Vol 7 Chapter 42: Stand-in

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The Chen family is a big clan. The ancestral graveyard is very large, and the good feng shui is occupied by the powerful people in the clan. The tomb of Chen Yongren’s house is in the outermost corner. The cemetery is the place with the heaviest shadow. Even in daylight, Liu Yanzhi can Seeing that the wandering ghosts here are some negative energy bodies. Their existence caused the temperature of the entire cemetery to drop by two degrees Celsius, and under Chen Liu's grave, there was a cluster of black negative energy that persisted.
Liu Yanzhi was unable to talk to this group of energy, just like he couldn't talk to the soul of Baifan who had been with him, but he could imagine how a weak woman who had no husband by her side was struggling to support her family and was oppressed by her relatives. The scene of death with hatred.
"Who is buried here?" Xiao Chen Zikun asked him.
"It's your Uncle Chen Yongren's wife and son. He is also named Chen Zikun." Liu Yan said, pointing straight to the small tomb.
Xiao Chen Zikun nodded as if he did not understand.
There was a drizzle in the sky, the bitter cold winter in Hunan, the wet roads of the cemetery, a few stalks of grass on the side of the road trembling in the wind, crows circling and noisy in the sky, Liu Yan straight in front of the graves of "young brothers and sisters" After three bows, he took the child back to the village with his little brother.
This little brother is called Chen Aqing. He is a collateral member of the clan. He lives as a tenant. He is warm and kind. He should call Chen Yongren the fifth uncle on the basis of seniority.
"Uncle Wu, is the United States far away? How long will it take to arrive by boat?" Chen Aqing asked yearningly.
"There is a Pacific Ocean between the United States and our Great Qing Dynasty. It takes three months to get there by boat. Why, do you want to go to the United States? Being a Chinese worker is not an easy way out. It is better to go to the beach." Liu Yanzhi was very good to this young man. Favor, persuade.
"I dare not go to the U.S. Shanghai is too far away and Changsha City is almost the same." Chen Aqing said, "I have a cousin named Chen Asheng. I went to the U.S. with someone ten years ago. I heard that I opened a store in San Francisco. No letter came. I don’t know if it’s dead or alive. It’s too far away. It’s tens of thousands of miles away from home. I don’t know if there is really a short and long family. You say this is so scary."
Liu Yanzhi's heart moved: "Chen Asheng, who did he go to America with?"
A Qing said: "Brother Ah Sheng was working as a servant with Master Lin. After Master Lin died, he accompanied the young lady to the United States to find his uncle."
"Master Lin is the governor of Jiangdong? Lin Huaiyuan, Miss Lin's name is Lin Su?"
"Uncle Wu, how do you know?"
Liu Yan looked up to the sky and laughed. He remembered that Lin Su was from Hunan. He didn't expect that after turning a few turns, he would be able to connect with each other. This is really fate, but I don’t need to talk about it with A Qing. He doesn't understand either.
With this relationship, Liu Yanzhi felt that A Qing was even more close, and asked him what the death of his fifth aunt was. Now A Qing hesitated and talked about him.
Liu Yanzhi felt strange and stopped and said with a serious face: "A Qing, do you think your fifth uncle is a fool? Your fifth aunt died, she didn't look down on her in the coffin, and you deliberately kept your fifth uncle away. You are not afraid of your aunt going at night. Looking for you?"
Chen Aqing looked left and right, he wanted to say something, Liu Yan knew what he was worried about, and said: "You think Uncle Wu is not capable of revenge, what do you think is this?" He opened the suitcase, and there was a pile of clothes on the clothes. There were two bright and black pistols.
Liu Yan copied the gun straight in his hand, rubbed both hands on the heel of his leather shoes and loaded it. Without looking, he shot twice in the sky and two black crows fell to the ground.
Chen Aqing was stunned. Unexpectedly, the weak Wushu turned out to be a sturdy fighter with two guns. He threw himself on his knees and cried: "Fifth Uncle, my aunt is wronged for death."
Liu Yan said straightforwardly: "Say slowly, Uncle Wu will not let his loved ones die."
