On the second day, a group of three people arrived at the east gate of Qixia Town.
The leader of the three men was wearing blue robes and looked like a head catcher, while the other two accompanying him were dressed like police officers.
"Hahaha, Chief Chen is here! What a welcome welcome!"
Lao Xing and Han Captou were discussing matters in the yamen. Suddenly they heard the yamen reported that Chen Captou from Zuojiazhuang had arrived, and they hurriedly went out to greet them.
"Captain Xing, Captor Han!" Captou Chen also said hello with clasped fists.
Today is the agreed day for negotiations between the three counties.
However, due to yesterday's big victory, today's negotiation meeting became extremely relaxed, so that Lao Xing and Han Baotou had relaxed and cheerful smiles on their faces.
Capt. Chen looked at the uncontrollable joyful smiles on their faces, coupled with the rumors he had heard along the way.
"Captain Xing, I heard on the way here that you had a great victory over bandits and killed more than forty bandits. Is this true?"
Chen Captou couldn't help but asked in disbelief, when did the Qixia Town County Government become so powerful?
When Lao Xing and Han Captou saw Chen Captou's disbelief, they both looked at each other and smiled.
Both of them participated in yesterday's battle. Although their contribution was not as outstanding as Xiaoliu's, they still made great efforts.
One of them fought to the death against the thief, and the other made meritorious deeds. Lou Zhixian had already said that he would seek credit from his superiors for both of them.
Although one of the two is about to retire, the other has no intention of promotion and just wants to live a stable life as a head catcher.
But who can have too much of such a thing as honor?
"Chen Captou has had a hard time coming all the way. Come on, let's go to the county office and talk about it first." Lao Xing and Lao Xing did not directly answer Chen Captou's questions, but kept it secret.
When Chen Captou saw the two of them trying to get away with each other, although he didn't understand what kind of medicine they were selling in their gourds, he just followed them into the county government office.
However, the few people who entered the county government office did not go directly to the meeting hall, but walked towards the cells.
"Captain Xing, what is this?" Captou Chen watched them arrive at the door of the cell and asked in confusion.
Lao Xing said with a smile. "Captain Chen, what you want to know is inside, please!"
"Inside? Could it be that..." Chen Captou seemed to have some realization.
"Exactly! Let's go, Capt. Chen. We are about to interrogate these bandits. You can join us." Capt. Han also said with a smile. He is the oldest and most senior among these people. old.
Yesterday when we were cleaning the battlefield, it was true that two bandits were not dead. They even tried to pretend to be dead and get through, but they were stabbed out directly.
These two bandits, plus the bandit that Xiaoliu captured before, now have a total of three bandit prisoners in their hands.
Yesterday, it was too late and everyone had a tiring day, so the task of interrogating the bandits was left to today.
Originally, they planned to wait for Xiao Liu to come back before interrogating them together, but now that Capt. Chen is here, they don't have to wait for Xiao Liu.
After all, Xiao Liuli's contribution was great enough, so he had to leave some soup for them to drink, especially for Chen Captou.
After all, it was said that it was a three-county alliance, but you ended up letting everyone in the audience get soy sauce, and they didn't even have to drink soup. Wouldn't that be embarrassing?
In this way, the three head catchers began the interrogation of the three bandits.
At the same time, Xiaoliu was on his way back.
Early this morning, Xiaoliu made some arrangements for Heifeng Ridge and recruited some people again.
After doing this, he received a notice from Lou Zhi County asking him to go back to discuss the resolution of the three counties.
In order to guard against Xiaoliu, Louzhi County specially dispatched ten police officers to guard against the bandits.
"Everyone, I'll leave it to you all." Xiao Liu said to everyone with his hands raised.
"Don't worry, Mr. Yan, we will take good care of these bandits." Everyone responded with high spirits. After yesterday's battle, most of them were baptized.
Xiao Liu looked at everyone's momentum and couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction, but he still didn't forget to give instructions to everyone.
"Everyone remember not to reveal the news of my return. During the inspection, we would talk about it from time to time. Deputy Chief Yan is here to take charge. Do you understand? In short, from now on, I will always be here in your minds. .”
"Yes!" Everyone responded loudly.
Xiao Liu told them sternly that he knew that although everyone had a good momentum, these bandits were not easy and they could not deal with them, so he had to scare these bandits and make them afraid.
For this reason, Xiaoliu went to Heifeng Village for a walk before going back to deter these bandits.
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Qixia Town, in the county prison.
Although none of the three arresters have outstanding achievements, they are all veteran arresters with very rich experience, and their interrogation techniques can be considered professional.
In order to prevent the bandits from colluding in their confessions, they deliberately separated the three bandits for interrogation.
This group of bandits had been frightened out of their wits by Xiao Liu yesterday, and now they knew everything they knew.
After a while, everyone also understood the origin of this group of bandits. At the same time, they also knew that this group of bandits actually robbed Dongchang's property.
After learning about this, the three of them couldn't help but feel a little confused.
Dongchang! This institution is simply beyond their reach.
Not to mention them, even the magistrate of Lou County and even the magistrate Xu of Guangyang Prefecture did not dare to ask about Dongchang's affairs.
Because Dongchang has the right to take them at any time.
Yes, a fourth-grade prefect can be considered a high-ranking official, but if he offends Dongchang, he will be immediately confiscated and imprisoned.
It can be said that if people in Jianghu fear Dongchang because of his power, then people in official circles fear Dongchang because of its power.
Behead first and report later, with the imperial authority's permission, this is Dongchang!
The bandits' matter was related to Dongchang, and it instantly became a hot potato. Now they are either suppressing it or not suppressing it.
They were afraid that after destroying this group of bandits, Dongchang would blackmail them.
After all, Dongchang lost something. If they found the thing and returned it to Dongchang, and then Dongchang didn't pursue the matter, then it would be over.
But if the thing is not found, or if Dongchang directly blackmails them, then they won't even have room to reason.
The three people who had a headache could only report the matter to Lou Zhixian first. When Lou Zhixian heard about this situation, he was also one of the two. How could this have anything to do with Dongchang?
In an instant, he who was originally filled with joy because of his victory over the bandits became sad again!
The master, Lao Xing, Han Baotou, and Chen Baotou looked at Lou Zhixian's sad look and had no idea. This matter was related to Dongchang, and it was a matter of life and death. They did not dare to say anything at will.
And just when everyone was at a loss, a yamen servant came in and reported.
"Your Majesty, Deputy Yan is here to ask for an audience."
"Xiao Liu is back, hurry! Let him in quickly!"
When Lou Zhixian heard that Xiao Liu was back, a look of anticipation instantly appeared on his face. He was very satisfied with Xiao Liu's performance this time. He wanted to see if Xiao Liu had any good ideas.
