In the study of Su Zhai, Su Da Fat Man was holding a red lacquered wooden plate, which was full of stacks of dim sum and was eating hard, just his head moved, but it took a lot of thought, the pastry made of mung bean noodles mixed with frosting, walnuts, and grapes was the most delicious, and Su Fat Man ate two large plates in one breath before it ended.

Stretched out his hand to take the soup sent by the maid, took a small sip and handed it back, "It's cold!" ”

The maid standing on the side hurriedly said her guilt, and hurriedly picked up the wooden tray in front of her and hurriedly walked out of the door to the back kitchen to change.

Su Fatzi casually threw aside the Jinpa who had wiped his mouth, and then raised his head and said: "These mud-legged people are also bold, although they want to marry their daughter to you, but this practice of forcibly kidnapping people is really rude, if you hadn't lobbied hard, I would have sent someone to put that person called Tie or something in prison to give you anger!" ”

"Tell me about you, didn't I assign you two servants for you to make? Why do you still go by yourself? ”

The dog, who was standing solemnly on the side, heard him complain and sneered: "Enxiang, don't you want to get this matter done as soon as possible!" ”

"You, you, you're in a hurry, don't you just let you make it out in half a month!"

The dog arched his hand and laughed.

"Okay, since you have come back safely, I will rest assured, this matter will be done slowly, Wu Shuai, where have I already sent a letter, the business of flower tea and the business of coal, he will send someone to tell me when he turns around, you, well, since you have taken on an errand, you can't do nothing on the street all day, starting tomorrow, come to the judgment hall every day!"

"Your seals, official cases, and official utensils will be prepared for you, and if nothing else, do you have anything else?"

The dog looked dazed, what is this? Didn't you say that if you made this briquette, you wouldn't have anything to do with yourself? Why are you still doing official business?

"General judgment, what is this 'briquette division' for? What exactly is the kid going to do? ”

Su Fatzi was stunned for a moment, his eyes rolled, and he pointed at the dog and scolded: "You idiot, you don't even know your own errands, I'm me, I'm really angry!" Get the hell out of here! ”

The big fat man was angry, and the fat was trembling, which was so terrible that the dog didn't dare to ask again, and ran out with his head in his hands.

At the gate of Sufu, Da Lang squatted in front of the root of the wall, looked at the dog that came out of the side door, and got up to greet him.

"Dog, you're out? What did the general judge say? ”

The dog shook his head: "I just said that I will be on an errand every day in the future, I don't know what I do specifically, I guess it's still a matter of getting briquettes!" ”

Panglang looked at the general judgment hall standing on the opposite street, smacked his mouth, and said with envy on his face: "To be an official inside, it must be very majestic!" ”

The dog glanced at the judgment hall, and then at the huge lang who was about to drool, rolled his eyes and said: "Brother Dang, why are you so unambitious, isn't it an official with a sesame mung bean!" Do you envy this? How can you say that you are also a man who has been the king of the mountain, woo woo woo...... Why are you covering my mouth? ”

"Don't dare to talk nonsense!" Da Da Lang tightly covered the dog's mouth, glanced left and right, and whispered: "This is a state city, what if someone hears about arresting me and going to the yamen?" ”

Phew, the dog spat far away, pointed at the cautious Dang Lang and said dissatisfiedly: "In this dark night, where are there people, Brother Dang is also cautious!" ”

As soon as the dog's words fell, he heard a shout from behind:

"At the third quarter of the first day, it will be quiet, and there will be a clang!"

The groomer, who was carrying a gong and holding a wooden plank, staggered past the two of them with a strong smell of wine, and the big man covered his nose and pointed at him, and looked at the dog.

"This husband is drunk, where can I hear what I say!" The dog pointed to the groom, who was three paces away.

"Hey, little official, you are wrong, although the old man drank some wine, his ears are not deaf!"

The husband who had gone out swayed back again, glanced at the annoyed dog and the frightened big man, and pouted:

"But although the old man hears it, the little official should not worry, the old man has been working all his life, and he can bump into and hear any, but the old man can still play the watch on the street safely, relying on this tight-lipped mouth, if the little official is not at ease, he can send the old man a few copper coins, so that the old man will become an accomplice with you, if you are at ease with the old man, you will go and get busy!"

What a clever husband, the dog deeply admired.

Turning to look at the huge man with a gloomy face on the side, holding the knife handle in contemplation, he sighed in his heart, this fool actually had the idea of killing, and he was still the king of the mountain at a loss, alas! Idiot!

"Brother Pang, your matter Wu Dashuai has long been over, and now the sign on your waist can be written innocently as a good person, could it be that you are also drunk?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Dang Lang patted his head and grinned: "Look at my memory, I actually forgot hahaha!" ”

The husband glanced at Da Lang, then at the dog, shook his head and said, "Since the two of you are fine, let's go home early, the old man still has to go to the watch!" ”

"Okay, uncle, you can get busy!"

The dog gave up his hand and sent the husband away.

In ancient times when science and technology were not developed, the night time was all dependent on manpower, and the people who did this kind of work were called "more husbands", in this big city and small village, the government would arrange for a few elderly men to carry gongs and bamboo tubes to make bangzi, two by two, keep the time of the drip or burn incense, every hour (two hours in later generations), go out to report a number.

At about seven o'clock in the evening, they began to beat the drum (i.e., a watchday), and the watchman raised the bang in his hand, one slow and one fast, and the sound was like "Knock! - Knock! There will be a long interval in the middle, three times in a row, until nine o'clock in the evening, start to play the second drum, hit again and again, hit many times, the sound is like "Knock! Boom! There will be a pause of a few seconds in the middle, and the third watch will start at 11 o'clock in the evening, one slow and two fast, and so on until the end of the fifth watch.

