After talking about the case with the county lord, Yue Su still didn't have any eyebrows, and it was almost dinner time. According to the usual practice, if it is a male guest, he must stay for dinner, but Mu Tianjiao is a female streamer after all, and it is inconvenient to leave her to eat. And the new prefect Yue Da Ye also has no consciousness of associating with the powerful.

But after all, he is the county lord, and it seems a little impolite to serve tea to the guests, so it is better to be polite, so Yue Su said: "County lord, it's not early now, it's dinner time, it's better to accompany you in the cold house, and then go home with a little wine and rice." "It means it's not early, and if you have nothing to do, you can go home and eat.

Anyone knows that this is a send-off with the surname of etiquette, but whoever wants to Mu Dajun made an unexpected answer, "Since Lord Yue is kind enough to keep it, then I might as well obey my fate with respect." ”

Mu Tianjiao did this, in fact, there was a purpose, she wanted to see how Yue Su would entertain herself, and she could also get a glimpse of what kind of official this was. As for why the imperial court sent a young prefect to Tongren, she still couldn't figure out whether Yue Su was really capable, or whether the imperial court deliberately sent someone to be perfunctory.

Hearing that Mu Tianjiao promised to stay and eat, this time it was bitter for Yue Su. To entertain the county lord, you can't just make two dishes like you usually eat, you have to make two decent dishes.

asked the messenger to entertain Mu Tianjiao to the flower hall for tea, Yue Su ordered someone to invite his wife to accompany him, and then called Tie Qiu, asking him to hurry up and arrange the wine and food, and then go to the vegetable market to buy two hard vegetables and come back, he can't be lazy.

The prefect's back house is more than twice as large as the previous county government's back house, it is a large courtyard with three entrances, the female dependents live in the main house of the back, Jin Chan and others live in the front wing, Li Qiongying and Lan'er are placed in the middle of the guest room because they are dressed as women.

The flower hall is in the main room of the advance, mainly used by Yue Su to meet guests, Jin Cicada is responsible for cooking, and quickly fried four dishes, what are the tofu, cucumber scrambled eggs, pepper potato shreds, spicy chicken. These are all common dishes eaten at home. Tie Qiu went to the market and bought two good dishes, a plate of shrimp and a salmon.

After the six dishes were served, Tie Qiu stayed aside to serve, of course, the bamboo girl was still not qualified to sit down, and stood aside. Yue Su called Ruan Aoyue out to accompany her, the county lord is a woman, and it is inconvenient for a big man to have dinner with her alone.

When he saw that the prefect was using these dishes to entertain his own county lord, he couldn't help but sneer: "Lord Yue, even if you want to pretend to be honest in front of our county lord, you won't be like this." ”

As soon as these words came out, Yue Su was quite embarrassed, but he had no intention of meeting her with a girl. It's just her words that annoyed the iron hitch on the side. Tie Qiu said indignantly: "What are these words, do you know how much this plate of shrimp costs, why is our family willing to eat these ......?"

"Tie Qiu......" Yue Su hurriedly stopped Tie Qi and said, "You don't need to serve here, you can go down first." ”

"Yes." Tie Qiu arched his hand, turned around and left.

Ruan Aoyue said softly on the side: "My father-in-law was born poor, he has been used to hardships since he was a child, he has just been an official for a year, and he has no savings.

Mu Tianjiao saw it in her eyes and concluded that Tie Qiu was definitely not contrived, and he was a straightforward offspring in his demeanor. She smiled, picked up the wine glass, and said, "Lord Yue is really honest and honest, and Shicai Zhu'er is rude, I apologize to the adult on her behalf." As he spoke, he drank the wine from his glass. The Duke of Qianguo has been a gate for generations, and Mu Tianjiao is also a tiger girl. Speech and demeanor have the style of everyone.

