Chapter 6 The Sixth Chapter: Wan Family Bleeding, Dyeing Scarlet, Talking Heart-to-Heart, Debating Fox White

It is said that the store clerk said that he pulled his brother-in-law away and stood in the cage, and the cloth was handed over to the gold four to complete the case.The old disabled said: "I have already understood this matter. Naturally, it is a trap set by the police. Naturally, your shopkeeper should collect his body for him. But he is an honest man. Why did people hurt him like this? Your shopkeeper didn't ask about it." Do you want to know?" The clerk said: "As soon as we are caught, we will know about it. It's all because of his talk. I also heard people say: In the small alley on the west side of Nanmen Street in Fuli, there is a family, only father and son." Two: His father is in his forties, and his daughter is seventeen or eighteen years old. She is very talented and has no husband's family. His father runs a small business and lives in three huts with an earthen wall. Standing at the door, I met Wang San with the long flower arm on the mansion's cavalry team, so Wang San saw that he was handsome, so for some reason, Hu Erba got him. When his father came back and met him, he was so angry that he beat his daughter up and locked the door, not allowing her to go out. In less than half a month, Wang San, the flower-armed man, concocted a way to kill his father. He counted a robber and died in a cage. Later, not only his daughter was counted as Wang San's daughter-in-law, but even the small house was counted as Wang San's property.

"My shopkeeper's brother-in-law has sold cloth at his house twice, and he knows his house and knows about it. One day, after two minutes of wine in the restaurant, he went crazy. The second bald man, while eating wine, talked, and said why, these people have no reason. The second bald man is also a person who knows nothing about his interests. He was happy to hear it, and asked all the way down, saying: "He is still in the Boxer Regiment." What about my little senior brother. Then Erlang and Guan Ye are always attached to him, so don’t they just ignore him?” His brother-in-law said, “That’s not it.I heard that some time ago, he invited Sun Dasheng, but Sun Dasheng didn't come, it was Master Zhu Bajie who came down.If it wasn't because of his ignorance, why didn't Sun Dasheng come down, but asked Zhu Bajie to come down instead?I'm afraid that if he has such a bad conscience, one day when the Great Sage is unhappy, he will raise the golden cudgel and give him a blow.Then he can't stand it. The two of them had a happy conversation, and they had been reported to Wang San by friends in their regiment long ago, and they remembered their faces very well.In just a few months, his brother-in-law was destroyed.Bald Zhang Er knew that the momentum was not good, and because he had no family members, he fled to Guide Mansion, Henan Province to find friends on "Tianming Forty-Five".

"The wine is over, so you can go to sleep. If you enter the city tomorrow, be careful what you say! Everyone here is in danger, if you are careless, the standing cage will fly up to your neck." So Standing up, he felt a half stick of incense sticks on the table, turned on the lamp, and said, "I'll get the oil pot to refill the lamp." The old man said, "No need, let's go to sleep separately." The two parted. In the morning of the next day, Lao Can checked the luggage and asked the driver to come and load the car.The store clerk sent it out, and repeatedly reminded: "Go into the city, don't talk too much. It's important, it's important!" Lao Can replied with a smile: "Thank you for your care." A driver pushed the car and headed for the South Road, but it was already noon. Arrived at Caozhou Fucheng.After entering the north gate, I found an inn on Fuqian Street and found a wing room to live in.The waiter came to ask about the food.I just did it and ate, and then I went to the government yamen to wait and see.Seeing the bright red colored silk hanging on the gate, there are indeed twelve standing cages on both sides, but they are all empty, without a single person. He wondered in his heart, "Are the rumors along the way all lies?" Go back to the store.I saw many people wearing big hats coming and going in the upper room. There was a big blue cloth sedan chair with one shoulder in the yard. Many bearers wore cotton trousers and big hats, eating cakes there; On the livery, the words "Minzhuang in Chengwu County" are written on it, and I know in my heart that the person who lives in this house must be in Chengwu County.After a long time, seeing the family members in the upper room shouting "serve", the bearer took the sedan chair to the steps.The one with the red umbrella in front took the red umbrella, led two horses out of the stable, and immediately opened the red woolen curtain in the upper room, and a man came out, with a crystal top and a patched jacket, about fifty years old, He got down from the steps, got into the sedan chair, lifted it up and went out the door with a whoosh.

