After saying goodbye to Xu Xun, Zhang Huang and his party returned to Taishan County.

Compared to the previous few days when they entered Mount Tai, there were a few more people in their team, Sun Guan, Wu Dun, Yin Li, Chang Xi, and the four bandits of Mount Tai that were famous in the future, one of them was powerful.

Wu Dun and Yin Li sincerely wanted to help Zang Ba save his father Zang Jie. Sun Guan, who is honest, felt guilty about his misunderstanding of Zhang Huang and others after hearing about this incident, so he proposed the idea of ​​help. As for Chang Xi, he could not stay in the Taishan Army Mountain Village.

Although he was framed by Shan Fu, his behavior of betraying his brothers was contemptuous of many younger generations patrolling the mountain. Even Xu Xun almost wanted to kill him, based on the rules of the village.

Fortunately, Zang Ba came forward to plead, because in his opinion, this incident happened because of him, and Chang Xi's bad deeds were also because of Dan Fu's plot, so he had no choice.

Seeing everyone asking for a meeting, Xu Xun changed his mind and let Chang Xi go and ordered him to help Zang Ba and redeem his sins.

A group of nine people came to Taishan County. Zhang Huang and the others immediately returned to Zang Ba's home. Zang Ba's two younger brothers Zang Ai and Zang Shun saw that several of them were back, and quickly welcomed them in.

Everyone sat down in the hall of Zang Mansion. Zang Baxian told his two younger brothers about what had happened in the past two days. When they said that they not only did not kill Xu Xun successfully, but instead established some feelings with Xu Xun's Taishan Army, Zang Ai and Zang Shun were stunned.

"That's how it is. Leader Xu doesn't seem to be a traitor or evil person. After hearing what he said, I was a little worried about my father who was in prison... Second brother, third brother, what's the situation of my father?"

"this……"

Seeing that the eldest brother Zang Ba asked about his father's condition, Zang Ai and Zang Shun looked at each other and hesitated. After a long time, Zang Ai said hesitantly, "Although we went to the prison for the past two days after our eldest brother was gone, we were unable to see our father."

"What's going on?" Zang Ba asked with a frown.

"I gave some money, and the prison chief in charge told the truth: The prefect He Ying had already ordered that his father, who was in prison, should not be allowed to meet outsiders."

"No outsiders are allowed?" Zang Ba frowned and said with some angrily, "Are father and son considered outsiders?"

Zang Ai, Zang Shun saw his brother angry and lowered his head and refused to speak.

Next to him, Shan Fu pondered for a moment and guessed, "It seems that maybe He Ying really has a handle in the hands of your father Xuan Gao. I am afraid that your father will reveal it to others, so He Ying ordered not to visit the prison." As he said that, he turned his head and looked at the Zang brothers and asked, "If what I expected was not bad, the old people in the prison were probably replaced, right?"

Zang Ai nodded after hearing this and said, "Mr. Shan said it well. The prisoners and prisoners promoted by his father have all been replaced by He Ying. Now the officials and prisoners in the prison are all He Ying's people."

"That's right." Shan Fu verified his guess.

"Then do this now?" Zang Ba looked at Zhang Huang and Shan Fu with inquiring eyes, because among the people in the room, these two were the most knowledgeable and the most thoughtful.

Zhang Huang played with the teacup in his hand and said seriously when he heard this, "Captain Xu felt that He Ying would not release Xuan Gao's father and would try every means to kill Zang Yucao, who held evidence of his crime... County and county did not have the right to execute prisoners. He Ying had to punish Zang Yucao, so He Ying had to escort him to Xuzhou Prefecture. This is not afraid. At worst, we would rob the prison cart and rescue Zang Yucao. I am afraid..."

"If you are afraid, you are afraid that He Ying will take a damn attack and force Zang Zhucao to death in prison!" Shan Fu frowned and followed Zhang Huang's words.

When Zang Ba heard this, he was angry and scolded, "He dared?!"

"Since he dared to risk his head beheading and sell the rice grains in the county warehouse to the rice merchant at a discount. If something is there to kill someone in a hurry, what's wrong?" Zhang Huang glanced at Zang Ba, signaled him to be calm, and then continued, "Xuan Gao, you will go with me to see He Ying later. First, let me see this person with your own eyes, and second, it's better to delay the time. Didn't Chief Xu give you the waist card he used to be the county magistrate of Juping County? Later, you will deceive He Ying and said that he had killed Chief Xu, and the waist card was found from the body of Chief Xu."

"Hmm." Zang Ba nodded.

Zhang Huang turned his head and looked at the rest of the house and said in a deep voice, "When He Ying and I went to meet with Xuan Gao, you guys went to the city gates to find out if there were any prison vans out of the city these days. I was afraid that He Ying would deceive the world, so he pretended to comfort me here, and then he would quietly transport Zang Yucao out of the city in a prison van. Trillion, you and Sun Guan go to the north of the city; Ah, you and Wu Dun go to the west of the city; Dafu, you and Yin Li go to the east of the city; the second and third masters go to the south of the city. Do you know?"

