Daming King of Punishment

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Chapter 863 Prestige

?863 Zhang Weiming

"Has the matter with Li Congshu been settled?"

"Reporting to my lord, my subordinates allocated 5 taels of silver to him as Shangguan Feihong's compensation for him, and the remaining 95 taels were all sent to the palace and handed over to the treasury."

The head of the imperial guards has already learned about Li Congshu's affairs, and this case can be regarded as a successful conclusion.

"Cultural officials, write down the details of this case, and then keep all the evidence, and then the file can be sealed."

"It's my lord, the villain has already prepared everything, I just wait for my lord to look over it." The clerk had already done all of this, and at the moment Song Wuya asked, he immediately handed the dossier to Song Wuya.

Song Wuya looked at the file to find out if there was anything missing or wrong.

He was looking at the file, before he saw half of it, the yamen servant outside the yamen entered into it and reported it to Song Wuya.

"My lord, Li Congshu, the reporter, is asking to see me."

"Oh? Let him in." Song Wuya listened curiously, pondered for a while, figured out what was going on, and asked someone to bring him in immediately.

"Take him to the morgue immediately and take his daughter's body back." Song Wuya thought of this just now. Although the case is closed, the dead body is still in the government morgue.

Hearing this, Li Congshu immediately knelt down in the lobby, before he could say anything, he gave Song Wuya three heavy kowtows.

As soon as he raised his head, he waved his hand behind him violently: "Bring it in!"

Hearing this, Song Wuya frowned, feeling that besides being grateful to him, Li Congshu must have given him some thank you gift.

Seeing this, Song Wuya hurriedly said: "Li Congshu, it is the duty of this government to help you complain about grievances. What do you mean?"

"Master Zhifu, Xiaomin knows that he is a man. The million taels of Shangguan Feihong's silver is placed in front of Lord Zhifu, and the adults are not moved by it, let alone such a small gift from Xiaomin? Xiaomin came here this time. Thank you for your kindness to Xiaomin. Xiaomin hastily ordered a plaque and wanted to give it to adults to express Xiaomin's gratitude to adults."

Li Congshu explained the situation at this time, and people outside also walked in carrying a huge plaque.The plaque was covered with a red cloth, so the content on it could not be seen clearly, but judging from its appearance, it was really an extremely huge plaque.

"Hey!" Song Wuya couldn't help sighing: "Why do you spend so much money? If the people really love and respect this mansion, it will be the same with or without this plaque. You should return the plaque, this mansion can't accept it." .”

"My lord, please accept it, otherwise the little people will not get up." Seeing that Song Wuya was unwilling to accept the plaque, Li Congshu resorted to such means.

Seeing such a situation, Song Wuya was really helpless. He frowned and thought for a while before saying, "How about this, this plaque is under my residence, but I will return the money spent on making the plaque to you."

"Your Majesty, this plaque doesn't cost much, not to mention that the court just gave Xiaomin 5 taels of silver, and Xiaomin doesn't care about it." Li Congshu said earnestly, but Song Wuya refused to accept it.

Song Wuya knew in his heart that this Li Congshu was also determined, and he would not agree to do so.

At this moment, Song Wuya pondered for a while and said: "Okay, since you said so, then the manor will not say anything more. Someone here will accept the plaque."

The imperial guard stepped forward to take the plaque, and immediately removed the red cloth on it.

On the huge plaque, the four gold-plated characters of Qing Zheng Lian Ming came into view.

Looking at these four words, Song Wuya was extremely happy in his heart.After all, which good official in the world wouldn't want people to give him such a gift?Situ Yi has been an official for more than [-] years, and no common people have ever given him such a generous gift.

Although Song Wuya was happy in his heart, he still had to give the money for the plaque.

"Now that the government has accepted the plaque, tell me how much such a plaque will cost?" Song Wuya immediately asked Li Congshu after accepting the plaque.

Li Cong was naturally surprised by Song Wuya's question in writing: "My lord, why are you asking this?"

"It's nothing, the government just wants to know how much you want this." Song Wuya said with a smile, and then ordered the guards: "Carry the plaque to the back."

The guards carried the plaque to the backyard, and Li Congshu felt at ease watching this scene.

"Reporting to my lord, there is not much money, only ten taels of silver." Li Congshu said happily.

"Okay, you get up first, this is not a promotion, why keep kneeling." Song Wuya waved his hand to get Li Congshu up.After seeing him get up, he said: "Now that your daughter is known by Quanxia, ​​she must be able to rest in peace. You should bury your daughter as soon as possible! Now you have given me a plaque and helped me a lot. The government is not grateful to you. However, the government will naturally attend your daughter's funeral, and it is also appropriate to offer incense sticks."

"My lord, you are really flattering the little people." Li Congshu was very happy when he heard this. After all, the magistrate wanted to offer incense to his daughter, which would definitely make his family stand against a wall, so he was naturally happy .

Song Wuya then greeted the imperial guards and said, "Bring ten taels of silver, it's a funeral for the family."

Hearing the lotus, Li Congshu's face changed.Obviously, he also didn't expect that Song Wuya would go back after he spared such a big circle.Although the title was changed, the ten taels of silver should still be given to him.

Li Congshu was naturally unwilling to accept it, but Song Wuya had already said that, so what else could he do.

"You just take it, one yard is one yard, this has nothing to do with the plaque. If you don't accept it, how can this funeral be attended by the government?" Song Wuya said with a frown.

In desperation, Li Congshu had no choice but to take the ten taels of silver.

Li Congshu took ten taels of silver and left in a resentful mood.

After leaving the government office, a lot of people have already gathered outside the government office.Just now they saw with their own eyes that Li Congshu ordered someone to go in with a plaque, and then came out so quickly.

"Hey! I said, big brother, what is written on your plaque?"

Someone in the crowd asked Li Congshu a question.

Li Congshu raised his head and looked in the direction where the voice came from, but before he could answer, someone in the crowd said, "What else is there, it must be honest and honest."

"Why are you so sure?"

"It goes without saying, so tell me, what else can you give besides this?"

"I can still send...can send..."

Obviously this person doesn't have much knowledge, and he was really stabilized at this time.

Li Congshu cupped his fists at the people around him and saluted: "The four characters I'm presenting are honest and upright."

"Why do you look unhappy?"

Li Congshu's dejected expression was so obvious that it was impossible for the onlookers not to see it, so a curious person asked aloud.

Hearing this, Li Congshu shook his head helplessly and said: "The magistrate is not willing to accept my plaque. I have to say something, so the magistrate accepts it. But who would have thought? The magistrate asked the price of my plaque. I saw that the lord had already accepted it, so I didn't care too much, so I told it directly. But the lord Zhifu should ask for ten taels of silver to give it to my daughter's funeral. You say, the lord prefect is not right Did you give me the money for this plaque? In this way, wouldn’t my heart be wasted?”

Li Congshu was very distressed about this matter, and when the people around him asked about it, he told the truth about what happened just now.

He also knew very well in his heart that what Song Wuya was talking about was the funeral, but it was clearly the money given to him on the plaque.

As soon as he said this, the people around were in an uproar, applauding one by one.

"What a good official! It's rare to meet such a magistrate who is not even willing to accept the plaques given by the people, even if he accepts the original amount and returns the silver taels. He is really worthy of the four words of diligence and honesty." ah!"

"That's right! Didn't some people say bad things about the prefect before? Did they say that he was bullying the weak and afraid of the strong and the powerful? Now, it seems that they still have the face to make irresponsible remarks."

"That's right, the prefect is really a good official, everyone kneel down and kowtow to the prefect."

"Master Zhifu can't see it again."