The county official Zhou thought that Shi Qi was going back soon, but he had no intention of leaving, and the county official Zhou was a little anxious, not worried that he would not take good care of him, but that he was worried that he would find the problem again. Zhou County Official: "Lord Shi, the cluster is not as good as the East China Sea, and the lower officials are not much prepared, and I hope that the adults will not dislike it." Shi Qi asked, "What gift did you bring me?" Don't give it to anyone else, take it to me and see it. ”

This is a number of gifts that have never been encountered, but the county magistrate Zhou has no choice but to let people bring the gifts again. No matter how poor the temple is, there is no rich abbot, Shi Qi's eyes were stunned, he had seen gold and silver treasures, and the gold stolen from the salt industry envoy at home, but the situation in front of him still surprised him, this is a place where the people can't eat. Shi Qi asked: "I think some people have a problem eating, why can you collect so much money?" Shi Qi's face was serious, Zhou Jiguan's face couldn't be hung up, he didn't know if Shi Qi was too little, or if he was really a clean official.

He asked tentatively: "My lord, this is the local etiquette, the internal regulations formulated by the previous prefect, for your position, no less than three times a year, each time is not lower than the current standard, you just came to the local area, I have the right to treat this as one of the three times." The local adults have also seen it, and they can't afford to be prepared, so if the adults have other requirements, the next time the officials will prepare. Shi Qi asked, "Will my predecessor make regulations in this regard?" ”

Zhou County Official: "Yes, the people take food as the food, and the people in the cluster are not very able to eat, but the previous adult demanded, the people can not eat and drink enough, if they are fat and fat, and the efficiency of doing things affects the efficiency, only when they are hungry, can they rush and work obediently, and the words I have with you are basically all taught, without the teachings of the boss, how dare we create original policies." ”

Shi Qi heard it more than once, but he still didn't understand, and in the evening, Jiang Xianglian came to his temporary study: "I have been prepared by Lord Wei Yun to come over, you should rest here at night, don't go out, these dews are heavy, a prefect, you don't need to have dew, I won't interfere with you, and I don't dare." While showing her charm to Shi Qi warmly for a while, Shi Qi asked reluctantly, "Wei Yun agreed?" Jiang Xianglian asked with some surprise: "Will there be a woman who disagrees?" She has been waiting for me for a long time, I don't have to wait for her to answer, it's up to you, you have to be careful, let the people know that it's not good, I'll wait outside, don't want anyone else. ”

Shi Qi was moved, he told Jiang Xianglian that she didn't have to bring the things of the county officials of Zhou when she left Ming, the people in this place were too difficult, and he wanted to go out to see it again at night, with Wei by his side, he could help him take a look, it was really not a private affair in her heart. Jiang Xianglian: "I can't help but take things, I'm not greedy for money, but Bi Xuewen has been with me, if I don't take the items of my subordinates, it will be difficult to do my work in the future, and he doesn't have the same heart." If you don't take it, they will find an exit for these things, find an official who is bigger than you, and there will be no need to go through you again if there is something like this, if all the prefects are like this, you will be an empty prefect, and all the people will have one heart in the future, just you are an outsider, can you continue to work here? ”

Shi Qi heard that Bi Xuewen was an understanding person, he got up and stopped expressing his position, after a while, Wei Yun came to Shi Qi's side according to Jiang Xianglian's request, Wei Yun: "Madame asked me to accompany you at night, I am a family person, but the power in the house is great, and I want to force the women to comply, if the man in my family comes back and knows, he will not dare to fight with the official openly, but he will not be able to swallow this breath secretly." He looked at Jiang Xianglian a little mischievously.

Jiang Xianglian: "I haven't fallen yet?" If you were a good woman, would you stay here and not leave? If Liu Haifeng knew, he would definitely understand people, and the breath he couldn't swallow was on you, and he wouldn't look for the prefect. Jiang Xianglian thought of that night, she was really a good man, that slender figure, Jiang Xianglian's thoughts were flying, and she found that her heart was hot, and she looked forward to Liu Haifeng appearing sooner.

Shi Qi didn't pay attention to Jiang Xianglian, he took Wei Yun, unlike last night, prepared some money and things on his body, left the post station, and went to Dongzhuang in the direction of Bai, it was not difficult to find, it was the place controlled by Guo Yuanwai. As usual, there was no light, the two of them looked for a while, the Guo family's house was neat, much larger than others' houses, no need to bother, Shi Qi took it lightly, and went to the courtyard with Wei Yun, the black light was blind, and there was no light.

