Chapter 14: Beheading

  Dian Wei saw the situation and grabbed the large iron pincers, rushing into the courtyard with Liu Xin following closely behind. The seven or eight torches illuminated the small courtyard of the governor's mansion as if it were daytime. Li Lin had already removed the rag from his mouth and was shouting "Uncle save me!" Two soldiers were frantically trying to open the handcuffs behind him. In front of him, more than twenty soldiers surrounded a middle-aged scholar, who was none other than Li Cheng, the governor of Hejian County. Liu Xin saw this and secretly took a deep breath, thinking that Li Cheng had arrived quickly. However, he was bold enough to lead his men to the governor's mansion to seize someone, completely disregarding Liu Xin's authority as the governor. It seemed that today, it would be impossible not to tear off this facade.

  At that time, when Liu Xin rushed back to the governor's mansion, the soldier Huang Er who was guarding the city gate also came back to his senses and hurriedly went to the military camp to report the situation to Colonel Li Lin. When Huang Er entered Li Lin's tent, he saw two soldiers who should have been on duty at the governor's mansion drinking wine in the tent.

  Huang Er and the two of them were close confidants of Li Lin, and they were quite familiar with each other. Seeing this, they asked strangely: "Zhao San, Wang Si, why aren't you two at the Taishou's mansion, but instead drinking here?"

  Zhao San, without lifting his head, replied: "What's the point of going to the governor's mansion? Are you listening to Governor's wife?"

  Wang Si laughed even more wildly: "Hahaha, only our Commander can hear you, Madam Taigong. You think there's a door to listen in?"

  Huang Er listened vaguely and couldn't understand what relationship the Taishou lady had with the Xiaowei gentleman, so he didn't respond to their conversation. Instead, he asked: "Where did the Xiaowei gentleman go?"

  Zhao San turned around and saw that Huang Er's hair was disheveled on one side, his face covered in blood, and he let out a loud cry: "Ghost!"

  Huang Er hastily took a step forward and pulled him along, saying: "Don't shout randomly, I'm Huang Er. Where is the school master? I have an urgent matter."

  Wang Si had already seen through the newcomer and pulled Huang Er to ask: "So it's you, how did you end up like this. The school lieutenant is having a good time now, but he doesn't have time for you, let's sit down and have a couple of drinks first."

  Huang Erji asked urgently: "Just now someone broke into the city, claiming to be the new prefect. I want to report it to Colonel Huang as soon as possible, quickly tell me where he is?"

  "Oh, the governor has returned." Zhao San responded casually, but suddenly his heart skipped a beat and he jumped up from the ground, "Ah, what did you say! The governor has returned! It's bad, it's bad..."

  Wang Si's wine was also startled awake, and he hastily said: "Let's hurry to the governor's mansion."

  Zhao San stopped him with one hand: "No, the big man beside the governor is rough and unrefined, I'm afraid the school lieutenant has already fallen into his trap. It's better to report to the county magistrate quickly."

  Wang Si also came to his senses: "Right, right, let's hurry up and go, maybe we can still make it."

  Two men threw down their wine cups and took off running, with Huang Er following close behind. The three of them ran wildly to the county governor's mansion, frantically pounding on the copper door rings. The county governor's mansion was not the same as the provincial governor's mansion, and there were several dozen soldiers guarding the gate. Someone had already come out, seeing that it was the two of them, and was about to get angry. Zhao San and Wang Si didn't say much, pushing open the gate guards and rushing in, clamoring to see the county governor. This startled Li Cheng. After listening to their account, Li Cheng broke out in a cold sweat - this Li Lin was the only son of the Li family, and if anything happened to him, the Li family would be finished! Without hesitation, Li Cheng gritted his teeth, calling up all the guards and selecting 70 or 80 robust servants, grabbing knives and guns as they rushed straight to the provincial governor's mansion.

  The Taishoufu didn't even have a gatekeeper, so Li Cheng led the crowd to storm the rear residence. There, they found Li Lin tied up in a tree in the courtyard. Although they removed the rag stuffed into Li Lin's mouth, they couldn't figure out what material was used to bind him and couldn't untie it no matter how hard they tried.

  Liu Xin looked at Li Cheng coldly and said in a low voice, "Li County Magistrate, you led a group of people into the governor's mansion with knives and guns in the middle of the night. Are you trying to rebel?"

  Li Cheng pushed aside the subordinates in front of him, took a step forward, and said to Liu Xin: "Liu Daren, things have reached this point, let's speak openly. As long as you release my nephew, the money or woman is up to you. As for your wife, I won't mention it, you won't mention it, and we'll just pretend nothing happened, so everyone can save face."

  Liu Xin sneered, "My wife is innocent and has nothing to hide. Li Lin snuck into the governor's mansion at night with ulterior motives, but fortunately my wife knew a few martial arts moves and was able to narrowly escape disaster. Li County Magistrate, you tell me, what crime should he be charged with?"

  Li Cheng laughed after hearing Liu Xin's words: "Haha, haha, it turns out my nephew was just a would-be thief. In that case, the crime is not punishable by death. Please release him, sir."

  Liu Xin burst out laughing: "What a great attempted rape! But that also depends on who the target is. If you attempt to rape the prefect's wife, can you still avoid death? And as for you, openly carrying torches and leading a crowd to break into the official residence, it's like treason, which is punishable by confiscation of property and extermination of the family! Why don't you quickly surrender!"

  Li Cheng took a few steps back and said, "Liu Xin, since you don't drink the toast, you'll have to drink the penalty wine. Since you've said so, don't blame me for being impolite. At worst, I'll take the blame for not protecting the officials properly. Bring them out and kill them all, leave no one alive!"

