Therefore, as soon as Lin Xi said that there were other things to talk about, Patch immediately realized that this person was not only thoughtful and powerful, but also quite greedy and lustful. "There is no need to talk about this matter. Just decide which girl in the house you like."
If you're afraid of trouble, I'll prepare a room for you, and I'm sure no one will disturb you. You can do your work with peace of mind." After saying that, probably because he thought his proposal was not bad, Patch laughed to himself.
Two sounds.
"It seems that you are in a good mood. That's good. You don't have to go out crying. By the way, I have to say sorry to you. I won't have time to write the will for you." Lin Xi
He stood motionless, but held the dagger firmly in his hand.
Patch's expression changed drastically and he began to back away. "What are you going to do? I've given you everything. Don't kill me. Come here...!"
Patch loudly prepared to call for help, but Linxi did not let him finish his words. With a shake of his hand, the dagger was like a black light and disappeared into his chest in the blink of an eye. There was no scream, and the fat Patch fell to the ground with his legs.
After convulsing twice, a few strands of scarlet blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and he died!
The fat worms that have been attached to the poor people for more than ten years and have been sucking the blood and sweat of the people have finally disappeared from the world! Those who do evil things and prey on the common people will not have a good end after all. Lin Xi looked coldly at the cold corpse paralyzed on the ground and pulled out
After taking out the dagger, we came to the mahogany table.
Patch glanced at the wall at the back. There must be a lot of good things hidden there. Linxi needed to find the switch to take out the things. This ill-gotten wealth that "belongs" to Patch is actually the hard-earned money of the working people.
It's time to return this money to the people.
He carefully touched every drawer of the mahogany table, but could not see any changes in the wall. But Linxi believed in his own judgment and thought that the switch should still be somewhere on the mahogany table. At this time, the Lord of the City was dead anyway.
We had already spoken, and no one would come in without an order, and there was no need to worry that someone would suddenly break in and find Patch's body, so Lin Xi simply touched every inch of the mahogany table.
Finally, ten minutes later, Lin Xi touched a protrusion in a corner of the belly of the table. After pressing it hard, she heard a "squeaking" sound coming from the wall behind, and the hidden compartment was finally revealed!
This was a secret compartment the size of a human head. Lin Xi quickly took out the contents. Except for two thick notebooks, there was only a blue ring left.
As soon as Patch died, the ring immediately became ownerless. After Linxi shed blood to identify the owner, she used her spiritual consciousness to investigate a little, and surprisingly found that there were a lot of gold bricks inside. It was just as the greedy Patch himself said.
He said that he didn't like to exchange gold coins for other collectibles. If he wanted to exchange them, he would simply exchange them for gold bricks with larger heads. The value of a gold brick of 10,000 gold coins is definitely not comparable.
However, Lin Xi only looked at it briefly. He would not hold the money in his hands, but would hand it over to its original owners, the exploited working people. Lin Xi was focused on the two notebooks.
I have always wanted to find evidence of corruption and other crimes against the city lord Pachi, and the two notebooks at the moment may contain such evidence.
After opening it and reading for a while, Lin Xi glanced coldly at Patch, who had been dead for a long time. The contents recorded in the two notebooks were unexpectedly rich and detailed.
Not only did he receive money from a subordinate or someone who wanted to complete a deal with him on a certain day of the year, but he also had a detailed list of "filial piety" to his superiors, and there were even examples of him using the empire's money to satisfy his selfish desires.
This is what is in the first notebook.
The second notebook is a real notebook, used by Patch to keep a diary. The diaries are varied, including writing about how to withhold imperial subsidies, analyzing how to deal with the invasion of orcs, and finally coming to the conclusion of letting the villagers fend for themselves.
, there are descriptions of how to flirt with the maid, and have a night of love with the pink gold-selling girl. In short, Lin Xi believes that any impartial official will conclude that after reading the contents of these two notebooks, Patch is not only a corrupt official,
He is also a ruthless, lustful person who regards other people's lives as nothing.
This is enough.
Lin Xi put everything including his portrait on the mahogany table into the ring, closed the door and prepared to go out.
