Chapter 207

Zhao Fusheng answered:

"This middleman is Guo Wei?"

Cao Dazong knelt and nodded:

"His family has been innocent for generations, cowardly, and poor, which is very suitable."

"During this period, Master Kong wanted to send someone to summon him directly, but after consulting the huge man, the huge man said that it was not suitable-"

Pang Zhixian has been with Zhao Fusheng for a while, and he is also very clear about her personality.

The reason why Zhao Fusheng wanted to recruit people in Huanggang and Fengmen two villages was to support the two villages and make the people in these two villages better.

It would have been a good thing, but if people were forcibly recruited, the intention would have changed.

Therefore, Pang Zhixian thought about it for a while, thinking that this matter was an opportunity to break the deadlock between the village and the town government, so he decided to hire Guo Wei at the expense of the county government.

Three hundred is not a lot, but it is not a small amount for a poor family.

"But Diao Min still refused, and later Master Kong actually posted him half a penny, and he finally agreed." Cao Dazong moved his foot and secretly glanced at Zhao Fusheng.

One hanging money is about 1,000 wen, and half a hanging money is equivalent to 500 wen, plus 300 wen spent by the county government yamen.

In order to hire this Guo Wei, it is equivalent to a total of 800 yuan spent in Wan'an County.

Zhao Fusheng suddenly let out a long sigh.

The people of the Han Dynasty were ignorant and ignorant, poor and short-sighted, and at a loss for what to do about the future.

The chaos of the dynasty, the rampant ghosts, and the exorbitant taxes made them extremely vigilant, and it was difficult to change the status quo.

She can go on a rampage when handling ghost cases, and some things dare to be done recklessly first, but in the face of such a situation, she has a sense of restraint.

Cao Dazong was frightened by her sigh, and thought that he had said the wrong thing, and his lips instantly lost their blood.

"My lord, I ...... Am I saying the wrong thing......"

"It's not." Zhao Fusheng shook his head and held back the emotions in his heart:

"You go on."

"Yes."

Cao Dazong was a little anxious, but he didn't dare to ask more, so he had to say again:

"After giving the money, his family said that they used the money to pay off some foreign debts and buy some things, and then the messenger also visited privately, saying that Guo Wei did visit some village households——"

Judging from Cao Dazong's words, Guo Wei is indeed honest.

After he took the government's 'bounty', he has also been doing things, but in the end he suddenly stopped doing it, presumably for a reason.

"Someone came to his door and threatened him?"

"According to the spies, someone has been to his house." Cao Dazong hesitated for a moment before continuing:

"It's a villager named Li Da Luozi."

Zhao Fusheng nodded, motioned for him to continue.

"This Li Da Luo is younger than Guo Wei, very short and thin, but only the front teeth are very long, people call him Li Da Luozi, it is said that this person and a bandit leader in the mountain nest of Huanggang Village used to be a brother in the early years, some people say that he is also the pioneer of the bandits' den."

When Cao Dazong said this, he went to secretly look at Zhao Fusheng again, but he didn't expect that as soon as his eyelids were raised, he happened to meet her eyes.

She was not very old, but for some reason her eyes were quiet, and when the two met their eyes, Cao Dazong suddenly lowered his head in fright, and his heart beat violently.

"Then it seems that the bandit den in Fengmen Village has indeed gotten the news."

Zhao Fusheng smiled and said.

But she wasn't offended.

Fengmen Village is so big, and the actions of the government are not small, and the matter of recruiting young and strong people has been going on for a while, and the bandits in the mountains are inextricably linked with the villagers, so it is not surprising to get the news.

Guo Wei cooperated with the government, and took money to pay off debts and buy food, which is not a small action, and it is reasonable to attract bandits.

"So the bandits took his family?" Zhao Fusheng asked.

Cao Dazong said cautiously:

"That's what Master Kong said."

Although this tolerance is old, he is worthy of being a public person, and his speech is quite sharp.

If it was a young man who didn't have much heart, maybe he was really fooled by his words.

But Zhao Fusheng was deeply thoughtful, and when he heard him say this, he couldn't help but move in his heart:

"That's what Master Kong said too?" She asked rhetorically, Cao Dazong panicked in his heart, and then thought twice in his heart, and felt that he had not said the wrong thing, so he nodded worriedly:

"Yes, yes, Master Kong also said that maybe it was the bandits who wanted to blackmail him and force him to cut off contact with the government......"

Zhao Fusheng interrupted him:

"I don't listen to Master Kong, I want to hear you."

"I-I say?" Cao Dazong looked at a loss, stretched out his hand and pointed at himself, and said in fear:

"What do you want me to say?"

"Do you think the bandits are taking action on his family?" Zhao Fusheng asked bluntly.

Cao Dazong sat down on the soles of his hind feet and trembled:

"Your Excellency spares your life."

