Cao Fangcheng said with trepidation: "I don't dare to be the county respecter, but the descendants of this pagoda temple know it." A few months ago, Gu Dianshi introduced that Sun Zitang was quite effective, and Xia Guan also accompanied Xia Guan's concubine to live for one night, and he didn't want to come back and had good news after a month. ”

As soon as he talked about his concubine being pregnant with a child, Cao Fang's face was suddenly full of smiles, he really wanted a son, but unfortunately he only had two daughters with his wife when he was young, and when he wanted to have a child, his wife was old again, helplessly, in order to inherit the Cao family, his wife had to agree to Cao Fang to accept a concubine.

Zhao Yan glanced at Cao Fang strangely, but he didn't say anything, only asked: "It seems that Master Cao has a good relationship with Gu Dianshi on weekdays, so Master Cao stayed in the temple overnight?" ”

Cao Fang felt that the questions asked by Zhao Yan were very strange, he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Zhao Yan's gourd, but when Zhao Yan was anxious to have a child, he said in detail: "Exactly." Generally, couples who go to seek children, if they are far away, will live in the pagoda temple and fast for seven days, and then they will stay in the clean room behind the descendants' hall, and those who live in the city not far from the pagoda temple will go home to fast, and the lower officials will go to the pagoda temple with their concubines to stay at the pagoda temple after fasting at home for seven days.

That night, the concubine of the lower official lived in the inner room, and the lower official lived in the outer room, and there was nothing to do all night, and he returned to the city early the next morning. On the way back, the concubine of the lower official said that the night before he dreamed that the god man sent a child, and the god man gave him a seed elixir, and then warned her that there are no absolutes in the world, if you want to be foolproof, it is best to go and stay for another night next month, who knows that if you don't wait to go again, the doctor will diagnose the happy pulse. ”

Seeing Cao Fang's elated look, Zhao Yan couldn't help but ask, "Did Master Cao notice anything wrong?" ”

Cao Fang was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and said: "If it is inappropriate, it is not inappropriate, it is just a little weird, the pagoda temple will take a look at the couple who are seeking children, and the woman must be young and disease-free, so that she is allowed to stay overnight behind the descendant hall." Xia Guan later thought about it, this woman is difficult to give birth when she is old, and if she gives birth after illness, it will be detrimental to future generations, so the rules of this pagoda temple also make sense. ”

Cao Fang left inexplicably, and Zhao Yan called the Zhao Yin brothers over after seeing Cao Fang leave.

"How's your kung fu?"

Brother Zhao Yin said: "Childe, my two brothers are not good at martial arts, and one person can only deal with three or two people, but if we join forces to fight the enemy, the two of us can at least deal with seven or eight ordinary people." ”

Zhao Yan smiled: "That's enough." Tomorrow, let Xiao Jiu take the two of you brothers to the Pagoda Temple for a spin during the day, and you will explore the path for me at night. ”

The next morning, Zhao Yin and the brothers followed Zhao Jiu to the inside and outside of the pagoda temple for a turn, and at the third watch in the evening, the two changed into black clothes, and at Zhao Yan's suggestion, they covered their faces with a black scarf, and then walked out from the back door of the county office.

Zhao Yan waited from the third watch to the fifth watch in the room, and when he was sleepy, the Zhao Yin brothers finally came back.

Zhao Yin returned the token to Zhao Yan for going out of the city at night, and said: "Childe, after the two of us sneaked into the pagoda temple, we went directly to the clean room behind the descendant hall, and there was no couple who asked for a child to stay tonight, and after the two of us went in, we searched several times inside and out, and finally found a secret passage under the bed in the clean room, but I don't know where the secret passage leads, and we didn't dare to go down to investigate, and then searched some corners, and found nothing else, so we came back." ”

Zhao Yan slapped the table, and finally straightened out this begging scam in his heart, but there are nearly 100 monks in the pagoda temple, and there are only twenty or thirty servants under him, if you want to catch all the fake monks who deceive people like this, it is better to find more people, and this fake monk does not know how many good women have been raped in the name of sending children, and there has been no incident for so many years, will there be anyone in the county who is angry with them? To be on the safe side, it's best to block the news from the county first, lest the matter be revealed and someone jumps over the wall in a hurry.

The plan has been decided, Zhao Yan asked the few people present to keep it secret, and then went back to the house to rest.

When the sky was slightly bright, Zhao Yan called Zhao Gou and Zhao Yi, and then handed a letter to Zhao Gou, and instructed: "Taking advantage of the small number of people at this time, you and Zhao Yi go to the state city to hand over the letter to Yuan Zhizhou...... Don't make a noise either, just hurry back first. ”

Zhao Yan called Zhao Gou aside again and taught him a lot of words, and finally told Zhao Yi to protect Zhao Gou, and then let the two of them leave.

The road from Xinning County to Wugang Prefecture is mostly mountainous, even if it starts early in the morning, it will not stop in the middle, and when Zhao Gou and the two of them arrive in the state city, it will be nearly late afternoon and evening, if everything goes well, tomorrow night at the earliest, and at the latest during the day after tomorrow, hundreds of soldiers from the Chengbu Inspection Division should arrive.

