Chapter 37
"Damn it, your father really has a supernatural power."

Xu Da and Zhao Ruixiang, who recovered from their astonishment, couldn't help muttering.

"Of course it is due to the blessing of my father's spirit in heaven. However, being able to win the case is also inseparable from my hard work these days."

With a smile on his face, Li Cezhi spoke half-truths and half-false words.

"Sure, you boy, even the magistrate of the county has invited you to be a guest of honor. It seems that you will make a great success, just around the corner!"

Zhao Ruixiang's words were full of envy.

Don't look at the magistrate of Fu County, he is just a small seventh-rank official, and he can't be ranked in the center of Dali Chaotang.

However, as a county magistrate, he has great power over the one-acre three-point land under his jurisdiction. With the county magistrate, not only Li Cezhi, but the entire Li family can benefit from it.

In contrast, although he was on the list, won the reputation of a scholar, and was able to go to the Imperial College to study articles, he was still far behind Li Cezhi, who was the head of Tongsheng's case.

"For such a big happy event, you have to treat us to a flower wine and order a few more courtesans."

Xu Da has no other hobbies in his life, except that he likes to hang out in brothels. Going to brothels by himself is not counted, and he encourages his friends around him to accompany him every now and then. He is called a genius who loves brothels.

"Xu Da, do you think everyone is like you, a hungry ghost?"

Zhao Ruixiang frowned slightly, and said lightly: "Brother Li has already had a wife. The two of them raised their eyebrows together. They have a deep relationship and have a son. He is naturally clean and self-sufficient. How could he mess around with you like this?"

"Why are you messing around?"

Xu Da's expression gradually became serious: "It's human nature to love a man and a woman. Brother Zhao, don't you believe in the fallacies that rotten Confucianism preserves the principles of nature and destroys human desires?"

He was already in a bad mood because he failed the ranking, and now he was reprimanded by Zhao Ruixiang, who had just won the ranking and was proud of the spring breeze.

"Okay, don't argue about this anymore!"

Li Cezhi frowned slightly, and took the initiative to stand up to resolve this possible dispute.

"Forget it, for Ce Zhi's sake, I won't argue with you."

Seeing Li Cezhi come forward to persuade him to make peace, Zhao Ruixiang just brushed his sleeves and shut up. Xu Da raised his eyebrows slightly. Although he didn't say anything, he still had a grudge in his heart.

"Winning the first case of Tongsheng, such a happy event, I naturally invite everyone to congratulate."

"However, everyone in my family is waiting for me to bring news back. I have to go back to Nanshan Village first, and then have a drink with brother Xu and brother Zhao tomorrow!"

When the three of them walked out of Anlu Street, Li Cezhi was already ready to say goodbye.

At this moment, Xu Da, who was upset, saw a group of villagers squatting on the street, and a carriage was parked not far away. He seemed to have guessed something, and suddenly showed an unpredictable smile on his face.

"Brother Zhao, I was at fault for the first thing. I will accept all the things you said about me being dissolute."

Xu Da pretended to be sincere, and took the initiative to admit his mistake, saying: "You have been selected as a scholar today, and you are still among the top ones. You have a bright future in the future. Please help me a lot."

He said this with a loud voice, as if deliberately attracting everyone's attention.

The moment the sound came out, passers-by on the street looked sideways. Similarly, the villagers squatting on the street looked at each other and held the wooden sticks in their hands tightly, as if they had found their prey!
"That's natural!"

Xu Da raised his voice and praised him for being on the list. Zhao Ruixiang didn't notice the difference, but felt that it was very useful, and his face was also full of color: "It's best if you get lost and come back."

"You and I are classmates and friends, why should I not support you?"

"Don't worry, wait until I'm studying in the Imperial College"

Just as Zhao Ruixiang was halfway through speaking, suddenly, several villagers dressed as farmers touched behind him.

One person held a wooden stick and hit him hard on the back of the head.

"Eh!"

Before Zhao Ruixiang could react, he rolled his eyes and passed out.

Immediately afterwards, another villager stuffed the sack he had prepared along the opening into it.

"The man has been captured, let's go!"

The group of villagers shouted, and quickly got into the carriage with the sack containing Zhao Ruixiang.

"shelf!"

The coachman who was on standby did not delay for a moment. As soon as he got into the carriage, he rode away with the carriage and quickly disappeared from the sight of Xu Da and Li Cezhi.

"them."

Li Cezhi was dumbfounded, the movements of this group of villagers were too fast and too skillful, as if they had rehearsed a thousand times, from being knocked out with a sap to taking people away, it took less than a few breaths of effort.

