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Chapter 475 River Sacrifice ([-])

Seeing the princess jumping out suddenly, the hidden guards who followed behind jumped out all at once.

Especially Wan Quan, who rushed straight to the sedan chair that was about to be thrown into the river.

But no matter how good the hidden guards were, they were humans, not gods, and they were still too far away. Before everyone arrived, the people who worshiped the river panicked and pushed the sedan chair into the water even harder.

"Tie a rope around your waist before going into the water!" Li Zhao yelled out at the right time, holding Song Qingyue to prevent her from going forward.

Rural troublemakers are often unreasonable.

Besides, they only came out with more than 20 hidden guards, and there were one or two hundred people on the opposite side. They were really going to match up. They still had crossbow bolts and muskets in their hands. If he was stabbed to the court, and he was not in the capital, he would suffer a lot.

Wan Quan had stayed with King Su in the navy camp at the beginning, and his water quality was very good.

Just as he tied a rope around his waist and was about to jump down to save others, he was stopped by the villagers with their own farm tools.

"Who are you? Why do you disturb us to worship the river god?!" One of the young and strong men cursed with his hands on his hips in a strong Shanxi accent.

Another old man with a gray beard also stood up and asked, "Who are you!? Stop messing around here and disturb the God of the River. What should you do!"

Song Qingyue jumped in anger at the side, winking at Zeng Maozhi, telling him to run downstream quickly, while she pointed at the old man with gray beard and scolded: "We are from Prince Jin's mansion! This is Tangtang Your Highness, if you dare to kill people in front of the prince, we are not allowed to stop you! Get out of the way for this princess, otherwise this princess will let you all go to jail!"

The accents of the two sides are different, Song Qingyue spoke urgently and quickly, those villagers only heard the general idea, and didn't listen to the first half of Qian's sentence, but understood the second half of the sentence about sending them to prison, and raised their sickles one by one , The hoe walked towards this side making a noise.

"Prison food? Who the hell are you going to send us to prison?"

"Smelly bitch, talk nonsense here, brothers, come on! Don't let this little bitch reveal our affairs!"

Li Zhao gritted his molars, knowing that something like this would happen!

He picked up Song Qingyue by the waist, put it on the horseback of one of the guards, and then took her and ran towards the county seat.

Those people who don't have horses will definitely not be able to catch up.

The next step is to see if Wan Quan and Zeng Maozhi have the ability to rescue the girl.

Fortunately, there was a severe drought in Shanxi last year. Li Zhao led people to build a lot of roads. Although the place was remote, the road conditions were not bad. At noon, Li Zhao took Song Qingyue to the county seat.

Xiong Daneng still told the county magistrate in advance, so the magistrate of Lan County was waiting at the side of the road wearing official robes early in the morning.

He had never seen what King Jin looked like, but when he saw a man with a woman in his arms galloping on horseback from a distance, the magistrate was sure in his heart that there were no two reasons why he was in this remote county town. Here, it is rare to see such a handsome person, not to mention the beauty in his arms, like a delicate flower, it is not the conditions of the palace that cannot be enshrined.

When the flatterer galloped up to him, Li Zhao reined in his horse, and the county magistrate immediately knelt down and bowed down with his entourage.

"My lord, a thousand years old! Min Chonghui, magistrate of Xiaguanlan County, come to clean up the dust for the prince and princess!"

"Come on, Lord Min, don't be in a hurry to accept the news for this king. Thirty miles away from here, there are villagers offering sacrifices to the river with living people. I don't care what your local customs are, in my eyes, this is abuse Lynching, murdering good people. Hurry up to this king to find the girl who sacrificed to the river. If you want to see the person alive, you want to see the dead body, and arrest the leader of the thief who presides over the river sacrifice."

Li Zhaoqi commanded the order condescendingly on the horse, which made the county magistrate dumbfounded.

Although the bear guard just said similar things, he thought that receiving the wind was more important than dealing with that matter. He had been in this remote village for many years, and now that he had the opportunity to meet the governor, what could be more important than receiving the governor Woolen cloth?
Seeing that the little county magistrate was still standing here, Li Zhao knew the urgency of these officials, so he had no choice but to say: "Go and deal with it first! I will deal with it first, and this king will tell the officials that you are good in this year's evaluation! But if you deal with it No, you don’t have to be a county magistrate!”

As soon as he said this, the county magistrate reacted immediately. He got up from the ground in a panic, bowed to Li Zhao, and shouted at the people below: "Go and bring the official's mule! Also, let Come all the arresters! Don’t miss one, come all of them!”

Holding on to the cap, he ran towards Li Zhao's pointing direction.

The master at the side chased after him with a folding fan and shouted: "Dong Weng, don't worry, let's figure it out first, what should we do? Where is enough!"

"Then bring the servants and jailers along!" the county magistrate shouted.

"Dong Weng, Dong Weng think twice! Hey!" The master was still persuading.

