Chapter 139

In Wan'an County, Zhao Fusheng has been resting for a month.

At this time, it was the seventh day of September, and the weather was no longer hot, but with a comfortable feeling of autumn air.

This is the most leisurely and comfortable time for Zhao Fusheng since he was reborn in the Han Dynasty.

In the past month, the gold promised by the gentry in Baozhi Prefecture next door has been shipped one after another.

After having the money, the work of repairing roads and rebuilding pavements in Wan'an County is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Xu Yachen, who promised her to move her family into Wan'an County that day, and four other squires and wealthy businessmen have already sent some of their properties and are looking at the houses recently.

Ordinary people who had experienced the peaceful years also briefly overcame their fears and gradually walked out of their homes.

Due to the recent renovation of the houses and the hiring of a large number of people, some merchants even had the courage to enter Baoding Road and try to sell some goods.

In front of the door of the government office, he gradually became a little more angry.

Zhao Fusheng sat in the mansion, and Pang Zhixian, Shiye, Fan Bidie's brothers, Zhang Chuanshi and others all sat around her.

In addition to these people, Wu Shaochun, who survived in Kotou Village that day, was also there.

He was seriously injured in the stand-in ghost case that day, and then Zhao Fusheng included him in the Demon Suppression Division and luckily did not die, recuperating for half a month's injury, and after the injury was stabilized, he was sent to the county by Wu'an Town, and was officially included in the subordinate service of the Demon Suppression Division.

After experiencing the stand-in ghost case, he witnessed the death of his mother, and he died nine times in his life, Wu Shaochun became a lot more silent, and entered the town demon division of Wan'an County for half a month, rarely spoke, and most of the time followed Zhao Fusheng quietly.

In the hall, Pang Zhi County said happily:

"The method that the adults said last time is wonderful, this time after the ghost tomb case in Wan'an County, the county government has set up a total of 30 miscellaneous posts, 70 yuan per person per month, and now these people will arrive as soon as they are called, and it also saves the inconvenience of finding people in a hurry when there is something to do in the past."

Zhao Fusheng nodded.

Out of the corner of her eye, the afterglow fell on Wu Shaochun, who was standing quietly behind her.

Ever since he entered the Demon Division of Wan'an County, Wu Shaochun has always been like this, and his mother's death hit him hard.

Although he escaped death in the ghost case of Kotou Village, the stand-in ghost still left a terrible mark on his body.

Most of the skin on Wu Shaochun's body was peeled off, and a scar formed after recovery at this time, which made him no longer look as delicate as before, and he was silent, and many miscellaneous servants in the government were a little afraid of him, which made him even more withdrawn.

"Shaochun, you said that a person earns 840 yuan a year, if it were you, would you do it?"

She deliberately led Wu Shaochun to speak, and when Wu Shaochun heard her question, he did not hesitate:

"If you want me to do it, I'll do it!"

Attaboy! Zhang Chuanshi glared at Wu Shaochun without a trace, dragged the stool forward with one hand, and said busily:

"If the adults tell me to do it, I will do it."

Whether it is the ghost case of Kotou Village or the loss of control of the ghost tomb, the old man's greed for life and fear of death are vividly displayed.

He was lazy and afraid of death, Zhao Fusheng didn't believe that he was going to do it, but she didn't expose Zhang Chuanshi, but said with a smile: "I'm not talking about what I ordered, but giving you a salary of 840 Wen a year, do you want to do it?" ”

"That's not going to happen."

Zhang Chuanshi's head shook like a rattle, and he curled his fingers and calculated:

"It's only 840 yuan a year of hard work, don't do it, don't do it, I used to open a coffin shop, and I can earn a few hundred taels of silver a year-"

"A few hundred taels?"

Zhao Fusheng sat up straight with some surprise and glanced at the old man.

Then she seemed to think of something, and leaned back in her chair:

"It's black money."

"How can that be......"

Zhang Chuanshi was a little weak-hearted.

He obviously also remembered the first time he dealt with Zhao Fusheng.

If it weren't for the carelessness of that time, and then Zhao Fusheng caught the handle and pulled him into the Demon Suppression Division, he didn't know how easy he was at this time.

"Hehehe."

Zhao Fusheng laughed, ignored him, and looked back at Wu Shaochun:

"Shaochun or not?"

Wu Shaochun thought for a moment, "If the doghead village is not haunted, I will do it-"

"My mother said two years ago that my father died early and didn't leave me much money."

When he mentioned his mother, his face changed slightly, and his numb eyes gradually changed, revealing a little pain:

"When she was alive, she often inquired about girls in nearby villages and asked about the bride price."

At that time, Wu Shaochun Niang was very thrifty, and she was a well-known pick-up in the village, and she had to pick up any rotten vegetable leaves thrown by anyone in the village.

