Chapter 71 preamble

In the early years of Shunzhi, a person named Wu Xing went to Xichong County, Shunqing Prefecture, Sichuan Province as the county magistrate. The condition of this place is quite good, although the weeds are a bit deep, but there is finally a dilapidated government office for the master to live in, and there are not many tigers. At that time, Sichuan was sparsely populated, and tigers were everywhere—it was probably the best time in the history of South China tigers since the civilization of human beings—such a happy life, the few "big kings" in the zoo today who do not even have the freedom to marry, but I don't even dare to think about it.Wild dogs also come in groups, looking for food in all directions, similar to wolves on the Mongolian grasslands.

With government offices and few tigers, this was considered a good place in Sichuan at that time.Some officials and lords were unlucky, and they had no place to live, and the people under their rule hadn't seen one yet. They met a few tigers first, and ate half of the people accompanying them. So this master Juren from Wu Xinglai is quite satisfied.The master Juren was promoted to be the magistrate, and he worked diligently to recruit refugees.A few months later, the local area gradually became lit with fireworks.However, the county magistrate is also depressed. He and his two servants have only wild vegetables for three meals a day.Because I always eat vegetables, not only my face looks like vegetables, but even my eyeballs are a little green.

One day, the county magistrate was walking among the weeds in the back garden of the yamen with his green eyes staring at him. Suddenly his eyes lit up: Hey, I picked up a big pearl!So he called someone to clean the back garden, removing weeds, thorns and vines, but no more pearls were found. After the back garden was cleaned, it turned out to be quite large, and what made the master even more happy was that there was even a fine house with quite complete furnishings.So the servants were asked to clean it up, and the county magistrate moved in. There are ten cabinets in the East Wing, which are sealed with yellow paper. When you open them, they are full of rare treasures, brocades and satins from Shu.There are also cabinets in the west wing room, which are full of magnetic bottles, all of which are inscribed with the words "for imperial use".Open one and have a look, um, it's bad meat.

The county magistrate and two servants had eaten wild vegetables for several months, and now they suddenly saw meat, and they were not monks who recited Buddha's name and held fast, so what else could they do?As for the "Queen's" label, then... probably to scare people, right?The county magistrate "grew kisses and chewed", and the two servants "competed for fingers"-it is said that the color and smell are quite good. After a while, one of the servants chatted with an old official in the yamen by chance. "At that time, Zhang Xianzhong was stationed at Jinshanpu, and our county government office was his headquarters." The old official drank his saliva and said unhurriedly, "I heard that he likes to eat human flesh, so his imperial dining room Just do this for him.” The servant’s eyes widened: “And then?” “I’ll just choose the fair and fat guy to kill, take the good meat, marinate it with salt and pepper, and put it in the Put it in a magnetic bottle for use... Hey, why are you throwing up, did you eat something bad?"

There were three masters, two servants, and they were sick with vomiting for a month.It is said that the county magistrate was later a rich man named Wu Xing.