Chapter 273: Bandit Lord
Tattle Joe was not a good-tempered person to begin with, and after being forced to the position of Lord Westham, his personality became even more irritable... If Ji Tang had not resolutely refused to allow him to walk around with a longbow, this guy might have caused a big trouble and been taken to his old brother Hal for labor reform.
This is not to say that Tattle Joe is inherently anti-human, but to the indigenous strongmen of this world, grassroots work is simply unreasonable and unreasonable!
Every day when I open my eyes, I have to worry about the terrible financial deficit of Westham Town Hall (mainly owed to Yang). Every day I worry about how to use which money and how to repay which money; the progress of the town's engineering plan, and whether it will conflict with spring ploughing if it cannot be delivered on time; which factory has which problems that need to be solved urgently; what happened in which neighborhood, and which villages are fighting over the order of digging wells, and need to be mediated quickly...
They were also forced to face issues such as the funding allocation for the free schools of the Education Department. If it was not enough, where would they get the money from? Whether the cash flow of the Logistics Department could keep up this month and whether there would be a financial collapse. The construction team going to the countryside to dig wells had to apply for diesel approval and logistical supplies. The team delivering supplies to the prisoners' road construction team was about to set off again, and they had to organize and dispatch them quickly... and so on.
When facing these problems at the beginning, Tattle Joe still had the energy to doubt his life. It was just a tiny territory with a population of tens of thousands. Could there be so many things to do to such an exaggerated and ridiculous extent?
Then... Tuttle became numb.
Whatever, if you are tired, just endure it if you can’t destroy it.
And this isn't the worst part.
He, a man who was forced to do something, worked so hard to serve this piece of land that had nothing to do with him, but there were still some idiots who didn't know how to make things easier for him and created trouble every now and then - do you really not believe that he would kill people? !
Looking at the two families who dared to cause trouble in the Public Security Department, Tattle habitually reached for his bow on his back - he drew it out in vain, as Ji Tang did not allow him to bring a bow to work. He roared angrily: "If anyone is tired of living, get out here immediately, I will send him to death! So that we don't have to send people to the prisoner road repair team!"
The people from the Megan and Gold families dared to act like a spoiled child in front of the operators who were also townspeople, relying on their acquaintance. However, they had no confidence to cause trouble in front of this lord who had a bad temper and never gave anyone a good face. They were so scared that they dared not even breathe.
Ji Tang was standing beside him with a pained look on his face. This was really not what a leader should say... After thinking about it, at least this guy didn't rush over to stop the fighting with force without saying a word like he did in the beginning. So, just curse him a few times.
"Men, shut up, women, don't cry!" Tuttle roared at the two families fiercely, then looked at the captain of the security guards, "You, tell me the situation!"
The team leader stood up and briefly described the process...
About forty minutes ago, a man who had been out drinking at night ran to the town hall in panic to report that he saw two people lying on the ground at the west gate of the town, surrounded by blood.
The team leader rushed over with the security guard on duty and found a man and a woman.
The man was the townsman Gold, who was lying in the alley with a bloody head. When the security guard found him, he had been unconscious for a long time. There was a palm-length boning knife lying beside Gold.
The woman was Caroline, who was running a small caravan business in the town. She crawled out of the alley and lay on the street with her upper body facing outward. There was a wound nearly ten centimeters long on her right arm, and blood was all over the ground.
The team leader hurriedly took the two men back to the town hall's public security department and gave them simple treatment - there were no practicing doctors in the town. He also sent people to find the two men's families to see if they needed to be sent to the city for medical treatment.
Gold's home was close to the town hall, so he arrived ten minutes earlier. After finding his son unconscious, he tried to attack the unconscious Caroline, but was separated by security guards. Gold and his family were arranged in another room to avoid the intensification of conflict between the two families.
After all, they were in front of the Undead Mayor Ji Tang and the irritable Lord Tattle. The captain's statement was very objective, without any bias. However, his neutral statement obviously could not satisfy the two families. Their eyes were filled with anger. If Tattle had not just made a harsh remark, they might have started a fight on the spot.
