"Um...Fifth brother, don't you think about it anymore?"
Zhu Renxia touched the empty gauze in his sleeve and made a gesture of invitation.
"I won't consider it!"
The fifth person shook his head, "Chen Changsheng, this white-eyed wolf, has left me hanging in Jiangjia Village for more than ten days, and he didn't know how to send someone to visit me. I will give him my life!"
"But... the master who is the county magistrate is so majestic!"
Zhu Renxia put his hands behind his back and walked slowly in front, while the fifth person followed behind with a cane, chatting while walking.
"Maybe it's not necessarily true that the county magistrate is busy with official duties?"
"Brother, have you regretted it?"
The fifth person smelled something strange and said, "Your tone is wrong. Shouldn't you be hungry for talents?"
"No, how could I, Zhu Renxia, go back on my word? Of course I was thinking about the future of my fifth brother."
"If you feel sorry for the money, I can charge you less. Ten taels per month is enough!"
"Brother, let me tell you, your fifth brother is definitely worth the price. I guarantee you won't regret it."
"Fifth Brother is so upright and upright, how can I sway your mind? Five taels is just five taels!" Zhu Renxia said, picking at his ears.
"I did not say……"
The fifth place is a bit impatient, you don't want to play like this, right?
"Here...here are five taels of silver." Zhu Renxia stuffed the fifth person's hand together with the trousers.
"I made a total of forty-five taels of silver in the town in the past few days, and I still have seven taels left to spend. I just gave Jinzhu 2 taels of silver, and there should be more than 5 taels. The extra should be used as lucky money."
"New Year's money?"
The fifth person didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he could only put the money into his arms and said, "Fifty taels, just five taels. Your fifth brother is not a money-grubbing person, but what do you mean by the whole New Year's money?"
"It's not for you!"
Zhu Renxia pouted, "It's for your nephew. Of course, if Fifth Brother wants it, that's fine, but he has to wait until the Chinese New Year."
The two of them chatted and laughed all the way to the south city gate.
"Sir, do you want to open the door?"
Lu Buping had an ox-horn bow hanging on his back, clasped his fists and asked for instructions, "I just asked, in addition to the Cao and Sun families, there is also a head catcher."
"Headhunter?"
Zhu Renxia and No. 5 looked at each other and became wary.
The fifth person showed a look of joy, "Yes, yes... Mr. Chen finally remembered me. Brother Lu, may I ask what the name of this arrester is? He must have been sent to visit me."
"Fifth Master asked you what your name is?"
Lu Buping habitually held the bow arm with one hand and pressed the arrow pot with the other hand, so that he could shoot the arrow as quickly as possible.
"Liu Gongfu."
Outside the city gate, a man about forty years old, burly, with a red face and a long beard answered with clasped fists.
"His name is Liu Gongfu."
Lu Buping turned around and shouted inside again.
The fifth person said happily: "It seems that the county magistrate still thinks highly of me. He even sent Mr. Liu to visit me. Brother Ren Xia, this Liu Gongfu is the most capable official in the county government."
"Fifth brother, you can't leave!"
Zhu Renxia's nose twitched. Is Chen Changsheng here to rob someone?
"The salary is good, brothers, open the door."
Zhu Renxia waved his hand and gave instructions to the two villagers guarding inside.
Accompanied by a "squeaking" sound, the pair of city gates made of cans slowly opened.
I saw a family of thirteen people standing outside the door, led by Cao Wan and Sun Quan, followed by their parents, brothers and sisters, all pushing carts, carrying burdens, leading sheep and chasing pigs, obviously the whole family was moving. Come.
In addition to the Cao and Sun families who showed flattering smiles, Liu Gongfu, wearing black and red headhunting clothes, holding a saber and carrying a baggage, stood behind with a look of anxiety and helplessness.
"The villain Cao Wan has met the young master!"
"The villain Sun Quan has met the young master!"
Cao Wan and Sun Quan bowed together, and Cao Wan, who was relatively sharp-tongued, said: "I have brought my family here according to your instructions, and I hope the master will take him in."
"You don't need to be polite when you arrive at Jiangjiacun."
Zhu Renxia bowed in return, "You can call me Zhu Renxia, you can call me Commander, or you can call me Brother Zhu. Now that I'm here, we are all a family."
The fifth person waved his hand carelessly, as if he was the master of the house: "Pack your things in, each household has a house!"
"Thank you, sir, thank you, master!"
Cao Wan and Sun Quan hurriedly called their families to enter the village, "Father, mother, Mr. Zhu asked us to enter the village, and we will be assigned a house soon."
Liu Gongfu smiled and stepped forward to salute: "Master, Gongfu is so polite."
"Haha... Come as soon as Capt. Liu comes. He brought something over. It's too unreasonable."
