Fu Buren was scolded by Jin Shan, and his body was so frightened that he was like a sifting chaff, shaking non-stop, but fortunately, he was a little fat, his center of gravity was still stable, and he did not fall down immediately.

Jin Shan didn't say anything, Fu Buren relieved himself and said: "My lord, Wu San didn't say it comprehensively, and the little one who paid him ......."

"Shut your stinky mouth! If he had been paid, Wu San would not have screamed and would not have come to sue you. You know that it is difficult for him to sue, and he can't speak, let alone complain, and he can't read, so you can bully him even more. What kind of heart do you have? ”

"Ulala, Ulala" Wu San said next to him, pointing fingers and gesturing, but he didn't know what he meant.

Jin Shan made a gesture to Wu San, who was very smart and immediately stopped.

Jin Shan said: "It's just nonsense! This official has already ruled out the arrest of Kuai, and learned that Fu Buren's arrears of wages to Wu San are not only owed to Wu San, but also owed to others, and even more owed to Wu San, because bullying Wu San could not speak. The people have a very bad evaluation of you, saying that your family has thousands of family wealth, but you are quite stingy, you are a typical iron rooster, you bully honest people, and oppress the disabled, the crime is unforgivable, and should be punished heavily. You have done all the bad things, and now the people blame me for the bad things you have done, saying that I am not doing things well, and I have wronged good people, and I have dragged the complainant to the street to parade to the public, which is really confused. This incident was originally caused by you, you don't think about your own faults, but bite people indiscriminately, it really shouldn't be, today, you have to make it clear to everyone, if you don't say it, don't blame the official for being polite, you know, all kinds of torture tools are here, if you want to taste it, experience the experience, the official will not stop you, meet your wishes. Can you be willing? ”

"Oh, no, no, no, my lord, those torture tools are still for those who need to experience it the most, the small ones don't need to be experienced, they really don't need it." Fu Buren said.

"Okay, you don't need it, the official will satisfy you, but the skin and flesh are not suffering, and you must make your heart ache. You have to take out three hundred taels of gold, otherwise, hum-" Jin Shan said.

When he heard about the three hundred taels of gold, Fu Buren was so frightened that he trembled, and his heart immediately became colic, as if he was going to die! His voice was small, with a trill, and his heart was extremely empty, and he said, "Master, can you have less, this is the income of the small half a year." ”

"Why, it can be less, only two hundred taels of gold, but it will take forty boards. The choice is yours. Jin Shan said.

"This, this, this, is there a third way?" Fu Buren asked.

"No, if you make your heart hurt, your butt won't hurt, and if you make your butt hurt, your heart won't hurt. What do you need? Jin Shan asked.

Fu Buren peeked at the officials on both sides, all of them were tall and burly, and it was estimated that they would die of pain if they hit a board, not to mention the forty boards, there was a life, and the money was something outside the body, and it was not spent much.

If you want to die, you don't want money, if you want money, you don't want to die, you have to choose one of the two, it's not difficult at all.

After painful thinking, Fu Buren chose not to fight and paid for it.

He asked his subordinates to bring three hundred taels of gold and hand them to Jin Shan, who asked Shuli to write down the details of the passing and payment of money, and then calculated the salary that should be given to Wu San, exempted Wu San from the so-called debt, and could not ask Wu San for money again.

After Fu Buren completed the delivery of the gold, his eyes stared at the gold, and he was reluctant to look away for a long time, he knew very well that the gold was not easy to come by, and it would be completed in minutes, and he was really unwilling to do so, but this could save him from the pain of flesh and skin, and it was also worth it, the key was not to affect going out, and it was still useful for image protection.

The case is not over yet.

Jin Shan said: "Forty boards, you have no choice, it means that you are smart, if you give money, you will not be beaten, and if you don't give it, you will be beaten." This meal is exempted, because you gave money, but, the matter is not over, in order to educate other people who want to defy the law, the official decided that you will come as a negative teaching material, since it is a teaching material, there must be a protagonist, take you as the protagonist, let everyone see, so as not to say that the official lied, you see, there are many people outside to observe this court trial, and now the last link of the case is that you have to go around, so that everyone knows each other, and you must take it as a warning. lest many people begin to follow suit, and then the people's customs will change. Your march is a rehearsal, and you know what is okay and what is not. Do you understand? ”

"Understood." Fu Buren said, he secretly complained, but there was nothing he could do.

