Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 325 Where to Go
At the end of September, the first snow of the year fell in Beihai Town.

Under the pattering snow and rain, eight-year-old Li Wang stood outside the gate of the police headquarters, hesitating whether to enter or not.

"Li Wang, go with your grandma quickly." A security policeman accompanying him came up and was about to pull him, but Li Wang turned sideways obstinately, allowing the security policeman to take advantage of him.

"Hey~ you child. Be obedient! Don't make any mistakes."

Li Wang looked up at the snow-white-haired grandma in front of the police station, still hesitating.The old lady sighed, turned around and opened the door and walked in.

In mid-September, the sensational wife murder case finally ushered in the verdict:
The murderer, Li Youcai, was sentenced to death for drowning his daughter and strangling his wife, Li Heshi, and awaiting execution.Li Wang's grandfather and an accomplice in this case, Mr. Li, was sentenced to ten years of hard labor.Although Li Wang's grandmother did not report her knowledge, she was exempted from prosecution because Li Wang was young and needed someone to take care of her.The head of the public security police of the residents' bureau who knew the law and broke the law was fired from the public security police and transferred to the Oha camp on Bitter Leaf Island.

Shortly after the verdict, the old man Li died of a cerebral hemorrhage one night because of his anger and anger; while Li Wang's grandmother suffered a sudden accident, caught off guard, and turned gray overnight.

For the purpose of protecting Li Wang, Pianshan and Zhou Weiguo did not disclose the information that Li Wang was the whistleblower during the trial of the case. Therefore, Li Wang's family did not know the outcome of all this until the death of the eight-year-old child. a report letter.

The younger sister who just landed is dead, the mother is dead, the grandfather is dead, and now the father is dying too.All this made eight-year-old Li Wang at a loss.He didn't see when the two younger sisters were gone before, but he saw his grandma telling him that her sister didn't survive with her eyes flushed.

But the mother who loved him the most suddenly disappeared, which was unacceptable to an eight-year-old child, especially when he overheard what his grandpa and grandma said.

Children from poor families have long been in charge of the family. Although Li Wang is only eight years old, he has almost understood that the changes in his family are all related to his letter.

And this made him unable to face his father.

The cotton padded clothes on his body were already wet, and the clothes were changed by his mother stitch by stitch for Li Wang.While hesitating, Li Wang suddenly felt that the top of his head was dark, and when he looked up again, there was an umbrella on it; when he turned around and looked again, he saw a green cotton robe in front of him, and a pair of thousand-ply sole cloth shoes on his feet.

Now in Beihai Town, there is only one person who still hangs around in a green cloth robe every day, and that is Wang Zhong, the current vice principal of Beihai Town Primary School.

"Sir." Li Wangyu looked at the middle-aged man with tears in his voice, and asked, "Did I do something wrong?"

Wang Zhong squatted down, looked straight at Li Wang, and asked in a deep voice, "What do you think?"

"My father took my mother, I don't know."

Wang Zhongdao: "The sage said that if a father contends with his son, he will not fall into injustice. Therefore, when it is unrighteous, the son must not refuse to contend with the father, and the minister must not refuse to contend with the king; therefore, when it is unjust, fight with it."

Wang Zhong said this in class and explained it. Li Wang burst into tears when he heard it.

What Wang Zhong was talking about was the "Book of Filial Piety", and teaching the introduction to Confucianism was also one of the conditions for Wang Zhong to be appointed as the vice principal of a primary school.There are dross in Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, but there are also many good things in Confucianism.Since Beihai Town wants everyone to read and write, and everyone to become a scholar, how can they be ignorant of propriety, justice and shame?

Putting his hands on Li Wang's small shoulders, Wang Zhong explained patiently: "If you have a son who dares to speak up and fight for your father, you can prevent your father from being caught in injustice. Your father did something wrong, and you did nothing wrong." Wrong. It is not true filial piety to see your elders have mistakes and not stop them. But Li Wang, even if he has a thousand mistakes, he is still your biological father."

Li Wang finally couldn't bear it any longer, lay on Wang Zhong's body and began to cry loudly.All the fears, doubts, worries, and longings these days were intertwined and released all at once.

Wang Zhong comforted Li Wang for a while, and when the child gradually stopped crying, he said with a serious face, "Go, go see your father for the last time, and kowtow to him." Holding up an umbrella, he took Li Wang with one hand and walked slowly into the gate of the Police Headquarters.

Li Wang's father, Li Youcai, was sitting in a hut wearing shackles, with two security guards behind him.The furnishing of this room is extremely simple, a bare wooden table and two chairs.Right now, Li Youcai's mother and son were sitting at the table with tears in their eyes.

The door opened again, and Li Wang walked in with his eyes swollen, and he saw the shackles spread out on the ground at a glance.

His father first showed a hint of surprise, then became very weak and sad, and said in a hoarse voice, "Wang'er, let Dad take a good look at you."

When Li Wang walked in front of his father, the two security guards hesitated for a while, but finally did not move.

Wiping her tearful eyes, the old lady said to Li Wang, "Kowtow to your father."

Li Wang knelt down in front of his father obediently and kowtowed three times.Only then did Li Youcai help his son up, and hugged him in his arms.

"Mother, my son is not filial, Wang'er will work hard for you in the future."

"Don't worry, I will try my best to bring up this child. When he gets married and has a son, he will pass on to the Li family."

When the time for the visit came to an end, Li Wang's grandma changed from sobbing to howling, and Li Wang was dragged away from his father's arms by the security police. At this moment, he suddenly understood what it meant to lose his father.

"Let go of me! Let go! Dad!"

In the corridor, Wang Zhong's face was livid, and he closed his eyes in silence.He thought of his father who died young, and his mother who had worked so hard to raise him.When he first heard what Li Wang's father had done, he also denounced the bad habits of the countryside with Lao You and the others.But there are too many such things in the folks. I was just a poor scholar when I was in Yangzhou, so what can I do?
The reason why Wang Zhong was willing to be the vice principal of the elementary school was because he wanted to join the officialdom in Beihai Town.As a scholar, you always have ambitions.A few years ago, he wrote an article "Diao Huang Zuwen", intending to reverse the case of Huang Zu Zhaoxue, who had long been notorious for killing Mi Heng.

It is said that people in later generations deplore the praise of Heng's talent and condemn Huang Zu for his narrow-mindedness, but Wang Zhong thinks that you Heng can be appreciated by Huang Zu in this life, and that you can die without regret if you have such a confidant.Wang Zhong believes that it is common for Huang Zu to be frustrated by a glass of wine in an instant, and it is not the only case.However, it is more valuable for Huang Zu to have far-sightedness, to appreciate Mi Heng's talent sincerely, and to respect the virtuous and corporal.

"Yu Shufa depends on others, and learns to work on his own. When he grows up, he will become ten masters. Why don't you give parrots to Guangyan, and know monuments on the left side of the road?" Remarks, I have never heard of it, and I appreciate it. From Huang Zu, I still got the evil and left the good."

This is the true portrayal of Wang Zhong's heart. His character, talent, and encounters are all similar to Cheng Heng's, but the people he meets are not as good as Huang Zu's. He only has Huang Zu's disadvantages and none of Huang Zu's strengths in appreciating talents. The meaning of Huang Zu.

It can be seen from this that Wang Zhong's longing for Bole's confidant, and his inner loneliness and depression can be imagined.When Zhao Xin asked Shen Jingdan to invite him, the reason why Wang Zhong dared to come was to see if Zhao Xin was the Bole he begged for, even if he was a traitor, he recognized it!

But what he saw and heard after he came to Beihai Town was incompatible with the talent in his belly, which made Wang Zhong feel helpless as a hero; he even wanted to say goodbye and return home.

Zhao Xin's original explanation of "the debate between Hua and Yi" made him feel fresh and new. After visiting the military parade later, Wang Zhong was even more surprised by the strength of the North Navy.He feels that Zhao Xin's current Wangba foundation has been established, and it is easy to conquer the world. He hopes that he can also devote his life's talents like Zhuge Liang to help the world and save the people.

Now, he finally understands what Zhao Xin and the others are doing. This is by no means recruiting a group of starving peasants to help them rebel against the Qing Dynasty, and then continue to be emperor himself, and then hire a group of Confucian scholars to help them king.

It is easy to break the thief in the mountain, but difficult to break the thief in the heart. If you want to achieve great things, you must first break the thief in the heart.They want to rebel against the hearts of the world first!
Following the verdict of Li He's case, the draft reform plan for civil affairs has finally been released.A notice jointly signed by the Civil Affairs and Public Security Police Department was posted all over the large and small communities in Beihai Town.

In this notice, Beihai Town clearly stated that it will gradually set up medical stations in various residential areas, requiring all families of pregnant women to be registered, and the staff of the medical station will come to check on the condition of pregnant women on a regular basis.If the child is confirmed to be congenitally deficient after examination by two levels of medical personnel, it can be dealt with with the consent of the family members.

In addition, all acts of drowning female infants will be regarded as murder, the family will be deprived of land rights, the principal culprit will be shot, and the accessory will be sent to Ezo Island for ten years of hard labor.

This announcement once again shocked all the residents.They didn't expect Beihai Town to control the sky and the land, and now it even has to control the birth of children.

"If you want me to tell you, even the officials and lords turned a blind eye to this matter before. Why should the lords here bother with such carelessness. Whether it's a son or a daughter, it's all my own. Who can support me is willing to do that." Unethical thing!"

"Fart! If you want sons and no daughters, will you plan to be a bachelor for the rest of your life when your son grows up?"

"That's okay, there are always girls."

"Oh, co-authoring your family is a loser. If you leave it alone, you have to raise it to be your son's wife? There is no such reason in the world."

"Stop arguing. Didn't you see the notice? In the future, if my wife becomes pregnant again, she has to report to the team leader and go to the medical station to register. Tens of thousands of catties of grain on [-] acres of land are enough to raise ten or eight children. If it’s too little, go to the land of Ezo, and I’ll give you a hundred acres!”

With a gunshot, the murderer Li Youcai disappeared, and soon turned into an urn of ashes.The old lady of the Li family, that is, Li Wang's grandmother, returned home with her son's ashes in her hands, and when she was thinking of finding a cemetery to bury, two people knocked on the door of her house one after another.

