I'm an immortal in heaven

Chapter 654
Zheng Li, the director of the Prison Department of Yanzhou Prefecture, a fifth-rank civil servant of the Tang Dynasty.

Generally speaking, this official position is an official in charge of the prison in Yanzhou Prefecture.

Although he was a fifth-rank local official, Zheng Li was a well-known poor official in Yanzhou Prefecture.

Zheng Li was born in a humble family with no money or power. He studied hard for 15 years and was admitted to Jinshi of the Mingjing Department. However, he was not lucky. The local magistrate.

But Zheng Li never complained. From the first day he was an official, he worked hard to rule the land and stabilize the people.

With no money, no power, and no backer from the top, he abruptly relied on his political achievements to go from a seventh-rank county magistrate in a local place to a fifth-rank prison secretary in Yanzhou Prefecture in 13 years.

Although Zheng Li is now nearly forty years old, for an official, he is still in the prime of life.

In particular, Dou Xiaozhi, the current prefect of Yanzhou Prefecture, thinks highly of him, and he has a bright future.

Not only that, Zheng Li's official reputation is also very good. He is a clean and honest official, and puts the people first in everything.

For example, when Zheng Li was the county magistrate of Yanzhou County, Dou Shu, the son of Dou Xiaozhi, the prefect of Yanzhou, fought with someone and seriously injured him.

Facing the dignitaries from the Dou family, Zheng Li also argued hard without giving in.

Later, Dou Xiaozhi found out about this, and immediately recalled his family members, and praised Zheng Li greatly. Moreover, Dou Xiaozhi personally came forward and gave his son an additional three-year sentence.

In the end, Dou Shu was directly sentenced to five years in prison. Everyone thought that Dou Xiaozhi would take revenge on Zheng Li if he didn't trouble Zheng Li now.

But only one year later, Dou Xiaozhi directly promoted Zheng Li from the sixth rank to the fifth rank, and he was very polite to Zheng Li, calling him 'Sir'.

Even whenever Dou Xiaozhi heard that Zheng Li's family was in trouble, he would use his own family resources to help Zheng Li.

Zheng Li is a clean and honest official, and he has no other income except the court salary. Even his wife often weaves and sells cloth for a living.

So in this case, there will definitely be times of hardship, and Dou Xiaozhi will often help Zheng Li.

But every time Zheng Li received a donation from Dou Xiaozhi, he would write an IOU to the person who came to send the money to the Dou House. If the Dou House did not accept the IOU, then Zheng Li would not accept the money either.

So in the hands of Dou Xiaozhi, Zheng Li already has an IOU of more than 100 taels of silver. Although Zheng Li will pay back some money as soon as he has money, but relying on his little salary alone, it is estimated that he will have to pay back more than ten years.

But Dou Xiaozhi didn't care about it, more than 100 taels of silver couldn't even buy a vase in his mansion.

However, these IOUs were somehow leaked out, so the entire Tang Dynasty soon knew that Yanzhou Mansion had a gentleman prefect who was just and selfless, who cherished talents and loved talents, and a prison prison known for its incorruptibility. Secretary book.

Through these things, Dou Xiaozhi not only gained great popularity in the entire Yanzhou Prefecture, but also gained an excellent official reputation in the court of the Tang Dynasty, and was even praised by the Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty, Yu Jiang.

However, regardless of Dou Xiaozhi's reputation and official reputation, among the officials of Yanzhou Mansion in the Tang Dynasty, only Zheng Li was awarded the Yao Xun by Taixuandu Province, which seems to prove a lot.

As it was getting late, Zheng Li walked back home from the Yamen of the prefect's mansion.

His wife, Yun Shi, was sitting in front of the loom in simple and unadorned clothes. When she saw her husband come back, she stood up quickly.

After Zheng Li entered the door, he took off his outer shirt, and his wife, Yun Shi, brought out the food from the pot in the kitchen and placed it on the table in the main room.

"You came back late, and I told you to cook when you came back, but you didn't agree. You also didn't agree to me going to the yamen to deliver food to you. How can I eat leftovers every day?" Yun said as he put the food on the table.

Zheng Li smiled and said: "Then what are you bothering to do? I'm an old couple. If I come back late, you can just eat first. Our house is far away from the yamen. It takes at least half an hour for you to go back and forth. With this Time is better than weaving a few more sheets of cloth.”

"Besides, what's so bad about leftovers?" Zheng Li said, and immediately took a mouthful of the warm leftovers in the bowl, and then said: "When I was young, I went to the school in the village. If I went back late at night, my mother would Take out the leftovers from the pot
feed me.She was afraid that the leftovers would be cold, so the bottom of the pot was kept on a low fire. When the food was served, it was still steaming, and there was still water vapor on the side of the bowl. "

Having said this, Zheng Li sighed slightly, his mother had passed away five or six years ago.

When Yun heard what Zheng Li said, he couldn't help but smiled softly. He and Zheng Li also had a son, but they were studying in Chang'an, not in Yanzhou.

"I'm a little tired today, I'll go to bed after dinner." Zheng Li said to his wife.

Yun Shi nodded and said, "Okay." Then she got up and put a cup of tea in front of Zheng Li.

