The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 175 Turning into a woman turned out to be. ([-]-character chapter)
There was a strong wind and thunderstorms.The atmosphere inside and outside the watchtower was even more eerie.

Madam Nine got off the couch and went to close the window.

Chang Feng lay on the couch and said: "It's raining, it should be cool after this rain."

Madam Nine was stunned by the window: "Brother, come and listen. What's the sound?"

Changfeng came to the window.Amidst the thunder and rain, I heard the woman's miserable cry, "Mi ah mi ah!"

Then there was another strange sound, which seemed to be a woman's hoarse cry: "Gabi Yidala! Oumei Yidala! Mi ah mi!"

Mrs. Ninth was surprised: "It's Tujia dialect! Could there really be ghosts?"

Chang Feng asked: "What is that voice calling?"

Mrs. Ninth explained: "It's me who is calling for my life! Clean the bird and wait for me!"

Chang Feng said: "Oh, I don't know who is playing tricks again."

Mrs. Ninth is a Tujia family who believes in ghosts and gods.She took out a large box from under the couch.

After opening it, it was full of magic tools used by Tujia people to drive away ghosts.Such as Shidao, Niujiao, Zhandao, copper bell, colorful willow towel stick and so on.

Mrs. Ninth put the ox horn under the pillow, put the teacher's knife at the door, hung the copper bell on the tassel of the bed, put the colorful willow towel stick beside the bed, and put the teacher's knife on the dressing table.

Chang Feng frowned: "You are the same as Zhou Wen. You treat people like ghosts."

Mrs. Nine said: "It's better to believe in something than in nothing! When my grandfather was alive, he told me that he had seen a woman changing in Xiangxi, and he had also seen a corpse driver."

Chang Feng didn't take it seriously: "It's all made up by old people to scare children. Don't take it seriously."

"You also said that the wound on the neck of the murdered yamen servant was left by the trap. It was not caused by the biting of the Bian Po."

"Bang!" Suddenly there was a loud noise, and the door was knocked open!

Chang Feng subconsciously raised the scorpion crossbow.

Fatty Xu ran in in a daze: "I saw a female ghost! Oh my god, what a big female ghost!"

Chang Feng put down the scorpion crossbow and scolded: "Fortunately, my sister-in-law and I didn't have intercourse, otherwise you would have to see the live spring picture! Why don't you just come in?"

Fatty Xu sat down on the chair: "Fatty Master scared me to death!"

Chang Feng asked: "What's going on?"

Fatty Xu took a sip of tea, suppressed his shock: "Did you hear the ghost scream just now?"

Chang Feng replied: "I heard it. People pretend to be ghosts, so naturally they have to scream a few times to scare others."

Fatty Xu said: "That's what I thought just now. I opened the window and looked under the watchtower. I saw a black shadow standing in the yard!"

"It just so happened that there was thunder in the sky. The light from the thunder cleared the shadow!"

"I saw, my God, that man's hair is disheveled, his skin is pale, and his eyes are blue!"

Madam Nine interjected: "My grandfather told me that the eyes of Bianpo's eyes glow green."

At this moment, the three of them smelled a fishy and foul smell.

Chang Feng subconsciously covered his mouth and nose: "Fatty, are you farting again?"

Fatty Xu said, "I didn't fart! What does it smell like? It's so disgusting!"

Ninth Madam was a little panicked: "Wherever Bian Po goes, she has a stench on her body."

Fatty Xu stuck out his tongue: "Zhou Wen said that changing women like to spoil men. She won't find me tonight, fat man?"

Chang Feng comforted him: "Don't scare yourself. You have the blood of the Zhongshan King flowing in your body, and all ghosts will avoid taboos."

"Don't say that becoming a woman is fake. Even if it's true, I dare not touch your body."

"Even if it touches your body, it doesn't know who spoiled who."

After hearing this, Fatty Xu became more courageous: "Yes! My ancestor was killed from a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. Our Xu family has a murderous spirit and is not afraid of ghosts!"

