Chapter 2139

After Murong Danyan finished speaking, he saw a few wry smiles on the faces of the shopkeeper and the short fat man. After a moment, the short fat man said in a rough voice: "Haven't you guys tried this method that the girl said? Wang Qi The people of the county first wrote a complaint and selected a few people to quietly go to the capital, hoping to report the matter to the county magistrate. Unexpectedly, before these people left Dongyang Mansion, they were captured by the magistrate's official errands and sent away with the complaint. Returning to Wangqi County, several people who filed the complaint were imprisoned and tortured inhumanely. Within three months, they died in prison one after another. Even the private school teacher who wrote the complaint to us was arrested and imprisoned. After entering the Yamen, his legs were broken alive. If everyone hadn't pooled together dozens of taels of silver to bribe the master and secretary of the Yamen, I'm afraid Master Qian would have been thrown into jail. Even so, Master Qian He was still convicted by the Yamen for slandering imperial officials and was exiled to Lingnan. I don’t know if he is still alive today.”

When the short fat man said this, he sighed, and then continued: "Master Qian is a good man. He teaches the children of poor people in and outside the city to read, and he doesn't even charge them a penny. Such a good man, actually Isn’t it heartbreaking to be in such a situation?”

The shopkeeper said: "After this incident, how can we ordinary people dare to complain again? The county magistrate became more and more arrogant and scraped the ground more viciously. I don't know where he found some treacherous scholars and local gangsters to go to the Yamen. Here, I work as a clerk and a police officer on official business. These people are all greedy and work as a talisman. They use their hands to oppress good people and bring a good Wangqi county to a state of disgrace. The common people are all in danger, and those of us who do small business are in danger. It’s also miserable.

"About three years ago, two foxes suddenly appeared in the Tutu Temple in the east of the city. At first, only the priests in the temple saw it, and they wanted to drive the foxes away. However, they were teased by the foxes, and they were so embarrassed that they did not dare to He went to provoke the foxes again, and the two foxes lived in the Earth Temple from then on. At first, Miao Zhu was disgusted with the two foxes, but after getting along for several months, the two foxes did not cause trouble in the Earth Temple, and he gradually felt relieved. Later, he discovered that the two foxes could transform into human forms, and would often appear at night, sitting in the courtyard of the Earth Temple, reading and writing. The temple priest knew that the two foxes were monsters that had become spirits, and was so frightened that he secretly planned to escape. . But two foxes stopped him, and made it clear that they were staying in the Earth Temple. They just wanted to find a quiet place to read and write, cultivate their mind and cultivate their character. They would never harm the lives of good people, and they didn't need to be afraid of the temple blessings.

"After Miao Zhu heard what the fox said, although he was a little scared, he put away his intention to escape. From then on, he became friends with the two foxes. They often sat together and chatted, and they were very close. One year On the evening of the Qingming Festival, Miao Zhu prepared a table of food and wine and invited two foxes to drink. While they were drinking heavily, a fox said to Miao Zhu, we have lived in the Tutu Temple for more than half a year, and thanks to the care of my brother, we have lived a very happy life. .I just have something unclear. I wonder if I can ask for advice?

"Miao Zhu has become good friends with the two foxes who talk about everything. He was very drunk at the time. When he heard what the fox said, he patted his chest and asked him to say whatever he wanted. He must tell everything he knows, and he must tell everything. The fox then asked the temple to wish, in any city in the world, the Earth Temple is a very lively place. Common people go to the Earth Temple to burn incense and make wishes, and officials encounter Whenever there was a problem, they would go to the Earth Temple to pray for the sages to appear and help. They passed through many cities, and the Earth Temple in each city was bustling with activity. Only after arriving in Wangqi County, there was a noise everywhere, and the people We were running around the city, not knowing what we were doing, but the Earth Temple was lonely and deserted. We originally thought that this was an abandoned temple, so we came here to live, but we didn’t expect that this was actually the Earth Temple. The temple is quite unexpected."