"It's clear." Everyone nodded. Chang Xi, the only person who had not been pointed at, looked a little surprised and said to Zhang Huang in a pleasing way, "Captain Zhang, then I..."

"Follow me." Zhang Huang said lightly.

Perhaps because Chang Xi had betrayed his brothers, Zhang Huang did not trust him very much. In order to avoid this person's bad things, Zhang Huang felt that he should be with him. After all, under the eyes of Zang Ba, I hope that Chang Xi would not have any trouble.

After the assignment was completed, everyone went to perform their tasks in scattered manner, and Zhang Huang, Zang Ba and Chang Xi went straight to the government office and handed a letter to the yamen runners at the door.

"You are waiting here, I will report to the prefect."

After accepting the benefits of Zhang Huang's ten taels of silver notes, the servant immediately ran into the government office with a smile and came to the side room of the government office's lobby.

"Qi reported to the prefect, Zang Ba, the son of the prison Cao Zangjie, asked for a visit."

The prefect of Taishan He Ying was discussing something with the chief clerk Tian Zhang in the side room, and he was stunned when he heard this.

"What's that guy doing?"

The chief clerk Tian Zhang laughed and said, "Eight out of ten are here to plead for mercy. Although the lord made an agreement with Zang Ba before, he said that as long as he wiped out the Taishan bandits, he would release his father. However, the lord leader Xu Xun is not easy to mess with. Even if Zang Ba is a little famous in my Taishan County, he is still young in the end. How can he defeat Xu Xun? I think it is probably because he suffered a loss from Xu Xun, and then he realized that he had a shallow understanding. He came back and begged him again."

He Ying thought about it and thought that this was possible. After all, he had seen Xu Xun's strength. Last year, he led more than a hundred county soldiers but failed to kill the other party. Instead, he asked Xu Xun to take advantage of the chaos to kill the county town.

"I didn't expect that the boy would come back alive. Tsk! If he died at Xu Xun's hands, that would be great..."

He Ying smacked his lips with regret.

"Do you see him? With your humble opinion, the most urgent task is how to deal with the task of suppressing the thieves in Xuzhou Prefecture. There is really no need to waste time on that kid." Tian Zhang frowned and said.

He Ying hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said, "No! See! Zang Jie, that bastard, I just took some refugees in Juping County, who were burdened by my Taishan County, as Taishan bandits. The ungrateful dog thing actually secretly wrote a list to record the crimes of this official. Fortunately, the official was guarding him. Otherwise, if the list was handed over to Xuzhou Prefecture, I would not only lose my official position, but even my life would not be saved. Since the list was not in Zang Jie's hands, only eight or nine are in the hands of his three sons. If we cannot make a case for the Zang family and the son of the Zang family, all the brothers will be arrested, we must be polite to Zang Bake..."

"Sir, I suspect the roster is in his hands?"

"Well!" He Ying nodded and said, "After all, Zang Ba is the eldest son. I guess Zang Jie's ungrateful thing must have given him something."

Tian Zhang was stunned when he heard this, then shook his head and said, "Sir, I think that if Zang Ba really had that list in his hand, he would have confronted us in front of him. How could he have left the distance and asked for something far away to save his father?"

He Ying shook his head and said in a deep voice, "If he dares to confront me on the spot, he will be seeking death! A mere child dares to oppose my Taishan County government? But it seems that this guy is smart and does not mention the matter of the list, which will make me afraid of it. If it weren't for this, a glass of poisonous wine would make Zang Jie die in prison, and it would save me from worrying about the incident day and night."

"That's right." Tian Zhang nodded and pondered, "It seems that we have to think of a suitable crime and arrest Zang Jie's three sons. No one would believe what the three criminals said."

"It's reasonable!"

As the two were talking, the soldiers had led Zhang Huang, Zang Ba and Chang Xi outside the door.

"Sir, Zang Ba, the son of Zang Jue Cao, and his two servants were asking for a visit outside the door."

He Ying gestured to Tian Zhang to hide behind the screen, and then changed his harsh expression when he spoke before, and said with a smile on his face, "Please!"

With permission, Zhang Huang, Zang Ba and Chang Xi pushed the door open and walked in.

"Zang Ba, the grass man, have met Lord He!" After entering the door, Zang Ba saluted He Ying respectfully.

"There is no gift for the nephew." He Ying smiled and helped Zang Ba up, then looked at Zhang Huang and Chang Xi in confusion, and asked, "What are these two?"

Zang Ba had already received Zhang Huang's instructions and replied, "Sir, these two people were the diners I recruited in the Ranger Hall a few days ago... There were a few people, but unfortunately they were... "At this point, Zang Ba's face showed a sad look.