Others sometimes look down on her, and there will be quarrels when they get angry.

"I know that she worked hard, she was ignorant in her early years and ran with people, and my mother knew about it and beat me with a big stick, saying that this is not a serious business, and if she is caught by the court, she will be beheaded-"

Er Fan's face was cold.

Zhang Chuanshi also disagreed with Wu Shaochun's sorrow.

In such a world, everyone has an easy time, in addition to facing ghosts, they may also face all kinds of troubles in life.

Wu Shaochun didn't talk too much, and he only said a few more words when he mentioned his mother who died at the hands of a powerful ghost, and when he saw that everyone was not interested, he stopped talking with interest.

Just as he was about to turn his back and blink his eyes and hold back his sadness, he heard Zhao Fusheng say:

"Huanggang Village?"

Her words made Wu Shaochun stunned, and he even paused when he wanted to blink the tears in his eyes, and asked with some surprise:

"How do you know?"

"You've mentioned it twice."

Zhao Fusheng looked at his somewhat surprised face and said:

"I wanted to ask you what you were doing in Huanggang Village, but then the timing was wrong."

Coupled with the ghostly behavior of the stand-in, her memory and cognition were repeatedly reset, and she forgot to ask again.

And when I thought about it later, the ghost case was solved, Wu Shaochun was seriously injured, and Zhao Fusheng was busy all the time, so he didn't have a chance to mention it again.

After Wu Shaochun came to the county town demon division, Zhao Fusheng could see that he was depressed in his heart, and he didn't take the initiative to say anything about Kotou Village, and now that he mentioned it himself, she took the opportunity to ask:

"What kind of business did you do in Huanggang Village?"

When she asked like this, Wu Shaochun's sadness was immediately dispersed.

He showed a little embarrassment and panic, and subconsciously glanced at Pang Zhixian who was sitting on the side.

"Aren't you asking about income......" he muttered.

'Poof. ’

Zhang Chuanshi couldn't help laughing.

Zhao Fusheng looked at him with a smile: "Anyway, it's all small talk, I can ask where I want to go, and I'll talk about work later, you tell me about the goods in Huanggang Village." ”

"Okay."

Wu Shaochun nodded helplessly.

After this interruption, most of the sorrow in his heart was dispelled.

The matter of Huanggang Village is not very glorious for him, it is a head-killing business, but he has now joined the Demon Suppression Division, and Pang Zhi County in the county is also a guest of the Demon Suppression Division.

Thinking like this, Wu Shaochun suddenly became bold and said:

"My lord, there is a barren mountain behind Huanggang Village, it is said that there was a heavy rainstorm a few decades ago, there was a mudslide in the mountain, many houses in the village were flooded, when saving people to dig up family property, someone dug up gold, silver and jewelry, said that it was washed down from the mountain."

When it came to money, everyone was interested.

Wu Shaochun said again:

"Later, the people in the village didn't care about rushing to save people, so they all swarmed into the jungle and found that there were many old graves in the mountains, I don't know what year they were buried, and there were a lot of burial goods in these graves, so the people of Huanggang Village often went into the mountains to dig graves."

The Han Dynasty explicitly forbade the excavation of people's ancestral graves, and once caught, they were severely punished.

The people of Huanggang Village did forbidden things, and after digging up the burial objects in the grave, they had to find a way to get rid of them and sell these dead things that could not see the light into money.

Hence the saying that the goods are gone.

When the people of the village dug up valuable treasures, they had to find a way to transport them to other places and sell them to the rich people in exchange for money.

But the world is difficult, and there are bandits everywhere.

These bandits are almost all desperate and vicious people, entrenched in the mountains and forests, robbing the people and passers-by at the foot of the mountain on weekdays, and becoming a major scourge in the states and counties of the Han Dynasty in addition to ghosts.

Although the people in Huanggang Village tried their best to conceal the fact that a large number of old graves appeared behind the mountain, the people in the village were rich and would inevitably reveal their wealth, which would attract the prying eyes of well-intentioned people.

Therefore, when people in Huanggang Village go out to walk, they will gather in groups.

Especially when shipping, it is necessary to hire a large number of villagers, so that it is safe to walk.

"I see that my mother used to worry about me marrying a wife, and when I was young and ignorant, I also went through a few times and was beaten back by my mother."

The people of Huanggang Village committed a great crime.

In addition to robbing tombs, there are also private goods, the source of these silver is unknown, and they avoid the taxes of the yamen in various places, and they will definitely die if they are caught.

"Actually, my mother is too worried, she just doesn't beat me, and I don't plan to follow me after those two times."

Wu Shaochun thought back to the past, and his expression was a little wistful.

Pang Zhixian's expression was a little embarrassed when he heard this kind of livelihood.

