Gu Qi, she just wants to farm

Chapter 238 Something Is Wrong (1)

"Whoever goes up first and catches this bandit, Mr. Fu Cheng and I will reward him with an extra ten taels of silver!" Seeing that the yamen servants were either hesitant or indifferent, the chief secretary hurriedly increased his bargaining chips.

"Ten taels of silver!" Several yamen servants widened their eyes.

In the past, when the epidemic situation in Yuzhou Prefecture had not yet begun, they could still earn a lot of money as servants in the government office. Later, the drought in Yuzhou Prefecture became more and more serious. tower road.

Most of those who still stay in Yuan'an Town to work as errands in this broken yamen have no other skills, and can only continue to dawdle in Yuan'an Town with a monthly salary of no more than one or two taels of silver .

It’s just that the life in Yuzhou Prefecture is getting more and more difficult in the future. There is not much food to exchange for more than one tael of silver outside. Thanks to the yamen, in addition to the salary, they also distribute two bags of rice grains every month to make them barely support. go down.Otherwise, even with a monthly salary, these few of them couldn't afford to run away.

Of course, the monthly salary goes to the monthly salary, and the rice grain goes to the rice grain, which is enough to support the family. Do you still want them to work hard for this little money?

To put it bluntly, the one who is still working in the government office of Yuan'an Town is not an old fritter who is used to fishing in troubled waters.

If there are beneficial errands, you can be more active, and if there are no beneficial errands, whoever likes to go.
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But this time the situation is different.

One tael of silver is not enough to impress people, but ten taels of silver made the eyes of several yamen servants turn red.

"Old Lin, what do you say? Wealth and wealth are in danger, let's give it a go?" An older yamen servant with a beard gave a hand to his close friend.

The yamen servant next to him named Lao Lin is not young anymore, he is short and thin, and his appearance is not ugly, but because of his peaceful features, he looks a little more honest than other yamen servants.

"Is it reliable? This is a practicing family. In case something happens, there are old and young among us." Lao Lin hesitated.

"What could happen! There are so many of us, no matter how we go together, this kid must be tied up. Ten taels of silver is enough to cover the family's expenses for a long time."

The bearded man with bright eyes walked forward slowly while pulling Lao Lin to encourage him.

"Then try it first?"

Lao Lin was also a little moved when he heard this, but he didn't move his feet at all while talking.

He has a cautious temperament, although the bounty of ten taels of silver sounds tempting to him, but he also saw the skill of the boy in the hall just now.

It's good to earn money, but you have to have life first.

Since we are going together, it is common sense that my old bones are not good at hands and feet, etc., so why not let the young people next to me try the water first.

If you can greet me, I will go up and make up two knives.If you can't say hello, even if you run away, others will have nothing to say.

Furthermore
Thinking of the conversation between this white-faced boy surnamed Qi and the three adults, Lao Lin couldn't help feeling a little weird.

Speaking of which, since the superior suddenly sent three assistant officials over a month ago, the original assistant officials disappeared the next day.

It was said that he was transferred away, but no one saw how he left.It seems that the world disappeared overnight, without even going through the usual handover process.

The strangest thing is that the magistrate didn't come the next day because he was said to be ill.

But what kind of disease can last for a month?So far no one has come out.

This month's affairs in the yamen are also decided by the three new assistant officials.

Thinking about it carefully, Lao Lin felt a little dazed, and suddenly noticed something was wrong.

For example, since the three assistant officials took office, the disturbances in Yuan'an Town in this short month have almost caught up with the usual changes in three to five years.From guarding the city to patrolling, from Guanjing to Liangfu, many people changed inside and out.

Immediately afterwards, there were more passing merchants, and the strangest thing was that these foreign merchants didn't know what was going on, and they committed crimes every day.

It's not a big deal, it's mostly trivial matters, and the yamen is also following the sky-high adjudication.It's not considered a trial, it's likely that they, the yamen servants, pushed those merchants to the yamen, and the assistant officer was promoted to the hall and convicted casually, so it should be understood.

As for whether there is any grievance here, and what happened, no one cares.Naturally, he just doesn't care about it as a yamen servant.

"Old Lin, why are you so dazed, come on! If you're late, the money will be divided up by those little bastards."

Lao Lin was in a trance when he was pulled by his side.

The bearded man pointed forward, his eyes glowing.

When Lao Lin pulled back his thoughts, he saw that a group of yamen servants had raised their knives and surrounded the young man surnamed Qi.

For some reason, Lao Lin always felt that something was wrong.Instinctively, he was not pulled by his friend's bearded beard. Instead, he stretched out his hand and pulled back the bearded man who was planning to rush up.

"Old Qing, why do I feel that something is wrong?"

"What's wrong?" Old Qing with a beard didn't know why.

Lao Lin glanced in the direction of Gu Qi, seeing so many government servants surrounding him, the young man still looked calm, even with a smile on his lips.

The faint coldness in this smile made Lao Lin's heart skip a beat, he tightened Lao Qing's sleeves hesitantly, and said carefully:
"I don't think this young man looks simple. If we do this, we might have an accident together."

Lao Qing frowned, pulled Lao Lin's hand away, and showed dissatisfaction on his face: "Old Lin, I'm not talking about you, you are good at everything, but you are too timid.

These days, the bold are exhausted, and the timid are starved to death.We can't let those little brats steal the show for everything. "

"I just don't think things are right, let's wait."

For a while, Lao Lin didn't know what to say to Lao Qing, but felt that as the smile on the young man's face became more and more public, his heart also became tense, and he always felt that something big was going to happen.

"I think you're just worrying."

Lao Qing looked down on Lao Lin's excessive caution, but thinking that the two of them were far away now, it would be meaningless to grab the top spot, so he didn't move at all, and only looked in the direction of the other yamen servants .

Thinking about whether to take the time to make up for the two feet at that time, ten taels of silver can't be grabbed, and one tael of silver will always be taken.

But before Lao Qing could make up his mind, the sudden exclamation made Lao Qing's eyes widen!
I saw the young man surnamed Qi twisting his body into a weird posture when all the government servants surrounded him less than half a foot away, raised his head and struck out a palm from the side.

Immediately afterwards, he turned his palm into a claw, clasped the wrist of a yamen servant holding a knife with a sneer, and pulled the yamen servant to the front to directly block the long knife swung by another yamen servant.

In just a split second, accompanied by heart-piercing screams, glaring red blood sprayed from the shoulder of the guard who was detained, and sprinkled on half of the face of the guard holding the knife in front of him.

"what!!"

At this moment, Lao Qing couldn't tell whether the screams came from the beheaded yamen servant or from the beheaded yamen servant.Or it overflowed from the mouth of himself and Lao Lin.

(End of this chapter)