Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 261 Strange Key, Strange Accounting Room

In the cell, there is only one unkempt prisoner sleeping, where is there any account book?
He Liu ordered someone to wake up the prisoner, and asked him what his name was and how long he had been locked here.The prisoner was silent.

Old Hu said: "Is this prisoner dumb?"

Fatty Xu said: "That guy Wu Qing doesn't seem to have suffered enough, come on, bring Wu Qing! If you don't give him something powerful, he won't know how many hairs have grown under Lord Ma!"

Several wrestlers pulled Wu Qing up.

Fatty Xu went up and gave Wu Qing two mouths: "Have you not suffered enough from the curse? Do you want me to put it on you again?"

Wu Qing had a painful expression on his face: "Everyone in Jinyiwei is on a mission, I have recruited everyone I should have recruited."

He Liu walked up to Wu Qing: "Didn't you say that this prison cell is the general account room of your Wu family? But apart from a dumb prisoner, where is there an account book or a page of accounts?"

Wu Qing pointed to the prisoner, and said, "My superior, I didn't lie to you. This prisoner is the general accountant of my Wu family!"

He Liu doubted: "You mean, the general accountant is not a house, but a person?"

Wu Qing nodded.

Fatty Xu grabbed Wu Qing's hair: "Fuck your mother's horoscope! This man is dumb! How can he be a general accountant? Besides, if the general accountant is a person and not a house, what more does he need? Make a key?"

Wu Qing said: "Everyone on business, you hand him the octagonal jade Linglong, everything will be clear!"

He Liu handed the octagonal jade Linglong to the dumb prisoner.

The dumb prisoner held Yu Linglong in both hands, and suddenly began to mutter: "On the fourth day of April in the 42nd year of Jiajing, Qingfeng Lanya shop bought 30 dans of moldy rice and paid 13 taels. Yamen purchased 42 dans of mildewed rice from Qingfenglan Yahang, and received 30 taels in the account. The profit was 28 taels; on April 15, Jiajing 42, Ruixiang purchased..."

The dumb prisoner was holding the piece of Yu Linglong, and Dad kept talking about the accounts of various transactions.

He Liu walked over and took Yu Linglong from the dumb prisoner.The mute prisoner immediately fell silent.

He Liu asked him: "What's your name? Who are you?"

The prisoner only looked at He Liu with a pair of cloudy old eyes, and didn't respond.

He Liu turned around and asked Wu Qing, "Tell me, what's going on?"

Wu Qing confessed: "This person... is my master among thousands of families!"

Wu Qing told the whole story.

It turned out that the dumb prisoner was named Fan Jingzhong.Nicknamed "Fan Laizi", he is a well-known liar in Jinan Prefecture and a disciple of Qianmen.He has a photographic memory and is good at mental arithmetic.The first generation of gambling halls in Jinan prefecture often change their expressions when they hear the name of Fan Laizi.

A few years ago, Wu Qing went to Jinan to play, met Fan Jingzhong by chance, and learned a few thousand skills from him.

Two years ago, Fan Jingzhong executed a family in Jinan prefecture as a "destroyer", causing the family to lose their property and family.This family has a distant relative who is a well-known leader of gangsters in Jianghu. After hearing about this incident, he ordered Fan Jingzhong to be hunted down.

Fan Jingzhong had no choice but to abandon his wife and son, and went to Beizhili to join Wu Qing.

Wu Qing has always been the son of the governor of Beizhili, and both black and white should give him three points of favor.He entrusted his relationship to stop the gang leader from taking revenge.

Who would have thought that the night when Fan Jingzhong fled, the helmsman of the gang had already led someone to kill Fan Jingzhong's family!

After Fan Jingzhong heard that his whole family had been killed, he immediately became insane.Since then, he has been insane.He seems to have become dumb, no matter who talks to him, he will not answer.

It is not proper for the governor's yamen to raise a lunatic in the back yamen.Wu Qing rented a house in Baoding City for his master.

One day, Wu Qing went to visit the crazy master Fan Jingzhong.He brought two things to the master.The same is an octagonal jade Linglong.This exquisite piece of jade was worn by Fan Jingzhong's dead youngest son.The same is a Song version of "Unofficial History of the Bamboo Forest", which was read by his eldest son during his lifetime.

Strange things happened.Fan Jingzhong got the star anise jade Linglong and started talking!He casually flipped through "Unofficial History of the Bamboo Forest" and was able to recite the entire text.

Wu Qing had a whim: the accounts of my firm's transactions with the government are all top secret.If you expose it, you will be beheaded.But since it is a business, the account has to be kept.It's better to use master Fan Jingzhong's brain as an account book.Anyway, he never saw this piece of octagonal jade Linglong, never spoke, and never leaked secrets.

Ever since, the octagonal jade became a key to open Fan Jingzhong's "living account book".Whenever Wu Qing had a deal with the government, he would write it down on paper and show it to Fan Jingzhong so that he could keep it in his mind.

When Wu Qing wanted to check the accounts, he took the star anise jade Linglong to Fan Jingzhong and asked him to speak up and tell the accounts.

After Wu Qing confessed all this, He Liu asked a little surprised: "Since he is your master and also helps you record accounts, why did your Wu family lock him up in this dark and dark Baoding prison?"

Wu Qing said: "This is my father's idea. In the prison, no one would care about the many lunatics. He carries all the secrets of our Wu family. If he lives in the original courtyard, my father will not worry! The prison is different. , with heavy guards, it is very safe to keep him here."

He Liu ordered Li Bofeng: "Bring paper and pen! This dumb prisoner talks about the accounts, and you write them down."

Li Bofeng prepared the pen and paper, and He Liu handed over the octagonal jade Linglong to Fan Jingzhong.

Sure enough, Fan Jingzhong began to memorize the accounts incessantly again. . .

Inside the pimp alley.

During Wu Shujian's birthday celebration during the day, he was disturbed by the couplet mocking him for wearing a cuckold, and the confession that the concubine Cui'er in room 87 had an affair with someone.He was furious.As soon as the birthday banquet was over, he brought his soldiers to the pimp alley to look for Tweety.

At this moment, Tweety was hanging on the beam.Wu Shujian took a whip and "cracked" her hard.

At this time, Ji Chunhui, the magistrate of Baoding, hurried to the pimp alley.

He found Wu Shujian and said, "My in-laws, it's not good!"

Wu Shujian glanced at Ji Chunhui: "What's the matter? It's like the sky is falling, you like to make a fuss! You don't have the calmness of a magistrate at all!"

Ji Chunhui hurriedly said: "My lord governor, people from Jinyiwei have gone to the prison in Baoding Mansion!"

Wu Shujian asked suspiciously, "Could it be that some prisoners in Baoding Prison were involved in the Qin case?"

Ji Chunhui said: "The head of the prison told me that Jin Yiwei's people also tied my son-in-law Qing'er into the prison!"

Wu Shujian suddenly remembered a letter written to him by Yan Maoqing, the right servant of the Ministry of Punishment a few days ago.Yan Shilang told him: Recently, people from Jinyiwei may want to trouble you, Governor Wu.

Reminiscent of Fan Jingzhong, the "living general accountant" in Baoding Prison, and his son Wu Qing who was arrested, Wu Shujian slapped his head, and lost his voice: "Oops! Disaster is coming!"

(End of this chapter)