Chapter 389: How about asking Governor Ling for support?
"Wu County Magistrate used your wife's dowry to sit in your current position. How can you say that your wife is from the Bai family and is Ziqian's aunt? For the sake of the Bai family's money, you have to..."
Before he finished speaking, Wu County Magistrate interrupted him with a stern voice: "What nonsense! I rely on my own ability and talent, not on your wife's dowry!"
Shui Qing was still smiling and was about to speak, but Bai Ziqian beside him said first: "You are talking nonsense! How dare you say that the money you donated for the official position was not from my aunt?
My aunt brought tens of thousands of taels of silver, which she could not use up in her lifetime. If it was not for you, she would have to come back every year to ask my grandmother for money?
The county magistrate's annual salary is only about 100 taels of silver, but you are later There are four concubines, five maids, a lot of servants, more than ten illegitimate sons and daughters in the courtyard, plus your parents, the monthly expenses are more than a hundred taels!
Every time my aunt comes back, she will cry and complain that you have taken another concubine or given a favor to that maid, and there are also official social interactions. Her dowry is not enough, and if the silver is too little, you will despise it. Over the years, our Bai family has been subsidizing your Wu family for at least 30,000 taels of silver, right?
How could my uncle not remember it! "
Wu County Magistrate was able to stay out of it when the master was so angry that his hands were shaking and his beard was standing up and he was incoherent, but now it was his turn, he was so angry that he couldn't speak.
Shui Qing has deeply experienced this mentality.
The Phoenix man who made a fortune by relying on his wife's family, after becoming successful, does not think about repaying his parents-in-law, but is eager to get rid of or even deny it, and desperately proves that it is his own ability and hard work that has made him successful.
There are men who are grateful, but not Magistrate Wu. He is the most typical Phoenix man.
No matter which dynasty or generation, using the wife's dowry is a shameful thing! What's more, he is a scholar who claims to be pure.
No matter which one, Magistrate Wu strongly denied the existence, not to mention that two of them were gathered at once.
At that moment, Magistrate Wu threw all the plans and deployments he had thought of before, and ordered the master: "Break the door! Don't let any of the unruly people inside go!"
He originally wanted to wait until dark, and nearly two hundred people would disperse and rush in from all parts of the wall.
He had observed that there were many women on the opposite embankment. Although they were dressed as men, they were obviously girls, proving that there were not many men inside!
No matter if they were injured or for other reasons, as long as they were not there, it would be beneficial to his side.
And his side was full of strong men. When they rushed in at night, dealing with a bunch of old, weak, sick and disabled people and girls, it would be easy.
But at this moment, he couldn't care about many things. He just wanted to catch the people inside immediately!
The legal advisor was waiting for his master to say this.
As soon as he received the order, he hurriedly shouted: "Captain Sun, hurry up! Arrange someone to knock on the door!"
Captain Sun was confused.
If you want to quarrel, just quarrel properly, why start fighting when you disagree.
The key point seems that they have lost the quarrel?
The master and the legal advisor seemed to be looking for a quarrel in anger, but if you two want to quarrel, just compete with each other in words, why use force for no reason!
Captain Sun ran down, while calling people to knock on the door, he thought angrily, the master and the legal advisor are the scholars who are at a disadvantage! Aren't scholars the most eloquent? In the end, they can't argue with a country woman and a half-grown child.
It's really a case of one incompetent general exhausting the whole army - he is the soldier who runs errands.
There is a wooden top above the gate, and the men squatting there are Hu Wenhua and Wu Lao Da.
When people come to knock on the door, they pour down bags of lime powder one by one.
The flying lime powder fell down. Even with masks, it was useless. It was all over the eyes, nose, and mouth. There were choking and coughing sounds everywhere.
After a while, the dozens of men who knocked on the door retreated with their eyes, noses, and mouths covered. They spat at Captain Sun and said, "No, that lime powder is free, too much!"
"How can there be so much lime powder? This stuff can't be eaten. Who would hoard so much for no reason!"
"Boss Zhu also said that there was a lot of lime powder that time. Didn't he say that they must have run out? What is this? Who gave the news? It's a scam, isn't it?"
"My eyes hurt! I don't care. I can't go up. Who can go up? Go up!"
...... Captain Sun listened to the complaints one after another and his head was big.
He hurriedly replaced another group of people, and the result was exactly the same.
Well, now it's not just a big head, but a headache.
Shuiqing on the observation deck felt much more at ease.
I didn't use pepper water and itching powder because although these two things work quickly and obviously, the corresponding time effect is also short, and it can be relieved after one or two hours. However, if lime touches the eyes, the burning sensation is strong. After all, the people below are not regular troops. They are a mob gathered temporarily. How many people are willing to fight for their lives?
They don't want to destroy their eyes that can see for other people's affairs.
So when they feel the eyes are burning, the smart ones will lie down and become a wounded who only eats but does not work.
Li Changlin counted silently on the side and was very excited, "Auntie, these two batches have almost ninety people! Is the lime so effective?"
Shui Qing:..... It's not that the lime is effective, but that there are many smart people.
Li Bai Ziqian Li Changlin was on the observation deck, and Shui Qing came down and ordered: "Sister-in-law Guifen, you should hurry up to make dinner, and then rest in batches;
The other side will not attack for the time being. Gousheng, you go up and ask Xiaocao and the others to discuss and divide them into two groups. Each group will rest for three hours and let them divide themselves. Also tell Wenhua and the other men again. "
It started in the morning, and they only came down for a while during lunch. Everyone was highly tense throughout the whole day. This would definitely not work.
Especially there is a long night to endure. If everyone endures it, what will they do tomorrow? She saw that the people on the other side did not look like they would go back today.
Wu County Magistrate was originally planning to return to the city in the afternoon.
In the original plan, he brought a large number of troops to come here in a mighty manner. These mountain villagers timidly opened the door and explained clearly without saying a word; otherwise, they could easily climb in, open the door and force them out, and honestly explain the truth.
No matter which one, they will return in the afternoon.
But the fact is that none of them happened, and so many people were killed here, so they can't return empty-handed anyway!
"Captain Sun, light a fire, we will camp here tonight and discuss countermeasures. "
Captain Sun sighed and followed the order.
What's the point of staying here? What countermeasures can we discuss? They are less than a hundred people now, including the master and the lawyer, as well as the useless servants and boys in their house.
When facing each other, they are not counted as people!
The lawyer came forward and suggested: "Master, why don't we ask Governor Ling for support?"
Governor Ling is also the Minister of War. He has both power and people. It is as easy to deal with a mere Shanshui Village as crushing an ant.