I become a god in another world

Chapter 139

In Wan'an County, Zhao Fusheng has been resting for a month.

It was already the seventh day of September, and the weather was no longer hot, but instead had a comfortable feeling of crisp autumn air.

This is the most leisurely and comfortable time Zhao Fusheng has lived since his rebirth in the Han Dynasty.

In this month, the gold that the gentry had promised to donate from Baozhi County next door has been shipped one after another.

After getting the money, the work of building roads and rebuilding pavements in Wan'an County is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Xu Yachen and four other squires and wealthy businessmen who agreed to move her family to Wan'an County that day have already sent part of their property to her and are currently looking at houses.

Ordinary people who have experienced the peaceful years also briefly overcome their fear and gradually walk out of their homes.

Because the Demon Suppression Division has recently renovated its buildings and hired a large number of manpower, some sellers even had the courage to carry loads into Baoding Road, trying to sell some goods.

The front door of the government office gradually became a little more lively.

Zhao Fusheng was sitting in the government office. Magistrate Pang, Master, Brother Fan Bisheng, Zhang Chuanshi and others were all sitting around her.

In addition to these people, Wu Shaochun, who survived in Kotou Village that day, was also there.

He was seriously injured in the ghost ghost case that day. Later, Zhao Fusheng admitted him to the Demon Suppression Division and he survived. He recovered from his injury for half a month. After his injury stabilized, he was sent to the county by Wu'an Town. Officially included in the service of the Demon Suppression Division.

After experiencing the ghost stand case, he witnessed his mother's death and narrowly escaped death. Wu Shaochun became much silent. He entered Wan'an County Demon Division for only half a month, rarely spoke, and most of the time he followed Zhao Fusheng quietly. around.

In the hall, Magistrate Pang said happily:

"The method you mentioned last time was wonderful. After the Guiling case in Wan'an County this time, the county government set up a total of thirty handyman posts, each paying seventy cents per month. Now these people can arrive at a call, and they are still there. It saves you the inconvenience of having to find someone in a hurry when something happens.”

Zhao Fusheng nodded.

The corner of her eye fell on Wu Shaochun, who was standing quietly behind her.

Wu Shaochun has been like this ever since he entered the Wan'an County Demon Suppression Division, and his mother's death hit him hard.

Although he narrowly escaped death in the ghost case in Kotou Village, the ghost substitute still left terrible marks on his body.

Most of Wu Shaochun's skin was peeled off, and scars formed after recovery, making him no longer as handsome as before. He was also taciturn, and many of the servants in the government office were a little afraid of him, which made him appear even more withdrawn.

"Shaochun, you said a person can earn 840 yuan a year. If it were you, would you do it?"

She deliberately invited Wu Shaochun to talk. When Wu Shaochun heard her question, he did not hesitate:

"If you let me do it, I will do it!"

Good boy! Zhang Chuanshi glared at Wu Shaochun without leaving any trace, dragged the stool forward with one hand, and said hurriedly:

"If you let me do it, I will do it too."

Whether it's the ghost case in Goutou Village or the out-of-control ghost mausoleum, the old man's greed for life and fear of death are clearly demonstrated.

He was lazy and afraid of death. Zhao Fusheng did not believe that he wanted to do it, but she did not expose Zhang Chuanshi, but smiled and said: "I am not talking about my orders, but I will give you a salary of 840 yuan a year. Can you do it?" Dry?"

"Don't do it."

Zhang Chuanshi's head shook like a rattle, and he counted with his fingers:

"I only earn 840 taels of silver a year after working so hard. If I don't do it, I won't do it. I used to run a coffin shop and earn hundreds of taels of silver a year——"

"A few hundred taels?"

Zhao Fusheng sat up straighter with some surprise and glanced at the old man.

Then she seemed to think of something and leaned back on the chair again:

"What you make is dirty money."

"How can that be possible..."

Zhang Chuanshi said with a guilty conscience.

He obviously also remembered his first time dealing with Zhao Fusheng.

If he hadn't been careless that time and was subsequently caught by Zhao Fusheng and dragged into the Demon Suppression Division, he wouldn't have been able to live freely at this moment.

"Hehehe."

Zhao Fusheng laughed, ignored him, and looked back at Wu Shaochun:

"Shaochun, do you want to do it?"

Wu Shaochun thought for a while, "If Kotou Village is not haunted, I will do it-"

"My mother has been saying for the past two years that my father died early and didn't leave much money for me."

When he mentioned his mother, his face changed slightly, and his numb eyes gradually changed, showing a bit of pain:

"When she was alive, she often inquired about girls from nearby villages and asked about the bride price."

At that time, Wu Shaochunniang was very thrifty and was known as a stingy person in the village. She would pick up any rotten vegetables and leaves thrown away by anyone in the village.

