The Chen family is a big family, the ancestral grave garden is very large, the good feng shui is occupied by the forces in the clan, the grave of Chen Yongren's family is in the outermost corner, the cemetery is the heaviest place of yin qi, even in the daytime, Liu Yanzhi can see the wandering ghosts here, that is, some negative energy bodies, their existence makes the temperature of the entire cemetery drop by two degrees Celsius, and under Chen Liu's tomb, there is a black negative energy mass that does not disperse.

Liu Yanzhi couldn't talk to this group of energy, just like he couldn't talk to the white rice soul that had been following him, but he could imagine how a weak woman who didn't have a husband by her side struggled to support her family, was oppressed by her relatives in the clan, and finally died of hatred.

"Who's buried here?" Little Chan asked him.

"It's your Uncle Chen Yongren's wife and son, and his name is Chen Zikun." Liu Yan pointed to the small tomb and said.

Xiao Chen Zikun nodded as if he didn't understand.

There was a drizzle in the sky, the winter in Hunan was bitterly cold, the path of the cemetery was wet, a few small grasses on the side of the road were shivering in the wind, and there were crows circling in the sky.

This little brother's name is Chen Aqing, he is a side branch of the clan, and he makes a living by being a tenant, but he is enthusiastic and kind, and he should call Chen Yongren a fifth uncle in terms of seniority.

"Fifth uncle, is the United States far away, how long does it take to get there by boat?" Chen Aqing asked yearningly.

"There is a Pacific Ocean between the United States and our Qing Dynasty, and it takes three months to get there by boat, why, do you want to go to the United States? Being a Chinese worker is not a good way out, so it is better to go to the beach. Liu Yanzhi had a good impression of this young man and persuaded him earnestly.

"I don't dare to go to the United States, Shanghai is too far away, and Changsha City is almost the same." Chen Aqing said, "I have a cousin named Chen Asheng, who went to the United States with someone ten years ago, and I heard that he opened a store in San Francisco, but there has been no letter in the past few years, I don't know if he is dead or alive, it is too far, tens of thousands of miles away from home, and I don't know if there is a family with three long and two short, you say how scary it is." ”

Liu Yanzhi's heart moved: "Chen Asheng, who did he go to the United States with?" ”

Ah Qing said: "Brother Ah Sheng was on an errand with Lord Lin, and after Lord Lin died, he accompanied Miss to the United States to find his uncle. ”

"Lord Lin is the political envoy of Jiangdong? is called Lin Huaiyuan, and Miss Lin is called Lin Su? ”

"Fifth uncle, how do you know?"

Liu Yan looked up to the sky and laughed, he remembered that Lin Su was from Hunan, but he didn't expect that after a few turns, they could actually get along with each other, this is really fate, but there is no need to talk about this matter with Aqing, and he doesn't understand it.

With this relationship, Liu Yanzhi felt that Aqing was close, so he asked him what kind of illness his fifth aunt had and died.

Liu Yanzhi felt that something was wrong, and stopped and said, "Aqing, do you think the fifth uncle is so foolish?" Your fifth aunt died unexpectedly, she didn't look blind in the coffin, and you deliberately hid it from your fifth uncle, aren't you afraid that your aunt will look for you at night? ”

Chen Aqing looked left and right, and stopped talking, Liu Yanzhi knew what he was worried about, so he said: "Do you think that the fifth uncle has no ability to take revenge, what do you think this is?" As he spoke, he opened the suitcase, and there was a stack of clothes inside, and two shiny black shell guns were prominently placed on the clothes.

Liu Yan copied the gun in his hand, rubbed his hands on the heels of his leather shoes and loaded them, and without looking at them, he shot them twice in the sky, and two black crows fell to the ground.

Chen Aqing was dumbfounded, he didn't expect the weak fifth uncle to be a fierce two-gun general, he fell to his knees and cried: "Fifth uncle, my aunt died unjustly." ”

Liu Yan said straightly: "You say it slowly, the fifth uncle will not let his relatives die without turning a blind eye." ”

There is a grave watcher's hut at the entrance of the cemetery, the grave keeper is not at home, the three of them sit in the house to shelter from the rain, listen to Chen Aqing tell the cause of the death of the fifth aunt, his language expression skills are not strong, and he chattered for a long time, Liu Yanzhi took a look at the clues, and the truth gradually surfaced, with a rough outline.

