That Person In That River and Lake

  Chapter 10 Compensation for tens of thousands of taels

  Suddenly a group of uninvited guests broke in, Zhou Bantou and Wang Bantou and their party were startled, they immediately drew their knives and stood up, but when they saw that it was Gu Qingci, they relaxed.

   "It turned out to be the magistrate of the county, I don't know that the majesty of the county is so aggressive, what is the so-called?"

Zhou Bantou didn't take Gu Qingci seriously at all, because he knew Gu Qingci's temper and never advocated the use of violence. Even if he was blocked in Qingkou now, he didn't panic. The county has no power at all, and he is not afraid at all.

  Gu Qingci snorted coldly, waved his hands and shouted: "I will take down all these people who eat vegetarian food, and those who dare to resist will be killed without mercy!"

  Seeing a group of people rushing out from behind Gu Qingci, the faces of Bantou Zhou and his group changed drastically. They didn't expect Gu Qingci to dare to attack directly, but they all drew their knives out immediately and confronted Gu Qingci.

Just when Bantou Zhou and the others drew their knives out, Old Man Yan reacted faster than anyone else, and the knives came out of their sheaths, blocking Gu Qingci's face, which surprised Gu Qingci, but before he could think about it, he shouted : "Don't do it yet?"

  Hearing Gu Qingci's order, the group of guards behind him all rushed in and started directly.

Zhou Bantou and others have been drinking all the time, all of them are drunk, and they are defenseless. They were all caught in a few strokes.

   Being firmly controlled by two guards, Team Leader Zhou still didn't give up, wanted to resist, and yelled: "Gu Qingci, even if you are the county magistrate, why do you arrest me? I haven't broken any law!"

Gu Qingci's eyes were fixed, with a cold light, staring at Zhou Bantou, Zhou Bantou was shocked by Gu Qingci's expressionless eyes, and suddenly found that Gu Qingci was so strange, the Gu Qingci he knew would always be a A modest gentleman, with a gentle appearance like jade, when did he have such a fierce side.

   "呲"

Gu Qingci unsheathed the long sword in his hand, put it on Zhou Ban's neck, and said coldly: "If you still dare to question the county, then the county will ask you. Yesterday the county ordered you to recruit new guards. Why do you I didn’t do it, I will send someone to inform you today, why don’t you come?”

   Team leader Zhou suddenly felt a trace of cold murderous intent, panicked, and argued: "You asked me to recruit new guards, and there was no set time, and I didn't even know about the appointment!"

   "Sophistry, isn't it?" Gu Qingci said coldly, "Where did the 10,000 taels of public funds you received from the county magistrate yesterday go?"

"This..." Bantou Zhou didn't know what to say for a while, looked at Gu Qingci, and suddenly said harshly: "So what, I was taken by me, what can you do, if you dare to touch me, you, the county magistrate, will die It's..."

   "poof"

Before Bantou Zhou finished speaking, Gu Qingci's long sword cut his throat, blood gushed out, and Bantou Zhou fell to the ground slowly, his eyes were still unwilling, and his mouth seemed to be still talking, but he couldn't say anything. Come out, only spit out some blood foam, and then he was out of breath.

  The entire private room was quiet, terribly quiet, no one expected that the mild-tempered magistrate would kill as soon as he said he would, without hesitation at all.

   This sword made everyone terrified.

  However, it was not over, Gu Qingci looked at Bantou Wang again.

Seeed by Gu Qingci, that Zhou's team leader trembled all over, his face was pale, he knelt down on the ground tremblingly, and begged for mercy: "My lord, my lord, I was wrong, I was bewitched by him, it's none of my business what…"

   "呲"

With a flash of sword light, Gu Qingci did not hesitate at all, and directly let Bantou Wang meet Hades. At this moment, everyone held their breath, and the air was filled with silence, shock, and fear. At this moment, everyone It's all confirmed, this county lord is not what they think, this county lord is extremely cruel.

  Gu Qingci turned his attention to the ten guards who were detained, and said coldly: "What do you have to say?"

Those guards had already been frightened out of their wits. They all knelt in a row trembling, begging for mercy, and even the timid ones were so scared that they even urinated. Broken blood.

