Chapter 223: The gentleman respects ghosts and gods and keeps them away
Chapter 223: A gentleman respects ghosts and gods and stays away from him
Wuqing County is a historical city, located in the southeast of North Tongzhou and close to Tianjin Wei. It is said that it had first flourished here as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties.&*.
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Because this place connects Tianjin Wei and Beitongzhou, the canals from north to south also flow through its territory, so there are many merchants stationed here, so the county town has a large population. It is said that the Beicheng City in Wuqing County is also quite lively.
The prosperity is still high in Beitongzhou.
Liu Chengfeng and his party took more than two hours to Wuqing County, but they brought a lot of lieutenants and servants. Wuqing's county magistrate led the way, while Liu Chengfeng rode his horse into the city, and the prefect
Zhou Tai was sitting in a sedan chair and followed behind.
Liu Chengfeng found out about Zhou Tai's resume. He passed the imperial examination in the early years of Hongzhi. He first observed politics in Beijing, then joined the Ministry of Rites as a hall official, and then transferred to Beitongzhou.
From this, Liu Chengfeng can roughly guess Zhou Tai's personality. Zhou Tai has never been in charge of government affairs in his life. When he was a political scholar, he did not make any decisions. He was just a church in the Ministry of Rites.
The official finally released a prefect, but unfortunately Tongzhou is different from other places, and the prefect's office has no decision-making power, so everything depends on the arrangement of military preparation.
This person will inevitably develop a dependence mentality when he is beneath others. Zhou Tai is like this. He has never made a decision in his life. There is a tall one who stands up to him when the sky falls. He just needs to follow other people's instructions and do things step by step.
So Zhou Tai is quite vague in his work, and is quite polite and respectful to Liu Chengfeng.
Working with such a person, Liu Chengfeng was under a lot of pressure, but this guy went out in a sedan chair, slow and irritating. Originally, the road for one and a half hours was delayed by more than half an hour.
In addition, the more the two sedan chairmen walked, they became weaker and slower, and Liu Chengfeng was unable to get rid of the prefect. After all, he brought a lot of lieutenants this time, and he was afraid that
I was afraid that there would be a riot in ambush, and the prefect's office also had more than a dozen servants. If such a few people were in danger, how could Liu Chengfeng explain to the soldiers and the court?
When we arrived in Wuqing County, the sky was already a little dim. Liu Chengfeng took Wang Tao to the county government office. The county magistrate went in to negotiate first, and then called the chief clerk of the county.
The book had just come out of the inner yard and saluted Liu Chengfeng and the listless Zhou Tai, and said, "Liu Qianhu, Lord Zhou..."
Zhou Tai might have been a little tired all the way over and felt a little weak all over, but just said, "Go in and talk."
When he arrived at the lobby of the county government office, Liu Chengfeng asked the chief clerk, but the chief clerk answered one by one. Zheng Sheng, the magistrate of Wuqing County, lived in the inner court. The general situation was similar to the news received at the banquet. The chief clerk finally
I made a summary and said: "The county master had given an order in the house when he was at the time of Mao and Chen. From the time of Mao and Sanshi, there was only the county master in the whole house. Everyone thinks that the county master is afraid that it is
At this time, when the county master was stabbed, he had a dagger inserted into his chest. His death was peaceful. I guess those rioters had excellent martial arts skills and were killed in one blow. (《》, watch the latest book
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When Liu Chengfeng heard that the chief clerk meant that he had confirmed that the county magistrate Zheng Sheng was assassinated by the rebels, he couldn't help but smile and said, "It's still too early to make a conclusion. Are all the people in the yamen detained and guarded?
Has anyone moved?"
The chief clerk smiled bitterly and said, "Sir, after the incident, the villain organized a service to block the place, and allowed to enter and not leave. As for the place where the county master was killed, no one was asked to move. He immediately sent someone to Tongzhou Prefecture and waited.
Come on, sirs.”
