Coming.
Hearing what Old Lady Fang said, Fang Yuxiu clenched the back of the chair, her heart ached, and she stared outside with wide eyes.
Is it good news or bad news?
Life or death?
"Red! Red!" Old Mrs. Fang shouted, "Nineteen years, nineteen years."
Her people had already rushed to the window, shouting words that sounded incoherent and irrelevant.
Fang Yuxiu understood.
For nineteen years, they have waited for news from their loved ones several times.
Waited for the news of my grandfather's death.
Then came the news of my father's death.
Waiting for the news of his brother's death.
The white cloth and linen in the house were piled up in preparation, thinking that there would never be hope of life again.
Now the wait has finally come, and the change has finally happened.
"I've finally been waiting for this." She murmured, and she, who was usually calm and never showed her emotions, couldn't help but burst into tears.
To be honest, she was really scared when she came with her grandmother. She really didn't dare to come. She didn't know what she would do if she saw news of death again.
In this respect, she is not as good as her grandmother.
Not only did my grandmother wait in person, she also dared to let the messenger tell her the result directly, without any guessing, asking, or buffering. Whether it was red or white, life or death, she just dared to look at it and proceed like this.
Tears blurred her eyes, and the red flags tied behind the two horses galloping along the road became blurry like a ball of fire.
There were more and more carriages and horses on the road. A horse galloped through the street and headed straight for the county government office.
The man on the horse was obviously an official. Passengers on official business did not dare to delay and dodged him one after another. They watched him go straight into the county government office.
Since there were no local people to serve as county magistrates, the county magistrates had no residence in the area. There was an inner house behind the county government office for the family to live in.
The inner house of Yangcheng County Government was very exquisitely decorated, and there was also a back garden.
At this time, County Magistrate Li was spending the summer in the garden, admiring the lotus flowers and drinking fragrant tea, feeling extremely comfortable.
A clerk beside him was waving a fan with a smile on his face.
"No matter how much they plan, they still have to pass through Baihe Liangshan," he said.
"Be more prepared. Time and again. The Fang family prepared very well this time. I don't know how they got lucky and got the job of the Jinyiwei. It made our people feel helpless." County Magistrate Li closed his eyes and said while lying on the rocking chair, "So don't underestimate them. A grasshopper can still jump three times, but look at how high they jumped this time. They can save a dying person, and even make us sacrifice more than ten years of planning."
"No matter how high they jump, they are just grasshoppers in autumn." The clerk laughed. "This time we have made thorough preparations. We first sent out the scattered soldiers, and then the real soldiers. Even if they escape the attack of the scattered soldiers, they will definitely not be suspicious of the officers and soldiers who appear."
County Magistrate Li opened his eyes and sighed.
"It's really pitiful when you think about it," he said. "When you are in despair, you are so happy to see the rescue team coming from the sky. But the result is..."
As he spoke, he raised his hand and made a beheading motion. A "puff" sound came out of his mouth.
"What a sad and painful thing this is," he said.
The clerk shook his head.
"Not necessarily," he said.
How dare you disagree? This clerk is an honest man.
"Wang Jiang and his men are very quick with their hands. Maybe they will be happy even when they die." the clerk went on to say.
County Magistrate Li looked at him, and the two of them looked at each other and laughed at the same time.
The clerk took the tea and handed it over respectfully. County Magistrate Li took the tea and drank it, then lay back comfortably.
"This time, the Fang family can completely withdraw from Deshengchang." he said.
The clerk's face was also full of sighs.
"It's not easy for adults to get to this day. You can say they have spent their entire lives worrying about it," he said.
County Magistrate Li shook his head.
"It's wrong to think like that. Nothing can be done without effort." He tapped his knees. "This kind of glory and wealth is to be enjoyed for a lifetime, so it's not easy to get. I studied hard for ten years to get this official position, and planned for twenty years to get this wealth for my descendants. It's not hard, not hard. I think God is fair."
"Your Excellency is neither arrogant nor impatient, and is as strong as a pine tree. This is truly admirable." The clerk complimented sincerely.
