"Jingle ——!" On the edge of the canal, the sound of iron tools colliding, Qin Mo supervised the excavation of the canal on behalf of the master, because Qin Mo also got the consent of the county magistrate, and even the master occasionally asked Qin Mo for permission to make decisions, and the master always knew that this Qin Mo was the person the master appreciated the most, so he didn't dare to slack off.

is talking about the master's supervision, but in fact, when exercising this power, he occasionally has to approve Qin Mo, as if he was pressed by Qin Mo.

And the master also had to listen to Qin Mo's words at the construction site.

The specific implementation of the construction was commanded by the skilled craftsmen, and Qin Mo was only watching the work of these villagers and officers and soldiers......

Most of the digging tools for this canal were brought by the victims from their homes, some brought shovels, some hoes, rakes, all of which were some daily farming tools, and the guards also had some fine iron weapons to make tools, but the quality of the iron tools of the farmers was generally not very good......

However, everyone still united in the construction of the canal......

And Qin Mo took the silver, gave everyone two meals a day of soup porridge, steamed buns, and provided everyone with food for repairing the canal, and everyone had the strength to work when they were full......

There are more than 10 villages along the way, and the construction progress of the canal completed every day is also good......

In addition, everyone has had enough of the hardships of the drought before, and they are all full of water at the moment, so they are also very energetic to build......

And Qin Mo took out the part of the money that he had decided to repair the canal before, and took out every meal to buy rice and sell grain, gruel, rice porridge, steamed buns, and sweet potatoes every meal to those laboring migrant workers who had changed their tricks......

Ordinary people have large river canals to build, and the imperial court has allocated funds for farmers to repair them themselves, and the purpose of allocating this is because the man-hours spent by farmers in digging ditches cannot take care of the crops at home, so they provide these people with daily meals, killing two birds with one stone, but this time the money went to the provincial capital and was greedy.

Some people are grateful to Qin Mo, because they know that this good boss has money, and then he has the current rice porridge, so he led everyone to dig a ditch......

Every time before the sunset organization finishes work, there are always many villagers who take the initiative to visit Qin Mo and greet Qin Mo, which seems to be more glorious than seeing any high-ranking official......

There are even fewer people in Chishui Village, Qin Mo was originally from their village, and at that time, he only waited to see this orphan girl who died and had no father, so he knew that this little girl seemed to have a spell, and her magical powers were vast, and now she has become so promising, she really can't be described as a heroine......

These people admired in their hearts, and then they were proud and proud, but because they had been entangled in Chishui Village before, when they were repairing houses in the Qin family, they had troubled the Qin Mo family, and those people were not a minority in this village at that time, so many people were still sick in their hearts for that matter, but compared to the villagers in other villages, they didn't dare to approach Qin Mo so intimately......

Qin Mo is loved by the people, of course he is happy in his heart, in the future, his prestige is only afraid that he will be raised by another layer among the people, and if he continues like this, he will pass on from the mouths of those people, and finally become a legendary figure, it's not that he doesn't like it, but he just thinks it's too ostentatious, the biggest person in this Chishui Village is the county order, and his reputation is too high, if he suppresses this county order, won't he make the county order angry? !

Qin Mo thought so, but he didn't say it, every time he finished supervising the porridge for those villagers, he still took the carriage parked by the river canal back to this shop......

Unexpectedly, Qin Mo's supervision, in just two months, has spread all over the streets and alleys of Linshui County, and sure enough, as Qin Mo thought, many people have speculated that this is called Qin Mo's 'strange woman', and the outside world has spread many versions of her own beginning, and the closest to reality is that she was originally an orphan girl in Chishui Village, and then started from scratch, and then became a wealthy businessman, this version of the legend is indeed the most true for Qin Mo.

For more than two months, Qin Mo has become a well-known figure in Linshui County......

It's just that many people only know that Qin Mo is a woman and know about her, but they haven't seen her true face much, and it is precisely like this that makes more people feel more curious about her......

Even the old house that Qin Mo had lived in Chishui Village before was specially driven to see it, as if it was being visited as if it was a cultural relic......

