September 16, Zhijiang, Xiangzhou, county government.

The officials all said that Ma Xianling had gone crazy recently.

Yes, as a county magistrate, Ma Zhongguo has always had the evaluation of "if you don't get the red envelope, you won't have your life", but in the past few days, he has been conscientious, urging the officials to inspect the public security every day, and he himself has taken the lead in setting things right in the public court, redressing the grievances for the good, and taking out all the unjust, false and wrongful cases that are full of ashes and retrying them one by one.

But this is not the end - no, since yesterday, Ma Xianling has not even returned home, and has taken the bedding from the house, so he found a room in the county office to live, and the lights in the room have not been extinguished all night, which is simply dedicated.

Some officials are talking about it at the bottom - I'm afraid that Lord Zhou, the prefect of Wuling County, who has the most reputation in Xiangzhou, will be ashamed when he sees the current appearance of our Ma County Order.

But most of the officials still believed in another inference, that Ma Xianling had gone mad, and that he was mad.

After all, a normal official, who would leave his wife and children at home not to reunite? Don't let the twenty-eight beauties go to accompany you? It's just a comfortable life, and a mind is focused on such a worthless as "asking for the people's lives and long-term peace and stability"? Even if he goes crazy, then we will admit it, but he still wants to drag us to go crazy together, he has been so busy these days that his feet don't touch the ground, and he is going to faint, fuck, who is a government official to serve the people? Isn't it all for decency and prestige? For the white flowers......

But at the same time that the officials scolded the whole family of Ma County Ling in their hearts, in the hearts of the people of Zhijiang, the status of Ma County Ling was being infinitely raised, and even the prime minister and emperor could not compare, almost compared to the sage.

There are many people, and even offer the immortal tablet of the county magistrate at home, but this is really not an uncommon thing, because since the county magistrate changed his temperament, Zhijiang has really undergone earth-shaking changes-

In just a few days, Zhijiang has completely changed, and every family does not close their doors at night and the road is not forgotten. Children can play wild with impunity; After the first businessman had the courage to go out at night and did not suffer from trouble, Zhijiang soon blew a wave of night market, the wide and beautiful Longjin Bridge, brightly lit all night, bustling pedestrians, and the appearance of being in full swing, attracted hundreds of people from the next county to visit, and even Baiyue Phoenix, a hundred miles away, began to have countless Tujia people to visit here.

Such a grand scene really responds to the sentence "The Milky Way flies across, and the wind and rain help the world's guests." Changhong crosses the sky, the first bridge of Sanchu Longjin."

However, the aborigines of Zhijiang discovered a strange thing - in such a popular craze, there was one missing person.

As one of the top giants in Zhijiang County, he has no reason to miss such a great business opportunity......

At this time, the sky was just bright, Ma Zhongguo had tidied up his clothes, and was sitting in the main seat of the yamen, the rising sun came in through the window, hitting Ma Zhongguo's face, the golden light was shining, it seemed that the person was full of energy, majestic, and the plaque on his head was shining with golden light, and the words "Mirror Hanging" were written on it, which made him more and more selfless and show holy light.

Ma Zhongguo raised his eyes and looked around, seeing that there was no one else in the lobby except himself, the breath in his heart was down, he could no longer hold back his previous appearance, his waist collapsed, as if he had no bones, he sat down on the chair, he sighed, his face was full of sadness.

The officials' guesses were not wrong, Ma Zhongguo is really going crazy now.

When he returned home that day, he found that his family had been kidnapped, and he was also held hostage by a group of mysterious people, who said something strange:

"We want to ask the prefectural magistrate to administer justice."

At that time, Ma Zhongguo was simply frightened, and then when he heard the other party's instructions, he knew that the so-called presiding over justice had only one thing - to completely destroy the remnants of the chief treasurer of Wanqin Qianzhuang Zhijiang.

Yes, in the tide of business opportunities in Zhijiang in the past few days, only the chief shopkeeper who calls for wind and rain and hides is missing.

Some people speculate that he used to cooperate closely with the Jiang Yue Gang, so when that Jiang Gongzi destroyed the Jiang Yue Gang, he solved him by the way.

Some people speculate that he has done too many bad things, so in the face of the drastic reform of the county magistrate, he

He fled early, for fear of being reckoned.

There are also rumors that most of the wealth accumulated by the chief shopkeeper over the years is black-hearted money and people's fat and people's ointment, and the county magistrate is about to do something to him......

After carrying a pile of things, the men left, saying that they would return unharmed after they had completely destroyed the business of the chief treasurer.

The threatening people came and went like the wind, and they were all masked, extremely mysterious, Ma Zhongguo really couldn't guess the identity of their people, after thinking about it, he got a roughly vague inference - this group of people should be other big businessmen in Zhijiang, seeing that the Jiang Yue Gang was losing power, he immediately wanted to step on the chief shopkeeper and climb up.

"Diao Min!" Thinking of this, Ma Zhongguo couldn't help muttering in a low voice:

"It's bitter and bitter, I'm a small county order, and my biggest wish is to get some silver and some women, but everyone comes to provoke me, first Qin Lin, and now it's the bandits invited by this gang of Diao people......

Then he picked up an account book from the box next to it, opened it and studied it carefully, then pulled a piece of paper and copied it on:

"The assets in the name of the chief treasurer include four shops in the west of the city, two mansions, and 500 acres of fertile land on the outskirts of the city, together with 50,000 taels of silver. All of them are forcibly seized from the people, and the evidence is conclusive, and they are now confiscated and confiscated, and they will be executed immediately. Ao Jie, the chief treasurer of the criminal, did not know his whereabouts, so he immediately issued a reward for the wanted, informing the rest of the subordinates of the same party that there was also a heavy reward......

Ma Zhongguo wrote, and said secretly in his heart - the chief shopkeeper, the chief shopkeeper, you can't blame your brother for not being righteous, your brother's wife and children are in the hands of your rival, you have lost your momentum, and many people want you to die, you might as well die in the hands of your brother, which can be regarded as accumulating yin virtue......

Putting down the pen, Ma Zhongguo took out a piece of paper, folded it casually, and tied a rough paper figure, he said to himself:

"Brother, many women were introduced to me by you, so after you go down, I will burn more beautiful paper figurines for you, and we will settle the two of them......

At this time, there was a "knock" at the door, but it was the master who came, Ma Zhongguo threw the paper figure casually, and then put the note he had just written into a stack of papers and handed it over:

"Gather all the men and do it now."

"Yes." ……

Zhijiang Inn, upper room.

The Yu family and his wife are old and don't sleep much, the couple got up early, and Aunt Yu, who was combing her hair in front of the mirror, said suddenly

"Lao Yu."

"Huh?"

"Turn around and look at me."

"What to see...... Huh? Where did you get this hairpin, it's so pretty."

"Pretty. When I visited Longjin Bridge last night, I bought it from a Tujia family in Phoenix City, and it was so chic that he asked for 50 Wen, and I bargained for 30 Wen."

"Very good," Uncle Yu nodded, and then looked at the door:

"Count the hours, the prefectural commander is coming again."

As soon as the words fell, there was a knock on the door, and Uncle Yu and Aunt Yu looked at each other and smiled. With a squeak, Uncle Yu opened the door.

Suddenly there was silence, Aunt Yu felt strange in her heart, and couldn't help but stretch out her head to take a look, and found that the door was open, but there was no one.

What about Lao Yu and the county magistrate? Aunt Yu's heart moved, and she hurriedly put on her hair and went out to see.

When the hairpin was don't be done, Aunt Yu's hand stiffened, and the hairpin fell down with a snap.

In the mirror, there was a masked man standing behind him, and he was holding a person in his right hand, it was Uncle Yu, Uncle Yu's eyes were closed, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

In the mirror, the big man behind him saw that Aunt Yu had discovered him, and smiled sadly.

Hey.