Chapter Ninety-Five: Heartwarming Feet, I Have to Pay It Back

When he first took office last year, the first thing Zhang Xianling set out to solve was Erlongzhai, but Erlongzhai did not eat soft and hard to make him touch a nose of ash, and he served as the chief executive for the first time, and he encountered such a thing as soon as he took office, and Zhang Xianling lived a very uncomfortable life throughout the year.

After the year, because of the soft top of Yao's book, Zhang Xianling's mood was even more angry, so that for a long time he didn't even touch his favorite Go, but in this depressed mood he started his own inspection trip, like this routine official article, the whole process of going to the countryside to inspect is really lackluster, the only highlight is the game of chess in Guanyintai Village.

It was at that time that he named Tang Cheng to enter the county school, but it was just a small matter for a county like him, and he naturally forgot about it after three or two days. But what he didn't expect was that not long after he returned to the county seat, he actually saw Tang Cheng in the county government again, and then things became a little bizarre.

It was Tang Cheng who went to the state city for him, and successfully got into a relationship with Sun Yuanjun, thinking about Sun Yuanjun's means of collecting money, Zhang Xianling was very glad that Tang Cheng was almost chosen out of desperation, this young man is very flexible! If it weren't for him being as easy as Lin Yunan said, this matter would not be easy!

The surprise brought by Tang Cheng was not over, and then he sent a second surprise, the object of his marriage turned out to be the niece and daughter of Zhao Laohu, who let himself be appeased by Huairou but had not been able to enter the oil and salt, and it was also through Tang Cheng that Zhao Huatou was finally captured.

But to say that the biggest surprise brought by Tang Cheng is the suggestion not long ago, salty salt...... Thinking of this, Zhang Xianling smiled self-deprecatingly, he had read books for decades, and he talked about self-cultivation and "sex" every day, and he also boasted that he was good at cultivating qi on weekdays, but this was just after he became the chief officer. The Qi Cultivation Kung Fu is completely gone. After the appeasement didn't work, he was entangled in the force and attack with all his thoughts, but he didn't expect this simple and practical method, salty salt...... It's not that difficult, why didn't you think of it? If you care, it's 'chaos', it seems that you still haven't reached home with your own qi cultivation!

I was depressed and went to the countryside because of the things in Erlongzhai, and now because Tang Cheng, who I met in the countryside, completely solved the troubles of Erlongzhai, is this really the providence he said that night?

Zhang Xianling looked at Tang Cheng, who was talking to the handyman outside. The word "fate" first came to mind inexplicably, and then thought of a joke that Lin Yunan inadvertently said a few days ago: "I think Tang Cheng is simply an adult, you are a lucky star!" ”。

Tang Cheng naturally didn't expect that Zhang County Ling would have so many ideas, he was really busy in the past two days, seeing that more than 100 mountain bandits were about to enter the city, but the prison in the county really couldn't be arranged, these people were all repeat offenders, and they couldn't be placed at will, they had to live in a heavily guarded prison before the official document of the Criminal Department was forwarded. Otherwise, if something happens, it's hard to explain.

Since this is the case, the leaders of the tolerance squad and the sword and pen officials who have stayed in the yamen in the past two days are about to go crazy, and the prisoners who were originally locked up in the prison for petty theft and "touching" have been blasted out, and some of the felons who are still waiting for the results of the official documents of the criminal department have been sent to the state city with heavy shackles, where the prison houses are much more surplus than those in the small county town.

They were so busy, even Tang Cheng had to follow suit. After all, whether it is to release people or transfer felons to the prison cell, in the absence of County Lieutenant Zhao, it is necessary for Zhang County to order the official document to be signed and sealed, and this errand naturally fell to Tang Cheng.

The criminal name has a lot to do with it, and Tang Cheng doesn't dare to slack off. He himself is a serious and meticulous person, so in the past two days, just reading the documents has been dizzy, one by one brought in, and then signed and printed a book for the miscellaneous servant Lao Sun to send back, Tang Cheng has been really busy in the past two days, so he finished the mess before Zhao Laohu returned to the city, and now he told Lao Sun to send the last batch.

After two days of busy work in the dark, I finally cleaned up this urgent errand. But before Tang Cheng stopped for a while back to the official premises, a messenger came to report, saying that County Lieutenant Zhao and his party were about to enter the city.

"Let's go, let's go to the city gate to meet you", after hearing the report, Zhang Xian ordered a wave of his hand, and walked out first with high spirits.

