The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Under the eyes of everyone in the Holy Land of Yingtian Academy, a vigorous ghost hunting operation finally turned into a farce. All the people watched all this dumbfounded, as if they had been stuffed into a pile of weeds and had no clue.

Cao Min couldn't take it anymore, he interrupted to take decisive measures to stop the farce about who stole the chicken feet that happened in front of him. "Students, don't quarrel, how about letting me explain to you two?"

Everyone followed the prestige and saw a tall and thin scholar in green robes walking out of the crowd, smiling and talking with hands clasped.

Su Jin knew him as Wang Anshi.

Cao Min said: "Do you know what happened?"

Wang Anshi said: "Master Cao's students should be able to sort out some clues and try to explain it to you, how about it?"

Cao Min nodded and said, "That's fine, you can talk about it."

Wang Anshi walked forward slowly, took Su Jin's hand away from Wu Hengxin's crotch pants, and said to the two: "Brother Su and Brother Wu must have misunderstood this matter, let me explain it to you two."

The two retreated resentfully and listened quietly to Wang Anshi's words. Wang Anshi smiled slightly and said, "Brother Wu, did you wake up in the middle of the night and see Brother Su?"

Wu Hengxin said: "I was woken up by the creaking sound, and I saw a person with disheveled hair holding a child's hand with blood flowing from the bite, but where is Brother Su?"

Wang Anshi said: "Think carefully about whether the person you see is Brother Su? Don't rush to answer and think about it from the clothes, figure and other subtleties."

Wu Hengxin rolled his eyes and thought for a long time with a sad face, suddenly said: "It seems a bit like Brother Su but not like; the light is dim and I was so scared that I couldn't see it clearly, but I vaguely saw the flickering light of that monster's head. "

Wang Anshi pointed to a hairpin sticking obliquely on Su Jin's head and asked, "Is this thing shining?"

Wu Hengxin scratched his head, not sure. Wang Anshi cupped his hands and said to Su Jin, "Brother Su, I will lend you a hairpin."

Su Jin reached out and pulled out the slanted hairpin from his head, and handed it to Wang Anshi. Wang Anshi thanked him and said, "Lord Cao also ordered everyone to put out the lanterns."

Cao Min shouted: "Put out the lantern."

More than a dozen lanterns were blown out with a 'flutter', and the room suddenly fell into darkness. After a while, everyone's eyes gradually adapted to the darkness. The faint crescent moon and shining stars outside the window shone a faint light into the room. Originally, their backs were facing everyone. Wang Anshi who was standing suddenly turned his head around.

Under the dim light, a demon with disheveled hair suddenly appeared in front of everyone, biting a child's palm. The faint silver light flickering on the top of the demon's head looked really frightening; the crowd immediately exploded. There was a scream like a pot, and someone ran out immediately.

Cao Min shouted: "What the hell are you pretending to light the lanterns?"

The ghost on the opposite side suddenly burst into laughter, waiting for everyone to light the lanterns tremblingly, but seeing Wang Anshi biting a chicken paw and laughing, his whole body was trembling and the corners of his mouth were full of red pumpkin sauce.

"Do you understand?" Wang Anshi tried hard to hold back a smile.

Cao Min said suspiciously: "You mean..."

Wang Anshi said: "Does the image below look like a ghost just now?"

"Extremely similar." Everyone said.

"Does the chicken paw in the subordinate's hand look like a child's palm?" Wang Anshi asked again.

"It really looks like this bad chicken feet, white, fat and tender, it's so similar."

"Does the hairpin on my head shine?" Wang Anshi asked again.

"It flashed and flashed several times." Everyone replied.

Wang Anshi clapped his hands together and said, "Okay, the problem is solved. What Brother Wu saw was not a ghost eating a child's palm at all, but Brother Su Jinsu who was eating chicken feet dipped in sauce hahaha."

Wang Anshi couldn't help laughing again.

"This...you mean that Su Jin deliberately gnawed chicken feet to pretend to be a ghost?" Cao Min's expression turned grim.

"Don't blame me, I don't know anything." Su Jin muttered, "My chicken feet were eaten and I haven't found the person who stole it."

Wu Hengxin muttered, "I didn't eat."

Cao Min was very annoyed and shouted: "Shut up."

Wang Anshi looked at Su Jin with piercing eyes and said, "Brother Su did not wrong you. You must have eaten those chicken feet yourself. Don't blame others."

Everyone was in an uproar. They didn't expect that everything was Su Jin's tricks. This kid was so harmful that everyone stayed up all night and was frightened. This time, Professor Cao might not be able to spare him.

Sure enough, Cao Min started to lose his temper. He squinted at Su Jin and said, "You're the one who messed up everything. As soon as I saw you today, I could see that you were out of sorts. It turns out that you are trying to amuse everyone."

Wang Anshi laughed and said, "Professor Cao, you wronged Su Jin."

Cao Min frowned and said, "Student, you tend to hesitate and mix things up when you say that Su Jin is the culprit, and then say that the official wronged him. What are you going to say?"

Wang Anshi said: "What I said below is very clear, but you don't think about it comprehensively based on the circumstances before and after."

The implication of Wang Anshi's words is that you can't blame anyone if you are stupid.

