Lingnan Road. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Qiongzhou. Qiongya Village.

If Yumen Pass is the northernmost place in the Central Plains, then Qiongya Village must be the southernmost place in the Central Plains. Moreover, the distance between Qiongya Village and the Central Plains is only far from the distance between Yumen Pass and the Central Plains.

Here, it's the Cape of the Sea. Here, it's the end of the sky.

The wind blows further south, and there is an endless sea. In that sea, no matter how brave a fisherman is, he only dares to lay a net not far from the shore, but does not dare to wade into it.

Although this is the territory of Emperor Laozi and the jurisdiction of Lingnan Road, this is the place where Wang Hua has not arrived. It's not easy to be an official here. It is even more difficult to be an official who is responsible for maintaining the peace of several villages.

Cheng Manxing is such an official errand. He's a little catcher. He is responsible for the tranquility of the eight towns within a radius of ten miles.

Cheng Manxing is not a local. There aren't many locals here.

Qiongzhou has been a place for the Central Plains court to exile degraded officials or criminals since ancient times. The place that Cheng Manxing is responsible for is a place where criminals live. But the locals who have some ways to do it have already managed to move to other places. Who wants to live with a bunch of sinners for a long time?

Cheng Manxing himself used to be a criminal. He's done a lot of things. Murder.

The name Cheng Manxing sounds quite poetic, but it actually talks about his appearance. Cheng Manxing's face was full of pockmarks, denser than the stars in the sky. Moreover, Cheng Manxing's pockmarks were born with it.

Mr. Private School, who was invited by Cheng Manxing's old father to name him, had never seen a baby with a pockmarked face as soon as he was born, so he gave Cheng Manxing such a name. Mr. Private School's comment to Cheng Manxing was: "If you look strange, you will become a big thing!"

Cheng Manxing's appearance may not be strange, but he has really done a big thing. When he was seventeen years old, he killed three people in one go. Three two-pole men who weren't much older than him.

Killing, whether in the countryside or in the city, is a big deal. Killing three in one go, that's the biggest thing in the big deal.

Cheng Manxing's reason for killing is simple. The three two-pole men not only laughed at the pockmarks on his face, but also took Cheng Manxing's parents to laugh at them.

Cheng Manxing is a filial son. He knew that he was born with a pockmarked face, and his parents must have been under more pressure than other people's parents. When Cheng Manxing was thirteen years old, just for him to marry a daughter-in-law, he had seen his parents suffer with his own eyes.

Therefore, when the three two-pole men laughed at his parents arrogantly and unscrupulously, Cheng Manxing calmly put down the firewood behind him, then took off the axe pinned to his waist, stepped forward, one axe, and directly put down two. The third second pole was so frightened that he peed his pants on the spot, collapsed to the ground, and kept kowtowing to Cheng Manxing and begging for mercy. But Cheng Manxing's eyes were already full of bloodshots. He wanted everyone to know what happened to those who laughed at his old father and mother.

He swung his axe again, and with a single axe he nearly split the head of the third two-pole in two. Then, Cheng Manxing calmly carried the firewood home, and after stacking the firewood, he waited for the official to come to the door. He originally wanted to surrender himself, but he didn't even know which way the door of the yamen was opening.

The case is simple. The facts of the case are also clear. Cheng Manxing is another person without any background. Therefore, the verdict of the officials is also very fast, and the verdict is very simple: ask for beheading after the autumn of the next year!

But Cheng Manxing was not asked to be beheaded in the end. He had only been in prison for less than a year.

Just before the autumn of the following year, the new emperor ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world. Even if it is a crime of beheading, as long as it is not a conspiracy or a major crime that is not forgivable, it can be pardoned or commuted. Cheng Manxing just angrily swung an axe and killed three second poles who mocked him, so he also got a commutation. He was exempted from beheading and sent to Lingnan.

Cheng Manxing was assigned and stayed in Lingnan for fifteen years.

In the second year, Cheng Manxing became a helper under the former head catcher. In the fourth year, Cheng Manxing became an official errand. In the seventh year, the previous head catcher was killed by a thief when he was taking a thief, and Cheng Manxing sat in his place and has been sitting until today. That year, Cheng Manxing was only twenty-five years old.

This year, he is thirty-three years old.

In the past fifteen years, Cheng Manxing has inquired about the whereabouts of his old father and mother. But the only news he received was that after he was sentenced to beheading and imprisoned, his old father and mother sold everything in the family and ran around for him, hoping to find a way to live for him. But before the new emperor granted amnesty, no one saw his parents again.

Not being able to find his old father and mother is the biggest regret in Cheng Manxing's heart, and it is also the only regret. Other than that, he had no other regrets.

What is there to regret?