And what others say, Qin Mo naturally doesn't care, wanting to be famous is what she wants, and expanding her own influence in Linshui County is also her acquiescence.

Because, sometimes if you want to be an unknown person, you may not really follow your own wishes......

What she Qin Mo wants is fame and fortune.

I just didn't have a chance before, but it just so happened that this was an opportunity, and I became famous all of a sudden......

But being famous is just being famous, and it doesn't help the essence of her life, and even ten percent of people don't know that she is the owner of the red makeup shop.

It's just that now I occasionally pass by the street and listen to the neighbors reprimand my own children, 'You are so useless, when is it good to have Qin Mo so capable——! ”

Hearing these words, Qin Mo turned his head and walked away with a faint expression.

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After more than four months, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and it is already the first month of July, and the imperial historian who has been rumored to be in the past to inspect the virtues of officials is really coming.

I have arrived at the state capital, and I heard that this time the imperial history has come to do a lot of things, and he has criticized the three or four officials in several provincial capitals, and the prefects of several states have been dismissed, and one has been put into custody and investigated......

Although the imperial court will personally come down to check the imperial history of the provincial government every year, but the local, and this time the people personally sent down from the imperial court will take the emperor's office down to inspect, act on behalf of the emperor, and exercise the rights of the emperor, which is not afraid, and this happens to be a month before the completion of the canal, which makes the county make the adults stumped, and in the past half a month, they have been worried all day

In the past half a month, I have been frowning all day long......

The loss of official position is small, but I am afraid that I will lose my life......

And on this day, in a state of apprehension, he called Qin Mo again......

Qin Mo didn't know what it was, as always, he married the carriage and saluted lightly......

In the end, he was called up impatiently by the county commander, and then frowned, and repeatedly begged Qin Mo not to tell the public that the money for repairing the canal was borrowed, and then told the Lord Yushi......

In fact, he wasn't too worried about Qin Mo himself, but that the money for this canal had been allocated for a long time, but now he had only started to repair the canal, which was itself suspicious, how should he explain it to the Lord Yushi at that time......

Moreover, in the past few years, there have been large and small deficits in this account, and it is not only this canal repair that is lacking in silver, and anyone who is in an emergency inspection is panicked......

As for whether Qin Mo will tell the Lord Yushi about the canal repair, he is not overly worried, first, Qin Mo is a businessman or a citizen, at least the two have no conflict of interest, on the contrary, if there is a friendship with him, Qin Mo's business can continue to be done in Linshui County for a long time, and second, Qin Mo is a civilian, and the chance of meeting Lord Yushi is also very low, as long as he takes a little precautions, this kind of thing can completely prevent it from happening......

"The adults know what Qin Mo promised, how can they change their words, besides, Qin Mo is just a small citizen, and he is not as powerful as an adult's finger, even if he is an official sent down from above, how can he trust Qin Mo...... Even if Qin Mo kept the adult's IOU, it was only used to protect himself and not to blackmail the adult, and the adult and I have no grudges, since this is the case, what good is it to frame you and me——!? ”

Although this Lin County Order is indeed not a good official, but for Qin Mo, it is enough that he is willing to protect his own interests, and she Qin Mo is not a virgin, so why tear up with him because of other people's opinions.

"Uh-huh——!" Hearing Qin Mo's words, Lord Lin also nodded as if he was relieved, "I also believe in you, there's no need to stab me like this now——! ”

Qin Mo bowed again, "Please believe in the little one——! ”

The county commander nodded, and Qin Mo withdrew from the mansion again.

It was July, and it was very hot, and the cicadas kept screaming in the book......

When Qin Mo came out of the county office, he happened to see Nian'er holding a parasol at the door in front of the county office......

"The girl has been in for a long time, I've been waiting here in a hurry, so Lord Lin didn't embarrass the girl......!"

Qin Mo came out with a calm face, and for a long time, his mind was a little trance, and it took a long time to come back to his senses, and he lazily replied, "No ......!" Let's go, let's go back——! ”

It happened that the weather was hot in July, and there was news from the farm, according to what Qin Mo said before, the new seedlings bred from the red vine were used to plant new sweet potatoes, and the effect was not good. There were also a few farmers who went to pull out the red weed in advance, and it was said that the yield was halved compared to previous years.

