Chapter 86 Hunting Time
Da da da.
The little dumpling dragged his short legs and walked straight towards the old Taoist priest.
Master Hongyi drew his peach wood sword with a wary look on his face and pointed it at the little dumpling, "Don't be so arrogant, you demon!"
As a result, the little dumpling was not afraid at all. He raised his little head, pointed his little finger at his eyebrows, and said in a baby voice: "Ni, Tieya!"
There was laughter from the crowd.
If Xiaojiu was really a monster, how could a monster put up talismans on itself?
Master Hongyi's face turned ashen. He made a sword flower with the peach wood sword in his hand, bit his middle finger, and used the blood from his middle finger to draw a talisman on yellow paper.
With a "hiss" sound, the talisman, along with the airflow, stuck tightly to Xiaojiu's forehead.
A cold light flashed in the old Taoist's eyes. This talisman paper was made with a secret medicine that disturbs the mind. No matter whether it is a human or a demon, anyone who comes into contact with it will talk nonsense and behave differently from ordinary people.
Xiaojiu took a few steps back, stretched out his little hand, and tore off the talisman paper between his eyebrows.
Everyone exclaimed in surprise. The talisman paper had been torn off, so how could they catch the monster?
"Bad pervert!"
Xiaojiu stared at Taoist Hongyi with her dark eyes motionlessly. Juanjuan had just told her that the talisman paper was poisonous!
Damn this old Taoist!
Where's the baby's little bomb? I'm going to blow him up!
Being stared at made Master Hongyi feel uneasy. He quickly took out another talisman and said, "Show yourself quickly, you demon! Otherwise, thunder will descend from the sky and turn you into ashes!"
As soon as the Taoist priest finished speaking, there was a loud bang, a flash of fire, and the earth shook a few times.
Everyone screamed in surprise, it was really thunder!
Could it be that this Ye family's Xiaojiu is really a monster?
All of a sudden, everyone rushed in to see what was going on.
Old Mrs. Huo desperately stood on tiptoe to look inside and said excitedly, "Did the little bitch get struck to death by lightning?"
"Everyone, come and have a look!" Luo Qiuyue's voice came, "So this old Taoist priest is the evildoer! He was burned to ashes by the thunder!"
Everyone rushed to stick their heads inside.
"Oh my God! The Taoist priest was struck to death! Dead and gone!"
The county magistrate huddled under the table, looking at the Taoist priest, whose body was covered in black smoke, his face pale and trembling all over. "Carry him out!"
Master Hongyi, whose body was burnt black, was carried away.
"County Magistrate, what are your next moves?"
"How about another forced confession?"
The refugees began to make a fuss.
The county magistrate felt dizzy and felt like he was walking on cotton.
The thunder from the sky just now was too close to him. Just one step away and he would have been burned to charcoal like the old Taoist.
"County Magistrate, you've been deceived by Huo Zhongnian!" Luo Qiuyue said coldly, "The Huo family previously sold Xiaojiu to the Ye family, and later wanted her back. Xiaojiu didn't want to go back, and the Huo family holds a grudge. Huo Zhongnian wants to use the County Magistrate to get rid of Xiaojiu and the Ye family!"
"What? So that's what's going on! You're such a jerk, Huo Zhongnian!" The county magistrate came to his senses and perked up. "I made such a fool of myself by trusting your one-sided story! Come, drag him out and give him forty strokes of the cane!"
"No! Your Excellency the County Magistrate! Everything I said is true!" Huo Zhongnian panicked.
The county magistrate now only wanted to find someone to take the blame, and shouted: "If you want to avoid punishment, tell me where the grain is..."
Before the county magistrate could finish his words, there was another loud bang!
The wall behind the plaque of "Zhengda Guangming" actually collapsed!
"It's the seventh one!" The little dumpling pointed at the collapsed house and jumped happily.
Everyone took a look and saw that it was indeed true!
There was so much food, piled up to the roof!
"It's food! The food wasn't lost at all! It must have been embezzled by the corrupt officials!"
"That damn corrupt official! Why didn't the thunder just now kill him?"
The county magistrate was so frightened that his soul almost left his body. When he turned around and saw the grain behind him, his expression was more interesting than seeing a ghost. He said in disbelief, "How is this possible?! How could the grain be here?"
He just came from behind, and there was clearly no food inside!
The refugees were extremely excited. "Fellow villagers, there's no way these corrupt officials will release the grain! Everyone, hurry up and grab it!"
Countless refugees poured into the county government office and pushed down its gate.
The county magistrate's screams were drowned out by the crowd.
The people of Heihe Village did not steal food, they had more important things to do.
Xiaojiu was held in Luo Qiuyue's arms.
Huo Zhongnian was picked up by Ye Yanping like a chicken and thrown into the open space.
The village head said with a sullen face, "Didn't the county magistrate just say he would be beaten with forty lashes? It seems he hasn't carried it out yet?"
"That's right!" said the villagers of Heihe Village. "The yamen runners are very busy right now, so it's just the same if we do it for them!"
Huo Zhongnian was pinned to the ground, and everyone hit him with sticks, and he cried out in pain.
"You can't hit people! I'm going to report you to the county government!" Huo Zhongnian said with pain.
"Go ahead and tell on me, you damned bastard! You're the best at snitching!"
The villagers said this while beating even harder.
"You traitorous dog have killed the entire village! Even if I beat you to death, I won't be able to relieve the hatred in my heart!"
Old Mrs. Huo rushed over, "You can't hit my son! My son is going to be a high-ranking official! When the time comes, all of you will be sentenced to death!"
The villagers picked her up with sticks and took her aside like a stink bug.
“Pah pah pah…”
Huo Zhongnian was beaten with one stick after another, screaming like a ghost.
"Stop! How dare you lynch someone in broad daylight!"
An old man in a long gown walked over, followed by a large group of people who looked like scholars.
"Father-in-law, help me!" Huo Zhongnian cried out in pain.
The man who came was Huo Zhongnian's father-in-law, Li Yueliu's father.
Just now, Master Li heard that Huo Zhongnian, a scholar from Mingyu Academy, was helping the county magistrate investigate a case in the county government office. He thought this was a good opportunity to honor himself, so he brought a group of students here.
As soon as he arrived, he saw Huo Zhongnian being beaten up.
The village head said, "I am the village head of Heihe Village. Our village is currently cleaning up its ranks and has nothing to do with outsiders!"
Master Li said, "Let's not talk about the fact that Huo Zhongnian is my son-in-law. I am not an outsider. Just based on the fact that Huo Zhongnian is both virtuous and academically excellent at Mingyu Academy, I know that you must have misunderstood him!"
"Excellent in both character and academic performance?" Everyone laughed.
"You bunch of illiterate country bumpkins, what do you know!" Master Li said angrily, "Huo Zhongnian's articles are widely circulated in Mingyu Academy! He was born in Heihe Village, which is the honor of Heihe Village! How can you treat him so disrespectfully!"
"May I ask, Master, is the quality of Huo Zhongnian's writing often uneven?"
A clear voice was heard, and everyone looked in the direction of the voice, only to see a handsome young man walking out.
Master Li looked puzzled: "You are..."
How did this young man know that Huo Zhongnian's writing quality was sometimes high and sometimes low?
"I'm Ye Yanshun from Heihe Village. Are you wondering how I know about Huo Zhongnian's article?"
"Because all the well-written articles by Huo Zhongnian use my arguments!"
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