"Boom boom boom..."
Ye Xiaotian scored twice, this time he was really tired, he was sleeping soundly on the couch on his back, Ruo Xiaosheng ran to the gate of the courtyard, stood on tiptoe, squeezed his throat, and shouted through the door: "Miss Doni , girl Doni, get up quickly..."
Ruo Xiaosheng yelled twice and felt that something was wrong, although this is the yard of Miss Dooni, but he came looking for the master, this sneaky person, if the master overheard him, he would suspect that he had something to do with Miss Dooni What is the unclear relationship...
Ruo Xiaosheng slapped himself lightly, and hurriedly said: "Master, Master, get up quickly..."
Don't look at Duo Ni as a girl, but she sleeps very hard, especially today the body that Ye Xiaotian tossed is about to fall apart. At this time, the thunder may not wake her up. Ruo Xiaosheng howled a few times, but still slept on the side When the maid in the compartment heard it, she put on her clothes and asked outside the door, "Who is it?"
Ruo Xiaosheng hurriedly replied: "It's me, old man Ruo, the government has come, it's an urgent matter, I want to see the master."
"knew!"
The little maid promised, and knocked on the door of the main room, and then woke up Ye Xiaotian, the candle on the table was still extinguished, Ye Xiaotian asked outside through the dim light, and was shocked when he learned that it was someone from the government. With so many big things happening today, he was really afraid of any accidents.
Ye Xiaotian hurriedly grabbed his clothes and put them on. Looking back, he saw Duo Ni curled up like a little lazy cat, sleeping soundly, with half of her fragrant shoulders exposed, glowing like jade under the light, and couldn't help but rest on her cheeks. He stole a kiss, covered the quilt for her, and then tiptoed out.
Ye Xiaotian followed Ruo Xiaosheng to the front yard, and saw a yamen servant standing in front of Zhaobi, under the cold moonlight, he couldn't see the man's appearance clearly for a while, the man has already hurried forward a few steps, saluted Ye Xiaotian with his arms crossed, and said anxiously : "My lord, the villain is a guard of the prison, and I was ordered to report that some criminals robbed the prison, and the master Wang was rescued!"
When Ye Xiaotian heard it, he couldn't help being surprised. Half an hour later, Ye Xiaotian had already appeared in Huxian prison. The prison has been guarded layer by layer by the arresters, and the inside and outside of the prison are brightly lit. As soon as Ye Xiaotian arrived, Ma Hui and Xu Haoran immediately led him inside, reporting the situation to him as they walked.
Ye Xiaotian said in a deep voice, "How many people died?"
Ma Hui said: "There are no dead people. There are four patrollers in the courtyard, two prison bosses, and two patrollers in the prison. There are eight people in total. Most of them were knocked unconscious. Among them, only the prison boss Lao Xing suffered a throat injury. A little wound, difficult to speak, two guards patrolling the prison with bruises on their chests."
"Um?"
Ye Xiaotian stopped abruptly, turned his head to look at Ma Hui, continued walking, and asked, "Apart from Master Wang, who else was rescued?"
Xu Haoran said shyly: "No one else could save them, but... Chang Zizai and Lu Mo were killed by them!"
Ye Xiaotian suddenly stopped in his tracks.
On the wall at the door of the cell, Su Xuntian held a torch beside him, Hua Qingtian stared at the pattern on the wall, and asked Su Xuntian in a daze after a while: "Xuntian, what is this?"
Su Xuntian said: "This should be a swarm of bees."
Hua Qingfeng's face became even uglier: "Bee? A swarm? Is Master Wang..."
Su Xuntian said: "I'm afraid it's close to ten. I just questioned the prisoners in the prison. I heard from them that Master Wang is not a scholar without a chicken, but an amazing martial arts master. Chang Zizai and Lu Lu Mo was killed by him."
Hua Qingfeng was puzzled and said: "It's strange, since he is full of martial arts, why didn't he escape that day, but was calmly arrested instead?"
Hua Qingfeng murmured to herself, but she already believed it in her heart. Thinking that she and the mysterious thieves swarming across Yunnan and Guizhou had worked together with the Yamen for five years, secretly intrigue and destroy each other, and now they are still able to live here well. Ling fought a cold war.