Chang Feng’s analysis: “It’s pouring rain outside the door. The smell is washed away. I think the smell comes from inside the watchtower. There must be ghosts inside.”

At this time, the old birthday star Sun Guishou also walked in.

Sun Guishou said: "Master Chang, did you hear a strange sound or smell a strange smell?"

Chang Feng nodded slightly.

Sun Guishou smiled slightly: "I have lived to be 84 years old, and I have been a poor man for 65 years. I have seen too many people pretending to be ghosts. This is the first time I have seen them pretending to be so real."

Chang Feng pointed to Sun Guishou, and said to Mrs. Ninth and Fatty Xu: "You heard that! Old Shouxing has been around for a long time and has seen a lot. He also said that he is a man pretending to be a ghost."

Fatty Xu smiled wryly: "Old Birthday, I will sleep with you tonight."

"Ah, it's not that I'm afraid. The main reason is that I have the blood of King Zhongshan on my body, and all ghosts avoid taboos. I have to protect you, the old man."

Sun Guishou said: "Success. Then let's go to my room."

The next morning, the rain stopped.The entire Yinjiang River was shrouded in thick fog.

Chang Feng got up, opened the window to see the fog outside the door, he felt wet and damp.

Chang Feng said with emotion: "No wonder they don't want to come to Qianjiang to be an official. It's such a horrible weather."

After half an hour, Chang Feng came to the lobby of the inner watchtower.

Before entering the lobby, he heard the voices of scribes and yamen servants discussing: "Last night I saw a woman transformed! Standing in the front yard!"

"That's right, I saw it too! The face is rotten, and the eyes are green. If that thing is ruined, I don't need it to kill me. I will kill myself first!"

It seems that Fatty Xu was not the only one who witnessed the transformation into a woman in the middle of the night last night.

Chang Feng entered the lobby, and cupped his hands towards Zhou Wen: "Master Zhou, gather all the subordinates of the chief lawsuit. I know them well."

Chang Feng is ostensibly Zhou Wen's successor "Chang Hua Yu".

No one on Chang Feng's side except Zhou Wen knew Chang Feng's true identity.

Zhou Wendao: "Okay, Master Chang. I'll call people together right now."

Not long after, more than 140 people in the yamen all gathered in the lobby.

Inspector Gao Chenghu, chief official Jin Bao, tax collector Huang Liang, and team leader Lin Sanjiu led their subordinates to salute Chang Feng.

Chang Feng said: "In the next three years, I want to help you all through thick and thin. We are now our own people. Watch!"

Zhou Wen tentatively asked: "Master Chang, we have finished the handover. Can I leave the Yamen early?"

Chang Feng shook his head slightly: "I arrived three days early. Mr. Zhou, your term of office will expire in three days."

"According to the law, magistrates are not allowed to leave the territory until their term is full. Otherwise, they will be regarded as abandoned land and should be beheaded!"

How could Chang Feng let Zhou Wen leave this bait so easily?

Zhou Wen sighed: "Okay. Then I will follow the rules and stay for another three days."

Chang Feng said with a smile: "When I first came to Guibao Land, I saw the local ghosts. It seems that I have to worship the local gods."

When he said this, Chang Feng observed the four subordinates of the chief lawsuit with his eyes.

Inspector Gao Chenghu was just like his nickname, a drunk cat with blurred eyes, listless and expressionless.

Jin Bao, an old official, is very calm.He drank tea with a calm face.

Huang Liang, a tax collector, was originally a color-eyed man with blue eyes.If it was green, Chang Feng would definitely suspect that he was a "transformed woman".

Lin Sanjiu, the leader of the strong team, was very powerful and was playing with an iron wrench for archery in his hand. (The wrench finger did not appear in the Qing Dynasty. If you understand it, don’t spray it)

Among the four, Chang Feng was most suspicious of Lin Sanjiu.

Lin Sanjiu was born as a hunter.Bear traps are used for hunting.

