Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 12 Complaint
Chang'an, a place where Sun Xiangfu must set foot, in order to live in this world more safely and comfortably.

Hu Cai's reaction after seeing Sun Xiangfu's new boat was a bit strange. He was a jealous and narrow-minded person. Otherwise, with the existing resources in the village, he wouldn't have been in such a miserable situation. After more than a year, he died. There are 70 people, including Sun Xiangfu's parents in this world. If there is no reason for Hu Cai, Sun Xiangfu will not believe it.

After thinking about it, Sun Xiangfu fell asleep, and when he woke up again, it was already midnight, and he was woken up by mosquito bites.

Sitting up and looking around, Sun Xiangfu found that there was light in the village.

"It's Hu Cai's family."

Before going to bed, Sun Xiangfu had already become suspicious of Hu Cai. In the middle of the night, the lights in Hu Cai’s house were actually lit. There must be something wrong. Thinking of this, Sun Xiangfu went ashore and passed Hu Cai’s house lightly. The fence yard, approaching the house, listening to the people in the house.

"Dazui, do you remember where they put the fish cage?" It was Hu Cai's voice.

"Remember, each of their fish cages is nailed to the bank with bamboo stakes. Today I went to the lower reaches of the small river to see. There are one every ten steps along the river." This is the voice of villager Li Dazui.

"Well, now you take my Dalang and Erlang to fetch the fish cages and throw them into the river in the neighboring village. If they find out after two days, you will say that these fish cages were imitated by you. Anyway, they are all made of bamboo in our village, even if we report to the officials, we can make them hard to tell."

"Well, I got it, it's just the fish that will be collected later?" Li Dazui deliberately hesitated.

"You get [-]%." Hu Cai said coldly.

"Only thirty percent?"

"Thirty percent is quite a lot. Look at how much that kid from the Sun family has benefited in the past few days. He bought food, bought a pot, and bought a boat today. You get [-]% of the fish, which is enough for the whole family to eat and drink."

"Well, that's fine! Let's start now. Those people got up early, so let's go now. When they go to collect the fish in the morning, we'll all go home and sleep."

"Well, go and come back quickly, don't leave a single one behind."

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu hurriedly hid his body in the dark corner of the wall. After a while, three people came out of the house. They were Li Dazui, a bachelor in the village, and the eldest and second child of Hu Cai's family. He has five sons and two daughters. It seems that he usually has nothing to do when he is full and interacts with his wife a lot.

After the three of Li Dazui left, the lights in the room were still on, and after a while, a woman's voice came.

"The head of the family, why do you do it so badly? The Sun family kid has invited the children of the whole village to drink fish soup several times in the past few days. Our little four and five and two girls have all gone to drink it. You do this, don't you?" It's over." This was the voice of Hu Cai's wife.

"Hmph, you woman, what a shit, I'm the village head, why can I only drink porridge, but that kid can eat fish every day, and even pretended to send some fish offal, it would kill me, I think that kid must have held grudges against me because of his parents' death and begged me, so he did this."

"What does the death of his parents have to do with you?"

"Let's just say that you don't know anything, you woman! If you didn't deduct some food and rice from the imperial court for our relocated households, you think our family of nine can drink porridge every day! The couple of his Sun family lived here last year. I didn't receive any food, I was hungry and sick, and died of illness."

"Ah! There is still this matter, so what do you think now?"

"If the kid is cut off from eating, he will starve to death in a few days. By then, the land and food grown by his family will all belong to our family..."

There were more disgusting words in the back, and Sun Xiangfu couldn't stand it anymore. At this time, his fists were already clenched, and his knuckles turned white. Unexpectedly, the death of this body's parents has something to do with Hu Cai, and , the fields of almost extinct families in the village are probably all under Hu Cai's name, and Hu Cai is still using this method to deceive people and plunder other people's property.

However, Sun Xiangfu was annoyed, but he was not overwhelmed by anger. He is a person who knows the law from later generations. Even if Hu Cai committed a heinous crime, he should be dealt with by the government. Beat Hu Cai to death, and when the time comes to see the official, what is reasonable becomes unreasonable.

Therefore, Sun Xiangfu made a very difficult choice to bear it for the time being, quietly came out of the fenced yard, and walked quickly towards his own house.

