Chapter 80: Self-Employed and Persecuted
Who? Yinchuan post soldier Li Zicheng.
Li Zicheng, formerly known as Hongji, the small character Huang Laier, also known as Zaoer, lives in Yulin, Shaanxi Province, and Li Jiqian Village.
Why did he just shake his head and say nothing? He lost his official documents and lost his job.
"Then we clearly put the official document in our arms, and patted it with our hands, just here, why do you just say that you will lose it?" Li Zicheng recalled it countless times, but he couldn't remember it.
Obviously, because of the famine for many years, his modest salary gradually became the only source of their family's livelihood. No, not only to get by, but also to repay the debts of the landlord Ai Zhao.
There was no way, his family was poor when he was small, and his parents had to give him up to the temple as a little monk, and he got the nickname of a monk from Huanglai, which made him unable to raise his head. When he was a little older, his parents finally took him out of the temple and shepherded the sheep for Ai Zhao.
It's no wonder that his fate is not good, and after a few years, his parents died one after another, so he had to borrow money from Ai Zhao again to bury his parents. Fortunately, with this job at the post station, life has finally improved a little, who would have thought that he would be lost again in vain!
"How will you live in the future?" He thought to himself and raised his head blankly, but when he saw his nephew Li Guo coming in a hurry, he couldn't help but be stunned, and then blurted out: "Guo'er, what's wrong?" ”
Li Guo hurried over, but didn't answer his words, and asked breathlessly, "Uncle, where are you going?" ”
Li Zichengqi said: "Go home." ”
Li Guo hurriedly said: "No, absolutely not." ”
Li Zicheng became more curious and said, "Why? ”
Li said: "Ai Zhao bought off Yan Zibin in Mizhi County, and wanted to put his uncle to death. ”
Li Zicheng said: "No, our family has nothing to do with him, and there is no enmity recently, why should he be like this?" ”
Li said: "The people in the village are all in the same group as my uncle, Ai Zhao can't act recklessly, he is already very jealous of his uncle, and his uncle beat his family the day before yesterday, he is more and more resentful, and he has to take his uncle's life." ”
Li Zicheng said: "His family forced the people to pay off their debts, shouldn't they be beaten?" Even if he wants our family's life, he has to have a reason, right? ”
Li Guo said angrily: "This is not simple? The reason is that my uncle has not paid his debts. ”
Li Zicheng said: "Hmph, don't say that our family has been paying off his debts, even if our family doesn't repay his debts, Yan Zibin doesn't dare to ask for our lives, Daming has a royal law." ”
Li said: "Where is there any royal law?" Uncle didn't believe it, all this was reported by the sixth child in the yamen, he heard it with his own ears, he said that when he came out to deliver the letter, the officials were gathering to get his uncle. ”
As soon as the words fell, he saw a team of officers holding ropes in their hands and cautiously surrounding him and Li Guo. Li Zicheng was about to speak, but Li Guo panicked: "How is this good?" ”
His brother and sister-in-law died early, and Li Zicheng has always regarded Li Guo as his own. In fact, he had already believed Li Guo's words, and he was also flustered, so he said so for fear that Li Guo would be afraid. Seeing Li Guo like this, he patted him lightly on the shoulder and whispered: "Don't be afraid, your uncle will take care of everything." ”
He has always been a role model in Li Guo's mind, hearing him say this, Li Guo was relieved, but he still looked at him nervously.
He smiled at Li Guo, stepped forward calmly, and pretended not to know: "What are you doing here?" Do you have to take Zicheng, I don't know which royal law Zicheng has violated? ”
Li Zicheng likes sticks since he was a child, and has practiced a good martial arts, the officials are obviously afraid of it, and they don't want to come with him, listening to him say this, just when he really doesn't know, the leader hurriedly laughed and said: "Where do we dare to go against the second master Li, no way, the officials are not free, Ai Zhao sued the second master for collecting debts, and the county ordered me to come, so I dare not disobey." ”
Li Zicheng let out an "oh" and said: "What is this right, isn't it just to repay the money, it is natural to repay the debt, I will explain it to you." ”
The official couldn't wait for him to be like this, and when he heard this, the leader immediately said: "Okay, Second Master Li is happy, let's go?"
Of course, Li Zicheng was also worried, but he didn't want to implicate Li Guo, and he thought that just because the debtor government didn't dare to put him to death, maybe it would be okay to make it clear, so he turned around and rushed to Li Aidao and said, "Go home first, and my uncle will go back when he goes." Take the lead.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the county office, he was beaten on the head, and then all the officials came up together to punch and kick. After a while, the man passed out.
When he woke up again, it was dusk seven days later, and he was actually lying in a person's arms!
What's going on here? It turned out that after Li Guo returned to the village according to the order, he was just about to tell the relatives and friends who rushed over after hearing the news, when the sixth man in the yamen broke in with fire, turned around and rushed to Li Guo and said angrily: "Run, didn't you let you run, why don't you run?" ”
Li Guo, like everyone else, knew that things were different, although he was full of grievances, he looked at him with blank eyes, and he couldn't speak.
The more annoyed he became, the elder among them gently stroked Li Guo's head with his hand, and said, "He's still a child, so don't blame him anymore, tell me about the situation." ”
He paused, choked up, and said: "Hanging, Second Master Li is hanging, that's really miserable, just entering the door is a violent beating, and now he is unconscious." ”
Everyone stood up together, their eyes staring at the old man in unison, the meaning was obvious, let's save him.
The elder thought the same way, but he didn't know what to do, so he had to say, "Save him, of course you have to save him." ”
The sixth asked rhetorically, "Save him?" How to save? Is it to go to prison and rob someone? ”
Everyone said in unison: "We have all received our own favors, if we have to rob it, then just grab it." ”
Lao Liudao: "Go to the prison to rob people, it is clear that you want to go against the government, let's not talk about whether it can be done, as long as we take this step, just like those thieves, there is no turning back, everyone has to think clearly." ”
Undoubtedly, no one wanted to be a thief, and everyone lowered their heads, but they were not reconciled, because immediately someone tried again: "Isn't that dog county order greedy for money?" Let's give him a gift too. ”
Lao Liu said: "It's a good way to give gifts, but if you sell all of us, can you compare to a little finger of Ai Zhao?" He had to put himself to death this time. ”
Everyone became impatient and said, "This is not good, that is not good, is it not possible to save oneself?" ”
The elder said: "It's not impossible, there is another way." As he spoke, he saw everyone looking at him expectantly, and after a pause, he said again: "I heard my father say that in the past, there was a saying that the corpse was resurrected, why don't we also borrow the corpse to resurrect the soul?" ”
Everyone hurriedly said: "Borrowing the corpse to return the soul? What's the borrowing method? ”
The elder said: "Didn't the sixth child say, Zicheng is unconscious, let's not give gifts to the county, let's go to give it to the county, I think Ai Zhao and the county will not think of this, and the appetite of the county must be small, we can also afford it, let's let him say that Zicheng is dead, throw Zicheng out, and we will save him again." ”
As he spoke, seeing that everyone nodded yes, he turned to Lao Liu and said, "It's just that I have to work for you, I'm afraid others can't." ”
The sixth said: "Okay, just do it, in order to be self-sufficient, the sixth child is out of the way." ”