Then, Jin Shan ordered someone to pull Fu Buren to parade through the street, and he was tied up with five flowers, with a sign on his back that read, "Debt wages for the rich."

When parading the street, the masses on the street stopped to watch, after the parade, they discussed, about a year or two, everyone gave a thumbs up, praised Jin Shan, the previous misunderstanding was swept away, and Jin Shan was particularly respected.

The time for Fu Buren to be dragged onto the street to march was also half a day, which was not the same as Wu San's time. When Wu San learned about it, he was so happy that he danced with his hands, which was really happy, not only getting his salary, but also punishing the wicked. He only knew that he kowtowed to Jin Shan, spared no effort, and praised Jin Shan as a good county order whenever he met people.

After Jin Shan finished handling this case, he became more confident, it turned out that it was not difficult to complain dumbly, the difficulty was that he didn't care if he knew that it was difficult, or it was difficult to use his brain, as long as he was willing to use his brain, he could find a way.

Jin Shan heard the drumming again, it was really eventful, this matter is not over yet, and there is another case.

It is the official of Baozheng Bao.

Bao Zheng said: "There is a case of ghost eating people in Xie Hu Village. ”

Jin Shan asked, "What a hell is it?" Have you seen that? ”

"No, my lord, one person saw it, and the lower official didn't dare to believe it, and two people saw it, and the lower official was a little tempted, this time the four people saw it with their own eyes, and the lower official had to believe it. So report to the police and see what the hell is going on. Bao Zhengyan said.

"What the four of them saw?" Jin Shan asked.

"Oh no, technically, five people."

"Why is there one more person?"

"This person is none other than the wife of the deceased."

"Wife? What was the name of the deceased? ”

"The deceased's name is Xie Hu. The wife of the deceased was Xie Yin. ”

"Xie Yin's?"

"Yes, Xie Hu from Xie Hu Village married a beautiful woman from Yinjia Village, Xie Hu has been single for many years, and as soon as he got married, he found a beautiful wife, which attracted the jealousy of many people. Especially bachelors, there are also people who are not interested in their yellow-faced mothers. They were all jealous that Xie Hu had married a beautiful woman. Bao Zhengyan said.

"That is, if a beautiful woman is married to someone who is not favorable, it will definitely cause jealousy among others. Tell me, who are those four people? How could it be at Xie Hu's house? Jin Shan asked.

"It was Xie Hu's family who invited him to eat and drink." Bao Zhengyan said.

"So, why treat you to a drink and dinner?" Jin Shan asked curiously.

"It's because of Wang Banxian's words." Bao Zhengyan said.

"What?"

"Wang Banxian said that there is a disaster of blood light." Bao Zhengyan said.

"What blood-light plague? Where does this begin? Jin Shan asked.

"How things are. There is a person named Xie Jianfu. He was born in Xie Hu Village, he had no father since he was a child, his mother did not remarry, and his life was even harder, pulling him to grow up, and he never got married, because his family was poor, no one was willing to marry him, and his mother did not accumulate morality and liked to scold people, and the people in the village looked down on his family, saying that his house was a stone in the latrine, smelly and hard, and the eldest was not small, and he had not been able to marry a wife. He was also ashamed that he couldn't compare himself to others. His status in the village is very low, and later he found a widow, and he can be considered a family, and the widow's husband who died is young, but Xie Jianfu is unmarried, and the young man is married, and the widow will be married, and she will marry condescendingly, because she is widowed, she is also second-hand, and she has not many opportunities to choose. Bao Zheng said.

"Of course, folk traditions and customs, they have great power, and they can't change customs for a while." Jin Shan said.

"He got married, he finally had a family, the widow was very good, and treated the old man well, Xie Jianfu's mother was old and needed to be served, the widow took good care of the elderly, and Xie Jianfu worked hard to earn money to support his family. He is willing to do whatever he wants to do, as long as he can make money, he is willing to do anything, including doing something that others are not willing to do, which is easy to cause panic or taboos, he is willing to do it, because no one wants to do it, as long as he does it, he will make money, as long as he can make money, he is willing to do it, and he also wants to have a man and a woman with the widow, so as to continue the incense of his Xie family, so that the people in the same village will not look at the jokes, but win their respect. Based on this, he worked hard to build a family and make his family's life better. Bao Zhengyan said.

"So what happened? Did it get what you wanted? Jin Shan asked.

"It's not that easy. I don't know what the reason is, Xie Jianfu didn't get children, and the widow didn't move. I don't know what the problem is. Bao Zhengyan said.

