The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Su Jin hurriedly went downstairs to greet the garden, only to see Wang Chao and others taking down three large bags from the two carriages at the gate of the courtyard. in the bag.

After everyone entered the garden, Xiao Xianer carefully locked the door, took back the key, and put it in her waist; Zhao Hu reached out to untie the cloth bag, but Su Jin quickly stopped her and said in a low voice, "The eyes are tied." Is it?"

Zhao Hu shook his head and said, "No, his hands and feet were tied and his mouth was gagged."

Su Jin frowned and looked around, then turned her head and asked Xiao Xianer in a low voice, "Is there a separate house? I can't teach these people what this place is."

Only then did everyone understand what Su Jin meant, and couldn't help admiring his thoughtfulness. Xiao Xian'er pointed to a low-rise building in the northwest corner and said, "There is a flower room over there, but there are tools and flower fertilizers in it, and people won't enter it for a long time." , I'm afraid it smells bad."

Su Jin nodded and said: "That's it, please take a few candles to light up, miss."

Xiao Xian'er turned around and went upstairs to look for candles. Su Jin waved, and they carried the three people in bags to the greenhouse in the northwest corner.

Push open the small door, and by the light of candles and lanterns, we can see that the house is full of flower fertilizers, hoes and shovels. Feeling sick, Su Jin ordered someone to hang the lantern on the wall, and lit four or five more candles, and the hut was suddenly brightly lit.

"Close the door and untie the bag."

Zhao Hu swiftly lifted a cloth bag still in front of Su Jin, stretched out his hand and broke the hemp rope at the mouth of the bag, peeled off the cloth bag, revealing a man in white with his hands and feet tied together; He looks like a deputy scholar, with a long gown and a square cap, but the shoes on his feet give away his identity. They are a pair of cowhide boots. He wears a long gown and wears boots. It is obviously a counterfeit. It cannot be said that he has unique aesthetics.

When the man saw the light for the first time, his eyes couldn't fit and he narrowed his eyes. With the messy grass stuffed in his mouth, he made a 'woo-woo' sound. Su Jin stretched out his hand and pulled the messy grass out of his mouth. Damn thief, what kind of a hero is a man who plays tricks behind his back, whose people are you, are you the subordinates of the bald man of the king of Xicheng?"

Su Jin stretched out his foot and kicked him fiercely in the face, the man's nose bleeds immediately, Su Jin sneered and said: "Young master is under the command of Lord Yan, and today he is here to take you to death."

The man howled like a pig, with a sharp and ear-piercing voice, which spread far away; Wang Chao slapped his mouth twice, and cursed: "You dog thief, bark twice, you can bark if you are not afraid of beating. Fucking old man, I will lock your beak with an iron rod, so that you like to bark."

After hearing such a ruthless move, the man knew that he had hit an iron plate today, so he shut up obediently, lying on the ground panting.

Su Jin shouted: "Look up and see who I am?"

The man raised his head, his long face looked panic-stricken under the light, with blood from his mouth and nose, looking terrifying and frightening.

"Grandpa, I don't know you. We have no grudges in the past or near. What are you doing with me?"

"You don't know me, but I know you. Didn't you call yourself a student of Yingtian Academy in front of the yamen just now? The young master is a student of Yingtian Academy. He is famous in the academy. A person who doesn’t know Xiaoye, but you say you don’t know him again.”

The man collapsed to the ground, his eyes rolled wildly and said: "Little man, I studied in the academy a few years ago, but not now."

Su Jin laughed and said, "You're thinking fast, don't you tell the truth, don't you? Don't give me face?"

The man said: "What are you talking about? I'm just a scholar who is studying. Today I stood up to help people fight against injustice out of righteous indignation. Don't take a good person by mistake."

Zhang Longzhao kicked him on the buttocks, and cursed: "You are a good girl, you are a thief. The grandfathers have been waiting for you at the gate of the brothel for more than an hour. You are a picky person who claims to be a good person. The government is hunting you down. You don't have time to piao whores."

"This..." The man hesitated.

Su Jin raised his foot to lift his chin, looked into his eyes and said, "The last question is whether to tell the truth or not."

"The little one... the little one is telling the truth."

Su Jin smiled slightly, snapped his fingers and said, "There is not enough flower fertilizer in the garden. I just took you as flower fertilizer today and buried him in the flower fertilizer pile. Doesn't he like to go shopping? Tomorrow he will be buried in the garden." Under the peony flowers, this is called "to die under the peony flowers, even to be a ghost." It is a worthy death.

The man panicked and was about to speak when he blocked his mouth with a handful of weeds. The crowd lifted the oilcloth and dug a big hole. The man struggled violently. Chao Chao slashed his neck with a knife, and the man fell silent immediately. The limp down, at the mercy of.

