As soon as the twentieth month of the lunar month entered, the atmosphere of the New Year in the entire Youchuan County suddenly became several times thicker, thanks to the group of officials who ate imperial grain in the yamen.

On the twentieth day of the lunar month, the yamen was sealed.

All cases will be tried and paperwork will be stopped, and all work will be handled when the next year begins.

Someone said, I stole a chicken and was just caught in prison, what should I do if you seal it? Is it going to be in prison for a month?

Therefore, in order to avoid such a thing, on the 19th day of the lunar month, the yamen will arrange personnel to sort out all the case files in the past year, and all the personnel in the third shift and six rooms will also check themselves.

In particular, the county government prison is the most important thing, and some trivial and unrelated crimes will either be fined or punished, and some simple cases with not serious circumstances will be dealt with and concluded quickly, and as for cases that are major and have a bad impact or are intricate and particularly thorny, a seal will be affixed and wait for next year's trial.

This day is called prison clearance, so those who have family members who have committed crimes and are caught in prison will deliberately choose this day to prepare a thick amount of money to go to the yamen to get people, and when the money is in place, the officials in the yamen will close the case with one eye and one eye closed.

On this day, all the people are not allowed to take leave and take leave, and even Liu County, who has not been in charge for a long time, has to put on a green robe and sit in the lobby in a regular manner.

The county governor's hall at the west end was full of people, and the main hall on the east side was also crowded.

A year's Tianfu account book, the list of expenses in the yamen, the household registration of the people, the correspondence files and many other messy things must be sorted out, and those that are clear will be sent to the archives for filing, and those that are not sorted out must be recorded in the register and wait for next year to continue to be sorted.

Master Sun Bo was smarter, and called all the officials who were in charge of his side to the main room, and sorted out the files under his own face, saving him from wasting time looking for people back and forth.

County Lieutenant Liu actually wanted to do this, but because his situation was special, he needed a quiet environment to let him think about the case.

Under the eaves of the corridor of the county lieutenant's hall, dozens of yacha were crowded together in a mess, and their heads looked at the hall from time to time.

Liu Sanlang was already "annoyed" by a few close subordinates in his usual days, so he reached out and took a black money bag, stuffed the upper and lower pads into his arms, and walked into the hall as soon as he turned around.

First, I went to the cabinet next to me where a large number of case files were placed, rummaged through it, and then took out a file marked as an unfinished case and walked to County Lieutenant Liu.

"County Lieutenant Liu, the culprit of this case is about to be closed!"

After speaking, he handed over the booklet in his hand.

County Lieutenant Liu stretched out his hand and took it, opened it and looked up and down, and said, "Are all three families here?" ”

Liu Sanlang clenched his fists and said: "Only one came, and the other two never came!" ”

County Lieutenant Liu hugged the back of his head with his hands, lay on his back on a chair, closed his eyes and asked, "Which one is here?" How much bond did you pay? ”

Liu Sanlang said: "Erniu's family, sentenced to three months in prison, twenty boards, a total of four taels of silver!" ”

County Lieutenant Liu snorted lightly and said: "Then I will let these two cows go, and then send the two of them to the other two to ask, and they will not pick up people, if you don't take the New Year's meal money and the hard-earned money of the brothers working overtime, remember to urge it." ”

Liu Sanlang said yes, and after receiving the note from the county lieutenant Liu, he turned over and walked out of the house, went to the porch outside, and sent two public servants who stood at the front with his fingers, and relayed the words of the county lieutenant just now and went to the prison with his legs.

The two yacha who were ordered to hug their fists and run out in the envious eyes of others, and the people behind the two of them hurriedly moved two steps forward and continued to joke with the people around them.

The two yacha who received the task each took a few people and helpers out of the yamen, and scattered according to their respective destinations.

The dog watched a few males running in front of him, sighed, this time I don't know whose turn is unlucky, salty and radish don't worry about it, no matter what I do, or do my job honestly!

The tea soup shop has been open for a few days, and a lot of problems have been revealed, the most important of which is that there is no pit.

If you drink too much tea, you will keep thinking about "putting water", and you forgot this when you built a shed, and in the next few days, there are more men, and it is very convenient to find a place where no one is around.

It wasn't until one day that a red-faced sister-in-law found the dog, which reminded me of forgetting to cover the pit.

The area was very spacious, and the dog dug two mouthfuls in one go, one for the man and one for the woman.

The pit was dug up, but it couldn't be used for it, so they let Dasha and a few of them chop a lot of dry firewood, and strictly set up a shed that could block the figure, and found a piece of linen cloth at the door of the thatched house to block it.

From a distance, it still looks like that, let the dog go in and try, the dog found a problem, the wooden shed is far away to see nothing, but closer, you can always see some white flowers from the cracks.

After thinking about it for a long time, I finally built a layer of mud bricks on the women's thatched house, and the men's thatched house only added another layer of firewood on the outside to block things.

After washing my hands and returning to the shop, it was almost noon, and according to the time of entering the store a few days ago, those who bought New Year's goods from the market outside the city were going to come to the shop to rest.

