scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 84
(PS: August is here, I’m looking for a new monthly ticket for January, the grades should not be too good, just a little bit better than the last one, please continue to support me.)
More than a dozen green battalion soldiers with horses and seedlings were tied up and taken to the field by the government servants of Qujing County. In front of the common people, each of them was rewarded with forty boards. The bloody butt kowtowed to the common people to make amends, and then returned to the green camp to nourish the wounds, and had to receive another forty army sticks. The common people in Qujing were relieved, and shouted Qingtian Lu Master, and the prefect of Qujing, Li Shizu But he was furious.

Fatty Lu is slapping Chi Guoguo in the face. Fatty Lu is not hitting the ass of the Green Battalion, but the face of Li Zhifu!In front of the common people, Fatty Lu, the county magistrate, completely destroyed the prefect Li's plan to rescue his brother-in-law; the key is that the prefect Li's reputation of loving the people like a son and enforcing the law like a mountain was also taken away by the subordinate Fatty Lu!

Li Zhifu is really unlucky. The green battalion stationed in the place has inextricably close ties with the local officials and the people. The whole incident has been spread in Qujing city in less than two days. Everyone knows him. In order to punish Fatty Lu, Lizu colluded with Liu Wenjin to drag Fatty Lu into the green camp. During this period, the green camp soldiers trampled on the seedlings and destroyed the fields.But Fatty Lu, a small county magistrate, spoke generously in front of the green battalion soldiers' knives, mountains and guns, angrily accused the green battalion soldiers of disturbing the people, and finally withstood the pressure, and with the help of King Pingxi's army, tied the green battalion soldiers who were riding horses and seedlings. Take the law and impose severe punishment!
Putting the stark contrast here, what do the soldiers and civilians of Qujing think of Li Suzu, the magistrate?And what do you think of Fatty Lu, the county magistrate?Can Li Zhifu still not understand?
In short, when Fatty Lu punished the law-breaking green battalion soldiers in public, thunderous cheers were heard everywhere in the crowded fields of Donghe Township. Be clear.To Li Zhifu, the huge cheers and shouts were also equivalent to huge ridicule and speechless ridicule. Could Li Zhifu not hate Fatty Lu to the bone, to the bone marrow?
Hate turns to hate, and what shocked Li Zhifu so much was Fatty Lu's origin and background!Li Shizu had always thought that Fatty Lu was just an ordinary Western election official who had donated money and bought Wu Yingqi's backer with money. Littlefinger can also crush him to death. I have been fighting against myself these days, and it is just a [-]-year-old behavior of this rookie in the officialdom. As long as Liu Wenjin or Wang Fuchen threatens with force, the truth and the law will be on my side. Qu Jing The government will also return to his wise and competent leadership, and he will regain the throne of Emperor Qujing.

It's just that what Li Zhifu couldn't even dream of was that Liu Wenjin was finally paid a lot of money to help him. Under Liu Wenjin's threat of force, Fatty Lu was forced to expose his deep background and tough backing, which were far behind him. beyond imagination!Forget about the yellow jacket worn by Xiao Mazi, Li Shizu has seen it a few times at least, but the appearance of Obai and Murima brothers among Fatty Lu's backers completely puzzled Li Shizu——Emperor Mazi Aren't Aobai and Oboi enemies?How could they join forces to support a seventh-rank magistrate?What is the origin and background of this seventh-rank magistrate named Lu Yifeng?
"What is this Fatty Lu's background? What background?" Returning home angrily, Li Suzu began to think about it while half lying on the chair, but the more he thought about it, the more he couldn't figure it out. Why would the emperor reward him with a yellow jacket? Aobai and Murima will also support him? Since he has such a strong background, why did he go to that idiot Wu Yingqi to buy an official? Is there some strange mechanism in this? ?”

"Master, master, the little one is back." At this time, Li Shizu's master Bi Binbin sneaked into the study again. Seeing Li Shizu's eyes turned to him, Bi Binbin hurriedly said: "Report to Master, send out to inquire Those who got the news have paid off, the team of the new governor of Yunnan, Lin Tianqing, has already arrived in Yuanzhou, and calculating the speed of the journey, it will definitely arrive in Qujing before the end of the month."

"Understood." Li Suzu lazily agreed.

After waiting for a while and seeing nothing else, Bi Binbin asked suspiciously: "Master, haven't you been expecting Lin Zhongcheng to deal with Lu Yifeng? Why didn't you prepare? If you don't collect some evidence about Lu Yifeng's crimes, even if Lin Zhongcheng wants to attack him, There is no way to find a crime and deal with him right away?"

