Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 60 Wei and Jin Style
Qu'a County Government Office, the official residence of the county lieutenant.

This dynasty follows the style of the Wei and Jin dynasties, where officials are ashamed of being toilsome with paperwork and proud of having little government work to do, because the latter shows that you are highly competent and your administration is harmonious and people are united, while the former shows the opposite.

Therefore, County Magistrate Xie only went to court to hear cases once a month, and each time only lasted half a day. The saved time could be used for idle talk and meditation, or for visiting prostitutes and feasting, but in short, it was not enough for him to do his work.

Don’t ask, the answer is authentic Wei and Jin style.

Today was the fifteenth day, the day when County Magistrate Xie was to interrogate the case. People waiting to be heard formed a long queue outside the official residence.

Of course, Lieutenant Xie also has two skills. One is called "Qianlong Wenqushu" and the other "Fuqi" is even more powerful.

With these two unique skills, no one, whether the plaintiff or the defendant, could lie to him; no matter how difficult the case was, he could always find out the truth. It was not difficult to gain the reputation of being a "God at solving cases".

But he doesn't.

Firstly, he was unwilling to work extra hours, so he would leave the court at noon and finish his work, not caring how many cases were piled up on his desk or how many people were queuing outside.

Secondly, after he learned about the case, he never pronounced a verdict on the spot, but instead postponed the verdict for two or three months to give both parties enough time to relax and release their energy, so as to avoid accidentally hurting the "good" big players.

As for the degree of accommodation, it is directly proportional to the size of your energy.

For example, half a year ago, a young man in the county was riding his horse in the downtown area and killed a grandfather and his grandson. He was immediately taken to the government by the indignant people and thrown into prison.

The evidence in this case was solid, and according to the criminal law, the young master would be put to death. Unfortunately, the young master's surname was Huan, and County Lieutenant Xie knew that the matter would not be so simple, so he shelved the case file for several months.

Recently, I really received a letter from an elder in the clan, in which there was some mention of Prince Huan, saying that he was the son of an old friend and had repented... Then the subject changed to talk about the deep friendship between him and the father of County Magistrate Xie, and invited him to come to his house as a guest when he came to Beijing.

So after County Magistrate Xie left the court, he asked his subordinate, the legal officer, to bring the files, and found the sentence "the racing horse injured someone to death" in the verdict. He picked up his pen and reversed the two words "racing horse" to "the running horse injured someone to death".

"Excellent!" The judge clapped his hands and exclaimed: "The Shaofu has a brilliant idea. He let the horse hurt someone and it became a bad horse that ran away, not the person's fault. Then Duke Huan can be exempted from punishment and even death. It is really the virtue of God to love life and the Shaofu has a divine pen."

"Talk to the suspect's family and ask them to be less stingy and pay more money to keep the victim quiet. And make arrangements with everyone to prevent anyone from making irresponsible remarks." County Lieutenant Xie ordered in a deep voice:
"If everything goes well, the kid will be able to go home for the New Year."

"Okay, okay!" The lawyer agreed happily, and it was obvious that he had taken a lot of benefits from the defendant.

County Magistrate Xie did not expose him because he had taken a lot.

Suddenly, Xie Gui's expression changed, and he waved his hand and said, "Go down first."

"Yes, I'll take my leave." The lawyer quickly picked up the file and left.

As soon as the door closed, applause broke out in the inner hall.

County Lieutenant Xie knew without even looking that the dead face had returned.

"County Magistrate Xie never disappoints me and always opens my eyes." Mr. Chen walked out from behind the curtain.

"This only shows that you are ignorant." Lieutenant Xie said expressionlessly.

"You all do this? Aren't you afraid of losing the support of the people like the Northern Dynasties?" Mr. Chen couldn't help asking.

"What do you know about the people's will? The will of the people is the will of the gentry and scholars. How can the common people have a will? They are just sheep that blindly follow the shepherd."

"So the country squire is a shepherd boy?" said Mr. Chen.

"That's right." County Lieutenant Xie nodded and said, "So, the harm of offending one squire is far greater than offending a hundred common people. Besides, the squire saved the child, the common people's family received generous compensation, and the government had one less serious case. Everyone benefits, isn't that good?"

"I admire you. You are the most shameless people from an aristocratic family." Mr. Chen praised: "You make corruption and abuse of power so fair and square."

