Chapter 36: The Curse
In ancient times, most emperors had secret guards around them, and in addition to protecting the emperor's safety, the secret guards were more important to collect information on other imperial relatives and courtiers, and in rare cases, the emperor would be mentioned to eradicate dissidents, which depends on the emperor's situation. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 In the Ming Dynasty, this unsightly position was rationalized, and it was moved to the front of Jinyiwei, Zhu Yuanzhang specially ordered him to take charge of the prison, gave him the right to patrol and arrest, and set up a town and pacification department to engage in reconnaissance, arrest, interrogation and other activities. They have the right to cut first and then play in many cases, and more importantly, he doesn't need to have evidence recognized by everyone to do things, as long as the emperor can accept it. Such brocade guards have made the country much more stable, and they are like the sword of Damocles, so that officials do not dare to be corrupt and pervert the law. But because of these relationships, if the commander is a faint king, the country is in danger.
What they do is unwelcome, and given that they can't have too much personal emotions when they do things, most of their sources are orphans, and orphans can basically do not recognize their relatives after special training. Chen Bing, he is not an orphan, nor is he a close confidant of the emperor, so the high-level has nothing to do with him, and he is very self-aware, he joined Jinyiwei only because of his high salary. I don't know if it's because of his luck, or if he has been affirmed for his work, he actually became a centurion, and in his opinion, it's almost like being a general flag.
When Chen Bing was alive, Zhu Yuanzhang was also there, although he was also dying, he was lucky, because of his position, it was not his turn to suppress the heroes, so he was not at ease. And the emperor is more wise, everything he does is the type of people asking for their lives.
That year was 1390, Chen Bing received a task to say that someone reported that Xia Zezhong of Xingning Zhixian County had bent the law for bribes and abused him indiscriminately and asked him to investigate the truth. After being killed, he was killed, and before he died, he sent back a ciphertext, saying that Xia Zezhong did it, and attached evidence. Let's talk about the situation in Xia Zezhong.
According to the record of "Zhengde Xingning Zhi", after the war in the early Ming Dynasty, there were only more than 20 households left in Xingning, so that the county was not a county, and it was attached to Changle, and Xi Shao was also managed by Changle County. After Xia Zezhong took office, he first asked the garrison leader to restrain his subordinates and stop indiscriminately abusing them, so as to calm the residents who had not yet died. Then recruit the exiles to return to their hometowns for employment. However, the abandoned fields during the war have been taken over by the government, and they are given to the royal family, honorable relatives, and military officers, and are called Guantian.
The peasants who were recruited to return to their hometowns lost their fields and had no choice but to cultivate official fields. The officials who occupied the land demanded heavy rents, making it difficult for the returning peasants to accept the tenants. Xia Zhi County went to the imperial court and requested that the tax on official land be reduced with reference to the private tax standard. After the implementation of Enzhuo, the officials believed that this move harmed their interests, and then relied on their special status to accuse Xia Zhixian of excessive rhetoric and offending Tianwei, and Xia Zezhong was accepted, and Xia Zezhong was sentenced to death.
That's right, this is an unjust case, Xia Zezhong would have been safe and sound, if Chen Bing could do his own thing. Because of the age, Chen Bing has become a lonely ghost, and in the end, he just remembered to go to Xia Zezhong and what to do with him, but now it seems that he is going to report the news. And he was definitely drugged at the beginning, so he didn't go directly to someone at that time. As for why he didn't take revenge, if Chen Bing was sober when he first died, it was possible, but it is estimated that he didn't even know who killed him at that time.
The matter between Chen Bing and Xia Zezhong has nothing to do with Xue Fei, and Chen Bing has been calling Xia Zezhong's name when he was discovered. Xia Zezhong was a good official, and after his death, the king of Hades gave him two choices, to have a good birth or to do things in the underworld, and he chose to stay in the underworld. Because people are not in the yang world, Chu Nan has never been able to find people with spells. And Chen Bing has not been able to recover his memory, so Chu Nan asked someone to help him go through the book of life and death, and then the two met to recover their memory, and after a long talk, there was nothing to do. In fact, this matter was originally very simple, but Chu Nan and the ghost were lazy, and they dragged it when they saw that Chen Bing was not very anxious.
"Everything is settled, what are you still coming to me for?" Xue Fei listened to him finish talking about himself, and was very puzzled. "Is it for revenge?"