Li Shizu didn't answer immediately, and after a long while, Li Shizu said with a gloomy face: "I'm afraid this matter is not as simple as imagined. I didn't expect that there were Obai and Murima standing behind Fatty Lu, and he was wearing the emperor's clothes." The yellow mandarin jacket I personally rewarded, with the treachery and cunning of that old Lin Tianqing, I am afraid that he would not be able to show such courage to directly slap this Lu Yifeng. Even if we can succeed, the price we pay must be extremely huge, maybe It will be worth the loss.”

"But if you don't clean up this Lu Yifeng, master, how will you stand up in the future? How will you convince the public?" Bi Binbin said loyally: "If he continues to be so rampant, I still can't see it now. It will take a year or so. Master, you have lost a lot. The grain bank, salt bank, money bank and medicine store business that Master Ren controlled for you have been completely lost. There are also fire and mouse consumption, several casinos and brothels. I'm afraid I can't keep the money from the brothel."

"Then what should you do?" Li Suzu asked back.

"Dong Weng, there is a good saying, I don't want the child to be caught by the wolf." Bi Binbin said darkly: "There is also a good saying, long-term pain is worse than short-term pain! Rather than let this Lu Yifeng continue to be rampant, it is better not to hesitate. The price is to bring him down, as long as the Qujing mansion is back under your control, master, is it possible that the master will not be able to get back the money spent?"

"That makes sense." Li Shizu was a little tempted, but after scratching his head and thinking about it, Li Shizu felt that this matter was a bit risky—this Fatty Lu is not as easy to bully as those magistrates and prefects before, and the backers behind him can be easily pulled A big person who I can't afford to provoke, although my backer Prince Kang Jieshu almost went there, but if the matter really blew up, in case both sides were hurt, it wouldn't mean that he gave up his child and didn't catch the wolf and lose him. I lost my wife and didn't catch the hooligan. Is it a big loss?
"We will lose both if we divide, and we will gain if we cooperate." At this point in the calculation, Li Shizu suddenly had such an idea, "Instead of fighting with Fatty Lu and losing both sides, it is better to cooperate with him. Although it may lose some face, at least If you can rescue my brother-in-law, the cost is relatively small, and then join hands to make money, and worry about whether you can blow this Qujing to the sky?"

"Master, master, my younger brother, have you rescued him?" At this time, a young woman in her thirties suddenly came in from outside the study. She was plump and quite pretty, but she was Li Shizu's continuation wife and Prince Kang. Jieshu's goddaughter, Ren Zeyu, cried at Li Shizu as soon as she entered the door, and said coquettishly, "Master, that poor brother of my family has been imprisoned for more than half a month by that goddamn fat man surnamed Lu. Why don't you think of a way to rescue him? You just have the heart to watch my younger brother suffer in the prison?"

"Who said I didn't think of a way?" Li Suzu said helplessly: "In order to save your brother, I even sent out the jade ax of King Dali. Although the matter still failed, but now I have a headache here. Yes, isn't it about your precious brother?"

"What? You sent out the jade ax that I married as a dowry?" Ren Zeyu jumped three feet high, yelled loudly with his hips on his arms, "Don't you know that the jade ax was passed down by my ancestors? According to legend It is a good thing that Zhao Kuangyin gave to the King of Dali, even gold and silver can’t be bought! How dare you give it away? You don’t know how to give away gold and silver?”

"Come on, come on, isn't it to save your brother?" Li Suizu said impatiently: "You yell all day long that you are just a brother, and I am afraid that you will break the roots of your Ren family. You gave away the things you brought as a dowry. Besides, if you say it’s true, it’s true, and you haven’t found anyone to confirm it, so maybe it’s fake.”

"It's true!" Ren Zeyu was in a hurry, jumping up and down and shouted: "It's not that I didn't tell you that my family name is Lu. My grandfather changed his surname when he was adopted by the Ren family. Our Lu family is from the Dali Duan family. When Zhu Ming’s army invaded Yunnan, my family’s ancestors served as officials in the Yuan Dynasty, fearing that Zhu Ming’s army would settle accounts, so they changed their surname to Lu! That jade ax was left by my family’s ancestors!”

"I don't believe it. It's been hundreds of years. Who can guarantee that there hasn't been a single mistake in transmission?" Li Suizu lay on the couch, raised his hand and waved his hand weakly, and said, "I've sent it all out, don't regret it." If you want to save your brother, don't bother me, I have already found a clue, you let me be quiet, maybe I can figure out a way to rescue your brother in a while."

