Chapter 639 The disaster and the savior
Ninety miles northwest of Wuyuan County, about half a mile away from the official road, there were three or four men lying down on the ground, and a young man in his thirties in his thirties was sitting there against a tree. n∈n∈,. He seemed to have been splashed with water on his head, and at this time, water droplets were still rolling down from his hat and hair bun, and there were even water stains on his face. However, what was even more sinister was that he saw five or six masked men holding steel knives standing in front of him, and he was clearly malicious at this moment. The reason why he had just slapped him was probably because he wanted to deliberately humiliate him.
Wu Guan never expected that it was because the cart of overturned goods were temporarily blocked on the official road, and a Min Zhuang, who was following, proposed to take a little rest at a tea stall next to him and drink a sip of hot tea, and he would fall into the most dangerous field now. During the three days he had been locked in a cave before, he realized that whether it was the overturning incident on the official road or the tea stall that he lost consciousness after drinking a few sips of hot tea, he was all trapped.
It’s ridiculous that he had been in charge of Wuyuan for four years. The people praised him as a fair and honest strong man, but he actually took it seriously. If he really fell into this disaster under his own rule, it would be the biggest joke!
"You have never thought about the consequences of doing so?"
"Wuxian Zun, if you give everyone a hundred courages, you wouldn't dare to do this, but the people in the city used the trick of luring the tiger away from the mountain. Next, Wuyuan will be in chaos and Huizhou Prefecture will be in chaos. Although it is a great matter for your county magistrate to die, it is nothing, but it is not enough to put it in front of the huge chaos. After you took office, you will go through private visits all day long, offending many people and cutting off the wealth path! When the death is coming, what else do you have to put on the stinking airs of the county magistrate?"
Although Wu Guan guessed that these were all desperate people, he was really facing a critical moment of life and death, so he tried his best to keep himself calm and tried his best to delay time. Seeing a masked man holding a steel knife walking up to him, he suddenly asked, "Since you want me to die so much, do you dare to report your name?"
"Why, I still want to sue us at the King of Hell? Stop dreaming. We are not those young men who have just debuted. Just be a fool!"
Seeing a steel knife falling down, Wu Guan sighed and closed his eyes instinctively. However, the expected sharp blade and neck did not come. Instead, he heard a scream, followed by a mess of yelling. There was also the sound of swords and swords colliding. He quickly opened his eyes, but found that these sword-bearing men had already started fighting with another group of people. Just beside him, the masked man who was just about to kill him fell to the ground with a steel knife, and a flying knife was pierced on his wrist, as if it was a retribution in the world, and a steel knife was being mounted on the person's neck.
When he looked at the person who saved him carefully, he saw that he was very young, about twenty days old, with a handsome appearance and a tall figure. He was wearing a blue cross-collared shirt with a slim edge, and even nodded to him with a smile. Just when he was surprised and suspicious, he felt that the bond behind him suddenly loosened, as if the rope had been cut off by something. However, he had been tied for too long, his limbs were already numb and he still couldn't move. At this time, he saw the young man who was threatening the masked man with a knife suddenly used the knife to hit the back of the person's neck with a knife. After the man fell to the ground, he quickly came to him.
"Xiaobei, go and see that guy. I'm not serious about it, don't kill anyone."
"Know."
Hearing the sound behind him, it seemed like a woman's voice, Wu Guan was stunned. But the next moment, he saw the young man reaching out to rub his shoulders, arms, waist and legs one by one. His technique was quite heavy, so he couldn't help but make a sound in the end. But in this way, his blood finally became active. He could barely move his hands and feet and changed his sitting position. When he found that the masked men were defeated, some were captured alive, while others were lying on the ground and ignorant, he said to the young man of unknown origin: "Thank you for your help!"
"Wuxian Zun, let me introduce myself. When I first met, I was Wang Fulin, Songming Mountain, She County. I should have said, please don't blame me for being late. Although I had already visited Wuyuan, there were many suspicious sticks and rural Haoyou colluded with him. I wanted to make a big fuss about the summer tax silk and silk. I also told people to stare at Wuyuan a little early, but I didn't expect that others would use the plan to lure the tiger out of the mountain to you, and even wanted to take your life in the chaos. When you were locked up before, there were only two people who found, one stayed to the cave and the other went to inform me, so I didn't come here until this time."