After that, Song Qingyue couldn't hear what they said clearly.

Song Qingyue looked at the county magistrate and his entourage who had gone away, her delicate brows were twisted into knots: "There are only a dozen arrests in a county government?"

Li Zhao sighed: "This is indeed the case in small remote counties. The imperial court is not willing to give more money. As long as the people don't create chaos, how can they care so much?"

"Huh, the imperial court is really powerful!" Song Qingyue said angrily. She came from a time when the finances were abundant and the country was willing to spend a lot of money and energy on targeted poverty alleviation. Naturally, it was difficult to understand how difficult grassroots governance was during the feudal dynasty.

In the evening, Wan Quan and Zeng Maozhi finally came to the county seat.

The girl who was treated as a human sacrifice was already out of breath when she was rescued. Fortunately, Zeng Maozhi and Wan Quan knew Song Qingyue's first aid method, that is, artificial respiration plus heart compression, and finally saved the girl's life. Lying in the hospital.

Seeing Zeng Maozhi giving him artificial respiration, his face flushed with embarrassment, and then he wailed loudly.

Zeng Maozhi scratched the back of his head helplessly, while Wan Quan touched the bridge of his nose, patted Zeng Maozhi on the back, and went out gloating.

"Why are you crying inside?" Song Qingyue who came to visit was curious.

Wan Quan smiled and said, "Madam, brother Zeng is about to marry a wife, and you need to help me when the time comes!"

"Huh?" Song Qingyue didn't quite understand, but seeing Wan Quan's arm wrapped in gauze, she immediately asked nervously, "Are you injured?"

Wan Quan glanced at Li Zhao subconsciously, and said hesitantly, "It's okay, it's just a flesh injury."

"Injured by farm tools?" Song Qingyue was still worried. There was no medicine for tetanus these days, so being injured by farm tools would be fatal!

Wan Quan still shook his head subconsciously: "Skin wounds, it's okay."

Song Qingyue looked at Li Zhao and tugged at his sleeve: "Your hidden guards, you have to take good care of them!"

She didn't want to use the secret guards cultivated by the palace's hard work just because she wanted to save a stranger. In her heart, people were also separated from each other.

Entering the room, the girl was still crying with her legs in her arms.

Song Qingyue sighed, and asked: "If you are crying because you can't go home, I just leave you to work in the palace."

As soon as the girl heard it, her crying stopped immediately, and she looked at Song Qingyue incredulously.

Song Qingyue cleared her throat, raised her chin and said, "I am the princess of Prince Jin's mansion. When you see this princess, you still dare to sit down and not get out of bed to worship?"

The girl almost rolled out of the bed, lying on the ground shaking badly, and couldn't even speak.

"Okay, get up quickly. I ordered people to save you." Song Qingyue found a chair and sat down, then gestured to Zeng Maozhi with her eyes, and hurried to help the girl up.

The little girl was a little shy when Zeng Maozhi touched her arm, but she didn't have the guts to make a fuss when Song Qingyue was in front of her, so she just obediently stood in front of Song Qingyue with her head down.

"What is your name?"

"My surname is Du, and everyone in my family calls me Erya."

"Where do you live?"

"My family lives in Heshui Village."

"Then do you still want to go home?"

"No!" the girl yelled immediately, terrified, "Princess, I beg you! Don't send me back again! The old man will kill me!"

"Okay! I just want to make sure, do you still want to live?" Song Qingyue said.

"I want to live! I want to live!" She nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, her dark face was covered with tears.

"If you want to survive, you have to listen to me. As long as you listen to me and do what I say, I will give you good food and drink, and let you live richer than the lady of the county grandpa's family. Are you willing ?” Song Qingyue asked again.

"Willing, willing, willing! As long as the princess tells me to do anything, I will do it!" Du Erya suddenly became motivated, raised her head and looked at Song Qingyue with piercing eyes, staring like two small light bulbs.

Later, the magistrate came back in despair with his people.

Li Zhao saw that his bun was crooked and his official uniform was torn, and he looked miserable, very pitiful.

Tonight Song Qingyue and Li Zhao borrowed to live in the county government office, intending to urge the county magistrate to finish the matter before leaving.

But this Minzhi County, as soon as he came back, he began to cry loudly: "My lord! You can save me! Those unruly people are about to rebel! They rebelled! They even dare to beat me! They not only want to fight I even threatened to kill this official!"

Li Zhao and Wan Quan didn't know what to say for a while.

Seeing that Li Zhao didn't respond, Minzhi County immediately continued to cry: "My lord! Forgive me for being incompetent! My lord! The local customs are like this, and there are hundreds of them. It's really powerless for me to bring those dozens of arrests! "

He raised his head and looked in Wan Quan's direction, and seeing Wan Quan frown, he lowered his head aggrievedly.

"You mean, you want the king to send guards from the palace to suppress the thieves?"

