Like the land temple in the countryside, the City God Temple is a temple of offering low status and small gods, and is the sustenance of the people of the same humble status. However, the City God Temple in Linhuai County is not satisfactory. There are many large families in the city. They have wealthy families and can only go to the temple to worship Tathagata Guanyin and Taishang Laojun. The poor peasants in the countryside can only go to the land temple to burn incense. Therefore, the City God Temple in Linhuai County has become a bit defeated. Over time, it has become a place for beggars and wild dogs. However, behind the City God Temple, there is an empty house with thick courtyard walls and solid doors and windows. This is where Wang Sanbao said that Zhang Magistrate temporarily detained some "special figures". Li Weizheng's father was locked up here.

When it was midnight, the night was dark, the streets were pitch black, the cold was biting, and a pedestrian could not see it, and even stray dogs and cats were unwilling to come out. The cold of December almost freezes the entire county town. Suddenly, two black shadows appeared on the left side of the Chenghuang Temple, and they moved very quickly and soon ran to the detainees. They were naturally Li Weizheng and Wang Sanbao who came to visit the prison.

"The boss is here, I'll go and have a look first." Wang Sanbao pulled out his body and rushed across the street with his waist. He looked like a monkey, and with the help of a big tree, he jumped into the wall.

"Who is it!" The angry shout in the quiet night was very far away.

"It's me, the three leopards."

"What are you doing here?"

"Of course I'm here to be a problem......"

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After a moment, the gate of the house opened a crack. In the darkness, Wang Sanbao waved to this side. Li Wei was immediately rushing across the street and flashing into the house. The gate quietly closed, and the street returned to death.

"Mr. Li is locked in the backyard, fifth brother comes with me." Wang Sanbao's inner brother is also a station servant. He is in the same yamen. Li Weizheng also knows him, but he doesn't deal with him normally and nods. He led Li Weizheng to the backyard quickly and pointed to a dark room and said, "Mr. Li is locked there, you go! The door is not locked, I'll wait outside."

"Thank you, Lao Han, this is my little intention." Li Wei was stuffing the twenty-ton treasure banknote into his hand, but Han Yabos rushed back as if he was stung by a scorpion, "No! No! I can't collect this money. After collecting the fifth brother's money, Sanbao can't spare me."

Seeing that he refused, Li Wei had no choice but to take back the money. He pushed the door and entered the dark room, and a disgusting and rotting air rushed towards him.

"Brother Han, is there anything wrong?" Li Yuanwai's old voice came from a corner of the dark room.

Li Weizheng's nose felt sour. Although he had not been with this father for a long time, his love for his calf made Li Weizheng deeply feel a sincere fatherly love, and he really regarded Li Yuanwai as his father.

"Father, it's me."

"It's Dalang!" Li Yuanwai was surprised and crawled over, grabbed Li Weizheng's hand, and was so excited that he burst into tears. He suddenly woke up and quickly pushed his son out, "You shouldn't have come, you're seen, you're going to be guilty again, go quickly! Daddy is fine."

Li Weizheng immediately heard something strange in his words. He hurriedly helped his father aside and asked in a deep voice: "It's late at night now, no one will come. The child wants to come and ask his father, what's going on with the three thousand guan of money?"

Mr. Li was stunned, and a bitter smile slowly appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Have your stepmother told you?"

"Father, paying grain without weighing the scale is a trap set by Zhang Magistrate. I have inferred the general cause and effect, but that three thousand guan of money is probably the key to the problem. My father must tell me the truth."

After being silent for a long time, Mr. Li finally sighed and said, "That three thousand guan is to save you from sin, but now it seems that you have done something stupid for your father."

"Exemption for me?" Li Weizheng was even more confused. He asked hurriedly: "Father must make the words clear. What does it mean to exempt me from being punished? What do I have?"

"This is the thing. A few days ago, County Magistrate Li suddenly found me and said that you had bribed hundreds of stolen money in a case of slave trafficking. Fengyang Prefecture found that someone from above had already come to investigate. County Magistrate Li asked me to take out three thousand stolen money. He was responsible for handling the magistrate Zhang and the officials above. Because the amount of the money was too large, I asked the villagers to go to the county to inquire and said that you were with the people from Fengyang all day and could not meet him. For his father, he was afraid and raised three thousand stolen money to send to County Magistrate Li. Unexpectedly, he was caught here by the yamen runners this morning. I suspected that County Magistrate Li did not give the money to County Magistrate Zhang at all."

Li Wei stood up, anger that had never been seen filling his chest. County Magistrate Li wanted to give him benefits, he could handle every holiday, and he could make up for it even if he had not received the money. However, they could not use such despicable means to blackmail his father. He took a deep breath. He could never compromise on this matter. County Magistrate Li's greed is endless. County Magistrate Zhang framed his father with a serious crime and was even more cruel and ruthless. If he could not use the most ruthless means to fight back, the result of waiting for his father would be bankrupt, and their Li family would even be in a situation where their family was destroyed.

‘Mr. Li County Master, since you are unkind first, don’t blame me for being unrighteous.’

He pondered for a moment and immediately comforted his father, "Father, please relax. The child has his own opinions on this matter and promises to let his father go home before noon tomorrow."

