The magistrate of Zhou County, Qingyuan County, was an honest official and straightforward.

Recently, he received a secret report: Recently, the official treasury has become very strange. A few days ago, there was a few less. After a day, it was normal, but this day, there was suddenly a few more.

Therefore, the county magistrate ordered someone to ask the warehouse official in charge of guarding to take the bank account book and come immediately.

Soon, all the warehouse officials came.

One of them was called Zhang Sheng and the other Gao Fei.

County Magistrate Zhou flipped through the ledger and asked, "Has there been any abnormality in the treasury recently?"

Zhang Sheng replied loudly, "Back to the Lord, there is no abnormality! If you don't believe me, you can check the account."

County Magistrate Zhou nodded and put the ledger on the book case, saying, "From the book, there is indeed no problem. However, whether the book matches the bank needs to be checked. Today, I want to go to the bank to check in person. Please lead the way."

In this way, the county magistrate followed the warehouse official to the front door of the silver warehouse and said, "The warehouse official, please unlock the lock."

Instantly, Gao Fei's expression panicked. He glanced secretly at Zhang Sheng, uneasily opened the first lock, and then stepped aside to wait for Zhang Sheng to open the second lock.

By this time, Zhang Sheng's expression had already changed. He rolled his eyes and said with a dry smile, "My lord, my uncle has just been promoted to prefect of Baoding. He once told me that he must come and visit my lord."

County Magistrate Zhou glanced at Zhang Sheng and said with a smile, "I dare not, I will definitely treat you warmly at that time."

Speaking of this, his face sank and he ordered, "Unlock!"

Zhang Sheng agreed, hesitantly walked to the door of the bank, but turned around and said, "My lord, I dare to ask, will you take the inventory, or will it be taken by me and Gao Fei?"

County Magistrate Zhou said, "Naturally, the two of you led the way. I have taken stock."

Zhang Sheng thought for a moment and said, "My lord doesn't know. In order to ensure the safety of the bank, there is an unwritten rule between humble and high flying."

County Magistrate Zhou asked coldly, "What regulations?"

Zhang Sheng said awkwardly, "This... that is, you are not allowed to wear clothes into the warehouse."

Having said that, he glanced at the county magistrate and said, "Now that the weather is cold and the adults are old, I don't think I need to take off my clothes."

After saying that, he took off his clothes, then turned around and opened the second lock, pushed open the warehouse door and shouted, "Sir, please!"

County Magistrate Zhou looked at the naked Zhang Sheng, pondered for a moment, and laughed: "This rule is very good. How can I not follow it?"

After saying that, he actually stripped naked and walked to the warehouse door.

"My lord!"  Suddenly, Gao Fei shouted and knelt on the ground a few steps before, "It's all the fault of the humble position! The humble position confessed, the weather is cold and windy, please put on your clothes."

It turned out that Gao Fei planned to get married a few days ago, but the money was not enough, what should I do?

He borrowed money from Zhang Sheng, but Zhang Sheng was not rich either.

This worried Gao Fei, so Zhang Sheng came up with an idea: We are guarding Jinshan to beg for food.

It is better to use the treasury first, and then make up for it when you have the money.

You don't say it, I don't say it, and no one knows.

Gao Fei was also dizzy and really started embezzling money.

It's lively now. Today, Gao Fei will take a few. Tomorrow, Zhang Sheng will say that if there is an emergency, he will also take a few.

Gao Fei knew that something was wrong and wanted to stop it, but how could he stop the rules he broke first?

So he said to Zhang Sheng, "We each keep an account and pay it back. In three months, when I get married, I must make up for it all."

Unexpectedly, three months later, everyone was dumbfounded at a little bit of silver. There is actually ten more silver!

So, the people took out their respective accounts and started to check, but until now, they still haven't figured out who the ten silver belongs to.

At that time, Zhou County Magistrate suddenly came to check the library. Zhang Sheng wanted to rely on his uncle's power and hoped that Zhou County Magistrate could accommodate the past.

Seeing that he could not, he made up a "take off your clothes and take stock" rule, trying to scare the county magistrate Zhou and fool the matter.

After hearing this, County Magistrate Zhou couldn't help laughing.

