Chapter 313: Blaming each other

Liang Qu grabbed his collar. He was tall and forced Lu Xinqing to stand on tiptoe.

Facing County Magistrate Yu, Lu Xinqing was so panicked that his forehead was covered with sweat, and a layer of light was reflected under the oil lamp.

No, no, I am just a pirate. How can I be watched by two big officials!

It was like a mouse dangling in front of a cat.

Lu Xinqing hugged Liang Qu's palm and tried to pry his fingers apart. He found that it was as hard as steel and did not move at all. He immediately smiled and looked at Yu Dayi: "My lord, you are joking. I am a pirate, a worthless person. I have not read many books. How can I know what is right and wrong..."

"Okay!"

Yu Dayi shouted.

Lu Xinqing almost bit off his tongue.

"In that case, I want to hear what Liang Shuilang from the Hebo Office has to say!"

Yu Dayi lowered his head and glanced at his waist badge. He was very good at cultivating his qi, and he was not angry at all when Liang Qu pointed at his nose and scolded him. He looked completely different from the "furious" Liang Qu was before he entered the door.

Lu Xinqing was terrified and almost knelt down and kowtowed to beg for mercy.

Today is really a bad day.

It's not that difficult to rob a river god, right?

Liang Qu's face was calm and his eyes glanced at Lu Xinqing.

"I'm asking you, when did you become a pirate?"

Lu Xinqing wondered: "Three and a half years ago..."

"Who did you rob the first time? How much silver did you rob? What happened to them? Are they dead or alive?"

"A father and son who were going home to ask for marriage, with a total of eight taels of silver, ended up..." Lu Xinqing swallowed his saliva, "ended up dead."

Yu Dayi shouted: "Robbery and killing, should be executed!"

Lu Xinqing trembled all over and waved his hands hurriedly: "It wasn't me who killed them, it wasn't me who killed them!"

"Huh? If not you, who was it?"

"Yes, it was you, Lord Yu..."

Yu Dayi was stunned.

"After I robbed the father and son, they were unwilling to give up, so they also became pirates, and then, and then they were caught..."

Lu Xinqing gritted his teeth and told the father and son's experience in bits and pieces.

He had been a pirate for less than four years, and County Magistrate Yu had been the magistrate of Huazhu County for five or six years.

The father and son were arrested as pirates, and it was Yu Dayi who sentenced them to death.

"There is such a thing..."

Yu Dayi fell into deep thought.

It was not too long ago that it happened three years ago. I have a slight impression of it. It seems that a father and son were sentenced to death before.

As a big bandit, both father and son were sentenced to death.

"Liang Shuilang wants to say that there is a problem with my judgment?" County Magistrate Yu didn't know what Liang Qu was thinking. "Even though the father and son were robbed first and became bandits later, it is forgivable, but the crime is the crime. I think there is nothing wrong with my judgment and I have a clear conscience!"

"County Magistrate Yu sentenced according to the law, of course there is no problem, but I am not talking about the law! Lu Xinqing! Who do you think caused the death of this father and son!"

Who?

Lu Xinqing scratched his head and carefully tested: "Me?"

"Wrong! It was County Magistrate Yu!"

Liang Qu's answer shocked Lu Xinqing.

"It is true that it was Lu Xinqing who caused the father and son to become bandits! But it was you, Lord Yu, who made Lu Xinqing a bandit!"

Yu Dayi frowned fiercely: "What does it have to do with me? Did I instruct this man to learn martial arts secretly? Did I send him to be a bandit?"

Lu Xinqing shook his head vigorously.

Liang Qu's eyes fell again: "Lu Xinqing, why did you learn martial arts secretly?"

Why did I learn it secretly?

Because that old thing won't teach you!

Lu Xinqing complained in his heart, but his neck was almost choking, and he knew that he certainly couldn't say that: "Because... because I don't want to waste my life in the martial arts hall, I want to find some way out."

"Since you want to find a way out, why do you learn martial arts secretly? There is no hope in the martial arts hall. Can't you go to the government office? Can't you go to the Three Law Courts? Can't you make merit in the Six Gates and learn better martial arts? There are so many ways out, why do you have to dig your own foundation?"

