The return of the son-in-law

As expected by Guo Zhanan, seeing the treasure hunt in full swing, the accomplice who had been hiding in the dark and had no chance to enter the mountain to destroy the evidence revealed his whereabouts.

"My lord, I found two of them today. I followed them all the way secretly. They built a thatched house three miles away." Li Hu didn't even have time to go home, and ran to the county government office with a bow and arrow on his back.

In the past few days, Li Hu went into the mountains every day to pretend to be hunting, secretly observing the traces of the original group of yamen servants, and today was finally rewarding.

Guo Zhanan's eyes flashed brightly, and he asked, "Did you see clearly? How many people are there? How are they armed?"

Li Hu replied: "The terrain is flat, I dare not get too close. Looking from a distance, I can see six or seven people, but I don't know how many people are in the house."

Guo Zhan'an was silent for a long time, and asked again: "If I ask you to gather people now to destroy these traitors, how sure are you?"

Li Hu was taken aback: "Why are you in such a hurry? Shouldn't it be reported to the court and let the court arrest people?"

Guo Zhan'an shook his head and said: "If the news is released, this matter will not wait for the imperial court to send troops. This is the crime of beheading. Once it is confirmed, it will be punished. They can't find a chance these days, and if they drag it on, I'm afraid they will take the initiative to seize the opportunity."

Li Hu was shocked: "Your Excellency, you mean that they are going to rebel?"

"It's not a rebellion," Guo Zhan'an shook his head and said, "This matter has not been spread yet, as long as the few people who know about it are killed, they will be safe."

Now Li Hu can't sit still, human life is at stake, not to mention it's his own life!

Li Hu immediately said: "My lord, don't worry, I will call my brothers now, and I will wait for my lord's orders."

Guo Zhan'an nodded and said: "One day, at noon tomorrow, you will come to me again. Remember, this matter must not be spread outside the public, you just need to tell them to catch the accomplices of the previous county magistrate. If you catch this group of people Now, handing it over to the imperial court will naturally benefit Tonghua County."

Li Hu knew the stakes involved, nodded and said, "Don't worry, my lord!"

After finishing speaking, he hurriedly left the county government office to gather people.

On the other side, Guo Zhanan didn't care to change his official uniform, so he put down his pen and went out to look for Chen Xiehao.

After hearing what Guo Zhanan said, Chen Xiehao showed embarrassment: "My lord, to tell you the truth, these days everyone goes to the mountains to hunt for treasures, not to mention recruiting strong men, even the old and weak, women and children can't be found."

Guo Zhanan rubbed his fingers on the wall of the cup and said, "Has the county magistrate seen that gold ingot?"

Chen Xiehao was puzzled, and asked, "I've never seen it before. After Lao Wu picked it up, it looks like something. He doesn't even show his wife and children, and sleeps in his arms every day."

Guo Zhan'an smiled lightly: "The county magistrate might as well go and see if there is an official seal under the gold ingot."

Chen Xiehao was shocked when he heard the words: "What do you mean, my lord? This is the official bank?"

Guo Zhan'an put down his teacup, patted his cuffs slowly, and said, "Seeing is believing. The county magistrate might as well go and have a look, rather than listen to me."

Chen Xiehao thought for a while, then frowned: "Your Excellency knows that there is an official seal under the ingot, have you seen that ingot? This, this gold ingot, did your lord put it there specially?"

Guo Zhan'an did not answer, and continued: "I remember that the last county magistrate of Tonghua County was arrested in Beijing for hiding official money, right? Mr. County Chief, Tonghua County is in danger now. Is it the treasures in the mountains that are important, or the whole county? Is the life and death of the people important?"

Chen Xiehao only felt cold sweat running down his back. He looked at Guo Zhanan in front of him, and the good feelings he had accumulated due to the construction of water conservancy disappeared.

"My lord, the county magistrate of Tonghua County is you, we are having a hard time, and you should not think about it either!"

Guo Zhan'an didn't take it seriously: "This official has only been in office for two months. How can I have a chance to hide official money? Besides, I am from the capital, so there will be people in the capital to help me. The county magistrate ,What do you think?"

