"Uncle Guo, my mother has sent a letter. Steward Cao said and handed Uncle Guo a letter.

Early in the morning, Bai Shangxiong, the elder brother of Bai Niangniang, the favorite concubine of the king, was walking in his garden with Buddhist beads in his hand. Uncle Guo wandered leisurely. When the housekeeper came, he told Uncle Guo that his mother had sent a letter.

Bai Shangxiong stopped and took the letter from his mother. After glancing at it, he handed the letter to the maid beside him unhappily.

I thought to myself: People have been here for several days, and this letter has become history. It's useless. Hey, this old way is really useless. He blamed the late arrival of the letter on Fayin's head.

Bai Shangxiong has always been very conceited, thinking that he has the power of the emperor's relatives and relatives, and he is even more arrogant with more land, more money, and more women and more strength.

His power is too great in the local area, and it has reached the point of lawlessness. The officials of the surrounding provinces and counties were afraid of him and had to listen to him. Don't look at him in his forties, but that looks much more than his actual age. Everyone secretly said that he was tired and old because of his heart.

Bai Shaoding panicked and came to Uncle Guo's mansion out of breath. Seeing Uncle Guo, he saluted in a panic. Uncle Bai Guo looked very angry and said, "Looking at you like this, you look unlucky." Master forgive you today, and in the future, you will not be allowed to be unsteady and rude in front of me. ”

"Yes, yes! Bai Shaoding promised and thought: I'm on fire. You're still pretending!"

"Let's talk about something, sir, I'll listen!" Bai Shangxiong urged a little reluctantly.

When Bai Shaoding sent Qin to inspect, he told his uncle in detail about his requirements.

When Bai Shaoding sent Qin to inspect, he told his uncle in detail about his requirements.

Bai Shangxiong said proudly: "Niangniang just sent a letter and told us that Qincha is her own person. You follow him, and do whatever he tells you to do. But it's just a coping, don't mess with him, as long as I'm here, he won't do anything to you. ”

Bai Shangxiong's arrangement shows that he has to grow old. He braked quietly and acted when he saw the opportunity, which was enough for the city government. Bai Shaoding felt confident after listening to Uncle Guo's words, and thought: , what a fox spirit, amazing!

"He asked me to open a warehouse for disaster relief, but my granary was empty. He asked me to pay the migrant workers, and I had to step up the repair of the south embankment, I don't have any money!" Bai Shaoding tried to do something, and deliberately said with a very embarrassed look.

"Do you still need to teach you, master? Will it be perfunctory? Just do what I say, and I'll take care of it if something goes wrong. Uncle Bai replied unhurriedly.

On the same morning, Fayin took a walk in the courtyard of the Taoist temple. As he walked, he remembered an incident that had happened to him sixty years ago.

It was also early in the morning, and he was walking in the courtyard of the Lotus Temple. Suddenly, a yellow cloth floated down from the sky. He took it in his hand curiously, unfolded it and saw that there were words written on it.

Disciple Sun: There is a young man chopping wood at the bottom of the mountain. He is your destined apprentice. Go down the mountain and collect him! Fa Yin was overjoyed after seeing it and kowtowed to the sky. It's a pity that the apprentice didn't make it. I haven't seen this patriarch until now.

After these days of investigation, he was a little suspicious of the second matter.

These days, Zhu Zihan and Zhang Wang's entourage, have not been able to sleep well! Now, they have finally seen some results, and they plan to take a good rest this night.

As soon as it got dark, Zhu Zihan fell asleep. In the middle of the night, two black-clothed men came to the door of Zhu Zihan's room, gently flicked the latch with a knife, and the door was opened.

The man in black gently walked to the bed, lifted the curtain, raised his knife and slashed. When the man in black found that there was no one on the bed, he knew that it was bad to turn around and slip away, and said that it was too late and that it was too fast, and a man jumped from above the bed. In the darkness, the two men fought. The man in black in the house felt that the other party was too powerful, so he grabbed the window and fled.

At the same time, a man popped out of another room and killed the man in black who was guarding the door. The guy guarding the door was very ghostly, and when he saw someone killing him, he tried to lure them away as he saw someone coming.

