"His brother?" Old Xu shook his head in sighing.

"If Meng Xiucai was too young, not listening to advice, and being too impulsive, which led to this fate, then his brother's affairs can only be said to be the viciousness of the prefect's family."

"Well, what do you mean?" Xiaoliu asked curiously.

"When Meng Xiucai read the books of sages, he was righteous, but he had never suffered any setbacks and did not know how to be sleek. His brother was a versatile person. After he came back, he heard that such a thing happened at home, so he immediately took a heavy gift to the prefect's house to apologize."

"What's the result?"

"The result? He was captured and imprisoned by the prefect on the spot. The prefect sent people directly to him to search the house. The next day he was charged with stealing huge taxes and sentenced him to death. His property was also counted into the magistrate's pocket."

"This! Is there any other kingly law?" Xiao Liu was also shocked when he heard this. He came to the door to apologize, but he didn't let it go. He was such a cruel prefect.

"Wang Fa? In this Luoyang City, their Zhou family is Wang Fa." Old Xu shook his head lightly.

"This is the magistrate Zhou's family, so despicable, isn't anyone here to take care of it? Luoyang City is so prosperous, and people come and go in the city. Even if officials protect each other and sue the officials, then what about those heroes in the world? No one can see the injustice?"

"If you don't say it far away, just talk about the Beggars' Sect. Didn't this Beggars' Sect headquarters be in Luoyang City? The Beggars' Sect has always regarded themselves as chivalrous. If there are such prefects in Luoyang City, don't they do anything?" Xiao Liu asked in confusion.

"It's hard! Young Master Yan, Luoyang City is no better than other small cities. Prefect Yang has thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands. How dare those heroes in the martial arts world attack him? The beggars you mentioned are just groups of beggars driven to the south city.

And those powerful martial arts families in the city, like the Golden Knife Wang family, they all have good friends with this prefect Yang.”

"And those knights in the world who say good things are knights, but they are just ordinary people. Offending the prefect is equivalent to offending the court. Even if they have the will, they don't have the courage!" Old Xu sighed.

Xiao Liu nodded as he heard this.

Indeed, this killing official is equivalent to rebellion. Those knights in the world, one by one, one with a surname, a sect and a sect, will be discovered, not only them, but also their sects will be implicated.

The world of the world is no longer as good as before. After the catastrophe eighteen years ago, it is now the era when the court suppresses the world.

Thinking about how powerful the Jianghu was thirty years ago, Ye Gucheng, the lord of Baiyun City, dared to sneak into the palace alone to assassinate Jiajing. Even if Lu Xiaofeng and Xifeng Chuxue were not blocking it, he would have succeeded.

Nowadays, any of the three major imperial forces has the strength to suppress the entire world. It can be said that it has been thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi.

"Young Master Yan, I know you are chivalrous, but I advise you not to wade into this muddy water. It would be bad if you cause trouble." Lao Xu persuaded.

Xiao Liu nodded and responded, "Thank you, Brother Xu for your reminder, I understand."

But in a blink of an eye, Xiao Liu ran towards the crawling Xiucai.

"Hey..." Old Xu looked at Xiao Liu's figure and hurriedly stretched out his hand, but Xiao Liu had already run away.

But when he saw Xiaoliu running away, one of them was extremely happy. It was the middle-aged man who was tortured by Xiaoliu many times.

When the middle-aged man saw Xiao Liu leaving, and this time he actually forgot to point his hole, he felt ecstatic and quickly planned to slip away softly, but he had just taken one step.

With a "puff!", a stone hit him, and he was instantly stationary again.

Looking at the middle-aged man who was fixed, Xiao Liu smiled. Although he didn't know if he was a hole-punching from the air, the skill of throwing stones and hitting holes was not difficult. Enough finger strength and accurate projection skills were enough.

Looking at the person who suddenly appeared in front of him, Meng Xiucai couldn't help but raise his head in confusion.

Xiao Liu felt Meng Xiucai's gaze and hurriedly chuckled and bent down. He took out a piece of sesame cake wrapped in tart cloth from his arms.

This piece of sesame cake was something Xiaoliu planned to buy for Xiaoqi when he was on the road, but Xiaoqi insisted on not eating it, but now it comes in handy.

"Come and eat it. All your offerings have been left for a few days, and some of them are rotten." Xiao Liu persuaded gently.

However, Meng Xiucai shook his head, then he climbed with both hands and climbed away directly around Xiaoliu with difficulty.

Xiao Liu looked at Meng Xiucai's figure crawling hard, and this time he did not chase after him again, because at that glance just now, he saw something called persistence in his eyes.

...

Xiao Liu walked back thinking about it, and when Xiao Liu came back, Lao Xu also came over and comforted him:

"Young Master Yan, you don't have to mind. He will not accept other people's food, no matter who it is."

"Oh, what does this mean?" Xiao Liu asked curiously when he heard this.

"It's like this. Seeing him so pitiful, there are actually many people who have wanted to help him secretly, but they were rejected by him. He said he was a scholar, not a beggar." Old Xu said with a sigh.

"Oh, he is a scholar, not a beggar, so he would rather eat the offerings of dead people than accept the alms of others. It's really pedantic." Xiao Liu couldn't help but shake his head and sighed.

"Who said no?" Old Xu also nodded. "We all say that he was stupid in his studies, and then he fell to this point."

Old Xu agreed, but he did not notice Xiaoliu's gaze. At this time, Xiaoliu was looking at Meng Xiucai's hard crawling body from afar. He already knew what the other party was insisting on.

‘It’s really sad and ridiculous, but it’s also a bit admirable. If such a person is in a peaceful and prosperous era, he will be a talent, but it’s a pity.’

Xiaoliu shook his head in sighing, but then he turned around and saw that Xiaoqi had finished crying and was walking slowly towards him.

Xiao Liu suppressed the thoughts in his heart, walked over and hugged Xiao Qi gently.

Xiaoqi's originally dark face, but after crying, there were white and tender tears.

Xiao Liu said gently: "Have you finished the worship?"

"Yeah." Xiaoqi nodded, but she was still in a very bad mood after crying for sacrifice.

Xiaoliu also saw that Xiaoqi was still in a heavy mood at this time, but he did not persuade him because he knew that there were things that had to be spent by time, so he just said gently:

"Okay, then I'll take your inn to take a shower and eat something."

"Um!"

Xiaoliu chuckled and hugged Xiaoqi to Xiaoqi's mother's grave. Although he didn't know what kind of person Xiaoqi's mother was during his lifetime, the deceased was the eldest, so Xiaoliu bowed to the tombstone.
Chapter completed!