Since I met you, people are dying every day

The "tea" fell to the ground and made a muffled sound that did not match the description.Xia Shu stopped standing in front of Kong Taiping, bent down and picked up the "tea leaves" that had been spilled on the ground, it felt wrong to touch it, it was not tea leaves, it was obviously silver molded into strips of leaves.

"What else do you have to say now? Do you still need me to open each of these urns for verification? The silver taels here are at least a few hundred taels. You, a Jiupin county magistrate with an annual salary of only 20 taels, will not be able to do so in a few lifetimes." I can't save so much money!"

Kong Taiping had already expected this, and has kept his eyes closed since just now.Shi Ziyu's mouth was half open, and he was already stunned.Not to mention how ridiculous the scene was, but Ye Sirui suddenly turned cold and scolded him, "Master Shi, you believe me now, do you know how dereliction of duty this county magistrate is? Control is in your hands, what do you rely on to build river embankments? What do you rely on to benefit the people? Could it be that you have no worries about food and clothing all your life so that you forget the smell of copper? You said you want to share the worries for His Majesty, then I ask you, Kong Taiping went to rescue the disaster , What did he do, why didn't you pay attention to it? The silver allocated by the court was embezzled by him, didn't you ever think about paying for it yourself?"

Shi Ziyu still didn't come back to his senses, and even forgot to kneel down to plead guilty.When Ye Sirui said this, he suddenly felt that it was difficult for him to fill the gaps in the government office out of his own pocket. Not one out of ten officials in the imperial court would do this, right?He kept silent, but Kong Taiping suddenly opened his eyes. "Do you understand? He's not here to help you at all!"

He was talking to Shi Ziyu, Ye Sirui suddenly realized.

"Do you still want to arrest me? He's not here to help you. Do you know the consequences of offending me?"

These words finally made Shi Ziyu calm down.He closed his mouth, looked at Ye Sirui, then at Kong Taiping, and said with a sneer: "Don't act like a good person here, he is not here to help me, but you are here to harm me, act as if I don't know you are here Is there a complaint in front of you?"

The two of them said "he" one by one, as if Ye Sirui was not there.Ye Sirui felt it was funny.Kong Taiping stared at Shi Ziyu with crazy eyes again, "I want to kill you, so you don't want to hurt me? But he wants to kill us all! Didn't you listen to what he said? He told you to pay for it yourself Take care of those victims! Hahahaha, tell him, if you come to relieve the disaster, what will happen to those victims? Will they be better off than they are now?"

"Full of nonsense." Shi Ziyu looked away in disgust.But his tone has softened a little.Ye Sirui didn't want to give Kong Taiping another chance to mess up the morale of the army, "What is there to say now? Master Shi, why don't you take down this villain who deceives the top and bottom and brings disaster to the country and the people?"

Shi Ziyu made up his mind, "Where is the yamen servant?" A group of yamen servants outside the door filed in and knelt down to listen to the order, "Kong Taiping deceived the superior and the inferior, harmed the country and the people, and embezzled the people's life-saving money, everyone, hurry up and take him down!" Just now Kong Taiping yelled for a long time but no one was seen, Shi Ziyu called someone over as soon as he opened his mouth, Kong Taiping looked at Shi Ziyu in panic, "When... When did you..."

"Money can make ghosts turn the millstone. Don't Master Kong understand this truth better than I do?" Shi Ziyu interrupted him.

These words put an end to the conflict.The yamen servants took Kong Taiping down and escorted him out. "Stop!" Kong Taiping shouted.Yamen servants turned a deaf ear. "I said stop!" He shouted again, Ye Sirui said: "Stop, let's see what he has to say." The yamen servant stopped, but did not turn around, Kong Taiping struggled to free his hands, but was caught by the yamen servant Yes, in the end he gave up, turned his head crookedly, and looked at Ye Sirui with a sinister smile. "Master Ye, do you know that I'm not alone?"

Ye Sirui's disgusted eyes were like looking at something stinky. "I know that I will catch all the state government officials you bribed."

"Then you are too naive." His hands were twisted and hurt, and cold sweat dripped down his face, but he still struggled to say. "Master Ye, do you think you are very powerful? Let me tell you, this is just the beginning, I want you, and you," his sharp eyes swept towards Shi Ziyu, Shi Ziyu avoided his eyes, "I want you Pay the price."

"Take it away!" Ye Sirui also snapped.

The big picture is settled.Ye Sirui entrusted Shi Ziyu with the task of interrogating Kong Taiping. On the one hand, he was really busy with disaster relief, and on the other hand, this was also a test for Shi Ziyu.Ye Sirui couldn't forget what Kong Taiping said before he was taken away.Is Shi Ziyu trustworthy? Will he be shaken because Ye Sirui harmed his interests?These are all unknowns.

