Royal Gold Medal County Magistrate

Fang Zheng's casual actions stunned Wang Qian.

He didn't expect this guy to start meddling in his affairs as soon as he entered the city.

Are the officials in the capital so bold now? Or is he mentally unstable?

Wang Qian hurriedly reached out his hand and said anxiously, "Master Fang, come back quickly! It's dangerous!"

Fang Zheng turned his head and said seriously, "Master Wang, you haven't solved these bandits in five days. Where is the face of the government?

How should the people of Haiyuan City view the imperial court? You can tolerate it, but I cannot! Wait for my order, and remember to rush in with people if anything unexpected happens."

As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the South Building opened, revealing a dark interior.

Wang Qian sheepishly retracted his hand, speechless for a moment, and began to calculate in his heart again.

Fang Zheng had already strode into the South Building.

As soon as he stepped inside, the door slammed shut!

Wang Qian shuddered and looked back at the people Fang Zheng had brought, feeling a little dazed.

Fang Zheng's arrival today gave him a very strange feeling.

But thinking carefully about what he said, it didn't seem to be wrong.

After thinking about it, he could only attribute it to Fang Zheng's youth, impulsiveness, and fearlessness of death.

Inside the South Building.

As soon as Fang Zheng entered, Zhou Tie immediately flashed out from the side, his face full of excitement, "Master, why are you here?"

"Has anything happened to our brothers?" Fang Zheng asked.

Zhou Tie immediately waved his hand and said, "No! Only Qian Desheng is missing, but he should be hiding in the city. Old Xie and the important hostages are all on the second floor. I'll take you there right away!"

Seeing Zhou Tie's tired appearance, Fang Zheng didn't ask any more questions and followed him upstairs.

As soon as they reached the second floor, all the people from Taoyuan County stood up excitedly!

They greeted Fang Zheng one after another, except for Xie Xian, who was still sitting in his chair.

He looked extremely tired, and his whole person seemed very depressed.

The hostages' mouths were stuffed tightly. They had originally felt great hope when they heard that government officials had come to negotiate.

But they didn't expect that these bandits would react this way when they saw the government officials, and they immediately felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave.

Especially Old Master Lu, who was sitting on the ground, couldn't help but squeeze out a tear from his dim eyes.

Fang Zheng scanned the room and was completely relieved to see that his people were all there.

He pulled up a chair and sat down next to Xie Xian.

Xie Xian gave a wry smile and said in a hoarse voice, "Master, I messed things up..."

"Yes, if I had come two days later, all the brothers in this room would have been implicated by you. Heh, it seems you are indeed not suitable to be an official."

Zhao Lie knelt on the ground with a thud and pleaded, "Master, don't blame Mr. Xie. It's not his fault. It's all because the Lu family is inhuman! These days, Mr. Xie has only slept for one or two hours a day, and his body can't take it anymore."

Fang Zheng sighed, "Get up, I'm not blaming you. Now that things have come to this, the right way is to find a way to solve the problem first."

"Tell me, what happened?"

Zhao Lie began to tell the story.

Soon, Fang Zheng finished listening and couldn't help but feel a bit of admiration for Xie Xian.

Years ago, when he met Xie Xian going to the capital for the imperial examination, the two of them had only drunk twice. At that time, Xie Xian was still an out-and-out angry young man.

He criticized current affairs, berated everything, and sprayed non-stop. He had been doing business in the county for so many years and thought his nature had changed.

He didn't expect that he was still an angry young man at heart, and his true colors hadn't changed at all.

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng sighed deeply and put his hand on Xie Xian's shoulder. What else could he say besides comfort to such a person? At this moment, he even wanted to sing a few lines!

Xie Xian raised his head, enduring the soreness in his eyes, and said with a guilty expression, "Master, I....."

"I love you walking alone in the dark alley, I love your unyielding appearance, I love you confronting despair, unwilling to cry! I love your tattered clothes, but dare to... fight? Fight... who says only those standing in the light count as heroes ~"

Fang Zheng emotionally sang a song impromptu to comfort his subordinates.

Xie Xian was shocked and his scalp tingled at the same time. He stared blankly at Fang Zheng.

He had messed things up, and the master was going to use torture on him because he was unhappy! Was he so angry?

Then his spirit collapsed, he closed his eyes, and fell asleep.

Fang Zheng looked at Xie Xian, who was sleeping dead on the table, with annoyance.

I finally managed to be moved once, and you don't give me face! Crap!

The others in the room didn't feel the beauty of the lyrics at all, and only cared about digging their toes into the ground.

Especially Du Lingfeng, his eyelids twitched. He now completely understood!

He had heard Fang Zheng's name outside the building just now... So Xie Xian had been working for Fang Zheng all along.

Then approaching him might have been to investigate the salt merchants.

It's just... why is this Fang Zheng so unreliable! He doesn't look like an official at all. Are all the officials in the capital like this?

Fang Zheng pointed to Xie Xian and said, "Someone, send him to bed to sleep well." Then he turned to Zhao Lie and asked, "What are your plans for holding out here for five days? If I hadn't come, would you have been prepared to be trapped to death here?"

Zhao Lie shook his head and said, "Master, you don't know. We were surrounded on the second day. The old dog Lu is very cunning. No matter how we beat or scold him, he won't say a word. Now he hasn't even told us where the account book is. We still only have a conclusion without evidence."

"Also, if you hadn't come, we would have planned to break out in two days. I have already figured out the positions of the archers these two days."

"The others will use gunpowder to directly attack. Then we will directly blow open the city gate and charge out. It's just that we are afraid of casualties among the brothers and want to plan more carefully."

"How much do you know about the official in charge here, Wang Qian?"

"Not much. We only heard that this person is colluding with the Lu family and acts according to the Lu family's wishes."

Fang Zheng nodded, secretly feeling lucky.

Fortunately, he was worried and came here himself, otherwise his twenty-odd brothers would have all been lost here.

Now he has to find a way to quickly resolve the situation.

After thinking carefully, Fang Zheng walked to Old Master Lu and kicked him, "Hey, the Lu family is so big, there should be a silver vault, right?"

"Where is the silver vault? Where is the account book?"

"Ooh ooh ooh ooh!!!"

Fang Zheng immediately pulled out the cloth ball. He didn't expect that as soon as he helped him loosen his mouth, Old Master Lu immediately shouted to the window, "Fang Zheng is... Ah!!!"

Halfway through the shout, Fang Zheng's fist had already appeared on his face.

Old Master Lu wailed and fell to the ground.

Fang Zheng looked at him with a smile and said, "Can you speak properly? If you dare to have any ulterior motives again, I will kill you."

Old Master Lu endured the pain and said, "Then kill me! If you kill me, you can forget about living!"

The next second, under Old Master Lu's terrified gaze, Fang Zheng took out a dagger.

He covered his mouth with one hand and slowly sent the blade into his chest with the other......