Chapter 129

Although the case was tricky, Ye Xiaotian didn't want to shirk his responsibility. As a warden who was in charge of arresting criminals, it was impossible for him to shirk his responsibility. Moreover, Forester Wai was Magistrate Zhang's father-in-law, and Zhang Yi had promoted him. How could he not do his best in this matter?

Moreover, if he wanted to establish a foothold in Hulu County, he must defeat Xu Boyi. Because the conflict between them was already irreconcilable. Only if Xu Boyi was defeated, Hua Qingfeng wouldn't dare to start a war with him.

Otherwise, Xu Boyi had Hua Qingfeng's help and was his immediate superior, so he had plenty of opportunities to attack him. Once Xu Boyi gained the upper hand, Hua Qingfeng added insult to injury, and Register Wang had an ambiguous attitude. It was hard to guarantee that he wouldn't jump out and bite him.

In this case, Xu Boyi could afford to lose, but he couldn't. If he lost once, he might lose everything. Therefore, he had to take advantage of the new victory to expand his influence. Only then would he be able to offset Xu Boyi's advantage in terms of official positions.

However, seeing that Hua Qingfeng was shirking his responsibility and Xu Boyi was gloating, Ye Xiaotian was quite unhappy, so he deliberately shirked the responsibility, "County magistrate, as a warden, I am naturally responsible for arresting criminals and robbers. However, this robber is not an ordinary robber, but a greenwood robber who roams the Innumerable Mountains. He has hundreds of good men under his command. Even the soldiers may not be able to hurt him. I have the will, but I don't have the strength! "

Before Hua Qingfeng said anything, Xu Boyi's face darkened and he scolded, "What are you talking about? We are paid by the imperial court, so we should serve the imperial court, share the burden of the emperor's father, and protect the people. Now that Forester Wai has been kidnapped as a hostage, even if we don't have the relationship with the magistrate, we should still do our best. How can we shirk our responsibility? "

"Clap, clap, clap!"

Ye Xiaotian gently clapped his hands and praised, "County Magistrate Xu's words are really impassioned and powerful. I admire you very much! However, my words don't carry much weight. Why don't you ask County Magistrate Xu to preside over this case? I am willing to help. What do you think? "

Hearing this, Xu Boyi immediately coughed, "I … cough cough cough … I'm afraid I don't have the strength. If this matter is delayed, the magistrate will blame me. Won't it put the county magistrate in a difficult position? If not for the fact that my body is weak, I would have taken full responsibility even without you telling me! "

Ye Xiaotian snickered and glanced at him contemptuously. He said to Hua Qingfeng, "I will be in charge of this case. If there is a need to use Patrol Inspector Luo's men …"

"Luo to," Hua Xiaotian said, "I will let Luo Luo will.

Ye Xiaotian continued, "If this lowly official is unable to rescue Squire Lin, I will naturally bear full responsibility. But if I succeed by luck, but someone pretended to be dead and took the credit, I will not be willing … "Xu Boyi said," I will report it to the imperial court. No one will take the credit! "

"Good!" Xu Boyi was so angry that he glared at him. Hua Qingfeng blushed and immediately said, "I will report it to the imperial court. No one will take your credit!"

"Good!"

Ye Xiaotian stood up and bowed to Hua Qingfeng, Register Wang and County Magistrate Xu, "Since it's like this, I am willing to take full responsibility for this case. Whether it is success or failure, I will take the responsibility. Goodbye!"

Ye Xiaotian turned and left. Hua Qingfeng and Xu Boyi looked at each other. When Ye Xiaotian walked out, Hua Qingfeng couldn't help saying, "He looks so confident. Does he really have a way to deal with that 'Dragon'?"

Xu Boyi was surprised, "How is that possible? 'Dragon' has been a disaster in Qiandong for many years. The imperial court has put a bounty on his head many times. No one has ever hurt him. After this person committed the crime, he went deep into the forest. If we don't know where his lair is, we can't do anything to him even if we send a million soldiers. I think Ye Xiaotian is taking advantage of his teacher-student relationship with Magistrate Zhang. That's why he is so unscrupulous. "

Hua Qingfeng said hypocritically, "I hope so. Our Gourd County has been busy recently. If he can really solve this case, it will be a good thing for all of us. But this person always does shocking things. I'm afraid that he doesn't know the gravity of the matter and will cause more trouble. "

Registrar Wang said indifferently, "The two of you are being overly suspicious. What deeper meaning could Ye Xiaotian's actions have? In my opinion, he is the Warden. Since Magistrate Xu is sick, he can't get away with it no matter what. So he might as well take a gamble. "

Hua Qingfeng was stunned, "It's that simple."

Register Wang said sarcastically, "How complicated can it be? Magistrate, I think you are too smart. That's why you can think of simple things in a complicated way! "

…

Ye Xiaotian went out of the government office and turned to the hillside not far away.

There were bonfires on the hillside. The Sheng Miao warriors who had worked for a day were sitting around the bonfire and roasting the small animals they caught. The bamboo rats were roasted until they were sizzling and oily. Some unknown insects were placed on the stone slabs and roasted until they were crispy. They were drinking the rice wine that they brewed themselves. It was quite pleasant.

They didn't care when they saw someone going up the mountain in the night. Not to mention that Ye Xiaotian was alone. Even if there were a few more people, they were not afraid that they would come up the mountain to create trouble.

