"Tell me, what did you take?"

Looking at the little guy kneeling in the hall, Shen Yun completely lost the rigidity when he spoke to Xu Songpu.

The first little thief who was brought up was just a twelve or thirteen-year-old child. He had already suffered a lot on the way to being caught, and now he knelt down in front of Shen Yun, his eyes full of fear.

"County Zun, this thief took advantage of the inattention of other people's cooking cakes, took the cooking cakes and ran ......away," an errand attached to Xu Songpu interjected without waiting for the child to speak.

Shen Yun had the intention to establish his majesty, and stared coldly at the errand and shouted, "Shut up, did I let you speak?" Shen Yun clearly saw that the child was just about to speak, and when he was interjected by this errand servant, he instantly became a little panicked, and his eyes when he looked at Shen Yun were even more frightened. The errand officer who spoke out returned to work stupidly, and Shen Yun looked at the child and said:

"Where's the adults in the family?"

"I, I don't have adults in my family. All dead. Shen Yun's words and deeds made the child's impression of him change slightly, and he was stunned for a while, and suddenly said this sentence.

Shen Yun suddenly understood. There was a famine in Gyeongju that year, and many people escaped, and many of them starved to death on the way back and forth. Most of the parents of this little guy are the same. When they returned to Gyeongju, people of such a size could not afford to farm, and perhaps the land had already been encroached upon, so they could only live in the county town and live by petty theft.

Maybe in a few years, if you don't die, you will participate in the Xiang Army.

"Where are you from? Do you still have land at home? In order to verify what he thought, Shen Yun continued to ask, which made it very strange for a messenger, obviously stealing, but instead of being held accountable, he asked about this, which was strange.

The conversation like a casual conversation made the experience of the child of the Shen Yun family completely sorted out, and sure enough, as he thought before, this child's family is in a small village in Yele Town, and he is the only one who has escaped from the famine for several months, and the dozens of acres of land in his family have long been occupied by the Kuang family, the big landlord of Yele Town. The little guy has no livelihood and can only live in the city.

And this incident has been a full number of years ago.

"Go, call the official Cao and ask him to bring the register of fields and acres in Yele Town." Shen Yun learned about these things, didn't say a word, and asked the messenger to go to the back office to find the official Cao. The acres of land and population of a county are all in charge of the official Cao, and Shen Yun wants to ask clearly what is going on with the Kuang family.

Cao Cao hurriedly came, holding the book in his arms that Shen Yun had asked to bring, and sent it to Shen Yun's desk with a little trepidation, and stood on the side. At this time, there were many curious people outside the former government who wanted to see how this new magistrate would judge this child in order to come over.

"Cao Da of Huangyang Village, Yele Town, has a family field property, check."

Shen Yun didn't have half a word of nonsense, and the official Cao hurriedly flipped to the place and read word by word: "Cao Da has a family of three, and Xining fled the famine in the early years, and there is no mouth to report and return." There are three acres of fertile land, seven acres of middle field, and fifteen acres of lower field. This answer made Shen Yun's heart gradually have a plan, because in the books of the county government, there is no record of the Kuang family's purchase of acres of land.

"Okay, the county is a little tired from the trial today, so let's do it first. Wait, keep this kid in the county office, and give him two meals to eat and drink. It will be retried tomorrow. ”

It was still aggressive before, but when he heard that the Kuang family suddenly stopped deliberating, Shen Yun's approach caused many people to be dissatisfied. When he turned around and returned to the back office, there were already a few people outside the front office who scolded in a low voice: "It seems that this hairy boy and the former straw bag magistrate are the same color." That's it, I deserve to be unlucky for the people of Anhua. Seven years on the stall two eat soft and afraid of hard. Alas, if Fan Xianggong was in our Gyeongju, where would there be such a thing. ”

Not only the common people, but even the county officials and officials thought the same.

Seeing that Shen Yun turned around and went to the back office, Cao hurriedly packed up his books and chased after him, and came to Shen Yun's side and whispered: "The county is really smart, the Kuang family is a master who is not easy to mess with, privately saving hundreds of village slaves, controlling thousands of acres of fertile land around Yele Town, Zhongtian Xiatian is even more useless, and he pays sixty or seventy percent of the taxes in Yele Town, so it is best not to offend." ”

Shen Yun smiled: "Let's say, how much silver does he give to the county in a year?" ”

"Hey, where can we be qualified to be honored by him, people take money, and they are all envoys to the state capital. It is said that the old lady of the Kuang family has a very close relationship with Li Zhizhou, and the three brothers of the Kuang family often call Zhu Cao, the judge in the state, brothers. As for the younger generation of the Kuang family, there are a few talented learners, but they don't study in the state, but they go out to travel. ”

A simple passage from the official Cao explained the situation of the Kuang family clearly. Shen Yun could feel the resistance coming to his face. After reminding Shen Yun, Cao Cao hurriedly returned to the duty room, leaving Shen Yun alone, standing in the courtyard of the back office and smiling bitterly.

Time came to the next day in a blink of an eye, and the people who came to see Shen Yun's jokes were surprised to find that Shen Yun didn't come to the hall today, but just sent Jin Changling to come out and symbolically sit in the front hall and return to the back office. Originally, a few people who still wanted to ask Shen Yun to uphold justice suddenly dispelled their thoughts.