There are also places where small gongs are used with bamboo boards, such as: Dong Dong Dongdang! On behalf of the second watch, the hole is a hole! On behalf of the three watches.

"Dog, it's not too early, let's go back! Brother Hua and Brother Wang are still waiting for you! ”

The dog nodded at Da Lang and said, "Okay, let's go back!" ”

So he went to the horse-tethered stake and led the horse over, and ran to the pavilion with the dog.

Just after the figures of the two disappeared, the husband who had left walked back with pace.

Glancing at the direction where the two dogs were leaving, he took out a piece of hard paper and a piece of lacquer pen from his sleeve, wrote a few words on it, put it into his sleeve, coughed, and said to the old man who guarded the door of the Su Mansion: "Brother Su, can you reward the little brother with a sip of water?" ”

The old man who took the door glanced at the husband, and impatiently called the two little men to go to the porter to get a cup of tea, so he walked forward with a smile and chatted with the husband.

The porter was a few paces behind, and the servant who poured the water went as fast as he could.

The husband seemed to be really thirsty, and drank a full pot of tea in one go, before leaving with a bangzi in the laughter and scolding of the old man.

I slept late last night, so in the morning, Su Tongju, who should have gotten up late, had lunch, and under the service of a few maids, he put on his official clothes and took a few servants and strode out.

"Da Lang, are you going to the Yamen?"

Su Da, who was waiting on the side, took a note when he passed the porter, opened it and handed it to Su Fatzi, who was looking at the judge's office in the distance.

Su Da Fat took it and took a look, grabbed it in his hand and rubbed it, threw it in the corner of the wall and yawned: "Don't go, let's go to Xichengfang quickly, I heard that the price of iron has risen a few cents today, I have to go and see what's going on?" ”

After saying that, he flashed into the sedan chair that had been waiting beside him for a long time, and the four strong men said a sigh and carried him to Xicheng.

Su Da looked at his door and said: "Da Lang is in a good mood, it must be okay, you take care of the house, let's go first!" ”

Menzi smiled and said, "Okay! By the way, big brother, I heard that there have been a lot of broken households in this West City recently! Take more people with you! ”

"Really?"

Su Da shouted to the little guy next to him: "Go, take Da Lang's official post, go to the yamen to transfer a team of military men over, and also, go to the Xicheng County Ya and ask Chen County Ling and Wang County Lieutenant, are the two of them just thinking about sleeping and forgetting to deal with official business?" ”

"Yes! The little ones are going right away! ”

A burly man in green clothes, out of the queue to promise, turned over on the horse, shouted to drive, and the people ran quickly to Xicheng County.

Su Da waved his sleeves, drove away a leaf of green grass that flew up, coughed, bent down and entered the sedan chair, the two sedan chair drivers hurriedly lifted up, and strode after the sedan chair that had already gone far ahead.

Originally, I forgot to deal with official business and the dog, but I called myself a big man as a personal guard, and I had to wake up the dog who was snoring in time.

lazily washed his face, squinted at a bowl of rice porridge, and walked to the Tongju Yamen with his head down and dizziness.

Although the general judgment yamen of Longzhou and the Zhizhou yamen are in the same place, in line with the duty of the imperial court to monitor each other, a brick wall was built between the two yamen, and the doors were naturally opened on both sides.

The dog who never likes to listen to gossip and the doorman who never likes to talk about gossip, after chatting about the story of whose lady ran away with the old man who sold tofu, the two became New Year's friends.

"Brother Li, little brother somehow, I always feel very happy to be with you!"

"Oh, puppy, brother, I feel the same way, and I don't know what's going on, anyway, I just see that you're very pleasing to the eye!"

"Yes, old man! This is fate! ”

"Yes, yes, yes! Fate! ”

The dog was ruthless, pulled his palm out of his palm and said, "Brother Li, is this Su Tong sentenced here today?" ”

"Oh, let's talk to my brother, at this point, the general judge is usually still sleeping at home! I usually come to Yamen after noon, well, I may come back tomorrow! If my brother finds a judgment and has something, it's best to go to his house! Li Menzi quickly grasped the big palm of the silver horn, and turned his back behind him before replying enthusiastically to the dog.

"Oh, it's the first time the kid came to the yamen on an errand, and he didn't know which official to find to hand over the errand!"

"It's okay, it's okay, Brother Zhao will go to the public house assigned to you by himself, and pay homage to his own officials! What exactly needs to be done, Shangguan will arrange it! ”

The dog nodded, and entered the general judgment yamen with a smile on his face, and the huge lang who sent the dog here, because he was not an official errand, nor was he a public servant in his own yamen, so he had to go back to the pavilion in a huff.

Goodbye to the door, the dog copied his hands into the courtyard, which had been here a few months ago, although it was carried by the yacha at the time, but the smart brain, also remembered the approximate area.

On the left hand side of the door is the office of Su Fatzi to handle official business, and on the right hand side there are dozens of small houses, looking at the large and small areas of each small house, it must be divided according to different responsibilities!

The dog thought that his "briquette division", a bullshit division hall that didn't even know what errands he was doing, should probably be the most remote corner of this courtyard.

So the dog ran in the direction towards the northeast corner of the courtyard, and after passing by five or six atmospheric public houses with the end of the judge's hall, he walked through more than a dozen or so military halls, and sure enough, in this remote corner, the dog found his official hall.

"Well, 'Black Ball Hall'? This name doesn't seem to have the majesty of the previous ones! ”