Chapter 40 Bianzhou House
Li Haochen looked at Di Xiaoxu's appearance and knew that he had a countermeasure in his mind. He hurriedly said, "Don't keep it a secret, what is the method? How can I get a tiger's son if I don't enter the tiger's den? I still have this courage!"
Di Xiaoxu listened to Li Haochen's words and laughed: "My lord is so courageous. In fact, the way to the officials is very simple. It is to ask Lian'er to take us to pretend to be Lian'er's relatives to go to the prefecture government office to beat drums and make injustice. Since the villagers of Xiaozhuang Village were arrested by the constable at the time, it can be seen that the butt of the magistrate of Bianzhou must be unclean. If we go to beat drums and make injustice, he will definitely arrest us and imprison the villagers of Xiaozhuang Village. At that time, we will know where the villagers of Xiaozhuang Village are!"
After hearing Di Xiaoxu's words, Li Haochen thought about the feasibility of this matter. Before Li Haochen had thought about it, Fang Xuanling said, "General's method is not good, it is too dangerous. First of all, as Master Di said just now, we have exposed our itinerary. As soon as we walk out of this inn, they will definitely be discovered by them, let alone go to the prefecture government office. Once we go to the prefecture government office, they will definitely recognize us. Even if we leave the inn, they will not recognize us, and they will not recognize us when we go to the prefecture government office. Then we will be arrested for us even if we find out the reason for the Yellow River breach, it will be difficult for us to escape. General, we must not do this!"
Li Haochen listened to Fang Xuanling's words and pondered for a while and said, "It is obviously inappropriate for us to go to the prefecture government office with Lian'er!" Li Haochen just finished speaking, but Di Xiaoxu's face turned dark, but Li Haochen did not look at him, but continued, "Lian'er and I went to the prefecture government office. Mr. Xuanling took my seal and quickly removed the soldiers of Henan Prefecture government office and gathered to wait for emergency needs! Rengui and Lord Di fought my ceremonial war and slowly marched towards Henan Road to attract their attention!"
Li Haochen had just finished speaking, Fang Xuanling, Di Xiaoxu and Xue Rengui stopped him in unison, and even Lian'er hid behind Xue Rengui, shaking her head like a rattle.
As a think tank, Fang Xuanling didn't have so much concern, so he said directly: "General, you are the backbone of our group. If you take risks with yourself, if an accident occurs, even if you kill us thousands of times, it will be hard to forgive your crime! Please think twice. Why don't Lian'er and I go to the prefecture? How about the general going to recruit soldiers from the prefecture?"
Li Haochen shook his head and said, "Mr. Xuanling, I know you are thinking about my safety, but I have to go there personally, so that I can have an intuitive feeling and I will not be lenient when punishing those illegal people! I have decided, so I don't need to persuade me anymore!"
Looking at Li Haochen's firm expression, the three of them knew that it was meaningless to persuade him, so they stopped talking. At this moment, Lian'er said timidly: "I don't want to go with you, I want Brother Rengui to go with me!"
Li Haochen was about to deny Lian'er, but Fang Xuanling started to speak first: "General, let Xue Rengui go with you! If there is any danger, he can also help the general. Besides, Lian'er only believes in Xue Rengui now. I'm afraid that if the general forcefully takes her to the prefecture government office, it may be counterproductive!"
Li Haochen nodded after listening to Fang Xuanling's words, and shook his head and said, "We are actually all in the dark, and Lord Di takes my ceremonial guard to set out. He is an open person and has a high risk factor. Let Rengui protect him!"
Di Xiaoxu was very moved when he heard Li Haochen's words, and then said, "Sir, don't worry about the officials. If the officials don't touch those people's cakes, those people will definitely not make things difficult for the officials. They will only treat the officials as Bodhisattvas. The officials and them are silly, and they may find some clues. Xue Rengui should take them with him!"
After hearing Di Xiaoxu say this, Li Haochen didn't want to say anything else. He nodded to agree with the suggestion. The few people agreed to the agreement and decided that the troops would divide into three groups that night.
After three days of traveling overnight, Li Haochen and his party were less than three miles away from Bianzhou City. The outside of Bianzhou City was full of disaster victims, which lasted for more than ten miles. After seeing this situation, Li Haochen even had no rest and hurriedly continued on the road. This shocked him so much. He had not been in the Tang Dynasty for a long time. He had seen dead people, and even killed people. However, it was indeed the first time he had seen the situation outside Bianzhou City. He looked at the victims, his clothes were covered, and his hunger had been unable to speak for a few days. The crying of the children was like the bone-piercing steel cone, each of which pierced his bones.
Li Haochen asked Xue Rengui to distribute all the food on his body to the villagers, and he quickly walked to the city and prepared to go to the government office. However, when he arrived at the city gate, Li Haochen discovered that the four gates of Bianzhou City were closed, and the soldiers guarding the city did not allow a few people to enter the city at all. Li Haochen pretended to be a wandering merchant. He came here and wanted to go into the city to rest. He also gave the soldiers guarding the city two taels of silver. The soldiers guarding the city put the group of three people into the city.
Li Haochen entered the city without any stop. When he found out where the prefecture government office was, he went directly outside the government office, swung the drum at the entrance of the government office, and then beat the drum of the injustice. For about half a quarter of an hour, a drunken voice came from the government office and said, "Who is the one who is not eye-catching, disturbing the master's elegance. First, bring the drum beater twenty major boards, and then bring him in!"
As soon as the voice fell, four large and round yamen runners came out of the government office. They stepped forward and pulled Li Haochen up without saying anything, and wanted to execute the execution. When Xue Rengui saw this situation, he could not let his adoptive father suffer such a great humiliation. He went forward to spread the hands of the four yamen runners and said, "My father is injured and may not be able to stand the twenty-two boards, and he will die. I have been a young man since he was a child. Four brothers, you should beat villains!" As he said that, he gave the four yamen runners 2 taels of silver each.
These four yamen runners naturally couldn't say anything after collecting the money, so they dragged Xue Rengui down and beat him up twenty boards. Li Haochen was so nervous that he was not for the overall situation. He wanted to report his identity and deal with the state official first.
After the execution, several people were taken to the main hall of the government office. Sitting in the middle of the lobby was Wu Letian, the governor of Bianzhou. At this moment, he was drunk and his body was shaking unconsciously. It felt like he would fall off the chair accidentally. At this moment, seeing one big and two small standing under the main hall, he picked up the gavel and slapped hard: "Well, who is standing in the hall? Why don't you kneel when you see me? First, each person will hit twenty boards to punish them for despising me!"
Chapter completed!