Chapter 18 Pulling officials into the water
Xiao Zhuozi became impatient here: "Master Wang, the one that passed is not your verdict!" ”
Wang Huizu was a little confused: "It's not my verdict?" ”
Xiao Zhuozi quickly explained: "It's your verdict, but it's not the verdict I sent!" ”
Wang Huizu was even more confused: "Didn't you send it?" Who sent that? ”
Xiao Zhuozi was so anxious that his forehead was soaked with fine beads of sweat, in this cold day, it is also an ability to sweat without running, jumping, covering or jumping.
"Oops! How can I make that clear? You asked me to send this verdict, and I personally sent it to the government, and the prefect passed it after reading it, but, but, now, everything has changed! ”
"What's changed? Don't worry, think carefully and speak slowly. What the hell is going on? Wang Huizu tried to straighten his waist, his right leg, which was burned by the fire that day, was still aching faintly, he propped up the bed with both hands, tried to move his body up, and said with a long breath.
"It's all changed!" Xiao Zhuozi can't wait to have one more mouth and explain the ins and outs of the matter clearly.
"How is that possible?" Wang Huizu was suddenly shocked.
"It's true, Master Wang! Now, the verdict that arrived in the hands of the prefect was not written by you, nor was it given by me! No, you wrote it, and I sent it, but the content has changed! We hope that Pudongsheng will be severely punished, but now the higher authorities are demanding that Pudongsheng be acquitted! ”
Xiao Zhuozi tinkered for a long time, and finally explained the matter.
"Is that really the case?" Wang Huizu shouted that it was not good.
"It's true, the government just sent someone to deliver the letter, and it is estimated that the person has not left at this time! As soon as I heard the news, I came to deliver a letter to you! Hey, Master Wang, Master Wang, your injuries are not healed yet! Master Wang, your boots! ”
Xiao Zhuozi looked at Wang Huizu's back and shouted behind him, but Wang Huizu had already rushed out of the room and plunged into the cold wind regardless of it, running barefoot like no one under the gaze of the maid at home, completely ignoring the image.
No one knows what happened to Master Wang, who has always been polite and steady, went crazy, and some people even worried that he was burned out by the fire a few days ago.
But none of this is important to Wang Huizu.
The moment the soles of his feet burned by the fire kissed the cold and biting ground, he felt pain for the first time in his life.
But he had no intention of stopping.
At this moment, he had only one thought in his heart, to stop the errand of delivering the letter and ask for clarification.
Although he didn't know what went wrong, he knew that this matter must be inseparable from Qin Xiong.
Definitely!
The moment I opened the door, a warm current wrapped in a strong smell of charcoal fire came to my face.
Wang Huizu suddenly felt that the soles of his feet that had been cut by thousands of knives were as unbearable as being sprinkled with chili powder after being roasted by a blazing fire.
Seeing that the official was still there, Wang Huizu's hanging heart was suddenly put back in place. The charcoal fire in the room was crackling, and the county commander Wei Tingkui sat opposite the official.
The two of them were not happy, and the atmosphere was slightly awkward.
"Master Wang, what are you?" Wei Tingkui's face looked a little gloomy, and it looked a little colder than the sky outside.
Seeing Wang Huizu barging in with his hair and bare feet and rags, the official was stunned for a moment, and then quickly got up: "Lord Wei, you are busy in advance, and you are going to say goodbye!" ”
Wei Tingkui didn't speak, Wang Huizu went straight forward and stopped the person: "Official, please stay!" ”
The official grimace frowned and looked at him seriously, and politely refused: "I am on official business, and I can't delay it." ”
Wang Huizu directly filtered out the excuse of this official who judged people by his appearance, and said: "Let me introduce myself first, it is Wang Huizu, the master of Lord Wei, I heard that the verdict I wrote was passed?" ”
"Oh, Master Wang!" Although the official who delivered the letter was a little surprised, he still responded politely, "I am here for this matter today, and the verdict has been passed, and the prefect has specially sent me to inform him. ”
In the years when he was on an errand in the government, he often went back and forth to the major county offices, and he had seen countless masters, but it was the first time that he was like the raunchy skeleton in front of him.
Wang Huizu was thinking about what to do to turn things around, when the door was pushed open, and the maid walked in with a smile on a jujube pear wood tray.
On the tray is a very large ceramic casserole, and there are two delicate emerald green glass bowls next to it, and through a layer of lids, Wang Huizu can smell the fresh fragrance of ginseng chicken soup.
The maid owed Wang Huizu a slight owe as a gift, and then slowly walked to the table, placed the casserole in the center of the table, and the two beautifully colored glass bowls were naturally placed in front of the county order and the official messenger.
"Madame is worried about the adult's body, so she personally cooked a pot of ginseng and chicken soup for the adult, and I heard that there was an official errand here, so I asked the slave to hurry up and bring it to warm up the official's body."
The maid's lips opened lightly, and her voice was light and pleasant, which eased the irritable atmosphere a little.
"Great! So, the criminal is going to be executed? Wang Huizu turned a blind eye to the increasingly gloomy old face of the county order, walked straight to the table, and took the verdict in front of the county order in his hand.
"Master Wang, are you kidding? Your verdict clearly says ......" Wang Huizu's words made the official a little anxious, and he instinctively reached out to grab the verdict in Wang Huizu's hand.
This verdict is directly related to the life and death of Pudong Sheng, how can it be given to him easily?
The official errand is also a quick temper, and seeing that what Wang Huizu wrote is inconsistent with what he said, he is even more eager to get his hands on it and see it clearly.
So, the two stood in front of the table and insisted on each other.
