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The military master was not flustered, and said calmly: "This bandit has been a disaster for many years, and the county magistrate here has also sent people to suppress the bandits, but with the strength of the government office, there is nothing we can do. Zhizhou also talked about it in the spring of this year The matter of suppressing bandits. Damn it, Zhizhou’s sedan chair has already rushed here.”

He personally lifted Fan An up and handed it over to the attendant, saying: "Master Fan is frightened, let's go to the foot of the mountain to rest for a while, after I deal with these gangsters, I will escort Master Fan to Beijing."

Fan An knew that this scene should not be overdone, and it might reveal something if he was not careful, so he pretended to cry and silently closed his mouth, and walked down the mountain holding Fan Pingqiu's son tightly.

"Search further in for me, and see if there are any fish that slip through the net!" The voice of the chief military master came from behind, and Fan An shook his body, thinking that the youngest son of the head of the house is still in the shallow hole behind the house. It's closed, but don't search it out.

The road down the mountain was full of corpses of brothers in the village. Fan An felt dizzy all the way along the way. He was afraid of blood, but now seeing the broken arms and legs along the way, he almost fainted.

The person next to him said: "Master Fan, you should walk carefully. Be careful not to fall."

Fan An hugged Fan Pingqiu's son tightly, and asked with trembling lips, "Are all the people in this village dead? Where are the bandit leaders?"

"No, seventeen or eight were captured alive and tied up at the foot of the mountain. The younger ones will be brought to the adults to see."

Fan An stopped, and hurriedly said: "I won't go! Those gangsters are too fierce. I was afraid when I saw them. Those people killed his mother in front of my son. I can't let my son To be frightened like this again."

"Don't worry, my lord, those bandits can't touch your hair now. My lord is the secretary of the Ministry of punishment and in charge of the power of punishment and prison. Now the life and death of these people is no more than a word from my lord." The man approached, "This bandit should have been handed over to The county magistrate beheaded, if the adults feel that the sentence is too light, they can hand it over to Dali Temple, and the punishment law there can make people regret their actions.”

Fan An lowered his eyes, he didn't know how to answer.Seeing that his body was shaking, the attendants on both sides stretched out their hands very attentively, almost driving him and dragging him down the mountain.

From a distance, Fan An saw the head of the family kneeling at the foot of the mountain. At this moment, the man was being tied up by five flowers, and there were several brothers lying in a mess behind him. Only seven or eight of them could kneel properly, and they were restrained by a circle of officers and soldiers with spears.

The head of the family obviously saw him too, and the two looked at each other, Fan An's heart jumped in his throat, and he thought to himself, don't call me by my name at this time!

The head of the family was obviously also taken aback, what kind of magical power did Fan An use to make these officers and soldiers carefully help them down from left to right, and then waited on him with shouts and drinks?All the brothers around him opened their eyes wide, startled by this scene, they felt their brains were mixed with water and mush, and they couldn't find anything clear.

Fan An's body was stiff, and he was sweating profusely. He stared at the head of the house without daring to breathe.There were officers and soldiers standing all around him, he couldn't speak clearly, and he didn't dare to wink, he could only stand there stupidly, but he felt out of his wits, afraid that someone in the group of bandits would open his mouth and call out his name to recognize him relative.

He felt that his life was lightly held by the lips of these bandits. If someone opened his mouth and breathed out at this moment, his life would be blown away!

The strange thing is that after everyone looked at each other, no one spoke. The head of the family stared at the child in his arms and didn't speak.

The head of the family obviously knew that Fan An was not holding his child Xiao Zhou in his arms, but with a solemn face, he didn't ask.

The waiter got a chair out of nowhere and helped Fan An to sit on it.In front of him were the gangsters in the stockade who were kneeling. Fan An felt guilty and his ass was not at ease.He remained silent for a while, and tentatively asked the entourage next to him: "How does Lord Chen plan to deal with these people?"

