Concubine falling from heaven

Chapter 57

The sudden probing sound not only interrupted Mu Xuanchen's thoughts and the scorching gaze on Meng Zihan, but also stopped the pushing and shoving of Meng Zihan and the three of them.

Oops, found out!At the critical moment, Meng Zihan still didn't forget to give the guard Zhuang who was useless in the queue a thunderbolt palm.

As the sound of footsteps approached, Meng Zihan and the others kept shrinking back, but the sound of their feet stepping on branches and leaves quickly attracted the attention of those people and raised their vigilance.

Of the four, only two guarded the door, and the other two raised their voices to find their hiding place.

Wherever they went, the branches were chopped into several sections by their knives. The three of them trembled in fright, and their hearts almost jumped out. Meng Zihan was really worried that he would become a dead soul under the knife tonight.

This time I really felt that life and death were on the line, and I was never so nervous even when I went to the battlefield last time.

She was all shivering, with cold sweat on her forehead, holding onto Zhu Wen and Zhuang Weiwei, but obviously they couldn't give her any sense of security, she was still sweating, and her heart was still trembling.

At this time, she really hoped that Mu Xuanchen would follow behind her without anyone noticing like before.

It turned out that when she was afraid, she was the first to think of him.Now there is an infinite longing in my heart, I just hope to see him appear in front of her immediately.

But when she left, she clearly saw that he was fast asleep, and he didn't respond after calling several times, and according to his breathing at that time, he definitely wouldn't wake up in the middle of the night.

Now Meng Zihan is a bit confused, he really regrets bringing two unreliable guys to such an important place, if he knew that it would not matter so much, just bring her dear His Royal Highness Chen Wang.

Seeing the two raising their knives to split the grass where the three of them were hiding, they only heard two sounds of "咻...啦!", and the two people's acupuncture points were immediately tapped.

The closed eyes of Meng Zihan and the others trembled slowly because they could not hear any sound, but they were surprised to find that the two men stopped holding the knife in mid-air!What surprised them even more was that they had their eyes closed.

"Isn't it? You can still fall asleep after killing someone?"

Meng Zihan pushed away Zhuang Weiwei and Zhu Wen and walked in front of them, poked their heads recklessly, and found that they were not asleep, but were acupuncture points.Immediately, he clasped his hands together and ran to the middle of the road, thanking the sky excitedly.

"Thank you for the divine manifestation, thank you for the divine manifestation."

Zhuang Weiwei and Zhu Wen looked at Meng Zihan amusedly and said, "My lord, where are the gods here?"

She thought about it, and she was right!I haven't seen any gods here, and I don't know if there are any gods in the world. I turned my eyes and thought of the ancient green forest heroes and heroes, so I clasped my fists in all directions and thanked: "Then thank you knights, Thank you heroes and heroines."

In the dark night, the pair of deep eyes on the high place are affectionate, and the arc of the corner of the mouth is full of smiles.

This girl is still thanking the gods and the hero at this time, if she knows that he saved her, will she be grateful or will she blame him for following her again?
"My lord, let's go quickly! Otherwise, it will be dawn." Zhu Wen reminded her fearfully.

Meng Zihan put away his playful expression of gratitude, and turned to nodding seriously at the two of them.

Suddenly, a white figure caught her attention, and she felt that the hairs all over her body began to stand on end.Is it a god, a ghost, or a human?But when she tentatively turned around and looked up, she saw nothing.

Guard Zhuang also began to urge.It's more important to do business. It doesn't matter whether he is a man or a ghost. If he can help her, she will be regarded as a god.

Approaching the house, Meng Zihan found that it looked like a dungeon. It seemed that Cao Rong must have imprisoned many poor people during his five years in Ganlin County, and the frequency must have exceeded her imagination, otherwise it would be impossible to guard such a prison. strict.

The guard at the door also held a knife and closed his eyes, presumably the acupuncture points were tapped by the same person.With full of doubts, the three entered the dungeon.

Seeing Meng Zihan enter the dungeon with his own eyes, Mu Xuanchen quietly emerged from the shade of the big tree.Before, because he was afraid that something would happen to her, he followed her without putting on his night clothes. Fortunately, he responded in a timely manner, otherwise she would not know how angry she would be if she found out.

