At this time, the wine and food were also served, and Bian Xiang said to the shopkeeper Wang: "Brother, it's not time to eat yet, and there are no other guests, you can also come and sit down, have a glass of wine, and chat, our brothers haven't talked together for a long time." ”

The shopkeeper said, "Good! He took a pair of chopsticks and sat down.

Bian Xiang filled all three cups with wine and said, "Let's drink together." ”

The three of them ate and drank.

Bian Xiang asked the shopkeeper Wang, "Brother, how is the recent transaction?" ”

The shopkeeper said: "Alas, don't mention it, the current business is getting more and more difficult day by day. ”

Bian Xiang said: "I remember, isn't your business here very good?" ”

The shopkeeper Wang said: "Brother Bian, that is all in the past, and now it is a toad beating flies - will confess to the mouth." ”

Bian Xiang said: "How do you say this? ”

Shopkeeper Wang said: "Since last winter, there was a donation inspection called Gou Jingjun, and this day is simply impossible?" ”

Luda said on the side: "How can this inspector surnamed Gou eat people!" ”

The shopkeeper said hatefully: "Cannibalism, this kid is not a thing, he doesn't spit out bones when he eats people, and he changes his ways to collect donations and taxes." Almost all the money I earned from opening this small shop was looted by him, forcing me to quit all the guys in the store, so I barely maintained it. ”

Bian Xiang said: "Then you won't pay or pay less." ”

The shopkeeper said: "This I dare, Gou Jingjun has the official government as a backer, who can afford to provoke him." If you dare to resist donations, you will be arrested and put in prison. Just now, when you didn't come in, I saw Gou Jingjun, with a group of dogs and more than 20 people, going to the prison, and I don't know what crime he committed from that village? ”

When Luda heard this, he asked, "The king's treasurer, do you know where the county government's prison is?" ”

The shopkeeper Wang said: "Young man, what are you doing there, isn't that a fun place?" ”

Luda said: "I'm just curious, I have nothing to ask." ”

Bian Xiang said: "Brother, this is the first time that my nephew has grown so big and entered the city, so what he sees and hears feels fresh." The bottom line is not over, so tell him if your brother is well-informed. ”

The shopkeeper Wang took a sip of wine and said, "Okay, it's okay to be idle anyway, let's talk about it quickly." You can't eat and drink your brother Bian's wine and food for nothing. Ha ha! ”

Bian Xiang poured a cup full of wine into the shopkeeper Wang and said, "Old brother, you can really joke, what else do we two share with yours, mine." ”

Shopkeeper Wang picked up the cup and drank it all and said: "Haha, don't talk, don't laugh, don't be lively, let's also play the piano under the coptis tree." Make yourself have some fun. ”

The shopkeeper put down the wine glass and said to Luda: "Since you want to listen, young man, then I will tell you about it, so that you can also have a long experience." This prison, built in the back street of the county yamen, occupies a circle of about two or three miles, is surrounded by yellow clay tamping, three feet thick, up to nine feet of the wall, and there is a wall in the wall, each of the two walls has a door nailed with a six-inch thick hardwood board, each door is locked with two large copper locks weighing five or six pounds, the key to unlocking the lock is taken by Zheng Dana, the head of the infantry army, and the head of the infantry army is easy to grasp and keep separately, only two people can open the door at the same time, after entering the gate, there are two rows of cells based on bluestone and gray bricksThe south side is called No. A, with a total of nine rooms, which are specially designed to hold felons, and the north side, which is called No. C, has a total of 15 rooms, which are for ordinary prisoners. ”

Luda said: "Uncle shopkeeper, how do you know so clearly. ”

The king's shopkeeper said, "I have a friend who is a mason, and he helped build that prison when he was there. I listen to him in the vernacular. Otherwise, I will know it. ”

After eating and drinking, Luda and Bian Xiang walked out of Wang Ji's knife noodle restaurant and came to the street.

Luda said: "Uncle Bian Xiang, what should we do now?" ”

Bian Xiang said: "There is a Ruyi inn in front, you go there to stay and wait for me, and I will go to the yamen to inquire." ”

Luda said: "Okay, Uncle Bian Xiang, you have to be more careful." ”

Bian Xiang said: "You can rest assured." ”

Bian Xiang came to the yamen of the county government, hid under a big tree opposite the yamen, and cautiously looked inside, but the lobby of the county lord was still a certain distance from the door, and he could only see the people inside swaying back and forth, and he couldn't hear them at all.

Bian Xiang didn't dare to move forward, in that case, if you were found out by the officials, you would definitely be guilty of spying on the government, and if you didn't die, you would have to peel off the skin.

Bian Xiang had no choice but to wait patiently behind the big tree, to see if there were no familiar people coming out, and to inquire about the whereabouts of the villagers in Tianjiagang.

When Bian Xiang was anxious, three people came out of the yamen,

Bian Xiang took a look and recognized! The one in the middle is the sitting tiger Gou Jingjun who shouts on the street every day to collect donations, and on both sides are the two inseparable dogs who follow his ass, the big follower Ban Jia Yi, and the second follower Ban Bing Er.

