didn't even wait for tomorrow, in the afternoon of the same day, the landlord of the house had already found Zhou Ye's home under the leadership of the tooth man, and then Zhou Ye took them to Zhou Ang's house.

The other party obviously didn't expect that the person who wanted to buy a house and was an official would actually live in such a dilapidated place, but he didn't bother about this, and when he saw Zhou Ang, he politely gave a salute.

This is a middle-aged man, who looks like he has read a book, not tall, but he is polite and gentle, but he looks a little haggard, and his temples have been slightly frosted.

It was raining outside, so everyone went to the small hall and sat down, and Zhou Cai took Zhou Zihe and took him to their small bedroom. At this time, without waiting for others to say anything, the middle-aged man first introduced himself as Jiang Yun, and the word Bodao. Then he explained why he came so quickly: it turned out that he had only moved away from the courtyard, but in fact their family had another courtyard in the city.

According to his explanation, it was indeed because that courtyard had become a sad place for their family, and it was really uncomfortable to live there every day to see things and think about people, so they moved out and lived in a worse courtyard.

Originally, he wanted to sell his yard, but who would have thought that he had attracted two officials to buy it, and the two officials were old-fashioned, and they even scared and coaxed him with a few words, and he was about to make a situation to see the official, and he had always felt uncomfortable and anxious.

He went to find Zhou Ye, and he should have said a lot of good things, but Zhou Ye finally said that he was not in charge of this matter, and he needed Zhou Ang, the owner of the house, to have the final say.

So, he begged Zhou Ang.

At this time, sitting down on a small pestle in the small living room and dining room of the Zhou family, he could not hide the decadence on his face, and said half pleading and half emotionally: "If the official really wants to buy this courtyard, I will not say a word, only two hundred taels of silver, and the official can take it! ”

"If the officials don't look down on my yard anymore, but they don't care, how about leaving me a way to live? Our husband and wife are middle-aged, but we have lost our children, and we really can't stand the toss. My lady is already washing her face with tears every day, if there is a lawsuit because of this matter, the government has to investigate, how much money does it need to spend on small things, I am afraid that my wife will mourn again for a while, and our family will ......"

As he spoke, he was a big man, and he cried in front of everyone.

Zhou Ang couldn't help but sigh.

In fact, the main reason for this incident, on the contrary, is in the deliberate concealment of the tooth man and the old servant, this thing is broken, although people have experienced the pain of losing a son and daughter, but it is not a murder or the like, and the house probably cannot be defined as a "murderous house", in terms of the angle of the yard and the quality of the house, the selling price of two hundred and eighty taels is also fair, and there is no meaning to ask for a high price.

If this matter is changed to another person, he may not be able to ask anything, and if he buys it, he will buy it.

It's just that this matter happened to be on Zhou Ye and Zhou Ang, and Zhou Ye has been walking in the yamen for many years, not only is he used to seeing the market, but he is also familiar with the use of words and official authority, so this matter was exposed.

Once it is punctured, Zhou Ye, who has been entertained, naturally refuses to give up.

In addition, although Zhou Ang had been distracted at that time, he also felt that the house was good, and if the price was right, it could indeed be bought and lived.

So there was the final big stick.

But now, people have already begged for the door in person, and they are still crying like this, Zhou Ang feels that this deal can't be done, even if he just graduated in his previous life, he was so poor, he has never been willing to take advantage of anyone, not to mention that now he is not only a cultivator, but also has a small amount of wealth in his hands?

So after sighing, he opened his mouth in front of everyone, "I really like your yard." But I don't mean to embarrass you. Since you are here in person today, so be it. Our brother will no longer ask questions, and he will no longer care about your affairs. You continue to sell yours, and we don't know what to do. ”

When the man heard this, he was obviously overjoyed.

Who doesn't know that the officials are difficult to mess with in this era? He never imagined that the young official in front of him would be so good-looking.

This is to say that they are gently spared.

At the moment, he was grateful.

It's just that when he left, Zhou Ye wiped his body back, but he showed a helpless expression, and said: "Zixiu, you are too womanly! You actually make people cry so easily, you are in the yamen like this, but you will suffer! Not to mention anything else, it's just that they intend to sell us, not to mention that they can't give twenty taels of compensation money before they can stop with him? How can our brothers let people be so entertained?"

So Zhou Ang had to apologize to him again.