The chief clerk was just the third in charge of Wuqing County. The chief clerk was killed, so it was naturally not his turn to take care of this matter. So he immediately informed Tongzhou Prefecture of protecting the scene, which was expected.
Liu Chengfeng nodded and said, "Then please lead the way and let us go to the Houya to take a look."
After saying that, the chief clerk, county magistrate, Liu Chengfeng, Zhou Tai, Wang Tao and others entered the inner yamen together. In addition to the setting of the common yamen, each study room, they will set up the inner yamen. This inner yamen is the main
The living place for officials and their families. After all, most of the officials in the court are out of the room, so it is impossible for officials to set up houses for this. Who knows if they will move elsewhere after three or two years.
?As for later generations, buying houses in many places for a while is a dream, because nowadays, transportation is basically a matter of travel, and buying houses in other places will never be able to live in for the rest of your life. Therefore, the magistrates and government offices in various places have internal offices.
Even Thousand Houses have such a setting. The inner yamen and the outer yamen are first connected, which is relatively **.
The chief clerk led Liu Chengfeng and others into the cave for a month and was the inner yard. The setting inside was quite elegant. There was a flower hall and more than a dozen wing rooms, like a courtyard, with a patio in the middle, and then there was
As soon as I walked around the screen wall, I heard a low crying sound coming from the flower hall. When the chief clerk heard this sound, he looked at Liu Chengfeng and Zhou Tai carefully and whispered: "This is the family of the county master, because
I lost my husband, so I cried."
After all, Zhou Tai's death made Zhou Tai feel sad. Moreover, Zhou Tai was a scholar, and he was more or less pity, so he said to Liu Chengfeng: "Liu Qianhu, let me give you some condolences, how about it?"
Liu Chengfeng nodded, and the two of them went in with a heavy expression. Then they saw two women crying in the flower hall. The chief clerk whispered: "The older woman is the wife of the county master, and the younger one is
The newly acquired concubine by Lord Zun of the County in recent years.”
I saw that the wife of the county master was over 40 years old. When she saw a stranger coming in, she forced herself to salute. Liu Chengfeng was not very good at this kind of thing, but Zhou Tai was quite familiar with this worldly style and whispered some sadness.
If so.
Liu Chengfeng's eyes noticed the concubine. She was only ten years old and was born well. However, when she cried, her eyes were swollen, and the rain fell on her pear blossoms, making her look pitiful.
Wang, the wife of the county, heard that one of them was a prefect and the other was a thousand households, so he did not dare to neglect them and asked someone to serve tea to them.
The people went to have tea. Liu Chengfeng and Zhou Tai sat down and rested for a while, and exchanged a few greetings with the lady. The lady told her what happened this morning, and the situation was the same. That night, Zheng Sheng
I slept in my wife's room, but this wife had a habit of waking up at a moment and going to the Buddhist temple to worship Buddha. According to her description, when she got up, Zheng Sheng slept very well, and snoring soundly
Wang called him because he thought he was going to the city this morning, but Zheng Sheng slept soundly and did not wake up. He just responded with a whimper.
Wang is a tough person. Although her husband died and her eyes were swollen from crying, she was very pleasant when she talked about this and had a great memory. The woman's face looked a little sallow, but she was in good spirits.
His voice was a little hoarse, which made Zhou Tai feel a little respectful.
However, Zheng Sheng's concubine was just crying around, completely unreasonable, which made Zhou Tai frown secretly.
Liu Chengfeng was worried about going to see the scene, so he didn't want to continue chatting, so he took out a 100-tall silver note from his sleeve and comforted Wang, "Mrs. My mourning day, these are Liu's little ones.
Be careful, although Liu has never met the magistrate of Zheng County, he has been famous for a long time. I hope to accept this shallow little gift."
Wang took it, but Zhou Tai's face seemed a little cramped. He came in a hurry, so how could he bring any money? But he had a few taels of silver on his body, but Liu Chengfeng took a hundred taels of money at one point.