"It's not that, I didn't lie to you, that jade ax was really handed down from the Dali Kingdom, it is a family heirloom of my family." Ren Zeyu was completely anxious, and pulled Li Suzu's sleeve, crying and making noise, insisting on forcing Li Suzu went to get the jade ax back.But Li Suzu firstly did not believe that his concubine was really a descendant of King Dali, and secondly, he knew that the jade ax had been sent to Kunming by Liu Wenjin as a physical evidence. Impossible, so Li Suzu was inevitably more irritable, couldn't help pushing Ren Zeyu away, Ren Zeyu rolled on the spot, and habitually rolled on the ground and cried coquettishly.

"Heartless, heartless bastard!" Ren Zeyu wailed loudly, "If it wasn't for my mother begging for her godfather, five years ago when Wu Sangui punished you, you would have to be dismissed from office Well, now that you've managed to keep it, you've come to despise my old lady. I think my old lady is annoying, and even gave away my old lady's family heirloom. If I knew you were such a heartless bastard, my old lady shouldn't have helped you back then. Let you be dismissed from office, ransack your home and ask for execution..."

It's fine if Ren Zeyu didn't mention what happened five years ago, but Li Shizu didn't get angry when he mentioned it - that time Ren Zeyu went to the capital for his own activities, lived in Kang Wang's mansion for half a year, and only five months after he came back, he gave up. Li Shizu swallowed his anger and forced a smile when he gave birth to a fat boy, but Ren Zeyu still has the face to mention it? !In a fit of rage, Li Shizu also jumped up, grabbed Ren Zeyu's hair, and cursed viciously: "Stinky bitch, you have the face to mention that! If you think your godfather is useful, you You can ask him to save your brother! Aren’t you originally from Dali and your surname is Lu? Fatty Lu is also from Dali and your surname is Lu. Maybe you are still related, so you can also ask him to let him go..."

After scolding here, Li Shizu suddenly froze, and he didn't even notice Ren Zeyu's crying and beating. After a long while, Li Shizu suddenly pressed Ren Zeyu's hand on his face, and asked in surprise: " Ma'am, are you really related to Lu Yifeng? If so, then saving your brother is not a matter of one sentence?"

"That's right, why did I forget, I might be related to Lu Yifeng." Ren Zeyu also came back to his senses, and hurriedly shouted: "Then why are you still in a daze? Hurry up and get Lu Yifeng's resume, I also Go back and find my family tree to see if I'm really related to him!"

After a busy afternoon of checking, Li Suzu and Ren Zeyu were overjoyed that Ren Zeyu, who was born in Lu's family in Dali, was really a relative of Fatty Lu who had just passed the fifth service. Ren Zeyu's great-grandfather was the distant cousin of Fatty Lu's great-grandfather. I have to call Ren Zeyu an aunt!Overjoyed, Li Suzu and Ren Zeyu didn't care about their seniority, so they hurriedly presented a generous gift, and happily came to pay respects to Fatty Lu, his cousin.Li Suzu even thought of this, "If I take this opportunity to hook up with Fatty Lu, and then hook up with the backers behind him? Then before I retire, can I also taste the taste of a governor? ?”

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When Li Suizu and his wife sent the famous thorns to Fatty Lu's county government, Fatty Lu had just returned from the farmland outside the city covered in mud, and was being scolded by Shang Wanyi, who scolded Fatty Lu for not being clean and smelly of mud and sweat Fatty Lu replied with a sad face that there was no way, it was raining, and he was in the farmland urging the people to plow in the spring, but he couldn't find a place to hide from the rain.Fortunately, Shang Wanyi is not the kind of young lady who doesn't understand anything. After listening to the explanation, she no longer pursues it. She even wiped Fatty Lu's face and changed his clothes with distressed heart. At this time, Li Suzu's famous assassin sent It's in front of Fatty Lu.

"Li Suizu, what kind of trick does this old man want to play again?" Fatty Lu looked at the famous thorns, and said doubtfully: "It's not the first time we met, and still need to send famous thorns? Besides, it seems that there is no boss See the rule that subordinates have to give famous thorns?"

"If you don't have anything to show courteousness, it's either adultery or robbery." Shang Wanyi was also infected with a lot of bad habits of suspicion by Fatty Lu, and said: "It's best not to see you, let the door tell him that you are sick and it is not appropriate to see guests."

"Little Gege, master, Li Futai seems to be here to recognize relatives this time." Xiao Erlang said truthfully: "Li Futai told us that his wife Ren Zeyu, whose surname is Lu, came from the Lu family in Dali. In terms of seniority, you should call her Tang aunt and Li Futai Tang aunt."

