Chapter 9: Hamsters (1)

Hou Kui spread a piece of hemp paper flat on the surface of the wine, and after the hemp paper absorbed the wine, he carefully held up the hemp paper with both hands, and finally spread it on Xu Chunfa's face seriously.

Xu Chunfa's head was fixed by a clamp, and he couldn't move, seeing that the hemp paper was overwhelming, he could only use enough strength and blow a breath.

The hemp paper was blown through a big hole, Hou Kui didn't care, and took another piece of hemp paper and spread it on the surface of the wine again, and after the hemp paper sucked the wine, he spread it on Xu Chunfa's face with the same action,

This time, Xu Chunfa blew the paper again.

Hou Kui still didn't care, and repeated the previous action......

"If you are a prisoner, you have to confess, and you can't carry it like this."

A voice popped up in the torture chamber.

This voice did not affect Hou Kui, and his hands were still very steady.

"I don't have anything to confess, Zhao Xing, you won't have to die sooner or later."

Xu Chunfa gasped rapidly, in order to survive, he was trying to blow through the hemp paper covering his face, and in his spare time, he had to show his will.

Zhao Xingxing walked out under the dim light, his face looked very pale under the oil lamp, and he looked down at Xu Chunfa and said: "We have no grievances in the past, and we have no enemies in the near future, how can we sue me to the Yamen of the Criminal Division because of a little trivial matter?"

If it weren't for someone in the Punishment Division, you would have really succeeded me.

Tell me everything you know, and I'll leave you a whole corpse! ”

Xu Chunfa shouted: "You don't have to die well." ”

Hou Kui took out a piece of paper from the wine and spread it on Xu Chunfa's face, and seeing that it was blown by him, he picked up a piece of paper again......

"Xu Chunfa, the prison in Xingyang County has always been empty, and since Your Majesty has been in charge, very few prisoners have been detained, which is why my Zhao Xing's county order is well governed.

Not only that, over the years, I have re-repaired the chasm, Tongji Canal, revitalized the original deserted Huaishui, Surabaya, Jishui, and Rushui, and rearranged Aocang, and stored the grain of Huainan and Huaibei, so that the output of Huainan and Huaibei can go straight through the customs and plug it, and even the Minister of Treasury thought I could.

You say that I exploit the people, it is even more nonsense, I Zhao Xing was born in Yushan Academy, from the first day of school, I was told by Mr. - the people are miserable, and they should be dealt with with conscience.

With what I have learned in my chest, I will take advantage of the people, and a certain family will disdain to do it.

Today's Xingyang County, although it is not as rich as many prefectures and counties in Guanzhong, but, under the governance of this county, the people have no worries about hunger, and the merchants are prosperous, and within a year, Xingyang has built 63 school buildings, including more than 13,000 schoolchildren in the county, and not a single school-age child has been dropped out of school.

You say I'm greedy, but where am I? ”

Xu Chunfa once again blew through a piece of hemp paper, and gasped sharply: "That's right, on the surface, you are indeed honest and capable, but a few people know that you have used the skills you learned from Yushan Academy for your own personal gain."

Your account books are indeed impeccable, your behavior is praised by the entire Xingyang people, you even personally participated in the opening of mountains, road construction, field preparation, spring ploughing, you whip spring cattle, summer you lead all officials to participate in the harvest, autumn you personally go to the countryside to collect taxes, winter you visit the poor and ask about hardship, three meals a day coarse tea and light rice, no silk and satin, not beautiful.

Who knows that you are the richest man in Xingyang?

Zhao Xing, if you don't want people to know, unless you don't do anything, let me ask you, Xingyang Aocang disappears 100,000 quintals of grain every year, how do you explain? ”

Zhao Xing saw that Hou Kui was about to paste paper on Xu Chunfa's face, so he waved his hand to ask him to stop, leaned down and said to Xu Chunlai: "Xingyang Aocang has 1.67 million quintals of grain in storage a year, 1.25 million quintals of grain out of storage, 240,000 quintals of local grain, 170,000 quintals of grain for winemaking, 3,000 quintals of Caoyun consumption, 3,000 quintals of insects and rat bites, and 4,000 quintals of moldy and deterioration. ”

Xu Chunfa laughed miserably and said: "This is your cleverness, but also the cleverness of the skills you learned in Yushan, the accounts seem to be complete and impeccable, if I hadn't accidentally discovered that you Zhao Xing is the largest winemaker in Henan, and supplies 100,000 quintals of grain to sixteen wineries every year, I will also sincerely praise your Zhao Xing's achievements."

You are an official, and your annual silver is only 687 silver coins, plus your various subsidies, it is only 936 silver coins, and you come to tell me, where did you get the 100,000 loads of grain to supply the winery?

I have also checked, the grain transported into Aocang is indeed 1.67 million quintals, in addition, there is no foreign grain brought in, and you are proud of your high level, and you refuse to take the grain from the hands of the people, and the county's taxes are also fixed.

Let me ask you, where did you get the 100,000 loads of grain?