Sure enough, the dog entered the shop with its front foot, and an old couple followed by its hind foot.

The old couple was dressed quite cleanly, and seeing that the woman still had a copper hairpin in her bun, the two entered the shop and looked left and right, and then chose to sit at the table by the window in the east hall.

The dog followed them closely, and when they sat down, he said to the two of them, "Two guest officers, do you want a big bowl of tea?" Or just hot water? ”

The old man next to him was stunned and said: "Of course you are here to drink tea when you enter the tea shop, you serve two bowls of tea." ”

Hearing him say this, the dog knew that it was the first time they came in, so he explained beside him: "Because the shop has just opened, the tea leaves are only loose tea, and I am afraid that you will not be used to drinking it, so ask more, you two wait a minute, and the boy will serve it to you immediately." ”

The old man nodded and said, "It's okay, you just come up when we are used to drinking." ”

The dog said yes and was about to turn around to serve tea, when the woman next to him suddenly asked, "Xiaolang, what snacks do you have here?" ”

The dog said: "Back to the lady, we only have ring cakes, cooking cakes, mille-feuille cakes, flower cakes, bean cakes, and three-color cakes!" There are also salt beans and sweet red dates to pass the time as snacks! ”

When the woman heard this, she said slowly: "We have eaten, we will leave after a short rest, Xiaolang, you can take a plate of salt beans and red dates!" ”

The dog nodded and left them, went to the counter and told the two of them what they ordered, and then copied his hands into the back kitchen, which was the warmest place in the whole tea shop, and the fire in the small stove was not extinguished all day, fortunately the dog was selling firewood, otherwise it would cost a lot of copper money a day just to buy dry firewood.

After turning around and returning to the front room, the female shopkeeper Liu Hong asked: "Brother Gou'er, there will be annual leave in the yamen tomorrow, will those rich officials come to the store to drink a bowl of tea when they go to the market to buy New Year's goods?" ”

The dog looked at her like a fool, you said that they are not bad officials, and people will come to your broken grass shed to drink a bowl of broken tea for two pennies?

"Cough, Liu Hong, don't think about this, if the officials come, tell them to drink the big bowl of tea without charging money, lest they start a fire and smash the shed!"

The words were serious, which frightened the female shopkeeper, and she didn't dare to look forward to the officials coming to the door.

Girls always love to fantasize about something, since arranging for her to be the shopkeeper, she always secretly dresses herself behind the cabinet every day, especially the little face, which is washed white.

"Hey, hey, what's the fuss?"

The dog knocked on the cabinet and shouted at her, "Bring me the account books of the past few days!" ”

Liu Hong sighed, handed over the ledger, and then looked at the dog nervously.

I muttered a few words and flipped the first page of the ledger, oh! What a spider article!

There are twenty-three words in total, and each one is staggering, like a new acne on the face of a mouse who came to deliver snacks.

Fortunately, these words are not missing arms and legs, compared to what Cao Abao wrote, the good is not a little bit, endure the uncomfortable line by line, and quickly turn the next page after reading.

Tea money of about 40 wen a day, a total of 400 wen in ten days, the cooking cake is Cao's grandmother's house, and other things are taken by Tian Mouse to consign, and the daily commission is only two wen, which is only 20 wen.

Thinking about the fact that the shop has just opened, the dog is really satisfied, at least the food money for three meals a day for these four people is settled.

Seeing that Liu Hong was secretly combing her hair there with a small comb, the dog pouted and walked out with his hands behind his back.

At present, selling firewood and opening a tea shop can feed half of the people, but there are still more than 10 people who have not yet solved the problem of eating.

Every time I walked by Zhang Laohan's wine shop, I could see a few little beggars crowded at the back door, waiting for the people in the store to throw out the leftovers, and then this group of people struggled to grab it, stretched out their hands and stuffed it into their mouths to eat, and their eyes were sour.

Strictly speaking, this group of beggars has nothing to do with themselves, but if they are left alone, they will always be unhappy in their hearts, and no matter who makes themselves the "beggar leaders".

The question of money, always tortured myself, I thought that the five of us could live comfortably during the New Year this winter, but I never thought that I would have a poor year again.

Worried, sorrowful, squatting at the corner of the street, looking at the bustling crowd across the road, the shops shouting loudly one by one, and the quarrel with the hawkers who seemed to be too expensive to buy, all converged into a sound wave and pounced on the dogs.

Time seemed to stand still, and the surrounding noise seemed to stop in an instant, and the men and women in front of them suddenly disappeared, and the dog's eyes became dark, and in an instant, it felt like a pearl flashed through his head, and his eyes lit up again, and the boiling scene changed again.

The stomach was purring, and the hunger pang followed, rubbing the flat belly, sighing, and it's okay, let's live one day at a time.

Standing on his numb legs, a whimpering cry just crossed the road came into the dog's ears, and when he looked sideways, he saw a group of people tightly gathered under a big willow tree, and he didn't know what to look at again.

It was important to fill the stomach, so the dog didn't go to see the excitement, and sat down in front of the stall next to him and shouted to the stall owner: "Big bowl of chaos hurry up and give me a bowl!" ”