"Hey, this is really a strange thing that happens every year, especially this year." Fatty Lu was amused, and said with a smile: "When did I run out of a cousin? Also, this has always been a case of subordinates looking for their superiors to recognize their relatives." Yes, I have never heard of a boss taking the initiative to find a subordinate to identify relatives."

"Master, it might be true." Xiao Erlang reminded seriously: "Master, your Lu family is considered a big family in Dali. Although the generation of your generation is not prosperous, but according to my grandfather, the generation of your grandfather In the past, the Lu family was very prosperous, and there were too many relatives to count. It was only after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and the war in Yunnan caused the family to decline. If the wife of Li Futai is really Those who come from the Lu family in Dali, nine out of ten will marry you."

"Then I have to go and see." Fatty Lu said in surprise: "No, I have to go and see what kind of relationship Li Suzu has with me! If he ransacked his family and exterminated nine clans that day, don't implicate me Come on, even I was beheaded! Erlang, get someone to invite them into the living room and let Master Zhu entertain him first."

"Bah! A dog can't spit out ivory!" Shang Wanyi was displeased when she heard it, and cursed: "Fatty, just finished the new year, what unlucky words did you say?"

"Then you still call me fat all day long? Do you want me to die early so you can remarry?" Fatty Lu asked in disbelief.Seeing Shang Wanyi's pretty face down, Fatty Lu quickly took her little hand, and said with an apologetic smile: "Just kidding, why would my sister Wanyi be willing to die for me? Well, be good, come with me to see the hall Uncle and cousin, they are also your cousins."

"Bah! Who doesn't want you to die? Who is my cousin again?" Shang Wan blushed and spit on Fatty Lu again, but she still obediently helped Fatty Lu change his clothes, and let Lu Fatty pulled, and followed Fatty Lu to visit his relatives.

All the way to the living room, Li Suizu and Ren Zeyu were already sitting in the living room having tea, while Zhu Fangdan grabbed the hand of the rather pretty Ren Zeyu and was signaling his pulse, shaking his head and talking about the pulse, which scared Li Suizu and Ren Zeyu. He froze and froze.Seeing Fatty Lu and his wife come in, Li Suizu got up and exclaimed, "Lord Lu, you Qujing county government is really a hidden dragon and crouching tiger. I didn't expect your master to be the famous genius doctor Zhu Fangdan Mr. Zhu. You can see my insides at a glance." People are sick!"

"If your wife is old and ugly, Zhu Fangdan will definitely not be able to see that she is sick." Fatty Lu and Shang Wanyi and his wife sighed together in their hearts, and there was nothing they could do about Zhu Fangdan's problem.At that moment, Fatty Lu pulled Shang Wanyi to salute Li Shizu, and said respectfully: "My lower official, Lu Yifeng, I have seen the magistrate, but I didn't know that he was coming, so I am sorry for my disappointment, and I hope to forgive my sin." Shang Wanyi was also blessed Fu, said: "Shang Wanyi, my little girl, I have seen the magistrate and the magistrate's wife, and my lord and his wife are blessed and safe."

"Little Gege, please hurry up, what kind of person is a humble person, how can he be worthy of your gift?" Li Shizu hurriedly pulled Ren Zeyu to return the gift, and said affectionately: "Little Gege is really handsome, my nephew has Good luck! I heard that you are going to Kunming to get married, and your uncle and aunt will definitely buy you a good gift at that time, and if our nephew dares to bully you in the future, you can tell us that we will take care of him for you."

What Shang Wanyi is most afraid of now is that when others mention this matter, she will immediately turn red and stop talking.On the other side, Ren Zeyu grabbed Fatty Lu's fat hand, and said more affectionately: "Nephew Yifeng, let my aunt see you quickly. You said, our relatives are in the same city, and my aunt didn't know about you until today." Nephew, are you too sorry for your nephew?"

If another official was changed, the wife of the boss came to recognize relatives, and she was so happy that she didn't know where she was. Regardless of whether they were real relatives or not, they immediately knelt down and kowtowed.But Fatty Lu didn't agree. Instead, he sized Ren Zeyu up and down, and asked tentatively with a puzzled face, "Mrs. Li, are you sure you didn't identify the wrong relative? Are you really the aunt of the lower official?"

