The monthly payment for an ordinary yamen servant is two taels of silver.
The pay for the class leader is slightly better, and he can get three taels of silver.
The top three catchers have the best pay and benefits, and can earn as much as five cents a month.
If you add in the industrial and food subsidy, your monthly income will almost reach six cents of silver.
Industrial food banknotes are similar to food, housing and travel subsidies. They are funded by local finance and are not supported by the court.
Like ordinary government servants, there are also white servants whose monthly salary is even lower. Their monthly salary is only one yuan.
White laborers are temporary workers outside the establishment.
If there is a temporary worker to carry the pot, and if there is merit, the superior will grab it. This is a white servant who just lets people have sex for free.
Therefore, the place where Zheng Yuanhu lives is not secluded. On the contrary, it is a large courtyard with high walls and tile roofs, and the area is quite prosperous.
Zheng Yuanhu is one of the three major catchers in Chang County. The Changxian Wharf Gang, gangs, and underworld gangs all rely on the three arresters with high martial arts skills to intimidate them. Therefore, in order to retain talents, the three arresters bought real estate in Chang County.
At that time, there was a special subsidy in the government office, which was equivalent to half selling and half giving away.
Talents have been scarce from ancient times to the present, and talents are in demand wherever they go.
Feng Baotou knocked on the door early in the morning, called Jin An and the old Taoist priest with a solemn face, and went straight to Zheng Baotou's house.
On the way, Capt. Feng also briefly introduced Capt. Zheng’s situation.
It's just that along the way, no matter how Jin An and the old Taoist priests asked Feng Battou if they had discovered anything, why did Feng Battou look so solemn?
But Feng Battou always had a serious look on his face. He only said that he couldn't explain it for a while, but he would know it when he went to Zheng Battou's house.
The three of them passed through several towns and finally arrived at Zheng Yuanhu's house.
Feng Captou knocked on the door with his finger.
Knock knock knock~ knock.
Three urgent and one slow knocks on the door.
After hearing the knock signal, there were footsteps and the sound of the door opening immediately behind the door.
"Feng Captou."
The person who opened the door was actually a government official. Jin An and the old Taoist priest looked at each other with surprised expressions.
"Let's talk about it inside first."
Feng Baotou walked in front. When everyone entered, the door behind him closed again.
After passing through the courtyard, he saw an old man in the lobby, who had been controlled by two government officials with knives. Jin An's eyes were slightly surprised.
"This is the concierge hired by Capt. Zheng. Capt. Zheng is usually busy with official duties and the house is often empty, so he hired a concierge to look after his house."
"Concerning the identity of this concierge, Daochang Chen and Mr. Jin'an don't have to worry. He is a local in Chang County. He has been working as a handyman for others. He has never been outside the boundaries of Chang County. He only worked as a concierge at Zheng's house three years ago.
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"His identity is very clean."
"Also, I have had him examined. His armpits and chest are all normal, and there are no signs of evil spirits."
Jin An looked at everything in front of him in surprise.
He wasn't surprised that Capt. Feng figured out Capt. Zheng's family background so quickly.
But he was surprised that Capt. Feng was so efficient in doing things. He just made up his mind to investigate Capt. Zheng last night, and early the next morning he directly led people to control the servants of Capt. Zheng's family...
He also occupied the home of Mr. Zheng...
Thinking back to the solemn expression on Capt. Feng's face that was filled with worries along the way, Jin An couldn't help but wonder, what major discovery did Capt. Feng make at Capt. Zheng's house that made him be so cautious? Even Capt. Zheng's whereabouts
Everyone is being controlled?
Jin An's doubts soon came to an answer.
Feng Baotou took Jin An and the old Taoist priest all the way to the main house where Zheng Yuanhu lived.
As a result, just as he arrived in front of Zheng Yuanhu's main house, Jin An subconsciously squatted down and sniffed the air.
There was an unspeakable smell in the air.
Jin An thought for a moment and immediately knew what the smell was. It was a very, very strong smell of women's rouge powder.
When everyone came to the door of Zheng Yuanhu's room, the smell of woman's rouge became stronger, and it was indeed overflowing from Zheng Yuanhu's room.
Jin An's head was filled with doubts.
Because according to what Feng Baotou said, Zheng Yuanhu's family only has an old concierge, so where can the female family members use rouge?
Rouge is like perfume, it is so strong that it only smells.
Um?
Something's wrong!
"Little brother, there is no need to smell it. This is not the extremely strong smell of rouge, but the smell of corpse!"
"Someone is borrowing rouge to cover up the corpse air!"
The old Taoist priest spoke with a serious face.
Feng Baotou, who was right next to him, politely asked the old Taoist priest to confirm again and again if this was the smell of corpses.
Old Taoist priest: "As an old Taoist, I have traveled all over the country and encountered grave relocations, plagues, and floods. I have seen all kinds of corpses for ten miles. Funeral aura, coffin aura, and corpse aura are as familiar to me as a daily meal."
Feng Baotou was thoughtful, but he did not speak. Instead, he winked, and immediately a government servant stepped forward and pushed open Zheng Yuanhu's door.
moment!
A suffocating stench of rouge gushed out.
After waiting for the air to circulate and the smell to disperse for a while, Jin An and the old Taoist priest followed Feng Baotou into the room.
The furnishings in the room are not complicated.
Bed, screen, teapot, table and stools...
"Um?"
It was a table with a bronze mirror on it.
In front of the bronze mirror were piles of boxes of various rouges and perfumes.
These rouge brands are messy, including Drunken Flower Print, Moon Peony, Yan Zhi, Red Ink Chrysanthemum... There are also several brands of perfume. Don't ask Jin An how he can recognize the rouge and perfume used by these women.
Because he had just bought a box of Red Moon Rouge with Zhang Lingyun some time ago.
At that time, the store owner gave him a hard sell, and finally bought a box of Red Moon Rouge, the most famous among the ladies of the northern capital city. Of course, the price was also the most expensive.
Sometimes men are the best to save face in front of the opposite sex.
Business bosses like this the most when men and women are together.
"These rouges and powders are all empty. There are so many empty boxes. If an ordinary woman applies rouge to her face every day, she may not be able to use them all in a year, right?"
The old Taoist priest was amazed.
"I think these rouges and perfumes are not necessarily for women." Jin An squatted half-crouched, as if imitating something in front of the bronze mirror, looking back and forth at himself in the bronze mirror.
Then he carefully observed the empty boxes of rouge and perfume one by one, and continued: "Because women are particularly sensitive to rouge and perfume. The smells of rouge are different, some are light and elegant, some are fresh and fragrant, and some are strong but not greasy.
Wait, breaking it down into subdivisions can make people’s eyes dazzled.”
"It is precisely because of this that women are particularly loyal to a certain brand of rouge or powder. Once they choose it, it is difficult to change their minds."
"It's definitely not like what's happening here. No matter what brand of rouge or scented powder you buy, you can use it all at random. This shows that the other party is a complete layman and doesn't understand the delicate thoughts of women. Usually only men will treat women with rouge and scented powder.
I am not interested in it and do little research..."
"!"
When Jin An said this, his body shook violently.
A shuddering chill arose from my back and shot straight to the back of my head, and a chill surged in my heart.
"Captain Feng, are you suspecting that Captor Zheng is dead a long time ago, and that someone is using his body to resurrect the dead, pretending to be Captor Zheng and sneaking into the government office?"