Wei Shu

Chapter 99 Scribe
In the small window of the attic, Wei Shu hid in the dark, staring at a figure passing downstairs with watery eyes, her brows gradually furrowed.

In the middle of the night, why are there still scribes wandering around in the yard?

As the figure gradually approached, Wei Shu also saw the face of the comer clearly.

The man dressed as a scribe is about thirty years old, with a broad forehead, raised eyebrows and erect eyes, and his face is very unfriendly.

In one hand, he held a lantern for night patrol in the government office, and in the other hand he held a coarse cloth oil umbrella. He was carrying a government document bag on his back. Fa Zan'er, one side of the clothes is rolled into the belt, the belt is earthy yellow, embroidered with strange patterns of plants and trees.

Wei Shu stared at the belt for a few breaths, and she understood it.

It turned out to be from the Laigu tribe.

The strange ornamentation of plants and trees is characteristic of the Laigu people, who believe in the god of the earth, and trees grow in the soil, so trees are their totems.

In Aqisi's memory, the Laigu people did not shave their hair.

Compared with the bravery of the Red Jia Halqin and Hei Jia Suota tribes, the Baijia Laigu tribe is weaker.

Among the five armored armies, the White Armored Army, to which the Laigu tribe belonged, was the weakest. Most of its people were messengers, banner officers, battalion guards, or baggage servants, etc. Many Laigu people held civilian positions in the army. Many civil servants in the government office also belong to this family.

At this time, the scribes of the Nalaigu tribe had already walked out of Wei Shu's sight along the edge of the green brick floor, and the sound of scattered footsteps came one after another, not in a hurry, as if they were walking leisurely.

Wei Shu frowned and pondered for a moment, put her hands on the window strings, listened to the direction of the footsteps, tapped her toes lightly to the ground, and flitted out of the window like a flying swallow. Up and down, he came to the back wall of the first courtyard, leaned slightly, and looked at the clerk who had not yet approached.

It's not that she is suspicious, but that this person looks a little weird.

If it is said that this scribe is concerned with official duties and holding candles and files, his appearance is really not open enough, and he walks in places where the lamps and candles cannot be illuminated; but if he is said to be sneaky and has other plans, he has never hidden his whereabouts , the lantern in his hand was brightly lit.

Not long after, the scribe went to the second courtyard wall, took out the key from his pocket, and opened the courtyard door.

"Yi Ya", the sound of the door opening was heard far away in the rainy night, the scribe didn't seem to care, and swaggered out of the courtyard door, Wei Shu almost suspected that he was deliberately inviting people to come.

However, after waiting for a while, the government office in the night was still silent, only the drizzle swept the eaves, and its voice was low, like the wind.

Actually taught him to walk out like this.

For a moment, Wei Shu didn't know whether to praise her for being bold, or to lament her for being generous, but when she saw the scribe entered the second courtyard, she turned around and headed east, and soon came to the shelf on the south wall. Ge Ku, and then, there was another unscrupulous sound of door opening and closing, but it also opened the door of the library.

Speaking of it, this Baishuang City government office was originally the Yincheng county government office, and its building regulations are the standard Song Dynasty system. After the Jin army captured Yincheng 20 years ago, the county government did not renovate. Therefore, the entire government office still follows the old system. There are three courtyards in total, the first two are used for office work, and the last one is for the government leader and his family. residence.The shelf library is still in its original location, and its purpose is still to store official documents.

Just as the scribe opened the cabinet, Wei Shu had already entered the room without a sound. The clerk only felt a cool breeze blowing by his side, but he didn't know that there was a person lying on top of the beam. .

Wei Shu is really curious now.

Why did the scribe blatantly break into the office at night?Is it really here to work?

According to the official system of the Baishuang City government, the scribe is in charge of the documents, so this scribe is obviously very familiar with the Jiage library. He carried the lantern around three times and came to the official document marked with the word "river". In front of the shelf, I tiptoed to rummage through the uppermost layer for a while, and then picked out the roll of official documents placed at the bottom.

When he picked up the official document, Wei Shu still couldn't figure out his purpose, but in the next breath, she finally knew what this man was here for.

He came to falsify official documents.Actually.

Wei Shu was very surprised in her heart, she thought to herself that this person could do such bad things so brilliantly, it was never seen before.

After finding out the official document, the scribe of the Laigu tribe slowly took out office supplies such as pen and ink, printing box, lacquer container and a small dark green porcelain bottle from the official document bag, and put them in the blank space of the shelf one by one. , Then put the sealed official document on the lantern to bake.

Not long after, the wax was slightly softened by the fire, so he picked up the small dark green porcelain bottle and dripped two drops of bright red juice on the wax.

I don't know what made the juice, but it softened the wax paint in the blink of an eye, and coated the paint with a layer of something like grease, making the wax paint melt and not disperse, dripping down the official document. dripping.

The clerk skillfully took the bead-like wax with a small water jar, then opened the official document, carefully read the document from beginning to end, and immediately took out the blank official document record book that he had prepared long ago, and followed it. Gourd painting scoop copy the whole article, only slightly changed in the key points.

Wei Shu could see clearly on the beam that the official document recorded the entry and exit of cargo ships at the largest docks in Baishuang City, including the names and numbers of ships, the type and quantity of cargo, the name of the trading company, the time when the cargo entered and exited the dock, and so on.

What the scribe changed was only the number of ships and the number of goods, which were either added or subtracted, and there was no fixed number.

What is this man up to?
Wei Shu became more and more puzzled, but saw that the scribe quickly copied and revised the official document, no matter the handwriting, paper or seal, it was no different from the original.

After the handwriting was dry, he replaced the original document with the corrected document, sealed it with sealing paint, and put it back in its original place.

Wei Shu thought it was over, but unexpectedly the clerk rummaged through the shelves again, and soon found several other official documents from other counties, all of which were still reported to the cargo ship at the wharf. Transcribe and make revisions, but still only change the number, not as much as others.

Seeing the scribe's actions, Wei Shu couldn't help thinking about the Baishuang City Port that she had read in Mangtai's study in a hurry.

Baishuang City is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Cang River, and connected to the tributaries of the Lanjiang River. When it was originally Yincheng, it was an important water transportation center in the northern border of the Song Dynasty. From time to time, official and merchant ships came and went.

After being captured by the Kingdom of Jin, because the Jin people didn't know much about water transportation, and they only knew how to transport ore by land in the first ten years, the Canghe Wharf was deserted.

Later, as the national power of the Great Jin became stronger, the Jin people also discovered the beauty of water transportation. In addition, some Song people who were taken captive also had some boatmen who were good at sailing boats.

(End of this chapter)