Chang Feng smiled and asked: "The four of you have been working in the long-term lawsuit, right?"

Among the four, Jin Bao was obviously the leader.

Jin Bao replied: "I, Tax Collector Huang and Bantou Lin have all worked in Yinjiang for more than ten years."

"Only inspector Huang was transferred two years ago."

Chang Feng said: "You have been in Yinjiang for a long time, so you should be familiar with the local people's conditions. Tell me, why can't the reform of the land and return to the people continue in Yinjiang?"

Jin Bao replied: "Master Chang. Reforming the land and returning to the local people is not as simple as replacing the chief lawsuit with the county government and changing the name."

"The so-called guiliu means that the power belongs to the officials appointed by the imperial court. They want to seize the power of the four local chieftains. Naturally, the four chieftains are unwilling."

"The chieftain families have been entrenched in the local area for hundreds of years, and their roots are deeply rooted. The Southern Song Dynasty, the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty government have nothing to do with them."

"unless."

Chang Feng asked: "Unless what?"

Jin Bao replied: "Unless the imperial court sends troops to slaughter all the local Miao people, Tujia people, Dong people, and Yi people. A large number of Han people will move to the Central Plains."

Chang Feng waved his hands again and again: "Da Ming is not like a barbarian Meng Yuan. He would not do such a thing as massacre a foreign race."

Jin Baodao: "Then don't even think about implementing the reform. There are only about 140 of us in the imperial court in Yinjiang. There are a total of 5 people from the four ethnic groups."

"If you piss them off, they'll even file a long lawsuit. Feed us all to black bears."

Chang Feng asked suddenly: "By the way, I checked the county government's staff list last night. Besides Liuguan and Han Minzhuang, there should be four native officials and four hundred foreign Minzhuang. Why don't you see them coming to the lobby?"

Jin Bao replied: "The four native officials are the four chieftains in name. The foreign nationals are also their people."

"The chieftain doesn't usually come to sue. We don't dare to let the people of other ethnic groups guard the inner and outer watchtowers."

Chang Feng sighed: "The imperial court even sent this hall to Yinjiang to carry out the reform of the land and return it to the local people! It seems that it may not be possible."

Speaking of this, a greedy look appeared on Chang Feng's face: "What's the point of me being a sixth-rank official? I can't get out of the watchtower!"

"Hmph, some of my fellow Jinshis who are close to me are assigned to the Imperial Academy and the Sixth Department, and have a bright future."

"Some of them are sent to the fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River to serve as county magistrates, and they can always get a lot of money in a three-year term."

"I am the only one guarding this ghostly place where no oil can be squeezed out"

Jin Bao smiled slightly: "It's not that there is no money. In name, Yinjiang's taxation power lies with the chief lawsuit."

"But the long lawsuit collects taxes, and you can't collect even a tael of silver. Maybe you will eat the tricks of other races."

"Successive officers have entrusted the right to collect taxes to the four chieftains. The tax money they get is [-]% to [-]%."

Chang Feng was surprised: "Why is it only [-]%?"

Jin Bao explained: "Seventy percent belong to the chieftains. Only thirty percent belong to the chief!"

Chang Feng pretended to be insatiable: "Ah! It's only [-] percent. I can drop a few drops of oil and water from my hands."

"Being an official in such a hot and humid place. I have to live with ghosts in the same yamen, and I still can't get any money. I've been unlucky for eight lifetimes!"

Jin Bao smiled and said, "Lord Chang, don't worry. The imperial court doesn't take the taxes of barbarian lands so seriously."

"You only need to report that the barbarism of the foreign race is unreasonable. The tax money cannot be collected for one or two taels. The above will not blame it."

"The [-]% of the tax, you don't pass it by, but it belongs to yourself."

When Jin Bao said this, Zhou Wen was so embarrassed that he wished he could dig a courtyard!

He cursed secretly in his heart: Jin Bao, Jin Bao, you don't know that the person in front of you is not my successor, but Chang Tu of Jinyiwei!