This is a habit of Zheng Li. Every time he comes back from the yamen, Zheng Li likes to drink a cup of cold tea, and he likes to drink hot tea in the morning.

After eating, Zheng Li sat there and drank a cup of cold tea, and then sat there to rest for a while, feeling tired suddenly, and Dang even yawned.

"Go to bed when you're tired." Yun said softly while weaving.

Zheng Li nodded, and said: "It's a bit strange today, I've been feeling sleepy, I don't know why."

"Maybe I'm tired." Yun said with a smile.

Zheng Li returned to the bedroom, took off his clothes, got on the bed, fell asleep, and fell asleep in just a moment.

After falling asleep, Zheng Li's soul broke away from his physical body, and his soul was surrounded by a layer of golden light, which was the golden light of the guardian of heaven, which could protect his soul from evil and external forces.

Zheng Li's soul was dressed in the official mansion, and his thoughts floated out of the courtyard in a chaotic manner, and then flew into the sky, only to wake up after being blown by the breeze.

"Huh? It's like this again?" Zheng Li was not surprised to see himself floating in the sky, because he has had this kind of 'dream' more than once, and he has had this kind of dream several times before.

"Interesting." Zheng Li is very curious about this kind of strange dream, because he can always encounter some strange things in this kind of strange dream, and after waking up from the dream, his body will become very comfortable and full of vitality .

Soon, Zheng Li floated to a place and stopped. He looked down and couldn't help wondering, "Huh? Isn't this Daliuzhuang?"

As a magistrate of Yanzhou Prefecture, he has visited and inspected the villages around the Fucheng one by one, so he can recognize Daliu Village at a glance, especially the big willow tree at the entrance of the village.

As the blue cloud fell under his feet, Zheng Li was instantly taken outside the Daliuzhuang Earth Temple by the cloud light.

When his soul fell to the open space in front of the Earth Temple, he realized that there were already several people standing there.

The one at the front is naturally Su Yan, the land god of Daliuzhuang, Fang Jianli is watching from the sidelines, and then the female snake demon and Liu Daye are standing side by side, and Liu Daye's face is full of fear at the same time.

Obviously, apart from Su Yan, Fang Jian, and the female snake demon, Zheng Li and Liu Daye all came here out of their bodies.

"Su Yan, God of Land in Daliuzhuang, pay homage to Mr. Zheng." Su Yan immediately stepped forward to salute.

Seeing this, Zheng Li immediately returned the salute: "Zheng Li has seen the Lord of the Land."

For future bosses, the God of Land would not dare to neglect, so after saluting, he immediately reported the situation of the female snake demon and Liu Daye.

Zheng Li understood everything after listening to the report of the land god. It seemed that this was the same as those previous dreams, and he needed to make a judgment himself.

So Zheng Li said to the banshee: "You want to sue Liu Daye, a commoner in Daliu Village?"

The banshee immediately stepped forward and said: "Jiang Lan, a monk in the Yinyin Cave on Longlu Mountain, has sued Liu Daye, a commoner in Daliu Village, for killing my son. I beg your lord to uphold justice for me."

Zheng Li said: "Where are your son's body and soul?"

After all, this is not the first time to 'dream', Zheng Li is already very experienced in this kind of situation.

Jiang Lan immediately held her son's body in her palm and brought it forward, while Su Yan, who was at the side, also recited a mantra with his hands.

The next moment, a gloomy fog door appeared next to the Daliuzhuang Earth Temple, and two ghost messengers escorted the soul of a mortal child about ten years old and appeared in front of everyone.

But this child is emerald green all over, his eyes are orange-yellow, and he spits out snake letters from time to time.

Even though he knew it was a dream, even though he had had this dream more than once, Zheng Li couldn't help but feel chills at the moment when the little snake demon appeared.

"My son!" Jiang Lan saw her son's soul, and rushed forward desperately.

And when the two ghost messengers saw Jiang Lan rushing up, they immediately raised the ghost baton in their hands, "Snake demon, don't go forward again!"

Seeing this, Jiang Lan was afraid that the two ghosts would beat her son, so she quickly stopped and said, "You two ghosts, I won't come up, I won't come up, please don't hit him." Tears flowed.

Seeing his mother in front of his eyes, Jiang Lan's son soul immediately cried out: "Mother, mother, save me, save me, it's so scary there, I'm scared in there alone, I can't find my mother, Woo hoo."

The little snake demon cried loudly, and when it said 'there', it referred to the underworld.

Jiang Lan's heart was broken when she heard her son's cries, and her whole body burst into tears, crying heartbreakingly.

Seeing this scene, Liu Daye also had tears in his eyes. He also has a son. It would be fine if he was just a snake, but when he saw that the soul of the snake was just a child, he had parents and a family. , Just like a living person, he still felt a deep sense of guilt in his heart.

"Alas." Zheng Li sighed, "Monsters also have feelings, let alone humans? It can be seen that blood and family love are born in the world, not unique to human beings."

Hearing Zheng Li's words, Jiang Lan turned around immediately, and bowed to Zheng Li with blurred eyes, "I beg you, my lord, to uphold justice for my mother and son!" After speaking, Jiang Lan directly bowed down.

(End of this chapter)