"What does Mr. Xu want to explain?"
Li Huaixin handed the horse to the servant on the side and took him to the stable. He turned around and looked at Xu Youcai coldly.
Xu Youcai said with an angry face: "The people guarding the camp killed the people in my iron field. Don't you, the guard of Lingqiu, deserve an explanation?"
"Are you sure the heads on the car are from your Xujia Ironyard?" Li Huaixin said, "These heads are the bandits that I led my troops to kill in Hutou Village. Mr. Xu said that these heads are from the Xujia Ironyard. That officer I have to suspect that Mr. Xu is a bandit."
Xu Youcai said angrily: "That's ridiculous, you're slandering me."
"Mr. Xu, I advise you to go back and stop messing around here, otherwise I will punish you for being a bandit." Li Huaixin flicked his sleeves and turned around and walked into the garrison.
Xu Youcai chased after him, but was stopped by the soldiers guarding the gate of the garrison.
The soldiers escorting the heads drove Butler Xu away from the cart, and escorted a cart of heads into the garrison through a side gate.
"Li Huaixin, don't think that you can cover the sky with one hand in Lingqiu. If you don't give me an explanation today, this matter will never end." Xu Youcai stood outside the garrison and cursed.
Butler Xu came over and advised: "Master, it's better to go back first. It won't help if you scold here. We can talk to the county magistrate about Xu Laosi's matter. This time the army went to Hutou Village to suppress the bandits, and the magistrate also followed. Went together."
"Bullshit bandit suppression, they are treating my Xu family members as bandits and suppressing them." Xu Youcai cursed, and then said, "Help me get on the carriage and go to the county government office."
The Xu family's carriage can be said to be the most luxurious carriage in Lingqiu. It is not one of them, and everyone in Lingqiu knows it.
Under Xu Youcai's urging, the coachman kept beating the horses pulling the carriage and drove forward in a hurry.
Pedestrians on the road ran away when they saw it. Some vendors had no time to pack up their things, and many of their goods were knocked over and scattered all over the floor. They could only admit that they were unlucky.
The Xu family is used to being domineering in Lingqiu, and they dare not offend a small family like them.
The journey was smooth, and the Xu family's carriage arrived outside the county government office.
Butler Xu carefully helped Xu Youcai down from the carriage, and accompanied Xu Youcai to the county government office.
"Come in and tell me that our master is here to pay homage to the county magistrate." Xu Youcai said to an official outside the government office.
"Mr. Xu, please wait a moment. I'll go and pass the news." The officer agreed, turned around and ran to the back hall.
Xu Youcaiqi snorted: "You kill good people and take credit for killing our Xu family. I really think that our Xu family is easy to bully. This matter is not over yet. If you dare to touch someone from my Xu family, I think he has a few heads that are enough to chop off." .”
"Master, calm down. Everything will be clear when we see the magistrate soon. Then we can join hands with the magistrate to punish Li Shoubei." Butler Xu persuaded from the side.
Xu Youcai looked at the Yamen with an anxious look and said dissatisfied: "Why haven't you come back after sending a letter for so long?"
"Master, don't worry, it will come out soon." Butler Xu stood aside to comfort him.
Not long after, the yamen servant who went in to deliver the letter came out of the yamen with a dark face.
Seeing the Yamen servant coming out, Xu Youcai walked inside without waiting for the other party to speak.
"Mr. Xu, please come back!" The Yamen servant hurriedly stopped Xu Youcai and said, "We adults are not feeling well and we will not see guests today. Please come back."
Xu Youcai's face sank and he said, "Can you tell me clearly who I am?"
"Mr. Xu, please don't embarrass me. We adults have said we won't see guests, so no one can come." The yamen servant stood in front of the door and refused to give an inch.
Xu Youcai didn't expect that the county magistrate would miss him, which made his face look extremely ugly.
Which of the two previous county magistrates dared to turn him away? As soon as he heard the word Xu family, he immediately treated him as an honored guest. This was the first time in these years that he was stopped outside the county government office.