Say I am corrupt in front of him.You will kill my head!

Chang Feng turned his head to look at Zhou Wen: "Master Zhou, how much money have you made in this three-year term? Tell me, I really know what's going on."

"Don't worry, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. No one informed the court of the number."

Zhou Wen was speechless: "This, this. Let's talk about it in private."

Chang Feng said: "Okay. By the way, I want to see the four chieftains tomorrow. Team leader Lin, you send someone to invite them."

Lin Sanjiu cupped his hands and said in a loud voice, "Yes!"

The discussion in the lobby is over.Chang Feng followed Zhou Wen, Fatty Xu and others into the study.

Chang Feng smiled and said, "Brother Zhou, don't worry. I'm not here to investigate corruption and bribery. I'm here to protect your life, investigate murders, and implement reforms."

"I won't pursue how much money you took. After all, it's not dirty money, it's just bad officialdom."

"Being an official in this ghost place should get some compensation."

Zhou Wen cupped his hands: "Thank you for your understanding."

But Chang Feng made a silent gesture: "From now on, you should still call me Brother Chang, and don't call me something, so as not to expose your secrets."

Zhou Wen said: "Yes."

Chang Feng smiled slyly: "Tell me, how much money did you make in three years?"

Zhou Wen was speechless.

Chang Feng said: "I'm here to protect your life. Why don't you tell me the truth? If I want to harm you, I'll just leave the lawsuit and leave you alone."

Zhou Wen had no choice but to answer truthfully: "There is more than 1 taels."

Chang Feng was surprised: "So many?"

Zhou Wen explained: "The four tribes of Yinjiang are good at hunting. They produce a large amount of rare furs every year and sell them to merchants."

"Although there are many mountains in the Yinjiang River, it is not poor mountains and bad waters, but rich mountains and precious waters."

"Here is rich in glutinous rice, ponkan, Yinqiu tea, pomelo, and Gastrodia elata."

"These things are shipped to Han, and they are all good things that are in short supply."

"The chieftains gave me 1% of the tax money, which is always more than [-] taels. But money is something that can be earned but not spent!"

Zhou Wen's words reminded Chang Feng.

Chang Feng said: "Wait a minute. According to what you said, Chief Yinjiang is a fat job."

"The first four officers who died strangely should have accumulated a lot of money."

"Where did the money go after they died?"

Zhou Wen replied, "I don't know about that."

Chang Feng asked: "Where's your previous chief? When you came, you always helped him with the funeral, right? Did you see the silver left by him?"

Zhou Wen slapped his head: "Ah! When I was doing his funeral, I just heard the legend of turning into a woman, and I was so frightened that I shivered. I ignored the fact that his money disappeared!"

"It stands to reason that no matter how clean he is, he still has several thousand taels of silver on hand! I haven't seen one tael!"

Sun Guishou interjected: "Master Chang, do you suspect that the motive of the murderer pretending to be a ghost to kill someone is to kill for money?"

Chang Feng nodded: "That's right! You can get more than 1 taels for killing one person! This is not a small amount."

"After killing people and robbing money, they will fabricate rumors about ghosts turning into wives and killing people to confuse the public. Heh, good trick."

Sun Guishou said: "Understood. Master Chang, your deduction has confirmed that the inner ghost is in the chief lawsuit!"

"Only the people close to the previous officers will know how much wealth they have. It's not surprising to see wealth."

I don't know what to say.After talking with several people, Chang Feng had a rough idea.

The so-called ghost yamen turns women into murderers, but there are bad people in the yamen who kill for money.

Chang Feng asked: "Jin Bao, Huang Liang, and Lin Sanjiu have all been in office for more than ten years. They have served five officers."

"I suspect Lin Sanjiu now!"

Sun Guishou said: "Because of the animal trap on the neck of the yamen servant who was killed last night?"

Chang Feng nodded slightly: "Exactly. Lin Sanjiu was born as an Orion! Brother Zhou, how is Lin Sanjiu usually?"

