Zhang Guangcheng was puzzled, but looking at the time and date on the inscription, he kindly reminded Han Xiufeng that he would set off from Taizhou on the afternoon of the 18th, and he would arrive in Hai'an on the 18th at the earliest. felt that it was not good for the third watch to take office in the middle of the night, so he proposed to live in Baimi Town on the 18th night and go to Hai'an early in the 19th morning to take office.

This was an oversight, Han Xiufeng was as good as a stream, and simply rewrote a copy.

Waiting for Han Xiufeng to stamp a private seal on the text, and when the ink on the text was all dry, Zhang Guangcheng helped fold it and stuffed it into a brown paper bag, and asked his family to call the shopkeeper, and handed the letter bag containing the text to the shopkeeper in front of Han Xiufeng, and asked the shopkeeper to send it to Hai'an quickly.

……

Others must be in a hurry to fill the vacancy, but Fang Shimei waited left and right for four or five days and didn't wait for the new inspection, and was wondering if the surname Han was too small, or Hai'an was too remote and unwilling to come, but the new inspection did not arrive, but the new inspection arrived first!

"Master Han has already arrived in Taizhou, why do you have to wait two days to take office?" Fang Shijun stood on the side and couldn't help but ask.

"The little ones don't know this, but the little ones only know how to deliver the letter."

"Have you seen Master Han?"

"See."

"Did Master Han say anything?"

The shopkeeper thought for a while, and hurriedly said: "The little one almost forgot, Master Han instructed the little one to send the letter and ask Master Fang to summon the secretary office to the soap Li archers, let the secretary office give them the faith, let them remember after reading, let them ring the gong to tell all kinds of people in the town, etc., Master Han also asked the letter to be posted outside the yamen after reading." ”

This is the first time I have seen such an official.

Fang Shimei looked at the text for a while, and couldn't understand what the new inspector who was about to take office meant, whether he wanted to make a lot of money or really wanted to be a clean official and didn't need money.

"Master Fang, the little one has been on the road all night, and now that the letter has been delivered, and Master Han's words have also arrived, why don't you go to the post shop to rest first?"

"Go ahead."

After sending the shop away, Fang Shijun couldn't help but ask: "Brother, what does the surname Han mean?" ”

Fang Shijun put down the text and sneered: "What else can it mean, I'm afraid that others won't know that he is coming to Hai'an to take office, and he wants to show off his official authority." ”

"Then do you want to summon the Soap Tree archers?"

"If we go back to Jiangning directly after we leave office, we naturally don't need to pay attention to him, but we don't plan to go back to Jiangning, and we will inevitably deal with him in the future, even if we don't deal with him, we will see him, let's do as he says, so as not to be embarrassed in the future."

"Okay, I'll call them."

……

Hai'an Town is very small, there are only five north-south alleys of less than two miles, Xisi Lane, Zhongbakou, Pushou Lane, Chenghuangmiao Lane and Meijia Lane, and all of them are on the edge of the Yunyan River, and there are several families between each alley and the alley.

Su Jueming had just returned from Hu Jiaji's visit to relatives, and was sitting with Yu Youfu in his uncle's house not far from the Chenghuang Temple to have a drink with his two cousins, when he suddenly heard the sound of a gong outside.

The eldest cousin felt strange, and subconsciously put down his chopsticks and said, "In broad daylight, don't play more, what gong to knock!" ”

"Who's a kid knocking and playing?" The second cousin said with a cup.

Hai'an's words were difficult to understand, and they were different from Yi's truth, Yu Youfu didn't know what they said, but he guessed that it should be the four babies who were about to arrive, and looked back at the door with a casual smile.

Su Jueming reacted, and was about to speak, when a loud voice came from outside: "The Ministry of Officials has elected the acting Hai'an Inspector Han Xi, the Daxian Commission, and the Acting Hai'an Inspector, who will arrive on the 19th of the lunar month. The official office only needs to be sprinkled and cleaned, and there is no need to put up a lamp and be a little luxurious......"

The eldest cousin runs an oil mill, he only knows a few words, he can only settle accounts, and those who don't understand can't help but ask: "Jueming, what are the people in the yamen talking about?" ”

"It is said that the 19th inspection selected by the Ministry of Officials has arrived, and this inspector is honest and honest, for fear that those scribes and servants in the yamen will mobilize the people, and they are not allowed to greet them, nor are they allowed to take this opportunity to disturb the people, for fear that they will be apportioned indiscriminately." The more Su Jueming thought about it, the more excited he became, and he couldn't help but look at Yu Youfu as he spoke.

"Don't let you go to greet you, don't apportionment and disturb the people, is it really fake?" The second cousin will be skeptical.

"Of course it's true, Master Han follows his words, and if he doesn't let it, he won't let it."

"Jueming, do you recognize Master Han?"

"I don't know."

"I don't know, how do you know that the old man who is going to take office is surnamed Han?"

"Didn't the people in the yamen say it, the officials elected the acting Hai'an to inspect Han Xi, and Han Xi is what Master Han said."

"This is strange, is it possible that our Hai'an really wants to come to the Qingtian Lord," remembering what happened a few days ago, the second cousin put down his chopsticks and said hatefully: "I said that the surname Fang only had a birthday last month, how could he have a birthday a few days ago, it turned out that he knew that the new inspection was coming, and he couldn't do it for a few days, so he wanted to make another fortune before leaving!" ”

"Dog, fooled! I knew that he, the inspection master, would not be able to do it for a few days, so I wouldn't eat his old lady's birthday wine. The eldest cousin also realized that he had been fooled, put down the cup and cursed through gritted teeth.

"What kind of longevity wine, I don't know how much water was mixed with the wine that day."

"Big cousin, let's not talk about this, let's talk about Wang Ertou, has he married his mother-in-law, and is he always causing trouble as before?" Master Han will be in office tomorrow, and as soon as he arrives, he will take advantage of people, Su Jueming didn't dare to delay Master Han, and immediately returned to the previous topic.

"Dogs can't change eating, he's still like that, where can people like him marry wives." The eldest cousin picked up a piece of pig's head meat, and continued: "Some time ago, I heard from the people of Benjiaji that he didn't know where he stole a fishing net, and he didn't want to catch a fish (local dialect, catch fish), so he sprinkled the net in the river, and the people hid on the shore, waiting for the boat to pass by. Regardless of whether someone's boat is scraped or not, and whether someone's basket is inserted into the fishing net, anyway, as long as a boat passes by, he will stop people and not let them go, and slander others for breaking his fishing nets, so that people will lose money. ”

"You can get a few bucks for a net, and he's too unproductive!"

"That's why I can't marry my mother-in-law."

"What about Chen San in Jiaogang, how is Chen San now?"

"Chen San is not much better, he will go wherever there is a temple fair, he will be abducted and deceived, and he had a fight with his neighbor because of a trivial matter last month, if it weren't for his sister and brother-in-law begging in a low voice, they would really pull him to the town to see the officials." The more the eldest cousin spoke, the more he felt that something was wrong, put down his chopsticks and stared at him and asked: "Jueming, why do you always ask these debt-indebted Labao (people who don't study well), you are different from them, you have studied, you can write and calculate, you can speak, you can no longer mix with them all day long." ”

"Brother, where do you want to go, I was young and ignorant at that time."