When Lao Can saw this person, he thought to himself: "Why is he so kind? I have never been to Caoshu, where did I meet this person?" After thinking about it for a while, he couldn't figure it out, so he just let it go.Because it was still early, when I went to the street to interview the government's achievements, they all agreed in unison, but they all had a bleak color, and they nodded secretly, convinced that the ancient saying "tyranny is fiercer than a tiger" is really good. Go back to the store and sit down a little at the door.Fortunately, Cheng Wuxian had already returned, entered the store, looked out through the glass window, and met Lao Canzheng's eyes.Suddenly, the sedan chair had reached the upper steps, and Nacheng Wuxian got out of the sedan chair, and the family members put down the sedan chair curtain and followed the steps.From a distance, I saw him say a few words to his family, and the family ran towards the door, while Cheng Wuxian was still waiting on the steps.The family ran to the door and asked the old man, "Is this Mr. Tie?" Come out, Futai Commissioner from Chengwu County, please come and sit in the room, Mr. Tie." Lao Can suddenly remembered that this person was Shen Dongzao, the copywriting committee member.Because although I met two or three times, I didn't have any extra conversations, so I can't remember it.

Lao Can went up at that time, met Dong Zao, and bowed to each other.Dong Zao asked to sit down in the inner room, and said in his mouth: "Presumptuous, I will change clothes." At that time, he took off his official clothes and changed into casual clothes. He sat down among the guests and the host, and asked, "When did Bu Weng come? How many days have you been here? But do you just live in this shop?" The old man said: "The one who arrived today has only been out of the province for six or seven days, and he has arrived here. When did Dong Weng leave the province? Did you come back again after you have been here?" Dong Zao said: "Brother also arrived today, and left the province the day before yesterday. The husband and horse were sent to the provincial capital. The day before I left the province, I heard Yao Yunweng say: Gong Bao went to see Buweng, and I was really sad He said that he had been a celebrity all his life, and thought that he would attract his master, but today he met a Tie Jun, and he was really rich and rich. If you look back at your heart, you will feel even more filthy!"

The old man said: "Gong Bao loves talent if he is thirsty, brother really admires it. As for the reason for coming out, it doesn't mean that he is fat and famous: one is that he knows that he has little talent and learning, so he doesn't call it bragging; the other is because of the reputation of the Jade Emperor If you are too big, let's see what kind of person he is. As far as the word "noble" is concerned, brothers not only dare not take it, but also disdain it. There are only a few people born in the world. A talent who can help the world, but retreats from the world, doesn't he live up to the heart of heaven and earth to produce talents?" Dong Zao said: "I have heard the theory many times, and I admire it; today's theory is even more respectful. It can be seen that Chang Ju, Jie Ni and others are Confucius. I don't want to take it. It's just that in Bu Weng's eyes, what kind of person is our Yu Taizun?" The old man said: "It's just a dirty and cruel official, and it's inferior to Zhidu, Ning Cheng and others." Dong Zao nodded again and again, and then asked: "Brother, my eyes and ears are separated. Sir, I have traveled around in common clothes, so I will know the real situation. I think the Taizun is so cruel, so he must be wronged. Why is there no case to be prosecuted?" Then I will tell you what I heard along the way.

Halfway through the talk, the family came to invite me to dinner.Dongzao then kept the old and disabled to eat together, and the old and disabled did not refuse.After eating the Lord, he went on talking.After finishing speaking, he said: "I have only one doubt: Looking at the gate of the mansion today, I saw that all twelve standing cages were empty. I am afraid that the words of the villagers must be unreliable." Dong Zao said: "This is not the case. I It is suitable for the Heze County Office. I heard that Taizun got a senior official from the court at a later date. In addition to the fact that he has been given a supplementary grant, he has been specially protected as an alternate Taoist priest in a major case, and he will return to the Taoist priest. After the shift, the recommendation of the second-rank title will be rewarded. So the three-day suspension, let everyone congratulate. Don’t you see the red silk hanging at the gate of the yamen? I heard that the first day of the suspension was yesterday, and how many people are still on the cage? A half-dead man is in prison." Both of them sighed.The old man said: "The dry road is exhausting, it's getting late, rest in peace." Dong Zao said: "Tomorrow night, please come to talk with me in vain. My brother has a very difficult matter to deal with. I want to learn from it and hope not to give up. "Finally, go to bed.

