The fool has become a spirit, and she can speak

The people blocking the road were particularly aggressive: "No one is allowed to leave unless you search us."

"What a big tone, who gave you the courage?"

"Let everyone in the car come out for a routine inspection, otherwise I will suspect that you are harboring the criminal Sha Guanghan."

"Suspicion? What's the point of suspicion? You have to produce evidence. Who gives you the courage to put all these accusations on our Lord? Zou Sanduo?"

"How can you call our county magistrate by his name?"

"Haha, not only do I call him by his full name, I also curse him, Zou Gou, Zou Gou, Zou San Gou."

"You, you are looking for death..."

"What nonsense." The one who spoke was Sui Ming. He rode his horse from the back of the team to the front, rushed out with a knife in hand, and with one knife he chopped off the head of the man who had just challenged Sui Ying. Before others could react, he chopped left and right, and with each knife, a person's head was removed.

Sui Ming is of this character. He will never say a word unless he takes action. Unlike Sui Ying, he will curse at the enemy before starting a fight.

In an instant, there was chaos outside.

"Dad, what is the reason for the fight outside?" Cheng Youning pricked up his ears to listen to the noise outside.

Cheng Feng said: "The bad guys are blocking the way."

Cheng Youning sat in Cheng Feng's arms, "Daddy, can I lean over the window and take a look?"

"Swords have no eyes, don't try to watch everything."

Cheng Youning had no choice but to sit obediently in Cheng Feng's arms.

Huang Chenming glanced outside, then said politely, "My Lord, more and more people are surrounding us. It seems that there are only fifty of us."

Wan Lianxing kept a straight face and remained silent. Cheng Feng said, "I'll go out and help."

"Sit down. My people are not that useless. If I don't teach Zou San a lesson today, he will bully me. How can I, Wan Lianxing, let a rat bully me? He can't touch me in this land of Fengying."

Outside the car there were sounds of swords and sabers, but inside the car there was total silence.

About a cup of tea later, someone opened the door of the sedan, "My Lord, why are you back so late?"

Wan Lianxing looked up and saw that it was the old butler. "Little old man, what are you doing here with all this swordplay?"

"I'm bringing people to protect the Marquis. This Zou Sanduo is too ignorant of his own limitations and actually openly challenged the Marquis. Today, the Marquis will teach him a lesson."

"What's the fight like?"

"Don't worry about it, Lord. Let's go back to the mansion first and check on you. You've lost a lot of weight since you went out."

Wan Lianxing finally laughed: "No, I've gained weight, but you don't look very fresh as an old man."

"Oh, my Lord, I am too old to be associated with Shui Ling. I am going home with regret and anger."

"Just wait and follow them."

"No need to wait, just drive them out of Fengying City."

"Old housekeeper, is there something you haven't told me? You look very unhappy."

"It's okay, it's okay, let's go home."

Wan Lianxing didn't ask any more questions and let the old butler arrange it. As soon as the door was closed, the carriage started to move slowly.

Soon the carriage stopped, and a voice came from outside: "My Lord, we have arrived at the door."

Wan Lianxing opened the curtains a little, squinted his eyes and looked out, and saw that it was full of people.

This was the first time that so many people gathered at the gate of their prefectural mansion. There were local officials and common people from Fengying. In short, they all came to look for Wan Lianxing. Wan Lianxing knew it would be like this, otherwise his personal guards would not have arrived at the door of his house without entering the courtyard. Now the door of his house was right in front of him but he could not get in.

A group of people gathered around, "Is the Marquis back from hunting?"

"Is this the Marquis' carriage? The carriages that the Marquis usually makes don't look like this, do they?"

Yan Qilian looked at the people escorting the carriage and knew that the person sitting in the carriage must be Wan Lianxing. "My Lord, your humble servant Yan Qilian has something to report."

Wan Lianxing had no choice but to get off the car openly. What else could he hide? It was not something he was ashamed to see in public.

Wan Lianxing knew a few of the people who came here, they were all local county magistrates and county magistrates.

Wan Lianxing had his usual smile on his face, and his words were very gentle, "How come you all predicted that I would come back today?"

Yan Qilian asked, "Lord, we have been waiting for you at the door of your house for more than ten days?"

"What kind of serious incident would require a county magistrate and a group of officials to stay in my prefectural government for half a month?"

"My Lord, this is indeed a big deal. This Zou Sanduo is very arrogant and goes against you in everything. You ordered the exemption of taxes and corvée labor, but he started to collect taxes and silver from all over Fengying County without consulting you and also conscripted able-bodied men to fight at Songchun Pass. So everyone came to you to ask if the corvée labor and taxes were really exempted."

Wan Lianxing nodded: "I, Wan Lianxing, always keep my word. I have been the governor of Fengying County for a year, so I should have heard of this. Have I ever collected a penny from the people?"

The people watching all said, "The Marquis never collected taxes from us, nor did he make us do labor service. He even paid us copper coins to work in the factory."

Wan Lianxing nodded with satisfaction, "This year, the factory made a lot of profit, but I didn't put the money into my pocket. I used it to govern Fengying County. The people of Fengying County were unaware of it. County Magistrate Yan, you should know all this."

Yan Qilian nodded: "I can testify that not only did the Marquis not receive a penny this year, he also spent a lot of money out of his own pocket."

At this time, a commoner said, "I know that the Marquis is our father and mother official, but this Zou Sanduo is conscripting men everywhere. What should we do?"

Wan Lianxing appeared calm on the surface but cursed in his heart, "I worked so hard to get so many people here, but Zou Sanduo could only capture them as conscripts. Fortunately, he was smart and sent some of them away to work as ironworkers in Duanlu Forest."

At this time, the people were all shouting that they did not want to be taxed or conscripted into the military.

Wan Lianxing said, "I want to protect you too, but unfortunately I, Wan Lianxing, have the same rank as Zou Sanduo, Zou Duwei. He is not under my control, and he wants to be above me. However, with foreign enemies in front of us, everyone is a soldier. If the Southern Yan Kingdom really attacks at my doorstep, I, like you, will have to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy."

"My Lord, are we really going to the battlefield? I don't want to die yet."

Wan Lianxing smiled and said, "If I have to die, I will die with you. What are you afraid of? Go back to your homes and eat and drink."

After persuading the people to leave, Wan Lianxing led the officials into the prefectural government.

Cheng Feng took Cheng Youning back to their courtyard, "Mom, mom? I'm back."

Cheng Youning ran from room to room, looking for Shang Xi, but couldn't find her. "Hei Bajiao, where's my mother?"