Chapter 4421 Look what this is
Others don’t know Luo Fengtang’s itinerary, but Ye Yi knows it.
The master said goodbye to his wife from Changping Village on the tenth day of the first lunar month. The master originally planned to go directly back to Tianhai County for a secret investigation, but halfway through he received a secret message from the capital.
The master then changed direction and went to the capital to meet the emperor secretly.
Ye Yi didn’t know what the master said to the emperor, but what Ye Yi knew was that the master must have asked the emperor for instructions on matters concerning Tianhai County, and the emperor must have confessed something.
"What happened to the old man I brought back a few days ago?"
Luo Fengtang suddenly asked Ye Yi.
Ye Yi came back to his senses and said: "Reporting to the master, the old man's injuries have been almost healed. He woke up two hours ago and said he wanted to see the master. At that time, the master went to a banquet, so There is no arrangement.”< br>
Luo Fengtang stood up, "Take me to see him now."
Ye Yi glanced at the bowl of hangover soup on the table, "Master, you drank two jars of wine at the night banquet... …”
Luo Fengtang smiled disapprovingly, "Just two jars of wine, it's nothing, let's go."
Ye Yi took a serious look at Luo Fengtang's eyes, and they were indeed clear and not at all drunk.
The master is the master, and there is nothing wrong with poisoning two jars of wine.
It seems that when Vice General Xie was here earlier, the master's drunken look was disguised?
Master!
The admiration in Ye Yi's heart became even more intense. He clasped his hands and said, "Yes!"
Then he turned around and led the way for Luo Fengtang. The two of them quietly came to the back of the Villa under the cover of night.
The most dangerous place is the safest place. The old man was placed in a corner of the garden as a kitchen soldier.
Staying in the shadows outside the house at night, Luo Fengtang entered this inconspicuous room alone.
In the house, a skinny and hungry old man was sitting on the bed. When he saw Luo Fengtang coming in, the old man struggled to get out of bed and knelt down to kowtow to Luo Fengtang, but Luo Fengtang stopped him.
"Old man, you don't need to do this big ceremony. You can just sit on the bed." Luo Fengtang said.
The approachable attitude is completely different from the cold and arrogant general in the daytime who made people afraid to approach him.
The old man sat back and looked at Luo Fengtang with tears streaming down his face.
“General, you saved me. I should be grateful to you, but I really don’t want to live anymore. My family is gone, so I am left alone as an old man. I don’t have much hope for living. ..."
The old man's words made Luo Fengtang frown together.
"Old man, please don't say that. Your family members are in heaven and hope you can survive." Luo Fengtang said.
"Because they can't die in peace, they hope you can help them get revenge so that they can rest in peace!" Luo Fengtang said again.
This old man was rescued on the way to Tianhai County some time ago. At that time, the old man fell in the grass on the roadside, dying, with knife wounds on his body.
Hearing Luo Fengtang’s words of comfort, the old man waved his hands with a look of fear on his face.
"Revenge? How can we take revenge, general? They are all the father-in-law officials of our place. The sky is high and the emperor is far away. Their words are more effective than the emperor's words. Who dares to take revenge?" said the old man.
"From the beginning of last spring to this year, in this full year, my six large tile-roofed houses, ten acres of fields, three pigs, a cow, and twenty or thirty chickens, ducks and geese in the backyard were all converted into tax. They took away the tax."
"You have to pay taxes when you build a house, you have to pay taxes when you marry a wife, you have to pay taxes when you harvest in the fall, and you have to pay taxes after the New Year in winter." "Our family is really desperate. Damn it, the last time someone came to collect taxes, my son was really I couldn't hold back my temper and beat one of the rent collectors to death."
"I really beat him to death by the wrong hand. If I don't fight back, my son will Beaten to death by them."< br>
“As a result, my son was caught and imprisoned. Before I could sell the house to settle the relationship, and before I could go to court for trial, my son was beaten to death in prison!”< br>
"My old lady couldn't bear this blow, and she died of illness within two days. Those people also got together with our local gangsters, colluding with officials and gangsters, and came to my house at night and knocked me unconscious. He entered my wife's house and defiled her..."
"My good daughter-in-law is a good girl with a strong personality. She couldn't bear the insult. At dawn, she asked a neighbor to send my grandson to my grandfather's house, and then he hung up the roof beam."
“Old man, I don’t accept it. I want to come to the Tianhai County Sheriff to voice my grievances. , I was caught by two guards after just a few knocks. When they saw my papers, the county guard beat me up without asking anything and threw me outside. "
"They openly beat me and drove me away, but secretly they also ordered the gangsters from the county to come. You are making trouble for me. I really can’t stay in Tianhai County today. I wanted to escape, but I was chased all the way. Fortunately, I met you generals!”
Hearing the old man’s history of blood and tears, Luo Fengtang His brows were tightly knitted together, and his eyes were cold, colder than an ice cellar.
"Old man, you must live well. For your son and wife who died unjustly, and for your grandson who is still alive, you must live well. I am here to help you pay for this blood debt!"
Luo Fengtang Tied He held the old man's hand tightly and spoke word by word.
The old man looked at Luo Fengtang steadily, "General, can you really help me get justice for this old man? But, they are all officials, and they have big backers behind them..."
Luo Fengtang said: "Their Who is the big backer? "
The old man blurted out: "It's the General Protector Luo Fengtang. I heard that those taxes that have been increased several times are to honor the General Protector and to save food and grass for the soldiers. …”
Luo Fengtang's eyes dimmed, and he asked the old man: "Old man, can you read?"
The old man nodded: "In my early years, I had to take care of accounts, so I learned how to read for two years."
Luo Fengtang took off a token from his waist and turned it over for the old man to see.
"This is...Luo? You, you are..."
"Yes, I am Luo Fengtang, the general protecting the country." Luo Fengtang said.
The old man was so shocked that his eyes almost fell out of his sockets. He was shaking all over, and he grabbed the tea bowl on the table next to him with both hands and was about to smash it at Luo Fengtang.
Luo Fengtang took out another sword from behind his back, and with a bang, the sword body separated from the scabbard.
The passing cold light burned the old man's eyes. He turned his head and raised his arms to block his eyes.
Luo Fengtang's voice sounded in my ears again: "Old man, look at the words engraved on this sword!"
The old man squinted his eyes and stared at the sword. After a while, he read out a few words: "Shang, Fang, Bao, Jian!"
"This...is this the Shangfang Sword that only the emperor has in the opera?" The old man was even more shocked and asked in a trembling voice.
“I knew it, old man, I knew that the general protecting the country is a hero, and he would not fish for our common people with those corrupt officials...” The old man was so excited that he burst into tears, but his turbid eyes were burning. There was a faint light.
Luo Fengtang glanced behind him and made a silencing gesture towards the old man.
Then he inserted the sword blade into the scabbard and said to the old man calmly: "I am Luo Fengtang, the general who protects the country, and I am the imperial envoy personally appointed by the emperor. I have been ordered to conduct a thorough investigation of the high-ranking officials in Tianhai County. Regarding the matter of taxation, this sword is given to Shangfang by the royal family. It can kill corrupt officials at the top and gangsters at the bottom, support justice and redress the injustices of the people!"
(End of this chapter)