Chapter 4 Insane in the Eyes of Others
(Thanks to the new leader Feng Junzi, who came to Fulai, adei, traveled separately, and supported him with a smile...)
When the inspector Deng Gui saw Xu Wujiang and others coming back empty-handed, he knew that these slippery people were unwilling to do their best.
Although he was a military commander of the ninth rank, he was a regular candidate for the Privy Council and was appointed as a non-rank official. He was a military camp next to the streets of Huaiyuan Town.
In terms of local political system, this dynasty was very different from the previous dynasty. It would set up towns in important streets without counties. Therefore, Deng Gui also sent a prison sentence in Huaiyuan Town.
His subordinates, including Xu Wujiang, in addition to Dutou and low-level military generals, also had chief clerks, tax collectors and other subordinate officials, with great authority. The mountain and wild villages outside Biyang County, the prevention of theft, thieves and anti-smuggling, etc. were under his jurisdiction.
However, Tongbai Mountain stretches for two or three hundred miles, and it is connected with Sui, Guang, Ying and other states. There are countless bandits. Deng Gui has only more than a hundred traitors and sloppy soldiers under him, and he may secretly collude with private thieves. How could he care so much?
Today, Deng Gui still asked in a pretentious manner:
"In broad daylight, there were bandits blocking the road and robbing money. They were so brave. Do they regard me, Huaiyuan Inspection Office, Yu Wujiang? Xu Wujiang, have you arrested these bold and arbitrary people?!"
"Horse thieves and horses are fast, maybe I have heard of Deng Langjun's reputation. When we chased them, they all ran away. Where can we chase them?" Xu Wujiang said, "But I don't expect that a few small horse thieves actually alarmed Deng Langjun to take the horse personally!"
"The horse thief offended the censor, the chief minister, Wang Bing, how dare I slack off? But you guys actually cheated and cheated, refused to work hard to catch the thief, and let the horse thief go easily. I really think I dare not punish you?" Deng Gui stared at Xu Wujiang and asked, his voice suddenly became stern.
"..." Xu Wujiang was stunned, unable to figure out what Deng Gui meant.
Xu Wujiang rushed to save Xu Huai from trouble just now, but he didn't even ask about the origin of Wang Bing and others, and thought it was just an ordinary trip.
At this time, he glanced at Wang Bing in a blue shirt with patches on his sleeves, thinking that there was only one servant by his grandparents and grandchildren, and a gray-haired escort. It would be Wang Bing, the chief censor who held the censorate?
Another thing is that when such a person arrives in Tongbai Mountain, where are the officials who lick horses and kneel down in Sizhou County?
At this time, Wang Bing excused Xu Wujiang and others and said, "If you can drive these horse thieves away, you will be fine if you come back!"
It is a blessing to be able to escape safely at this time. How could he have a lot of trouble to talk about assassination?
Xu Wujiang was still in the dark, but Deng Gui was an official who was a non-ranking official. He heard from his colleagues that Wang Bing offended someone and was demoted to Tangzhou.
However, he also knew that Wang Bing had a very high reputation and might not be able to make a comeback. He said that just now, because he didn't want to leave any talk.
Seeing that Wang Bing excused Xu Wujiang and the others, Deng Gui stopped when he saw that he was right and scolded Xu Wujiang: "Mr. Wang is considerate and will not pursue your dereliction of duty. Why don't you come here to thank Mr. Wang for yourselves."
"Wang Bing is guilty and dare not be the tribute of all the heroes when he sees exiling Tangzhou!" When Wang Bing saw Xu Wujiang and others coming to salute, he hurriedly returned the ceremony.
Only then did Xu Wujiang realize that Wang Bing was the Censor Central Chief who was demoted from the capital, and stood aside with his knife.
Deng Gui reported to the king: "The subordinate officials will inspect Nanxiang as usual today, and they will be in charge of military affairs and cannot stay in Huaiyuan Town. Today, Xu Wujiang will serve as the subordinate officials to entertain Wang Xiang. Tomorrow, Xu Wujiang will also select a team of soldiers to escort Wang Xiang and you will go to Biyang..."
Deng Gui warned Xu Wujiang, who wanted to make excuses to refuse, again: "Don't let Wang Xiang be disturbed by the bandits. If you are negligent, I'll come back and deal with you carefully!"
Xu Wujiang had no choice but to respond to this mission.
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Xu Huai looked at the inspector Deng Gui and quickly led the team to disappear into the wild forest in the distance, thinking that he realized that Wang Bing met the bandits was not simple, right?
Regardless of Deng Gui, Xu Huai was more concerned about the assassin's appearance when he left, thinking that they would not give up, or that the person behind the scenes would not let Wang Bing go easily.
Xu Huai guessed that the three assassins should not see his appearance clearly. He thought that as long as Wang Bing didn't tell him, even if the assassin made a comeback, he would not be likely to find him. However, he thought so in his heart, but he felt inexplicable emotions, thinking that he shouldn't really stand by and watch.
He couldn't help but smile bitterly: Which onion do you think is?
I was involved before, and I was unintentional and wanted to verify the text memory that flashed in my mind, but now I don’t pick myself out quickly, do you think I’m tired of living?
