Outside the house, Li Sang squatted on the low wall, looking slightly dazed.
"family……"
He squatted outside the house for a long time, until the maid under the eaves dozed off, and then quietly got into the room.
In the house, a large family, including the little ones who had been staying close to the old man all night, had gone back to their rooms to sleep, leaving a few adults behind, chatting with each other about home affairs.
The older man was talking to the old man.
"The second brother will be transferred to Chuanling Prefecture next year and will have a smooth career in the future. Don't worry. The third brother, on the other hand, has reached the age of marriage and has yet to find a suitable woman from his family."
When this matter was mentioned, the youngest man in the hall had no choice but to say: "Brother, stop teasing me!"
At this time, a woman sitting in the main seat interrupted: "Sanlang, if you have a girl you like, tell me and my sister-in-law will take care of it for you!"
"Oh, sister-in-law, don't worry so much! I see that none of the girls in the city are worthy of Saburo. Either they are not pretty enough, or they come from a weak family! Besides, our Saburo wants to be a general.
Are you still worried about not being able to find the girl you like? Those charming girls are all looking for Saburo!"
At this time, another middle-aged beautiful woman said.
The old man sitting on the main seat picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, and said with a smile: "I don't think you should worry about this matter. Young people pay attention to seeing each other in the eye. When fate comes, it will happen naturally. Why are you anxious?"
"Father, just relax!" the young man said with a smile, "In a few days, when I settle down in Jinling, I will help my brother choose a good marriage!"
After these words came to light, everyone agreed.
At this time, a strong wind came, which frightened everyone in the hall.
When the candlelight went out, a thin figure was seen standing in the hall. The man was holding a bamboo hat with one hand and carrying a long object on his back. His face was buried under the bamboo hat and his face could not be seen clearly.
"ah!"
Several women were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they all crouched in their husbands' arms, not daring to move.
"Who dares to break into Gan Mansion?"
The youngest man stood up first, but as soon as he met him, he was pushed to the ground by the man in raincoat, unable to move at all.
The old man's cheeks twitched, his brows furrowed and he asked, "Why did you come to my Gan Mansion on New Year's Eve?"
Li Chang lowered his bamboo hat and said in a slightly childish voice: "Which one of you is Gan Diao?"
The old man stood up, bowed his hands and said, "That's it, sir. I wonder if you have anything to do with me?"
Li Chang raised his head slightly and said with a serious face: "Ten years ago, the villagers of Yaojia Town brought an old woman to sue the Qin family master for raping a daughter of the people. Was it you who accepted the complaint?"
Gan Diao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then his face darkened and he did not deny it.
"It was indeed the case I accepted that day."
Li Chang shouted softly: "As a parent and official of the people, why do you collude with the Qin family and join forces to oppress the people? The poor woman was insulted by the Qin family's young master and his slaves, and threw herself into the river angrily. The injustice in her heart was unrequited. The poor old woman shed tears all day long.
Weeping blindly, the poor villagers of Yaojia Town want justice from their parents and officials, but they have to fetch water from bamboo baskets."
The voice is childish, but sonorous and powerful.
Li Chang patted the sword box, and a peacock opened its tail behind him. A silver long sword fell into his hand, holding the sword and staring: "Are these?"
"Yes..." The old man's face was pale, and his lips were trembling as he looked at the long sword shining with silver light, unable to speak.
Li Chang's eyes showed a cold light and he said word by word: "As a county magistrate, you help the tyrants and protect the bullies. You are worse than a pig or a dog. Today I am here to take your life."
After finishing speaking, Li Chang raised his sword and held it out, approaching the old man's throat.
At this moment, a figure broke in. Li Chang quickly turned the tip of his sword, and the three-foot green blade suddenly stopped and landed firmly on the old man's cheek.
The person standing in front of the old man was the old man's eldest son.
His cheeks were pale, his legs were weak and trembling, and his voice was hoarse: "Dad, is he telling the truth?"
The old man's face was gloomy, and he nodded and said: "The power of the Qin family is huge. Dad was just a small county magistrate at that time. How could he fight with others? At that time, your grandma was seriously ill in bed, medicine and stone were expensive, and there were many mouths in the family. Dad had no choice, so he took Qin in.
The money given by my family..."
"Dad, you are confused!"
The second son of the Gan family protected the beautiful woman behind him and couldn't help scolding her.
The old man sighed: "The matter has come to this, it is useless to talk more, and there is no regret medicine to take."
Li Chang took a step back, swung the long sword in his hand in front of him, looked around, and took the people in the hall into his eyes. At this time, there was a voice outside the room, and Li Chang's eyes widened.
Could it be that the movement in the house woke up the maids under the eaves?
"Don't involve innocent people"
Li Chang secretly thought, and turned his left hand into a knife, intending to knock out the intruder outside the door.
Suddenly, he heard crying, and what greeted him from the door was a little girl of three or four years old.
"Grandpa, daddy, grandma, it's so dark, I'm so scared!"
Li Chang was shocked and his pupils shrank.
His body suddenly stopped, but the majestic Qi brought up a strong wind, blowing the little girl in front of him to stagger.
"Nanny!"
The little girl seemed to be frightened by the sudden movement. She sat on the ground and cried loudly. Tears as big as peas in her eyes fell to the ground, splashing fine dust.
The beautiful woman who had been protected by the man rushed forward like a man possessed and held the crying girl in her arms.
"My grandma is here, my daughter is fine, my grandma is here."
With tears streaming down his face, the old man knelt down on the ground and said in a hoarse voice: "Hero, the fault for this is all my fault, it has nothing to do with them. If you want to kill a hero, just kill me. Please let my family live."
Li Chang took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "I didn't expect that the cause I laid ten years ago would be repaid today? Today I will let you live. But ten years ago, the young master named Qin let him go again?"
A girl’s future? You should think about today when you are working for a tiger!”
Having said this, Li Chang slowly raised the long sword in his hand. Under the horrified eyes of the people in the room, he cut the four-character plaque with the words "Fu Qian Kun" in the lobby into two halves.
The old man was extremely frightened. Looking at the silver sword light struck by Li Shang, he could no longer resist at all.
The person who came to my home today is the Immortal Family!
"It was my Gan family who did something wrong and committed a sin, which prompted the immortal master to come to punish me."
"I'm guilty. It's the Gan family that's sorry for her."
"I'm sorry for the whole family!"
The old man burst into tears, and all the women in the hall knelt on the ground, crying quietly.
The young girl was forced to the ground by the beautiful woman, and she kowtowed vigorously to the young man in front of her, hoping to beg for a chance to forgive her.
Li Zhujiu's hand holding the sword couldn't stop shaking. Hearing the "dong dong" sound of kowtows beside him, he couldn't help but ask himself.
Did Gan Diao make a mistake?
What I did was wrong! My mistake was accepting the bribe from the Qin family, suppressing the complaint handed over by the old woman, and minimizing a big matter.
But if it were him sitting in the high hall, would he be able to stick to his true intentions in the face of pressure and bribes from the Qin family?
Killing with one sword can certainly resolve the cause and effect, but this is definitely not justice!
Li Chang took back the sword in his hand with a complicated expression.
"Sister Ali, what should I do?"
At this moment, the young man's heart was hesitant.