It is getting closer and closer to the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, and it is still in the year in the rich and noble people's homes, but the things of this New Year's Festival are only three or two days of excitement in the poor people's homes, and a few days in this cold and bitter day can be regarded as a festive day and night, even if it is the New Year's celebration, the poor people who have no food and no money at home need to do some hard work early, trying to have a full stomach, and try their best not to starve to death.

"There are those who store vegetables for the winter. ”

"Fresh winter vegetables are sold. ”

The sunrise is extremely winter, the sky is not yet bright, there is a faint fog, the sky in the distance is not real, in the east of the city of Bianxian County, an old man with a slender flower armor is carrying two shabby baskets swaying on the street, and three or five dusky cabbages with ice ballast are placed horizontally and vertically in the baskets.

This county has the habit of storing winter vegetables since ancient times, in the autumn when the weather is crisp to buy hundreds of ten pounds of radish cabbage to take advantage of the arrival of the snow in the middle of winter, the autumn vegetables are stored at home, relying on the weather to store some more time, after the winter from the time to find out a is also considered to be the very fresh taste in this winter.

Although every family will save some of this winter vegetables, it is not possible to ensure that there is less in the autumn or more to eat in this winter, and when there is a shortage of vegetables at home, they will go out to buy a few, but now it is the New Year's Festival, and the wine, meat and meat in every household cannot be eaten, so how can anyone come to buy this tattered winter vegetables.

But there is no way, I don't know how many poor people in this world are so poor that they have nothing to do, they can only stay up and count the years, this old man is like this, the old man is poor and has no children and no daughters, and there is no one to go out to beg for a living, there are three acres of vegetable land at home, this old man will plant some seasonal vegetables in the summer, and walk the street on weekdays to earn some subsistence money.

But this person is not older than the young man, walking a few steps on the snoring and panting inevitably to rest, this is barely enough to make ends meet on weekdays, this is even more so now, the New Year's festival at home firewood and rice are all made clean, the old man in order not to freeze to death will take out the only few remaining winter vegetables for some silver, but shouted a morning without even informing the person, scolded but suffered a lot.

But also, seeing that this year's festival is over, and there are only a few days of the year when I can be lazy, I finally can sleep a peaceful sleep regardless of time, and I was disturbed by this old man's shouting, how can I not be annoyed.

The old man didn't care about the sadness, he just thought about staying up to Shangyuan, and then coming to the rich man's house to say more good things, so that the family could give a few more bowls of Lantern Festival, and he could eat for a few more days, and then think of other ways to stay until the spring was warm.

This rich man in order to seek a son to scatter wealth, everyone in the county knows, today this old man selling vegetables is mainly to come to the king's house to try his luck, maybe this king outside the son in order to ask for a son to reward himself with a few copper coins can live.

Thinking of this, the old man's heart has a little hope, and there is more strength under his feet, carrying the flat shoulder to the Wang's house, this way to rest several times before he can walk to the Wang's house, this sky is foggy, the old man's eyes have long been useless, and he vaguely looks at how the Wang family hung a strange palace lamp.

Don't say it, but also drip, say round or not round and say flat or not, this damn rich man is a rich man, change the law to have fun, the old man sighed to himself, regretting that he was playing with losers in his youth, and he didn't do more work to save some money.

Seeing that there were still thirty or fifty zhang away from the Wang family, the old man who sold vegetables shouted harder, and his steps were very slow, just to wake up the Wang family, so that he could come out and reward himself with some money.

"There are those who store vegetables for the winter. ”

"There are those who store vegetables for the winter. ”

The old man got closer and closer, and when he saw that the gate of the Wang family was still closed, he was even more anxious, and he couldn't care about his throat, so he cleared his throat and riveted his strength, and shouted: "There is winter...... Huh?"

The old man shouted halfway, couldn't help but hesitate for a while, stretched out his hand full of frostbite and cold and rubbed his eyes, tried to make himself see more clearly, and took a few steps forward, the old man's brows were tightly raised, he squinted at the wide Wang family's mansion, and after looking at it for a while, he could tell what was hanging on the lamp pole.

The old man who saw it clearly muttered to himself: "This Wang family, why don't you hang a lantern and hang up your head." ”

The old man muttered as he took two steps forward, and suddenly, the old man came back to his senses and shouted in horror: "Human head?!"

The old man who sold vegetables stared at the boss, the flat shoulder on his shoulder fell to the ground, and he crawled backwards, shouting in panic: "Kill, kill!"

The old man who walks slowly on weekdays is his grandson at this time, and the steps are fast, and the shouts resounded throughout the county, and the old man's pants are visibly wet with the naked eye, and there is a rising mist.

For the people on the street, no one looks at the vegetable sellers, but this killing, but there are many people who want to see it, and many burly men who are sleeping soundly hear the old man's shouting, wake up slowly, and look out with their necks to see what is going on.

That's the case, no one in this county sleeps peacefully today.

At noon, the county government of Fenxian County.

The news of the death of the Wang family was transmitted to the county government by an old man with wet pants, and the county master Wu was drunk yesterday before he woke up today before he woke up by the old man's shouting, and the old man had to have a meal at the county government after saying the reason, but it made the old man extremely upset.

County government study.

