In an underground casino in Wannian County, Yongzhou, people come and go, lively and extraordinary, and the people who come here are mainly playing with the size and the canopy.

The two young men came to and Cai Ben are good friends, and they came to the casino together to try their luck. Let's take out a string of copper coins to bet big, and Cai Ben also took out a string of copper coins, but he didn't bet big but small.

The dealer picked up the cup and shook the dice, and then covered the table with a clang, opened the cup and saw that it was big, and shouted excitedly, and grabbed Cai Ben's copper coin and put it in front of him.

Cai Ben took out a string of copper coins again and wanted to catch up with the book, it seems that he bet small, and he also bet small, but he lost again.

Cai Ben's face elongated suddenly, more sad than his dead father, and said to himself: "Oops, I lost all the money I made from selling local chickens just now, and when I go back, my wife will let me kneel again!" ”

Come to and comfort him and say, "Don't worry, brother, look at me, I'll help you win it back!" After saying that, he bet big, and he won after the opening. and scream excitedly.

Cai Ben grabbed the copper coin and wanted to stuff it into his arms, so he grabbed it and said, "This is the money I won!" Cai Ben stammered: "Just now, you said, help me, help me win back!" ”

Lai Cao said: "Winning money is to be principal, and you have no capital, how can you win money?" Cai Ben was so angry that he couldn't speak. Come and him and say, "Okay, okay, this one is going to win, count it in!" ”

After speaking, he bet a handful. It turned out to be a loss. Cai Ben sighed and was very disappointed. and play a few more games, and they all won.

Coming to the pockets were full, he happily pulled Cai Ben out of the casino door, turned left and bought a few Hu cakes and a pot of turbid wine on the street for Cai Ben to eat.

Then, the two returned to Cai Ben's house together. Cai Ben's wife, Xiong Xiangchun, was cooking on a fire in the kitchen, and when she saw that Cai Ben didn't give her money, she asked him what about the copper money he used to sell local chickens?

Cai Ben couldn't answer with a squeak, so he came to Cao and said: "Sister-in-law, Brother Cai went to try his luck just now, but his luck was not good, sister-in-law is not strange!" He's also kind and wants to earn you more money. ”

Xiong Xiangchun was born with a bit of beauty, with long legs and a straight waist, a straight chest, walking with the wind, and a relatively high rate of turning back when he walked on the street. Cai Ben is a bit honest and honest, handsome, doing some small business, and living a life of male farmer and female weaver with her.

He also looks good, and he has sharp teeth, can speak, and will make people happy, and he is not married yet, so he goes to gamble in his spare time. He has a little meaning to Xiong Xiangchun, and Xiong Xiangchun also likes him to say something beautiful.

Xiong Xiangchun didn't receive the copper coin, he was originally angry, but when he heard it, his anger disappeared a little. She asked Cai Ben to cook, and she sat and rested on the side, talking and laughing with Laicao.

Xiong Xiangchun said: "Cai Ben is an honest man, you have to help him more." A man can be without a house, a carriage, or a copper coin for a while, but he cannot be unmotivated. If a man is not self-motivated, content with the status quo, and does not want to forge ahead, it is easy to be abandoned by society! ”

Lai Cao nodded yes and said, "An honest man also has the benefits of an honest man, he can bring a sense of security to his sister-in-law." ”

Xiong Xiangchun said disdainfully: "There is a sense of security in fart, I appreciate a man who is bold and resolute, Cai Ben is too indecisive in doing things, which is a manifestation of cowardice and incompetence." ”

"This guy is very lacking in flexibility, he will only follow the step-by-step, one-size-fits-all, too dull, will not improvise, let alone draw inferences, and it is impossible to be romantic."

"I now regret marrying an honest man very much, honest people can't eat at all in society, and when I see people, I can't speak, and I only make promises! Not only did my aura plummet, but I also lost my face! ”

Lai Cao kept comforting her, saying that he could bring her a relaxed and happy life, and make her life full of hope and romance.

Xiong Xiangchun praised him for coaxing people, his flexible mind, and his ability in all aspects was stronger than Cai Ben. The two of them eyebrows and eyebrows, eyebrows and flirts, and gradually developed a private relationship.

A few days later, Cai Ben came to Cao's house to play, and came to Cao to take out the utensils for playing the game of Pupu, plates, cups, horses, and arrows. Cai Ben exclaimed, "Where did you get this thing, brother?" "Take it and look at it carefully.

