The job of a yamen servant is easier than imagined.
On the first day of work, Shen Lang followed Zhu Hu from the street to the end of the alley, and then from the end of the alley to the street. He did nothing along the way and just chatted and chatted, just like two gangsters.
After that, when the sun was getting higher and the weather was getting hotter, Zhu Hu simply took Shen Lang to find a teahouse, where they drank tea, ate melons, listened to books and fished.
Coincidentally, Shen Lang and Zhu Hu were not the only ones fishing in this teahouse.
That day in Wangjiazhuang, the black-faced policeman named Zhao Junshan who had arrested Shen Lang with Zhu Hu was actually here with his followers, knocking sunflower seeds and listening to a book.
When the two met, of course they sat at the same table and chatted about gossip while listening to books.
"Have you heard? Last night, the Zhao family in the north of the city buried another maid. They said that she slipped when fetching water and fell into the well and drowned."
"Hey, this is nothing new. I heard before that the Zhao family has buried seven maids this year. They all died by falling into wells."
"Tsk, counting the one last night, that's eight. It's only been June this year, and already eight maids have 'fallen into the well and drowned'... on average, more than one per month."
"What a crime...Old Zhao, you said that none of you named Zhao is a good person?"
"Don't get involved with me. The Zhao family in the north of the city and I are not the same Zhao. His family's ancestors moved from the Western Regions during the founding of the People's Republic of China and mixed with Hu people's blood. My family is a local Zhao. Since the previous dynasty, our ancestors have been in Changsheng
Farming and hunting in the county are the purest blood of Eastern soil..."
"Old Zhao, I think what you are saying is wrong. Your name is Zhao Junshan, and the eldest son of the Zhao family is called Zhao Mengshan. They sound like brothers!"
"Oh, according to what you said, there are eight hundred or so people named Zhu Hu, Zhu Biao, and Zhu Erhu in the entire Chu State. Are they all your half-brothers from Zhu Hu?"
"Hey, Lao Zhao, what you said is so unreasonable..."
Hearing Zhu Hu and Zhao Junshan talk about this, Shen Lang couldn't help but ask:
"In the Zhao family in the north of the city, so many maids died in half a year, and they all fell into wells and drowned. It feels like a big problem! Don't the Yamen investigate carefully?"
Zhu Hu, Lao Zhao and Lao Zhao's servants all looked at Shen Lang with subtle expressions in their eyes.
After finishing, Zhu Hu whispered:
"I have heard rumors about the real way the maids of the Zhao family died. It is said that the eldest son of the Zhao family practiced Tiger Claw Kung Fu and liked to practice it on living people... He said that he crushed living people, especially young ones.
The voice of a girl's bones sounds very beautiful..."
Shen Lang's scalp went numb when he heard:
"The methods are so cruel and absolutely insane. The government doesn't care about this kind of people? Just sit back and watch as the young master of the Zhao family cares about people's lives?"
Zhao Junshan sighed and slapped Shen Lang on the shoulder:
"Little brother, many maids from the Zhao family die every year. Everyone in our Changsheng County knows about this. Therefore, no matter how poor the people in the county are, they will not sell their daughters to the Zhao family to be maids.
As for the Zhao family, they can only go to the foreign market to buy a death-deed maid..."
Shen Lang frowned, endured the discomfort in his heart, and said slowly:
"A foreigner is no longer a human being? A maid who has signed a death contract is no longer a human being. No one cares whether they are dead or alive? Even though they knew that their bones were broken and they were tortured alive, the Yamen refused to do anything for them.
Have you made the decision?"
Old Zhao said displeasedly:
"Hey, you little brother, why are you talking so rudely?"
Zhu Hu sighed:
"It's not that the yamen doesn't want to take care of it, but it's that it doesn't dare to take care of it. Why do you think the Zhao family dared to openly claim that all the maids who died in their family died by falling into wells?
"It's barely fair to say that one or two fell into a well and drowned. But these seven or eight, or even more than a dozen last year, all fell into a well and died. People in our county are not fools. How can they believe such nonsense?
"But since the Zhao family dares to bully our county people and even the county government as fools, it certainly makes sense. Do you know who the eldest son of the Zhao family, Zhao Mengshan, who is now the master of the family, is his sister?
"
Shen Lang had a dull look on his face: "Who is it?"
Zhu Hu sighed:
"Zhao Mengshan's sister is the concubine of the contemporary Duke of Ying. The Duke of Ying is the founding Duke of the country. The first Duke of Ying made great contributions to Emperor Taizu and even rescued him twice.
