Gold is Justice

Chapter 95 Cause and Effect

Ka-!

The bard's hand was held down by another stronger hand.

Gu Liduo was startled, and quickly raised his head, only to see a man dressed as a townsman, but now he was standing in front of him, looking relaxed.His hand grabbed his wrist with such strength that Gu Li couldn't break free for a while!

"As a womanizer, it's fine if you don't admit it. You even plan to slander other gentlemen, and even plan to let other gentlemen be humiliated in public to clear yourself of the crime. This kind of stingy behavior says that you are not a little woman in your heart, it really is It's unbelievable."

The townsman pulled his backhand, and the grain-rich body couldn't help being folded over.But his other hand pressed on the strings, the long sword was unsheathed, and the bard's music began.Accompanied by the melody full of rhythm, Gu Liduo somehow used some method to break free from the townsman's palm and jumped aside.

"Yo huh? There are two tricks."

The townsman smiled and squeezed his wrist.At this time, another townsman hiding in the crowd came over and threw an imperial saber over. The townsman caught it, pulled it out very easily, and gave a military salute to Airl.

"Uncle! Have you checked your name?"

At this time, the tax official who was about to collapse in the Song of the Mermaid also stood up from the crowd of townspeople and walked quickly to Ai Luo's side.He took the parchment scroll and looked at the signature of Guliduo Reciter on it.Then he took out another document from his pocket, opened it, checked it, nodded and said——

"That's right! It's indeed Gu Li Duo Reciter, not the same name and surname! The handwriting is also exactly the same! Hahaha, it's all right now, that's right!"

Hearing this, the townsman holding the imperial saber stared at Gu Liduo with a smile on his face, and said, "Whiskey is a soldier of the Imperial Army under the command of Earl Karp Houston Miselhan."

The sword-throwing townsman walked behind Gu Liduo, and also drew out his own imperial saber: "The same belongs to the imperial army soldier Dacron."

Whiskey: "Grain Duo Reciter, the former president of the Singing Bird Guild, now, in the name of His Majesty, we are arresting you on charges of multiple tax evasion, smuggling, selling prohibited items, guild fraud, and absconding with money. Please Now put down your weapons and catch them!"

Facing the two imperial soldiers in tandem, Gu Liduo's expression was obviously not calm.Accompanied by the sound of music, he quickly turned around and rushed out of the square!But Whiskey seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and stood in front of him first. The saber in his hand had already pierced his chest accurately, and the meaning of stopping him from escaping was obviously obvious.

In the face of obstacles, there is no way to avoid the grains, so we can only retreat in time to avoid the thorn.But just as he avoided the whiskey in front, the polyester behind him had already leaped forward quickly, and the hilt of the sword hit him hard on the back.

Seeing the ongoing battle here, the townspeople retreated to the surroundings one after another, hiding behind various obstacles and observing carefully.

As for the members of Song of the Mermaid, they gathered beside Airl, except for Cream who knew a little about what was going on before them, everyone else looked bewildered and at a loss.

"That... Dad... Ah! No..."

Ke Ke looked at the tax officer, but because she was too nervous, the little girl made a mistake when she opened her mouth. She quickly covered her mouth and blushed.

The tax officer laughed loudly and said, "Little girl, my child is older than yours. If I have the opportunity, I will introduce you to him. Maybe you can become good friends!"

Afterwards, the tax collector held up the sheepskin scroll and said, "President Arrow, I have a lot more questions than your members. Two days ago, you suddenly sent the thieves from your guild over here." Find me, and ask me to investigate whether the person in your guild who is always called Gu Liduo Reciter has a case. But, how did you think of this?"

Airl stared at the battle over there, but his words were very relaxed: "Actually, from the beginning, I didn't think that there was anything wrong with this bard. After all, there are not a few people in our guild who have problems. I I also don't want everyone to suspect each other and cause any trouble." In fact, Airl really thought so.Who doesn't have a secret in his heart?It's a pity, if this Gu Liduo didn't touch his core interests, then it wouldn't be a problem to let this guy hide in his guild.

It's a pity... Lack of people will always be the key to bad luck.

Even though he thought so, Ai Luo still had a smile on his face: "I was a little surprised when he came to our guild on the first day. Although his clothes looked tattered and dusty. But in fact , The materials of his clothes are not ordinary, on the contrary, they are quite expensive. The pattern embroidery on his body is not used by ordinary people, it is obviously something that can be consumed only after having money."

