Xia Yan stepped through the muddy path too deep and shallow, and came to the house he was looking for. It was a gardener who worked in the county town, and after murdering the master's family, he fled back to his hometown to hide, but his whereabouts were confessed by his fellow villagers. Xia Yanguo recognized him without difficulty: in this mountain village, where residents were so poor that they could not taste meat for months, and where a bowl of white rice was a luxury, the fugitive gardener was sitting at a table munching on his yellow-skinned wife and two dirt-covered children, and the floor was littered with chicken bones, pig's trotters, empty wine bottles, and other imaginable items. The gardener was not flustered when he saw Xia Yanguo coming, and while dealing with a fat elbow flower, he shouted vaguely: "Wait a while!" I'll go with you when I'm done! ”

This scene had a great impact on Xia Yanguo, so much so that he was a little dazed on the way back when he escorted the prisoner back, and almost let the prisoner escape by air. If it were someone else, there might be some senseless sighs such as the difficulties of the world and the hardships of people's livelihood, but Xia Yanguo thought about this question repeatedly: Is a person's life so determined? He somehow thought of himself from the mountain man in front of him who could kill his entire family for a few taels of silver.

From then on, he was confused for a long time, until one day, he met Sun Hui.

It was also a cloudy day, and the sky was as gray as a dead man's eyes, filling his chest with extreme depression.

Colleagues saw the abnormality in Xia Yanguo's face, so no one dared to provoke him, let alone show the slightest schadenfreude. But Xia Yanguo believed that they were gloating. They were content to stay in this barren land, content to spend their lives in driving away illegal traders and catching drunkards who disturbed the peace.

You just have to make fun of me, rot in this place, Xia Yan thought.

Colleagues are still working on boring cases: men and women eloping behind their parents' backs, injuring the boss's apprentices, kicking dead neighbors' dogs, smuggling salt dealers...... They are content to find their sense of existence from such trivial things, so as to deceive themselves that I am not eating for nothing, and that I am doing things for the people.

Although the villain who kicked the neighbor's dog to death was tied with his hands, he still had an unruly expression, and he simply regarded the county government as his own home, and the others didn't seem to have much to do with him.

Xia Yanguo pushed the file in front of him, got up and stepped forward, as if standing leisurely in front of this evil man.

"What can you do?" The wicked man sneered and glanced at him, "Lao Tzu just kicked his stinky dog to death today, and then twisted his neck off tomorrow when he goes out......"

He couldn't say what he said next, because Xia Yanguo had already pushed his knee into his crotch. The pain made him unable to scream, and his body was already limp on the ground. Xia Yanguo kicked the opponent's body with the hard sole of his boot unhurriedly and methodically, the frequency of his movements was not fast, but each blow was very powerful, and all of them avoided the vital parts that were easy to kill. The colleagues were dumbfounded, looking at Xia Yanguo's blow, and for a while, no one dared to step forward to stop it.

Finally, when the villainous man who was completely unconscious was dragged away, Xia Yanguo slowly returned to the chair and sat down. This venting made his mood much better.

It was at this time that Sun Hui came out of the ground and appeared in front of him.

Of course, there was also a beautiful and lovely little girl with him.

"The law of the Great Song Dynasty is lenient, and in principle, it is to avoid being rude to prisoners, and it seems that this is not a prison, and the people who come in have not yet been convicted...... What are you doing here? Don't forget how you were overwhelmed in the first place. Sun Hui looked at Xia Yanguo's stunned colleagues, and said calmly, he seemed to know Xia Yanguo's past in detail.

Xia Yanguo was also surprised at first, but he was quickly relieved, after all, he was an immortal, and it should not be difficult to know his past.

"I just want to make sure that I have no way out," Xia Yan said lightly, "I must handle all the cases I handle so that I can be transferred out of here." ”

Sun Hui stared at him closely, "This kind of place can't keep you." But your temperament is too extreme, and when you recognize the right things, you will do it all the way to the end and refuse to let go. Putting you here to mold is really a waste of talent for Jiangshan Sheji. ”

Xia Yanguo shook his head: "I'm not a talent from Jiangshan Sheji. No matter how hard I tried to move up, it was only for my own destiny. ”

"The motivation for people to climb up is also part of this society." Sun Hui said, "The fate of Jiangshan Sheji is composed of the fate of individuals, although individuals are immersed in it, it is difficult to have a clear understanding, but their fate is closely related to the operation of the entire Jiangshan Sheji." ”

Xia Yanguo originally hated those masters and Confucianism, and vividly associated the small things of the grass people with the general trend of the world. Usually he frowns when he hears such a topic. But this time, what Sun Hui said suddenly touched his heart.

"Please say it again," Xia Yan asked, "What did you just say without a clear understanding, but what about it?" ”

"When people are between heaven and earth, they don't know how much power they have, but for the operation of heaven and earth, every subtle personal fate will have a subtle impact on them." Sun Hui replied, "Come with me." ”

From that day on, he became Sun Hui's subordinate.

And his life has also undergone profound changes.

Although he is still a fast catcher, when he investigates the case again, he is as vicious as hatred, and he no longer meets high-ranking officials and nobles.

Xia Yanguo still remembers the second year when he was a fast catcher. That year, he independently handled a murder case for the first time, and as a result, he investigated it and found the nephew of the county magistrate. At that time, he was still full of enthusiasm and wanted to bring the nephew to justice, but he encountered obstacles that he had never imagined before. Every day, from his colleagues to his immediate superiors to the county magistrate himself, all kinds of people came to admonish him, educate him, enlighten him, bribe him, warn him, intimidate him, and wanted him to give up this investigation, let the criminal go, and get a sum of money in peace. Xia Yanguo tried to persevere, but soon found that in such a large and dark system, he was just an insignificant duckweed, and it was impossible to fight against it.

He was unwilling to compromise, refused to accept the one hundred taels of silver handed over by the county magistrate, and insisted on bringing the murderer to justice, which made the county magistrate furious, and hired a master to kill him with a lot of money, which forced him to show his original form.

The secret he'd been hiding.