Crossing the Ming Dynasty to be the magistrate

Chapter 48

This remark really frightened Wen Yu, this is the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment!The head of the six ministries, known as the position of Tianguan, is equivalent to today's head of the Central Organization Department, director of the Organization Office, and head of the Personnel Department, who is in charge of the promotion and scheduling of officials in the Ming Dynasty.Such a big official is actually Xu Jing's stepfather?

Seeing Wen Yu's surprised expression, Xu Jing explained helplessly: "In fact, I haven't met him very much, and the total number of words I have said does not exceed ten sentences."

Wen Yu watched his expression carefully, and asked, "Did he treat you badly?"

Xu Jing shook his head: "The reason is not him, but my mother."

Wen Yu thought that this was a family matter, and Ji Qing seemed reluctant to mention it, so she didn't ask any further.

Xu Jing was afraid that he would think too much: "My mother was originally a country girl. My father went to their village to handle a case when he was alive. When he met my mother, he immediately decided to marry her. The two had a close relationship when they were young."

Xu Jing said slowly.It turned out that his father had decided to marry a village girl as his wife regardless of his family's wishes, which had become the laughing stock of their family. His mother was humiliated everywhere at home, so Xu's father simply took her out to live.It didn't take long for the two to give birth to a son, Xu Jing.The family was happy, but unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. When Xu Jing was eight years old, Xu's father died in a mission, and Xu's mother raised her son alone.

As a result, in less than three years, Xu's mother remarried to the current Guo Jun. He was already a fourth-rank official back then, and he also lost his wife in middle age. The two got together.At this time, Xu Jingxiao's time has not passed.Besides, it was rumored that Xu's mother and Guo Jun were from the same hometown back then, and the two were childhood sweethearts. This time, their old relationship was rekindled. Maybe they had contacted as early as Xu's father was still alive.

"I was young at the time, and I couldn't understand my mother's choice after being provoked. In a rage, I ran to my father's former friend to join the inspection department. After several years of training, I started to go out on missions."

Although Xu Jing was still expressionless, Wen Yu felt that he must be feeling a little sad at this moment: "Later, I grew up, but the barriers already existed, and it's inconvenient for me to bother them."

Wen Yu felt uncomfortable: "I am sorry for you, let you worry about me."

Xu Jing shook his head, and his tone was a little brisk: "No, on the contrary, I would like to thank you. If it wasn't for you, I don't know when I would be able to muster up the courage to contact my family."

Seeing that Wen Yu was still unhappy, Xu Jing patiently explained: "It's true, this time I wrote to my mother, she was very happy and sent me a lot of things. If it wasn't for the long distance, she might come to see me Recalling back then, people from my father’s side bullied our orphans and widowed mothers and made trouble all day long trying to steal our family property. My mother’s remarriage would be a helpless move. Mr. Guo is quite reliable, and he has treated my mother well all these years. Always the same, besides..."

Xu Jing looked at Wen Yu solemnly: "I have known each other for so long, and I have seen Zhengqing's every move. You are a good official who thinks about the people. I am an official of the Ming Dynasty. I eat the king's salary and worry about the king's worries. Of course I will do things that are good for Daming and good for the common people in the world, for selfishness..."

"How about selfishness?" Wen Yu raised his eyes and looked at him with a smile, an ambiguous air surged between the two of them.

"Brother Xu! Why are you here! You came to cheer for my house test, right! But it's a pity that you came late and I finished the test long ago, so you can come and see me off when I take the test at the hospital!" Wen Qiong rubbed her sleepy eyes , walked out of the room, maintaining his usual bluffing.

"Wen Qiong!!!" Wen Yu's face was ferocious: "Why are you getting up so early! Won't you continue to go back to sleep!"

Wen Qiong looked dazed, and it was going to be high in the sun. Didn't the elder brother dislike him for sleeping like a pig every day?But Wen Qiong has grown a little after experiencing so much, and quickly jumped back into the room: "Then I will continue to sleep for a while, brother, you continue to talk to Brother Xu, leave me alone!"

What a fart!The atmosphere is gone when you interrupt it like this!Xu Jing looked at the daily life of the two brothers with a smile, and the whole morning passed by just like this.

Now that things are almost handled and Wen Qiong's grades will not be released for a while, it is better to go back to Mengyang as soon as possible.Wen Yu and the others prepared the carriage and drove out of Chengdu Mansion slowly.