"Then, I discovered that Mr. Gu Liduo gradually wanted to take away my position as the guild leader. During the conversation, he intentionally or unintentionally said such a sentence——"

"'Please rest assured, I am not a beginner, I have a wealth of experience, and I will never let Mermaid Song down.'"

"It was this sentence that reminded me that if he was telling the truth, it meant that he was once the president of a guild. But why would a guild president look so downcast and run to such a border town Come on, do you even want to cross the border and leave the Blue Bay Empire?"

"I thought about it, but soon, I thought of Mr. Tax Official."

The tax officer pointed to his nose and said with a smile, "Me?"

Airl nodded, and continued: "That's right. Do you still remember what you said when you came to Pelican Town on the first day to settle the taxes of our Mermaid Song guild? You said that when the empire promulgated a new separate accounting tax for guilds After the new law, many guilds immediately declared bankruptcy, and the guild presidents absconded with money, in order to avoid being found out about their accounting problems."

The tax officer pinched his chin and nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, I said so."

Arrow smiled and said, "So, I will connect these two things and think about it."

"A former guild president who has traveled far and dusty, obviously fleeing in an emergency. The new decree issued by the empire has caused many guild presidents to declare bankruptcy in a hurry. With this combination, I will boldly guess that Gu Liduo · Reciter, maybe Also a former guild leader who absconded with money."

The tax official nodded repeatedly, feeling very comfortable with such speculation.Cream on the side also had a suddenly realized expression, revealing the color of "no wonder".As for the big man Brad, he was confused and didn't seem to understand, but at least he knew that a lot of grains is not a good person.Coco, on the other hand, patted her small chest with a relieved expression.

"After making such a guess, what I immediately thought of was to contact the Imperial Army and the tax collector."

"It's October now, and it's the day when the tax officer goes to various towns to conduct tax calculations. Mr. Tax Officer, you said before that in order to prevent our Pelican Town from taking too long to calculate again, you came to our town first. After the calculation After our town, of course, you should go to Honglu Town or Kingfisher Town, which are the closest to Pelican Town, for tax calculation. Therefore, I immediately asked Cream to go to these two towns to find you, and then asked if There is a former guild leader like Gu Liduo. Fortunately, my guess is not wrong. Cream, this journey has really worked hard for you, you must be exhausted, right?"

Cream held his head high and his exhausted body straight, with a very proud expression: "Haha! It's just an errand, what's the point? Hahaha!"

The tax officer said with a smile: "You are indeed very lucky. This grain-rich reciter is really a big fish. This time I was able to bring him back to the capital for trial, and I am also credited~~~! Coincidentally, after I knew about this incident, I wanted to contact the nearest Imperial Guard, and I just happened to see these two Imperial soldiers wandering nearby. As soon as I told them about the Song of the Mermaid, they came immediately Help! Do you know each other?"

Airl just smiled and didn't answer directly.

The tax officer didn't care, and continued to smile: "This guy has been planning for a long time to usurp your guild, but now he has been cornered. The anger and despair in his heart may be like waiting for three hours to finally buy ice cream. I just licked it and then suddenly fell to the ground! Hahahaha!"

Hearing the tax officer's laughter, Ke Ke tilted his head and thought for a while, then suddenly raised his hand.

Seeing how smart and polite the little girl was, Arrow nodded and let her ask questions.

"That... guildmaster brother. Since this bard is an escaped guildmaster, why did he still use his real name to join our guild? He even wanted to take the name of the guildmaster from Song of the Mermaid... Wouldn't that be more important? Is it easy to be spotted by the tax collectors and the imperial army?"

Airl smiled slightly, and turned to look at the tax collector next to him.The tax officer coughed and said with a smile: "The little girl is generally correct, but there is one thing, that is, the guilt of the guild president and the guild can actually be calculated separately."

"For example, if the president of the guild... like your president Airl, if the president 'molested' a married woman outside, then the imperial army can naturally arrest him. But the imperial army cannot President Airl 'molested' women, and decided that you Mermaid Song also 'molested' others. After all, you are a guild, and the guild does not have the function of 'molesting' women. We can catch President Airl, but not the mermaids. What blame does the song have."

