At this moment, five or six more people who looked like government servants rushed in from outside the courtyard, shouting in succession:
"Sir, are you okay..."
< p> "What a bold assassin, let my master go now..."The two young women who fell into the water splashed in the water for a while, then screamed and crawled to the shore. The fat black magistrate screamed incoherently. Calling for help:
"Come and save me quickly... call for reinforcements..."
Several government servants and servants rushed to the trestle, Dongfang Ying sneered and said: < /p>
"What a confused dog officer. Do you want them to rescue you, or let them mobilize troops!"
I am not afraid that the dog magistrate will run away and float to the trestle. In the middle, the Zhanlu sword swayed with a circle of black sword light, flying among five or six yamen servants and servants.
"Puff, puff, puff", "thump, thump, thump", the sounds of sharp blades and axes cutting wood, mixed with the screams of everyone, made a loud sound.
When an ordinary weapon came into contact with the Zhanlu sword, it was as vulnerable as a piece of rotten wood. Under Dongfang Ying's sharp sword moves, her limbs were broken, and her head was missing.
After killing five or six of the magistrate’s minions, he saw that the two women had climbed to the shore and were still howling like ghosts. He immediately jumped in front of them, kicked his feet again, and increased his strength. Kick them in the jaw.
The two women said "Ahhhh" twice, rolled over on their backs and fell into the water again. The woman was already fainting before entering the water.
Dongfang Ying originally didn’t want to be so cruel to women, but when she thought about how they behaved like Gouzhi County just now, she felt sick to her stomach. It was really embarrassing for women!
In addition, there were still some questions to interrogate the magistrate, and they could not be allowed to escape and cause trouble, so they had to be knocked unconscious. As for whether they were drowned in the water, it was up to them.
Back in the pavilion, the black-faced magistrate was still trembling. Seeing Dongfang Ying's killing momentum, his liver and gallbladder were already broken, his legs were weak, his teeth were trembling, and he did not dare to scream.
Dongfang Ying swiped the Zhanlu sword lightly, cutting off a piece of tabletop, and said expressionlessly:
"Gou Zhixian, in answer to this heroine's question, there is one sentence It’s not true, I’ll cut a piece off of you, do you hear me clearly?”
The black-faced magistrate held the severed right wrist with his left hand, reluctantly bent down and said:
“Yes, yes, yes…” Please inquire the heroine, I will never dare to...deceive even half a word..."
Dongfang Ying asked coldly:
"Do you know Yongshun and Ye Chengfeng?"
The face of the black-faced magistrate changed again, turning pale green. He was glared at by Dongfang Ying's cold eyes, and he nodded hurriedly:
"I know... I know..."
Dongfang Ying asked again:
"Why do you know them?"
The black-faced county magistrate Mung Bean's eyes wandered, thinking about how to respond.Answer, Dongfang Ying waved her hand casually, and the black-faced magistrate screamed miserably, and one of her ears disappeared.
Dongfang Ying said angrily:
"Are you trying to make up a lie?"
The black-faced magistrate was sweating profusely and gritted his teeth and said:
"Don't you dare... Beizhi tell the truth... Three years ago these two bandit leaders... came to Beizhong's house and said they wanted to make a deal with Beizhong... Guaranteed a huge profit, and daily income..."
"I was obsessed with money for a while, so I agreed to their proposal... made a deal with them, and then... we got to know each other..."
Dongfang Yingchen He asked in a voice:
"What kind of business?"
The black-faced magistrate had no choice but to continue:
"It's... it's the opium business... they provide the opium. The ointment was sold through opium dens opened by relatives in lowly positions... and the profits were made... at a 30/70 split with each other..."
Dongfang Ying sneered and said:
"You guys are really They are collaborating and working together! "
The black-faced magistrate answered simply this time:
"Of course it's me who is the third and the other... It's really disgusting. Helping bandits... I took such a big risk, but only got three points of profit... It's such a loss..."
Dongfang Ying sneered:
"You still think What a loss? Tell me, how much ill-gotten wealth have you made in the past three years?"
The black-faced magistrate hesitated for a moment, then Dongfang Ying raised her long legs and stepped on the magistrate's chest. He pushed him against the pillar and shouted:
"Hurry up and say it!"
The black-faced magistrate's green face turned into the color of pig liver, and he hurriedly replied:
"Xia Xia, calm down... Please calm down... I said, about twelve thousand taels, that's all..."
Dongfang Ying thinks it should be about the same, according to Zhou Hong. , and the amount of money that Lai Yongshun brought. The bandits' annual income should be more than 10,000 taels. After all, the bandits also have to spend, and Lai Yongshun cannot keep it all.
Of course, Lai Yongshun and others also colluded with the county magistrate. From the county magistrate, they should be able to share the stolen money of several thousand taels.
Then he solemnly asked:
"Then how much money are you prepared to spend to buy your own life?"
The black-faced magistrate made a detour:
"This... heroine thinks... how much money is this humble dog's life worth?"
Dongfang Ying said angrily:
"According to me Look, your dog’s life is worthless! But this heroine will never come back in time. Will you give me 50,000 taels per trip?”