When Qin Mo returned to the store, he said that Uncle Zhang Wu from the Zhuangzi had reported the growth of sweet potatoes this year, and this was the case......

Hearing this, Qin Mo was taken aback......

I went back to the store and drank two sips of tea, sat at the table, and then asked Xiao Tao carefully, "Did Uncle Wu say anything?!" ”

Xiao Tao came into the store, while tidying up the table, while saying, "I didn't say it, because the previous sweet potatoes were planted directly with sweet potato seedlings, and the back listened to the girl, first use the sweet potato to breed seedlings, and then cut the seedlings with scissors and insert them, also called digging what sweet potato line, those people don't understand, and they all think that the girl is joking, just ask, which plant can grow after cutting off the roots, and finally the seedlings are alive, but now I don't see the roots, Uncle Wu said, the sweet potatoes under the roots are now small ......!" ”

"Is it because of the lack ——!of water?" Qin Mo tilted his head and thought for a moment.

"I don't know——!" Xiao Tao hurriedly cleaned up the things on the table, and then took the scissors that Qin Mo took down on the table to cut the ribbon line and put them back into the basket.

He glanced at Qin Mo again, "It is said that the cotton and wheat are not bad, the wheat has just been harvested, it is better than any previous year, and the cotton is not bad, this Uncle Wu said, this is the credit of the girl——! ”

Qin Mo sat at the table and pondered, his expression was faint, as long as this wheat is used as fertilizer, the wheat seed is selected correctly, and the spacing between the seeds is sufficient, this effect must be there, but why does the sweet potato not clump like that.

Qin Mo was puzzled.

It just so happened that I had been busy with the construction of the canal. I didn't have to worry about going to the countryside to do the farming......

It's just that the canal is still being repaired, and the Lord Yushi is about to come down immediately, and since he has been the supervisor of the canal early in the morning, there is no reason to say that he is slacking off now.

It's only been three days, and the Imperial Master has really come down, and it is said that he has come mainly to explore the farmland and water conservancy in this county......

At that time, the lord of the imperial history said that the lord of the county suddenly changed his face, and there was a word from the yamen that the face of the lord of the county commander was not very good-looking......

I don't know if the people above heard something, and it just so happened that they were picking the trickiest things to check......

Qin Mo didn't know, but this county magistrate was kneeling and kowtowing a few more times to the lord of the imperial history at that time......

Anyway, these were all things that Qin Mo heard from the people in the county government later......

When the Lord Yushi came to this Linshui County, the first thing he naturally did was that the county magistrate and the master of the county would first give the county magistrate a wind and dust......

It was to let the cook in the yamen cook a good meal, and poured wine on the table, and the imperial master ate and drank, but as soon as the meal was finished, he immediately ordered that he should first go to see the canal that the imperial court had approved since last year......

The legs of the adults in this county were weak, and there was a cold sweat behind them......

Seeing that Lord Yushi was obviously coming for duty, he was in a state of uprightness, and it seemed that he was impressed by good wine and good food

The dish can't be impressed, and the soft words are useless, so the county commander grabbed the sweat on his head and immediately prepared a carriage to lead the way, and took the lord of the imperial history to ......

Explained that it coincided with the unfavorable flow of the two years last year, and the feng shui master who looked at the compass said that it was inconvenient to start the ground, so he stayed this year to start construction, and said, thinking that this canal of more than a dozen villages was a trivial matter, and he originally thought that sooner or later it would be started, so he did not report this matter......

As a result, who knows, the remarks of the county magistrate were originally thought to be a very safe excuse, but they caused the lord of the imperial history to frown for a while, and he sharply reprimanded the words that were not light: "Small things, everything that is related to the people, what is a small matter......!" ”

After some rhetoric, the reason for the county order was blocked tightly, and the county order was embarrassed and had nothing to say......

Subsequently, I only heard the Lord Yushi criticize again, "More than a dozen villages, that is, hundreds of households, involving thousands of people, how can it be said that a matter involving the life and death of thousands of people is a trivial matter, so in your eyes, what is a big matter" and said, "You are just a county order, a seven-grade sesame official, born as a parent official, the people's food and clothing is what you should worry about, but you regard your own work as a trivial matter, it can be seen how you are the county commander on weekdays!" ”

There was talk and laughter at the dinner table in front of him, and he was polite, but in a blink of an eye, he actually grabbed these words, reprimanded them heavily, and scolded him harshly, and then nodded his head frequently to admit his mistake.

Then several men drove the carriage, driven by the coachman of the county office, and then drove together to the place where the ditch was dug......

When he arrived at the canal, the lord first checked the canal that had been dug and saw that there were several places where the work was not bad, so he nodded......

But after nodding, he turned his head and criticized "Since the imperial court has allocated money and failed to carry out construction on time and did not report it, this is a deliberate delay in the time, and it must be reported for disposal."

It turned out that he thought that the reason he was looking for would work, but he didn't want the adult who came up was an iron bread man, thinking of this, this county order was afraid, angry and hateful.

The carriage stepped on the road for more than half an hour, and the official came to inspect the water conservancy projects built in the local area, and secondly, he also had the intention of caring for the people's feelings to see the harvest of this season's crops, but he saw that some crops along the way were good, and some were really not good, but the sweet potatoes were still green and faint on the ground, and they were very gratifying to see......!

In July, the rape was harvested early, the wheat was harvested, the peanuts were also harvested, the cotton was already in the late season, and now the first in the field was sweet potatoes......

Then he pointed to a piece of land, and with a casual gesture, "I asked whose land it was—"

Just because of curiosity, there happened to be an old man with a hoe and weeds next to the place, only to see someone in the carriage with his hand to open the curtain, knowing that the people sitting inside must be rich people, so he kindly turned his head and answered......

"That's it...... This is our host's Qin girl's ——! ”

The words of this sentence were jerky, and the adult frowned, and there were words in his mouth, 'Why is the owner, and the girl is again——! ’

"It's the owner, but it's just a teenage girl——!" The old man was very persistent and pertinent beside him.

The carriage was already moving slowly on the muddy ground, but at this moment, the lord of the imperial history simply called out to the coachman, and told the coachman to slow down, and the coachman was already outside and heard the lord from the court talking to others, and the carriage slowed down itself

"Girl, but the family is rich, and her parents are dead, and there is only one girl left, so it's called the owner——!"

The old man shook his head hurriedly, "No, almost every family in this Linshui County has heard the girl's name, but you haven't heard it, it's a pity, this is Qin Mo and Qin Yatou's land——! The old man held the hoe in his hand and shook his head speechlessly......

The Lord Yushi suddenly started chatting, and the county commander was afraid that if he continued to talk like this, he would leak more things from Linshui County, so he urged the Lord Yushi on the side.

"My lord, you see that this time is not over, so it is still far ahead, my lord, and put this topic first?!"

"I'm talking to the people, and you're interjecting because you don't want me to know the people's opinions——!"

The county commander's face was shocked, and he almost knelt in the carriage, and hurriedly said, "The lower officials don't dare——! ”

Then the Imperial Master turned his head with a grim face......

Then he brushed his beard...... Interested in the old man, he continued to chat, "You said that girl, her family is not rich, why did she become the owner at such a young age!" ”

Hearing the question of Lord Yushi, the old man smiled proudly, and stood up proudly and replied, "That's my host, she has the ability......!" ”

And when he heard this, the Lord Yushi's face was depressed, and his face was also depressed, and his tone was a little contemptuous, "How much ability can a girl have...... ”

He didn't talk much at the moment, so he told the coachman to continue to drive away......

These people like to exaggerate the facts, but they are just a hairy girl......

I happened to rush to the place where I was working, and sure enough, this was a situation full of passion and everyone was busy, digging and lifting the soil one by one......

The canal was dug just the right size, and now, as long as such a stream of water flows, these places will no longer be afraid of such a drought.

