Wang Qian was shocked by Fang Zhengyi's casual action.
I didn't expect this guy to start interfering in my affairs as soon as he entered the city.
Are all the officials in Beijing so bold now? Or are they mentally ill?
Wang Qian quickly stretched out his hand and said anxiously: "Master Fang, please come back! It's dangerous!"
Fang Zheng turned around and said sternly, "Master Wang, you haven't dealt with these thieves in five days. How can the government keep its reputation?"
"How should the people of Haiyuan City view the imperial court? You can tolerate it, but I cannot! Wait for my order. If there is any accident, remember to bring people in."
Just as he finished speaking, the door of the South Building opened, and it was pitch black inside.
Wang Qian withdrew his hand awkwardly, speechless for a moment, and began to think again.
At this time, Fang Zhengyi was already striding towards the South Building.
As soon as I stepped into the building, the door slammed shut!
Wang Qian shuddered all over, looked back at the people that Fang Zheng had brought over, and felt a little dazed.
Fang Zhengyi's visit today gave him a very strange feeling.
But when I think back carefully to what he said, there seems to be nothing wrong with it.
After much thought, I can only attribute it to the fact that Fang Zheng is young, impatient and not afraid of death.
Inside the south building.
As soon as Fang Zhengyi entered, Zhou Tie immediately flashed out from the side and asked excitedly, "Master, why are you here?"
"No one is in trouble, right?" Fang Zhengyi asked.
Zhou Tie immediately waved his hand and said, "No! Only Qian Desheng is not here, but he should be hiding in the city. Old Xie and the important hostages are on the second floor, I'll take you there right away!"
Seeing Zhou Tie's exhausted face, Fang Zhengyi didn't ask any more questions and followed him upstairs.
As soon as they got upstairs, all the people in Taoyuan County stood up excitedly!
Everyone greeted Fang Zheng, except Xie Xian who was still sitting on the chair.
He looked extremely tired and seemed very depressed.
The hostages' mouths were stuffed tightly, and they felt great hope when they heard that government officials were coming in to negotiate.
Unexpectedly, when these thieves saw the government officials' attitude, they felt like they were falling into an icy cave.
Especially Mr. Lu who was sitting on the ground, another tear couldn't help but squeeze out of his dim old eyes.
Fang Zheng glanced at the whole place, and seeing that his people were still there, he felt completely settled.
He pulled a chair and sat next to Xie Xian.
Xie Xian smiled bitterly and said in a hoarse voice: "Master, I messed up..."
"Yes, if I had come two days later, all the brothers in this room would have been dragged down by you. Oh, it seems that you are really not suitable for being an official."
Zhao Lie, who was standing by, knelt on the ground with a plop and begged, "Master, please don't blame the master. This is not his fault. It's all the fault of the Lu family! The master has only slept for one or two hours every day these days, and his body can't stand it anymore."
Fang Zhengyi sighed and said, "Get up. I don't blame you. Now that things have come to this, the right thing to do is to find a way to solve the problem first."
"Tell me, what happened?"
Zhao Lie began to tell the story.
Soon after Fang Zheng finished listening, he looked at Xie Xian and couldn't help but feel a little admiration in his heart.
When they met Xie Xian who was going to Beijing for the imperial examination, they had drunk wine together twice. At that time, Xie Xian was still an out-and-out angry young man.
He criticizes current social problems and rants about everything under the sun. He has been doing business in the county for so many years that I thought he had changed his personality.
I didn't expect that he is still an angry young man at heart and his character hasn't changed at all.
Thinking of this, Fang Zheng sighed deeply and put his hand on Xie Xian's shoulder. What else could he say to such a person except comforting him? At this moment, he wanted to sing a few lines!
Xie Xian raised his head, trying hard to hold back the soreness in his eyes, and said with a guilty look on his face: "Master, I..."
"I love you walking alone in the dark alley, I love you for not kneeling, I love you for facing despair and refusing to cry! I love your tattered clothes, but you dare to... fight, fight... Who says only those who stand in the light are heroes~"
Fang Zheng improvised an emotional song to comfort his subordinates.
Xie Xian was shocked and his scalp tingled. He looked at Fang Zhengyi with a dull look.
Things went wrong, the master is upset and wants to torture me! Is he so angry?
Then he had a mental breakdown, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Fang Zheng looked at Xie Xian, who was sleeping soundly on the table, with embarrassment and annoyance.
I finally got touched, but you are so disrespectful to me!
The other people in the room didn't appreciate the beauty of the lyrics at all, and were just tapping their toes on the ground.
Especially Du Lingfeng, his eyelids were twitching, he now understood everything completely!
I just heard Fang Zhengyi's name outside the building...It turns out that Xie Xian has always been working for Fang Zhengyi.
Then perhaps the purpose of approaching me was to investigate the salt merchants.
But...why is Fang Zhengyi so weird! He doesn't look like an official. Are all officials in Beijing like this?
Fang Zheng pointed at Xie Xian and said, "Come here, send him to bed and let him have a good sleep." Then he turned around and asked Zhao Lie, "What are you planning to do here for the next five days? If I hadn't come, would you have been trapped here to death?"
Zhao Lie shook his head and said, "Master, you don't know. We were surrounded the next day. The old dog of the Lu family is very cunning. No matter how we beat him or scold him, he will never confess a word. Now he hasn't even told us where the account book is. Now we still have a conclusion but no evidence."
"Also, if you hadn't been here for two days, we would have planned to break out. I have figured out the position of the archers in the past two days."
"The rest of us will use gunpowder to directly attack, and then we can blow open the city gate and rush out. But I'm afraid that our brothers will be injured or killed, so I want to plan it more carefully."
"Wang Qian, how much do you know about the officials in charge here?"
"I don't know much about it. I just heard that this person is in collusion with the Lu family and his actions depend on the Lu family's mood."
Fang Zheng nodded slightly, secretly feeling lucky.
Fortunately, I was worried and made this trip in person, otherwise all of my twenty or so brothers would have died here.
Now we have to find a way to quickly resolve the situation and turn it around.
After thinking about it carefully, Fang Zhengyi walked up to Master Lu and kicked him: "Hey, the Lu family is so big, there should be a silver vault."
"Where is the treasury? Where is the account book?"
“Wuwuwuwuwu!!!” Master Lu’s mouth was stuffed tightly.
Fang Zhengyi immediately pulled the cloth out, but he didn't expect that just as he helped him to loosen his mouth, Master Lu immediately yelled out the window: "Fang Zhengyi...Ah!!"
Halfway through shouting, Fang Zhengyi's fist appeared in his face.
Master Lu wailed and fell to the ground.
Fang Zheng looked at him and said with a smile: "Can you please speak properly? If you dare to have any evil thoughts again, I will kill you."
Master Lu endured the pain and said, "Then kill me! It's useless for you to live if you kill me!"
The next second, under Master Lu's horrified gaze, Fang Zhengyi pulled out a dagger.
With one hand covering his mouth, he slowly thrust the blade into his chest with the other hand...
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