The man bent down and cupped his hands and said: "Purchase back first, enter the county prison and follow the orders of the adults." He said: "If the adults want to beat him with three hundred knives, I promise that I will never miss a knife and let him die. Our county The executioners here are no worse than those in Beijing Prison..."

Fan An's body trembled so much that he almost couldn't sit still. "As the Minister of the Ministry of Punishments, I am in charge of punishing crimes. Life and death are nothing to play with. Everything is based on the laws and decrees of King Daxuan. If I bend the law for personal gain, won't I not take the emperor seriously?"

The waiter listened, obviously not understanding what Fan An was going to say.He squeaked, but couldn't answer, Fan An continued: "The current emperor is a benevolent emperor through the ages, and the rules of rites and laws all regard benevolence as the most important thing. In the autumn of troubled times, these people came to where they are today because of their work..." When he said this, he was inexplicably emotional, and he choked up sobbing, "This is no fault of human beings, it is the inhumanity of heaven and earth..."

The attendant next to him naturally couldn't reach Fan An's level of thinking, seeing him crying sadly, he used words like "my lord is wise" and "my lord is very right" to echo him.

Fan An stopped crying, and said: "Call Mr. Chen back, I think the people in this village are almost captured, I've been injured in many places, I'm afraid I won't be able to survive if I don't seek medical attention." He said Then he ordered his followers to call Chen Ming back. At this time, there was a commotion on the mountain, and a dozen infantrymen came out of the stockade in a group, and one of them shouted: "A child has been caught here!"

Fan An's mind went blank, he stood up abruptly and poked his head to look, it was indeed Xiao Zhou!He only felt that the blood in his whole body rushed to his heart, and his heart was about to explode.His mind was in a mess, and he was thinking about what to do, but the head of the opposite party couldn't hold back and rushed forward.

He shouted Xiao Zhou Xiao Zhou!Father and son love each other deeply, and the three or four officers and soldiers beside him can't hold him down.

Chen Ming came up from behind the soldiers, and the followers beside him rushed up, and with all their hands and feet, they forced the leader's head to the ground.Xiao Zhou came here crying all the way, and at this moment he was exhausted from crying. At such a young age, he didn't understand what happened, so he just stretched out his hand to the ground, calling for Daddy at the top of his voice.

The side of the big boss was pinned in the sand and he couldn't move. His blood-red eyes were straight open, and they were falling on Fan An who was beside him.

Fan An was stared at by those eyes, as if a white silk was strangling his neck. If he remained indifferent, he would suffocate to death!He subconsciously took a deep breath, gurgled twice in his throat, and suddenly burst into tears with a wail.

This crying can be described as earth-shattering, and it is impossible for people not to pay attention.Chen Ming came over and asked, "Master Fan, why are you crying?"

Fan An said: "I see that the two father and son are deeply in love, so I can't help but feel great grief. Even though this gangster is heinous, but the child is innocent, I can't help but feel pity."

"It's rare that Mr. Fan understands righteousness." Chen Mingdao, "Don't worry, my lord. There are words in the criminal law. Seven years old is mourning, and eighty is old. Those who mourn and old will not be punished even if they are guilty. This child will not die. worry."

Fan An wept a few times and stopped crying. "I know. But this child has such a father. Even if he does not die, he is doomed to have no future at all. There is a law in the Great Proclamation. If the crime is the death, the three generations of children and grandchildren will not be allowed to be an official in Beijing, a big merchant, or your mansion." "Fan An said, "My son is the child of a benevolent child. I think this child is about the same size as mine. I really can't bear to let him ruin his future."

"I'm here to ask Mr. Chen to forgive me." Fan An stood up and gave a big gift to Chen Ming, saying: "Give this child to me, and I've never seen it on this mountain before. The son said that the king and his ministers are among the people, and they should be cherished." The heart of parents. I will be the father of this child from now on. Thank you Master Chen for saving the lives of my two sons from the Fan family."