Coco's eyes were wide open, and Arrow wondered if she could understand what the tax officer was saying.But then again...is this considered sexual harassment?

"Similarly, if President Airl evades taxes for the sake of the guild's accounts, then we can consider it as Mermaid Song evading taxes, not President Airl, a 'person' who evades taxes."

"Converting these theories to Gu Liduo Reciter, even though he may be involved in multiple economic crimes and shut down his guild overnight and absconded with the money, if we find him and find that he has a new business A guild, he can say that he didn't want to abscond, but wanted to continue to pay back the money. In this case, the deficits and problematic accounts of his previous guild can only be regarded as general economic problems, which are business problems in the course of business. Deficits and deficits are not considered economic crimes. Therefore, he cannot be arrested just like this.”

"Since it can't be caught, the guild that declared bankruptcy before will have to go through bankruptcy accounting to sort out all the guild's previous accounts and commissions. This will take a long time, even years. Before we have yet to calculate How much property does the bankrupt guild have, but the former president has enough time to transfer all the property thoroughly, and even fled the country when the border was loosened, and could never be captured again."

The tax officer's answer may be a little too professional, and I don't know if Ke Ke can understand it.

But Airl could see that the little girl was keeping her patience and keeping her eyes wide open, and it was conceivable that she was trying to make sense of it all.

"But...but..."

The little necromancer seemed a little hesitant, and after hesitating for a while, he continued to ask——

"In this way, it seems that it is easy to be exploited? A guild leader commits an economic crime in this guild, and then immediately declares the guild bankrupt, and then becomes the leader of another guild. Doesn't this mean that there is no way to catch it all the time? As long as the guild leader opens two or more guilds from the beginning, wouldn’t it be fine to commit any crime?”

The tax officer laughed and nodded, expressing his acquiescence.But this kind of answer is obviously impossible for the little girl to approve, and Airl also said immediately: "From the legal point of view of our empire, this is indeed the case. But there are two problems that need to be overcome."

"First, if there are two or more guilds operating under the name of a certain guild leader, when one guild declares bankruptcy, the other guild that is the controller of the same guild leader will also be declared to enter the property accounting stage .Its assets will be controlled by the empire, and normal business activities must be carried out under the management of the empire.”

"Second, if a guild leader does not have other guilds under his name when he goes bankrupt, then the guild leader cannot apply to re-establish a new guild at this time. After the property accounting is completed, his own criminal records He can continue to be granted permission to apply for the guild after he has been reviewed. However, our country has not set requirements for the transfer of the president. I have to say that this is indeed a loophole in the law of our country."

"In other words, after a guild leader goes bankrupt, he must enter a guild that has nothing to do with him before being captured by soldiers of our imperial army, and successfully become the guild leader, in the absence of other guilds under his name. Avoid being caught. Hmm~~ Although it is indeed a loophole in the laws of our empire. But to complete this set of steps requires a lot of luck, unless he has made preparations in advance and has relatives and friends in this guild leader Immediately after bankruptcy, transfer the guild under his own name to him. But this is tantamount to unnecessary actions. If you have the money to establish a guild and transfer it to him to pay the fine of the empire, it is better to directly give him the money to pay the fine of the empire It's more economical."

Having said so much, Keke understood a little.

The tax officer laughed loudly, stuffed the scroll in his hand into his backpack, and said with a smile: "But I really didn't expect that Gu Liduo would think of escaping responsibility by framing President Airl as a woman. Hmm... Having said that, it seems that I have never received a report that Gu Li is a fan of women's clothing. Why did he suddenly have such a hobby when he came to President Airl? And..."

The uncle looked at Ai Luo up and down, looked at his short stature, raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and said with a smile: "He said that President Ai Luo is a woman. He didn't think much of it before, but now look at the president. ...If you wear women's clothes, I'm afraid that even the daughter of Duke Jinguo, who is so famous in the world, can't compare with you, right?"

Hearing what the tax officer said, Arrow couldn't help laughing.He waved his hands and smiled, "My lord tax collector, you are really joking too far. The daughter of the Duke of Jinguo is a real beauty famous in the capital. I was lucky enough to meet Miss Jinguo a few times when I was in school at Laotengshu. You How can you compare me with her? If you really have some doubts..."