At the entrance of the cemetery, there is a hut for watching the graves. The three of them sat in the room to take shelter from the rain. He listened to Chen Aqing's explanation of the death of the fifth aunt. His language skills were not strong, and he talked for a long time, Liu Yanzhi After stroking the clues, the truth gradually emerged, with a rough outline.
Chen Yongren ranks fifth among the Chen family’s brothers, but his mother’s only one sister has long been married to another place. He has an only son in the family. At the age of seventeen, the family found him a daughter-in-law through a matchmaker. The daughter of Liu's surname in Huaming Building, County, was the same age as Yongren, knowledgeable, virtuous and quiet. After the two married, Chen Yongren died. Without his father's control, Chen Yongren wanted to break into the world. The old mother and her mother were already pregnant. Liujia's wife couldn't control him, so she had to let him do her own way.
At first, Chen Yongren just wandered around in Changsha city. Later, he met a group of friends from other places, and his heart became more wild. He even left his mother and his wife and wanted to travel across the ocean to the United States of America. Two capitals were entangled, and tears sent him to the carriage in Guangzhou. This difference was ten years.
After Chen Yongren left, Chen Liu gave birth to a big fat boy, named Chen Zikun according to the genealogy and the name that Chen Yongren had prepared long ago. At first, Chen Yongren did business in Honolulu and sent money back. The family also sent him a picture of his son, but Later, I gradually lost contact. People in the clan rumoured that Chen Yongren died in a foreign land. Later, Chen Liu’s son died of a serious illness. There were no descendants in the family, only the old mother and the young daughter-in-law. Those villains in the clan became coveted. A guy named Chen Yongtai relied on being the nephew of the patriarch to occupy Chen Yongren's house and drove the old lady and Chen Liu to a broken house outside the village.
Chen Liu was not convinced and found the patriarch to appeal. The patriarch intended to avenge her, but secretly did not know what she had done. In short, Chen Liu committed suicide the next day. The old mother was in grief and indignation. There was no one to take care of him. He died soon afterwards. Chen Liu’s family reported to the Ningxiang County Office. The Yamen also sent a post-mortem. The elder asked the case, but in the end it was unexplainedly fooled. The family didn’t have the energy to fight lawsuits for years, so they had to suffer a dumb loss. In fact, everyone knows that Chen Liu's death was unjustified, and it was the group of people who occupied Chen Yongren's house and land that forced her to death.
After listening directly, Liu Yan sighed, "A Qing, don't tell anyone what happened today, you know."
A Qing's eyes flushed and said, "Uncle, I know how to count. You must take care of yourself."
Liu Yanzhi took ten Yingyang and sent A Qing away, and took Xiao Chen Zikun to Ningxiang County. He first stayed at Yuelai Inn. After eating, he started talking with his son.
"What do you think about this?" Liu Yan asked directly.
"Kill all the bad guys to death." Xiao Chen Zikun gestured with both hands in the shape of a pistol, screaming in his mouth.
"My child, today I will give you two idioms, one is called the courage of a man, and the other is the spirit of anger." Liu Yan straightforwardly taught him, "With my ability, it is okay to kill all the people in the village, but you think you kill them. Can the people of Quanxia look at it? No, killing is the simplest method, and it is also the least technical. There are many methods that are more ruthless than killing. Would you like to see it?"
Little Chen Zikun nodded ignorantly.
Liu Yanzhi took out the Hong Kong-bought dress from the box, put it on, top hat, leather shoes, civilized stick, covered with a large cloak of British woolen cloth, smoky crystal glasses on the bridge of the nose, and took the famous post of the Prime Minister's Office of National Affairs, the fifth product of Zhang Jing, to the county. Ya pays a visit to the master.