"It's just a question, what's there to spare your life?" Zhao Fusheng said lightly, and Wu Shaochun also scolded:

"If you ask you something, you just have to answer."

"I'm afraid that I will say the wrong thing and anger my lord, I'm old and faint-" Cao Dazong's eyes dodged, and Zhao Fusheng smiled when he heard this:

"Old and dumb, can't do errands?"

"That's not."

Cao Dazong suddenly became anxious and sat up with a 'pout'.

Zhao Fusheng looked at him coldly.

Cao Dazong bowed his head timidly, and finally hung his head and said:

"If my words are not true, please forgive me."

"I asked you to say it, so naturally there is no fault with you." Zhao Fusheng calmly said:

"Besides, if you talk about you, it is up to me to believe it or not, and it has nothing to do with you."

As soon as she said this, Cao Dazong suddenly felt a sigh of relief in his heart, and hurriedly said:

"Actually, in fact, I think that Li Da Luozi may indeed have some unclean affairs with the bandits, and he went to the door of Guo's house, and he did not go to threaten Guo Wei——"

Speaking of this, Cao Dazong hurriedly raised his voice and emphasized:

"I just said maybe, just maybe."

Zhao Fusheng ignored him, and just asked again: "What happened later?" What happened next? ”

Cao Dazong is a member of the public family.

Although Zhao Fusheng did not rule out the possibility that the town's errand officers might collude with bandits and share news with each other, it was okay to make a small fuss at ordinary times, this matter involved the Demon Suppression Division, Pang Zhi County attached great importance to it, and it was impossible for Kong Youde, the mayor of the town, to find this time even if he wanted to take advantage of the loopholes.

The tolerance he sent out to deliver the letter to the county should be innocent, at least on this point.

If Cao Dazong had nothing to do with the bandits, he would definitely not have fabricated it out of thin air, but should have a basis.

The biggest possibility is that Li Da Luozi went to Guo Wei's house, but in the end, something happened that caused his affairs not to be done well - but in the end, he still messed up this matter by mistake.

Cao Dazong praised:

"Your Excellency is really discerning."

He slapped a sycophant, and then said:

"Not long after this Li Da Luozi went, he left angrily. Guo Wei chased him out in a panic and wanted to beg to stop him, but in the end he didn't stop him. ”

After saying that, he added:

"I saw it all with my own eyes, and there was nothing wrong with that."

Li Da Luozi's entry and exit from Guo Wei's house could not be concealed from all directions, and the town officials knew about it, and the town mayor Kong Youde naturally knew about it.

He was worried that Guo Wei would have an accident and break the county's arrangement, so he couldn't sleep for a few nights, and wanted to send the town's messengers to Guo's house to stay ambushed.

But who would dare to do such a thing when dealing with bandits?

These village bandits have long become a climate, killing people like hemp, and their methods are cruel, where can the officials of the government dare to deal with such bandits?

Moreover, the Han Dynasty paid taxes every year, and the imperial court actively collected money, but not many of them were distributed to the servants.

Especially this year, Pang Zhi County urged the villages and towns to pay taxes, and the finances of the villages and towns under the county were empty, and many errand servants had not been paid for several months, and they were so poor that the bell sounded, who was willing to work for the government at this time?

Kong Youde thought about it, and it was not easy to do this, so in the end, he simply asked people to report Guo Wei's situation to the county government, which gave Pang Zhixian a headache.

As people who have been in the officialdom for many years, these insiders may not be unclear in their hearts.

But he wanted to do a good job of what Zhao Fusheng confessed, manage the internal affairs of Wan'an County well, and make Zhao Fusheng have no worries about handling ghost cases, so although he was very dissatisfied with the affairs of Changtiao Town, he did not settle the account at this time, but was ready to pass this pass first.

As soon as he mentioned this, Zhao Fusheng heard the door and offered to go to Fengmen Village to solve the ghost disaster.

In this way, things become both complicated and simple.

The complication lies in the fact that it was originally the government affairs of Wan'an County, and it was not under the control of the Demon Suppression Division, but as soon as Zhao Fusheng intervened, a small matter suddenly became a big thing;

And the simplicity lies in the fact that Zhao Fusheng uses the power of powerful ghosts, and uses the power of ghosts to deal with bandits, which is to kill chickens with a knife - fortunately, Zhao Fusheng's state is stable at this time, and he has done several major cases, but there are no signs of revival of powerful ghosts, and there is Kuai Manzhou with him, Pang Zhixian did not try his best to stop her, of course, he couldn't stop it.

Anyway, even if Zhao Fusheng's trip can't solve the trouble, there can't be any danger, so Pang Zhixian simply comforted himself: Just let Zhao go out of the city for a winter trip.

Zhao Fusheng narrowed his eyes, took the few coppers that Kuai Manzhou handed over to her and played with them in his hands, thinking about the causes and consequences of this matter, and guessed some of the inside information that Pang and Kong did not tell her.