The people inside have been tapped by him from top to bottom from the roof, and they can stay still for at least an hour. If she doesn't come out after half an hour, he won't care so much, and must bring her out.

From the outside to the dungeon, the three of them were so unimpeded that even Zhu Wen and Zhuang Weiwei doubted whether there were gods helping them.

After entering the dungeon, there were also four guards inside, but they were already lying on the table as if they had fallen asleep, but they knew that they had been tapped on acupuncture points.In the dungeon, the dampness and the cold wind penetrated into their necklines, making people shiver uncontrollably.

Before Meng Zihan could understand the anomaly that came all the way just now, he was pulled back from his thoughts by a sickly moan.

"My lord, they're locked up there." Guard Zhuang yelled happily, pointing forward as if he had discovered a treasure.

"Wait a minute, beware of fraud!" Meng Zihan was afraid that there would be some mechanism in front, otherwise how could it be so smooth when he got inside?This is a dungeon, not the backyard of the county government.

After being told by Meng Zihan, Zhu Wen, who was afraid of death, also looked around tremblingly.

"Yes, I should be fine! I'm not married yet!" Zhu Wen's face was full of fear.

Meng Zihan glanced at him and said, "You want to get married? Don't hurt other girls, I think you are tired of playing with women."

Zhu Wenwen was aggrieved and wanted to explain, then looked at Meng Zihan and laughed a few times before saying: "If I really get tired of playing with women and like men, then I must be the first to choose Mr. Meng."

Good guy, the idea hit her head!

Meng Zihan raised his breath and approached Zhu Wen with crooked brows and eyelids, and put his hands on his shoulders and smiled affectionately at him. Just when Zhu Wen returned her charming smile, she suddenly As soon as he raised his leg, he pushed his knee somewhere against him.

Hearing a wail, Zhu Wen crouched down on the ground clutching his lower body in pain, a certain place was so painful that he couldn't speak.

But Meng Zihan led the guard Zhuang to the cell as if nothing had happened.

When seeing those poor people, Meng Zihan felt very uncomfortable.Perhaps it was because she had never seen such two small cells that could accommodate so many people.The smell coming from inside was even more sour. Guard Zhuang couldn't help pinching his nose.

Although I could smell a little bad smell at the door just now, it was far less than one-tenth of the stench here.

Those people sat and lay down, even children among them, including the two children she brought home with them one night.Perhaps it was because of the poor environment that almost everyone's face was as yellow as wax, their eyes squinted drowsily, accompanied by coughing from time to time.

Someone inadvertently noticed the two black figures outside the cell, and he began to ask Meng Zihan for help as if he had found a straw.

"Hero, this hero, let us go out!"

"This is Mr. Meng, the magistrate of Ganlin County." Guard Zhuang introduced Meng Zihan, but someone suddenly gave them a "Pooh", followed by bursts of cursing.

"So it's you, the dog official! Why, let's see if we're dead or not? If we die, it will solve your worries?"

"Yes! Officials protect each other, and a wolf is like a sword."

"I thought that a good official came here, and he always thought of the people, but who knew that everything was just acting."

He came here to save them, but was scolded for nothing, not only Zhuang Hu was angry, but Meng Zihan was even more angry.However, she knew that they did this because they didn't know the truth, and she had to endure it for the sake of the overall situation.

Meng Zihan stretched out her hand to signal Guard Zhuang not to argue with them, then she calmly stood upright in front of them, frowned and said coldly, "If you want to leave safely, shut up all of them!"

Her voice was not loud, but it was enough to make the cell instantly silent.

Maybe it's because she didn't expect her to say that, or maybe it's because they all want to leave this stinking cell too much. Apart from the stink in the whole cell, the only sound is their weak breathing.

Meng Zihan just paused, seeing that although they were still full of dissatisfaction and indignation, they didn't show much resistance, so he narrated his thoughts.

"Whether you believe it or not, I don't know that you are being held here, but I can let you leave here safely, and I am sure that you will all have a good life in the future."

"Why should we trust you?" Finally someone raised an angry voice of questioning, and the rest followed suit.

Meng Zihan chuckled and said confidently: "Believe it or not, it's up to you, anyway, you only have two options: stay here and wait to die, or cooperate with me and fight."

