After a while, Song Chi finally figured out what was going on.
The man in front of me is 37 years old and makes a living by selling fish. He has a virtuous wife and a lovely son. He goes fishing outside and his wife sells fish at the fish stall. Although their life is hard, it is also happy.
Until one day something unexpected happened.
The man returned home very late that day, and when he arrived at the door, he saw that the lights in the house were not on.
In the past, no matter how late he came home, his wife would wait for him.
He felt something was wrong and pushed the door open. He smelled a strong smell of blood. He quickly lit the oil lamp and saw his wife and son lying in a pool of blood.
The sky is falling!
The man could not accept such a change at all, and cried bitterly while holding the bodies of his wife and son.
It was not until the next day that he found out what had happened.
It turned out that when Wang Bao went to the fish stall to buy fish, he saw that his wife was beautiful and wanted to take her for himself. His wife naturally refused, and they had a quarrel. Perhaps Wang Bao left because he was worried about the large number of people in the market.
I thought everything would be fine.
Who would have thought that Wang Bao would actually come to his home that night and rape his wife. In Wang Bao's words, as long as there was a woman he liked, he would get her.
But this time Wang Bao met a fierce woman who would rather die than obey him. Wang Bao became furious and tortured the woman to death and brutally killed her child.
Then he walked away with a swagger.
Wang Bao is the head of the police. He is lawless and unscrupulous.
The man reported the case to the county government, but the county magistrate ruled that his wife was a fickle woman who committed suicide after failing to seduce Wang Bao.
The verdict was so outrageous that even he was beaten half to death. Since then, he has been recuperating at home. Knowing that it is useless to sue the authorities, he wants to find an opportunity to kill Wang Bao for revenge.
It was not until he learned that Song Chi had forced Wang Bao to death during the trial that he began to regard Song Chi as his benefactor.
Because Song Chi helped him get revenge.
Later, he learned that Zhang Laowu wanted to kill Song Chi, so he quietly followed Song Chi to protect him.
"So... you followed me to protect me, not to kill me?"
"You are my benefactor and you helped me avenge my blood feud. How can I repay you with evil?"
Song Chi asked again: "Then what's with the blood on your body?"
"Someone just tried to do something bad to you... I fought him, and this blood is his, not mine. I was afraid someone would try to kill you again, so I followed closer, and you discovered me."
He explained seriously, but judging by the blood on his body, it was probably more than just a fight.
Song Chi hurriedly helped him up, "You are my benefactor."
The public security here is too bad. I have to talk to Captain Su tomorrow.
"You are my benefactor."
When he got closer, Song Chi found that this person was very shy and looked honest.
yes.
It is usually the honest people who suffer. Wang Bao has done so many evil things that forcing him to death can be considered as getting rid of a harm to the people.
"By the way…what's your name?"
"My name is Mo Sihai, you can call me Lao Mo."
"Lao Mo? Still a fishmonger?"
"yes."
Song Chi suddenly realized, why does it look so familiar?
"It's quite late, come back with me..." He didn't let Lao Mo follow him because he was afraid.
"kindness."
Lao Mo agreed immediately. "Zhang Laowu threatened to kill you and even quoted a price. You'd better be careful these days. Let me stay by your side and protect you..."
"What's the point of protecting or not protecting? It's fate that we met."
The next day.
Song Chi took Lao Mo to the county government office and got him a clerk status, registering him in the county government office.
After a long conversation last night, Song Chi took Lao Mo to his side.
His wife and children were dead, and Lao Mo had no intention of fishing. He was an honest man, and would be kind to whoever treated him well. Song Chi avenged his blood feud, and he was willing to stay by his side to repay his kindness.
Song Chi felt that it was time for him to build a team, and Lao Mo was the first general to be around him.
There were more people kneeling at the gate of the county government office than yesterday.
Because the price of grain has risen again, it has risen to 150 wen per dou, which is definitely a sky-high price compared to the past.
Seeing this scene, Song Chi couldn't help but shake his head. County Magistrate Feng was still not suitable to be an official. He was too kind-hearted. In a situation like this, he could just arrange for someone to coax him away. There would be no problem at all.
Since ancient times, people have been afraid of officials.
However, there are people who instigated this, and it is rather troublesome to deal with it. The safest approach is to ignore it.
Even in years of great disaster, grain prices in Ji County had never risen to this level. Rumors were rife that the county treasury had long been empty, with not a single jin of grain left. There were also rumors that a war was about to break out on the border, and that the grain merchants' grain had been requisitioned by the imperial court...
These rumors made people feel that there was really a food shortage.
At first, several major merchants under the control of the Han family maliciously raised grain prices, and then some retail traders followed suit, causing grain prices in the entire Ji County to remain high.
I always buy when the price goes up and never buy when the price goes down.
The people were afraid of a food shortage, so they gritted their teeth and bought and hoarded food even at high prices.
But there are still many more people who cannot afford it, especially seeds as food prices rise.
Spring plowing is approaching, and people simply cannot afford to buy expensive seeds. If they miss the season, they will have no harvest for the whole year!
The people were complaining bitterly and were in panic.
Jinzun Mansion, as the largest restaurant in Ji County and Ning'an Prefecture, is still crowded with people and every seat is full.
Only the rich or the noble can come here to drink. No matter how noisy the situation is outside, it is the common people who suffer, and it cannot affect them.
They are even the beneficiaries.
The gold-numbered private room on the third floor is never open to the public, but is reserved for private use. The interior is luxuriously decorated and can be called magnificent.
A banquet is currently taking place in the private room.
The table was filled with fine wine and delicious food, rare foods that ordinary people might never be able to eat in their entire lives, and there were also beautiful women surrounding them, serving wine and tea.
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