Chen Xiehao believed it was true: "Sir, it's not that I don't want to help, it's because everyone has gone to the mountains to hunt for treasures, what do you ask me to do?"

Guo Zhan'an looked at Chen Xiehao, and his smile became colder: "Isn't the county magistrate responding to everyone in Tonghua County? If that's the case, it's up to you to come forward and call someone to catch the traitor together. I only give you one day , Tomorrow noon, if forty people are not gathered together, Tonghua County will be waiting for catastrophe!"

Guo Zhan'an's words were mostly to scare Chen Xiehao and make him stop being so careful.

Since this period of time, because Guo Zhan'an invited dredger and used his private money to build water conservancy, his reputation in Tonghua County has greatly increased, even surpassing Chen Xiehao among young people.This made Chen Xiehao faintly uneasy, and deliberately let out rumors that Guo Zhan'an had bad intentions.

Guo Zhan'an secretly asked Jia Huan to investigate carefully, and found that so many people put down their work in the past few days and went to the mountains to hunt for treasures, and Chen Xiehao was also instigated among them.

This guy doesn't want the ditches to be so easy to build!

Guo Zhan'an's original intention was indeed not for the people of Tonghua County to live and work in peace and contentment, he just wanted to make some good performance in his tenure so that he could be promoted in the assessment three years later.However, his purpose is in the interests of the people of Tonghua County, and the two sides are mutually beneficial, and there is no contradiction.

What Chen Xiehao did was tantamount to adding a lot of resistance to him, Guo Zhanan was naturally not happy.

Maybe it was because he was too talkative before, which made Chen Xiehao look down on him. Guo Zhanan is not the kind of soft bag that can be kneaded by others.

If he didn't make a move, it would be enough, and if he made a move, he would definitely hit seven inches. Today, he wanted to crush Chen Xiehao's arrogance and careful thinking to pieces!

Sure enough, when Chen Xiehao heard this, he became even more frightened. He was afraid that Guo Zhan'an would be unhappy, so he staged a scene of "killing relatives with righteousness" and confessed them to Tonghua County. He nodded quickly and said, "don't worry, my lord. We must gather people together."

Guo Zhan'an stood up and said, "Then I will wait for the magistrate at the county government."

After Guo Zhan'an left, Chen Xiehao wiped the sweat from his forehead, and greeted Guo Zhan'an's family, men, women and children, as well as the [-] generations of ancestors, before he got up and went out to find someone.

But how could this manpower be so easy to gather?Before that, Chen Xiehao secretly contributed to the flames, exaggerating the treasures in the mountains of no return.Now, he was reaping the fruit of his own fault, and finally persuaded Chen Wu to show them the two gold ingots he had picked up, and there was indeed an official seal underneath.

Gold and silver treasures are good, but lives are more important. Everyone knows that if this matter gets out, Tonghua County will definitely be involved.They also learned from Chen Xiehao that Guo Zhan'an was going to gather people to arrest the accomplices of the former county magistrate and report them to the court.At that time, instead of convicting the court, the court will greatly reward everyone in Tonghua County.

Knowing that this was Guo Zhanan's idea, everyone admired the new county magistrate even more.

At noon on the second day, Li Hu and Chen Xiehao came to the county government office, and Guo Zhan'an had been waiting for a long time.

He specially changed into a short jacket today, held a long sword, and sat in the county office, waiting to lead the crowd to wipe out the group of rebels.

Li Hu had already drawn the nearby terrain yesterday. The terrain is flat and not suitable for hiding.Apparently, the other party was worried about a surprise attack, so they specially found such a place to make a nest.

Guo Zhan'an didn't care. On the contrary, the flatter the terrain, the more beneficial it was for them.

Compared with the people of Tonghua County, the dozen or so rebels on the other side are more skilled in martial arts. If they fight alone, the side of Tonghua County will definitely lose the wind.But there were only a dozen people on the other side, but they were able to gather nearly a hundred people. Judging from the number of people, Tonghua County was far ahead.

Guo Zhanan led the people to the direction Li Hu pointed, and stopped when he was still a mile away from the thatched cottage.

Guo Zhan'an asked Li Hu and Chen Xiehao to put together the people they had called together, while he stood on a high place and explained his plan one by one.

