"I beg you, my daughter is only fourteen years old, please let her go...you have captured me..."
"Bah! Catch you? What can you do when you catch me? I even despise you for getting old when I ask you to wash dishes and feed pigs. All we adults want is the little girl who is about to bloom."
"Mom...Save me..."
Shangguan Wanning watched several yamen runners forcibly separated a pair of mother and son. Seeing that her mother still grabbed her daughter's sleeve, the yamen runner pulled out the steel knife and was about to chop her mother's hand.
A figure flashed by, and a young man in white kicked the steel knife from the yamen runner's hand away and stood in front of the poor mother.
Shangguan Wanning saw Huo Gang taking a few steps back from the corner of her eyes, as if she was deliberately trying to hide in the crowd.
"Oh, Mr. Tie, it's you." The yamen runner rubbed his wrist that was kicked so much that he was hurt, but he was not angry, but walked over with a little charming look. "Actually, there is no need for you to waste your energy, as long as you shout aloud.
,Don’t we just stop?"
"Can you not do this little thing? You still have to make so many people watch?"
A sharp light flashed in the eyes of the boy in white, which shocked the yamen runners a little timidly.
"No...no, it will be fine soon...soon..."
The young man in white looked at the yamen runner coldly, snorted softly, and suddenly slapped his mother's sky cover with a palm.
Poor that woman, she didn't even have the chance to say another word to her daughter. The blood slowly flowed, making her face covered in blood.
Shangguan Wanning was frightened.
She never thought that the purpose of this young man in white was not to save people, and his methods were even more cruel than those of the yamen runners.
The young man in white took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped his hands, threw it on the dead woman, and looked at the yamen runners.
“Isn’t this solved it?”
The yamen runner was stunned. After swallowing his saliva, he pretended to be calm and gave a thumbs up at the boy in white.
"Mr. Tie is wise, you can do things."
"Mom..." The girl pounced on her mother's body and cried bitterly.
Shangguan Wanning's heart was thrust.
It's outrageous, it's simply absent-minded.
"Take it away." The yamen runner shouted and asked his companions to force the girl away. The girl fainted from sorrow.
The boy in white took out a folding fan from his sleeve and left as if nothing had happened.
All the people watching automatically gave him a way out.
"It's too much. Not only did I force the girl to rob her in broad daylight, but I also openly killed people..."
Shangguan Wanning was so angry that she trembled all over. If she was in the capital, she would have stopped the beast in white immediately.
"Shh, young master, don't talk nonsense." A kind-hearted person reminded him, "He is the new leader of the Wuji Sect. He is cruel and ruthless and kills people without blinking. If he knows that you are talking bad about him behind your back, he will not be able to do so.
It's right."
Wuji Gate?
Shangguan Wanning paused and looked at Huo Gang curiously.
She wanted to inquire about the situation of the Wuji Gate, but found that Huo Gang's face turned pale, his fists were clenched, and the blue veins on the back of his hand were raised, as if it would burst and break at any time.
His expression made Shangguan Wanning calm down instantly and dared not ask again.
"It's not like this... Wuji Sect is not like this, Wuji Sect shouldn't be like this." Huo Gang's voice was hoarse, as if he was heartbroken.
The person next to him shook his head and sighed after hearing this.
"Yes, the Wuji Sect was not like this before. When the previous head was in power, the Wuji Sect was a hero. Even the government dared to fight against him... I don't know why, the old head was blind.
, He actually found Tie Shijie to succeed him. He was so evil."
The crowd gradually dissipated, and Huo Gang was still standing there, his chest fluctuating violently.
"Brother Huo, are you okay?" Shangguan Wanning stepped forward and asked carefully.
Huo Gang came back to his senses, took a deep breath, and his solemn expression gradually eased. "I'm fine. Miss, it's important for us to do serious things."
"Um."
Huo Gang took Shangguan Wanning to find a secluded inn to stay in.
In the evening, when the waiter came to deliver the meal, Shangguan Wanning gave him a few strings of copper coins as a reward and asked, "Brother, when I entered the city, I saw a yamen runner robbing a good woman. Do you magistrate ignore it?
”
The waiter changed his face as soon as he heard this, hurriedly walked over and closed the door, lowered his voice and said, "Mr. Two, you have to be careful. Don't go outside and ask. They are not robbing the girl, it's not that they are not
I snatched one or two of them. They were all snatched for the magistrate.”
This is the first time Shangguan Wanning has heard of such a parent official.
"We are here, and the front two counties are the border. I heard that the enemy country has gathered a large number of people on the border and is ready to move. Therefore, the magistrate also asked the border to be more vigilant. This is to let these girls do this.
Go to the front line to help with logistics support. In fact, it’s just to ruin those people.”
Shangguan Wanning was a little unbelievable.
If there are any abnormal movements at the border, it must be reported to the Ministry of War.
However, she had never heard Mu Jingrui mention this.
"Little brother, who is the general who is defending the city now?"
The waiter shook his head and said something that shocked Shangguan Wanning and Huo Gang.
"No general."
"What?" Shangguan Wanning was amused and crying, "How come there is no general?"
"The one who controlled the military power was the Southeast Jiedushi, but he returned to Beijing a few days ago and never came back to report his duties. I heard that the court sent successor generals, but I didn't hear that he was in office. In short, the border defense is now lax, so we are very worried.
The Turks will attack at any time.”
After the waiter left, Shangguan Wanning and Huo Gang looked at each other.
"I didn't expect that there would be such a thing." Shangguan Wanning couldn't imagine that if there were not even the generals defending the city, wouldn't the Turks attack at this time be so powerful?
"I have to find a way to tell my father and Jing Rui what happened."
"Miss, you have a good rest tonight. I will take you to see someone tomorrow. Maybe she can prove Ling Yuwen."
Shangguan Wanning was stunned for a moment, suppressing the curiosity in her heart and not asking more questions.
Huo Gang said before that all the evidence about Ling Yuwen's case has been destroyed, why are there suddenly more witnesses now?
Shangguan Wanning didn't sleep well all night and got up early the next day.
After breakfast, Huo Gang took her through the street, walked into the depths of the alley, and came to a small courtyard of a farmer.
Huo Gang stepped forward and gently buckled the door. After a long time, he heard an old voice responding.
"Who?"
The wooden door opened and an old man with a cane walked out.
"Uncle Chen, it's me."
The old man held Huo Gang's hand excitedly, his lips trembling, and he couldn't say a word.