Paper Maker: This is the end of the Ming Dynasty in Liaozhai

Chapter 122

Hearing Fang Haichuan's words, Su Hao just smiled. Fang Haichuan took a boat and took the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Even if the boat stops in Liaocheng, which is the closest to Jinan Prefecture, there are still hundreds of miles from Liaocheng to Jinan Prefecture. Well, it's too far along the way, but Su Hao is not stupid enough to expose such polite words.

After being courteous for a while, Fang Haichuan asked: "Brother Su, is there any place in the yamen that you can't take advantage of?"

"Thanks to Brother Fang, the brothers in this yamen have taken good care of my younger brother, and have not made it difficult for my younger brother."

Hearing this, Su Hao smiled, the Qianhu that Fang Haichuan left for him is really good, at least there are not too many bullshit official struggles, deputy Qianhu Tonglian does not fight for power, Tang Xiangjin and the others will not be able to obey.

Fang Haichuan smiled and said, "That's good."

After a pause, Fang Haichuan continued: "Brother Su, do you still remember the official document issued by the imperial court last year to arrest foreign spies?"

Wanted spy documents?

Hearing Fang Haichuan's words, Su Hao was taken aback for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he remembered that last year when he was under Sun Chuanting's command, there was indeed an arrest warrant issued by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, saying that a group of foreign spies stole from the capital. After taking important information, he escaped from the capital and fled towards Henan and Shandong.

However, he remembered that the White Lotus Sect in Shandong had a lot of trouble at that time, and there was no way to investigate it, but in the end it was nothing. It has been a year, and the spy has gone to nowhere, maybe he will return sooner. home.

"Brother Fang, this little brother still remembers."

After remembering, Su Hao frowned and said, "It's just that a year has passed, the spy should have left long ago."

"I thought so before I became a brother."

Fang Haichuan nodded and said: "It's just that in the investigation of the Caoliang case this time, when I was investigating Lu Xi's sons, I caught one of Lu Xi's sons, Lu Zesi, for my brother. According to his confession, Lu Xi's eldest son Lu Zesi Zeju is hiding in the mountains from Zichuan to Mengyin, and the Lu family seems to have a connection with the Jurchens."

"Brother Wei doesn't have time to stay here to investigate carefully, so I want to ask Brother Su to check it out. If you can find out, Brother Wei will definitely ask for credit for you!"

"Brother Fang, don't worry, little brother will definitely do his best."

Hearing Fang Haichuan's words, Su Hao nodded his head, but there was a strange look in his eyes. He wanted to find some time to go back to Zichuan to investigate the case of the mud ghost again, but he was busy improving his strength and didn't have time. Go, I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence. Of course, this is purely a coincidence, because these two cases have nothing to do with each other.

Fang Haichuan smiled and cupped his hands: "Then I will leave it to Brother Su, and Lu Zesi, brother, has already been escorted to Jinan Mansion, and he should still be halfway there."

After being courteous again, Fang Haichuan got up to leave.

"Liao Shibai, you arrange people to go to Linqing Prefecture, and go to the prefectural office to bring some personal belongings of Lu Zeju, the eldest son of Lu."

After sending Fang Haichuan out of the yamen, Su Hao found Liao Qing. Ever since the Paper Man Tracking Technique was deduced into an independent technique, mana breath is no longer needed to track a person. Objects are fine, but when it comes to those who know how to hide their breath, the paper man tracking technique will not be useful.

"Your officer will arrange for someone to go."

Hearing Su Hao's order, Liao Qing quickly responded.

.........

Zichuan County.

Looking at the somewhat familiar city gate, Su Hao drove the carriage towards the city gate. Although with his current status, it would not be impossible to find a groom to drive the carriage. There are too many secrets, and it is not suitable to always bring people by your side.

After entering the city gate, Su Hao didn't find an inn to stay, but drove the carriage to the county government office. He didn't find Zhang Chongxiu's information in Jinyiwei's archives, so Zhang Chongxiu could provide him with 95 enlightenment points , the strength is absolutely extraordinary, after all, without that strength, he can't make so many karma.

However, no information about Zhang Chongxiu was found in the dossier, indicating that the other party is not a living person, or not from the Central Plains. However, judging from various signs, this Chongxiu is most likely an old ghost. This old ghost is in Jinyiwei like Uncle Fu There will be no records in the dossier, but there may be some records in Zichuan County, because most of the ghosts will not be too far away from the place where their bones are located, unless they have been enshrined by the Su family like Uncle Fu .

Not long after, the carriage stopped at the gate of the county government office.

