Chapter 185 Falling off a Cliff
Seeing that his plan had failed, the governor had no choice but to apologize to Pei Jingyuan and punish the woman who had climbed into Pei Jingyuan's bed, which made Pei Jingyuan calm down a little.
At the same time, the governor could only temporarily give up the approach of King Qin and Pei Jingyuan and turn his attention to Pei Jingchuan.
——The next day——
Pei Jingchuan led his men to formally hand over the grain from the court to the governor, who solemnly promised to provide disaster relief immediately. He also pretended to set up a porridge stall in the city, and many people lined up to get porridge.
Pei Jingchuan and his men were observing from the side. When Pei Jingyuan saw the people queuing up at the porridge tent to get porridge, he couldn't help but think of the bet he had made with Xu Qingyan.
He raised the corners of his lips proudly and said, "Sister-in-law, I wonder if you still remember the bet we made last time. Now, you see that the governor of Yuzhou really gave porridge to the people. Should we consider you the loser?"
Xu Qingyan sneered and said, "Do you really think this is porridge? Why don't you go and queue up, get a bowl and see for yourself?"
"What do you mean?" Pei Jingyuan's expression changed.
Xu Qingyan called a guard to get a bowl of porridge and handed it to Pei Jingyuan. At first glance, it was just watery soup with only a few grains of rice floating on top. Moreover, the rice used was of very poor quality, which was completely different from the porridge they served in the border town of Yuzhou.
He immediately understood that the governor of Yuzhou had not cooked the rice they had brought into porridge and given it to the people! However, what made him even more curious was that these people were still queuing up to receive such poor porridge, and no one was complaining?
He couldn't figure it out, so he angrily stepped forward and grabbed a commoner and asked, "The porridge here is so bad, why are you lining up to get it? The governor gave you this much, and you didn't resist?"
The person who was caught was a young, skinny man. He looked at Pei Jingyuan as if he was a monster and said, "Are you sick? It's good enough to have something to eat, but you are still picky!"
This time, if Pei Jingchuan and others had not come, the governor would not even give them a bowl of porridge like this. At least there is something this time. Even if there is no rice, there is water!
The people dared not say a bad word about the governor in the city. If the governor knew about it, they would be killed and eaten by other hungry people. That’s why no one in the city could hear a word complaining about the governor.
"How could this happen?" Pei Jingyuan said in disbelief.
If the governor did not give the relief grain they sent to the people, did he embezzle it for himself? No, he had to find trouble with the governor!
So, Pei Jingyuan was about to turn around and go to the Governor's Mansion, but unexpectedly at this moment, Xu Qingyan blocked his way.
Xu Qingyan looked at him with a smile and said, "Don't forget, you still owe me one hundred thousand taels. Remember to give it to me when you go back. I have the bet we signed back then."
Pei Jingyuan's face flushed, and he felt extremely heartbroken when he thought of the 100,000 taels. How could he get 100,000 taels? Last time, he almost emptied Liu Rumeng's family to raise money for the third prince. Now he has to give Xu Qingyan 100,000 taels. I'm afraid he will have to sell his shop! If he sells the shop, he will be even less likely to have any income in the future.
However, now is obviously not the time to consider this issue. Anyway, the Third Prince asked me to get rid of Pei Jingchuan in Yuzhou this time.
Now, he knew that the governor of Yuzhou was a corrupt official, and decided to arrest him. If he succeeded, he would have made a great contribution. Then, he would find a way to kill Pei Jingchuan and the others on the way. He thought, how could Xu Qingyan be in the mood to ask him for money again?
Therefore, he decided to deal with Xu Qingyan for the time being, and nodded and agreed: "Don't worry, you won't be left out."
When Pei Jingyuan returned to the governor's mansion, he happened to see the governor sneaking out of a small door with a group of people, secretly escorting something.
Pei Jingyuan did not alarm him, but followed him quietly with some men and horses. They left the city, walked into the mountain path, and went to a remote mountain.
At this time, Pei Jingyuan felt a little confused. Why did the governor send these things to the mountain? Could it be that he built a place on the mountain to hide the stolen goods?
Thinking of this, he instantly became energetic. If that was the case, he would track him down and find his lair, then destroy it. When the time came, he would hand these over to the court as evidence, and he would have made a great contribution!
However, he did not realize that while he was following the governor, his tracks had already been seen by the bandits hiding on the top of the mountain.
"Fang Caizhen, don't you know that you brought a tail with you when you came up the mountain?" Just when Governor Fang climbed halfway up the mountain with food, a rough-looking bandit suddenly appeared in front of him with a group of bandits.
"What!" Governor Fang asked in surprise.
He clearly chose to secretly bring these things up the mountain when the King of Qin and his men were out, so how could there be a tail?
After hearing this, Pei Jingyuan in the dark knew that he had been discovered, so he stopped hiding and attacked before the bandits could act. In an instant, countless agile guards jumped out of the surrounding bushes and attacked Governor Fang and his men.
"You don't know your own limitations!" The bandit leader sneered. He was not in a hurry. Instead, he watched Pei Jingyuan and his men fighting with Governor Fang's men.
The people Pei Jingyuan brought with him were all well-trained guards, and their skills were better than those of Governor Fang. When he saw that his people were about to defeat Governor Fang's men gradually, he couldn't help but feel a little proud.
But just when he was feeling proud, he suddenly heard his men start to scream. He turned around in a hurry and saw that at this moment, many colorful poisonous snakes came out from nowhere and entangled his guards one after another. The poisonous snakes bit hard, and soon, a large number of his men fell down.
"Oh no! This snake is poisonous, extremely poisonous! Everyone run!" Pei Jingyuan's people reacted immediately and started to flee.
Pei Jingyuan was no exception. At the critical moment, saving his life was the most important thing! So, he could only reluctantly give up this opportunity and turn around to escape. But it was easy to come, but it was difficult to leave. How could those bandits let him go so easily?
"Catch him! Kill him!" The bandit leader gave an order, and many bandits chased after Pei Jingyuan.
Pei Jingyuan ran all the way, most of his men had died, and the bandits were outnumbered, so he was no match for them. Soon, he was forced to the edge of a cliff by the bandits. When he saw the bandits were about to chop him with a knife, he had no choice but to fight to the death and jumped off the cliff.
"Boss, he jumped off the cliff!" The bandit went back to report to the bandit leader.
Governor Fang was shocked and said, "Is he dead or alive now? Why don't you chase him? He saw me interacting with you. You must not let him live!"
"If you jump off such a high cliff, you will probably be smashed to pieces and there is a high probability that you will not survive!" the bandit replied.
Lord Fang heaved a sigh of relief and said, "It's better if he dies. Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to explain myself."
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