The woman obviously didn't realize that she had fallen into Li Xiaotian's words, but the man already understood and looked a little flustered. After a moment, he pretended to be calm and said: "Young master, you are joking. Our husband and wife are out-and-out businessmen. Who is she?"
Mrs. Zhou Mu."
After hearing the man's explanation, Lei Ming and Geng Nian realized it later and cast a different look at Li Xiaotian. It was definitely not a compliment, as if to say, you are so cunning.
Li Xiaotian was speechless, these two guys were as heartless as the woman.
When the woman heard what the man said, she realized that she had fallen into a trap and said quickly: "I told you that you called me Mrs. Mu of Zhou for no reason. Fortunately, I didn't agree. Otherwise, you would be accused of pretending to be a second-grade official."
Family members, that’s fine.”
Li Xiaotian smiled and suddenly said to the two children: "Children, what are your names?"
When the man and the woman heard Li Xiaotian's question, they were shocked. They wanted to take the child under their bodies and not allow them to answer.
Geng Nian snorted and stared at the couple closely.
As soon as the eyes of the couple and Geng Nian met, and Geng Nian only showed a cold light, the two of them were frightened by Geng Nian's killing aura, and their hearts palpitated. The hand they had just stretched out immediately retracted, and they were as silent as cicadas.
Dare to move.
"Tao Zhihuan."
"Tao Zhiqian."
The two children, a boy and a girl, were only four or five years old. Seeing that their parents did not stop them, they told the truth.
"Children won't lie about their names, right, Tao Bing, Taozhou Mu?" Li Xiaotian said, taking out his official badge and saying: "As you think, I am the new one who has been ordered to inspect the major states.
The Minister of Household Affairs in the city, if I guess correctly, all that is being pulled in your carriage is embezzled money."
After speaking, Li Xiaotian opened the car curtain and placed three large boxes inside. When he opened it, he saw, as expected, that they were all shining gold coins.
"What else do you have to say, Tao Zhoumu?" Li Xiaotian asked.
"Man is not as good as God. I didn't expect to meet Master Shangshu halfway. Now that the matter has come to this, I, Tao Bing, have nothing to say. I just ask you to let my wife and children go." Tao Bing bowed his hands and begged.
"Sir, we don't want any money anymore. Please do a good thing and let us, a family of four, go. We promise to change our ways and live an honest life." The woman knelt down and begged.
The two children seemed frightened when they saw their parents looking so humble and panicked, and they both burst into tears.
"That's enough!" Li Xiaotian shouted loudly, which shocked Tao Bing's family of four. Even the two children stopped crying and murmured, looking at Li Xiaotian in horror. Li Xiaotian solemnly said:
"Obviously you embezzled the people's hard-earned money. Now, a family of four is acting pitifully, as if I am a bad person. Do you really want to save face? You are not the only one, Tao Bing, who has a wife and children.
Only you have a husband, let alone the two of them, who have parents. You know that every penny you embezzle may make someone freeze and starve, or it may make someone unable to afford medicine and suffer from illness. Take a good look at your carriage.
How many gold coins are there on the horse? How many people will suffer and even families will be broken? What is in that box is not money, but bones. In my opinion, what you have committed is not corruption, but a crime that has harmed countless people without blood.
murderer."
Li Xiaotian's words were to the point, and every word was heart-breaking. Tao Bing and his wife were criticized to the point of being ashamed and speechless.
"Brother Lei, please go and collect the stolen money in the carriage." Li Xiaotian took a breath and said to Lei Ming, and then said to Tao Bing: "Follow me back to Bianzhou. As for how to deal with it, I will wait for His Majesty to decide."
After speaking, Lei Ming got on the carriage and put all the boxes in with storage bags. Then, Li Xiaotian made a little effort and the carriage got out of the mud pit. Tao Bing's family of four timidly got on the carriage. In order to prevent accidents, Li Xiaotian asked Lei Ming to start.
Although the groom who got into Tao Bing's carriage was extremely reluctant, seeing that Li Xiaotian gave him a thousand gold coins as wages, he could only reluctantly drive the horse. Lei Ming was not short of this thousand gold coins, but this thousand gold coins was
He exported it, so naturally he wanted to get it back.
After Tao Bing's family got on the carriage, in addition to fear and anxiety, they were also a little puzzled and curious. There were obviously several boxes of gold coins, hundreds of thousands of gold coins, heavy in the carriage, and they didn't see this person moving it out. Why?
All the boxes on the carriage were gone, and they didn't dare to ask any more questions, so they could only secretly blame him.
We didn’t talk about it all the way until we finally arrived in Bianzhou.
Without further ado, as soon as he entered the city, he showed his identity and went straight to the prefectural Mufu government office. In accordance with the law, he asked the government guards to take Tao Bing to prison. As for his wife and children, they were temporarily placed under house arrest in the government office until Li Xiaotian announced the report and Yang Qianren
Decree to punish.
Tao Bing was quite greedy. When he escaped from the city, he sold almost all the valuable items in his home. Therefore, the boxes on the carriage should be all he embezzled. Li Xiaotian asked Lei Ming to do the math.
Six hundred and thirty thousand gold coins.
In the Sixteenth Period of the Autumn Kingdom/Dazhou City, Li Xiaotian has visited fifteen cities, and only the last one is left to be completed. Taking this opportunity, Li Xiaotian probably coordinated all the stolen money from the confiscation of the house, even if the queen's corruption was not included.
According to a conservative estimate, it is just over 10 million. In other words, even if Li Xiaotian gets nothing in the last state, no matter what, he has already won the bet with the ministers. In short, whether he goes to the last state or not,
It doesn't matter. However, Li Xiaotian always has a beginning and an end when doing things, so he is going to this last state to bring an end to his inspection of the Quanqiu Kingdom, although it is not perfect.
As always, Li Xiaotian wrote the inspection memorial. After finishing, he started to take out the beast pill and began to practice Qi. He practiced intermittently for more than half a month. It must be said that this kind of intermittent and dedicated Qi practice regardless of time,
The gap between the two can be felt personally. For more than half a month, Li Xiaotian only opened two acupuncture points before reaching the Zhiyang point. If this continues, he will not have time to practice in seclusion. I am afraid that the time to open the Du Meridian will be lengthened.
There is nothing you can do about it. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. For Li Xiaotian, the incident in Lijiagou is far more important than cultivation. He is practicing for revenge. Before the incident in Lijiagou is completely resolved, this is Li Xiaotian
life-long event.
Early the next morning, after handing the memorial to the envoy, Li Xiaotian and his party set out for Xiangzhou, the end point of the inspection.
The entire Xiangzhou area is quite large. Among the sixteen states of the Qiu Kingdom, it is one of the best. Although it occupies a large area, the arable land is very little. And because it is located in the northeast of the Qiu Kingdom, its geographical location is not good. Except for Xiangzhou,
Outside of the prefecture, the population of other counties is less than half of the lowest prefecture.