Zhou Wen replied: "It shouldn't be him. He is usually very stupid. He doesn't seem like a scheming person."

Chang Feng sighed: "Oh, brother Zhou, you can't judge people by their appearance! People who are stupid on the outside may have an exquisite heart in their chests."

During the day, Chang Feng talked with Zhou Wen about "official affairs" all night in the study.

At night, Chang Feng ordered his warriors to "catch ghosts!"

They all carry scorpion crossbows.Once the "Bian Po" appears, it will definitely be shot into a hornet's nest.

Chang Feng arranged them in the lookout holes and arrow holes of each watchtower to guard them.

Once they find out that they have changed their minds, they will immediately aim and pull the crossbow.

Chang Feng and Mrs. Ninth were in the bedroom, deliberately shaking the bed.Let the creaking sound of the bed spread throughout the entire inner watchtower.

Suddenly, there was another scream of "mi ah mi ah" in the yamen.

Chang Feng said to Mrs. Nine: "The fish appeared again."

However, this time the Bian Po did not appear in the front yard.The scorpion crossbow of Jin Yiwei Pao Zemen was not used.

"Dong dong dong", someone knocked on Chang Feng's door.

Chang Feng, holding a scorpion crossbow, came to the door vigilantly, and glanced out through the crack of the door.

Then he opened the door.Jin Bao, Huang Liang, and Lin Sanjiu stood in front of him.They were followed by more than a dozen yamen servants.

Chang Feng asked: "Do you have something to do with me?"

Jin Baodao: "Master Chang, the Bianpo started screaming again! Usually after screaming, someone will be killed by her."

"You have just arrived. We are afraid that becoming a woman will be bad for you. We have brought fifteen yamen servants to protect you."

Chang Feng asked: "Where is Master Zhou?"

Jin Bao replied: "There are ten yamen servants for personal protection."

Chang Feng nodded: "Well, good."

As soon as the words fell, there was only a man's scream, which resounded through the entire yamen.

"what!"

Chang Feng frowned: "Could someone be killed again? Let's go, let's check around."

Fatty Xu and Sun Guishou also heard the sound and came to Chang Feng with five or six warriors.

Chang Feng said: "You guys came just in time. Let's patrol around the yamen."

Turning around, Chang Feng said to Madam Nine: "Don't stay in the bedroom, it's not safe, come with us."

Everyone inspected the yamen carefully.Chang Feng keenly discovered that most of the bedrooms where the scribes lived were lit with lights.Only one bedroom was dark.

Chang Feng brought people to the door of the bedroom, and he almost vomited due to a strong stench.

Fatty Xu pushed open the door.Everyone goes in.

I saw a young scribe lying on the bed, naked.

Like Li Qi who died last night, this clerk also had injuries on his neck, and his lower body was horrible.

Jin Bao yelled: "Ah! Kill, kill, kill! Changed woman killed again!"

Chang Feng was a little strange: before the deceased screamed, Jin Bao, Lin Sanjiu, and Huang Liang were all with me.

Could it be that the previous suspicion was wrong, that Lin Sanjiu, who was born as an Orion, was not a murderer?
As for Jin Bao and Huang Liang, they can be ruled out.

Who will the murderer be?
Suddenly, a black shadow swayed behind the bedroom window.

Chang Feng shouted violently: "Who?"

Jin Bao exclaimed: "Could it be a change of wife?"

Chang Feng said: "Jump out of the window for me! Go! Catch the villain!"

Who dares Jin Bao and other yamen servants to go up and fight the ghost?Everyone was motionless.

Or the warriors of Jinyiwei are bold.

At the age of 84, Sun Guishou jumped out of the window with five wrestlers and rushed towards the shadow.

Several wrestlers threw the shadow down.

Sun Guishou shouted: "Caught it!"

Chang Feng took a candle, held it up, and jumped out the window.Shine a light on the dark shadow's face with a candle.

Chang Feng was extremely surprised: "It turned out to be you?"

(End of this chapter)