Liu Taozi rode a horse and led the people around, galloping down the street.
Occasionally I see a few people, whether they are carrying dung or carrying hoes, they will put down their things and bow to these knights.
As for those who are luxuriously dressed and well-fed, they no longer dare to go out at this time.
They were speeding along, and Taozi kept looking around him. The road was no longer deserted, but Taozi didn't return the greeting, nor did he look at them more. He just hurried on and continued to patrol.
Rushing all the way to the city wall, the door was covered with heads hanging in the wind.
Some hired thieves to beat people's heads to death, some stole the heads of other people's wives, and some broke into houses and snatched the heads of other people's sheep when they felt hungry while walking on the road.
It's not a good start anyway.
They were hung up neatly and looked at the people entering and leaving the city. The eyes of the heads were full of fear and pain. After being hung up, they were no different from other heads.
The soldier at the door gave way and watched the knights dash away.
The clerk quickly stood up and saluted.
After these people left, the county soldier suddenly turned around, looked at the clerk, and motioned for him to come closer.
"Is this the mandrill from the county government office?"
"Ah, it's Liu Gong, Liu Youjiu."
The county soldier frowned and couldn't help complaining: "This man is very cruel. Yesterday he broke into the county school and took two of our brothers into custody. No one dared to stop him."
"This is the first time in so many years that I have seen someone dare to break into our barracks and arrest someone."
The clerk just smiled and didn't dare to answer.
Taozi rushed out of the county town and continued to run wildly. At this moment, the only one following him was Kou Liu, and the other knight was a casual official. Taozi asked someone to give him a horse to ride on.
Tian Zili and Yao Xiong both stayed in the county government office.
Kou Liu was following Tao Zi closely at the moment, his eyes bright.
He did not come to be an official voluntarily. He had been hanging out in Cheng'an for a long time and was very clear about many things.
However, due to his mother's expectations, he was forced to come to the county government office.
Since he came to the county government, he has been following Taozi. He could hardly find time to spend time with his mother, and he only saw her twice.
Although he was so busy, Kou Liu didn't feel tired.
On the contrary, his life became more and more passionate.
He found that he actually liked being an official. When those people knelt down to thank him, and when those evil people cried and begged for mercy, he always felt extremely comfortable.
My Taozi brother is not a "good official". There are some old stories passed down among the common people, which record many things about good officials.
The good officials in the story are all discerning and have very powerful eyes. They can tell who is good and who is bad at a glance, punish the evildoers, and save the people.
As for Brother Taozi, he was probably not a good official. He framed him, beat and threatened him, and used lynching.
He sent Yao Xiong to pull out a bully on the street, take off his pants, and perform a castration. The bully almost died from the pain.
He almost didn't know how to look for evidence. When two county soldiers raised their heads and asked Brother Taozi for evidence with lustful faces, asking the dead woman to testify, Brother Taozi beheaded them with two swords.
The charge was that they were selling their own arms, and they were probably bought by spies of the Puppet Zhou Dynasty. After all, their "weapons" were indeed lost after being captured.
Corius read the law.
Daqi has long since abolished cruel punishments such as castration. Castrating bullies is considered lynching.
And the rest of his methods were all threats and frame-ups. No matter how you look at it, he is more like the cruel official in the rumored stories, the worst cruel official.
But it was this cruel official who, in more than ten days, changed the entire county.
The bully trembled with fear, the rich hurriedly paid off their debts, the nobles did not dare to go out easily, and the county soldiers did not dare to deliberately stop the woman for questioning.
There are more people on the road.
Just as Kou Liu was thinking about it, Taozi in front suddenly reined in his horse. The old horse neighed, raised its front hoof, and then dropped it again, splashing a piece of soil.
Kou Liu and another person also quickly reined in their horses.
He looked forward and saw a group of dead people.
They occupied the middle position of the road and moved forward sluggishly. When they saw the knights, they stopped. Kou Liu counted them and found that there were about thirty or forty knights.
Kou Liu and Sanli quickly drew out their swords.
Although there were many people on the other side, Kou Liu was not afraid. Not to mention that he had a fierce person like Brother Taozi on his side. Even if he met him alone, with a horse on his hip, he didn't have to worry about the dead.
