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Several attendants hurriedly helped him up, and one of them suddenly stared wide-eyed.

He Wen has a hole in his forehead.

Blood and brain matter only started flowing out at this moment...

"Lord Chen, Young Master He, he also..."

At this moment, Chen Zhang didn't care about the deaths of his own parents; he spurred his horse and galloped away in a flash. The entire army collapsed like a house of cards, fleeing several times faster than they had come...

With a whoosh, hundreds of figures appeared simultaneously around Zhou Wenju.

Xu Hai exclaimed, "Young master, are you really not going to kill this damned prefect?"

Who do the villagers of Hexi Village hate the most?

It wasn't the He family or the Li family; the people they hated most were the successive governments.

Especially the former county magistrate, Chen Zhang.

It was these officials who protected the He family, gradually cutting off their chances of survival.

Today we could have killed that corrupt official Chen Zhang, but Zhou Wenju stopped us…

Zhou Wenju's gaze swept across the entire scene, and he sighed softly: "Fellow villagers, you still have to be patient. When doing things, there must be some method. If we kill this damned prefect, the situation will really change, and there will be no room for maneuver."

Zhang San respected him the most.

In the past, as long as Zhou Wenju spoke, he would start doing it without saying a word.

But at this moment, his eyes were also filled with confusion...

His mind was in turmoil: Young master, I understand what you mean. Killing a fourth-rank official is too serious a matter; it would truly confirm rebellion. But do you really think that, even now, the nature of the crime hasn't changed?

Is there any room for maneuver?

But he didn't say much, simply waving his hand: "Clean up the battlefield!"

A hundred people acted simultaneously to clean up the battlefield...

A sudden burst of gunfire shattered the tranquility of this place.

The Jingtian Nunnery, not far above, was naturally alerted as well.

Zhou Shuang opened her eyes while meditating and practicing her skills, and saw her master's beautiful eyes looking at her...

"There seems to be some commotion down the mountain. What happened?" Zhou Shuang was confused for a moment.

Miao Ni let out a soft breath: "Shuang'er, tell your master, is your second brother... really just a mischievous brat?"

"Huh?" Zhou Shuang jumped up. "What...what did he do now? I'm going to see..."

Reaching the edge of the cliff, under the faint starlight, she saw the devastation on the official road.

She saw hundreds of people there dragging and burying corpses.

She also spotted the most conspicuous person in white in the crowd—her second brother.

She also saw the "fire pokers" that those people were carrying on their backs...

"My God, he... he's led the villagers to kill and rob again... Master, who did they kill this time?"

"Prefect Chen Zhang of Lingnan!"

Zhou Shuang stumbled and almost fell over. Suddenly, her gaze was drawn to two other figures who had been running all the way from Qishan County. Both of them had a faint golden light under their feet.

However, one of them is the golden light generated by the official seal.

Another feature is the metallic sheen that the prosthetic leg naturally possesses...

"My dad's here, we're doomed, my second brother's situation isn't just about being locked up..." Zhou Shuang didn't dare go downstairs.

Because her second brother escaped from prison today, she also played a less-than-honorable role.

On the mountain path below, County Magistrate Zhou Liangsheng's face was extremely serious.

Gunfire erupted at Xiemapo, and he heard it even from the county government office.

At first, he didn't understand the situation and asked Lao Qi. Lao Qi's face changed the moment the gunshot rang out, and he couldn't say a word.

Zhou Liangsheng immediately had a bad feeling. He kicked open the solitary confinement cell, only to find it empty.

Zhou Liangsheng turned his gaze to Lao Qi: "Where is that unfilial son?"

Old Qi's face was full of conflict: "I was ordered by the master to go and buy winter clothes for migrant workers..."

"go!"

Zhou Liangsheng unleashed the full power of his official seal, transforming into a galloping horse for the third time in a single day, rushing out of the county town. None of the yamen runners could keep up, and only Lao Qi stayed by his side.

They ran all the way to Xiemapo.

Upon arrival, he saw his son, Zhou Wenju, dressed in white, which stood out in the darkness, looking extremely stylish and even exuding a scholarly air.

Before him, hundreds of villagers were busy digging pits and dragging corpses.

Zhou Liangsheng was so angry that he set the mountain on fire!

"You unfilial son!" The two words were uttered with the force of a mountain, as powerful as the sea...

All the villagers stopped fighting, their expressions changing drastically.

"Father..." Zhou Wenju rubbed his hands gently, and could only walk up to him.

"You..." Zhou Liang Sheng pointed a finger directly at his nose: "What...what have you done now?"

"Just now, Prefect Chen Zhang of Lingnan led the Lingnan Prefecture troops to attack. To prevent the loss of Qishan, I set up an ambush here..."

Zhou Liangsheng staggered, his vision blurring: "You actually killed a government official? You…"

"Father, do not worry, Chen Zhang is not dead, he has already escaped back to Lingnan Prefecture."

Chen Zhang is not dead!

Zhou Liangsheng took a deep breath, his stomach churning uncontrollably: "Making weapons, inciting villagers, murdering and robbing, defying the imperial court... Zhou Wenju... do you really think you can do whatever you want?"

These words no longer sparked any anger.

The scathing rebuke of the "rebellious son" was gone.

However, it is now ten times heavier than before.

Simply because he addressed Zhou Wenju by his given name!

This is already a difference in stance!

In today's arena, there are no fathers and sons, only opposing sides!

With a thud, a person knelt down in front of Zhou Liangsheng.

It was Zhang San.

Zhang San said, "Since Lord Zhou entered Qishan, his integrity in poverty and his love for the people are known to all the 30,000 people of Hexi Valley. We respect him the most. On behalf of the 30,000 elders of Hexi, I, Zhang San, beg the magistrate not to punish the young master."

tom!

Another person knelt down; it was Xu Hai: "That's exactly right! Young Master Zhou entered our Hexi Valley, saving the villagers from the brink of death, forging divine weapons, and helping our Hexi Valley to slay bandits and quell the He and Li families who had plagued the entire county. The 300,000 elders of Qishan County can finally see the clear blue sky above their heads. This is justice, this is righteousness. If the county magistrate punishes the young master, who among the elders of the county will accept it?"

"You..." Zhou Liangsheng froze, taking a deep breath: "You only know petty gains, not the greater good! A country has its laws, a family has its rules. If everyone can carry a gun and do whatever they want, what's the use of the imperial laws? You should know that when the law is broken, the people suffer!"

"Your Excellency!" another villager stepped forward proudly. "Your Excellency, please forgive me for disagreeing with your words! What is a small gain? What is a great principle? This concerns 300,000 people; is it a big or small matter?"

"Exactly!" another villager said. "The magistrate said that when the law is broken, the people suffer. But in the past fifty years, the laws of Qishan seem to have remained intact, so why are the people still being injured all the time?"

Zhou Liangsheng was speechless for a moment.

The Hexi Valley is not just home to illiterate villagers.

There were also people from all over the county who had been driven to nowhere by the He and Li families, and among these people, quite a few were literate.

For example, the four mentioned above, without mentioning any profound sacred doctrines, simply used Qishan as an example to refute him until he was speechless.