The world of counterfeit magistrates competes in the world

Chapter 2: There are many misunderstandings in the mountains

Soon, Lin Yifan, who was tired and hungry after walking for half a day, finally walked out of the deep mountains and old forests.As if God felt guilty, not only did he let him out, but he also met a family built on the side of the mountain all at once.At this time, Lin Yifan was so excited that he seemed to have infinite strength, and he rushed towards the hut.

When he was about to approach the house, he saw a thin young hunter with a sallow face pointing at him with a bow and arrow, "Stop, don't come over! Otherwise, I'll shoot you with an arrow." The voice was sharp and clear.

Lin Yifan looked at the arrow with a tinge of coldness, his hair turned upside down, and he immediately stood still, holding his hands up and explaining, "Don't shoot the arrow, I, I'm a good person! Look, I don't have a weapon on me. .”

After proving that he was harmless, the young and handsome hunter put down his bow and arrow, but stared at him cautiously, "If you dare to move, my arrow will shoot through your neck, saying, who are you? Why are you here? ?”

"I, I am a businessman. I was robbed by robbers on the road. I fled into the forest in a hurry and got lost. I didn't come out until now. I happened to see a family here, so I wanted to ask for something to eat. By the way Ask about the road. I'm really not a bad person!" Lin Yifan had already thought up the countermeasures earlier on the road, and he spoke very smoothly at this time, and he tried his best to express a pitiful and angry expression.

"Really?" The hunter hesitated, frowning and looking at him up and down, as if he wanted to see him clearly.

"Absolutely true, I can swear viciously, if I lie, there will be thunder and thunder." Lin Yifan said pointing to the sky, but he was laughing wildly in his heart, God, if you have the guts, hit me, I just want it.

But he didn't expect that in this world, the Tianwu Empire believes in the sky, and the Tiandao religion is the state religion of the empire. Ordinary people usually fear the sky the most. Seeing Lin Yifan swear such a heavy oath, the young hunter immediately believed it. "Well, I believe you, stranger, I can give you food and answer your questions, but you still can't come near my house, you just wait there, I'll give you something to eat." Then he turned and entered the house.

It was only then that Lin Yifan was in the mood to pay attention to the environment here. The house was built on the side of a mountain, surrounded by steep cliffs, and there was only a small path winding down in front of the door, a typical situation that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.Moreover, there are lush trees around the hut, which just cover up the hut's existence. If I didn't just come from the front of the hut, I might not be able to find it.

"Hoo! Ding!" two soft sounds, Lin Yifan only felt a black lightning whizzing towards him, before he recovered, he saw a black arrow sticking out of a wooden stake in front of him.What was even more frightening was that before his instinctive reaction appeared, an equally dark knife lay across his neck, with a chill from the cold blade.An anxious and angry voice came from next to my ear: "Who are you and what are you doing here?"

Before Lin Yifan could speak, another voice shouted loudly: "Qing'er, are you alright?"

Lin Yifan finally came to his senses at this moment, feeling that the owners of this house had returned, and hurriedly shouted: "This is a misunderstanding..." Before he finished speaking, the blade pressed heavily, and he felt a pain in his neck, as if bleeding.

At this time, the small door of the wooden house opened, and the young hunter was holding a piece of dried meat in his hand, staring at the three men who were at war with swords, and exclaimed: "Father, brother, you are back? It's just that this happened." What's up?"

The boy who put the knife on Lin Yifan's neck said, "Don't be afraid, sister. I saw this man sneaking around in front of our house just now. I restrained him."

And a middle-aged man next to him stepped forward, looked at the young hunter carefully, and said eagerly: "Qing'er, that man didn't hurt you, did he?"

The hunter named Qing'er suddenly realized that Lin Yifan was bleeding from his brother's knife, and immediately panicked, "Brother stop, put down the knife quickly. He is not a bad person!"

Lin Yifan was overjoyed when he heard the words, and quickly responded: "That's right! I'm not a bad person, I, I'm just a passer-by."

"Little sister, don't be fooled by him. This man looks treacherous. He must have malicious intentions if he appears here for no reason. Wait for me to kill him." The boy said and started to do it.

"But he has already sworn to the sky that he is not a bad person?" Qing'er said innocently.

"That's right, I can swear to the sky, if I am a bad person, I will die a bad death." Lin Yifan swore pointing to the sky again.

