Zhu Ping'an's safe return made the fields of Xiahe Village a sea of joy. After everyone's excitement gradually calmed down, people remembered that today's other protagonist came, and then Feng Hushu, who had been trampled on countless feet in the crowd, returned to everyone's attention again at this moment.

"Tsui Sheng greets your lord."

It is said that Feng Hushu, who was kneeling on the ground at this moment, was very embarrassed, with several big footprints on his body, his hands were trampled on with mud, and the cold sweat on his forehead flowed.

"Huh? Why is this why Xiucai should make such a big gift? Zhu Ping'an stood in front of Feng Hushu, hooked the corners of his mouth, and asked Feng Hushu who was kneeling on the ground with a smile.

"When the adults turn evil into good fortune and return safely, they are overjoyed and can't help but do it." Feng Hushu knelt on the ground, his voice trembling in fear.

With footprints, cold sweat, and a trembling voice, it looks like Feng Hushu is pitiful, but poor people must have something to hate!

If he hadn't come back, he would have been a different face at this moment, and his mother and father must have been troubled by this person at this moment. Xu officials are the main body of the state's public power directly acting on the people, and the tragedy of the small Xu officials making the family ruin is not a small number in this era. The primary purpose of fighting for the imperial examination is to improve the family and protect the family, it is bearable to bully me and humiliate me, but it is absolutely impossible to bully my family! The dragon's reverse scales, those who touch it are angry, and my family is my reverse scales.

He is a six-rank official, but he was misreported and killed, and this person dared to come to his house to make trouble, so for other powerless people, this person must be more than enough, I don't know how many people have been victimized by it.

Therefore, for Feng Hushu who was kneeling at his feet, Zhu Ping'an had no intention of repaying his grievances with virtue, and he was not a White Lotus Mother.

"Xiucai doesn't kneel when he sees the official, unless he worships the teacher, I am not your teacher, you kneel to me, don't you say that I am arrogant enough to compare myself to Confucius? Well? Zhu Ping'an bent down slightly, looked at Feng Hushu who was kneeling at his feet, and asked with a playful smile.

"Xusheng doesn't dare, Xusheng doesn't dare." When Feng Hushu heard this, he looked confused, this Lord Zhu thought too much, but when he saw Zhu Ping'an's questioning eyes, his forehead couldn't help but sweat coldly, and he kowtowed again and again.

"Look at you, why did you kowtow again? I'm not so arrogant as to compare myself to Confucius. Zhu Ping'an said sideways and avoided it.

"Xusheng doesn't dare, Xusheng doesn't dare ......"

Feng Hushu hurriedly got up and saluted Zhu Ping'an, confessed again and again, and then waved his sleeves to wipe the cold sweat on his forehead, at this moment Feng Hushu's careful liver was about to be uncontrollable.

"Well, that's right." Zhu Ping'an nodded.

Hearing Zhu Ping'an's words, Feng Hushu breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart and liver, which had been tightened, could finally relax.

However, in the next second, I saw Zhu Ping'an after nodding, and then asked casually, "Where did we talk about just now, oh, by the way, I remembered." My family is also going to pay taxes, when will the imperial court issue the tax payment policy, why don't I know? ”

As soon as Zhu Ping'an's voice fell, he heard a pop, and Feng Hushu, who had just stood up, fell to his knees again and again, trembling, his face was as red as a monkey's buttocks, and he couldn't say a word.

Where and what policies the imperial court came up with, he did it on purpose, so under Zhu Ping'an's question, Feng Hushu just trembled and couldn't say a word.

When everyone in Xiahe Village saw Feng Hushu like this, they laughed one by one, they looked like they were majestic just now, how could they be like seeing a cat and a mouse now.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Ping'an bent down slightly, looked at Feng Hushu and hooked the corners of his lips and asked, "Can't remember?" ”

Feng Hushu couldn't answer.

"Okay, then I'll change the question, who asked you to come?" Zhu Ping'an asked again.

"Xusheng, Xusheng Xusheng was ordered by the county master." When Feng Hushu said this, he was very unconfident.

In fact, where he was ordered by the magistrate, he made his own opinions, wanting to come over to make a big profit and fill his pocket, this kind of thing was done without the magistrate, just using the banner of the magistrate to bluff people, he did this kind of thing not once or twice. What the people at the bottom know, seeing that it is someone from the county government, they don't say anything themselves.

The so-called: Let your official be as clear as water, how can you be as smooth as oil. Even a clean official can hardly protect the officials from harming the people, let alone ordinary officials. Don't look at the magistrate of a county, as the head of a county, he holds the supreme power of a county, but after all, the county officials are alone, and most of the county affairs are fake hands, which gives the officials a chance. In a sense, the county magistrate is just a beautiful face, and in fact, the official who hides behind him and takes advantage of his name is the real master of this county. He is just a puppet of a large number of people around him, taking advantage of his name. These "nameless juniors" hiding behind are the most affordable.

From Feng Hushu's eyes and tone, Zhu Ping'an knew that this matter was his own initiative.

"Oh, it was the magistrate who ordered you to come." Zhu Ping'an nodded.

"Yes, yes." Feng Hushu wiped his sweat while nodding, and carefully glanced at Zhu Ping'an, seeing that Zhu Ping'an's face was not abnormal, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Since the magistrate ordered you to come, then the magistrate must know when the imperial court has issued a tax payment policy, so there is Lao Fenghushu to invite the magistrate." Zhu Ping'an said with a playful smile.

Yes?

"The magistrate of the county has a lot of opportunities, I'm afraid, I'm afraid I don't have time."

Fortunately, Feng Hushu was kneeling at the moment, otherwise Feng Hushu would have been asked by Zhu Ping'an's question in a cold sweat and fell to the ground.

"Oh, what's the matter, can't I invite the sixth rank official to come to the seventh rank Zhi County?" Zhu Ping'an bent down and looked at Feng Hushu.

Boom

When Feng Hushu heard this, his body suddenly changed from kneeling to sitting, he couldn't kneel anymore, and the cold sweat on his forehead flowed into an infusion.

Yes, Zhu Ping'an is a six-grade official, the county is only seven-grade, the county magistrate is only from the sixth-grade, Huaining County is not the upper county, and the magistrate is only the seventh grade. Zhu Ping'an said that the county magistrate, who is two levels lower, has to come over no matter how busy he is. If the magistrate comes over, then everything he has done will not be exposed, and then he will not only have to face Zhu Ping'an's anger, but also the anger of the magistrate.

"Take my notes, go and invite the county magistrate to come to the cold house for a while, I will prepare coarse tea and light rice in the cold house, and wait for the magistrate." Zhu Ping'an got up and took out a small seal letter from his waist, and instructed a messenger in a straight manner.

"Yes." The messenger took the seal letter and did not dare to hesitate.

"Adults forgive sins, adults forgive sins, and Su Sheng knows that he is wrong. Returning to the adults, they were all itchy and greedy for money, disregarded the law, and were tempted by the adult's uncle Zhu Shouren to commit foolish things. ”

Seeing this, Feng Hushu was completely scared, and without saying a word, he gave himself a mouthful, and repeatedly asked Zhu Ping'an for his guilt, and he no longer dared to hide it, and told the matter and the matter.

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Spectators

There was a dead silence all around, even the air seemed to freeze, and a pin drop could be heard, and at this time a slight footstep was unusually obvious.

The crowd turned their heads

In the crowd, a discordant figure is unusually majestic, it is the figure of Uncle Zhu Shouren tiptoeing away (to be continued.) )