397 The Merchants of the Black-bone Chicken Country
Wu Meiniang said: "Where is my son! Kitten! Kitten!"
The little kitten agreed from outside the cave, ran in, and jumped into Wu Meiniang's arms.
Wu Meiniang hugged her son, with tears streaming down her face, and said: "On the first day when we escaped to this cave and met Tieniu and the others, Tieniu had actually peeked at the tattoo on my son's cheek, and secretly threatened me, if I
If we don't let him cheat, he will report us. I can only obey. I suspect that he told his brother about this, so I keep inciting their relationship and want Tieniu to kill him.
Brother Iron Hand, I will find another opportunity to kill him and silence him. But when you guys came, I changed my plan. I just happened to find a cave with miasma. Someone in our exile died because he accidentally entered such a cave. I
Just like what Toda Toji said, he also likes excitement, so I strangled his neck first, and then asked him to wait for me in the cave, but he was poisoned to death by the miasma."
Todasan said: "Then you kill the iron plate because you want to kill two birds with one stone?"
"Yes. At that time, I estimated that I only had one chance. I could only shoot one of them, and the other would definitely run away. I could shoot arrows at close range, but not at long distances. However, the two of them went to report to the official together, and
The two of them have enmity, so as long as one of them
If one dies, the other will be regarded as a murderer and beheaded. Originally, I wanted to shoot Tie Shou because I suspected that Tie Niu Niu had told him about this. However, at that time, Tie Ban was walking in front.
I can only shoot the first one to prevent the others from catching me."
"You want to kill the old man because he wants to report you?"
"Yes!" Wu Meiniang said: "He guessed that I killed the cow and what the purpose was, so he threatened me that if I didn't agree to sleep with him, he would tell you about it and let me
My son went back to the exile. For the sake of my daughter, I had no choice but to agree. Just like the cow, he also likes excitement, so I killed him using the same method. I didn’t expect that you can even save the dead."
Todayama looked at the old man: "Is she right?"
The old man lowered his head and said: "Yes, I just said it casually. If she really doesn't agree, I won't sue her. After all, once it is revealed, he and I both escaped from the exile, and I will also
Implicated."
Todasandao: "No matter what, if you use blackmail to rape a woman, it is also a crime! You must also be punished! What's more, you are still a criminal who escaped!"
The old man knelt down and said: "I was wrong, little brother, please forgive me! I will remember your goodness for the rest of my life!"
"Needless to say, I won't let you go." Todayama took their belts and tied them both up.
Tie Shou said: "The real murderer has been caught, what should we do?"
Todayama said to the Yamen officer: "You two go to the Yamen immediately to report the crime and bring the policeman over. Yamaguchi Momoe and I are here to guard the two prisoners with the corpses."
Tie Shou said: "Then... what should I do with those jewels? Do you want me to take them to the Yamen and give them to them?"
"No, don't worry. We have all seen the number of jewels. When the people from the Yamen come, I will take them out and count them on the spot and hand them over to the Yamen. After I find this iron plate's relatives, I will hand them over to them."
Hand over? Who believes you? Tie Shou thought to himself, wouldn't you wait for us to leave and run away with the jewelry? Only a fool would keep such valuable things here waiting to be handed over to the Yamen. However, he couldn't be beaten.
He had no choice but to listen to him. At that moment, he left a pair of bows and arrows for Todayama and the others to defend themselves, and took a few government servants with him and rushed to the county seat overnight.
In the following days, the old man and Wu Meiniang kept begging Todayama to let them go, but Todayama ignored them and the two of them shut up. Anyway, they still had the wolf meat of the two wolves and dry food, which was enough for them to eat, so they didn't need to go hunting.
There are two prisoners guarding the cave.
Four days later, the yamen's master, the chief police officer, and the policeman arrived. Todayama called the two of them aside, took off his mask and showed his true face. The two were shocked and hurriedly greeted them.
Todayama told the story, explained the case, and told the two of them not to reveal their whereabouts. He also said that he would take Yamaguchi Momoe with him to continue the private visit incognito. The two of them hurriedly agreed.
Todayama put on a mask, counted the jewels in front of Tetshou and the others, and handed them over to the master and the others. At the same time, he organized everyone to search again to find the jewel. However, it ended in disappointment.
In the past few days, he had asked Wu Meiniang and learned that there was still a family member in the prison camp, so he asked the head catcher to send someone to send the kitten back to the prison camp. Wu Meiniang and the old man needed to be tried for the new crime and then make a new sentence.
After the explanation was given, the detectives carried the body, escorted the prisoner, and returned to Dongcheng.
hts and several government officials continued to stay in this cave. There were no homes within a hundred miles, so it was the best hiding place. The leader and the others left some dry food, which was enough for them to eat for a while.
The group of people stayed in the cave for a full month. During this period, they went to the cliff climbing many times for exercise. Yamaguchi Momoe had changed from being able to only let Leng Yi hang up to being able to learn to climb some by herself.
