Chapter 230 Hostage-taking

Qin Daguang almost peed in fear.

He is the chief catcher of the county government. In Shuimen County, apart from the magistrate who gives orders, he, the chief catcher Qin, is the most prestigious person in the city.

If anyone offends him, he can put the person in jail and torture them for any reason.

In this one-third-acre land in Shuimen County, who is not afraid of him?

Except for the county magistrate and the master, everyone felt as if they were seeing the god of plague when they saw him. No one had ever dared to treat him like this.

Qin Daguang, who had always been accustomed to being arrogant, felt weak and helpless for the first time.

He suppressed his fear and tried to keep his voice as calm as possible.

"Who are you? What do you want?"

Qiao Ran's voice was cold: "No! I am a person who specializes in punishing evil and eradicating tyrants. A scum like you who indiscriminately slanders good people and protects bad people should not live in this world."

"You, you dare?"

Qin Daguang's voice was like splitting.

Although he was scared, he didn't believe that these mud-legged refugees dared to kill him. He was also a government arrester after all. If a civilian killed a government official for no reason, it would be a capital crime.

However, Qiao Ran didn't give him an answer at all, but the dagger in her hand tightened a little.

Qin Daguang felt a stinging pain on his neck, and some hot liquid flowed down from his neck.

"You, you, you... I am the head catcher of Shuimen County, how dare you kill a government official? Who gave you the courage?"

Qin Daguang was so angry that he wanted to curse, but he was worried about the dagger around his neck.

Qiao Ran just snorted: "A headhunter without distinction between right and wrong? If you want to survive, ask your men to retreat back to the city gate and let these refugees leave. As for you, you have to come with us and wait until you leave here." Ten miles away, I will let you go."

Qin Daguang was angry and annoyed, but there was nothing he could do about his neck being stabbed by someone else's dagger.

He could only wave to the more than a hundred government officials who were standing there: "Back off, back off! Go back to the city gate and don't come out. Let these bastard refugees leave!"

As he spoke, he winked fiercely at his subordinates.

Qiao Erhe saw it from the side, stepped forward and kicked him in the crook of the arm, knocking Qin Daguang, a burly man, to his knees.

"Be honest with me! Otherwise I'll kill you!"

Qin Daguang finally calmed down and repeatedly asked his men to retreat to the city gate.

The government officials had no choice but to obey the order and retreat into the city gate.

"Everyone, please pack up your things and go somewhere else! The Shuimen County government is inactive and refuses to take you in. If you stay here, there will be no good results."

Qiao Erhe loudly advised the refugees who were watching.

When the refugees heard this, they thought of the thugs who rushed out of the city just now and beat people up if they disagreed, and then thought of how these government officials wanted to confuse right and wrong and take the good people who saved people to the county government for punishment. , they were also chilled.

Without much hesitation, everyone started to move forward along the official road.

They don't know where they can go or where they can be accommodated.

But they have to go, and if they stay here, they will die.

Seeing that everyone was evacuating outside, the old village chief asked the folks in Qingshui Village to quickly pack their things and follow the refugees to the official road.

Qiao Ran escorted Qin Daguang to the village carriage.

In order to prevent Qiao Ran from losing sight of the burly head catcher, the old village chief took a few men and got on the carriage.

As soon as he entered the carriage and lowered the curtain, Qiao Ran slashed Qin Daguang on the back of the neck with a knife, and then threw the limp man on the floor of the carriage.

At the city gate, all the government officials watched helplessly as their boss was kidnapped and put into a carriage, and followed the group of refugees away.

"What should we do? Should we stop those people and rescue Qin Baotou?"

A yamen servant asked weakly.

Someone glanced at him and asked: "The catcher is in the hands of those people, are you sure to rescue him? If the catcher is injured, can you afford it?"

The man shrank his neck, which he couldn't bear.

"Then what should we do? Just watch those people leave? When the head catcher comes back, will he punish us?"

Someone asked again in a low voice.

Everyone was silent.

After a while, someone said: "Let's follow him from a distance! Otherwise, the head catcher won't let us go when he comes back."

So, all the government officials left a few people to guard the city gate, one person returned to the county government office to report the news, and the rest followed the people of Qingshui Village with weapons.

"Ran Ran, what should we do with this person? After all, he is a member of the government. Will we be wanted by the government?"

The old village chief, who got on the carriage together, asked worriedly.

Qiao Ran knew that in this era, there was an insurmountable gap between the people and the government. The so-called people did not fight against the officials because the government's power was supreme and could not tolerate any blasphemy.

Now that they have offended someone from the government, they are afraid there will be endless trouble.

However, in such a tense situation, there was no room for mercy, otherwise he and his fellow villagers would be arrested and imprisoned.

Qiao Ran comforted: "Grandpa, village chief, don't worry. This is just a small county, and these government officials and the thugs in the city are so arrogant and domineering, it is not a good idea to come to the county magistrate. I want to come and mobilize the people in the city. Wealthy households donate food and porridge just for outsiders to see. They want to create good political achievements to show to the people above. Now that there is such a riot at the gate of the city, I am afraid that the people outside the city have already known about it. , the county magistrate did not dare to cause too much trouble, otherwise if the news reached the ears of the superiors, he would not be able to keep his black gauze hat. I guess, if the county magistrate is smart, he should know that there are more than 100 people in his small county town. A government official can't hold down a large group of people like us, so he will definitely punish the thugs who are really causing trouble in order to quell the impact of this riot."

After hearing Qiao Ran's analysis, the old village chief also felt that it made sense.

The main reason is that he can't think of a good way now. Even if Qiao Ran doesn't show up at that time, he still has to let the men in the village come forward to save people, because those thugs are too inhumane.

Now that things have come to this point, we can only take one step at a time.

The carriage was swaying along, and Qin Daguang, who was knocked unconscious by a knife, woke up a little early to Qiao Ran's surprise.

He touched the back of his neck and gasped.

Then he suddenly realized the situation he was in, and he got up from the ground all of a sudden, but hit the roof of the carriage with a "thud" sound, hitting his head hard, and hitting his already dizzy head even more. fainted.

He half-crouched and looked at the people in the carriage in horror.

"You...where do you want to take me?"

Qiao Ran sneered: "Why, you were knocked unconscious by just such a collision? Didn't you say that? You are my hostage. I will let you go when we are ten miles away from the city gate."

Upon hearing this, Qin Daguang immediately felt relieved.

He frowned and looked at this good-looking carriage, and then looked at the people sitting in the carriage suspiciously.

I don’t understand how such a group of mud-legged refugees can have such a good carriage. Could it be that they are really spies as I just claimed, where did they come from?

Just as he was thinking about it, there was suddenly a rapid sound of horse hooves coming from outside the carriage.

Qin Daguang was overjoyed. Could it be that the county magistrate sent someone to save him?