Chen Yongren is the fifth of the Chen family's brothers, but only one sister of the same mother has long been married to the field, he is an only son in the family, at the age of seventeen, the family found him a daughter-in-law through a matchmaker, is the daughter of the surname Liu of Huaminglou in this county, and Yongren is the same age, knowledgeable, virtuous and quiet, after the two families got married, Chen's father died, Chen Yongren, who was not controlled by his father, wanted to break into the world, the old mother and his wife who was already pregnant with Liujia couldn't control him, so he had to let him go his own way.

At first, Chen Yongren was just wandering around Changsha City, but later he met a group of friends from other places, and his heart became even more ambitious, so he left his old mother and wife, and wanted to cross the ocean to make a living in Citigroup, the family gave him a few hundred taels of money to entangle, and sent him to the carriage of Guangzhou with tears, which was ten years.

After Chen Yongren left, Chen Liu gave birth to a big fat boy, according to the genealogy and Chen Yongren had long prepared the name named Chen Zikun, at first Chen Yongren did business in Honolulu, and sent money back, and the family also sent a photo of his son to him, but then gradually lost contact, the clan rumored that Chen Yongren died in a foreign land, and then Chen Liu's son died of a violent illness, and there were no descendants in the family, only the old mother and the little daughter-in-law, those villains in the clan inevitably coveted it, a guy named Chen Yongtai, relying on the nephew of the patriarch, occupied Chen Yongren's house and drove the old lady and Chen Liu to a dilapidated house outside the village.

Chen Liu was not convinced, found the patriarch to appeal, the patriarch pretended to avenge her, but secretly did not know what to do, in short, Chen Liu committed suicide by hanging the beam the next day, the old mother was grief and indignation, no one took care of her, and died of illness not long after, Chen Liu's mother's family sued the Ningxiang County Yamen, and the Yamen also sent a post-mortem examination, the eldest man asked the case, but in the end it was still unclear that the past, the mother's family did not have the energy to fight the lawsuit over the years, and had to suffer a dumb loss, in fact, everyone knows that Chen Liu died unjustly, What forced her to death were the group of people who occupied Chen Yongren's house and land.

After listening to this, Liu Yan sighed and said, "Aqing, don't tell anyone about today's incident, you know." ”

Ah Qing's eyes were red and said, "Uncle, I have a number, you take care of it." ”

Liu Yanzhi took ten yuan of Yingyang and sent Aqing, took Xiao Chen Zikun to Ningxiang County, first stayed at Yuelai Inn, and after eating, he began to talk to his son.

"What do you think is going to do about this?" Liu Yanzhi asked.

"Kill all the bad guys." Xiao Chen Zikun gestured with both hands in the shape of a pistol, and his mouth was pounding.

"Child, today I will give you two idioms, one is called the courage of the horseman, and the other is called the spirit of the people." Liu Yan taught him earnestly, "With my ability, it's no problem to kill the entire village, but do you think that if you kill them, the people under the spring will be able to turn a blind eye?" No, killing people is the easiest way, and it is also the least technical, there are many ways to be more ruthless than killing, do you want to see it? ”

Little Chen Zikun nodded ignorantly.

Liu Yanzhi took out a dress bought in Hong Kong from the box and put it on, a top hat and leather shoes, a British woolen coat on the outside, a card on the bridge of the nose of Mojing glasses, and a name card on the Wupin Zhangjing of the Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen to the county government to meet the lord.

Ningxiang County Tiangao Emperor Yuan, how can I usually see the post of the Beijing official, Liu Yanzhi claims to be a friend of the Prime Minister Yamen Wupin Zhang Jing Zhou Jiarui, and is also a comprador of the American foreign firm, has a big business in Shanghai, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, the machines of the Hanyang Iron Works are imported by him, and Yuan Shikai Yuan's second son Yuan Kewen is also a good friend, what he said is the Tao, how can the county lord be a country turtle who can distinguish the truth from the false, not to mention the county master, it is the prefect of Changsha, the governor of Huguang is here, and he has to be fooled.