"Whose knife is it? Was it brought by a man or a woman?" Tuttle asked impatiently.
"It belonged to Gold. Caroline used a brick to attack Gold." The captain wiped his sweat. "The road repair team in the town left some leftover building materials at the west gate. Some townspeople took them home to repair their houses. There was a small pile of blue bricks in that alley."
Tuttle's eyes suddenly looked dangerous...
He is also an adult man. Although he has been worried about his family's decline for many years and has no intention of starting a family, as a man, it is impossible for him not to understand men.
This former thief, gangster, and ranger looked at Gold's family with cold eyes and sneered, "Meeting a woman with a knife? Is this your family's style of doing things?"
Gold's family members looked uncomfortable. The man who was being looked at by Tuttle bravely whispered: "This is just... just for self-defense..."
"Self-defense? Is Westram so dangerous now that we dare not go out without a weapon?" Tuttle shouted.
Isn't it true? Ever since the undead came to the town, although the nights are still not peaceful, there have indeed been few public security incidents - people who go out stealthily at night are likely to be chased and harassed by the undead who appear unexpectedly.
"But that's not the reason why Gold had his head hit. Caroline must have attacked him first, so he had to protect himself... Who would be on guard against the person they're dating? You heard it, my son was knocked unconscious in the alley, and Caroline crawled to the street by herself." The man defended himself stiffly.
Ms. Winnie was furious, and the men in Megan's family clenched their fists.
When Tuttle heard the word "date", he was immediately annoyed: "How did you two families teach your children? Dating with your lover always causes trouble?!"
"No, there is no such thing!" Ms. Winnie said hurriedly, "Caroline is not dating Gold. She went out to discuss business with Allen. She has no contact with Gold at all!"
"Our family doesn't like a son-in-law like Gold!" Mr. Megan said gritting his teeth.
"——They are indeed dating, but they just didn't let Megan's family know." Gold's father rushed to speak, "Gold and Caroline grew up together, and they have had feelings for each other for a long time, but Megan's family doesn't think highly of Gold, so the children kept their relationship underground."
As he said this, Gold's father gently pulled his wife's sleeve.
If his strong son and a young girl met outside at night and carried a knife, and if they were not lovers, Gold would be in big trouble!
Gold's mother also sensed something from Tuttle's dangerous attitude and the change in his tone after hearing about their "date". She instinctively defended her son: "Yes, lord, they have been dating - Gold has met Caroline many times since he came back."
"Lie!" Everyone in Megan's family was going crazy, "Caroline doesn't like Gold at all!"
"We are not lying. Many people in this town know about Gold and Caroline. Just go and ask on the street and you will know."
Ji Tang couldn't understand what the natives who were not in the matrix were saying, so he hired a security guard to translate for him. When he heard the two families arguing about the injured man and woman who were suspected to have a relationship dispute, his expression was very interesting.
No, is it true that the practice of attributing a sexual injury case between a man and a woman to a relationship dispute is still common across the world?!
Ji Tang had met Caroline before. After Rex left, he took over the business of wholesale small commodities from the town hall for these four young people. He remembered that Caroline was a girl with strong opinions and courage.
Ji Tang, on the other hand, did not have a very deep impression of Gold. He only remembered that this man was one of the first young townspeople to return home. However, he did not perform well after returning home and was not very active in the reconstruction of the main road in the town. After winter, the town organized townspeople and villagers to repair the road, but he only came for a few days and then disappeared.
Would Caroline fall for such a man who is afraid of hard work and has a secret affair with him behind his family's back?
No matter how Ji Tang thought about it, it seemed a bit ridiculous...
But, it cannot be said that there is absolutely no possibility - after all, Gold is indeed one of the unmarried young men with a relatively good image among the townspeople, and people who are in love generally don't have much brains.
Anyway, as a single man, Ji Tang doesn't dare to make any conclusions.
Tattle looked at the two families arguing with a headache, and he probably had the same idea as Ji Tang.