Lu Xinqing was speechless.

He has this way, why did he learn martial arts secretly?

The meaning was clear in silence.

"Does Lord Yu understand?" Liang Qu loosened Lu Xinqing's collar, "You didn't give him a choice!

Lord Yu is the magistrate! The parent official of the people! If the government in Huazhu County is clean and honest, and the capable are promoted and the incompetent are demoted, why would Lu Xinqing need to secretly learn martial arts and become a bandit!"

Lu Xinqing's eyes lit up.

So it can be explained like this?

"It was the inaction of Magistrate Yu that led Lu Xinqing to become a bandit, and then killed the father and son who went home to seek marriage! How unfair!"

Yu Dayi frowned: "This is sophistry!"

Liang Qu laughed: "I am sophistry! Magistrate Yu blamed my Hebo for fighting with the Ghost Mother Sect and affecting Huazhu. Instead of blaming the Ghost Mother Sect, he blamed my Hebo for what I did. How is it different from my sophistry?"

Yu Dayi was speechless.

"Even the bandits know to look for the problem in themselves! In the face of natural disasters, let alone the fact that the truth has not yet been found out, even if the collapse of Qiugong Dike was really the work of the Ghost Mother Cult.

Yu Zhixian did not go to find the culprit, but hid in the room and pointed fingers at others. Am I saying that Yu Zhixian is not as wrong as the bandits?

If Lord Yu is really determined to blame my Hebo Division for suppressing the bandits, does he want to say that my Hebo Division was wrong to suppress the Ghost Mother Cult?

In this case, Yu Zhixian seems very dissatisfied with the emperor's decision to send the Hebo Division to Pingyang County?"

"I dare not!"

Yu Dayi lowered his head quickly.

For a moment, the whole room fell silent.

Gulp.

Lu Xinqing swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

He didn't understand, but he was shocked.

Seeing Yu Dayi didn't speak, Liang Qu also breathed a sigh of relief.

Successfully bluffed.

That's all he knows.

If he really argues, he might be exposed.

Does Yu Dayi really not know the enemy?

Not necessarily.

When the flood was raging, Yu Dayi did not hesitate at all. He immediately organized a fleet to evacuate the people and reduce the losses as soon as possible.

Not to mention how well he did, at least he did it in a proper manner without making any big mistakes.

He did not make any big mistakes, and he was definitely not incompetent. He would not do such a ridiculous thing as blaming the Hebo Office at a critical moment.

As for why he was blaming others, he deliberately hid in the door and cursed for everyone to hear.

Passing the buck.

Yu Dayi wanted to put the blame on the Hebo Office for the collapse of Qiugong Dike!

Can the county magistrate be separated from the collapse of a county levee?

He can't!

Although the hydrological station did not remind him, it had been raining for several consecutive days. Even if the hydrological office did not respond, Yu Dayi should have sent someone to check.

But it can be reduced!

What if the collapse of the levee was a revenge for the feud between the Hebo Office and the Ghost Mother Cult?

You can only be a thief for a thousand days, but you can't be on guard against thieves for a thousand days.

It is understandable that he cannot prevent it.

Yu Dayi insisted that it was the Ghost Mother Cult and blamed the Hebo Office, which was completely intended to shift the focus of the dike breach from Huazhu County itself to the Hebo Office!

As an official of the Hebo Office, could Liang Qu watch Yu Dayi pass the buck?

No.

Don't you know which family you are eating from?

Lu Xinqing just happened to provide a good story.

You said it was my Hebo Office's problem, which is equivalent to the father and son being bandits, and you blame Lu Xinqing.

Liang Qu would dig it up, then throw the pot back and hold it firmly.

Yu Dayi is definitely not a person who truly serves the people. He saves the people to save himself, his official uniform and his life.

Liang Qu's debate with County Magistrate Yu is not about right or wrong, but a question of position.

One wants to pass the responsibility, and the other wants to keep the responsibility.

Whether Yu Dayi's questioning is in line with or against the answer, it will help him divert attention.

If Liang Qu didn't understand the situation before entering the door, it would be easy for Yu Dayi to throw a big pot over, which would in turn affect the situation of Xu Yuelong and others.