"We are not talking nonsense. You are indeed not our child."
After saying that, the old couple pushed away the bamboo bed where Peacock was sleeping, and groped around on the floor for a while, then opened the floor with a click, revealing a sunken floor mezzanine inside. They took out the contents and displayed them in front of everyone.
Yue Guanchao looked closely and saw that it was a brocade box the size of a bowl. Inside, there was a jade pendant and a piece of cloth folded into squares.
Jin Qinghua took out the jade pendant and displayed it in the sun. The jade pendant was crystal clear, with a warm texture, as crisp as glass, with light cotton wool patterns on the surface. The round jade pendant was carved into a bull's head, and there were many phoenix tail flowers surrounding it, and the silver wire carvings were nested inside. , showing the cow head and phoenix tail flowers clearly.
Tsk tsk tsk, see the phoenix flower again!
Yue Guanchao recalled the past. The last time he saw anything related to the Phoenix Tail Flower was in Wu Coffin Town. The combination of the Phoenix Tail Flower and the Cow Head was completely unlike the Central Plains style, and the Miao Silver border made it even more exotic. They couldn't help but concentrate, and they couldn't help but have questions in their minds. Perhaps there was some connection between Ren Peacock and the Sushen clan.
Song Siyuan knew the relationship between this and simply asked: "Ms. Jin, since the peacock is not your child, she must have parents."
"We don't know her parents, and we don't even know where she comes from. The old master brought her to us and kept her here!"
Wow, these words were like a bolt from the blue. Ren Peacock was so startled that he couldn't close his eyes for a long time. He was so helpless that he broke the cup and the ground was instantly covered with tea.
"We don't know about other things yet, but we can tell you from beginning to end how we took you over and raised you!"
After Jin Qinghua cleaned up the broken water glass, she pulled Ren Peacock to sit on the bamboo bed. Her mind went back to thirty years ago and recalled the truth of what she had experienced that year.
About thirty years ago, under the leadership of the Bureau of Investigation, the suppression of bandits was in full swing in western Hunan. The people had only two options, either to join the bandits and fight against the government, or to join the army and become a regiment-trained security soldier. He was only thirty-five years old. Ren Wude was none other than Ma Xingfeng, the second-in-command of Heixiazishan in Huayuan County. He led four beams and eight pillars, totaling no less than 2,000 people. He was a well-known bandit.
When the storm was at its peak, not to mention the people in the dozens of mountains near Huayuan County, even the Grand Master of Huayuan County had to give him face and did not dare to raise his fists easily.
There is a saying that mice are afraid of cats and dogs chasing rabbits. There are so many things in the world that one thing will kill another. In any world, Taoist officials are bigger than bandits. However, in Xiangxi, this sentence is as useless as a silent firecracker.
This place is the most special. More than 20 counties in western Hunan, including Huayuan, are all nests of bandits established by the remnants of the Taiping Kingdom. These remnants either directly gather forces to start a rebellion, or they use the banner of officials to arrest people for rebellion, and they are entangled. The common people who were dissatisfied with the government fought against the government.
In short, there is a mountain village for ten miles, and a bandit village for hundreds of miles. The smaller bandit village has hundreds of people, and the larger bandit village has tens of thousands of people. It is said that the largest bandit village in western Hunan was the Qingtian Gang in Longshan County, with the bandit leaders Yang Sucheng and Zhai Bojie There are about 30,000 gangsters under his command. When fighting with other gangs, it is common to kill thousands of people.
This is only the number of the largest gang in Longshan County. If all the bandits in western Hunan were counted, the number would be no less than one million.
With so many people being bandits, it can be said that there are bandits in almost every household. If anyone pulls a few poles in the five clothes, he can always pull out a dozen relatives who have gone to the mountains to become bandits.
Whenever the case investigation bureau and regiments train to suppress bandits, some bandits can always get the news in advance, so that the bandits can't be wiped out and they can't be killed. With the case investigation bureau in western Hunan, if the people can't survive, they have no choice but to go up the mountain. Falling grass, in this way, Xiangxi's reputation of "the ancient roads no longer exist, the people's hearts are lost" is well known.
If the local chieftains were still there, they might be able to control the chaos among the people. After the reform of the local chieftains, the power of the chieftains was greatly reduced, and they had no intention or ability to control the people.
The burden of assisting in the suppression of bandits ultimately fell on the officials sent by the previous government!
What is official status?
Liuguan is a kind of specially appointed local official compared to native official. Long before the change of local officialdom, in order to maintain the stability of ethnic minorities, the feudal dynasty would often make local dominant families or forces officials as officials, both to win over them and to call them The meaning of surrender is called native official.
After the change of local officials to local officials, local officials no longer participated in local management. Officials sent by the imperial court to minority areas often had term limits and had to be transferred when the time came.
In this case, when a county magistrate arrives in a certain county in western Hunan, he is an outsider who is not familiar with the place where he was born. The local households are the county government's masters, accountants, six-room clerks, subordinate officials, and government servants. Most of these people are from the local area. After the death of the father, the younger brother succeeds the younger brother, and sometimes they marry each other, forming an intricate network of relationships in the county.
When the county magistrate first arrived at the county government office, he couldn't even recognize the names of the county officials. He had to rely on his master for everything he said and done. Even if he really wanted to do practical things, he had to weigh whether he had the skills to govern the county with iron blood. If he didn't have that skills, then what would happen to him? He can only be forced to live a leisurely life and be transferred when his term is over.
The only unavoidable official duty of the princes of Liuguan County in Xiangdi was to assist in suppressing bandits. The purpose of sending them here was also to help the regiment train camp to eliminate bandits.
It is said that when the court opens its mouth, the county magistrate breaks his legs. The court hates bandits deeply. The sky is high and the emperor is far away, and they cannot threaten their heads. However, the county magistrate is an official in western Hunan, and he dares to suppress the bandits with great fanfare. ?
Today one wants to suppress bandits, but tomorrow one's bandit stronghold will have to be cleared out. When the investigation was carried out afterwards, the county government officials were confused and the officials were protecting each other. No one knew who had leaked the information.
This is just a timid bandit village. If there is a bandit village that is more arrogant than the county government, it would even dare to challenge the county magistrate. In the past, there was a county magistrate in Qingxi County named Sun Yinglong. This man was born in the army and came to Later, when Qingxi County saw that the folk customs were no longer there, they prepared to take drastic measures to suppress the bandits.
Unexpectedly, all of his countermeasures were leaked to the ears of the bandit leader by someone who was interested, and the bandits were suppressed again and again. In the end, not only did the bandits not be suppressed, but the bandit leader was also threatened.
That day, when he was preparing to take a rest, a dart flew in from the bedside. When he opened the letter, he saw his name, Sun Yinglong, and his hometown.
At this time, Sun Yinglong finally surrendered to the bandit leader. Not only did he not dare to suppress the bandits again, but he also went out of his way to call the bandit village brothers. This incident spread to the capital of the previous dynasty and became a joke for a while.
With such heavy burdens, the current officials know that bandits in Hunan are not easy to deal with. When they get to the place, they don't dare to mention the suppression of bandits because of this pig-tailed head. They can train government servants and subordinates in the county to prevent the common people from being robbed. After a few times, she was worthy of the old queen.
Some people died, but not completely...
