On the side of Bohai County, although Zhao Hui did not go there in person, he did not attach much importance to that side at all.

Liu San was personally escorted back to Xiaoyang Village by Zhang Wang.

Although he had never ridden a war horse before, he had stirrups and saddles, and under the guidance of his mastery, Liu San could also sit firmly on horseback.

It's just that he was still a little scared in his heart, and he grabbed the reins tightly with both hands, not daring to let the war horse run too fast.

But after all, he was riding a war horse, and when he came, Liu San walked alone for a month, and now it only took seven days to go back.

Along the way, in addition to worrying about falling off the horse, he no longer had to worry about encountering bandits.

When Liu Sanzhang arrived at the Xiaoyang Village Meeting, Zhou Cang had already sent the results of his investigation in Xiaoyang Village back to Yecheng.

Zhou Cang was very angry about what he saw.

Although he has left the battlefield, Zhou Cang has now regarded the Discipline Inspection Department as his new battlefield.

Zhou Cang covered his face and walked in Xiaoyang Village.

The villagers of Xiaoyang Village already recognized this official of the Discipline Inspection Department, who was masked all day and night.

They haven't seen Zhou Cang's true face yet, they only know that this official from the Discipline Inspection Department from Yecheng has a very hoarse voice.

I don't usually talk much, and people are very cold.

Although they came to help them, the villagers of Xiaoyang Village were also afraid in the face of the masked Zhou Cang.

Zhou Cang and Gao Li's faces were burned, and now Gao Li is no longer covering them with masks.

But Zhou Cang is still.

Colliers likes to use his terrifying face to make those people panic and fear.

And Zhou Cang, he doesn't need to be scary with a terrifying face.

At the beginning, Zhou Cang still cared about his face.

Because of his wife, his children, they became estranged from him.

But now, perhaps because of joining the Discipline Inspection Department, which gives him something to do, and allows him to divert his attention, the current Zhou Cang, although he is masked every day, is no longer as concerned about his appearance as before.

Although he now covers his face when he goes out every day, he doesn't want to scare others.

If you say you care, it's only time to face your wife and children.

Zhou Cang hadn't had sex with his wife for a long time.

He couldn't face his wife with this face, afraid that she would have nightmares at night.

Zhou Cang walked on the loess road in Xiaoyang Village. When the villagers on the side saw it, they always took the initiative to give way to both sides of the road.

Even if Zhou Cang has not committed any offense to them these days, they are still afraid in their hearts.

One is Zhou Cang's performance, even if he doesn't show his face, but he is covered and his hoarse voice is always easy to be scared.

The second is the deep-seated reverence for officials.

As long as they are officials, they will be afraid in their hearts.

The people do not fight with the officials.

In the face of officials, they do not dare to resist and oppose at all, but only obey.

Unless they are really forced to survive, they will resist.

Even though Zhou Cang has been masked, in the eyes of these villagers, Zhou Cang is majestic and inviolable.

Making way for the officials and making way for the emperor has long been written in the law.

Since I was a child, I have heard countless stories about being punished for colliding with officials.

So, when they see a official, they always step aside, unless the official beckons to them.

Xiaoyang Village, a total of one hundred and five households, Zhou Cang has been asking door to door these days.

At the beginning, there were still some people who didn't dare to say it.

But when I saw another person say it, I followed suit, and they all said that they didn't get the wages they should have.

Looking at the simple faces, Zhou Cang believed their words.

But it is such a group of simple people, but some people are greedy for their own greed, and the wages that should belong to them are greedy.

Zhou Cang couldn't bear it, he must let the corrupt people spit out all the money.

Zhou Cang came to the old village chief's house.

"Village Chief."

"Sir, sit down."

The old village chief stood up on crutches and wanted to give up the only chair in the house to Zhou Cang.

The chair is a good thing, but most people still put a few stones in the yard as a stone bench.

"No, you don't." Zhou Cang pressed the old village chief's body back.

The strength of the old village chief is comparable to Zhou Cang, and when Zhou Cang's hands pressed his shoulders, he could only sit on the chair again.

"I'm here today because I have some questions I want to ask you." Zhou Cang said.

"Your Excellency, please speak." The old village chief said.

"The person who is responsible for paying your village's wages is sure to be Chen Gu, the chief bookkeeper of Ning'an County?"

"At the beginning, the people in the village signed up to build the road, and he was the one who registered, but who gave the money, I don't know, no one from the government has come to the village in the past two months, and the men in the village went to the county government to ask for money, and they were all beaten back." The old village chief said.

"Okay, I got it."

Zhou Cang nodded, but his face was covered by a mask, but the old village chief couldn't see Zhou Cang's hideous face.

"Do you know that the villagers in Xiaoliu Village next door have all been paid?"

Xiaoyang Village and Xiaoliu Village are both villages below Ning'an County, and the two villages are adjacent to each other, but they are more than 20 miles apart.

When Ning'an County was about to build a road, a group of people from both villages signed up, and they all followed the road for a month.

When Zhou Cang came, he also looked around, and the roads in Ning'an County were indeed newly built and very smooth.

The old village chief said: "At the beginning, the men in the village couldn't get the money, so someone went to Xiaoliu Village to ask, and the people there got the money. That's why the people in the village feel even more uncomfortable. ”

It's so unfair.

They are all from the same county, and the two villages are only twenty miles apart, so why can the people of Xiaoliu Village get the money, but they can't get it in Xiaoyang Village?

Driven by Liu San, the people in the village raised some travel expenses for Liu San, and then Liu San walked more than 800 miles with his bags on his back and on his feet, and went to Yecheng to complain.

"Since the county government doesn't care, can you go to the county seat to complain?" Zhou Cang Road.

"I don't dare to go, a few people who went to the county government to ask for money are still lying in bed, and they haven't even caught up with spring ploughing, and the family's livelihood is going to be gone this year, where do other people dare to go." The old village chief sighed.

Those villagers, Zhou Cang also saw it, and their legs were all broken.

It's the day of spring ploughing again, and now the family is washing their faces with tears, feeling that the sky is falling, and I don't know what to do in the future.

There was a little grain left over from last autumn's harvest, but how dare they, the people, sit and eat empty.

If the day of spring plowing is wrong, the family will definitely go hungry this year. It is possible to sell children and daughters.

The wages for road construction are not very large, and without this little wages, they can still live, but if they go to ask for money and are broken by someone's leg, there is really no way to live that life.

Most of the villagers don't want to take risks.

Just endure it.