Facing the hand that stretched out to support him, Wu Guan was a little stunned. When he took office, it was when Wang Fulin was the most famous, and he even killed the giant thief in the She County government office. However, because he was the magistrate of Wuyuan, he was too far away from the city, and he was always squandered. He didn't expect to meet him on this occasion today. After hesitating for a moment, he stood up with the other party's hand, and then he didn't care about the dust and embarrassment, and asked directly: "I heard that Mr. Wang advocated that the dispute over Xiashi silk should be slow or urgent, and he had a disagreement with Xuexian Zun of She County. He appeared here again today, but he was more familiar with me, the magistrate of Wuyuan."
"Wuxian Zun is not a local after all. Even though he is deeply loved by the people of Wuyuan, you cannot travel all over Wuyuan at all times. Three classes and six rooms are all locals. It is impossible to completely deviate from the interests of locals, so what you can know is limited after all." Wang Fulin didn't care much about the suspicion revealed in Wu Guan's words. After shrugging, he said bluntly, "I'm afraid there are many chaos in Wuyuan County. Is Wuxian Zun planning to ask for help from Huizhou Prefecture City, or just go back?"
Seeing that Wang Fulin and his entourage tied up all the masked men one by one, busy rescuing the officers who escorted him, Wu Guan withdrew his gaze after a moment of silence and said firmly: "Of course I'm going back to Wuyuan! Although I am just a scholar, since I am the lord of a county, how can I give up the people of the county to go to the capital city to ask for help?"
"Even if there may be such a sinister situation on the way back?"
Wu Guan's expression became solemn at this time. He was not the Jinshi who was on horseback, dismounted and managed the people, and was both civil and military. Although he could ride a horse, his martial arts were ordinary. These servants were just a little brute force and were not considered good. Although they were in danger just now because they were drugged, what if they met those who wanted their own life again? Suddenly, he looked at Wang Fulin and showed a smile on his face: "As long as I don't stop all the way, don't drink or eat, even if I'm intercepted, as long as I'm on this official road to Wuyuan County, I will show my identity. Of course, some people are willing to escort me! Although there are traitors in Wuyuan County, there are also many righteous men!"
Wang Fulin wanted to inspire Wu Guan to lend two people to him, but when he heard the Wuyuan County Magistrate's resounding answer, he couldn't help but smile: "What a lot of righteous men in Wuyuan! Wu County Zun said this, I won't be an official voice with you. I lend you four people, don't refuse. This is not only to prevent any accidents on the road, but also to encounter emergencies after entering the city. If these few people escort you to the county government, there will be no problem. I think there is a county magistrate like Wu County Zun, and Wuyuan cannot get into chaos, so I won't go to Wuyuan. I have to return to the city to take a look."
Wu Guan is not a ungrateful person. He was rescued when his life was hanging on the line. Then Wang Fulin took the initiative to send someone to escort him back to the county town. What else can he say? He bowed and thanked without hesitation: "Today's business, thanks to Mr. Wang Gao Yi, but it's not appropriate to go back to Wuyuan. But these people were fascinated by people at the tea stall before, and the horses might have been taken away by others. Can you lend me a few horses?"
"I can only lend you one horse." Seeing that Wu Guan was still about to speak, Wang Fulin waved his hand and said, "It's not that he refused to lend you, but Wuyuan is more than 200 miles away from the Fucheng City. Although I have prepared empty mounts, it's a lot of money to change horses and gallop back all the way. Moreover, after the four people you brought wake up, it's hard to say whether you can follow you back. You are the county magistrate, and it doesn't matter if you are unable to protect you, but you still have to be distracted. Isn't it a burden to take them with you? In addition, these people who want to kill you are not enough to take them back to Wuyuan County, so people must be watching them."
Although he was reluctant, Wu Guan had to admit that Wang Fulin's words made sense. Sure enough, when his four entourages woke up, two of them were as weak as him because the medicine was too deep, and the other two recovered quickly. At that moment, he stopped hesitating. He first pulled off the black cloth of several killers' faces and kept their appearance in his heart. He then took the six people Wang Fulin lent to him and immediately embarked on the way home.
When he left, Wang Fulin looked at the masked killers on the ground, as well as Wu Guan’s four cramped followers, and knew that they were selected from the third squad of Wuyuan County Office. He suddenly smiled: "Although Wu County Zun was in danger this time, it seemed that someone had just designed a car to block the official road and set up a tea stall on the side of the road to prepare medicine, Wu County Zun rushed to the capital city with a hurry. If no one urged him, it might not have been delayed that moment of resting. So, do you know why I didn’t let you follow Wu County Zun? I was afraid that someone would be desperate and planned to trip him up!"
