Chapter 246 The Turbid Way of the World (5)
Carrying the heads of Xu Xian and Slender Hu'er who were constantly dripping blood, the peasant man had just walked out of the courtyard, and before he reached the mouth of the alley, he was surrounded by a group of officials.
The official headed by him was dressed in a green official robe, with two beards, although he had a big belly and a bloated body, he also had a majestic aura that he had cultivated for a long time, especially when he was full of anger and murderous aura on his face, this kind of official authority was not high but very strong, not to mention that ordinary farmers would bow their heads if they did not dare to look directly, and even large families would be afraid.
"Where did the ignorant thief come from, he dared to kill my court official in broad daylight, it is really bold! If you know each other, you should obediently put down the murder weapon and arrest it, otherwise this official will not let you feel good, and even your family will be punished!"
The green-robed official pointed at the peasant man's nose from afar, just like he reprimanded Diao Min on weekdays, and let out a majestic shout.
In his eyes, whether it is a murderer in the market, a ruffian bully, even a gangster entrenched in the mountains, the so-called green forest hero, when he arrives in the city, in front of him, surrounded by court officials, even if it is brutal, no matter how many ordinary people are harmed, no matter how many lives there are under his hands, it is also a mouse seeing a cat, a dragon has to coil, and a tiger has to lie on his stomach.
It is a matter of course for officials and soldiers to kill thieves, because the officials and soldiers have their backs to the imperial court and the support of the entire dynasty, and no matter how strong the thieves are, will they dare to oppose the entire country? If they dare, there will only be one end: death without a place to be buried. This is a peaceful and prosperous era, not the end of the imperial dynasty, and the imperial court has absolute control over the country.
"Xu Xian is a deserving person who has committed a heinous crime, don't you know?" the peasant man did not move.
The green-robed official sneered and reprimanded angrily: "Whether Xu Xian is guilty or not, whether you say it or not, it has to be decided by the government! What are you, and you dare to make decisions for the government?"
The peasant man said: "In other words, you have the final say on everything?"
"In Songlin Town, naturally the official has the final say!"
"You know that Xu Xian is guilty, why don't you deal with it?"
"Bastard! Do you want you to teach you how to do things? You are a country man, and you dare to speak out without shame, do you know what the law is, do you know what the rules are? This official will now pronounce the sentence as an official of the imperial court, you are a murderer, and you will be heinous and unforgivable, and the crime cannot be punished! Do you know, from this moment on, no matter where you go, there will be officials who will arrest you! Now hurry up and arrest him, and if you dare to say a word more, I will let you move immediately!"
The peasant man nodded: "I finally understand one thing now. ”
"The sooner you understood, the sooner you knelt down and begged for mercy, the official might not be able to punish your family. ”
The peasant man shook his head and signaled to the green-robed official to think about it.
He said: "Some people tell me that power needs to be restrained, and power that is not restrained will be a nightmare for all those who have no power. If power is in the hands of one person, he will do whatever he wants, and if power is held by a group of people, they will be able to brutalize others with impunity. At this time, the law is a dead letter, and morality and justice are the biggest jokes in the world. ”
The green-robed official was stunned, but he didn't expect the vulgar farmer in front of him to say such a thing, "What do you mean?"
The peasant man put down the two heads in his hand, "Expecting the imperial court to restrain the government, the officials to restrain the officials, and the rich to restrain the rich, that is the second biggest joke in the world." Therefore, the world needs our group of people, and the existence of our group of people is meaningful, and what we do is valuable. ”
The ugly and swarthy dagger with a ruler length reappeared in his hand.
He lowered his eyebrows and walked towards the green-robed official step by step.
The green-robed official suddenly felt palpitations and couldn't help but take two steps back.
The farmer-like person in front of him suddenly exuded a murderous aura like a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, as if he had turned into an evil ghost Shura, at this moment he no longer seemed to be a farmer or a thief, but a giant beast that was about to choose people and devour!
As a cultivator, the green robe felt the coercion of the formation of strong strength.
This coercion made his two strands tremble involuntarily.