When Murong Danyan heard what the shopkeeper said, he thought to himself, I remember Brother Li said that he encountered many strange things in Xiuwu County. The Earth Temple there was suppressed by the City God Temple, so no one burned incense. Wang Qi

The Tutu Temple in the county is desolate, but it is not unusual. Whether the incense in the temple is prosperous depends entirely on whether the gods worshiped in it are doing things for the people. If they are only greedy for incense and ignore the suffering of the people, the people will naturally not burn incense and worship the gods.

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The shopkeeper continued: "After Miao Zhu heard what Fox said, he smiled bitterly and said, although Brother Fox has been in Wangqi County for more than half a year, he has been living in the Tu Tu Temple reading and writing, and has never even gone out of the Tu Tu Temple.

, naturally they don’t know the details of our Wangqi County. A few years ago, after the current county magistrate took office, he scraped the land outside and inside the city, leaving hundreds of miles of bare land, and the people were miserable. In the past few days, the people were miserable.

In 2016, people still came to the Tutu Temple to worship the gods, praying to God to open their eyes and help the county magistrate to be able to afford it, or to be promoted and go to other places to scrape land, sparing the people of Wangqi County. However, the magistrate's office had long since

Many spies were dispatched in and outside the city. The news that people went to the Tutu Temple to burn incense and curse the magistrate reached the yamen. As a result, all those people were in bad luck. They were either caught in the yamen and given a beating, or were fined and paid money.

To make amends. From then on, our Tutu Temple was no longer visited. If I hadn’t saved some money and could buy some incense, candles and snacks for the Tutu Master to offer as offerings, I’m afraid this place would have been depleted of incense.

"Miao Zhu shook his head and sighed as he spoke. After hearing this, the two foxes were extremely angry. Miao Zhu told the two foxes that when they entered the city, they saw chickens and dogs everywhere in Dongliao County, and there was a lot of people shouting.

Because more than half a year ago, the magistrate became obsessed with cricket fighting, and every day he summoned the big landlords from outside the city into the Yamen to accompany him in cricket fighting. However, the magistrate was nominally fighting crickets for fun, but in fact he took the opportunity to ask for bribes. Two

You might as well think about it, who dares to win in a cricket fight with the magistrate? After a cricket fight, the magistrate can always win dozens of taels of silver. Later, an uncle Ji came from Dongyang Prefecture and lived in our Wangqi County.

For many months, he heard that the county magistrate summoned wealthy people to fight crickets in the yamen, so he also asked someone to hand over a name card, hoping to broaden his horizons.

"The county magistrate was overjoyed when he heard that Uncle Ji was a salt merchant. He thought to himself that he had been fighting crickets for more than two months and won four to five hundred taels of silver. However, all the wealthy locals in Wangqi County were

He is a stingy man who is unwilling to place more bets. Fighting with crickets would be boring. The salt merchants are all wealthy, far beyond the comparison of these rich men. This fool surnamed Ji came to his door. How could he let this big sheep go?

Gu?

"The magistrate made up his mind, and when the gambling started again, he invited Uncle Ji to the magistrate's office. At that time, the magistrate had an invincible cricket in his hand. It was not only huge in size, but also extremely ferocious. It could be said that it had beaten all kings.

It was invincible inside and outside the city. The magistrate loved it like a treasure and named it the brave and invincible general. As soon as the gambling game started that day, this brave and invincible general killed seven or eight crickets.

I won three or four taels of silver for the magistrate. The magistrate was extremely proud. Seeing that the next person to fight was the cricket brought by Uncle Ji, he felt even more happy. He secretly thought that I will definitely eat you today without peeling off your skin.

, even if I don’t have the guts!”

The content of the next three to six chapters is basically the same as what Wang Xiaoyu talked to the shopkeeper and others in the tavern. In order to keep the flow smooth, a lot of content has to be repeated. Readers who have read the previous article can skip the next three to six chapters.

Chapter 6. Thank you everyone.
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