Fenghou

"Who is this Tiger Xu?"

"Xu Wu, nicknamed Xu Huhu, is a tyrant in the county and commits all kinds of evil. It is said that he has an uncle who is the prime minister in Lin'an."

"Xu Xiantu!" Chen Qing blurted out.

It should be. Xu Xiantu is from Yuchi County. He must have relatives in his hometown. This Xu Huohu is his nephew. I don't know if it is his own nephew or his family nephew?

"Why didn't my husband file a complaint with the county government? Isn't he a civil servant in the county government? Why did he go to Bianliang to file a complaint?"

"Reporting to the lord, my husband said that it is most likely that the county lord ordered Xu Huhu to occupy my land and ancestral house."

"Why?" Chen Qing was even more confused.

"My husband hates evil, because people from Jingzhao came to investigate the county magistrate at the end of last year. My husband wrote a letter of exposure, but the county magistrate found out, cursed my husband, and kicked him out of the county government."

"What whistleblowing letter?"

"It seems that the county magistrate embezzled food, but I don't know the details."

Chen Qing frowned, "Then I don't understand. Since your husband's death may be related to the magistrate, why do you want to seek justice from the magistrate today?"

"The woman just wants to give it a try. If Tang Qi still refuses to accept my pleading paper, then I will go to Bianliang or Jingzhao to sue!"

Chen Qing pondered for a while and said, "Your husband told the county about embezzling grain, what evidence do you have?"

The woman nodded, "My husband has a record, which records in detail every record of Tang Qi's embezzlement of food in the past three years. He said it matches the account."

"Can you give me the records? Don't worry, I will definitely avenge your husband and get back your family's property."

The woman thought for a while, called her five-year-old son in, lifted his clothes, took out a paper bag from his back, and handed it to Chen Qing, "There have been thieves in our house a few times, and they turned the house into a mess. I don't care. Dare to put it at home and take it with you.”

Chen Qing opened the paper bag and took out a piece of paper, which was full of instructions. Chen Qing understood at a glance that the magistrate of Tang County made use of the loss, half of the annual loss of the official warehouse grain, which is 5%, was eaten by rats, or Insects and mold, and so on, are allowed within half of the percentage, but Yuchi County is a big wine-making county!On the pretext of loss, he sold a large amount of old grain to Xu's wine shop to make wine, and finally made false accounts, and the grain was taken away by Jin Bing.

Chen Qing nodded. The problem was more serious. He had to send troops here. He and his five subordinates couldn't handle it.

"Do you have a place to hide now?" Chen Qing asked the woman.

The woman nodded, "I can meet my mother's family first, which is also in Jiang Village in the east of the city."

"Then you take the child back to your mother's house to hide first, and you will hear the result in five days at the latest."

The woman thanked her a lot and left with her two children.

Chen Qing pondered for a moment, then took out the troop transfer gold medal and handed it to the soldiers, "Hurry back to Bianliang immediately and ask Yan Jun to bring three thousand cavalry over."

"I obey the order!" The soldiers took the gold medal and left in a hurry. They had a horse at the inn, and they could ride back to Bianliang to transfer troops.

Chen Qing immediately settled the tea money and returned to the inn with two of his men.

……

In the east of the city there is a mansion covering an area of ​​[-] mu. This is the mansion of Xu Huhu. Xu Huhu is called Xu Wu. He is the son of Xu Xiantu's cousin and his nephew.

Xu Wu is fierce, his three sons are more ruthless than the other, and he is willing to spend money to buy the county magistrate, so that he runs amok in Yuchi County, but no one dares to control him.

Last month, he did an evil thing for Tang Qi, the county magistrate. He forcibly seized the land and ancestral house of Lei Jun, a civil official, and then arrested and beat Lei Jun who was about to go to Bianliang to sue. It looked like land The dispute actually covered up his crime of privately selling official food for the county magistrate.

In the lobby, Xu Wu asked his eldest son Xu Xiangzhou nervously, "Did you see clearly? Are you sure it's him?"

