manynovel Chapter 717
Chapter 717
"Master Li, you are here. We have many corpses of bandits here. I would like to invite you to take a look!"
The village chief knew the time when Li Taihang left yesterday, so he thought it was not Li Taihang who did it.
Although judging from the wounds of these bandits, they were all beaten to death by something like a fishing rod.
However, they also knew very well what Li Taihang's fishing rod looked like.
After all, the marks on it were obviously pulled out by a very small object.
And Li Taihang's fishing rod was much thicker than it.
"Oh, bandits, if they die, they die. If they don't die, you will die."
There seemed to be no respect in Li Taihang's tone of voice, on the contrary, it was quite indifferent.
But neither the village chief nor Captain Zhao felt disgusted by Li Taihang's words.
On the contrary, they were more awed by Li Taihang.
Because they all knew that this was the temperament of the immortal cultivators. The more capable the immortal cultivators were, the more arrogant they were.
In their eyes, even if everyone died, their reaction would be very calm.
Captain Zhao bowed respectfully and said, "Master Li, I am the Captain of Guangming Prefecture, Zhao Zishan."
"I was ordered to come to Liujia Village to investigate the death of the bandits. Master, can you tell who did it? Please rest assured, we will only repay the other party."
In order to avoid Li Taihang's misunderstanding, Captain Zhao said quickly.
"I don't know." Li Taihang certainly knew what Dahu and Erya did.
Moreover, it was Li Taihang who did it deliberately.
He looked at the now intact Liujia Village, smiled, and said, "I want to fish here in the future. The environment here is good. You guys deal with it quickly and don't care about the things here anymore."
These bandits died, so what? Do we need to vindicate them?
So, Li Taihang didn't take it seriously at all, and went to the Ningshui River to continue fishing.
"Master Li is right. Let's deal with the situation here quickly and let the whole Liujia Village return to normal."
At this time, Captain Zhao also understood.
He knew that Li Taihang must know something, but is it important?
Since the other party didn't say it, he didn't dare to ask more.
Then, after he led the officers and soldiers to deal with the bodies of the bandits here, he led the officers and soldiers and left in a hurry.
However, just before leaving, Captain Zhao came behind Li Taihang who was fishing and bowed to Li Taihang.
"Master Li, Zhao bids farewell and will go back to report."
Li Taihang didn't even turn his head and said, "Slow down, remember not to go out tonight."
When Li Taihang saw Captain Zhao, he had already discovered his doom.
Although almost all the bandits were eliminated this time, there were actually some that slipped through the net.
This Captain Zhao was also involved in the investigation of this case, and he would inevitably be killed.
However, as long as he didn't go out, he could escape this disaster.
Although Captain Zhao was somewhat puzzled, he still said gratefully: "Zhao thanks Immortal Li."
After that, Captain Zhao led the officers and soldiers to carry the bodies of the bandits and left Liujia Village together.
Soon after, Dahu and Erya also woke up. After breakfast, they hurriedly carried their buckets and fishing gear to the Ningshui River.
Such a big thing happened in the village, but these two guys slept unusually sweetly.
After seeing Li Taihang, Dahu and Erya also shouted at Li Taihang.
"Big brother, you are here early."
"We are here."
Dahu and Erya, one on the left and one on the right, sat on both sides of Li Taihang, and the three of them started fishing on the Ningshui River.
The villagers passing by couldn't help but smile when they saw the three of them fishing.
At this time, Guangming Prefecture.
In the government office.
Prefect Liu Feng sat in the hall, sipping the mellow tea while listening to Zhao Zifeng's report on the bandits.
"So, this group of bandits who roamed around and committed crimes crazily all died at the entrance of Liujia Village?"
"Yes, but..." Captain Zhao was about to say that this was not all.
After all, after he came back to confirm, he found that some bandits were missing.
But Liu Feng did not give him a chance to continue, but muttered something.
"Haha, this is a good opportunity to get credit."
There was a greedy light in Liu Feng's eyes.
He was already thinking about how to make a fuss about this matter and make a profit for himself.
"Sir?"
Captain Zhao looked at Liu Feng strangely.
"Okay, Captain Zhao, you have worked hard. I already know about this matter. You can go down."
Liu Feng put down the teacup and said lightly.
"Yes, sir." Seeing this, Captain Zhao could only get up and leave depressed.
What Captain Zhao didn't know was that the death of this group of bandits was reported by the prefect.Liu Feng used it to seek profit.
"Come here."
"Sir!" A man walked in from outside the hall.
"Notify the rich merchants and dignitaries in Guangming Prefecture to come to see me and tell them that Liu Mou has great benefits to send." Liu Feng said with a gloomy smile.
"Yes! Sir!"