"Brother Dali, get up, I have something to do with you."

After a while, Sun Xiangfu recounted what he had just heard at Hu's house in front of Sun Dali's house. After learning the truth, Sun Dali was about to go back to the house and take a hatchet to chop Hu Cai up because his father He also died last year. Counting, Hu Cai was also his enemy, but Sun Xiangfu held him back.

"Be patient, we have a way to deal with him."

So, the two picked up double the usual amount of eels and loach, left the village, and headed towards the Qin Mansion on Cuiyun Peak to discredit them.

At dawn, two tired figures appeared in front of the gate of the Qin Mansion Villa. There was no need to knock on the door. The maids and servants in the mansion were cleaning routinely, and the side door was open.

"Hey, Brother Sun is here to deliver the fish, why is it so early today." Qin Xiaoliu, the concierge, said unexpectedly.

"I have something to do in the past two days, so I sent two days' worth of fish, please let Uncle De know." Sun Xiangfu said with a fist in his arms.

After a while, Uncle De came over with four strings of copper coins. He looked at the fish in the bucket and was overjoyed. Several nobles in the mansion have been greedy for this for a few days. I heard that there will be guests in these two days. It happened that they doubled the gift, which can be used to entertain guests.

"Brother Sun's work is exactly what I want. With this money, it's best to send more tomorrow."

"No, no, I don't want this money today. The reason why I came to deliver the fish so early today is because I have something to ask for."

"Oh! Come on." Uncle De was a little surprised, and asked the two to sit down in the concierge and talk slowly.

After a while, Uncle De, who was pumping in his chest, cursed, "Damn this fool, he killed people, and now he is stealing from your fishing guys, and wants to cut off the fish supply in the mansion, it's really pissed off Me too, don't worry, I'll report to Lord Yi right now, just a message from Lord Yi, and the Xinfeng County Government will deal with it fairly."

Uncle De walked towards the inner courtyard angrily. He is in charge of affairs, although he is not as majestic as the chief executive Qin Fu, but he also has the right to report the matter directly to the master Qin Qiong. Han then walked towards the concierge under the leadership of Uncle De.

"Brother Sun, this is Qin Hu, the guard captain of the Duke's Mansion. He brought the master's badge and arrived at the Xinfeng County Government Office in a while. You just need to inform the county magistrate about the matter, and he will handle it impartially."

Sun Xiangfu saluted the two of them gratefully, and the tall and burly Qin Hu stepped forward and said, "Can you two know how to ride a horse?"

Sun Xiangfu and Sun Dali looked at each other. In his previous life, he didn't know how to ride a horse, but in this world, Sun Xiangfu is from Youzhou, while Sun Dali, who was originally from Bingzhou, helped people raise horses and herd herds since he was a child, so he is familiar with horse riding However, he nodded and said, "Yes."

"That's very good. You can ride the Fuchu fast horse with me, and you can arrive at Xinfeng County Yamen in an hour." After finishing speaking, he led the two of them to the stable to lead the horse, and after a while, the three riders came to Chaocui Yunshan dashed away.

The horses of the Qin Mansion are all well-trained and excellent war horses. Under the condition of light cavalry, they can run fifty or sixty miles in one hour, and the city of Xinfeng County is in sight.

In the county government office, Qin Hu showed the badge of Yiguo Duke's Mansion, and soon he was regarded as a guest of honor, the so-called seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister, and the captain of the personal guard like Qin Hu is a general with the status of a seventh-rank military officer , and at the same level as Xinfeng County Magistrate Zheng Peicheng.

After a ceremony, Sun Xiangfu told Zheng Peicheng what happened last night. However, Zheng Peicheng did not appear to be filled with righteous indignation. Yiliang, it seems that I think things are simple, so many people starved to death in the village, but the imperial court did not send officials to investigate, there is no county magistrate, or even higher-level officials to help, can this matter be possible?

Besides, he was just a farmer from outside, and he dared to embezzle the relief food of the whole village just because he knew a few words?If something happened to the head of the village or the county magistrate, how many lives would he die?
Sure enough, County Magistrate Zheng seemed to have figured something out, and said to Sun Xiangfu, "The embezzlement of the imperial court's food relief is a serious case, and there is no conclusive evidence. I advise you not to file a complaint lightly."

(End of this chapter)