Chapter 186 Huang Youwan’s Story
Luoshijing, in a dilapidated tile-roofed house.
“I said you just came back now. Have you found it yet?”
“What the hell!”
“Then what should I do? What if someone picks me up? Come on, aren’t our heads lost?”
"Don't say anything special. It's all you. I asked someone to write a memorandum and had to sign it! This is really a sin made in the previous life!"
......
The lamp shadow is swaying, and the two hairs are Penghao's middle-aged man was pacing back and forth in the room, exhausted.
"It's too late to say anything now. How about we just keep doing nothing and let's go to the streets to make trouble tomorrow?"
"To make trouble?"
"Yes, didn't our second and third uncles bring the former prefect to death back then? Humph! If we had had that courage, we would have had a golden job long ago!"
Hearing this, among them, A man laughed angrily:
“Fuck you! Do you think Huang Youwan is the pretty boy from his ex? Let’s not talk about whether it will cause trouble or not. What I am most afraid of now is that we will not survive at all. It's not until tomorrow morning!"
"Ah? Brother, don't... stop talking nonsense..."
"I'm talking nonsense? It's the first day you met Huang. There are ten thousand? ...Huh? ”
While the two were talking, a gust of wind suddenly blew away the candlelight. In the panic, a hoarse old voice floated out from the dark corner of the room:
"Brothers, please stop arguing. , I'm right, you won't survive tomorrow morning."
"Who...Who?"
Pfft!
After a trembling exclamation, one of the men opened his eyes wide. Finally, after looking in disbelief at the two-finger-wide blood hole that appeared inexplicably on his chest, he fell straight down with a blank look on his face. It can be said that he died extremely quickly and decisively.
"My lord! My lord!"
For ordinary people, the remaining man was calm enough. When his brother died tragically in an instant, he suppressed the trembling all over his body and looked towards the sky with a pop. Qing knelt down directly in the darkness, and banged his head on the bumpy ground:
"Sir, please forgive me! I will admit my guilt and plead guilty! This was all his idea! I am willing to give a full account!" ”
Obviously, having already anticipated the worst, he instantly understood why the other party came to kill.
“Don’t worry.”
At this time, Old Dengwei Yifeng finally took a few steps out of the corner, and gradually revealed his true face under the light, grinning sinisterly:
“I won’t kill you.”
< br>"Thank you, Sir! Thank you, Sir!"
"Master Huang said, one person per person, your life will be taken by this young hero."
"Huh?!"< br>
The man kneeling on the ground suddenly raised his head, and the moment he saw the expression on Qin Lang's face, some hope suddenly emerged in his heart.
"Young hero... this young hero! Spare the villain! The villain is completely helpless. Mr. Huang has really forced the people of Luoshijing to the point of desperation. My brother has just Inspiring me to file a complaint against Master Huang, please give me a clear warning!” ? Do you think you are here to complain?"
"..."
I don’t know if we don’t work together, but it turns out that Lao Deng is such a noisy person. Qin Lang frowned. He immediately reprimanded:
"Shut up."
"Hiss..."
Lao Deng was dissatisfied at that time. Qin Lang cast a cold look sideways, and Wei Yifeng immediately took a few steps back in understanding.
After this short scene was captured by the man kneeling on the ground, he made a lot of judgments in the flash of lightning. He gritted his teeth and simply treated a dead horse as a living horse doctor. He grabbed Qin Lang's legs and began to cry:
"My lord, my lord! My lord, my lord, you have a clear lesson! Make decisions for the common people!"
"..."
To be honest, Qin Lang has never encountered anything like this in his travels. After being a little at a loss for a moment, he shook his legs and said:
"You have Either say it well or don’t say it at all.”
“No, Qin Lang, I said you...”
“Shut up”
"..."
Lao Deng tried to stop him, but Qin Lang choked him back. The man immediately knelt down again, let go of Qin Lang's legs, and whispered:
"Young hero, I don't know. The villain's name is Huang Tu. After all, he is from the same family as Huang Youwan, the current magistrate of Yangzhou. They were both born in this Luoshijing. It stands to reason that our village has worked hard to cultivate a magistrate. He is like a chicken. A golden phoenix flew out of the nest..."
