Liaozhai Great Sage

Li Xiuyuan walked over and said to Fang Shi.

"Many, thank you for your great kindness and virtue, my concubine will be a cow and a horse in the next life to repay your kindness." Fang cried and knelt on the ground.

Li Xiuyuan said: "If you are sincerely repentant, give away all the money that Fang Shengyu got from corruption and accepting bribes. Of course, this is my suggestion. Madam doesn't have to follow it. I will stay soon and leave."

By the way, he also pointed out a way out for the Fang family.

It is not easy to escape the sins that will harm future generations, and it takes great merit to do so.

As for Fang's reluctance to part with money, it depends on how she does it.

Li Xiuyuan believes that if she is reluctant to part with money, she will be rewarded sooner or later, because she was not a good man and a believer before, and Li Xiuyuan did not believe that she did not do some evil things by Fang Shengyu's side.

It's just that he can do everything he can, and whether he can save himself or not depends on himself. He feels that he has been meddling a lot today. If it were another official, he would probably have been arrested.

Chapter 722 Pen and ink harm others as much as oneself

"My lord, the trial of the prisoner is over. This is a crime entertained by mortals. There is also the case of Fang Shengyu being killed. He also pleaded guilty."

On the morning of the second day, Li Xiuyuan, who was in the magistrate's yamen, received a confession letter from Cui Wei.

"The trial is over so soon? That's right." Li Xiuyuan looked at the confession in his hand, and couldn't help but move his eyes slightly: "Tell me about this person's background."

"Yes, my lord." Cui Wei said: "This maid named Xi'er, originally named Wang Erxi, is from a certain county in Shandong Province. Because she was poor, she was sold to a certain family as a book boy, and then she couldn't stand the master's abuse and escaped privately. , went to the capital to worship a demon as a master, and learned the ability to disguise a man as a woman."

"Is it possible to become like this just by dressing up?" Li Xiuyuan said; "It is said that he once took pills, and then his Adam's apple disappeared, his skin became fair, and he has the figure of a woman."

"Yes, my lord, this Wang Erxi has eaten a pill given to him by his master, and coupled with his attire, he has a beautiful figure." Cui Wei said.

Li Xiuyuan said: "The matter of the pills has been erased, and the confession will be rewritten by the civil servants. If some dignitaries know that there are such pills, who knows how many boys they will harm."

Cui Wei froze for a moment, then immediately understood what he meant.

Many of the dignitaries in the capital are fond of incest, if they know that there is such a pill in the world, it is hard to guarantee that no one will satisfy their own obsession and let people look for it.

"My lord, this is not the first time that Wang Erxi has been sold into the mansion of a dignitary as a woman. This is the seventh time he has committed a crime. Every time he enters a mansion, he must first seduce the wife of the mansion, and because the mansion Madam only thought that he was a woman, so she was not on guard, so she got it easily every time. After she got it, Wang Erxi used it as a threat to ask for a large amount of money, gold and silver. Afterwards, she took the money and fled the house. .”

"Although those women knew they were cheated, they didn't dare to reveal it because of their reputation, so that his affairs have never been discovered."

After listening to this, Li Xiuyuan smiled and said: "Cheating money and sex, this guy is really powerful, and he can think of such a method. If anyone greedily buys such a maid into the mansion, he will be unlucky for eight lifetimes. It seems that It’s cheap and you can’t be greedy.”

Cui Wei said again: "What your lord said is true, and according to what Wang Erxi said, there are already many people in his line of work. There are more than ten disciples under his master alone, all of whom took pills and disguised themselves as men."

"In this way, it's pulling out the carrots and bringing out the mud..." Li Xiuyuan said: "In the capital, three families named in the crime book have been cheated, hehe, if those adults know that their wives are I don’t know what kind of mood I will feel when I wear a cuckold, but what I didn’t expect is that there are quite a few people who use this method to commit crimes.”

"Have you found out where his master is? Find it and arrest him, so as not to let that guy continue to spread this harmful scheme."

Cui Weidao: "Yes, my lord, I will order the prison guards to interrogate again."

"Very good, then you can go." Li Xiuyuan waved his hand as a signal.

But right now.

The mansion of Zhang Yuan, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials in the capital.

Today, many literati, scholars and officials came to visit him.

It's all about Li Xiuyuan.