"Alright, alright, shut up!" After listening for a long time without any clue, Tuttle interrupted both parties in a panic, "Are they fighting each other because of a relationship dispute, or is one of them maliciously attacking the other? The family members don't have the final say, wait until they wake up and tell it themselves!"
Without waiting for the two families to argue, Tuttle said viciously: "No matter whether they are lovers or not, I will not let the one who committed the crime first go! No one can plead for mercy, get out of here and stay in the prisoner road repair team!"
The faces of the two families suddenly turned identically pale.
Because both parties were in a coma, the families of the two families had not heard their injured family members tell the story of what happened, and neither family had any confidence in whether their children were the first to attack or not...
Ji Tang nodded in satisfaction at Tuttle's attitude.
After all, Ji Tang is a young man full of vigor and vitality. He cannot tolerate the practice of smoothing over emotional disputes by making a big deal out of a small matter. This is the case on Earth and in this alien world.
Tattle didn't think as much as Ji Tang. His starting point was actually very simple. Whoever made him miserable and couldn't go back to rest so late at night, he would make miserable for that person.
Even if Caroline and Gold are indeed lovers, and both are willing to forgive each other, or even favor each other...then they can go build the road together.
Hurting people is a crime, and daring to shelter a criminal is also a crime - Tuttle's thinking is that simple.
Everyone in the room waited patiently for a while, and Caroline and Gold, who had drunk low-level alchemical potions (potions for living people handed in by life players in exchange for reputation), woke up one after another.
After waking up, both of them were a little excited, and they didn't have time to communicate with their families because of the security guard's intentional separation, so they told the truth...
"That bastard Gold wanted to force me to marry him and rape me!" Caroline seemed to have found support when she saw the room full of security guards and the mayor of the undead town, Ji Tang, standing behind them. She complained angrily, "I told him I would not marry an incompetent loser, and he actually pulled out a knife!"
"I wanted to seek help from the dead, but for some reason there were no dead spirits on the street..." Caroline was so frightened that she couldn't help crying. She held her injured right arm and trembled all over. "He wanted to cut my face and prevent me from marrying someone else. He pushed me to the ground. I struggled and touched the bricks that someone had piled in the alley..."
Tuttle expressionlessly asked the security guard to control the two excited families, and walked with Ji Tang to the next room.
"Caroline, that crazy woman, I just wanted to propose to her, but she actually wanted to kill me!" Gold's face was distorted with excitement, and he loudly accused his family members who were separated by the security guards outside, "Don't force me to find that crazy woman anymore, I will not marry such a vicious woman!"
Gold's family members looked pale, and Gold's mother almost fell to the ground.
"Haha... you have a deep relationship and you're dating behind the scenes?" Tuttle looked at the Gold family with a crazy look on his face. "You guys are really brave. You treat me like an idiot in public?!"
As he said this, he instinctively wanted to draw the bow...but he drew it in vain.
Gold didn't know that his family had made up a huge lie to protect him. Thinking himself to be a victim, he was still struggling on the bed, yelling at the ungrateful Caroline.
"That's enough. Send this bastard to the prisoner road construction team." Tuttle gave the order with a grim face.
Gold, who was injured in the head, saw clearly that behind the security guard stood the most violent lord of Westram, and was stunned.
Tattle still felt unsatisfied after thinking about it. The bandit leader, who could not vent his anger with brutal means, added viciously: "Come on, someone else, call the weekly newspaper and publish the stupid thing this idiot did! Don't forget to contact the radio station, I want this bastard to be famous in Innadelle!"
Gold 's family members almost died... When the news spread to the town, their family members would have to walk on the streets with their heads down for at least a few months, and they even had to put an advertisement in the newspaper and on the radio!
Ji Tang initially thought that what Tattle did was a bit cruel, but when he thought that publicizing this matter would help avoid many incidents of malicious harm under the guise of emotional disputes, he kept his mouth shut.
The old man had a purpose when he said, "To correct a wrong, one must go too far, but to correct a wrong, one cannot go too far." Since Gold has run into this trap, let's use him as an example.