This time, in order to welcome Zhao Laohu and his entourage, Zhang Xianling, who has never been very fond of swaggering, put up a full guard of honor, and "avoided" in front of the car. The "Silence" banners lit up. I was shocked to hear the gong rattling on the ground, followed by two people with protruding chests and bellies. The high-spirited tolerance, the water and fire stick in his hand is shiny, and it looks very dazzling.

After Zhang Xianling arrived at the city gate, he got out of the car, and many people who were attracted by the sound of gongs and the county order's honor guard formed a circle outside at a distance of about ten steps, looking out of the city gate with their heads probed, while muttering in a whisper what was going on.

Tang Cheng was also standing at the gate of the city, half a step behind Zhang Xianling, but his mind was now neither on the road ahead, nor on the crowd of onlookers behind him, but on Master Yao, who was not far away.

Exterminating the Erlongzhai mountain bandits is a big deal for Yunxi County, and Zhang County's order has to say hello to him no matter how unwilling he is to welcome the triumph of Zhao County, and no matter how unwilling Master Yao is, he has to come.

Since beating Master Yao just got out of the car and stood beside Zhang Xianling, the corner of Tang Que's eyes has never left him, the more he looks at it, the more he is convinced, it is worthy of the old yamen who has been boiling for decades, the matter of Erlongzhai has reached this point, seeing that Ke Changming is about to be escorted into the city, Master Yao's face is stunned to be able to maintain a light breeze and indifference, although he does not have the joy of the land, but this light breeze alone has shown decades of experience.

Compared with Zhao Laohu and Master Yao, Zhang Xianling is really a bad hand! The only thing that should be fortunate is that Zhao and Yao did not join forces, otherwise Zhang Xianling is destined to be in prison!

As for why Zhao and Yao failed to join forces? Why didn't Master Yao win over Zhao Laohu? Or why did Zhao Laohu refuse this kind of co-optation? Although Tang Cheng thought a lot and tried to think deeply, he still couldn't find the answer.

In fact, Tang Cheng himself didn't realize that after joining the county government for so many days, he had gradually become familiar with and integrated into the environment in the yamen, and the seemingly meaningless thinking he had just now was a kind of understanding and reflection on the environment. The results of these experiences will inevitably be reflected in his future behavior and behavior, and to a certain extent, it will determine how far and how high he can go on the road of civil servants in the Tang Dynasty.

While Tang Cheng's mind was churning, Zhao Laohu's team finally "revealed" their heads on the official road in the distance, first a few horses on horseback, and then a long walking procession, on both sides of the team were recruits with standard single-hook spears. In the middle is a string of Erlong Mountain bandits tied with ropes. Ten people tied a rope, and the dozen or so mountain bandits pulled the team to the elder, and the outside of the strong man was holding a waist knife and riding a horse to take care of the front and rear.

As the team got closer and closer, Tang Cheng could faintly hear the cries coming from the wind, and occasionally saw some men riding their horses close to the team, and slamming the swords in their hands against the slow-moving mountain bandits.

When there were still twenty steps to go, Zhang Xianling had already stepped up to meet him, "Stay quiet." You have an injury on your leg, how good is it to ride a horse, you should also find a car", Zhang Xianling first smiled and said with a smile, and then bowed to Zhao Laohu, who had just dismounted, and said: "Erlongzhai mountain bandits have been a disaster for a long time. This time, the county lieutenant of Zhao County succeeded in suppressing the bandits, and this official thanked Brother Shoujing on behalf of Li Min of Hexian County."

Zhao Laohu's name is fierce, the word is quiet, it is said that the person who took this word for him was Yunxi County Xuexue Zheng thirty years ago. It's just that Zhao Laohu himself doesn't like it, so no one has ever called him that, so Tang Cheng felt a little strange when he heard it today.

After more than a month of cultivation in the middle, Zhao Laohu's legs have been much better, at least the bruises have disappeared, although walking is still a little unfavorable, but at least it looks like there is nothing abnormal.

"Lord Prefectural Order, don't do this, I really can't stand it." After Zhao Laohu rushed to help Zhang Xianling up, he smiled and said: "With the car, I have been sitting on the road, that is, the horse that was changed three or five miles ahead, and I am also a county lieutenant in charge of martial affairs, what is the matter with sitting in a carriage?" ”。

His words made everyone laugh, and even Master Yao, who was following on the side, pursed his lips, and he didn't know that he was uneasy. Or Tang Cheng covered it up too well. Master Yao didn't notice that Tang Cheng was always paying attention to the corner of his eye.

Just now, Master Yao clearly looked at the tall and thin man who was at the front of the mountain bandit team. Although this eye-to-eye was fleeting, it was still watched by Tang Cheng, who was paying attention.