Others sometimes look down on her, and even get into quarrels when she gets angry.

"I know she worked hard. In her early years, she was ignorant and went to sell goods with others. When my mother found out, she beat me with a big stick and said that this was not a legitimate business. If she was caught by the court, she would be beheaded -"

Er Fan looked cold.

Zhang Chuanshi also disagreed with Wu Shaochun's misery.

In such a world, life is not easy for everyone. In addition to facing ghost disasters, they may also face various troubles in life.

Wu Shaochun didn't talk much at first. He only said a few words when he mentioned his mother who died at the hands of a ghost. Now seeing that no one was interested, he wisely shut up.

Just when he was about to turn away and blink his eyes to hold back his sadness, he heard Zhao Fusheng say:

"Huanggang Village?"

Her words made Wu Shaochun startled. He even stopped trying to blink the tears out of his eyes, and asked somewhat unexpectedly:

"How do you know, sir?"

"You mentioned it twice."

Zhao Fusheng looked at his surprised face and said:

"I wanted to ask you what you did in Huanggang Village for a living, but then the timing wasn't right."

Coupled with the sneaky stunt of the substitute, her memory and cognition were reset again and again, and she forgot to ask again.

When I thought about it later, the ghost case was solved, Wu Shaochun was seriously injured, and Zhao Fusheng was busy all the time, so there was no chance to mention it again.

After Wu Shaochun came to the County Town Demon Division, Zhao Fusheng could see that he was depressed, and he did not take the initiative to talk about Goutou Village. Now that he mentioned it himself, she took advantage of the situation and asked:

"What business did you go to Huanggang Village to do?"

When she asked this question, Wu Shaochun's sadness was instantly dispersed.

He showed a bit of embarrassment and panic, and subconsciously glanced at Pang Zhixian, who was sitting beside him.

"Aren't you asking about your income..." he muttered.

'Pfft. '

Zhang Chuanshi couldn't help laughing.

Zhao Fusheng looked at him with a smile: "It's just chatting anyway. I'll ask wherever I think. We'll talk about work later. You tell me about the goods sold in Huanggang Village."

"Ok."

Wu Shaochun nodded helplessly.

After experiencing this interruption, most of the grief in his heart was eliminated. The matter in Huanggang Village was not very honorable to him, it was a beheading business, but now he has joined the Demon Suppression Division, and Pang Zhixian in the county is also a guest of the Demon Suppression Division. This past incident has been revealed, and Pang Zhixian has the most It's impossible to catch him and behead him if you scold him.

Thinking of this, Wu Shaochun suddenly felt courageous and said:

"Sir, there is a barren mountain behind Huanggang Village. It is said that there was a heavy rainstorm a few decades ago, and a mudslide occurred in the mountain. Many houses in the village were flooded. While rescuing people and digging out their property, someone dug up gold, silver and jewelry. They said they were from Washed down from the mountain.”

When it comes to money, everyone becomes interested.

Wu Shaochun said again:

"The people in the village later ignored the rescue and swarmed into the jungle. They found that there were many old graves in the mountains. I don't know which year they were buried. There were many funerary objects in these graves. Therefore, people in Huanggang Village often Go into the mountains and dig graves.”

The Han Dynasty explicitly prohibited the digging of ancestral graves, and those caught doing so would be severely punished.

The people in Huanggang Village did something illegal. After digging up the burial objects in the graves, they had to find a way to get rid of them and sell these dead objects that could not be seen into the light into money.

Therefore, there is a saying of taking goods.

When people in the village dig up valuable treasures, they have to find a way to transport them to other places and sell them to rich people in exchange for money.

But the world is difficult and there are bandits everywhere.

These bandits were almost all desperate and extremely vicious people. They were entrenched in the mountains and forests. They robbed the people and passers-by on daily basis. They became a major scourge in the states and counties of the Han Dynasty in addition to ghosts.

Although the villagers tried their best to hide the fact that a large number of old graves appeared behind the mountains in Huanggang Village, people in the village would inevitably reveal their wealth if they were rich, which would attract prying eyes.

Therefore, when people in Huanggang Village go out for a walk, they gather in groups.

Especially when shipping goods, it is necessary to hire a large number of villagers to ensure safe walking.

"I think my mother used to be worried about me getting a wife. When she was young and ignorant, she walked past a few times and was beaten back by my mother."

The people in Huanggang Village committed serious crimes.

In addition to tomb robbing, there are also people who smuggle goods privately. The source of the money is unknown, and it avoids taxes from local government offices. If caught, it will be certain to die.

"Actually, my mother is overly worried. She just won't hit me, and I'm not going to follow her again after those two times."

Wu Shaochun looked a little sad when he recalled the past.

When Pang Zhixian heard about this kind of business, he looked a little embarrassed.