"You...... Who are you? ...... Who do you think you are, and do you want to kill me......? This official is a real official of the imperial court, Zheng Bapin, if you dare to touch me, your life will be over, even if you run to the ends of the earth, the court will arrest you and bring you to justice, so that you will be in a different place!"
Green robe press
Unable to contain his fear, his teeth began to chatter, and he could barely resist begging for mercy.
His threats didn't work.
"You ask me who I am, I tell you, the people in Tsing Yi get rid of the evil knife, and I will show the righteousness in the world!" The people in Tsing Yi approached step by step, "You said that I am unforgivable, my sin cannot be punished, and there is no place at the ends of the earth, and I said, you must die today!"
The green-robed official's heart was shocked.
He finally knew the identity of the person in front of him.
He yelled, "Take him down!"
Then turn around and run!
He only ran three steps before his body stiffened to a halt.
The man in Tsing Yi, who was still in the alley just now, was now standing in front of him.
The green-robed official was so frightened that he retreated again and again, and kept waving his subordinates and ordering: "Up, hurry up, kill him!" Cut off his head, and the official will reward him with fifty taels of silver!"
There was no movement behind him.
When the green-robed official looked back, he suddenly had no strength to stand.
All of his men had fallen to the ground, in pools of blood.
Until death, none of these people could make a sound.
The green-robed official fell to his knees with a pop, wept bitterly, and begged for mercy from the man in Tsing Yi holding a dagger in front of him: "Spare my life, a good man, spare my life! I was wrong, beg a good man to let me live, I have silver, 20,000 taels! Give it to you, you can do whatever you want me to do, don't kill me, keep me useful to you......"
His voice stopped abruptly.
The dagger swung in front of his throat, and his head flew up.
He can no longer condone and shelter his subordinates, and he can no longer convict those who are guilty and who are not guilty.
......
Li Datou, a man at the blacksmith shop, is in his twenties, and he is still just an apprentice who has not yet graduated.
He knew that it was not his lack of ability, as early as four years ago, he was able to make iron tools on his own, and today, his craftsmanship is completely comparable to that of his master. The reason why he has always been an apprentice is because the blacksmith shop has limited income and cannot afford to support two masters.
There is more than one blacksmith shop in the town, but all blacksmith shops will not need two masters.
The reason for this situation is very simple, and it is a reason why officials come to extort money every once in a while.
The owners of forty percent of the blacksmith shops in the town are the same person, colluding with officials and ruffians, constantly causing trouble for other blacksmith shops, and artificially lowering the price of ironware, wanting to crush all other blacksmith shops and achieve the goal of hegemony, which is the second reason.
If the other sixty percent of the town's blacksmith shops were united, they would naturally be able to defeat the largest blacksmith shop.
But the irony is that after the largest blacksmith shop reduced the wages of its masters in order to lower the price of ironware, the other blacksmith shops not only did not take advantage of the situation and gathered all the blacksmith shops to overthrow each other, but also followed the example and lowered the wages of their own masters, so as not to let the apprentices have the opportunity to become masters, and also did everything possible to bribe officials and officials, hoping that they would find trouble with other blacksmith shops.
Li Datou couldn't figure out the struggle of the owners.
He only knows that he has no salary, he can only eat his stomach, he can't praise the money for marrying his daughter-in-law, and he can't afford to buy a house in a small town, he feels that this is unfair, over the past few years, he has accumulated a deep anger, but he doesn't dare to complain about the owner, because he doesn't want to lose his job, an apprentice like him, someone can replace him immediately, at most, the master is hard in the previous stage, and the owner will not have substantial losses.
In this way, Li Datou's anger and resentment can only be vented on people who are inferior to himself and weaker than himself, or on what others can't do to him, because then he doesn't have to pay the price.
So when Granny Liu was bullied by Slender Hu'er on the street, he sat on the threshold with his rice bowl and watched with relish, and talked and laughed with the people next to him.
When someone accused him of having no conscience, in order to show that he was not a villain, so that more people would notice that he listened to him and agreed with his opinions, so as to achieve the effect of being unconventional and sensational, he said conclusively that Granny Liu was a pitiful person and must have something to hate, and that his son was frozen to death and was framed by the official messenger to death, in order to blackmail the government's money.
also said that he had seen Granny Liu's daughter-in-law stealing people, which shows that their family is not a good person, and being bullied by Thin Tiger on the street is called a wicked person and a wicked person.
His words really aroused the interest of many people, and everyone came to ask him for details, Li Datou made up nonsense, and some people were convinced, and they echoed his remarks.
It made him feel amazing at that moment.
On weekdays, he is just a humble apprentice, called by the master, and called by the owner as a livestock without pretense, how can anyone listen to him carefully, agree with his remarks, and make him so present and fulfilled?
As for Granny Liu's little girl grandson, it seemed that he heard his words slandering Granny Liu, and when he was taken away by Slender Hu'er, when he turned his head and stared at him viciously, although Li Datou was afraid for a moment, he quickly convinced himself.
Even if she survived and could come to the blacksmith again, would anyone else listen to a five-year-old child?
The blacksmith shop has not had much business recently, and Li Datou has nothing to do in the afternoon, but fortunately, the owner is not in the shop, and the master has gone back early, so Li Datou can be lazy.
He immediately got together with a few young men from the left and right shops to continue to talk about Granny Liu, the feeling of being held by the stars made Li Datou very infatuated, and now he wants to experience it again, "I tell you, Granny Liu, she ......"
But this time, before he could say anything, the guy at the wine shop hurriedly spoke loudly: "Granny Liu, isn't it just to vent her evil anger to her son and avenge her blindness, I tell you, I have also encountered similar things."
"When I was about six or seven years old, a girl three years older than me forcibly tried to pluck my ears, and one of the brittle pine needles broke into my ear, and she tried to pull out the pine needles, but it broke into another section, and at night my ears hurt, and my mother found two pine needles in my ears.
"We figured it out ourselves, we didn't go to the doctor, we didn't ask for an explanation or an apology from her family, and since then my ears have been bad, and now after so many years, my ears are even more deaf and my hatred is heavier! I really want to find an opportunity to poke her ears deafening too!"
Li Datou finally waited for the guy at the wine shop to finish speaking, and he was impatient to speak.
The guy who wants to eat at the restaurant continued: "When I was a child, my father and mother were not at home, and I slept with my brother, and I was woken up by mosquitoes in the middle of the night, and my brother lit an oil lamp to burn mosquitoes, but he accidentally knocked down the oil lamp and burned me, you see, now I have scars on my arms." Fortunately, my brother reacted quickly and wiped off the lamp oil, otherwise I would have been burned to the ground, I never hated my brother, I thank him for saving me....."
Li Datou, who was so enduring it, finally waited for the opportunity again and immediately opened his mouth.
But the guy at the grain store had already taken the lead, and he stretched out his hand with a little thumb cut off: "The ...... that was cut off by my sister when I was more than a year old"
Guy at the cloth shop: "When I was a child, I was thrown wood by a neighbor's child and hit my head, and I still hear a buzzing sound a lot......"
A certain guy: "I ......"
Li Datou was no longer able to continue to make up the scandal of Granny Liu's family, which won everyone's enthusiastic listening and amazed echo.
Everyone can't wait to talk about their own affairs, Granny Liu's matter just gave them an opportunity, everyone is anxious to express themselves and let others listen to them, no one cares about Granny Liu's experience anymore, and no one really wants to know about Granny Liu, although Granny Liu's incident has just happened, but it seems to have been erased from the memory of these people, and it is not worth talking about more.
Li Datou felt frustrated, and he was very unwilling.
But he can't do anything, he really wants to take back the right to speak, let everyone listen to him, but he really doesn't have any shocking experience, if he is a girl, he may say loudly at this time that he has been violated, to achieve the effect of not being shocking and dying, gaining sympathy and attention, but he is not.
It turned out that these guys were just like him, and they just wanted to take this opportunity to vent their accumulated suppressed emotions. Because everyone is already bad enough in life and in a bad enough mood, they don't have the heart to pay attention to what happened to others, and just want to talk about their own experiences, even if it's not true.
"I'm going to kill Slender Tiger and avenge Granny Liu!" Li Datou suddenly said in surprise.
Everyone stopped and looked at him without blinking, each more shocked than the other.
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