After the man went down, he went to arrange this matter.
In the evening.
Many rich people came to the Xiangmanlou. They were the most powerful or wealthy people in the entire Guangming Prefecture.
I heard that they all went to share the credit.
At Zhao Duwei's home, his wife complained to him after hearing the news, saying: "The prefect sent someone to find you and asked you to share the credit together. Are you really not going?"
Zhao Duwei thought of Li Taihang's instructions and fame and fortune, and he sighed heavily.
"I won't go."
"Besides, the prefect has gone too far in this matter. It's obviously not our credit, but he wants to take it for himself."
Obviously, these bandits were killed by others, but their prefect is really good at taking the credit for eliminating the bandits for himself.
Then, he even planned to use this credit to auction and distribute it to unrelated people.
Because this group of bandits are serious criminals and have committed many major crimes, the empire has issued wanted orders many times. If this is reported, the empire will definitely reward a lot.
If they are reported as meritorious, fame and fortune will be inevitable.
Therefore, Liu Feng took advantage of this opportunity to seek personal gain for himself.
And others can also rely on this opportunity to obtain official positions, which is a win-win situation for both parties.
Originally, as the handler of this incident, Zhao Duwei had the opportunity to distribute benefits.
But thinking of Li Taihang's instructions, he decided not to go. In addition, he couldn't stand the prefect's behavior, so he just gave up.
"Humph, you are stupid. What immortal is not immortal? You don't know him, why should you listen to him?"
"Okay, what do you know as a woman?"
Captain Zhao was very annoyed. He wanted to go out for a walk, but after thinking about Li Taihang's instructions, he shrank back.
But at this time, Xiangmanlou was very lively.
"Lord Zhao, what is the matter with you calling everyone today?"
"Yes, we still have something to do."
In fact, everyone got the news, but they didn't dare to show it on the surface.
"Haha, of course it's a good thing, otherwise I wouldn't call you here."
After seeing the guests arrive, Liu Feng stretched out his hand to the people in front of him and signaled them to be quiet.
Everyone also quieted down.
"This time, under the wise and brave leadership of this prefect, we heroically eliminated the evil bandits who were roaming around and committing crimes crazily."
"Of course, meritorious service should be rewarded, so now I have to see how much effort everyone has put in, so that I can report it later, don't you think?"
The effort Liu Feng mentioned here is actually silver.
It's just that these are more sensitive, so they won't say it directly.
"Hehe, the prefect is very observant and will definitely reward and punish clearly!"
"Yes, yes."
They all knew that the highlight was about to begin, and they all became excited.
"Okay, let's talk about the first achievement first. How much effort did you put in?" Liu Feng looked at everyone with a smile.
"Hey, prefect, we will contribute 100,000 strengths!"
"Tsk, for one first merit, you only contributed 100,000 strengths? I will contribute 1 million strengths."
"I will contribute 1.5 million strengths."
"I will contribute 1.6 million strengths."
...
In the end, the first merit was won with 5 million strengths, and the winner was even happier.
Money is just a number to them, and power can make their family stronger.
"Next is the merit of killing the leader. How much strength did you contribute?"
"I will contribute 50,000 strengths."
"How dare you contribute 50,000 strengths? I will contribute 1 million strengths."
"Wow, it's increased so much all of a sudden?"
"1.2 million strengths!"
...
Soon after, the leader's merit was also taken with 4.5 million strengths.
"Next is the second leader!"
...
"Next is the head strength. Everyone, see how many heads you have contributed. There are 120 heads in total. Tell me, how much strength did you contribute?"
"50,000 strength per head."
"100,000."
...
In the end, each head was auctioned at an average price of 200,000 strength.
After the auction, Liu Feng received more than 15 million strength, which made him very happy.
This is several times more than what he invested at the beginning.
Sure enough, being an official is a huge profit!
However, everything they did at this time was seen by some people.
"Damn dog official, how dare you insult my brother like this!"And these people were the ones who escaped the net of the bandits.
"I will kill you. Today, everyone here must die!"
"Brothers, kill!"
"Kill!"
These bandits had sneaked into Guangming Mansion in advance to help their brothers get information.
As a result, they unexpectedly waited for the news that their brothers were all wiped out in Liujia Village.
They heard that the prefecture was going to auction the credit for eliminating the bandits, so they hid in Xiangmanlou in advance.
They saw everything that happened here.
At this time, they were extremely angry. They would rather die than fight these dog officials. Suddenly, Xiangmanlou was filled with angry shouts and shrill screams.
When the officers and soldiers rushed over, there were no living people here, and those bandits were almost dead.
The remaining bandit leader was even more furious, and finally fell down unwillingly under the arrows of the officers and soldiers.