Butler Xu said: "Master, let's go back first. There are many people coming back from Hutou Village, and there are always people who know what happened when the army went to Hutou Village. It's better to find out what happened to Xu Laosi first, and then come to see the county magistrate. "
Xu Youcai returned to the carriage holding back his anger.
"Go back to Xu's house." Butler Xu told the coachman.
The driver whipped his whip and drove the horses pulling the cart back to Xu's house.
The carriage stopped outside the Xu Family Courtyard.
Xu Youcai got off the carriage and said to Butler Xu next to him: "Go and find out what happened when the officers and soldiers went to Hutou Village? Come back and tell me when you find out."
There were many people going to Hutou Village, including police officers and soldiers guarding the main camp. It was not difficult to find out what happened to the officers and soldiers in Hutou Village.
Butler Xu treated a chief flag officer guarding the camp to a meal at the banquet building, and quickly found out the whole story from the other person's mouth.
The entire Xu Family Courtyard was quiet, and the servants and maids were even cautious when walking, for fear of making too much noise and arousing the wrath of their master.
After turning on the lamp, Butler Xu came back from outside and went straight to the study in the north courtyard.
After meeting Xu Youcai, he told what he had learned.
"So the people in our iron field were killed by bandits from Hutou Village?" Xu Youcai frowned.
The bandits in Hutou Village were more powerful than he expected. Even the Lingqiu garrison camp was helpless against this group of bandits.
Butler Xu said: "This can only be blamed on Mr. Xu himself for being stupid and leading us Xu family members to die for the people guarding the camp."
The general banner did not tell Xu Laosi that he died at the hands of Li Huaixin's servants. Butler Xu thought that Xu Laosi was also killed by a cannon from Hutou Village.
Xu Youcai twirled the beard on his chin and said: "Li Huaixin and Guo Binchang must have made some agreement with the Hutou Village bandits, otherwise Guo Binchang would not have missed me, and Li Huaixin even brought the heads of our iron farm back. Count it as your own merit in suppressing bandits."
Butler Xu said: "Sir, should we ask the Second Master to find a way to force Li Huaixin to go to Hutou Village to suppress the bandits again?"
"That's inappropriate." Xu Youcai waved his hand and said, "Now even if Li Huaixin borrows some courage, he doesn't dare to go to Hutou Village anymore, and he can definitely say that the bandits in Hutou Village have been wiped out by him. Don't forget, He came back with a carload of heads.”
"Then we just let it go? Let Mr. Xu die in vain." Guan Xu said, "I heard that the iron yard in Hutou Village has built two new iron furnaces. It won't take long for iron to be produced. As long as the new ones are The two furnaces tapping iron will definitely affect the business of our Xujia Ironyard."
Xu Youcai said coldly: "The bandits from Hutou Village cannot be kept."
Mr. Xu, who was standing aside, reminded: "Master, we can ask the second master to come forward and find a way to mobilize the border troops to go to Hutou Village to suppress the bandits. No matter how powerful the bandits in Hutou Village are, can they be more powerful than the official army?"
Xu Youcai shook his head and said: "The border army is mainly on guard against the Northern invaders and will not move easily. Unless the second son is the governor of Datong and may mobilize the border army, otherwise the border army will not go to Lingqiu to conquer a group of bandits." of."
Butler Xu said: "I heard from the general guarding the camp that there are thousands of bandits in Hutou Village, more than the soldiers and horses guarding Lingqiu. There are so many bandits, if the governor knew, he would definitely not let them go. "
"It's useless. Guo Binchang and Li Huaixin won't admit it." Xu Youcai said, "You don't understand the things in the officialdom. It's better to do less than to do more. You can only be active when you are looking for money."
Butler Xu lowered his head in silence, pondered for a while, and suddenly said: "Fan family, yes, sir, can we ask the Fan family for help?"
"Fan family?"
