Li Yong slowly fell to the ground, his body still twitching. Everyone was stunned by Nangong Beichen's move.
Nangong Beichen: "Anyone who dares to insult my wife will die."
The other two people who were laughing with Li Yong just now were also shot through the head by stones.
The rest of the people gasped and quickly knelt down. "Please spare our lives, sir! We are only here to help them find someone. We didn't mean to insult you. Please spare our lives, sir."
Nangong Beichen: "You guys, drag the people on the ground back to the village!"
The few people did not dare to disobey, and carried the three people towards the village. Their legs were shaking with fear, but they did not dare to stop.
After a cup of tea, everyone arrived at the village. There was no threshing ground in their village, only a piece of open space in front of the village chief's house. Several people carried the body to the front of the open space.
The village chief of Lijia Village also rushed over at this time and looked at Nangong Beichen and the others with unfriendly eyes.
"Who are you and why are you here in Lijia Village? We don't welcome outsiders to our village. You two should leave now."
Nangong Beichen took a look at the person who was speaking. It was obvious that this person was not a good person. There was a hint of murderous aura in him, and it seemed that he had done a lot of bad things.
"Are you the head of Lijia Village?"
"Yes, I am Li Bao, the village chief of Lijia Village. You two should stop meddling in other people's business and don't risk your lives here."
Nangong Beichen snorted coldly and said, "I'll take care of this trivial matter today. What can you do to me?"
Li Bao waved to the men behind him, and a group of men with knives and sticks came up.
Li Bao smiled at Nangong Beichen and said, "If you don't accept my toast, then you can leave your life here."
The sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance, and soon the county magistrate came to Nangong Beichen with more than a hundred people.
He dismounted and knelt: "I pay my respects to His Highness Prince Chen. I am late, and I beg Your Highness to forgive me."
"Everyone, get up."
The people brought by the county magistrate included yamen runners and soldiers.
Nangong Beichen: "Go and bring all the people in this village here."
The county magistrate made a gesture to his men, and more than a hundred people went to the village to arrest people.
At this time, Li Bao's legs were shaking, seeing so many yamen runners coming, and this one was actually Prince Chen, the younger brother of the current emperor.
Li Bao knew that he couldn't escape this time, so he sat down on the ground.
The county magistrate had two chairs brought out, and Nangong Beichen and Feng Jiu sat on them.
In two cups of tea, all the people in the village were brought over. Feng Jiu saw that many women were pale and thin, and they looked mentally unstable.
Fengjiu asked the yamen runners to separate the men and women. Fengjiu asked, "Which of you were bought by them as common wives?"
The women below looked at each other in bewilderment. One of the older women stepped forward and said, "Madam, we were all bought or robbed by them. Not a single daughter-in-law in Li Village was married off by them. They are not human beings."
Many women have given birth here, and some have been tortured to the point of mental disorder and are unable to take care of themselves.
County Magistrate Chen Zuo was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. Such a thing happened in the area under his jurisdiction, and he was completely unaware of it.
Fengjiu: "Big sister, you can tell us how much you know, and we will make the decision for you."
The woman who just spoke was the one who was abducted from the village chief's family. Her name was Zhang Li, and she was from Pingyang Prefecture. She was abducted from her home by them, as was her sister. Her parents, brothers and sisters were all killed by these people.
Zhang Li knelt down and said, "Your Highness, please help us. I am originally from Xinghua Village in Pingyang Prefecture.
One night five years ago, while our family was asleep, Li Bao and more than twenty people broke into our village. There were only seventeen households in our village, and they killed all the men in our village.
They brought all the women under the age of 30 here. There were 34 of us abducted in total. We tried to escape on the way, but they killed four of us and brought 30 more to the village.
They are not human, they are all beasts. There are less than ten of them alive now. They often go out to rob and kill people. There is a lot of stolen money buried under Li Bao's bed.
Upon hearing this, several yamen runners entered the village chief's yard and soon carried out two large boxes. When they opened the boxes, they were found to be full of gold, silver and jewelry.
Li Bao looked at Zhang Li viciously, as if he wanted to torture Zhang Li to death. Zhang Li glared at him, not afraid at all.
Nangong Beichen: "County Magistrate, do you know anything about the situation in this village?"
Chen Zuo: "Your Highness, I didn't know that this village pays taxes in silver every year. I asked my advisor at the time, and he said that everyone in their village works outside for a living and doesn't farm, so they pay in silver every year. That's why I didn't suspect anything."
Nangong Beichen: "You are the head of a county, but you don't even understand the situation of the villages below you. How did you become the county magistrate? The whole village is full of such vicious people. Since you didn't discover them for so many years, I don't want your head anymore."
Chen Zuo's legs went weak and he knelt down.
"Your Majesty, please spare my life. This village has a small population, and I was negligent. Your Majesty, please forgive me this time!"
Nangong Beichen: "Are the city defenders here?"
A burly man came out and knelt down, saying, "Your Highness, our county lieutenant is in the county town. Should I ask you to go and fetch him?"
"No need to shout, take these men to the county government office first."
Fengjiu: "Do you plan to stay in this village or go back home?"
These women all lowered their heads, and no one knew what they were thinking.
After a cup of tea, Zhang Li said again: "Madam, if these people don't come back, then we can live in this village. We have lived here for such a long time. We can farm our own land and support ourselves and these children."
Fengjiu nodded and distributed the gold and silver they had collected among them. It was already June and there was nothing good to plant in the fields.
With this gold and silver, they won't starve when they farm next year.
Fengjiu looked at those mentally ill women and worried about how they would live in the future.
Zhang Li quickly said, "Madam, don't worry. We will take care of these sisters and won't let them go hungry or cold. With so much gold and silver, we can support ourselves.
Please, my Lord and Madam, please kill these beasts and avenge our family. These bad guys have killed countless people. They often go out to rob people, and countless people have died at their hands. This is what Li Bao said himself.
Nangong Beichen: "Don't worry, these people won't come back."
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