Chapter 87: I am good at suppressing bandits
The next day.
After a busy night last night, Liang Zhen decided to stay in Zhongling County for another day to rest.
Wei Changtian didn't care about it. After getting up in the morning, he ran around the county town and didn't prepare to go back to the inn until lunch time.
Sitting in the carriage, he looked at the scar on Zhang San's face and asked boredly, "Zhang San, what did you do wrong before?"
All members of the Freemasons are prisoners awaiting trial in the Dali Temple, so Zhang San must have been charged with a crime before.
"Sir, are you asking me about all the things I have done? Or just those written in the files?" Zhang San asked back without changing his expression.
"Oh? It sounds like you've committed quite a few crimes."
Wei Changtian immediately became interested: "Tell me everything!"
"yes."
Zhang San nodded, and after a moment's recollection, he began to "confess" one by one: "Sir, I committed my first crime when I was ten years old. A bully in the village stole two ducks from my family, so I secretly slaughtered his three cows..."
"The second time was when I was eleven years old."
Half an hour later.
"...My thirty-sixth crime was when I was twenty-five years old. At that time, I had reached the seventh level and joined a small gang..."
"Stop it first!"
Wei Changtian interrupted Zhang San's chattering with a headache: "How many of these things are recorded in your files?"
"Not a single one."
"What?"
Wei Changtian was stunned: "Then what crime were you arrested for?"
Zhang San answered truthfully: "There are twelve charges in total. The first one is..."
"Stop, stop, stop! No more talking!"
Wei Changtian looked this "outlaw" up and down and said with emotion: "No wonder you are called Zhang San."
Zhang San looked puzzled: "What do you mean, sir?"
"It doesn't mean anything... Is Zhang San your real name or a pseudonym?"
“A pseudonym.”
"So what's your real name?"
"Zhang Quandan."
"...I'll continue to call you Zhang San."
Wei Changtian was speechless for a while, and only came back to his senses after a while, then changed the subject and asked, "By the way, how do you remember the past events so clearly?"
"My Lord, I may not be good at other things, but I have a very good memory."
Zhang San said seriously: "I can remember everything I saw and heard clearly."
Wei Changtian was a little surprised: "Are you serious?"
"I dare not deceive you, sir."
"That's a skill..."
Wei Changtian held his chin and thought for a while, his expression gradually becoming serious.
"Zhang San, I don't know why Wang Er wants you to stay with me, but since I trust him, I also trust you."
"This time when we go to Shuzhou, I may ask you to do a lot of things... Do you know how to do it?"
"Know."
Zhang San immediately replied, "Just do it, don't ask."
"What if I tell you something you can't do?" Wei Changtian asked again.
"A villain should do his best."
"wrong."
Wei Changtian shook his head and corrected him: "No matter what it is, if you feel that you can't do it, you should tell me in time, and never try to do it yourself..."
“Don’t act on your own.”
"Don't be too arrogant, especially in a place like Shuzhou where you are unfamiliar with the place."
"Be careful and cautious to achieve great things, remember?"
Zhang San nodded seriously: "Remember, sir."
Wei Changtian glanced at him and suddenly asked, "What is the first word of each of the four sentences I just said?"
"Nothing, also, ordinary, small."
Zhang San didn't hesitate at all and blurted out every word.
"good!"
Wei Changtian nodded with satisfaction.
"He really has some skills!"
…
It was already noon when the carriage returned to the inn.
Yuan'er had been waiting at the door, saying that the thin county magistrate had come again and had set up a table in the inn. Everyone was waiting for him to come back and start the meal.
When Wei Changtian heard this, he hurried into the lobby. Sure enough, the dishes had been served, and Liang Zhen and others were drinking tea and chatting while waiting for him to come back.
"My dear nephew! You are back just in time. Come to the table and have dinner!"
Liang Zhen put down his teacup and greeted them. Wei Changtian quickly bowed and apologized to everyone, "Everyone, I'm so sorry."
"I didn't know Lord Wang was hosting a banquet, so I went for a walk in the city and came back a little late."
"Hahaha, it's not too late."
Liang Zhen laughed twice and sat down in the first seat, and asked casually: "My dear nephew, what do you think of Zhongling County?"
"This... street is wide and spotless."
Wei Changtian really had nothing to praise, so he could only pick two random words.
However, these words sounded a bit sarcastic to the thin county magistrate.
The people have all fled, so isn't the city spacious? His old face flushed, and he bowed his head and said, "I am incompetent, and I am sorry to make you laugh."
"Lord Wang..."
Wei Changtian was too lazy to explain, so he simply went along with him and comforted him, "You don't have to blame yourself too much. As long as the bandit problem can be quelled, Zhongling will surely become prosperous again in the future."
"I would like to borrow your good words..."
The thin county magistrate forced a smile, but anyone could see the bitterness in it.
Although they killed a group of bandits yesterday, this was just the tip of the iceberg of the bandit problem in Zhongling County.
Other bandits may not be controlled by monsters and may not act so extreme, but it is definitely common for them to enter villages and rob.
So the problem of banditry was not actually solved at all.
"father……"
Perhaps because the thin county magistrate and the people of Zhongling were too pitiful, Liang Qin suddenly suggested, "Why don't you write a letter to the governor of Tanzhou and tell him about Zhongling..."
Tanzhou was not a frontier region, so there was no post of general. All military and political power was concentrated in the hands of the governor.
In terms of rank, the Governor of Tanzhou and the General of Shuzhou are both of the third grade. If such a letter were really written, the other party would definitely give him face and send troops to suppress the bandits.
But how could Liang Zhen be willing to owe such a favor for a small Zhongling?
"Well, I don't know Lord Feng, so I'm afraid it's inappropriate to write a letter rashly..."
"Dad! How do you know the governor of Tanzhou is surnamed Feng if you don't know him?"
"I……"
Liang Zhen was so angry that he wanted to shut Liang Qin's mouth.
But he couldn't get angry at this moment, so he could only say it more bluntly: "Qin'er, this is Tanzhou's business after all. We are just passing by, so it's not appropriate for us to interfere."
"Why are you meddling in this matter?"
Liang Qin advised earnestly: "You can save countless people in Zhongling from danger with just one letter, why don't you do it?"
"this……"
Liang Zhen was speechless after hearing such righteous reasons, and for a moment he didn't know how to make his silly daughter understand the whole thing.
Fortunately, Wei Changtian spoke up to help out at this time.
"Qin'er, there is actually a way to get the state government to send troops to suppress the bandits without Uncle Liang writing a letter."
"ah?"
Liang Qin hurriedly asked: "Brother Changtian, is there any other way?"
Wei Changtian smiled and said, "It's just what I said yesterday. All we need is the wealthy merchants in Zhongling who are willing to donate money."
"But……"
Liang Qin glanced at the thin county magistrate and hesitated, "Didn't Lord Wang say that they were unwilling to donate money?"
"That was before."
Wei Changtian played with the wine glass and said softly under everyone's curious gaze: "I have a way to make them obediently go to the county government office tomorrow morning and hand over the silver with both hands."
"Young Master!"
The thin county magistrate asked anxiously before Liang Qin could, "May I ask what method is it?"
"This matter is very simple. We just need Lord Wang and Uncle Liang to cooperate a little..."
Wei Changtian smiled, tilted his head back and drank the wine in the glass.
"And a few unruly people died."
(End of this chapter)
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