The county magistrate Wu had an unbearable headache, rubbing his temples very hard, this headache is divided into three layers, the first layer is yesterday's wine, the second layer is the murder case, and the third layer is the old man who is messing around.

It's a good New Year's Day, and the saint is going to draft again, and the eight characters of the draft are very special, and there is only one woman in this county in the surrounding prefectures and counties, and if this is really selected, it is also a merit, but seeing that it is just about to be transferred, there is a murderous case in this city, and the one who died is still a rich man, which is even more difficult to do.

It's been this morning, and the master has not come back from the murder scene, and Lord Wu of the county can't help but sigh bitterly and curse a word of waste.

"Report!!"

There was a screaming sound from the master outside the study, the voice was extremely panicked, the master who was born in the literati didn't care about the etiquette and rules, and went straight into the study, his face was as white as paper, and there were spots of water stains hanging on his clothes, and the corners of his mouth and beard were full of filth, and the broken rice and vegetable leaves he ate in the morning were among them, and he said in a panic as soon as he came in: "Master, something is wrong." ”

Master Wu was born happy and pure, and he was extremely disgusted with those dirty and filthy things, and he turned his face slightly away from looking at the disgusting middle-aged scholar, and said sharply: "What kind of system is panicking?"

The master gasped for several breaths before he could stabilize his mind, his hands were still white, and he said: "Back to the master, the rich man's house in the east of the city was slaughtered, and the dead were either forty-six or forty-nine. ”

Lord Wu was furious when he heard this, slapped the table and shouted, "Bastard, a dignified court official, how can you be so negligent, and even the number of dead can't match?"

When the master heard that the master was furious, he knelt on the ground with his robe and kowtowed: "The villain is wronged, it's not that the villain is not untiful, it's just that the death of the Wang family is too tragic, except for Miss Wang's family, there is no whole corpse in the door, just a front yard is full of stumps and broken flesh, and nearly a thousand catties of broken flesh and blood are put away. ”

Lord Wu, the magistrate, stood up suddenly and asked in surprise, "Who did it?"

The master cried, "It should be a martial artist in the rivers and lakes." ”

"Can there be traces left on the scene?"

The master wanted to speak and stopped: "There is ......"

Wu Zhixian was a little impatient," he said. ”

"There is a picture of a mountain ghost in the courtyard of the royal family, it seems to be like the four fierce men who did it thirty years ago......"

"The Four Fierce Bosses?" Wu Zhixian muttered to himself and sat back in the chair, his eyes blinked several times, and he sighed slowly: "Get up, even if you can't hide it, report this matter to the Fu Yin Yamen. ”

The master stood up and responded, "No." ”

Wu Zhixian waved his hand weakly, "By the way, I will also report the show girl who took the exam." ”

The master looked embarrassed, "My lord, I'm afraid this can't be reported." ”

"Huh?"

"The show girl who should be in harmony with the eight characters is Miss Wang, who is also dead. ”

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Anzhou, Jianyang Province.

This Anzhou belongs to the roof of Qianyuan, and the state is divided into three counties, except for Anrui County, which is adjacent to Dajin in the north, the remaining two counties are considered to be peaceful places.

This belongs to the same as Jianyang Mansion in Tongjin County, which is the way to the throat of the Yushui River ferry in Tongjin County, the city is prosperous, and there are countless people who pass through this Jianyang Mansion, and the prosperity on the street is this thing, and the flow of people is more, the business of the buying and selling shops will be better, and the people will be richer.

In the afternoon, just after the noon meal, the flow of people in Jianyang Mansion gradually stabilized a lot, and at the south gate of Jianyang, a second meat shop pot under the guise of a pot was jingling, and the shopkeeper kept shouting.

Most of the food in the two meat shops is hungry food, occasionally there will be some simple stir-frying, there is no exquisite and elegant banquet dishes, most of the people who come here to eat are to fill their stomachs and satisfy their hunger, today there is a pair of officials dressed in the two meat shops.

Wearing a big hat and a green body, he is either a servant or a soldier.

The two of them monopolized the largest table of eight immortals, these two official hats were worn obliquely, and the official knife on their waists was placed on the table intentionally or unintentionally as if to deter the poor people who were walking around.

At the city gate, two horses galloped from the north, immediately a woman in green clothes and a man in black, the woman in green clothes was extremely beautiful and carried a six-foot red sandalwood box on her back, the man in black was hanging on his waist, the short dagger was full of blood, his eyes were cold and stunning, and the tail of the two horses was carrying a young man who had passed out, one was dressed in white and one was dressed in linen, and the two were covered with bloodstains and mud marks mixed with the embarrassment.

The officials in the second meat shop were attracted by the sound of the horse's hooves, and one of them tilted his head slightly and reminded in a loud voice: "I am covered in blood." ”

The other glanced at it impatiently and said lazily, "Yes, yes." ”

"Whatever?"

"If you want to take care of it, I don't dare to take care of it. The impatient poor man snorted coldly and continued, "At first glance, it is a martial artist in the rivers and lakes, in this world, who dares to be a Jianghu person? ”

After that, the poor man raised his eyebrows, and scolded the owner of the second meat shop: "Old man Li on the dog day, I don't know how to give the official more sauce meat?"

Jianyang Mansion, south of the city.

In the noise of the world, the unconscious Chen Changge and Han Yuanhu were carried into the city.