The next day, Lao Can got up and saw that it was very cloudy that day, although the northwest wind was not very strong, he felt that the cotton robe was floating on his body.After washing my face, I bought a few deep-fried dough sticks as snacks, and wandered around the street listlessly for a while.Just as he was about to go up the city wall to look at the distant view, he saw many snowflakes falling from the sky one by one. In an instant, the snowflakes fell chaotically, twisting and interspersed, and the snow fell more and more tightly.He hurried back to the store and asked the storekeeper to set up a pot of fire.There was only one larger piece of paper on the window, and half of it was hanging in the air. After the moisture of the snow, it rang in the wind with a "huduo huduo".The bits and pieces of paper next to it, although there was no sound, they kept shaking.The room felt gloomy and gloomy.

Lao Can sat with nothing to do, and it was inconvenient to get the book in the box. He just sat stuffy, and couldn't help feeling something, so he took out a pen and inkstone from the pillow case, and wrote a poem on the wall, chanting about Wang Xian.The poem says: Gains and losses are reduced to muscle marrow, so it is urgent to succeed.Unjustly buried, the city gate is dark, and the top pearls are stained red with blood. There are owls and rain everywhere, and tigers and leopards are windy in mountains and mountains.Killing people is like killing thieves, and the prefect is Yuan Rong!The next question is "Tieying Title in Xuzhou, Jiangnan" with seven characters.

After finishing writing, we had lunch.After the meal, the snow fell harder and harder.Standing at the door of the room and looking out, I saw the big and small branches, which seemed to be wrapped in brand-new cotton. There were a few old crows on the tree, shrinking their necks to avoid the cold, shaking their feathers constantly, for fear of snow piled up on their bodies.I also saw many sparrows hiding under the eaves, and they also shrank their heads to avoid the cold, and felt very pitiful for their hunger and cold.Because I thought: "These birds are nothing more than relying on the fruits of the grass and trees to satisfy their hunger and some small insects and ants. Now all kinds of insects and ants are naturally stinging, so they can't be seen. It is the fruits of the grass and trees. Once the snow is covered, there will be more there. If tomorrow is fine, the snow will melt a little, and the northwest wind will blow, and the snow will turn into ice again. If you still can’t find it, why don’t you be hungry until next spring?” Thinking of this, I feel I can't bear to feel sorry for these birds.Then I thought again: "Although these birds are cold and hungry, no one shoots them to hurt them, and there is no snare to catch them. However, they are hungry and cold for a while, and they will be happy until the spring of next year. If they are like the people of Caozhou Prefecture Well, the age in recent years has been very bad. There is also such a cruel parent officer, who is arrested and treated as a robber at every turn, and killed in a cage. In addition, there is another layer of fear, isn't it more painful than this bird!" Thinking of this, I couldn't help crying.I also saw the old crow screaming "scratch" a few times, as if he was not crying for the cold and hungry, but for the joy of freedom of speech, to be proud of the people of Caozhou Prefecture.Thinking of this, he felt angry, wishing to kill Yuxian immediately, so as to express his hatred.

