In Qingji Hall, the words between the lips and tongue of the man in white were choked into his throat by the old doctor, and there seemed to be a thousand words in his heart, but it was difficult to say a word.

The pulse under the fingers of the Chinese doctor stagnated slightly, and the old man who was afraid of his mother-in-law in this Jianyang Mansion smiled slightly, and teased: "Why don't you ask?"

Chen Changge's eyes were complicated, and he said with a tongue: "I don't know how to ask." ”

The Chinese doctor didn't tease, but asked very lightly: "The next generation is from Xiongzhou?"

The man in white bowed slightly, "Xiongzhou." ”

The old doctor loosened his fingertips, looked at the flow of people outside the gate, and said lightly: "Xiongzhou is adjacent to the north, and the war outside Tianmen Pass has just stopped.

Chen Changge frowned slightly, "Why is the old gentleman saying this, the martial artists of the rivers and lakes are not in the mortal world?"

The old doctor shook his head with a smile and said something that people didn't understand, "The mortal world where you are is is not an ordinary world, and the current mortal world is a mortal world. ”

Chen Changge's words froze, "What does Mr. mean?"

The old doctor chuckled again and again, "What else can you mean, just talk about this injury, on the day Your Excellency entered the city, the limbs and veins were damaged, some meridians burst, and there was blood accumulation that hindered the mind. ”

"But the injury is never an ordinary person's pain, Your Excellency can recover in three days, this is the permission of the Jianghu warriors, if this injury is placed on ordinary people, it will be more than a spring and autumn, or less than two quarters to recover so, and it took hundreds of days and nights to pick up the hoe and shovel again and go to the loess to wield. ”

"Although the common people can also recuperate from their injuries and continue their lives, it doesn't hurt to spend a little more time, but if they are as seriously injured as you and so on, and as bloody as a few of you, I am afraid that they will not even have the opportunity to recuperate. ”

"Knock down the ruthless stick, shake the shock on the public case, carefully interrogate you about the cause of this injury, who you fought with privately, and who you have a grudge with, I can't wait to interrogate your ancestors for several generations, and touch you without the courage to be a bandit, so that you can slowly let you go. ”

"If you don't answer the right word, I'll put your elbows and shackles in that dark cell, and sleep with the worm and ant, and with the cold. ”

"Ordinary people are already worried about their lives when they are so seriously injured, and after those three inches of shock, there is no way to live. ”

The old doctor snorted coldly, "Although the hall is small, it is enough to kill a person." ”

"The yamen is not big, but it can gather thousands of souls. ”

"The joy and anger under the official hat are the ups and downs of a person's life, and when you open your eyes and close your eyes, you can see that a family gathers and disperses, which can be described as a majestic tightness. ”

The old doctor got up and walked into the medicine cabinet, touched a three-inch square piece of wood on the cabinet, and muttered to himself: "The world is shocked, from the king to the minister. The king has jurisdiction over the civil and military affairs, and the civil and military affairs have jurisdiction over the people. The saint preaches Confucianism together, and the heavenly master frightens the ghosts and gods. The monks preach Buddhism together, and the Taoists persuade Xuanmen together. A piece falls in the hands of the rivers and lakes, and it flows in all directions to persuade the world. ”

"It is also said that the monarch is called Gentian Feng Xia Fei, Wen holds the martial arts and tiger might, the precepts shake the altar monk and the law, and the cautious pressure side follows. ”

The old doctor played with the square wood in his hand, looked at the Qingji plaque in the court, and said: "This shocking old man also has a piece in his hand, which is naturally not comparable to the astonishing power of those civil and military officials. ”

Hua Yiqi repeatedly looked at the Shen Shen Mu in his hand, patted Fang Mu lightly on the counter, learned the appearance of civil and military officials to judge the case, pushed forward a little bit, and said dumbly: "This pressure on Fang Mu is considered to have ruined its prestige in our hands, although it can also kill people, it is far less clean and neat than that civil and military, but it seems that most of the folk Lang like me will only use it to save people." ”

"Is human life really as indifferent as mustard?" Chen Changge said to himself, looking at the old doctor's hand.

"It's okay, I can still listen to it for a few minutes. "The old doctor has read medical books and classics since he was a child, and he has also studied this physiognomy numerology, and this son has no anger, and vaguely has a bit of heroic spirit of worrying about the country and the people, so he is willing to mumble a few more words to this young descendant.

The old doctor sneered: "It's not that this person's life is as light as a mustard, it's just that the official clothes are thicker than a thousand gold." ”

The old doctor became interested and asked, "How much do you think human life weighs?"

But without waiting for Chen Changge to speak, the old doctor replied to himself, "For these Jianghu warriors who are waiting for you to come to the sedan chair immediately, with a spear in their hands turning over the river and the sea, and a big knife splitting Mount Tai, your life is comparable to the dragon's liver and phoenix marrow, and you are not willing to take it with your life." ”

The old doctor raised his head slightly, looked at the crowd of people swimming back and forth on the street outside the door, and grinned: "But like this, the life of a person sometimes can't be exchanged for a steamed bun, in this troubled world, human life is not as good as a dog." ”

"People are like ants, and their lives are better than grass mustard. ”

The old doctor put the square wood in front of him and put it on the straw paper again, "In troubled times, it is not much better in prosperous times." ”

"In this troubled world, it depends on who has a hard fist, who has a solid wrist, which family is strong, and who is skilled in swords and horses. ”

"In that prosperous era, it depends on which princes and ministers are favored, which high-ranking officials and nobles reach the nine heavens, and which family has rich assets. ”

Chen Changge frowned slightly, "What is the way of the world today? Is it prosperous or chaotic?"