Xu Xiangzhou nodded, "My boy has seen King Yong more than once in Jingzhao, I'm sure it's him, although he has put on a disguise, his eyes and demeanor will not change, his height will not change, and several of his subordinates All of them are majestic and strong, with fierce murderous intent, this is not something ordinary people can afford, it must be him."

Xu Wu was pacing back and forth in the lobby with his hands behind his back. It is estimated that Chen Qing came to Yuchi County for a private visit to understand the situation of wine making. He only brought five subordinates. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

Xu Wu's eyes gradually glowed, and he was trembling with nervousness. He knew that he had met a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If he dedicated Chen Qing's head to the imperial court, or to Wanyan Wushu, he would be able to get his wish. The glory and wealth that I dare not even imagine.

At this moment, he could no longer care about the woman who complained. After weighing it over and over again, he resolutely made up his mind, "Prepare the carriage for me, and I'll go find Lord Tang!"

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Magistrate Tang Qi's eyes widened. He couldn't believe his ears. Yong Wang Chen Qing was actually in Yuchi County. How could this be possible?

"You read that right! Chen Qing only brought a few followers?"

"I'm sure I'm not mistaken. He's making a private visit on Weibo, and it's also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us. Mr. Tang County, I'm just asking you if you want to do it or not?"

Tang Qi hesitated. Participating in the assassination of King Yong was a serious crime to exterminate the nine clans, and he was not mentally prepared for it.

Xu Wu saw the hesitation of Tang Qi, the county magistrate, and further persuaded him: "Master, Chen Qing has contacted the widow of Lei's family. He will definitely investigate this case deeply. One is murder, and the other is corruption of officials and food." , you'd better think about it, whether you can bear these two charges?"

Tang Qi wavered a little, and Xu Wu continued to strike while the iron was hot, "One death is death, and one hundred times is death, but if we kill Chen Qing and take other people's heads to the court to claim credit, we will never be able to enjoy endless glory and wealth for the rest of our lives." Are you waiting for us? Or go to the Kingdom of Jin, the promise of the Kingdom of Jin offering a reward of one million guan, being promoted to five ranks and taking the head of Chen Qing is still there! With the credit of the people of the Kingdom of Jin, you can become a high-ranking official, and I can also be rich , County Lord, the opportunity is only this time, if you don't seize it, you will regret it for life."

Tang Qi was finally convinced, he gritted his teeth and said, "I can do it, but I have to send my family away first!"

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Chen Qing lived in the inn and didn't go out again. The business was done. He got a counter ticket of [-] guan, and the owner Jiang also shipped the goods back.

Next, he waited for the Bianliang reinforcements to arrive and arrest Xu Huhu and He Tangzhi.

At noon, Chen Qing was sitting at the table eating, when a soldier hurried over and whispered something, Chen Qing was startled, "Are you sure?"

"You can confirm the humble position. There are four people at the front door. There are three people at the back door. There is one person squatting in the side alley. They are all from a group."

Chen Qing pondered for a while and said: "Go and arrest the people in the side alley, and question them!"

The two men dodged away, and Chen Qing asked the innkeeper again, "Shopkeeper, do you have any weapons here?"

"I don't have it here, but my cousin has it. It's Jiang Dongzhu who bought your jiuqu cake. His family has a lot of weapons to protect the distillery."

Chen Qing immediately asked two of his men to follow the buddies to the wine shop to get weapons, and then asked the shop owner, "Are there any horses in the county?"

The shopkeeper shook his head, "All the livestock in the county have been searched by the Jin soldiers. In the past few months, there have been some more donkeys and mules, and some cattle for plowing the fields. There are really no horses. By the way, it seems that the Xu family has a few horses. .”

Seeing that Chen Qing wanted weapons and horses again, the owner of the inn became a little worried, "Master Chen, what happened?"

Chen Qing smiled slightly: "Don't worry, there's nothing wrong, we may have to go out for a day or two, and the donkey will be taken care of by you, no problem!"

"Don't worry! I will arrange it."

Chen Qing asked again with a smile: "If you were given a choice, which county magistrate would you choose to be the county magistrate?"

