flstandardbreds Chapter 168 I’m here to pay my tribute to Osmanthus!
Chapter 168 I’m here to pay my tribute to Osmanthus!
In Shu, there is Guixi City.
The little girl applied Xin Baicao's secret medicine on her shoulder, and her shoulder healed quickly.
She tried her best to stand up straight despite her malnutrition-weak body, raised her head and said solemnly to Xin Baicao and Wen Yanzhao:
"Thank you, uncle, thank you, brother! I have to go and pay for the osmanthus flowers..."
"If I'm late, I'll be whipped by the officials. I can't go back late... My mother is at home alone and can't go out. She's waiting for me to go back and make porridge!"
The little girl spoke calmly, and as soon as she finished speaking, she stretched out her arms to carry the heavy bamboo basket.
Wen Yanzhao couldn't bear to see this, and immediately squatted on the ground and grabbed the little girl's hand:
"Little sister, don't be anxious! Tell your brother, what is your name?"
"Today's osmanthus flowers, I'll help you pay for them... After paying for them, this uncle and I will go see your mother, okay?"
The little girl's nose twitched, and there was some worry on her face. She came close to Wen Yanzhao and said in a low voice:
"My name is Su Xian, my mother and the people in the village call me Xian'er..."
"Brother, you just killed that official. Aren't you afraid of being beheaded?"
"Last winter, Uncle Qi from our village simply beat up an official, and his head was chopped off and hung on the city gate..."
Wen Yanzhao touched the little girl's furry head and smiled easily:
"Xian'er...what a nice name!"
"Don't worry, they can't kill you, brother. Xian'er, tell me where the government office is to hand in the osmanthus flowers. Uncle and I will help you do that!"
After saying that, Wen Yanzhao picked up the bamboo basket that smelled of flowers and put it on his back.
Xin Baicao sighed:
"Why...you want to stand up for justice and fight against the government, and you want to take me with you?"
Wen Yanzhao held the little girl in one hand and the horse in the other and said with a smile:
"Didn't you, Senior, just stand up for justice before me?"
"If you're scared, I'll go by myself. Please find a teahouse nearby and wait for me!"
Xin Baicao glanced at the official killed by Wen Yanzhao on the street and said:
"Who said I was scared? I just felt sorry for the child, but I'm not like you who would kill people at the drop of a hat!"
Wen Yanzhao picked up the little girl and gently placed her on his horse, then walked ahead and said:
"These lackeys who exploit the people and take lives for the government are a disaster if we keep them around!"
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Following the little girl's instructions, Wen Yanzhao dispersed the onlookers and headed straight for the Guixi government office.
Fortunately, the three of them walked very quickly. Before the news of Wen Yanzhao's murder was reported to the government office, the three of them had already arrived at the gate of the government office.
The government office was built in an extremely magnificent manner, almost on the same level as the provincial government office.
Wen Yanzhao looked up and saw two eight-foot-tall white marble lions in front of the door.
A pair of vermilion-painted copper nails on the gate of the mansion, which is more than three meters wide, is so luxurious!
"Brother, we're here...but..."
Su Xian'er on the horse gripped the reins tightly, her tone extremely timid.
Wen Yanzhao turned around and asked:
"But what?"
Su Xian'er pointed to a small door on the west side of the mansion gate and said softly:
"We all go in through that gate to deliver our osmanthus flowers. Flower farmers like us aren't allowed to stay at the main gate... We'll get spanked!"
Wen Yanzhao grinned:
"No problem, I'll take you back to the main gate today! Let's see if they dare to hit me with the stick!"
Xin Baicao took out a cowhide water bag from the saddle bag, drank a sip of water, then looked at the guard standing in front of the government office and asked:
"Wen boy, I advise you not to start a killing spree later. We still have to go to Tianqi City!"
"Don't let the things here delay your journey."
Wen Yanzhao gently lifted Su Xian'er off the horse, turned around and said with a smile:
"What are you afraid of? I can break into the palace just the same. It's just a government office!"
After saying that, the two men tied their horses to the locust tree opposite the government office.
Wen Yanzhao held Su Xian'er in one hand, carrying a large basket of sweet-scented osmanthus flowers whose fragrance hit his head, and walked straight towards the main gate of the government office with Xin Baicao.
"Stop! Why are you trespassing into the government office?"
As soon as the three of them stepped onto the first step of the government office gate, they were stopped by a yamen runner.
