The work of the officials was easier than expected.

On the first day of work, Shen Lang followed Zhu Hu from the street to the alley, and then from the alley to the street, doing nothing along the way, just chatting nonsense, like two slickers.

After waiting for the sun to get higher and higher, and the weather to get hotter and hotter, Zhu Hu simply took Shen Lang to find a teahouse, go in to drink tea and eat melons, listen to books and fish.

Coincidentally, it was not only Shen Lang and Zhu Hu who were fishing in this teahouse.

That day in Wangjiazhuang, the black-faced catcher who caught Shen Lang with Zhu Hu, named Zhao Junshan, actually took his followers and was listening to sunflower seeds here.

As soon as the two sides met, of course, they would join a table and talk about gossip while listening to books.

"Did you hear that? Last night, the Zhao family in the north of the city buried another ring, and said that he accidentally slipped his foot when fetching water and drowned in the well. ”

"Hey, this is nothing new, I heard before that the Zhao family has buried seven rings this year. The way of death is also all falling into the well. ”

"Tsk, counting last night's one, that's eight. It's only been June this year, and there are already eight Yahuan 'drowning in the well'...... On average, there is more than one per month. ”

"What a sin...... Lao Zhao, you said that your surname is Zhao, why don't you have a good person? ”

"Don't get involved with me, I'm not a Zhao with the Zhao family in the north of the city. His ancestors moved from the Western Regions when the country was founded, mixed with Hu blood. My family is a local Zhao, and my ancestors have been farming and hunting in Changsheng County since the beginning of the war, and it is a pure Dongtu bloodline......"

"Lao Zhao, I don't think what you said is right. Your name is Zhao Junshan, and the young and young of the Zhao family are called Zhao Mengshan, this is a clan brother! ”

"Heh, according to what you said, the names of Zhu Hu, Zhu Biao, and Zhu Erhu, there are not one thousand but eight hundred in the entire Great Chu, are they all your half-brothers of Zhu Hu?"

"Hey, old Zhao Ling's words are too unauthentic......"

Hearing Zhu Hu and Zhao Junshan talk about this, Shen Lang couldn't help but ask:

"That Zhao family in the north of the city, so many maids died in half a year, and they all drowned in the well, I feel that the problem is very big! Doesn't the yamen investigate carefully? ”

Zhu Hu, Lao Zhao and Lao Zhao's servants glanced at Shen Lang at the same time, and their eyes were quite subtle.

After finishing, Zhu Hu said in a low voice:

"The real death of the Zhao family's maids, I have also heard of rumors. It is said that the Zhao family has practiced a hand of tiger claw skills and likes to practice with living people...... It sounds very beautiful when it is said to crush a living person, especially a young girl's bones......"

Shen Lang's scalp tingled when he heard this:

"The means are so cruel, it's just madness, this kind of person doesn't care? Just sit back and watch the Zhao family's big and young grass and people's lives? ”

Zhao Junshan sighed and slapped Shen Lang on the shoulder:

"Little brother, the Zhao family dies a lot every year, and everyone knows about this in our Changsheng County. Therefore, the people in the county, no matter how poor they are, will not sell their daughter to the Zhao family to be a maid. As for the Zhao family, they can only go to the outsider market to buy the death deed ring......"

Shen Lang frowned, endured the discomfort in his heart, and said slowly:

"Co-authoring an outsider is not a person? The girl who signed the death deed is not a person anymore? Whether it's dead or alive, no one cares? Knowing that they were pinched off their bones and tortured and killed, the yamen refused to make decisions for them? ”

Lao Zhao said unhappily:

"Hey, you little brother, why are you talking so impulsively?"

Zhu Hu sighed:

"It's not that the yamen doesn't want to take care of it, but it doesn't dare to take care of it. Why do you dare to claim that the Zhao family died in a grand manner, and all the maids who died in his family died in the well?

"One or two fell into the well and drowned, and it was barely reasonable. But these seven or eight, and even more than a dozen last year, all fell into the well and died, and the people in our county are not stupid, how can they believe this kind of nonsense?

"But since the Zhao family dares to bully our county people, and even the county government, as fools, it naturally makes sense. Do you know who is the eldest young Zhao Mengshan of the Zhao family, who is now the master of the Zhao family? ”

Shen Lang grimaced: "What person?" ”

Zhu Hu sighed:

"Zhao Mengshan's sister is the side room of the contemporary Yingguo Gong. Yingguo Mansion is the founding of the country, the first Yingguo Gong has made great contributions to Emperor Taizu, and even had two rescue achievements.

"If it weren't for the fact that Da Chu had a different surname and could not be crowned king, how could he be a king with the credit of the first Yingguo Gong Qingtian. But even if there is no king, the Yingguo Mansion is also the iron hat of Yingzhou, Shizhen, with Danshu iron coupons, and the rank is higher than the king of the county.

"Zhao Mengshan's sister, although she is only the side room of the contemporary Yingguo Gong, but she is young and beautiful, and she is very favored. With the big backer of the Yingguo Mansion, you say that our little Changsheng County Ya, which one dares to take care of the affairs of the Zhao family? ”

Hearing this, Shen Lang once again confirmed his previous understanding of this world and had a deeper understanding:

In an imperial society, power is greater than law.

For the real magnates, the so-called imperial laws are nothing more than a dead letter.

In the ancient days of the earth, in the era of imperial power and aristocracy, no matter the East or the West, no matter which dynasty or country, no matter whether the national strength was strong or not, weren't they all powerful and noble, life and death, and the grass people trembled and prostrate?

Even if the empire is powerful, what does it have to do with the grass people?

It is nothing more than that when the empire is prosperous and the country is prosperous, it is easier for the people to survive than in troubled times.

But once it is crushed by the powerful and powerful, the same demand has no way out, and the family is ruined!

Even if there is an occasional character like Haigangfeng and Bao Longtu, it can't change the overall atmosphere.

"Xing, the people are bitter; Death, the people suffer" is not a poet Wenqing, but a statement of facts.

The Eastern Soil of this world will not be any different from the era of the Earth Emperor.

Shen Lang, who came from the prosperous Celestial Empire, had instinctive unhappiness, discomfort, and dislike for this reality.

Even if it is not his business, but in his ears, he will inevitably feel churning and difficult to calm down.

Just like before he crossed over, when he saw some dark and unfair news on the Internet, he would also be filled with righteous indignation and spew a lot.

Although at that time, he could only "spray Cao Nima in the void, and scare the ghosts and gods with a key", and be a keyboard warrior who flies his fingers and sprinkles words like rain, but it does not change the reality of those dark and unfair forces.

But public opinion itself is a force.

In the Internet era, the affairs of one place can soon be known to the whole country, forcing reality.

But here, in this era of imperial power and aristocracy, the grass people were crushed to death by the powerful and powerful, and they couldn't even let out a mournful cry.

The Zhao family, who was backed by the hereditary state mansion, not only ran rampant and used innocent Yahuan as a target for practitioners, but also bullied the county people and county officials as fools, but at most, such an act could only be spread in Changsheng County.

Out of Changsheng County, or even out of the county seat to the countryside, no one may know about it.

Shen Lang gently exhaled a breath of turbid air and said expressionlessly:

"Isn't the Mu people inspecting Yingzhou and cracking down on lawlessness? Zhao family's affairs, even she doesn't dare to take care of it? ”

Zhu Hu and Zhao Junshan were silent.

After a long time, Zhu Hu said helplessly:

"Master Mu doesn't know about the Zhao family. The county government didn't dare to tell her about this, and we didn't dare to say it. ”

Zhao Junshan also said with a dark face:

"Mu Daren is a heavenly figure, but the Yingguo Mansion is not good. If the two of them fight the law, most of them will end up without a problem, and no one can help anyone. But our little shrimps, even if they are county masters, are afraid that they will all be affected by the pond fish. We have old and young, how dare we risk our own lives? ”

Zhu Hu held the teacup, squinted his eyes, and said slowly:

"Brother Shen, I know that you are young and vigorous, and you can't rub sand in your eyes, and my brother was the same as you back then. But so what?

"If you don't get beaten by reality, you don't know the cruelty of the world. That's the way of the world. For small people like us, it is already the limit if we don't go along with the dirt and oppress the good. ”

Shen Lang was silent for a long time, put down the teacup, got up and said:

"Brother Zhu, Lao Zhao, the weather is too hot, I am a little unwell, and I want to take leave to go home for a day of rest."

Zhu Hu didn't say anything, sighed, waved his hand and said:

"Go ahead, the market is peaceful, and I'm going home to rest in the afternoon."

After Shen Lang leaves.

Lao Zhao suddenly slapped the table with a black face:

"Being looked down upon by a posterior boy, Lao Tzu is really ashamed to have the same surname as the Zhao family in the north of the city!"

Zhu Hu smiled bitterly:

"I got along well with Xiao Shen, and I also said that I would introduce my cousin to him, and now, I will be looked down upon by him."

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