A servant saw Zhou Jin observing these black insects and said, "These insects seem to be dead." ”

"What kind of bug is this? How could there be such a thing on a tank. See if there are any other places? ”

Both the servant and the chief were surprised, so they searched in the kitchen, and finally found two in the cracks of the stove.

"You have this kind of bug in this kitchen?" Zhou Jin asked the chief.

"No, I haven't heard of anyone having such a thing in their kitchen. It's weird. ”

"You two find paper packets to wrap up." Zhou Jin instructed the two officials.

The two officials glanced at each other and thought, who are you kid, we just paid you to come and see, and actually ordered us to do things. The two of them pretended not to hear, and looked east and west.

Zhou Jin knew what they thought when he saw the attitude of these two people, and he was used to commanding others. It turned out that in the laboratory, he could instruct others not to do it himself, because he was an authority, others did not dare to disobey, and those who did not listen to the command later disappeared.

At this time, he didn't want to do it himself, and he also stopped his little guy from getting it.

So he said: "Lord Zhang asked me to settle this case, if you two are unhappy, you can go back." However, if I handle the case well, I dare not guarantee what the adults will promise me as soon as they are happy. ”

After hearing this, the two officials looked at each other tangled for a long time, but they were still unmoved. Seeing this, Zhou Jin knew that the psychological resistance of the two of them was much weaker, so he continued: "My father Zhou Pan must have heard of it, if he thinks that the Zhou family has lost face and what has happened, no one knows. ”

When the two officials heard this, they finally recognized it in their hearts, the prefect was just a rogue official, and he left after two or three years of term, and the two of them coped with it. But Zhou Pan is different, a famous squire in Fucheng, and he has also been a six-grade official, they dare to provoke this kind of local tyrant, so he immediately smiled and said: "The fourth young master misunderstood, we didn't have paper on us, so we looked around." ”

"You guys have a few clean cotton cloths and a few pairs of gloves." Zhou Jin nodded and said.

The official found a piece of paper to wrap the insects, and handed Zhou Jin a few pieces of cotton cloth and gloves. Gloves, Zhou Jin didn't pick it up, only took a few pieces of cotton cloth. Then I didn't need to wrap some charcoal that wasn't burned.

"Lieutenant Chief, you go find a few people, bring hoes and shovels, and follow me to Meng Changshan's cemetery." After Zhou Jin finished speaking, he walked out.

"This young master, do you want to dig a grave? That's unacceptable! The lieutenant said in a panic.

"I want to open the coffin for an autopsy, and Meng Changjiang has agreed to this. What more mouths do you have! ”

"However, that Meng Changshan's death was tragic, and I am afraid that there will be resentful spirits coming out and bumping into you, young master." The chief here has not yet figured out Meng Changshan's identity, but the people who saw the yamen respected him very much, and the chief here also heard that Meng Changshan's case had also alarmed Lord Daotai, so he regarded Zhou Jin as a big man.

"Foolishness! Go and call someone, wait until it's dark next day, and what else will you do! ”

When the two officials saw Zhou Jin say this, they thought about it, and asked the chief to call someone.

About two quarters of an hour later, the lieutenant summoned someone. The poor man's grave was just a mound of earth, not buried very deep, but after two strokes, the coffin leaked out. Maybe Meng Chen is guilty, the coffin given to Meng Changshan is still good, and the coffin board is quite thick.

After several men took out the nails with their hoes, the hula flashed to the side, and then stared at the coffin quietly, not daring to push the lid open. The rest of the people, seeing this, were also infected, and they all stood quietly far away. Zhou Jin wanted to let the two officials go up, but found that they were standing on the outermost, looking inside with a very solemn expression. After all, when it comes to facing the dead, not only the ancients, but also people in modern society are very scared when they see it.

Zhou Jin swept around the group of people, panicked by this bleak atmosphere, very uncomfortable, he was like this, not to mention others, so he had to go on his own.

He picked up a hoe, threw the lid of the coffin to the ground, put on gloves, covered his mouth with a charcoal-wrapped cotton cloth, and began to examine the body as a crowd watched.

Zhou Jin looked down and saw that there were no corpses. It is close to the Yangtze River, the climate is humid, and the corpse has already turned into white bones for most of the year.

Zhou Jin took a wooden stick and lifted the three-layer shroud that was corrupted by corpse water. I saw that the first layer was a bright red cloth shirt, the second layer was navy blue, and the third layer was a white cloth shirt that was beaten and buttoned, and each layer was tied with a red belt.

When Zhou Jin saw this, he thought to himself, if you use red for the dead, most of the dead will die. It seems that Meng Chen's heart is still very scared, and from this kind of analysis, she was most likely instructed by Li Ergui to do the murder of her father. But she's dead, and it doesn't matter what the situation really is.