"Huh, you are so eloquent. If swearing is useful, there won't be so many treacherous people in this world. Say, are you the imperial court..."

"Feng'er!" A loud shout interrupted the young man's words, and the middle-aged man glared at him angrily, "Put down the knife, I'll ask questions!"

The boy named Feng'er reluctantly took the knife off Lin Yifan's neck, but still watched his every move vigilantly.

The middle-aged man came forward, clasped his fists at Lin Yifan, and said, "This old man has no way to teach his son, I've surprised you."

Lin Yifan didn't dare to lose his temper at this time, he clutched his bleeding neck and said repeatedly: "Don't dare!" Seeing this, Qing'er next to him felt a little ashamed and took out a rag to stop the bleeding. Lin Yifan took the handkerchief and looked at Qing'er's eyes were full of gratitude, but seeing Qing'er's face turned reddish, Feng'er on one side gritted his teeth.

The middle-aged man looked straight at Lin Yifan, and said, "This old man is a hunter in the mountains here, and his humble name is Luo Yi." He carefully observed his expression, but found that his mood did not fluctuate at all when he heard his name. After relaxing a little, he pointed to the two people beside him and said, "This is my son Luo Feng and my daughter Luo Qing."

Lin Yifan hurriedly cupped his fists to imitate the other party's tone and said, "I am a native of Longxiang County, Zhongzhou. My surname is Lin, my name is Dong, and my name is Yifan. I'm just an itinerant businessman. What happened today was all a misunderstanding. I was robbed by gangsters and escaped with my life." , escaped into the mountain forest, walked out today, and came across this place without thinking. I wanted to ask for some food because of hunger and thirst, and asked about the way. There is indeed no malicious intention."

When the middle-aged man Luo Yi heard the words, he had already believed most of them in his heart, and seeing that this person had no sharp weapons and no skill at all, he stopped entangled in this matter, and said with a smile: "In that case, it means that I am not waiting, old man I would like to apologize to you here. Your Excellency, please follow me into the house, treat the old man to treat you well, and express my apologies."

Lin Yifan quickly declined, "Thank you uncle for your kindness, but I am in a hurry to go to Hengshan County, so I won't bother you any more."

"Hengshan County?" A strange look flashed across Luo Yi's face, but it disappeared quickly, and he just said indifferently: "In that case, then I won't force you to stay, Qing'er, go prepare some food for this Take it, little brother."

Luo Qing'er hurried forward and handed the jerky to Lin Yifan, and said timidly, "Here."

Lin Yifan smiled slightly, looked at her sallow face, and said, "Thank you."

Luo Qing'er didn't reply, but ran to the side and glanced at him secretly.Luo Yi looked at the two of them without any expression. He pointed to the woods on the right and said, "Hengshan County is over there. You can see a path through the woods. Walk north along the path for more than ten miles and you will be there."

Lin Yifan was overjoyed when he heard the words, thanked him and walked towards the forest.

It turns out that Hengshan County is not far from here. The owner said that it is only a dozen miles away, so it should be only a few kilometers in conversion?Lin Yifan didn't know too well, but it shouldn't be much different.

Finally, at the end of the setting sun, Lin Yifan arrived at Hengshan County, which Lin Yifan had worked so hard to go to. However, this Hengshan County was completely different from what he had imagined. It was completely devastated by the war just now. How tall the city wall was broken into several pieces, and the cut was only piled up with soil to a height of less than two meters. The moat could no longer be called a river, and even people walking on it would be fine if the soil was piled up.In the wilderness of the four fields, you can still see a lot of decayed wood, scattered all over the place.

But the strange thing is that the surrounding crowd in twos and threes didn't seem to care about it, they were busy coming in and out, completely ignoring the scene of ruined walls.Although Lin Yifan felt weird, but because he didn't understand the world, he could only restrain his doubts and enter the city.Walking on the street, I thought that my weird hair would attract everyone's attention, but I didn't expect that the people here didn't pay any attention to Lin Yifan, and they all walked on the street with numb faces.Lin Yifan asked a few people to ask about the location of the county government office, but he was met with supercilious looks, turned his head and left.Just as Lin Yifan was scurrying around like a headless fly, an old man with a hurried expression bumped into Lin Yifan.Lin Yifan couldn't dodge in time, the two collided immediately.