He is a scholar, and he has a high side in his temperament, although he knows that most of the people in the Demon Suppression Division belong to the defilement, but when he hears Wu Shaochun mention this kind of deed in person, he is still a little disdainful.

But because of Zhao Fusheng's identity, he has been forcibly patient.

"Why?" Zhao Fusheng didn't despise Wu Shaochun's actions, she asked curiously:

"Is it because you don't have enough money?"

This kind of past is not elegant.

The reason why Wu Shaochun said it in public was purely because Zhao Fusheng asked, and she was her own life-saving benefactor.

thought that he would inevitably suffer contempt after saying it, and Pang Zhixian and the others were really a little uncomfortable as he expected, but to his surprise, Zhao Fusheng did not look down on him, but as if he was gossiping with him.

Wu Shaochun felt a little strange in his heart, but scratched his head a little at a loss.

As soon as this action came out, Zhang Chuanshi suddenly felt that his scalp was itchy.

After the stand-in ghost case was solved that day, the painful memory of being skinned surfaced in his heart again, his face changed, and he hurriedly scolded:

"Wu Shaochun, don't scratch your head."

“……”

Wu Shaochun hurriedly stopped, and his color changed a little, and finally replied: "Actually, the money is enough, and you can give eight hundred yuan for a trip." ”

Generally, the farther away this kind of business is, the better, so that people can't find out where they came from, and they can make 800 yuan for a total of two or three months on a round trip.

"In this way, the income is okay, so why did you stop doing it after two trips?"

Zhao Fusheng according to what he said, after a little calculation, he calculated that Wu Shaochun went on a trip like this, eating and living all the way, all this money was pure earning, if he could keep his pockets, he would be able to earn more than two taels of silver if he walked two or three times a year.

That's not a small amount.

On that day, Wu Dajing once mentioned that his family had a total of more than 20 laborers, who worked hard for a year, and went out to work in their spare time, and could earn 30 taels of silver a year.

However, Wu Dajing's family alone has to pay more than 20 taels of huge money to pay taxes, and after a year of hard work for the family, there is very little money left.

And this money has to be used by the family, and in this way, Wu Dajing's family is still a relatively decent old man in Kotou Village-it can be seen from the blue unpatched clothes he wore that day.

A person like Wu Shaochun can earn more than two taels of silver a year, and these silver are not taxed, which is quite a considerable amount.

"These people are not good people-" Wu Shaochun held back for a long time and said.

"Not a good guy?"

This answer was unexpected by Zhao Fu's business.

Fan Bi died at this time and said:

"Those who go out to walk, how can there be any good people, these dare to dig graves, dare to smuggle, dare to confront the imperial decrees, and dare to hire people to fight against bandits, I am afraid that they may not dare to kill people and set fires."

He seems to know a lot about human nature.

After saying this, the others did not say anything, and even Wu Shaochun had a tacit look.

His performance made Zhao Fusheng stunned for a moment:

"I see."

The past of Huanggang Village is not a glorious and decent thing, Wu Shaochun didn't want to say more, so he said:

"If I had known that there was such a 70 wen a month job in the county, and I would have come if my head was broken, my mother would definitely think that my martial family's ancestral grave was smoking-"

When he mentioned his deceased mother, he wanted to laugh again, but tears flowed down his eyes.

The people in the house were talking, and suddenly there was a 'clang' sound of a heavy object smashing outside, and then someone shouted:

"Zhuang Laoqi, do you want to fight!"

"What's wrong with beating you, who made you stand behind and scary-"

The noise of the crowd came into the house, and it seemed that someone was fighting outside.

Zhao Fusheng turned his head to look outside the house, and when Fan Bi saw her like this, he couldn't help but take the lead in getting up, frowning and saying:

"I'm afraid that the hired handyman has caused a dispute, I'll go and see."

The Demon Suppression Division's government has only been re-established recently, everything is in ruins, many positions have not yet found suitable manpower, and most of the miscellaneous affairs in the government are under the control of Fan Bi.

At this time, everyone was talking, but there were miscellaneous servants fighting outside, he felt that his face was dull, and he was always worried that Zhao Fusheng scolded him for not being strict.

When he was annoyed and wanted to go out to teach these people a lesson, Zhao Fusheng said:

"It's okay anyway, I'll check it out too."

As soon as she said this, Pang Zhixian and the others all stood up.

When they came out of the hall, through the spacious, clean compound, they saw a group of people surrounding the shop across the door.

These handymen who were supposed to work were surrounded by two people who seemed to be arguing in the middle, and the people around them comforted them, but the noisy two did not let go.

Zhao Fusheng walked in front and walked out of the gate of the Demon Suppression Division, and the noise outside became more and more intense, as if he was about to fight.

Zhang Chuanshi shouted: "What a big dog guts, adults come out, and dare to be lazy!"