The feeling that Magistrate Su feels now is like walking naked on a snowy field of ice and snow, surrounded by a vast expanse of white, and the chill is biting to the bone. He is lonely, lonely, discouraged, and full of thoughts. If not for it, he would still be a human being.
The officer is a master, and he may even have thoughts of death.
With the IQ of Magistrate Su, he has roughly understood something. Xu Qian still underestimated this guy. This is not a trap, this is a series of traps. He first said that he wanted to do good, and then tricked Mr. Huang first, and then started to start.
Yizhuang, cheated the Zhang family, and then waited for the Zhang family to come to the Yamen to seek justice, and also cheated him, County Magistrate Su. I originally thought that everything was fine, and this bad boy should be satisfied, but who knew that he would still go back to Makeng?
They turned around and wanted to trick him, the magistrate, again. Of course, the only thing Magistrate Su could feel was that he was not the unluckiest one in this series of pits. The most unlucky one was the Zhang family master, because he was tricked.
Go ahead, the target is obviously Young Master Zhang.
The young master of the Zhang family really had no virtue in his ancestors, and he didn't know how he offended this boy named Xu. Magistrate Su sighed in his heart, and even felt a little sympathy for the young master of the Zhang family.
But sympathy is sympathy, and Magistrate Su understood that if he remained indifferent to the matter, he would still be slapped in the face. A young man from the county who had been praised by Magistrate Su personally as one of the "Five Good" was broken into his home and beaten.
, can he pretend that nothing happened?
Anyway... he has already offended the Zhang family, and it seems that there is nothing wrong with offending him a little more.
Magistrate Su sighed inwardly, but had already lost the last bit of his patience. He slapped the tree again and said: "As you said, the young master of the Zhang family is really bold and unruly. How can we allow him to govern the county?"
You are so presumptuous. If someone comes, they will immediately capture Mr. Zhang and his two evil slaves. They will all be captured together. The shackles will be displayed to the public for three days to serve as a warning. If there are any lawless people in the future, this county will never do anything.
Appeasement.”
Before Xu Qian could shout out his wisdom, Su Zhixian was shocked again and said: "Retreat!"
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The shackle is a punishment. The prisoner must wear a shackle weighing dozens of kilograms around his neck. Because the torture tool is too heavy, the body leans forward, so he can only kneel down and hunched like a mouse, and during the execution
During the process, he was not allowed to eat except for some clean water. He spent three days huddled in the wind and sun in front of the Yamen. On the surface, it seemed like only three days, but in fact it was a severe punishment.
Zhang Shusheng was waiting for Zhang Taigong to come back with great interest. He thought he would bring some good news, but when Zhang Taigong saw him, he just smiled and shook his head. What made him even more unexpected was that the servants in the Yamen were like wolves and tigers.
When he arrived, he took Zhang Shusheng directly and walked away.
Grandpa Zhang was stunned.
He had not dealt with the Xu family father and son, and was already heartbroken. Now he had to deal with his youngest son. He couldn't bear it. He was so angry that he fainted.
The Zhang family suddenly fell into chaos. The master immediately fell ill, and the young master was taken to the Yamen. The steward Zhang Jin had to take care of Taigong Zhang while inviting people to go to the Yamen to find out the news.
"As for Magistrate Su and the boy named Xu, if I don't avenge this, I will swear that I will not be a human being. When have I, a gentry of the Zhang family, ever suffered such a great humiliation? Does Su Mo, a dog official, think that he is a broken man?"
Home county magistrate?"
After regaining his consciousness, Mr. Zhang cursed loudly. The doctor on the side quickly comforted him and asked him not to get angry again. But how could he get rid of this anger? Maybe before, Mr. Zhang only hated the Xu family and his son, but now,
More of Taigong Zhang's hatred was transferred to Magistrate Su.
"Zhang Jin, how is the young master?" After eating a bowl of ginseng soup, Grandpa Zhang's face turned a little rosy, and he couldn't help but feel concerned when he thought of his youngest son.
Zhang Jin tiptoed to the bed, but with blurred tears, he sobbed: "Master, please don't worry about the young master's affairs. Your body is like this. The eldest son is far away in Jiangning, and this family still depends on it."
The master is holding on, there are only shackles over there at the Yamen, and he can be released in only three days. Although the young master has to suffer some flesh and blood, his life can always be saved."
