Unknowingly, since Heifu returned from serving in the county seat, he first got a knighthood, a reward, and subsidized the family; Then he will be the pavilion chief, which will give the whole family a huge boost, and it can also send him to the school room and give him a better future.

On weekdays, Heifu is not idle, he is making rice cakes and rice cakes, if he didn't really pretend to be his family in his heart, he wouldn't have tossed these......

Now, Heifu has become the backbone of the whole family, and even the eldest brother feels that it is right to listen to him.

That night, I said a lot of words, but in the end they all came together into one heartfelt word.

"The middle brother will be busy outside with peace of mind in the future, and the aunt at home will be surprised, and the brother will take care of it!"

With the words of the eldest brother, Heifu was relieved.

After the winter solstice, the days are getting shorter and shorter, fortunately in this era in a warm climate, there are thousands of acres of bamboo forests on both sides of the Yellow River, and even rhinoceros can be seen in the Shanglin Garden south of Weishui...... Namgun can also be considered a subtropical climate, and it generally doesn't snow, but there is still some frost in the morning and evening.

But no matter what the weather is, Heifu will get up early in the morning, wake up the opposite kick by the way, pick some commonly used words to teach him, and let the surprise remember.

He himself was stepping on the pedal, making a day's rations for his family, and at the same time, in the hazy morning light, he was holding the copied bamboo slips to read and recite......

As he read it, Heifu burst out laughing.

"In the future, if I develop and this matter spreads, I don't know if it can be juxtaposed with Su Qin's head cantilever beam cone thorn strand and become an inspirational typical story, which will be used by the majority of middle school students in their compositions...... How about calling it 'stepping on the mill'? ”

Thinking of this, Heifu couldn't help but laugh and read more energetically, but the sound of reading aloud was hidden in the sound of rice, he was preparing for the pavilion chief's assessment, and even the neighbors didn't know.

……

In this way, by the end of November, Heifu had memorized the eight laws and decrees to a good degree, and asked his eldest brother to help him read the original text, and he could quickly recite the following text by picking any paragraph.

The next day, Heifu went to Yan's house again in the plaque, and when he recited the entire "Thief Law" in front of Yan Xu, Yan Zhen was stunned......

"Housheng, it only took you ten or so days to memorize all eight legal texts!?"

Yan Zhen felt a little incredible, he had taught in the school in the past, and he had seen similar smart disciples, who were proficient in reciting after a few days. But those disciples are generations of scribes, and they have been familiar with the law since they were children, but Heifu is different, his ancestors were farmers, and when he first came to Yan Mansion to seek teaching, he still didn't know anything about the law.

Heifu wanted to tell Yan Zhen that if he had also experienced the outrageous recitation of the full text in high school Chinese class, this simple rule was actually nothing. Besides, the police academy also has judicial courses, compared to the various complex and lengthy provisions of the law in later generations, Qin Law is already very concise and to the point, after all, this is the era of law......

In the end, Yan Zhen could only attribute this to Heifu's intelligence, and felt that he was a manufacturable material.

These days, Yan Zhen also let his disciples who were officials in the county inquire about it, and Heifu was recruited as the pavilion chief, and this is indeed the case. It is said that in addition to the right lieutenant of the county, even Prison Pengxi also admired this person, and Yan Zhen suddenly felt that it was right for him to accept Heifu's shackles, accept him as a disciple, and teach him the law.

So in the next few days, Yan Zhen asked Heifu to run to the plaque every day, and the old man took half a day to instruct Heifu on how to deal with the assessment of the main official.

"The Lord won't let you recite the law on the spot."

Yan Zhen said as he chewed the rice cake that Heifu had offered as a gift. The food is dried and fried in anointing oil, and it is very crunchy and not as sticky as when it was first made. And don't look at this Yan Zhen is sixty years old, his health is very good, it is said that he just married a concubine the year before last, and he is only a little older than his little granddaughter, which is really powerful......

"How will I get into school?" Hefu humbly asked.

"When the time comes, it will be he who asks you to answer, and most of the questions are the provisions of these eight laws, but they are specific to the actual case, so that you can make a decision and judgment."

Yan Zhen asked his concubine to hand over the cloth towel, wiped her mouth and said, "For example, the chief official will ask you, 'A falsely accuses B of stealing cattle, B did not steal, what does A say?' ‘”

"A should be falsely accused and punished, and punished for the crime of stealing cattle!"

Heifu subconsciously said the answer, falsely accusing him of sitting back, this is not only the content of "The Law of Theft", but also the case he has personally experienced.

"Let me ask you again, how should someone punish someone who steals other people's mulberry leaves, and the stolen goods are worth less than a penny?"

Heifu thought for a while and said: "Sang Nai Nongben, the stolen mulberry should be severely punished, and he should be punished with thirty days of forced labor!" ”

"Not bad."

Yan Zhen praised: "Not only have you memorized the law, but you also have a good grasp of it, wait for me to find out the mistakes in the law, so that you can familiarize yourself with it, on the first day of the lunar month, the problem of the chief official should not be difficult for you." ”

……

From this day on, Heifu began to visit Yan Zhang in the plaque every day, and he only smiled and said that he was going to visit friends when he met the people he met on the road, and did not reveal it to anyone. The family also listened to him and kept their mouths shut about the matter, so no one in the family knew about it.

When Heifu first came back, the people were still a little afraid of him, after all, the reputation of capturing the three thieves was there, but slowly, they found that Heifu greeted everyone politely when he saw him, and the strangeness of everyone slowly dissipated, and they regarded him as the boy next door who they watched grow up.

On the contrary, the women in the middle of the house began to spread that Heifu probably fell in love with someone's woman in the plaque, so he had to go there every day......

