"Madam, this place is really old and shabby, and it is not as good as the mansion in Nanjun."

On the first night she came to Yiqu City, she was already a kite dressed as a housekeeper, dusted off her body, saluted Ye Zijin, and began her complaints.

Kite is the abducted woman that Heifu rescued in the blind mountain many years ago, and she and her father came to help in the house after Heifu became the lieutenant of Anlu County, her father raised horses and cattle for Heifu's family, and Kite helped in the kitchen with her mute husband.

After Heifu settled in Xianyang, the couple also followed and mastered a lot of recipes taught by Heifu privately, which greatly enriched the food on their family's dinner table.

Heifu went to serve as the lieutenant of Northland, and he was used to eating the meals cooked by the two, so he naturally let them accompany him.

In Kite's impression, many years ago, after she was rescued from the blind mountain, when she went to the old house of Heifu in Chaoyangli, Yunmeng Township with her father to say thank you, it was just an ordinary five-acre house. After Heifu became the county lieutenant, he lived in a small manor near the county seat. When Heifu was an official in Xianyang, His Majesty gave him a big mansion, and it was on the north bank of the most prosperous Weiqiao, which was very magnificent. Every time she and her husband go in and out, they can feel the envy of others, and they suddenly feel a light on their faces.

Now that Heifu has risen again and become a feudal official, he thought that the place where he lived would be more generous and majestic, but who expected, but it was only an old courtyard with only thirty acres of square after the county temple......

She and the servants who came with her were a little disappointed, and even felt that this was not the intention of the local county guard!

Ye Zijin lowered his face and said: "Although Yiqu City is the county government, its population and size are only comparable to Anlu County, where is the mansion?" Don't look at this mansion is not big, but it is already second only to the county guard's mansion, and the previous county lieutenant lived here, so you have to complain! ”

The kite and the others promised that they were more afraid of this lady, and they had already been treated obediently.

At this time, Ye Zijin walked to the door of the main room again, stretched out his hand and wiped it lightly on the top of the window, there was no dust, and then saw that the ground was cleaned and the house was cleaned up in an orderly manner, indicating that although the servant had complained, he still finished his work honestly.

So she didn't embarrass everyone too much, but remembered what Heifu often said:

"From thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift!"

I have lived in the capital for more than a year, these are servants from small places in the countryside, and they are also contaminated with some bad habits.

She began to inspect the mansion for the first time, and the heroine's internal affairs, these are all to be put in her heart.

After going around, I had a bottom in my heart, and arranged for the kite and other servants to go to the market tomorrow to inquire about the prices of all kinds of meat and vegetables, and arrange a car to buy them every day. However, compared to when her father was in Nanjun, he raised hundreds of people at most, it was still a small thing, and it was difficult for the Ye family to deal with it.

"It's just that we have to recruit a few locals with innocent family backgrounds as translators, preferably Qin girls who are idle at home."

Most of Heifu's family members are from Nanjun, and when they arrive in the north, they can only stare at the dialects mixed with the words of the Rong people, and they can't understand it at all.

Finally, she asks how the guests' accommodations are being arranged. In particular, Chen Ping's family is the object of key care.

Ye Zijin asked his subordinates to place Chen Ping's wife and son in a separate small courtyard, with the same clothes and diet as the master, and provided chariots and horses. He also instructed the doctor to pay special attention to the health of Chen Ping's young son, who was less than a year old, and followed his parents to the bitter cold northland, which was probably inappropriate.

"I still have to ask a doctor from Xianyang to bring a doctor and a pediatric doctor to ......."

Ye Zijin looked at her stomach, she had been with her husband less and more in the past six months, and now she is finally together. The husband and wife are not young, and she decided that during her stay in Yiqu City, she will definitely give birth to a boy and a girl for him......

After everything was arranged, it was getting late, and Heifu came back full of wine, and after being helped down from the car by Sang Mu, he found that his wife had been greeted in the door, so he smiled and said:

"Madame came back earlier than me."

Heifu went to the reception banquet arranged for him by Zhao Hai, the county guard Yin Tong, and the supervisor Shi Yancheng.

If it is said, the county guard is equivalent to a provincial high-ranking official; The county lieutenant is equivalent to the commander of the provincial military district and is in charge of the public security department; Jun Cheng is a senior political and legal official; Then, supervising the imperial history is equivalent to a high-ranking official, supervising officials, and discovering and recommending local talents.

The county, the guard, the cheng, and the prison constitute the horses of the county government, and these three people are important colleagues of Heifu, so they went to Handong Province and had a good relationship with Sha Ruijin, Gao Yuliang, and Tian Guofu, and Heifu had to be polite.

It was inevitable that the staggering of the banquet was inevitable, and their wives, at the invitation of the county guard's wife, went to the county guard's mansion for a banquet.

Because she knew Heifu's habits, Ye asked her to boil hot water and let him burn his feet, and while reaching into the wooden bucket to personally help her husband test the water temperature, she said:

"We are all women, we don't drink alcohol or talk about government affairs, we just talk and eat, and it doesn't take too long."

Then, she talked about some of the things that the county keeper did at the banquet today.

