Chapter 153
When Yang Yun was brought up, there was no big change except for a little listlessness.
The clothes are still the same as before, but they have become wrinkled and old, but in the eyes of others, Yang Yun is already completely different.
Without everything in control, he was full of energy. Before the imperial edict was officially issued, he was still the chief of a county in name, but he was nominally the same as a prisoner.
Yang Yun ignored the various eyes that fell on him, and did not even look at Cui Bulu.
A book of accounts was placed in front of Yang Yun through Pei Jingzhe's hand.
Previously, Li Yan hid the exchanges between them and Yang Yun and local wealthy families in the secret play pictures, in order to cover up the existence of the account books, one to threaten Yang Yun, and the other to leave a way out for himself at critical moments. It has to be said that he is indeed a little clever, but unfortunately he met Feng Xiao, the big devil, and directly lifted the beautiful place in his golden house. Even the secret play pictures did not hide, and fell into Cui Buqu's hands.
At that time, time was tight to deal with Yang Yun, and Cui Buqun had no time to slowly figure out the specific hidden accounts in these secret dramas. However, after Yang Yun and Wu Yi were arrested, Li Yan's confrontation became meaningless. On the contrary, in order to reduce his guilt and seek lenient treatment in the future, he would actively provide clues and rewrite all the hidden accounts in the secret dramas.
Cui Buqun and others then discovered that there were two sets of accounts hidden in the same secret picture, one for Yang Yun and those big families, and the other for Li Yan and Wuyi and others to know. In other words, when these officials in Guangqian County were ordered to embezzle disaster food, they also hid Yang Yun and fed some of them.
If this kind of cleverness can be put on national affairs and make some contributions to the intelligence exchanges between the court and the Turks and Goguryeo, it might be more useful. Obviously, Li Yan did not have such knowledge, so he stopped as a small county magistrate for his whole life, and soon he would not even be a county magistrate.
"Is it true that the benefits Li, Ding and others have obtained from the tax exemption of food donation? "
His slender and fair fingers pushed the account book in front of him again.
Yang Yun subconsciously shrank back a little, but these beautiful and harmless fingers looked like monsters to him, making people suspicious.
"...It's true." Yang Yun said in a hoarse voice.
The head of the Li family said dissatisfiedly: "Eunuch, you haven't opened it yet, how can you know whether it is true or false? Even if the imperial envoy in the court is in charge, you should not turn the black and white, right?"
Yang Yun didn't know what evil was. His original arrogance disappeared without a trace. When he heard Li's words, he poured it out in a complete way: "Although my surname is Yang, my parents died early, and I was not close to His Majesty and had no money at home. So I wanted to make more money while I was in office. After this disaster, I wanted to keep a little in the official warehouse so that it would not be difficult to deal with it. Li Geng tried his best to instigate me, saying that during the disaster, rice and grain were more expensive than gold, and stocking more, so that I could make more money. The court would not sit idly by and watch the county move without food available. When the censor came down, he persuaded him to ask for help. The court would definitely allocate grain and use it for relief at that time..."
Li Geng could no longer sit still. He jumped three feet high and interrupted Yang Yun: "It was obviously your own decision, what does it have to do with us!"
Yang Yun looked at him coldly, without refuting or speaking.
Li Geng took a deep breath and bowed to Rong Qing and Cui Bu and said, "Two men, Yang Yun is the county magistrate of this county. How powerful was he before? Without his approval, how dare we make a move? Even in order to please him, he said a few flattering words, but Yang Yun was the one who took the lead in the end!"
He knew that compared to Rong Qing, Cui Buqu is the one with more power among the two, so he mostly looked at Cui Buqu when he spoke.
But Li Geng was disappointed. Cui Bugu was calm and calm. His posture was the same as when he came in and sat down just now. Even his eyebrows were at the same curve, so he could not get any secret from it.
Cui Bugu even ignored Li Geng's defense. When he was just speaking, he answered his own words without any gap: "In order to reduce the guilt of yourself, I think it's not too late for you to hand over the food you have stockpiled at home now."
Back to the initial topic, Li Geng's face twitched for a moment and said with a bitter face: "The little man really has no surplus food at his home. If you don't believe it, you can send someone to search!"
Cui Bu asked, "Isn't there really?"
His voice was very light, a little farther away, and his tone was also very soft. If Feng Xiao was here, he would definitely be able to tell that his tone was a sign of something that was about to happen.
Unfortunately, Feng Xiao is not present.
So Li Geng nodded and said sincerely and pleasingly: "It's really gone. If there is still, the villain will definitely hand it over immediately!"
After saying that, he added: "Thanks to Mr. Cui and Yushi Rong, the county town was so peaceful, otherwise the victims would have had a stir."
Cui Bugu smiled, as if he was very helpful to Li Geng's compliment, and then he said to Pei Jingzhe: "Go and bring everyone up."
Pei Jingzhe left in response, and soon brought five people up.
To be precise, five corpses.
Li Yan, Wu Yi, and several people who could not name Li Geng have now turned into cold corpses. The dry or undried blood stains on their bodies all show that they had been tortured, and even their faces were no exception. The eyes of one of the corpses were even dug out, leaving a dark blood hole.
But those who often deal with them can recognize the identity of the deceased from the appearance and clothing of these corpses.
