"You are really filial and good children. Listen to the old man's advice and go home quickly! Don't check again."

"Grandpa, our brothers spent more than two months and sent out a lot of gifts, but we didn't get any news. It seems that you are a kind-hearted and good person. Can you tell our brothers the reason for this?"

"Hey! Seeing how filial you are, the old man will talk to you carefully."

"Do you know Panyun Mountain?"

"heard about it."

"The bandits on that mountain specialize in snatching beautiful women up the mountain. Your cousin has most likely been snatched up the mountain by the bandits."

"That's unreasonable! The bandits are so rampant, shouldn't the government care about them?"

"Haha! They are all brothers who grew up wearing the same pair of trousers. They work together in collusion with each other. The suppression of bandits is just a show."

When Shen Jia and Xiao Yichen heard this, they immediately became energetic and whispered: "Old man, our brother's family has quite good connections. If you want to deal with these bandits, can you tell us everything you know."

The old man looked at the gifts on the table, looked at them carefully, and nodded slowly.

The old man has been from Ancheng for generations. His family has dozens of acres of farmland and two shops, and his life is pretty good.

Tang Ergou, the boss of Panyun Mountain, is also from Ancheng. He is a famous gangster and gangster in Ancheng. He has taken many homeless children as his subordinates. He spends his days stealing chickens, petting dogs, or teasing women. The whole Ancheng people hate him. Teeth itchy.

Twenty years ago, Tang Ergou molested a female official and was beaten almost to death. After he recovered, he began to cultivate his moral character on the surface, but secretly started the business of opening a Goulan courtyard and a gambling house.

Perhaps after Tang Ergou was beaten, he realized the importance of rights. Among a group of younger brothers, he picked out two people who were talented in studying and practicing martial arts. He used money to establish connections and re-registered their household registrations. , sending them to other cities to study and practice martial arts.

More than ten years ago, there was a severe drought in Zhongzhou and banditry continued. The biggest banditry was Tang Ergou. In order to allow Ding Wang to be promoted smoothly, Tang Ergou took a group of his younger brothers to surrender to the court and cooperated with Ding Wang to catch other bandits.

At that time, everyone thought that Tang Ergou had changed his ways, but they didn't know that he was just trying to cooperate with Ding Wang.

After Ding Wang was sent out to study and practice martial arts by Tang Ergou, he rarely came back to Ancheng, so many people didn't know about their relationship.

The old man had a fight with Ding Wang when he was young and recognized the mole between his eyebrows. Later, by chance, he saw You Zhihua, Ding Wang, and Tang Ergou together again, and confirmed their identities.

For his own safety, he did not make any announcement, but immediately took his family to settle in another city.

He understood that as long as Tang Ergou and the others were still there, people like him who knew their ins and outs would be in danger at any time.

Some time ago, he received news that someone had killed hundreds of bandits in Panyun Mountain, and then someone secretly investigated the person who killed the bandits. He knew this was an opportunity, so he couldn't help but come back.

As the elderly get older, it is their wish that the fallen leaves return to their roots.

"Old man, is there anyone else you know who knows these three?"

"There is a person who may have what you want."

"Seriously? Can you take us to meet him?"

"Please come with me!"

The old man led them into a small alley and stopped at the door of a small house. The old man stepped forward and knocked gently. After a while, a hunchbacked old man with white hair and beard opened the door.

"Brother, you're fine."

The hunchbacked old man twitched his lips: "When did you come back? Who are they?"

The old man pulled him aside and told him the whole story in a low voice.

After listening to his story, the hunchbacked old man looked at Shen Jia and Xiao Yichen and remained silent.

The two people in front of them had a calm posture and exuded a natural noble temperament. Their status was definitely extraordinary, but so what, to bring Ding Wang down, it was not just about being noble.

When Shen Jia and Xiao Yichen saw him ignoring him, they knew that he didn't trust them.

Xiao Yichen no longer restrained his aura, exuding all his royal aura, and said lightly: "The bandits on Panyun Mountain, You Zhihua, the prefect of Jiangcheng, and Ding Wang, the governor of Zhongzhou, the good days of these people have come to an end. We are here now." We are here to look for evidence that can bring them to justice. If you have evidence of their crimes, you can safely hand it over to us."

The two old men were frightened by his coercion and almost knelt down. Seeing this, Shen Jia held one hand with the other to prevent them from kneeling down.

The two old men looked at Xiao Yichen and then at Shen Jia. An idea flashed in their minds, and then they suddenly realized.

The hunchbacked old man glanced at his aging body, with a determined look on his face. He immediately went back to his room, pulled out a wooden box from under the bed, and carried the wooden box out with difficulty, and put it in front of them. to open.

There was a bundle wrapped in rags in the wooden box. The hunchbacked old man carefully opened the tattered bundle, took out several books similar to account books, and solemnly handed them to Xiao Yichen.

Xiao Yichen took it with both hands and pulled Shen Jia to look through it together.

The two old men were a little suspicious when they saw the two heads next to each other, but they didn't ask any more questions.

This is a notepad similar to a diary.

The general meaning of the above is that after Ding Wang took office as the governor of Zhongzhou, he led people to Panyun Mountain to suppress bandits with great fanfare. Ding Wang asked a group of officers and soldiers to wait at the foot of the mountain, while he went up the mountain alone to negotiate with the head of Panyun Mountain. After the negotiation, he He also brought a dozen minions down the mountain and handed them over to the prefect of Jiangcheng to be imprisoned.

At that time, everyone was grateful to Ding Wang, thinking that he was a true man because of his righteousness, self-sacrifice, and courage to negotiate with the vicious bandits alone.

But after several similar situations, he had doubts in his heart, so he quietly followed Ding Wang up the mountain. When he saw Ding Wang, the head of Panyun Mountain and the prefect of Jiangcheng drinking tea, he learned that the three of them were sworn brothers.

In other words, Ding Wang deceived his superiors and deceived the imperial court's military pay with his salary. In fact, he was just bluffing and went to Panyun Mountain to drink tea with bandits. And those little minions were released to Panyun Mountain after being held in Jiangcheng Government Prison for a few days...

After Xiao Yichen read it, he suppressed the anger in his heart and asked, "Old man, who wrote this notebook?"

"My young master."

"Who is your young master?"

"Zhaowu general Chen Yanwen, who followed Ding Wang from the capital to Zhongzhou to suppress the bandits, has been killed because he was unwilling to join him."

"Tell us in detail what you know."

The old man's eyes were filled with a faint water color, and there was unconcealable hatred and sadness in his eyes: "One morning four years ago, the young master handed me this notepad and asked me to leave Zhongzhou immediately with the notepad. He followed I said, this notebook is very important. If he encounters misfortune, he must keep it until he has the opportunity to avenge his justice in the future."


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