"I choose?"

"Yes! I'll give you a choice."

The shop owner scratched his head and said, "If I had to choose, would I prefer Ma County Wei to be the county magistrate?"

"why?"

"Maxian Lieutenant is generous, treats the people well, never puts on airs, often goes to the fields to help the widowed elderly with their work, I don't know how I thought he was a farmer."

Chen Qing nodded, "What about the county magistrate?"

"Han Xiancheng basically does not exist. He spends most of his time running his winery. Everyone has no feelings for him, but no matter what, Ma Xianwei and Han Xiancheng are better than the current Tang magistrate. Tang magistrate too greedy."

"Understood, thank you for letting me know!"

At this moment, seeing his subordinates appearing at the door, Chen Qing sent the shop owner away, and his subordinates stepped forward and said with a serious expression: "It was arranged by Xu Tiger, to monitor His Highness's every move."

"What do they want to do?"

"The monitor doesn't know, and he doesn't know who His Highness is, but he knows that he is an extremely important person."

Chen Qing narrowed his eyes, and sure enough they recognized him.

The three soldiers all looked at Chen Qing, and Chen Qing said indifferently: "Whoever wants to attack me will definitely pay a heavy price. There is a large forest outside the city. We will leave the city as soon as we get the weapons. You go and prepare dry food for three days." And water!"

The three of them hurried away, and not long after, the two men carried a large number of weapons on two donkeys. Before each of them carried only a saber, Chen Qing only wore a sword, and also brought a bow and three Gunpowder arrows.

Everyone packed up their weapons, and the soldiers handed over a bow and two pots of arrows to Chen Qing, "The hardest thing they have is a stone bow, Your Highness can only use it."

"can!"

Chen Qingjian actually had six sets of armor. Although it was leather armor, it could also resist ordinary bows and arrows.

He also put on a pair of armor, and five of his men put on the armor one after another, took up weapons, each with a spear and a pair of crossbow arrows.

The shopkeeper came in and saw that they had turned into soldiers. He was so frightened that the water hyacinth in his hand almost fell to the ground.

Chen Qing said to him: "If someone asks you, just say we left without saying goodbye, you didn't see anything, do you understand?"

"I...I understand."

Chen Qinghe's men took water hyacinths and dry food bags, "Let's go!"

They walked out directly from the main entrance. Several servants who watched them ran away in fright. One of his subordinates ran a few steps slower and was shot in the leg by an arrow from Chen Qing's personal soldiers.

The six of Chen Qing quickly came to the gate of the north city. Seeing their murderous aura, several town soldiers guarding the city did not dare to stop them.

Soon, Xu Wu got the news, he was shocked, and immediately found Tang Qi, the county magistrate. Tang Qi knew that he had no way out, so he immediately ordered Dutou to lead more than 100 township soldiers and a hundred servants of the Xu family to join them. Under the leadership of Xu's father and son, they chased outside the city.

After chasing to the city gate, Xu Wu asked, "Where did those six men in armor go?"

The soldier pointed to the large forest in the northwest direction, "They have entered the forest."

"Chase!"

As soon as Xu Wu urged his horse, he led more than [-] people and ran towards the forest in the northwest direction.

……

To the northwest is a low hill called Qifeng Hill. It is about [-] miles long, the highest point is only [-] feet wide, and it is about [-] mile wide. The hill and the foot of the hill are covered by large forests.

Xu Wu's third son, Xu Weizhou, took the lead and rushed into the woods with dozens of people. Suddenly Xu Weizhou screamed and fell off his horse, and several others also screamed and fell to the ground.

The others ran out in fright, Xu Wu got off his horse, the servants had already carried Xu Weizhou out of the woods, only to see an arrow shot between his eyebrows, the arrow almost pierced his head, and Xu Weizhou died of exasperation.

Xu Wu yelled and threw himself on his son. The intense grief made him completely lose his mind. He was shaking while holding his son's body, and his eyes were about to burst into flames. He yelled, "Rush in and kill them all!" !"