He put on his clothes and asked Zhang Sheng, "What would you do if I took inventory of the silver in my clothes and found that there was ten percent more silver?"

Zhang Sheng said with a sad face: "At that time, I said: Gao Fei and I are both naked in the warehouse, how can there be more? Only the lord you came in with clothes, it must be the lord you, or... make a rake and say that the lord you deliberately made things difficult for us, anyway, the treasury is more, not less."

County Magistrate Zhou didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he heard that, and said, "Now that the matter has been found out, according to the law, each of you will be charged 30 times and imprisoned for one year. Do you still have anything to say?"

Zhang Sheng and Gao Fei confessed their guilt with bitter faces.

He had thought that he would be sent to prison cell after sentencing, but seeing that a year had passed, the county magistrate seemed to have forgotten about it and did not mention of it.

On this day, Gao Fei said to Zhang Sheng, "It's weird, isn't the Lord punishing us?"

Zhang Sheng laughed and said, "Didn't I tell him that day that my uncle had just become the prefect of Baoding, and he was his immediate boss. And I wrote a letter to my uncle that night. I guess my uncle has already settled it."

Unexpectedly, a few days later, Zhou County Magistrate suddenly rose to court to close the case: according to the law, Zhang Sheng and Gao Fei were charged with 30 and imprisoned for one year.

Zhang Sheng's family hurriedly informed the prefect of Baoding.

That day, the Prefect of Baoding came to the County Office of Qingyuan County, and after chatting with the County Magistrate Zhou, he said, "I heard that Lord Zhou, despite the cold weather and old age, was naked and exposed to the case of silver, and the heart of the lord for the country is really admirable. This official came this time to hear Lord Zhou personally talk about the case, so that he can play Long Live Ming and ask for credit for the lord!"

Zhou County Magistrate explained the case in detail.

After hearing this, the Prefect of Baoding laughed dryly and said, "Okay, okay, okay! It's just that I don't know one thing: the case was closed a year ago, why did it take until today to pronounce the judgment? What's the reason?"

County Magistrate Zhou calmly said, "My lord must know that family and everything is prosperous. Gao Fei committed crimes because he got married.

When the lower official investigated the case, Gao Fei was still among the newlyweds.

First, there is the beauty of adulthood in heaven, and the law is nothing more than human feelings. I can't bear to beat mandarin ducks.

Second, if Gao Fei was convicted at that time, Gao Fei's new wife would definitely be harassed by her in-laws' neighbors. If his wife couldn't bear it and had three long and short, it would be equivalent to harming her life and destroying the family.

The lower official was sentenced a year later, not only did the above concerns disappear, but it also did not violate the law. "

"This..." After hearing this, the prefect of Baoding was tongue-tied, and after a long time, he said, "I have long heard that Lord Zhou loves the people like a son. Well, the case is well resolved! I will play it truthfully and ask for credit for the lord."

Unexpectedly, the county magistrate said, "I dare not! You don't have to ask for credit for the lower official first."

Having said that, he stood up and took out a letter and said, "This letter was written by the lord to the lower official a year ago. First, because it is not in the form of an official letter, and second, the lord is close to the culprit, the lower official has not opened the package in order to be able to solve the Kuyin case clearly. Now that the case is closed, dare I ask the lord, should the lower official open it or return it?"

The Prefect of Baoding rolled his eyes and glared at County Magistrate Zhou for a long time before saying, "You decide!"

County Magistrate Zhou smiled slightly, reached out and took out another letter, saying, "This letter was returned to the lord by the magistrate a year ago. Now I will give it to the lord together."

The Prefect of Baoding rolled his eyes and said, "Well, you open the letter I wrote to you, and I open your reply."

In this way, the prefect of Baoding took the reply letter from Zhou County Magistrate, opened it, and was stunned. The letter only wrote 8 words: Resignation.

The Prefect of Baoding shouted, "What do you mean?"

County Magistrate Zhou laughed and said, "Because no matter what is written in this letter, my lord, even if it is righteous and the law is selfless, it can actually be summed up in the words'favoritism and perversion of the law '. Therefore, the lower official can only respond to my lord with the word'resignation'."

After saying that, he turned around and walked out.