When Li Xin rushed all the way back to the hut at the foot of the North Mountain, the original wooden hut, which was a little simple but still warm, was gone, and only a sea of fire remained.

In this wooden house, there is still a lot of charcoal, so it burns extraordinarily vigorously, and the distance of four or five zhang around is a blazing red light, which is extraordinarily warm in this winter.

Two large men in thick jackets, one tall and one short, were holding torches and gesturing at the burning wooden house.

Outside the fence of the cabin, the charcoal seller was curled up on the ground, his face was still a little bruised, obviously he had a conflict with these two people, and was beaten by these two big men, and the little girl lay on her grandfather, choking uncontrollably.

At this time, the anger in Li Xin's heart was no less than that of this burning wooden house.

He was originally just an ordinary person who was afraid of power, he didn't intend to go against the Pingnan Hou Mansion, he just wanted to live in this world......

Li Xin's face turned pale, and he walked behind the two strong men holding torches, gritted his teeth and shouted, "You guys...... What are you doing! ”

Due to the reason of low productivity, it is not easy to build every house, and the crime of arson was very heavy in ancient times.

These two men, the taller ones are half a head taller than Li Xin, and the shorter ones are just like Li Xin, but compared to the thin Li Xin, they are much stronger, and it is no surprise that Li Xin will definitely not be able to beat them.

The two men turned around in surprise, and then they saw the young man behind them, and the two of them did not panic, but casually threw the torch aside, and the short man smiled and said, "Don't you see, it's burning the house." ”

Li Xin's face was flushed with anger, and he gritted his teeth and said: "This house has a master, you burned it so blatantly in broad daylight, aren't you afraid that the government will come to take you!" ”

The taller man glanced Li Xin up and down, and then asked, "You... Is it Li Xin? ”

Li Xin lowered his head and did not answer.

He didn't know where the bottom line of these two people was, this small wooden house was at the foot of Beishan Mountain, and there were no half families within a radius of ten miles, if these two people were really thieves who killed people and sold goods, and they and their grandfather and grandson who sold charcoal, they might die here.

Seeing that Li Xin didn't answer, this tall man didn't continue to ask, and said indifferently: "So that the little brother knows, our two brothers are both errand men in the Jingzhao Mansion in the capital, because Your Majesty will come to Beishan to hunt in a few days, so there are colleagues to clean up the danger of some positions on Beishan, this wooden house is just at the foot of Beishan, it is easy to hide assassins, after reporting to the king, after the approval of the king, I ordered the two of us to burn down this wooden house." ”

As he spoke, the tall man took out a document from his arms and placed it in front of Li Xin, which was clearly covered with the vermilion seal of Jingzhao Mansion.

Li Xinzhong moved, and then remembered that half a month ago, when those young people were "racing horses" on Victory Street, they seemed to say that His Majesty was going to hunt in Beishan today, and the location of their wooden house was ...... It happened to be in the North Mountain.

The people of Pingnanhou Mansion are really good at doing things.

At this point, Li was a little more stable.

Since these two people are from the official family, then at least it shows that they will not kill and injure people casually...?

Li Xin took a few deep breaths, and after barely calming down, he pointed to the charcoal seller lying on the side, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Then what's the matter with my uncle?" ”

In the past, he called the charcoal seller, and he always called the old man, but when he talked to outsiders at this time, he naturally had to be closer, otherwise it would be unreasonable.

Another messenger waved his hand nonchalantly: "This old thing, he didn't let us perform his official duties, and he came over to push our brother, he should have been arrested and put in the Jingzhao Mansion Prison for questioning, but seeing that he is old, he won't bother with him." ”

The short man spoke very rudely, and when he was about to say more, the tall man gestured to him and motioned for him not to say any more.

Before leaving, the tall man glanced at Li Xin, then hesitated, took out a silver ingot from his arms, handed it to Li Xin, and said in a deep voice: "Xiao Langjun, this is the official silver that Jingzhao Mansion paid you for, it looks like seven or eight taels, it is not a problem to go to the money village to redeem a fourteen or fiveteen copper coins, it is the loss of your house that Jingzhao Mansion compensated." ”

The other short man stopped abruptly and looked at his companion with a look of horror on his face.

This ingot of silver is indeed the compensation issued by Jing Zhaoyin, but where can this kind of compensation really fall into the hands of the bitter master, in the eyes of the short man, this ingot of ten taels of silver is their "travel expenses" for this trip.

He was about to snatch the ingot, and shouted as he grabbed it: "Second brother, you are confused, where did the prince of the government issue any compensation?" ”

The tall man stretched out his free left hand, grabbed his brother's hand that reached out to grab the money, and then whispered in his ear: "Brother Ge, do you want money or death?" ”

The status of this tall second brother is obviously higher, and when he asked like this, the short man was a little instigated, and quickly retracted his hand, but he was still a little unconvinced, and glanced at the ingot of silver.

The tall man sighed helplessly.

"Your share, my brother will go back and pay for it for you out of his own pocket."

Li Xin stood where he was, and did not look at the ingot of official silver from beginning to end, he took a deep look at the two brothers, turned around and ran to the charcoal seller, and checked the old man's injuries.

The tall man sighed lightly, bent down and put the ingot of silver at Li Xin's feet, and said: "Little brother, this burning house is the meaning of the top, and the two of us brothers have no choice, as for the injury on this old man's body, it was accidentally injured by my brother's wrong hand, and the injury is not very serious, it is cold outside, the little brother should hurry up and find a place to stay, and spend tonight." ”

This tall "second brother" obviously knew some about Li Xin and the Pingnan Hou Mansion, he lowered his voice and said: "After the little brother rests for a few days, if you can leave the capital, try to leave the capital, I believe the little brother can also see that someone doesn't want you to stay here......"

With that, the tall man took his brother by the way, turned and left the hut.

This big man, who can hold that short man with a fierce face, is obviously not a bad person, the reason why he is suddenly much more polite to Li Xin is because he knows some of Li Xin's life experience, and he does not dare to completely offend this little son of the Li family who is outcast.

You must know that the high-ranking and powerful Marquis of Pingnan is not in the capital, and he really offended this young man, in case that one comes back and recognizes this son, then with the power of the Pingnan Marquis Mansion, it will be easy to kill the two of them.

And the reason why he knew Li Xin's identity was because this short man was indeed a messenger of Jingzhao Mansion, and he was indeed the general of Pingnanhou Mansion.

Seeing the two big men go away, Li Xinxin's anger rushed straight to the top of his head, and there was nowhere to vent, the young man took several deep breaths, turned around and squatted in front of the charcoal seller, his voice trembled slightly: "Boss, are you okay?" ”

His voice trembled, not scared, but angry.

There are still a lot of bruises on the face of the charcoal seller, because of the dark skin, so it is not obvious, the old man who was curled up on the ground was called by Li Xin a few times, he barely opened his eyes, looked back at the burning cabin, and couldn't help but cry out sadly.

"Old man's house......"