Zhou Jin tossed his clothes aside and looked carefully at the bones on Meng Changshan's body, trying to find something out. Unfortunately, there was nothing. He plucked the skull with his stick, trying to find cracks and the like. However, the crack was not found, but a small black thing rolled out of it. The thing looked very eye-catching against the white skull, and Zhou Jin recognized it at a glance as something found in the Meng family's kitchen.

At this point, Zhou Jin came up with a convincing cause of death: he died from being eaten by parasites. He gathered the people together, made them all witness, and drew a charge.

After everyone pressed their handprints, Zhou Jin let the coffin be sealed and buried. After the incident, let people buy some sacrifices and sacrifice the souls of the dead a little to appease the hearts of everyone.

Zhou Jin and the others immediately returned to Li Ergui's house and showed the worm to Li Wu's family, Zhou Jin began to intimidate the woman again, accusing Li Ergui of instructing Meng Chen's family to kill her husband without allowing her to argue. Seeing the villagers' drawings and his brother's persuasion, he immediately issued a document to withdraw the lawsuit, handed it to Zhou Jin, and asked his younger brother to go to the government tomorrow to eliminate the case.

Li Wu's case was dismissed, and of course Meng Changshan's Yue family could only withdraw the lawsuit.

The next day, early in the morning, Zhou Jin called the chief and took Wu Neng and Meng Changshan's father-in-law to Fucheng together. Hurried all the way, and arrived at Fucheng at noon. From the Huangpu Gate into the city along the road to the south, after a while, you will see the gate of the Jiujiang Mansion Division, next to it is the Jiujiang Mansion Ya Zhu.

The two officials went first to report. Zhou Jin and the others waited at the gate for Lord Fuzun to ascend to the hall.

Due to the mediation nature of the handling of this case, Zhang Maoqian was only tried in the second court, and there was no court promotion.

Zhou Jin, Meng Changjiang and others were brought to the hall. Zhou Jin immediately submitted the documents of the withdrawal of the two points and the documents of the villagers to testify and draw the pledge. Zhang Maoqian looked at it and asked, "None of you two forced you, right?" ”

"Back to the eldest master, we are all voluntary." Wu Neng and Meng Changshan's father-in-law knelt down and replied.

Zhang Maoqian didn't talk nonsense, and pronounced the verdict: "The murder case of Meng Changjiang was all caused by Li Ergui's adultery with Meng Chen's family, and then conspired to kill Meng Changshan with carrion. Now the bitter lord withdraws the lawsuit, and the official is in the heart of benevolence, righteousness and love for the people, so he sentenced Meng Changjiang to be assigned three cadres, fined 30 taels of silver, and compensated the Li family 10 taels, and compensated the Chen family 2 taels. Meng Changjiang is a righteous man of the country, and he is only punished with silver. For the rest of the compensation, because Meng Changjiang was unable to compensate, he voluntarily sold himself to pay it back. ”

Zhou Jin immediately said: "My lord, the student is willing to repay the compensation. ”

"Meng Changjiang, can you agree with the student Zhou Jin to repay your debts? If you agree, you will be a slave to him for the rest of your life. ”

"The prisoners are willing."

Zhang Maoqian waved his hand and said, "Let them draw the pledge and hand it over." ”

Zhou Jin saw that Wu Neng stretched out his hand to ask for money, and immediately told Zhang Maoqian: "My lord, the Li family lost money, I thought it was better to let the chief bring it back, this Wu Gui is just a gambler, I am worried that he is greedy for ink." ”

Zhang Maoqian looked at Wu Neng, and he was also very displeased in his heart: "Well, I'll bring it back from the chief." After delivery, the receipt will be returned to the yamen. ”

After Zhang Maoqian retreated, Meng Changjiang suddenly bowed down to Zhou Jin and said, "Thank you for the grace of the fourth master's life." ”

Zhou Jin lightly held his hands and said: "The man kneels to the sky, kneels to the ground, the king kneels, the parents kneel to the teacher, and he can give me such a heavy salute." Hurry up! ”

Meng Changjiang said: "You are like my parents, you should kneel." ”

Zhou Jin straightened up and said solemnly: "Aren't you just a mother with milk?" I'll forgive you this time, get up!"

Meng Changjiang listened to his humiliation, felt ashamed in his heart, stood up and arched his hand: "The fourth master is right, and the little one is rude." ”

Out of the mansion, Zhou Jin and the three of them passed the Chen Temple after a while and arrived at the Guandi Temple. Zhou Jin looked at the Guandi Temple with faint incense and said, "Go in and have a look." ”

This Guandi Temple has a courtyard, and after passing the courtyard gate, you can see the statue of Guan Yu standing in a three-bay pavilion house. In the courtyard, there is a ding, with countless incense candles and wooden sticks that have long been extinguished. Walking inside, you can see that the paint of the roof beams has begun to peel off, and the statue of Guan Yu is still relatively intact.