The first one made Mrs. Li startled.This is a guy with red hair and blue eyes, wearing a black robe with a cross hanging on his chest.This person is the deputy director of the Radiology Department of Beihai Town Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Father Macarius.

"Lord Jesus Christ our God, remember your eternal mercy and magnanimity, by which you became man, willingly took up the cross and died to save those who have true faith in you, and rose from the dead to ascend to heaven, Sit at the right hand of God the Father, and hear the humble supplications of those who call on you with all their hearts"

"Bang!" The door slammed shut again.

Macarius was not in a hurry, he was used to this kind of thing, so he knocked lightly on the door again.

"Madam, as a servant of God, I want to pray for your poor son and husband, so that they can enter heaven and see the light of our Lord."

The old lady Li, who was so scared that her face turned pale, was moved in her heart, and then opened the door again, and bowed to Father Ma and Director Ma.

"Master, are you here to recite sutras for my son? But my family has no money for it."

Makarius smiled and said: "As a servant of God, how can I collect money? Please rest assured. Ma'am, don't you know me? I have checked your body before."

After Father Ma said this, Mrs. Li finally got a little impression.When the Li family first came to Beihai Town, a group of people in "filial piety clothes" checked their entire family, and one of them was a foreign ghost with red hair and blue eyes.

"Oh. Then please come in."

Macarius entered the room with a smile, drank a glass of water, and was about to start saying prayers when he heard someone knock on the door.

Mrs. Li went to open the door and was stunned again.Standing outside the door were two monks, one old and one young, who were Cheng Che's master and student from Wuya Temple.

"Amitabha, female Tanyue, the poor monk, master and apprentice, came here to pray and chant scriptures for the Li family, father and son, and Li He."

Makarius turned his head and looked, and immediately became angry, it was really a narrow road for enemies.Ever since this old monk came to Beihai Town, he has been sabotaging his missionary work all the time.As long as someone dies in any family, the old monk, his master and his disciples are bound to grab their own business.Originally, he had already prepared to believe in God almost everything the old people said, but when the clarity came, he cut off the words in a few words.

Chengche smiled and clasped his hands together and said, "Amitabha, so the priest is here, what a coincidence."

Makarius thought to himself, what a coincidence, I must have been seen by your apprentice when I came out of the hospital earlier.That kid ran outside the hospital every day, and stayed for a long time, distributing some pamphlets such as "Liang Huangbao Repentance" to the patients who came and went.

He quickly drew a cross on his chest, and said with a smile on his face, "Praise God, you are here too, monk."

In fact, Makarius also wanted to distribute some brochures, but the problem was that Ferapontov was devoted to steelmaking, and recently started helping the North Navy build guns, so he had no time to help him.

At this time, several neighbors nearby also noticed the movement at the door of Li's house. Although they dared not come out, they all stood in front of the window to watch the excitement.

A man from the family said to his wife: "Come on, come on, those two have started fighting again."

The woman was busy tidying up the house, and asked without raising her head, "Who is it?"

"Who else is there, the Rakshasa priest and the old monk."

At this time, the old lady Li hurried to Chengche, knelt down on the ground, kowtowed and said, "Please be merciful, master, and help my family to see Feng Shui. What kind of gods have my family offended, and they were killed?" Such a catastrophe!"

Well, as soon as the old monk came, Father Ma immediately lost half the match.

It has been more than half a year since Cheng Che and his apprentice came to Beihai Town.At the beginning, a shed was set up on the edge of the town, and then a few elderly islanders helped build a small yard together, so that the master and apprentice had a place to live.

Compared with the orthodox religion, no matter where the residents of Beihai Town are from, they are always tolerant and respectful of Buddhist monks; especially those from island countries, they respect clarity even more.Therefore, although the missionary work of Cheng Che has not yet begun, there are actually quite a few private believers.Although Beihai Town does not promote religion on the surface, it still has no objection to some old people going to Chengche to kowtow and burn incense.

In fact, Zhao Xin's spy team has been paying attention to the situation of Cheng Che and Makarius, and will report to Li Ji at any time.

In fact, Zhao Xin is also very interested in Buddhism. He came across Yupei because he visited a temple in Nara.But Zhao Xin knew that he couldn't take the initiative to see Cheng Che, and that what was good and what was wrong would be irrelevant. He didn't want Beihai Town to become a place where Daxing eats fast and chant Buddha.

Don't look at Cheng Che's master and apprentice fighting with Makarius all day long, in fact, the old monk is also very awkward.He didn't get any support from Beihai Town officials at all, Zhao Xin didn't see him at all, and Chen Qingsong only saw him once.Since he and his disciples married and lived together, security police often wandered around to dissuade some young people from coming.

With a clear practice, he came to Beihai Town for the past six months. Although he still doesn't understand many things, he already knows that neither Qinggui in Jilin nor the emperor far away in the capital is the opponent of Beihai Town.Instead of this, why bother with this muddy water.

The old monk has already begun to think about leaving, and is going back to Wuya Temple.

(End of this chapter)