"This dog official!" Zhang Taigong was furious again, saying that he was talking about the pain of flesh and blood, but Zhang Taigong knew that his youngest son had been pampered since he was a child. He was shackled for three days and couldn't eat for three days. After all this torment,
God knows what will happen in the end.
What's more important is the shame imposed on the Zhang family by the yamen. The Zhang family has been in Qiantang for several generations. At its peak, there were some Jinshis in the family. Although there have been no prominent figures in recent years, they are still the most influential people in Qiantang County.
Of the aristocratic families, who should not be respectful to local officials when they take office? But this time, not only could they not break up a pair of lowly servants, a father and a son, but they also hooked up with the young master of the Zhang family. Thinking that his son was wearing shackles and being watched by people at the yamen gate,
Zhang Taigong felt a strange shame and humiliation spreading all over his body. It is unbearable, but what is unbearable!
"Send a letter immediately to call the eldest son back. Also, ask people to go to Renhe County and visit the prefect's Yamen." Zhang Taigong thought for a while and then said: "Zhang Sheng, go to Jiangning in person. I won't let you have this grudge."
Report, what reputation does the Zhang family have in Qiantang and Hangzhou?"
Zhang Taigong's eyes opened and closed, his breathing became more and more rapid, and then he sneered: "Hateful, hateful!"
Zhang Jin comforted him: "Master, you'd better take care of your health. I'll take care of other matters myself."
Zhang Taigong breathed a sigh of relief, but soon, there was another loud sound of gongs, drums and suonas outside, and bursts of sorrow and music came. This time it was more perfect and beautiful than the day of the opening, and there were even cries.
The sound was like a loud cry, heartbreaking and suffocating to listen to.
Zhang Taigong's face, which had finally calmed down, suddenly turned extremely dark, and his lips were trembling. He had never been bullied to this extent in his whole life.
When Zhang Jin saw the old man like this, he just sighed in his heart. The man named Xu was too arrogant and made the old man so angry that he still wouldn't stop. It is said that the Xujiayizhuang recently added another service, saying that people die for the better.
, especially those business travelers who died in a foreign land, their relatives could not mourn for them, so this mourning service was specially added. Those mourning people were all country women invited from the countryside, and their voices were like thunder.
God, now Xujiayi Village is hearing cries from time to time, sometimes even at night, which scares the whole family. A big family like the Zhang family usually has many relatives and friends of the gentry family coming around, but recently they are all deserted.
, it would be better to say that everyone saw signs of defeat for the Zhang family, or to add insult to injury, this thing is really unlucky, who is willing to visit amidst the sounds of sorrow and wailing when they are full?
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After avenging the Zhang family, Xu Qian didn't have much time to celebrate. After meeting the official, he really saw the master's magnificence. At this time, he was obsessed with interests and was thinking about how to be an official. Sometimes,
In my dream, I suddenly dreamed that I had passed the exam, and I saw countless people bowing down to me and congratulating me. Among these people were relatives and friends, and people who had ignored me in the past. Even the Zhang family obediently came to kowtow to me.
, as soon as he woke up, Xu Qian felt that he was too depraved, as if he had a demonic disease, always being lured away by fame and fortune.
"It's a pity, it's a pity. In my two lifetimes, Xu Qian, I probably can't learn the free and easy attitude of idle clouds and wild cranes. It's better to be a common person." Xu Qian lamented in his heart, so he didn't go around much in Yizhuang, where now
The old man and Deng Jian were responsible for everything. He held the books left in Xu Qian's box every day and worked hard to read them.
But at this time, Xu Qian vaguely felt that he seemed to have encountered some kind of bottleneck. In fact, it did not mean that he was not familiar with the Four Books and the Five Classics, nor did it mean that there was something he could not understand about Cheng and Zhu's annotations. The real problem lay in the application of the Four Books.
After all, the Five Classics and Cheng Zhu's annotations are only the foundation. With this foundation, it seems that there is no problem in wanting to be a scholar, but it seems that there is still a long way to pass the provincial examination and be able to take the examination.
Based on his foundation, it is not difficult to imitate a cat and a tiger and create an eight-legged article. The difficulty lies in being able to be surprising and at the same time be colorful.
Every time he thought of this, Xu Qian couldn't help but slap his forehead and get a headache.
If you can't get over this bottleneck, will you be a scholar all your life? What future does a scholar have? He is still far from being an official. But, how to break through this bottleneck?