Ye Xiaotian walked over, seeing Hua Qingfeng stretching his neck to look at the wall, he quickly followed suit, seeing the pattern on the wall, his expression became extremely ugly immediately. Ye Xiaotian stared blankly for a while, then suddenly turned his head and asked Su Xuntian, "Captain Su, did you ever send someone to visit Wang's house?"
Su Xuntian said: "Zhou Butou took people away, but there is no news yet."
Before the words were finished, there was a flash of torches in the distance, and Bantou Zhou ran back panting with a group of heavily armed policemen: "Master, Master, the Wang family has all left at some point. The strange thing is that in their house, two of us are tied up."
Hua Qingfeng suddenly realized, and said: "I understand, he was arrested on purpose to give his family time to escape."
Ye Xiaotian didn't know what he was talking about, so he saw two arresters coming forward, bowed their heads in shame, and said to him: "My lord, I'm ashamed of my villain, I couldn't keep watch over the Wang family, and... I paid them back." Daoer, as soon as we woke up, we found that we were tied to the pillars in the hall, and no one saw us."
These two were the two police officers sent by Ye Xiaotian to monitor the Wang family. Ye Xiaotian sighed, patted their shoulders and said, "If you didn't catch them, then you didn't catch them. It's a fluke for you to survive." They have swarmed and shot, and they have never left anyone alive."
Hua Qingfeng was reminded by Ye Xiaotian's words, clapped his palms, and suddenly said excitedly: "That's right! A swarm of bees has always been to kill everyone, but this time they are so kind. The next swarm of signs, trying to lead us astray!"
Ye Xiaotian gave him a strange look, and thought: "People have been rescued, even if they didn't do it in a swarm, what's the difference, why are you so excited."
But Hua Qingfeng thought in his heart: "It's better not to swarm! If the offenders of this county are really those ruthless Jiangyang thieves, and now they have cut off their money, it will be strange if they don't steal their heads in the future."
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The case in Hu County really caused a big commotion. Originally, Chen Muyan, as a tax ambassador, was bribed into the water to provide convenience for smugglers. This was just an ordinary corruption case. To be appointed by the government as the head of a county, and to use his position as a cover to smuggle and trafficker for several years, and finally escaped from prison by him, this is intolerable.
This case has been stabbed in front of the young and energetic Emperor Wanli. Seeing that the Chinese New Year was about to come, the imperial city was already in a Chinese New Year atmosphere, and the whole capital was preparing for the Chinese New Year. At this moment, this case was handed to Emperor Wanli, and Long Yan was furious.
The emperor sternly issued an order to arrest the people all over the world, and he wanted to pursue the person who recommended Wang Ning to be an official, but after many investigations, this matter suddenly disappeared, and the emperor no longer pursued the matter, as if it had never happened Like too.
It is said, but it is said that Wang Ning played a neutral role in quelling the rebellion between the two chieftains, so he was hired exceptionally and appointed as the chief secretary of Hu County. Now that this case involved all the heroes who put down the chaos at the beginning, if the investigation is detailed, it is inevitable that a bunch of dirty things will be uncovered.
Emperor Wanli had just brought down Zhang Juzheng, and the civil service system was being reshuffled, and he didn't want to make a big move against the general system. Therefore, the emperor just issued a decree, ordering the Nanjing Ministry of Officials to select and send officials to Huxian County to take over Wang Ning's post, and the matter was left alone.
In Nanjing City, at the mansion of Guo Shun, a doctor of the Ministry of Officials, Bai Hong, the former magistrate of Jiangpu County, said to Guo Langzhong with a mournful face: "Brother-in-law, you must help me. I don't want to work in Hu County. There are high mountains and dangerous waters, barbarians everywhere, and the atmosphere is fierce. The folk customs are aggressive... "
Guo Langzhong said impatiently: "Oh! You are the one named by Meng Shilang. Now Meng Shilang is serving in the Ministry of Officials in the capital. If you will be reinstated as an official at once, isn't that a slap in the face of Meng Shilang? You are Meng Shilang Will you turn a deaf ear if you hear about it? Then I will also be implicated with you."