Although the one I saw and the one I heard before I came here didn't quite match the way I felt in my heart, but when I saw such a situation of repairing a canal, my heart was still shaken......

But the carriage stopped at a distance, fearing that it would be disturbed, and one of the carriages in the carriage watched from a distance......

The county commander saw that the face of the imperial historian was finally not so dark, and when he turned his head to look at this scene, the smugness in his heart was also full, so he saw that the face stepped forward to flatter, "My lord, look, this river canal is still being repaired——! ””

"Uh-huh——!" Finally, this time I got the approval of this Imperial Historian. "Born as a parent official, the people have food and clothing, that's your accusation——!"

The prefectural order was taught so much that it was "yes-yes-what the adults admonished——! ”

As he was talking, not far away, a carriage came, the Imperial History was curious, so he raised his eyes to see, although the body of the carriage was not as big as theirs, but the line was also exquisite, the top was a red bat Fu character print, the four sides were made of colored red, green and blue silk threads made of Yingluo, there were also light pink tassels hanging down, the body was made of fine pear wood, the windows were hollow lattice patterns, and the half-opened windows could vaguely see the light pink curtains exposed inside.

Just from the appearance, you can roughly observe that this is a girl's carriage......

For a moment, a large tripod was lifted out from behind the body......

It was moved by a few big men......

"Everyone is coming over, come here, give everyone a meal in the afternoon today, each person has two corn steamed buns——!"

After a while, a rosy figure came down from the carriage, and Na Nian'er helped Qin Mo to the ground, and Qin Mo's face was covered with a face towel......

Qin Mo went to the ground, and the embroidered shoes stepped directly on the soil that had been turned out and poured into a ridge......

Here, I just waited for the officers and soldiers to lift the big ding out with great difficulty, and lifted it in front of those people from the newly turned soil......

Sure enough, in a moment, someone was boiling with joy......

Some people are cheering, some people are still doing ...... Those who received it ate first, and after eating it, they went to change to another batch......

Originally, most of these people were hungry at home and had nothing to eat, but in this way, they had food to eat when they came to work, which did not increase the enthusiasm of these people......

Only Xiao Tao was there to personally hand the hair one by one, Xiao Tao naturally came out with a veil on her face, Xiao Tao was in the hair, and there was an old lady beside her to help, Qin Mo and Nian'er stood behind, and the old lady stared at the steamed bun with accurate eyes, which people received it and which ones did not.

On the other two sides are the guards who are guarding this tripod and maintaining this order.

"Girl. I......! ”

"Girl. I haven't taken ...... yet! ”

Because too many hands suddenly stretched out, Xiao Tao was a little messy, so he shouted loudly......

"Come one by one, line up, don't fight, don't grab, everyone has ......!"

"What is this doing——! After looking at this picture for a long time, the look on the face of this Lord Yushi was a little angry, mainly puzzled

"Ahem......!" The county magistrate naturally knew about this scene, bowed his head and explained, "It was our overseer who was afraid of the hard work of these laborers, so he took the initiative to add food to these laborers——! ”

"Feeding the Laborers ——?!" The adult asked in a loud voice.

The magistrate hung his head and did not answer.

Later, I only heard the Lord Goshi ask repeatedly, "Why is it that the supervisor is a woman, and it is a little girl in her teens——! ”

The county commander blushed and couldn't answer, lowered his head, and put his head into the carriage with a bitter face.

The Mishi finally turned his grim face around......

Then only this soft voice was heard.

"Girl, you see that you have added food to those people, and they also look like they can't get enough to eat——!"

Nian'er was on the ground, holding Qin Mo's hand, and followed Qin Mo to see the place where the grain was put in the canal......

Qin Mo was silent......

Instead, it was on another carriage not far away......

The Lord Yushi saw such a little girl coming to the construction site of the canal, and then stood there staring, as if she cared about these villagers......

It's always a little weird

"Who is this girl and what is her name——!

