During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, a remote small county town was a place where birds did not lay eggs, very poor, coupled with bullies, no one was willing to serve as a county order. The high-ranking officials in the bureaucracy were very troubled by this, the relations in the official arena were intertwined, almost everyone had a backer, and he was unwilling to send anyone, he could not forcibly send people, and he did not want to do anything that offended people. As a result, the post of county commander was vacant for several years.
In this year's examination, the new jinshi have turned to the high-ranking officials of the imperial court, and only one jinshi with the surname Gai has not moved around. The high-ranking officials of the bureaucracy were overjoyed, this person did not look for a patron, there was no root and no foundation, it was him. Therefore, he was appointed as the county commander of this small county town.
Gai Xian Ling took the road guide, official seal and paperwork, and took the two long followers on the road. Along the way, Xiaoxing stayed overnight, and on this evening, when I arrived at the county border, there was still a day's journey to reach the county.
While walking, Gai Xianling suddenly saw an old man with a white beard, riding a fast horse, come to him and said, "Follow me, I will take you to a place." With that, he pulled him up and galloped away on his horse.
It was getting darker and darker, and I ran for a long time to reach the county seat. Before coming to a manor, the white-bearded old man got off his horse, pulled Gai Xian Ling and jumped into the courtyard. GaiXian Ling just stood still, and found that the white-bearded old man was gone, he looked around dazedly, the night was late, and the surroundings were quiet.
Gai Xian Ling found that the manor was very large, three in and three out, so he strolled inside. The two people in front of them who entered the courtyard were blinded by the black lights and seemed to have all slept. When he reached the innermost courtyard, he found a room with a light on, reached out and pushed the door, and the door opened silently. He went into the room, and there were a dozen or so people sitting in the room, and no one seemed to notice that he had come in, and was speaking in a tongue-in-cheek manner.
Gai County Order found a corner to crouch down and listen to what the men were saying. After listening for a while, he found that what these people were saying had something to do with him.
It turned out that the yellow-faced strong man sitting in the middle, surnamed Wu, was the bully leader in the county town. He gathered the bullies in the county town and formed a gang, and in the early years, he was stunned that he had emptied the county order and forced the county order to transfer away. Since then, the county order has been vacant, and they have no one to restrain them, and they are uncomfortable for wrongdoing.
Now, they got the news that the new county order was about to take office, and when they heard that this county order was a stunned young man, the oil and salt did not enter, and they felt that the good days were coming to an end, and they gathered here to discuss countermeasures.
Only to hear a strong man with a black face stand up and say, "In my opinion, kill the new county order, kill one by one, kill two people and kill a pair, everyone who kills is afraid, the officials do not dare to send people, the world is ours." ”
Wu Huang's face scolded: "A bunch of nonsense, killing the imperial court officials, can the imperial court spare us?" This is self-destruction, really uninformed. ”
Another lean old man stood up, laughed dryly twice, and said, "The black-faced old man is only half right." Of course, the new county order must be killed, after killing, we find someone to impersonate, the county order has become our person, and in the future, it is not necessary to wind and wind to rain. ”
Wu Huang's face shouted loudly, and everyone in the room clapped. Therefore, they began to discuss, preparing to rob the new county order on the mountain road, throw the body in the deep stream, seize the official seal and documents, and choose a younger brother from other places to defect to them, to impersonate the new county order.
Gai Xian Ling was shocked to hear it, fortunately these people did not know him, otherwise, they would be arrested on the spot. He stood up and sneaked out of the room quietly, into the courtyard, but he was dazed. Because the courtyard wall was very high, he could not jump out of the courtyard, and the courtyard door was guarded by a janitor, and he did not dare to open the courtyard door to go out.
When he was anxious, a gentle slap came from behind him and landed on his shoulder. When he looked back, it was the old man with the white beard. Gai County ordered great joy. The white-bearded old man pulled him, jumped out of the yard, got on his horse, and flew away.
When I arrived at an inn, I saw only one room, two long attendants sighing at the edge of the bed, and lying on the bed was Gai County Ling. It turned out that in the evening, Gai Xian Ling was walking and suddenly fainted to the ground. The two touched their pulses and heartbeats, still beating, and Gai Xian Ling was like a deep sleep. The two carried Gai Xian Ling to the inn and stayed by their side. Just wait for the dawn, go to Langzhong for treatment.
The white-bearded old man pushed Gai XianLing violently, and Gai Xian Ling woke up, stretched out his waist and said, "It's really a good sleep!" He knew in his heart that he had just been out of his soul, and in order to cover up the truth, he deliberately said that he had slept. The two elders saw him wake up, rejoicing infinitely, and hurried to burn the fire to cook. They weren't in the mood to eat, so they kept going hungry.
After dawn, out of the inn, Gai Xian Ling found a few hanako crouching on the side of the road basking in the sun, and took out a hundred yuan to change clothes with them. The hanako thought they had met a fool, and their joy was infinite. The two elders were puzzled, and Gai Xian Ling said: "If you want to live, just follow my words, but on the road, look at my eyes and act, there is no need to say more." ”
After changing clothes, Gai Xian Ling hid the official seal and documents around his waist, smeared a handful of ash on his face, and smeared the dog's feces on his body, which smelled bad. He let the two longs do as they were, and then went on the road.
At the foot of a high mountain, there were more than a dozen strong men standing on the side of the road, stopping passers-by to search themselves. The men saw the three beggars emitting a foul odor, waved their hands and cursed them to go fast, and the three were able to escape.
Gai Xian Ling went to the county court and began to recruit servants, and he specially selected loyal people to train. When Wu Huangyan learned that the new county commander had taken office, he was flustered and lamented that the good days were not long. They put an end to the flag and waited and watched.
After three or four months, Gai Xian Ling collected a lot of evidence about Wu Huang's face and took ya to arrest Wu Huang's face. Wu Huangmian resisted arrest and surrounded Gai Xianling and his party with a group of his men.
At this critical juncture, a strange wind suddenly blew up. Gai Xian Ling saw that there was a white-bearded old man in the strange wind, who was the same person who had taken away his soul in the first place. Only to see him reach out a little on Wu Huang's face and the bodies of his men, and those people were frozen. Those people couldn't see the white-bearded old man and felt like they had been caught in the evil. Suddenly, the white-bearded old man disappeared.
Gai County ordered the order to drink the order of the servants, tied up everyone, and escorted them to the county court. He posted a notice calling on people to report evidence of Wu Huang's face, and for a time, the responders gathered. GaiXian Ling sentenced Wu Huangmian to death, reported the text, and asked to be beheaded after the autumn. After more than half a year of rectification, all the bullies were brought to justice, law and order were restored to stability, and the economy gradually recovered.
On this night, Gai Xian Ling was sitting idly in the backyard sipping tea, when he suddenly saw the white-bearded old man come in and salute him. Gai Xian Ling stood up and asked, which way is he a god? The white-bearded old man smiled and said, "I am the land lord here." ”
Gai Xian Ling thanked him for his guidance, and the land lord waved his hand and smiled: "You are the parent official of the Yang World, I am the Parent Official of the Underworld, and everyone shoulders the same mission to benefit the people." I help you, not for you, but for the sake of the people. ”
The two talked for a while, and the land lord resigned. After that, the land lord often came to meet with Gai County Ling to exchange some experience in governing the local area.
This story adopts an absurd penmanship, which lies in borrowing things to persuade the world, and has nothing to do with feudal superstition.
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