Hearing that the water drifting corpse turned out to be a lieutenant chief before his death, Qin Lin couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Although the lieutenant chief is not an official, it is also an important foundation of the grassroots political power of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty takes 110 households as a mile, and sets up a lieutenant chief to manage household registration and taxation of acres and acres, mediate civil disputes, and connect with the state and county officials to distribute to the people.

Suddenly, a lieutenant was killed and sank in the Yangtze River, and the attitude of the state government master and the head catcher on this matter is extremely ambiguous, I am afraid that there are a lot of hidden secrets in this!

Qin Lin thought of this, so he quietly pulled Jiang Mao aside and said in a low voice: "Brother Jiang, do me a favor, you talk to Zhao Zhutou like this......"

Jiang Mao's eyes rolled and said angrily, "Why should I help you?" ”

Qin Lin was stunned, knowing that this guy was still worried about whether Zang was a character or not, and identifying the surname of the floating corpse and other things, and secretly laughed at him for being a little childish, but it was also funny. After thinking about it, he said: "There are too many cases handled by the lower official in Jinyiwei, and there is no such difficult thing as today, this case must be helped by the third son, the third prince is anxious for justice and righteousness, so the lower official knows that as long as he speaks, the third prince will definitely help." ”

Jiang Mao was fluttering, and suddenly looked at Qin Lin a lot more pleasantly, and nodded with a smile: "In that case, can I still not help?" ”

Qin Lin's stomach hurt with laughter, and he said in his heart that this Jiang San Gongzi really has everything written on his face, and it couldn't be easier to fool around.

Jiang Mao swaggered to Zhao Zhutou's side according to what Qin Lin said, and said arrogantly: "Where are the eyes of these plague-stricken officials and unlucky officials in Xingguo Prefecture?" Don't you see that this corpse is swollen? Dare to bring an ordinary-sized piece of clothing over, isn't it a pastime for this son? ”

Zhao Zhutou had already received the guidance of Master Fang, and talked with the servants of the Jiang Mansion, although he was not completely sure, he also guessed the identity of the other party, so Jiang Mao was angry, he was extremely humble, lowered his waist, and replied with his hands down: "Back to the words of the prince, we didn't expect this corpse to swell so much, so we had to find a tailor to make a big longevity coat and buy a large coffin to decorate the funeral - delayed the child's trip, forgive me, forgive me!" ”

Originally, Zhao Zhutou was so low-voiced, with Jiang Mao's temper, everything should be over, but this time he didn't give up, and said with a straight face: "Say it lightly!" Don't just delay the trip, my son has a good ship, and I will bring the corpse back for you Xingguozhou, how can I count the bad luck that is stained? This boat was bought for three thousand taels of silver, and when I got back, my son had to burn it to get rid of bad luck......"

Jiang Jing was kind, and when he heard his younger brother's tone like a rippage, he was a little unhappy and ready to step forward to stop him.

Jiang Zi saw a little clue, shook his head at the eldest brother, and made a look.

Jiang Jing is also a very smart person, and his sister understood the reason at a little, looking at Qin Lin who was smiling on the side of the ship, and whispered to Jiang Zi: "This Qin is cunning, let your third brother come out of the top tank, hum!" ”

The three brothers and sisters of the Jiang family had their own thoughts, but Zhao Zhutou was first shocked when he heard it, and then he was happy.

Shocked because Jiang Mao's lion opened his mouth, three thousand taels of silver is not a small amount, and this extortionist heart is too ruthless; The good thing is that since the other party wants money, it is not the one who is worried about Master Fang, this matter is easy to say, Heng Zhu is not out of his own pocket, what are you afraid of him?

"Yes, yes, the eldest lord of Benzhou is grateful for the kindness of the son, and there must be something to make up for it," Zhao Zhutou said while snorting: "Then I will get the corpse down first, so as not to pollute the treasure ship of the son......"

"No way!" Jiang Mao stopped him and put on a posture of a deputy gentleman: "This corpse is a physical evidence, and the floating corpse in Xingguo Prefecture has soiled my ship, so it is also reasonable for me to go to the governor's yamen to file a lawsuit; You get it away, if the plague officials in Xingguo Prefecture don't admit it, where can I reason without evidence? ”

Zhao Zhutou was helpless, and invited all the sons to the yamen banquet on behalf of Zhizhou.

Jiang Mao rolled his eyes impatiently: "What can you eat in this plague-stricken ghost place in Xingguozhou?" ”

Zhao Zhutou said with a smile: "There is a jade food restaurant in Benzhou, and it is the only one who can make Jiang Yaozhu in a hundred miles away, and it is ......extremely delicious."

Although this Jiang Yaozhu has a Jiang character, it is a treasure produced in the sea, and it is extremely rare in the Huguang area, and the restaurant that can make Jiang Yaozhu is quite good.

But Jiang Mao is well-dressed and well-fed in his own home, and his father still has no 100 dishes per meal, and he has long been used to it, and Jiang Yaozhu is not rare at all. So he just sneered: "You said that my son is a beggar and hasn't eaten Jiang Yaozhu?" ! ”

Zhao Zhutou was not speculative, he had no choice but to hurry off the boat, it was getting late at this time, he secretly thought to himself: After discussing with the master in the evening, raise money, and come again tomorrow morning to end this troublesome matter!