Yali, Anhua County, suddenly fell into a strange atmosphere.

Shen Yun, the magistrate of the county, got up this morning and settled in Cao, and began to look through all the household registration and land books in Anhua County. As for the county lieutenant Xu Songpu, he didn't look like he was dealing with Shen Yun at all, and called several of his henchmen to go out to eat.

Liu Cao didn't have the nervousness of yesterday, and watched with a wait-and-see face, just looking at how this Xinzhi County was going to deal with this matter.

The thunder is loud and the rain is small, this is the outside world's evaluation of Shen Yun. It seems that he has just shown his sense of existence, and he was frightened back because of the name of the Kuang family. On the third day, in the vast manor of the Kuang family in Yele Town, which covers an area of dozens of acres, the three brothers of the Kuang family were holding a banquet to entertain Geng Rong, the judge of the Qingzhou Mansion.

The judge of the festival degree is in charge of the judicial household registration tax of a state and the management of the servants and officials of a state, and his status is only under the governor and the general judge. Since the establishment of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the People's Republic of China in the fourth year, it has a history of nearly 100 years. At the beginning, he was still an official of the Beijing Dynasty, but now he can also be selected and promoted, and this Geng Rong was directly promoted from the dispatch of the county governor.

The Kuang family is now wantonly annexing acres of land, which is inseparable from this Geng Rong.

Yesterday, someone brought back a message from the county, saying that the new magistrate tried a case the day before yesterday, and it was possible that he was involved with their Kuang family. Today, the three brothers invited Geng Rong, although there are factors to deepen their relationship, but the main purpose is to explore the wind through Geng Rong.

Listening to Zhuang Ding's report that Geng Rong's carriage was almost at the gate of the manor, the three brothers hurriedly greeted him, and when Geng Rong got off the carriage, he came to the front and bowed his hand: "Brother Geng, I have been waiting for you for a long time, come in, there has been a banquet in the village, and I will talk while eating." ”

Accepting the benefits of the Kuang family all the year round, Geng Rong of course returned the gift very politely: "Hahaha, the three virtuous brothers are polite." It's okay for the old lady to come in, the last time we met was in the first month, and take me to meet his old man first, and it's not too late for us to have a drink. ”

To be able to maintain a relationship with the Kuang family, Geng Rong's eight-sided exquisiteness is a very important factor, and the three brothers saw Geng Rong so polite, and said with a smile: "Brother Geng has a heart, but Grandpa has recently moved to Xishan Courtyard, saying that there is water there to support people." Big brother's kindness, I'll take it later, please come in. ”

Geng Rong nodded and walked to the village with the three brothers.

In order to entertain Geng Rong, the three brothers of the Kuang family specially invited Le Ji to come over in the city, and all the food was taken from Ping'an Restaurant. After Geng Rong was seated, the maids brought the dishes one by one.

"Brother Geng, this is what we specially married from Ping'an Restaurant, and they were all warmed with charcoal fire along the way. Come and try it. The three brothers greeted warmly, which made Geng Rong very satisfied. Gently pinched the golden roast suckling pork with chopsticks, chewed it carefully twice, and then nodded and praised: "Yes, this roast suckling pig of Ping'an Restaurant is really a must, come on, brothers, don't look at it, eat it together." ”

The four of them ate and drank for an hour before each moaned in comfort.

Calling the maid to change the leftovers to the cold burn, serving a few plates of seasonal vegetables and fruits, and then sending wine, the boss Kuang Longteng toasted Geng Rong very politely: "Brother Geng, our Kuang family can have today, your support is indispensable, and the little brother invited Brother Geng to come today to express his gratitude." ”

Geng Rong raised his glass, but shook his head: "Brother, you earned it all by yourself today, but you have nothing to do with my old Geng." I, Geng Rong, want to thank you and others, if it weren't for your help, brother, where would I have come from such fine clothes and food. Okay, okay, it's not interesting to talk too much, our brother's friendship doesn't need to be so cliché. Come, eat and drink. ”

After drinking all the glasses, the second brother Kuang Hu jumped to refill the drink, and then asked cautiously: "Brother Geng, I heard that the new county order is a little tricky?" ”

Geng Rong just put down the wine glass he had just picked up, and looked at the three brothers with a smile on his face: "What, you were scared by the rumors?" ”

This time, together with the third child, Kuang Biaofei, smiled embarrassedly: "Although there is Brother Geng in the state, it is good if there is less trouble." Our brother is afraid that the new hairy boy is young and vigorous, and he doesn't know the face of Brother Geng, so he is determined to investigate this matter. "The land that the Kuang family has encroached on over the years is not only the Cao family in Huangyang Village, and it is naturally not without reason to worry.

"Don't worry, there are my people in Anhua County, so I can know in advance what Shen Yun does. The day before yesterday, the official of Anhua County had already told him who was behind you, and I didn't think that kid would dare to make a mistake. Okay, okay, don't disturb the interest because of these little things, come and come, eat and drink. ”

Geng Rong's words made the three brothers instantly put their hearts at ease, and they immediately smiled and drank wine with Geng Rong.