Yue Su and Ruan Aoyue toasted each other. Mu Tianjiao picked up the second glass of wine and said: "This cup I respect Lord Yue on behalf of the people of Tongren, I hope that Lord Yue can truly serve as an official and benefit one party, and I also hope that my husband's mystery case will be solved as soon as possible." "The meal was a happy one. After Mu Tianjiao went out, she looked at Yue Su's back and couldn't help but nod. He said to Zhu'er on the side: "You girl, you must not speak ill of this Lord Yue in the future, he is a rare Qing official, if my Ming Dynasty is such an official, why worry about the world is not peaceful." ”

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Early the next morning, Yue Su Shengtang sent a fire lot, asking the messenger to invite the three leaders of the Miao Village under the rule of Tongren Mansion to the hall. Junma Xu Tianzhao died of the Miao Gu poison, and now it can be implemented, if you want to know more about the Gu poison, you can only find the local Miao people to understand. Under the rule of Tongren Mansion, there are three Miao villages, namely "Zhai Fang", "Zhai Liu", and "Zhai Gou", and their clansmen all take this as their surname. The three ethnic groups have always been harmonious, advancing and retreating together, so Tongren Mansion calls them three seedlings. The leader of the Miao people is called Tusi. The toasts are all hereditary, and some of the big toasts are also entrusted with the official position of the Xuanfu envoy by the imperial court.

From Miao Village to Tongren Mansion, there is a distance of 80 miles, and it is also half a day to ride a horse, and the Tusi of Sanzhai is also very cooperative with this case, and at the beginning of Shen Shi, they rushed to the government together.

Yue Su received the three toasts in the back office, first greeted a few words, exchanged names, and then entered the main topic.

"Today, I invited three Tusi to the house, not for anything else, just because the county horse Xu Tianzhao died of Gu poison, and Gu poison is unique to the Miao people, so I specially ask the three to assist in the investigation."

The leader of Fang Zhai is named Fang Qi, and he was the first to say: "Lord Yue, the previous masters of Futai have also looked for us, we have made it very clear that not all Miao people can play Gu, only Black Miao can play Gu poison, and the three of us are all green seedlings and do not know how to play Gu." ”

After Fang Qi answered, the other two Tusi Liutai and Gou Yao all nodded.

"Then I don't know if there is a Miao village with black seedlings nearby?" Yue Su asked again. Tongren's map Yuesu has been seen, and there are only these three Miao villages, but there are still many Dong, Yi, and Zhuang villages under their rule. He was afraid that the marks on the map would not be accurate, so he wanted to make sure.

"In addition to my three Miao villages, there are no other Miao villages in Tongren. As for the black seedlings, there is no village at all, they have always been hidden in the mountains and wilderness, and there is no way to find them. Fang Qi replied truthfully.

Why is that? Could it be that the black seedlings are different from you, so you don't need to gather in the village? ”

Fang Qi shook his head and smiled, and said: "In the past, Hei Miao also lived in a village, but they always harmed people, which was despised by the Miao people. Later, we, the green seedlings and the white seedlings, wiped out the black seedlings, so there was no village of black seedlings in the world, and most of the living black seedlings lived in seclusion in the mountains. ”

"I see." Yue Su nodded, and said curiously: "Black Miao can inflict Gu poison, thinking about it, it should be very powerful, how can you Qing Miao and Bai Miao have the strength to eliminate them?" ”

Fang Qi replied: "Because raising Gu poison consumes essence and blood, all the Black Miao people don't have a long lifespan, and there are very few clansmen. Although we and Bai Miao will not be able to play Gu, we will solve Gu, and it is not difficult for the two of us to join forces to eliminate Black Miao. ”

After getting Fang Qi's answer, Yue Su was even more troubled this time, Qing Miao would not be able to play Gu, and there was no black Miao nearby, where to find the murderer who poisoned the county Ma Ye. Torture Qingmiao's clansmen, it is absolutely impossible, if you can do this, do you still need to wait for Yue Su, the previous prefects have already tortured to extract confessions.

The idea of breaking the gap from Miao Village was also dispelled this time, and Yue Su sent the three Tusi out of the house, followed by all the errands of the government office. Of course, the yamen must arrange its own people, and whoever does the same, Yue Su immediately appointed Tong Xuan as the chief catcher, Jin Chan, Tie Qiu, and Yin Zhu as the team leaders, and was in charge of the three classes of officials. The four errand officers Zhang Wei, Wang Shun, Li Chen, and Zhao Jing who followed Tong Zhou here all made up errands in the Yamen.

As for Yue Su doing this, there is no surprise to the people in the yamen, in the past year, the prefect of Tongren Mansion has changed frequently, and the head catcher in the yamen has to be changed like a marquee. Even if it is the commander of the light pole, under the pressure of solving the case, he has changed several heads.

