Seeing an old man speaking, a smile appeared on the yamen runner's face.
He walked to the old man with one hand and said, "Tell me, as long as you tell me where that person is hiding, I will give you a way out."
"Otherwise, don't blame me for being ruthless."
"That person is your end."
After saying that, he looked back at the middle-aged man behind him who had just been killed by him.
The old man looked at the man lying in a pool of blood, his eyes full of fear and sadness.
The middle-aged man who was killed was his son, the little child in front of him was his grandson.
He really had no choice. He could not watch his son and grandson die here together.
Besides, there are so many innocent villagers here.
"Yes, the old man knows." The old man nodded repeatedly.
The yamen runner looked at the old man coldly, waiting for his speech.
"The man you are looking for was hiding in the northwest valley of our village yesterday. We saw him pitiful and gave him some food."
"I went to look for him again today, but I didn't see any trace of him."
"Sir, the old man is telling the truth. You can send someone to investigate." The old man said, begging to look at the yamen runner in front of him.
The yamen runner's eyes swept slightly, and saw that there was no panic after lying in the old man's eyes.
He threw the child in his hand back to the old man, and then walked to other yamen runners.
The old man kept his grandson tightly behind him.
Looking at the yamen runners who were walking towards him and were trembling because of fear.
"Old guy, take our people to the place you mentioned. If you dare to play any tricks, not only will your grandson die, but everyone in your village will die!" The yamen runner grabbed the old man and shouted coldly.
"grandfather."
"village head!"
The child called out grandpa, and the other people in the village behind him called out village chief.
The old man said nothing, but waved to the crowd.
The yamen runners and the old man disappeared into the darkness.
Soon, Ma Zhiyuan and Chen Qu arrived here.
Seeing the two of them coming, the left-behind yamen runners quickly came up.
"Mr. Ma, Governor Ma." The yamen runner saluted the two.
Ma Zhiyuan's eyes swept across the villagers in front of him, his expression a little cold.
"What are you going to deal with these people?" Ma Zhiyuan turned around and looked at Chen Qu and asked.
Chen Qu was slightly stunned and asked tentatively: "Have you deal with them all?"
"This method is OK. Some of them have met that person. I wonder if the person has left the evidence to them."
"If we really leave evidence and let them go, we will die."
"Go, give them some food and put something in it." Ma Zhiyuan said that he wanted to deal with these people without even blinking.
Chen Qu's heart trembled slightly.
There were dozens of people in front of me, all of whom were villagers in this village.
He just said it tentatively, but he didn't expect that Ma Zhiyuan really planned to do this.
"What's wrong? What's the matter?" Ma Zhiyuan frowned and asked when he saw Chen Qu in a daze.
"Governor Ma, many of them are old, weak, women and children, right?"
"Pa" Chen Qu's loud slap made him feel a little tinnitus.
He felt a burning pain on his face.
When the yamen runners saw Chen Qu being slapped, they just thought they didn't hear it, and their eyes were all looking elsewhere.
"Old, weak, women and children?"
"Chen Qu, once someone among them hides evidence that we are killing, we will die in the future."
"Do you understand?"
"Or, do you think that when you confiscate your family in the future, the emperor will think that all the elderly, weak, women and children in your family?" Ma Zhiyuan scolded coldly.
They have no way out.
Now we can only go one way to the dark.
A little bit of kindness will make them in a desperate situation.
Chen Qu covered his face and nodded after a long time.
"Governor Ma, the subordinate knows that he is wrong!" Chen Qu and Ma Zhiyuan said.
Then he walked aside and told the yamen runner who was in charge of guarding these people: "Find some food for them."
"Remember, put medicine in the food and make sure to send them on their way."
The yamen runner was stunned.
It was only now that I realized what the slap was just now.
But the yamen runner did not hesitate, but nodded quickly.
Then he took a few people away.
Ma Zhiyuan stood in front of the crowd, thinking about the person who escaped, and felt inexplicably irritated.
The person who escaped was originally them.
But because of some things, the man hated him.
In order to take revenge on himself, the man escaped from his control of Ma Zhiyuan with some secret letters.
Trying to hand these things over to the emperor.
Although Ma Zhiyuan was sure that he would not let that man see the emperor.
But if Ma Zhiyuan didn't catch him, he would always find it difficult to calm down.
This time I also heard the news that the man was found in Ninggu County, so Ma Zhiyuan hurriedly came here.
Today, you must catch that person and find those letters.
Soon, the yamen runners came with some food.
The fragrant meal can smell the fragrance from afar.
"Mr. County Magistrate, this is for them, this is ours." Two small carts, one of them parked in front of Chen Qu.
"Let them eat first." Chen Qu and the yamen runners said.
The yamen runners pushed a small cart to the people.
"This is the meal prepared by our county magistrate for you."
"The county magistrate doesn't want to make things difficult for you, but that person is a fugitive appointed by the court, and we have no choice."
"Everyone eat." The yamen runner said some irrelevant words.
Put the food in front of the people.
They have been stopped here for many days, and they only have some clear soup and water every day.
Suddenly seeing such a rich dish, I saliva flowed.
Many people no longer care about it, and they just come over and eat a meal.
When the rest of the people saw this, their little concerns were dissipated due to hunger.
Looking at the voracious people, Ma Zhiyuan sneered on his face.
"My stomach hurts so much."
To be continued...