Seeing this, He Ying suddenly realized, but his face deliberately showed a little surprise, and said in surprise, "Your nephew has really gone to Mount Tai to suppress the thieves? Oh, in fact, the Japanese official just said casually, how could he really let the thieves go to suppress the thieves? It's really hard to deal with your father Zang Jie, and I have a headache. I had no choice but to make that agreement with your nephew that day. I thought that your nephew would retreat, but I didn't want to... Alas! You are not injured, right?"

Seeing He Ying looking concerned, Zhang Huang frowned secretly.

[This guy is so hypocritical... It seems that Xu Xun is right, this guy is not a good thing!]

Thinking of this, Zhang Huang quietly pointed Zang Ba's back with his hands.

[Stimulate He Ying?]

Zang Ba felt the signal and immediately said seriously, "A real man is confident in his words, how can he break his promise? Since Zang Ba has made an agreement with the prefect, how can he talk? The day before yesterday, Zang Ba took more than a dozen recruited diner brothers up the mountain..."

He Ying felt that he heard a sarcastic meaning from Zang Ba's words, and his eyes flashed with anger, but Zhang Huang saw it clearly.

"I wonder how my nephew has gained?" He Ying asked.

"Please look at it, Lord Prefect!" Zang Ba took out a waist sign from his arms and threw it on the table.

"This is..." He Ying looked carefully and his eyes suddenly opened, and he saw that the waist sign was engraved with the words "Ju Pingwei", which was clearly the waist sign collected by Xu Xun.

[Is it possible that Xu Xun's boat capsized in the gutter and was killed by this kid? This is... great!]

He Ying became more and more happy the more he thought about it. He said in surprise, "The nephew actually killed the thief leader Xu Xun? He is worthy of being the best athlete in my Taishan County! Nephew, where is Xu Xun's body?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Huang suddenly noticed someone took a breath after the screen in the house.

[There is someone behind the screen? Why, before we come, why should we meet someone here? Could this side room be where He should discuss matters?]

Zhang Huang glanced at the screen quietly, and Zang Ba replied with regret and annoyance according to his previous instructions, "Xu Xun's body was taken back by those Taishan bandits..."

"What?" The ecstasy on He Ying's face froze instantly. He looked at Zang Ba in surprise and suspicion, and repeated, "Has he taken back by the bandits of Mount Tai?"

"Yes, we only have a dozen people. It is not easy to attack Xu Xun and kill him. The bandits under his command came to support us, so we had to retreat."

"That's how..." He Ying's eyes were rumbling, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Seeing this, Zang Ba clasped his fists and begged, "Sir, although Zang Ba has not completely wiped out the bandits of Mount Tai, since Xu Xun has been killed, can you release your father first? Don't worry, if you can release your father, Zang Ba is willing to join the command of yourselves and help him to flatten Mount Tai!"

"This..." He Ying looked embarrassed and shook his head and said, "If Xu Xun's body was placed in front of me, I could naturally make the decision to release Zang Yucao, but this thing is just..."

Zang Ba's expression changed when he heard this, and he said angrily, "Don't the prefect believe Zang Ba's words?"

"How could I trust my nephew? It's just that your father's affairs are very involved. If you kill Xu Xun and present his body, you can exonerate your father by using the method of atonement for merits and sins. But now..." Speaking of this, He Ying raised his head and said, "Let me do this, give me two days to think about it, how?"

Zang Ba hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded, leading Zhang Huang and Chang Xi away.

As soon as they left, Tian Zhang, the chief clerk, turned out from behind the screen and said with a strange look on his face, "Did you really believe that Zang Ba's words?"

"Hmph!" He Ying sneered, "Even if I am blind, I will not believe such lies! So what kind of person Xu Xun would be easily killed by Zang Ba? But..." Speaking of this, he stared at the waist card in his hand with interest and said with a smile, "However, Xu Xun's waist card is in Zang Ba's hands, which is interesting..."

"Is it because Zang Ba colluded with the bandits of Mount Tai? By the way, Xu Xun and Zang Jie had a good relationship at the beginning. It was possible that Xu Xun was concerned about his old love and let Zang Ba go." Tian Zhang's eyes lit up and he said happily, "I'm so happy, sir, with this crime, we can arrest the Zang brothers with justification!"

"Just a waist-bar card cannot prove that Zang Ba colluded with the bandits of Taishan." He Ying shook his head, a little cold light appeared in his eyes, and he lowered his voice and sneered, "Unless... catch the thief and catch the stolen goods!"

"Did you have an idea?"

"Give me instructions to the county to escort the 120 soldiers, and tonight, escort the Taishan bandits led by Zang Jie to Fei County, Xishan, and one day, send them to Xuzhou Prefecture to behead... and find a few people to spread the news."

Tian Zhang was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized and smiled sinisterly.

"I understand the humble position."
Chapter completed!