After resigning, Ma Yushi was dragged out of the yamen by Yan Feng. After the officials received their overtime pay, they happily went back to their homes, leaving only Zhang Xiu and others gathered together.
At this time, Zhang Xiu's reward also arrived as promised.
[God has the virtue of good life, you successfully released Ma Yushi and rewarded twenty years of corruption experience]
[God has a good heart, you successfully released Old Man Liu and rewarded him with twenty years of experience in grinding tofu]
[God has the virtue of good life, you successfully released Qiurong and rewarded you with a thousand years of life]
Looking at the three new rewards, Zhang Xiu was stunned.
No, does corruption still require experience... ahem, does grinding tofu still require experience?
What happened to Qiurong's one thousand years of life?
Looking at Qiurong, Zhang Xiu frowned and asked, "Miss Qiurong, what are your plans for the future?"
Qiurong bowed to Zhang Xiu: "Sir, my daughter's wish has been fulfilled. I will go back to my hometown, Dahuaishu Village, take one more look at my parents, and prepare to go to the underworld to be reincarnated."
He knew that Dahuaishu Village was located in Guobei, Jinhua County. It was named after a century-old locust tree. When inspecting the disaster, he even went there to distribute food. It was a very simple and peaceful village.
Zhang Xiu nodded slightly, feeling that Qiurong's chance was probably that after she entered the underworld, she stopped caring and let the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law hurry up as soon as possible while it was dark.
A few days later, news of Ma Yushi's murder of the governor of Jiangnan and Xinke Hanlin reached the court, causing an uproar in both the government and the public.
After hearing the memorial, the emperor in the Jinluan Palace was stunned for a moment, and then he was very happy and said three good words in a row: "Okay, okay! I have such an upright censor in Daxia. It is worthy of the prosperity of my country and the prosperity of the country and the people!"
Prime Minister Pang Tong's two cousins and a nephew were killed at the same time. He was so angry that he gritted his teeth and said: "Your Majesty, how can a mere sixth-grade censor have such a big burden? There must be something fishy about this matter!"
The emperor looked at Pang Tong displeased: "Huh? What do you mean by the Prime Minister's words? Can't we have a censor who is upright and not afraid of power!!"
Pang Tong was stunned for a moment when he was yelled at, and then he said: Of course not, isn't this something everyone knows!
But seeing the emperor's dark expression, Pang Tong immediately stopped talking and said angrily: "What the Holy One said is absolutely true. Ma Yushi has made a great contribution in solving the case. I beg the Holy One to transfer him back to serve in the court!"
He must ask himself how his cousin and nephew died! !
The emperor's face softened a little, and he nodded slightly and said: "That's right, according to my will, Ma Piqing, the censor of Jiangnan Province, petitioned for the people's orders. He has made meritorious service in solving the case. He will be promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Punishment and will return to the capital immediately!"
At this time, Zhao Deyan, the Minister of Civil Affairs, came out and said with a helpless smile: "Your Majesty, please take back your order. Ma Yushi is afraid that he will not be able to come to the capital."
The emperor wondered: "Why is this?"
Zhao Deyan said with a strange expression: "On the third day after Ma Yushi concluded the case, he hung himself from a beam at home. Moreover, this was definitely not a deliberate revenge. His seventeenth-room concubine all watched him cry with their own eyes. I wrote the suicide note with tears streaming down my face and witnessed him hanging with my own eyes."
"However, according to several of his concubines, after he returned home, he was in fear all day long, and said that the prime minister would definitely not let me go, and then he finally collapsed and chose to hang himself from the beam. There is another inside story. maybe."
Pang Tong said angrily: "Zhao Deyan, what do you mean by this? Do you think this is the fault of this Prime Minister?"
Zhao Deyan said with a smile: "I never said that, Prime Minister, please don't make random suspicions."
Seeing the two of them quarreling as before, the emperor felt upset for a while and waved his hand: "Dismiss the court!"
After receiving the order, the civil and military officials divided into three or four groups and retreated. The emperor looked at the retreating figures of the ministers and asked, "Sambo, do you think what Zhao Deyan said is true?"
The Great Eunuch Sanbao hesitated for a moment and said: "It is understandable to say that the Prime Minister killed Ma Yushi out of revenge, but based on the Prime Minister's methods, if it was him, he would definitely not leave so many flaws..."
The emperor raised his face somewhat gloomily: "I'm asking, does Ma Yushi really have seventeen concubines? There are actually more than me."
Sanbao eunuch: "@#￥%￥#@......"
There was no evidence of Ma Yushi's death, and the people were tight-lipped. Zhang Xiu also sent people to Ma Yushi's funeral to deliver several plaques such as "Resolve the case like a god" and "Plea for life for the people", which attracted the attention of those who came to express their condolences. stunned.
Not to mention other people, even Ma Yushi's family members were a little suspicious. Did Ma Yushi have to pretend to be a corrupt official in order to infiltrate corrupt officials and collect evidence?
After finishing the meal, Zhang Xiu was in a good mood. He walked on the street and looked at the increasingly prosperous county. He came to a pear stall, grabbed a pear, took a bite, turned around and left with the pear.
Seeing this, an old Taoist who had been following Zhang Xiu for an unknown amount of time showed a smile on his face. He also walked to the pear stall, followed Zhang Xiu's example, grabbed a pear, and said with a smile: "Thank you, donor!"
Just when he was about to turn around, the bearded young man selling pears grabbed his wrist, and with force on his hand, for fear that he would run away, he shouted with a dark face: "Taoist priest, give me the money first, one copper plate each!"
When the old Taoist heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little angry: "You didn't care when that person took your pears just now. Why did you ask for money when the poor Taoist took it?"
Besides, you have hundreds of pears in your cart, and Pindao is only asking for one from you. It doesn’t cost you much, so why are you getting so angry? "
The young man said angrily: "Can you be the same as him? Do you know who that person was just now?"
The old Taoist priest casually waved the young man's wrist away and said: "The old Taoist is a human being, and he is also a human being. They both have one nose and two eyes. What's the difference?"
Zhang Xiu stopped when he heard the quarrel, turned around and walked over. When he heard the old Taoist priest's words, he couldn't help but feel slightly happy: "Of course this is different."
The old Taoist looked at Zhang Xiu with a scrutinizing gaze, looked away from his official uniform, and said, "Oh, what's the difference? Is it because you have an official position that they are afraid of you and don't dare to ask you for money?"
Zhang Xiu shook the pear in his hand and said with a smile: "That's not true. He doesn't ask for money from me, just because... these pears are grown in my Yamen! Yan Feng, beat this old man who wants to be a freeloader. Prison, lock him up for three days and then release him!"
Seeing the people who gathered around pointing at him and looking at him with disdain, the old man looked confused: "@#￥%￥#@..."
Is there something wrong with this development? Why is it exactly the same as what I just thought? I will also use magic to plant a pear tree, and I will also use magic to trick the dog officials who bully the people!
Why did things suddenly become like this? ? ! !
(End of chapter)