I was thinking wildly, when I saw a blue woolen sedan chair and deacons coming outside the door, I knew it was Shen Dongzao who came back to the shop.Because he thought: "Why don't I write a letter to Gongbao Zhuang to tell what I have seen and heard?" So he took out the letter paper envelope from the pillow box, picked up a pen and wrote.Unexpectedly, the ink on the inkstone had already frozen into solid ice when inscribing on the wall just now, so I wrote a little bit.I wrote only two sheets of paper, and it was getting late.When the inkstone is opened, the pen is frozen again. When the pen is opened, the inkstone is frozen again. Once, I only write four or five characters, so I delay my work. I was busy at both ends, and the sky darkened again, making it even more invisible.Because it was cloudy, it got dark earlier than usual, so I called the store to bring a lamp.After shouting for a long time, the shopkeeper took a lamp and came in shyly, shouting, "It's so cold!" Putting down the lamp, with a piece of paper caught between his fingers, he blew on it several times before he blew on it. .The lamp was filled with freshly poured frozen oil, piled up like a big screw shell, and it still wouldn't light up even though it was lit.The shopkeeper said: "Wait a while, it will turn on when the oil melts." He turned on the light, tucked his hands into his sleeves, and stood to see if the light would go off.At first the light was only the size of a large soybean, but gradually it got oil and became the size of a small broad bean.Suddenly I looked up and saw the inscription on the wall, and said in panic: "Is this what you wrote all the time? What are you writing? Don't cause trouble! This is not a naughty one!" He quickly turned his head and looked outside. No one, and said: "If you don't do it well, you will die! We will be implicated!" Lao Can said with a smile: "My name is written on the bottom, it doesn't matter." As he said that, a man came in, wearing a red-tasseled hat, and called out "Master Iron", and the shopkeeper staggered away.The man who came in said: "My Majesty invited Master Qian to dinner." It turned out to be Shen Dongzao's family.The old man said: "Please use it yourself, master. I have asked them to cook here, and they will be here in a while. Say thank you." The man said: "My boss said: The food in the store is not good. Someone from us sent it The two pheasants have already been sliced, and I also sliced ​​some mutton slices, and said that Master Tie must go up to eat hot pot. My boss said: If Master Tie will definitely not go, I will order the rice to be served here Come to eat in the house, I think, please invite the master to go up: there is a big brazier in that room, compared with four or five braziers in this room, it is much warmer; the family has to serve again, please be the whole family!" The old man had no choice but to go up.Shen Dongzao saw it and said: "Bowen, what are you doing in that room? It's snowing, let's have a drink or two! Someone brought a very fresh pheasant today, eat it hot, it's very good, I will borrow flowers to present to the Buddha." After saying that, he took his seat.The family served pheasant slices, which were red and white, really beautiful.Eat hot, the taste is more delicious.Dongzao said: "Sir, can you tell it smells a little bit?" The old man said: "Sure enough, it has a little fragrance. What's the reason?" Dongzao said: "This chicken came from Peach Blossom Mountain in Feicheng County. There are many pine trees in this mountain. The pheasant is delicious with pine flowers and pine nuts, so it has a little fragrance, and the common name is "Songhua chicken". Even here, it is not easy to get." Lao Can praised a few words, and the food in the kitchen was served on the table. The two had eaten.Dong Zao made an appointment to have tea in the inner room and to the fire.Suddenly he saw Lao Can wearing a cotton robe, and said, "Why do you still wear cotton robes in this cold weather?" Lao Can said, "I don't feel cold. Those of us who never wore leather robes since childhood, the power of this cotton robe may be very strong." It's warmer than your fox fur." ​​Dong Zao said: "That's not right after all." He shouted: "Come here! You take out a white fox-wrapped robe from my flat suitcase, and send it to me." Go to Mr. Iron's house." The old man said: "You don't have to, I'm not being polite! Do you think there is anyone in the world who wears a fox fur robe and rings a string of bells?" Dong Zao said: "Your string of bells could have been left alone, so why go to this field? Thank you for not giving up, treat my brother as a person, I have two presumptuous words to say, whether your husband annoys me or not. Yesterday I heard my husband despise that fat and tall man and said: "The talents of heaven and earth are limited. You should not underestimate yourself.' My brother admired these words. However, what Mr. has done is a bit contrary to the theory. Gong Bao insisted that Mr. come out to do the palace, but Mr. ran away in the middle of the night, so he must come out to ring the string bells. May I ask, what is the difference from the one who broke it and fled, turning his ears away? My brother’s words are reckless and a bit offensive, sir, please think about it, don’t you?” The old man said: "It is true that ringing the string bell is of no help to the morals of the world. Does being an official help the morals of the world? Excuse me: Mr. is now the parent of a million people in Chengwu County. Where can it help the people?" You must be very confident, so why not give me some advice? I know you have been an official for two or three times before, so I would like to ask you about the good governance you have done before. Do you have any outstanding deeds?" Dong Zao said: "That's not the case. Like us You are mediocre, so you have to be a fool. It's a pity that you are so talented and general, and you don't come out to do something. Those without talents will be palaces, and those with talents will not be officials. This is the number one regret in the world! The old man said: "No way. I said that it doesn't matter if you have no talent to be an official. The bad thing is that a talented person should be an official. You think, isn't this Yu Dazun a talented person? Just because he wants to be an official, and I was eager to become a high-ranking official, so I did it so unreasonably. And the political reputation is so good, I am afraid that in a few years, I will have both sides. The bigger the official, the worse the harm: guarding one government will hurt the other. If one province is governed, one province will be disabled, and if the world is slaughtered, the world will die! From this point of view, it is more harmful to be an official with talents, or to be an official with no talents? If he is like me, he is like me, ringing a string of bells. People don't want him to treat serious illnesses, and they can't kill people with minor ailments. Even if he cures one person a year, for 10,000 years, it's still not equal to the number of people he killed in Caozhou Prefecture!" Unknown Shen Dongzao He said, let's listen to the next chapter.