Long after the two men left the yamen, the man was still looking at the direction Su Chengyi and the others left, without moving for a long time.
At this time, Ruyi could no longer contain the doubts in her heart and kept asking questions by pulling Su Chengyi's sleeve.
"Boss, hey, boss, say something! Who was that person just now?"
Ruyi asked anxiously, but Su Chengyi didn't answer. Instead, he walked straight forward, as if he didn't hear Ruyi's question. He even pulled his hand out of Ruyi's hand.
Seeing Su Chengyi walking away, Ruyi became anxious and chased after him.
"Boss, please wait for me! You're walking so fast, I can't keep up."
Hearing Ruyi roaring behind him, Su Chengyi showed a smile on his face.
He was very pleased to see Ruyi looking so anxious and unable to get an answer.
Su Chengyi didn't know why, but he felt happy as long as Ruyi was anxious and angry.
At this time, Ruyi kept questioning him behind him, but she couldn't get his answer, so she became more and more anxious.
However, just when Su Chengyi was happy by himself, Ruyi couldn't help it after all. She ran forward with all her strength and then stood in front of Su Chengyi.
"Boss! Stop!"
Seeing Ruyi standing in front of him with a flushed face, Su Chengyi managed to suppress the excitement of wanting to laugh and said with a straight face, "What's wrong? Are you hungry?"
His question immediately made Ruyi's face lengthen.
"Boss! Do you think that when I'm anxious, it's all because I'm hungry?"
"Isn't it? But when have you ever come to me in such a hurry, it wasn't just for a bite to eat?"
Su Chengyi's question immediately choked Ruyi.
Her brain was thinking rapidly, and after recalling the past when she came here, she finally reluctantly admitted in her mind that it seemed that she was really hungry because she was so anxious for such a long time!
After realizing this, a blush instantly appeared on Ruyi's face.
However, she quickly suppressed her embarrassment and shouted at Su Chengyi in a strong but weak tone, "Boss, I'm not in such a hurry just for a bite of food this time!"
Seeing that Ruyi really understood the anger, Su Chengyi finally gave up his desire to watch the fun. He then deliberately stretched out his voice and asked Ruyi, "Oh? So what are you doing this time?"
Ruyi's eyes widened.
"Big Boss! Do you really not know or are you pretending? I'm asking you, who was that person in the yamen just now?"
"From the government office? Of course it's the county magistrate."
"Mr. County Magistrate?"
Ruyi did not expect Su Chengyi's answer.
She originally thought that Su Chengyi had just seen an enemy, so the other party showed such a look that seemed to want to gouge Su Chengyi out on the spot.
"Why are you greeting the county magistrate? Do you know each other?"
Ruyi felt even more doubtful.
If Su Chengyi knows this county magistrate, then he must have someone high up.
Although she was not sure what rank the county magistrate was, the town was not small, and the county magistrate was the local official. A county magistrate who could manage such a large area must be of a high rank, at least the highest-ranking official she had ever met.
If Su Chengyi knew such an official, why would he be a bandit? With the relationship with this official, it would probably not be a problem for him to find a job to survive.
However, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that there was something wrong with the way the official looked at Su Chengyi, but she couldn't guess the relationship between them.
But what Ruyi didn't know was that the county magistrate had actually regarded Su Chengyi as a thorn in his side for a long time.
Although he is the local official and manages this piece of land, it is not that easy.
Relying on his intelligence and talent, this man became a county magistrate at the age of thirty-something, which truly amazed everyone.
However, under his management, this area has improved greatly compared to before.
But bandits like Su Chengyi gave him a lot of headaches.
Previously, this area was located in a relatively remote area, and due to natural disasters, it had suffered poor harvests for many years, so for a long time, the people were even in a state of dire straits.
This gave rise to many bandits who robbed and looted.
The bandits fled to the top of the mountain in groups of three or five, and established themselves as kings. Gradually, their groups grew larger and larger, and later each of them formed its own faction.
Although the imperial court later carried out great efforts to rectify this place and sent many officials here to try to restore the local economy and the people's livelihood, no matter how many officials came, they were unable to achieve a situation that satisfied the imperial court.
It was not until Su Xiuwen stood out among the many people in the court because of his outstanding intelligence that he was sent here by the court to clean up the bandit strongholds on the cholera mountain.
However, although Su Xiuwen has great abilities, the complexity of the situation here has already exceeded his expectations.
So when he came to this place and became the local official, he had been studying how to attack the bandit strongholds in these mountains.
During these fights, Su Chengyi had dealt with Su Xiuwen several times, so the two knew each other.
However, the only thing they knew about each other was that they didn't like each other.
Su Xiuwen even wanted to take Su Chengyi down right away.
However, Su Chengyi's uniqueness among the many villages was also something that Su Xiuwen was wary of.
Although he had not been the local official for a long time, he had already thoroughly investigated the situation of those bandit strongholds in this short period of time.
Among these many bandits, although Chengtianzhai where Su Chengyi is located is not the largest one, in Su Xiuwen's opinion, Chengtianzhai where Su Chengyi is located is the most difficult one to deal with.
Although some of the other villages had a large population, Su Xiuwen believed that their management methods were easy to control. As long as the officers and soldiers sent by the court were in place, it would be no problem to recapture those villages.
However, Chengtian Village where Su Chengyi is located makes Su Xiuwen feel difficult to control because of a very smart person like Su Chengyi.
Su Xiuwen was very interested in a man like Su Chengyi. He wondered why a man like Su Chengyi, who was both talented and handsome, would become the leader of the bandits?
He really couldn't understand why Su Chengyi, with his own strength, didn't make use of his own light and heat in the right way?
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