The young man on horseback rushed back half an hour later, handed over the old horse, and walked to Xu Mu with a serious look on his face.
"My boss, I've spoken to the Hotan officials and I'll enter the city now."
Xu Mu nodded and asked the middle-aged Wu Xing to get in the car and start driving towards Weicheng.
The rain in the sky has not stopped, the dirt road on the official road is still muddy, and the wheels of the car throw up pieces of clay. Fortunately, they made it all the way. Soon after, six or seven carriages finally entered Weicheng.
"Please stay here for a moment, I'll go to the official office first."
The middle-aged Wu Xing nodded, he admired the little boss in front of him.
Asking Si Hu to carry the three-headed baggage, Xu Mu walked quietly to the official residence. Tian Song, who was waiting outside Guanfang Street, was pacing anxiously, but when he saw Xu Mu approaching, he winked hastily.
Xu Mu continued to walk inside.
At this time, there were not many people in the huge official hall. A substitute clerk raised his head in astonishment and looked at Xu Mu in front of him.
"Visitor from afar, is there anything going on at the official residence?"
"Hand in the list."
Xu Mu was a little relieved. After all, the clerk in front of him was not tainted with a black heart and lungs. At least he still knew etiquette.
"When is the list coming?" The clerk hurriedly brought the file.
"Three days ago, the killing list in Horseshoe Lake."
The clerk looked up again in shock, his face turning slightly pale. Si Hu, who was standing by, took advantage of this opportunity to unpack the three ladles, and the bloody aura suddenly spread.
The clerk vomited twice and finally regained his composure.
"Don't be anxious. There are portraits in the official files. You can compare them."
He told the junior official not to be anxious, but Xu Mu was actually very anxious, fearing that the old official would suddenly come back.
"Wait a moment."
The clerk hurriedly flipped through the files. When he found it, he hurriedly picked up the wooden ruler, brushed away the tangled hair on his head, endured vomiting, and compared it carefully.
"Visitor from afar, please, please hand over the dental plaque and the notarization of the announcement."
Xu Mu took them out one by one.
At this time, footsteps suddenly came from the side. When Xu Mu looked up, he realized that the fat official who had kicked Tian Song earlier had already approached in boredom.
Xu Mu frowned for a moment. If something happened at this time, he would scold his mother.
"Have you handed in the kill list?" The fat official was also shocked. After a lot of back and forth, only a few days later, he actually handed in the kill list.
"Brother Mu'er, I have identified the heads before and they are correct!" The clerk turned around and looked at the official.
"That's correct." The fat official narrowed his eyes, "It's really remarkable. I wonder what the little boss is planning to get as a reward after submitting the results."
"Of course it costs two hundred taels of silver." Xu Mu said calmly.
Si Hu, who was standing by, was stunned, thinking that his brother Mu had suddenly lost his mind. In desperation, he reached out and slapped Xu Mu on the head.
Xu Mu turned around and glared, then stepped back in shock.
"No." The fat official's foxy eyes narrowed even more, "Two hundred taels means that you have to bring back the heads of all the old bandits."
"What should we do?"
"How about this? I'll give you five notarized weapons, or the notarized land deed of Horseshoe Lake. Ah, I'm sorry, I just remembered that the notarized weapons are gone. A dozen of them were taken away yesterday. If I want them again, just I’ll go to Changyang to apply.”
I can go to your uncle's house.
Xu Mu sneered in his heart, these gang of official officials clearly wanted to take up a large portion of the killing list.
"We can only notarize the title deed of Horseshoe Lake." The fat official smiled lightly.
"Congratulations to the little boss, this notarized land deed is not available to anyone else who wants to buy it."
Xu Mu's face was full of anger, looking like a resentful person.
"Hurry up and register it in the record book."
The clerk nodded hurriedly, hands trembling, and began to register seriously.
This new round of land deeds will not be like the old wine shop in Tangjiang City, where there will be any talk of an old friend taking over the winery.
It only needs to be entered in the register, and it will be completely counted as Xu Mu's private property. Of course, it would be a different matter if the Great Ji Dynasty collapsed.
"Two copies, my little boss will take one, please hold on to it." The fat official smiled.
"Hold on." Xu Mu also smiled, which made the fat official opposite him stunned for a moment, as if he was the one who was the culprit.
With the notarized land deed in hand, Xu Mu finally breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, even if the old official came back, there was nothing he could do.
"By the way, when we suppressed the bandits earlier, we recovered a lot of weapons, robes, and armor, and there are twelve trapped women who will be sent to them later."
Xu Mu pushed back. Si Hu, who was still stunned, scratched his hair twice and hurried out.
Soon, those martial artists drove their carriages and helped throw a large pile of weapons, robes, and armor into the official workshop.
More than a dozen sobbing miserable women kowtowed to Xu Mu and hurried into the official residence.
"I heard that if you turn in your weapons, there will be another reward."
The fat official had long been too lazy to listen to what Xu Mu was saying. This round, the harvest of the official office was even more gratifying. Even these women were considered to be quite a feat.
"The notarization of the five weapons will be canceled together for him."
The clerk paused, hurriedly wrote, took out another notarization, and handed it to Xu Mu.
Xu Mu was very satisfied. The notarization of the five weapons was an additional gain. At that time, he only needed to hold the notarization and go to the iron shop to purchase or re-forge without any problems.
"Then take your leave."
"Little boss, it's easy to say." The current fat official couldn't care about Xu Mu.
Walking out of the official house, Xu Mu and Tian Song, who had been waiting outside for a long time, exchanged glances, and the two of them laughed in the rain in unison.
…
After burning a stick of incense, the old official picked up his trousers and walked into the official residence exhausted. God knows what happened today, my stomach was churning all the time.
After driving the junior official away, the old official just sat down and opened the new record file in front of him, and his whole face suddenly turned pale.
"What, what, the little boss named Xu Mu came back to hand in the results?"
"I handed it over. There is no problem with the heads of the three old gangsters. They also sent back a lot of weapons from the old gangsters, as well as twelve robbed women."
"So, you just notarized the land deed and notarized five weapons? Oops, you know nothing, you know nothing!"
The old official kept chattering, "I'm angry, angry!"
"You only handed over your weapons, robes, and armor? You really killed so many old gangsters, why didn't you get any stolen money?"
The fat official next to him only remembered this incident. At that time, the little boss wanted to kill the list, but no one thought he could succeed.
How can I imagine so many things in one moment?
"Li Wei, is there really stolen money?"
"Ask me, who should I ask! This must be investigated!" The old official cursed twice more, but found that his stomach hurt again, and the inexplicable stench spread, scaring the old official and kicking his chair in a hurry , holding the buttocks and ran to the latrine again.
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"I gave a laxative, the dose of two cows." Outside Weicheng, Tian Song said with a faint smile, "That Wei official is not as good as Old Man Chen, I'm a little angry."
Xu Mu was suddenly very reluctant to leave.
He was given two hundred taels just now, but Tian Song still didn't accept it and only took five taels.
"Master Xu, do I still look like a dirty person?"
"It's already very clean."
Tian Song stood in the rain and laughed happily.
Si Hu started to move. After all, the newly purchased old carriage was a bit unused. The two wheels made deep and shallow marks on the muddy road.
"My little boss, I often think that it was a happy thing to stay in Wangzhou and follow Old Man Chen to die for his country."
"The storyteller in Wangzhou Theater said in a pretentious way that he would rather be a dog in peace than a traveler in troubled times."
"Life is hard!"
On the carriage, Xu Mu closed his eyes in silence. In this round of human life, the more you want to be innocent, the harder your life will be.