Ye Xiaotian didn't have the confidence to deal with the "dragon". He didn't have the experience of arresting bandits. Moreover, these bandits were hiding in the dense jungle. It was useless to mobilize the people and send out spies to find their whereabouts. If he wanted to arrest them, it would be useless even if he mobilized the officers and soldiers, not to mention the constables and strong people.

But as Register Wang said, as the Warden, he couldn't get away from this matter. Originally, Xu Boyi was going to be tied up. But Xu Boyi was pretending to be dead. As long as he didn't stand out, it was not easy to drag him into this matter. Since he was going to die, why not die a hero?

Moreover, although the "Dragon" was difficult to deal with, it was not entirely impossible for him to deal with it. He had eight thousand seedlings who were working for him for free to build houses. As long as he gave the order, these people who were lucky enough to be working for the supreme Venerable One would definitely roar and rush into the deep mountains. Even if Long Lingyun was hiding in a rat's hole, they would still be able to find him.

Ye Xiaotian thought as he went up the mountain. It was not appropriate to mobilize eight thousand people to arrest the bandits in the deep mountains. That kind of place did not depend on the number of people to determine victory or defeat. Too many people would cause problems. If the team was too big, how could it be compared to the speed of hundreds of bandits?

But these Sheng Miao were natural warriors in the forest. If they could select some elites from them, as long as they could find the nest of the "dragon", they might have a chance to succeed. Even if they couldn't kill the "dragon", there was still a great chance to rescue Forester Wai.

At this time, the construction of the Ye family's mansion had begun to take shape. The main gate, the front yard, the main hall, and other parts had all been completed. Only the carving and painting and cleaning work were left. The two to three courtyards of the main building complex were also half built. As for the left and right wings and the entire garden area, they were placed at the end of the project.

In the front yard, under the starlight and moonlight, the ground had been paved with very smooth stones. Sister Sun sat on a stone. Hua Yunfei walked over from the bonfire in the distance and handed her a grilled fish.

Sister Sun thanked him and took the grilled fish that was skewered by a tree branch. She ate it like a kitten, very gentle.

"Continue. What happened after that?"

Sister Sun was listening to Hua Yunfei talk about the process of him seeking revenge on Qi Mu. Hua Yunfei continued, and Sister Sun tilted her head to listen. The moonlight shone on her face. Half of her face was as white as jade, and the other half was buried in the darkness. Her sharp nose and petal-like lips cut out an enchanting profile.

"Just like that, you killed them all in one go?"

"Yes! You can't imagine the frightened expression on the County Magistrate Meng's face when he saw me. And Qi Mu, he has always been so arrogant. Even after he was imprisoned, he was still insolent because he had already spent a lot of money to bribe the people from the Disciplinary Department. They would definitely let him out. In the end, he suddenly saw me. That strange expression … "

Hua Yunfei took a deep breath and said, "Qi Mu had a good body of martial arts, but he was wearing a heavy shackle at that time. I could only punch him to death. Fortunately, I had big brother, or else I wouldn't have been able to take revenge. If it was someone else, even if they wanted to help me, they wouldn't have thought of such an idea. Big brother, he … "

Hua Yunfei pondered for a moment and smiled, "Big brother is not a person who follows the rules. It seems that God sent him to the human world to break the rules."

Sister Sun remembered some things she heard from her father. She nodded with deep feelings, "Yes! Venerable is indeed like this. Our Gu God Sect has been passed down for thousands of years, but there has never been a … strange Venerable like him. From ascending to succeeding, he did not do anything the same as the predecessors. Inheriting the position of Venerable in a chaotic battle, refusing to drink the Infernal Soup, refusing to take a concubine, persisting in traveling the human world for twenty years, marrying and having children … "

Sister Sun sighed softly and said, "He broke all the rules, but the elders couldn't do anything about it. Maybe the previous Venerable had thought of doing this, but those Venerable never had the courage to try."

Hua Yunfei glanced at Sister Sun and said tentatively, "You like my big brother a lot, don't you?"

Sister Sun turned her face and slightly raised her eyebrows. She looked at him and said, "What kind of like are you talking about?"

Hua Yunfei said, "Uh … there are many kinds of like?"

Sister Sun said, "Of course, I like my parents, I like my brother, and I like my good sister who grew up with me. Every kind of like is different."

Hua Yunfei stammered, "I mean … a man likes a woman … No, no, it's like … it's like a woman likes a man."

Little Sister Taiyang finished eating the fish and carefully placed the bones to the side. She wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, bent her knees, hugged her knees with both hands, and rested her chin on them. She quietly looked ahead, as if she was thinking about what Hua Yunfei had said.

Suddenly, a clear spring appeared on the flat ground in front of them. In an instant, the spring shot up more than ten feet high. It continued to shoot for a moment, then suddenly disappeared with a 'shua' sound.

Little Sister Taiyang sighed softly and said slowly, "Not really. I can't say for sure either. I remember when I first met him, he was my younger brother's godfather. After my younger brother was born, he kept crying. My father followed the custom of the tribe and went to the bridge to find a godfather for him. In the end, he invited the Venerable.

I didn't pay much attention to him at that time. I just felt that my younger brother's godfather was very young and good-looking. But he was only a few years older than me. It was a little embarrassing for me to call him godfather like my younger brother. Later, he was suddenly chosen by the Gu God and became our Venerable.

At that time, I didn't have any special feelings for him. I was just happy for him and my younger brother. You should know how glorious it is to be the adopted son of the Venerable. Then, according to the rules, each tribe chose a consort for the Venerable … "