As soon as the three of them stepped out of the gate of the county government, Gou Jingjun scolded: "******, the old guy is really not a thing, Lao Tzu has been busy all night and half a day, there is no merit and hard work, isn't it just that he ran a few anti-thieves, what's the big deal, he is good, and he doesn't ask a question, so he gave Lao Tzu a meal of meat, and I died of pain." ”

It turned out that this kid was beaten, and he didn't hold it lightly, a full fifty boards, plus twenty boards for buy two and get one free, a total of seventy hanging zero.

Gou Jingjun led a capable team composed of more than 30 horse infantry troops last night to go to Tianjiagang to arrest the anti-thieves, everyone will use this to win the victory, and the horse will succeed, isn't it just a few little thieves, that can resist this righteous army, devastating the blow, even the county master believes that his subordinates will definitely live up to the heavy responsibility entrusted by his old man and trust, and will definitely return triumphantly,

For this reason, the county magistrate came to the yamen early in the morning, prepared four tables of sumptuous delicacies in the back yamen, and prepared a good reward for the warriors who worked hard all night.

But I waited until the third pole of the day, and I saw Gou Jingjun and more than 30 of them, all of them were disgraced, everyone was depressed, and they also pushed and shoved into more than 20 people, men, women and children, crying and making trouble, shouting and screaming, and the noise almost didn't lift the roof of the county government to the sky.

The county magistrate understood at a glance that your gang of dogs were defeated and returned, and they also caught some grass people to invite merit and rewards, and played 36 tricks with the county to hide from the sky and the sea, so you are a sitting tiger and a dog thing, don't you want to hide from the sky and the sea, let you pass the county first.

The county magistrate was upright and patted his shirt and said: "Boldly Gou Jingjun dog thing, let you arrest the thief, but you failed and returned, and also played a trick for the county to catch the good and take the risk, hide the sky and cross the sea, today the county will treat you for two crimes." Someone dragged the dog down for me and beat it fifty times. ”

When Gou Jingjun heard this, he was so frightened that his legs went soft and he knelt down in front of the county master and said, "My lord's mercy, my lord's grace." ”

The county magistrate said: "Kai En, open your ancestors to cricket a ball." Today I will tell you to know what an iron-beaten yamen is, a dog who is not praised. Drag it down and start fighting. ”

Gou Jingjun swallowed his head and said like garlic: "My lord, my lord, please be merciful, Gou Shi would rather you twist my dog's head down as a night pot than have your ass hit the board." ”

When the county magistrate heard this, he added fuel to the fire, and his angry beard trembled and said: "Do you think your dog's head is made of gold, silver, or jade, but your three-flat, four-not-round, seven-fold and eight-cocked head is given to the county as a night pot, and the county doesn't have a handle." ”

Gou Jingjun cried and shouted: "This is what you said personally. ”

The county magistrate said: "I said it myself, good! Today I will say it myself, hit me, hit me hard. ”

The officials who stood in front of the hall rushed up, dragged Gou Jingjun to the hall with seven hands and eight feet, four officials held down his hands and feet, and two strong officials picked up the board in their hands and patted and beat them hard.

It stands to reason that everyone is in the government of a government as a bureaucracy, and the officials should be merciful, and a few of them will go through the motions lightly, but because of the tiger Gou Jingjun, there are usually a few clever tricks in the pocket to grab stinky money, walking has always been face to the sky, cowhide coaxing, ignoring the good staff, bad blowing beard and staring, either beating or scolding offended people, today can let the officials seize an opportunity, karma, feng shui turns, today you have to treat you well, the dog looks at people low, hit. Wow, the sun is not what you sit on the ground and hang in the sky, shine on your ass, you have to fix up today, this guy who is lying down and peeing all his might, beat.

Beat! Beat! Beat!

Beat and beat, keep fighting, this fight, and it is a good fight, the official who holds the board deliberately reported the wrong number, hit five, report three, hit ten, report seven, the county magistrate sentenced a fifty board, and the officials played a full seventy boards. If this was another person, suffering so many boards, he would have closed his eyes and climbed his legs to see the king of Hades, but the sitting tiger is not to blame for Gou Jingjun, it is the life of a leper dog, the cat has nine lives, and the leper dog has to have four and a half lives, and his vitality is tenacious. What does it mean to be strong in a dog, this is how strong a dog is, and it is a real strong dog.

Seventy boards went down, although Gou Jingjun grinned and his skin was open, but he staggered up by himself, not only got up by himself, but when he stood up, he also clasped his fists with both hands and said to the two officials holding the board: "Dude, thank you, thank you for your mercy." ”

The voice was not high, but it had a powerful and incomparably powerful deterrent power, which frightened the two buddies into white faces, and thought: "Damn, it's over, it's over now, and our buddies will have good fruits to eat in the future." ”

Gou Jingjun walked to the county master and knelt down in front of him and said, "My lord, the little one is finished, please send it down." ”

The county magistrate looked at it and said, "Yo drink, this kid is really steely, and he will be useful in the future." So the county magistrate took out a piece of silver from his sleeve and threw it over: "Gou patrol, this county beat you out of helplessness, in order to spur you, please don't hold a grudge against this county, you take these five taels of silver, go back and find a good man to treat your injuries." Let's go home and recuperate. ”