If I took out a few pieces of silver with a thumb, where would I put my face in it? But if I didn’t give me some gifts, it seemed unreasonable. While he was hesitating, Liu Chengfeng patted him gently.
Tai looked at Liu Chengfeng in surprise, and then found that Liu Chengfeng's hand was holding his sleeve. In the wide sleeve, a silver note was stuffed into Zhou Tai's hand.
Zhou Tai immediately understood that this was Liu Qianhu giving him a way out. He was very grateful and couldn't help thinking: "People in the capital say that Liu Chengfeng is a fool, but I may not be able to see it.
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Zhou Tai took out the silver notes and handed them to Wang, and finally looked at Liu Chengfeng with gratitude.
For Zhou Tai, one hundred taels of silver is not too much, and the less is not too little. This kind of kindness is not too little.
Wang thanked him repeatedly, Liu Chengfeng and Zhou Tai left, and then the chief clerk led him to the bedroom where the county magistrate was assassinated.
Liu Chengfeng and Zhou Tai went in together, and immediately smelled a fishy smell. There were already two coroners waiting for their appointments. When the two saw Liu Chengfeng and Zhou Tai coming in, they immediately gave Liu Chengfeng and Zhou Tai.
salute.
Liu Chengfeng just nodded at their heads and turned his attention to Zheng Sheng on the couch. Zheng Sheng fell on the couch with a dagger on his chest and his heart was gone. There was no trace of messy signs in the room.
The site is also well protected, without any traces of moving at will.
Liu Chengfeng glanced at the room and said to the coroner: "Go and take out the dagger."
The two coroners responded and carefully took out the dagger. Zheng Sheng had been dead for many hours at this time, so when he pulled out the dagger, no blood was spurted out. The coroner handed the blood-stained dagger to Liu Chengfeng and Liu Chengfeng
I wrapped the handle of the dagger with a handkerchief and looked at it for a while. I saw that there were obvious tooth marks on the blade of the dagger. It was obvious that the dagger was in the bone and was worn in many places.
Immediately afterwards, Liu Chengfeng called the coroner to carry the body out for dissection, while Liu Chengfeng and Zhou Tai stayed in the room to continue checking.
This kind of thing was done by a yamen official, so how could Zhou Tai stand this environment? His face had already become pale and he looked like he was about to be disgusted. However, this time he died, he was a county magistrate, and Liu Chengfeng was also
When he came in, if he, the prefect, did not follow him, would be a little bit unworthy of Liu Qianhu, so he could only endure it forcibly.
Liu Chengfeng, while observing the layout in the bedroom, chatting with Zhou Tai, thereby diverting Zhou Tai's attention.
"What do you think of Lord Zhou?"
Zhou Tai said: "What did Liu Qianhu say?"
Zhou Tai really didn't know what to think, but he just felt that it was too uncomfortable to stay here, so he asked back.
Liu Chengfeng said: "Liuzhen as the chief clerk and his wife said, the magistrate Zheng died between the third hour of Mao and the third hour of Chen. It is said that during this period, family members from the mansion often walked by the door and the doors and windows.
There are no signs of damage, which means that the murderer will never be able to commit a crime unless he surrenders from the sky to kill the magistrate of Zheng County."
Zhou Tai heard the words falling from the sky, and couldn't help but look at the beam of the house. He couldn't help but tremble and said, "Mr. Liu said... there is a ghost..."
Liu Chengfeng was speechless. This guy's understanding ability was really strong. He couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I didn't mean that, I was thinking about what method the murderer used to enter the room and killed the county magistrate calmly.
retreat."
Zhou Tai was also a little ashamed at this time. After all, he was a scholar. A gentleman respected ghosts and gods and kept them away, and he really seemed to be a little too timid.
Zhou Tai coughed and cheered up and said, "Yes, here is closed, but I don't know how the thief came in, how to kill the magistrate Zheng and escape unconsciously. Could it be that the assassin is in this inner court?"
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