Seeing that they finally calmed down, she continued: "I won't take you out today. If you all go away suddenly, after Cao Rong finds out, he will still send someone to arrest you, and you may still suffer. So, you have to be patient for a few more days. Prime Minister Hua will come to Ganlin County again in two days. Cao Rong will definitely tell you of Prime Minister Hua's whereabouts, and let you out, and then let you put all the crimes on the official's head. When the time comes, you agree on the surface, and you can reveal Cao Rong's true face one by one in front of Prime Minister Hua, and leave the rest to me."

"How do we know if you are using us?"

"That's right, when the time comes, we might as well tell Prime Minister Hua all your crimes, why should we help you eradicate dissidents?"

Meng Zihan couldn't help but secretly rolled his eyes. Could it be that this group of retarded people can't even tell the good from the bad?
She took a slow step and moved back and forth at the door of the cell: "I am absolutely not worried about your complaints, because I can walk upright and sit upright, but have you ever thought about the future? If you let Prime Minister Hua take me Also removed, can you guarantee that the next magistrate will be a good official? Even if the new official takes office, it will take a long time, and maybe the new official will starve to death in the future."

There was silence again in the cell.

Ganlin County has encountered so many misfortunes in recent years that they don't know who to trust and who is a good official.

"I can't stay for a long time. Believe me or not, you can decide for yourself. I count to ten. If you don't give me an answer, I will pretend that I haven't been here."

When Guard Zhuang heard this, he was speechless, so he counted vigorously.

"One, two, three... nine..."

Meng Zihan was really afraid that they would remain silent forever, and when the Zhuang guard counted to nine, Meng Zihan's clenched fists couldn't help but tighten.

Unexpectedly, at this time, along with the "ten" counted by the guard Zhuang, two immature baby voices came from the cell: "I believe..."

Meng Zihan turned her head to look, and a small head poked out from the dark crowd. Aren't those two children she led home that night?She couldn't help feeling a warm current in her heart.Unexpectedly, it was two five or six-year-old children who were willing to stand up and believe her in the end.

The child's parents wanted to cover the mouths of the two children, but they innocently looked at their parents with their pretty faces stained with mud and said, "Father, mother, Mr. Meng is a good man, he will take us back Home."

After finishing speaking, they turned their heads to see Meng Zihan smiling brightly.

Touched, distressed, and sad all of a sudden hit her heart. If she hadn't taken care of the overall situation, she would have rescued them desperately.

"I believe it too." The voice came from the child's parents.They may have thought of the scene that night, and believed that the person they saw that night was definitely not a hypocritical person.

The voices of "I believe" came from everywhere, and Zhuang's guard also showed a silly smile after glancing at Meng Zihan. Perhaps all of this was unexpected.

"You can go out soon, and you can live a good life soon."

Mu Xuanchen had been staring at the door closely, but there was no sign of it being opened.It's been half an hour, why don't you come out?Will something happen?I feel uneasy.

Can't wait any longer.He jumped, and his body floated down like wings, and landed firmly at the gate of the dungeon.

He stretched out his hand to push the door in with his internal force, but as soon as a gust of palm entered the crack of the door, he immediately withdrew his hand and couldn't help but backed up a few steps.

The door was opened, and Meng Zihan rubbed his neck and asked suspiciously Zhuang's guard and Zhu Wen, who had his legs crossed: "Do you feel the wind blowing? Why is there a wind everywhere? Could it be the humidity here?" too heavy?"

"My lord, don't scare your subordinates like this." Zhuang Huwei was also a little nervous when Meng Zihan said it.

"Whoosh..." A white figure flashed in front of their eyes, and the three of them were so frightened that they stood there dumbfounded as if their feet had taken root. After finally regaining their senses, the three of them rushed towards the county government at the same time as if they had been shocked by an electric shock. .

Mu Xuanchen stood on the tree and looked at their backs amusedly, knowing that they had disappeared into the night, he used the stones he picked up from the ground to untie the four guards' acupuncture points.

After the four guards were relieved, they had no idea that more than half an hour had passed just now, and it seemed that the time just now had never happened in their minds.The two continued to raise their knives to split the grass, but when they found nothing, they stood guard together with the other two guards.