"Son! If the people don't fight with the officials, you can't fight them. They just want money. Let's bear it!"

Li Wei was not speaking, so he patted his father's back of his hand gently, turned around and walked quickly.

Mr. Li couldn't catch up with his son. He watched his son's back disappear into the darkness, his eyes full of worry.

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Although it was late at night, there was still a faint movement in the gatehouse of Li County Chenggong's house. Several servants gathered together to gamble and drink after the master rested. Everyone was in high spirits. Suddenly, the door was shaking, making the few people look like earth. They all crawled into the bottom of the table together, and the door was still knocking. Only then did everyone realize that it was not their room door knocking, but the door outside was ringing.

"His grandma, is it a ghost to call the door at midnight?" The two servants cursed and walked to the front of the gate and opened the visiting hole at the side door, "Who! Fuck..."

Without cursing the words behind, the servant's eyes suddenly became straight. He saw two ingots of white silver, each of which was at least ten taels. The servant swallowed and asked in a trembling voice: "Who is outside? What's the price to do so late?"

"I am Li Weizheng, please tell your master that I knocked on the door in the middle of the night to give a gift." After the words came, a few pieces of paper fell from the visiting hole. "This is for some people who bought wine, please help me inform you."

The two servants quickly picked up the paper and it turned out to be three ten-ton treasure bills, but each treasure bill was only half, and the cut was very neat, and it was obviously cut by a sharp blade. "This..." The two looked at each other and were about to speak, but Li Weizheng's voice came from outside, "Report to me, and the other half should serve him."

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Because of the arrest of Mr. Li, County Magistrate Li was not at ease today. Of course, he knew that the problem was in County Magistrate Zhang, but he didn't know how County Magistrate Zhang smelled the fishy smell. A few days ago, Master Ma came to find him and suggested that Li Wei might not be clean in the case of slave sales. As everyone knows this, County Magistrate Li would not care too much. After all, there are shrimp paths and crabs and crabs, so he would not cut off the way for the survival of the yamen runners. Anyway, Li Wei would be filial at the end of the year, and he had not paid the royalties for his royalties!

But Master Ma pointed out a better way to make money, that is, Li Weizheng's family is rich, and Mr. Li is timid and afraid of things. County Magistrate Li immediately realized that this was indeed a good opportunity. Although Li Weizheng could be a good person, compared with a few thousand guan, even Li Weizheng was useless even if he was his nephew. He immediately made a plan with Master Ma and blackmailed Mr. Li to blackmail him. Afterwards, the plan went smoothly. Mr. Li obediently paid the three thousand guan, which made County Magistrate Li really rich. As for the part he should give to Master Ma, he pretended to be deaf and dumb, and he thought nothing had happened.

But something suddenly happened. County Magistrate Zhang actually used autumn grain to arrest Li Yuanwai. County Magistrate Li immediately understood that this must be because County Magistrate Zhang smelled the smell and had to get a share of the pie. But he had already eaten the money, so it was absolutely impossible for him to take it out again. Anyway, the Li family had money, and at worst they could just ask them to take another portion. It had nothing to do with him. He was just a little confused and was about to fall asleep when a servant suddenly reported outside the door: "Master, that Li Wei is coming, you want to see the master."

"No!" County Chief Li was very angry. He came so late to disturb his sleepiness. However, as soon as he said that he immediately realized that he would come so late in the middle of the night, he would not be here to give gifts! He sat up and asked anxiously: "Have he said he was here to do something?"

"He said he was here to give gifts to the master."

"Haha! Why is this person so naive?" County Magistrate Li was overjoyed. It seemed that he could not only take the first sum of money, but also pull a few more hairs from County Magistrate Zhang! "Take him to my study first." County Magistrate Li hurriedly instructed: "Be careful not to wake up the others."

"The dead ghost doesn't sleep, why are you trying to do it in the middle of the night?" His wife muttered dissatisfiedly in the tent.

"The horses are not fat without night grass. Of course, they eat grass when they are struggling in the middle of the night." County Chief Li smiled proudly, put on his clothes and went to the study.

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In the study, Li Wei was admiring the calligraphy and paintings on the wall with his hands behind his back. Suddenly, a heavy cough came from behind. County Magistrate Li walked in in a square step. Li Wei was stepping forward and bowing and bowing, "I'll disturb my second uncle to rest."

"Nephew, ah! Thinking of the elder brother's suffering, the second uncle was tossing and turning and couldn't sleep!" County Magistrate Li said, and he secretly scanned around. Three thousand guan coins is not a small number. At least one box is needed to hold it. But Li Weizheng seemed to have nothing to bring. County Magistrate Li was confused and asked, "Is it okay for nephew to come so late?"

"I have an unknown knowledge, so I'm here to ask for advice."

County Magistrate Li's face suddenly sank. He woke him up in the middle of the night to have fun. He couldn't help but feel angry and angrily scolded: "You dare to come and play tricks on me. Do you really want to do it?"

"I dare not, I do have something unknown. I'm here to ask for advice from my second uncle." Li Weizheng said calmly.

County Magistrate Li suppressed his anger and said, "What's the matter?"
To be continued...