As the old saying goes, the county order of the broken family, the Fu Yin of the extinction, and the county order are just a small seven-grade official, but in front of the people of the county, it is the parent official, the existence of the sky, even if it is a squire and a rich man, as long as there is no strong backer, the county wants to make his family ruined, that is a matter of one sentence.

Now the county magistrate wants to stand up for the old man Chen, how can he go out in person, issue a card ticket, the official of the fast shift will detain several defendants with iron chains, the head of the Chen family shows off his power in the village, and when he arrives at the hall of the county master, he can't stand on his legs, Chen Yongtai is a talented person, and he dares not to kneel with his fame, and the soap officials on both sides are holding water and fire sticks on the ground and smashing them continuously, shouting in unison and shouting Tang Wei, where can the people who have never seen the world stand such intimidation, and their knees are bent unconsciously.

As the old saying goes, the entrance of the yamen is open to the south, there is no reason to come in, the patriarch of the Chen clan is also a squire, even if he encounters a lawsuit, he is not very afraid, it is nothing more than spending money, but when he saw the man in a dress sitting next to the county grandfather's case, he was dumbfounded, isn't that Chen Yongren, he actually came back from Citigroup alive, and he looks like a dog, and there are his seats in the court, where can this be reasonable.

"Who is in the hall, why don't you kneel!" The county magistrate knocked on the wood, and Chen Yongtai replied boldly: "Back to the old parents, the villain is a talent in Guangxu for 30 years, and he has a meritorious ......."

"Bold! Since you are a talent, you should be full of sage books, how can you still do that hurtful thing, you don't want to be famous, say hello to the inspector tomorrow, and get rid of your fame! ”

Chen Yongtai was so frightened that the three souls and seven spirits flew away, and he fell to his knees: "Wronged!" ”

The county magistrate was shocked again: "You dare to quibble, the bitter master didn't say that he was wronged, but you, the murderer, shouted the injustice first, it's really a big joke in the world." ”

Obedient and listening, the case has not yet been tried, the county master's attitude is obviously biased in favor of the plaintiff, the result of the trial of this case can be imagined, the murder case is serious, the trial cannot be completed in one day, the two defendants were put into the cell, and the trial will be retried on a later date.

Decide whether a case wins or loses is not in the court, but in private, after the Chen family patriarch was imprisoned, the family began to play up and down, the silver was generally sent to the yamen, the three classes and six rooms of the officials and scribes are all shrewd characters who watch people put down dishes, this case has the eldest lord favoring the plaintiff, no matter how much the defendant gives more gifts, they will naturally not tell the truth, they will coax the defendant with ambiguous words, and they can take bribes.

Liu Yanzhi didn't want to delay much time here, he was much more generous than the defendant, and it was a big deal like a hundred taels of silver at every turn, and the entire yamen was dotted up and down by him, and the case progressed rapidly, and the result came out in less than three days, Chen Yongtai embezzled property, forced people to die, removed his fame, and was severely sentenced to beheading after the autumn, the patriarch's evidence of the crime was vague, even if the sentence would not be very heavy, Liu Yanzhi simply bought the cell head, and the two jailers covered the patriarch with a quilt in the middle of the night, and took a cloth bag filled with iron sand and hammered it indiscriminately. It was all internal injuries and looked good on the outside, but the next day he died, and the yamen said that he had relapsed from his old illness and died in prison.

The violent death of the patriarch caused an incident, and the villagers of Chenjia Village, instigated by people with ulterior motives, actually went to the county government en masse to make trouble, saying that they wanted to ask for an explanation.

The county magistrate was furious, and sneered and said that these people who don't know how to die, and see how the official's patrol battalion cleans them up.

After the disgrace of Gengzi, all provinces worked hard to run foreign affairs, open factories and mines, build machinery, and train new troops. Hunan is a poor and remote country, not as good as Jingshi and Jiangnan, although it is also training the new army, but it still wears a number of kans, and it still holds a firearm, but the name has changed from a green battalion to a patrol battalion, and Ningxiang County has a patrol battalion equipped with breech guns.