"Ouch! My waist!" The old man fell to the ground and cried out in pain.

Lin Yifan was young and strong, he didn't fall to the ground, he just swayed, but he felt a click in his heart, "Oops, isn't this blackmailing?"

Seeing the old man lying on the ground and moaning in pain, Lin Yifan was torn between whether to help or not.Gritting my teeth for the last time, damn it, do I want money? My life is terrible. Even if I want to blackmail, I have no money for him. Why are you afraid of him? Help!Lin Yifan figured it out, and immediately squatted down, pretending to be anxious, while helping the old man, he said apologetically, "Old man, I'm really sorry, are you okay?"

The old man stood up slowly, kept beating his back, and said with a frown, "It's okay, it's okay! It's because I left in a hurry, so I don't blame you."

When Lin Yifan heard this, he felt ashamed in his heart. He was so simple, why was he so dark?Then he apologized and said: "Old man, if you have difficulty moving, let me help you go back?"

"No, no, my waist is an old problem, it doesn't get in the way."

"Um, that's fine." Lin Yifan didn't force himself when he heard this, and then he remembered something, and asked quickly: "By the way, old man, do you know where the county government is going?"

"County office?" The old man's eyes were fixed, and he looked at Lin Yifan suspiciously, "Why are you going to the county office?"

"Um, I, I am the county magistrate sent to this county." Lin Yifan hesitated to reveal his identity, feeling guilty for a while.

"What? You, you said that you are the magistrate of Hengshan County who will be appointed soon?" The old man was taken aback. He leaned in front of Lin Yifan and stared at him suspiciously. "You, do you have any evidence to prove it?"

"Of course I have it, but I can't take it out casually. You just need to take me to the county government office and you'll know if it's true or not." Lin Yifan stared at the old man vigilantly and said cautiously.

The old man suddenly laughed, pointing at himself and crying and laughing: "County office, haha, is there still a county office now? There is no county office in Hengshan County now, only me, a chief bookkeeper who is struggling to survive."

"This, this, how did this happen? What happened?" Lin Yifan murmured with a confused look on his face.

"Are you really the county magistrate?" The old man didn't answer his question, but instead asked, "Old Hengshan county magistrate Liu Yue, I'm the only one left in this county office now, can you tell me?" He said from his waist He took out a tooth card and showed it to Lin Yifan.

"Oh, yes, here! This is my proof." Lin Yifan saw that it really read "Hengshan Master Liu Yue" on it, so he hurriedly handed the waist card and sandalwood box to Liu Yue.

Liu Yue opened the sandalwood box, took out the yellow silk cloth, looked at it carefully, and then looked at the waist card. Finally, his eyes turned red, and he fell to his knees with a plop, crying, "My lord, I, I finally look forward to seeing you!" Here we come, woo woo..."

Lin Yifan was taken aback, he quickly helped Liu Yue up, and said falteringly: "Liu, Mr. Liu, what are you doing? Don't be so exaggerated, get up!"

"Master Lin, I can breathe a sigh of relief when you come. Now the county is in a mess, and I really can't handle it." Liu Yue said with a sad face, "Since a month ago, after the Golden Werewolf came here to wreak havoc, he took office. The county magistrate died in the city, the county government was killed and injured, Hengshan County was plundered and destroyed, and suffered heavy losses. The post-war reconstruction work is very difficult. There is only one old master in the county government, and there is no ability to deal with these things."

Isn't it so miserable?Then I took over the county magistrate, wouldn't I be asking for trouble.Lin Yifan smiled shyly and said, "Mr. Liu is being modest. I still don't know anything about this county. I wonder if Mr. Liu can tell me. Well, I will introduce the situation of this county in detail."

"Okay, sir, you just took office, and you don't know much about this county yet. This subordinate will answer your questions, this county..." Before Liu Yue finished speaking, he heard Lin Yifan's stomach growling. shouted, and looked at Lin Yifan suspiciously.

Lin Yifan rubbed his belly and said embarrassedly: "Uh, Mr. Liu, this..."

Mr. Liu stroked his gray beard in understanding, and said with a smile, "Your Excellency, you haven't eaten yet, right? Now the county government has been ruined to such an extent, why don't you go to the subordinate's humble house to move in for a night?"

Lin Yifan was overwhelmed with surprise when he heard the words, how could he refuse, and quickly nodded his approval.

(End of this chapter)