Chen Ming didn't do things as rigidly as the generals in the capital, and he was a person who stayed away from the capital all year round. He was used to making decisions on his own, and he didn't care about one or two lives.Although Fan An's request does not comply with laws and regulations, it is rare but in line with human feelings and natural principles.Immediately said: "Master Fan is the head of the prison, and the sentence of life and death is naturally up to the Lord."

Fan An thanked Chen Ming with tears in his eyes, and carefully went forward to hug Xiao Zhou in his arms.

The big boss was behind Fan An, and suddenly shouted "Master Fan!" Fan An shook his body and turned around, only to see that the big boss was still pinned to the ground.He took a few steps forward with Xiao Zhou in his arms, lowered his head and stood quietly for a while, and said, "What do you want to say?" The head of the family was still pressed sideways on the sand, and Fan An couldn't see his expression clearly. He said: "Thank you, Mr. Fan."

Fan An didn't answer, but tightened Xiao Zhou's grip, walked towards Chen Ming, and said, "I'm going down the mountain immediately." Chen Ming asked, "What about these gangsters?" , as it should be."

Chen Ming accompanied Fan An down the mountain, arranged him in his mansion, and invited a doctor in the city to look after the wounds of the two children.

The next day, Chen Ming sent more people to send Fan An to Beijing.Fan An's clothes were burnt to the point that he couldn't wear them in the stockade, so Chen Ming specially ordered someone to make new clothes for him.Four of the escorts were left to Fan Pingqiu by the eunuch Xuanzhi before, and they met Fan Pingqiu once in Fan Pingqiu's old house.It was these four people who received the blackmail letter sent from the cottage at that time, and it was the four people who stabbed it to the prefect's guard.

The four people saw Fan An again the next day, and they couldn't help looking and looking. The four of them looked at each other for a while, beating their hearts, and said, "Master Fan has changed into new clothes, and he is ten years younger. He looks the same as before. A few days are different."

Fan An turned pale with shock, what he was most afraid of was that someone would know Fan Pingqiu.Although he bears Fan Pingqiu's name, his face is very different from Fan Pingqiu's.Fan Pingqiu was already 38 years old when he died. He had been farming outside for more than ten years, and his skin was dark and rough.And Fan An was only in his late twenties, so he was a bit handsome compared to him.

It seems to be able to deceive the world, but it is full of loopholes.It only needs someone to say: "You are not Fan Pingqiu at all", after a little investigation, you can reach out and see the bottom line.

"Do you still dare to say that?" Fan An listened to the words of these four people, forcibly calmed down, and said, "I ask you, you were ordered to escort me to Beijing, if I lost my life in the bandit's den that night, what are you going to do? "

"Ineffective supervision is a crime of dereliction of duty." Fan An said, "If it is serious, you will be executed, and if it is light, you will be dismissed. You are born as military servants in the internal army, but you can't protect everyone well. You should be exonerated from the crime."

The four of them looked at each other for a while. This man knew the court's criminal laws and official ranks very well. He spoke aggressively but no one could tell if he was right. Could it be that he was really the Minister of Criminal Affairs who was famous in the court 13 years ago?Immediately, he knelt down and said, "My lord, forgive me!"

The four of them were puzzled, but they heard Fan An say: "Fortunately, it's your credit that I survived the catastrophe. Although I have made mistakes, but make up for me, I should reward you." He rolled up his sleeves and went to the carriage. "But we'll talk about everything when we go to Beijing."

The four people just let go of what they just mentioned, and they thought that it must be because the sky was dark a few days ago, and they remembered Mr. Fan's appearance wrongly.So without further words, Fan An was respectfully invited to get into the carriage, and went all the way to Chang'an to take office.

Fan An got into the carriage and put down the curtains. After sitting for a while, he realized that his back was soaked in cold sweat.His two "sons" were sitting in the carriage. They were frightened last night, cried all night, and called "Daddy" all night, and now they still look pitiful with tears in their eyes.Fortunately, these two children are not very old, both are only two years old, and their speech is still unclear.Otherwise, Fan An's lie might have been exposed long ago.

Fan An sighed: Why is it so difficult for this person to live...

【Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon】