Chapter 412 The owl
The magistrate of Yang County, Changshan, is greedy. During the reign of Kangxi Yihai, the imperial court conquered the western frontiers and collected mules and horses to transport grain from the people. Yang took this opportunity to search, loot local livestock, and looted them all. Zhou Village in the county is a place where merchants gather, and the carriages and horses are endless. Yang ordered to plunder the carriages and horses and robbed hundreds of all kinds of mounts. Sifang business travelers are indignant, but they have nowhere to complain.
At that time, county magistrates all over the country were working in the provincial capital. Among them, three county magistrates, one surnamed Dong, one surnamed Fan, and one surnamed Sun, lived in an inn together. On this day, while chatting, two Shanxi businessmen came to see him and cried loudly. Asking the reason, it turned out that the two went out this time with four mules beside them, all of which were robbed by Yang. They had no mounts and could not go home. I'm here to meet the three adults and ask them to be fair and help ask for mules.
The three adults saw that he was pitiful and agreed to help. Let's visit Yangfu together. Yang prepared wine and entertained. During the dinner, everyone was clear about their intentions, but Yang didn't listen. Everyone advised that Yang was quite impatient. He raised his glass, interrupted the words of the three people, and said, "I think of a wine order. Please answer. In the wine order, there must be heaven, earth and ancients. Ask what to hold on the left, ask what to say on the right, and answer at will. Whoever can't answer, he will be punished for drinking.
Everyone nodded and said, "Please give me some advice." Yang smiled and said, "Listen carefully: there is a moon wheel in the sky, Kunlun on the earth, and an ancient Liu Bolun. Hold the wine glass in your hand and say, 'You don't need to mention it outside the wine glass.' The meaning of the words is very clear. It is to ask everyone to just drink, not talk about political affairs, and not to plead for others.
Everyone was unhappy when they heard the words. The county magistrate of Fan pondered for a while and said, "There is a Guanghan Palace in the sky, a Qianqing Palace on the ground, and there is an ancient man, Jiang Taigong. Holding a fishing rod in his hand, he said, 'Those who wish to take the bait'. Sun County magistrate said, "There is a Milky Way in the sky, the Yellow River on the earth, and an ancient man is Xiao He. He holds a clear law in his hand and talks about 'the stolen officials and stolen officials'.
Yang ridiculed him, with a look on his face, meditated for a long time, and said, "There is Lingshan in the sky, Mount Tai on the ground, and an ancient man is a cold mountain. He held a broom in his hand and said, "Each person sweeps the snow in front of the door."
Everyone looked at each other in con's face and didn't know how to fight back. While thinking hard, a young man came in proudly, dressed in luxuriously, and raised his hand to salute. Everyone invited him to sit down and served a drink. The young man smiled and said, "Don't be busy drinking. Just then, I saw you drinking orders. At the next time, I will be itchy, and I will come to make up for fun. Everyone said, "I would like to hear more about it." The teenager said, "There is a jade emperor in the sky and an emperor on the earth. There was an ancient emperor, Hong Wuzhu. He holds a three-foot sword in his hand and talks about 'corrupt officials'. Everyone laughed.
Yang was furious and scolded, "Where did you come from? How dare you be so unreasonable!" He was ordered to capture him. The teenager laughed, turned over and jumped on the table, turned into an owl, broke through the curtains, flapped his wings and flew away, disappearing.
(The owl, that is, the owl.)