In fact, although the members of the Kong family were not as many as those of the Liu family, they were always quite united. They were not afraid of the Liu family, but in this generation, there was something wrong with the Kong family. The leaders of the Kong family have always been from the eldest houses of Kong Deshan, and their branches are from the legitimate gentry. In addition, the family property and land of his branches are the most in the Kong family. The renovation of the Confucius family's family temples and ancestral halls has always been the most expensive.

In this generation, the leader of the Kong family was Kong Deshan, but Kong Deshan was idle since childhood, and he was not active in helping the tribesmen adjust their tribe affairs. Therefore, the Kong family had poor cohesion in this generation, and he often interacted with some dissatisfied people. Many people in the Kong family complained about this, but Kong Deshan was the leader after all, so although he was dissatisfied, no one could stop Kong Deshan.

Kong Deshan became more and more arrogant and acted more and more misleading. This year, he even colluded with Ma Dasca, the largest bandit in this area, secretly robbed the finances of passing merchants. In this activity, Ma Dasca was responsible for the use of force, kidnapping, robbery, stealing and intimidation, all of these matters were handled by Ma Dasca and his men. Kong Deshan was responsible for playing a good person and comforting the robbed and stolen merchants as a village elder. On the surface, he mediated in the name of Li Jia, but in fact he used various means to prevent the victimized merchants from reporting to the officials. In the end, most merchants could only lose money, and the money they robbed and the meat tickets they received redeem them.

Jin, Kong Deshan and Ma Dasca shared a lot of black money, so Kong Deshan gave a portion of the money to several children of the Kong family and the Lin family as a small favor. The children of the Kong family and the Lin family who collected the money followed him wholeheartedly and were willing to be his accomplices. Kong Deshan also secretly advocated that if the owner or friend of the store in the town saw that the foreign merchant was suitable for meat tickets, as long as he reported the news to him, he would reward the owner or friend after the matter was completed. Yesterday, the three men who falsely accused the master and apprentice were thieves, probably because they had taken a fancy to Kong Deshan's reward.

As he spoke, Kong Deshang sighed, "Although Kong Deshen did this, he made a lot of money, it was all illegal after all, and he did things that were harmful to nature. In addition to the children of the Kong Lin family who collected his money, he is now becoming increasingly unpopular in the town, especially Liu Huaming, who gathered the Kong family and was considered to have a dispute with Kong Deshen."

As several people were talking, someone outside shouted, "Where are monks and Taoists? They all came out to reply."

Several people looked at each other and heard the outside shouting: "We have come to investigate the bandit robbery last night by the order of the county magistrate, and the people inside came out to reply."

Several people left the house, and five servants stood in the yard. The front officer saw the people coming out and pointed at the few people and said, "Are you those monks and Taoists who pretended to be a ghost last night?"

Yao Guangqi came out and replied: "We did not pretend to be a ghost. It was clearly the bandits who came to kill us while it was dark."

"Go back to the county government and tell the county magistrate to go, handcuff them and take them away." The leading officer didn't listen to the explanation and had a very tough attitude.

Jiang was angry, and just took a step forward to defend himself, but Bu Suanzi stepped on Jiang Sheng for a while. Jiang Sheng understood and did not take any further action.

The master and apprentice were taken out of the courtyard, and Kong Deshang followed not far behind. The group stopped after walking for a while. The leading officer looked at the yard next to the road, pointed to the gate, "Go knock on the door of this house."

The door of the house was quickly knocked open, and the leader said, "Is this the home of Liu Shantong and Liu Huaming?"

The person who opened the door inside nodded and said, "Call them out, and the county magistrate wants to send them back."

Liu Shantong and Liu Huaming came out soon. A man in his forties bowed to the leading officer and said, "I am Liu Shantong below. This is the little girl Liu Huaming. What do you call him? What business is there?"

The leading officer said, "My surname is Kong, and they call me Kongtou. We are assigned by the county magistrate to send you back and forth questions. Someone said that the local bandit Ma Dacca came to Laolin Town to commit an offense last night. The county magistrate wanted to pass on the relevant person to the county government to ask clearly."

When Liu Shantong heard this, he was startled at first, and then said with a smile: "They were sent by several officials. The horse dascar is now tied to my backyard. We were about to take them to the county to handle the law, but unexpectedly, the county actually sent people first. It's okay, let's go together."

"Bold" Kong Tou immediately became angry, "Ma Dasca is a local bandit, and arresting and escorting are all the affairs of our government. You are just a sage, how dare you detain the escort without authorization? Do you still have any kingly laws in your eyes?"

At this time, Kong Deschamp suddenly came from behind and lay down in Kong Tou's ear and muttered a few words. Kong Tou nodded and pointed at Liu Huaming with his hand. "It was she who cut off Ma Dascar's hand, handcuffed her, and took her back for a trial."

Liu Huaming became angry immediately when he heard this. Facing the officer who came over to handcuff him, he shook his hand and pushed the officer out with a big ostentatious sound. The officer yelled and staggered and kowtowed. The Kongtou immediately became furious: "You are a troublemaker, you dare to fight against the government. Do you want to rebel? I think you don't know what to do. Come on, tie her up to me."

Two more officers jumped out from behind Kongtou, and rushed towards Liu Huaming with a rope. Liu Huaming was not panicked. When the two officers stood firm beside him, they raised the rope to tie her up, she suddenly pulled the rope with both hands, turned around and threw it away. The two officers were also thrown out and fell to the ground.

Kong Tou became even more angry: "The unlucky people, you are rebelling, you are rebelling, come on, take it down together." Kong Tou shouted, but he took it back, and the other officers were very afraid of Liu Huaming, and none of them dared to go on, and the situation froze.

At this time, Kong Deshang stood up again, came to Liu Shantong with a smile, bowed and then said, "Uncle Liu Shi, you have always been respectful. You have tried your best to maintain many things in the town. Today, there was such a big deal in Ma Dascar in the town, and you are the person involved in the personal experience. The government asked you to ask clearly. It was reasonable. If the matter was a big deal, good things like you would catch Ma Dascar would also turn into bad things."
Chapter completed!