In remote mountain villages, there is no other pastime except farming. Therefore, the villagers often get together casually and talk about the problems of the East and the West.

At the entrance of the village, where strangers rarely appeared, a speeding carriage appeared and headed straight for Zhou A Niu's house.

"This carriage must be here to see Zhou A Niu again!"

"I guess so!"

"How did Zhou Aniu make a fortune? He built such a magnificent house."

"When you get rich, will you tell others how you got rich?"

"I can!"

"Hey, I believe you are a ghost!"

……

The men and women at the entrance of the village gathered in a group to compete with each other on how to play. However, as soon as the carriage stopped and they took a closer look at the official clothes of the people who got off the carriage, they all became mute and did not even have the courage to look directly at each other.

The common people at the bottom have an innate respect for officials. No one dares to come up to say hello or move around casually.

Regardless of whether they are big officials or small officials, as long as the word "official" is attached to them, their destiny can be affected. I don't dare to expect to be able to embrace the golden thigh. I just hope not to be noticed by the official. In one sentence, I have to hand over all the family property. come out.

Not paying? Haha, unless you don’t want to live anymore.

The same tragedies keep happening again and again. How can the unarmed people at the bottom have the courage to go against the officials?

They didn't even dare to look openly at the official's face, for fear that someone would take advantage of them and take the opportunity to blackmail them before leaving.

To the shock and fear of everyone present, the official came straight towards them, with a friendly smile on his face, and asked in standard mandarin: "My father-in-law, may I ask how to get to Zhou Aniu's house?"

The old man who was called was so frightened that he couldn't speak clearly. He stuttered and replied: "Zhou, Zhou, go straight to Aniu's house. When you get to the mountain, there is a blue brick, tile, and tile house at the back of the mountain."

"Thank you, husband, for showing me the way!"

The official officer bowed his hand in a particularly kind and friendly manner, quickly climbed into the carriage, and with the sound of horse hooves, he went straight to Zhou A Niu's house.

It wasn't until the carriage completely disappeared from sight that the old man and his wife came back to their senses. The old man who was too frightened to speak received the envious and admiring looks of the old men. He immediately raised his chin and said: "The official just rushed to me. Give it up."

"That's right! Oh, where are the official officials here? They are definitely not the official officials we have seen before."

"I guess so. The previous official servants didn't treat us idiots as human beings."

"Okay, okay, just say a few words. Go back to each house to find your children, and tell them not to come to Zhou Aniu's house to watch the fun!"

"Yes, yes! Just let us adults go. Children don't understand anything. If they offend the official, hehe~"

……

The "hiss" was not an exaggeration at all. The old men and women who had gathered at the entrance of the village to talk and talk rushed home. After explaining this and that, the door was closed, the key was hung up, and they walked to Zhou Aniu's house with the neighbors. Guessing as you go:

"What happened to Zhou Aniu's family? How did you recruit such an official official with such a straight-spoken mandarin? Could it be that he has committed something big?"

"Such a nice house, if Zhou Aniu makes a living by farming like us, he definitely won't be able to build it!"

"As the old saying goes, no one is rich without a windfall. Zhou Aniu must have picked up the treasure somewhere!"

"Tie Zhu, your team leader repaired the house for Zhou A Niu. Didn't you find out how Zhou A Niu made money?"

"What are you thinking? If you were Zhou Aniu, and I would build a house for you, you would teach me how to make a fortune?"

"Hahaha, you have a beautiful idea!"

……

Everyone headed towards Zhou A Niu's house from the village path. They started a little late, but they took a shortcut and saw the situation in Zhou A Niu's courtyard earlier than the official carriage.

"Hiss! The door of Zhou Aniu's house was smashed to pieces! It's a mess! This door cost a full five taels of silver!"

"Have you seen? Why are Zhou Aniu and his family all tied up?"

"Bind them one by one! Gagged them! Fall to the ground! I don't know whether they are dead or alive!"

"Shhhhhhhh, please keep your voice down! I saw the official's carriage! Let's close our mouths, open our eyes and ears."

……

The villagers obeyed and closed their mouths one after another, their eyes widened like bells, and their ears moved from time to time, just to hear clearly the sounds in Zhou Aniu's courtyard.

The official who originally asked for directions got off the carriage first and came to the chopped-up wooden door of Zhou Aniu's house. He glanced around inside and turned around to greet him: "Master, the house ahead is Zhou Aniu's house. "

Seeing the government servants dressed in official uniforms, Zhou Aniu and others turned pale, especially Zhou Aniu, whose face was pale with fear and his eyes were wide and round, which was very abrupt on his sharp-mouthed and monkey-cheeked face.

Magistrate Wang glanced at him. This case involved official silver that was "accidentally lost" before the new emperor ascended the throne. Based on his understanding of Emperor Yong'an, he must keep it strictly confidential to avoid alerting the enemy and causing unnecessary trouble.

What's more, Emperor Yong'an's throne is not very stable. Even if there is a new crop of sweet potatoes, the missing batch of official silver cannot be found, and the whole story of the missing batch of official silver cannot be found out. He will always be used as a basis by political opponents. Criticize.

Magistrate Wang's eyes fell on the only female family member and Dabao beside her, and he frowned and asked, "Is this child from your family?"

Dabao's mother's eyes suddenly widened and she whined, her bloody desire to protect her biological son at all costs made Magistrate Wang feel mixed emotions.

Before he came, he knew about Zhou Aniu's family's abnormal attitude towards baby girls. If you want to say that Dabao's mother is inhumane, she can resist the fear of the county magistrate to protect her son, but if you want to say that she is humane, how can she? Are you willing to let your baby girl die after being pregnant for ten months?

Magistrate Wang was really too curious about what Dabao's mother was thinking: "Let the mother and son talk."

Liu Yamen stepped forward and pulled out the smelly cloth strips blocking the mother and son. Before he could turn around, Dabao's mother's explosive screams for help almost made her head buzz.

"Master Guan! Master Guan, please save us! Save my great treasure!"

Magistrate Wang waved his hand: "I know you are anxious, but don't be anxious first. You answer me first, this is the same child you gave birth to in ten months of pregnancy. Why can't the baby girl survive?"

Although Dabao's mother was doubtful, she opened her mouth and said: "How can it be the same? My father-in-law said that the birth of a baby girl will bring disaster to our family. I cannot let the baby girl come to harm our family. My father-in-law also said, if we don't bring If the baby girl dies, I will keep giving birth to losers. It is not enough to give birth to five. I have to give birth to six and ten. I will never be able to give birth to a son as good as my Dabao until my death."

Magistrate Wang thought he had been mentally prepared, but he overestimated his endurance and gritted his teeth and asked: "So you want to kill a baby girl just to give birth to a baby girl?"

Dabao's mother could feel Magistrate Wang's disgust and hatred for her, but she didn't feel that she had done anything wrong. When she saw Magistrate Wang glaring at her Dabao fiercely, she hurriedly defended: "Sir, it's none of my Dabao's business. ! If you want to blame, blame those female souls for not being able to reincarnate! They chose to live in any house but they chose to live in my house!"

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