In order to survive, the black-faced magistrate had no choice but to give up his money to avoid disasters. I was not afraid that you would ask for money, but I was afraid that you would take your life, so I quickly agreed:
"Okay, I will give it to you even if you lose your family and fortune in your humble position... Please, please ask the heroine to come with me to get the banknote..."
Dongfang Ying felt that just killing this dog official was not happy enough. They had to force them to spit out the people's wealth and wealth they had plundered and do something beneficial to the people.
Then the black-faced magistrate was escorted out of the pavilion and walked to a small building in the yard next door. There were two maids guarding the door. Seeing the magistrate coming in, Wanfu said:
"Master, Madam has already rested..."
Dongfang Ying casually clicked on their numb and dumb points, and shouted to the magistrate:
"Where is this? Your money is all gone." Put it here? ”
The black-faced magistrate said quickly:
“Yes, yes, this is the residence of the humble minister and his wife. All the banknotes and belongings are in the bedroom.” < /p>
Dongfang Ying was not afraid of his tricks and snorted coldly:
"I hope it is as you said, otherwise I will burn you and this house down."
The black-faced magistrate was escorted to the corridor on the second floor. A maid came out from the door of a room. When she saw the magistrate was about to speak, Dongfang Ying grabbed her mouth and shouted :
"Stop talking, or I will kill you."
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The maid was so frightened that her face turned pale and she didn't dare to say a word, so she walked backwards back into the room.
Dongfang Ying slapped the black-faced magistrate on the shoulder with her sword and said:
"Go and get the banknote quickly. If you alerted others, don't blame me for being rude."
The black-faced magistrate knew that this female swordsman could kill without blinking an eye, so how could he dare to make a mistake? He quickly said:
"I obey my orders... Please don't hurt my wife..."
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Dongfang Ying sneered and said:
"I don't see that you pity your wife! Then why do you have to marry so many concubines? That's hypocritical."
Black face The magistrate was speechless and argued. Under the pressure of Dongfang Ying's sword, he obediently walked into the bedroom. Dongfang Ying lightly struck the maid's neck with a backhand, knocking her unconscious.
But seeing that there was only a sarong palace lantern lit in the room, the bed tent on the inside was drooped, and a pair of women's embroidered shoes were under the couch. Dongfang Ying sensed a slight breathing sound in the tent, and could tell that a person was sleeping soundly.
The magistrate walked to the dressing cabinet, took a key from the drawer, turned it to a red lacquered carved wooden box in the corner, opened the box with the key, and took out a large stack of bills.
However, his right palm had been cut off and it was difficult to count with one hand. He gritted his teeth and handed it to Dongfang Ying:
"Woman...please count by yourself...it's not enough." Take it again..."
Dongfang Ying took the stack of banknotes and looked at them carefully. They were all one thousand taels, at least forty, and she was even more angry: These dog officials are coming Money is so easy! Just any county magistrate has such a huge sum of money hidden in his home.
Without even counting, he folded it up and stuffed it into his arms, pushed the black-faced magistrate away, and headed towardsLooking inside the box, there was actually a large stack of banknotes placed in the box, and the number was almost the same as the previous stack.
Moreover, there are more than a dozen gold ingots and dozens of pieces of jewelry under the box, which together are worth a lot of money.
Dongfang Ying took away the banknotes and stuffed them into her arms. Her belly suddenly swelled as if she was several months pregnant.
The black-faced magistrate cried out heartbroken:
"Xia Xia... have pity on me... leave some for my humble job..."
Dongfang Ying hehehehe for a while With a sneer, he threw the Zhanlu sword with his backhand, and with a "pop" it pierced the chest of the black-faced magistrate, nailing him to the window.
The black-faced magistrate vomited out a mouthful of thick blood, tilted his head, and his eyes widened, refusing to rest in silence.
"Ah..."
A scream came from the bed curtain. A woman in her late forties with a plain face opened the mosquito net and looked at Dongfang Ying and her dying body. The county magistrate shouted:
"You... who are you... this person..."
Dongfang Ying grabbed a piece of gold from the box and raised her hand to hit it. , hitting the woman between the eyebrows, with a "dong" sound, the woman fell down, and the gold ingot also rolled under the bed.
Dongfang Ying covered the box, locked it, threw the key on the sleeping woman on the bed, and said softly:
"You are also an unfortunate woman. I am alone in my boudoir and a widow! I will leave these jewelry to you and live a good life in the future."
Then he walked over and pulled out the Zhanlu sword, and dipped the cloth in blood and left the words "The murderer has a white horse and a red scarf". Then he jumped down from the small building and walked away.
Of course, the county magistrate was not killed. Dongfang Ying did not leave the county government. She captured a yamen servant and asked the county magistrate where he lived. He learned that he lived in the West Flower Hall behind the lobby, so he knocked the yamen servant unconscious and went straight to West Flower Hall.
The West Flower Hall is actually a small courtyard with a main room and four wing rooms. There are two lanterns hanging under the eaves of the main room. Two people are talking in the room, and the wing rooms on both sides are It was silent.
