Merry Eunuch Lang

The little official is the master of the magistrate's family, named Hua Shixiong. He was originally a failed candidate.The magistrate Zou Xigui met Hua Shixiong on the street when he went to Beijing on a business trip. The two had met several times in the examination hall, so they were considered acquaintances.Seeing his situation, Zhifu Zou was extra merciful and took him in.

It stands to reason that Zou Xigui is far inferior to Hua Shixiong in terms of talent and ink, but Zou's family has a solid foundation, there are people inside and outside the court, and he spends a lot of money, so the poor scholar Hua Shixiong naturally cannot be compared with him.In order to buy fame for his son, Zou Xigui's father collected enough 3 taels of silver to obtain a seventh-rank county magistrate.After Xiao Zou took office, he really lived up to his parents' high expectations. After only three years, he recovered his capital and had a slight surplus.The old man was overjoyed, and took out another [-] yuan to clear his joints and get him a good post from the magistrate.

Zou's father was an official in the court and Wang Shugui's best friend, so his son dared to be unscrupulous in the prefectures and counties, doing whatever he wanted, and wantonly seeking the people's anointing and anointing.Zou Xigui was an official in Huayang for three years, and he obtained countless gold, silver and treasures, all of which came from bribery, embezzlement, and trickery.When the people of Huayang mentioned Zou Xigui, they all gritted their teeth, and everyone gnashed their teeth, wanting to eat his flesh and suck his blood alive.

This time, Zou Xigui heard the noise outside the gate, and hurriedly sent someone out to check what was going on. The person he sent came back in a panic and said:

"It's not good, the magistrate, a group of people came outside the door, claiming to be imperial envoys sent by the emperor, the master went to prevent them from entering the mansion, but his pants were stripped, sir, go and have a look!"

When Zhifu Zou heard that the imperial envoy had arrived, he immediately concluded that it must be a fake.When the emperor sent imperial envoys to inspect various places, they never sent documents to the places first, ordering them to do all kinds of reception work in advance, of course the main ones were tax items, treasury money, revenue and expenditure, etc.As soon as the imperial envoy arrived, he checked the accounts, listened to the sentiments of the people, taught him a few words of comfort, brought some souvenirs by the way, filled his pockets with gold and silver tickets, stayed in the kiln shop for a few days, and then turned around and slapped his ass and left.The imperial envoys are not thieves, and if they move out, they will be earth-shattering. How could they come so suddenly?Is there any reason to be sneaky and sneaky?

Zou Xigui sneered, changed his clothes casually, and summoned a dozen personal guards. He really wanted to see with his own eyes that this group of daring thieves dared to pretend to be imperial envoys and go to the government office to blackmail and deceive in broad daylight. .

Generally, magistrates are very particular when they go out. They don't go through the side door, but the main door, which means the door of integrity.Seeing that the master was about to go out, a doorman hurriedly opened the door.Zhifu Zou swaggered out of the main entrance and raised his head suddenly. Unfortunately, Master Hua Shixiong's trousers fell down and landed on the master's head.Just as Zou Xigui was about to pull down the pair of pants and was about to open his mouth to curse, he saw a little eunuch riding a horse!

As mentioned in the previous book, the young eunuch entered the court at the age of 15 and became an official.The official ranks of prefects are generally between the fourth and fifth grades. Although there are some differences in official ranks, it does not mean that they have no chance to meet.There are more than ten or twenty county government offices of prefects and governors, among them there are local troops guarding the city, and the leader of the troops is called Zongbing.Although the magistrate is a civil servant and is not under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, the general army and its troops are under the Ministry of War. They have no direct relationship but indirect relationship.Therefore, every time the magistrate goes to Beijing to report on his duties, he has to go to the six departments for official business. The official ranks of the six departments are two or three higher than the prefect, and they are all people close to the emperor.Don't say anything, even if you have nothing to do, you have to find something to meet the dignitaries in these key departments.He went to see him once in the capital, and he met the little eunuch no less than six times in total, and he also gave him a lot of things.Zhifu Zou looked up and saw the little eunuch, needless to say whether he was an imperial envoy or not, he would kowtow to the ground when discussing his official position.While Zou Xigui bent down to kowtow, what he was thinking was that his official career had come to an end.

"Pan Shangshu, Mr. Pan, the imperial envoy, and the small officials did not know that the imperial envoy was here, so I was far away to welcome you. Please forgive me." Zou Xigui said lying on the ground.

"That's all!" The little eunuch waved his hand impatiently.