The magic suit has been taken off, and Lin Xi has returned to his previous appearance. It is definitely not possible to walk out from inside, but it is obviously not difficult to walk out of the winding path of the City Lord's Mansion.
Lin Xi relied on his dexterity and light movements to reach the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion with almost no effort, climbed over the back wall and appeared directly outside.
Outside, a bright sun is shining on the earth, dispersing all the darkness. Under the bright sky, all ugly activities and ugly people will have no escape.
Lin Xi's figure flashed and disappeared from the outskirts of the city lord's palace in the blink of an eye. The next moment, he was already on a carriage, ready to go back and say goodbye to the villagers.
With enough evidence in hand, it is a sure thing to overthrow Patch. Lin Xi believes that the empire will send new officials to replace this corrupt official, cleanse the dirty air above Shiliu City, and lead the people of the city to live a better life again.
new life.
As for Thomas and his Lane family, Linxi thought that he didn't have the strength to shake them yet. However, Thomas's repeated cruel attacks on him, which were determined to kill him, had angered him. In addition, the Lane family's opposition to the God of War
In fact, due to his predecessor's shameless behavior, he has firmly become an opponent of the Lane family.
The carriage roared and took away one piece of scenery after another. It was traveling very fast. Lin Xi also took advantage of the time in the carriage to take a good rest. When he entered the dense forest, he returned to the small village without much time.
middle.
Lin Xi took out a considerable sum of money and handed it to the old village chief. Of course, this money should have belonged to them.
Everyone was very grateful and happy. The usually quiet village was as lively as the Chinese New Year.
The old village chief and the old man known as "Old Shitou" had more experience. They were happy and quickly noticed something, so they hurriedly pulled Lin Xi aside to ask.
"Benefactor, will you kill the city lord?" As soon as he came up, the old man asked with surprise and a bit of nervousness.
Lin Xi smiled and nodded, as if what he had done was just a trivial thing, as simple as killing a chicken. Such an understatement immediately made the two old ladies pale in shock.
The old village chief quickly pulled Lin Xi's sleeve. After the three of them moved away from the happy crowd to a remote location, the old village chief said eagerly: "Lin Xi, did you really kill the city lord like that?"
Lin Xi doesn't have to worry about the seriousness of the situation. He only needs to hand over the evidence to the top of the empire through the appropriate people. When the truth is revealed to the world, people will only applaud Patch's death, and who will pursue the person who killed him?
?At that moment, Lin Xi smiled and said: "Do you two old people think that this city lord should not be killed?"
"It should be killed! Killing a thousand times is not an exaggeration!" "Old Stone" said with an emotional expression.
"That is, if everyone knows that this person is dead, they will definitely set off firecrackers and go to the streets to cheer and celebrate." The old village chief then expressed his opinion. "But Lin Xi, you are still a bit reckless in doing this. I originally
I thought you just went to the city to teach him a lesson, but unexpectedly you killed him immediately! There will be trouble now, he has a strong backing."
"Oh, it's the Lane family?" Lin Xi was not flustered, "There's nothing to worry about. I didn't leave any clues in the City Lord's Mansion, so please rest assured."
Naturally, the two old people still didn't believe it, thinking that Lin Xi only said this specifically to comfort themselves. The old village chief, who had lived in Shiliu City all his life, had heard more about it. Even though he was in a remote area, he still knew it from people's chats.
There were some things about the city lord's backstage, so I told Lin Xi all about them.
In fact, a large part of Patch's embezzled money was given to the Lane family, even though the Lane family usually didn't treat him very well. Firstly, Patch was able to become the city lord because of the Lane family's contribution. Secondly, Patch
He also knows clearly that with the strength and energy of the Ryan family, although it can support him to rise to the top, he can also easily pull himself down or even destroy himself. Therefore, every year, Patch will continue to send gold coins to Nuoqi.
Among the families in the city.
With the extra care from the Lane family, Patch did not worry at all that anyone would report him, so he confidently and boldly became a local emperor in Shiliu City. Not only was he extremely powerful, but he also tried his best to squeeze the blood and sweat of the city residents and enrich his own pockets.
