I'm the villain in the book

Chapter 87
The next day.

Because of the tossing last night, Liang Zhen decided to spend an extra day in Zhongling County.

Wei Changtian didn't care about this. After getting up in the morning, he ran around the county town and didn't prepare to go back to the inn until lunch.

Sitting on the carriage, he looked at a scar on Zhang San's face and asked boredly:
"Zhang San, what did you do before?"

The members of the Freemasonry are all prisoners awaiting trial from Dali Temple, so Zhang San must have been charged with crimes before.

"Master, are you asking about all the things I've committed? Or are they only those written on the file?" Zhang San asked without changing his face.

"Yo? Listening to this, you have done a lot of things."

Wei Changtian suddenly became interested: "Everything, tell me about it!"

"Yes."

Zhang San nodded, and after a moment of recollection, he began to "confess" one by one: "Master, the first time I committed a crime was when I was ten years old. Because a bully in the village stole my two ducks, I quietly slaughtered his three ducks. Cattle……"

"The second time was when I was eleven."

After half an hour.

"...My thirty-sixth crime was when I was twenty-five years old. At that time, I had reached the seventh rank and joined a small gang..."

"You stop first!"

Wei Changtian interrupted Zhang San's chatter abruptly: "How many of these things are recorded on your dossier?"

"None of them."

"What?"

Wei Changtian was stunned: "Then what crime were you arrested for?"

Zhang San answered truthfully: "There are twelve accusations in total, the first one is..."

"Stop, stop! Stop talking!"

Wei Changtian looked up and down this "outlaw fanatic" and said with emotion, "No wonder your name is Zhang San."

Zhang San was puzzled: "What do you mean by this son?"

"It doesn't make any sense...is Zhang San your real name or a pseudonym?"

"A pseudonym."

"Then what's your real name?"

"Zhang Quandan."

"...I'll continue to call you Zhang San."

Wei Changtian was speechless for a while, before he regained his senses and changed the subject and asked, "By the way, how did you remember what happened in the past so clearly?"

"Master Hui, the villain can't do anything else, but his memory is very good."

Zhang San said seriously: "I can basically remember everything I saw and heard."

Wei Changtian was a little surprised: "Is this true?"

"Don't dare to deceive the son."

"Then this is a skill..."

Wei Changtian dragged his chin and thought for a while, his face gradually became serious.

"Zhang San, although I don't know why Wang Er wants you to follow me, but since I trust him, I will trust you too."

"This time we're going to Shuzhou, and I may let you do a lot of things... Do you know how to do it?"

"know."

Zhang San replied immediately, "Just do it, don't ask."

"What if I tell you something you can't do?" Wei Changtian asked again.

"The little man should do his best."

"wrong."

Wei Changtian shook his head and corrected: "No matter what, if you consciously can't do it, you should tell me in time, and you mustn't be able to do it yourself..."

"And don't make up your own mind."

"Don't rely on the big in everything, especially in a place like Shuzhou where you are unfamiliar."

"Be careful to make big things, remember?"

Zhang San nodded seriously: "Remember, son."

Wei Changtian glanced at him, and suddenly asked again, "What is the first word of the four sentences I just said?"

"No, also, all, small."

Without any hesitation, Zhang San immediately blurted out word for word.

"Not bad!"

Wei Changtian nodded in satisfaction.

"It's really a bit of a skill!"

……

It was noon when the carriage returned to the inn.

Yuan'er had been waiting at the door, saying that the thin county magistrate had come again, and set up a table in the inn, and everyone was waiting for him to come back and have a seat.

As soon as Wei Changtian heard it, he hurried into the lobby, and sure enough, the dishes were on the table, and Liang Zhen and the others were drinking tea and chatting while waiting for him to come back.

"Nephew! You came back just in time, get to the table for dinner soon!"

Liang Zhen put down the teacup and said hello, while Wei Changtian hurriedly bowed his hands to everyone and apologized, "Everyone, I'm really sorry."

"I didn't know that Lord Wang was holding a banquet before, so I went around the city and came back a little late."

"Hahaha, it's not too late."

Liang Zhen laughed twice and sat down in the first place, and asked casually, "How does my nephew feel about this Zhongling County?"

"This...the street is spacious and spotless."

Wei Changtian really had nothing to praise, so he could only find two words casually.

However, when this remark came to the ears of the thin county magistrate, it was a bit sarcastic.

The people have all run away, isn't the city spacious?
His face flushed, and he bowed his head and said, "It's the incompetence of this official that made the son laugh."

"Master Wang..."

Wei Changtian was too lazy to explain, so he simply followed him and comforted him: "You don't have to blame yourself too much, as long as the bandits can be pacified, the Zhongling will surely reappear in prosperity in the future."

"Borrow your son's auspicious words..."

The thin county magistrate forced a smile, but anyone could see the bitterness in this smile.

Although they killed a group of bandits yesterday, this is only the tip of the iceberg of bandits in Zhongling County.

There may be no monsters behind the other bandits, and their actions will not be so extreme, but it must be commonplace to enter the village to loot.

So the problem of bandits is not solved at all.

"father……"

Seeing that the thin magistrate and the people of Zhongling were too pitiful, Liang Qin suddenly opened his mouth and suggested: "Or you can write a letter to the governor of Tanzhou and talk about Zhongling..."

Tanzhou is not a frontier, so there is no post of commander-in-chief, and military and political power is concentrated in the hands of the governor.

In terms of rank, the governor of Tanzhou and the general soldier of Shuzhou are both from the third rank. If such a letter is really written, the other party will definitely sell his face and send troops to suppress the bandits.

But how could Liang Zhen be willing to owe such a favor for a small Zhongling.

"Cough, I don't know Mr. Feng, so it would be inappropriate to write a letter rashly..."

"Father! If you don't know each other, how do you know that the surname of Tanzhou Prefect is Feng?"

"I……"

Liang Zhen was mad, and wished he could stop Liang Qin's mouth.

But at this time, he couldn't have a seizure, so he could only speak a little more plainly: "Qin'er, after all, this is about Tanzhou. We are just passing by, so we shouldn't interfere randomly."

"Why are you interfering indiscriminately?"

Liang Qin seriously persuaded: "You can save countless people in Zhongling from water and fire with one letter. Why don't you do this?"

"This……"

Liang Zhen was speechless for such a righteous reason, and for a while he didn't know how to make his silly girl understand the joints.

Fortunately, Wei Changtian made a clearance at this time.

"Qin'er, in fact, there is a way to get the prefectural government to send troops to suppress the bandits without Uncle Liang writing a letter."

"what?"

Liang Qin hurriedly asked, "Brother Changtian, what else can I do?"

Wei Changtian smiled and said, "As I said yesterday, it only needs the wealthy businessmen in Zhongling to donate money."

"But……"

Liang Qin glanced at the thin magistrate and hesitated: "Didn't Mr. Wang say that they don't want to donate money?"

"That was before."

Wei Changtian played with the wine glass, and said softly in the eyes of everyone's curiosity: "I have a way for them to obediently go to the county office tomorrow morning and offer the silver with both hands."

"Son!"

The thin county magistrate eagerly rushed before Liang Qin and asked, "Dare to ask what is the way?"

"This matter is very simple, as long as Lord Wang and Uncle Liang cooperate with one or two..."

Wei Changtian smiled, raised his neck and drank the wine in the glass.

"In addition to the death of a few bad people."

(End of this chapter)