Yang Ning looked like a young man and said, "Many times, what you hear is far less than what you see in your ears. Although sometimes what you see in your eyes may not be true, it is always better than what you hear. We are far away in the capital and we hear the situation of fiefs from others. Since we have arrived here, where we are in our own eyes is always more accurate than what we hear directly at the old house."

Gu Qinghan couldn't help but nodded: "Ninger is right, it's all my fault for being negligent. If it weren't for you, I would still be kept in the dark." Her beautiful eyes showed anger: "Tomorrow I would ask the chief executive carefully why Jiangling became like this?" Suddenly, she thought of something, her beautiful eyes slightly turned, looked at Yang Ning with a smile, and asked, "Ninger, I'll ask you, where did you learn your skills?"

"What ability?"

"Don't pretend to be confused with me." Gu Qinghan said angrily: "Who taught you the martial arts you practice? It's not that they were privately professors of Duan Canghai and the others?"

Yang Ning was most afraid that Gu Qinghan would ask these questions, so he could only vaguely say: "I came from the Martial Arts School, so it's no big deal to know some kung fu."

"But why don't I know?" Gu Qinghan frowned and said, "I asked you to follow the guards of the Marquis' Mansion to practice martial arts a few years ago, but you didn't care at all. Why do you have martial arts again now?"

Yang Ning was thinking about how to give Gu Qinghan a reasonable explanation. After all, a woman like Gu Qinghan is not easy to deceive. At this moment, Han Yi had already come and invited him to have dinner, which was considered to have saved Yang Ning.

The rules of this village are that when foreign guests arrive, women cannot go to the table. Fortunately, Gu Qinghan is wearing men's clothes and is also in the seat. Naturally, there is no need to pay attention to the meals of the farmer's family. A table full of dishes was gathered on the table. Han Yi even invited several prestigious people from the village to accompany him.

At the dining table, I had to express my gratitude to Yang Ning. The wine I drank was the rice wine brewed by the village, which tasted good.

Everyone had seen Yang Ning's ability, so they naturally praised him on the table, and mentioned Manager Luo and others. Several of them felt that Manager Luo would definitely not stop.

"Don't worry, Manager Luo will be arrogant for a few days." Yang Ning sneered: "I heard that the Jinyi Marquis' Mansion has sent someone to Jiangling. At that time, as long as you sue what happened here, you will have the good fruits of Manager Luo."

Han Yi shook his head and said, "Little brother, even if there are people in the Jinyi Marquis' Mansion, will they still make decisions for us? Manager Luo is the servant of the Qi family. In the future, he will not attack his servants because of our poor and poor people."

Gu Qinghan said solemnly: "Han Yi, I said before that the Qi family is not a portal for bullying the weak. The Jinyi Hou would never know what happened here. If he had known it earlier, it would not have developed into what he is now."

Han Yi was surprised to see Gu Qinghan talking to Jinyi Hou several times and saying affirmatively. At this moment, he finally asked: "Why are you so sure? Manager Luo has something I think I am right. Without the permission of the Qi family, they dare not be unscrupulous here."

"Han Yi, you are the land of this village. You pay the food to Qi's house every year, but you send it to him in person?" Gu Qinghan asked.

Han Yi nodded and said, "That's right. Our fields and grain production are all in a fixed amount. As long as there are no natural disasters and man-made disasters, there will be fixed harvests every year." After a pause, he continued, "Every year, we will transport the grain we should pay to the old house of Qijia and count them over the board."

"As far as I know, the person in charge of Jiangling's fiefdom tax is the chief manager of the Qi family's old house." Gu Qinghan said: "I heard you say before that Marquis Jinyi now collects 40% of the fiefdom as taxes. Didn't it always be 20%? This suddenly increases so much, but what the chief manager told you personally?"

"Master Qi?" Han Yi looked at Gu Qinghan suspiciously and asked, "Do you know Master Qi?" But he thought to himself that this man defended Marquis Jinyi twice and repeatedly, and seemed to have a good understanding of Jiangling's taxes and Master Qi's chief executive. Could it be that these two people actually have a connection with Marquis Jinyi?

Although the Qi family's old house is managed by the Grand Chief Manager, this is not well known. For most people, all they have to do is to rest at sunrise and to pay grain on time. As long as the Qi family is in charge of the business, no one is worried. Han Yi is the land and has to bring people to deliver food every year. He naturally knows the existence of the Grand Chief Manager.

Since he suspected that Gu Qinghan had a connection with the Qi family, he became cautious when speaking.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a scream outside: "I found it, I found it, the beast holding the chicken was found, and I hid in the mountain."

The voice was very harsh, but Han Yi had already stood up suddenly, and the other people also stood up one after another. Han Yi said to Yang Ning: "You two eat first, we have something to do." Without explaining much, he quickly walked out, and the other people also went out, leaving only two old men.