It suddenly occurred to her that if Meng Zihan couldn't see him when she went back, she would definitely have doubts, and might leave again in a fit of anger.He didn't think much about it, and immediately flew up to catch up with Meng Zihan who ran back to the county government office in a panic, and went back to the bedroom before her.

Meng Zihan ran into the room panting, and only remembered when the door was closed that he was still sleeping in the room, so he couldn't let him know that she went out in the middle of the night, otherwise it would be a disaster.

She tiptoed to the bed and found that he was sleeping on the bed in his single clothes, still the same as when she left, she exhaled softly, fortunately he didn't wake up.

He sat on the edge of the bed and was about to take off his boots, but when he lowered his head, he found mud on his shoes!
He is obsessed with cleanliness, and he will never allow unclean things to exist on his body. If there are dirty things on his shoes, he will definitely change into clean shoes as soon as possible.

Suspiciously, she turned her head and fixed her eyes on his face. Such a sleepy look did not seem like pretending to be asleep at all, and if he knew that she had gone out, he would not be able to fall asleep as quietly as he is now, unless he is nervous confused.

When she looked up, the white coat on the hanger caught her attention.

How come it looks so familiar?
Unable to bear the curiosity in my heart, I walked towards the dress, reached out to touch it, and found that the dress was still warm!
Mu Xuanchen slightly opened his eyes and saw Meng Zihan's actions, and felt inexplicably nervous in his heart.He was actually afraid that she would be suspicious, that she would be angry that he followed her again, that she would stop talking to him.

Meng Zihan turned his head suddenly, and Mu Xuanchen quickly closed his eyes without any trace.

Feeling her approaching slowly, her breath slowly passed into the tip of his nose.

It seemed that she had always felt that someone was following her along the way, or a white shadow did not see a ghost or a god, but was followed by this Buddha.It must be because he was afraid that she would cause trouble again, so he followed out without changing his night clothes, and he was afraid that she would be angry, so he came back in a hurry and fell asleep without changing his shoes.

Feeling his body stiffen suddenly, his breath began to rush, Meng Zihan's eyes widened and a danger signal flashed in his mind: He is pretending to sleep!

Hastily got up to get away from this dangerous object, Meng Zihan said with some displeasure: "I'm clearly awake, why pretend to be asleep? I'm sleepy, sleep!"

He opened his piercing black eyes, with a little playfulness: "It was you who disturbed my sleep."

"You didn't sleep in the first place, you pretended to be asleep, I disturbed you and it was evened!"

"Equal? ​​This king is the prince, and you are just the county magistrate. Whether it is even or not is up to me!"

Although it is said that the first level of officials crushes people to death, can this also be used in this regard?It's really unreasonable, overbearing and shameless.

The next day, noon.

Unable to withstand the constant urging of his internal organs, Meng Zihan opened his sleepy eyes, stretched his waist, yawned again and again, dragged his tired body to get up and take a bath.

After lunch, Meng Zihan was lazily lying on the stone table in the yard to take another nap, but was awakened by Meng Qian's words.

"My dear brother, Prime Minister Hua is already at the posthouse."

"Prime Minister Hua is here? How could it be so fast?" Meng Zihan was a little surprised. He thought that Prime Minister Hua would come in a few days, but he didn't expect that he would come just after he made a move last night. Could it be that Cao Rong found out What so desperately wanted to blow her off the stage.

The soldiers came to block the water and soil, and now they can only see their tricks. Maybe it is a good thing that he came so soon, at least those poor people got out of the dark, wet and smelly place earlier.

Meng Qian frowned and reminded: "I heard that the streets are full of poor people begging..."

I thought she would yell, but Meng Zihan just smiled slightly and nodded to him, "Yeah".

Meng Qian was still in doubt, Meng Zihan said: "Brother is staying at the county government office, I'll go and have a look."

"Brother, be careful!" Meng Qian was obviously worried, now the poor people outside almost filled the whole street, if she went out like this, he was afraid that those poor people would hurt her.

Meng Zihan didn't take it seriously, smiled lightly again and went out the door.

It was indeed "extraordinarily lively" outside, even more "grand" than she had imagined.The officers and soldiers stood in a row, seemingly preventing them from going to the post house, but Meng Zihan could tell that they were clearly leading the poor people to the post house step by step.