"...But who would have thought that after Huang Youwan became successful, he would turn his back on us poor fellow villagers and disown us, and... he also disliked us for tarnishing his origins. Since he took office, he has not He said that he would take everyone to eat and drink together, but he wanted to kill us in this wretched place..."
"...He himself became an official and enjoyed it with the rich, leaving us, honest poor people, Just left here to die. The annual relief is not enough to live on. Now we want to go to the capital to seek justice. Huang Youwan even asked the young hero to kill us and silence us, which almost harmed the reputation of the young hero. Please forgive me. Xia makes decisions for the people! ..."
...
The man burst into tears. After hearing these words, Qin Lang felt a little confused.
After all, he is a rough man, and he is not suitable for doing this kind of thing of redressing the injustice of the people.
But there is one thing. Qin Lang was not moved by the other party's tears. Instead, he thought of Lao Deng's previous words and became more vigilant.
“Stand up first.”
"Thank you, Mr. Shaoxia."
"No thanks, your...name is Huang Tu, right?"
"Loess."
"Oh, Loess..." Qin Lang nodded. , Before I could think of what to do next, Lao Deng couldn't help it again.
But this time, in order to prevent Qin Lang from attacking him again, Old Dengwei Yifeng still smiled in front of Qin Lang with a smile:
"What, young hero Qin Lang, for What this person said, I really have a lot to say, can you..."
"Say."
"Okay, okay"
Wei Yifeng grabbed it. He lowered his chin and turned his mocking gaze to the man Huang Tu. Huang Tu felt his heart skip a beat for a moment.
"Master Huang became rich and turned his back on others. Is that what you said?"
"This...this is something everyone in the village knows!"
"Yes, yes, we are all birds of a feather, hehe. "
Wei Yifeng sat down at the table:
"When Huang Youwan just took office, hundreds of people from Luoshi Village, large and small, all moved into the new building without invitation. We built a new mansion and ate and drank a lot every day. In the words of you Luoshi Village villagers, everything we ate was official food without spending any money. Hundreds of people just ate and stayed in the Yamen for several days. The scene was terrible. Call it a spectacular one.”
"You..."
"Shut up."
This time, Qin Lang told Huang Tu to shut up, and then glanced at Lao Deng, who continued:
"Huang Youwan also thought about it at the time. We are all fellow villagers, and he was raised in the same soil and water. He could not repay the kindness, so he immediately said that within two years of taking office, Luoshi Village would be renovated and rebuilt. The land was also reclaimed, so that Luo Shi Village would have no worries about food and clothing from now on..."
"...But what Huang Youwan didn't expect was that these people in Luo Shi Village thought that they had a relative like him to reach, so how could they do it? If they want to go back to the village, they will live in the government office no matter what. If they can't live in it, they will ask Huang Youwan to build it for them. They will build exactly the same big house, one for each person in the village..."
"...It was naturally impossible for Huang Youwan to come up with the money at that time, but the local wealthy businessmen took the initiative to dig into their pockets. Huang Youwan refused to accept it, and he couldn't resist the hundreds of good fellow villagers using his name. Well, in one year, many magnificent houses were built..."
"...And when these honest and honest villagers from Luoshi Village live in them, it becomes even more incredible. The men become masters. The woman is a wife, the old man is disrespectful, and the young man is idle and causing trouble in the streets of Yangzhou City every day, bullying others under the banner of Huang Youwan..."
"...Huang Youwan naturally can't stand it. At that time, a Luoshi villager was severely punished for molesting a village girl. As a result, hundreds of Luoshi villagers beat gongs and drums at the gate of the government office and angrily accused Huang Youwan of being a dog official who bullied the people... Haha! br>
Lao Deng even became happy when he said this:
“…don’t mention it, these people are really ordinary people in terms of status! They can only be seen in front of other people. They flaunt their power under the banner of Huang Youwan, but in front of a real official like Huang Youwan, each of them is more honest than the other, and they are all targets of oppression..."