The assignment stopped, and Yue Su asked Jin Chan to take people to make a secret visit in the city to find out what enemies Xu Tianzhao had and who he had offended before he died. The Imperial History Yamen had to be investigated strictly, and Yin Zhu was specially asked to take people to check what was going on in the yamen on the day Xu Tianzhao died. After all, when the county master had only been to the yamen office, this place was the most suspicious.

In fact, what Yue Su thought of, the previous prefects also thought of, most of the servants of the Imperial History Yamen were proposed for interrogation, and they were rarely punished. For fear of provoking a popular uprising, the Miao people can't fight it, and a few errand soldiers can't fight it. Some prefects even plan to put the charge of poisoning the county master on the head of the officer, but the prince of Qianguo is not a master who is easy to fool, if you dare to be perfunctory, I have to participate in you.

In the past six months, successive prefects have been busy with this headless public case, and the official documents in the palace have to pile up. After the resignation of the errand officer, Yue Su began to review the official documents.

Regardless of the big or small matter, he carefully approved it, and when he encountered a case that was submitted to him with doubtful points, he had to open a court for retrial. For a time, the accumulated official affairs were quickly sorted out by him, and the administrative order under his rule was smoothed.

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On the other hand, the three Miao Zhai Tusi who were invited stayed in the city for one night and left the city early the next morning. The three villages are not together, the distance between each village is twenty or thirty miles, and when they come to a three-way crossing, the three toasts parted ways.

Tusi is the leader of Miao Village, of course he can't go out alone, everyone brought six subordinates, and Fang Qi was no exception.

He took the people back to the village, and when he was less than two miles away from the Miao village, more than 20 people suddenly appeared, each of these people rode horses, and held weapons.

Although there are few Miao people, they are all tough guys, protecting Fang Qi to move forward with their lives, ready to break out of the encirclement. However, the road here was narrow, and the horses of the two sides collided, and only one Miao man rushed over. After the Miao people passed, they wanted to turn around and come back to help, but they heard someone shouting: "Go back and move the rescuers." ”

After shouting this voice, the Miao only reacted and immediately hit the horse and returned to the Miao Village.

Immediately clashes, generally speaking, life and death are in an instant, and a charge can solve the battle. But this fight dragged on for a while, I don't know if the Miao people were brave or the other party was weaker. But there are more people and fewer kills, after all, it is not difficult to win, and in a moment's effort, two Miao people were hacked to death, and Fang Qi was also injured.

The two sides exchanged knives and guns, and the Miao people died in battle, but their bravery was also exchanged for the death of their opponents, and three enemies were poked to death. Fang Qi was eventually killed, and four of the five Miao men who were guarding him were killed and one was seriously wounded. Just when the seriously injured person was about to be stabbed, the reinforcements from Miao Village came, the situation suddenly changed, the enemy had no time to stay, and even the corpses of his own people were confiscated, urging the horse to run.

"Daddy!" Rushing to the front of the Miao people was a girl in a red dress, and as soon as the girl reached Fang Qi's body, she immediately rolled the saddle and dismounted, hugging his corpse.

"Daddy...... Daddy......"

The girl's name is Fang Cai'er, Fang Qi's only daughter, and when she saw that her father was dead, she lost her voice in pain, and fainted in a moment.

Most of the other Miao people continued to pursue the enemy, and a small number stayed by Fang Cai'er's side, seeing her fainting, they hurriedly went over to help. The Miao people have never lacked blood surnames, and they are all in the same breath, and the death of the old Tusi made everyone cry together.

After everyone finished crying, they collected all the corpses, and the corpses of the enemy had to be cut a few times to vent their anger. The sharp-eyed suddenly found that there were words on the enemy's knife.

"Miss Cai'er, look, there are words on this knife." The Miao man hurriedly picked up the knife and presented it to Fang Cai'er.

Fang Cai'er took a look, and it was indeed engraved with words - "Daming Yunnan General Military Mansion".

Who is the general soldier in Yunnan, of course the Miao people know, as soon as Fang Cai'er saw these seven words, she was furious, and she slammed the knife into the ground, looking up to the sky and shouting: "Mu Qiyuan!" ”