Chapter VII
Master Tusi hurried to the scene with a few servants, and after confirming that the deceased was Meng Daworm, he breathed a long sigh of relief. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info He thought that even if Meng Daworm flew away and went to the coastal cities of Changsha or Guangzhou, it would still be a piece of his heart. Who knows, one day, he got drunk and told the truth with nonsense. Wouldn't his highly respected Master Tusi become a criminal who buried his grandson alive? Now that the Republic of China is in place, there is a police station in the county yamen, if there are good deeds reported to the official to investigate it, wouldn't it be a troublesome matter that the road is not clear? God has eyes, let Meng Daworm be a water ghost! It's just that I pity Meng Daworm. Meng Daworm has been at Tusi's house for more than ten years, but he ended up being a water ghost. The old man Tusi felt a cramp in his heart, and shouted: Evil, evil!
Master Tusi sent the domestic servants, went to the county yamen to report to the official, and went to the house to carry the Nanmu coffin for himself. After he sent someone to build a mourning hall for Meng Daworm by the river, he sat by the river bay and waited for the county yamen to come to the police to conduct an autopsy, so that he could be buried on the spot. According to local customs, the deceased is not allowed to be carried back to his home if he dies violently outside. Master Toast's move is not criticized by others. Master Tusi gave the high-quality Nanmu coffin that he was going to enjoy a hundred years later to his old servant Meng Daworm, which attracted the suspicion of neighbors such as Ma **zi: Even if he is his own son, he can't expect such treatment! Why is that? Ma **zi did not leave, he hid to the side, closely observing the movements of the master of Tusi to bury Meng Daworm. He found that when he was bathing and changing Meng Daworm's clothes, Master Tusi personally untied a bag of heavy things from Meng Daworm's belt. The old man toast casually handed the bag to the eldest son mute who was standing aside. Taking advantage of the chaos of the crowd, Ma ** quietly approached the dumb big brother. He pointed to the bag to the dumb brother, and the dumb brother understood, "heoh" smiled, opened the bag and let Ma **zi look at it, and smiled "heoh" and tied the bag tightly. Ma **zi can see clearly, full of a pocket of Yuan Datou (the ocean is a silver dollar)! Damn, this bag is at least 180 yuan! Ma **zi touched the purple and red pimples on his face, and regretted that his intestines were blue. Why didn't you touch the bag on the waist of this dog's Meng Daworm just now? This bag of oceans, he can't earn it back from doing mud work for half his life.
After about two hours, a high-headed Yanma galloped from the direction of the county seat, and a policeman surnamed Hou jumped down from the county police station. He stepped down and looked at the corpse, but without moving his hand, he said calmly: "There are no bruises on the deceased's body, but he fell into the water and drowned, so bury it." Ma **zi squeezed to the side and pointed to Meng Daworm's hideous face, wanting to remind the police, ordinary drowning, why such a terrifying expression? The old man of Toast glared at him, coughed dryly, and his legs shook, and he retreated to the side in a daze. Master Tusi looked at Ma ** Zi and bowed slightly, and said, "Carpenter Ma, you found the corpse of Meng Da Worm first, right?" Wait until I go to my house and drink a few drinks for Officer Hou. As for me, I'm going to be busy with Meng Daworm's aftermath, so I won't go. Ma ** was flattered, nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice, and said repeatedly: "Okay, good!" ā
In the Tusi compound of the Tujia village in Hexi, Ma **zi has come a lot of times. Every time he came, he added a little awe, and the faint jealousy in his heart grew day by day. According to the genealogy of the Li family of the Tusi family, the Tusi Li family of Hexi Village is a descendant of Li Zicheng, the leader of the peasant army uprising in the late Ming Dynasty. It's been the first generation to go to Master Toast, and the Toast family can't figure it out. Li Zicheng retreated to Beijing after the Qing troops entered the pass, and then defeated Jiugongshan in Hubei Province - it was rumored that Li Zicheng was killed by the landlords' armed forces; In fact, Li Zicheng hid incognito in an ancient temple deep in the mountains, and secretly continued to command other anti-Qing forces such as He Tengjiao in Hunan. Ma ** Zi's grandfather's great-grandfather was a general under Wu Sangui, after the defeat of the "Three Kings", the descendants of the Tusi family and the Ma family were hunted down by the government for fear of being hunted down by the government, and for hundreds of years, they lived incognito. Until