As soon as these words were said, the four followers' faces changed drastically. Three of them looked at the tall and thin man in the middle. Someone even cursed angrily: "Xing Laosi, you dare to collude with others to harm the county lord!"
"I don't, really!"
The old man Xing looked like earth on all sides, but when he saw Wang Fulin looking at the killers who had been torn off his face and black cloth with a smile, he was clearly thinking about how to make these people speak. He suddenly got up and ran away. But before he could run a few steps, he felt a sharp pain in his legs and fell to the ground. When he was taken back, he saw a handsome boy next to Wang Fulin playing with a shiny flying knife between his fingers, and his scalp was numb and he hurriedly begging: "I was forced, forced! They were sent by Longyuan Shaw Brothers. Previously, Longyuan Shaw Brothers had a life lawsuit, and the county masters were impartial, and several old cases of land disputes were all biased towards the victims, so they took advantage of this chaos in the countryside and wanted to take the opportunity to seek revenge on Wu County Master!"
When a few masked men showed their true face, they knew that something was wrong. Seeing that the insider had already spoken out the truth, they were even more hopeless. They had heard that Wang Fulin had signed up for Wu Guan before, and they already knew that the person in front of him was the famous official Wang from Huizhou Prefecture. He didn't talk about the literary name or the Jinshi, but the legend that he would definitely not have a good end in his hands made them shudder. At this moment, the two people who were not so close to Shaw Brothers, but who were just collecting money and eliminating disasters immediately turned against him, claiming that they didn't know that they were going to kill Wu Guan before.
Wang Fulin did not expect to ask about the other person's plans immediately, but he was thinking about how to place these guys. When he heard them telling that Longyuan Shaw Brothers and Cheng Wenlie's lawsuits and sticks in Wuyuan City were all connected, although he was not surprised, when they talked about the famous families in Wuyuan County supporting this trouble to a greater or lesser extent, and even some people asked Yu Maoxue, who had just been dismissed, to come out and advocate for the first time, his brows couldn't help but frown.
At this moment, a rebellious killer suddenly said hesitantly: "I have followed the Yu family, but after being turned away, Mr. Yu didn't see anyone at all. But when we came out, we found that there seemed to be someone around the Yu family, and it looked like they were eyeliners."
"How do you know it's eyeliner?"
"When we used to be eyeing fat sheep, we were like this..." As soon as we said that, the man realized that in order to escape from the crime, he accidentally offered other activities before, and immediately shut up and never said anything more.
However, Wang Fulin had heard enough news, and he couldn't help but feel that things were really difficult at this moment. It seemed that although Yu Maoxue was dismissed from his post for the people, some of the big men in the court did not intend to give up. He was afraid that he would still plan to take advantage of the dispute between the six counties and the people in the countryside to implicate Yu Maoxue in a piece and step on him again. As for those who were staring at the Yu family, they were either Jinyiwei or Dongchang's eyeliner. Fortunately, Yu Maoxue was smart and cautious enough after returning home.
But others don’t care whether the one and six counties in Huizhou will cause trouble. Some people want to seek fame, some people want to benefit, and some people want to suppress political enemies. But as a native of She County and Huizhou, how can he sit and watch the Huizhou Prefecture make trouble?
On Xiuning, he sent Ye Qinglong, and sent Li Erlong and Zhao Sanmazi to Liaodong. He sent the best-in-law to wait for an opportunity to act, and with the good reputation of the Huizhou Rice Industry Guild in recent years, he might be able to suppress it. On Wuyuan, he came to inquire in person, but he didn't expect that he would actually run into Wu Guan and almost assassinated. He calculated his fingers and made a fuss, and Yao Huizu turned to She County and overwhelmed the five counties. It has been about ten days since then. Except for Xiuning and Wuyuan, what are the reactions of the other three counties? What is the situation in Huizhou Fucheng and She County?
After thinking about it, Wang Fulin finally made up his mind: "Go to two people, find some villagers who respect and love Wuxianzun, tell me the story of Wuxianzun being almost assassinated, and let them take his four entourages and these assassins back to Wuyuan County. Xiaobei, you take two people behind and stare behind just in case, I will take people back to the mansion first!"
Xiaobei was stunned when she heard this, but she thought that it was indeed very important to Wuyuan. No matter how chaotic the mansion was, it was not as good as here. Wang Fulin would not have any problems when he returned. She finally nodded and agreed, "Okay, be careful yourself!"
Chapter completed!