Although there are a lot of monks in the pagoda temple, they are all ordinary people on the surface, if they are changed to another county to do this, they may only mobilize the officials in Xinning County, and then gather some strong men to arrest people, and Zhao Yan thinks about things a little too much, and in order to be foolproof, he will let Zhao Gou a few people

After Zhao Gou and the others left, Zhao Yan asked Zhao Jiu to call Wang Shuang, the head catcher of the county government, and he wanted to probe the tone of this king to see what kind of person he was.

There are three classes of officials in the county government, namely the soap class, the fast class, and the Zhuang class. In addition to playing the honor guard for the county, the soap class will also stand on both sides of the public court to be responsible for scaring and punishing the prisoners when the county is trying the case, and the strong class belongs to the strong men who are recruited through the conscription, and they usually do chores in the county office, and they will also assist in defending the city in wartime.

Wang Shuang is now thirty-two, just in the prime of life, as a head catcher, in addition to knowing some punches and kicks, he can also read and write.

The head catcher is the leader of the third class of servants, usually has a lot of trivial affairs, Wang Shuang is rare to be idle today, is sitting in his duty room and chatting with one of his subordinates to drink tea and chat, after hearing Zhao Yan's call, he didn't dare to slack off, put down the tea cup and hurried over.

"The villain has seen the big man, I don't know what the big man called the villain to come and order?" Although the head catcher is the leader of the third class of officials, there is no difference between his status and ordinary officials, if it is not in line with the mind of the county, as long as the county can be replaced with a word.

Zhao Yan now has a city government, he looked at Wang Shuang with a smile and said, "Wang Zhutou, please sit down, this official heard that you are not from Xinning County?" ”

Wang Shuang sat next to the chair with half of his buttocks, and replied when he heard the words: "I don't dare to hide it from the lord, the villain is from Yanzhou Mansion in Shandong, and he is the same township as the predecessor Tian Zhi County. Tian Zhixian saw that the villain knew some fists and feet, and knew how to read, and he was also a fellow villager, so he promoted the villain to be the head catcher of the county. ”

Zhao Yan continued to ask with interest: "Since Tian Zhixian has the grace of supporting you, why don't you return to your hometown with him when he leaves, is it because you are greedy for the position of this head catcher?" ”

Wang Shuang didn't want to leave a bad impression of Zhao Yan ungrateful, he hurriedly slipped from the chair and knelt on the ground, and defended himself with a pale face: "The lord misunderstood, the villain also wanted to return to his hometown with Tian Zhixian at that time, but the villain has started a family here in Xinning County over the years, Tian Zhixian has no shortage of followers, and he can't bear the villain's family to suffer from bumps with the villain, so he persuaded the villain to simply take root here, the villain thought that he had no relatives in Shandong, and a pair of children were young and frail. If he was afraid of an accident due to the long-distance bumps, he agreed in a daze. ”

Zhao Yanxin said that this Wang Zhutou seems to have overreacted, didn't he really respond to that sentence, the bolder he is, the younger he is?

"I see, Wang Zhutou doesn't have to be like this, the official is just asking casually, hurry up."

Wang Shuang stood up from the ground slightly embarrassed, but refused to sit down again.

Zhao Yanxin said in his heart that the previous Tian Zhixian was afraid that his majesty was extremely strict, otherwise the officials of Xinning County might not have treated him so respectfully or even fearfully, but this is not a bad thing, but it saved him a lot of time and energy to train his subordinates.

Wang Shuang looked at the young magistrate in front of him sitting there pondering, and didn't know what he was thinking, his mind turned, and he felt that there was a good opportunity in front of him, this young magistrate had just taken office for a few days, and he didn't know much about the affairs of the county, although he was just a head catcher who didn't enter the stream, but he was barely a head snake, as long as he showed his intention to take refuge, he would find an opportunity to show some ability in the future, and he might not be able to become the henchman of this young magistrate, but simply taking refuge could not show his sincerity, and he had to have a name to do it.

"Sir." Seeing that Zhao Yan turned his gaze to himself, Wang Shuang's body suddenly bent a little more, and continued: "The villain suddenly remembered one thing, this matter is related to Gu Dianshi. ”

"Oh?" Zhao Yan cheered up when he heard this, the classic history Gu Yuan car owner is in charge of public security, grain and horses, and warehouses in Xinning County, and his authority is not smaller than that of Cao Fang, the main bookkeeper, although Wang Shuang, the head catcher, belongs directly to the county, but if there is anything usual, it will only be reported to Gu Yuanche for processing, and only when there is a major event that cannot be handled will the county be informed.

Although Gu Yanche was respectful when facing Zhao Yan, he was neither humble nor arrogant, and rarely spoke, giving people a deep and introverted feeling, Zhao Yan had no opinion on him, but he felt that he might not be good at words, but as long as he could fulfill his duties, it was nothing.

"Wang Zhutou, please speak." According to Zhao Yan's initial thoughts, the head catcher is in charge of the third class of officials, and he has the only force in Xinning County, this position is not high but very important, it is best to let one of the Zhao Yin brothers slowly replace Wang Shuang, so that he can rest assured that he can use it, but if Wang Shuang can show the sincerity to impress himself, then it can be said separately.