He stepped forward on horseback and whispered to Taozi: "Brother, charge quickly and kill a few, and the rest will collapse without a fight."
Liu Taozi looked at the people in front of him calmly. The figures of these people appeared in his eyes. His numb face was lifeless, and there was a hint of pleading in his desperate eyes.
"Have you ever eaten anyone?"
Liu Taozi asked.
These people just stared blankly ahead, motionless.
"Have you ever eaten anyone?!!!"
Liu Taozi roared violently, and Kou Liu's horse was frightened. He was so frightened that Kou Liu almost fell off his horse. The surrounding birds jumped up, and Taozi's roar continued to spread here.
The faces of the dead changed drastically, and several of them fell to the ground in fear. Their faces were finally no longer so numb.
One person knelt on the ground, "No, no, Grandpa Zeng, please spare my life! Please spare my life! We have been eating dirt and grass all the way."
As the man spoke, tears fell from his eyes. He didn't know how long it had been since he cried.
His crying moved the rest of the people, and everyone shed tears, and they came to life.
Taozi looked at them calmly, "If you want to live, come with me."
"Kou Liu, you two follow them."
Taozi gave the order and rode away. Kou Liu yelled for these people to get up and follow Taozi.
Kou Liu didn't know what Taozi was going to do, but that didn't stop him from carrying out Taozi's orders.
These people were at a loss and followed Taozi in horror, stumbling forward, much faster than before.
Taozi did not gallop forward again, but moved forward slowly.
After walking for who knows how long, they passed through the dense forest and arrived outside a village.
Kou Liu looked around curiously. This was his first time here.
Continuing to walk forward, we saw a flourishing peach forest, which was growing very well.
"Who?"
I saw someone walking out of the forest. It was an old man, holding a wooden stick and his eyes alert. When he saw Liu Taozi on the horse, the old man quickly put down the wooden stick and said, "Brother Tao!!"
Liu Taozi got off his horse and met this man.
"You are here. We are all wondering when you will come again."
According to his original promise, the old man has always been here to guard Taozi's house.
Taozi exchanged greetings with him, then turned around and looked at the dead people.
"This is Zhang Village."
"That's the wild boar forest over there. There are all kinds of animals in there and you can hunt them."
"That's Zhangshui over there, where you can fish."
"Most of the surrounding cultivated land is ownerless and can be cultivated."
"There are also peach groves here, and there are all kinds of fruits around. If you are willing to look for them, you won't starve to death."
The deceased looked at him in shock, wondering why he said this.
Liu Taozi looked at the first person, "From today on, your name is Zhang Dahe. You were lost in the mountains and returned later."
"Your name is Zhang Zhong, you are a fisherman here. You once fell into the water, but you were lucky enough to survive."
"Your name is Zhang"
There are countless personal names hidden in Taozi's mind.
The plight of the deceased does not come from food, but from status. They are basically common people who escaped from the corvee, thus losing their original identity. They have to avoid being caught by the government and have nowhere to stay.
But in Daqi, the most indispensable thing is identity, especially in these villages, people disappear all year round and disappear inexplicably.
Kou Liu raised his head in surprise, as if he understood Tao Zi's thoughts.
These dead people are even more like this at this moment. They don't know what to say, they just look at Taozi, at a loss.
After Taozi finished speaking, she looked at the old man beside her.
"Uncle Zhang, there are only some old people and children left in the village. If they encounter wild beasts and bandits, they will not be able to survive. What do you think?"
The old man just nodded, "The farmland will be abandoned. Okay, take care of each other, I will listen to Brother Tao."
Liu Taozi looked at those people again, "Follow this old man, I will patrol everywhere every day. If someone dares to do evil and commit evil in the village, I will chop him into pieces and eat his flesh alive."
Liu Taozi's eyes were cold and stern, not seeming to be a fake threat at all.
Watching the old man leaving with those people one after another.
Kou Liu was a little confused, "Brother, why do you want to protect these people? They are not good people, they are all escaped criminals."
"They are not criminals."
"Forcing fathers to leave their sons, forcing sons to leave their mothers, and forcing them to build meaningless Buddhist temples - that is the criminal."
Chapter completed!