Picked up a life, not to mention, but also made an official errand. Not to mention being an official, he also married a local daughter-in-law. Although the daughter-in-law was blackened by the constant sea breeze all year round, she could still lose him with his starry pockmarks? What's more, the daughter-in-law in Lingnan was not only diligent, but also gave birth to three babies for him. Two men and one woman.

Therefore, Cheng Manxing has no regrets. He has decided to live in Lingnan for the rest of his life.

Lingnan is a good place. The sun is a little more poisonous, the sea breeze is a little stronger, and the smell of fish in the air is a little stronger, but it's at least warm here. Unlike when Cheng Manxing was a child in the northern part of the Central Plains, when it was winter, he had to be afraid to pee, for fear that the biting cold wind would freeze the heirs.

In addition, there are plenty of products here. When you're hungry, there's fish, shrimp, shellfish, crabs, whatever you can catch. When I was thirsty, the sea was full of Yue Wang head trees several zhang high, and the trees were full of Yue Wang heads. As soon as you cut it open with a knife, it was full of sweet juice. As long as you don't drink too much stupidly, and keep drinking yourself until you have a loose stomach, Yue Wangtou is the best product to quench your thirst.

As for Cheng Manxing's messenger, it is difficult to say, and it is not difficult to say that it is not difficult.

Although most of the people living in these ten miles and eight villages under Cheng Manxing's jurisdiction are some criminals who have been exiled or sent here like Cheng Manxing himself, they often make some bumpy things, but the big trouble did not cause Cheng Manxing. It's not because these people have become honest when they get here, it's because the deputy general who has been in charge of guarding this place all these years is a ruthless person.

This is the military rule. The deputy general who led the troops to defend here was also a degraded official. In the words of the adults in the court, this man was also a person who was not fully indoctrinated. Therefore, he is acting in the name of king, but he is holding a domineering sword.

Those who dared to make a big deal here in the past have been led by this adjutant general and cut several stubbles like leeks. For the rest, it's okay to do something to bully the neighbors and steal chickens and dogs, let them make a bigger fuss, borrow a few of their guts, and they won't dare.

Therefore, Cheng Manxing's life was very nourishing. When he doesn't order, doesn't take thieves, and doesn't coax the baby, he will always take some time to go to the only tavern in this ten miles and eight villages to have a few drinks.

Zheng Family Tavern.

Cheng Manxing couldn't get used to the wine in this tavern at first. It's bitter, just like the mood of everyone who has just been assigned here. But after a long time, Cheng Manxing gradually fell in love with this wine.

Although the wine in the Zheng family tavern is bitter, it is extremely mellow, unlike the taverns in the county town that Cheng Manxing once went to, and he poured water into it with a black conscience. Moreover, the slightly bitter wine of the Zheng Family Tavern does taste more delicious to all those who have been exiled from the Central Plains.

Another point is that the price of the wine in the Zheng Family Tavern is fair, and it can even be said to be very cheap. Sometimes even Cheng Manxing has to wonder if the owner of this tavern has other ulterior motives when he came to open a tavern in a place where birds don't lay eggs, and sells the wine so cheaply.

However, Cheng Manxing was too lazy to worry about it. Those who live here are sinners. Who doesn't have some abnormal thoughts in their hearts? But as long as you don't cause trouble, love to think whatever you want, that's your freedom. As long as you don't say it, even if you dream of being an emperor every day, no one will come to you.

Therefore, every time Cheng Manxing comes to the tavern, he only drinks and doesn't care about idle things.

He doesn't meddle in his business, and nosy doesn't care about him. After all, Cheng Manxing has been here for more than ten years. People from all over the country know who he is, and they also know that the headcatcher on his body and the waist knife on his waist are not just decorations.

In this tavern, Cheng Manxing didn't meet any interesting people or interesting things. He knew everyone who came to the tavern for a drink. He also knows the details of most of them. Where their ancestors were and what they had done, they were all recorded in the yamen. Many people have gone through the hands of Cheng Manxing before settling here.

But there is one person, Cheng Manxing has never been able to figure it out.

A middle-aged man. A middle-aged man who looked like a young man.

His name is Ah Fei.

Some people call him Brother Ah Fei, some people call him Brother Ah Fei, and some people call him Uncle Ah Fei. As for what his last name is, no one knows. He is not a sinner. The people in the yamen who check the household registration are not so diligent, and everyone's household registration will be checked.

Ah Fei looks very young, and he looks younger than Cheng Manxing. Therefore, Cheng Manxing believes that Ah Fei should still be a young man.

But Ah Fei's expression was very vicissitudes. He never smiled. No one ever saw him smile. He is very indifferent, very indifferent to everything. But Cheng Manxing felt that there always seemed to be an inexplicable sadness in his expression.

What kind of things have people of his age experienced that make him never smile, and there is always the kind of sadness in his expression that a man like Cheng Manxing can understand?