Zhang Dahu and Wang Xiaolong beat off the assassins and came to Lord Zhu's room.

Zhang Dahu asked Master Zhu very incomprehensibly, "My lord, I can obviously catch the assassin." Why let me let him go. ”

Wang Xiaolong originally wanted to use light skills to hide in bed, if he wanted to kill him, it would be a matter of a knife. Wang Xiaolong also said: "Don't you know who sent someone to assassinate the adults when you catch them?"

"Let's run, let's run, let them go back and report a message. ”

When Zhu Zihan said this, he paused for a while and praised: "Prevention is successful. I know who sent them. This time they just wanted to drive me away, and I had to leave. I don't need to kill people to govern here. Fortunately, it's still early in the morning, so let's go back and rest!"

After Zhang Dahu and Wang Xiaolong left, Zhu Zihan slept well.

As soon as the morning dawned, Zhu Zihan went to the street after breakfast to check the people's situation. He noticed that many of the victims were returning one after another, and he also saw that there were several soup kitchens set up on the streets, and many people were queuing up in each place to receive porridge to drink.

Zhu Zihan and the three of them came to the granary in the county to see the situation of the county government opening the warehouse to provide grain. Relief food is being distributed there, and each person is given only one bowl of food.

Wang Xiaolong said dissatisfiedly: "This is too little!"

"Look, even if he gives out this bit of food, I don't think he will be able to send it for long. Zhang Dahu estimated it.

Shortly after they left, they heard people say that they had stopped sending it and that they would resume it tomorrow.

Zhu Zihan thought: Dahu guessed right, Bai Shaoding is dealing with things, and if he sends it like this, he will still starve to death.

Zhu Zihan came to the county government to see Bai Shaoding again. After meeting, he said bluntly without greeting Bai Shaoding: "Lord Bai, the food you have distributed to the victims is too small, and the time for distribution is too short! If this continues, people will still starve to death." You know what?"

Bai Shaoding remembered what Uncle Guo said to be perfunctory, and said: "It's the subordinates who are not good at doing things." I'm going to tell them to keep sending it, and the number must increase. ”

Zhu Zihan went to the place where the relief grain was distributed again to learn about the distribution of grain. It was found that the number had increased to two bowls per person. Zhu Zihan watched it for a while, and he was afraid that the distribution of disaster relief food would stop again, so he arranged for Wang Xiaolong to keep an eye on it for a while.

Zhu Zihan came to the construction site of the embankment again, and saw that there were many more people working there. Zhu Zihan called the foreman on the construction site to understand the situation and learned that the progress was still not good.

Zhang Dahu summoned all the overseers. Master Zhu spoke to them. Tell them that they are not allowed to beat and scold migrant workers. Then the overseers were divided into three groups, and they took turns to work.

The foreman on the construction site had no choice but to do as Master Zhu instructed. As a result, the progress is much faster.

While participating in the labor, Zhu Zihan inquired from the migrant workers whether they had been paid, whether they had enough to eat, and how they had eaten? The answer he received was that they were only paid a little wage, and it was not good to be able to eat enough.

Zhu Zihan thought: This Bai Shaoding is too cunning, he plays two sides and three knives in front of him and behind his back, and he can't be allowed to continue to play.

Zhu Zihan said to Zhang Dahu: "Go, I have to warn Bai Shaoding." Xiaolong, you have to stay here a little longer!"

Zhu Zihan and his entourage came to the county office. Zhu Zihan bluntly questioned Bai Shaoding: "Why are you only paying a little salary to the migrant workers? Why are the migrant workers still eating so poorly and eating some moldy grain? Why hasn't the construction of the river embankment on the south bank started yet?"

Bai Shaoding was very afraid of seeing the surnamed Zhu, and the more he was afraid of him, the more he came. How do I answer the questions he asked?

"If there are fewer people, you can catch them again, no, you can hire them again. The wage is small, and if you don't eat well, you will lack money and food, and there is no way to do it. ”

"Okay, you can show me the accounts of the silver taels and grain allocated by the imperial court for disaster relief, and if the allocation is not enough, I will immediately make up for it. ”

Bai Shaoding was broken when he heard it. If Master Zhu had looked at the number in the ledger, the result would have been even worse.

