Chapter 19: The Meaning of Writing
Don't enjoy the useless money at the Yilin Inn, Lin Fan still goes to the Yilin Inn every day, Xiaoxue can't drive an ox cart, and the matter of sending Xiaoxue to work will be handed over to Lin Fan, my father is not so idle and runs behind your ass all day long, and his mind is now in the field.
After breakfast, Lin Fan took out the old cow and waited for Xiaoxue, who was still dressing up, since Lin Fan bought her rouge gouache, she was obsessed with dressing up, because she found that she was no worse dressed than people in the city, and she also liked to look at her beautiful self.
didn't wait for Xiaoxue, but waited until the panting little fat, ran to the front and didn't even breathe, and said, "No...... Can't go out, people in the entire Yayu Township can't go out today. ”
Just as he wanted to ask why, a gong sounded in his ears, which was a sign that Li was about to gather everyone, and without waiting for his family, Lin Fan walked towards the village with Xiaopang.
Xiaoxue, who had just stepped out of the door, looked at the people running out of each house in astonishment, walked to the grandfather and others who were already waiting at the door, and asked them, but they didn't know what was going on, and they didn't have the heart to think about being late.
When Xiaoxue and others arrived at the small square, nearly 600 people from hundreds of households in Anyang had almost arrived, found his brother and asked him to finally know why Li Zheng wanted to gather everyone, it turned out to be the request of Xiangzheng, all the people of Yayu Township can not go out today, when Xiaoxue asked the reason, my brother didn't know, even Xiaopang didn't know.
Someone asked Li Zheng why, Li Zheng was also confused, just let everyone wait at home, Xiangzheng will come to visit soon, as for what Xiangzheng visited Anyangli, and why didn't let people leave, no one knows, Xiaoxue is very puzzled, since she is sensible, Xiangzheng has never come to visit Anyangli, what is the reason for him to visit this time, there must be an article here!
Everyone went home in confusion and waited for news, Lin Fan's parents hurried back, there was a lot of farm work, and they had no time to waste.
A few children got together to play and didn't come home, looking at Xiaoxue's sullen appearance, she knew that she was explaining to Lao Chen the reason why she couldn't go to work today, Lin Fan comforted her and her mood was better, and she gradually integrated into the fun world of other children.
The waiting time always passed very slowly, Lin Fan didn't know how to spend this day when the sunset came, just when he thought that Xiangzheng would not come, the gong sounded again, this time it was more urgent, and the person who wanted to come still came after all.
Sure enough, when Lin Fan and his family arrived at the small square, there were four more people around Li Zheng, one of whom had a black gauze hat on his head, which seemed to be a larger official, at least bigger than Li Zheng, it couldn't be Xiang Zheng, and he knew that the fat man next to Li Zheng was Xiang Zheng, and Xiao Pang didn't know who the person with the black yarn hat was, as Li Zheng's baby son, the biggest benefit was that he had seen the fat man Xiang Zheng, as for the higher-level officials, Li Zheng had never seen it, let alone Xiao Fat.
However, judging from the few horizontal knife guards behind them, the elderly black-hatted officials should be the county order, and Li Zheng's introduction confirmed Lin Fan's guess that the person was the Chang'an Cao county order.
The petty officials are all conveying the above meaning, Li Zheng expressed the meaning of the county order with his sonorous and powerful voice, since then, everyone understands the reason why Li Zheng does not let everyone go out, it turns out to let everyone do one thing: writing!
Like most villagers, Lin Fan was very puzzled why the county order did this, what was the purpose of letting everyone write, to let these farmers write? I'm afraid it's not as simple as Li Zheng said just wanting to understand everyone's knowledge, how can there be such an idle official who comes here just to understand the people's knowledge, there must be a deep meaning in this.
Others just suspect that they don't think as much as Lin Fan thinks, since he knew that Tianli happened to have no way for her father to report to the official, Lin Fan was very disappointed in the Cao County Order in front of him, and the officials protected each other, presumably he came this time mostly to help the Wang family.
