Liao Zhai Great Kind People

Chapter 106 Ten Dead and No Life
With the support of Bai Jia, Ma Xianxing entered the living room, and saluted with a pleasant face: "Master Zhang, I really want to spoil my official after leaving the capital!"

Zhang Xiu got up and supported his hands, quickly returned the salute, and asked with concern: "Ma Shangshu is being polite, is your son still lame?"

"Still lame, still lame, the dog is incompetent, so don't worry about Mr. Zhang..."

Ma Xianxing was smiling, but he was gnashing his teeth in anger.

When his son Ma Wenbin was hunting in Xishan, he was shot by Zhang Xiu with an arrow and became crippled. Almost all the official careers he had planned were cancelled.

As soon as they met now, Zhang Xiu uncovered the scar in his heart, and was almost so angry that he broke his years of self-cultivation on the spot.

Seeing the two talking and laughing, and sitting down modestly, Bai Jia on the side was stunned.

Is the way of greeting in the officialdom in the capital so strange? When you meet, you don't ask how you are, but if you are lame?
It seems that before he goes to the capital to become an official, he still has a lot to learn!

Zhang Xiu looked at Bai Jia with a look of astonishment in his eyes, and said with a smile: "This is the prefect of Hangzhou, Master Bai Jiabai?"

Bai Jia cupped his hands, and was about to speak when he suddenly remembered that Ma Xianxian told him not to speak, and the words changed into: "Abaa Baba!"

Zhang Xiu was stunned: "Master Bai is dumb?"

Bai Jia's expression froze: "Abaaaba."

A dumb person is a dumb person. In order to be promoted, one must listen to Ma Shangshu's words!
Zhang Xiu looked at Ma Xianxing with a strange expression, and said, "Master Bai, with a disabled body, never forgets the fish and meat people...cough cough, never forgets to care about the people, with such a disabled body and a strong mind, he is really a role model for my generation!"

Ma Xianxing glanced at Bai Jia with a dark face, only feeling angry, and said: "Prefect Bai, stop joking with Mr. Zhang, talk carefully."

Bai Jia breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled at Zhang Xiu: "Master Zhang came to my Hangzhou mansion as a guest today, why?"

Zhang Xiu directly explained the purpose of coming here: "There is a Dianshi named Wang Er in your government office. Sixteen years ago, he accepted a bribe of 16 Wen from a thief to slander Mei Nu's innocence and forced her to hang herself."

"I'm here this time because of this murder case!"

Bai Jia was at a loss for words for a moment: "This... this old case, there is no need for a retrial, right?"

Ma Xianxing said angrily: "Human life is as important as the sky, and the old case is also a case. How can we not try it? In my opinion, this case must be retried, and it must be retried properly!"

"Master Zhang, this case will be judged by you! Prefect Bai, your transfer letter will be issued soon, go and pack up your things, and follow me back to Beijing immediately!"

Bai Jia said in a daze: "Ma Shangshu, why are you in such a hurry..."

Ma Xianxing glared, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly shut up, and was about to bid farewell to Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu raised her hand slightly, and said with a smile: "You two adults, wait a minute. Just now, I accidentally picked up a 10 taels of silver note. I wonder which of the two adults lost it?"

As he spoke, he took out ten 1 taels of silver bills from his sleeve.

Ma Xianxing's face changed, and he reached out to touch his bosom, and found that there was nothing there, and suddenly felt a ball of anger in his chest.

If I'm not careful, the banknote in my arms can slip into your sleeve?
You are fooling around! !

At the same time, Bai Jia stared at the bank note in Zhang Xiu's hand for a moment, and suddenly lost his voice: "Oh, isn't this my bank note!"

Zhang Xiu looked at Bai Jia suspiciously: "Is this bank note yours?"

Bai Jia quickly waved his hand and said, "No, it was before, but now it belongs to Ma Shangshu!"

Zhang Xiu said playfully: "That's really strange. How did your bank note become Ma Shangshu? You really confused me."

Bai Jia opened his mouth, but before he opened his mouth, he saw Ma Xianxing said with a dark face: "Master Bai, don't just talk about it. Bribing a superior is a felony!"