In the mind of the little eunuch, he also came prepared, Zou Xigui did many evils and was definitely not a kind person.There are so many people complaining before leaving, and so many villains blocking him before entering the door, the magistrate's yamen is like a gate of hell, besides, he is still an official appointed by the imperial court, so it is conceivable that ordinary people want to enter this door.

The little official who caused trouble just now bowed his knees to worship the magistrate, and only then did he know that he had violated the rules of heaven and offended the true Buddha today.Suddenly he was like five thunderclaps, smoke came out of his seven orifices, his trembling body raised his buttocks and hurriedly knelt aside.When Men Ding and the guards heard that they were real imperial envoys, who would dare not kneel?

The little eunuch said to the two brothers in the sedan chair: "Please bring someone in and search for me. If you have any good things, you can move them out. I am an old acquaintance with the magistrate. We are old acquaintances in other places. We are here. Let's talk for a while."

Hu San and Wang Xiaowu took people there.

The little eunuch jumped off the horse, took two steps forward, took off the torn trousers on the prefect's head and threw them to Hua Shixiong, saying:

"Don't be ashamed, scholar, get up and put it on! Your problem is that a dog sees people as inferior, a villain succeeds, and is self-righteous. You have read more books than me, and I won't teach you how to behave. Confucius taught early I’ve passed you by. Go ahead, settle the accounts for the people inside, and provide information, maybe I can give you a bigger official.”

Hua Shixiong got up from the ground in a jerk, then climbed down and kowtowed three times, saying incessantly:

"My lord, I listen to you. From now on, I will be your loyal dog. I will bite whoever you ask me to bite!"

"Go, go, it's not time to bite yet!" The little eunuch waved his hand.

Hua Shixiong pulled up his trousers and ran briskly. Judging from the way he walks now, he is by no means a literati.

The little eunuch turned around and ordered Mending and the others to say, "Get up, all of you, do what you should do, it's none of your business. Even if you killed someone, someone ordered it, and it's not your fault. Help with work!"

This group of people shouted in unison: "My lord is wise, we listen to you!"

The group also left.

Someone moved a chair for the little eunuch to sit down and talk. The little eunuch kicked Zou Xigui who was still kneeling on the ground and said:

"Looking at your appearance today, you can tell that you have a guilty conscience, am I right? Come on, stop kneeling all the time, change your posture, and let's talk."

Zou Xigui lay down on the ground and couldn't get up, begging in his mouth: "I don't have anything to ask for, I just ask my lord to spare me!"

"In this way, it's not up to me." The little eunuch raised his legs, took a cup of tea that was handed over by someone, took a sip, and said, "A magistrate, a hundred thousand snowflakes of silver! I Knowing that you have been the magistrate for three years, what you take away and give away is not counted, even if you have what you have, it is yours up to [-], and the amount over [-] is mine, is this reasonable?"

"It's reasonable and reasonable. You take all the silver, and I don't want any of it." Zou Xigui said while leaning on the ground.

"It seems that there are more important things in this world than money!" The little eunuch exclaimed, "If I knew your life was valuable, what would you do with so much money?"

"Didn't I have a fluke mentality? If I had known that I would risk my life, I would not do it if I was a fool."

"What you're doing is worse than a fool."

"Yes, my lord taught me the lesson. I am obsessed with ghosts, I am obsessed with ghosts!"

"Well, I think we are old acquaintances, don't we have to show some sympathy?" The little eunuch handed the tea bowl to Zhang Facun, stood up and stretched his legs, and then said, "Start with a hundred thousand, if you don't have a hundred thousand, you can go on." Search, more than [-], let's not say anything, if you treat me to seafood, I will leave immediately."

"Seafood is to be invited, not to mention one meal, ten or eight meals. I am the master, and the imperial envoy is an old friend, so why not invite him?" Zou Xigui finally seized the opportunity to flatter him. , bowed on the ground and whispered repeatedly.

"Why are you in a hurry? I haven't finished my sentence yet!" The little eunuch leaned on the back of the chair, lowered his body and said sharply at Zhifu Zou, "If it exceeds 20, I will kill you!"

"My lord, please forgive me this time, and I will be a good official in the future, and I will never do anything harmful to the world!"

"30 taels is not a small amount, the annual expenditure of an army of 10 people." The little eunuch pinched his fingers and said.

"My lord, let's make it 40!" Zou Xigui bargained.

"35, it can't be lower than this number." The little eunuch said without doubt.

"Can furniture and antiques be discounted?" Zou Xigui raised his face and asked.

"If you don't discount it, it's cash."

Prefect Zou gritted his teeth and said, "I admit it!"