"Oh my god, why was the county magistrate arrested this week?"
"Hush... I have a nephew who works as a constable in the county government office. I heard he put stones in the disaster relief food!"
"Ah... How bold! The victims are all behaving peacefully, yet he dares to do this so brazenly. Tsk tsk..."
"Tsk... Corrupt officials should be brought to justice. He thinks that ordinary people like us can do whatever they want without anyone's support. He's absolutely evil!"
"It's strange, how did the government suddenly know about this? Could it be that they have spies planted there?"
"Bah... Serves you right. Bai Shitou shot himself in the foot and hit a brick wall! This is retribution!"
The people were talking about this, and the county magistrate gnashed his teeth and looked at the sneering Li Baisong (he would be called that from now on). "You...you are right?"
Li Baisong shook his head. "Those who do evil will eventually perish. This is all your own fault. It has nothing to do with anyone else!"
The county magistrate cursed: "You are an ungrateful villain. I shouldn't have saved you in the first place."
"Pa!" Li Baisong was furious and slapped him in public.
"I'm a villain? You went to great lengths to keep me by your side, and now you're even trying to confuse right and wrong. You're absolutely despicable and shameless!"
The county magistrate was stunned for a moment. It turned out that he already knew everything. No wonder the officials and soldiers from the government office came so quickly. He staggered and almost fell.
Li Bosong grabbed him by the collar and whispered, "Brother Zhou, I heard there's plague in the prison. You must be extremely careful!"
"You...you dare to threaten me?"
Suddenly, his neck relaxed, and Li Baisong stared at him with a half-smile. "Your career has already come to an end. What's the use of threatening you? You don't think someone in the capital can save you, do you?"
The county magistrate's eyes were filled with terror, and he roared at him, "You beast, how dare you rob my mail! I should have killed you!"
"Pa!" The soldier slapped him in the face.
"Why are you howling? You're so noisy! Take him away!"
Finally, he had rags stuffed into his mouth, and was put on shackles and anklets and reluctantly set off on his journey.
Except for one person, all the sixty-eight people in the mansion were taken away.
Steward Zhou took the bundle and said gratefully, "Master Li, we'll meet again if we're lucky!"
Li Baisong's deep gaze fell on his back, and he snapped his fingers, and a soldier appeared.
"Take these two people and execute him on the spot. How dare you escape privately!"
Even before his death, Steward Zhou didn't know why he was massacred. He walked along the road humming a little tune, feeling very lucky for having persuaded the county magistrate to clean up Xiangyang Village.
At night, the housekeeper came with officers and soldiers.
"Is everything settled?"
The officers and soldiers were very respectful, "He's already dead!"
Li Baisong breathed a sigh of relief. No one else knew that he was the mastermind behind this incident.
He waved his hand and said, "Go back and tell my brother that County Magistrate Zhang is a man of courage and resolution, so he can temporarily take over the position of County Magistrate!"
The housekeeper saw that he looked so dejected and kept forcing him to drink, and he couldn't bear it.
"Master, now that things have come to this, please don't blame yourself too much! If he had a more open mind, he wouldn't have fallen for it!"
"I'm an open and honest person, but I never thought I'd end up being so sinister! My mentor was right. If you want to be an official in the court, you have to wear a mask. Well, this can be considered revenge for the past three years!"
He knew that if he didn't vent his anger, he would feel resentful. After all, he had devoted himself to the cause for the past three years, and he didn't want to drag down Xiangyang Village.
Tang Youyou didn't know that their village was distributing new disaster relief food, and everyone looked very happy.
Except for Old Man Tang, he was leaning on a wooden stick, hunched over, and his hair turned completely white overnight, as if he had aged ten years.
Seeing this, Tang Youyou hurried forward to support him, "Dad, your leg injury hasn't healed yet, why are you out here?"
"No problem, I just want to see everyone's happy faces!"
"Dad, why are you still wearing such thin clothes? Didn't I buy a lot of cloth from the county town?"
Old Man Tang waved his hands: "I'm not afraid of the cold, but your mother..."
Tang Youyou noticed that something was wrong with him and called Xiong Er to take his pulse.
"Uncle is not seriously ill. Perhaps he is just too heartbroken. Heart disease needs to be cured with heart medicine!"
She understood that Old Man Tang was unable to accept his mother's sudden death.
Liao was a little upset. "Sister, what should we do? Today, Dad didn't even want to eat. He used to love playing with Niuniu, but now he sits alone in the yard, staring blankly for the whole day."
Tang Youyou felt overwhelmed. After thinking for a long time, he only had one solution. "Find something for Dad to do. Maybe it will be better if he keeps busy!"
So she took the risk and went to the bamboo forest to cut a lot of bamboo.
"Dad, the villagers are full of praise for your weaving skills and are waiting to see your work!"
Old Man Tang rarely smiled bitterly. "Never mind. My legs can't really move, so I'll just do what I can."
Tang Wu pulled her over and said, "Sister, don't worry. I'll let the kids look after Daddy. Right now, it's up to you to go up the mountain and cut down the trees!"
Tang Youyou slapped his forehead, "Brother, why didn't you remind me earlier?"
I've been so busy these past few days that I've forgotten that we have enough wood for the house, but we haven't found wood for the furniture yet. Currently, only a few families in the village have beds, and most people still sleep on the floor. Carpenter Zhang and his family are busy as hell.
So she went back to her old job, since she was very strong.
"Auntie is really strong. She doesn't even need an axe to chop down trees. She just smashes them with rocks! Haha..."
"You're still grinning like an idiot. We're not even as good as her in carrying the wood. Hurry up and lift it!"
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