"The concubine gave each of the three ladies a gift, which contained brown sugar and cakes, and the portion of the county keeper's wife was heavier, and the other two were the same. However, there is one more different thing in each of the three gifts......"

"Oh?"

Hei Fuxiao said with interest: "What have you added?" ”

Ye Zijin said: "Mrs. County Guard's share is a few rolls of the best mulberry paper. ”

Heifu said with a smile: "The old minister of the county guard Zhao Hai is the king of Zhuang Xiang, although he has not made many meritorious contributions, he can't bear the qualifications enough, and now he is a great master." I heard that he was born as a knife and pen officer, and he also wrote well, just now, he also toasted me two glasses of wine on the grounds of papermaking! ”

As he spoke, Heifu also burped loudly, he was a little embarrassed, scratched his face and said: "The three elders are all elders, but the officials from the north who sit with them are good drinkers, and they take turns to toast one by one......"

"The concubine knows that the customs of Rongdi are not men, and those who can't drink alcohol are not men."

Ye Zijin was amused, and mixed a bowl of honey water to relieve Heifu's hangover, and then sat down next to him, and continued to talk about the gifts for the ladies and gentlemen. They all inquired about their backgrounds in advance, did what they liked, and the things they gave were not expensive, even if someone deliberately reported them, it would not constitute bribery.

As soon as they were happy, they also treated Ye Zijin very enthusiastically, each with a reward, and invited her to taste the specialty of the North: roasted sheep.

After some conversation, she also found that the three ladies had different personalities, and the county keeper's wife was from a noble family and treated people politely, but she was old and sleepy at night.

The wife of the prison emperor is a person who likes to complain, and she happens to be from Korea, so from the moment Ye Zijin first sat down, he treated her very kindly, and began to "pity" her, saying that she came to this desolate northern frontier in her good years. Then he complained about life in the Northland: how cold the winters were, how unpalatable the food was, and how vulgar the people were, and who wanted to leave the place at once......

"The wife of the county is different, she is the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Shandong, she is richly dressed, likes to talk, and is the protagonist of the feast.

Ye Zijin looked at her husband and said, "She boasted that Yin Tong will be transferred to the south when she is next year!" ”

"When she said this, she was quite ostentatious, and I secretly glanced at the others, and found that the county guard's face did not change, and her smile was light, but the lady of the prison was a little jealous......"

Although it was only a momentary matter, it was still noticed by Ye Zijin.

"You mean, the superintendent Shi Yancheng and the county Cheng Yintong, I'm afraid there are some festivals?"

The Qin Dynasty paid attention to starting from the grassroots level, even if it was the second generation, it had to go through the grassroots level, so those who could get mixed with the county government officials were all old fritters in the officialdom, even if there were real contradictions, they were not prominent in front of people, and they were all harmonious.

After the feast, the superintendent Shi Yancheng even pulled Heifu and babbled about what he said, "The governors of the northern region are all from other places, and they must work together to compete with the local group of nobles." ”

Therefore, the information that the black husband cannot obtain from them can be supplemented by the gossip that the wife hears in the lady's social circle, which can be regarded as "lady diplomacy".

Heifu has no impression of these three colleagues, either they are not historical celebrities, or they are just passers-by, so they don't care much, people don't offend me, I don't offend people, he has a lot of work, and he still needs the coordination of the three officials.

"I just came to take office, and within this month, I am not in a hurry to do things, and I am first familiar with the functions and powers of government affairs, have a good relationship with colleagues, grasp the merits and fools of my subordinates, and understand the local situation."

Qin system, county lieutenant generals, auxiliary county guards. and the county guard are appointed by the silver seal department, and are the deputy general of a county. However, they are all in charge of their military duties, and they are not civilian.

Originally, a very important task of the county lieutenant was to preside over the county's "August Test" and to gather young and strong children in the autumn and during the slack season, and let them give lectures on archery in various counties to be prepared. But it was a coincidence that Heifu arrived in Yiqu City and completed the handover with the former county lieutenant, the month-long "August Test" had just ended, and the young man had already dispersed.

And after the winter, the main task of the county lieutenant has become to prepare for the Kou.

As early as when An Lu was the pavilion chief, Heifu knew that every winter was the period of high incidence of cases. There are obviously more thieves in the townships and pavilions in the county, especially in remote areas, there are often road-cutting robberies, and Heifu met three thieves on the bank of Yunmengze at the end of September when winter was approaching.

There are real thieves among these thieves, but most of them are still desperate poor people, and it is better to fight to the death than to die of hunger and cold!

This is one of them, and Beidi County is located on the frontier, and the Rong troops inside and outside the territory may also take risks and plunder Lilu because of the snowfall.

Therefore, before the beginning of spring, Heifu does not plan to make a big move, and in accordance with the principle of "the government of the king is not beyond the thieves", he will first do a good job of public security, so that the north can survive the winter safely.

But Heifu didn't want to find trouble, but things came to the door quickly, he came to Yiqu City on the fourth day of his tenure, Heifu was checking the list of county officials with his long history Chen Ping in the office, and the soldier Cao Zuo Shi Zhai Chong hurriedly entered, bowed to the ground, and said with a nervous expression:

"County Lieutenant, over there, there's an accident over there!"