Before he finished his compliment, he heard the sound of footsteps outside.
"My lord, something is wrong."
Magistrate Li frowned and looked over, only to see an official rushing in and crawling, then kneeling on the ground.
"Oh no! Lord Wang and his men are defeated." He shouted, pointing outside with a look of fear on his face.
What?
Magistrate Li looked incredulous, and the clerk was also stunned.
"How is this possible?" they shouted in unison.
Even if the Fang family has many guards, they are no match for the ambush of more than a hundred people. Moreover, they have been monitoring all the way and have a clear grasp of the number of Fang family guards.
There were nearly 200 of them, facing a convoy of less than 100 people. Moreover, it was officials against civilians, and they were prepared both overtly and covertly.
How could we lose?
How did you lose?
And when did it fail?
"When did they fail? How did they fail? Where is Wang Liu? Why is there no news at all?" County Commander Li asked in a row.
The man knelt on the ground with a panicked look on his face.
"I didn't know. There was no news. I just couldn't get any news so I had to ask. Then I found out that something had happened to Lord Wang and the others," he said.
There is no news. No news can be transmitted.
With all the careful arrangements, how come it still looks like it's made of paper and breaks with just a poke?
The magistrate of Li County and the clerk looked pale.
Something was wrong from the beginning.
When does this start?
County Magistrate Li was a little confused.
"Is the Fang family really so powerful?" the clerk murmured with a trembling voice.
Of course the Fang family is very powerful, otherwise why would he have to plan for so long and plan so covertly, using a blunt knife to cut the flesh and a curse as a cover.
This is to avoid being discovered by the Fang family and then biting someone in a hurry.
A bite from the Fang family's rabbit is not light, enough to make all their previous efforts go to waste.
Song Yunping has already been brought up, so why are there still problems?
How could there be a problem? They have been monitoring and observing us all the time, there is no problem at all.
The only surprise was that the young lady had superb medical skills.
That's not a problem.
No matter how advanced the medical skills are, they cannot bring the dead back to life.
"Sir, what should we do?" the clerk asked in a trembling voice.
County Magistrate Li had lost his composure long ago and threw the teacup in front of him to the ground.
Whatever went wrong, the problem now is that they lost.
"Wang Liu and his men will not betray us, right?" the clerk said, "Perhaps it was because of Mr. Fang's incident that the Fang family had strict security, so Wang Liu and his men fell into trouble?"
That's possible.
But now they don't know anything.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
County Magistrate Li gritted his teeth.
"They have already made arrangements to copy Wang Jiang's bottom line, so let's copy Fang's bottom line," he said.
Copy the recipe!
"Sir, what's the reason?" the clerk asked subconsciously.
Now it's broad daylight, and mobilizing officials to raid a wealthy family is no joke.
County Magistrate Li kicked him away.
"What reason do I need? Do I need a reason to kill her?" He said, "She is a traitor of the Jin people, and she must be killed without mercy."
No matter how powerful a tiger is, it will no longer pose a threat if it dies. Although doing so may result in one's own death and the whole plan being in vain, there is still hope.
The quarrel was resolved in this way. The clerk jumped up to accept the order, but before he could stand firmly, someone stumbled in from outside the door.
"Sir, sir, something bad has happened." The man was a servant, with a terrified look on his face, "The county government office has been surrounded by soldiers."
Soldiers? Surrounded the county government?
So fast.
Before County Magistrate Li had time to think of this, he heard a roar of thunder and the sound of something heavy falling to the ground outside.
The ground was shaking so much that the gate of the county government was pushed down.
"According to the order of the Shanxi Provincial Governor and Taiyuan Prefect, we are arresting the Jin spy Li Changhong. Anyone who disobeys this order will be killed without mercy."
Shouts came one after another and filled the sky and the earth.
Why use this excuse? It's really disgusting.
County Magistrate Li thought about it again, and the next moment he was knocked to the ground by the soldiers who rushed in like wolves and tigers.
Everything in his sight was turned upside down, just like his fate.
Fate is so unpredictable.
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