Although it's only May, the weather is unusually hot for some reason.Xu Jing looked at the sky, and said to the two brothers: "It should be raining later, why don't we rest at the post station for one night, so as not to be unsafe on the road overnight." Wen Yu and Wen Qiong naturally had no objection.A few people entered the post station outside the Chengdu mansion.

The post station in the Ming Dynasty was actually a kind of luxurious official guest house. For example, the post station in Chengdu is a large courtyard with three entrances. The living conditions here are not even much worse than the Mengyang county magistrate's mansion.In addition to the upper rooms for officials and guests, there are Datong shops for service personnel and management personnel in the post station, and there are even temporary prisons.

It is worth mentioning that the business model of Daming Station is very strange.Logically speaking, if Wen Yu and others stayed in the station, they should pay the management staff of the station for board and lodging.But in fact it is not the case. Not only did officials of the Ming Dynasty not have to pay money to live in post stations, but they could also ask for money in various names when they left.

So since it's not relying on market-oriented operations to make money, is it because the state allocates funds to the post?In fact, it is not. The Daming post station mainly relies on the local government to apportion directly to the people, and uses the taxes of locals and even foreigners to support the post station.

This also led to the extreme poverty of the surrounding people being oppressed.In the end, Emperor Chongzhen revoked the post stations across the country, and Li Zicheng lost his job and rebelled.

When Wen Yu and others entered the station, the sky was already dark.Yicheng Tianju warmly entertained them.And arranged two upper rooms for them.

"Why do we only have two rooms for the three of us?" Wen Qiong asked dissatisfied, wouldn't he want to sleep with his eldest brother in this way!It's scary, okay!

Yicheng carefully explained: "Although our Yicheng is big, we have already lived in a group of people before, and it seems that it is raining today, and the official is worried that there will be people coming later. Please forgive me if I offend you."

Wen Qiong is not an unreasonable person, so she stopped talking when she heard him say that.

Wen Yu felt that the opportunity had come, so she said solemnly: "There are so many requests, since you are so delicate, then live alone, I will live with your brother Xu." Wen Qiong also wanted to pretend to evade, But looking at the look on the eldest brother's face, he suddenly understood the main point, and agreed without hesitation.

Several people went back to the room to wash and tidy up, and at night it was time to eat in the hall.

Sure enough, Xu Jing was right. At this time, it was already pouring rain outside.The rooms of Wen Yu and the others were not next to each other. Of course, this was strongly requested by Wen Qiong. He was worried about what would happen if he accidentally bumped into the muzzle of his eldest brother, so he moved the room to a place a little far away from Wen Yu's room. .

Wen Qiong was going to eat in the living room, when he opened the door, a young man walked out of the room opposite him.Wen Qiong has always felt that she is an individual in terms of appearance alone, but compared with the young man, she seems to be dimmed.

It's not an exaggeration at all, the young man was wearing clothes with bright red thorns and silver threads, this color scheme might be considered vulgar to others, but on him it could only be said to be barely worthy of this person's beauty.Wen Qiong is a person who loves beauty, so it is inevitable to pay more attention to beauties.

The man seemed to notice Wen Qiong's gaze, raised his head and scolded fiercely: "Look at your mother's bastard! Isn't the brat afraid of being struck by lightning again!"

Wen Qiong wasn't in a good temper either, he was just looking at him twice, as for being so angry, he was just about to speak back.I saw a middle-aged literati walking out of the boy's room, and scolded the boy: "Xiang'er! Don't be rude!"

Wen Qiong took a closer look and said happily, "Mr. Lu! Why are you here!"

The middle-aged scribe also recognized Wen Qiong, and said with a smile: "I accompanied Gouzi to the government examination, and today I will meet in Peng County, but it rains heavily, so I will stay here for one night."

This person was the judge of the Peony Festival Poetry Competition at that time, Lu Bence, a famous scholar in Sichuan, was the one who stood up to Wen Qiong and supported Wen Qiong. As a result, Wen Qiong and Tang Yin won the championship together.

After the poetry competition, Lu Bence came to Wen Qiong for advice. Originally, Wen Qiong had agreed to stay at his house, but because Tang Yin wanted to go to Mengyang County to discuss business with his family, he had to miss the appointment to accompany him. little buddy.

Wen Qiong looked at the boy, then at Lu Bence: "Sir, is this Mr. Ling?"

Lu Bence replied: "Yes, my son Lu Xiang is two years older than you. He was not with me when he was studying in Chengdu Mansion before. This time I went to pick him up after the exam. Come on, Xiang'er, hurry up with Wen Say hello, sir."