He lied: "The accounts are in the account room, but unfortunately the account keeper has gone home to mourn." Don't bother your lordship, I can find a way to go to a neighboring county to borrow some silver taels and grain, and I will overcome the current difficulties. ”

"Then let's do what you say first!" Zhu Zihan knew what Bai Shaoding said. The current situation can only be agreed to him for the time being. Bai Shaoding sent Master Zhu away. He was going to Uncle Bai Guo's mansion again and reported to Bai Shangxiong.

When Bai Shaoding saw Bai Shangxiong, he complained bitterly: "Uncle Guo can help! Zhu Zihan asked me to distribute more food to the victims." What if my granaries are empty?"

"It's good to be empty! Aren't the old grains I gave you just in time to be useful, and to help the victims of the disaster, and to cover your food shortage!"

"He asked me to pay the migrant workers more and recruit more people to repair the embankment. He also asked me to repair the embankment on the south bank as soon as possible, where did I get so many silver taels?" Bai Shaoding said pitifully.

"Yinliang, you can solve it yourself! You haven't made less money over the years, so you can just get some of it. You can make money again when you run out of money, and you can't just lose your life as long as the money is gone!"

"He also wants to see the ledger of the disaster relief food! ”

Bai Shangxiong, who was drinking tea, heard that people wanted to read the account book, and suddenly the teacup that came to his mouth stopped. He slowly put the teacup on the table and asked, "How did you prevaricate?"

"I said that the bookkeeper had gone home and was mourning. ”

"Don't be careless, this ledger must not be allowed to be seen. Bai Shangxiong reminded.

"I know that. Bai Shaoding thought: Aren't you guys in the same group?

Bai Shangxiong stood up, walked a few steps, turned around and said to Bai Shaoding, "This matter is left to me." Don't worry, I have the means. ”

Bai Shaoding nodded and said, "Uncle Guo has nothing else to do, then I'll leave, and I'll report something in time." ”

After Bai Shaoding left, Bai Shangxiong scolded, "Fayin, you bastard, who did you choose, dare not give Lao Tzu face." ？

Bai Shaoding left Uncle Guo's mansion in a sedan chair. Along the way, he sat in a sedan chair and silently calculated how many silver taels he could get in this time. The more he calculated, the more distressed he became.

Back at home, he paced around the house and thought about it. Half an hour later, he sat down. Suddenly, he slapped the table in front of him and finally made up his mind to pay for it.

He also muttered in his mouth: "Can't you bear the child's trap on the wolf, get through this hurdle." The silver will still roll in. ”

His sorrowful brow relaxed, and his spirit came up. He planned to halve the various expenses of the yamen, pour out the silver taels of his yamen, and pay some more for himself to cope with the past.

Bai Shaoding borrowed grain under Zhu Zihan's repeated urging and raised silver taels, and soon the victims received more grain, although there was still moldy in the grain, it was much better than nothing.

The wages of migrant workers have also increased, and more people have come to build drivers and dams. When people have the strength, the progress of building the embankment will naturally be accelerated.

One day, Lord Zhu and Zhang Dahu were discussing the quality of moldy grain and dam repair. Wang Xiaohu came back, and as soon as he entered the door, he told Lord Zhu that the bookkeeper of the county yamen was dead.

This was originally a homicide case, and Lord Zhu could ignore it, but the deceased person was the bookkeeper of the county government and was related to the disaster relief silver and grain accounts, so it immediately attracted Zhu Zihan's attention.

Zhu Zihan said: "We must immediately intervene in this case and find out the truth." ”

Wang Xiaolong said: "I just came back from the scene. The victim's name was Huang Jingui, who was in his 50s, and was killed two days ago and thrown into the river. ”

"This is a murderous mouthful, trying to prevent us from finding the accounts of the food and silver that were allocated for disaster relief. It's ridiculous, it may be difficult for others, but it can be clear to adults with just a letter from an adult. Zhang Dahu said.