The fifth man smiled and reached out to take the baggage from Liu Gongfu's back, "What delicious food did the eldest master bring me?"
Liu Gongfu smiled bitterly: "The county magistrate did not bring this to you, this is my own burden."
"Your own?"
The fifth person looked surprised and said dissatisfiedly, "The county magistrate asked you to come see me, but you didn't bring me a gift?"
"The county magistrate didn't ask me to come."
"Then who asked you to come?"
The fifth person was suddenly a little discouraged. Was he just being sentimental? Chen Changsheng is really nothing!
"Cao Wan and Sun Quan asked me to come." Liu Gongfu explained awkwardly.
Cao Wan smiled and stepped forward and said to Zhu Renxia: "Sir, the thing is like this, Capt. Liu was fired by the Yamen and became homeless. We said that you were recruiting people here, so Capt. Liu followed us to see look."
"Oh, that's how it is?"
Zhu Renxia looked at Liu Gongfu warily, wondering why he came?
How can the chief catcher of the third class of a county government be dismissed as soon as he is fired? This Chen Changsheng has no master and no chief catcher. Is he going to be a loner?
"Who fired you?"
The fifth asked with an incredulous look on his face.
Liu Gongfu sighed: "Of course it is the county magistrate, no one else has this power."
"Is Chen Changsheng crazy?"
The fifth person was so angry that he slapped his chest, "Without me as the master, he actually resigned you as the chief catcher. Does he think he can stand up?"
"It wasn't County Magistrate Chen who fired me." Liu Gongfu explained.
"Is that Wu County Cheng? Master Zeng Bo? Without Chen Changsheng's consent, they don't have this right!"
The fifth person sounded worried about the country and the people, as if the world was about to be in chaos.
Liu Gongfu said sadly: "Master, you misunderstood. County Magistrate Chen has been transferred, and it has been three or four days since Deng Kewei took over as magistrate."
"Chen Da...has the master been transferred?"
The fifth person felt as if he was struck by lightning when he heard this and fell to the ground. This meant that he also became a homeless person. "Who was transferred away? Where was he transferred to?"
Liu Gongfu said: "Of course he was transferred by Magistrate Tian. He was accused of incompetent management and mediocrity. He was transferred to Huxian County, Tongren Prefecture to serve as the director."
"Sigh... Even if you are the county magistrate, in Tian Zongren's eyes, he is nothing but fish and meat."
The rabbit died and the fox was sad. The fifth person sat on the ground blankly, sighing, "I thought this matter was over. It seems that the Tian family is still unwilling to let it go. Let's not be careless!"
"That's what Fifth Brother reminded me." Zhu Renxia expressed deep agreement with this.
At that moment, the fifth person introduced Liu Gongfu's life experience to Zhu Renxia. It turned out that his ancestral home was Jinan, Shandong Province. Because he committed a felony when he was young, he was sent to Yunnan to serve a fifteen-year sentence by the army.
When his sentence was over, he was already a thirty-five-year-old middle-aged man. It happened that Jinping County was recruiting a group of servants, and Liu Gongfu came to apply.
Because of his burly and majestic appearance, Liu Gongfu was spotted by Li Yao, the previous county magistrate, who recruited him as a temporary government servant.
After entering the public domain, Liu Gongfu quickly rose to prominence, cracking several major cases in a row and capturing alive the flower-picking thief "Yi Yibi" who was on the run. Therefore, he was promoted by Li Yao to the head of the police squad.
Li Yao was also promoted by the governor of Guizhou to Tongren Prefecture as a general judge because of his outstanding political performance.
After taking office, the new county magistrate Chen Changsheng also placed Liu Gongfu in high regard. Because Jinping County was located at the border of the two provinces and murders occurred frequently, Liu Gongfu was appointed as the chief arrester and a new group of arresters was added.
Liu Gongfu worked as a police agent in Jinping County for six years. During this period, he married a local woman and started a family. Unexpectedly, half a year after the marriage, the woman got involved with Xinruan and ran away.
This made Liu Gongfu hate women deeply from then on. From then on, he put all his thoughts on catching the murder and investigating the case, and he has been alone to this day.
"As soon as Magistrate Deng took office, he dismissed me from the position of head catcher on the grounds of poor handling of the case."
Liu Gongfu shook his head helplessly and sighed, "This is not over yet. After just one day, I was expelled from the police squad, saying that I had committed serious crimes in the past and was not worthy of being a member of the public."
"When Liu was desperate, he packed his bags and planned to return to his hometown in Shandong to spend the rest of his life. He happened to meet Cao An and Sun Quan on the street and came to the county government to resign.
While chatting, they heard that Mr. Zhu from Jiangjia Village was recruiting villagers, so Liu followed him to try his luck. I wonder if Mr. Zhu would reward him with a bite of food? "
