Chapter 47: Arrested
"You fight against the wild boar, follow me, and when you get to the place, the money will naturally be given to you." The shopkeeper-looking guest officer said to Fang Jing.
Fang Jing didn't doubt him, and hugged his hand at the guest officer who looked like a scribe just now to apologize, and the wild boar followed the guest officer who looked like a shopkeeper to another street, and there were many people behind him to watch the excitement.
In front of a three-storey wooden building, it was a wine shop, of course, a restaurant, and it also included accommodation, Fang Jing's eyes looked into the store, there were quite a lot of people, basically any style of people, scribes, merchants, and soldiers dressed up, but ordinary people would not enter this kind of restaurant to eat and drink, and ordinary people did not have so much money to come in to consume.
Fang Jing knew that it was better not to go in first, so he put down the wild boar, and it was on the edge of the restaurant, and the person who looked like the shopkeeper just now saw Fang Jing put the wild boar on the edge of the restaurant and stopped, and hurriedly walked over.
"Why don't you go? Hurry up and follow me inside. The shopkeeper-like man opened his mouth and said to Fang Jing in a commanding tone.
"Guest officer, I just said that I have a hand of money and a hand of goods, and now it has arrived at the place, you see?" Fang Jing didn't want to enter the restaurant, not because she was afraid, but because she felt that a transaction had to be a transaction.
"Are you still afraid that I won't give you money? You resist first. "The shopkeeper doesn't think that Fang Jing can't resist, it is estimated that he is afraid that he will not give money, and he has calculated in his heart that he can only give half of the money to this child at most, and when he comes to his own territory, who can take me?
"Guest officer, it's not that I don't believe you, when I came, the elders in the family said that they wanted me to have money and goods, and I didn't dare to disobey the words of the elders." Fang Jing casually found an excuse and said, hoping that it would still be a hand of money and a hand of goods.
"Okay, I'll ask someone to get you the money." The shopkeeper-like man entered the restaurant, called the men inside to carry two baskets of copper coins out, put them in front of Fang Jing, and instructed the four men to prepare to carry the wild boar.
"Wait a minute, guest officer, my wild boar just said that he was going to sell sixty yuan, and the copper coins in your two baskets are only thirty yuan, is the guest officer deceiving me?" Fang Jing is not stupid, two baskets of copper coins are obviously only thirty yuan, Fang Jing knows the weight and general situation of the copper coins.
"When did I lie to you, when did I say sixty yuan, I always said twenty yuan, see if you fight the wild boar here, I will give you ten more money, don't spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain." What the shopkeeper said, it was really angry Fang Jing, to be so shameless, this is no longer a problem with character, it is a problem with the whole person.
"Since this is the case, then I won't sell it to you." Fang Jing squatted down to resist the wild boar and wanted to stay away from this liar restaurant.
"What? Said a good deal, you said you would sell it if you didn't sell it? When what is this place? Come when you want, go when you want? Aren't you afraid that I'll call the yacha to catch you in? The shopkeeper watched Fang Jing resist the wild boar and want to leave, although he had the strength to frighten Fang Jing, but he was also fearless, and instructed the guy to block Fang Jing's way.
"This shopkeeper, what? Do you want to stop me and rob me of my boar? Aren't you afraid that I will sue the official? "Although Fang Jing doesn't know how the official messenger is, he thinks that the official messenger should also talk about the law and evidence.
"Haha, you're going to sue the official? I'm really not afraid that you will sue the official, you have to ask me to buy your wild boar for sixty times, you are buying and selling, right? Go, and call the yacha. The shopkeeper finished speaking to one of his men.
In less than half an hour, five yacha came over, and without asking about the situation, they came over to surround Fang Jing, Fang Jing resisted the wild boar on his body, he was very speechless for these yacha, you don't understand anything, just surround me, are you going to have a big battle with me for 800 rounds?
"Everyone, why do you want to surround me, I'm just a wild boar seller, this shopkeeper tricked me into coming here, and now I don't want to buy this wild boar at the price of sixty yuan at the time, of course I don't want to, I'm ready to leave if I don't sell it, this shopkeeper stopped me, and called you over, you guys want to call the shots for me, many people here have heard it." Fang Jing put down the wild boar and explained the situation to the five yachas, hoping that these five yacha would make decisions for themselves.
"Don't quibble, you have to sell this wild boar to me, so I asked someone to send it." The shopkeeper doesn't care how many people hear it, and how many people on the side hear it, and this is his territory.
"Take him down, and hand him over to the county government for questioning later." One of the yacha said to his companion.
The five messengers immediately took the thick hemp rope and approached Fang Jing to tie up Fang Jing, Fang Jing was stunned, this is the yacha of this era? How can this be fair and notarized? said that the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, that everyone lived and worked in peace and contentment, that the door of the house was open for 30 days and that no thieves would be seen, and that the businessmen who said that they were fair, and that I, a flat-headed person, were arrested like this?
The officials pressed Fang Jing to the county government side room, which was where the county lieutenant worked, and when he came to the side room, Fang Jing looked at the officials sitting at the main table and was also curious, what the officials of the Tang Dynasty looked like this? Oh, let's just bring a simple head, an ordinary person wearing a brocade robe, at most, the complexion and complexion are better than others, clean and white.
"Who's in the hall? What's the matter? Come on. The county lieutenant asked.
"Yu County Lieutenant, I am Zhao Pu, the shopkeeper of Lingyue Building, today I saw him selling a wild boar of two or three hundred catties on the main street, so I agreed with him to pay twenty yuan, and then he resisted the wild boar to my restaurant and then paid, but after arriving at the restaurant, this child saw that my restaurant was quite a guest, and then asked me for sixty yuan, of course I didn't want to, but this child said that you have to give if you don't give it, so he threw the wild boar at the door of my restaurant, I was not angry with this child's behavior, so I didn't want to give him sixty yuan, so I invited the yacha to go." The shopkeeper's upside down rake, making Fang Jing speechless when he heard it, this is already shameless to the extreme, isn't there a good thing that can't be opened in this Tang Dynasty?
