Chapter 161 Gentleman's Agreement

County Magistrate Liu bowed and nodded beside him, smiling awkwardly.

The young man who spoke rolled his eyes and said, "Okay, let him go!"

"This..." County Magistrate Liu smiled bitterly, "The person who sent them here brought a letter from Mr. Yuan, asking me to handle it in an official manner."

The young man narrowed his eyes and said, "Who is the elder? How come an old man from a remote village like yours has more face than my brother-in-law?"

"Yes, yes, no, no, it's not," County Magistrate Liu wiped his sweat, "It's Lord Jingxing, the name card of Mr. Yuan Xiyuan, the wine-drinking hermit."

The young man was stunned for a moment, then he was surprised: "It's... that drunkard, right? How come he is related to him again?"

County Magistrate Liu said, "I don't know either. The article used to engrave the stele in the tomb of the owl and the deer was written by the elder Yuan. I wanted to use this article, but after asking around, I found out that the elder Yuan was actually living in seclusion here. But I don't know why he was related to the Tang family."

The young man frowned: "What kind of nosy business is he meddling in?"

County Magistrate Liu smiled and didn't answer. The young man asked, "Then tell me, what should we do about this?"

County Magistrate Liu said, "Also, there is one more thing. When these people were sent here, they were all injured and had broken legs."

"What?" The young man was stunned and said in astonishment: "Aren't they just a few country bumpkins? How dare they use such heavy hands? How can they beat them? What's going on?"

County Magistrate Liu said, "I was in a hurry to report to Lord Zhu, and I haven't had time to conduct a thorough investigation yet."

"Hurry up!" The young man waved his hand hastily, "Go and investigate and find out clearly!"

"Yes, yes," County Magistrate Liu responded quickly and retreated from the room with a respectful look on his face. He did not change his expression until he was out of the yard and snorted coldly.

The lawyer next to him looked indignant and said, "He's just an uncle. What's so great about him? You really take yourself too seriously!"

County Magistrate Liu looked gloomy and whispered, "Uncle, isn't that quite remarkable?"

This person is the brother-in-law of the Governor Chen, his name is Zhu Yinzhong.

The Great Yan Dynasty established thirteen provinces, each of which had a governor and an inspector, who were in charge of civil affairs and judicial affairs respectively.

The person Tang Sanshui offended at the beginning was the Governor Chen Benshan, and the person Tang Sanshui beat was Chen's second son.

The second son of Chen was originally a legitimate son, but because his biological mother died early and his step-wife Zhu never disciplined him, he was brought up to be very naive and spoiled. At a very young age, he was addicted to women and had a fight with Tang Sanshui over a prostitute in a brothel. Tang Sanshui caught him off guard and hit him on the head.

Lord Chen was furious and took away Tang Qingshan's fortune that he had built up over twenty years and half of his life with just a wave of his hand. Now that the matter was finally exposed, Lord Chen showed mercy and spared the family's life.

These old foxes in officialdom usually won't do things to the extreme. After all, it's just a minor flesh wound, not a deep hatred.

But this matter is no small matter in the eyes of Mr. Chen Er.

Having lost face in front of the beauty and being beaten under the table by the trash in his eyes, he hated Tang Sanshui to the core...so Zhu kept coaxing him into killing them all.

Unexpectedly, the incident of Tang Sanshui a few days ago was so serious that it alarmed the emperor. People in the streets and alleys of the city were talking about it, talking about Tang Sanshui's past over and over again, and naturally mentioned the things happening in the city.

For Mr. Chen Er, this was like eating the melon on his own head.

When I heard that Tang Sanshui was not dead... and was not injured at all, it was his brother who took the blame for him.

The second young master Chen was furious and made a big fuss.

He didn't care how Tang Qingshan was forced to do this, he only knew that he didn't get his revenge, he was just treated perfunctorily! His stepmother Zhu had always been obedient to him, so she coaxed him to vent his anger and told his brother about it.

Her younger brother, Zhu Yinzhong, was the chief officer of the provincial government. This time, Longmen County received an order to build the Xiaoxie Tomb, and the provincial government sent people to supervise the work, and Zhu Yinzhong also came.

Zhu Yinzhong didn't take this matter seriously at first. After all, he was not his nephew. It was up to him to decide whether to do it or not. Who knew that when he arrived and asked around, he found out that Tang Qingshan was actually quite rich. He had made a lot of money, building houses and buying land.

This is the "real reason" that Zhu Yinzhong came here.

So Zhu Yinzhong immediately became active and found someone to do this.

Originally, they wanted to deal with Tang Qingshan directly, but Tang Qingshan and his wife were building a house, and there were hundreds of people around every day, so it was not easy to do it. So they thought of arresting Tang Erlang and threatening them to give money.

I thought it would be easy to catch a few country folks, but I didn't expect that not only did they fail to catch them, but the people they sent also killed them.

Let’s not talk about how angry Zhu Yinzhong was, and just talk about the Tang family.

The villagers gathered together and talked for a while, and seeing that there was nothing to worry about, Tang Qingshan and Mrs. Lin went back.

Only my second brother Yan Shenjue and a few others were left.

Yan Shenjue was just about to ask Tuanzi to go out and make up for the time spent practicing martial arts when he discovered that Tuanzi was sneaking out.

It was the familiar little monkey-like walking posture with the waist bent, tiptoes and fists clenched...

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

Yan Shenjue watched silently.

The second brother was also very curious about what she wanted to do, so he held his tea and pretended not to see it.

Of course Mr. Shen also saw it, but seeing that the two men didn't move, he didn't move either.

Unexpectedly, the little cicada monkey sneaked up to his feet, pulled his hand, and motioned him to go out.

Mr. Shen liked children, otherwise he wouldn't have taken care of them as soon as they met, and he wouldn't have promoted Anshun to be the housekeeper just because he liked children. He was so touched by Tuanzi's cute face that he was pulled out by her obediently.

Yan Shenjue tilted his head and listened.

The second brother looked at him, and seeing that he didn't move, he didn't move either.

Xinbao pulled Master Shen to the corner of the yard. When he felt the distance was far enough, he crouched stealthily behind the flowerpot, staring straight at the door with his big eyes.

Master Shen also squatted down with her, their heads close together, and Xinbao said to him, "Uncle, Xinbao wants to make a gentleman's agreement with you."

Master Shen suppressed his laughter and said, "What kind of gentleman's agreement do you want?"

Xinbao said, "Uncle, whatever flowers you want to plant, Xinbao will help you plant them, and then uncle will teach me the third knife skills, okay?"

Mr. Shen was happy.

This is indeed childish talk.

Maybe someone like Yan Shenjue doesn't need a master to teach kung fu, but his sword skills, which are based on a family tradition, cannot be learned casually. One needs a master to learn.

But Master Shen didn't explain this to her, he just smiled and said, "Why does Xinbao want Third Brother to learn my swordsmanship?"

Xinbao said, "Because my wife said that uncle's knife skills are amazing."

Master Shen laughed: "Has Xinbao asked Third Brother if he wants to learn my swordsmanship?"

(End of this chapter)