao Wenju saw that he had finished drinking, he breathed a sigh of relief and said with a strange smile in a low voice: "Second Master's troops will be here soon. Mr. Li will wait patiently for a while. You are a descendant of the Li family of the Dingnan Army. Even if Shi Kuangwei comes in person, you will not be able to do anything." I dare not touch a single hair of yours."

"I" Li Guangbo wanted to say something, but his throat slid up and down but he couldn't speak. His eyes began to roll up, revealing the horrifying whites of his eyes, and his body twitched slightly.

Tao Wenju was startled and hurriedly picked up the tray and walked down the stone steps and out the door. Before leaving, he nodded and bowed to Chen An and others.

Chen An looked back and saw that Li Guangbo was still tied to the pillar, his head drooped, and there seemed to be nothing unusual.

Tao Wenju walked quickly away, bypassing the corridor and path, and left through the back door of the county government office.

At the back door, Xue Xiuliang was waiting impatiently. When he saw him, he said anxiously: "Is it done?"

Tao Wenju wiped the sweat from his forehead: "I have lived up to the Second Master's trust, it's done!"

Xue Xiuliang patted his shoulder heavily with his big hand, and sneered coldly: "Go! Go back to Anding!"

The group hurriedly left Liangyuan County.

After a moment, Li Guangbo, who was drooping and feeling dizzy, suddenly raised his head and roared wildly, struggling desperately. Chen An and others hurriedly rushed to the back hall to check.

"What's wrong with this kid?" The tooth soldier was horrified.

Li Guangbo looked very scary at this moment. His eyes were red and he couldn't help but roll his eyes. His facial features were distorted, his face was full of hatred and ferociousness, his whole body was shaking violently, his insteps were upright and arched, and his hands were stiff and black with claws.

He struggled and twisted like crazy and yelled, his voice sounding like pain and excitement.

"Is the ghost possessed!?"

The tooth soldiers were frightened and did not dare to approach.

"Look!"

Saliva began to flow from Li Guangbo's mouth, his gums were dark, and a mixture of blue and black blood flowed out.

"Go and ask Young Master to come back!" Chen An came to his senses and shouted.

The old tooth soldiers left in panic.

Zhu Xiu ran over anxiously and was out of breath.

When he saw Li Guangbo twitching all over, he was really startled.

"Hurry up and let him go!" Everyone hurriedly untied the rope and laid Li Guangbo down on the ground.

Li Guangbo's pupils began to expand, his body shook violently and twitched. He first vomited dark green gastric juice, and then began to vomit blood.

Large red rashes began to appear on his neck, and his chest rose and fell violently, as if he had difficulty breathing.

Zhu Xiu was stunned, and suddenly came to his senses: "He has been poisoned! Find water and goat's milk quickly! Hurry!~"

Before Chen An could scoop out the water, Li Guangbo convulsed violently and let out all his breath. He tilted his head and lost his breath.

Zhu Xiu was stunned for a moment, then carefully reached out to explore his neck, without any twitching.

"died."

Zhu Xiu's heart trembled violently, her face turned blue, and she looked extremely ugly.

The water ladle in Chen An's hand fell to the ground with a bang, and the water splashed onto his feet.

"Chen An is not good at guarding, please punish me, Young Master!" Chen An knelt down with regret on his face.

Several tooth soldiers also knelt down.

Yan Ping opened his mouth to plead, but when he saw that Zhu Xiu's face was solemn and cold as never before, he swallowed it back and did not dare to say anything.

Just as Zhu Xiu was about to speak, he caught a glimpse of a silver bead on the ground from the corner of his eye and hurriedly came closer to take a closer look.

"Mercury." Zhu Xiu murmured. It seemed that he was acutely poisoned by mercury. No wonder it was so poisonous.

"Did any outsiders come here just now?" Zhu Xiu said solemnly.

The dental soldiers looked at each other and bowed their heads in silence.

Chen An honestly told what happened when someone came to deliver water just now.

"Do you still remember that person's appearance?" Zhu Xiu asked.

Chen An gritted his teeth and said, "I will recognize it even if it turns into ashes."