At first, Lin Fan was not sure, but when he saw Cao Xianling take out the oil paper he wrote from his arms, he was basically sure that Cao Xianling was the lackey of the Wang family, and the deep meaning of Cao Xianling's letting everyone write was clearly felt by Lin Fan.
There is nothing to worry about when he has a number in his heart, quietly waiting for Li Zheng to come over, Li Zheng did not let the whole Li people write, who can read and write in Anyang He knows very well in his heart, he pulled out the three literate people in Anyang, he is also literate, the first to sit at the small wooden table, pick up the brush and copy a small piece of text provided by the county order.
When Li was copying, Cao Xianling's eyes were firmly fixed on every word he wrote, looking extremely seriously, as if he wanted to see something from it, and when Li was copying a text, Cao Xianling raised his eyelids with some disappointment and waited quietly for the next one.
In the end, it was Lin Fan's turn, he was the youngest, when he sat down lightly, Cao Xianling's eyes never left him, with strong expectations in his eyes, this is the last person in Yayu Township who can read and write, these three days have traveled all over Yayu Township for five miles, and have seen no less than 20 literate farmers, but none of them have the same handwriting as the handwriting on the oil paper.
Also from the Li is investigating the people related to Qiaoqiao, starting from the good and the handwriting as a guide have not been able to find suspicious people, now the little boy in front of him is his best expectation, from Li Zheng learned that Anyang Li did not have any family dealings with Tianli, which excludes the good talk, now can only start from the handwriting, if the handwriting is the same or similar, Cao County Ling decided to arrest this person, the method of dead horses as live horse doctors is the most commonly used in the process of judging the case.
Every time Lin Fan wrote a word, Cao County Ling stared at it for a long time, and carefully compared it with the handwriting on the oil paper in his hand, but after comparison, he didn't find the slightest similarity in the handwriting.
"There are no other scholars in Anyang?" The unwilling Cao Xianling swept his eyes over the nearly 600 people standing in front of him and asked Li Zheng on the side.
Li Zheng said respectfully: "Back to my lord, most of the farmers in Anyang are farmers, only four of the hundred households have a person who can read and break words, and the knowledge is shallow, and there are fewer people who can read more words, including me, I can only write some simple and easy-to-understand words, only one person in this book is the most knowledgeable, he has been smart since he was a child, he understands the four books and five classics, and can transform farm tools, our latest Quyuan plough is transformed by him, and it is much more convenient to use than before・・・・・・
When Li Zheng said these words, his eyes turned on Lin Fan from time to time, Cao Xian Ling naturally saw these clues, he already knew that the most knowledgeable person Li Zheng said was this young man, but he was very suspicious that such a smart person could write so ugly, it seemed that this son was just a nerd who could recite poetry.
Cao Xian Ling sighed secretly and waved his hand to stop Li Zheng from continuing to boast, the last glimmer of hope in Yayu Township was gone, and it seemed that he had to go to the surrounding neighboring townships to see if there were any new clues.
didn't stay too long, flicked his sleeves and left Anyang with the main book, the county and a group of catchers, and followed after saying goodbye to Xiangzheng and Lizheng in a hurry.
Seeing Cao Xianling and his entourage leave Anyangli, everyone returned to their respective fields to continue working, Li Zheng was still standing there looking at the direction where Cao Xianling and his party disappeared and was stunned, why did the county magistrate let everyone write and personally supervise, could it be that there was a big case in Chang'an? The case of the county magistrate personally coming out must be not small, but fortunately there is no connection with Anyangli, if it is involved, not only will he not be able to take the position of the right, but he is likely to be affected, and his head will have to be moved.
Lin Fan helped his parents in the field with peace of mind, and it was much easier to get through this hurdle, but fortunately, he recognized the deep meaning of Cao County's visit, and deliberately wrote the words ugly so that Cao County's order did not see any clues, otherwise even his family would be implicated・・・・・・