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“…… Look, my lord—"

Zhanmeng, that is, the official B at the gate of the county ya, told what had just happened in detail, focusing on Qi Jinzhi's 'order', and then raised his head and looked at the white-faced man on the seat with expectant eyes.

"That's what he said?" The white-faced man didn't look at him, but focused on drinking tea with a tea cup, and asked casually: "By the way, how many people did he bring with him?" ”

is worthy of being a member of the Qi family, all of whom were robbed of military power by the emperor, and the eldest son of the dignified son was reduced to a remote small county to be a county commander, and he dared to be so arrogant.

"According to the small hastily estimated, there are seventy or eighty guards alone, and there are also thirty or forty attendants and servants."

Zhanmeng tilted his head and gestured with his fingers, and gave the answer.

"Yo, there are a lot of people brought, no wonder you have such confidence." The white-faced man took a sip and said with a slight mockery.

Zhanmeng was a little anxious, his problem had not been solved.

Rubbing his hands, Zhanmeng's eyes rolled around, and he said tentatively: "It doesn't matter how many people he brought." This is Wusa, not Shuixi, not the capital, no matter how powerful his surname is Qi, now it is just a county order. "And they are Usa, there is no shortage of county orders at all.

There is Ma County, and there are several major families such as Ma, Qu, Luo, and Yan to support, Wusa is enough, and the county order or something is a constraint.

"Hehe, he's not an ordinary county magistrate," the white-faced man put down the teacup and said lightly: "You have been a messenger in the county government for more than ten years, have you ever seen a county magistrate with so many guards?" ”

Zhan Meng was stunned.

He and Duan Mao are both Miao people, and during the Gaozu period, the entire cottage went down the mountain and returned to the stream, took the Han surname, and settled in the county seat. The ancestors of the two families also coincidentally became the soap of the county government.

The law of Daqi stipulates that service is a lowly status and is passed down from generation to generation.

After Zhanmeng and Duan Mao's father grew old, the two took over their father's duties and continued to eat in the yamen, knowing better than anyone else about the county yamen.

After thinking about it, Zhanmeng nodded: "Listening to what the adults said, hey, the surname Qi is really a little special." "Compared with those weak scholars who came to work single-handedly in the past, they are indeed a lot stronger.

"So what do we do next?" Zhan Meng scratched his head and said in embarrassment: "The surname Qi also asked all the officials and servants of the county government to go to the lobby tomorrow to answer the ceremony." ”

What he wanted to ask more was: Lord Qi is so 'special', should we go tomorrow or not?

The white-faced man said meaningfully: "Do what you have to do!" ”

After saying that, he served tea and sent it off.

Zhanmeng was speechless, and said in his heart: The surname is Ma, what you said is the same as if you didn't say it.

Obviously, they are all Miao people who have returned to the stream, but this Ma Zhongtai is like a Han person, chewing words all day long. It's troublesome to say a word.

Obviously, he can say it clearly in one sentence, but he has to go around in a big circle covered by clouds and mountains and fog, as if he doesn't confuse people, he can't show that he is 'learned'.

Zhan Meng rushed to ask for ideas, but left disappointed.

Standing on the street of Houya Street, Zhanmeng happened to see more than a dozen Qi family guards not only getting ladders, yellow mud, tiles and other things from where, but also repairing the Houya house with great fanfare.

There were also some men and women in fine silk clothes who went in and out with things in their hands, showing their cleverness, and quietly slipped to the back door of the Houya compound and exchanged a few words with the people at the door.

"Good guys, these people wearing silk and satin are just slaves and servants of the Qi family," Zhanmeng rubbed his teeth, Ma Zhongtai was right, the new Lord Qi was really different from the county orders he had seen.

Zhanmeng was a cautious person, and quietly went around to the main gate of the county office.

Duan Mao, who had a straightforward face, was nesting at the root of the county yaqiang to investigate the news.

Zhanmeng rubbed his lips and whistled.

Duan Mao hurriedly ran over and was about to ask Zhanmeng what to do next, but he didn't want Zhanmeng to ask first: "What's going on inside?" What's going on with the new adults? ”

Glancing over the other side of the street, he saw that there were still three or four horse-drawn carriages parked on the side of the road, and more than a dozen guards were guarding the carriages.

Zhan Meng hurriedly asked, "Who is in this carriage?" Why don't you enter the county office? ”

Duan Mao looked stunned, but he was not a fool, he was a person who had been in the yamen for more than ten years, how could he really be a stunned young man with no heart?

He and Zhanmeng are neighbors, and after decades of affection, the two of them are of the same age, and they have entered the yamen on an errand one after another.

Whenever they were on errands, the two brothers went in and out together.

After a long time, they have become partners with tacit understanding: one pretends to be stupid, the other is shrewd and exposed, cooperates with each other, and complements each other, and they are actually comfortable in the county government.

For more than ten years, the small Wusa County has been turbulent, but Duan and Zhan have always been safe and sound, and the wife is eating this bowl of public rice peacefully.

"The new county magistrate is taking those two scholar-like people to patrol around the county office, and the guards are repairing the roof and cleaning the courtyard," Duan Mao leaned into Zhanmeng's ear and muttered in a low voice: "They also smashed open the lottery room and found the roster of county officials." ”

Zhanmeng's eyes flashed, but he didn't interject.

