The pavilion chief is a petty official, equivalent to the township chief of later generations, or a little smaller. Although the official is not big, he is in charge of the eating, drinking and Lazar of the Li people, and he is a big official in the eyes of the people. These officials have one thing in common, that is, their families are relatively wealthy.

If a good person does this, he can benefit one party, and if a bad person does this, he will harm one party.

Since the destruction of the Yue Kingdom, the king of Yue has entered Wu, and the minister of literature has presided over the state affairs, and no taxes have been collected for three years, so naturally there is no money to pay salaries. But the pavilion chief did not resign, but continued to work.

The benefits of being an official are far higher than the salary. For example, when the state recruits soldiers, it can spend some money and let the poor replace their children as soldiers.

If you have money and status in a place, your days will be nourishing and luxurious, and the pavilion chief in the story has several women alone.

He is still an old man in his sixties, and when he saw that fifteen-year-old Meng Ji was a little beautiful, he forced Ji Yun to give her her daughter as a concubine to pay off the debt.

This story is not new, but when I met the king of Yue who returned to China, there are highlights.

When the day of welcoming relatives came, the pavilion chief took the carriage and horses and some family members to the small village where Meng Ji lived.

Stopping the car at the door of Meng Ji's house, the family stepped forward and sang loudly: "The pavilion master has come to greet his relatives, why is no one to greet him?" ”

I shouted several times, but no one answered. The family looked at the pavilion chief, and the pavilion chief waved his hand: "Go in and have a look." ”

The man pushed open the gate, entered the courtyard, and never came out again. The pavilion chief waited outside for a while, but when he didn't see the family coming out, he said to the other family: "It's really useless, you can go in and have a look." ”

The second family also went into the courtyard. The village is quiet, the dogs are sleeping, the chickens are foraging, and it's the same as usual. The pavilion chief waited for a while, but he still didn't see the two family members come out, and couldn't help but scold: "Hell, why don't you come out when you go in?" ”

He decided to go in and see it himself, this is to treat himself as a pavilion chief, go in and lose his temper to show him!

Pushing open the door, the courtyard was very quiet, no one was in sight, and there was no one in sight, and there was no one in sight. As he walked towards the hall, he said in a loud voice, "I say people, is there such a hospitality?" ”

Pushing the door of the hall, he was stunned, only to see a handsome young man sitting at the door, with an inviolable majesty on his cold face, and the two knees of the pavilion chief involuntarily weakened.

This person is naturally Fan Li.

Fan Li saw a fat old man come in, looked at his red face, and knew that he was eating very moist. The hair on the top of his head had all fallen out, and only a few hairs were hanging around him, and he couldn't comb his hair into a bun at all.

Seeing that his two family members were hiding obscenely on the side, the fat old man was angry and didn't fight anywhere: "Tell you to do something, how can you ......?"

"Shut up!" Jiang He shouted, "I don't kneel down when I see the general!" ”

Admiral? I have the impression that this seems to be a big official. The pavilion chief said, "Are you?" ”

Fan Li said: "I am Fan Li. ”

"Ahh The pavilion chief couldn't help but scream, saying that he didn't understand much about the general, and that Fan Li understood him too well, that was the biggest official under the king, and he knelt down as soon as his legs were weak.

Fan Li said coldly, "Are you the pavilion chief?" ”

The pavilion chief said, "Yes, I am." ”

Fan Li said: "Why are you here today?" ”

The pavilion chief said, "I...... I'm here to greet my wife, today is a good day for me to marry a concubine. ”

Fan Li thought, especially said that marriage was not free in ancient times, isn't this very free? If you like to marry as many wives as you like, you can marry as many wives as you like. You can't marry a little wife, that's because you don't have money and power.

Fan Li said: "Marry a concubine, who to marry?" ”

The pavilion chief said, "Marry ...... Marry Meng Ji. ”

"Got a marriage contract?"

"Yes. I know the law that you can't do anything without a contract. ”

"Show me the paperwork."