"What about you? What the shopkeeper said is the truth? The county lieutenant asked Fang Jing.
"Yu County Lieutenant, I was originally a native of Fangjia Village, Xiaohe Town, named Fang Jing, sixty-one men in Fangjia Village followed the King of Qin to fight, only nine people came back with missing hands and legs, my father also died in battle, and my family has no adults, so I had to go into the mountains to hunt, today I hunted a wild boar of 700 catties, thinking of coming to the county to sell, exchange more copper coins, exchange more grain back to Fangjia Village, but when I went to the county town to sell, the shopkeeper asked me how much, I said sixty yuan, but he didn't want to, there was a man who looked like a scribe, When he said that he was willing to pay 60 yuan to buy my wild boar, but the shopkeeper said that I was not allowed to sell it to the scribe, and I also asked the shopkeeper that if he was willing to spend 60 yuan to buy my wild boar, we would have one hand of money and one hand, but in the end after arriving at his restaurant, he only gave me 30 yuan, of course I was unwilling, so I wanted to fight the wild boar to change places and find someone who was willing to spend 60 yuan to buy my wild boar, but this black-hearted merchant shopkeeper actually stopped me from leaving, and called the yacha to come over. Fang Jing had no choice but to state the facts, hoping that this official would be able to handle the case.
At this moment, a middle-aged man approached the county lieutenant and said something in his ear, at first he was talking about Fangjia Village, but then Fang Jing didn't open his scanning ear anymore to listen.
"You both have different opinions, and I can't tell where the messenger is. How big is the wild boar, whether it is two or three hundred catties or seven hundred catties up, and it comes truthfully. The county lieutenant asked the yacha.
"Back to the county lieutenant, the wild boar is big, it's still alive, its mouth and legs are tied, and it can't be as much as seven hundred catties." One of the officials sent back to the county lieutenant.
"What an unscrupulous shopkeeper of Lingyue Building, you must want to be greedy for this young man's wild boar, since the wild boar up to seven hundred catties is said to be two or three hundred catties, the scribe that the young man said is my second brother, my second brother heard less said that the wild boar's stomach can support people's stomachs, so he said that he wanted to buy the wild boar, since you are an unscrupulous businessman, you still want to buy and sell, so deceive people, do not abide by the law, come on, give me forty rods, and confiscate fifty yuan of ink money, in order to show the justice of my Tang law." The county lieutenant no longer listened to what the shopkeeper said, and directly came to judge the case and sentence, the shopkeeper said that he was wronged at first, until he later told him to spare his life, and then directly stated that he wanted to hack Fang Jing's wild boar.
The yacha does not listen to the shopkeeper, only listens to the county lieutenant's hair, drags the shopkeeper to the side, presses on the ground and beats, until the buttocks and waist, and finally beats the flesh and blood, although the life is still there, but it is estimated that it has to be raised for half a year, these yacha are very heavy, and they do not beat the shopkeeper as a person at all.
The guys in Lingyue Building finally carried a lot of copper coins, paid the fine, and carried the shopkeeper back, but the county lieutenant left Fang Jing and just looked at it, and didn't speak or ask questions in the middle.
It wasn't until the scribe who had just asked Jing to buy the wild boar on the main street came in that he opened his mouth to ask Fang Jing a question.
"You hunted that wild boar? Although I haven't seen how big the 700-pound wild boar is, I think you are just a teenager, how did you hunt this wild boar? The county lieutenant asked Fang Jing.
"When I go back to the county lieutenant, in fact, the main reason is that I run fast and have a lot of strength, so when I meet a wild boar in the woods, I chase it and hold it, and when I catch up, I hold it, and after I press it, I just tie it up." Fang Jing didn't want to tell the county lieutenant truthfully that he was not a county lieutenant, and felt that it was better to use some of his abilities to catch wild boars in order to make them scruples, don't save another prison sentence, then they would be unjustly killed.
"I heard you say that you run fast and have great strength, I believe that if you can fight wild boars in Fangjia Village, Xiaohe Town, and come to the county seat, it is not something ordinary people can do, you are a good boy." After the county lieutenant got the reply, he also sighed, although he felt that the strength of the young man in front of him could resist seven hundred catties, but he had not seen it.
"I heard what you just said about Fangjia Village, I know, I also served in the army, and I am also very clear about the things in the battle array, after a battle, there are very few people who can survive, and you Fangjia Village sixty-one people went out to fight, and nine people came back, it is a great luck, now there are few wars, and it is better to take care of the fields in the future, and the deceased have passed, so there is no need to worry." The county lieutenant comforted Fang Jing, although he didn't understand very well, but Fang Jing could only choose to listen, but whether he could listen or not, it was Fang Jing's own business.
"Lieutenant Xie." Fang Jing had to be grateful.
"Sell the wild boar you sold to me, I will ask my second brother to give you copper coins later, and my second brother is also to blame for this matter, and please don't blame him." The county lieutenant finally bought the wild boar and told him about the situation.
"County Lieutenant Xie, don't dare, don't dare." After Fang Jing finished replying, he was sent out, standing not far from the left of the county office, waiting for the second brother of the county lieutenant to send the wild boar money, although he didn't know where his wild boar went, whether it was still there in the Lingyue Building, or had it been carried away by the yacha.
A quarter of an hour later, the second brother of the county lieutenant came over, and a few people behind him carried four baskets of copper coins, and after completing the settlement with Fang Jing, he turned around and left, without saying a word.