As a recommended rank by local clans, Xu Wujiang is a small soldier in the Inspection Office and has a low status. However, except that the Xu family behind him is a wealthy family in Tongbai Mountain, he is a powerful and famous in the village.

The group of martial soldiers led by Xu Wujiang were mainly composed of people from the Xu clan and tourists from different surnames from Lutaizhai.

Deng Gui treated him very well in normal times.

Xu Wujiang lives in a small courtyard north of the Military Village Inspection Office. After his mother passed away, Xu Huai has been hanging with Xu Wujiang for the past two years. Usually, he and Xu Xin'an are following him and they also live in that courtyard.

Except for Deng Gui, the two heads of the Inspection Department, and the six ministers have two or three close friends who serve as food and living together. Over the years, they have been in the Inspection Department and have paid nearly one-third of the inspection department's military quota.

Xu Huai is not old enough now, not considered a formal local soldier in the Inspection Office, but Xu Wujiang also received a military salary for him and helped him save it for him to marry a wife in the future.

Xu Huai followed Xu Xin'an back to his residence. Xu Wujiang, who had taken off his armor, was standing in the corridor with a sweat towel to wipe his face.

Xu Wujiang's wife Di Niang is a woman with a strong body. She is not very beautiful and beautiful, but she is also beautiful and generous. At this time, she walked out of the wing room and saw Xu Huai, and complained: "You stupid guy, why did you go to the Eagle's mouth to hang out again? If you asked those horse thieves to hurt your lives today, how could I explain to your dead parents!"

She took the sweat scarf from Xu Wujiang's hand and tugged towards Xu Huai with regret.

It won't hurt even if it hits, so Xu Huai won't hide.

Xu Huai used to be confused and didn't know much about his family affairs. He knew that his father Xu Wuxuan was an imperial guards in his early years. He left the military camp fifteen years ago and met Su Di's family who fled to famine on his way south. He helped them settle down at Yuhuangling where the Xu family lived.

Xu Huai's father passed away just two years after returning home. For more than ten years, his mother took him and Su Di's family to depend on each other. The two years ago, the epidemic in Biyang County was severe, and his mother and Xu Wujiang's wife both died of illness. Su Di married Xu Wujiang as a re-string, and became Xu Huai's "Seventeenth Aunt".

Xu Wujiang kept him by his side, mainly because Su Di was worried that he was clumsy and could not support himself by relying on three or five acres of thin fields.

Xu Huai felt that if anyone in this world really cares about him, it is Su Di.

The sweat towel twitched Xu Huai's neck, and with a "pop", Di Niang felt distressed herself. She grabbed his shoulder and saw a light red mark on her neck, and scolded: "You stupid guy, don't know if you can hide for a while, does it hurt?"

"Xu Huai didn't make much progress in martial arts practice, but his body was like a copper-headed and iron bone. If you use an iron bar to suck him, you may not be able to make him cry for pain!" Xu Wujiang said with a smile.

"Didn't you eat yet?" Di Niang asked, then ran to the kitchen to prepare food for Xu Huai.

Xu Wujiang called Xu Huai and Xu Xin'an to the east wing room to ask:

"Today is what Mr. Wang said. How many horse bandits came to Huaiyuan Town to rob wealth without opening their eyes?"

If Xu Wujiang asked him on the way, he really didn't know what to say, but now he decided to hide the matter first, and said in a whisper: "It should be, I didn't see it too seriously."

If he didn't say that, did he expect that Wang Bing would have trouble in front of Yingzizu cliff today?

Could it be that when he was in Eagle's mouth, he realized that the three horse bandits were actually assassins who were chasing Wang Bing?

Could it be that these three assassins were probably sent by Cai Ying, the Privy Councilor of the current dynasty?

He couldn't even figure out what was going on. Can all this be explained clearly?

Seeing Xu Huai being stupid again, Xu Wujiang was stunned and walked to the window and said to himself:

"Wang Bing must have offended someone in the court and was demoted to Tangzhou. But Deng Gui would not get close to Wang Bing, so there was no need to rush to avoid it! This is really wrong! Besides, the groups of people and horses in Hutouling and Xiemashan have been quite honest in recent years. They can usually get the filial piety of nearby villages in secret. They should not attack an inconspicuous old carriage. If they were horse thieves from other places targeting Fat Sheep, they would not run to the Eagle's mouth before attacking them?"

Listening to Xu Wujiang talking to himself and analyzing what happened today, Xu Huai looked at his figure in surprise.

He was confused before and his understanding of the people around him was superficial, but he didn't expect that Xu Wujiang, the seventeenth uncle who was usually quite rude, seemed to be unscrupulous in front of Wang Bing and others just now, but in fact he had seen many suspicions.

"Is it not a horse thief who robs money? Could it be that he was still the assassin who chased Wang Bing? I think you are so careless, Uncle Seventeen." Xu Xin'an said heartlessly.

"I'm so kind?" Xu Wujiang raised his hand to slap Xu Xin'an, and said, "According to the rules, the inspectors personally took the Wu soldiers every month and inspected the villages under their jurisdiction to prevent the breeding of bandits. However, Deng Gui's son, who has been in office for more than two years, has been diligent in the first two or three months, and then he has stayed in the military camp for drinking, or went to the street market to find Sister Hua to brag about sleeping, what serious things have he done?"

Xu Xin'an asked, "Uncle Seventeen, you said this, this is a bit strange, but Mr. Wang has already settled in the inn. Before Deng Langjun left, he ordered Uncle Seventeen to respond to them, and whether to go there?"

