I am the county magistrate in Liaozhai

"Huh? Dead? Who did you say died?"

Li Yong replied: "The old man of the E family, the grandfather of Mr. Lang Ji, the champion of the new division, suddenly disappeared."

As an official, Cheng Jin's first reaction was that this Mr. Ji had a rough official career. He was unjustly imprisoned as soon as he was admitted as the number one scholar, and he had to go back to the funeral as soon as he was released from prison.

This dynasty emphasizes Confucianism, and my grandfather is a relative of Xiaogong, who has to mourn for five months. Although these five months may not sound like much, but now that the new emperor is coming to the court, Jinshi who is not allowed to be of the same discipline will have the opportunity to rise from the ground. Moreover, when a new Jinshi enters the Imperial Academy, the initial communication is the most useful.

This Ji Xianggong does not seem to be a person who is good at making money. If you want to enter the officialdom, you need to rely on talent and learning alone.

"What does that look of pity on your face mean?"

Cheng Jin lowered his head and took a mouthful of chicken before saying, "It's nothing, but I'm a little regretful that there may be one less general in Yushitai."

Li Yong: "...Speak human words."

The county magistrate of Cheng explained the rules of the scholar Ding You to Yao Haoxin.

"You mortals just set these messy rules for yourself. It's fine for your parents to obey, but even your grandparents have to abide by them. When you die, you die. Burning more paper money is not as useful as this. To put it bluntly, it's just for you. A living person sees 'filial piety'." Li Yong obviously scoffed at this, "Life is not long in the first place, and if you keep this and that, it's a waste of time."

Cheng Jin declined to comment.

As Li Yong was talking, he suddenly became interested: "Are there any scholars who are not filial? There are thousands of madmen in the world, and there must be a few of them who are unrestrained."

Cheng County Magistrate thought for a while, and said: "Whether it is the current dynasty or the previous history, filial piety is used to rule the world. If a scholar does not observe filial piety, he will be removed from the list of scholars long ago, and he may not even be able to stay in the village."

"But it's not impossible." Seeing Li Yong raised his head, Cheng Jin pointed in the direction of the capital, "If this scholar is a minister of the imperial court, and he is highly valued by the emperor, the emperor will issue an edict to win his love, and he will be exempted from the obligation of filial piety Expect."

To put it bluntly, filial piety is the small family, and the country is everyone. When the emperor speaks, everyone is of course ranked in front of the small family.

Li Yong's face immediately fell down: "It's boring! I thought there were really scholars who dared to risk the world's disgrace. Speaking of which, would you guard it?"

Cheng Jin blinked, then blinked again: "Didn't I tell you?"

"what?"

"My parents are long gone, and there are not many relatives in the fifth server." If I really want to guard in the future, I will guard for the teacher.

Li Yong: "...then you are not married yet? Are you going to end your family?"

"You just complained about the rules of mortals, why are you talking about this to me now?" Cheng Jin felt a headache when he heard this topic. Strictly speaking, the Cheng family has gone extinct.

"That's not what I said. Don't you mortals say 'There are three ways to be unfilial, and you have no descendants?'? Even the little foxes in my clan who are two or three hundred years old have heard this sentence. Just curious."

Cheng Jin casually threw a pastry in the past: "Then you are curious, didn't we just talk about the E family? Since you mentioned it to me, it must be that little fox demon surnamed Le who made you angry."

Li Yong: I get angry when I mention it.jpg.

Cheng Jin was amused when he saw it: "It seems that he is really angry, what's the matter? Why don't we just leave it alone? Anyway, we have to go through some disasters, so no matter how much the E family is a man-eating tiger, they probably don't have the ability to eat the monster. .”

"You can see through."

Li Yong was very curious, how did Cheng Yi'an have such a good heart, at this age, he was unmoved by the wind, but he was not brought up by his parents, he must have a lot of geniuses to grow up like this.

He is really curious, if there is any way, he will definitely take it back to the clan and teach those little bastards who don't know the heights of the sky and the earth, if the successor in the clan has one-fifth, no, one-tenth of Cheng Yi'an's ability, he Now there is no need to wipe the cub's bottom.

"You look at me like that, I'm a little scared."

Li Yong retracted his eyes instantly: "Are you actually afraid?"

Cheng Jin suddenly thought of that unreasonable dream, but he quickly recovered and covered it up: "Of course, I am not the existence of you who have magic power and can teleport, I am a mortal body, and I will get frostbite if I don't wear enough clothes for changing seasons." kind."

"Sorry, I really didn't see it."

County magistrate Cheng was unhappy, he bowed his head and sipped his noodles silently, until the snack was over, he ignored Li Yong.

But obviously, Li Yong didn't think so.

"You really don't want to accompany me to the capital?"

"No." Cheng Jin turned his head.

"Okay, you, Mr. Hei asked you to go to the capital, and you walked away without hesitation. Why did you come to my place and be so unwilling?" Li Yong was so angry that he wanted to step on the stool.

Hearing this, Cheng Jin immediately turned his head back: "Are you accusing me of double standards? That's right, I am double standards. Who told you to urge me to get married every day."

Li Yong looked at people with a very unreasonable look: "What nonsense are you talking about here?"