The strong smell of blood filled the entire hall, and even the incense could not be covered.
No one present had seen this before, and the sound of disgusting sounds came one after another.
Even Rong Qing couldn't help but change her face, covered her mouth and nose and twisted her head.
Li Geng found that he had been staring at Wuyi for a long time, so long that even the blood scar on Wuyi's forehead could clearly be reflected in his mind. A suffocation surged in his chest and vomiting sounds came from his ears. He couldn't help but vomit all the food he had eaten for the previous meal.
The smell of blood, corpse smell, and vomit, just one is enough to make people suffocate, not to mention that the few things combined, everyone just felt that they were going to die of smoke. Some people couldn't stand it and stood up to escape from this suffocating place, but were shocked by the blade at the door and the cold light flashing Zuo Yuewei.
"Wuyi and Li Yan are both appointed officials of the court. Even if you are Zuo Yue's envoy, you have no right to kill them if you say something..." Yang Yun said tremblingly, looking at Cui Bugui's eyes as if he saw an evil ghost.
"But I've killed it." Cui Buqu still spoke in a calm and gentle tone.
Yang Yun:...
He suddenly felt that it was not so embarrassing to be beaten in a secret room, at least he still has a life now.
Cui Buqun looked at Li Geng and others: "Wuyi and Li Yan are accomplices of embezzling disaster food, and have been killed. Yang Yun is the mastermind and wants to escort the capital for trial. I will not touch him, but your role is not even as good as Li Yan."
Li Geng could no longer remain calm. He stared at Cui Bugu, with a stern look on his face: "Now Duke Tang and I have a sect with him..."
He is a smart person. He knows that threatening background is the most offensive to others, but knows that the current changes have far exceeded his cognition. When a person loses confidence in himself, he can only use external forces as a life-saving straw.
Cui Bulu interrupted him gently and calmly: "I can even arrest His Majesty's cousin, not to mention that you are just a distant relative of the fifth squad. Is the Duke of Tang willing to recognize you or not? I will ask you one last time, would you like to hand over the food for disaster relief?"
With eyes facing each other, Li Geng's chest was undulating.
He knew that his wisest choice now was to surrender and hand over the stored food obediently.
But Li Geng has been in Guangqian County for a long time. Although he has not become an official, the Li family is a symbol of Guangqian. Under Yang Yun, even Huang Lui and others should be polite to the Li family.
I was really unwilling to admit defeat like this.
Li Geng's hesitation was seen in Cui Bugui's eyes. After only a few breaths, Cui Bugui said "That's OK".
That's OK?
What's that good?
Li Geng was confused and heard Cui Bu go and say, "Go and invite the second master of Feng to come out."
Fengxiao appeared soon.
Li Geng didn't know the other person, but it did not prevent him from being attracted by the other person's dazzling appearance.
Many people in the hall were like him.
The moment Feng Xiao came in, it seemed that even the disgusting aura in the hall had dissipated a lot.
Cui Buqun introduced: "This is the second lord of Jie Jian Mansion, Feng Xiao."
Many people were still confused and did not know where Jiejian Mansion was, but at least the officials knew that Li Geng had heard of it.
Feng Xiao didn't say anything, and didn't even look around. He walked up to Li Geng with a proud look.
"Are you the head of the Li family?"
Li Geng subconsciously responded, and he had not had time to bow.
He never expected that this would become his last words in his life.
A last word of the last words.
The sword has been put into the clothes and penetrates the chest.
The blood splattered on the person next to him, and the other party screamed. The screams of the big man in horror were not inferior to those of the woman at all, which made people feel the urge to frown.
Li Geng's eldest son screamed and wanted to pounce on him, but was kicked away by Pei Jingzhe and rolled straight to the side.
Feng Xiao then pulled out the sword and Li Gengmu fell backwards.
A sword penetrates the heart, and there is no room for salvation.
"Shut up, or continue to kill." Cui Buqu coughed twice, and spoke before screaming in hiding chaos.
Everyone controlled their voices and facial expressions, and some even covered their mouths tightly.
"Li Geng, I've killed it, and I don't care about killing more."
Cui Bu went to scan the audience, and almost everyone buried their heads before his eyes reached him, and did not dare to look at him.
Before the Li family's eldest son could speak, the head of the Ding family responded first. He rushed up and knelt down, saying repeatedly: "I'll hand it over! I'll hand it over! My family still has surplus grains, hidden in the cellar of the house across the street. I'll take you there now!"
Cui Bugu sighed, saying in a very regretful tone: "Isn't you going to die before this? "
The others shivered and rushed forward to surrender, fearing that if they were too late, their lives would be gone.
Only Pei Jingzhe looked at Feng Xiao, who was standing behind Cui Bugui in confusion and was dedicated to serving as the background. After realizing it, he suddenly realized that his husband was still in seclusion, and this should be Qin Miaoyu pretended to be. No wonder it was awkward from beginning to end. If he changed to a real husband, it would definitely not be so quiet at this time. He had to praise his superb swordsmanship and examples.
As if he noticed his thoughts, the "Fengxiao" turned his head and blinked at him, and he was pretty and naughty, and indeed he didn't look like the smile that Fengxiao would show.
Chapter completed!