He is a scholar and has a noble side in his temperament. Although he knows that most of the people in the Demon Suppressing Division belong to the dirty gang, he still feels a little disdainful when Wu Shaochun mentions this kind of business in person.

But due to Zhao Fusheng's identity, he has been forcing himself to endure it.

"Why?" Zhao Fusheng did not look down upon Wu Shaochun's actions. She asked curiously:

"Is there not enough money?"

This kind of past is unrefined.

The reason why Wu Shaochun said it in public was purely because Zhao Fusheng asked, and she was his savior.

He thought that he would inevitably be scorned after speaking out, and Magistrate Pang and others were indeed a little uncomfortable as he expected. But to his surprise, Zhao Fusheng did not look down on him, but just chatted with him as if it was normal.

Wu Shaochun felt a little weird in his heart, and scratched his head in confusion.

As soon as this action came out, Zhang Chuanshi suddenly felt his scalp itching.

After the ghost double case was solved that day, the painful memory of being skinned came back to his mind. His expression changed and he quickly shouted:

"Wu Shaochun, don't scratch your head."

"..."

Wu Shaochun stopped quickly, his expression changed a little, and finally replied: "Actually, the money is enough, eight hundred for a trip."

Generally, the farther away this kind of business is, the better, so that people can't find out where it came from. It takes about two or three months to go back and forth, and you can make 800 yuan.

"Based on this, the income is not bad, so why did you stop working after two jobs?"

Zhao Fusheng followed what he said, and after a little calculation, he calculated that if Wu Shaochun took a trip like this and had food and accommodation along the way, all the money would be pure profit. If he could keep his pocket, he could make two or three trips a year. More than two silver coins.

This is no small amount.

On that day, Wu Dajing mentioned that his family had a total of more than 20 laborers. They worked hard for a year and went out to work in their spare time, and they could earn 30 taels of silver a year.

But Wu Dajing's family had to pay more than 20 taels in taxes alone. After a year of hard work, the family had very little money left.

And the money has to be used by the family. In this way, Wu Dajing's family is still a relatively decent old man living in Goutou Village - it can be seen from the green unpatched clothes he was wearing that day. .

A smuggler like Wu Shaochun can earn more than two taels of silver per person a year, and the money is not taxed, so this amount is quite considerable.

"These people are not good people -" Wu Shaochun said after holding back for a while.

"Not a good person?"

This answer was beyond Zhao Fusheng's expectation.

Fan Bisheng said at this moment:

"There are no good people out there who dare to dig graves, dare to smuggle, dare to defy the court's laws, and dare to hire people to fight against bandits. I'm afraid they may not dare to commit murder or arson."

He seems to understand human nature very well.

After saying this, no one else said anything, and even Wu Shaochun looked acquiesced.

His performance made Zhao Fusheng stunned for a moment:

"I see."

The past of Huanggang Village was not a glorious one. Wu Shaochun did not want to say more, so he said:

"If I knew at that time that there was such a job in the county that paid 70 yuan a month, and I wanted to come even if it broke my head, my mother would definitely feel that there was smoke coming out of my Wu family's ancestral grave——"

Mentioning his deceased mother, he wanted to laugh again, but tears flowed down as he spoke.

The people in the room were talking when suddenly there was a banging sound from outside, and then someone shouted:

"Zhuang Laoqi, do you want to fight?"

"What's wrong with hitting you? Who asked you to stand behind and scare people——"

The noise from the crowd spread into the house, and it seemed like someone was fighting outside.

Zhao Fusheng turned to look outside the house. Seeing her like this, Fan Bisheng couldn't help but get up first and frowned:

"I'm afraid there's a dispute among the handymen we invited. I'll go take a look."

The Office of the Suppressing Demon Division has just been reestablished, and everything is in ruins. Many positions have not yet found suitable manpower, and most of the chores in the office are under the control of Fan Bisi.

At this moment, everyone was talking, but there was a fight among the servants outside. He felt that his face was not good, and he was always worried that Zhao Fusheng would scold him for not being strict with his subordinates.

Just when he was annoyed and wanted to go out and teach these people a lesson, Zhao Fusheng said:

"It's okay anyway, I'll go take a look too."

As soon as she said this, Magistrate Pang and others stood up.

Everyone left the hall and through the spacious and clean courtyard, they saw a group of people outside surrounding the shop opposite the door.

The handymen who were supposed to be working gathered around, and it seemed that two people in the middle were quarreling. The people around them tried to comfort them, but the noisy two refused to let go.

Zhao Fusheng walked in front and walked out of the gate of the Demon Suppression Department. The noise outside became more and more violent, and it seemed like a fight was about to break out.

Zhang Chuanshi shouted: "What a courageous dog! You dare to be lazy when the master comes out!"