[24] The era of cannibalism

Night.

Shijia Hotel.

The red light hangs high.

The table is full of delicacies.

Seeing that the state judge Sun Maowen, the garrison Wei Guofu, and the patrol Liu Ziming are all here.

Yao Fan stood up with a wine glass first, and said straight to the point: "Yao's previous goods, thanks to your lords, this kindness, I will never forget, come, I salute you with a glass!" ”

When Yao Fan raised his glass, He Wannian got up with a bow, smiled respectfully, took out three silver tickets, and put a thousand taels in front of Sun Maowen, Wei Guofu, and Liu Ziming each according to Yao Fan's private instructions before.

Yao Fan saw the three of them with joy on their faces, and said: "Speaking of which, Brother Wei didn't work hard for the third sister before. Come! I'm here to do it first as a respect, brother, I don't talk much, and the gratitude in my heart is all in the wine! ”

Wei Guofu was happy to hear this, and he also drank the wine in one gulp.

Sun Maowen put the silver ticket in front of him into his cuffs, his face was very happy, and he said casually: "Brother Yao, you killed the face of the Guo family this time, so how can Guo Jixiu be willing to take a break?" If the Guo family's chief Guo Weizhong, who is the chief of the imperial history in Jiangxi, is loyal and bad, and finds someone to participate in it, Master Wei is a military general, but he is not afraid of his noise, but Brother Yao should be careful. ”

Wei Guofu said proudly: "Be careful of what!" The horizontal and vertical is just to spend money to settle it, and I have already done a good job in the general yamen. ”

Sun Maowen said in his heart that you are ready, but Yao Fan, the God of Wealth, is not covered by your official body, he thought so in his heart, but he didn't speak.

Wei Guofu then said indignantly: "When I came to Qingdao, I knew that the person surnamed Guo was selling smuggled salt, but how could this bastard ever think of donating food and salary?" Also, I heard from the head of the General's Mansion that when the twist was made, the dog's day shrank horizontally and vertically in the Zhuangzi, and I think his family must be a little unclear with the twist bandit. The general Yamen had long looked at him unpleasantly, and if it hadn't been for the fact that the eldest man of his family was still an official in Jiangxi, he would have to deal with him again. This time, Brother Yao's matter came out, and it is a lesson for the surnamed Guo! ”

Sun Maowen felt that Wei Guofu was simple-minded, and said: "If the Guo family is bad, Master Wei, you will naturally be fine, but Brother Yao has no official status, if the Guo family uses money at the Yamen of Zhentai, I am afraid it will be a big trouble." ”

Wei Guofu said: "What crime? Is it collusion with me, an officer and soldier? Haha, Brother Sun's words are really cola. ”

Sun Maowen shook his head expressionlessly and said: "Since you want to punish the crime, where do you want to weave too many names or involve too many people, when the time comes, it only says that Brother Yao is foreign and has no nationality and suspicious behavior, so you can take it to ask for the crime, as long as you take it to the yamen, under the three halls, what crime can't be asked?" ”

Liu Ziming also said spinelessly: "What Master Sun said is that as the saying goes, it is better to settle the grievances than to settle them, I think Brother Yao might as well give the Guo family a face, send some people to see the merits, and ask decent Chinese people to say some good things." ”

Wei Guofu heard this, snorted heavily, but did not speak.

Yao Fan was dissatisfied when he heard this, and frowned: "Let's talk about this later, I still have three brothers in Qingdaokou, and I don't look at the face of the monk and the face of the Buddha, how dare he touch me." Besides, the Guo family itself is not clean, selling smuggled salt is a big taboo in the imperial court, once it is involved in the court, everyone is faceless, and if his father is hanged, he will definitely break his leg. I don't think he's going to fight me to the death. ”

Sun Maowen has always been at odds with the Guo family, and feels that the Guo family is rampant and unruly because of someone in the court, and never honors him as a parental official, so he continued to come up with ideas: "Brother Yao, you still lack an official body in the end, otherwise there is no need to worry about this matter." If you donate an official, then the Guo family is doing the unsightly business of selling smuggled salt, how dare you go to court. ”

Yao Fan's brows furrowed slightly: "I also know this, but the donors of the Great Qing Kingdom are too particular, and they want to have a clean household registration and a neighbor's guarantee." My Yao family has lived overseas for a long time, and I have a fart household registration. In addition, I have no neighbors, and I have no good relationship, how can I be sure? So I'm afraid I won't be able to donate my fame for a while. ”

Liu Ziming squinted his wine and said with a smile: "These are all easy to do, with your eldest brother Sun here, this is not a problem." ”

Sun Maowen was also free and easy, and said frankly: "Indeed, I can help you with these things, brother, but I'm afraid that someone behind me will worry about it, and when the time comes, I'm afraid that Brother Yao's money will be smashed into the water." I'm not afraid of being tired, and I can pretend to be stupid and push it clean. ”

Wei Guofu said with a smile: "Old Sun, you are talking cheerfully this time. However, I have heard that there are many overseas Chinese in Nanyang in Fujian who have donated their fame. ”

Sun Maowen said in a mysterious whisper: "What do you know, people first returned to their hometowns to recognize their ancestors, and the three sacrifices were recorded in the family tree before they could be donated." ”

Wei Guofu held a sauce pig's trotter in his hand, and said vaguely: "I see, then Brother Yao just needs to find an ancestor." ”

As soon as Yao Fan heard that this thing still had to recognize his ancestors, his head suddenly became as big as a fight, and he complained: "It's so troublesome!" Although my ancestral home is Tai'an, my family left early, and too much time has passed, God knows how to recognize my ancestors and return to my ancestors! ”