Seeing a carriage parked at the gate of the yamen, a yamen servant walked up to the carriage, frowned and said: "The county government is an important place, no carriages are allowed."

Su Hao took out his token of a thousand households: "I, Su Hao, a thousand households of Jinyiwei, let your county magistrate come out to welcome you."

"Young one, let's go now, master Qianhu, please wait a moment."

Seeing the token in Su Hao's hand, the yamen servant hurriedly said, and then hurried back to the yamen.

"The lower official Zhou Xu, the magistrate of Zichuan County, sees the upper official."

Not long after, a middle-aged man in a seventh-rank official robe hurried out, came to the carriage and saluted, but the direction of the salute was the carriage.

Seeing this, Su Hao said calmly: "Get up."

Hearing Su Hao's words, Zhou Xu couldn't help being taken aback, and subconsciously looked at the carriage compartment, his face could not help showing embarrassment. He had seen Su Hao before, but Su Hao was really too young, and he was only wearing casual clothes. I thought it was a coachman, but I didn't expect this to be the rightful owner.

After welcoming Su Hao into the yamen, Zhou Xu boasted to Su Hao for a while before he said cautiously: "I don't know if Su Qianhu is here this time, what's the big deal?"

Although the civil and military of the Ming Dynasty are more important than military, and his status as a county magistrate is far higher than that of a thousand households, there is a difference between a thousand households and a thousand households. He can completely ignore the ordinary guards with thousands of households, but Jinyiwei's thousand households can be ignored. It's not something he can underestimate. Jinyiwei is also responsible for monitoring all officials. Su Hao, a Jinyiwei with thousands of households, even the magistrate of a prefecture would not dare to underestimate him.

Su Hao said indifferently: "I'm currently looking for a ghost who caused disasters. That ghost is called Zhang Chongxiu. It seems that he was born in Zichuan. I hope Zhou Zhi County can ask someone to find out who this Chongxiu was before he was alive."

"Zhang Chongxiu?"

Hearing Su Hao's words, Zhou Xu frowned, and after pondering for a moment, he asked, "Su Qianhu, I wonder what period this Chongxiu person was from?"

"do not know."

Su Hao shook his head and said, if he knew what period Zhang Chongxiu was from, he didn't have to look for Zhou Xu at all, he just went to the government office to look for it.

"Su Qianhu, this is hard to find."

Zhou Xu smiled wryly and said, "In the past 200 years, there are very few household registration files that can be preserved. I'm afraid it will be difficult to find them."

"Do your best to find it."

Hearing this, Su Hao waved his hand. He also knew that it was difficult to investigate this matter. Ghosts don't know their origins. Rich gentry can turn into ghosts, and street beggars can also turn into ghosts. He just came here to try his luck.

His real target was Miao Zhu Huang Ping. As the main figure in the mud ghost case, Huang Ping would have some clues.

"Su Qianhu, please wait a moment, I'll let someone check it out."

Zhou Xu clasped his hands together, then hurried out of the lobby and came to the office room of the sixth room on the left side of the county government office.

"See the county lord."

Seeing Zhou Xu approaching, the subordinate officials of the sixth room saluted one after another.

"Get up."

Zhou Xu waved his hand and said, "Everyone go to the house, check for someone named Zhang Chongxiu, and find out all the people named Zhang Chongxiu in the county for the past 200 years."

"The county lord is talking about Zhang Chongxiu?"

Hearing Zhou Xu's words, everyone showed strange expressions, and Sun Quan, the head of the ceremony room, asked in a strange tone.

"What's wrong with Zhang Chongxiu?"

Zhou Xu looked impatient. He was approached by Su Hao for no reason and arranged a very troublesome matter. He was already full of anger, and these people were still arguing with him.

"Master County, if you are looking for Zhang Chongxiu, then you don't need to look for it. Over the past 100 years, there have only been two people named Zhang Chongxiu in the entire county, and one of them has changed his name. The only person named Zhang Chongxiu is Zhang Chongxiu in the county. The ancestor of the family, the one who deserves to be enshrined in the Town God's Temple."

Seeing Zhou Xu's dissatisfaction with his attitude, Sun Quan quickly explained: "Zhang Chongxiu, the ancestor of the Zhang family, was a famous Confucian in our Zichuan. There is a scholar here who is also named Zhang Chongxiu."

"This scholar is frivolous and arrogant. Once he got into a dispute with the Zhang family, he even threatened that he had the same name as the ancestor of the Zhang family. If he beat him, he would deceive the master and destroy the ancestors. This made the Zhang family very angry. This incident became serious later. , When the trouble came to the Yamen, the scholar was beaten twenty boards. In addition, he had to change his name and hold a banquet in the Town God's Temple to apologize to the ancestors of the Zhang family. It became a joke in the county. Therefore, in the next hundred years , basically no one is called Zhang Chongxiu anymore."