The plate is the size of half a table and is used to place gambling supplies and chips. The cup is the dice basin, which is used to shake the dice. The horse is a chip, and the arrow is a five-piece throwing tool made of wood, also known as a throw.

It is a more fun gambling game than betting on the size. Cai Ben was very interested in Pupu, so he played with Laicao. Lai Cao has already studied this game thoroughly, and Cai Ben is just a beginner, so after playing for a long time, the copper coins in Cai Ben's pocket were lost to Lai Cao.

Cai Ben was very unconvinced, and brought money to gamble, but he lost it all again, Cai Ben had no money to turn over the book, so he lent him money to play. After a few months like this, Cai Ben lost hundreds of thousands of copper coins.

didn't want to borrow money from him anymore, and ordered him to pay back the money as soon as possible, and then continue to play. Cai Ben was very sad and didn't know where to find money to pay off the debt.

Lai Cao said to him: "People do not stand without faith, and they are willing to gamble and lose!" Brother Cai, this debt must be repaid! Cai Ben sat on the seat and didn't say a word.

Lai Cao reminded him: "If you really don't have any money, you can pay off the valuable things at home!" ”

Cai Ben said: "It's not that my brother doesn't know, where is there anything valuable in my family?" If there is, as long as the brother likes it, he will use it to pay off the debt! ”

Lai Cao said: "Is this true? "Of course it's true, a gentleman's word, it's hard to chase a horse!" Cai Bendao.

Lai Cao said: "I only take a fancy to your lady, and I can use her to pay off hundreds of thousands of debts!" This is a good deal that is hard to find in the world, Brother Cai, don't miss the opportunity! ”

Cai himself was short-sighted, so he had to nod in agreement. So, I invited a sedan chair, came to Cai Ben's house to greet my relatives, and took Xiong Xiangchun back to my home.

Laicao and Xiong Xiangchun originally had a personal relationship, so they designed a bureau and bullied the honest man Cai Ben fiercely, so that he gave up his wife for nothing, and he didn't dare to make a sound!

But Xiong Xiangchun was already pregnant before passing the door, and after coming in to the house, she gave birth to a son, named Lai Junchen.

Who is Junchen's father? Except for Xiong Xiangchun, I'm afraid no one knows.

There are two possibilities: one is Cai Ben, because Xiong Xiangchun was originally his wife, and it is normal to be pregnant with him before passing the door. The second is to, because Xiong Xiangchun and Lai Cao had a personal affair before.

So it's okay for Junchen to call Cai Junchen. But as soon as this child was born and came into the world, he couldn't even figure out who his biological father was, which was quite pitiful.

If there are three worlds of cause and effect in the three-dimensional world, the hell judge sentences Xiong Xiangchun to the iceberg hell and the oil pot hell, which should be a sure thing.

The so-called close to Zhu is red, close to ink is black, Lai Junchen was born in such a family, and he has been infected with the vice of gambling since he was a child.

The villagers all say that Junchen is a sinister, capricious, treacherous and treacherous evil spirit, sticking like carrion, where and where rotten.

He has lived in Wannian County, Yongzhou for more than 20 years, he has not studied hard, he can't take the township examination, he can't pass the imperial examination to become an official, he hasn't done business well to make money, and he is not willing to work honestly to earn money, so he has never asked for a wife.

He spent his days fooling around with a group of gangsters, bullying the honest people in the township, relying on gambling and all kinds of tricks and extortion to make money, eating and drinking, and becoming a member of the hooligans.

Once, Lingsi followed Cui Jiajing, a businessman in the township, to a city and state in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, thousands of miles away, to learn to do business. He mixed fake and shoddy goods into high-quality goods, and indiscriminately filled them in order to make huge profits.

When the businessman Cui Jiajing learned the truth, he was very angry, because this had seriously damaged his business reputation, and reputation was something more valuable than gold.

Cui Jiajing dismissed Junchen from his business team in the future, let him go wherever he wants, and never hand him over to do business again, saying that he is not a business material!

Lai Junchen received a severance pay, but he did not take the money to escape back to his hometown to live, but took the money to enter a gambling house in Hezhou and started his familiar old business.

His gambling skills are very superb compared to the people in Hezhou, so he is very prosperous in the gambling house, wins a lot of money, drinks wine and eats meat every day, and does not have to worry about lack of money.

One day, he was shopping and strolling on Hezhou Street, and suddenly saw a notice posted on the city wall in the distance, and many people gathered around to talk about it.

