Reborn as the Savior of a Short-lived Father and Son

Ouyang Xia was supporting Gao Cun. Gu Qinghe was just thinking about asking the prefect to find a carriage when they turned around and heard the sound of horse hooves.

Shao Wei stopped in front of the two of them, glanced at Gao Cun first, patted Gu Qinghe's arm soothingly when passing by, and then walked towards the prefect.

"what happened?"

As soon as the prefect saw Shao Wei, his spirit and energy completely disappeared. He smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I was confused."

The subordinates who came with Shao Wei sent Gao Cun back first. Ouyang Xia, who was worried about Lan Yu, also followed him back. Gu Qinghe followed behind Shao Wei, intending to see what was going on.

The prefect took unsteady steps and led Shao Wei to the room where he usually took his lunch break.

In order to make it convenient to come to the government office on weekdays, the prefect's own house was right behind the government office, separated by a wall.

But sometimes he was so busy with official duties that he had no time to go back and rest even though there was a wall between them. So he asked someone to clean up a room here, and he would take a short rest here when he had some free time.

When I pushed open the door, I saw the old Taoist lying on the small couch where he usually rested, muttering curses.

Maybe he thought he was the only one coming, the old Taoist kept muttering dirty words, turned his head and looked over here, but when he saw Shao Wei and Gu Qinghe, the cursing stopped abruptly.

The prefect sighed, "This man has cheated and deceived people, and has done countless bad things. If you list all the things he did, it would not be too much to execute him. General, please decide how to deal with him."

When the old Taoist heard this, he immediately started cursing, "Wang Wenbin! You beast, my sister has never had a good day in all these years with you. If you hadn't insisted on coming to this godforsaken place, my sister wouldn't have died!"

"My sister is dead, and you treated her only brother like this. Aren't you afraid that one day my sister will come back from the grave to look for you?"

After hearing these words, there was nothing left for Gu Qinghe to not understand.

She glanced at the prefect's pale face and sighed. She didn't know what to say for a moment, and she couldn't feel any sympathy for the prefect.

No matter how much you say or how many secrets are hidden, it is not a reason.

He protected his wife's younger brother and let him do whatever he wanted even though he knew he had committed a lot of mistakes. Then how innocent are those people who were deceived by this old Taoist and even lost their lives?

Today, the mother and son depend on each other for survival. If they hand over all their assets to this old Taoist, how will they live in the future?

Isn't it an unprovoked disaster that the child suffers such pain at such a young age?

Shao Wei asked someone to take the old Taoist away, then looked at the prefect and said, "Your Excellency is really confused."

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On the way back to the general's mansion, Shao Wei was exceptionally silent.

Gu Qinghe knew that he was disappointed. He had said before that when Chizhou suffered from drought, there was no harvest, and it was all thanks to him and the prefect who worked together to collect grain and helped the people of Chizhou get through those difficult days.

He had told Gu Qinghe more than once that the prefect was a man worthy of admiration, but what happened today seemed to have torn all his admiration and respect for the prefect into pieces, turning it into disappointment.

Besides being disappointed, I couldn't help but feel a little irritated.

Logically speaking, he needs to report this matter.

But does the person sent by the court necessarily mean he will be a good official?

Would he be as distressed and melancholy about the people of Chizhou as the prefect, trying every possible means to make their lives better?

Shao Wei didn't know.

Gu Qinghe asked, "What's going on with his wife?"

"Lord Wang is not originally from Chizhou, but from Fuzhou."

Gu Qinghe knew Fuzhou. It was a beautiful place with beautiful scenery and nice people. It was said that Fuzhou was second only to Beijing in terms of prosperity back then.

One third of the concubines in the late emperor's harem were from Fuzhou, which shows how many beauties there were in Fuzhou.

But a few years ago, Fuzhou offended the current emperor for some reason, so his majesty intended to exile Fuzhou. People from Fuzhou were not valued, and even if they passed the imperial examinations, they could not serve as officials in Beijing. They would only be sent to other places to be assigned to positions that were neither high nor low.

Chizhou was a place that everyone avoided at that time, so the prefect asked to come here on his own initiative.

However, he encountered bandits on the way. His wife blocked the knife for him, but he was seriously injured and died.

After his wife passed away, the prefect was so sad that he did not remarry. He first replaced all the messy and disobedient people in the government office, reorganized the situation, and then led his troops to wipe out all the bandits.

Then he put all his thoughts on the people of Chizhou.

It was said that the prefect had ruthless methods, but the only person he could not bring himself to kill was his wife's brother.

This was his wife's younger brother. If it weren't for his wife, he would have been the one killed by the bandits. And what the old Taoist said was right. If he hadn't insisted on coming to Chizhou to realize his ambitions, his wife would not have died.

So he transferred all his guilt towards his wife to his wife's younger brother, and was more tolerant of him, helping him clean up the mess again and again.

But the more he did this, the more excessive the old Taoist became.

Until this time, he made up his mind to send his wife's younger brother away and not allow him to return to Chizhou. From then on, whether he lived or died had nothing to do with him.

But there is no paper in this world that can cover fire. When all this was revealed, the magistrate actually breathed a sigh of relief for the first time in his life.

Gu Qinghe also sighed and didn't know what to say for a moment.

She understood Shao Wei's concerns, but since this concerned the people of Chizhou, she didn't dare to speak casually.

When he returned to the general's mansion, Ouyang Xia was still awake. He sat in the pavilion and played chess with a random subordinate from the general's mansion.

When the subordinate saw Shao Wei, he stood up as if he had seen a savior. Shao Wei waved at him, and he hurriedly trotted away.

Ouyang Xia made a few noises from behind him, but he didn't even dare to turn his head. Instead, he ran even faster.

Ouyang Xia rolled his eyes and said with a gloomy face, "If the general takes him away, who will play chess with me?"

She clapped her hands and stood up. She originally wanted Gu Qinghe to accompany her for a while, but when she saw that the two men's expressions were not very good, she sighed and stood up, "Are you angry about the matter of the prefect?"

Shao Wei pursed his lips and didn't respond to her. He just lowered his eyes and looked at Gu Qinghe, "It's getting late. You should rest first. I'll go see Gao Cun."

"Let me go with you." I had taken Gao Cun's pulse hastily before and only confirmed that his life was not in danger. Now was a good time to go over and confirm it again.

Ouyang Xia rolled her eyes and looked at the two men. At this moment, she missed the men in her house very much.

The night is long and it feels a bit cold without anyone to hug me.

She crossed her arms, shook her head and went back to her room.