Chapter 186: A life for a life, cut off a finger with a knife!

Jinyang West Market.

As the weather gradually began to warm up, more and more Hu people from the Xianbei, Xiongnu, and Tuge tribes came from outside the Yinshan Mountains to sell furs.

The Jinyang West Market was originally a livestock market for trading cattle and horses, so it naturally became a market for trading furs.

Duan Yu took Tie Shitou, Wang Hunu, and twenty personal guards and rushed toward the West Market.

On the way, Jia Xu was explaining the cause of the matter to Duan Yu.

Originally, Duan Yu thought the Wang family Jia Xu mentioned was the Qixian Wang family, that is, Wang Yun's Wang family.

The reason he thought so was because the two had a conflict over Chen Ye and Diao Chan before.

So Wang Gai might cause trouble when he took office.

However, what Duan Yu didn't expect was.

This Wang family was not the Qixian Wang family, but the Jinyang Wang family.

"Wang Rou is the Prefect of Yanmen Commandery and has a very good relationship with the Xianbei, Xiongnu, and Tuge tribes."

Duan Yu walked in front of Jia Xu, one hand pressing on the hilt of the sword at his waist.

It was not strange for a border Prefect to be on good terms with foreign tribes.

Being on good terms with foreign tribes was also a means of maintaining peace.

Just like his father-in-law Dong Zhuo, who had a very good relationship with the Qiang and Hu tribes in Liangzhou.

But the Jinyang Wang family was different from Dong Zhuo.

While Dong Zhuo was on good terms with the Qiang tribe, he also maintained a strong military deterrence against them.

But clearly, Wang Rou was only a Yanmen Prefect and did not possess strong military power.

Nor was he enough to make the Xianbei, Xiongnu, and Tuge tribes fear him.

In that case, if Wang Rou was on good terms with the Xiongnu and Xianbei, then there must be some kind of benefit exchange behind it.

As for what the exchange was, it was not clear yet.

In the West Market.

At this moment, more than a dozen Xiongnu people dressed in animal skins and short in stature were surrounding and protecting a Xiongnu youth.

On the periphery stood several government officials with straight swords at their waists.

Around them were a large number of Han merchants, as well as Xianbei and Tuge tribesmen.

Beside the Xiongnu who were being watched by several officials, there also stood a middle-aged man dressed in a gray robe.

Besides that, a middle-aged Han man was lying in a pool of blood on the ground.

Three people who seemed to be the Han man's companions were squatting beside the middle-aged man's body, looking angrily at the middle-aged man in the gray robe and the dozen or so Xiongnu people.

"Move aside, move aside."

"The County Commandant has arrived."

"Move aside!"

Tie Shitou and Wang Hunu shouted loudly to disperse the crowd.

The crowd watching on the periphery immediately made a passage.

Duan Yu pressed the hilt of his sword with one hand, frowning as he walked through the crowd.

When he saw Duan Yu's figure, the young Xiongnu man protected in the middle of the many Xiongnu people immediately showed a panicked expression.

And he lowered his voice and said something to the middle-aged Han man in the gray robe beside him.

Only to see the middle-aged man smile disdainfully, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, shaking his head, his gaze falling on Duan Yu without any regard.

Twenty personal guards pushed aside the crowd, their eyes alertly looking around.

After Duan Yu passed through the watching crowd, he arrived at the scene.

He saw the Han man lying on the ground and the protected Xiongnu youth.

"What's going on?" Duan Yu asked after standing still.

The companions of the dead Han man saw Duan Yu in his official robe, and someone said he was the County Commandant, so they immediately pointed to the Xiongnu youth behind him and said: "My lord, he is the murderer!"

"We are merchants from Guanzhong, here in Jinyang to sell furs."

"Just a moment ago, we negotiated the price of a cart of sheepskins with their people."

"The money had already been given to them, and we were about to unload the cart and take the skins, but this Xiongnu youth suddenly came back."

"Saying he wouldn't sell to us anymore."

"My elder brother said, since you won't sell, then return the money to us."

"But they didn't admit we gave them money, and even falsely accused us of wanting to rob the skins, so they started pushing us."

"My elder brother couldn't take it, so he got into a fight with them."

"It's him!"

One of the people squatting beside the middle-aged man's body pointed to the Xiongnu youth protected by many Xiongnu people and said: "He used a dagger to kill my elder brother."

"My lord, please make the decision for us."

"This is the land of the Han family, yet these Xiongnu people are acting violently, killing people, and forcing sales."

"Please make the decision for us, my lord!"

Duan Yu raised his eyes and looked at the group of Xiongnu people.

Then he raised a hand and said: "Take them all down. If there is any resistance, kill them on the spot!"

"Take them all back to the county government."

"Wait!"

Just as Duan Yu's words fell.

The middle-aged man in the gray robe, who had been standing beside the Xiongnu, stepped forward.

Then he cupped his hands and bowed slightly to Duan Yu, then looked up and said arrogantly: "County Commandant Duan, right?"

"My surname is Wang, and I am the steward of the Jinyang Wang family."

"Regarding him."

The steward looked at the man who had just spoken and said: "What he said is just one side of the story."

"His elder brother's death has nothing to do with the guests of my family's master."

"He says it was my family master's guests who killed him, but is there any evidence?"

"Or is there anyone around who saw it?"

As he spoke, the steward's gaze swept across the surroundings.

In an instant, the vast majority of the onlookers lowered their heads.

Most of the people in the crowd were merchants in the West Market or outside merchants who came to purchase furs.

There were also some citizens in Jinyang City.

If they were afraid of the Xiongnu, that wouldn't be it.

But the Jinyang Wang family.

These four words were like a mountain pressing down on their heads.

If they wanted to make a living in Jinyang City.

Offending the Jinyang Wang family was equivalent to cutting off their own path.

This steward's words were very clear: these Xiongnu people were friends of the master of the Jinyang Wang family.

Who was the master of the Wang family?

The Xiongnu-holding-the-festival-and-middle-general, Yanmen Prefect Wang Rou.

In this Jinyang City, who dared to offend him?

Seeing the lowered gazes around him.

The steward became even more smug.

He turned his head and smiled slightly at the Xiongnu youth.

The Xiongnu youth breathed a sigh of relief.

However, just as the steward was showing off the power of the Wang family.

Duan Yu waved his hand.

The citizens and merchants of Jinyang City might fear the Wang family.

Even the officials of the Jinyang county government feared the Wang family.

But who were Tie Shitou and Wang Hunu? ===== CHAPTER 188 =====