He pointed to the twenty people in the front row, then pointed to the left, and said, "Twenty people, divided into two teams, occupied the high place of the mountain road, and smashed the thatched huts of the traitors with stones."

Everyone looked in the direction he indicated, only to find that around those big trees, there was a path overgrown with weeds, winding all the way, which happened to be in the direction of the mountain next to it.

Guo Zhan'an picked a loud voice from the crowd to be his herald, and agreed with the twenty people on a secret signal, asking them to wait for his order before acting.

After the twenty people took orders, Guo Zhanan divided the rest into five teams, two of which were led by Li Hu, and went around to the rear to outflank the rebels to prevent the rebels from fleeing into the mountains.

The other three teams were led by him personally and attacked directly.

Li Hu was the best among them, he did his part and became the leader.

When twenty people rushed to their positions, Guo Zhan'an led a few experienced hunters, taking advantage of the traitor's unpreparedness, sharp arrows roared out, and two of them hit the opponent's chest.

These traitors never dreamed that so many people in Tonghua County would come to arrest them.At this time, most of the traitors were staying in the thatched cottage, discussing countermeasures.They suddenly heard the sound of their companions falling to the ground outside the house, and two of them went out to take a look, only to find that the companion in charge of security had fallen to the ground.

The traitor was shocked, and just about to sound a warning, he heard a long howl not far away, and then a rumbling sound came from the nearby mountain.According to the reputation, the boulders on the mountain are rolling down towards their thatched hut!

Up to now, there is no need for him to sound a warning, the accomplices in the house already know that something is wrong.It's just that they never expected that a huge boulder from the mountain would roll down and kill them!

A few of them who ran slowly, together with the thatched hut, were crushed by the boulder, and they could not survive.

Guo Zhanan waved his hand at this time and shouted: "Take down these traitors, life or death!"

When these rebels were government servants, they often fished and cared for the common people in Tonghua County.Now that everyone heard what Guo Zhan'an said, and saw the huge difference in the number of people on both sides, they lost all fear, raised their axes, nailed, raked and hoeed and charged forward!

After a short period of panic among the rebels, the leader calmed down and gathered the remaining accomplices to fight back: "Don't be afraid, it's just a group of ordinary people, kill them all! Remember, if things leak, we will all die !"

The traitors are well aware of the stakes. They are well-trained murderers. Now that it is a matter of life and death, they abandon the last bit of conscience and compassion and take up arms to fight with the people of Tonghua County.

These traitors saw blood in their strokes, and people were injured in a short time.After all, they had no experience in killing the enemy. They were wounded and scrambled to escape from the fighting field, and sat aside in a panic tearing off cloth strips to bandage the wound.

Guo Zhan'an took the lead and slashed and killed with all his strength. Seeing that his side was gradually losing the wind, he felt bad.He stabbed one of the traitors who were killing the people with a sword, forcing him to withdraw his hands and retreat, while shouting: "If you lose today, Tonghua County will be lost!"

After hearing this, everyone was sweating coldly when they thought of the result of allowing these traitors to succeed today.The people who were hiding aside didn't care about their injuries, so they picked up weapons and joined the melee.

Seeing his morale soaring, Guo Zhanan took the lead in cutting off the head of a traitor, and shouted, "Catch these traitors and report them to the court!"

All of a sudden, the people roared and rushed forward, insisting on using hoes, axes, rakes, etc. to firmly suppress the momentum of the rebels.

The traitors retreated while beating, one of them wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Boss, why don't you retreat first. If you leave the green hills, you won't have to worry about running out of firewood!"

The leader of the traitor gritted his teeth in hatred: "Forget it, I will withdraw today, and I will let them know how powerful I am in another day! If I don't avenge this revenge, I swear I won't be a human being!"

When the rebels saw the leader speaking, they stopped fighting and used the skills they had learned over the years to force all the people in Tonghua County to retreat in unison.

Li Hu, who had already outflanked to the back, took the opportunity to jump out with the crowd, blocking the way of the rebels: "Folks, kill one to save money, kill two to earn money!"

All of a sudden, the people of Tonghua County were furious. They completely forgot that these traitors in front of them were government servants who used to dominate Tonghua County. They all rushed up!