The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Qian Gouzui told the whole story in full swing. It turned out that both Qian Gousheng and Huang Ergou were hooligans in Dongcheng who took shelter of a ruffian named Zhao Dazui in Dongcheng. Things like smashing, intimidation, etc. oppressing the people.

Last night, when Su Jin and the others were sitting quietly in front of the yamen and making noise, Zhao Dazui suddenly summoned a dozen people to explain the matter, and took out more than a dozen sets of scholar's costumes and asked them to replace them with real students who pretended to be Ying Tianfu students. Waiting for an opportunity to incite trouble in the middle.

Qian Gousheng didn't think much about it, he did a lot of fighting and arson on weekdays, this job is relatively easy, and Zhao Dazui's bounty is quite generous, but he just made a request, don't ask too many questions If you want to just go and make a fuss, when the officers and soldiers arrest people, they will scatter and run away, absolutely no one will arrest them.

So Huang Ergou, Qian Gouzuo and others came to the Yamen and acted out the scene of inciting others to make trouble. These yamen servants are not very polite to them on weekdays, so they take the opportunity to retaliate against the public.

Su Jin frowned and shook his head after listening to Qian Gousheng's narration: "You are dishonest. It seems that you have not been given means. I am afraid you don't know the means of the young master."

Qian Gousheng was so panicked that he kowtowed and mourned, "Grandpa knows everything."

Su Jin raised his head and said: "If you come to this man with an iron hook, if you want to pretend to be a hero, you can fulfill him; if he doesn't want to say it, let alone for the rest of your life, hook his tongue out and cut it off with a knife."

Zhang Long took out a sharp weighing hook out of nowhere, held the hook in one hand and pulled out the dagger in his boot with the other, and walked towards Qian Gousheng fiercely.

Qian Gou left his horrified body backwards to confess, but Zhao Hu grabbed his hair and pulled it back, pulling his face up, Zhao Hu's other hand pinched his mouth and cheeks like iron tongs and exerted a little force. Qian Gouzeng's mouth opened automatically and could not be closed anymore.

Qian Gouzeng was so frightened that his hands and feet kicked wildly. When the cold iron hook touched his lips, a stench suddenly struck and made everyone frown. Zhao Hu lowered his head to look at the water stains in between. I was so scared that I shit and peed out again.

Taking advantage of Zhao Hu's loose hand, Qian Gousheng took a few breaths and cried, "I said I said, grandpas, please forgive me."

Su Jin waved his hand, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu hurriedly stepped back, put his nose in the crack of the door, and breathed the air outside. The money and dog leftovers were spread out in the pile of excrement and urine, and he didn't dare to hide anything. He said in a crying voice, "Officer Zhao really didn't say anything, but the brothers can guess it." One or two days ago, I heard that Prince Teng was watching the red leaves in Xishan, and at the Banshan Pavilion, he was beaten by several servants by some students, and even the prince himself and Chief Qin were insulted. A few stewards of the city ordered the brothers in the whole city to wait for the opportunity to teach those students who don't know how to praise them."

Su Jin nodded slightly, this is the point, humiliating the prince that day, it is reasonable for him to issue such an order.

"But those few students are very cunning, except for one who lives in Nancheng, the others are all huddled in Yingtian Academy and can't openly go to the academy to make trouble, so they have been unable to succeed; and the land in Nancheng belongs to Qi Ye and the others. The younger ones couldn't intervene, but it is said that the student is not simple, there are more than a dozen in the nursing home, all of them are highly skilled in martial arts, and five of the imperial guards who returned to the German army are patrolling the city.

"Later, I heard that someone found the words slandering the saint and the court from the chapters written by the students of Yingtian Academy, so Mr. Fu Yin sent someone to copy Yingtian Academy and took four of them. Later, the students came to make trouble; Huang and I Ergou wanted me to pretend to be students and make trouble, so he made an excuse to take them. This order must have been thought up by the prince and Fu Yin, but this matter is just a guess, no one said, and we can't ask about it. I can't keep my head, so Grandpa, if you ask this, the villain can only say what you know for sure, and guess what you can do."

Everyone could hear it clearly, this move is really poisonous to the core, such a big crime of attacking the yamen and gathering people to riot and riot can't be escaped. Although Su Jin has already guessed the reason for this, but now that he has heard it personally confirmed, he still feels that the anger in his heart is unacceptable. contain.

"Have you written it all down?" Su Jin suppressed her anger and turned to ask Rou Niang.