The county ordered Liu Yanzhi to entertain Liu Yanzhi with wine, and mentioned the matter during the banquet, saying that an English pastor has been picking quarrels and provoking trouble in the county recently, and asked Mr. Chen to help settle the matter, and if it can be done, he should be grateful.

Ten years ago, the Gengzi Change, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army entered the Forbidden City, the Beijing Division was occupied, the Empress Dowager of the West and the Guangxu Emperor rushed to the west, after the war, the Qing Dynasty signed the Gengzi Treaty with the Great Powers, and compensated 450 million taels of silver, this battle, the defeat was not only the national fortune, the national self-confidence of the Chinese kingdom for thousands of years was all wiped out, but the local officials did not understand foreign affairs, and the errands were not done well, and they often made trouble, causing trouble, and the Taoist platform and the governor above would only punish the magistrates, which made the magistrates afraid of foreigners like tigers.

Liu Yanzhi was not afraid of any foreigners, and asked the magistrate of the county where this foreigner pastor was from, but the magistrate couldn't say it, only said that he was a real foreigner with a high nose and sunken eyes, yellow hair and long legs.

"Foreigners are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, first-class powers such as Britain, the United States, France and Germany, second-class powers Austria, Russia, Japan, etc., third-class powers are even more, some small European countries are not as big as Ningxiang County, no soldiers and no ships, why do they want to be murderous?" Liu Yanzhi's words made the county see the sun like a cloud, and agreed to ask Liu Yanzhi to accompany him when he met the foreigner tomorrow, and crossed the other party's way.

The next day, Liu Yanzhi was still dressed in a dress, and came to the county government to volunteer to help, he was generous, from the concierge to the third class and six rooms, all of them were dotted all over again, and the broken copper coins could not be taken out, and the rewards were all white flowers and Mexican eagles, blowing a breath next to the ears, buzzing miles.

The magistrate served tea and entertained him, chatted for a while, and the foreign pastor came, and sure enough, he was arrogant and domineering, and the whole county did not dare to come out, but Liu Yanzhi heard the door, where is the priest of the other side of the great powers, and it is clearly a Turkish impostor.

Turkey is the Ottoman Empire, and it was also a glorious empire across Europe and Asia back then, drinking the Madanube River at every turn, sweeping Europe, and winning a vote for southern European countries, but it has gone downhill in recent years, and it is the same as the Qing Empire, and it is the object of oppression by foreign powers.

Liu Yan told the magistrate about the origin of this person, and the magistrate held back his excitement: "Really? ”

"I dare to guarantee the ticket." Liu Yan smiled and said, "The old parents can beat this person hard, and the Ottoman State will definitely not dare to talk to our Prime Minister Yamen." ”

Even so, the magistrate still didn't dare to make a mistake, what if this foreigner had an Anglo-American relative.

Liu Yanzhi had no choice but to go out in person and reprimand this person in fluent English, and the fake powers who were exposed had no choice but to run away with red ears and gray faces.

The magistrate laughed heartily, this is the first time that Ningxiang County and even Changsha Mansion have won foreign affairs, and when it comes to the governor of Huguang, he has face and won glory for the imperial court.

"Brother, when you return to your hometown this time, if you need your brother's help, just ask." The magistrate patted the complement on his chest and boasted about Haikou.

Liu Yan said straightly: "The old parents are serious, but there is indeed another unjust case in the younger brother's family, and I still need the help of adults to Zhaoxue." Then he took out the paper and handed it over.

The magistrate browsed it, slapped the table, and was filled with righteous indignation: "There is simply no royal law!" This case was handled by his predecessor, not to do his business, this kind of bullying of orphans and widows is commonplace in the countryside, and what should be said on the paper should be true, taking advantage of the momentum of the big victory in foreign affairs, the county decided to be the master of the blue sky again, and punish a few villains and bad gentry in the countryside.