"That's right." Seeing that Zhuge Liang finally stopped being polite to him, Liu Jingzhan said with a smile. "But I kept all the copybooks in the official's house. I'm afraid Kong Ming will return empty-handed today."
Zhuge Liang said: "What's the harm? I'll just come back tomorrow."
This is exactly what Liu Jing hopes to see, and he smiled and said: "I will bring some more calligraphy stickers tomorrow, and you will be able to choose from them."
At this time, there was a sudden noise outside the city building. Liu Jing was curious. He stood up and went to the window. Looking out, he saw more than ten officials wearing short clothes and holding weapons, escorting an unkempt man with a
The shackled prisoner walks into the market building.
Zhuge Liang stood up and asked: "What happened outside?"
Liu Jing frowned and replied, "There are county officials escorting the prisoners here."
Zhuge Liang nodded, not too surprised. The market is a place where people from all over the world gather. In the eyes of the court, this is the most suitable place to establish prestige.
Therefore, the imperial court often escorted prisoners on death row to the market for execution, which was called "abandoning the market." If they committed extremely heinous crimes, they would hang their heads and expose their corpses in the market. Wang Mang and Dong Zhuo, the two great thieves of the country, enjoyed this after their death.
treatment.
In addition to abandoning the market, there is also a parade, which means that prisoners are escorted and paraded through the streets.
Liu Jing couldn't help but sigh and said: "Kong Ming, I am the Shizuo Shi of the city. I can't avoid the secular affairs. I need to go out and show my face."
Zhuge Liang said: "Since Brother Liu has something to do, I will leave first."
Liu Jing shook his head helplessly and said: "No wonder Liang Shujing once sighed: 'I would rather live at home and cultivate my ambitions, amuse myself with "Poems" and "Books", than hold the post of a state or county and work in vain.'"
Liang Shujing was Liang Song, a famous scholar of the dynasty. He was a descendant of the famous Liang family of the Han Dynasty, and the grandfather of Emperor He of the Han Dynasty. He was proud of his talents, but he was always depressed and frustrated. He was implicated in the palace turmoil and died in prison.
In fact, this is what Zhuge Liang is confused about. Liu Jing is both famous and talented. The most important thing is that he is only seventeen years old. He should be at home to raise his reputation and wait for the opportunity to rise to the sky in the future.
Why rush out to serve the county at this time? It is meaningless to him.
Zhuge Liang is not the roundworm in Liu Jing's belly, so it is not surprising to think this way.
Liu Jing sent Zhuge Liang out, and he happened to meet Huang Qiu who was hurriedly going downstairs. The latter saw Zhuge Liang who was quite embarrassed next to Liu Jing. He couldn't help but was startled, but he didn't go into details. He came to Liu Jing and reminded him in a low voice: "Zhongda
, the person coming is the leftist thief Cao Tuzhi, you should be careful."
"So it's him." Liu Jing nodded thoughtfully, but he didn't expect the two of them to meet so soon.
The thief cao is one of the five officials under the prefect. Changsha belongs to a large county. There are two thief caos on the left and right, and the title is the left thief cao.
No matter in terms of power, position or closeness, the thieves are ranked at the bottom among the five officials under the sect. They are not as good as the merit caos, the chief bookkeeper, the chief secretary, and the supervising thieves. However, even so, they are still the confidants of the prefect Zhang Xian, and their status is far from that of the prefect Zhang Xian.
Generally, the counties and prefectures are comparable to each other.
Although he was "blackmailed" 20,000 yuan by his grades, the latter also became a stepping stone to his fame, and neither party could say who suffered more.
It is said that this man is greedy, cruel, and disrespectful of etiquette. He has caused him to be caught in a storm of public opinion throughout the county. He may become angry and cause trouble for himself overtly or covertly. He must be careful.
Liu Jing thanked Huang Qiu, and the three of them went downstairs together. At this time, the hall on the first floor was full of people.
Watching Zhuge Liang leave, Liu Jing followed Huang Qiu to face the score. The score was about thirty years old, about seven feet tall, with a long and narrow face, sharp eyes like an eagle, a high and long nose bridge, and a slightly downward curl of the corners of his mouth.
, giving people a feeling of being difficult to get along with.
When Liu Jing was secretly sizing up his grades, his grades also saw him, and his eyes immediately flashed, clearly recognizing him. However, unexpectedly, instead of showing any malice, his grades nodded gently at him.
Liu Jing politely returned the gift, but he was confused: "What does he mean?"