the abdication of the last little emperor of the Qing Dynasty in the early years of the Republic of China, the government of the Republic of China praised the heroes of the anti-Qing Dynasty, Li Zicheng entered the heroic spectrum of the peasant rebel army, and the Tusi Li family opened the ancestral hall and raised his eyebrows. More than 100 years ago, along the West Dongting Lake Yuanshui traced back to the foothills of Xuefeng Mountain, there was only Hexi Tusi Village. In Hexi Tusi Village, in addition to the first surname Li, there are also seven (N) eight surnames such as Ma, Liu, Zhao, and He. Hexi Tusi Village is a village with mixed surnames. The Li family, the Tusi village in Hexi, has not yet produced a showman, and they are all reckless and green forest men; Ma Shi came up with a lifter. In the Hexi Tusi Village, the Ma family got carried away for a while. This Ma Juren, out of nowhere, preached the same surname of Li Zicheng who unjustly killed both civil and military people by believing Niu Jinxing's slander - Zhiduoxing Li Yan (the husband of the Red Lady of the Peasant Rebel Army). The master of Tusi ridiculed each other, and also preached everywhere that Wu Sangui led the Qing soldiers into the customs, and was a big traitor who surrendered to the Qing court and stabbed him on three sides, and the Li family of the Tusi village in Hexi was originally a descendant of Li Zicheng's subordinate Li Yan and his wife, and the Ma family stabbed the hornet's nest this time. In the face of such a shameful humiliation, the Tusi Li clan was extremely angry, and they did not give up, and a complaint was filed with the county yamen. The county order is mediocre, and I can't get rid of it. The Tusi Li clan sent the paper to the prefect again. The prefect and his wife worship the heroine and the red lady very much, but the prefect is afraid of the inside, and admires the wisdom and courage of Li Yan and his wife. When the prefect received the paper, he was furious. He said: "The great traitor Wu Sangui led the Qing soldiers into the customs and was capricious, and the 'Three Kings' rebelled and was scolded by the nine tribes. Li Yan was unjustly killed by Niu Jinxing's slander, and both husband and wife were heroes. This horse lifts people, I don't know the historical facts, I say crazy words, take it down for me, reward him with fifty boards, and expel him from the Hexi Tusi Village! ā
The city gate caught fire, affecting the fish in the pond. Not only the surname Ma was expelled from the Hexi Tusi Village, but other miscellaneous families who were dissatisfied with the Li family's lying on the merit book and relied on the old and sold the old were also driven out of the Hexi Tusi Village. The magistrate of the county was still benevolent and righteous, and set aside silver taels to build Hedong Village in the lower reaches of the Yuanshui of West Dongting Lake, a few kilometers away from the Tusi Village in Hexi, to resettle the villagers who had been expelled. On the surface, the miscellaneous family served the Tusi Li family, but they had a grudge in their hearts. Once they have the opportunity, they will not let go of the Li family, the master of the toast.
Opportunities are hard to come by. How many opportunities have you had in the past few hundred years? This time was different, and Ma ** felt that the opportunity had come.
In the tomb of the ancestor of the old man of Tusi, there are stone men and stone horses, both looking at passers-by; And at the gate of Tusi Li's house, the two majestic and huge stone lions stared intently at Ma **, hehe sneered. Ma **zi unconsciously shrunk his neck. The blue bricks, blue tiles and red wall hanging towers, and the high-walled compound with eight entrances and eight exits, made Ma **zi strongly feel his insignificance. Think about it, it's really not good if you are not convinced by the Tusi Li family. What is the Ma family's move? During the Jiaqing period of the Ming Dynasty, the carp of the ancestor of the Tusi master jumped into the dragon gate, passed all the way to the capital, and brought back a list of eyes second only to the champion. The old ancestor of the Tusi Li family has been an official for decades, returned to his hometown, returned to the west of the river under Xuefeng Mountain, placed 100 acres of fertile land, and built this big mansion, the scale is huge, a radius of several hundred miles, second to none. Since then, several generations have passed, and the officials of the Tusi Li family are no higher than the county order. The glory is no more. Emaciated camels are bigger than horses. In the generation of the toast lord, the Tusi Li family was no longer an official, but business developed. Master Tusi opened several shops in the county town, and there was also a silk reeling factory in the town. The current master of Toast collects rent, and the family lives a good life......