He squeezed over to take a look, it turned out to be a notice issued by the Empress Wu introducing the use and use of the copper kuang, he carefully looked at the end from the beginning, and was very interested in the clause encouraging the people to whistleblow, and firmly remembered the word whistleblower.

The boss of the gambling house noticed the hanging wire of Lai Junchen, and found that he was very skilled in betting on the size and playing with the cocoon, and the probability of betting was also very high, and his mind was very flexible, and he was a material that could be made, so he invited him to join the gang and become a banker.

After Lai Junchen became a banker, he made a lot of money for the boss, but he was not satisfied with the salary paid by the boss, he also wanted to earn more money. How do you earn it?

He colludes with a well-played gambler, making hands and feet on cups and dice to make them magnetic, and then when he shakes them, he can shake them as much as he wants. The gambler looked at his eyes and bet on the size of the win, and the winning money was divided in half.

started to make a lot of money, but after doing too much, he was discovered by someone with a heart, accused him of gambling, and sent him to the government for punishment. He Zhou Law Cao Yu Liansheng convicted him and put him in prison.

He was not honest in prison, and with his unbridled imagination, he indiscriminately whistleblower and sow discord. He vividly denounced to the prison officials that Yu Liansheng, the convicted lawyer, had embezzled and accepted bribes.

The jailer scoffed and said, "You kid be honest, what you say is obviously chasing after the wind, and there is not even a shadow at all, how can people believe it?" ”

Lai Junchen hurriedly said: "What I said is true, brother! I want to tell the truth, Yu Liansheng asked me for a bribe, but I didn't give it to him, so he was sent to prison! I was wronged! ”

The jailer was not in the mood to listen to his nonsense, and turned away. Lai Junchen is still yelling there, making up more stories of Fa Cao's corruption and bribery.

While Lai Junchen was suffering in prison, Li Xu, the king of Hezhou Assassin and Dongping County, was reading the ten volumes of "Shangshu Jie Miao" written by his teacher Wang Yuangan.

Li Xu took a sip of the white fungus soup with candied dates, lotus rice, and continued to read. The clerk sent a letter, and Li Xu looked at it, and it turned out to be written by his good friend Yu Zhongcheng.

Yu Zhongcheng served in Mianzhou, and a few days ago, he climbed the Yuewang Tower on the top of the Turtle Mountain in Mianzhou to drink wine to the wind, chanted poems, and then wrote poems on a letter and sent them.

Li Xu is the eldest son of Li Shen, the king of Ji, when he was young, he also climbed the Yue Wang Tower, this building was built by his eight Boyue King Li Zhen when he served as the assassin of Mianzhou, the building is ten zhang high, one zhang higher than the Tengwang Pavilion. Climb this building, overlooking the eight directions, there is a feeling of swallowing mountains and rivers.

After reading the letter, Li continued to feel a lot of emotion, and also recited a poem and wrote a reply. Poetry Cloud:

In the early years, I climbed this building, and I couldn't think about it.

The land is two thousand miles away, and it will be forty autumns.

There are many lost roads, and Hua Hao is in vain.

Although poetry and wine can be used, why do you have to travel together.

The next day, Li Xu went to the state capital to work, and after handling official business, he began to record prisoners again. Recording prisoners means patrolling prisons from time to time to record the situation of detainees, so as to prevent the occurrence of unjust imprisonment and drowning.

As soon as Li Xu entered the prison, he heard someone shouting loudly and asking the jailer what was going on. The jailer replied, "Envoy, this prisoner is a little crazy, and he loves to talk nonsense, so just ignore it!" ”

Li Xu's face sank and said, "Bring it here!" Then he sat down at the back of the desk, slapped the shocking wood, and the officials on both sides shouted: "Mighty!" "The jailer came and brought Junchen to kneel.

Lai Junchen shouted: "Wronged, make the king great!" Li Xu shouted: "What are the grievances, take your time, this official will make the decision for you!" ”

Lai Junchen said loudly: "Fa Cao Yu Liansheng embezzled and accepted bribes, the crime is unforgivable, he asked me for a bribe, I didn't give it to him, so he was sent to prison!" I was wronged! ”

Li Xu asked Fa Cao Yu Liansheng to come to court to confront him in person, exposing Lai Junchen's lies, and Lai Junchen could not provide other evidence of Yu Liansheng's corruption and bribery, such as who else gave Yu Liansheng a red envelope.