But the inner prison gate guarding the inner door seemed to see some clues, and whenever Heifu came back, the old man named "Pu" would smile meaningfully at Heifu, and often pull him to chat.

As he spoke, he talked about the past when Heifu's cheap father was still there, and he went to the battlefield with the prison gate.

"I and your father are also considered robes, and we bleed together with a spear, and my leg was pierced by an enemy pawn with a sword in front of him, but fortunately, your father killed the enemy pawn, otherwise my old life would have been buried in Wei Land......

After the old man in the prison door sighed, he limped to serve hot soup to Heifu, and said that the three Heifu brothers had grown up under his watch.

"If you don't dislike it, you can call me a middle father, hahaha......"

Heifu smiled and said nothing, although what the prison door said was true, but after the death of the cheap father, in the years when their family was down, why didn't they see this "closer than the middle father" of the prison gate?

It is difficult to send charcoal in the snow, and it is easy to add icing on the cake, and Heifu is clear in his heart.

The reason why the inner prison gate suddenly became affectionate to him was nothing more than to see that their family was one family and two princes, and Heifu had also gained a reputation in the county, and there might be a place for the inner prison gate to be used in the future.

Heifu knew that although there were only a few dozen families in this sunset, the "political struggle" inside was quite complicated. As early as the Chu period, there were only three small scholars in this area, and the rest were ordinary people. After An Lu was ruled by Qin, the three scholars were transformed into Li Jian Men, Li Zheng, and Tian Dian, and these three positions have been passed down from father to son for two or three generations.

Among the three, Li Zheng and Tian Dian's family are closer, and their authority is greater, while the Li Jian family is slightly excluded. Keli Jianmen has made meritorious contributions on the battlefield, and the title is the third-level "hairpin", which is the crown of the middle, which makes the lame old man unwilling, and feels that he may be able to replace him and fight for the position of Lizheng......

The appointment and dismissal of the three small officials here depends on two things, one is whether there is a relationship in the township, and the other is whether there is enough financial resources and prestige in the township. Therefore, the Heifu family, who has two public servants and has a grudge against Lizheng, of course, has to fight for it.

"A big and small place, can you sing a Romance of the Three Kingdoms?"

After gaining insight into the inner prison's thoughts, Heifu felt a little amused, but he couldn't laugh when he thought of the several village council elections he had seen with his own eyes in his previous life.

In many rural areas in the new century, which are also palm-sized places, more than 100 households, and a small village committee election can make up a battle for the US presidential election......

In this regard, Heifu can only complain......

"The temple demon is windy, and the king of the pool is eight!"

But Hefu doesn't want to care about this at all now, he has his own serious business to worry about.

……

Day after day, November is about to pass, and the first day of the lunar month is getting closer and closer, and Heifu's legal Q&A training at Yan Xu's house is getting deeper and deeper.

At this time, he also began to rejoice in his respectful attitude towards Yan Xu, because there were really many small traps in these laws and regulations, and if he just recited the original text without guidance, it was really possible to fall into it.

For example, when the law of theft is aimed at the crime of sliding doors and picking locks, it simply writes the sentence "抉籥 (yuè), should redeem 黥", but in practice, there are many judgments:

If the purpose of picking the lock is to steal, leaving without prie, or being caught without prie, it is also counted as a crime and should be ransomed.

If the purpose of the door key is not to steal, it is counted as prying if it has been opened, and it should be fined if it is not opened......

If it is an attempt, then whether the offender has subjective and intentional "desire" will become the criterion for sentencing.

Although Heifu has never figured out that the purpose of picking other people's locks is not to steal, what is he trying to do? Could it be that he came in and helped you check the water meter?

In short, as the question-and-answer exercise progressed, Haif became familiar with the rules little by little, and was not limited to memorizing the original text. His understanding of Qin's laws and regulations is no longer limited to the word "strict".

As an old official, Yan Zhen also has his own understanding of this.

He said, the government of the king is not in a hurry to thieves, what is a thief? Stealing goods is called theft, harming good people is called thieves.

Qin Law attaches great importance to thieves and thieves, and the punishment is extremely cruel.

In the inland counties and counties, the killing of people and goods has gradually decreased and even disappeared, and every night in ten miles and eight towns is as quiet as familiar sleep, and even the barking of dogs sounds so natural and lazy, if you can make this kind of life spread all over the world in Kyushu, this is the biggest royal government.

Heifu thought that in these years, the peaceful world that the common people understand is so simple, not so gorgeous, and there is not too much luxury.

Of course, it would have been better if Qin's rent had been lighter and the levy had been less.

But Heifu knew that this was impossible, their king was a man with great desires, and even if the world was unified, there would still be many great projects and expeditions one after another. It is impossible to be light on the rent, and the conscription will become heavier and heavier, until a roar from Daze Township shatters the world......

But those who are far away from the black husband, who are far away, who are good at the same time, who are good at the world, and who are poor are good to themselves, he is still only at the stage of being good to his own family.

Finally, by the end of the month, Heifu had also reached the standard of being a teacher, and Yan Zhen said that with his current proficiency in the law, it was enough to go to the county to be a scribe.

"The grace of the master, Heifu will never forget."

In the study of Yan's house, Heifu bowed again, showing that he was grateful to Yan Xu.

Although this Yan Zhen is a little more powerful, he is actually not a bad person, and he has been carefully taught these days, and what happened before and after the first day, Heifu treated it as if it had never happened.

At the same time, he also asked about the things that he had hidden in his heart for a long time, but had never asked.

"Dare to ask the master, if someone can donate some kind of utensils to the government, can make the rice twice the result with half the effort, is it counted as a meritorious service, can there be a reward?"