More than two hundred people rushed into the woods together, the sound of bows and crossbows sounded, and six more people fell down with arrows, all of them hit vital points. Chen Qing's five subordinates were all highly skilled soldiers, all experienced , can be one against ten, or even more.

After shooting and killing more than a dozen people, Chen Qing led his men to move up the hill. In just a moment, they climbed up to the [-]-foot-high hill and shot arrows down from a high position. More than two hundred people rushed up with shouts. , Chen Qing took out an arrow and shot it one by one, hitting the eyebrow of a village soldier guarding the team, and the corpse rolled down the hillside.

Before the other soldiers could react, Chen Qing shot out ten consecutive arrows, one after the other, and each arrow killed a person. Where had the soldiers seen this kind of killing before? , but was shot and killed several people from behind by five soldiers.

At this time, all the soldiers in the village asked tremblingly, "Mr. Xu, who is the person above?"

Xu Wu said coldly: "It's the first prisoner that the imperial court offered a reward of [-] yuan to capture. If you get his head, you can be promoted to ruler."

Although Dutou was still at a loss, the temptation of being promoted to a ruler completely moved him.

Dutou said in a low voice: "Beizhi knows a small path, if you go from the west, why not lead fifty brothers to outflank it, and after he is killed, the high-ranking officials will attack from the front, surrounded by both sides, they will be hard to fly!"

Xu Wu was overjoyed, "Take your hands down immediately!"

Du swung a [-]-pound gold-backed long knife with his head, "The first team of village soldiers will follow me!"

He led fifty town soldiers and ran westward.

Chen Qing could see clearly from the hill that a large group of soldiers had gone west. He had so much experience, he immediately said to one of his subordinates: "Go to the west and see if there is a way to go up the mountain?"

"Follow the order!"

His subordinates rushed away. At this time, Chen Qing saw that the servants at the foot of the mountain were a little restless, and three people were shouting. He took out three arrows and bit them in his mouth, and shot them one after another. The three most active servants Arrows were shot in his throat continuously, and he fell to the ground clutching his throat. He died immediately, and the woods under the mountain suddenly became quiet.

Not long after, the soldiers who went to the west rushed back and reported, "His Royal Highness, there is indeed a small road to the west, and the humble officer saw them going up the mountain along the small road."

"Go and keep an eye on them, and call me when there are thirty steps left."

The soldiers went again, Chen Qingling said: "Everyone shoot arrows into the woods, it doesn't matter if you can hit each other!"

Several subordinates fired arrows continuously, and the arrows pierced through the air and shot into the forest. Xu Wu led his subordinates to hide in the forest, and no one dared to show their heads.

At this time, the soldiers from the west came back again, "Your Highness, you are already within thirty paces!"

"let's go!"

Chen Qing led five of his men towards the west...

Chapter 91 Hunting

The mountain path to the west is rugged, and fifty soldiers from the village, led by Dutou, climbed up cautiously. They have already climbed the hill, entered a pine forest, and ran towards the opponent's back.

After walking dozens of steps, there was a sudden shout, "Kill!"

Chen Qing led five men to fight out. He beheaded one person with a backhand sword, grabbed a long spear, and immediately stabbed dozens of village soldiers like a tiger in a flock of sheep, killing people with guns. There were corpses strewn all over the place where they passed, and there was a lot of wailing, and a dozen soldiers were assassinated in an instant.

His five subordinates were equally ferocious, and each of them assassinated four or five people. In the blink of an eye, only a dozen of the fifty soldiers were left, and they were all frightened. As fast as lightning, the remaining dozen or so soldiers were all down in a pool of blood, all killed by a single shot.

The last one threw away the big knife in his hand, plopped down on his knees, and kowtowed like garlic. He was so frightened that he couldn't even speak. Chen Qing put his spear against his throat and asked coldly: "You are actually from the village?" Bing, can the magistrate participate in the assassination of this king?"

"Shen... participated, it's... the magistrate of Tang ordered us to come...!" Everyone was so frightened that the other party turned out to be King Yong.

Chen Qing pierced his throat with a gun, and said coldly: "Whoever opposes me will die!"