First of all, the master took a look. Then he said happily, "Back to the adult, that's Miss Qin Mo...... Adult, don't look at her only twelve or thirteen years old, but she is a fine person, and she is very capable, at a young age——! ”

Qin Mo?! And the Lord Yushi squinted his eyes, and sure enough, after looking at it carefully, he instantly felt that this woman did give people a sense of unusualness...... Didn't you hear that name then?

It's just a girl, why would someone praise her, does this girl really have some great ability, shouldn't a woman embroider and weave yarn in the boudoir, but she came here to show her face, think about it, this Lord Yushi shook his head......

The literati are pedantic and shabby, especially this kind of old official, who has a lot of aura, so he feels that he is right, and he always has some rejection in his heart for the woman who has set foot in this man.

Next, several people watched the formation from the carriage......

And Qin Mo, after distributing the grain, turned around and took the two carriages back, and temporarily took Xiao Tao and Nian'er away......

And the Lord of the Imperial History, always pays attention to the rosy figure from time to time.

Subsequently, in the next few days, the Lord of the Imperial History went out on patrol in micro-clothes, and also inquired about the people in this area of Linshui County, and also knew more or less about this place, and it was a little strange that it was the most mentioned among the people, but it was the name Qin Mo, and many people had a very good reputation for this Qin Mo's woman.

Now, this Lord Yushi, on the contrary, has changed his stereotype of this woman.

However, he was ordered to go to the place this time for the people to live and work in peace and contentment, not to listen to these people's customs and hear......

On that day, he only glanced at the woman from a distance, and he was wearing a face scarf, so he couldn't see any eyebrows.

It's just that I have some impressions of that back......

And because he has always been kind to these foreign-related women, he felt a little lighter in his heart......

But now it seems that it is not like that. This woman, on the contrary, had to impress him

does not impress him, but the woman has a man's heart

In the end, this Lord Yushi has been in Linshui County for several days, and he has checked what he wants to check, and he has also seen what he should see. I've made a log, and I'm going to go back to my life.

After so many days of thorough investigation, I know that the county order of Linshui County, although it has not done much for so many years, it has not been much wrong, and this season has been inspected......

One day before leaving, the carriages that saw them off stopped at the gate of the county government. The Imperial History Lord also wore the official mansion and asked the county commander to resign to each other.

Suddenly, just as everyone was respectfully seeing off the governor, one of the guards went out first to open the door, and suddenly saw a white letter lying on the blue stone slab.

As a result, the guard picked it up, and the Lord Goshi was also there on the spot, but the letter was picked up, and the Lord of the County Order could only watch the Lord Goshi open the letter in front of everyone, and he didn't know why, and his heart suddenly became nervous.

As a result, sure enough, after reading the letter, the face of this Lord Yushi changed......

The county commander saw that the face of the lord of the imperial history changed, and he was afraid of death, but suddenly he didn't understand what was going on......

As a result, I learned that the letter had been thrown from the hand of the Emperor

The county magistrate climbed over and picked it up, only to see that the letter was an anonymous report of the county magistrate of Linshui County, which said that the silver money that had been dug in the past had been embezzled in the past, and that the construction of the canal had been delayed for a reason, and that the funds for the construction of the canal were obtained from Qin Mo, the owner of the red makeup shop......

He also exposed some of the things that this Lin County Order has done nothing for so many years, going to other people's houses to eat, drink and watch plays, and conniving at his aunt's wife to encroach on other people's family heirlooms.

As a result, the county magistrate could only watch, this was supposed to stay in this place for so many days, every day like an offering to the Buddha, and the lord of the imperial history who was about to leave suddenly did not leave because of this incident, and he didn't know who deliberately stabbed himself in such a big basket, it was to put himself to death, and when he thought of such a thing, he almost fainted on the spot.

This Lord Yushi was originally iron-faced and selfless, and when he got this anonymous report, his beard trembled, and he immediately stopped leaving, and ordered the official office to file and personally try such a thing.

Originally, this matter was related to Qin Mo in the red makeup shop, and he was promoted to the hall for a while, and he asked someone to mention Qin Mo.

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Qin Mo didn't know who spread this matter.

When the official came, she didn't know anything about it.