The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

It wasn't until the sun turned to the west that Su Jin limped out of Daming Temple with the help of Chao Mahan and others. When he passed the archway in front of the temple gate, he saw Feng Huhu's men leaning against the wall Basking in the sun, the host Shanxiang didn't know how to settle them properly, and Su Jin didn't bother to take care of it. He just sent Feng Huhu a message to ask these people to wait at ease.high-speed update

Su Jin was very worried, and delayed it for a while, no matter what he did, he couldn't delay it tonight. At night, these people would definitely not wait here obediently. If they rushed to the temple to rescue Feng Huhu, it would be a big trouble.

Su Jin stretched out his hand to greet Zhang Long, and whispered in his ear, "Hurry up and go down the mountain, go to the magistrate's yamen to find Song Zhifu, and order him to send five hundred soldiers here to take down all these people, and tell Song Zhifu, don't ask why , It’s urgent, everything will be over if it’s too late.”

Seeing Su Jin's seriousness, Zhang Long hurriedly turned his ass and ran down the mountain. His running attracted the pilgrims who came down the mountain in twos and threes around him to look sideways. , lowered his head and urged Chao Mahan to support him and sprint down the mountain. He didn't let out a sigh of relief until he went around the mountain wall and out of the sight of Feng Huhu's gang of thugs.

"This kid ran away in a hurry before he finished listening, and almost taught those people to recognize us."

"Isn't that right? There are a few people looking over there, do you know if they recognize us? Those few people have seen each other in Beikou Sanli Hutong, I remember them." Wang Chao said.

Su Jin was surprised and said: "It's not too late, hurry down the mountain, don't delay, if you know them, they must know us too."

Su Jin didn't care about the pain in his body, and the two ran down the mountain quickly, leaving Wang Chao Ma Han behind. The three barely entered the corner, and several figures appeared on the mountain wall behind them.

"Senior Brother Wu Neng, did you see clearly? Those officers and soldiers who went to Sanli Beikou to make trouble that day?" a thug asked.

"Nonsense, when did my eyes miss someone? Those two strong men were standing in front that day. When their horses were pulling our iron fence, they were helping to shout." It is Xin Wuneng, Feng Huhu's eldest disciple.

"That's right, that's right, I also remembered what Senior Brother said. Later, when the special bird envoy entered the Fugui Building, the two boys followed in, and they were invited to a side room to eat a large table of snacks."

"You remember it too? Is it them?"

"That's right, I can't run away."

"What are they doing here? The thin one in the middle doesn't see his face. I don't know if it's the envoy of the bird."

"Basically, they also come to the temple to burn incense?"

Xin Wuneng said: "Burning incense? I'm afraid it may not be possible. Master came here to worship Buddha, and these boys also came. I'm afraid they want to harm Master."

"It's not good for Master Hu? Just how many of them? Brother, you are joking, one master can beat twenty of them. I see that thin and small man is limping, and I am afraid that he will be beaten up by the master when he meets the master."

Xin Wuneng murmured: "I can't say for sure, it stands to reason that the master would not turn against him, unless these boys offend the master, I really want to catch these boys and ask, why they disappeared in the blink of an eye. "

"Brother, it's more important to protect the master. The old monk said what kind of method the master is doing in the temple. It may take a while to come out. If we are really taken advantage of by others, then we will be in big trouble, master." There are so many enemies in the world, in which year there will be no one who is not afraid of death, we'd better live in peace."

Xin Wuneng nodded and said: "What I said is that the master told me that when you go out with him, it is a great achievement just to protect him. Besides, these guys may really come to burn incense. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the common people can burn incense. Naturally, I can also burn incense and worship Buddha."

A few people murmured and turned around while talking, keeping their eyes on the temple gate and not mentioning it.

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At dusk, Su Jin and others returned to Yangzhou City. As soon as they entered the North City Gate, they saw a large group of people and horses going out of the city along the North Street. It was Song Xiang who led the troops. Confused, I personally took soldiers and horses to fetch people.

Su Jin rushed forward and pulled Song Xiang aside and told him all he had seen and heard. Song Xiang stomped his feet and said, "Special Envoy Su, I think you have found grain or solid evidence, just eavesdropping. , is not evidence, how to get people?"

Su Jindao: "What evidence do we need now? Get it first, otherwise we will be passive once he gets out of trouble. Don't forget that he is a devil with hundreds of lives in his hand. His five or six hundred disciples, once he is out of trouble, we will be passive. How do you plan to calm down the chaos?"

Song Xiang said: "If he wants to make a rebellion, it is natural for our government to send troops to suppress it. But now, if there is no conclusive evidence to accuse him, it is easy to catch him, but it is difficult to let him go."