Everyone stuffed him into the big pit, covered it with a thin layer of flower fertilizer, and left his nostrils outside. At the same time, under Su Jin's gesture, he left a weak hand outside.

"Next, untie the bag." Su Jin said lightly.

Zhao Hu did the same thing, threw the second cloth bag in front of Su Jin with a snap, stretched out his hand and pulled open the seal, revealing a thin, withered young man dressed as a scholar who looked like a sick, consumptive ghost inside.

I saw him trembling with fright, apparently he had heard all the conversations and actions just now, and he was terribly frightened now.

Zhao Hu sniffed and said, "The smell of sao is not the smell of flower fertilizer."

One of the companions took a look at the thin monkey, covered his mouth and laughed loudly: "This dog has pissed, scared to piss."

Everyone laughed loudly, and they all looked at it, and they saw that the lower part of the man's light blue gown was unusually dark in color. This kind of thing was really frightening.

Su Jin suppressed his laughter, and took the weeds out of his mouth. The man hurriedly said: "Good man, spare your life, good man, spare your life, just ask, tell me everything you know, and talk endlessly; just spare me the life of a dog."

Su Jin nodded and said: "Respond well, and of course it won't kill you. Take a pen and paper to record."

Someone rushed to the boudoir to ask for paper and pens. Unexpectedly, after a while, Rou Niang came with the Four Treasures of the Study in person and held a lantern. As soon as she entered the door, she could smell the stench. Standing on the side with the usual expression, a dilapidated long table was used as a table, spread with paper and pen, and listened intently.

Seeing this situation, Su Jin could only let her be here. There was no time to waste now, it was more on four, and it would be dawn after five o'clock, and there was still a lot of preparatory work to be done.

"Do you know that person just now?" Su Jin asked.

"Who……?"

Su Jin pointed at a finger protruding from the flower fertilizer, and winked.

The thin monkey glanced at it, his face turned pale with fright, he quickly turned his head and didn't dare to look again, nodded like pecking at rice, and said, "I know him, his name is Huang Ergou."

"Needless to say, both of you are classmates and alumni of Yingtian Academy?" Su Jin teased.

"No...back to Grandpa, neither of us have ever read a book."

Su Jin nodded and said: "Very well, you are acquainted, what's your name? Where is your family?"

"The villain, Qian Gousheng, lives in Qianjiazhuang, Shilipo, outside the east gate."

"Tell me, what's going on today, why did you come here to take the opportunity to make trouble, and blame those students."

"This... I really did this out of righteous indignation." The thin monkey obviously knew the seriousness of this matter, and denied it.

"Indignation? Is it that simple?" Su Jin asked with her head tilted.

"Exactly... so, caused by righteous indignation."

Su Jin smiled, cupped his fists and said, "Congratulations."

The thin monkey said in astonishment: "Are you always going to let me go?"

Su Jin said: "You made a good plan. My congratulations are that you can be a companion on Huangquan Road with that Huang Ergou Huang Ye. Come on, buried alive!"

Zhao Hu came forward swinging his arms, stretched his big hands and grabbed the remaining hair of the thin monkey money and dragged it to the pile of flowers and fertilizers.

Qian Gouzou hurriedly yelled: "Grandpa, spare your life, but the hero will die. I really can't tell you about this. If you tell, my whole family will be killed by them."

Su Jin sneered and said, "If you don't say it, you're going to be finished now. If you say it, I guarantee that your family will be safe and sound, and I will give you a large sum of money so that you can live a peaceful life in another country."

The man muttered, "How can I get away? You can't get away even if you run to the ends of the earth."

Su Jindao: "To tell you the truth, I am an undercover agent sent by the imperial palace in the capital, and I am searching for the crimes of some people in Yingtian Mansion. If I say I can keep you, I will blow you up. With the support of the emperor, what are you afraid of? "

Qian Gousheng's mind became a mess, obviously this person was the student who took the lead in making trouble, why did he suddenly become an undercover agent again.

"You don't believe me? Then let me ask you, if I don't have a backer, would I dare to openly challenge the Yamen? Look at the skills of my subordinates, all of them are Ouchi guards, otherwise why are there hundreds of officers and soldiers today? Master is still safe and sound here talking to you? If you want to live, just tell the truth, keep your family safe, and reward you with money."

Qian Gousheng was completely lost, his nervous brain could no longer tell the difference between black and white, hesitantly saw Zhao Hu's big hand grabbing at his hair again, and then looked at the dead hand sticking out of Huafei and holding his middle finger towards him, He broke down.

"I said, I said everything, I only hope that the hero can protect the life of the villain, and please take care of the mother and children at home."

Su Jin smiled silently: "The one who knows the current affairs is a hero. You are a hero, and you will have a good future. Say, don't miss a single word."