Lonely non-good minister

Chapter 48
Song Yuan stretched out his hand to help, and immediately chased after the fleeing black shadow. The other black shadows who broke into the inn were startled. They resisted with swords and weapons, and fought with the guards in the dilapidated inn. , After several rounds, they were defeated one after another, several people were held down, and several others saw this, jumped out of the window and escaped in a panic.

Several guards chased him out, and there was a lot of crying in the room. The other guard who stayed behind took out a fire pocket and was about to light a candle. Wei Yan immediately grabbed him: "Stupid? Don't leave yet."

They left in the dark, and Song Yuan also hurriedly left, returning to the inn and Wei Yan scolded: "The clothes are messy at night, and I saw the female relatives of the Duke's family when I lit the lamp, do you still want those eyes, kid?"

The guard suddenly realized, and couldn't help feeling a little apprehensive.

Song Yuan wiped off the blood on the sword, and said in a flat tone, "Go back to the house and get dressed."

"What's wrong with the son's face?" Wei Yan noticed with sharp eyes that there was a red mark on Song Yuan's cheek, which looked like it was scratched by a fingernail.

Song Yuan carefully recalled that he should have been arrested when he was just helping people, and he couldn't help feeling annoyed. He waved his hands and went back to the house without saying anything. Excluding the one that was killed by Song Yuan, there were still eleven left. Before the torture, Song Yuan asked Wei Yan to go over and say something in person, and asked two stable and reliable women to be sent over there.

In front of the woman, Song Yuan signaled to Wei Yan that the torture could begin. She had no experience in torture, so she sat aside and watched. The guards took out two iron needles that were as long as palms, and nailed them without saying a word. Entering the palm of the thief who was pulled out casually, the thief's screams were very piercing, the faces of the two women were pale, and Song Yuan was also stunned, looking at the two iron needles, he shuddered directly.

Wei Yan and the others took it for granted, and before the thief finished yelling and cursing happily, a piece of charcoal was stuffed into the thief's mouth. Suddenly, the thief struggled frantically, tearing the palm nailed to the ground dripping with blood. After struggling for a long time, he fell headlong fall.

The guard took a breath: "I fainted."

"Kill it." Wei Yan's tone was grim.

The guard followed suit and slit their throats. The two women were already so frightened that their legs were weak, and Song Yuan also felt sick.

I thought the caning in Tingwei Mansion's torture was severe enough, but I didn't expect them to be even more severe.

The sticky and smelly blood spread, and the other thieves were already stunned. Some of the timid ones hadn't fainted yet, and the guards held the bamboo board and slapped them hard on the face to wake them up.

"Where are you from? Who did you instigate? What do you want to do at night?" Wei Yan stood in front of the candle, and the thieves couldn't see his face clearly. They were already frightened by the gloomy tone and didn't answer immediately. Wei Yan's patience was surprisingly poor, and he immediately signaled the guards to continue.

"Wait." Song Yuan got up: "Tell me when the interrogation is finished."

She didn't have the courage to stay here and read it again, so she went straight out of the inn and stood in the snow, and the two women hurriedly followed out. The bloody smell lingering at the tip of her nose faded when the biting cold wind blew, Song Yuanshen I took a few breaths, trying to get out the stale air I had sucked in as soon as possible.

The candlelight in the inn opposite was flickering, and the crying had already stopped. There were a few figures leaning against the window, and it was no need to guess that they were waiting for news from here.

The screams in the room were piercing, and the people who heard it were terrified. The faces of the two women who followed out became paler, but when they remembered what these thieves had done, they gritted their teeth and whispered retribution.

After about a cup of tea, Wei Yan came out, and in front of the two women, he said: "These people are all Chen Liu's gangsters. It seems that the Mu family's convoy is full of female relatives and there are not many guards. So I became malicious, wanted to do some nasty things and threatened to ask for some money, so I touched it at night."

"A few ruffians have such guts?" Song Yuan didn't quite believe it.

"These hooligans are still doing business on weekdays to ask merchants for money, and it is common to go to other people's shops to break up and make trouble."

Song Yuan looked at him with doubts on his face: Song Zhu doesn't care if the local ruffian is so arrogant?
Wei Yan understood her doubts and nodded slightly.

Song Yuan understood that it was not appropriate to talk about this matter in front of outsiders, so he could only speak: "These people have stolen from me, Song Yuan, and I will naturally not let it go. I will deal with them myself. Madam, please feel at ease."

She took the commotion that happened tonight to herself, and the two women looked overjoyed, and they thanked each other before replying.

Then Wei Yan leaned over and said in a low voice: "Chenliu is full of merchants, and there are many rich gentry. These people used to only search for money from small merchants and peddlers. Since the third son came, they started to attack rich gentry and merchants. A time can range from a dozen taels to hundreds of taels. If someone refuses to accept the lawsuit, the third son will come forward to arrest these people and beat them up. Those wealthy gentry merchants gave the third son a lot of money for the sake of business stability. .”

Song Yuan understood: "No wonder the third brother has such a good reputation. It is said that he is a chivalrous man who eliminates harm for the people. Dare to act as a double reed."

"Even if they knew it was a double play, not many people dared to talk too much." Wei Yan asked very concerned: "How do you plan to deal with these people?"

Song Yuan knew that he wanted to take the man back to Song Chun, after all, this was Song Zhu's trick.

"Kill quietly." Song Yuan folded his sleeves with both hands: "Now that the overall situation is uncertain, if my brothers fight among themselves first, it will only give Donggong an opportunity to take advantage of it. Just let the elder brother know about the things that the third brother has done."

Wei Yan felt a little regretful, but he obediently dealt with these people.

At dawn in the morning, while Song Yuan was still washing, the guard knocked on the door: "Young Master, there is someone coming from the opposite side, saying that he wants to thank you in person."

"Thank you?" Song Yuan wiped his face: "Are they still planning to leave?"

"It looks like he doesn't intend to leave."

Song Yuan felt strange, shouldn't he leave early when encountering such a thing?Why did you stay here.

She put on her clothes and went downstairs. Mu Wantang, who was waiting in the main room, heard the footsteps and immediately looked over. His eyes fell on Song Yuan's face. After seeing the scratches from the nails, his heart was hanging. fell back into the stomach.

"What happened last night, Wantang is here to thank you, Young Master." She bowed gracefully, and then took something from the maid's hand: "This is a snack from my hometown, please have a taste, Young Master."

Snacks?
Wei Yan next to him wanted to refuse, but Song Yuan accepted it: "It's a trivial matter, girl, you are welcome, but I'm afraid it would be inappropriate for you to stay, it's better to leave earlier."

"We also thought, it's just that my mother was frightened last night and she was not in a good condition, so I have to delay for a few more days, and I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you for a few more days." Mu Wantang himself felt that it was too much to say this.

Song Yuan hesitated, she was here to do business, not to be a good person, so she couldn't delay her work in order to protect them, right?
Wei Yan next to him wanted to refuse for her, but before he could speak, Song Yuan said, "I'm afraid it's inconvenient."

(End of this chapter)