So, what does Xie Jianfu do in his main job? What kind of chilling job are you talking about? Is he doing it? Jin Shan asked.

"Yes, Xie Jianfu's main thing to do is to be a figurine."

"What is a figurine?" Jin Shan asked.

"It is an idol for funerals, which is equivalent to replacing the martyred dummies, such as terracotta figurines, stone maids, wooden maids, grass maids, and paper maids, and the 'maids' are used to replace the living for the burial." Bao Zhengyan said.

"Oh, I see, that's what I did, Confucius seems to be right." Jin Shan said.

"What did Confucius say?"

"Mencius, King Hui of Liang: Zhong Ni said: 'The one who started the culprit has no aftermath.'" It is also used for its image of a man. Jin Shan said.

"What does that mean?"

He said that the person who originally made the wooden figurines and clay puppets for burial should have cut off their children and grandchildren. This is because the wooden figurines are used for burial. So how can the people starve to death? Jin Shan said.

"I see! Confucius was very powerful, and he would have calculated that he had no heirs. Bao Zhengyan said.

"Yes, the work he does, in fact, is to replace the figurines with living people, which is indeed not easy to do, and it will also cause others to be uneasy, no wonder there are no heirs, the reason is here, I don't know if he knows it clearly." Jin Shan asked.

"It's not clear, it may be clear, there is no other way out, it can only be like this." Bao Zhengyan said.

"His wife has not been able to give birth, is his status in the family plummeting?" Jin Shan asked.

"Yes, listening to the neighbors, Xie Jianfu's mother needs special care in her life, and she often scolds people, especially her daughter-in-law, and the scolding is very ugly, saying that she is a hen that does not lay eggs, which makes Xie Jianfu's wife very uncomfortable, very sad, washing her face with tears every day, not knowing how to be good, worrying every day, and always lamenting her fate. Over time, Xie Jianfu's wife looked old, and the disease came to the door, and sure enough, it didn't take long for Xie Jianfu's wife to be sick, and then she was dying. ”

"It's a shame." Jin Shan said.

"Yes, he can't help it, the old lady can't ignore it, otherwise he will be scolded as an unfilial child, and his wife can't be offended, after all, he will live with his wife for a longer time in the future. He was in the middle, angry at both ends, in fact, he would rather go outside to do things than stay at home. Bao Zhengyan said.

"What happened?" Jin Shan asked.

After Xie Jianfu's wife died, Xie Jianfu did not remarry, concentrated on serving his mother, and did not continue to contact women. Because of the poverty of the family, the possibility of remarriage is almost zero. Bao Zhengyan said.

"And does he often attend funerals?" Jin Shan asked.

"Yes, he attends a lot, and he is welcome in many places. Because he did the work that no one wanted to do, he was a little embarrassed to do it at first, but then he was fully engaged and relaxed. Bao Zhengyan said.

"What exactly?" Jin Shan asked.

"It is to pretend to be a road opener, play the vanguard, and walk at the front of the line, and this sort is to put the last in the front, the highest in the middle, and a little less at the end." Bao Zhengyan said.

"So, in this industry, you can't make a profit, because every year, every month, or even every day, people die. Died for various reasons, and if there were no deceased, there would be no profession. Jin Shan said.

"After his wife died, the villagers thought he was going to leave and no longer engage in the industry, but who knows, the business is getting better and better. Who knows that good times don't always exist, and good flowers don't bloom often. His business is getting worse and worse, it's strange, fewer and fewer people are dying, and he is on the verge of losing his job. Bao Zhengyan said.

"Is that really the case?"

"yes!" Bao Zhengyan said.

"And how did he get through it?"

"Thanks to the care of the neighbors, that is, the deceased Xie Hu's family." Bao Zhengyan said.

"In other words, Xie Jianfu and Xie Hu are neighbors?"

"Yes, the two families are not far apart, and they can be heard when they speak, a little louder." Bao Zheng said.

"Then, the relationship between the two of them is very good, just now you said that Xie Hu often takes care of Xie Jianfu. A good relationship between the two families is naturally a good thing, and the neighbors should be like this, harmonious, harmonious, and beautiful, take care of each other, and huddle together for warmth. Jin Shan said.

"Yes, it stands to reason that it is. Everyone thought that they couldn't get along, and they should take care of each other. Bao Zhengyan said.

"There is a big difference between having a woman in the family and not having a woman in the family. Families with women appear to be more dynamic. Families without women look lifeless. Jin Shan said, and then sighed.