Su Jin smacked his lips and said: "My lord magistrate, why do you accept death like this? I'll go back and collect the evidence. I already have some clues. If you want to take him down now, once he gets out of trouble, he will not do anything but control him endlessly." Those officials of yours rose up to make trouble, and you don’t know how you died.”

Song Xiang was hesitant, Su Jin kicked a pile of fallen leaves on the side of the road flying all over the sky and said: "I tried my best to eavesdrop, and I almost lost my life, you are still hesitating here, If you don’t go, I’ll leave immediately. What do you have to do with Yangzhou being a mess? No matter how much your subordinates collude with him, and how famine will happen after the year, what does it have to do with my master? How many food affairs are waiting for me to deal with, and I will help you, but you will not help yourself. It’s okay, let’s break it up, I think you can be the magistrate for a few days.” After saying that, he walked away.

Song Xiang hurriedly stopped him and said, "The special envoy appeases his anger, isn't this government afraid that it will be out of order? If there is no evidence to accuse him, the group of people under him will make it clear that they will make a fuss. Isn't this going to let him go? It’s okay for the government to take him by itself, but you have to hurry up and find out the evidence.”

Su Jin said: "Just tonight, I will definitely give you evidence, you go quickly, the Dynasty is blocked at the intersection at the foot of the mountain, if you don't go, it will be too late."

Song Xiang had no choice but to get on his horse and gallop out of the city with his men and horses to Shugang Mountain.

Su Jin didn't go back to the government office, there was too much eyeliner there, so he went directly to the Yuelai Inn in Xicheng, and asked Ma Han and Zhang Long to hurry and call Zhao Dutou and Pan Jiang to discuss.

After eating some food indiscriminately and changing clothes, Pan Jiang and Zhao Dutou had already arrived. Su Jin was not polite, and straight to the point told what he had seen and heard today. Everyone gasped when they heard this. Feng Huhu is actually so powerful, with so many big cases on hand, yet he has lived happily in Yangzhou for so many years.

Zhao Dutou opened his mouth and said: "This old thief is too capable. He has dragged all the officials of Yangzhou into the water. What to do, I will let you tell me."

Su Jin pondered and said: "He discovered it today, so the place where the evidence of the official confession is hidden has not been clearly stated, but I presume that it is in the hands of that person."

Pan Jiang said: "Which person? Who can give Feng Hu such trust?"

Su Jin said: "Perhaps Feng Huhu just handed it over to her for safekeeping, and she doesn't know what it is. This person is the only woman Feng Huo expressed his warmth in his confession, and she is the number one female officer of the Red Studio, Mi Huaniang. Tiger said at the time that he and Mi Huaniang got along quite well because Mi Huaniang resembled his mother, so I speculated that since he said that the evidence was not with him, and the evidence was so important, he would definitely If you won’t let them get out of your control, then the only possibility is to put them in Mi Huaniang’s hands.”

Pan Jiang nodded and said: "That makes sense, but I've heard about Mi Huaniang from the Red Shadow Studio. This woman was one of the best red cards in Yangzhou City back then, and this woman has a hot personality. Some dignitaries spent a lot of money to kiss Fangze, but they were rejected She scolded the dog and came back bloody, the reason is that she didn't like it, I don't know how she got together with this Feng Huo."

Su Jindao: "Feng Laohu must have concealed something from her, but now is not the time to discuss these matters. You mean that Mi Huaniang is afraid that she will not cooperate with us because of her weird temper?"

Pan Jiang nodded and said: "That's one, and the second is that even though we took the evidence and wiped out all these officials, we still couldn't get the food storage place. Some people have come to win me over these days. Knowing that I was beaten and scolded by the special envoy, he intended to make friends with me, but he didn't get any definite information through insinuating, and I'm afraid he will have no chance to find out the news with such a sudden action by the young master."

Su Jin said: "What is food? Compared with this big event, the matter of food is insignificant. Digging out these moths is like finding a large granary worth 1000 million shi. Besides, I don't believe it. You can't find it where the grain is stored. I can dig out a million stones of grain even if I dig three feet into the ground."

Pan Jiang said: "Since that's the case, my lord will give the order."

Su Jin stood up and said solemnly: "Tonight is a battle of life and death, we must make all preparations, even if we don't get any evidence from Mi Huaniang, we will use force to search all of Feng Huhu's mansions to find the evidence , everyone must understand this first, there is absolutely no way out; therefore, the envoy ordered that Panjiang be reinstated immediately, and your reinstatement document is in the hands of Song Quan, the son of the prefect of Song Dynasty. The [-] sentient soldiers guarded the four gates tightly, not letting a single bird fly out, because we can't let them jump over the wall in a hurry to spread the news of our previous opening of the warehouse to release the army rations, and we can't allow it If any of them get away, if necessary, kill without mercy!"