Wang Bing was old and looked at Xu Huai's face. He just stood under the cliff and saw that Xu Huai was not very real. When Deng Gui left with a team of martial soldiers, he whispered to Lu Xiong: "Is the young man who stopped the assassin on the cliff just now?"
"Yeah!" Lu Xiong nodded and whispered, "This young man is a clan member of Deng Gui, and seems to be a member of the same clan..."
"I just heard Deng Gui say that Xu Wujiang is the military target recommended by the local Xu clan. The young man might be the son and nephew of your old friend Xu Wuxuan. However, this matter involves you and cannot be remedied, but there are no more people involved," Wang Bing whispered, "After sending me and Xuan'er to Biyang, you will leave Biyang directly, and don't go to Xu Wuxuan..."
"I won't go to Xu Wuxuan, but I stayed in Biyang. From now on, there was an old servant who was leading a horse and driving a carriage, and no name," Lu Xiong said hoarsely, "Mr. Don't drive Lu Xiong away, if everything is too heartfelt, after sending her to Biyang, I still thought about going to the Mobei grassland to see how powerful the Iron Cavalry of the Chihu people was. But judging from today's situation, Cai Yingding will not give up, how could I let go? My husband, just think that I retired in Biyang, and being able to follow my husband every day is also a great pleasure in life."
"Wang Bing cannot repay Brother Lu's kindness." Seeing Lu Xiong's determination, Wang Bing saw that he saw Xu Wujiang coming towards them, he sighed and bowed to Lu Xiong, and stopped forcing anything to persuade him.
"You stupid guy, come here and thank the Prime Minister Wang for reporting his gratitude!" Xu Wujiang greeted Xu Huai and walked to Wang Bing to thank him.
"Thank you, the King of Kings, for your letter of reporting." Xu Huai stepped forward and thanked him in a pretentious manner.
"It's easy to say, meeting today is fate. I don't know the name of this guy..." Since Wang Bing decided not to involve irrelevant people, many things would not be revealed.
"Mr. Wang, don't be polite with this stupid guy - Xu Huai is a little late and clumsy in doing things. His father Xu Wuxuan is my brother. He died early. His mother finally pulled him to the age of fourteen. He died of illness the previous year. He has been with me for the past two years. He has been hanging around me for the past few days. He is such a stupid guy, but he doesn't know what stupid he is doing. Every day he goes out and comes back late, he runs to Yingzi to squat, and he doesn't listen to scolding. Today, he is lucky that he meets Wang, otherwise he will be in the hands of the bandits. I don't know how to explain to his dead parents..." Xu Wujiang said.
Wang Bing and Lu Xiong looked at each other and could see that the other person's eyes were full of shock and confusion.
Xu Wuxuan has long passed away, and the young man in front of him is Xu Wuxuan's son?
Xu Wujiang said that the boy has been waiting on Yingzizhu Cliff for the past few days. They guessed that the "big brother" behind the boy had long guessed that they were going to pass here soon.
However, when they recalled the calmness of the boy standing on the cliff and facing the assassin, they didn't want to understand that in the eyes of Xu Wujiang and others, this boy was actually a clumsy and stupid guy?
Seeing Wang Bing and the "coachman" full of confusion, Xu Huai smiled very "simple" in his smile.
Before his mind recovered, Xu Huai lived in a daze for more than ten years. In the eyes of others, he was a clumsy "silly guy".
There is nothing to deny about this.
"You're fooling us with words?"
The girl Wang Xuan had no Wang Bing, Lu Xiong's conscience and scruples opened the curtains and looked at Xu Huai, and couldn't help but argue,
"He defeated the bandits alone, how could he be stupid?"
"..." Xu Wujiang laughed. It was obvious that they rushed to Yingzizhu to scare the horse thief away, but he would not fight with a little girl.
Xu Xin'an saw that the girl was extremely beautiful, and no one could match the three hundred miles of Tongbai Mountain. She couldn't help but say:
"This stupid guy, can he defeat the horse thief? He has been practicing boxing and foot skills with us since he was a child. His muscles and bones are strong, and he can easily carry three or four hundred kilograms of stone mills, but he just dies..."
Except for Xu Wujiang and Xu Xin'an, this team of martial arts soldiers are mostly from the Xu clan or from Lutaizhai. They have seen Xu Huai grow up since childhood. The girl Wang Xuan saw that they all looked like this, thinking that it was really a ghost, but she refused to give in easily and said:
"The famous general Xu Zhu at the end of the Han Dynasty was foolish because of his ferocity. He was called a tiger-a silly general. Even if he was stupid, how could he not kill three or five horse thieves away?"
Xu Xin'an liked it in her heart, but didn't know how to please the girl, and subconsciously argued:
"Just like him, dare to call himself a tiger fool? Those unaware horse bandits didn't know where they ran over, but were just scared by this stupid guy who was like a bull. But if they really wanted to do it, they would know that this stupid guy was purely an embroidered pillow. In the daily competition among the clan, those young men who are new to fist, kicking swordsman can play him around as long as they are more agile. You see, he didn't even have a knife, but he picked up a hatchet to pretend to be a swordsman. Speaking of which, those horse bandits are really stupid. They were actually scared away by this stupid guy. It's really a laughing!"
The girl Wang Xuan didn't like Xu Xin'an always refuted herself, not to look at him with a little face, and no longer looked at him.
Chapter completed!