The emperor Tiangao in Ningxiang County is far away. How can I usually see the posts of the Beijing officials? Liu Yanzhi claims to be a good friend of the Prime Minister’s Yamen Five-level Zhang Jingzhou Jiarui, and also a comprador of the American Foreign Bank. He has big business in Shanghai, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, Hanyang Ironmaking The factory’s machines were imported by him, and Yuan Kewen, the second son of Yuan Shikai Yuan, was also a good friend. He said that the majesty of the county can tell the truth and falsehood of a country turtle, not to mention the majesty of the county, it is the prefect of Changsha. The Governor of Huguang had to be fooled when he came.
The county magistrate served Liu Yanzhi with wine and raised the matter during the dinner, saying that an English pastor had been provoking troubles in the county recently. Please Mr. Chen to help settle the matter. If it can be done, thank you.
Ten years ago, the Eight-nation Allied Forces entered the Forbidden City and occupied the capital. The Queen Mother and the Emperor Guangxu were in a position to go to Xishou. After the war, the Qing Dynasty signed the Boxer Treaty with the great powers to compensate 450 million taels of silver. In this battle, not only was the national fortune lost, but the national self-confidence of the Chinese nation was wiped out for thousands of years. However, local officials were unable to handle foreign affairs and did not handle errands well. They often made quarrels and caused troubles. Daotai and the governor will only punish the local officials, which makes the local officials even more afraid of foreigners.
Liu Yanzhi was not afraid of foreigners. He asked the magistrate where the foreign priest came from, but the magistrate couldn't tell. He only said that he was a real foreigner with high nose and concave eyes, yellow hair and long legs.
"Foreigners are also divided into three or six or nine classes. The first-class powers are like Britain, the United States, France and Germany, the second-class powers are Austria, Russia, Japan, etc., and the third-class powers are even more. Some small European countries are not as big as Ningxiang County and have no soldiers or ships. Be fierce?" Liu Yanzhi's remarks made the magistrate even more so, and he agreed to ask Liu Yanzhi to accompany him when he meets with foreigners tomorrow, and talk about the other party's words.
The next day, Liu Yanzhi was still dressed in a dress and came to the county government to volunteer to help. He was generous in his actions. From the concierge to the third shift and the sixth room, he took care of everything. He couldn't take out the broken copper. The rewards were all white flowers that were spent in Mexico. Blow in a breath and put it beside your ears.
The county magistrate served tea and hospitality. After chatting for a while, the foreign pastor came, and he was really arrogant and domineering. The whole county government didn't dare to come out, but Liu Yanzhi heard the way, where is the pastor of the powerful country, he is clearly a Turkish counterfeit.
Turkey is the Ottoman Empire. I think it was also a glorious empire across Europe and Asia. It drank the Danube at every turn, swept Europe, and won a vote. Southern European countries don’t want it. However, the past few years have gone downhill, and it is just like the Qing Empire. Xishan, the object of oppression by the powers.
Liu Yan directly told the prefect about the origin of this person, and the prefect suppressed his excitement: "Really?"
"I dare to make a guarantee." Liu Yan smiled straight ~EbookFREE.me~ Old parents can beat this person to the board. Then the Ottoman country categorically didn't dare to swear words with our prime minister's office. "
Even so, the county magistrate still dare not make a mistake, what if this foreigner has a British and American relative.
Liu Yanzhi had to go out in person and scold him in fluent English. The fake powers who had been exposed to the old had no choice but to blush and ran away in despair.
The magistrate laughed. This was the first case in which Ningxiang County and even Changsha Prefecture had won the Westernization. When it comes to the governor of Huguang, he has a lot of face and honors the court.
"Brother, if you are going back to your hometown this time, if you have any help from your brother, just speak." The magistrate patted the tonic on his chest and praised Haikou.
Liu Yan said straightforwardly: "The old parents are serious, but there is indeed another unjust case in the younger brother's family, and the adult's help is needed for Zhaoxue." Then he took out the paper and handed it over.
The magistrate browsed through the table, slapped the table, filled with righteous indignation: "There is simply no king's law!" This case was handled by his predecessor. Don't do his business. This kind of bullying of orphans and widows is common in the countryside. Xu, taking advantage of the great victories in the Westernization, the magistrate decided to become a master of the sky again, and punish a few villains and evil gentry in the countryside.