Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 54 The Goddess Wang died.

The next morning.

Magistrate Liu, who was soundly asleep, was shaken awake.

"Father, father, it's not good, it's not good, something serious happened in the county government." The voice was Liu Juncai, the son of County Magistrate Liu.

Liu Juncai looked anxious, urging county magistrate Liu to get up quickly.

"What's the matter? You want to urge your father to get up so quickly."

Magistrate Liu shook his head, feeling dizzy, but sat up slowly.

Liu Juncai said: "Just now, someone from the county government told me that all kinds of furniture in the county government office disappeared overnight. I came in and saw that it was true. They all disappeared, father, this county government office must have been robbed."

"Huh? There is such a thing."

County magistrate Liu was startled, opened his eyes immediately, and stood up immediately.

But when he scanned the inside of the room, he found that it was indeed the case. The vases in the room, the seat screens, all disappeared, and the entire bedroom was clean, leaving only the couch he was sitting on.

"What happened in the end? How could it happen overnight? This is the county government office. Which thief dares to go to the county government office to steal things?" County magistrate Liu was angry immediately: "Go, go and call Xu Catch the head, I want to interrogate face to face."

"Father, wait a moment. I'll call Xu Butou right away." Liu Juncai cupped his hands and left.

County magistrate Liu was furious when he saw the emptiness of the house.

What a hateful thieves, even the furniture is so clean.

"Wait, my money will be fine, right?" Immediately, County Magistrate Liu was startled, and ran to the side room next to him to have a look.

Seeing that the door was closed tightly and the copper lock was still on, he was slightly relieved.

But he was still worried, took the key and opened the door, and immediately saw the huge boxes in the house, each box was sealed and safe.

"Fortunately, fortunately, these officials' money has not been stolen. This is a blessing among misfortunes." Only then did County Magistrate Liu let go of a stone in his heart.

However, the anger in his heart is still hard to dissipate: "Damn it, it's better not to let me catch those thieves, otherwise I will have to cut them alive, dare to steal things into the county government, it's really daring gone."

He opened his mouth to curse angrily, but in the middle of cursing, his voice suddenly stopped.

Suddenly something rang in my mind.

Last night, on the way back after having a drink in the yard, I seemed to see a group of people moving. Those people seemed to be moving things from my county office.

Immediately, County Magistrate Liu was taken aback, hurriedly put on his official uniform, and then rushed out of the room.

As soon as he got out of the room, he happened to see that the master was summoning all the servants in the county office, and he seemed to be lecturing in the yard, as if he was asking about the missing things in the county office.

"Master, you came just in time. The official is going to look for you. Do you know about the loss of all the furniture in the county office?" County magistrate Liu came over angrily and asked.

"Returning to my lord, the little one already knew about it before, so the little one is asking for the lord. These servants have been in the back hall of the county government yesterday. They should know something about the situation, but my lord, it's strange to say that these None of my servants saw thieves enter the mansion last night, nor did they hear any sound of moving things."

The master said helplessly.

County Magistrate Liu scolded: "How could no one see it? Yesterday, on this road, I clearly saw a group of servants carrying things."

Then he pointed to a trail and said.

"Go and take a look, see if there are any shoe prints of the thief left there, then let Butou Xu send someone to track it down."

The master responded and went to investigate, but when he walked over and looked down, there were no footprints on the ground at all, not even a single footprint.

"My lord, there are no footprints here at all, only a few paths walked by earthworms."

"How is that possible?" County Magistrate Liu ran over to take a look, and sure enough, he saw that there were only tracks left by earthworms passing through the soil, and there were no footprints at all.

If someone really moved the furniture, it would be impossible to leave no traces behind.

"Did my lord read it wrong yesterday? Or maybe my lord was drunk last night and mistakenly took the earthworm to move, thinking it was a servant who moved." The master said cautiously.

"No, no, I will definitely not be mistaken. Although I was drunk yesterday, I was not seriously drunk. I still remember that these servants who moved house had owners, and their owners were the same as before. A classmate and an old friend, it seems to be called... It seems to be called, yes, I remembered, it is called Zhao Jing, yes, yes, yes, it is Zhao Jing."

County magistrate Liu slapped his head and finally remembered: "It's that Zhao Jing. When we took the talent examination together, this person ranked above me."

The master wanted to cry but said without tears: "My lord, don't scare the little ones. Didn't you say that you died of a sudden illness on the way to take office? Didn't you say that you died of a sudden illness on the way to take office? Your lord wrote a sacrificial letter for this. Have you forgotten this matter?" .”

"Dead, dead?" County magistrate Liu suddenly remembered that Zhao Jing was indeed dead.

But if he died, who was that person he saw yesterday?
The master suddenly suppressed his voice and said: "I heard that Zhao Jing passed a big river on his way to Guobei County to take office, and fell into the water. Although he was rescued, he couldn't get sick. Died of illness, my lord must have bumped into Zhao Jing's ghost."

County Magistrate Liu's face immediately turned pale, and he felt a little cold all over.

I have lived with ghosts for more than a month?
No wonder I have always felt that the house is a bit cold, and there is no other place for warmth. I am afraid that I will sleep with ghosts at night.

"My lord, are you alright?" Seeing that he lost his mind, the master shook slightly.

"No, nothing, I'm all right."

It took a while for magistrate Liu to wake up from his fear, and he took a few breaths before he calmed down a lot.

"My lord, are you still looking for the missing furniture? If ghosts and gods really took it away, then we have to go to Goddess Wang for help. She is still in custody in the yamen," said the master.

Magistrate Liu said: "No, I won't look for it anymore. If it is my classmate Zhao Jing who took the furniture, then I can give it to him. For those who are nostalgic, just give him ordinary furniture."

"If it's really the work of ghosts and gods, then that classmate before my lord is still a ghost of high moral character. Although a lot of things were lost in the county government office, some of the things we added later, as well as the money in the warehouse, were all gone. Less, what is less is left over from the former county government office." Said the master.

County magistrate Liu heard this, and then thought about it, but it was true.

Didn't the money I searched for over a month not move?

It's still Zhao Jingrenyi who knows to leave something for himself.

"My lord, it's not good, the big thing is not good." At this moment, a yamen servant hurried over and shouted.

"I'm fine, what's the point of yelling?" Magistrate Liu shouted angrily.

The yamen servant was startled and frightened: "Yes, yes, yes, I made a small slip of the tongue, please forgive me, my lord, something happened in the county yamen."

"What happened?" County magistrate Liu asked.

"Wang, Goddess Wang died suddenly last night." The yamen servant cupped his hands and said, and then secretly glanced at the face of County Magistrate Liu.

County Magistrate Liu's face suddenly darkened: "Dead? How could Mistress Wang die so well?"

"This, I don't know about this little one. Wu Zuo is doing an autopsy, maybe Wu Zuo can figure it out." The yamen servant said.

"Once Goddess Wang dies, the matter of Li Dafu will be suspended, and Li Dafu will be put on public trial today." The master said in a low voice.

Of course County Magistrate Liu understood this, and immediately ordered: "Follow me to the lobby, and I will interrogate that foreman in person to see if the Li family sent someone to kill Goddess Wang to silence her."

(End of this chapter)