"Deng Langjun, Deng Langjun, you kid is holding chicken feathers as a command arrow. Are you interested in the young lady of the Wang family? You don't even urinate and look at your face," Xu Wujiang smiled and kicked Xu Xin'an's ass egg and cursed, "Deng Gui ran away anxiously. Why are we going to join in the fun if we have nothing to do?"

"What about the escort tomorrow?" Xu Xin'an asked.

"You go to the street market to find out which horse team will go to the county town tomorrow. You and Xu Huai will accompany them to the county town and come back overnight after they arrive. Don't delay..." Xu Wujiang ordered Xu Xin'an.

"Yeah!" Xu Xin'an responded.

"Oh, by the way, go find Xu Sihu and the others again, let them talk more seriously, and don't talk nonsense about today's affairs - no matter what's wrong with this matter, there are horse thieves in the mouth of Eagle, and "bandits are not upset" is a big or small crime. It is not a good thing to pass it to the county, don't make trouble for yourself." Xu Wujiang ordered again.

"Okay, I understand all this! I can't guarantee Deng Langjun's side!" Xu Xin'an said.

"Deng Langjun still needs you, a fool, to worry about it. Why can't you learn from Xu Huai? Keep your mouth shut and keep talking?" Xu Wujiang glared at him.

"He can't even hit a single fart with three sticks. Uncle Seventeen was so bored and didn't feel bored if he just kept him by his side?" Xu Wujiang's instructions required cleverness. Xu Xin'an also felt that he was the only one who could do it, so he agreed.

Xu Huai was so happy that he was free. When he heard Di Niang calling him from behind, he ran over to eat first.

"No! Eat quickly, it depends on how hungry you are. I have lost a lot of weight in the past two days!" Di Niang saw Xu Huai running over, stuffed a bowl of freshly hot coarse grain rice into his hand, and even put a pickled cucumber for him.

Xu Huai poked the bottom of the bowl with chopsticks and turned out a large piece of oily bacon. He suddenly felt that the hungry insects in his stomach woke up and shouted desperately: I want to eat meat.

There was a dining table in the kitchen, but the room was too dark, so he squatted in front of the porch, squeezing the rice while thinking about things.

Xu Huai used to be confused and no one else told him many things, but he woke up and saw what his eyes and ears saw each day, and knew that there was no peace in Tongbai Mountain.

There is never a shortage of criminals in this world. It is definitely not new for villagers who are exploited by the government and the clans who cannot survive.

Those dangerous and remote places in Tongbai Mountain are the most likely to contain dirt.

Therefore, bandits have long been a problem that has plagued Tongbai Mountain; when bandits are at their worst, Zoumadao and business trips are cut off.

When Huaiyuan Town first established the inspection department thirty years ago, the effectiveness of bandit suppression was not good. It was mainly because the main force of the military soldiers in the inspection department was mainly the imperial guards of the inspection department. After they arrived at the local area, they only had to eat and get the bribes. Whenever they encountered bandits, they also had to donate money and grain to help the military.

The clans of the big surname did not dare to cooperate with the inspection department at first, for fear that the bandits would not be able to be suppressed and eventually they would suffer revenge from the bandits.

Tangzhou later changed its military affairs system, and the Huaiyuan Inspection Department was able to recruit local soldiers from the local area.

Everyone's interests are closely related. Only then did the clans of the big surname support the suppression of bandits, fought several tough battles, and captured many powerful thieves and exiled to the army.

Even though people who commit crimes have been repeatedly banned these days, there are always a few stubborn bandits in the dangerous places of Tongbai Mountain that are not clean, but they don’t dare to seek revenge on the clans of the big surnames; they will take great risks when they come out to rob the family.

Gradually, the two phases stopped fighting.

Of course, the price of the counterfeit villages no longer going down the mountain to rob houses is to go to nearby villages to extort food and property every now and then.

The inspection department and the clans of the big surname will turn a blind eye to this, and even blackmail them. As long as they are not too much, they will accept it and treat it as an additional donation of tax to buy peace.

After the subtle balance was formed, the trail in Tongbai Mountain has become smooth over the past few years.

Even if there are three or five newly lost thieves who don’t understand the rules and run to Huaiyuan Town to cause trouble, they don’t even need the inspection department to take action, those counterfeit villages may secretly send people over.

Xu Huai has recovered for more than a month. Seeing that Xu Wujiang was leading a team to patrol near Huaiyuan Town every day, he practiced martial arts and drank wine in the military camp and gathered military soldiers to gamble for money. His impression of him was only about being rough, strong, and able to convince people.

However, what he said just now made Xu Huai realize that Xu Wujiang only seemed rough and had no chance to show his delicate scheming in front of him before.

Deng Gui has been transferred to Huaiyuan for more than two years. He either drinks in the military camp or goes to the street market to visit prostitutes and have fun, and he doesn't care much. Xu Huai thought he was an incompetent and stupid official.

Looking at today's situation, Xu Huaicai realized that Deng Gui had probably figured out the situation in Huaiyuan Town before he took office, and he was definitely not a confused person.

Deng Gui would let go without doing anything, and hand over everything to the head of the Ministry of Education. In fact, he would return the power of affairs to local forces. He would live a life of drunkenness and dream of death every day, and would not be able to survive the term of office every three years.

This is not a fucking fuel-efficient lamp!
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