When Li Zhi heard the words of the Yang brothers, he was silent.

It turned out that the two brothers destroyed the statue because their wives ran away with someone.

But what does his wife have to do with Li Zhi when she runs away with someone? Why destroy the statue of the Dasheng Temple in Jinghai County?

Li Sik pondered the connection.

Seeing that Li Zhi did not execute the Yang brothers in a rage, a middle-aged man suddenly came out of the crowd watching the bustle outside the main hall of the Guandi Temple.

This middle-aged man was wearing an old cyan cotton jacket and a Dongpo scarf on his head.

Seeing the middle-aged man walk out, the other Shanxi workers stopped talking and looked at the man with wide eyes. And He Qianyi, the county official of Jinghai County, couldn't help but snort heavily when he saw this man.

The man came up and said loudly: "Lord Wang, this Yang brother is very pitiful, please ask the prince to be merciful!" ”

Li Xing frowned and shouted, "Which one are you?" ”

The man arched his hand and said, "I am Qiu Kedu, the owner of the largest winery on Shanxi Street. After thinking about it, he said again: "Although the small people are poor, they have some hope on the streets of Shanxi. On weekdays, the workers in Shanxi have big and small things, and they all come to the Deyi Building to listen to a few words from the small people. ”

Li Xing squinted at the man and said coldly, "You organized this fight?" ”

Qiu Kedu's face turned white, he was silent for a few seconds, and finally stood up and said: "Ming people don't do dark things, this time Shanxi Street protects the Yang brothers' big event, Xiaomin really made a contribution and shouted." If the prince wants to hold the people responsible, the people won't be able to escape! ”

Li Xing's face was even more unhappy, and he wanted to speak again.

Li Zhi waved his hand to stop Li Xing's words and said, "Qiu Kedu, how pitiful is this Yang brother? Why you want to fight with the locals, you can make it clear. ”

Qiu Kedu looked at Li Zhi and said, "The prince is virtuous, and he will definitely understand the suffering of our Shanxi workers." ”

Shaking his sleeves, Qiu Kedu said loudly:

"That Yang family elder is twenty-one years old this year, and he came to Jinghai County four years ago when he was eighteen years old. The reason why he came to Tianjin was because he had a childhood sweetheart, Liu, who grew up in the same town as the Yang family. The Yang family was engaged to the Liu family, but the poor family could not afford to buy a house and get married, so they had to leave their hometown to Jinghai to work as a handyman to make money. ”

"Lord Wang, don't look at the Yang family's wrinkled face now, thin and dark, it was because he moved porcelain clay in the porcelain kiln in Jinghai County in the past two years, burned coal and smoked it, so he looks so old. When this Yang family eldest first came to Shanxi Street, he was a handsome young man, and he was a very outstanding teenager. ”

"When the Yang family first came, he worked as a handyman in a restaurant in Jinghai County, saved money for two years, bought two tiled houses on Shanxi Street, and went back to Shanxi to marry the Liu family.

Yang Jialang is a smart man, although his family is poor, but when he was a child, he listened to three years of learning in the corner of Yixue and learned to read. The people on the streets of Shanxi all look up to the Yang family, but on weekdays, if someone wants to write a letter and write a couplet, they all take more than a dozen dollars to Dalang to let Dalang moisten his pen. ”

"I have also seen his wife Liu, she is a beautiful woman, and she is a very good match with the Yang family. When the two got married, the people on the streets of Shanxi were very happy, and they all said that there was a pair of golden boys and girls. ”

Qiu Kedu sighed and said, "But this Liu family is not a woman who does her duty. She only knows the talents of the Yang family in Shanxi, and guards the Yang family. But when she arrived in Jinghai, she gained knowledge, and only then did she know that there were so many erudite, wealthy, and wealthy men in one town and nine provinces. “

"The tax collector in the city is simply Zhanhe, who is a middle-aged person, but because he has studied in middle school, he is the chief of the tax collector's section, and he takes twelve taels of money a month, and goes south to the north to know the past and the present. Liu's work as a handyman in a sewing shop in the city, and when he saw Jian Zhanhe, he hooked up with Jian Zhanhe. “

The Liu family looked down on the Yang family from then on. The Yang family felt that the Liu family looked down on him and had no money, so he quit his job in the restaurant and went to work as a coolie in a porcelain kiln with a salary of three taels, just wanting to earn more silver for the Liu family. But after two years, he failed to save Liu's heart, and Liu ran away with Jian when he went to Siam to be an official. “

Hearing this, the people outside the Guandi Temple all lowered their heads. It was so desperate and embarrassing for them. Yang Jialang is also a character on the streets of Shanxi, and in the end, he ended up like this, which really made everyone feel defeated.

Qiu Kedu said excitedly: "Lord Wang, the people of Jinghai County have indeed followed Lord Wang early!" They all went to school, they all knew how to read, they could read books and newspapers, and they even learned public morality, and we couldn't compare. “

"Over the years, the people of Jinghai County have treated us outsiders as cattle and horses, and only sent us to the most humble errands. We all endured it. The people of Jinghai County relied on themselves to follow the prince early, and built a magnificent ancestral shrine in the county seat to worship, and did not allow us outsiders to enter. In the name of seeking blessings for the prince, in fact, it is to show that the locals followed the prince in the earliest time, and it is to distinguish the identity between us outsiders and locals. “

"The more people worship at the ancestral shrine, the more united the local people in Jinghai County become, and the more despicable they are to us outsiders. Even if we outsiders go into the city to sell oil, the oil stalls must be unattended. “

"The locals pay five taels a month, and we pay more than two taels a month. The local women don't look at us outsiders, and no local woman has ever married us migrant workers, but the local men marry us beautiful women from time to time. We endured that. “

"But the Yang family is so desperate to support his family, and the locals want to rob his wife..."

Qiu Kedu's face was so red with excitement that he shouted: "Lord Wang! Let me ask, my lord, you saved the Han people from the southern and northern wars, and built such a rich town and nine provinces, but do you still have a conscience for one town and nine provinces to treat us from other provinces like this? “

Hearing Qiu Kedu's question, the people outside the Guandi Temple suddenly lost control of their emotions, and they burst into tears one by one.

Although the case of Yang Jialang is an individual case, the grievances suffered by these outsiders are common. To put it mildly, migrant workers are cattle and horses in Jinghai, and even the loss of their wives is not a case, but there are few people like Yang Dalang who dare to break the net.

Hearing Qiu Kedu's words, countless people shed tears and cried with their sleeves wiping their tears. Everyone lowered their heads, and only the sobs of men and women were heard inside and outside the Guandi Temple.

Seeing this scene, the officials behind Li Zhi were a little speechless for a while.

Seeing that the situation was not right, He Qianyi suddenly jumped out and said, "Qiu Kedu, you are lying to confuse the public!" The prince has promulgated a new marriage law last year, and now even a woman can file for divorce! The Liu family is willing to be Jian Zhanhe's concubine, that is the freedom of the Liu family! “

Hearing He Qianyi's words, Qiu Kedu sneered a few times, and the more he laughed, the more mocking his face became.

"He Qianyi, you dog official! You Jinghai was born and raised in Jinghai, and you know how to protect the interests of the locals! Are you relying on your identity as a county magistrate to kill my Qiu Kedu family? “

The migrant workers outside the Guandi Temple were not as stubborn as Qiu Kedu, their eyes were full of despair for a while, and they all knelt on the ground.

These men, women, and children kowtowed to Li Zhi one by one, as if Li Zhi, the world-famous King of Qi, was their last glimmer of hope.

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