"Oh, my lord Lu, why isn't my aunt greedy for you, and still comes here to identify relatives?" Ren Zeyu handed a thick family tree in front of Fatty Lu as if his mouth had been wiped with honey, and said affectionately: "Yifeng, Take a quick look, this is the family tree of our Lu family. My aunt was originally surnamed Lu, and your great-grandfather adopted her to the Ren family, so she changed her surname to Ren. It clearly states that you are my cousin! "

It's a matter of life, so Fatty Lu didn't dare to be negligent, so he quickly took over the family tree and searched for it, while Ren Zeyu chattered beside him, "Yifeng, your family is a side branch, you must not know it, in fact, neither your aunt nor your ancestors The surname is Lu, and the surname is Duan. The dignified Duan family in Dali is a Miao descendant. It’s just that after the Ming army invaded Yunnan, our family changed our surname to Lu. Speaking of which, our aunt and nephew are still royal, and our blood is noble..., ha ha ha ha... .”

"I have the blood of the Dali Duan family in my small body? No wonder I became lustful after inheriting this body. It turned out to be the fault of DNA and hormones." Fatty Lu became more dumbfounded the more he heard it, and couldn't help Zhu began to think in his heart, "Can I use my signboard as a descendant of the Dali royal family to unite some Yunnan people?"

Under the enthusiastic guidance of Li Shizu and Ren Zeyu, Fatty Lu finally found evidence that he and Ren Zeyu were related. Five suits—that is to say, even if Li Suzu and Ren Zeyu were exterminated together, Fatty Lu would not be involved.

"How is it?" Ren Zeyu asked expectantly: "Yifeng, you should know our relationship by now, right?"

Fatty Lu didn't answer. After thinking for a while, Fatty Lu turned to Zhu Fangdan and asked, "Master Zhu, just now you gave the pulse of Mrs. Li's house, didn't you find any serious problems?"

"It's nothing serious." Zhu Fangdan swallowed his saliva while peeping at Ren Zeyu's exquisite and protruding figure, "It's just that Tiankui is a little out of balance, and there is also some mild wind-dizzy disease. You don't need to take medicine. It's good to take care of it. Eating and living will be fine.”

"Is your heart okay?" Fatty Lu asked.

"Heart?" Zhu Fangdan was stunned, and said suspiciously: "No problem? Could it be that the master wants the students to use the Western doctor's method and put their ears on Mrs. Li's chest for examination, isn't it very elegant?"

"That's strange?" Fatty Lu was more puzzled than Zhu Fangdan, and murmured: "Since there is nothing wrong with his heart, why did the people complain a few days ago that a little beggar just kowtowed for food and dirty Mrs. Li's face the year before last?" The shoe was injured by Mrs. Li, and there was no money to treat the injury, and the wound was inflamed and died of illness?"

"There is also a beautiful maid in Li Zhifu's family. I heard that because she often served Li Futai, she offended Mrs. Li and disappeared for no reason. They sent someone to beat them out, saying that their daughter ran away without abiding by women's morals, and they still want to sell themselves to this girl's parents for money?"

Zhu Fangdan stopped talking, but Li Shizu and Ren Zeyu's couple turned pale together, but they still suppressed their anger and prepared to explain, but Fatty Lu over there refused to let go, and said: "Also, Doctor Zhu, you have to give Li Shizu Madam checked carefully. Madam Li's body is unusual. She lived in King Kang's Mansion in Beijing for half a year, and she gave birth to a fat boy only five months after she came back. There is no need to worry about the shortage of people.”

"Bang!" Li Suzu couldn't bear it anymore, knocked down the teacup on the table, stood up with a livid face, and walked out.Ren Zeyu's rather pretty face over there was red and green, and he glared at Fatty Lu with great resentment, and also got up and walked away, swearing in his heart-no matter what method he used, he must let this distant nephew die without a trace. The place of burial!
"Li Futai, go slowly." Fatty Lu took advantage of it, and said goodbye to Li Suzu pretendingly.

Li Suizu stopped in his tracks, and said word by word: "My surname is Lu, I know your background is tough, but the old man's background is not far behind. At worst, we all die together. From today on, we are at odds!" Li Zu didn't look back, and left Fatty Lu's small courtyard in a huff.

"Fatty man, this is not your style." Shang Wanyi said suspiciously: "Although your two distant relatives are both shameless and vicious, and deserve death, you have always liked to stab a knife in the back, why? Openly turned against them today?"

"If I don't openly quarrel with them, I will be in big trouble." Fatty Lu said with a sneer, "If I recognize their two relatives today, then they will definitely propose a settlement and ask me to let that bully Ren Xing go." , This is nothing, the key is that I have lost the opportunity to quickly bring down Li Suzu. If I don’t completely turn against them like this, and drive them into a hurry to take the initiative, I have the opportunity to quickly bring down Li Suzu? "

After all, Fatty Lu added in his heart, "Shouldn't Li Suzu, a hard-core traitor, be brought down quickly? Under his nose, I have the opportunity to train soldiers and test new weapons?"

(End of this chapter)