Zhou Jin watched it and asked, "Meng Changjiang, do you know why Guan Yunchang can be worshiped by the world's incense?" ”

Zhou Jin found that he didn't know what Meng Changjiang's words were, so without waiting for him to speak, he asked again: "Are you a word?" ”

Meng Changjiang smiled and said: "I'm a rough person, what are the words?" ”

Zhou Jin said: "How about I get one for you?" ”

"Thank you, Fourth Master!"

Zhou Jin took a turn in this temple and said: "Your name is the Yangtze River, these two words are the latitude of the country, and we are now in the Guandi Temple." Then call you Zhongwei. How is it? ”

Meng Changjiang immediately clenched his fists and bowed in thanks: "Thank you for the words." ”

Zhou Jin smiled and said, "Zhongwei, now you talk about my question just now." ”

That Meng Changjiang was still not used to his newly obtained expression, and was stunned before replying: "It's because of his loyalty." ”

"What is loyalty?"

"It is loyalty to the court and righteousness to friends."

"Guan Yunchang is loyal to Liu Bei, and it is righteous for Chibi to let Cao Cao go. Guan Yun's body is in Cao Ying, and his heart is in Han, and loyalty is greater than righteousness. Do you understand? ”

Meng Changjiang was not a rectum, so he immediately understood what Zhou Jin meant, and saluted on one knee: "The little one must be loyal to the fourth master!" ”

Zhou Jin hurriedly helped Meng Changjiang up and said, "Zhongwei doesn't have to be like this. Hurry up. ”

Of course, Zhou Jin hoped that in this way, he would be able to win Meng Changjiang's diehard loyalty, but these things must be done. This kind of relationship must be established at the beginning in order to complete the psychological adaptation imperceptibly. Otherwise, when you need to sort out the relationship later, you will face the adverse effects of cleanup.

The three of them went back to the street and wandered around, and came to a stall selling jewelry, Zhou Jin flipped through it casually, and didn't see anything exciting. said casually: "This stall doesn't have anything good." ”

But the peddler quit and said: "Objective, who said that I don't have a good thing, no, isn't this a good thing!" ”

I saw that the vendor took out a string of beads from under the stall, but did not give it to Zhou Jin, but held it himself.

Zhou Jin sneered: "What else do I think, you don't give me a baby." ”

The peddler looked around and said, "I have one hundred Buddha beads and eight large beads, all of which are polished by the Buddha's relics, and I don't know if it's one." The rest are all fine jade. This bead is hundreds of years old, and you can see that this largest relic is engraved with the Jiatai two-year system. ”

Zhou Jin said: "Don't talk nonsense, then show me." After speaking, he snatched it from the vendor's hand, took it in his hand and looked carefully, sure enough, the three big ones were not jade, they looked like bones, but now they were very smooth, and it was difficult to see if you didn't pay attention. The rest of the beads are like quail eggs, almost the same size and color, shiny and smooth. Whether it's a good jade or not, Zhou Jin doesn't know, but he can see that it's been a long time.

Zhou Jin played with it, liked it in his heart, and felt that he was a good match for Li Yu, so he decided to buy it, and asked with contempt: "How much are you going to sell this?" ”

The vendor snatched back the beads and said, "I only sell this one to the one who knows the goods, and of course the seller will bid for it." ”

Zhou Jin said unashamedly: "That's good, I'm the one who knows the goods, and you sell me a penny of silver." ”

The peddler's eyes widened, and he said in disbelief: "You are sick, look at your tall and tall man, your appearance is dignified, why do you speak so out of tune." ”

"Then how much do you say you sell?"

The peddler replied arrogantly, "I won't sell you anymore." ”

Zhou Jin thought to himself, I don't know how much this is worth, it seems that I have to cheat him, so after I had a plan in my heart, I slapped it on the stall and said angrily: "Do you dare not sell it?" ”

"I don't believe you dare to buy it!"

Zhou Jin waited for a while, saw that there was no support, looked back at the two people who followed him, and wondered why these two people did not cooperate. shouted, "What are you still standing stupid for?" ”

Meng Changjiang did this kind of thing, only to feel inexplicable, but the little guy who followed Zhou Jin immediately understood, it turned out that the fourth young master was also a bad young man, he kicked it to the stall, and then rushed over and arrested the hawker, glaring: "When my young master is easy to bully, isn't it?!" ”

Because he was tall, he was a head taller than the peddler. The peddler was glared at by his condescending gaze, and almost ran out of pee.

Zhou Jin watched the little guy take action, and thought to himself that it was still less comfortable to do evil, but he was very dissatisfied with the fact that the little guy almost kicked over the stall, because it was not easy to end up after kicking over, but fortunately, this kid knew the severity.

"How? Still selling or not selling? Zhou Jin snatched the bead again and said.

"A penny of silver is killed and not sold!"

"Then you'll have to make a price!"

At this time, a familiar voice came to my ears: "Childe, these beads can't be bought for a penny." This bead is worth at least a hundred taels of silver! ”

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