Even before Li Cezhi had time to stop them, they had already disappeared.

"In broad daylight, dare to kidnap people in the street, there is no law!"

When Li Cezhi reacted, he was worried about his friend's safety, and hurried to report to the county government office.

"Brother Li, don't worry."

Xu Da raised his palm and stopped him: "You don't have to worry, this arrogant man will not be in danger of his life."

Seeing Xu Da's indifference, as if he had expected it, Li Cezhi was slightly stunned, recalling some details earlier, and then frowned: "Brother Xu, did you deliberately raise your voice to let him be taken away?"

"good."

With a smile on his face, Xu Da admitted it straightforwardly.

"You don't have to worry, these villagers took him away not to kill him, but to give him a good fortune."

Xu Da seems to have a good understanding of all this and has a well-thought-out plan.

"what is the problem?"

Li Cezhi's face darkened, and he asked seriously.

"Brother Li, you don't know. On the day when the children's exam results are released, over the years, villagers from various villages and towns have come here to observe the tradition of high school students."

"Why is this?"

Li Cezhi became more and more puzzled, since he is a villager, how dare he do such a lawless thing like taking people away in the street?

You must know that taking away a scholar who is on the list is a felony, far worse than robbing ordinary farmers and civilians.

"They kidnapped people in order to marry their daughters."

Xu Da told the whole story with a smile.

It turned out that these clan villagers from various villages and towns wanted to kidnap the newly promoted talents to return to be aunts and marry relatives.

"It's just a talent, why should it be like this?"

Li Cezhi was slightly taken aback, a little puzzled.

The fame of a scholar shows that the official does not kneel, and can enter the Imperial College for study, can take the imperial examination, and win the exam.

Although these privileges are considered good, they are far from enough to make the villagers compete to marry their daughters, and even take them into the street to kidnap them, right?
"Scholars are naturally useless, but what if this scholar wins the exam in the future?"

Xu Da said in a calm voice, "If you win the Juren, not only will you have the opportunity to become an official, but you will also be exempted from taxes on the land under your name, and your family members will not have to do corvee."

The benefits brought by Juren's status are enough to generate a lot of benefits, so that the villagers of these clans can benefit greatly.

After all, if he could establish a family relationship with Juren, even if he did not become an official in the future, he would be exempted from the corvee within the clan.

In addition, the clan's property can be attached to his name to avoid taxation. A Juren can at most own [-] mu of land property. If these taxes can be saved, it will be a huge sum of money every year.

So even if it is to cast a wide net and catch more fish, just to have a slight chance to climb up to a family member, the clan villagers of ten villages and eight villages can use all kinds of means.

"Before, these villagers were quite polite. Most of them came to propose marriage and promised various benefits."

"But there are too many people who want to get married, and gradually such a rude method is derived. It is this sap trick that will make more than one family of villagers, and the competition is also fierce."

There is such an absurd thing?
Li Cezhi was dumbfounded when he heard this: "Isn't it nonsense to force a marriage? What if the scholar wakes up and pursues it?"

"Hold it? Who will hold it up?"

Xu Da sneered and said: "For no reason, I put warm and fragrant nephrite into my arms, not to mention the delicious food and drink, and even offered to provide money to subsidize the scholar's examination."

"This is all a great thing. Those students who have just graduated as scholars, who have never seen such a battle, will they refuse to blame?"

That being said, it is true.

Li Cezhi reacted, and couldn't help secretly glad that he wasn't too complacent.

If he revealed his identity as the chief of the case, he might be the one who suffered this sap today.

"This egomaniac, who is serious all day long, I want him to break the identity of the first brother, let him know what he is, and see if he still has the face to criticize me!"

Xu Da was extremely satisfied with how he handled it, and his face was full of color, as if he had thought of what happened after Zhao Ruixiang was taken away.

At the same time that Li Cezhi hadn't rushed back, someone galloped over on a fast horse from outside Nanshan Village.

"The Li family in Nanshan Village, Li Cezhi, is the head of the high school student case!"

"The Li family in Nanshan Village, Li Cezhi, is the head of the high school student case!"

Before the person arrives, the sound arrives first.

The officials who were sent by the county magistrate to announce the good news raised their voices and yelled more than ten times outside Nanshan Village before they entered the village.

His voice spread throughout Nanshan Village and spread to every household.

what!
Dalang of the Li family actually passed the exam as a scholar?

Still the case!

The county magistrate actually personally sent someone to announce the good news?
This news was undoubtedly a thunderbolt, hitting the water.

All of a sudden, the whole Nanshan Village exploded, and all the villagers came out to watch the excitement.

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