Bai Jia broke out in a cold sweat in an instant, and finally realized that this Master Zhang from Jinhua seemed to be on a different path from Ma Shangshu!
Which faction does Zhang Xiu belong to, which can make Ma Shangshu so afraid?

Is the emperor's confidant or a member of Prime Minister Pang, or a team left by the late emperor?

Seeing Zhang Xiu's smiling expression, Bai Jia bit the bullet and apologized with a smile: "Master Zhang, just now I made a slip of the tongue, this bank note was just lost by me, and it has nothing to do with Ma Shangshu!"

Zhang Xiu said with a smile: "Oh, then I'm a little puzzled. The prefect's monthly payment is only a few dozen taels of silver. Where did you get such a huge sum of money?"

Bai Jia's cheeks twitched slightly, and he couldn't think of a reasonable explanation for a long time. He stared at the bank note in Zhang Xiu's hand, struggling for a while.

Ma Xian cast a sideways glance at Bai Jia, slapped his hand heavily on his shoulder, and said indifferently: "You idiot, Mr. Zhang has a witty nature, and he is joking with you. This bank note is neither mine nor yours. That was naturally brought by Mr. Zhang himself."

Bai Jia reluctantly withdrew his gaze from the bank note, and with a smile uglier than crying, nodded in agreement and said: "It turned out to be Mr. Zhang's bank note, I am so stupid."

Zhang Xiu glanced at the old cunning Ma Xianxing, silently inserted back the half-drawn golden cudgel, and said with a smile, "Master Ma is really astute, and this 10 taels of silver was really brought by me."

"The lower officials couldn't bear the years of floods in Hangzhou and the displacement of the people, so they specially brought 10 taels of banknotes to rebuild a dam for the Hangzhou government."

Ma Xianxing groaned, and said with admiration: "Master Zhang cares about the common people, which is really a blessing to the common people in Hangzhou. It's a pity that I'm so busy with affairs that I can't see the elegance of Xindi."

"Master Zhang, don't worry, when I return to the capital, I will definitely report your achievements to the Holy One verbatim!"

Zhang Xiu smiled slightly, waved her hand and said: "In this way, there will be Shangshu Lao Ma, Yan Feng, see off the guests!"

Ma Xianxing breathed a sigh of relief, walked out of the government office quickly with Bai Jia, looked at the busy street, then raised his sleeve to wipe the sweat off his forehead.

Bai Jia's heart ached for a while, and finally regained his strength, his eyes widened, and he said: "No, this seems to be my government office!"

Ma Xianxian kicked Bai Jia to the ground, and said angrily, "You idiot, it would be nice if you could save your life. Just now you were talking nonsense inside, and you almost killed me!"

Bai Jia said with a look of disbelief: "Ma Shangshu, you are the official minister, is it necessary to be so afraid of that Zhang Xiu?"

Ma Xianxing took a deep breath and said, "He has the gold medal of exoneration and the iron rod given by the queen mother in his hand. If we were accidentally caught by him just now, do you believe he would dare to blow our heads off on the spot!"

Bai Jia took a deep breath: "Ah, so he belongs to the Queen Mother!"

Ma Xianxing calmed down and said, "Don't take anything with you, follow me on the small road back to Beijing overnight, so that there will be no further changes."

Hearing this, Bai Jia said in a somewhat tangled voice: "But my lord, it's not safe to take the small road. Many refugees from Hangzhou Prefecture have turned into bandits. What if they meet..."

Ma Xianxing snorted disdainfully, and said: "Refugees, I'm still afraid that they won't succeed. How many of them are there? This time, I brought fifty imperial guards with me, and just killed them along the way."

Bai Jia's face was a bit weird, he hesitated to say: "It's not a lot, only... just a hundred thousand."

Ma Xianxing: "What the hell..."

After kicking Bai Jia viciously a few times, Ma Xianxing gritted his teeth: "It's better to go back to Beijing by the small road. If we encounter hundreds of thousands of bandits, we still have a chance to escape. In Zhang Xiu's hands, we will die!"

(End of this chapter)