Jiang Mao had some habits of being a son, but he was restrained by his mother at home and didn't go out much; This time I went to Jiangnan with my brother and sister, and I encountered a strange case of floating corpses as soon as I traveled, and I was extremely excited, just now I deceived Zhao Zhutou according to what Qin Lin said, which made him more interested, and after Zhao Zhutou walked away, he said to Qin Lin with his eyebrows: "How is it?" Did this son play well? ”

Qin Lin nodded again and again: "Okay, excellent!" Rao is the old slippery head who has been rolling in the public gate for decades, and he was still deceived by the son, this is the wit and opportunity! ”

Jiang Mao was very happy when he heard this, the four books and five classics he read at home, and his father came back to take the test to govern the country and the country, and it was the first time he came into contact with this kind of thing, and he won the praise of the veteran of Jinyiwei - and the other party did not know his identity, and this praise was more sincere than those officials who flattered the horse, Jiang Maoyan could not be happy?

Jiang Zi was beside him, and said to Jiang Jing with a smile: "From the perspective of the little sister, although the third brother deceived the surnamed Zhao, why wasn't he deceived by someone Qin?" ”

Jiang Jing laughed dumbly when he heard this, and said in a low voice: "Let's not crack it, it's interesting to wait for him to have fun and see how someone Qin solves the case." ”

Qin Lin whispered a few words in Jiang Mao's ear, and Jiang Mao shouted: "Today, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the moon will be bright at night, let's not be next to these tattered civilian ships and cargo ships on the dock, and sail the boat to the center of the river, and see the moonlight on the river, wouldn't it be refreshing!" ”

The boatmen immediately rowed the two big boats to the center of the river, and an extremely sumptuous banquet was set up on the deck of the official ship, and the maidservants brought by the Jiang family and the kabuki on the white boat took turns to sing, play the pipa, and dance.

The two catchers on the dock smiled and muttered in a low voice: "This kind of boy and brother will have fun, Zhao Zhutou is too worried, and teaches us to squat on the dock and drink the wind." ”

As everyone knows, just when the dark clouds covered the moonlight and the river was in chaos, a small river boat hired in Xingguo Prefecture in advance quietly sailed to the side of the big official boat with the dock on its back, and more than ten people went down from the official ship to the cabin one after another, and sailed downstream unconsciously.

After a while, the dark clouds dispersed, the bright moon shone on the river, the two big ships were still parked in the middle of the river, the warblers and swallows shuttled back and forth on the deck, and a few people in luxurious clothes were still staggering at the table, and they kept drinking and singing songs...... Qin Lin, Lu Yuanzhi, Han Feilian, Niu Dali, the three brothers and sisters of the Jiang family and their three guards all sat in the small river boat.

Qin Lin and his brothers didn't think there was anything, the three brothers and sisters of the Jiang family were a little excited, and Jiang Mao also said proudly: "Back then, Li Yuxue attacked Caizhou at night, every time he read a history book, although he couldn't yearn for it, let's take the moonlight on the river at night today, rush to attack Fuchi Town, solve the case and capture the murderer, just like the snow night attack on Caizhou, and the future anthology will be published in a big book." ”

Jiang Jing and Jiang Zi glanced at each other and smiled.

At this time, the moonlight is bright, illuminating the river refreshingly, and the boat goes straight down the river as fast as an arrow from the string.

Fuchi Town is at the confluence of Fushui and the Yangtze River, and when everyone took a big boat from the Yangtze River to Fushui to Xingguo Prefecture during the day, they passed by, but at that time they only looked at it from a distance in the center of the river, and did not observe it carefully.

Now I realize that the scale of this town is not small, the houses are all common in the Jinghu area, the lights are full of warm atmosphere, and there is a place in the center of the town where the lights are brighter than other places, and there are many shadows in the shadows.

Waiting for the boat boss to dock, everyone rushed down, asked pedestrians all the way, and went straight to the yamen of the inspection department.

When I arrived at the Inspection Division, I found that the brightly lit place I saw on the river just now was here, and many villagers were crowded with torches in the open space in front of the Yamen of the Inspection Division, and their faces were full of anger because of their hard work.

An old farmer shouted indignantly: "It's too much, and we have turned the cemetery and barren mountains from Hecun into fields to collect taxes, is there such a reason in the world?" ”

The crowd immediately responded: "Yes, we have never resisted the imperial grain and national taxes, we are all good people of the Ming Dynasty, and now the government is doing this, and it wants to force us to death!" ”

A few of the younger students blushed: "Why is the amount of land in the big families small, obviously one acre is only eight points, but our field is one acre and two?" ”

The chief of the inspection department is called the inspector, and he is just a petty official from the ninth grade, but he is fat and fat, and he is full of official appearance, and he said in an official tone: "You Diao people!" I patrol the Yamen of the Department of Inspection, only arrest thieves, visit and rebel, Tian Mu is a large number of people from the Yamen of the Great Master of Zhizhou, you just have to talk to me, there is a fart! ”

The leading villager farmer said: "Didn't the secretary of the state government who came to measure the field live in your yamen?" You and them are in the same group, bullying us rednecks......"

The inspector glared at him and changed color: "What's the matter, do you dare to storm the yamen and openly rebel?" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and slapped the old farmer in the face: "Diao Min, if I don't give you some color, I don't know what the national law is ruthless!" Come on, arrest these people! ”

The soldiers of the inspection department surrounded him with swords, guns, swords, and halberds to arrest the leading old peasant.

(To be continued)