He can only say it and make up some stories, Li Xu also thinks it is fake after hearing it, but he still keeps talking nonsense, Li Xu slapped the shocked wood and said: "You are full of nonsense, step down!" ”

Lai Junchen was unexpectedly uninterested, and said loudly: "I want to tell the truth, I want to go to the god capital to tell the truth." Li Xu said angrily: "What do you want to tell?" Just tell the officer. ”

Lai Junchen said: "If the king does not make decisions for me, I will go to the god capital to report to the Empress Wu." Empress Wu issued a proclamation saying that as long as he was a self-proclaimed informer, officials from all over the country were not allowed to ask and obstruct him, and that he should be provided with a post horse official house along the road, and that he should be provided with free meals for Wupin officials, so that he could arrive in Luoyang smoothly to submit a letter to Tongkuang. ”

"I'm going to go to the Divine Capital now to tell the truth, so that the king still won't let me out, and provide me with a stagecoach and a meal for the five-grade officials? Does the envoy want to resist and disobey? ”

Li Xu, as the Li Tang clan, was worried about the advance of the Empress Wu, but unexpectedly, Junchen dared to take the Empress Wu's proclamation as an arrow, which violated the taboo in his heart, so he was furious.

Li Xu was shocked and shouted: "The prisoners in the hall are unscrupulous, and the things they say are all made up, framing kindness, and treacherous impermanence!" Come on, beat him to a hundred boards! ”

The officials dragged him out of the hall, fell to the ground, and beat him with their rods a hundred times, until he made a pig cry, and finally his throat became hoarse, and they thought he was dead, but he came back to life.

Lai Junchen was thrown back into the prison cell, his life was really big, and after a period of pain, he slowly got better again.

After being beaten this time, Lai Junchen didn't dare to make false accusations for a long time, and he was much more honest. A year later, Li continued to move to Xuzhou Assassin History.

After the Boyu Rebellion, Li Chong, the king of Langya, and Li Zhen, the king of Yue, were both killed, and Li Shen, the king of Ji, also received the emperor's seal forged by Li Chong, so he was punished by Zhulian and exiled from death, and died in Puzhou on the way.

In the autumn of the first year of Yongchang, Li Shen's eldest son, Li Xu, the king of Dongping County, was also forced to commit suicide by the cool officials, and the other four sons were also killed, and their families were exiled to Lingnan.

In the spring of the first year of Zaichu, the news of the killing of Li Xu and other Li Tang clans spread throughout the Tang Kingdom, and Lai Junchen also heard about it in Hezhou. He was ecstatic and immediately used his imagination to concoct a wonderful story.

Then he announced to the public that he was going to Luoyang to report and expose the crime of Li Xu, the king of Dongping County.

At that time, the Li Tang clan was completely killed, and the proclamation of the Empress Wu was also a household name, so the state officials did not dare to slack off, and immediately provided stagecoaches and official houses to informants such as Lai Junchen in accordance with the requirements of the proclamation, and provided free meals for five-grade officials, so that they could arrive in Luoyang smoothly to submit the book.

Lai Junchen threw his whistleblower letter into the west of Tongkuang, and told Du Yuan, the internal envoy of the guard's registration, that he had grievances to complain, and it was the Li Tang clan that harmed him.

Du Yuan said happily: "The Li Tang clan is the current outlet and hot topic, you voted right." You must know that pigs can fly in the wind, as long as they are in the wind, even farmers, fishermen, and woodcutters can be personally summoned by Her Majesty the Virgin God Emperor! ”

Lai Junchen happily shook Du Yuan's hand and said, "Thank you for informing me, if you really get the summons of Her Majesty the Holy Mother and the Emperor and get a reward, you will definitely be indispensable!" ”

At this time, it was already the early summer season, and Lai Junchen lived for free in the guest house arranged by the government, and ate the meals of the five officials every day, which was very pleasant and comfortable.

A few days later, Du Yuan came to the guest house to inform him to see him. Lai Junchen was overjoyed, and he deliberately dressed up carefully, and his overall appearance looked chic and magnificent. He was thirty-nine years old.

Lai Junchen followed Du Yuan into the palace, the first time he entered the splendid palace, he was very surprised, he came to the court, and saw the majesty of the five battles in front of the palace.

