Chapter 29: Side Quests
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Old man Li stood up: "The guest officer wants to engrave the seal of the yamen?" β
"The Great Seal of the Prefectural Order."
"A hundred taels of silver." Old man Li quoted directly.
Liu Xu raised his eyebrows: "Why is it so expensive?" β
Old man Li said with a smile: "This is a matter of losing my head, and a hundred taels of silver is worth it." β
Liu Xu pondered for a moment, for him, a hundred taels of silver is not much, if he can stamp a fake county order seal on the secret letter, it will be worth it.
"Then how did you engrave it, have you ever seen the county seal?" Liu Xu asked.
"Don't worry, even the government can't tell the truth from the fake of the seal I carved." Old man Li saw that Liu Xu was unequivocal, and his heart was overjoyed.
Liu Xu nodded: "You don't even ask me what I engraved this official seal for?" β
Old man Li shook his head: "I never ask much about the guest officer, the guest officer turned around and took the seal, and what happened has nothing to do with me." β
"Okay, I'll be so cheerful as you are, a hundred taels is a hundred taels." Liu Xu slapped the table and put down a hundred taels of silver tickets.
Old man Li's eyes suddenly lit up, and a pair of shriveled old hands touched the silver ticket.
"Engraving first." Liu Xu frowned.
Old man Li coughed, returned to his appearance just now, and then said to Qin Wuyang: "Young man, go to my backyard to pull a radish and pick a bigger one." β
"Radish print?" Liu Xu suddenly remembered that there was a radish in the box of the county order's desk.
Old man Li glanced at Liu Xu: "Nonsense, eat the radish when you use it, or throw it away, don't leave evidence." β
Liu Xu was happy now, and a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, and he thought: Could the Wang County Order be engraved here?
After a while, Qin Wuyang plucked a radish and came, looking at the soil at the corner of his mouth, he must have stolen a few radishes just now.
Old man Li took the radish, peeled it three times and divided it by two, then cut it into cubes, and the carving knife began to move.
In just a quarter of an hour, Old Man Li engraved the seal, Liu Xu picked it up and took a look, although he had never seen what the real official seal looked like, but presumably this one was not far away.
"Don't worry, even the county magistrate can't tell the truth from the fake." Old man Li silently stuffed a hundred taels of silver tickets into his sleeve.
"Old man, I see that you are so skilled in carving, do you often carve ah?" Liu Xu pretended to ask casually while playing with the radish print.
Old man Li frowned: "Nonsense! I'm a serious businessman, and I rarely do anything illegal. β
Liu Xu's face was dark, and he carved a radish mark for one hundred taels of silver, which is also a serious businessman?
He originally wanted to scare Old Man Li by posing as an inspector and doing a fake 'fishing law enforcement', so that he could not only get the radish seal, but also get back the one hundred taels of silver tickets.
But seeing that the seal in his hand was quite similar, Liu Xu dispelled this thought, and he asked straight to the point: "Old man, does the county order often come to your engraving?" β
Old man Li was stunned for a moment, then his eyes widened, and after reacting, he began to shake his head frantically.
"Honestly, there's a big reward!" Liu Xu snapped a hundred taels of silver tickets on the table.
Now, Liu Xu finally realized what it means to be 'rich is an uncle'.
As soon as Old Man Li saw the silver, his whole person immediately changed his appearance again, and a flattering smile appeared on his wrinkled old face: "Guest officer, how do you know?" β
Liu Xu let go of his hand, and Old Man Li quickly picked up the silver ticket and stuffed it into his sleeve very preciously.
"When did the prefectural order start to come to you to engrave it?" Liu Xu continued to ask.
Old man Li replied with a smile: "This is a secret, don't leak it out, Wang Xianling began to ask me to engrave it when he first took office, no, in order to engrave it for him, I specially planted a radish field." β
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Congratulations to the user for their achievement: Money Makes Fools. Reward: 1,000 taels of silver. γ
"Damn, earned!" Liu Xu's heart suddenly became happy, one hundred taels of silver was exchanged for a reward of one thousand taels, he and this money-hungry old man Li was simply a win-win situation!
"Ahem, you mean, there was no official seal when Wang Xianling took office?" Only then did Liu Xu remember what Old Man Li had just said.
"I didn't say that, is there anything else the guest officer has to ask? If not, let's go. Old man Li got the money, so he ordered Liu Xu to expel the customer.
Liu Xu glanced at Old Man Li, he asked everything he should ask, and he also knew everything he should know, after a day of running around today, it was time to go back.
On the way back, Liu Xu carefully analyzed a wave, this Wang County Commander did not have an official seal when he took office, but kept looking for Old Man Li to engrave a radish seal, what does this mean?
"It shows that this Wang County Order is not a county order at all!" Liu Xu suddenly realized.
He remembered the expression of Wang Xianling when he was in the back hall today, when he was talking to Wang Xianling.
"Is it possible...... He is Zhang Mazi, a horse bandit from Mangniu Mountain? Liu Xu once again put forward a bold assumption in his heart.
His hypothesis is this:
Originally, the leader of the horse bandits in Mangniu Mountain was Zhang Mazi, who led the horse bandits to kidnap the county commander Wang Hairui on the way to the new county commander.
In the end, Wang Hairui was killed by them and threw his body off the cliff, and Zhang Mazi found out that Wang Hairui was actually the county commander who went to work when he was sorting out Wang Hairui's relics.
So, Zhang Mazi took his place, and handed over Mangniu Mountain to his right-hand man Yang Yan, and from then on, their officials and bandits joined forces, and they could cover the sky with one hand in Chuyang County!
But Wang Hairui's big seal has always been in his arms, and after throwing the corpse, Zhang Mazi did not have an official seal, so he had to find someone to engrave a fake seal, so there was a scene where there was only a rotten radish in the seal box on the desk.
"......" Liu Xu suddenly felt that he was still quite talented, and he could think of such a bloody thing.
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The corners of Liu Xu's mouth twitched, what the hell did he say right?
Is Wang Hairui fake? Is he Zhang Mazi, a horse bandit from Mangniu Mountain?
[Dear user, your analysis is completely correct, the current county commander Wang Hairui is Zhang Mazi, the former leader of the Mangniu Mountain horse bandits.
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The user activates the side quest: Punish the evil and promote the good.
Mission details: Wang Hairui, the current magistrate of Chuyang County, is disguised by Zhang Mazi, the leader of the horse bandits, and the user needs to expose it within three days and return the truth to the masses.
Reward: A large amount of Fame.
If the task fails, the system directly adjusts the purgatory mode, and the user is immediately sent to the palace. γ
"Failed...... ......"Liu Xu gritted his teeth, damn this system is too perverted.
However, Liu Xu originally planned to bring down Wang County's order, but now there is an extra deadline.
"A horse bandit leader, what's not good to call it, it's called Zhang Mazi...... I didn't expect that I still have a talent for screenwriting, I knew that I would be an Internet writer before, and if I became a god, I wouldn't use this to be the emperor of Da Zhou. Liu Xu couldn't help but complain in his heart.