Chapter 261: Ren Qiang Tells a Story (3)
Ren Qiang continued: "After listening to this, Li Song smiled and said: 'According to this, the house is like a square mouth, people live in it, and there are people in the 'mouth', wouldn't it become the word 'prisoner', and it is even more unlucky. Did it be for the sake of Tujili that people lived outside the courtyard? ’
Seeing that this was reasonable, the old man did not interfere again.
"The little tree grows day by day. Li Song watered and fertilized when he had time, pruned and pruned, and within a few years, he crossed the roof and grew into a towering elm tree.
Later, Li Song became a senior official and became a dignitary in the village. People say that this is all due to the big elm tree in Li Song's courtyard that attracted feng shui. Since then, people in the state have also planted trees in the courtyard.
"Li Song is an honest and honest official. Everywhere he went, he was first exempted from excessive taxes and often used his own private funds to help the poor.
"When they saw him giving generously, they persuaded him: 'The poor have no roots, the rich have no seedlings, and the difference between rich and poor is in the possession of property.' If you give away all your money, you yourself will be poor.
"'Moreover, there are many poor people in the world, and how many can you give to each person?' It is better to save more money for your children and grandchildren while you are young, so that they will not be impoverished in the future. ’
Li Song smiled and said: 'The eldest husband can honor his parents and raise his children at the top, even if he has fulfilled his responsibilities. As for the future, children and grandchildren have their own way of life.
"'As an official of the imperial court, I should do some practical things for the people of Limin, so that I can cure the poor and become rich in the near future, and stabilize the country in the distance. can be worthy of their own life. ’
For the sake of Mingzhi, Li Song mentioned two sentences in the living room and hung them on the wall:
"My children and grandchildren are better than me, why do you want money! My children and grandchildren are not as good as me, why do you want money!
Later generations felt their virtue and carved a monument for these two words to show future generations.
"According to legend, this monument stands on the cemetery of Li Song in the northeast corner of Dingjiazhuang Village, and there is no way to verify the year of destruction."
"Finished?" Seeing that Ren Qiang was no longer speechless, Jiao Na asked.
"It's over!" Ren Qiang replied.
"Ah, it's only two little stories to be such a big official," Jiao Na said regretfully, "And it's not beautiful, it's far worse than Danne's!" ”
Ren Qiang: "What is beautiful?" ”
Jiaona: "At the very least, you have to make the listeners scared!" It's like the story of Danne, as soon as you say that there is a little golden man in the house, my brain nerves jump up, and it is difficult for you not to let me listen to it. This one, it's fluffy and not energetic! ”
Qi Xiaoting explained: "Jiaona, this is the legend of our characters in Jianjin Prefecture, and now they have become immortals, you have to stand in the perspective of the people of Jianjin Prefecture, you will feel attractive." ”
Jiao Na glanced at Qi Xiaoting: "Listen to the story or talk about the angle?" If you listen to it, if you don't listen to it, you don't listen to it, don't smear gold dust on the faces of your people in Jianjin Prefecture! ”
"You...... You ......"
Qi Xiaoting was choked, saying no, not saying no, angry "You...... You ......" for a long time, and you didn't say a word.
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you a story about someone's murder, I promise you like to hear it, okay?" Ren Qiang said to Jiao Na in a peaceful manner.
"That's pretty much it!" Jiao Na glanced at Qi Xiaoting, and asked again: "Are you still the immortals of Jianjin Prefecture?" ”
"Of course!" Long Yi made a match: "Telling the legend of the immortals in Jianjin Prefecture is not only telling a story, but also having the effect of dissolving the stone slab when your quasi-ninth aunt writes it down."
"You have listened to the story, and the slate has also been resolved, killing two birds with one stone, you say, can Ren Qiang not tell you the story of the people of Jianjin Prefecture?"
"If that's the case, then let's talk about it!" Jiao Na said somewhat convincingly.
Ren Qiang: "Okay, I'll tell you another legend of Bu Hanlin." As he spoke, he glanced at Qi Xiaoting and motioned her to listen attentively and tidy up afterwards.
Ren Qiang preached:
"Bu Hanlin, the name of Tong, the word Tang Feng. A native of Dajin Village, Jianjin Prefecture. Qing Daoguang has been ugly Jinshi, awarded the Hanlin Academy as a national history compiler. Later, he served as the superintendent of Jiangnan Province, Zhejiang Province, Henan Province, Shanxi Pingyang Prefect, Henan Zhangwei Huaidao and other positions.
"Bu Hanlin is very prestigious among the people, and he himself is also very nostalgic. There are a lot of stories about him, and today I will tell you two stories about murders, one is called "Beating Migrant Workers to Solve the Danger of the Township", and the other is called "Qiaodian Village Famous Death Case"
"Let's talk about the first one first: "Beating Migrant Workers to Solve the Danger of the Township":
Legend has it that during his tenure as Zhangwei Huaidao in Henan, Bu Hanlin was ordered to govern the Grand Canal.
"At that time, it was stipulated that all county river section projects should be contracted to the end, and after many years, which county should bear full responsibility for which county river section project broke the embankment.
After the project was divided, Bu Hanlin inspected along the embankment. When I walked to the Jianjin Prefecture engineering section, I saw that there was a very high monument standing on the crossing not far from the river embankment, and there were five big characters on it: "One monument smashed three counties".
Bu Hanlin didn't understand what he meant, so he asked the local officials. The local officials said that according to the old people, this monument was erected by a mad monk with his own silver. It is not known in which dynasty and in which dynasty it was established.
Bu Hanlin felt very strange, so he kept this matter in his heart.
"At that time, there was a locust plague in Jianjin Prefecture, and the crops were not harvested, and the people were not able to make a living.