"No, no, no! No way!" Min Zhixian hurriedly waved his hand, "It was just a small sacrificial river, once you send the palace guards, Your Highness, don't you want to stir up a civil uprising?! Your Highness, there is really no need for a country Women take such a big risk!"

Li Zhao thought for a while, then glanced at Wanquan again, and said, "Ask the non-stoppers from the yamen to come in and answer."

As soon as these words came out, the magistrate's body trembled visibly.

Wan Quan immediately raised his eyebrows, and said fiercely: "Didn't you hear? Your Highness told your arrest to come in quickly, don't hurry up!"

"Yes, sir, let them come in and answer."

"Wait a minute, let them come in one by one." Li Zhao smiled.

The matter was quickly clarified, and under the lobbying of the master, county magistrate, Tuiguan and other officials, Minzhi County gave up the idea of ​​going to handle the matter.

The local folk customs are fierce, and the place is far away from the county seat, so the local landlords and gentry are the local snakes.Besides, after hearing that the girl has been rescued, the prince will not be too angry. With the dozen or so arrests in Touzhou in his county government, they really can't beat those villagers!

After thinking about it, Min Zhixian tore off his official uniform, rolled in the mud again, and then came back pretending to be.

However, what Minzhi County said was indeed Li Zhao's own concern.

Li Zhao asked Min Zhi County to do it because he didn't want to take the risk.

Who knew that the county magistrate was a chicken thief, and he didn't want to take risks for himself.

Although he understood the difficulty of the magistrate, Li Zhao did not intend to spare him because he tried to deceive him.

After taking Song Qingyue away, he asked Xiong Daneng to bring a letter back to the palace, and asked Xing Zhuangyuan, who had become an assistant minister of the palace, to come to Lan County to check the magistrate's account.

Although the Fen River is not as easy to flood as the Yellow River, the embankment still needs to be repaired, and the imperial court also allocates corresponding funds every year.

He had never seen any officials not to attack Xiuhe these days.

Since you want to fool him, don't blame him for being rude.

Song Qingyue was a little depressed after hearing that Li Zhao didn't plan to settle accounts with those villagers.

"Let's just find someone! Can't we find someone to make an example to others?" She tugged on Li Zhao's sleeve, looked at him eagerly, and begged, "I've made it clear that the village head of Heshui Village is surnamed Zhou. As for the woman who was used as a human animal, she is the granddaughter-in-law of Mrs. Zhou’s brother. Her husband died of illness two years ago, and she still has no children, so the Zhou family wanted to swallow her dowry!”

Li Zhao raised his eyebrows, he couldn't imagine such a thing happening!
"Help me! Bad guys have to be rewarded with evil! I'll be alone, the old man with the white beard who takes the lead, the old man of the Zhou family!"

Seeing that Li Zhao still didn't agree, Song Qingyue immediately put on a face: "You are a dignified prince, but you dare not touch a landlord and squire! Li Zhao, how useless are you as a prince? I don't want to live with useless men ! Stop! Do I want to be with you now!"

"Tsk! Look at you!" Li Zhao hurriedly grabbed her, hugged her and scratched her nose, "I promise you, will it work? I'm getting more and more troublesome!"

In this way, taking advantage of a dark and windy night on a certain moon, Wan Quan stripped the old man of the Zhou family naked and tied him to a big tree at the entrance of Shuihe Village.

In the middle of the night, he dressed up as a ghost, beat gongs and drums in the village, and yelled loudly about the Zhou family's intention to seize the daughter-in-law's ill-gotten wealth, and said that the Zhou family would suffer retribution sooner or later, scaring the whole village for half a month. Did not dare to leave the house.

In fact, Mrs. Du didn't have a few taels of silver at all, but lived on the few acres of Susukida left by her husband. In this way, the Zhou family was unwilling to let her go, and wanted to punish her to death by offering sacrifices to the river.

This kind of thing didn't happen once or twice, as long as the Zhou family or the local big family had something to dislike, they would use the reason of offering sacrifices to the river to harm others.

Song Qingyue didn't know if the villagers were well aware of this matter, or if they felt that this kind of matter had nothing to do with themselves, so they didn't care about other people's life or death. After all, it was not easy to support their own family these days.

Although she was out of anger, Song Qingyue was still very dissatisfied - she was extremely depressed because she couldn't put a villain like Mrs. Zhou in the Xingtang, and couldn't let the real villain stand trial!
But Li Zhao was right. If he wanted to arrest Mrs. Zhou, the Zhou family would definitely object. At that time, the entire Shuihe village might stand up and resist the guards of the palace.

The further you go, the weaker the power of the imperial power will be, and the power of the local clan will prevail.

At that time, even if the guards of the palace win, I'm afraid there will be many deaths.

How could the head of a family be kidnapped as soon as he was told?

This is not what Song Qingyue wants to see.

The poorer the place, the more superstitious it is, the more it will bully women.

Not to mention ancient times, it has been the same until modern times.

(End of this chapter)