The two men sat for a while at one of the steps in the courtyard, trying to find the main bedroom, and held for a while, but the door opened, and the two men were silent, and three people came in, two in front, and one behind, and from a distance it was a woman who looked at the shadow. Shi Qi wanted to listen to their movements, he asked Wei Yun to stay in the pile of flowers and not make a sound, he used his own tracking technique, the courtyard was not big, Wei Yun could see Shi Qi's figure from behind through the gap in the flower layer, her eyes had adapted to the darkness.

The two men took the woman to a Zhou Zheng's house and said inside: "Master, the daughter-in-law of the Lu family has arrived at the door, her child, I want to ask the master to hurry up, and the child will cry when he comes." The voice from inside was: "I didn't force her to come, I want to go back now, I don't want people to hold my nose, the old man is old, his legs and feet are cold, and he can't go back if he doesn't get hot." ”

The woman's voice was firm: "Master, the folk girl is willing to wait a little longer, but the child is not full, can you give some gruel to the child first, he doesn't cry, I am here to wait for the master and feel at ease." Master Guo asked, "Is your man here?" The woman: "He was at home waiting for food to feed the child, but he didn't come." Master Guo instructed his subordinates to send a piece of gruel over, telling him not to have too much, and then let the daughter-in-law of the Lu family eat some before coming to him.

The daughter-in-law of the Lu family: "I don't have to eat, put it there and take it with me when I go back, right?" Shi Qi couldn't see her eyes, but he could hear longing in his voice. Master Guo: "Yes, as long as you are obedient in the future, porridge, I have it here, but your man, didn't he tell me that he would starve to death and not stick his daughter-in-law, I didn't force you, it was your man who took the initiative to find someone to beg me." The woman dealt with the door in a low voice, and it took a while for Master Guo to let the other people away and let the woman surnamed Lu enter the house.

Shi Qi had the opportunity to listen to the conversation inside by the window, and after Wei Yun found out that all the people left, he also quietly stayed with Shi Qi. After the woman entered the house, Master Guo: "In this ten miles and eight villages, do I still rely on women?" Your man is so ridiculous, let you look like a thief at night, I really want to let people send you back tomorrow morning, smell the fragrance of your porridge, you don't need everyone to know, you can't hide it. ”

The woman: "Master, you can't be like this, my father-in-law is a scholar, he wants to save face, didn't I come, I must go back before dawn, otherwise I won't have a chance to come again in the future, he will be angry." Master Guo: "It's better to be angry, you don't have to go back, since you got married, they told me that you are good-looking, but it's a pity that you have a good body and marry a good man." ”

Then, I heard the voice of the woman surnamed Lu in pain, she persuaded Master Guo to be lighter, Wei Yun was a little embarrassed to hear it, but Shi Qi found that something was wrong. Sure enough, after a while, Wei Yun also heard it, it turned out that Master Guo asked the woman to come over to grab food with her child, the woman may be too thin, and Guo Ye is too greedy and hard, and the woman can't stand it.

Guo Yuanwai: "I just want to eat two bites of fresh, my bowl of porridge may come down with a lot of water, let you drink the porridge first, you don't listen, I suck so hard, and there is not much water, let your son eat all of it before coming." Next time, you can leave more for me, and I will send more porridge in exchange, now I am at a loss, you can make up for it in other ways. "Lord, Guo Yuanwai began to make a worse behavior, Wei Yun wanted to stop it, but Shi Qi pulled her away.

Shi Qi: "I stopped them today, what about Ming?" Also, is it just their family? This is also the ecological balance, if I break it, the water that may be hurt is Guo Yuanwai, maybe it is a scholar surnamed Lu. Since he still chooses this road when he is studying, it proves that it is a way of life, not a dead road, I am more responsible than you want, I am responsible, the prefect of one party, but I can't just care about the one I see, in this way, I can't manage it until I die. ”

Wei Yun listened, thinking about what the woman had to do for a bowl of porridge, but she took the initiative when she entered the door, she couldn't see her expression, she couldn't hear the pain, she could do everything for her son, poor woman. Seeing Wei Yun's muttering, Shi Qi dragged her out of the hospital, and after finding an empty place to sit down, Shi Qi: "I have been with you before, for me, my mother did not choose Uncle Niu, but chose Shi Lao Yuanwai, when I am still surnamed now, there is no difference between her then and the woman in the house now, even worse than the woman in the house, and the woman surnamed Lu can also be Lu Xianggong's insider after she comes out." My mother has been punctual until the old man left the house to stop being tortured, to the woman surnamed Lu, it is once, once, to my mother is a lifetime. ”

