Uncle Guo

The county magistrate of Lingshan took office immediately, but before he entered the county seat, he encountered bandits on the way.

The county magistrate and his party are all strong men, but they are all good-looking. The only one who can hit is a blind man. The hidden weapon in the white jade and purple bamboo stick shoots out, and the aim is not good. A few times of "duk tuk tuk" are very bluffing, and the result is all The trunk of a hundred-year-old tree next to the road is buried.It was Yu Anyi who was barely able to fight. He swung his sword and slashed. He thought he was a knight in the rivers and lakes. After one move, he was knocked down by the bandits, and he didn't even have time to throw out the drug in his arms.Feng Qi roared furiously, "Who is here?"

No one paid attention to him, not because he was not imposing enough, but because he spoke the official dialect of the capital, which the locals in Lingshan could not understand at all.

The ground, air, water, and air didn't resist anymore, they just hugged each other and begged bitterly. The bandits couldn't understand the content of the begging, but the appearance of the begging could be understood.

Finally, Fengqi's daughter-in-law couldn't stand it anymore, and opened her throat, "Wow..." With a scream, she threw the money away like flowers, and the bandits' eyes lit up immediately, and they snatched the money. Lin Mingcheng's mother and son Pulling Liang Xuanchen to hide aside.

Liang Xuanchen was so angry that his face turned green, but his sweetheart and mother-in-law were by his side. He was afraid that he would go crazy and hurt Lin Mingcheng's mother and son. Human life was at stake, and money was something outside of him, so bandits would loot it.These bandits were so poor and crazy that they snatched everything except the silver, including the clothes on the cart, and even the pancakes in the ground. What is the thing wrapped in silk cloth? When you touch it, there is a buzzing sound. You are shocked. It is very heavy to hold and it is not easy to take it away. In order to sit more people in the car, you simply pushed the piano. Throw it away by the side of the road.

Naturally, Liang Xuanchen's sword was gone, and the white jade and purple bamboo stick looked like a firestick, so he didn't want it.

Feng Qi stopped making trouble for a while, secretly glad that the bandit didn't snatch his wife up to the mountain to be his wife in the village. The bandit is also principled, his wife is as thin as a monkey, and he is the only one who treats him like a treasure.

In this way, when Lin Xiancheng arrived in Delingshan County in a state of embarrassment with his family members and servants, the good news came that he was promoted, the deputy became the principal, and the county magistrate became the county magistrate.

Without him, the magistrate of Lingshan County was killed by bandits in the county yamen more than a month ago. His old mother came to collect the body crying and crying. When she saw blood holes all over her son's body, with a broken head and neck, she fainted on the spot.

Mother Lin felt terrified when she heard the master in the county yamen narrate the incident, and she wished she could drag Lin Mingcheng to abandon his official position and return to his hometown as soon as possible.It's not so easy to be the master of Qingtian. The bandits don't need to bother to murder, they just break in and hack to death. How serious is the banditry here?

The master's surname is Bai, he was originally from the rivers and lakes, he understands some dialects from all over the world, he can copy and write, and most importantly, he can be a translator. Come to be a master in a place where no eggs are laid.

"The banditry is so serious that even the government can't wipe it out." Lin Mingcheng knew that this was a remote place, but he didn't know that the situation was so bad.

Master Bai said: "Lingshan County is poor for hundreds of miles. Everyone can't eat enough. Some people go up the mountain to become bandits and live by looting houses. However, their parents, brothers and sisters may still be down the mountain. This is one of them. The salary of the county government is limited. It is not easy for the magistrate of the county to feed the entire yamen. There is nowhere to go for greed, so the officials can only find their own way of life. This is the second. If things go on like this, the bandits and the officials in the yamen will collude to harm the people. The magistrate of the county wanted to take care of it, but he left and died, and it became what he is now. During the holidays, the bandits on the mountain would go down to the village to have a reunion dinner, and the bandits at home became their backers. Others don't dare to bully, otherwise it will be time to settle accounts after the next year, so the county is not ashamed of falling grass."

Liang Xuanchen said: "If you want to rob a house, you have to have a place to rob it. If the people are poor and have no food, where can the bandits go?"

Master Bai said: "Young Master, I don't know that Lingshan County is rich in a kind of strange medicine called Black Jade Broken Grass. Rare things are priced at gold for a while. And it’s weird that they don’t grow when they are introduced to other places. Every household here grows black jade intermittent grass. It is also the imperial court’s will to change rice into grass. Here, I can’t bear to leave, and I can’t eat black jade intermittent grass. After the herbs are planted and dried, I have to pay tribute to the imperial court, so I can get some money to live on. Once this kind of herbs leaves Lingshan, the price will soar all the way. , the local people couldn't get any benefits, and they were burdened by banditry. There were also those who were not reconciled, colluded with outside traders, smuggled them out and sold them privately, and if they were caught, they would be beheaded. Such a crime."

Lin Mingcheng nodded: "The silver taels allocated by the imperial court to compensate the villagers must be enough for the big guys to eat and wear, but they are exploited layer by layer, and it is very limited in Lingshan."

Mr. Bai said: "Isn't it? If you exploit some and get robbed by robbers, the people's life will be even more difficult. It's so complicated that I can't explain it clearly. After all, it's just this black jade. What a crime."