The place is no longer too steep. At the same time, I am no longer afraid of rock climbing.
Spring is warm, flowers are blooming, everything is revived, so the snow gradually melts.
Todayama estimated that the killer already knew that the thing was not with him and would not try to assassinate him again. Then he took Momoe Yamaguchi and prepared to go down the mountain and return to the Yamen.
When they walked out of the cave and passed by the place where the little cat had made a snowman, Yamaguchi Momoe suddenly let out a sigh, pointed at the trunk of a crooked old pine tree and said, "What was that then?"
Todayama looked up and let out a sigh. He saw a gem the size of a thumb, full of holes, placed squarely on the tree trunk!
Todayama picked it up and looked at it, and said happily: "This should be the half-hearted jewel that was lost on the iron plate! Why is it on the tree trunk?"
It turns out that when the little cat was holding this gem in his hand, he didn't know how valuable these beautiful little stones were, so he grabbed a handful of snow and shaped it into a ball. During the snowball fight, he just hit the pine tree.
There was snow on the tree trunks. At that time, everyone focused on the ground and neglected to check the snow on the tree trunks. Therefore, they could not find it. The flowers bloomed in spring and the snow melted, and then they were exposed.
Yamaguchi Momoe took the Half-hearted Stone, looked at it over and over for a long time, and said, "Sir, that Wuji countryman is already dead, how can you return this thing to his relatives?"
Todasan said: "I have to go back and see if the Yamen has found his relatives. If I find them, I will return them to them together."
On his way back from the mountain, Todayama tried his best to visit villages and homes. At the same time, he took off his mask and inspected with his true face. Many villagers went to pay him New Year greetings. They all knew each other and were very moved when they saw him coming to visit privately incognito. Expression
expressed their gratitude to Mount Toda.
At this time, Dongcheng has fully entered spring farming, because the batch of cattle has solved a big problem for the villagers. Almost everywhere they go, the land has been plowed and rice transplanted.
Everywhere he went, Hudashan would convene villagers for discussions, and the village chiefs and big households were not required to participate, so as to understand the people's sentiments and the situation of the poor people in the village. The villagers saw that the village chiefs and big households were not present, and each household spoke freely.
Tianshan learned a lot of things that he never thought of.
The overall feeling is that since the founding of the People's Republic of China, due to the long-term war, most of the people are suffering, and not many are truly rich. In order to increase merit, Todayama only improves the living standards of the people, rather than how to solve the problem of balancing the gap between the rich and the poor.
During the visit, Todayama also paid great attention to asking questions about the people. However, these poor people have little education. From childhood to adulthood, they have faced the loess and turned their backs to the sky. Apart from farming, they know nothing else. As for doing business
, there is a natural resistance, but Baoxiang is also a poor mountainous area with high mountains and deep waters. There is very little cultivated land. It is simply too difficult to comprehensively solve the people's food and clothing problem by relying on cultivated land alone. For this reason, Todayama has always been in a mood
heavy.
A few days later, he finally returned to Dongcheng Yamen with Yamaguchi Momoe.
Returning to the inner house, Todayama immediately noticed that someone had come in and stirred things up. He hurried to the back garden and looked at the buried bodies. After inspection, he found no signs of stirring. Apparently, an intruder entered the Yamen to look for him. But there was no sign of stirring.
Found the bodies he had buried in the back garden.
He then checked the traces that proved someone had entered, and found that there was a light layer of dust, which proved that it had been a long time. After that, he never came again, and he felt a little calmer.
The chief clerk, the master, and the catcher all came to report on their work this month. The catcher and the others could not find any relatives of the Wuji countryman. Because the Wuji country in the Tang Dynasty had been torn apart and had no unified political power, and the man was a traveling merchant.
I don't know where he came from, but there are also a few businessmen and immigrants from the Wuji country in Kyoto. The headhunters organized them to identify him, but no one recognized who he was.
The matter could only be left hanging. Todayama ordered the jewelry to be placed in the government bank and would be returned to the relatives of the deceased if they were found in the future.
As for the half-hearted stone, it was not discovered at the time. In addition, Yamaguchi Momoe liked it very much, so Todayama did not take it out and put it in the warehouse, but let Yamaguchi Momoe enjoy it by herself until the relatives of the deceased were found.
Return them together.
After this visit to the countryside, Todayama discovered that some particularly poor villagers had already run out of food. The work on Changpingcang, which he had originally expected to start in the summer and autumn, seemed to have started ahead of schedule.
Todayama immediately asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to post notices in every village in the county, announcing the sale of grain at low prices in Dongcheng. Only the poor people who received government relief during the Spring Festival could buy it. By that time, he had already registered the large households in the county.
, these people cannot buy, lest they buy it and hoard it.