"It's not prosperous, it's not messy. ”

The old doctor sneered, "Don't say today, when is it not?"

"For these official clothes and complements, one day of reign is a prosperous age, they can sit under the mirror, sit behind the public case, enjoy the people kneeling, holding the court money, eating the people's fish and meat, naturally they will not take the belly full of oil and water to collide with the golden knife and iron horse and collide with the righteousness of the rivers and lakes, because this matter is not good for them. ”

"It's a good touch, capture and kill a three-five river and lake ranger, push to the downtown on the fifteenth day of the first month, the executioner took a big knife from the city tower, hula the head fell to the ground, splashed with blood all over the ground, and then handed this recital to the superior yamen, but let the cantata written in the recital fall wildly, and the writing was frightened and weeping, saying that the big sky is broken, isn't it also the duty of the court law?"

"Sometimes I'm afraid that I can't even wait for a word of praise to come back, maybe I will ask you a crime of lax supervision, take the opportunity to reprimand a few words, and reprimand you will panic, so you will take out a few boxes of thank you gifts and secretly send them to the mansion of the superior master, so that the road is prosperous and the situation is safe. ”

"If you meet a big case and a thief, it is also a great achievement, this merit has accumulated a lot, maybe you can change the official hat on your head and sit on a more lenient public case, no matter what, it seems to be a good thing, but now, this matter does not look like a good thing at all. ”

Chen Changge was stunned for a moment and asked: "Why is it not a good thing? ”

The old doctor frowned, and scolded with a smile: "You seem to be clever in your later life, how can you be so stupid?"

The old doctor looked at the crowded Jianyang street, "Take this Jianyang Mansion as an example, not only is his first Mansion Master Yin wearing an official robe and a black veil on his head, there are hundreds of officials, big and small, just to figure out these hundreds of tongues, it will take a year and a half." ”

"One of them scored another point, which ones can be used by the master, and which ones don't know how to be suppressed a little, this is more difficult to figure out people's hearts than to pinch their tongues, and it takes a lot of time to figure it out. ”

"If you understand this person's heart thoroughly, this self-interest can be divided more evenly, this is the university asking, which joint has more oil and water to deduct, which joint has to be heavily profitable, and Master Yin understands it tightly. ”

"After all the nets were unfolded and the grasp was clear, the private treasury dared to open the door, and the silver continued to pour in. ”

The old doctor stroked his beard and continued: "Let's not mention the surrounding villages and counties, there are hundreds of thousands of people in this city alone, among which there are more than 1,000 trading shops and 100 large households.

"How comfortable is it that the big and small things in this city don't need time? After many years of piling up in one place, and knowing everything by heart, whether it is official or private, how comfortable is that? Even if the black yarn has changed to the top one, but now in these years, the surrounding beacon fires are ignited, and no one knows how many years and tens of years the dynasty can withstand, maybe tomorrow the Tang family imperial court will collapse and erect a new royal flag, and under that new flag, it will be his turn to be the parent of the city?"

"So, you say that it was prosperous and peaceful, but now that the war is in turmoil, who doesn't want to be in a corner of peace? From adults to errand officials, who doesn't want to eat that private treasury a little more, and stay in the future, they will also be prepared, right?"

The coldness in the old doctor's eyes was even heavier, "This is his mother's touch, if it is not good, if you meet some righteous husbands, the sword is wielded, and the government soldiers are killed and injured, and the official chair and stool are like thorns in the back, and the pressure is from top to bottom." ”

"The widow of the deceased needs to be comforted, not to mention, being grabbed by the superior lord in the braids, maybe the belly full of oil and water will be scraped off a lot, although the warriors are not forced to break into the mansion now, but the official master can't always hide in the mansion No, if the sharp sword flies out of the vast night, then no matter how much future is gone. ”

The old doctor who was most afraid of his mother-in-law in this Jianyang Mansion snorted coldly: "Because of this, no one wants to take any risks, if you can sit in the official position for an extra year, it is a year more, then the Jianghu martial artist is the uncle is a taboo, naturally I don't want to offend, the dignitaries are the ancestors, and they can't be offended, only the grass mustard people can be regarded as light as a feather, and they can take out more money and pound and beat, and the Diao people and ants who can't pinch oil and water will no longer care, if there is anything wrong, just drag it." ”

"It's unprofitable, naturally no one cares, no one cares. ”

"One day, the house will collapse, and the official clothes will naturally not leave, and this courtier will die before the court, which is the truth. ”

"Although the official clothes are there, the people under the official clothes are long gone. ”

"An empty yamen, dressed in empty official clothes, was smashed in the ruins, so it will be in the ruins. ”

The words of the old doctor, who was most afraid of his mother-in-law in this Jianyang Mansion, resounded in Qingji Hall and in the ears of the man in white.