It was an ordinary sentence, but Lu Xiang looked disdainful: "I don't care about you if you are old, you are willing to flatter people and do it yourself, don't use me as a raft!" After speaking, he turned and walked to the hall.

Wen Qiong was dumbfounded, no matter how deviant or rebellious he was, he was still an ancient man.Master Tiandi Junqin, when has he ever seen such a person who disrespects his father.

Lu Benze smiled wryly and said: "This child has not been with me since he was a child, and he has met some bad people outside. It is because I can't discipline him well that Mr. Wen laughed."

Wen Qiong shook his head, he couldn't say anything about other people's family affairs, so he deliberately changed the topic and said: "Mr. Lu, you are too out of touch, you have taught me for a while, why are you still called Mr. Wen, just call me by my name." .”

Lu Benz nodded in agreement.The two went to the hall for dinner together. At this time, Wen Yu and Xu Jing were already sitting in the hall, and Lu Xiang nestled in the corner by himself. When he saw them coming, he rolled his eyes in disdain.

Wen Qiong didn't bother to pay attention to him, he could tell that this was a no-nonsense, empty-headed idiot.Walking to Wen Yu's side, he introduced Lu Bence to his eldest brother with a face full of treasures.

Lu Bence saluted Wen Yu, and Wen Yu hurriedly helped him up: "I heard that Mr. Lu is a man of great talent and a noble character. Today I saw him, and he really deserves his reputation. I was grateful for your care of my ineffective younger brother."

Lu Bence smiled: "Where, I should thank Mr. Wen. If you hadn't presided over this Peony Festival, how could I have met such a talented and beautiful jade as Wen Qiong." The feeling of being calm and knowledgeable, this may be the legendary poetic spirit, Wen Yu sighed.

After chatting with Wen Yu, Lu Benz returned to his seat.It seemed that he had whispered something to Lu Xiang, but Lu Xiang still looked impatient, and Lu Benz smiled helplessly.

Wen Yu watched his younger brother's eyes keep on looking at the table, and followed him with doubts in his heart. Naturally, he was also surprised by Lu Xiang's beauty.He looked at Wen Qiong with a trace of inquiry.

Wen Qiong received the signal from her elder brother, and quickly explained: "No, that's not the case." Then she told Wen Yu what she had seen and heard before.Only then did Wen Yu understand, and then she couldn't help sighing that Lu Xiang might be what later generations called a bear child. He was 16 years old, and it probably had something to do with Lu Benz's doting.

Sure enough, boys will be raised poorly, and I will be stricter with Wen Qiong, a brat in the future.Wen Qiong felt a wave of malice and trembled all over, never thinking that this big brother could be blamed on him.Xu Jing looked at the two brothers, and silently brought food for Wen Yu.

Not to mention, although this post station is remote, the food tastes really good.Especially this bacon fried chrysanthemum chrysanthemum, the bacon is fragrant but not greasy, especially with rice.

Wen Yu was eating happily when suddenly there was a commotion outside. Everyone looked up and saw three people in coir raincoats coming from the rainstorm.One of them was wearing shackles, and the other two were dressed in official uniforms. It could be seen that the officers and soldiers pressed the prisoners to serve.

When the three of them took off their coir raincoats, everyone's eyes lit up.Wen Yu sighed in her heart, how can I always see good-looking people today? Is my appearance too low, but fortunately Ji Qing is not a person who looks at faces.

The good-looking people mentioned by the people present all refer to the one in the middle with the shackles. I saw that he should not be more than 20 years old, with sword eyebrows and star eyes, and a straight nose.Although his skin is slightly dark, it adds a different kind of wildness to him.The corners of his mouth were raised cynically, looking a little frivolous, but he had to admit that he had a good face.

A crisp "pop" drew everyone's attention away. It turned out that the teacup in Lu Xiang's hand fell to the ground.Seeing that Lu Xiang was furious, he cursed at a postman: "What kind of broken tea! You are here to entertain the guests! I think you don't want to live!" Then he stretched out his hand to beat the postman.

The postman was very short in stature, and was beaten to the point of tears, but he didn't dare to run away, so he could only beg for mercy repeatedly.

Wen Qiong couldn't stand it anymore, grabbed Lu Xiang's violent hand, and cursed angrily: "Aren't you crazy! You beat someone for such a trivial matter! I think you are the one who owes a lesson!" He raised his fist to fight Lu Xiang.