"Don't argue, come, give the verdict to the official, and you two will drink chicken soup to warm up first." Seeing that the two were at a stalemate, Wei Tingkui had no choice but to come out to play a round.
Before Wei Tingkui finished speaking, Wang Huizu's attitude changed abruptly, and he smiled at the official and said, "Then you go first." At the same time, quickly let go of your hand.
"Otherwise, you should go first!"
The official was a little slow to react, and when he reacted and let go, Wang Huizu's hands had already been copied together, and he looked at him calmly with a cold-eyed bystander's attitude.
By the time the official mission found out, it was too late, and the verdict had already fallen into a steaming pot of chicken soup impartially and steadily.
"Oh, big brother official, do you have an opinion on our county government, or do you have an opinion on the prefect's verdict? How can you throw the verdict into the chicken soup? Wang Huizu said in horror.
The official shouted badly, and quickly put his hand into the hot casserole, but as soon as he stretched it in, he let out a scream like killing a pig, and when his hand was fished out of the soup pot, it had already been scalded into a beautiful delicacy that grew on the pig's body.
"My hands! My hand! My hands hurt so much! "The wounded hand hurt so much that it had nowhere to hide, and it kept waving in the air.
"Someone!" The official sent by the government had gone wrong on his own territory, and he was so seriously injured that Wei Tingkui knew that it was difficult to get out of it, and exclaimed.
However, no one outside answered after howling, and he was immediately angry, could it be that these dog minions left their posts without permission to find a place to wander?
Angry and anxious, he quickened the frequency of his steps, and when he walked to the door in three steps and two steps, and when the door was pulled open, a white-skinned and thin man threw himself on the ground.
This person's surname is Tao, he is 16 years old, he just came to the county government not long ago, because there are many people in the house, others don't want to bother remembering so many names, so they call him Xiao Tao, and later saw that he was clever and naughty, so he simply called him a naughty ghost.
When Xiao Tao heard the screams inside, he didn't know what to do, and he was lying on the crack of the door and looking in, he was already frightened, but he was frightened by the voice of the county order just now and didn't know how to respond, and he was thinking about whether to take a few steps back first and pretend not to eavesdrop, but before his feet moved, he was directly shaken in by the county order.
"Small, small!" Xiao Tao trembled and knelt on the ground, peeking at Wei Tingkui with a displeased face with the rest of his eyes.
"Are you blind? Don't see anyone hurt? What is the pestle doing there? Why don't you hurry up and invite Langzhong? Wei Tingkui scolded.
"Yes, yes, the little ones will go!" Xiao Tao responded and crawled out of the door.
"Useless stuff!" Wei Tingkui scolded bitterly, and when he turned around, he found that Wang Huizu was sitting quietly on the chair drinking chicken soup like a nobody.
He took a sip lightly, feeling a little hot, so he reluctantly put down the soup bowl, sighed unsatisfied, licked his dry lips again, and said to the official who was still grinning in pain standing opposite him: "Brother Guancha, what you care about now should not be your hands!" ”
The official was stunned: "What did you say?" ”
Wang Huizu raised his hand to straighten out his messy hair, and his tone was as unhurried as his movements: "Do you think that verdict is not as important as your hand?" ”
However, there were only a dozen words, but the official was instantly speechless.
After filtering out the pain, he remembered what a stupid thing he had just done.
Yes, the hand is very important, but compared to this master's head, what is a mere hand? You must know that this is not an ordinary verdict, it is a major case involving the life and death of dozens of people, written by the county master himself, and solemnly approved by the prefect, but now he has been ruined alive!
If it was ordinary, he wouldn't lose his head, but now he is guilty, and he just angered the prefect a few days ago, and he originally planned to finish this errand and make a difference, but he didn't think about it again.
It's really a house leak that happened to rain overnight!
If the prefect is unhappy, breaking an arm and leg is an ordinary trivial matter, if it is investigated, the two crimes will be punished together, and his head will be removed in minutes!
Thinking of this, the official didn't care about the pain as if he was burned, picked up the soup spoon on the table and began to stir back and forth aimlessly, and half a day later, the verdict was finally salvaged by him, but it had already been broken into thousands of pieces, and it was unrecognizable.
"It's over, it's all over!" The official clutched the verdict, which had already been soaked to shreds, and his tone was full of fear.
Perhaps unwilling, he suddenly became irritable. The official slammed the spoon in his hand on the table, peeled off Sven's coat and burst out of the door: "Who the hell did I provoke, you fucking want to do this to me?" Yes? God, you're fucking talking! Dumb? ”
However, this irritability lasted only a moment, and soon fell silent.
After a while, he pursed his mouth, frowned slightly, looked at Wang Huizu with a slightly begging gaze, and asked for help from the hidden master opposite with a slight trembling voice: "Master Wang, is there any way to save it now?" ”
Wang Huizu drew circles casually with his fingers around the glass bowl in front of him, and asked lightly: "Are you so afraid of death?" ”
A glimmer of light flashed in the official's desperate eyes: "Could it be that Master Wang really can't bear to watch me being beaten into a waste?" ”
Wang Huizu pretended to be embarrassed and sighed and said, "Actually, this matter is difficult to say, easy to say. ”
It's a friendly hint.
The official errand who has been walking between the major yamen all the year round can easily read Wang Huizu's extraneous voice. It's just that this only means that the other party has a way to help himself, as for whether the other party is willing to help and how to help, it depends on his sincerity.
"Please Master Wang save me!" Without saying a word, he walked straight to Wang Huizu, his legs bent and knelt down, his eyes were very sincere, and his words were extremely sincere.