When Yu Anyi heard about the Black Jade Intermittent Herb, he regained his energy and asked Master Bai to take it to Tianjian Village to see this miracle medicine.

He has an old father who works in the imperial hospital, and he has of course heard the name of this herbal medicine on weekdays. It is only brought as a tribute from Lingshan. Those who were entrusted to the imperial relatives, relatives, Ouchi bodyguards and some thoughtful and meritorious officials in the army would not easily go to the people.

"Since this medicine is so precious, won't the imperial court take care of it?" Lin Mingcheng asked again.

Master Bai said: "So I have changed several county magistrates, just hoping to manage this place well. It's just that the emperor is far away, and the court has had major events one after another in these years. It is impossible to send a large army to suppress the bandits. And to suppress the bandits For this matter, the wildfire will never burn out, and the spring breeze will regenerate it.”

Yu Anyi mocked: "After all, the magistrate has run away or died, just change another term. Sending troops will cost a lot of money. Maybe one of the term will meet a capable person and solve the matter Woolen cloth?"

Liang Xuanchen quickly took Lin Mingcheng's hand, and said in a low voice, "I won't let you break it here."

Master Bai said again: "The imperial court needs a thousand catties of medicinal materials a year. If they are dried in the sun, if they can't be finished..." He made a neck-cutting motion.

Liang Xuanchen even felt that the Ministry of Officials deliberately punished Lin Mingcheng.

Mr. Bai took Lin Zhixian's family to the back mountain not far from the county government office. There are several houses here for the county magistrate to live in. There are also the houses of the government servants next to them. Standing on the stone platform halfway up the hill, you can see the inside of the valley. The cell in Lingshan was originally a temporary prison for thieves and thieves. If bandits come to make trouble, the magistrate can temporarily hide in to avoid the limelight.

Lin Mingcheng couldn't laugh or cry.

After moving the luggage, a new problem arose. The county magistrate's family has a big business, and the temple can't accommodate so many family members, so what should we do?

The county magistrate's residence consisted of three and a half rooms, with bare walls, and the other half was still a firewood room. Mother Lin lived in the best room facing east, and Lin Mingcheng lived in the middle.As for the housekeeper Feng Qi and the servants plus a doctor, they have no place to live anyway.

At this time, Feng Qi gave full play to his role as a housekeeper. He went to the county to borrow tools, and the wood and stone were collected now. Yu Anyi set up a consulting room, and even built a new hut for himself and his wife, including an attic!

Lin's mother and Feng Qi's daughter-in-law planted vegetables in the front and back of the house, raised chickens, and lived like this.

Liang Xuanchen couldn't see how simple the house was, and he didn't care about it. He sat cross-legged on the stone platform, put the Guqin firmly, and gently plucked the strings.

The green smoke curls up in the mountains, the son is like jade, the sound of the piano is melodious, and the Zen is suddenly born.

Lin Mingcheng looked at his blunt and fairy-like appearance, and while his heart was pounding, he was a little glad that he was blind, otherwise, he was afraid of wronging Uncle Guo in such a shabby residence.Although he was blind, he did not blindly complain about others, and the charm of sitting on the stone platform and playing the piano alone was even more detached than when he was in good health.

"At the end of summer, the medicine was collected and exposed to the sun, and there are not many days before the tribute." Liang Xuanchen reminded.

Lin Mingcheng walked over and sat beside him, and smiled wryly, "We won't be beheaded as soon as we arrive, right? Master Bai said that the last county magistrate ran away just like this. Do you have any tricks?"

The sound of the zither was melodious, and Liang Xuanchen was not in a hurry, "You go to the county first to check your household registration. It is best to find out the bandits here. The officials, yamen servants and bandits are also in the same family. We can't trust them all. It's up to us A few people can do it. The magistrate of the county can't do things alone. He has to twist everyone together to do the same thing. They have to be taught to understand that lawlessness can't lead a good life, and there are businessmen outside. I came to buy medicinal materials and exchanged them for silver taels, and that money is no good for me."

Lin Mingcheng said: "It sounds like you already have an idea? Let's hear it?"

Liang Xuanchen said: "I can't say everything."

Lin Mingcheng asked anxiously, "Why?"

Liang Xuanchen smiled, "I found that you are a little roundabout. I'm afraid I'll tell you everything. If you refuse to do what I want, then you will be dragged to beheaded. Do you want me to be a blind man to rob the execution ground?"

Lin Mingcheng hammered him with his fist, "Don't always say 'I'm blind' or something, it makes people sad."

Liang Xuanchen nodded: "It's indeed sad to hear, but the saddest thing is the fact, which cannot be denied."

Lin Mingcheng moved closer and put his knees against his knees, "It's a pity that you can't see yourself. I think that although you are blind, sitting here playing the piano, you are just like the exiled fairy written in that book."

Liang Xuanchen had his eyes closed, but he couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and opened his eyes slightly, "Thank you."

Lin Mingcheng said: "As long as you are here, I will spend my whole life in Lingshan, and I have no complaints. With the two of us, I believe this place will only get better and better."

Liang Xuanchen said: "You said that the mountains and rivers here are poor, but I can't see them anyway. In fact, as far as I am concerned, it is the same everywhere."

Lin Mingcheng turned his head, and found that his mother was busy cooking in the house, and couldn't care about the outside, so he couldn't help leaning over, and gently rested his head on Liang Xuanchen's shoulder.