Continuously raising land taxes, appropriating land on a large scale, and then leasing the land back to villagers to earn more rent. Just by making a fuss about land, Pachi has no idea how much money he has plundered and put into his pocket.
, and among them, Lin Xi was even more angry after hearing this.
Every year, the empire allocates some compensation to villagers whose food production has been reduced or whose lives are difficult due to natural disasters or orc invasions, to help the villagers tide over the current difficulties. This money is distributed through the Ministry of Agriculture. Lin Xi also knows,
Georgis, the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, has always been on good terms with Thomas, the Minister of the Interior, and can even be said to be a loyal dog following Thomas.
Naturally, with just a brief greeting to Georgis, the life-saving money was left in Patch's hands.
In order to repay Georgis's "great care", Patch also used his brains a lot, but all he came up with were unscrupulous and bad ideas. Those villagers who couldn't get land because they couldn't pay the rent had no choice but to leave their homes.
Living a homeless life is not uncommon in Shiliu City. It was these poor people's idea that Patch had in mind.
The city lord's mansion maintains a lot of city guards, who are, to put it bluntly, thugs. When there is trouble, they help protect the city lord and exploit the villagers. When there is nothing wrong, they bully the city residents. Especially when they encounter these displaced people, these city guards will secretly attack people.
He was kidnapped and sent to the city lord's palace.
The young and particularly beautiful women were sent to the Earl's Mansion of Georgis to be used as tools for the Minister of Agriculture to vent his sexual desires. The rest and the men were sent to brothels through the huge network of the Lane family and Georgis, or were sent to live their lives forever.
They live a miserable life where everyone can be bullied, or they are sent to work in black coal kilns and brick kilns for free. They work hard every day and unfortunately die. They are just swept away by the grass and thrown into the wilderness, leaving to the wild dogs.
Wild wolves gnawed at the corpses. This was the final miserable plight of these poor people.
The money obtained through this unscrupulous practice will be "filially honored" to the Georgis and Lane families.
The black interest chain composed of the Lane family, the Minister of Agriculture, and Patch has brought disaster after disaster to innocent civilians. Their dirty, shameless and cruel practices are even worse than those of the orcs. The hard-earned money
It flows into their pockets, while the poor civilians are ravaged, and even the most basic rights to survival cannot be guaranteed.
When Lin Xi listened to the old village chief's narration, his hands were tightly clenched into fists, and his chest was heaving violently. He could imagine those poor homeless people who suffered misfortune and were treated so inhumanely by Patch.
The way brought us into another more tragic and dark underground world, what kind of life we lived!
"Patch, it's really easy for you to die like this. People like you should be stabbed to death!" Lin Xi's eyes were spitting fire and his teeth were clenched.
"Linxi, thank you for doing so much for us, but you must be careful in the future. The Lane family and Georgis will not give up so easily." The two old men were still caring about Linxi.
Lin Xi was not worried here, but was a little happy. His angry face had calmed down. "Don't worry about me, I'm not afraid of them. By the way, I will hand over the evidence I got to the people in the empire who really make decisions for the people."
, by then, Shiliu City will definitely have a new look, and everyone’s new life will begin soon!”
The two old people were overjoyed. They had always been looking forward to such a day, but they never thought that this wish would come true in their lifetime! The two of them expressed their sincere gratitude to Lin Xi, who was very happy.
I am happy to be able to do something practical for the villagers.
However, the conflict with the Lane family and Georgis has obviously deepened again. Lin Xi is not afraid of this. As long as he is strong enough, he will take the initiative to settle accounts with these people!
Almost without stopping, Lin Xi immediately rushed towards the Western Army camp after finishing the matter. It had been nearly a week since he left the hundred-man team, and he had to show up quickly. Before the orcs could be driven back to the alpine meadows, the villagers in other places were still there.
Living a life of fear, every soldier needs to take practical actions to fulfill his oath to "defend the home and the country."
With the help of the previous villagers, it became not so difficult for Lin Xi to return to the Western Military Camp after arriving in Shiliu City. After buying a map and a horse, Lin Xi embarked on his return journey.