Why couldn't Cao Min understand the opinions in his words? Wang Anshi's words implied irony, so he glanced at him a few more times and secretly included Wang Anshi in the future punishment list. When the class officially starts, everyone should take a break early and say it’s just a trick.”

Wang Anshi said: "Cao's lecture is to say that Su Jin was wronged because although he did these things, he himself didn't know the slightest thing, everyone, don't forget that brother Su suffers from night wandering syndrome. The person who suffered from the disease did not know anything about what he did; I speculate that this is the fact. Brother Su got up in the middle of the night and got up and tossed about with a brush. Take it out with pumpkin sauce and chew it. After being awakened, Brother Wu decided that it was a ghost entering the house, so he rushed out, while this Brother Su was ignorant. You have witnessed it with your own eyes.”

After careful consideration, everyone felt that the analysis was reasonable and nodded: "It must be so, this brother's analysis must be the truth."

Cao Min also nodded and said, "Well, things should be as you said, but this thing is a little bit weird, and it's so ingenious that people have to be amazed."

Su Jin scratched his head and said, "Sure enough, as Brother Wang said, I have wronged Brother Wu. Brother Wu, forgive me for thinking you stole my favorite chicken feet. I knew you liked chicken butts. I will bring you a few." It’s good to come here, but I’m not used to it because of the unique smell here, so I threw it away.”

Wu Hengxin beat his chest and sighed: "It's a pity to waste delicious food. Next time, remember not to throw away delicious food."

Xia Silin was disgusted when he heard it, and the two of them answered in such a ridiculous way that he forced himself to hold his mouth, cover his mouth and turn his head.

Cao Min waved his hand and said, "Since the truth is out, you are all gone tomorrow, you have to get up early for class, you two, tidy up the room and have a good rest, so don't make trouble again."

Everyone turned their heads away after discussing. Su Jin also nodded and agreed to clap his fists and send Wu Hengxin off. He hurriedly said, "Lord Cao, please go slowly, I have something merciless."

Cao Min turned around and frowned, "Why are you so busy, tell me what's going on."

Wu Heng asked Ai Ai eagerly: "I have a question, does this sleepwalking attack happen from time to time?"

Cao Min didn't understand these either, so he looked at Su Jin and smiled and said, "It's not just that there are occasional seizures."

Wu Hengxin's face was livid and he said: "Then brother Su always chewed chicken feet when his illness flared up?"

Su Jindao: "It's not that sometimes I eat and drink, sometimes I sing and sometimes I jump up and down. In short, I can't control these things. My family told me that I really want to know what I am like when I go out at night."

Wu Heng's heart is about to collapse, can he still sleep peacefully in the same room with such a person?There is a ghost beside me who wakes up in the middle of the night and eats, drinks, sings and dances, can I still live this day?

Wu Hengxin said with a crying voice: "Brother Su, don't scare me when you go out at night."

Su Jin said: "I don't think about it, but I'm sick, and I can't help it if it doesn't look good; when I was at home, several times I got up in the middle of the night and took a knife to drive people's servants away, and I hurt how many servants I didn't know. Hey, what a crime, it will be useless in the next life."

Everyone was stunned, everyone's hair stood on end, this shit is not a person, it's like sleeping next to a lion, maybe in the middle of the night, this guy broke into the door, wiped his neck, stabbed him several times, and he didn't know how he died The crowd all looked at Cao Min, hoping he could give an explanation.

Cao Min frowned and said, "Could it be out of control?"

Su Jin said with a sad face: "There is no way. Once you get sick, you must wake up quickly. This disease is a family inheritance. My Su family has a way to quickly wake up people who travel at night. Just now my cousin Xia has already woken up." Didn't you all see me?"

Cao Min lowered his head and thought about the students behind him muttering, "How can this be good? This person travels in the middle of the night and I can't guarantee that I won't be hurt in my sleep. I can't live in this academy."

"Yeah, if he beats you up in the middle of the night in a daze, wouldn't it be bad luck for eight lifetimes."

"Being beaten up is considered light. Didn't you hear what he said? He used to throw someone with a knife. He was smeared on the neck in the middle of the night and he didn't know how he died."

"That's right... I don't think this academy can survive. I'm the only seedling in my family and haven't married yet, so I don't want to lose my life here."

"Yes, yes, yes, tomorrow, just resign from school and go home. Although fame is important, life is more important."

"..."

Everyone whispered to Cao Min's ears, and Cao Min became anxious and turned his head to stare at everyone's discussion. The student immediately turned silent and turned his head.

Cao Min thought for a while and said, "Then Su Jin, since you have this disease, I think I must find a solution, otherwise it would be a pity if you hurt someone in the middle of the night."

Su Jin spread his hands and said, "Is there any way I can tie me up?"

Cao Min's eyes lit up and he twisted his beard and said, "This method is good..."

Su Jin opened his mouth like a goose egg and secretly scolded himself for being cheap, why did he say this to make himself feel uncomfortable?My mind was racing and I quickly found a countermeasure.

Everyone looked at Cao Min expectantly and hoped that he could decide on this method. He said that before going to bed, he would tie up Su Jin with ropes like a rice dumpling. The situation of people's outbreak; the extra fun in the poor school life can also pass a lot of boring time.