Dongfang Ying quietly approached the window of the main room in the middle, used Zhanlu sword to cut a small opening in the window screen, and looked inside.
I saw a thick candle burning high in the room, and I saw two people sitting opposite each other at a big table in the room, one was a mean-looking woman in her thirties, and the other was a skinny-looking man in his forties. year old man.
Both of them were wearing Chinese clothes, and they were playing with a pile of large and small banknotes and dazzling jewelry on the table with big smiles on their faces. They kept grinning. Whisper.
Just listen to the mean woman laugh and say:
"Official, you still have the means. You can take some of the various taxes on grain, rice, salt and tea levied this time. It’s done, and there’s still no clues in the accounts...”
“Let’s fish it out for another year, and we won’t have to look at the face of the county magistrate anymore. We’ll get rid of this unworthy county magistrate and go back to our hometown.”We can live the rest of our lives comfortably at home..."
The skinny man smiled proudly and said:
"This little trick, for me, is easier than eating. . "
"Master, I spent ten thousand taels of wasted money to donate to such an eighth-grade sesame official. Can I not work hard to recover the capital? "
"Hey, if you think about it, we have made enough money in the past two years. When we collect 60,000 taels, we can retire and return home in glory..."
< p> "My good wife, you should have had your fill of money addiction. Put it away quickly. We have to work harder to get down to business. Otherwise, no matter how much money we earn, we will not have a son to carry on the family lineage. This family business will Leave it to whom? "The mean woman chuckled and said:
"You are an old and crooked old man. You only think about this little thing all day long. You have been sowing seeds for more than ten years. , I didn’t see any movement on my belly. I think you will fire a blank cannon, and you don’t have any ammunition..."
The skinny man said angrily:
"Who said that, sir? The one who fired the cannon? Maybe it’s because there’s no grass growing in your field! I wanted to marry a concubine a few years ago, but you refused, otherwise I might even end up with my big fat son..."
Dongfang Ying almost spit out her dinner, and she exerted a slight force on her palms. There was a soft "click" and the entire window was broken. Dongfang Ying threw the window in and jumped in.
The two men and women were startled and opened their mouths to shout. Said:
"Who... is here..."
Dongfang Ying didn't wait for them to shout, and stabbed out with a sword, piercing the mean woman's mouth and straight to the back of her head. The sword tip was drawn out, and the woman slipped under the table.
Without a pause, she stabbed instead of slashing, slit the skinny man's throat, and then kicked him out, hitting him in the chest. They flew upside down and fell into the bed curtains beside the wall.
There was no need to ask this time. Just from their conversation, we could tell that they must be a corrupt couple. , the evil official's wife who enriched his own pockets deserved to die.
And the so-called "eighth-grade sesame official" should undoubtedly be the county magistrate.
Kill these two shameless and ugly people. Dog man and woman, Dongfang Ying put down Zhanlu Sword and took a closer look at the silver notes and jewelry on the table. Good guy!
The silver notes alone are thirty to forty thousand taels, and the jewelry is estimated to be as much. A few thousand taels in size, Dongfang Ying disliked that these jewels might have been worn by that mean woman, so she was too lazy to touch them.
She just picked up the pile of large and small denominations of banknotes, thinking about this time. It couldn't fit inside. Although the county magistrate's banknotes were half less than the magistrate's, the denominations were more miscellaneous. They were almost three inches high and thicker than a brick.
So he took off his cloak. , together with the banknotes stuffed in his arms before, put them together in the cloak, wrapped them tightly, tied them into a bundle, and thenTied to the back.
He followed the same pattern, cut off a piece of that mean woman's sleeve, dipped it in blood and left the name "White Horse and Red Scarf" on the wall, then jumped out of the window, divided the flowers and willows, and turned out to be the county government office. The high wall is hidden among the sparse flow of people and the vast streets.
At this time, the soldiers patrolling the "Yinbin Gate" in the east were hiding somewhere to be lazy. Dongfang Ying ignored him and walked straight up the city wall, jumped down, and walked quickly to the river bank. go.
As expected, the ferryman was still waiting by the river. He had fixed the bamboo raft to the willow tree on the bank with a rope and was sitting in front of the Wuxian Temple smoking a dry cigarette.
Dongfang Ying called him. Seeing that it was Dongfang Ying who was back, the boatman stood up and greeted him with a smile. Then he untied the cable rope, stabilized the bamboo raft and invited Dongfang Ying to get on the raft.
The Songxi River is considered the upper reaches here. The river surface is not wide, less than fifty feet, and the current is gentle, so it quickly reached the other bank.
Dongfang Ying was very satisfied when she saw that the boatman was trustworthy and dedicated, and did not inquire or talk nonsense. She immediately took out a five hundred tael banknote, put it in the boatman's hand and said:
"Uncle, thank you for your enthusiastic service to me. This is my little girl's gratitude! If uncle doesn't want to do this job one day, maybe he can switch to a small business."
No Waiting for him to speak, he jumped up to the river bank and ran away without missing a beat, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
The boatman was stunned as he held a banknote he had never seen before.