Airl pressed his hands on the buckle of his collar, and said in a somewhat honest tone——

"Then how about I take off my clothes in front of you now, and let you see whether I'm lying or the grain is lying?"

With that said, he unbuttoned the top button of his collar.Seeing this, the tax officer quickly waved his hands, and said in a panic, "Don't, don't, don't! President Arrow, you are really serious. Just based on your words, I completely believe you! You must not Take this absconder's words seriously. If word spreads that a little tax officer like me forced a gentleman who graduated from Old Vine Tree College to undress in front of so many people, then my job is really Don't do it anymore!"

Now that the tax officer said so, the smile on Airl's face naturally continued.He buttoned his collar again, but after finishing his clothes, the chairman suddenly felt the shade on his back.

Cold sweat had soaked his back at some point.

when--!

While talking, there was a soft sound from the other side.

I saw that the saber in Whiskey's hand had accurately hit the lute with many grains. With the huge force of the blade, the lute split into two halves instantly, and the melody of the music box also stopped abruptly.

For Gu Liduo, one-on-two was already extremely difficult, but now that the rhythm was broken, the expression on his face was even more distorted.

Chapter 96 The End

"lay down your weapon!"

Da Cun shouted, and the sword in his hand stabbed Gu Liduo's shoulder accurately.The blade cut through the clothes, pierced the skin, and pulled out blood and wounds.

Taking a closer look at the grains, he now has several wounds all over his body, and his blood loss is becoming more and more serious.

It can be seen that if it weren't for these two imperial soldiers who wanted to go back alive, even if he had nine lives, he would have already confessed here.

Faced with the soldiers' siege, Gu Liduo looked at the tattered lute in his hand, gritted his teeth, and threw it away, only holding the slender sword in his hand to make the last desperate resistance.

His gaze swept across the two soldiers, but then fell on Airl who was resting and looking like he was watching a play.

Mixed with anger and hatred, he clenched his teeth slightly, suddenly!He reached into the equipment bag on his waist, and took out a glass bottle containing a milky white liquid.

"You want to catch me? I'm dead today! Ariel! I want to take you to be buried with me!!!"

After finishing speaking, he flicked off the stopper of the glass bottle with his fingers, raised his head, and poured all the milky white liquid inside into his mouth.

"Du Lengjia?!"

As a soldier who once fought on the front line, whiskey and polyester are no strangers to the strange glass bottle.The two called out the name of the potion almost in unison!

After taking Du Lengjia's grains and throwing away the bottle in his hand, his body, which was a little unstable due to the pain all over his body, seemed to be full of vitality again!With a slight wave of the slender sword in his hand, the figure rushed towards Ai Luo in an instant!

This turn of events obviously surprised Airl, and he was a little caught off guard.Brad next to him didn't wear leather armor or a shield, but he raised his arms resolutely in front of Airl.

"Gu Li Duo Reciter! Explain the origin of your Du Lengjia! Stop your murderous behavior!"

Seeing that Gu Liduo had taken the potion, Whiskey and Polyester immediately set up a 12-point alert, and while Gu Liduo rushed towards Airl, they also went to guard Airl's direction together!

But at this moment, the figure with many grains is far faster than imagined!As if he was not injured at all, he turned around halfway and quickly rushed towards the townspeople who were still watching.

"Oops! Everyone leave!"

Seeing that he had been tricked, Whiskey couldn't help shouting.

But there was a smile of success on Gu Liduo's face, he grabbed a little girl who was too late to escape, jumped out of the encirclement of the square a few times, jumped onto the roof and ran towards the south of the town.

"Damn it! I didn't expect this guy to even have a forbidden drug like Du Lengjia!"

Seeing that they could not catch up, Dacron complained.Whiskey, on the other hand, rushed out of the crowd without stopping, and shouted: "Hurry up! This guy has a hostage in his hand now! If he feels safe, he will kill the hostage anytime, anywhere!"

This reminded polyester, and the two soldiers immediately chased after Gu Liduo in the direction where he was fleeing.

Here, everyone in Song of the Mermaid watched all this happen, but they couldn't react.

No reason, it's because Du Lengjia's movement speed is too fast after taking the grains of Du Lengjia!Let Arrow, Brad, Cream, Coco, Buffy have no idea what they can do now.