When Yang Ning heard a noise outside, he couldn't help asking: "What happened? What did you find?"

"The beast holding the chicken." An old man said: "In recent days, the chickens in the village have been lost for no reason. There are already more than ten animals in the back mountain. There are no beasts on the back mountain. I have never seen them. At first, I thought someone was stealing chickens. Some time ago, I sent someone to watch the night and hide in the secret to see what was going on. That night, I finally saw a shadow entering the chicken pantry, so a group of people wanted to catch it. Who knew that the beast ran very fast, and everyone didn't see clearly whether it was a jackal or a wild dog." After taking a sip of wine, he continued: "The beast was covered in black hair, and everyone couldn't catch it no matter how hard it was. When I came back, some people said that the beast ran faster than a rabbit, and some people said that the beast ran with only two hind legs, like a human."

"Ah?" Yang Ning was stunned. "Just use two to go back?" I thought it was strange. As far as he knew, there were many animals in nature that could stand with two hind legs. But according to the old man, the beast was extremely fast. Thinking about it, it was extremely rare for animals that could run on two legs like humans and had extremely fast speeds. I thought it was not a monkey.

"That's a dazzling look." Another old man next to him said: "I have lived for most of my life, but I have never heard of any beast that can run on two legs."

"That's not sure." The old man argued before: "Several people saw it, but they were always confused." He said to Yang Ning again: "A few days later, the beast touched the village again. This time everyone was ready, but the beast ran away. Fortunately, everyone saw that the beast ran to the back mountain. The young and strong in the village searched the back mountain for a whole day, but found no trace. Such a big mountain could not be searched little by little."

Yang Ning asked, "There are no wild animals in this back mountain?"

"In the early years, there were some jackals and wild boars, but in the year of disaster, the villagers went to hunt and fill their stomachs. The mountain was also said to be small, but it was not too big. The wild animals in the mountains had been beaten away for a long time. In the past ten years, no wild animals were found on the mountain, just snakes, insects, rats and ants." The old man explained: "So, a beast suddenly came down from the mountain that held chickens, so everyone could not let go. There were not many chickens in the village, and they were all like treasures. It was a pity that the beast stole more than a dozen. If it was not removed, I was afraid that the cattle and sheep in the village would not be able to save them in the future."

Yang Ning had already become very interested at this time and said to Gu Qinghan: "Three...Three Brothers, you are waiting here, I will come."

Gu Qinghan wanted to stop him, but Yang Ning ran faster than a rabbit and rushed out of the door in a blink of an eye.

At this time, more than 20 young men gathered at the entrance of the village. Five or six torches were lit. One person was excitedly saying to Han Yi: "This time the beast can't leave. We ambushed people at the foot of the mountain. Seeing it entering the mountain, we immediately followed it secretly. The beast just thought it would be fine if it entered the mountain. Maybe we should be staring at it. Now we have found its nest. It is in a cave in the mountain. I have already asked someone to guard the cave entrance and I will definitely not be able to escape."

Han Yi said: "The young and strong man followed me up the mountain. The beast was fast and could run away by accident. Let's surround him and see where it could go." With a wave of his hand, he led a group of people around the back of the village and went straight to the back mountain. Some of the villagers were holding hoes and some with wooden sticks, with great momentum.

Yang Ning was just wondering what kind of rare animal was. He was curious and followed the crowd.

When a group of people arrived at the foot of the mountain, the person who reported the news led the way in front. Although the back mountain was not high, it was also rugged. The mountain was covered with old vines and trees. Everyone scattered. After walking for a while, when they reached the middle of the mountain, they heard the leading man in front shouting: "It's there."

When I got closer, I saw three people waiting here. When I saw the villagers coming, one of them was already excited and said, "It's right in the cave, we're here, and the beast has never dared to come out."

Yang Ning leaned forward and saw a steep mountain wall covered by dead vines. The middle of the dead vines was opened, showing a dark hole. It was extremely quiet inside and there was no sound.

"Are there any other holes that won't run out of the other holes, right?" Han Yi leaned over and looked into the hole. He couldn't hear a trace of sound and couldn't help but wonder.

"We have checked nearby. This hole is a dead hole." The person guarding the hole said immediately: "We just threw a few stones inside and heard a scream." He squatted down, picked up a stone as big as a fist, and smashed it hard into the hole. Then he heard a strange scream of "wow". The man smiled and said, "You heard it, it's inside."

"Find some dry firewood." Han Yi was very experienced. "Burn fire at the entrance of the cave, and the beast inside could not bear the smoke, and would run out of it."

There were many people and strong forces. In just a moment, a pile of dry firewood was piled up at the entrance of the cave. Han Yi ordered: "Everyone is in two circles. The beast is very fierce. Don't be injured after coming out, but you can't let it run away." He took a torch and lit the pile of dry firewood in front of the entrance of the cave.

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