"Is that so?"

Hearing the name Zhang Chongxiu and such a story, Zhou Xu was also stunned for a long time. After a long time, he came back to his senses, waved his hand and said, "Then there is no need to investigate."

For him, it doesn't matter whether Zhang's or not. Anyway, it's enough to have an explanation to Su Hao. Yin and Yang are different. Even if the ghost really comes from Zichuan, Su Hao can't find him.

After returning to the lobby, Zhou Xu told everything about Zhang Chongxiu.

The ghosts and gods to be worshipped?
After listening to Zhou Xu's words, Su Hao was also stunned. This was something he never thought of. Being able to worship the city god is the dream of countless ghosts, even more than ghosts. Many people from the country gentry would rather give up reincarnation I also want to become a ghost and god to worship the City God.

But this kind of thing is not something that can be done if you have power and power. If you want to be worthy of worshiping the city god, you must first have a good reputation, and it is a real good reputation, not a reputation bought with money, otherwise you will really rely on power If no one is willing to sincerely believe in putting the statues of gods in the Temple of the City God, they cannot become ghosts and gods.

As for things like sincerity, no matter how powerful you are, you can't control people's hearts. If you usually cause disasters to the village or are cold-blooded and ruthless, and you want the people in the county to worship you sincerely after death, it is simply a fool's dream.

Logically speaking, Zhang Chongxiu should be able to become the supporting god of the city because he has a kind heart, and he is also a kind person recognized by the people in the county.

"This time, Zhou Zhi County is in trouble."

After regaining his senses, Su Hao arched his hands. Although he couldn't figure it out, it's easy to find out this kind of thing. You just need to go to the Temple of the City God. The idol in it should have been broken.

"Su Qianhu is being polite, this is what a subordinate official should do."

Hearing this, Zhou Xu hurriedly clapped his hands in response.

After a few words of politeness, Su Hao left the county office directly, and drove towards the City God's Temple not far away in a carriage.

When he arrived at the Town God's Temple, Su Hao didn't go directly to the main hall, but walked around the Town God's Temple, and only went to the main hall after he found nothing unusual.

At this moment, it was almost dinner time, and the entire Town God's Temple was empty, and no people came to offer incense. After stepping into the main hall, Su Hao did not feel the power of the Town God. Obviously, the Town God was not watching the Town God's Temple at this time, only a young man dressed as a Taoist priest was Clean up the fallen incense ash next to the incense burner.

"Little master, I'm looking for your congratulations."

Coming to the side of the young man, Su Hao said.

"Layman, my master is out on a wandering trip and is not in the temple. I hope the layman will forgive me."

After taking a look at Su Hao, the young man cupped his hands and said.

Hearing this, Su Hao raised his eyebrows slightly. This Huang Ping has been dead in his hands for nearly two months, and he still hasn't found it in the temple. After thinking for a while, Su Hao continued: "I want to see the City God, I don't know. Can the little master pass the report?"

Hearing Su Hao's words, the young man's originally indifferent face revealed a bit of dissatisfaction, and he said in a choked voice, "Master Chenghuang is something that a mere mortal can see whenever he wants to. Even my master has never seen Master Chenghuang a few times."

Then he waved his hands impatiently: "Go! Go! Go! Don't make trouble here!"

Seeing the young man's attitude, Su Hao shook his head slightly. He guessed that the person in front of him had not been approved by the city god. If he wanted to learn the art of inviting gods, he would only be able to use the art of inviting gods to borrow power from the city god if he was approved by the city god. You can only see the City God if you are approved.

Su Hao ignored the young man, but walked to the incense table, picked up three sticks of incense and lit it, then took out a token of thousand households from his pocket, pinned the three sticks of incense on the token, and bowed to the end.

Although there is no Temple Zhu, it does not mean that he will not be able to see the City God, but it is the most polite way to meet the City God through the Temple Zhu. When you visit other people's homes, you must notify them in advance. If you don't even say hello, you come to someone's door and kick the door directly, which will inevitably be disgusting.

And what he is doing now is to kick the gate of Chenghuang's house. As a thousand households of Jinyiwei, although he is indeed not as good as Chenghuang in terms of official position, but when it comes to status, he is not inferior to Chenghuang. Even Chenghuang has to give him three points of face. It's no wonder that Chenghuang can bear it.

The moment Su Hao bowed, the whole hall seemed to shake violently. The young man beside him was shaking left and right at this moment, as if he was about to fall down.

(End of this chapter)