"...Although everyone in Yangzhou City knew what was going on at first, they could not stand up to the hundreds of people in Luoshi Village who were clamoring. As time went by, the three of them became tigers, and many things became unclear, especially those who were Unknown outsiders spread the news that Huang Youwan was really a dog official who bullied the people..."
"...In the end, Huang Youwan thought about it. Since everyone said that he was a dog official, then He'd better be a 'dog official'. In terms of specific manifestations, for example, during the drought in the second year, Huang Youwan deliberately refused to distribute relief food to the people in Luoshi Village. If the villagers dared to cause trouble, Huang Youwan would be punished. Wan directly asked people to kill him in the street..."
"...This incident can be regarded as a major conflict between Luoshi Village and Huang Youwan. Huang Youwan only heard about it from this incident. It turned out that his predecessor's Yangzhou The prefect was too honest and kind. As a result, during a famine in a certain year, because he could not bring out food, the victims led by Luoshi Village rushed into his house and ransacked his house..."
"...Although it turned out that, The former magistrate's family is indeed very poor, and all his personal money has been used to help the victims, but those people who usually claim to be simple and honest do not care about that, no matter whether I am doing well or not, they will make it difficult for you, even if you are an official?..."
“…So, it was pitiful that the previous magistrate was so incorruptible and his whole family was killed like this. Later, when they reported it to the court, all the victims said that the magistrate had been in ruins for many years and that the food stored in his house aroused public outrage. …”
"...and Huang Youwan has changed since he learned about this incident. How should I say, hehe, he has become sober."
...
Wei Yifeng finished. There is no need to say more about these, and there is no need to say more about the rest. Looking at the current situation of Luoshijing, Qin Lang can probably guess Huang Youwan's attitude and behavior after this.
The loess, with a livid face tightened, stood in the corner without saying a word.
……
How can we judge whether people are good or bad?
Qin Lang was silent for a long time, and finally remembered a sentence he had seen in his dream.
[It’s not that the old man has become bad, but that the bad guy has become old]
This sentence, which seems to have nothing to do with the situation at hand, actually turned into another sentence in Qin Lang’s heart.
[It’s not that bad people become officials, it’s that bad people become officials]
The former magistrate was honest and kind, but because he was an official, he was forced to kill his whole family by Luoshi villagers and other "simple" people.
There is a group of gangsters and scoundrels in Luoshi Village, but because they are civilians, they use the name of Huang Youwan to bully the good. On the other hand, when necessary, they hold high the banner of "civilians" and make false accusations. Oppressed by Huang Youwan.
Although Qin Lang is currently unable to verify the authenticity of these things, he believes that similar things must have happened or are happening in other places at other times in the world.
Old men with crutches can also be bad people.
A young master from a wealthy family can also be a good person.
A person can even be a good person and a bad person at the same time.
In general, the quality of a person has nothing to do with identity.
As for the loess in front of us...
"Qin Lang, do you know the real reason why these two brothers filed a petition? In fact, these two were teasing civilian girls on the street a few days ago. Huang They were sentenced to never leave the Shijing again, so they held a grudge."
Well, as expected, Huang Tu is not a good person.
As for the reason why Huang Youwan directly sent people to silence him, Qin Lang could easily understand it. He was undoubtedly afraid that the impeachment would involve other unnecessary things.
After all, although Huang Youwan has suffered a lot of grievances from the implementation village, he may not be a good person himself.
Of course, this has nothing to do with his status as prefect.
Shua——!
In the end, the sword rose and fell, silver light and bloody light appeared together. Qin Lang completed the "entry test" of Juxian Pavilion. After sleeping peacefully for a night without any disturbance in his heart, the next morning, Then he took a sign given by Huang Youwan and officially entered the fourth floor of Juxian Pavilion by the West Lake.
""Yunji Seven Lots"...could it be on this level..."
(End of this chapter)