Lai Junchen said loudly: "The grass people sued Li Xu, the king of Dongping County, for not distinguishing between right and wrong, not distinguishing between black and white, and wronging the grass people!" ”

Our Lady and the Emperor said in a loud voice, "How did I wronged you? ”

Lai Junchen replied: "The grass people once told Li Xu, and it was about the conspiracy and rebellion of Li Chong in Bozhou and Li Zhen in Yuzhou, if Li Xu can abide by the notice issued by His Majesty and send the grass people to the divine capital to report to His Majesty as soon as possible, Your Majesty will be able to know the rebellion of the kings of Li Tang in advance, and they will be wiped out without waiting for Bozhou and Yuzhou to raise troops!" ”

Our Lady of God nodded and applauded. Lai Junchen continued: "It's a pity that Li Xu didn't listen to the grass people's words, nor did he abide by the proclamation issued by His Majesty, but thought that the grass people made something out of nothing, and punished the grass people with a hundred sticks!" beat the grass people's buttocks and lay on the bed for more than three months! ”

Our Lady Divine Emperor laughed and said, "Hehe, you have suffered! Lai Junchen said: "It's nothing that the grass people have been wronged, but the grass people can't report the rebellion of the kings of Li Tang to Your Majesty in time, but the sin is very great, and the grass people still regret it deeply!" ”

The Holy Mother Divine Emperor nodded in approval and said, "Not only are you extremely intelligent, but you are also very loyal to me, and you have a loyal heart!" It's rare to find a talent like you who is willing to sacrifice your life to tell the truth, and I will give you a score of 95 in this interview! Appoint you as the Servant of the Imperial Physician Shiga Asasan Doctor. ”

Lai Junchen was happy in his heart, he didn't expect that he could become a court official without taking the imperial examination, and he was immediately awarded an official by the common people as soon as he was received, eliminating many links and procedures.

Lai Junchen bowed to the ground and shouted: "The minister is terrified, thank Your Majesty the Holy Mother and Emperor!" Long live Her Majesty the Holy Mother and Emperor, long live, long live! ”

The Holy Mother and Emperor smiled and said, "Calm down, from now on, you will be a truly handsome courtier!" ”

Our Lady God and Emperor know the affairs of the world and read countless people, what kind of people have not seen it? As soon as she heard it, she knew that this person was a bad person, but he was also the person she needed.

Because many of the people who participated in the imperial examination could not do things for her, but often criticized her with the Confucian Three Rites, she directly selected talents from the whistleblowers who could serve her.

And Junchen also completed the counterattack of the hanging silk through informing. The post of serving the imperial history belongs to the Taiwan Yuan, and is ordered by the imperial history Zhongcheng, responsible for the impeachment of the illegal acts of the court officials, undertaking the implementation of the case, suppressing the rebellion and other tasks, and often directly pointing out the mistakes of high-ranking officials, so it is also called embroidered clothes and direct fingers.

Lai Junchen took this position, like a fish in water, and began to study hard. He pushed the prisoners together with Suo Yuanli in the Luozhou Pastoral Hospital, and because of his deep scheming and intelligent studiousness, he quickly learned Suo Yuanli's torture to extract confessions, torture tricks, and melon vine implication techniques.

Shi Lai Junchen's interrogation of the case was vigorous and resolute, and in just two months, thousands of "criminals" were arrested, so that the major prisons in Shendu were overcrowded.

The cool official patriarch and the Persian Suo Yuanli was gradually hollowed out by him.

Nayan Pei Judao, who stayed in Chang'an, was the father-in-law of Emperor Li Hong, who had previously served as a general of Zuo Jinwu to defend Li Zhi. On the occasion of the Wu Zhou Revolution, he stood on the side of the Li Tang clan against the Holy Mother God Emperor as emperor.

The Holy Mother God Emperor handed over the case to Lai Junchen to handle, and Lai Junchen immediately sent his cronies to fabricate charges, and then led troops to arrest Pei Judao and throw him into prison.

Arrange the flail and the anti-torture instrument on the ground, take Pei Judao to see it, and say: "This is the torture instrument used to interrogate prisoners!" Do you recruit or not? ”

When Pei Judao saw this terrible flail, he was so frightened that he flew over, begged for mercy, and confessed. Lai Junchen implicated Shangshu Zuocheng Zhang Xinglian and arrested him.

A month before the Emperor was proclaimed emperor, he killed Zhang Xinglian, the monk of Pei Judao, and cleared the obstacles for the smooth accession of the Holy Mother to the throne.