Chapter 114
Sure enough, early the next morning, Xia Liansheng asked Mama Rong to take Baolan and Baomei out to find someone to buy a house. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Xia Liansheng accepted General Nian's invitation, saying that he would hold a banquet in his governor's mansion to entertain him and invite him to appreciate the light, and Xia Liansheng readily agreed. However, Fan Ning was reluctant to go with Xia Liansheng to see General Nian, after all, he was a governor, and he was just a small county official, unlike letting others say that he was overstepping his ranks, so he followed Mama Rong to see the house.
General Nian's banquet was dinner, and when Xia Lian arrived, the sunset had already sunset, and the capital should have been dark at this time, but the days in the south were still longer than in the north. General Nian looked to be just over thirty years old, with a short beard and a very friendly smile. Although he is in a high position, he always has a gentle feeling of an elder when talking to Xia Liansheng, and a short conversation makes Xia Liansheng very impressed. Halfway through, General Nian's eldest son Nian Fu also came to the study to ask his father about things, Nian Gongzi was just fifteen, and he was already tall and tall, Xia Liansheng looked at the hot eyes, compared with his thin and small body, he was simply envious.
Not long after, the subordinates of the Governor's Mansion came to inform the two that the banquet had begun, and the two hurriedly got up at the same time and entered the banquet. The two borrowed wine to chat, and the more they talked, the happier they became. When Dao Xing's head was drunk and hazy, General Nian mentioned the matter of the governor's yamen, and said that Ruan Mian Tuan had helped Xia Liansheng in the past, Xia Liansheng thanked General Nian again for his thoughtfulness, he also occupied a position, and hoped that General Nian would send a few more capable people to help him set up the stall, he just wanted to live a leisurely life every day, General Nian heard Xia Liansheng's answer, smiled proudly, and then assured Xia Liansheng again and again that the arrangement was absolutely stable.
To be honest, at the beginning, Xia Liansheng was always a little apprehensive because of the hurried handover, so at the beginning, he went to the yamen from time to time to check the daily dynamics, for fear that General Nian would have a knot in his heart for his arrival and give him a set or something. Later, I saw that Ruan Miantuan conscientiously helped him to tear up the business accounts with General Nian every day, and also helped him sort out the daily newspaper, and his business ability was no less than Lin Ruhai's two staff, and the knots in his heart finally slowly let go, but he still looked at the accounts every day.
After he took office, the top priority was to clean up the yamen, although he lived in an inn, but he couldn't let the yamen break for the New Year. General Nian is also more interesting, specially sent a team of soldiers to stand guard in the yamen, Ruan Miantuan brought his own clerical officials to come over to work, Xia Liansheng saw this, yes, simply gave Ruan Miantuan the matter of repairing the yamen, but asked Ruan Miantuan to only repair, not extravagant, Ruan Miantuan respectfully agreed, within two days to find a craftsman, tinkling and knocking. Coincidentally, it is almost the lunar month at this time, and most of the craftsmen have returned to their hometowns for the New Year, because the craftsmen are very happy to come to the yamen to work on the doorstep, and they are in full swing every day.
On this day, Xia Liansheng took Ming Fan to the yamen on a whim to inspect, at this time the craftsmen who worked were still very simple, as long as the food was full every day, they would never be lazy and slippery, you see the wood planing wood to make the gate there, 'eat and eat' the wood, pull the tiles to repair the roof one by one, carefully repair the holes in the roof of the roof, and then arrange the tiles neatly one by one, and the energetic appearance made Xia Liansheng nod straight.
At this moment, there was a commotion at the door, Xia Liansheng turned his head to look at the door, and the clever Ming Fan immediately ran over to inquire. After a while, Ming Fan ran back: "Master (since he sent the official, he has been upgraded), there is a little flower called outside, it should have been lived here, but now there is no place to live, it is making trouble, Bing Yong has passed." ”
Xia Liansheng usually didn't see Huazi, he had seen it in the past few years in Jinan, so he also walked over curiously to prepare to watch. I heard the sound of a child crying from afar, Xia Liansheng thought that the soldiers here would not beat people, so he hurriedly walked a few steps. When he got to the door, he found that the truth did not match what he had imagined, a dirty little beggar sat on the ground and cried, and the two soldiers stuck at the gate and did not allow him to enter, but did not push him or beat him. The little beggar was in rags, and he didn't know that he hadn't washed it for a few days, and the tears of crying washed his face out of two white ways. Seeing Xia Liansheng coming over, everyone looked at him, and the little beggar cried even more fiercely, and he could still shout loudly while crying: "My brother is sick, he has been lying here, I just went out to find something to eat, why did you kill him?" You pay back my brother! The screams were terrible, and the two soldiers didn't know what to do, you look at me, I look at you, and finally looked at Xia Liansheng in unison.
Xia Liansheng noticed that the little beggar was still holding a large piece of steamed bread tightly in his hand, but the steamed bun was the same dirty color as the little beggar, and Xia Liansheng didn't see it at once. At this time, everyone looked at him, and he had to order a soldier and ask him to call Ruan Miantuan, while he looked at the little beggar and said, "Because it is going to be renovated here, the beggars living in it have gone elsewhere, have you gone to ask someone you know?" ”
The little beggar cried whining, and when he heard Xia Liansheng's question, he didn't care, he only cried and called his brother, Xia Liansheng was a little frustrated, thinking that although he was not a popular character, the children of the Lin family still liked him very much, and the thirteenth elder brother was also very friendly to him, so that he always felt that he was invincible to the children, and now the little beggar did not give him face, so he felt very embarrassed for a while.
"Presumptuous, our adults ask, why don't you hurry up and recruit from the truth?" The soldier was afraid that Xia Liansheng would be ugly, so he hurriedly scolded the little beggar.
The little beggar was scolded, he didn't dare to cry anymore, he looked at Xia Liansheng with sobbing and fear, Xia Liansheng waved his hand at Bing Yong again and again: "It's okay, it's okay, I'll just ask, otherwise it's okay to wait for you Lord Ruan to come over." ”
That Bingyong smiled embarrassedly: "Lord Xia is kind-hearted, but the little one doesn't have the patience to coax a child." ”
The little beggar kept sobbing endlessly, Xia Liansheng thought that he had been sitting on the ground crying for fear of catching a cold, so he wanted him to get up and find a place to sit, and it happened that at this time, Ruan Miantuan followed the soldier who went to find him and hurried to make amends to Xia Liansheng, and scolded the little beggar for making trouble on the street, which scared him into crying again. Xia Liansheng was just about to stop him, but who knew that Ruan Miantuan suddenly changed his serious expression and said to the little beggar: "All the previous beggars were dragged by us to the Shantang in the north of the city, where you beggars are not restricted from leaving to find work by themselves, if your brother is still sick, then he should still be in the Shantang." ”