Bu Hanlin thought to himself: My parents in Jianjin Prefecture gave birth to me, and the water and soil in Jianjin Prefecture raised me! Today, the parents and villagers in their hometown are suffering from hunger and cold.
"It just so happens that there is a stone monument in the engineering section, if it indicates danger, the migrant workers in Jianjin Prefecture are bound to suffer. The locust plague has already caused a lot of trouble for the people in my hometown, should I make it worse for them?
So, he sent his henchmen to pull out the engineering boundary monument in Jianjin Prefecture. He also instructed his subordinates: 'When you see the migrant workers in Jianjin Prefecture, you will fight.' ’
"His subordinates know that he is anxious about the locust plague in his hometown, how can he bear to commit violence again! One by one, they stared at each other with big eyes, and they didn't dare to take orders.
"Bu Hanlin said, 'With me, what are you afraid of? Just start lightly and don't hurt their muscles and bones. ’
Only then did his subordinates dare to agree.
"When the start date came, migrant workers from all counties went up to the river. Although the state of Jianjin suffered a disaster, this was an order of the current dynasty, and it was impossible not to go.
When he reached the river, the officials who oversaw the work heard that it was from the state of Jianjin, and when he opened his mouth, he scolded and stretched out his hand to beat him. When I asked why, I didn't say. The migrant workers in Jianjin Prefecture could not enter the project section.
"The leader of the team heard that the chief of the river was Bu Hanlin from Dajin Village, Jianjin Prefecture, so he asked the migrant workers of Dajin Village to go to Bu Hanlin to intercede, so that the migrant workers from Jianjin Prefecture could enter the project section as soon as possible to start construction and go home as soon as possible after completion.
The migrant workers from Dajin Village went to Bu Hanlin, explained the situation, and asked Bu Hanlin to order to stop the overseers from beating people.
Bu Hanlin was noncommittal, and only chanted 'The supervisor is a big migrant worker, and the migrant worker is full of style'.
Seeing that they had not come up with an accurate idea, the migrant workers in Dajin Village came back dejected, so they had to report it truthfully to the team leader.
"The leader asked, 'Did he just say a word?'
"The migrant worker said with a sad face: 'Yes, but they are all about asking about the disaster in their hometown and whether they can get by with their lives. There is no mention of digging the river. I got up to leave, and then I didn't know what it meant, 'Supervising the big migrant workers, the migrant workers are full of wind'? ’
"The leader of the team listened, pondered for a moment, and suddenly stroked his palms and laughed, and said, 'This is Bu Hanlin, let us run.'
So, the order was given. The migrant workers in Jianjin Prefecture came back without moving the soil.
"It is said that the section of the project in Jianjin Prefecture was given to two large counties.
"When the migrant workers of one of the big counties were resting under the monument, the monument suddenly stopped and made a decision and killed three people, one was the migrant worker of the county, one was the uncle of the county, and the other was the nephew of the county.
"Because of Bu Hanlin's trick, the people of Jianjin Prefecture were spared."
"That's the end of the story." Ren Qiang took a breath of air, and then continued:
"Another story is "The Murder Case of Qiaodian Village"
"When Bu Hanlin was serving as the superintendent of the imperial history in Jiangnan, he authorized a homicide case. The defendant is a native of Zhenjiangkou, Jianjin Prefecture, and his surname is Wu Minggen.
"It turned out that Wu Gen's father died of illness, and there was a lot of famine.
"Wu Gen has an aunt who married into a wealthy merchant in Jiangnan. Wu Gen's mother asked him to go to Jiangnan to ask his aunt for help.
When Wu Gen inquired in Jiangnan, his aunt had already passed away, and his family was poor because of the loss of business.
Wu Gen had no way to ask for help, and he went home and had no entanglement. I had to go into the mountains to collect firewood to sell, and save money for the journey home.
One day, Wu Gen walked down the street with a load of firewood. I accidentally stepped on a brick, leaned forward, the bundle of firewood in front of me slipped down, and the flat pole lost its balance and threw it back.
"It's also a matter of course, the flat shoulder is not biased or oblique, and it happened to hit the head of an old man with white hair behind him.
"The old man was already sick, and after such a smash and a fright, he died.
"The old man's son is a gambler, and he is losing widely. Seeing that Lao Tzu was stoned to death by a foreigner, he wanted to extort a large amount of money to pay off his gambling debts.
"Wu Gen lives in a foreign country, where can he get it! The old man's son was annoyed and angry, and the ruffian went to the county government in a tangled way, insisting that Wu Gen pay for his life.
"The county magistrate took the case, thinking that the defendant had no grievances with the deceased, did not care about the crime of intentional homicide, and did not dare to offend the local snake, so he pushed the case to the state; The state pushed it to the government again. Pushed back and forth, and pushed it into the hands of the superintendent Yu Shi Bu Hanlin.
As soon as Bu Hanlin saw that the defendant was from Jianjin Prefecture, and that the accident was purely accidental, and it was not enough to commit a crime, he looked forward to a military assignment in Houguan County, Wujiangkou.
"The 'five rivers' here refer to Lijiang Village, Hejiang Village, Liujiang Village, Shangjiang Village, and Jinjiang Village near Wu Gen's hometown; 'Kou' refers to Wugen's hometown of Zhenjiangkou, and 'Houguan County' refers to Houzun Village.
"It is rumored that during the Spring and Autumn Period, there were five types of titles: duke, marquis, earl, ping, and male. A marquis's mound was built here.
"When Yuan Shao of the Han Dynasty sat in Jizhou, he built a lookout on the mound for sentry and danger. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Shanxi immigrants moved here to settle here, and the surname Hou was the former household, and the village was named Houguan Village. When Bu Hanlin was alive, the name of the village was Houguan Village......"