Taking advantage of the fact that Master Yao was greeting Zhao Laohu, Tang Cheng walked to the side of the tolerance, pointed to the tall thin man with a strange expression on his face and asked in a low voice, "This guy is Ke Changming."

"Who else is it not him?" , the tolerance glanced at Ke Changming, "The tiger master is afraid that when he enters the city, he will not look good in front of the people, and the road will be tight, and when he arrives in the prison, he will enjoy the blessed land", after speaking, the person who smiled coldly.

After the greetings, the team began to enter the city, and the strong men learned to stand tall and bulging their bellies one by one, and they looked a little mighty.

After passing through the noisy crowd of people in the market, the mountain bandits were stuffed into the prison house, and the strong man had his own people arranged in the yamen to take them to be resettled, and Zhao Laohu and the others went to Baohe Building with Zhang County's order.

Because of the early orders, Baohelou had already prepared properly, and in order to meet the celebration banquet of the county government, even the individual guests were pushed.

Eradicated the Erlongzhai bandits, whether it is Zhang Xianling or Zhao Laohu, those tolerances are even more suffocated in the countryside, and now the noisy energy of the celebration banquet is needless to mention, this wine banquet is eaten from dusk to the rising of the new moon, it is just to reach the high "tide".

After drinking with Zhao Laohu, Tang Cheng, who was a little drunk after the wine came up, inadvertently turned his head, and saw a prison boy in a tolerance uniform trotting in from outside the building, ignoring the greeting and noise of the people in the lobby, and went straight to this Accord.

"Something's wrong!" , This was the first thought in Tang Cheng's mind, and sure enough, after the prison boy ran in, he opened his mouth and said: "Ke Changming is dead, he just committed suicide in prison."

As soon as the forbidden son said this, the Accord, which was still smiling and happy, suddenly heard the needle falling, Tang Cheng's first reaction was to look at Master Yao, and just saw the light smile on his lips that was about to disappear......

"How did you die?" , Zhang Xianling's hand has not put down the wine cup of the feast, his voice is already very low, it can be seen that he is deliberately suppressing anger, no wonder he. Not to mention, Ke Changming is the leader of the bandits, and there is a big difference between capturing the leader alive and getting a dead body to report it, just in terms of merit.

"There are too many people here today, and there are few people in the prison who can't open their hands, so they are scattered and divided into four prison areas: heaven, earth, Xuan, and Huang. Because he unloaded the shackles when he entered the prison cell, he was in a hurry and did not smash the shackles, but he had chains on his hands, which we did not find until we had settled the other bandits and returned...... found that Ke Changming took off his pants and tied them to the iron grille and strangled himself to death", because he knew that the stakes were very important, this forbidden thing was extremely cumbersome.

Wouldn't there be more opportunities to commit suicide outside than in prison? That Ke Chang will not die tomorrow morning or night, but he died when he first entered the prison cell, to say that he was determined to commit suicide and die. Tang Cheng really didn't believe it, but he also used the time when the forbidden son was talking as a buffer, and his mood slowly calmed down from the shock just now.

After his mind was settled, he could sort out his thoughts, and in the moment of his thoughts, Tang Cheng's eyes had already looked at Zhao Laohu, who was sitting at the bottom of the position.

What does it matter if Ke Changming dies or not? Anyway, he just doesn't die now. After the official document of the Criminal Department is approved, he will definitely die, even if there is an amnesty in the imperial court for a crime like him, his most important value lies in the relationship with Master Yao, although this kind of involvement has been obvious in Tang Cheng's opinion. But after all, there is no empirical evidence.

How easy is it to completely bring down the head of a county without solid evidence? Not to mention that behind this master book is Ma Beijia, the No. 2 person in Golden State.

But although Ke Changming is dead now, he has really controlled Zhao Laohu in the first three days, and he must have doubts that Zhao Laohu must also have, just because he, an old fox, would he not think of making the first move?

When Tang Cheng looked at Zhao Laohu, he looked at Master Yao, but it turned out that Master Yao's gaze just now was mainly on Zhao Laohu, and when he turned his head, he inevitably bumped into Tang Cheng.

After returning Master Yao's rather reluctant smile, Tang Cheng looked at Zhao Laohu again. But what he saw was a "yamen face", with Zhao Laohu's Taoism, once this yamen face was put on display, Ren Tangcheng couldn't see anything no matter how carefully he looked at it.

Tang Chengyuan thought that with Zhao Laohu's thoughts, he must have obtained Ke Changming's confession in the past three days, but now when he sees this yamen face, he is a little untouched.