"Didn't I say earlier that I had no interest in revenge? And Lord Hades has already asked me to punish me. Chen Bing shook his head and said. When I was discovered, I had been pestering a woman, and I thought he was related to Xia Ze, but in fact he didn't. I'm glad I was thinking about the situation and didn't keep pestering her and not causing her harm. ”
"You still think!" Xue Fei scratched her head and began to look for something to eat.
"I'm just amnesia, and I'm not stupid." Chen Bing said angrily. "Bring me a Coke."
"You two, this is my home!" Lu Lan looked at the two guys who didn't treat themselves as outsiders and was speechless.
"Hehehe!" Xue Fei smirked: "Keep going!" What the hell do you want me to do? Don't talk about superfluous things! ”
"How can it be superfluous! I'll tell you about the situation in front of you, so you can do things! Chen Bing didn't care about Xue Fei's words, it was his habit to collect all the information, recover his memory, and it seemed that the habit had also returned.
"Ghosts don't have a sense of time, and when I first gave you the information, I randomly wrote about the ghosts of fifty years ago. I've been here for a long time. ”
"Getting to the point!" Xue Fei instantly became impatient.
"Don't! It's not bad to talk about your experience over the past few hundred years! I've heard that ghosts in China grow stronger over time, and I think your experience is interesting. Lu Lan was not impatient, but was full of interest.
"I've been entrenched in the woods around the body since I died. At that time, I was in a daze, and although I wanted to find someone, I didn't take action at that time. I've been in the forest for about 100 years! I was discovered by a passing Taoist priest, who was not an unreasonable person, and found that I did not have killing karma on me, so he did not do it. After learning about my situation, he asked me if I would like to slay demons with him, and I was also confused at the time, so I signed a contract with him. ”
"Normally, isn't it supposed to overtake you?" Xue Fei laughed.
"That's right! I was also a master in front of me, and after I died, I was able to quietly absorb the essence of moonlight, and my strength at that time was really good. But he's a good guy, but it's rare to meet a ghost who talks to me and takes the opportunity to subdue me. ”
"Then he and I traveled all over the world, and then we came to a village that was under a strong curse. The people of the village did not live to be twenty-five years old, and all the people in the village were men, not without women, but even women were as masculine and handsome as men. In the eyes of outsiders, it is like the whole village is full of men, and outsiders also rumor that the people in their village are good at Longyang, that is, homosexuality. ”
"Oh! The village is gone, is it? Lu Lan said excitedly, what she was excited about, and why the following words became interrogative sentences.
"It's still there, at the beginning, the Taoist priest just sacrificed to directly seal the source of the curse, and after he died, I lost his support and it was inconvenient to act outside. Coupled with the fact that not every Taoist monk is a good talker, I returned to my place of death until I was discovered a few years ago. ”
"Where's your great job!"
"Didn't I have no memory at the time? And I don't feel hatred, it's just that if you look for someone, it doesn't make sense after all these years. Chen Bing took a sip of Coke, and there was a snort, but there was no shortage of Coke.
"What's going on with that woman! Why would you call a man's name and pester her. Could it be the reincarnation of the lover you met in the village? ”
"That's so weird! I just stayed too long and mixed up the two things. That woman is not my lover, and I am just a wild ghost, how can I find out if the other party is reincarnated. She is the key to unlocking the seal. As long as the seal is sealed, there will be a day when it will be unlocked, and at that time, for the sake of persistence, the Taoist priest took the initiative to leave loopholes when sealing, so that the power inside could be vented again. In this way, it will not appear, and it will take too long to break the seal. And the key is the extinction of a certain bloodline, and that girl is the last person, and I pester him just for his safety, although I myself have forgotten what I want to do. ”
"It's so cruel! Was the woman voluntary? ”
"You are mistaken! If the Taoist priest just sets the opening conditions of the seal like that, it will not affect them. ”
"Oh!"
"These things don't matter, let's go find that village and destroy the curse once and for all!" Lu Lan, who had been in a daze for a long time, suddenly said enthusiastically.
"Can I do this?!" Sheffei is not very confident!
"You have a divine beast!" Chen Bing told the truth in one sentence.
"Alright! But isn't it sealed now? How to solve it through the seal! Am I still going to kill that woman now?! ”
"No, no, no! She can also open the seal on her own initiative, but you'd better be prepared. ”
"Then let's go!" Lu Lan was very excited, and she was wearing evening dresses, uh, evening dresses?