Hearing such noise, Prime Minister Hua and Hua Yanjing walked out of the post house to check the situation, maybe even they were seeing such a scene for the first time, they were obviously dumbfounded.

"What's going on?" Prime Minister Hua was furious.

Cao Rong hesitantly walked up to Prime Minister Hua from among the officers and soldiers and replied, "Master, those poor people don't know where they came from."

"Then why didn't I see you when I came last time?" Prime Minister Hua's frowning expression was still a bit scary.

Cao Rong lowered his head and smiled inwardly, then replied: "I heard that it was hidden by Meng Qian...Master Meng. He may be afraid of being punished by his teacher."

Prime Minister Hua frowned even tighter. He didn't expect that Meng Qian would make such a "grand event" in just over a month after taking office. He thought that Cao Rong was incapable of governing, so the people would move.Regarding the chaos, I didn't expect such a thing to happen after changing the county magistrate. Fortunately, he thought Meng Qian was a talent before.

Prime Minister Hua gritted his teeth and clenched his fists and shouted: "Call Meng Qian to me!"

When Meng Zihan heard Prime Minister Hua shouting like a "lion's roar", his little heart still trembled a little. After all, it's not a fake prime minister. If he got angry, someone would take her to prison and torture her What about torture?
But then I thought about it, didn't she have His Royal Highness Chen Wang who was older than the prime minister!But since he got up, she hasn't seen him, and she doesn't know where he went at the critical moment, so don't wait until she is beaten to death before coming to rescue her.

She took a deep breath, walked through the crowd and walked in front of Prime Minister Hua, bowed her head in a vague manner and said, "Master Prime Minister."

Cao Rong wanted someone to bring her here, but she didn't expect her to come by herself.

"Yo! Master Meng came quite in time, and I want to order someone to 'invite' Master Meng to come!" Cao Rong began to speak lukewarm words as soon as he saw Meng Zihan.

Meng Zihan secretly rolled his eyes in great displeasure, but with a harmless smile on his face, he said, "Meng Qian didn't dare to bother Mr. Cao, knowing that Mr. Cao would definitely want to find me, so I came here in person. "Turning to Prime Minister Hua, he said, "Meng Qian will see you, Prime Minister."

Prime Minister Hua snorted coldly and said, "Master Meng is not sure that Mr. Cao will look for you, so do you know what the official is looking for you?"

"Your Prime Minister must be looking for the lower officials because of these common people." Meng Zihan answered straightforwardly.

"Then tell me, why is this happening? Is it true that, as Mr. Cao said, you hid these people before?"

"It's hidden, but..."

"Master, listen, he admitted." Cao Rong immediately interrupted Meng Zihan.

"Father, listen to what Mengqian has to say first." Seeing that Prime Minister Hua was about to get angry, Hua Yanjing rushed to help.

Cao Rong looked at Hua Yanjing and didn't dare to say anything, then looked back at Meng Zihan, with obvious displeasure on his face.

Meng Zihan smiled at Hua Yanjing, then turned to Prime Minister Hua and said, "My lord, the lower officials are saying that people are hidden, but unfortunately not by the lower officials."

"Meng Qian, you still dare to quibble, you..."

"Then who did you say was hidden? And what is your intention?" Prime Minister Hua interrupted Cao Rong this time.

Meng Zihan replied with a faint smile: "If you want to find out the person who is hiding, it is better to ask the person who is being hidden. The answer you can get is more accurate."

"Okay! Let's go and ask these poor people." Cao Rong was very proud. Seeing that the trick had succeeded and Ganlin County was about to fall back into his hands, he couldn't wait to go to the interrogation himself.

Hua Yanjing looked at Meng Zihan worriedly, but Meng Zihan looked confident.

In the dark, Ye Feng looked at all this and asked Mu Xuanchen: "Master, do you want to help?"

Mu Xuanchen smiled and replied: "Look first." The words were meant for Ye Feng to hear, but his eyes kept staring at Meng Zihan who was opposite.

Cao Rong ordered a woman with two children to be arrested and asked, "Tell me! Who arrested you and tell the real 'mastermind behind the scenes'." Blame is wiped out.

(End of this chapter)