Chapter 8 Careless dating, teahouse information

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Meng Jiucheng walked on the street, thinking about how to solve the current trouble, and secretly hated that the original deity was a middle two, and this trouble was all caused by him.

This original Meng Jiu made some fox friends and dog friends, but most of them coveted his money, flattered him with words, coaxed him, and earned his money to eat, drink and have fun.

This Meng Jiucheng has a young heart, and he also said that these people are good friends, and they have developed a problem of being extravagant. Seeing that other people's families calculate interest and compete for discrepancies, they are filthy villains and lack indexes. Only if you are generous in your means, not in your heart about your wealth, and if you live in food, you are a hero.

When his pocket was empty and he couldn't help in his hand, Meng Jiucheng entrusted a bullshit friend Zhao Qing, who was a tooth man in the tooth shop, and began to sell his land.

Zhao Qing deceived Meng Jiucheng when he was young and didn't understand the market, and he had a good mouth, which coaxed Meng Jiucheng to treat him as a close friend. The fields are good and bad, expensive and cheap, all of which he sobs, and he earns a lot of money from them. The land was sold, the house was sold, the big house was replaced by a small house, and in the end only this place in the city was left.

Even this house, as well as his adoptive mother Liuqiao, Meng Jiucheng also asked Zhao Qing to find someone to sell it. Zhao Qing was happy in his heart, and he was able to cheat this wronged person again, and he got a lot of money for nothing. He hooked a relative to pretend to be a buyer, ready to dig a pit, and squeeze the house price hard to make a profit.

Unexpectedly, Meng Jiucheng drowned and did not die, but was reborn and changed into another person. The house was not sold, and Liuqiao's deed of sale was also recovered, which made Zhao Qing waste a lot of effort.

No man is content. Zhao Qing didn't want to take advantage of Meng Jiucheng on weekdays and how much money he had made, so he was jealous and resentful of this dissatisfaction. At the beginning, he also took the deed paper and deceived Meng Jiucheng with rhetoric, but Meng Jiucheng was either a stupid hat at the beginning, or he didn't let go. Helplessly, Zhao Qing had another poisonous plan, hooked Niu Er in the city, and promised that if the house and the adopted mother were in hand, he would give Liuqiao to Niu Er.

Although Meng Jiucheng is also known as a splasher, he is not doing his job properly and spending all his days drinking. And this Niu Er, who bullies the market, extorts, and spills and murders, is a scoundrel who everyone hides. Seeing that Liuqiao looked a little colored, he came to harass trouble, blocked Liuqiao twice on the street, moved his hands and feet, and verbally teased; also threatened Meng Jiucheng and smashed a big hole in the courtyard gate.

Meng Jiucheng just forbeared, but he practiced hard and thought about strategies. After more than ten days of work, although he did not reach the best state in his later life, he felt that he was somewhat sure of dealing with Zhao Qing and Niu Er.

Mother*, these birds, when Lao Tzu is easy to bully, right, if I don't kill you today, I will let you taste the power of the master. Meng Jiucheng clenched his fists, but there was no hatred and murderous aura on his face, with a harmless appearance of humans and animals, he went straight to the place where Wang Zhongfeng's father and son often played tricks.

When I arrived at the place, I didn't see Wang Zhongfeng and his son, and I didn't know what was delayed.

Meng Jiucheng thought about it, walked to the teahouse on the side of the road and sat down, and Dr. Tea had already stepped forward to greet him, so he drank tea and waited for Wang Zhongfeng.

Drinking tea has become an indispensable thing in the daily life of the Southern Song Dynasty people, and is regarded as one of the seven things to open the door. Regardless of whether they are rich or poor, people like to drink tea and chat after dinner. There is a poem that describes: "Eat and go to bed slowly, and a pot of new tea is waiting for the child to fry." ”

The façade decoration of the high-end tea shop is very exquisite, the store hangs celebrity calligraphy and paintings, and the flower stand is settled with strange pine cypresses, and flowers are inserted at four o'clock to keep the drinkers. Of course, most of the people who can go here to drink tea are the children of wealthy families and government officials, and they will gather here to "learn musical instruments, teach music to earn" and so on, which is called listing.

The second-class is called the "Favor Tea Shop", where most of the merchants and commoners drink tea for fun, exchange information and negotiate business.

Meng Jiucheng has been to the teahouse a lot recently, and he seems to be drinking tea quietly, but he is widely collecting all kinds of information. In ancient times, when there were no daily newspapers or bulletins, you could hear news and anecdotes about the market and the government in the teahouse.

For example, the magistrate of the county deposed the two corrupt priests, and dismissed one of the heads and three officials who were selfish; For example, the famous prostitute Yaxian who embroidered the red mansion picked up which son last night, etc., there are all kinds of news.

From the selection and analysis of these news, Meng Jiucheng roughly knew that the newly appointed magistrate of the county for more than half a year was a good official, and he also knew that after learning about some local people's conditions, the magistrate of the county began to rectify the yamen and crack down on the officials with unclean hands and feet.

In the Song Dynasty, local officials not only implemented a strict system of avoiding the township, but also often practiced the principle of equal work and rest appointment, which alternated between far and near. County officials are generally transferred to an unfamiliar place at the end of their term of office every three years, and in special cases, they leave office before three years.

However, after the introduction of the recruitment system, the officials did not have a term of office, and most of the local professional officials who were familiar with the pros and cons of county politics were re-elected for a long time, and they either recommended each other or succeeded them by their fathers and brothers, and controlled one side for a long time, so that the newly arrived county officials had to rely on them and tolerate their dictatorship. In this way, the phenomenon of "strong officials and weak officials" has been conveniently formed in many places.

Obviously, Jia Zhixian is not the kind of mediocre person who "is upright and straight, but the officials are obedient", which made Meng Jiucheng even more determined to think of his thighs. Of course, Meng Jiucheng thought very far, far from being as simple as being a small official in the county government.

"See the sign? The government paid 500 yuan, and 10,000 people went out to pay 500 yuan, and offered a reward for the arrest of murderers and robbers. ”

"One thousand, that's a lot."

"The murderer and robber are very fierce, and they don't know their surname, this reward is so easy to get?"

"I heard that the robbers are in collusion with Zheng Dahu......"

"Shhhh

The voices of the neighboring tables were quiet, but they were all heard by Meng Jiucheng. He knew about this murder case, just two days ago, Wan Xiuniang, the daughter of Wan Yuanwai, a wealthy man in the city, died her husband and was taken home by her brother Wan Xiaoyuanwai. In the woods ten miles outside the city, the path was cut by robbers, Wan Xiaowai and three servants were all killed, Wan Xiuniang disappeared, and more than 20 cages and everything were also looted.

Count with your fingers, and the person around you who can do this big case is Zheng Binqing, the owner of Zhengjiazhuang. As the owner of the village, Zheng Binqing's family has thousands of acres of fertile land and large shops in the city, as if he is one of the richest people in Baoxing.

But there have always been rumors that Zheng Binqing's money came from the wrong way and made a disgraceful fortune. It is said that he kept a gang of thieves in his own possession, and whoever took them from captivity was divided equally with him. There are hundreds of villagers in the Zhuangzi, all of whom are brave people, and they listen to his orders. The government knew that he was tricky, and the public was afraid of his power, so no one dared to look at him squarely.

Meng Jiucheng guessed that this magistrate wanted to take down Zheng Binqing, but he was afraid of his power, so he didn't dare to act rashly without real deeds. As for this reward, firstly, it is a knock on the mountain and shocking the tiger, and secondly, it may not be able to get any clues.