"Kong Youde is no one available, and the town's errand soldiers are not soldiers, and it is impossible to besiege the Guo family to guard against bandits."

After she finished speaking, Cao Dazong nodded again and again:

"Yes, yes, my lord is right, but there is really not enough manpower."

"But you can't defend it, you can watch it." Zhao Fusheng turned the hemp rope twice, and several copper coins hit the 'ding bell', and she looked at Cao Dazong:

"This should be twelve hours a day."

Cao Dazong responded:

"I kept staring, took over in shifts, and didn't dare to let go."

"Have the bandits been here since then?" Zhao Fusheng asked.

"No, someone from afar came to probe and saw a few 'familiar faces', but when they saw us, they just sneered and didn't do anything." Cao Dazong remembered the scene at that time, and was also a little panicked, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and shook his head.

These bandits are fierce and cold-blooded, but both sides have scruples about each other, so they have not completely torn their faces.

The people in the villages and towns did not know that Wan'an County had been abandoned by the imperial court, and large families had moved away in large numbers, and the bandits were worried that the massacre of the government would attract troops from the imperial court to suppress it, so they were still in the wait-and-see stage.

"After that, someone from the Guo family disappeared?" When Zhao Fusheng said this, Cao Dazong hesitated:

“……”

This time Zhao Fusheng didn't urge him, he thought about it for a while, and finally replied:

"Anyway, a few days later, Guo Wei came to the yamen by himself and shirked the errand, saying that he couldn't do it."

After speaking, he looked at Zhao Fusheng:

"He said his wife was missing."

"Wife missing?" Zhao Fusheng frowned.

Cao Dazong nodded.

"At that time, Master Kong was furious, saying that this Diao people had rebelled and wanted to take him to prison, but he was holding a child at the time, and his eyes were dark, as if he hadn't slept well for a few days, and it didn't look like he was telling a lie." He said.

"Did you search his house later?" Zhao Fusheng asked again.

"After searching, there are only three earthen houses in his house, one old stove, and none of the furniture is decent, and there is indeed no one else except for the father and son." Cao Dazong replied.

When Zhao Fusheng heard this, he felt that something was wrong:

"What? Two people? Zhao Fusheng said a little strangely:

"I remember Pang Zhi County mentioned that the Guo family originally had a total of four people."

"Adults have a good memory." Cao Dazong slapped a sycophant:

"Guo Wei's mother died a long time ago, his son lived with him and his mother-in-law, and the two gave birth to three children, but the first two did not feed, and now there is a small one left, just four years old——"

Speaking of this, Cao Dazong shook his head:

"A few days ago, he came to town, and I saw that kid was as thin as a gray mouse, skinny and bone-like, and I was afraid it would be difficult to survive this winter."

When he said this, he seemed to realize that this topic had nothing to do with Guo Wei's repentance, and he was afraid that Zhao Fusheng would be angry, so he hurriedly turned back to the topic:

"When we went to his house to search, we found that apart from his daughter-in-law, his father was nowhere to be found."

"Is it that the father-in-law and daughter-in-law are not compatible, and the two of them have a big fight and cause trouble, and one of them is hiding?"

Zhao Fusheng took the lead in considering it from the path of ordinary cases and guessed.

"Also, maybe that's a possibility—"

Cao Dazong replied stubbornly.

When he spoke, his eyes dodged, and he didn't dare to look at Zhao Fusheng's eyes, this expression was clearly a lack of heart - that is to say, what he said at this time was not sincere, just a false compliment.

Zhao Fusheng immediately realized:

"It seems that no one in the Guo family has been in or out these days."

As soon as Cao Dazong saw that his careful thinking was broken, Zhao Fusheng was not embarrassed, but he was a little overwhelmed, so he could only smile and nod:

"Your Excellency is wise."

"Less sycophants."

赵福生 says:

"Did you see where the Guo family came in and out? Is there an authenticity? ”

The old man talked to her for a while, and saw that she spoke in an ordinary manner, although she was in a high position, but she did not put on a show and pinch her official tone, nor did she drink anger at every turn, and her heart gradually became more courageous.

Hearing her ask like this at this time, he immediately understood the meaning of Zhao Fusheng's words, and hurriedly said:

"It's all watched. There are only two rotten houses in the Guo family, the front door is facing someone else's house, and there is only one lane between the gate and his gate. ”

曹大宗 says:

"And his house was originally located in a low-lying area, and the house was very damp on the slope, and there was no hole in the ground for the entrance and exit. After the incident, Master Kong also wondered if his family was at odds, and his wife and daughter-in-law fought, causing one of them to have an accident. ”

But later, Kong Youde asked people to visit Fengmen Village, and the villagers said that Guo Weiren was honest and cowardly, his wife was timid and introverted, and had a harmonious relationship with her father-in-law, and there was no quarrel.