Others don't know Luo Fengtang's itinerary, but Ye Yi knows it.

The master said goodbye to his wife from Changping Village on the tenth day of the first lunar month. The master originally planned to go directly back to Tianhai County for a secret investigation, but he received a secret edict from the capital on the way.

The master then changed his direction and went to the capital to meet the emperor secretly.

Ye Yi didn't know what the master said to the emperor, but what Ye Yi knew was that the master must have asked the emperor for instructions on matters concerning Tianhai County, and the emperor must have confessed something.

"What happened to the old man we brought back a few days ago?"

Luo Fengtang suddenly asked Ye Yi.

Ye Yi came back to his senses and said: "Reporting to the master, the old man's injuries have been almost healed. He woke up two hours ago and said he wanted to see the master. At that time, the master went to a banquet, so there were no arrangements."

Luo Fengtang stood up and said, "Take me to see him now."

Ye Yi glanced at the bowl of hangover soup on the table, "Master, you drank two jars of wine at the banquet..."

Luo Fengtang smiled disapprovingly, "Just two jars of wine, it's nothing. Let's go."

Ye Yi took a serious look at Luo Fengtang's eyes, and they were indeed clear and not at all drunk.

The master is the master, and there is really nothing wrong with poisoning two jars of wine.

It seems that when Vice General Xie was here earlier, the master's drunken look was disguised?

What a master!

The admiration in Ye Yi's heart became even more intense, and he clasped his hands into fists: "I obey!"

Then he turned around and led the way for Luo Fengtang, and the two of them quietly arrived at the back of the Villa under the cover of night.

The most dangerous place is the safest place. The old man was placed in a corner of the villa as a kitchen soldier.

Staying in the shadows outside the house at night, Luo Fengtang entered this inconspicuous house alone.

In the house, a skinny and hungry old man was sitting on the bed. When he saw Luo Fengtang come in, the old man struggled to get out of bed and knelt down to kowtow to Luo Fengtang, but Luo Fengtang stopped him.

"Old man, there is no need to perform such a big ceremony. You can just sit on the bed." Luo Fengtang said.

His approachable and approachable attitude is completely different from the cold and arrogant general in the daytime who made people afraid to approach him.

The old man sat back and looked at Luo Fengtang with tears streaming down his face.

"General, you saved me. I should be grateful to you, but I really don't want to live anymore. My family is gone, so I am left alone as an old man. I don't have much hope for living..."

The old man's words made Luo Fengtang frown together.

"Old man, please don't say that. Your family members are alive in heaven and hope you can survive." Luo Fengtang said.

"Because they can't die in peace, they hope you can help them take revenge so that they can rest in peace!" Luo Fengtang said again.

This old man was rescued on the way to Tianhai County some time ago. At that time, the old man fell in the grass on the roadside, dying, with knife wounds on his body.

After hearing Luo Fengtang's words of comfort, the old man waved his hands with a look of fear on his face.

"Revenge? How can we take revenge, General? They are all the father-in-law of our land. The sky is high and the emperor is far away. Their words are more effective than the emperor's. Who dares to take revenge?" said the old man.

"From the beginning of last spring to this year, in a full year, my six large tile-roofed houses, ten acres of fields, three pigs, a cow, and twenty or thirty chickens, ducks and geese in the backyard were all converted into tax.

The gift was taken away by them."

"You have to pay taxes when you build a house, you have to pay taxes when you get a wife, you have to pay taxes when you harvest in the fall, and you have to pay taxes after the Chinese New Year in winter."

"Our family was really desperate. The last time people came to collect taxes, my son couldn't hold back his temper and beat one of the rent collectors to death."

"He was really beaten to death by the wrong hand. If he didn't fight back, my son would be beaten to death by them."

"As a result, my son was caught and imprisoned. Before I could sell the house to settle the relationship, and before I could go to court for trial, my son was beaten to death in prison!"

"My old lady couldn't bear this blow, and she died of illness within two days. Those people also got together with our local gangsters, colluding with officials and gangsters, and came to my house at night and knocked me unconscious. He broke into my wife's house and defiled her..."

"My good daughter-in-law is a good girl with a strong personality. She couldn't bear the insult. At dawn, she asked a neighbor to send my grandson to my grandfather's house, and then he hung himself from the roof beam."

"Old man, I don't accept it. I wanted to come to the Tianhai County Sheriff to make a grievance, but after just a few beats, I was caught by two guards. They just saw my paper, and the Sheriff beat me without asking anything. Board, threw me outside."

"They beat me openly and drove me away, and secretly instigated the gangsters in the county to come and cause trouble for me. Tianhai County really couldn't stay any longer. Old man, I wanted to escape, but I was chased all the way. Fortunately, I met the general. You guys!"

Hearing the old man's history of blood and tears, Luo Fengtang's brows knitted together tightly, and his eyes were cold, colder than an ice cellar.

"Old man, you must live well. For your son and wife who died unjustly, and for your grandson who is still alive, you must live well. I am here to help you pay for this blood debt!"

Luo Fengtang raised his hand, held the old man's hand tightly, and spoke word by word.

The old man looked at Luo Fengtang steadily, "General, can you really help me get justice for this old man? But, they are all officials and they have big backers behind them..."

Luo Fengtang asked: "Who is their biggest backer?"

The old man blurted out: "It's Luo Fengtang, the general who protects the country. I heard that those taxes that have been increased several times are to honor the general who protect the country and to save food and grass for the soldiers and horses..."

Luo Fengtang's eyes dimmed, and he asked the old man: "Old man, can you read?"

The old man nodded: "In my early years, because I had to manage accounts, I learned Chinese calligraphy for two years."

Luo Fengtang took off a token from his waist and turned it over for the old man to see.

"This is... Luo? You, you are..."

"Yes, I am Luo Fengtang, the general protecting the country." Luo Fengtang said.

The old man was so shocked that his eyes almost fell out of his sockets. He was shaking all over, and he grabbed the tea bowl on the table next to him with both hands and was about to smash it at Luo Fengtang.

Luo Fengtang took out another sword from behind, and with a bang, the sword body separated from the scabbard.

The passing cold light burned the old man's eyes. He turned his head and raised his arms to block his eyes.

Luo Fengtang's voice sounded in my ears again: "Old man, look at what words are engraved on this sword!"

The old man squinted his eyes, stared at the sword body for a while, and read out a few words: "Shang, Fang, Bao, sword!"

"This...is this the Shangfang Sword that only the emperor has in the opera?" The old man was even more shocked and asked in a trembling voice.

"I knew it, old man, I knew that the general protecting the country is a hero, and he would not fish for our common people with those corrupt officials..." The old man was so excited that he burst into tears, but a faint light ignited in his turbid eyes.

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Luo Fengtang glanced behind him and made a silencing gesture towards the old man.

Then he inserted the sword body into the scabbard and said to the old man calmly: "I am Luo Fengtang, the general who protects the country, and I am the imperial envoy personally appointed by the emperor. I have been ordered to thoroughly investigate the high taxes in Tianhai County. This sword milk royal
Chapter completed!