"You guys, seal off the county office immediately and search for this person! Remember, no information about Li Guangbo's death is allowed to be leaked!"

Chen An loudly accepted the order and hurriedly left with a few tooth soldiers.

"Choose a good coffin and collect the body." Zhu Xiu told Yan Ping.

Yan Ping agreed and went down to take care of things while the others collected the bodies.

A moment later, Shen Xuemin, who received the news, ran over sweating profusely, just in time to see Li Guangbo's body being carried away.

Shen Xuemin's legs immediately became weak and he almost fell.

"Dead?" Shen Xuemin couldn't believe it.

Zhu Xiu smiled bitterly.

"Oh! We've caused a big disaster!"

Shen Xuemin beat his chest and stamped his feet, "Dangxiang people have always been rebellious, and Li Guangbo is a direct descendant of the Li family. If he learns of his death, how can Li Yiyin be willing to let go? If the army is raised to question the crime, how will Zhangyi Town protect itself?"

Zhu Xiu sat dejectedly on the stone steps and said with a wry smile: "Big things will happen in the imperial court in the near future. Li Yiyin is so busy that he probably won't bother to ask questions for a while. But it will be hard to say in the future."

Shen Xuemin thought Zhu Xiu was comforting herself, and said anxiously: "How should we deal with it now?"

Zhu Xiu looked up at the sky. The weather was good and the sunset was shining from the west, but he felt chilled all over for no reason.

It turned out that he had fallen into a trap since he stepped into Liangyuan County.

The poisonous salt case in Dongshan Township, Li Guangbo leading the town soldiers to occupy the county government office, and then merging with them, these things are just condiments. The real purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes is to create the impression that he and Li Guangbo are on the same level, and finally Li Guangbo The irrefutable evidence of his brutal death!
"This is a fool's errand." Zhu Xiu shook his head. He underestimated the ruthlessness of the Xue brothers, and even his brother-in-law was not spared when he went crazy.

Unfortunately, even if he could guess that the masterminds behind the scenes were the Xue brothers, he had no evidence.

Are you going to tell Li Yiyin, the governor of Dingnan, that your eldest nephew was killed by Xue?Or maybe he took drugs and knocked himself on the head to death?

I'm afraid that Li Yiyin, who is angry, will send all his party cavalry to destroy Changyi Town!
"Well, it has already happened. It is useless to think about it any more. Let's go back and discuss it with the handsome man. In short, Li Yiyin will not come to our door soon, but we must find a way to solve this matter."

Zhu Xiu stood up, patted her butt, and took a deep breath to calm down.

"How many people from Township Chief Zhang can investigate clearly?"

Shen Xuemin said: "The confession was made by Township Chief Zhang who instigated him to attribute the deaths of the four members of the family to poisonous salt. Township Chief Zhang refused to confess even to death. In addition, the deceased's brother also admitted that it was Township Chief Zhang. He agreed to give him several acres of paddy fields in his dead brother's name, and then he bit him to death with poisonous salt."

Zhu Xiu nodded, the truth of the case was not as he expected.

"Continue to detain the village chief Zhang and keep him under strict supervision. The facts of the case will be truthfully announced to the people. Continue to distribute white salt, so that the people of Liangyuan will no longer be poor for eating salt."

Zhu Xiu warned seriously.

Shen Xuemin said: "I have remembered what Mr. Shao Lang said. But Li Guangbo."

Zhu Xiu waved his hand: "This matter has nothing to do with you. I was careless and took advantage of someone else's trap. You can be your county magistrate in peace and take good care of Liangyuan County. When I go back, I will discuss with the Commander-in-Chief and let you concurrently serve as Liangyuan Town." Will."

Shen Xuemin pursed his lips, his face full of sorrow.

Zhu Xiu glanced at him and said with a smile: "Okay, don't worry, the sky won't fall! As long as Zhangyi Town doesn't change its owner, you will still be the magistrate of Liangyuan County. I have to rush back to Anding overnight. Please take care of yourself in the future. If anything happens, Difficulties, report them in time. Let’s go~”

Zhu Xiu waved his hand and led a few tooth soldiers to leave in a hurry.

Shen Xuemin sighed and bowed deeply to his back.

(End of this chapter)