Rou Niang handed over the record in her hand to Su Jin, Su Jin picked up a pen and threw it in front of Qian Gousheng along with the confession.

"See if it's what you said, and if so, put a bet on it."

Qian Gouyu was still hesitating, and Zhang Long yelled, "Do you want to die? Hurry up and bet."

Qian Gousheng read it hastily and tremblingly drew his bet.

"Take him out and wash it, and it will stink to death."

Su Jin pointed to the third cloth bag and said, "Is that also theirs?"

Wang Chao cupped his hands and said, "My lord, the people here are our acquaintances."

Su Jin asked in surprise, "Acquaintance?"

Chao Chao smiled and said, "I only caught those two but I ran into such a sneaky guy on the road. I thought maybe this guy knew more, so I took it back and knocked him unconscious."

Su Jin became curious and hurriedly said: "Open the bag, I want to see who it is."

After the bag was opened, Su Jin took a look and was startled. It was indeed an acquaintance in the bag. It was Zhu Manizi, the Nancheng ruffian who brought people to attack him that day, and handed over his confession to the lord. one pile.

Zhu Manzi was still in a coma, being punched in the back of the head by Wang Chao was not much different from being hit by a hammer, indeed it was not so easy to wake up Su Jin saw that his head and face were injured and his arms were covered with blood seeping from the inside It seems to have experienced some kind of fight.

Someone made a ladle of cold water and poured it on Zhu Mangy's face. Zhu Manny woke up slowly, opened his eyes, opened his eyes, and cursed, "You gang of treacherous villains, I have done so many things for you, and how much money you have earned. That's it. I can't let you go even if I am a ghost to repay my father; where is the seventh master? I want to see the seventh master, and what is that sinister and despicable villain doing? What kind of man is a man who has the ability to stab a knife in the back with grandpa..."

Everyone was confused by his furious scolding. Su Jin heard the strangeness in his words and laughed, "Who is this who annoyed our manager Zhu so much? talk."

It was only then that Zhu Manizi came to his senses and took a closer look at the person standing in front of him. It turned out to be his evil star Su Jin, since he met this person, he became a bereaved dog. Isn't it an evil star?

"What's going on? How are you? Why am I here?"

Su Jin laughed and said, "Why does Steward Zhu think of us? He just scolded me and made me feel ashamed."

Zhu Manizi said awkwardly: "I thought you were Mr. Su sent by that dog thief Xiao Hu. But when our business is over, we'll be cleared up in your house that day. Don't take your word for it."

Su Jin said: "Naturally, I don't dare to provoke you, Guanshi Zhu, if you don't have to bring someone to do it, my whole family will die in vain."

Zhu Manizi lowered his head and said, "Why are you talking about this? How can I go to your house to provoke you now that I can't protect myself?"

Su Jin rolled his eyes and said, "I'm afraid Guanshi Zhu was hunted down and killed. Look at this body, it must have gone through a fierce fight."

Zhu Laizi's complexion was gloomy and he sighed: "Those gangsters killed the donkey with a knife in the back to kill Grandpa; don't mention this matter, I'm coming back this time to settle accounts with that dog thief, Xiao Hu. He must be behind the scenes." Mischief."

Su Jin tested him and said, "Is it because of the extermination of the family?"

Zhu Laizi said: "It's probably because the gang said that the dead family had a son who was a county magistrate in the south and went to the capital because of this matter, and there was a lot of trouble, so the seventh master told me to avoid the limelight and order me. I took a dozen of my brothers and went to the Kuangfeng Village of Langtou Mountain to find the owner of the Sui village. The thief I just arrived at the foot of Langtou Mountain, and I didn’t know where to come out. Only then did the dozen or so brothers who escaped confess to all of them; what the hell is going on with me being washed up by the robbers when I wanted to be a robber?"

Surprised, Su Jin asked, "Kuangfeng Village? Master of Sui Village? Why would your Seventh Master persuade you to become a bandit? Isn't this telling you to rebel?"

"What's the rebellion? This Kuangfeng village is originally owned by the prince... It's useless to say more. Do you have anything to eat? But I'm starving to death."

Zhu Manizi was shocked when he realized that he had made a slip of the tongue, so he quickly shut up; Su Jin's heart was full of turmoil. The lord really had something to do with the bandits in Kuangfengzhai. A few people will order someone to take Beijing into custody early in the morning, and hand over all the confessions to Yan Shu, even if he fails to do things here, with these evidences, King Teng and his gang will never have a good life.