The black-bellied peasant girl is reborn, and her weird relatives are mad

As soon as these words were spoken, Feng Nian's face turned blue and red. He was slapped in the face before he could even finish his solemn promise that the people would not dare to riot.

Tang Zhongbai didn't have time to argue with him, so he pulled Lailai aside and asked, "What's going on? What do you say? Why did the people take action?"

The officer hesitated, not daring to look Tang Zhongbai in the eye. When he raised his head and saw Feng Nian's face, he was so frightened that he could not speak.

He followed Xun Qing to the village. He thought that Feng Nian would not say anything nice. He glared at Feng Nian hatefully, then left with a flick of his sleeves.

He came to the courtyard and shouted to the officers hiding behind the door, "Who of you will go to Li Village with me?"

"Sir, let's go."

"We'll go too."

Most of the officers lived in the village. When they first heard Feng Nian's order to collect higher taxes than in previous years, they felt uncomfortable and had great resentment towards him.

I just heard that Xun Qing was beaten in the village. I secretly applauded the villagers and cursed Xun Qing, the lackey, for what he deserved.

Tang Zhongbai glanced at the crowd and saw that everyone had raised their hands. He felt relieved that there were still many people who believed in justice.

He waved his hand and said, "We are not going to fight, so there is no need to send too many people. Tang San and Tang Si will stay behind to look after the house, while Hu Daxin and Li Changli will bring three or five people with me."

"Yes."

Hu Daxin and Li Changli were both natives of Suanzao County, and were more easy to talk to the villagers than he was.

Xun Qing was beaten because he used his status to suppress the people. The people at this time were like hungry wolves that had been hungry for a whole winter. The food they had was already scarce, and it was taken away by others. If he didn't get beaten, who would?

The people have suffered from Feng Nian for a long time, and they have no place to vent their anger. If Xun Qing rushes up at this time, isn't he asking for trouble?

By the time Tang Zhongbai and his men arrived, the villagers had already beaten the man and had run away. Only three constables from the county government were left, with bruised faces and noses, tattered clothes and mud on their bodies, lying on the ground, grunting and yelling.

When the three saw their colleagues coming, they all cried out in pain and asked Tang Zhongbai to make the decision for them.

Tang Zhongbai was intimidating without being angry, but he was happy in his heart. He asked you to be his lackeys, and if you become his minions, you will be implicated.

Tang Zhongbai ordered his men to help the three men up. Among the three, Xun Qing was the most seriously injured and could no longer stand steadily. Two officers supported him with a look of disgust on their faces.

Tang Zhongbai asked him impatiently, "Xun Shuli, what's going on? Isn't it just collecting taxes? How did it end up like this? How did you provoke the people to beat people up?"

Xun Qing's face was covered in blood and flesh, and he looked ferocious. He said angrily: "I only told them to pay the taxes within three days, but they got angry and rushed over to beat us up."

"Is it true? Just because you said these words, they started fighting?" Tang Zhongbai had a look of distrust on his face. He glanced at the other two people and confirmed with them.

The two men looked at Xun Qing, then at Tang Zhongbai, their eyes flashed, and they quickly nodded in agreement.

"Hu Daxin, please ask the village chief Li to come here. I want to ask him in person how he manages the villagers. How dare they gather a crowd to beat up the officials? Does he not want to be the village chief anymore?"

"Yes." Hu Daxin took the order and left in a hurry.

Tang Zhongbai found a clean stone, sat down, and waited for the village chief to arrive.

He had already noticed that many villagers from Li Village were hiding outside their own gates, looking around and looking in their direction, but no one dared to come forward to complain to him.

Xun Qing was very happy that Tang Zhongbai could help him out. You know, the moment he saw Tang Zhongbai, his heart was cold. He and Tang Zhongbai had always been at odds, and he had often made trouble for him in the government office.

He thought to himself, it seems that they must be working in the same yamen, and if something happens, they will still help their own people.

He secretly made a decision that he must be nicer to Tang Juecao in the future and speak well of him in front of County Magistrate Feng to ease the relationship between them so that he could gain more benefits.

Tang Juecao is the son of the Tailao family. If he had not been on the same boat with County Magistrate Feng early on, he would have clung to Tang Juecao's thigh long ago.

Thinking of this, Xun Qing forgot the pain in his body. He felt happy when he thought that he might be able to climb up the big tree of Tang Zhongbai in the future.

He could not help but let someone help him walk to Tang Zhongbai, with a hypocritical smile on his face, he tore off his torn clothes, and prepared to spread the stones for Tang Zhongbai to sit on.

Tang Zhongbai glanced at him casually with a face as calm as water, and said lightly: "Thank you, Xun Shuli, you are injured, you should sit down."

He looked at Xun Qing's ugly face that looked like a ghost when he smiled, held back his nausea, and moved to the side, trying to stay as far away from him as possible.

Unexpectedly, his action made Xun Qing self-indulgently believe that Tang Zhongbai cared about him and was afraid that he would be tired from standing.

Everyone waited for a while, and Hu Daxin hurried over with Li Village chief Li Tong, followed by a young man.

When the two men saw the three people being beaten, they frowned and looked displeased.

On the way here, Hu Daxin specifically told them to tell the truth and not to be afraid of people like Xun Qing, as Tang Juecao would make the decision for them.

When the girl from the Jiang family in Xigang Village got engaged to Tang Juecao from the county, the news had already spread throughout the surrounding villages, and everyone knew Tang Zhongbai.

Today, when Li Tong heard that the official who came to cause trouble was him, he felt relieved. He had always heard that Tang Juecao always put the people first and always put the interests of the people first, otherwise he would not have fallen in love with a village girl.

Hearing that the person coming was Tang Zhongbai, his son Li Dagang told him about the water grabbing incident in Liu Village. In the end, it was Jiang Muxia who stepped forward to suppress the people of Liu Village and thus avoided a fierce battle.

As a result, Li Tong had a very good impression of the engaged couple. He was sure that Tang Zhongbai would never side with Xun Qing's group and would definitely help the villagers to exonerate themselves from their crimes.

After the beating, it was he who told the villagers to disperse. No matter who came to hold them accountable, everyone united in refusing to admit their guilt, and the police could do nothing to them.

After all, the law cannot hold everyone responsible!

Unexpectedly, the official who came to deal with the situation was Tang Zhongbai. Li Tong immediately felt full of confidence that the villagers were saved.

After Li Tong bowed to Tang Zhongbai and Li Changli, he stood aside without even looking at Xun Qing and the other two who were beaten, waiting for Tang Zhongbai's questions.

When the villagers of Li Village saw the village chief being invited to the scene, they all stared at them with a covetous look in their eyes. Some of them even had weapons in their hands. As long as these officials dared to touch the village chief, they would rush out to fight them.

"Village Chief Li, were these three people beaten by villagers from your village?" Tang Zhongbai's face was serious, and his voice revealed indifference and lowness.

Li Tong replied calmly, "I don't know why you asked this question. There was a drought this year. Almost every family had no harvest and no one had enough food. People were so hungry that they stayed at home and no one went out. How can you say that you beat someone? Although we are ordinary people, please don't use your power to pressure us and force us to confess to a false crime."

Seeing that they were trying to shirk their responsibilities and refused to admit anything, Xun Qing and the other two were so angry that they sat on the ground and cursed at the village chief.