After all, it was his own brother, Zhou Ye just felt that Zhou Ang shouldn't be so weak, but he didn't have any dissatisfaction, and after saying a few words, he said goodbye to Zhou Cai's family, put on his coat, and went home.

But this matter is obviously not over here in Zhou Ang.

It's just that he is more calm now than when he first came into this world.

On the morning of the second day, he went to the "mountain gate" outside the city as usual, and even returned to the city after lunch, but after arriving at the yamen, he went to find Du Yi as soon as possible, and picked up the relevant part of the incident he encountered when he bought a house yesterday and told him.

In particular, the focus is on the tall and burly man he met when he left at the end.

Listening to this, Du Yi's face became more and more serious, and when Zhou Ang finished speaking, he immediately said: "It seems that our credit for this decade is on this matter." ”

So the two of them then went directly to see Gao Jing and told him about the matter, Gao Jing immediately felt that the matter was very important, so he immediately assigned people, some of whom were responsible for going to the county yahufang to retrieve and review the household registration change files of Guide Fang in the past year, focusing on the change of household registration of children, and in addition, he also personally ordered the generals, one is to summon the informants on the side of Guide Fang, and the other is to order spies in civilian clothes to be stationed in the investigation immediately.

First of all, we must lock down the possible targets, and then we can talk about other things.

In addition, he also specially told Zhou Ang not to appear in that vicinity again, so as not to arouse the vigilance of the other party.

Of course, Zhou Ang gladly accepted the order.

Once there is a clear goal, the strength of a county Zhu, or the control of the county Zhu Yamen over the city of Lingzhou, is immediately vividly reflected.

The clerks sent to the county government quickly retrieved the required files, and soon found out that the relevant problem was just a workshop, and only the files of the last year, which was not too easy.

The results of the final inventory of household registration changes show that in the past year, the number of juvenile deaths reported to the authorities alone has been as high as 57! Among them, 31 people died of sudden illness!

Of course, this includes a pair of children in Jiang Yun's Jiang Bodao family.

Compared with previous years, the number of deaths in the same age group is about 50% higher, and the number of violent deaths is unprecedentedly high!

That's it, it's just a report to the official!

You must know that although there was also a census of population and household registration in this era, it would only be once in many years, and if it were not for the property issues involved, such as the division of family property among sons after the death of the elderly, ordinary people often would not take the initiative to go to the county government to report the change of household registration.

So, theoretically, there must be a situation where the child is dead, but the parents did not run to report it!

In other words, this death toll will definitely be higher.

Although it is impossible to specifically count how many children there are in Guide Fang, but the household registration of a square is clearly on the record, such as Guide Fang, where middle-class families are the main residents, the yard often occupies a larger area, but there will be servants in the family, and according to the statistics at the end of last year, the population density is not low, there are more than 700 households living in total, with a total population of more than 8,300 people.

The 8,300 residents, most of whom are middle-class families, have relatively good living conditions, dietary conditions and medical conditions in this era, but more than 30 children have died suddenly and violently in the past year!

However, in the past year, no one has noticed this situation, whether it is the county government or the county Zhu Yamen!

The emergence of this situation is because it is indeed difficult for young children in this era to grow up, and people are somewhat psychologically prepared for the sudden death of their children.

In addition, the transmission of information is relatively closed, and the county government does not take it seriously......

The file counts, and everyone knows that something must have happened.

Subsequently, when the news of the informant who belonged to the county Zhu line on the side of Guide Fang was transmitted, coupled with the news sent by the people sent by the yamen to make a preliminary investigation, they were quickly summed up, and the situation became clearer and clearer.

Moreover, according to Zhou Ang's description, the vanguard has found a potential target, and although they have not tracked it, they have preliminarily locked the other party's residential address through various means.

waited until the evening, and the people who stayed in the yamen received a new message summary: it is said that the people who lived in the courtyard were usually quite mysterious, and only one of them went out often, and it was the tall and burly man described by Zhou Ang. But when the man went out to buy, he often bought rice and vegetables from several people.

In addition, the situation of the owner of the house was also found out.

Experienced investigators even roughly calculated that there should be about four to six people living in the courtyard through the interval between each time the man buys food, the rice, flour, grain, oil, meat, eggs, vegetables, firewood, etc. he buys.

The situation was basically determined, and the county Zhu Yamen was suddenly gearing up.

But at this time, Du Yi, who was ordered to go to the Junzhu Yamen to file and try to seconded some cultivators, came back, but brought a shocking news: the Junzhu Yamen rejected the application for secondment!

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