Liu Ziming took a sip of wine and said disapprovingly: "Brother Yao, don't scare yourself, you know that there is nothing difficult in the world, but you are afraid of someone with a heart." If you want me to see, this thing can't be easier, you just have to send clever people to Tai'an to find ancestors, thinking that the Yao clan in Tai'an is a big family, and there are several branches of Shinong industry and commerce, where do you remember it so clearly. When Brother Yao arrived, he only instructed the people who did the work not to care about the poor, just find the one who was willing, send some silver to the clan family, and just get naturalized. ”

Sun Maowen stroked his palms and smiled: "Lao Liu, your mind is the keenest, but I, the more I become an official, the more I go back, and I forget this cheap method." Brother Yao, you just listen to your brother Liu, this method is the right way, although it costs money, it is righteous and bright, and you can't make mistakes. ”

Yao Fan heard it in his heart, and hurriedly raised his glass to thank him.

When the five of them were eating and drinking, Yao Fan remembered something and asked casually: "Lord Sun, when I came, I saw more beggars on the side of the road, I don't know where these people came from?" ”

Without waiting for Sun Maowen to answer Yao Fan's question, Wei Guofu, who was half-drunk, held chopsticks and scolded his mother: "His grandmother is a male, these turtle grandsons, they don't guard the city gate well, and they do their best to put some rotten goods into the city, and teach people to be bad luck when they look at it." ”

Sun Maowen sandwiched a chopstick ox head meat entrance, and said with a smile: "Brother Yao doesn't know, there hasn't been a heavy rain in Shandong since the beginning of spring this year, but this is not only Shandong, I read Di Bao, there is a drought everywhere in the north, Jingshi, Zhili, Shanxi, Gansu, Henan, Shaanxi, and now in the north of the entire Qing Dynasty, there have not been a few decent rains since the beginning of spring."

Brother Yao, you think, since you are looking at the drought, the gentry are not raised by fools, and it is estimated that this year's harvest will not be too good, so naturally you will collect debts and grain from the tenants of each family in advance, otherwise when these mud legs starve to death, where will people go to collect debts? Although it is said that the debts of the father are not rotten, and the debts of the father and the son are repaid, but if those poor ghosts and their families starve to death, hehe, wouldn't the creditor lose a lot.

As for this debt collection, it is nothing more than copying homes and people, and boys and girls have their own useful fields. Some poor families saw that their homes were broken, and they were afraid that they would not be able to survive in the future, so they simply sold all their wives and children, and became beggars themselves, and they were happy to be idle for the rest of their lives. ”

Everyone laughed when they saw that Sun Maowen said something interesting, but the more Yao Fan listened, the cooler his heart became.

The more Sun Maowen spoke, the more energetic he became: "Master Wei, don't blame your soldiers who guard the door, these rabbit cubs are still very concerned about collecting taxes on weekdays, and besides, some of these beggars are indeed going to the city to join relatives and friends, but in these years, who can raise a poor relative for nothing?" At most, they will be rushed out after a meal, these people will definitely starve to death when they leave the city, but they can only stay as beggars? ”

Liu Ziming squinted his wine and echoed: "What Lord Sun said is very true. The chiselmen in my customs office said that there were still some beggars in the city, who used to scrape the oysters on the reef on the seashore, and scraping them down one day was also a way to survive. Now seeing that there were ships and goods coming up and down in the port, they took advantage of the chaos to sneak into the city, wanting to ask for some grains to eat, and those gatekeepers swallowed a few cigarette bubbles and went down to their stomachs, where did they care about these stinking goods. ”

Wei Guofu scolded: "! Lao Tzu will call some people tomorrow to drive out all the beggars in the city, and my brother Yao in the province is panicking! ”

Sun Maowen said with a smile: "Why should Lord Wei spend this week, and bear a bad name." It's just that when it's winter, when the big white comes, won't they all freeze to death? If this is the case every year, why do this unkind act this year. ”

Liu Ziming sandwiched a chopsticks of fish-flavored shredded meat, and said with a mouth full of oil: "The so-called going with the sky is exactly like this, the way of heaven cannot be violated, Lord Sun loves the people like a son, it can be described as benevolent, I respect the adults with a cup." ”

Sun Maowen had a toast with Liu Ziming, and after drinking, he smacked his lips and said, "If it's hot today, this wine is also a little sour." ”

Yao Fan listened to the cold-blooded dialogue between the three of them on the side, and felt as if he was standing in the ice and snow, cold all over.

“…… I opened the history to check, this history has no age, crooked and slanted on each page is written 'benevolence, righteousness and morality' four words, I can't sleep horizontally, carefully read it in the middle of the night, only to see the words from the cracks, the whole book is written two words are 'cannibalism'......"

He Wannian, who was sitting next to him, saw Yao Fan muttering and asked, "What did Brother Yao say?" What cannibalism? ”

When He Wannian said this, the other three also stared at Yao Fan.

Yao Fan suddenly woke up, remembered that he was reciting Lu Xun's madman diary, was frightened into a cold sweat, and hurriedly covered it up: "I think it's not a matter of such a big drought, if the people don't have food, wouldn't they want to eat people?" ”

Sun Maowen shook his head and sighed: "If there is really a big drought in the year, there must be people who eat each other, and the tiger poison does not eat the child, and the people of my Heavenly Empire have been educated, and I still understand this truth, since it is a last resort, it is better to eat the children than to eat their own family......

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