(7)
The clear spring breeze is filled with a peaceful atmosphere. The distance between the wild slope and the sky is already dark. The mountain of corpses and the sea of blood have long disappeared. They seem to have never existed. They are protected in this place due to the curfew. In the towns, people don't feel the slightest blood.
Even though there was a herdsman village that had just been destroyed less than half a day away, there was only a peaceful spring scene here.
As unexpected visitors, Bai Feng and others should have been turned away from the city due to the curfew. Fortunately, Duan Xingang had accumulated a certain amount of popularity in the past, but with a few words of communication and the special needs of the herdsmen for trade, they successfully allowed the city guards to let them in. . Finally, Duan Xingang took his herdsmen brothers to a familiar inn and stayed there.
Bai Feng, who had been traveling for two days and two nights without rest, finally found a house with tiles. As soon as he entered the door, the young man went straight to the mattress and threw himself on it. He closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep. Murong Yan's sleeping couch was only a corridor away, only three steps away. She had just turned her back and said a few words, and in the blink of an eye, she heard Bai Feng's snoring.
Jingjie and Duan Xingang also came to visit and say a few words after packing their horses and luggage. Seeing that Bai Feng was so tired, they stopped bothering each other. However, Murong Yan looked extremely uneasy. She turned around and took off Bai Feng's coat, covered him with a quilt, arranged everything neatly, and then invited the remaining two people to the cubicle to discuss important matters.
In that small room, there was only one oil lamp burning. The wick was almost empty, so the light was flickering. Three figures were swaying on the earthen wall.
"Brother Duan, do you really know the Liangping we are looking for?" Murong Yan sat at the north side of the square table, her eyebrows furrowed with worried streaks, which made her look much older in the dark light.
Duan Xingang replied very definitely: "Liangping, I will definitely remember such a rare name. When Duan was doing business, someone always mentioned this person. He seemed to be quite famous in the Huaihuang and Rouxuan areas. broker."
"Brother Duan," Jingji said, "It's great that you are willing to help me again and again!"
"Although Duan doesn't know what you are looking for this person for, I believe in your character, this person must be of very important significance to you." Duan Xingang put his right hand on his chest and nodded in salute to Murong Yan and Jingjia. He continued: "Tomorrow Yinshi and Duan will give everything they have until they find Liangping for you."
With this assurance, Murong Yan finally calmed down and went back to her room to rest.
In the early morning of the next day, Guo Xingang had actually prepared water and food in advance, and seemed to be mentally prepared for a whole day's visit with Jingjie. Jingji asked him where to start, and Guo Xingang said: "Liquor shops and markets are mostly places where rumors spread. We can go and visit them first."
Jingjie immediately replied: "Then why don't we inform Senior Brother Bai and Senior Sister Murong that the two groups will act separately, so we can seize the opportunity." Duan Xingang had no reason to refuse, so he walked outside the inn and waited for a while.
After a while, Jingjia, the heroic couple Bai Feng and Murong Yan, walked down to the bedroom and saw that although there were only a few people in the guest house, there was loud shouting.
"Brother Duan, you are really ignorant. You haven't been to the town for a long time, and you don't even know about Liangping? These days, the whole Huaihuang Town is discussing it!"
"Oh! It's just a wife stealing a man, what's the fuss about?"
"If it was just such a simple matter, why should we go to court? Even the woman's life was lost!"
Duan Xingang, with the baggage on his shoulders, listened intently. He couldn't figure out what was right and wrong for a while, so he asked: "Speaking of which, Liangping is known to be smart and capable? I can't think of anything else that could make him suffer."
"You don't understand this, Brother Duan. This time Liangping offended the eldest son of the Xiao family in the town. Not to mention the collusion between the Xiao family and the official family for a long time, even if Liangping was a hundred times smarter, he would still You can't defend yourself against a litigant who is being hosted by the Xiao family for a banquet!"
As soon as the man who looked like the shopkeeper finished speaking, a sleepy-eyed young swordsman came over and greeted him, "I'm sorry to bother you. Can you tell me more about Lianghei in more detail?"
"This..." The shopkeeper suddenly called Duan Xingang and said, "Brother Duan, are these the friends you brought?"
"Um?" Duan Xingang suddenly came back from his thoughts, looked at the three people who were watching, and replied: "Ah, it's Mr. Bai, you are finally here!"
"Brother Duan, Liangping, where is he now?" Bai Feng continued to ask.
Duan Xingang seemed to have lost the confidence he had last night, scratched his golden hair at the temples, and replied rather embarrassedly: "Mr. Bai, this matter seems to have developed to a level that I can't imagine. Lianghei has offended a noble official, it's uncertain. , there will be a fatal disaster."
"How many of you are concerned about Lianghei's life and death?" The shopkeeper said to the side: "Look at the time, it's time to go to court to judge the case. Why don't we all go and take a look?"
"Okay!" The boys on the left and right laughed softly: "There is no need to do any work this morning!"
The shopkeeper smiled and cursed a few times, and said, "You bastard, if the whole town hadn't packed their heads to go to the theater, I would have punished you to wipe the tables in the store ten more times!"
After a while, you all arrived in front of the town government office, and saw that the place was already overcrowded. There were even storytellers standing among the crowd, setting up stalls and standing on high places, eloquently and emotionally reciting the scenes in the government office.
"Who is there in the hall?"
"Kusamin Ryohei, pay homage to your parents!"
"Who are you suing?"
"I want to sue Xiao Sigu, I want to sue him for robbing human lives, I want to sue him for bullying good women, I want to sue him for being lawless and running rampant in the countryside!"
"Okay, okay, let's pass on Xiao Sigu!"
Before the storyteller could finish his words, there were officers holding water and fire sticks to separate the crowd and ran out of the government office, almost knocking the storyteller who was standing high to the ground.
"Oh, who can walk without eyes!"
"It's me!" A man with a curly beard and rough skin, but with red eyebrows and phoenix eyes, dressed in Hanfu and dressed up to attend.
"Yes, it's Mr. Xiao!" The storyteller immediately stepped down from the elevated platform, prostrated himself on the ground, and said, "It's the villain who has no eyesight that frightened Mr. Xiao."
Xiao Sigu calmly took out a few taels of silver from his pocket and threw it on the ground, then walked away: "Take it, build a stable frame in the future, and don't fall down again."
The storyteller awkwardly picked up the silver in the crowd and replied at the same time: "Yes, yes, thank you, Mr. Xiao!"
The people watching outside the government office immediately focused their attention on Xiao Sigu and the boy behind him.
"It's him again." Bai Feng said with a hint of annoyance, "It seems that we are really on opposite sides of the road."
The thorn beside him didn't know what was going on, so he asked more eloquently: "Senior Brother Bai, do you recognize this Master Xiao?"
"Master Xiao?" Bai Feng couldn't help but sneered when he heard this title: "Oh, if your senior brother Su Qing were here, that Xiao Sigulu wouldn't even have the guts to walk into the government office standing up."
"Brother Feng, stop talking nonsense, this is someone else's territory!" Murong Yan quickly signaled to stop her, and pulled Duan Xingang together to persuade Bai Feng to wait and see what happens: "Mr. Bai, you can just say this in front of us, but you can't Let the fourth person hear it.”
After finishing speaking, there was a scream in the government office. The storyteller climbed up to the high shelf again, cleared his throat, and seemed to be about to start speaking again.
