RPAGF Chapter 131 The County Magistrate Runs Fast
Chapter 131 The County Magistrate Runs Fast
Bai Zhaozhao knew that Prince An was unwilling to reveal his identity, so he had no choice but to say, "Brother, this is my sworn brother! Ahem, sworn brother, this is my brother!"
Bai Lin was slightly startled, then understood what he meant and said, "It turns out to be Brother Tang. I'm so sorry!"
Prince An also returned the greeting and said, "Brother Bai, I have long admired you!"
When their eyes met, Bai Lin looked at Master An with a hint of vigilance in his eyes. He still remembered the incident of taking a concubine!
Prince An stood there calmly, allowing Bai Lin to examine him.
Bai Zhaozhao looked at the two people looking at each other, neither of them speaking, and for some reason he felt a sense of CP. What was going on?
Do I have any special hobbies?
No no no, impossible!
County Magistrate Zheng also felt that the atmosphere was a bit awkward. Although he wanted to eat the melon, he left reluctantly when someone called him.
Bai Zhaozhao broke the silence: "Brother, how is the interrogation of the personal maid who came to see you going?"
Bai Lin then withdrew his gaze from An Shizi and replied, "She said that she just borrowed my name, hoping to reach Yuzhou safely, but the people in the escort agency really didn't know about it."
Bai Zhaozhao reached out and handed Bai Lin a bottle of medicine: "Brother, this is insanity powder, a good medicine for interrogating prisoners, you deserve it!"
An Shizi's calm expression finally cracked a little: "Do you usually make things like this?"
Before Bai Zhaozhao could answer, Bai Lin said meaningfully, "Yes, this way you won't be easily framed."
Prince An pretended not to understand and returned to his calm demeanor. He said to Bai Zhaozhao, "It is indeed a good thing. Give me some too!"
Bai Zhaozhao: "...Okay, I'll do it now, you guys chat!"
Oh, did she think she couldn't see it? Aren't these two people hesitating just to get her away so they can talk in secret?
After taking two steps, Bai Zhaozhao turned back, stretched out his hand and said to An Shizi: "Brother, do you think there is something missing in my hand?"
Prince An froze for a moment, took out a silver note of two thousand taels and handed it over: "I didn't bring enough money, I will make up for it after I return to Beijing."
Bai Zhaozhao: ...
Are you just making empty promises after all this time?
Forget it, two thousand taels is not a small amount.
After Bai Zhaozhao left, Bai Lin and Prince An tacitly said nothing and went directly to see Prefect Hu.
It was not until the next day that Bai Zhaozhao found out that the woman in white had indeed been bribed to seduce Bai Lin. She also vowed that if Bai Lin would obey her, she would help him have a successful career.
When asked about the mastermind behind the incident, she committed suicide by taking poison, but the priest did not die and revealed a lot of things.
According to him, someone contacted him a few years ago and asked him to destroy the achievements of Magistrate Hu and offered him money. Naturally, he agreed, so he went further and further on the road of talking nonsense, and the villagers were also convinced. More importantly, he also gave some money to those village chiefs.
No wonder even though he had lost his arm, the village chiefs didn't want to let him go, because the balance had not been paid yet!
The last mission he received was to incite the people to riot and take the opportunity to kill Prefect Hu.
If Magistrate Hu died, who would benefit the most?
It’s hard to say. The position of prefect is definitely one of real power, and many people in the court are eyeing it!
But now, combined with the news from Prince An, we can roughly guess that this should be an action planned by the Qin Party for a long time, with the purpose of covering up the matter of the river.
When Bai Lin told Bai Zhaozhao about these things, Bai Zhaozhao had some conspiracy theories: "I think this plan is so obvious. Once it's exposed, it's over. Maybe someone else framed it?"
Bai Lin was speechless: "If you hadn't overpowered the priest and the goddess hadn't come to the world, this plan would have a high success rate!"
Of course, Bai Lin completely ignored the role of Shizi An, but Bai Zhaozhao understood that Shizi An only discovered it by accident, so under multiple coincidences, the plan surfaced.
"So they got anxious when they saw how successful you were, and used the honey trap. Unfortunately... it didn't work."
"Zhao Zhao, I decided to go to Lu County."
Lu County is where the destroyed village is located.
Bai Zhaozhao blurted out: "I'm going too!"
"No! It's too dangerous!"
"Hehe." Bai Zhaozhao sneered and said nothing.
Bai Lin felt a little embarrassed and annoyed. He knew why Bai Zhaozhao was laughing. She, who had martial arts skills, was stopped by Bai Lin, who had no martial arts skills.
Bai Lin said firmly: "In short, if you don't go, I won't really be in danger."
Bai Zhaozhao was suspicious. Could it be that you were secretly learning martial arts behind my back?
She shut up until she saw Prince An standing outside the city with a garrison and a dozen people who looked like personal guards.
It seems that Prince An came to Yuzhou not only to report the news, but also to ask for help.
And so they packed up and set off.
As soon as they left the territory of Yuzhou Prefecture, there was a group of men in black waiting in front. Liu Yunshan took the lead and rushed forward with his men.
In the following days, a group of men in black would assassinate them almost every two days, and sometimes Prince An had to go down and kill the enemies himself.
Only Bai Lin rode steadily on his horse, occasionally interrupting:
"Brother Tang, behind me!"
"Brother Tang, watch out ahead!"
"Brother Tang, come and save me!"
"Brother Tang..."
Prince An was helpless. Although these killers were not powerful at all, Bai Lin clearly wanted him to run around on purpose.
"Brother Bai, has Tang offended you?"
Bai Lin ignored him and was just glad that Bai Zhaozhao didn't come along.
After the twelfth assassination attempt, they finally arrived in Lu County.
Bai Lin went to the county government office with great fanfare, and was received by a county magistrate named Wang.
"The county magistrate said early in the morning that he had to go out for important matters, and took many people with him. Now only I and some clerks are left in the entire county government office!"
Bai Lin's face was filled with black lines: "He runs fast! County Magistrate Wang, do you know what's going on in Ma Village over at Qiyun Mountain?"
County Magistrate Wang said in awe, "I didn't know. To be honest, I was only reappointed as county magistrate a few days ago. In fact, the county magistrate asked me to resign a long time ago. A few days ago, he suddenly said that the previous county magistrate had fallen ill and returned home, and asked me to be reappointed to help him. I was very happy at first, but I didn't know it would be like this!"
County Magistrate Wang knelt down and said, "Sir, I really don't know anything!"
The clerks and bailiffs around also nodded in agreement.
Prince An sighed and said to Bai Lin, "Let's control the people in the county government first, and then we can go to Majia Village and take a look."
"All right!"
At this time, in a house in Qiyun Mountain, the magistrate of Lu County was walking back and forth anxiously, and the servants reported that Bai Lin had arrived at the county government office.
He smashed the teacup angrily: "They are all rubbish! So many people tried to assassinate him but failed! Once Prince An comes looking for us, we will all be finished!"
A middle-aged man said, "So what if you come here? You are just here to recuperate. We don't know what happened to the canal. Majia Village was destroyed because of the plague. You are guilty of dereliction of duty at most. How can you be ruined?"