But listening to Duan Mao continued: "Those carriages are sitting in the family members of the new county order, oh, by the way, and the families of those two scholars. The new county order said that the house was in disrepair, and the furnishings in the room were not in shape, so they had to be repaired first, and they didn't have to be wronged by the family. When the house is properly repaired and everything is ready, it is not too late to invite the ladies to the inner courtyard to rest. ”

Zhanmeng's small eyes were dripping, and he already had a vague idea in his heart.

After Duan Mao finished speaking, he sighed again, "Brother Amun, I see that this new county order is not good, Ma Zhongtai and they will get that set again, I'm afraid they won't be able to get any cheap." ”

The two of them were hiding in the corner and muttering, and several mule carts came on the stone road on the other side, all of them were young men with dark skin and honest smiles, and the cars were stacked with vegetables and fruits, meat and eggs, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar and other daily necessities, and the last mule cart actually put a few large wooden barrels more than half a person high, and the barrels were filled with mountain spring water, and with the bumps of the mule carts, splashing and spilling left a water mark on the floor.

Duan Mao was speechless, "Mother, it's really the first time they've come to Usa?" "I found a place to buy things so quickly.

Oh no, exactly, how they got the stuff.

You must know that since receiving the official letter issued by the officials, Ma Xiancheng counted the days, and estimated that the new county order would arrive in the near future, so he made a lot of preparations with several major families in the county, wanting to give the new county order a dismissal, so that the county order knew who had the final say in Wusa.

Among the many preparations of Ma Xiancheng, one of them is that the people in the county are strictly forbidden to contact the new county order, and even if they are forced to do so, they can only speak their own language or southwestern vernacular. As for the official language or something, Quan Dang can't understand it.

This one may not seem like a big deal, but it's the most effective.

Ma Xiancheng relied on this hand to squeeze away a lot of county orders that came to take office.

Wusa has not had a county order for more than ten years, not because the court did not give selection, but because the people sent could not stay in Wusa.

I didn't talk about government affairs or anything, and the county order came with my family, because of the 'language barrier', I couldn't even buy food, fruits and vegetables. Tsk, tell me, you don't have anything to eat, how do you let the county order work?

Of course, there are also hard-tempered ones, gritting their teeth and enduring it, but soon, Ma Xiancheng's other tricks rushed in, and all kinds of tricks forced people to find a way to transfer Wusa.

This was repeated several times, and the officials also heard about Usa's situation, but this place was remote, and the court did not pay attention to it at all, so it was troublesome, and finally did not assign a chief official to Usa.

Qi Jinzhi came, and Ma Zhongtai repeated his old trick, but in less than half a day, the Qi family easily broke the first move.

Zhanmeng touched his chin, "You continue to stare here, I'll pass the word!" ”

Qi County's order is not easy to mess with, and Ma Xiancheng is a local snake, Zhanmeng didn't want to offend either, so after thinking about it, he decided to do it according to Ma Zhongtai's words.

Didn't he say, 'Do what you have to do?'"

A flash of clarity flashed on Duan Mao's silly face, and he nodded vigorously: "I understand, Amengge." ”

"Go to my house for a drink at night." If you have anything to say, you will talk about it when you go home in the evening.

Zhan Meng wiped his face and walked through the streets and alleys to the homes of the officials to give orders for the new county order.

But it was said that the mule carts, full of goods, bypassed the main gate of the county government and entered through the corner gate on the other side.

The steward who followed the car did not follow up, but ran to the side of several carriages parked on the side of the road.

"Grandma, the steward of the caravan came over and said that he had purchased all the daily necessities," Ziwei replied in a low voice.

In the comfortable carriage, only Gu Jialuo and a few of her personal maids were left at this time, and the Duan and Xue clans had already gone back to their respective carriages to take care of their children and assign housework.

Since entering the county seat, Gu Jialuo has been sitting silent, and there is no joy or anger on his face, but there is a low pressure on his body.

Ziwei didn't dare to say anything at all, and quietly shrank in the corner.

I really couldn't hide at this time, so Ziwei had to be brave enough to step forward and reply.

Gu Jialuo turned his head suddenly, still with a blank look in his eyes: "What? ”

Ziwei's throat rolled, and she repeated Fang Cai's words, but she felt extremely sorry for her master: I miss the second lady of their family, the daughter of the dignified Guogong Mansion, who grew up with gold and dignity, when did she suffer such a hardship?

said that it was the second lady, it was her crape myrtle, named maid, but she also grew up in Fugui Township, and she didn't want to stay in a remote and barren place like Wusa.

And the second lady of their family has to live here with the uncle of the Qi family, not for a day or two, but for at least three years.

Three-year ...... If you are a noble lady in Beijing, she will not be indifferent to such a situation.

"Grandma, if you really can't do it, you can write a letter to the capital." Tell the truth about the situation here or Feng Shangshu, Ziwei believes that the two elders will definitely make decisions for the second young lady.

Gu Jialuo looked at Ziwei distressedly, listened to her vague words, and only understood after a while.

She slowly smiled and said, "There's no need to write a letter, we are new to the city, and we still have a lot of things to deal with." By the way, what did you just say......"

After thinking about it for a long time, Gu Jialuo finally thought about it, she had already made a choice, so she should be responsible for her choice.

It is true that Wusa County is remote, barren, and has all kinds of inconveniences, but since she is here, she should not retreat. (To be continued.) )