A knife in love

Chapter 2139
After Murong Danyan finished speaking, he saw a few wry smiles on the faces of the shopkeeper and the short fat man.After a while, the short fat man said in a rough voice: "The method that the girl said, why haven't everyone tried it? The people of Wangqi County first wrote a petition, and selected a few people to go to the capital quietly, intending to report to the magistrate. No Thinking that before these people left Dongyang Mansion, they were caught by the tolerance officers of the magistrate's office and sent back to Wangqi County with the certificates. The people who sent the certificates were put in the prison and tortured in a terrible way. After three months, he died in prison one after another. Even the master Qian Shu who wrote the petition for us was arrested and taken into the Yamen, and his legs were broken. If it weren't for the fact that everyone collected dozens of taels of silver to buy it off The master of the yamen and the book office are afraid that Master Qian Shu will also be thrown in prison. Even so, Master Qian Shu was convicted by the yamen of defaming court officials and exiled to Lingnan. I don’t know if he is still alive now. world."

Having said this, the short fat man sighed, and then continued: "Mr. Qian Shu is a good man. He teaches the children of poor people in the city and outside the city to read, and he doesn't even accept a single letter of study. Such a good man, how can he be so kind?" Wouldn't it be heartbreaking to be in such a situation?"

The shopkeeper said: "After this incident, how dare we ordinary people go to complain again? The county magistrate became more and more arrogant, and the scraping of the land became more vicious. I don't know where he got some treacherous literati and local ruffians to the yamen I work as a master's book office and a police officer on business trips. These people are all greedy, they work for tigers, they use their hands to oppress goodness, and they toss a whole Wangqi county into a mess. The common people are all in danger. We who do small business It is also miserable.

"About three years ago, two foxes suddenly appeared in the Earth Temple in the east of the city. At first, only the Miao Zhu in the temple saw it and wanted to drive the foxes away. Going to provoke the foxes again, the two foxes have lived in the Earth Temple ever since. At the beginning, Miaozhu hated the two foxes, but after getting along for several months, the two foxes did not make trouble in the Earth Temple, and he gradually felt relieved. Later, he discovered that the two foxes could transform into human forms, and they often appeared at night, sitting in the courtyard of the Earth Temple to read and write. Miaozhu knew that the two foxes were monsters that had turned into spirits, so he was frightened and planned to escape secretly. However, the two foxes stopped him, saying that he was staying in the earth temple, just looking for a quiet place to read and write, cultivate his mind and cultivate his character, and he would never harm the lives of good people.

"After Miao Zhu heard what the fox said, although he was a little scared in his heart, he also put away his desire to run away. Since then, he and the two foxes have become friends, and they often sit together and chat, and they hit each other very well. One year On the night of Qingming Festival, Miao Zhu prepared a table of wine and food, and invited two foxes to drink. When the wine was full, a fox said to Miao Zhu, "We have lived in the Earth Temple for more than half a year. Thanks to the care of the old man, we are very happy. .Just one thing is unknown, I don't know if my brother will be able to see the teacher?

"Miao Zhu has become good friends with the two foxes who talk about everything, and was drunk at the time. Hearing what the fox said, he patted his chest and asked him to say anything. He must know everything and talk endlessly. The fox asked Miao Zhu that the Temple of the Earth is a very lively place in any city in the world. Common people want to burn incense and make wishes in the Temple of the Earth. No matter what difficult things, they would go to the earth temple to pray for the help of the sages. They walked through many cities, and the earth temples in each city were very lively. Only after arriving in Wangqi County, there was a lot of noise everywhere. Running around in the city, I don’t know what I’m doing, but the Temple of the Land is lonely. We thought it was a deserted temple, so we came here to live, but we didn’t expect it to be the land. The temple is quite unexpected."

Murong Danyan heard the shopkeeper say this, and thought to himself, I remember Brother Li said that he encountered many strange things in Xiuwu County, where the Earth Temple was suppressed by the Town God's Temple, so no one went to burn incense.The land temple in Wangqi County is desolate, but it is not unusual.Whether the incense in the temple is prosperous or not depends entirely on whether the gods worshiped in it serve the common people.If you only care about incense, but ignore the suffering of the people, the people will naturally not burn incense and worship gods.

The shopkeeper went on to say: "Miao Zhu smiled wryly after hearing what the fox said, and said in his mouth that although Brother Fox has been in Wangqi County for half a year, he has been living in the Earth Temple to read and write, and he has never even gone out of the door of the Earth Temple." Of course, I don't know the details of our Wangqi County. A few years ago, after the current magistrate took office, he scraped the land inside and outside the city, and the people were miserable. A few days ago In the same year, some people came to the Earth Temple to worship God, praying for God to open his eyes, so that the county magistrate would not be able to recover from his illness, or he would be promoted to other places to scrape land, which spared the people in Wangqi County. A lot of eyeliners were sent in and out of the city, and people went to the earth temple to burn incense and curse the county magistrate. The news spread to the yamen, and as a result, those people were all unlucky. Forgive me. From now on, our land temple has been cut off from people. If I still have some savings, I can still buy some incense candles and snacks for the Lord of the Land to worship, I am afraid that the incense here will have been cut off long ago.

"Miao Zhu shook his head and sighed while talking. After hearing this, the two foxes were extremely angry. Miao Zhu told the two foxes that when they entered the city, they saw people flying around in Dongliao County. Because more than half a year ago, the magistrate was obsessed with fighting crickets, and every day he called the big landlords in the city and outside the city into the yamen, and accompanied him to fight crickets. It's just that the magistrate was fighting crickets for fun in name, but in fact he took the opportunity to ask for bribes. You might as well think about it, who would dare to win a cricket fight with the magistrate? After a cricket fight, the magistrate can always win dozens of taels of silver. Later, an uncle Ji came from Dongyang Mansion and lived in our Wangqi County. Many months. He heard that the county magistrate called rich people to fight crickets in the yamen, so he also asked someone to hand over a name card, wanting to open his eyes.

"The county magistrate heard that Uncle Ji was a salt merchant, and he was overjoyed. He thought to himself that he had won 500 taels of silver after fighting crickets for more than two months. It's just that the big and small local rich men in Wangqi County are all Miser, don’t be willing to bet more, it’s boring to fight crickets. Salt merchants are rich in wealth, far from being comparable to these local rich men. This fool surnamed Ji sent it to his door, how could he let this big sheep go? ?

"Master Zhixian made up his mind, and when the game started again, he invited Uncle Ji to the county magistrate's office. At that time, Lord Zhixian had a cricket that was invincible in all battles. It was not only huge in size, but also extremely ferocious. The invincible hand inside and outside the city of Banner County. The magistrate loved it like a treasure and named it the Brave and Invincible General. As soon as the game started that day, the Brave and Invincible General killed seven or eight crickets. I won three or four taels of silver for the magistrate. The magistrate was extremely proud. Seeing that the next one to fight was the cricket brought by Uncle Ji, he became more and more happy. , even if I don’t grow it!”

　The content of the next three to six chapters is basically the same as what Wang Xiaoyu talked to the shopkeeper and others in the tavern before.In order to keep things flowing, a lot of content had to be repeated.Readers who have read the previous article can skip the next three to six chapters.Thank you all.

　　
　
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