In addition to worrying that he would not be able to chase after the poor Kou with Yi Jiangshengyong, even Tang Cheng himself didn't realize it, because Master Yao had been cruel to him last time. So deep in his heart, he always had the idea of stabbing him back. In the past, he didn't have a chance, but now that he has the opportunity, he naturally doesn't want to let it go. It is because of this mind. That's why he has such gains and losses now.

"Virtue is not cultivated, floating waves are not done" These eight words are the words of Yao Zhushu Xingwen County School in the official document of the county school that day, and the purpose of this official document is to expel him, although a few months have passed, but Tang Cheng has not forgotten this matter at all.

It's just a matter of not being allowed to enter the county government, and starting from the county? This hand of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots is too ruthless, if he changes his studies and really follows this official document, it means that unless he can travel back, he will never want to have a future in Datang for the rest of his life. For him, this is like the Tang people encountering someone digging up their ancestral graves, even the most loyal and honest people have to risk their lives to take revenge!

This matter seems to be small, but it is the biggest crisis Tang Cheng has encountered since he crossed over, not only related to himself, but also to the future life of his entire family. A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye, if you don't return the fatal heartwarming foot that day, the depressed breath in Tang Cheng's heart can't really dissipate.

If such a thing happens, it will naturally be difficult for this celebration banquet to continue, Zhang Xian Ling is in front, Yao Zhushu and Zhao Laohu and others are also walking out, those who are shouting in the hall, dancing cheerful people look at them with red faces and surprises, and want to come over to ask, but when they see the tense faces, the steps they just took stopped with interest.

These people are all old yamen, although they don't know what happened, but they also know that something big must have happened, and they have almost drunk the ground, and they dispersed at the moment, leaving a mess of cups and cups to follow Zhang County's order and wait out of Baohe Building.

With a wine-red face, Zhang Xiangwen leaned over to Tang Cheng, who was walking at the back, and whispered with his eyebrows twisted, "Big brother, what's wrong?" ”。

"Poof! How much did you drink? If you can't drink it, drink less! Because Zhang Xiangwen was too close to speak, when he opened his mouth, there was a strong smell of vomiting wine, only Tang Chengxun exhaled violently, and reached out to support Zhang Xiangwen, who was even a little shaky, Tang Cheng slowed down and dragged back a few steps and whispered: "Ke Changming is dead, take off his pants and strangle himself on the iron grille."

"This ***, sooner or later, I don't want to die, I prefer to lose my luck now!" , Zhang Xiangwen also woke up to the smell of wine in his mouth, and saw that he was far away from Zhang Xianling and others, so he also stood aside, he scolded with hatred in his mouth, but he took out an object from his sleeve and stuffed it into Tang Cheng's hand.

Tang Cheng looked down and saw that Zhang Xiangwen stuffed over was a jade topaz sign, with the words "Baohelou" written on it, and there was a lowercase number number under these three words, and some complicated patterns were engraved next to it, "What is this?" ”。

"The brand of Baohelou is not very useful, it is convenient to book an Accord or forget to bring money or something to hang an account, by the way, there is also Baohelou in the state city, and this brand can also be used", Zhang Xiangwen said and suddenly burped, and he was a little embarrassed, "Although it is useless, but in case of emergency, you can save the rescuer, and you will take it."

The brand of feelings is somewhat similar to the membership cards issued by many merchants in later generations, and listening to Zhang Xiangwen, this Baohelou is still a "chain store", although there are only two, but it can also be seen that the owner of this restaurant is really not simple in his stomach, "How do you send this thing for Baohelou?" ”。

"The boss of Baohe Building is my uncle", Zhang Xiangwen smiled, "What, you don't know yet?" ”。

No wonder the opening of Baohe Building can ask Zhao Laohu to give Zhang County Ling a message, it turned out to be a restaurant opened by Zhang Ziwen's brother! Yunxi is small, that's it, but anything that can be on the table can be involved in the end to the people you know. It's just that now is not the time to talk nonsense, after Tang Cheng put the sign on his sleeve, he hurried forward, Zhang Xiangwen also returned to the tolerance team, and the other errands were still waiting for the news he asked.

When Tang Chengzhong rushed behind Zhao Laohu again, he remembered that he shouldn't have left just now, and he forgot to ask Zhang Xiangwen if Zhao Laohu had interrogated Ke Changming alone when he was on the road two days ago, after all, he was also the last batch to be rotated to Erlongzhai, and when he came back, he participated in the whole process.

Since he forgot to ask just now, it would be a little too much to get Zhang Xiangwen out of the tolerance team now, and Tang Cheng also extinguished this thought at the moment, and walked silently with his head down.

The group went directly to the prison under the leadership of the forbidden son, and the forbidden children here also knew the rules, so Ke Changming's prison still maintained the same as when he died.