Ye Sirui wrote a note to the procurator, asking the court to allocate more food funds, and at the same time wrote to Madam Wang in Helin County, asking her to send someone to bring the bank notes to Helin County.But far water can't quench the near thirst. I don't know if it is to clarify the suspicion, Shi Ziyu agrees to pay money from his treasury to buy rice and medicine first.Ye Sirui gathered all the doctors from some well-known medical clinics and pharmacies in Bing County and took them to Nancheng.The doctors were naturally full of complaints, but Mr. Qianshi personally led the team. If he refused to go again, he would be scolded by the people.Xia Shu supervised the doctors to prescribe decoctions, and Ye Sirui directed the servants who had drunk the medicine to pull out all the corpses in the refugee huts and cremate them. At the same time, they demolished those smelly and filthy huts and prepared to rebuild the houses.

The reconstruction work is in full swing, and there is good news from the county government: Kong Taiping has finally pleaded guilty.

Shi Ziyu has been the county magistrate for so many years under the control of Kong Taiping, and now he has to clean up the mess for him.

It is heavy, and naturally it is not light.Kong Taiping was not a hard-headed person in the first place, so after several rounds of torture, he was fully recruited.

Ye Sirui looked at his confession, Shi Ziyu anxiously waited for his order.Ye Sirui looked at the ten lines at a glance, and he was already hesitating. He smiled kindly and said, "Brother Yuan, you have worked hard." Don’t dare to be, Mr. Ye really worked hard.”

"You have contributed a lot to this disaster relief and solving the case. After I return to the state office, I will commend your contribution to the procurator and the magistrate." Ye Sirui continued.

Shi Ziyu was still terrified by the hesitation that day, and quickly knelt down to thank him, "Master Ye was right in the past, I have been ineffective for many years, I am sorry for the Sheji court, this time I just tried to make up for it, how dare I take credit for it? "

Ye Sirui helped him up, "Hey, brother Yuan's words are wrong, your contribution is obvious to all. The money for disaster relief a few days ago was paid from your internal treasury, how can others do this? You can't come out with this money , The money is here for you, Kong Taiping and his stolen money, account books, and all the evidence I want to take back to Pu County, and the rest of the disaster relief is handed over to you." He pulled out the silver bill from his sleeve.

There was no official document from the imperial court for a long time, but fortunately Ma Lu came from Helin County day and night with a bank note.Ye Sirui was very pleasantly surprised to see Ma Lu, but Yufeng was a friend enough to ask Ma Lu to take this trip.Ma Lu was still upbeat, saying that Master Ye Fu was worried that Ye Sirui had no one available, so he sent him here.After three glasses of wine, he happily told Ye Sirui that his wife was pregnant.Ye Sirui ordered someone to hold a banquet to congratulate him, and asked about Ye Fu and Yunniang's recent situation during the banquet.The Confucian Gu School has been set up, Feng Anbo and others have entered the school to study, and many orphaned children from other villages have also been sent to the school.At home, Yunniang followed her mother to learn female martial arts, but she also went to school frequently.Ye Kuangxiu would occasionally go to school to see them on holidays, lecture and play with them.Speaking of Kuang'er, Ye Sirui was inevitably a little bit disappointed, but Malu's wife and children are hot on the bed, what about him?Xia Shu is still neither far nor near, but his nephew is close, but it is rare to see him.

Ye Sirui's thoughts were running wild, how could Shi Ziyu have thought that the money he gave away would be returned?Naturally thank you repeatedly.

Shi Ziyu is still available.This was Ye Sirui's final judgment.Ye Sirui can't stay longer, once the case is solved and the prisoner confesses, he will have to bring someone back to report.Shi Ziyu is not a vicious person, let alone he knows water conservancy.Ye Sirui couldn't think of a better candidate to replace him for a while, so it's better to keep it for now.

Brick and tile houses were built slowly, and the cotton clothes for the winter were sent out.The epidemic is also gradually stabilizing.Having money in hand means being stubborn, Ye Sirui ordered the taverns in the city to get some porridge and side dishes for the victims.The conflict in the yamen spread like wildfire, and overnight, the common people scolded Kong Taiping.I heard that the magistrate they hated wrongly paid for the disaster relief out of their own pockets, and the merchants and common people also donated generously.There are cotton clothes, houses, meals, and doctors.The lives of the victims are slowly getting back on track.In the next step, Shi Ziyu is already instructing the government servants and victims to dredge the fields to prepare for the next year's sowing.

In addition, the embankment will also be rebuilt.Shi Ziyu made up her mind, and was very busy every day, commanding, comforting the victims, and mapping the site. Even her chubby chin became a little thinner.In any case, seeing the smiling faces of those disaster victims is more wonderful than how many prisoners have been arrested.To solve a case, after all, the wounded are dead, but disaster relief can save the living. Shi Ziyu may also understand the subtle difference in this.

However, Shi Mao was still dead.

Ye Sirui was busy with the victims for a few days, but he didn't see this person, and the other people also looked blank when they were asked.He was not seen when the body in the refugee hut was sent to be identified and burned.Ye Sirui could only secretly pray that he ran away as he said.However, the whole heart is still heavy.If he had been brought into the city at that time, would he have been saved?Maybe, maybe it will kill the whole city.

Ye Sirui was also preparing to leave.When going back, he had to bring the prisoner with him, so Ye Sirui waited until the guards from the state government came before he could set off.

However, when the guards came, all of them were wearing plain robes and white belts, and Ye Sirui said after asking, "Master Zhizhou has passed away!"