Wen Yu and Lu Bence separated the two repeatedly, during which Lu Bence kept apologizing to Wen Yu.

"Pfft..." A chuckle interrupted several people.

Wen Qiong looked back at the young prisoner angrily: "Why are you laughing, what's so funny!"

The young prisoner said: "It's nothing. I just thought it was interesting to see two little chickens fighting. I'm hungry. Mr. Yang, when are we going to have dinner?" He turned around and asked the two officers and soldiers who were slightly older one of.

The man known as Mr. Yang frowned and said, "It's only been a while, Tang Qiao, you kid is hungry and tired, and we have become your servants together."

Tang Qiao said with a hippie smile: "How can you, Mr. Yang, you are like my own uncle. If you can let me have a good meal later, then you will be upgraded to my own father!" Another postman called over to order food.

Tang Qiao was still playing tricks on the sidelines: "I want a little cock! Get me two! One steamed and the other braised!" Immediately, he winked at Wen Qiong and the others.

Everyone suddenly realized, isn't this the color of Wen Qiong Lu Xiang's clothes?One of them is wearing red and the other is white at this time. This is the so-called steamed braised in brown sauce.Everyone couldn't help laughing, even Wen Qiong grinned. Although Tang Qiao was short-mouthed, he was not annoying.

Wen Qiong helped the postman who had been beaten up before, and the postman wiped away his tears, revealing a delicate round face.

Wen Yu was speechless. Is this child 12 years old? This is child labor exploitation... But considering that Wen Qiong started to have a room at the age of 13, Wen Yu didn't say anything.

But Wen Qiong, looking at that little postman seemed to inspire his motherhood?Not only gave him some money to heal the wound, but also told him that if Lu Xiang over there still bullies him in the future, let him come to him.Xiao Yicheng nodded timidly, and smiled sweetly.

Looking at the child, Wen Yu couldn't help but think of his brother Fu at home. He really missed his son after being out for a few days, so he should spend a few days with the child when he goes back.

Everyone ate, drank, and the night passed quickly, and they went back to their rooms to sleep at night.Wen Yu was a little nervous, thinking it was the first time in a long time that he slept with Ji Qing's classmate, what if he was so nervous that he couldn't sleep!Ahhhhhh so happy!

Wen Yu rolled happily on the bed, just at this time Xu Jing came back from washing, pushed the door in and made eye contact with the rolling Wen Yu.

Wen Yu got up awkwardly: "Cough, let me see if there are any cockroaches on this bed."

A smile flashed in Xu Jing's eyes: "Is that so?"

"It must not be." The old god Wen Yu said: "Even if there was, I must have been crushed to death just now." After finishing speaking, the two laughed together.

After talking for a long time, Wen Yu thought he would suffer from insomnia, but as soon as Xu Jing was lying next to him, his eyelids began to sink. Maybe it was because Xu Jing felt at ease.After a while, I closed my eyes and fell asleep.

Xu Jing looked at someone sleeping soundly beside the pillow, and with a gentleness that he didn't feel, covered him with a quilt, blew out the candle, and the two fell asleep on their feet.

Jia Da is a cook at the post station. He has no other hobbies on weekdays, but he likes to be more masculine. Today is a rare big day for the post station. He has never seen so many beauties.

So I thought about going into their room in the middle of the night and stealing two personal belongings from the beauty to comfort my heart.

He ruled out Xu Jing and Tang Qiao first, they don't seem to be easy to provoke, especially Xu Jing, when everyone was having dinner at night, he secretly took a look outside, Xu Jing seemed to have noticed something , looked at him coldly.To tell the truth, until now he still has chills all over his body.

Moreover, these two people are not his type, he likes the kind of graceful noble son, he hesitated between Wen Qiong and Lu Xiang, and finally locked his target on Lu Xiang.

Although Wen Qiong was also beautiful, she was still a bit short of Lu Xiang. The most important thing was that Wen Qiong's own brother was a county magistrate.If it is really exposed, I guess I will feel better.As for Lu Xiang... Jia Da smiled lewdly, his father was just an old scholar, if the little beauty slept soundly, he might be able to touch him a couple of times.

It was still raining outside at this time, Jia Da held an umbrella and sneaked into Lu Xiang's room secretly.Although the door bolt in Lu Xiang's room was hung, Jia Da was the leader of a gang of thieves before, and this kind of work of opening the door was quite familiar to him.