The patrol battalion didn't even put a gun, and when it pulled out the formation, it scared the people away, and Liu Yanzhi paid a storyteller to publicize Chen Yongtai's evil deeds everywhere, and everyone was golden, and the people of the whole county knew about this matter, and the clansmen of Chenjia Village no longer had the face to come out and make trouble.

The patriarch died, the family's fields and houses were all sold out, and they became poor and white, this vein was sluggish, and was replaced by other branches of the clan, Chen Yongtai deserved it, and after reporting to the Criminal Department for review, he would open the knife after next autumn, as for Chen Liu, who hanged himself, Liu Yanzhi spent 1,000 taels of silver, and asked the county to report on her behalf and set up a chastity archway at the entrance of the village.

Liu Yanzhi was worried that the uncertainties of the Xinhai Revolution next year would affect Chen Yongtai's death sentence, and he spent money to buy someone to drug his food, even if he was exempted from the death penalty, he would not live for a few years.

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After finishing Chen Yongren's family affairs, Liu Yan said goodbye to the county, took little Chen Zikun to continue to the north, traveled to the famous mountains and rivers of the motherland, took the train if there was a train, took a steamer if there was a steamer, and there was no advanced means of transportation, so he rented a carriage and ox cart, hired two people to carry a small sedan chair, walked from Hunan to Hubei, took a boat in Wuchang to the west, and visited the Three Gorges scenic spots.

The father and son chartered a boat, in addition to watching the scenery every day, it is to practice guns, practicing martial arts is to strengthen the body and self-defense, if you want to make a difference, you must be skilled in operating firearms, in the twentieth century China, the most popular is the box cannon, that is, the two Mauser C96 automatic pistols in Liu Yanzhi's suitcase.

The box gun is a large pistol, which is extremely heavy for a ten-year-old child, and Xiao Chen Zikun is used as a submachine gun to fight, this child has an excellent sense of gun, Liu Yanzhi bought hundreds of gourds as floating targets, and threw them into the river one by one, and he can play without missing a shot after practicing for a few days.

The scenery of the Three Gorges is magnificent, both sides of the river are full of majestic mountains, the extreme eye overlooks, you can see the hanging spring waterfall between the mountains and the strange pines and cypresses on the top of the mountain, occasionally the apes cry in the high places, the voice is miserable and tactful, the reefs in the river are continuous, the boat is difficult, sometimes you have to rely on the slender man on the shore to pull, the slender man is all the poor people to play, the clothes are not covered, barefoot travel, let the little Chen Zikun full of the suffering of the world.

The ship passed through Kuimen and the White Emperor City, arrived in Chongqing, docked at the wharf, hundreds of steps on the ancient Chongqing city tower, bustling with people under the blue-gray city wall, Chongqing is a big wharf, the atmosphere of the rivers and lakes is strong, everywhere is the world of the robe brother, the robe brother is the elder brother's association, and the green gang, Hongmen and called the three major gangs of the rivers and lakes.

In order to let his son have more experience, Liu Yanzhi spent a few days in Chongqing, fought a few fights, got acquainted with a group of robe brothers, tasted enough hot pot, and then went west to Chengdu, and then entered Xikang along the ancient tea horse road to enjoy the plateau scenery, and then west is Tibet, this season is not suitable to go deeper, the father and son turned back, took a boat back to Hankou, and took the Jinghan Road train north into Beijing.

The steam locomotive carried a carriage full of passengers, all the way from Hankou over the Dabie Mountain, through Xiaogan, Xinyang, Zhumadian, Xuchang, Zhengzhou, through China's first steel structure railway bridge across the north and south of the Yellow River, and then through Xinxiang, Handan, Shijiazhuang, Zhengding, Baoding, and finally arrived at the Jingshi Zhengyangmen Railway Station.

On the side of the road in front of the railway station, the remnant snow is still there, and the Zhengyangmen Arrow Tower stands majestically, showing the glory and withering of the imperial capital.