"Master Zhang, you want to impeach Li Xiuyuan to this official family. As soon as this person took over as magistrate, he drove the subordinate officials and others out of the yamen, and also removed the yamen servants in the yamen and replaced them with his own soldiers. In this way, the magistrate's yamen has become his talk? A colleague of the lower official was about to go to the magistrate's yamen this morning to ask for clarification, but he was detained by Li Xiuyuan's people and put in prison. Mr. Zhang, you can't ignore this matter."

"Then Li Xiuyuan's evil deeds are not limited to this. He broke into Fang's mansion under the guise of thoroughly investigating Fang Shengyu's assassination case, bullied Mr. Fang's widow and orphan, and even took away a maid from Mr. Fang's mansion to solve the case." , forcibly identified as Wutongjiao demon, and he did not know what method he used to convince everyone in the Fang family, even Mrs. Fang was grateful to him. The officer felt that this person must have used despicable means to threaten them, and please Master Zhang upholds justice."

"Yeah, what everyone said is very reasonable. This Li Xiuyuan has made so many things in just three days since he took office. If he is allowed to continue doing it, God knows what other things will be outraged."

Zhang Yuan, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, squinted his eyes slightly to listen to the complaints of these people. He knew in his heart that Li Xiuyuan had offended these people when he was doing business, and now he brought the lawsuit to himself.

Who made himself the Minister of the Ministry of Officials?

"I already know about this matter. Li Xiuyuan was born as a scholar. He first studied literature and then martial arts. He stepped into the court step by step by defeating the King of Nine Mountains. It is inevitable that he will be a little ambitious and act arrogantly. After all, he is young and energetic. ? But since this Li Xiuyuan has done so many dissatisfied things, he should indeed be impeached, impeached, and if several of them are willing to file a joint petition, I am willing to take the lead." Zhang Yuandao.

The literati who came to sue, the officials were overjoyed when they heard the words, and expressed their willingness to jointly impeach Li Xiuyuan.

Zhang Yuan naturally knew in his heart that one impeachment would not bring down this Li Xiuyuan, but it was not a problem, it was just to leave a bad impression on the officials first, and he would continue to impeach him several times later.

Officials are soft-hearted, if it happens a few more times, Li Xiuyuan probably won't even be qualified for the position of magistrate, and will soon be dismissed from office.

As for returning to Yangzhou to be the governor, that is even more a dream.

That night.

Zhang Yuan asked his servants to light the candle lamps in the study room, then sharpened the ink and brush, thought for a while, and prepared to write an impeachment memorial.

But just when he picked up the pen to dye the ink and was about to write.

"Bah~!"

A drop of ink from the nib of the pen fell on the white paper, but what surprised Zhang Yuan was that the falling ink was not black, but red.

"Crack~!"

There was a slight cracking sound, but Zhang Yuan found that the very handy writing brush in his hand had suddenly split from the middle and turned into two halves.

The pen holder and the nib fell on the white paper, making a mess.

Zhang Yuan stood up abruptly, with a serious expression on his face, holding his breath as he stared at the broken ink pen in front of him.

"Blood dripping from the tip of the pen and the ink pen is split. This is an ominous sign."

This vision, such as the falling of the commander-in-chief flag of the army, is a bad omen, symbolizing the death of the owner.

As the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, I have seen a lot, and I believe in some things.

"This memorial can't be written..." Zhang Yuan didn't know why such an idea popped up in his mind.

But then he smiled dumbly: "I don't speak strange powers and confusion. As a servant of the Ministry of officials, am I afraid of retribution? If there is retribution, how can I be a servant? As an official of the court, I am a ghost If you see this official, you have to make a detour."

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuan chose another ink pen and prepared to continue writing the memorial.

But when he just stretched out his hand, he found that his right hand was stained with a little ink at some point, and the back of his hand was blackened.

I wiped it with my hand, but found that there was no ink stain on my finger.

The black imprint was stained with ink... But Zhang Yuan saw that the black imprint in his hand was rapidly spreading and getting bigger. At the same time, he felt dizzy for a while. He supported the desk and rubbed his head: "What's the matter ? Why does this officer feel extra tired today, drowsy..."

Before he finished speaking, he fell down and lay unconscious on the desk.

At this time, a pitch-black centipede emerged from the cracked pen holder next to it. The centipede walked around the white paper, and then slipped into Zhang Yuan's ear along his cheek.