"Enough of the nonsense." County Lieutenant Xie took a sip of tea and asked, "How is your work going?"

"The guys in Fangxian Township were so defensive that all four of my children were killed." Mr. Chen's smile faded and he sighed. "Oh? Are the mountain spirits and village monsters in Fangxian Township so powerful?" County Magistrate Xie said with obvious gloating.

"My children must cooperate with me to fight the enemy, so that they can exert their power!" Mr. Chen's face flushed, and he said excitedly:

"But I can't do it myself. They have no one to lead them, so they fell into the trap of those rats!"

"Your people from Minggui have registered with the Gouchen Division. Can you clear yourself of suspicion by taking action?" County Lieutenant Xie said calmly:
"Anyway, the thing that is most in short supply in this world is the materials for your corpse refining. Why are you so distressed? Just refine another batch."

"I am a corpse breeder, not a corpse refiner!" Mr. Chen knocked on the table with his bony hand and corrected, "Every living corpse is my child! 'Although refined by humans, they are actually gifts from heaven', do you understand?!"

The sandalwood table top was like paper, and he knocked a big hole in it.

Lieutenant Xie frowned slightly. If he wasn't on a mission, he would never share a room with such a vulgar person.

"Okay, stop getting excited." County Magistrate Xie stopped Mr. Chen and said, "Let's talk business!"

"Okay, what do you say we should do?" Mr. Chen asked angrily.

"What's so difficult about this?" County Lieutenant Xie raised his eyebrows and sighed, "Alas, I wanted to be more respectful and wait for the township to report it first before reacting. Since they are unwilling to give us this respect, then we can only ignore respectability."

Then he lowered his voice and said, "Go and create a few zombies and give them to me tomorrow. I will not worry about the rest."

"That's easy." Mr. Chen responded, and then said, "But I have to remind you that a large number of people who visited the Immortal Land have fled."

"I know." County Lieutenant Xie nodded and said, "Don't worry, I let them escape on purpose. Fangxian Township is a populous township, you can't kill all 20,000 people, right?"

"What if they all escape?" Mr. Chen said anxiously, "We still need people."

"Don't worry, the experts sent from the capital have set up an eight-gate maze on the road out of the village. Any living thing that enters will be trapped inside and unable to get out." County Lieutenant Xie gave him a reassurance.

"That's fine." Mr. Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

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Even though Mr. Chen dislikes Mr. Xie all the time, he takes the mission more important than anything else.

So after coming out of the county lieutenant's official residence, he went to the charity cemetery where he had lived before.

It was already pitch dark at this time, and the west wind was howling, causing the two white lanterns on the village gate to sway constantly.

"Dangdang..." Mr. Chen knocked on the door.

After a while, the door creaked open slowly, revealing a sinister old face. After seeing that it was Mr. Chen, the manor guard said sinisterly, "I was wondering who would come to die in the middle of the night, but it turns out to be you, the living dead."

Then he moved aside to let him in.

Mr. Chen handed him the oil gourd in his hand and said, "This is the reward for taking care of my daughter. Do you have the nerve to accept it?"

"Of course she has. I feed her every day as you said. Go and have a look. She is growing well." The farm keeper snatched the gourd, unplugged it, took a deep breath, and said with an intoxicated look on his face, "Wow, this is the best human head oil!"

Mr. Chen ignored him and walked into the Changsheng House where the morgue was kept. He accurately found his own locust wood coffin among dozens of coffins.

The word "槐" contains the character "鬼", and this tree has the heaviest yin energy of all trees. Forget about using locust wood to make coffins. Even if you bury a dead person under a locust tree, they will turn into zombies and resurrect after a long time.

So a normal person would not use locust wood to make a coffin, but Mr. Chen is obviously not normal, and is not even considered a human being.

He walked to the coffin sealed with black catfish glue and sighed with some regret. Normally, he shouldn't be so anxious to open the coffin. Even if he used a locust wood coffin and virgin blood to raise the corpse, it would take several months to turn the purple zombie into a white zombie.

But now he had no choice but to act on his urgency. He slowly pushed open the heavy coffin lid with his bony hand, shook the bell in his hand and said, "My dear daughter, it's time to get up and work."

(End of this chapter)