On the attic of the government office, Zhang Xiu looked far away at the six burning mansions in the city, and looked at Yan Feng with some confusion: "I asked you to burn down three houses, why did you burn down six houses?"
Yan Feng pulled off his headhunter uniform and said, "When a new official takes office, I also set three fires for myself to show my respect for the rules of the officialdom."
"Don't worry, I'm sensible. These six families are all evil gentry who lend money and steal people's fields. Moreover, I asked Ao Xue and Feng Chu to empty out the food in their granaries in advance!"
Zhang Xiu was delighted when he heard this and said: "You learn very quickly. If you learn so fast in studying, it may only take you a hundred years to become a scholar."
Yan Feng's good mood disappeared instantly. He glanced at Zhang Xiu depressedly and asked, "The fire has been put out. What should we do next?"
Zhang Xiu took out a few contracts signed by Jin Wuwang and others, and said, "Of course I'm going to ask for the account. Although they have no food, I sympathize with them as a kind-hearted person. But they have already signed and pledged it, and this food is worth every grain." It’s indispensable!”
"I've always been the most reasonable person. If they can't produce food, the land and real estate can be used to offset the debt. Even if they have nothing to do and sell their butt, they still have to pay back the debt to me!"
Looking at Zhang Xiu with a fierce expression on his face, Yan Feng was speechless for a long time.
Today, his eyes were opened. Compared with Zhang Xiu, the methods of Jin Wuwang and others were nothing at all. When it came to plunder, the man in front of him... was truly invincible! !
The next day.
Led by Yan Feng, a group of officials broke into the homes of the six richest men in Jinhua Mansion and begged for food with the contracts they signed yesterday.
The six people who could not afford food had all their properties in the city sealed off by the government. They turned from rich people envied by everyone to beggars living on the streets overnight.
It was only then that Jin Wuwang, who had spent all his wealth and barely escaped being caught by Yan Feng to sell his butt, realized that he had been plotted by Zhang Xiu. He glanced in the direction of the government office with a look of resentment on his face, and was pointed at by the people along the way. , lowered his head and walked towards Baiyun Temple outside the city.
After a while, he came to Baiyun Temple, covered in sweat and exhausted both physically and mentally. With a breath of resentment to support him, he walked into the main hall.
In front of the statue of Sanqing, there was a kind-hearted old Taoist sitting. Hearing the footsteps, the old Taoist smiled and said without looking back: "It turns out that the golden donor has arrived. Didn't you just send the sesame oil money two days ago? Why are you here today?" Here comes the charity again.”
Jin Wuwang looked at the old Taoist's back and said with a ferocious face: "Taoist Master Kong Fang, I am not here to add money for perfume today. Jin was tricked by the new prefect Zhang Xiu and lost all his family property. Now he is in trouble. "
Taoist Kong Fang was slightly startled, stood up slowly, turned around and looked at Jin Wuwang, and said in surprise: "This is impossible. The fortune I told you is that you will be rich and prosperous for the rest of your life. How can it be possible that all your family property will be lost?"
Jin Wuwang said angrily: "But that's the truth. Taoist Master, you must avenge me!"
"Taoist Master Kong Fang, God knows that you know and I know about the flood. Anyway, I have nothing now. If you don't help me kill that Zhang Xiu, I'm sure I will expose this matter! "
Taoist Kong Fang showed a smile and said: "Donor, don't talk nonsense. The flood is a natural disaster, what does it have to do with the old Taoist. If the golden donor continues to talk nonsense, the poor Taoist will turn his face and deny the person... …”
Before he finished speaking, Taoist Kong Fang turned his face, and a burst of black energy emerged, followed by a huge ten-foot-long centipede. He opened his mouth and swallowed Jin Wuwang's head into his mouth, leaving behind a body. The headless corpse twitched twice on the ground and soon stopped moving.
After swallowing Jin Wuwang's head, Taoist Kong Fang regained his body, licked the blood on his lips, and recited a sin: "Oh, why did this poor Taoist eat people again? It's such a sin, what a sin..."
At the same time, the money and food collected from the six richest people were piled up in the government office. Zhang Xiu made a rough estimate and felt that it would be enough to sustain hundreds of thousands of victims until this year's autumn harvest, and then he breathed a long sigh of relief.
Immediately afterwards, they found the accounting offices of the six richest people and assigned them tasks to sort out and record the money and food distributed every day.
The treatment of victims and post-disaster reconstruction were all carried out in an orderly manner.
After a few days of busy work, Zhang Xiu sat on the couch of the government office, drinking wolfberry tea, and sighed at the account book in front of him: "There are still too few useful talents. If we capture all the teachers in the academy, we can It saves me a lot of trouble."
At this time, Yan Feng, who was in charge of public security, walked in energetically and said with a smile: "Even if you arrest them, can you afford their salary? I remember their previous official positions were not low, right?"
Zhang Xiu rolled his eyes and said: "Do you still need to pay them? Let's capture them first and use them. At the end of the year, we can find a remote mountain forest and release them all."
Yan Feng: "..."
If you send these words back to the academy, the teachers will definitely shed tears of joy and be forever grateful for your great virtue.
After a moment of confusion, Yan Feng said: "Why did you call me here? Are you going to catch the gangsters who are taking advantage of the flood to do evil everywhere?"
Zhang Xiu picked up an account book and said: "This is Jin Wuwang's account book. After reading the account book, I found that as early as two or three months before the flood, he was already buying and hoarding food. It seemed that he had known it for a long time. Floods will come, and you want to make a fortune.”
"My intuition tells me that there must be something wrong here. You go and arrest Jin Wuwang. I want to ask him clearly."
Yan Feng took a breath: "Are you saying that this flood might be man-made? This is unlikely. Jin Wuwang is just an ordinary mortal. How can he have the ability to control river water?"
"So we have to capture him and question him clearly..."
Zhang Xiu nodded silently, got out of bed and stretched his stiff body, and walked out of the door with Yan Feng. He said at the same time: "If it is really man-made, there must be his accomplices who have not been arrested. Let such a dangerous person be left alone. In the future, I don’t know what’s going to happen yet.”
The two were walking on the street. Zhang Xiu looked at the people who were gradually regaining their vitality. Suddenly, he noticed an old man holding a yellow talisman, walking anxiously on the road, and almost bumped into him.
Zhang Xiu grabbed the old man and asked, "Old man, what are you holding in your hand?"
The old man said impatiently: "Oh, this is the magic talisman of the immortal master. Let go quickly. I want to take it back quickly to save my life!"
"Spell?"
Zhang Xiu frowned and glanced at Yan Feng. The two of them silently followed the old man to a shack built by the government.
In the shack, seven or eight people surrounded a child. The child looked pale and had big beads of sweat on his head.
The old man lit the yellow talisman, put the ashes into a bowl filled with water, asked someone to lift the child up, and poured the talisman water into him.
Immediately afterwards, the child screamed, opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of black water, and gradually regained his consciousness. He looked at the crowd around him, found the old man with his eyes, and opened his mouth with difficulty: "Uncle Wang, I'm much better..."
The old man grinned, put the child back on the bed, and said with a smile: "You are lucky, if you don't get the resettlement fee from Mr. Qingtian in a few more days, we won't be able to get enough money to buy the magic talisman. !”
Zhang Xiu looked at the black water on the ground and whispered: "Brother Yan, is the talisman they bought really?"
Yan Feng flicked his fingers with sharp eyes, and a tiny centipede flew out of the black water, rolled in the air, and fell to the ground dead.
"I don't know, but this child is not sick at all. This is obviously an evildoer!"