The pavilion chief took out a roll of bamboo slips from his arms and handed it to Fan Li, Fan Li opened it and saw that it was all seal inscriptions carved with a knife, it turned out that he could not recognize this kind of writing, but a crossing, let him know this ancient text.

After reading the contract, Fan Li sneered: "Ji Yun owes you two loads of food, and he can't afford to pay it back, so he will give your daughter to you as a concubine, and you will forgive his debts." Is that so? ”

"Yes...... That's right. ”

"How much grain did Ji Yun borrow from you?"

"Two buckets."

Fan Li slapped the table: "So it's become two loads?" ”

The pavilion chief looked at Fan Li's expression wrong. Hurriedly kowtowed: "That's interest, that's an adult with interest." ”

Fan Li said: "Two buckets have become two burdens, and your heart is too dark." Okay, let's not talk about that. ”

Fan Li turned to Meng Ji: "Are you willing to marry the pavilion chief as a concubine?" ”

Meng Ji was about to kneel down and reply. Fan Liyi raised his hand: "You stand and talk back." ”

Meng Ji lowered his head and said, "I don't want to." ”

Fan Li asked Ji Yun again: "Did you give your daughter to the pavilion chief as a concubine voluntarily?" ”

Ji Yun bowed and replied, "The minister is unwilling, it was forced by the pavilion chief." ”

"You!" The pavilion chief shouted. "You did it voluntarily, I didn't force you, the contract is proof."

Although Ji Yun is humble, what he should say. Or boldly say that people who have been soldiers are different after all, and said loudly: "You forced me to sign that contract." ”

Fan Li said: "Pavilion Chief, you are forced to marry, and you will be punished." ”

The pavilion chief panicked and kowtowed repeatedly: "My lord Mingjian, I didn't force him, he signed the marriage contract voluntarily." ”

Fan Li waved his hand: "Okay, let's not talk about this yet." Pavilion chief, are you Guigeng? ”

The pavilion chief said, "Lord Hui, I am twenty out of sixty this year. ”

Fan Li said: "Sixty-two years old, do you have a son and daughter?" ”

The pavilion chief said, "I have two sons and a daughter. ”

"How old are they?"

"One forty-four, one forty, one thirty-eight."

Fan Li nodded, paused and asked, "Do you have grandchildren and granddaughters?" ”

The pavilion chief said, "I have a lot of grandsons and granddaughters. ”

The pavilion chief muttered in his heart, he didn't know why the general was asking this.

Fan Li asked, and sighed in his heart, this Spring and Autumn era and his previous life in the 21st century marriage is the same freedom, eighty old men can marry granddaughters as wives. But this is the preserve of the rich. It's so nice to be rich. I grass!

Fan Li said: "Tell me how old is your youngest granddaughter?" ”

The pavilion chief said, "The youngest granddaughter is twenty years old. ”

Fan Li asked Meng Ji, "How old are you?" ”

Meng Ji said: "I am fifteen years old. ”

Fan Li said: "Pavilion Master, you are really good, you actually married a girl younger than your granddaughter as a concubine!" ”

The pavilion chief didn't know what to say, so he stammered for a long time and said, "My lord Mingjian, I'm ...... I have a contract! ”

"Bullshit!" Fan Li stood up and said loudly: "Your contract was forced to be signed by others, it's bullshit!" ”

He almost blurted out: "After the founding of New China, all unequal treaties signed by the Western powers were abolished, and the people were very happy." Can you say that New China does not have the spirit of contract? ”

But when I think about it, I have crossed over, and now I am the general of the Yue Kingdom. Now let's be a good general.

He sat down and said in a flat tone, "Pavilion Master, you have broken the law. The first sin is forced marriage. The second sin is to forcibly marry a girl who is too young to be a concubine. The third sin is usury. Together, these three sins are the sin of killing the head. ”

The pavilion chief collapsed suddenly, and cried and said, "My lord, I didn't force me to marry, it's okay to marry a young girl." It's okay to borrow money to earn interest. ”

Fan Li said: "It used to be okay, but now it can't, the first decree that our king wants to issue when he returns to China is that the old man can't marry a little girl as a wife!" ”