"Have you ever heard a word?"

"What bullshit?"

"When people are urged to get married, the sky strikes with lightning."

...It really is programming bullshit.

"Li Yong, your words are so vulgar now, you are no longer the romantic and noble young man when I first met you."

With such an irritating temperament, even a sage wants to do something, let alone Li Yong.But what makes Yao hateful is that this guy is actually his benefactor. Even if he wants to make a move, he can only make ostentatious gestures casually, and he can't hurt the other party.

Li Yong: Destroy it, I'm tired.

"Why don't you persuade me?"

Li Yong turned his head and walked away, and walked faster and faster, looking at the direction, he should be looking for drunk wine.

After successfully driving away the eight-tailed monster, Cheng Jin looked at the setting sun and the setting sun in the sky, and planned to go to the underworld alone after late at night.

This magistrate is really dishonest. He framed 007 after his death and kept concealing this and that. Cheng Jin didn't believe that there was such a huge underworld that nothing could be found out.

Since the last time he was out of the ruined temple in the capital, he has been asking Nie Xiaoqian to stay in the underworld to collect news, but judging from the news sent by the female ghost sister every week, it seems that the weather is calm and the years are quiet, but this is the underworld. In the underworld, nothing strange is the biggest strange thing.

"Ah! How could this killer star go to hell again! Run away!"

"You run away so... what the hell, it's this one! Newcomers, what do you want to see? If you watch too much, you will lose your life, so hurry up and run!"

"..."

Every time I come to the underworld, the rumors have new changes. They are all ghosts and their lives will be lost. If he is caught, which old ghost is ruining his reputation, he will beat it for three days and three nights until it can't gather its soul!

"Master Cheng, why are you here?" Lin Wenshu asked curiously. A few days ago, the ghost of the first emperor was still jumping in the underworld. Why did it come down suddenly? I haven't heard of anything happening in the world.

"Why, can't you come if you have nothing to do? Is the magistrate in the palace today? I'll come to him to drink tea and taste the fragrance."

Lin Wenshu: ...Do you believe this?

But the magistrate has long said that if Cheng Jin comes down, there is no need to stop him, just invite him in.

"Naturally, Mr. Cheng, please follow me."

Cheng Jin came to the underworld, of course, he did not come empty-handed. First, he brought Nie Xiaoqian some fashionable headwear patterns and pastries in Beijing, and now he also gave some wine to Lin Wenshu and Zhou Lin. fragrant.

"Hey, rare visitor, you didn't come to see me last time. What are you talking about? Isn't it some kind of apology?" The judge is still the same, and the hall is still burning with good-smelling incense, which is more woody. It has a unique sense of coldness.

"Do you like the new Nine Dreams Fragrance from Fuyuzhai in the capital?"

The magistrate immediately became interested, took it and sniffed it, his face obviously liked it: "I heard that this Nine Dreams Incense can make people sleep well and never dream again. It is hard to find a fragrance in Beijing, and you actually have it here?"

Of course Cheng Jin didn't have the skills to buy it, but who made him have a senior brother who was well-known in Beijing? Send it to the senior brother's house in advance.

"It's not that magical, but it smells better and can make people feel peaceful."

The magistrate smiled and put it away, with a rather profound posture: "But I saw you, but you didn't sleep peacefully."

Heh, you have the nerve to mention that this time he came, if he didn't ask anything, he just stayed in the judge's hall and didn't leave.

"Yi'an, your expression really makes me a little scared. Tell me, what kind of nightmare did you have? There is no Jiumengxiang in the underworld, but the requiem grass that lightens the gods and sleeps is everywhere." The judge is very generous. say.

... This is to hope that he will die soon, and return the requiem grass, which is for the requiem of ghosts.

"Master, I don't know how to beat around the bush. Can you give me a quick word, how long will my dream last?" Cheng Jin hit a straight ball directly.

The ball was indeed very straightforward. The judge had guessed that Cheng Yian would ask, but he didn't expect that the question would be so direct: "Cheng Yian, this is not a smart person's way of asking."

"My lord, I'm not a smart person at all, so I don't need to ask questions like a smart person."

One is not a smart person, the judge looked at Cheng Yi'an, and he became more and more satisfied: "Actually, it won't be too long. When you came to Tangxi, you chose it yourself, and no one forced you."

"Cheng Yi'an, do you still remember what I told you when you first went to the underworld?"

What words?Cheng Jin had a good memory and remembered it quickly.

"It seems that you have already remembered. I told you that if you don't come to Tangxi, you will definitely not see me when you are alive." The judge suddenly changed a very meaningful expression, at least Cheng Jin never I've seen such a serious expression on the lazy magistrate:

"So, do you regret coming to Tangxi?"

Cheng Jin suddenly remembered the scene when he was still in the middle of the capital when he was selecting officials. At that time, his senior brother gave him many choices. Tangxi was not the worst among them, but he was also one of the worst.He is a direct disciple of a great Confucianist, and he has a senior brother like Fu Chengshu.Even if you are a county magistrate, you can choose those relatively affluent counties.

But at that time, he felt as if he had been fascinated by ghosts, and felt that this Tangxi was outstanding, so he deserved this trip.