  Gu Qingci's silence was like a guillotine hanging over everyone's heads, even the group of servants who followed Gu Qingci were terrified.

   After a long while, Gu Qingci finally spoke, and said: "Okay, today the county only punishes the chief villain, so I will spare your life."

After Gu Qingci spoke, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but Gu Qingci suddenly changed his tone and said: "However, capital crimes can be avoided, but living crimes cannot be escaped. The county will send special personnel to investigate, and half of your property will be confiscated. Get rid of all positions, and get out of the county government office!"

   "Thank you, my lord, for your life..."

   "Thank you, sir, for not killing me!"

  Those people didn't dare to say anything more, they all agreed in a polite manner.

Gu Qingci turned his head and looked at the other guards who followed him. He could see the word "awe" in their eyes, and then he nodded in satisfaction. The reason why he insisted on killing the two squad leaders was because of Liwei, because he really lacks prestige in the county government.

Gu Qingci looked at the servants and said: "In addition, you all performed very well today. The servants of our county government are to serve the people, and they must have the spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice. You have done a good job today. Silver is doubled!"

  Although Gu Qingci knows that this kind of method should be only available to those gangs, and the officialdom should not be like this, but he is too urgent now, and has to use this low-level method to win people's hearts.

   Sure enough, under the benefits, everyone was happy, and they all said respectfully: "Thank you for your gift!"

Gu Qingci understands the mentality of these people. After all, whether they are gangsters or working in the yamen, they are all for making money. If you have no money, why should you ask others to work for you? This method is the fastest and Gu Qingci also needs it. People work hard.

Gu Qingci went out and looked around, only to realize that there was no one in the lively Hongxiu Zhao because of his fuss, he frowned secretly, at this time, an officer came over and said: "Master County, The red-sleeve recruiter asked to see you."

Gu Qingci nodded. After all, he turned this place upside down, and it would be shameless not to tell the master. He looked at old man Yan and said, "Uncle Yan, take someone to dispose of the corpse, and take it with you when you're done. If you go back to the county government office, just leave me with four people."

   "My lord, four people, what about your safety?" Old Man Yan asked a little worried.

   "Don't worry, in broad daylight, I am a majestic county magistrate, what else can happen?" Gu Qingci smiled and said.

  Old man Yan hesitated for a moment, but nodded and led the person away.

Gu Qing walked to the lobby, found a place to sit down, and soon, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl in yellow clothes walked up to him and saluted, "Little girl pays homage to your lord, Miss Qing is here today!" I'm sick, and it's inconvenient to go downstairs, please move."

  Gu Qingci was taken aback for a moment, and said, "Who is Miss Qing?"

  The woman in yellow was a little surprised, and said: "My lord, don't you know that the host of our red-sleeve recruiter is a young girl?"

  Gu Qingci smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm sorry, please lead the way!"

  The girl in yellow pouted, pointed at the four guards behind Gu Qingci, and said, "Your Excellency, you can go, but they can't."

Gu Qingci thought for a while, he himself was going to make amends, and it was indeed not suitable to bring a large number of people, and he did not believe that a brothel would dare to harm him, not to mention, he was also very confident in his own strength , then nodded and let those servants stay.

Soon, the girl in yellow took Gu Qing to the third floor and entered a room. The room was elegantly furnished, with silk and bead curtains swinging gently, and there was a saucepan purple desk and an incense burner in the corner. Fragrant mist rose from the air, wrapped in gauze curtains, and permeated the room.

There is a layer of curtains in the middle, and there is a woman with a graceful figure that can be vaguely seen. It should be the Qing girl, but Gu Qingci didn't have much effort, and said directly: "Miss Qing, this county just got married in Hongxiu. Recruiting to deal with some miscellaneous matters has caused you a lot of inconvenience here, and I came here to find you, just to apologize to you, by the way!"

   "Your Excellency has a heart, but let's forget about the compensation!" Qing girl's voice sounded like an oriole.

   "This can't be done," Gu Qing said righteously: "This county is a county official, even if it hurts the people, it must be compensated!"

   "Oh, that's fine," Miss Qing said suddenly, "Then just pay tens of thousands of taels of silver!"

   "What? Tens of thousands of taels! The girl's hush money, this county can't afford it!"

  (end of this chapter)