I saw him take out a piece of iron wire, lightly thread it through the crack of the door, fiddle with it twice, and the door bolt opened.The whole process took only a few seconds, and the sound was very slight.It seems that I am still young!Jia thought proudly.

After opening the door, Jia Da tiptoed into the room, saw the clothes scattered on the floor, couldn't help but grabbed them, put them in front of his nose and smelled them intoxicated.The bed curtain was pulled and there was no sound from inside, so Jia boldly opened the bed curtain gently, and put his hands on the face of the person on the bed under the very faint moonlight.

"It's so slippery," Jia Da sighed.The little beauty slept very soundly, Jia Da touched it for a long time, and he didn't even breathe easily.So Jia Da went too far, and even put his hand into his underwear.

Suddenly a flash of lightning flashed across the room, illuminating the room, and Jia Da saw the eyes of the person on the bed wide open.His face was blue and purple, and his appearance was extremely hideous.He was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, but before he pulled out his hand in the other party's clothes, he moved the corpse on the bed, and saw that corpse fell straight towards Jia Da, with his bruised face facing Jia Da.Jia Da was so frightened that a scream pierced the night sky, "Ah!!!!!!"

Wen Yu and Xu Jing naturally heard such a loud voice, and the two quickly got up and put on their clothes.Xu Jing originally thought of going to check it alone first, and calling Wen Yu down after he was sure it was dangerous.But he couldn't figure out what was going on, and he was still worried that Wen Yu would leave his side.Wen Yu also insisted that he would go with him.

At this time, there was already a fire outside, and the two went down to the first floor along the light source.It was found that Lu Xiang's house was surrounded by people.

Seeing Wen Yu coming, everyone made way out. Wen Yu Xu Jing walked into the room and found a corpse lying on the ground. When he went up, he saw that it was Lu Xiang.

Over there, Benze Lu was wrestling with a tall man in the costume of a postman. To be precise, Benze Lu climbed on top of him and beat him unilaterally.

Yicheng Tianju was next to him and tried his best to pull the two away. The scene of the two rolling around was too indecent. Xu Jing received Wen Yu's signal and directly pulled Lu Bence up.

Lu Bence's eyes were bloodshot, and he looked at the postman fiercely: "You bastard, thief! Give me back my life!"

The jailer, namely Jia Da, looked aggrieved: "It's not me! I didn't kill your son!"

Wen Yu asked Xu Jing to pull Lu Benz to the side, ignoring the two of them, but squatted down to check the corpse little by little.At this time, whether the corpse is completely stiff or not, is still somewhat warm.There are no corpse spots either, so it looks like he died not long ago.

Just a few hours ago, this flowery face was still dining with everyone, but now it is lying on the ground with its eyes wide open.Wen Yu's heart felt heavy.

He couldn't bear to see Lu Xiang like this, so he closed his eyes slowly with his hands.Lu Benze over there let out a bitter cry, as if he had lost all his strength and sat down on the ground.

All the people present showed sadness.Although it was raining outside at this time, Wen Yu asked Yi Cheng to count the number of people to see if anyone escaped at night.

During the period, Wen Yu continued to check the scene, and he found that there were many small wounds on Lu Xiang's body, and there were obvious fingerprints on his neck.Apparently he was strangled.Clothes were scattered on the ground, and the deceased was obviously disheveled. Looking at Jia Da who was pressed in the corner, and Yicheng came to tell Wen Yu that everything was fine, Wen Yu felt that the case was obvious.

But out of responsibility, he still called Jia Da to an empty room, and left only Xu Jing and Wen Qiong beside him, intending to make a final record.

Jia Da regrets it so much now that he couldn't clean himself up by jumping into the Yellow River!Seeing Wen Yu asking him, he quickly told the whole story.

Wen Yu frowned after hearing this: "You mean, Lu Xiang was already dead when you entered the room, and the door was still locked inside?"

Jia Da looked aggrieved: "Yes! My lord, I really didn't kill that person, I just want to go in and order something!"

"Stealing things and ripping off people's clothes?" Wen Qiong sneered: "How dare you speak hard now! Brother, I don't think there is any need for an interrogation, the prisoner is him!"

Wen Yu shook her head: "Don't talk, Jia Da, what evidence do you have to prove that you are not the murderer?"

"This... Well, although I can't produce evidence, I really dare not kill people, my lord!" Jia Da faltered for a long time, and couldn't say anything on the last day, so he could only kneel and kowtow to Wen Yu.

The author has something to say: I feel that the title will be a spoiler... I will add it later