"If it weren't for the fact that people with different surnames in Da Chu were not allowed to be crowned kings, how could they be crowned kings just by relying on the merits of the first Duke of Ying?
The Duke of the country has an iron certificate written in alchemy, and his rank is comparable to that of the prince.
"Zhao Mengshan's sister is only the concubine of the contemporary Yingguo Duke, but she is young and beautiful and is very favored. With the Yingguo Duke's Mansion as a big backer, who dares to take care of the Zhao family in our small Changsheng County Government?
Something?"
Hearing this, Shen Lang once again confirmed his previous understanding of the world and gained a deeper understanding:
In an imperial society, power is greater than law.
For the real powerful, the so-called imperial law is nothing more than a piece of paper.
In the ancient times of the earth, in the era of imperial power and aristocracy, no matter the East or the West, no matter which dynasty or country, no matter how powerful the country was, wasn't it true that the powerful were at the top, taking life and death, while the common people were trembling and crawling below?
Even if the empire is powerful all over the world, what does it have to do with the common people?
It's just that when the empire was prosperous and the country was strong, people's livelihood was slightly easier than in troubled times.
But once you are crushed by the powerful and powerful, you will have no choice but to surrender and your family will be destroyed!
Even if a character like Haigangfeng or Bao Longtu appears occasionally, it won't change the overall atmosphere.
"When people prosper, people suffer; when they die, people suffer" is not a literary statement by a poet, but a statement of facts.
The Eastern Chu of this world will not be any different from the Earth’s Imperial Age.
Shen Lang, who came from the prosperous Celestial Dynasty, was instinctively unhappy, uncomfortable and unhappy with this reality.
Even though the matter had nothing to do with him, when he heard it, he still couldn't help but feel agitated and find it difficult to calm down.
Just like before he traveled through time, when he saw some dark and unfair news on the Internet, he would be filled with indignation and rant about it.
Although at that time, he could only "spray Cao Nima in the void and scare the ghosts and gods with one click of a key". Being a keyboard warrior who moved his fingers like flying and sprayed words like rain did not change the power of those dark and unfair realities.
But public opinion itself is a force.
In the Internet age, an incident in one place can quickly become known to the whole country, which is a reality.
But here, in this era of imperial power and aristocracy, ordinary people are crushed to death by the powerful and powerful, and they can't even utter a cry of grief.
The eldest son of the Zhao family, who is backed by the hereditary government, not only commits lawlessness and treats innocent maids as targets for martial arts practitioners, but also openly bullies the county people and government officials as fools. However, such behavior will only lead to immortality at best.
It spread throughout the county.
No one may know about this matter outside Changsheng County, or even out of the county town to the countryside.
Shen Lang exhaled a breath of turbid air and said expressionlessly:
"Isn't Madam Mu patrolling Yingzhou and cracking down on lawbreakers? Doesn't she even dare to take care of the Zhao family's affairs?"
Zhu Hu and Zhao Junshan were silent.
After a long while, Zhu Hucai said helplessly:
"Mr. Mu doesn't know about the Zhao family. The county government didn't dare to tell her about it, and we don't dare to either."
Zhao Junshan also said with a dark face:
"Mr. Mu is a man in the sky, but the Duke of Ying is not a good quarrel. If the two of them fight, they will most likely end up in vain, and no one can do anything to the other. But we little shrimps, even the county magistrate, are afraid that
We will all be affected. We have seniors and juniors, so how dare we risk our lives?"
Zhu Hu held the teacup, squinted his eyes, and said slowly:
"Brother Shen, I know you are young and energetic, and you can't get rid of the sand in your eyes. My brother was the same as you back then. But so what?
"If you haven't been beaten by reality, you won't know how cruel the world is. This world is just like this. For little people like us, it's the limit if we don't join in the evil and oppress the good."
Shen Lang was silent for a long time, put down his tea cup, stood up and said:
"Brother Zhu, Lao Zhao, the weather is too hot and I feel a little unwell. I want to take leave and go home to rest for a day."
Zhu Hu didn't say anything, sighed, waved his hand and said:
"Go on, the market is peaceful and I have to go home to rest in the afternoon."
After Shen Lang leaves.
Lao Zhao suddenly slapped the table with a dark face:
"To be looked down upon by a young boy, I am really ashamed to have the same surname as the Zhao family in the north of the city!"
Zhu Hu smiled bitterly:
"I got along well with Xiao Shen. I even said that I would introduce my cousin to him. Now, I will be looked down upon by him."