Wei Yun obediently snuggled into Shi Qi's arms and asked, "You are knowledgeable and a prefect, when will this situation change?" Shi Qi: "You, I only want to change, because we have seen it, it is very easy to actually want to change, so that our eyes can't see, if I don't come down, listen to their feelings, I will also be in a good mood, the life of the people at the bottom is to pay and dedicate, what we just heard is people, if you imagine that woman as a sheep, we will not be sad to drink goat's milk, right?" In fact, they have already lived as well as a sheep, because they are conscious and want to come out at night to preserve their dignity, and if their consciousness is stripped and they are not allowed to study, it may be easier for Guo Yuanwai. ”

Wei Yun was taken aback when she heard this, she said: "You just told me about your old husband's affairs, why do you have such a heart, if you don't study, can you accept your mother-in-law like this?" Shi Qi looked at Wei Yun and thought of Jiang Xianglian at the beginning, what difference could she have between her and the current woman? is worse than that woman, that woman is paying for her family, Jiang Xianglian is just for herself and abandons him. Shi Qi stopped talking, hugged Wei Yun emotionally, and walked in the direction of the post station, he didn't want to touch on the topic he saw at night.

Shi Qi took away all the gifts, did not leave the same, the county official Zhou was relieved to send it to his own territory, Shi Qi had no intention of looking more, did not get off the sedan chair to say goodbye, and went straight back to his own mansion. When the fourth lady saw it in the inner courtyard, Shi Qi asked: "I heard that I went out to see the lives of the people, if I had known earlier, I would have liked to see it, and I would have taken it with you next time I went out." Shi Qi thought of the woman's voice while agreeing, and seemed to think that the fourth husband was missing his years for him, and he might not have a better experience than the woman surnamed Lu, Shi Qi was a little disheartened, and quickly returned to the court.

Daozhen happened to come to the mansion according to Shi Qi's request, and Shi Qi told him that the defense of the East China Sea should be strengthened, and the expenses should be paid from the salt merchants, and he should ask the prefect of the military department before paying. Dao Zhen: "Shi Qi, I stayed there for a while, so I was in charge, and those old people before I didn't accept the management a little bit, because I didn't have the above documents, just an open selection arranged by you, you see if you want to reflect it to the above, find a suitable person, I don't want to take this responsibility." ”

Shi Qi: "I have already discussed your affairs with Lord Yang Weihu, and there will be a proper arrangement soon, you will live in the mansion first, and there may be Ran you there in the near future, and I will discuss with you how to deal with them in the evening." Dao Zhen: "I have trained the existing people better than before, but the line is too long, Haiphong? After reading it, I realized that it must be your previous president, who bragged for the so-called funds, no matter how much money could prevent it, how could there be so many soldiers, and it was impossible to build such a long wall, just a cover for coaxing it. ”

Shi Qi: "I also saw it when I was there, and I asked Lord Yang about this, and he told me that coastal defense is a business, it can't be built in a year, it can be built for many years, it can't be without, at least you can report the news, how many people do how many things, the coast is too long, don't defend it, and you will be tired of running." I once tried to build a section of the wall, but the second one collapsed, and the sea sand was not strong, and the sea water washed out strongly. ”

After the two of them worked for a while, Shi Qi suddenly: "My mother is in the backyard, you go to sit with her old man, I have other things to deal with, I won't accompany you at noon, and I will drink with you at night." He was a little sad after saying this, he knew that Daozhen had a relationship with Sifu Rao, and he couldn't accept it in his heart, but when he thought of the hardships she had endured for herself, he was willing to fulfill their private thoughts in action. When she arrived in the backyard, the fourth lady was very happy, in order to show that she was just in a relationship, she called Shi Caishuang and accompanied Daozhen to have lunch together. Daozhen looked at no one, and then looked at the fourth lady's smoking eyes: "Old lady, now Shi Qi is the prefect, please don't divulge your place before, I and he were originally masters and apprentices, and now it will be disrespectful to mention it again, I don't dare to communicate with Mrs. like this in the future, thank you for accompanying me for lunch." ”