Chapter 462: Murder for Life (1)
Li Si is not easy to answer again.
"It is natural to pay back the debt. Although Brother Hou died, the debt must be paid." Liangchen looked at the big man with black mole coldly.
Li Si did not dare to look directly at the other party's eyes, hesitated for a while, and whispered: "It's more than sixty taels."
"Oh." Liangchen nodded slightly, "Where is the IOU?"
He pressed a flying tiger soldier from Li Si to pick out an IOU from him. Liangchen took it and found that the date above was more than 20 days ago. It must be the new note written on the day Hou Er was injured.
Li Si didn't know what the other party wanted to do for the IOU, but even if the other party tore the IOU, he would have nothing to say. Unexpectedly, the young man ordered his followers to get the money for him.
Liangchen brought some money when he left the capital, and Xiaotian kept a lot of silver on his body to prepare for food and drink on the way. After listening to the angel father-in-law's order, Xiaotian hurriedly took out a purse and weighed it. It was estimated that the portion was enough and threw it in front of Li Si.
Liangchen signaled Li Si to pick up the money, and then said, "I will give you the money and you will be fined. I will tear this piece."
"Young master, just tear it up." Li Si felt nervous when he picked up the money. He was a little unbelievable that the young man really paid back the money for Hou Ba.
"Young Master?"
Hou Da was confused. The young master said that he wanted to be fair for his younger brother, but in a blink of an eye, he cleared his brother's debt. Could it be that being fair means paying back the money?
Liangchen ignored Hou Da’s thoughts, and just tore the IOU in half, then tore a few more randomly and threw them on the ground.
Looking at the broken strips on the ground, Li Si carried the money bag and said carefully: "Young Master, since the debt has been cleared, can we let go?"
"Can."
Liangchen waved his hand and signaled his subordinates to let the person go.
So readily let people go?
Li Si was stunned for a moment, and then several people were ashamed of being pardoned, fearing that the good minister would repent, so they rushed out of the yard like arrows.
When they ran away, the few people couldn't stop looking back, fearing that the big men behind them would catch up.
No one of the onlookers dared to stop Li Si and the others, and just looked at their backs and cursed quietly.
"Why did the young master let them go!" Hou Da watched the murderer who beat his brother to death run away, feeling very unwilling.
"Don't worry, the law of heaven is just right, they won't be so cheap."
The good ministers had their own plans, and the law of the Ming Dynasty did not ban high interests, so it was natural to repay debts. Moreover, behind the profit-making performance were local gentry.
To put it bluntly, as long as you borrow this money, no matter what the reason, as long as you have a note, you will be sentenced to repay the money when you arrive at the government. Unless you encounter a few officials who know the tricks are willing to make decisions for the parties involved, but there are very few such officials.
It is better to have less than more things. As long as the law does not say that you don’t have to pay back the money, officials are lazy to do more things. After all, there are almost no one who can make profits by doing ruthlessness alone. Moreover, it is because of this kind of gamblers who borrow money, so the government does not want to ask about it. The so-called pitiful people must have something hateful.
Thirty years ago, the governor of Yingtian, Hai Rui, was strongly in charge of the "weak" people. In his opinion, as long as he sued, the poor will definitely be bullied and the rich will be in the wrong. Therefore, no matter what case comes to him, the poor will be judged to win the case.
The result was that a large number of rogues and poor laziness sued the creditors or rich people to the yamen. Hai Rui did not ask whether to be right or wrong, and all the creditors were sentenced to lose the case, which caused a huge uproar among the people, and all the good families hated the honest official to die.
Such an official can't be long.
Sometimes, a clean official may not be a good official.
Of course, Liangchen wanted to avenge Hou Er, and Dao brother died with his eyes open. If he didn't make decisions for him, he would have to say that it hurts when touching his chest, and he would not be able to say that he had a conscience in the future.
But this matter cannot be handled on the Hou family.
Good ministers can take advantage of their own people and power to deal with Li Si and the others.
What after finishing?
Has his little Eunuch Wei stayed in Dingxing County for the rest of his life?
There are only two ways for a strong dragon to defeat a local snake.
First, the strong dragon turns into a local snake.
The second is to kill the local snake, and it will be over.
Of course, Liangchen could not stay in Dingxing for the rest of his life, so he had to choose the second way. Otherwise, if he left the front and the back, the group of people came to the door, how would the Hou family deal with it?
By then, I'm afraid the Hou family would complain more than thank him.
Good intentions do bad things, but good ministers do not do them, so he wants to finish them all.
Inside the house, Baba and his son were still crying.
Liangchen shook his head and asked Oda to touch two more silver ingots out and hand them to Hou Dahe's cousin, asking them to buy a cousin for Hou Er to handle the funeral.
"Young Master, how can this make it!"
Hou Dahe's cousin was embarrassed to ask for it, so Liangchen forced it into Hou Da's hands and asked them to do it quickly.
Hou Dahe's cousin was very grateful and hurriedly went to ask for help. Hou Er had a lot of things to do when he died. Liangchen went straight into the house and cried sadly when he saw the guest Yin Yue. He walked to her side, persuaded him a few words, and then gave Baba a wink.
Ke Yinyue understood and did not go out with Liangchen immediately. After lying on her husband and crying for a while, she pretended to be too sad and felt uncomfortable. With the help of her sister-in-law, she went to the neighboring house for a rest.
Liangchen took a break and went in.
"Are those people gone?" Ke Yinyue asked, wiped her tears.
Liangchen told me that he had paid back the money for Hou Er. Ke Yinyue was a little surprised after hearing this and said that the group of people had previously said that Hou Er owed more than 100 taels, but why did he only pay more than 60 taels?
"That's to scare you."
Liangchen glanced out, bent down to Baba's ear and whispered, "I'll do something, don't cry too sadly, don't hurt your body." After that, he gently pinched Baba.
"I'm going to die, and I'm not afraid of letting people see it."
Ke Yinyue interrupted Liangchen's hand. Hou Ergang died. She was in the mood to flirt with Liangchen at this time. It would be really uncomfortable to say that she was sad.
Liangchen smiled, walked out of the house and nodded at Xiaotian and the others, then left a few people and took the rest out of the village.
After Liangchen left, Hou's wife came over to ask Ke Yinyue who they were.
Ke Yinyue hurriedly followed Liangchen's instructions and said that the Eastern Palace sent her to protect her.
"Oh, the person sent by the prince!"
Hou Da’s wife was shocked. She just went to the palace to be a nurse for others. Why did she even send someone to protect her when she got home? When she thought about the young master, she turned out to be a eunuch, and she couldn’t help but feel regretful.
After Liangchen took people out of the village, he led people straight to the official road.
Li Si's group came by carriages, and they couldn't get there. They were afraid they couldn't even get to the county when it was dark. But it was strange that several flying tiger soldiers looked around and found that the carriage marks were not galloping on the official road, but broke into a small road leading to the north.
"I'm guarding us."
Liangchen smiled, and Li Si's group of people were also thieves.
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