Huang Qiu came closer, glanced at the prisoner, his face immediately fell, and he complained about the results: "Isn't this the 'Six Fingers' Zhu A? Cheng Tu, why did you capture him again?"
Liu Jing heard the words and looked at the prisoner's hand, and sure enough he found that the prisoner had six fingers on his right hand. He was not very old, only twenty-two or three years old, of medium height and average appearance. If there was anything about him that was different from ordinary people,
Maybe it’s the bohemian temperament about him?
Zhu A shook the shackles on his hands at the results and laughed: "Scores, you see, even Huang Jun, the mayor of the city, thinks you shouldn't have caught me here, so you'd better let me go quickly.
."
"This man is a thief in the city. He has been wandering around the market for many years and has done a lot of harm to people. As a thief, isn't it my duty to catch him?" Zhang Qiu replied firmly to Huang Qiu and turned to Zhu.
Adao: "I will hang you on the market building for a while. If no one accuses you of your crime during this period, I will let you go."
"Why bother?" Zhu A curled his lips and said, "How many times did you hang me up there? Two times? Three times? In the end, you couldn't do anything to me and just let me go."
Huang Qiu and Xie Liang also thought the same way. There was nothing he could do about his grades, so there was really no need to worry about it.
Qi Qi said sternly: "Have you ever heard that 'the sky is vast, sparse and not leaking?' You just escaped by chance a few times, and you think you can go on free forever? You don't know whether to live or die!"
"Then let's just wait and see." Zhu A raised his eyebrows and said provocatively.
Zhi turned around and waved to his men: "Tie him to the roof and beat the drum to gather the people."
The officials responded with a bang and escorted Zhu A upstairs.
"Huang Yu, let's go up too." Zhang Zhi made a "please" gesture to Huang Qiu beside him.
Huang Qiu secretly sighed. Now that things have come to this, he has no choice but to disagree.
Seeing the righteous and upright appearance of his results, Liu Jing was speechless. If he didn't know what kind of person he was, he would have been frightened by his performance.
Falling at the back with Xie Liang, Liu Jing took the opportunity to ask: "Can you tell me about Zhu Aqi people?"
Xie Liang subconsciously observed the surroundings and whispered: "Zhu Anai is the leading thief in the city, with more than ten thieves under his command. He was originally the son of a sauce seller. His parents died when he was young, and he was raised by merchants in the city.
, so he became a thief in the future. In gratitude for everyone's kindness, he never attacked the locals and only stole from foreign merchants traveling between the north and the south."
Liu Jing secretly shook his head, now that the world is in chaos, roads are blocked, and business has been greatly affected, how many foreign merchants can there be in Changsha?
To say that Zhu A never attacks people he knows, he may still believe that he never attacks locals? What do Zhu A and his men do to survive? Drink the northwest wind? This statement can only deceive the ignorant people, anyway, he is
Absolutely don't believe it.
Xie Liang continued: "This is one, and the other is that I wish you a generous man and regard money as nothing. As long as he sees the merchants in the city encounter difficulties in their lives, he will help them with all his money to relieve their difficulties. Someone who has been stolen has been found.
He will also try to get the money back, so everyone in the city respects him. This is also the reason why Cheng Tie caught him many times, but no one identified him."
"Interesting..." Liu Jing couldn't help but laugh. He didn't expect that this person was still a "righteous thief".
When he climbed to the top of the building, he did not follow Xie Liang and stood in the front row, but chose an inconspicuous corner position.
"Dong, dong, dong..." The big cowhide drum on the roof of the market building was beaten hard by the thieves, and the loud sound of the drum spread to every corner of the market.
People in the city heard the rapid beating of drums and knew that something big was happening, so they rushed towards the market buildings in the center.
It didn't take long for the market building to be completely surrounded by people from the market on three floors outside.
Seeing that the people were almost gathered, Zhu A, who was hanging up with his hands high in the air, said loudly: "I am Cao Zhi, the thief of the left, and this person is Zhu A, the 'six-fingered'.
He usually steals in the city. If someone has been stolen by him, there is no need to be afraid. You can identify him face to face, and I will definitely prevent him from escaping the law."
The crowd below was roaring. There were many people who knew Zhu A. Even if they didn't know him, they had heard something from the conversations of the people around them. Everyone was whispering to each other and expressing their own opinions, but no one came forward.
After asking three times, no one came forward to identify Zhu A, and the result was gloomy.