At this time, there are not many people who are without food, but those who are without food at this time are precisely the families who are most in need and need help. Toda Mountain is selling on credit now. In the future, after harvesting the food during the autumn harvest, it will be returned, and a profit will be charged at the same time.
It cost much more land than the five-cent profit of those big households, and was warmly welcomed by the people. Those who had run out of food or were about to run out of food came to the county government office to buy directly from Hudashan.
Todayama put his master in charge of this matter, and he often went to the site to inspect and check the accounts every day. The reason why he took the trouble to handle this matter himself was because he was worried about an accident and being secretly manipulated by the officials below.
A good thing turned out to be a bad thing that harmed the people.
More than a month later, the grain he originally purchased has almost been sold out. After all, there are too many poor people in the county, and it has not yet entered summer, which means that it has not yet reached the most difficult period of drought. Now the grain is
It has been exhausted. When that time comes, what will be available to help the people?
Todayama decided to go to the Captain's Mansion and find a solution to the Nine Gates Captain.
Liu Juan looked at what Todayama was doing and felt a little incredible. Journey to the West [now changed to I am Sun Wukong] does not seem to have the host category of being an official.
After more than a month of calm, Todayama was sure that the assassin would no longer cause trouble for him. However, just in case, he went to a county adjacent to the Wuji Kingdom this time. In addition to taking his master with him, he also brought
The woman and the maid were brought with them. At the same time, the head catcher and two detectives were also brought with them.
When they came to Wuzhou, Hudashan and the others still stayed in an inn.
After settling in, Todayama immediately booked a banquet in the best restaurant in Wuzhou. Then he took his master and some local products to the magistrate's Yamen to visit the magistrate Wu's mansion. The main purpose of his visit this time was to
Solve the problem of relief food. Although this kind of thing is a business matter, as we all know, in many cases, business matters must be handled by personal relationships. Of course, you also have to eat and drink.
Todayama also knew this, so he not only brought souvenirs, but also prepared invitations, inviting the prefect and the prefect's Yamen in charge of Qiangu's colleagues and the household and granary room clerks. In other words, the main leaders of the prefect's Yamen in charge of Qiangu were all
Please.
The prefect still gave hts1 face very much. He not only participated in person, but also instructed all the invited staff to participate. Even if these staff did not give hts1 face, they did not dare not to give face to the prefect, so they all came to the restaurant in sedan chairs.
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At the banquet, Todayama toasted one by one and invited singers to sing and dance. Then, he talked about the situation they were facing in Dongcheng in a timely manner. The prefect and others made a very generous decision to allocate an additional amount of relief food to Dongcheng.
Used to help those people who are in dire straits.
Todayama explained what he was doing by charging a penny of extra profit, and he wanted to use this food to deal with it in the same way, instead of directly giving it away as free relief. In this way, there would be an inflow and an outflow, and the water would flow steadily.
The prefect and others were all drunk, and they all said yes to Todayama's statement.
Todayama was still uneasy after getting the prefect's verbal consent, so he repeatedly asked the prefect to formulate a formal document and act in accordance with the official document.
The prefect is also a veteran. He knows that issuing written things like this will make it difficult to deal with problems in the future. After thinking about it for a long time, he agreed with Todayama that the official document can be issued, but the name of the relief grain will be changed to subsidy grain. At the same time,
Write in the official document that the county government can "act cheaply" on this batch of "support grains" according to specific circumstances. This way, you can avoid someone pulling the strings and turning a good thing into a bad thing.
Todayama kept saying yes, and he really felt that this prefect was worthy of having been in the officialdom for many years and was very capable.
The prefect said to Todasan: "I have handled the matter you asked me to do for you. Can I also entrust you to handle something?"
Todayama quickly bowed and agreed: "Whatever your Excellency orders, I will definitely comply with your humble duties."
"There's nothing else, it's just about the case. Last time you helped me solve the case of taking hostages and robbing a merchant ship, and the case of the murder of the prefect's wife. They were all solved very beautifully. I appreciate it very much.
Alas! We have no choice but to live in Wuzhou, where the folk customs are strong and vicious murder cases occur frequently. No, another murder case occurred last night, which is really a headache. Since you are here, please help me come up with ideas. "
Todayama said hurriedly: "You must be dedicated to your humble position. What kind of case is it?"
"It's like this," the prefect cleared his throat, "last night, a murder occurred in the city. A woman was killed. However, her face was chopped to pieces and could not be identified at all. According to the clothes the deceased was wearing,
, someone recognized the wife of a naughty guy. Moreover, someone heard the two of them quarreling and fighting at home that night. The naughty guy was arrested and interrogated. The naughty bitch refused to plead guilty and said
That corpse is not his wife. Although his wife also wears that kind of dress, many women also wear that dress. We cannot say that it is his wife just by relying on a piece of clothing. I think his defense has some truth to it. So,
, there are some difficulties, what should be done with this case. Please give me some advice, Mr. Leng!"
