Li Qing looked at him, "Master Liu, I want to ask you, do you think he will let you get home safely if you meet him once? I think you might as well cooperate with me and put an end to all the corruption and perversion of the law that Wang Ping has done over the years. Find out and make amends."

Magistrate Liu looked at Li Qing and spread his hands, "The account books have been burned by Wang Ping, how can you check them?"

Li Qing saw him acting like you wouldn't be able to find out even if I cooperated with you. He chuckled and said, "Master Liu, let's open the skylight and speak openly. You see that you have already started preparing for a retreat. I don't believe it." You haven't left any fallback in these years. If you have any conditions, you can put forward them and we can discuss them."

Magistrate Liu looked at Li Qing, "Master Li, I also want to ask you, how did you have the courage to investigate this matter? Do you have anyone in Kyoto who can speak for you?"

It turned out that he was afraid that there was no one behind me. Li Qing looked at him and said with a smile: "Master Liu, you can rest assured. My uncle is a bachelor and my brother-in-law is the Minister of Household Affairs. Now you should be relieved, right?"

Magistrate Liu looked at Li Qing as if he was looking at a fool, "You have such good connections, why did you come to this place where you don't have shit?"

Li Qing smiled bitterly and said: "Yes! I regret it too! If it were a little later, I would be near Kyoto, but I can't turn around and go back now!"

Magistrate Liu felt that he could not give up the things he had left in his hands to save his life so easily to a fool like Li Qing, so he had to go back to discuss it with his uncle and think it over carefully.

"Master Li, I will go back and think about it before I reply to you."

"Okay." Li Qing agreed readily and watched him go, thinking to himself: If you don't cooperate with me, I can find out where the food in the warehouse has gone.

As soon as Magistrate Liu left, Wang Ping came. He stood at the door and looked at Li Qing, who was busy with his head down. He put a smile on his face and said to Li Qing: "Master Li, the village elders in the county want to help you wash away the dust. I don't know. Can you give me a favor?"

Li Qing raised his head and glanced at him, and said with a sullen face: "The county magistrate Wang and all the village elders are interested. I haven't officially taken office yet, so I think it will be unnecessary for me to accept the wind and wash the dust!"

Wang Ping didn't expect that Li Qing wouldn't even give him this face, and looked embarrassed, "Master Li..."

"Wang County Cheng," Li Qing shouted, looked at him and said, "Don't you know what happened in the county government last night? Do you think I still have the heart to attend the banquet?"

Wang Ping blushed, "Sir, I only found out about the news this morning. You said it was fine, so why did it go away?"

Li Qing walked up to him and looked at him condescendingly, "I still want to know why Hao Hao was so lucky. It happened to be the room where I checked the accounts. Do you think he pointed to that room and burned it? ah?"

Wang Ping took two steps back and said with a sneer: "Sir, when I returned home from the government office, I didn't even leave the door..."

"I didn't say it was you!" Li Qing interrupted his next words and deliberately misinterpreted it.

Wang Ping hurriedly shouted: "Master Li, I didn't mean to be lowered!"

Li Qing looked at him,...

Wang Ping angrily raised his hands to Li Qing and said, "Master Li, since you don't have time to attend the banquet, I'll go back to those village elders first."

Li Qing nodded and said, "Okay, I'd like to ask the county magistrate Wang to tell the village elders on my behalf, and I will personally thank them for their kindness when I take office."

"Yes, Lord Li." Wang Ping walked out without looking back, walked to a place where Li Qing couldn't see him, and spat angrily, "I don't know what to look up to."

Li Qing returned to the back office, and Ding Yi came back to report: "Master, Lao Hu has found the place where the two hamsters are imprisoned, and he and Lao Liang are interrogating them there!"

Li Qing felt that the manpower Li Yu helped him find was really good. Without their help, he would be in a difficult situation now.

Li Qing happily clasped his fists at Ding Yi and said, "Brother Ding, thank you for your hard work."

Ding Yi smiled and shook his head, "No thanks, it's all a matter of our classification."

Magistrate Liu returned to the inn and discussed with Master Liu. They struggled all night and finally decided to cooperate with Li Qing.

The next day, Magistrate Liu and Master Liu returned to the Yamen with an account book and said to Li Qing: "Master Li, I'm not going to hide it from you. I reached out and took some not long after I arrived, but later I realized something was wrong. I deposited all the money I got into Sihai Bank, and my master and I always carry the banknotes with us."

Li Qing took the account book and also took out the confessions of the two warehouse managers, "Master Liu, I also want to show you something."

After County Magistrate Liu took it over and looked at it, he broke out in a cold sweat. He was secretly glad that he had made the right choice and handed the confession to Master Liu who was full of doubts.

Magistrate Liu bowed his head to Li Qing and saluted, "Thank you, Master Li. Thank you, Master Li."

Li Qing got the evidence that Wang Ping was corrupt and perverted the law, went through the handover procedures with County Magistrate Liu, and said sincerely to Magistrate Liu: "Master Liu, I advise you to move back to the second hall for a while, and wait for Wang Ping's gang." People are caught and then left.”

The uncle and nephew of County Magistrate Liu readily agreed. Master Liu knelt down and kowtowed to Li Qing and said, "Student, I would like to thank Mr. Li for his kind heart and for being so generous to my family, Fenglin. There is no way I can repay such kindness. I am willing to come out and testify against Wang Ping."

Li Qing smiled and helped him up, "Thank you Master Liu. With your help, it will be much easier to capture Wang Ping and his gang."

****

Li Yu took Ruyi and Jixiang on horseback and galloped all the way, covering most of the distance in four or five days.

As soon as we came down from the mountain that day, the sky gradually darkened. Thunder came from the sky, accompanied by dazzling lightning. It looked like heavy rain was coming.

Ruyi said to Li Yu: "Madam, it's going to rain heavily. Let's find a place to hide."

Li Yu responded loudly, "Okay."

Ji Xiang, who was walking in front, pointed not far away and shouted: "Madam, you see there seems to be a house ahead. Let's go and take a look."

Several people drove over and saw a dilapidated house in front of them.

The three of them led the horses along the moss-covered stone road, passing through the overgrown shrubs, vines and waist-deep grass in the yard. When they arrived at the gate, they discovered that it was a mountain temple.

There were three rooms, one main hall and two side rooms. Several people tied their horses to the pillars under the eaves. A thunder exploded on the roof, and heavy rain followed by lightning fell.

The three of them walked into the main hall and saw that it was covered with spider webs. The originally majestic statue had become mottled and rainwater was dripping from the roof near the statue.

Jixiang bowed to the statue several times and said, "Mountain God, please excuse me."

Li Yu turned around and went out to the room on the west side of the main hall. He saw that the doors and windows at the front and back were in tatters, and there was a broken wooden table and chair inside. Fortunately, this room did not leak.

Li Yu returned to the main hall and said to Ji Xiang: "Let's not disturb the Mountain God in the main hall. Let's go to the west room, which will not leak from the rain."

"Yeah!" Jixiang followed Li Yu out with the baggage.

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