  Li Cheng didn't think much of Liu Xin, but he was worried that Li Lin's ugly deeds would be known to too many people and it would be hard to contain the situation. He only brought more than 20 trusted soldiers into the back house, while the others surrounded the outside of the governor's mansion. Now that things had turned sour, he wasn't afraid, after all, 20 against 2 was a pretty good advantage. But then Dian Wei heard and rushed over without saying a word, swinging his pair of large iron halberds like two giant windmills, those soldiers didn't have time to resist, they were either injured or killed instantly.

  More than twenty soldiers fell to the ground in an instant. Li Cheng had never seen such a formation, and he didn't even have time to rescue Li Lin, turning around and running towards the outside of the governor's mansion while shouting for help. The soldiers and servants surrounding the outside heard Li Cheng's cries and rushed into the governor's mansion. At this time, Li Cheng had just escaped to the front yard, and the soldiers beside him were all gone.

  Li Cheng watched as nearly a hundred household slaves and soldiers were right in front of him, just thinking about taking a breath, but was already caught up by Dian Wei. Dian Wei knew the ins and outs of the situation, hated Li Cheng to the bone, raised his iron spear, and shouted loudly "No one is allowed to leave!"

  Dian Wei struck Li Cheng's neck with a single blow, and a blood arrow burst out. A head flew up in mid-air. Dian Wei didn't wait for Li Cheng's body to fall before launching another frenzied dance. All that could be seen were the scattered remains flying everywhere, quickly chopping Li Cheng into seventeen or eighteen pieces. His internal organs were scattered all over the ground, and the scene was too gruesome to behold. Some of the severed limbs even flew into the crowd, causing the soldiers and slaves to see it, their legs trembling with fear, unable to move a step. Some vomited uncontrollably on the spot, and some fainted from fright.

  Li Chengfei's head had barely fallen to the ground when it was caught by Dian Wei, who held it high and shouted loudly: "Li Cheng has rebelled and is already dead. Those who do not surrender will be killed without pardon!"

  Those soldiers and slaves saw this scene, didn't even think of escaping, and suddenly knelt down in a flurry. Liu Xin brought Ma Yun out from inside as well, he didn't dare to leave Ma Yun alone again now. Although Ma Yun had seen many bloody scenes at the police station, she couldn't help but vomit when she saw this scene, Liu Xin endured the waves of nausea, furrowed his brow and said to Dian Wei: "How did it become like this? Next time you kill someone, remember to do it in a more civilized way."

  Dian Wei reluctantly said: "I still can't kill enough, if I were to kill all these hundred or so people, then I would be satisfied."

  Dian Wei's voice was originally loud, and at this time the sky had not yet brightened, it was very quiet, his words clearly entered the ears of those soldiers and family slaves, only to hear "plop, plop" a few times, the kneeling crowd fell down again, all scared by him. Dian Wei glanced at the crowd and saw a soldier with only half of his hair left, the bloodstains on that half of his scalp had not yet dried, he took an arrow step forward, pulled out that soldier, and threw him under Liu Xin's feet, it was Huang Er who guarded the city gate.

  Liu Xin lifted Huang Er's chin with her foot and recognized him. She said in a low voice, "Was it you who brought Li Cheng here?"

  Huang Er desperately kowtowed while pointing at the crowd with his hand: "It wasn't me, it was them two."

  Liu Xin looked in the direction of his pointing finger and saw two people hiding behind the crowd. Liu Xin gave a signal to Dian Wei, who pointed with his iron halberd and shouted: "Get out!"

  Zhao San and Wang Si rushed forward from the crowd, knocking their heads like pounding garlic: "Your Honor spare our lives, Your Honor spare our lives."

  Liu Xin asked: "Tell me, what's going on today?"

  Three people spoke one after another, and Huang Er, in order to save his own life, also told them what he had heard the two of them say in the camp. Ma Yun had just stopped vomiting and walked over to Liu Xin's side, hearing their obscene language, she was furious, picked up a waist knife from the ground, and wanted to stab Zhao San, but Liu Xin hastily pulled her back saying: "These bloody things, let's leave them to Dian Wei."

  Dian Wei listened and became excited, swung his iron pike, and quickly cut the three men into six pieces.

  Liu Xin shook his head secretly, this bloodthirsty guy! He took a step forward, stepping over the three corpses, and said to the crowd: "The ringleader has been eliminated, those who follow will not be punished! All of you get up!"

  The crowd slowly got up, with a few frightened ones still lying on the ground, and no one asked about them. Liu Xin looked at the crowd and said loudly: "All soldiers stand to the left."

  The soldiers listened and walked out of the crowd one after another. Liu Xin looked at these more than 20 soldiers and said, "I won't blame you for what happened in the past. From now on, whoever dares to have a second heart, those few are your examples!" Liu Xin paused, then pointed with his hand: "You, you, you, and you, go one by one to inform the officials of the county, come to the governor's mansion to discuss matters later. You several, go back to the military camp to call some people, surround Li Cheng and Li Lin's homes, don't let anyone escape." He pointed at those family slaves again: "You clean up this governor's mansion, take all these corpses out of the city and burn them with fire.

  Liu Xin dispatched the stop, taking Ma Yun back to the inner house, Dian Wei followed closely behind, holding an iron spear and guarding the yard. Li Lin was still chained to the tree, but had already been scared unconscious by Dian Wei's earlier slaughter. Liu Xin pulled Ma Yun into the room, where a group of children were standing shivering in fear, and someone was still kneeling in front of the bed.

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