This is Bai Hong, the former magistrate of Jiangpu County, on the day Ye Xiaotian came to Nanjing to serve as an official. He heard that he was a well-known cruel official. He deliberately made fun of him and asked Hua Yunfei and Mao Wenzhi to pretend to help him tidy up his clothes and hide them in his hat. The unlucky official who caught a scorpion.
At that time, he made a big fool of himself in front of Guo Shilang. Although Guo Shilang dismissed Ye Xiaotian from the Ministry of Officials and sent him to the Ministry of Punishment, he really investigated Bai Hong carefully and found that he was indeed an official fan. Seriously, in order to get a good evaluation from his superiors, he exaggerated and concealed his mistakes, and did not report the disaster in the year of the catastrophe. He still blindly extorted taxes from the people. job.
However, dismissal and demotion for the people are two different things. "Cutting jobs for the people" is "cutting membership", deprived of the qualifications of officials, becoming ordinary people, with no status, all official privileges are gone, and even the gifts of deceased parents are also taken away.
Removal means "staying idle with the crown and belt". The position of the official is gone, but the identity and rank of the official are still there. Baihong's job as magistrate of Jiangpu County is gone, but he is still a seventh-rank official, and he is still an official, so it is possible to reuse him, especially when there are "people in the court".
Bai Hong is "someone in the court", and Guo Shun, the official doctor, is his brother-in-law. Of course, this elder sister of his is not his own elder sister, so I took their family tree and looked it up carefully, and then asked some old people in their family. This Guo Shun's wife is indeed Bai Hong's seven aunts and eight aunts who turned nine turns and eighteen turns. Then a cousin.
So when Bai Hong learned of this relationship, he immediately went to the door to give a generous gift, and recognized this relative with affection. Although the relatives were distant relatives, the two families walked close together. He thought about helping him recover.
It's just that Bai Hong was dismissed by Meng Shilang after all. Now that Meng Shilang has been promoted to the Ministry of Officials in the capital, he has more power than when he was in Nanjing. Guo Langzhong has no reason to be confident, so how dare he blatantly give Bai Hong a county magistrate? Position.
This time, it happened that Beijing had issued an official document, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs in Nanjing sent an official to Hu County to serve as the head book. Guo Langzhong came up with such a compromise idea with an idea. Compared with the prosperous places in the south of the Yangtze River, Huxian County is not the same. No one wants to go there. He just sent Bai Hong to take the post of chief secretary as a seventh-rank official.
As long as Bai Hong stays there for three or two years, with no credit or hard work, it would be great to let him return to his post and choose a rich county in the south of the Yangtze River as the county magistrate. Unexpectedly, Bai Hong didn't know what to do. Guo Shun said angrily: "Do you think no one wants to go to this master's office? There are no incumbent officials, but there are many alternate officials who are rushing to go. If you are afraid of suffering, then I will Choose someone else."
Mrs. Guo also persuaded: "Yes! Brother Hong, didn't your brother-in-law say that when you go there, you don't need to make meritorious deeds, but only hope that you have no faults. After three or two years, you will be transferred back. At that time, you will be restored as an official. Now that you're employed, what are you worried about. It's not easy for your brother-in-law to fight for this opportunity for you. If you give up, you don't know when you will be able to recover."
Bai Hong stomped his feet and could only tell the truth, and said with a mournful face: "Little brother, I am not afraid of suffering. In fact, when I was the county magistrate in Jiangpu, I was neither greedy nor appropriative, but I paid too much attention to exams and didn't care about the common people. That's why I ended up like this. I'm not afraid of suffering, it's just... It's just that I really can't go to Hu County."
Guo Shun said angrily, "I'm not afraid of suffering, so why not go there? That's not a dragon's lake or a tiger's lair!"
Bai Hong nodded seriously, and said: "Brother-in-law, although Huxian County is not a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, it is almost the same. The feng shui there is not good."
Guo Shun was taken aback by Bai Hong, and said in astonishment, "Hu County has bad Fengshui? Who did you hear that, and you have never been to Huxian County, how do you know that Fengshui is not good there?"
Bai Hong said solemnly: "Brother-in-law, have you forgotten that Ye Xiaotian is the county magistrate there, and the wind level can't be better in the place where Ye Xiaotian is!"