After walking around for half an hour, under the heat of the afternoon sun, we arrived in front of the official square.
From a distance, Xu Mu saw a noble lady whose eyes were swollen from crying, sitting with her legs slumped in front of the official square.
"The wife of Xue Dutou from the National Protectorate Camp." the officer next to her mentioned.
Xu Mu frowned slightly.
"Chen Sheng, wait outside."
"My boss?"
"Wait outside!" Xu Mu emphasized his tone.
He didn't need to think twice to know that at this moment, people like Gong Gou and Si Hu would definitely be lurking over, waiting for the opportunity.
But this ending is not what Xu Mu wants.
"You are the little boss!" The noble lady who had been paralyzed on the ground suddenly got up, screamed and bumped towards Xu Mu.
Xu Mu's face was cold and he didn't even raise his hand. The noble lady fell down eight times, collapsed on the ground and cried loudly.
The professional level of Pengci is close to perfect.
"It's just a formality. If there are no problems, Dong Xu's family will be able to go back soon." The accompanying official said with a smile.
Xu Mu nodded coldly. He was more and more certain that this good show was probably directed by someone.
The person in charge is still the old official from before. Things like this are not enough to alarm the officials above.
"Dong Xu's house is closer."
Xu Mu's expression remained unchanged, he walked straight a few more steps and stood firmly.
He was very sure that these people had no evidence at all. It was at most a coercive farce.
"May I ask my little boss, on the seventeenth day of the month of Lotus, my little boss left the city and I don't know where he went?"
On the seventeenth day of the Lotus Month, after confirming the matter of capturing the young men, Xu Mu took sixteen young men and left the city to avoid trouble.
One day later, the captain on horseback and his men came after him, but he successfully counterattacked and killed him.
"Go and collect grain." Xu Mu replied with a smile.
"No, someone saw it. That day you led the villagers in an ambush and killed more than twenty officers and soldiers." The old official said coldly.
"The old man is joking. Can I, a small shop owner, kill more than twenty officers and soldiers?"
"Someone has seen it." Before he knew it, the old official even lost his confidence in his voice.
A man who looked like a villager walked out from the side obediently. When he saw Xu Mu, he was so frightened that he ran away.
"Is this a witness?" Xu Mu frowned.
"Of course he is a witness."
"Does the official believe what he said?"
"On the seventeenth day of the month of Lotus, you are taking a dozen villagers out of the city. If you are collecting grain, do you need so many people? And they also bring knives and bows."
"As you know, the weapons in my Xujiazhuang are all notarized."
"Notarization belongs to notarization, but you killed the officers and soldiers."
"No killing. My biggest wish, Xu Mu, is to sell more bottles of wine, buy a big house, marry a concubine, and settle down."
The old official gritted his teeth, looked grim, and asked the villager to step forward again and identify Xu Mu.
The dozen or so officials in the official office were inexplicably nervous, with their lowered hands pressed on their sabers.
No wonder they, everyone in the circle knew that the little brewer had killed one hundred and nineteen stickmen guards in one night.
Outside, Chen Sheng had a cold face, veins popped up in one of his arms, and he also held the knife.
The wailing noble lady suddenly ran in with a shrill voice, and no official stopped her. She bumped into Xu Mu and turned over a few more times, feeling extremely embarrassed.
"My dear boss, I don't know what you were thinking when you killed someone! You have caused misfortune to Xuetou's family." The old official's voice was serious.
"I said, I didn't kill the official. Please bring out the evidence. If not, I will go to the chief executive in Changyang."
The old official's expression paused slightly, and his brows became more and more frowned.
"Go ahead and understand clearly. If you have wronged my little boss, I will be the first to spare you."
The villagers trembled and took a few steps forward to get in front of Xu Mu. They didn't even close their eyes. Before they could take a closer look, they staggered back in shock.
"It's him... the people saw with their own eyes that he dared to kill the officers and soldiers."
Xu Mu was a little funny. If he just pointed a finger casually, would he be immediately beheaded?
The old official in the hall coughed twice, "Dong Xu, do you have anything else to say?"
"Nothing to say."
Xu Mu had a cold face, cupped his hands and fists, turned around and walked out.
"Xu Dongjia! You... dare to leave! You killed the official!"
"A certain family has a clear conscience. If the old official continues to pester us like this, the worst we can do is go to the chief office in Changyang tomorrow!"
"Yes, bring your witnesses too!"
The old official was trembling, and he didn't dare to go to the chief office after all. Today's matter was originally nonsense, and anyone who understands can see it clearly.
What's more... the young boss in front of me seems to have a clear conscience.
"You keep saying that you have a clear conscience, but do you have evidence?"
"Old official, why don't you send someone to Changjia Town to ask? On the seventeenth day of Lotus Month, I sat at the entrance of Changjia Town and drank tea with the young master of Changjia Town for a whole day."
An old official feels as if he has been struck by lightning.
Master Chang? How dare he mess with that young champion with a gun and a stick?
"To put it bluntly, if I, Xu Mu, had really killed the official, I would have disappeared without a trace by now. Why should I go back to Tangjiang? Am I waiting to be beheaded!"
The officials present and the people watching in front of the official square all looked in agreement.
"That's what I, Xu Mu, said. If the old official is still not at ease, I will go to Changyang tomorrow with you and bring your personal and material evidence, and we will make it clear."
The old official had a cold face and did not dare to move, letting Xu Mu slowly walk out of the official residence. When the shrew-like Mrs. Xue saw Xu Mu leaving, she started yelling again, which made the old official have a headache.
Turning around, the old official walked back to the inner hall.
"Mr. Lu, could it be that you guessed wrong?"
Lu Zizhong put down the tea cup coldly, "That's right, let's talk about this separately. Yu Li, you know that if the little boss doesn't die, everyone's financial path will be blocked."
"Tsune Shiro? This guy is too stupid to dare to be the little boss's guarantor."
After getting up, Lu Zizhong closed his eyes slightly.
"You can't see people alive, and you can't see corpses after death. Could it be that these more than 20 soldiers on horseback have gone to heaven?"
The old official stood with his head bowed, not daring to interrupt for a moment.
"Official official, if not, report to the Ministry of War?"
The old official was startled and raised his head, his eyes full of panic.
…
Dusk, sunset.
Stopping in front of the notice in front of Xifang, Xu Mu looked at it silently.
The content of the announcement is not a call for young men, but a piece of good news.
At Xiaofeng Camp in Hezhou, they defeated Di General Zhao Qingyun and sent three thousand cavalry out of the city to intercept and kill the Di vanguard's thousand cavalry.
Three thousand blocked a thousand, but there was no battle damage figure.
But Xu Mu dared to conclude that the number of battle losses might be a bit ugly, so it was not written on the list.
Moreover, this military merit is somewhat intriguing. Killing refugees for military merit has long been the consensus of the border camp troops.
He very much hoped that Zhao Qingyun had not taken this step.
I recall that back then, the junior captain Hengdao stood up and fought side by side with him. He was so brave that he killed the Beidi people and fled.
"Master Xu Fang, don't worry. I, Zhao Qingyun, will be at odds with the Di people in this life. All I want in this life is to serve the country and the people!"
In the blink of an eye, the dragon slayer turned into an evil dragon.
As the sun sets on the west side, the remaining light is as magnificent as molten gold.
After brushing aside his sleeves, Xu Mu put away his slightly complicated expression and got into the carriage.