Can you make something out of nothing, or can you turn a stone into gold? ”

Zhao Xing smiled when he heard this, patted Xu Chunlai's face and said, "In other words, you don't have any evidence, right?" In that case, you are making false accusations. ”

Xu Chunlai swallowed a mouthful of wine that flowed into his mouth and said, "I still don't understand, you were born in a famous family like Yushan Academy, and you served as the Xingyang Commander at the age of twenty-six this year.

People have the ability to do things, and they are diligent in doing things, it will not be difficult to enter and exit in the future, and a good future is at their feet, unlike a foreign official like me, why should I be greedy for the 100,000 loads of grain? Love Chinese Network

I couldn't figure it out. ”

Zhao Xing sighed and said: "Xu Chunlai, you were born in a wealthy family, you were born without worrying about food and clothing, you don't understand what poverty is like, let me tell you, it is a kind of hard-working fear......

When I was very young, I had a habit of checking if I had eaten tomorrow before I went to sleep, and if I did, I would be able to sleep peacefully, and if I didn't, I would be sleepless all night.

The first thing I did after dawn was to look for food, and I knew that I had to find enough food while I could still move, or I would starve to death if my strength was gone.

This problem is difficult to correct even when I enter Yushan Academy, a place where I can have no worries about food and clothing.

Do you know?

I studied at Yushan Academy for eight years, and I ate leftovers for eight years!!

It's not that the academy is stingy, it's not that my classmates bullied me, it's that on the first day I entered the academy, I secretly kept lunch for breakfast, and when others ate lunch, I ate the leftovers of the morning, and the leftovers of lunch for dinner, and the leftovers of dinner for breakfast......

It's been eight years...... I know it's bad, it's not right, and my classmates have advised me countless times, and I've corrected it countless times, but I can't fall asleep at night if I can't see it, I can't touch my breakfast before I go to sleep.

Do you know what kind of nickname my classmate gave me?

Tell you, they all call me a hamster!

This nickname doesn't mean to humiliate me, and I feel like a hamster myself. ”

Xu Chunlai said angrily: "This is your personal habit, you just keep it, why do you want to be so greedy?" 100,000 loads of grain, aren't you afraid to kill you? ”

Zhao Xing shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know why, maybe that's what I'm by nature."

Well, I also know how much you know about me, and you can die with peace of mind.

Rest assured, you were drunk and fell on the side of the road and choked to death by your own vomit, so your family will be fine, and you will receive a bereavement pension, after all, you were drunk to death when you were out of tolerance.

Such a reputation is not good, I would advise your family not to make a noise, and in order to express my guilt, I will also write a letter of recommendation to your nine-year-old son, so that he has an eighty percent chance of being admitted to the lower house of Yushan Academy.

As long as your son fights for luck, he can become the pillar of your Xingyang Xu family in the future, and you use your life to exchange your son's future, it's not too wronged for you, right? ”

Xu Chunlai's eyes were covered with hemp paper, his eyes were stung by the wine, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Zhao Xing, is my report letter really what you got from the Shen Criminal Division?" I'm going to die, I hope you don't lie to me. ”

Zhao Xing sighed and said, "Is there any difference?" ”

Xu Chunlai said: "There is a big difference between this, if you get it from the Shen Criminal Division, then, the Lantian Imperial Court is almost finished, I don't blink to death, if you use any method to get it from the halfway, even if you die, I don't blame you, because this is your superior skill." ”

Zhao Xing hesitated and said: "The post station is full of my people, you know, the last thing I want to do is to make friends with the people of the Shen Criminal Division, that group of people are white-eyed wolves, whoever is close to them, they will check whom, and everyone is born to be a bad person." ”

Xu Chunlai let out a sigh of relief and said: "I'm relieved, as long as the people from the Criminal Division are not complicit with you, there is still hope for this country." Come on, don't bother, pour wine into my mouth and let me have a good drink. ”

Zhao Xing shook his head and said: "No, you are an official, even if you die accidentally, those people in the Criminal Justice Department will conduct an autopsy on you to make sure that you died unexpectedly."

So, you can't have too much wine in your stomach, if you exceed the amount of alcohol you drink, they will characterize your death as murder, and I will be very troublesome at that time, only to paste the hemp paper soaked in wine one by one on your face, slowly smoke you with the smell of wine, you slowly drink wine into your stomach, and when you are really drunk, when you really vomit, the hemp paper will block your mouth and prevent you from vomiting, and your vomit will flow back and seal your trachea.

Let you naturally die of drunkenness. ”

"This is also what Yushan Academy taught you?"

"That's right, this is a death case I encountered when I was an intern in Chang'an County, and the autopsy examiner told us the doorway inside after dissecting the body of the drunkard.

So, the process is important and there can't be a half-spread pool. ”

Zhao Xing said to Hou Kui again: "Do what we said in advance." ”

Hou Kui arched his hand and said, "Obey." ”

Zhao Xing nodded and left the cell.

Xu Chunlai completely gave up resistance this time, and whenever Hou Kui spread the hemp paper soaked in wine on his face to block his breathing, he would blow through the paper out of instinct, and then drink the wine that seeped out of the paper.

Hou Kui's hand was very steady, still one by one, and spread hemp paper on Xu Chunlai's face......

The cells were deep and quiet, with the occasional dull blow or two.