Wen Yanzhao pointed to the osmanthus basket behind him:
"Didn't you see I'm here to deliver today's osmanthus flowers? Tell your prefect to come out and collect the flowers for me!"
Su Xian'er saw the yamen runner holding a water and fire stick and with a ferocious look on his face. He was so scared that he hugged Wen Yanzhao's neck tightly and dared not make a sound.
The yamen runner was a little unsure. Seeing Wen Yanzhao's attire, he didn't look like a farmer picking flowers.
But when he saw the dirty little girl in his arms, he hesitated.
Worried that the two people in front of him were distant relatives of the little girl who had made a fortune and were here to support her, after a moment, Ya said with squinting eyes:
"You're so arrogant! Don't you know that you have to go to the West Wing to pick up the osmanthus?"
"Go, go, go..."
Wen Yanzhao didn't care what the yamen runner said and rushed in with Su Xianer in his arms!
Seeing that he was in bad shape, the two yamen runners at the door came forward with water and fire sticks, shouting:
"What a rude and unruly person! If you don't want to be punished, get out of here!"
"Oh!"
Just as the two men were about to raise their sticks in front of the three men, they were knocked far away by Wen Yanzhao's internal force.
How could two mortal yamen runners resist Wen Yanzhao? They bumped into the stone lions at the door and fainted.
"Fortunately, fortunately, no one was killed!"
Xin Baicao turned around, glanced at the yamen runner who had fainted on the ground, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and muttered.
The three of them broke into the main hall of the government office and found the gatekeeper. Just as they were about to turn around and go out to look for Gui Xi, they were surrounded by a team of detectives holding long swords!
The man in the lead seemed to be a constable from the government office. He had a dark face, curly beard, and a green birthmark on his forehead.
He held the steel knife in his hand and shouted:
"Who are you? How dare you enter the government hall after eating a leopard?"
"Leaders and ladies, capture him and hand him over to the prefect for punishment!"
When seven or eight constables saw that Wen Yanzhao and Xin Baicao had no weapons in their hands, they immediately rushed towards the three of them with the little girl in their arms!
But before he took a step, he felt dizzy and the long sword in his hand seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.
Then everything went black and they all fell to the ground without moving.
"Wen boy, what kind of poison did you use? These constables are also villagers, you can't take their lives!"
Xin Baicao naturally knew that Wen Yanzhao was extremely poisonous and could take these people's lives without any physical effort.
"Don't worry, senior. It's just some soul-soothing powder. It will only make them sleep for three or four days. It won't harm their lives!"
After Wen Yanzhao finished speaking, he held Su Xianer in his arms and walked step by step towards the captain of the police with the green birthmark.
The captain of the police saw his team of detectives lying on the ground as if their souls had been taken away, and then saw Wen Yanzhao walking towards him with a wicked smile on his face.
He immediately opened his voice and shouted at the fallen detectives:
"Liu Zhuer, Weng Liuhe, Zhao Erhu...hurry up and get up..."
But those people on the ground were like dead, motionless.
The captain of the police was a little panicked. He took a few steps back and bumped into the doorpost of the main hall, with no way to retreat.
His facial muscles twitched and he shouted:
"What are you doing? I'm Guixi City's ninth-rank captain with a sword. Stand still!"
Wen Yanzhao threw the osmanthus basket behind him to the ground, looked at the captain and said with a smile:
"I came here to pay my tribute to the sweet-scented osmanthus, but you chose to arrest me... What's the logic behind this?"
Seeing Wen Yanzhao getting closer, the captain of the police exerted force on his wrist, gripped the steel knife tightly and chopped at Wen Yanzhao's head!
"Crack!"
"what!"
Su Xian'er screamed in fright and hid her head in Wen Yanzhao's arms, not daring to look.
The steel knife in the captain's hand was pinched between Wen Yanzhao's two fingers, and it broke into several pieces with a little force.
"Who is this lunatic who dares to act wildly in the government office?"
At this moment, three people came out from behind the main hall...
The leader, a man in his forties with a big belly and dressed in a brocade official robe, should be the governor of Guixi Prefecture.
He was followed by a legal advisor wearing a long white gown and a goatee.
The person who spoke was actually the person behind the prefect.
The man had a pale face and no beard, a shrill voice, and wore a ceremonial hat on his head that looked similar to Zhuoqing and Zhuosen's, but much shorter.
Wen Yanzhao glanced at the three of them, pointed at the osmanthus basket on the ground and said with a smile:
"Oh, the prefect has finally come out... These are the flowers I handed over today, please accept them!"
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