Duan Si quickly caught up with Shang Cheng and them. He saw Shang Cheng riding on horseback, his head down, his eyes squinted, as if he was pretending to sleep, so he didn't speak, and followed silently with the horse in tow.

It was the noon sun at its highest, and the bright sun that hung above it was spewing blazing unscrupulously, and the earth was scorched like a steamer on a fierce fire, and the dazzling white light was reflected everywhere. There are very few pedestrians and carriages on the big post road, and only one or two figures can be seen in the small ditch on the side of the road. These industrious men with tattered hats on their heads, their dirty and sweaty coats, and their buttocks pouted, crouched by the dried-up stream like a dead snake like a bodhisattva, and reverently carried wooden ladles in the ditch to find the last muddy water. They are also looking for the last hope. After walking a little way, wheat fields gradually appeared on both sides of the post road without camps. These fields are probably the kind of land of Zhang Xiaojia's family, and the seeds are sown in the spring, but the owner does not have the heart to take care of them carefully, so many of the seeds do not germinate, and the white brown dry soil is exposed in the east and west of the field, which is ugly as if he has dysentery. Even the wheat that grows lacks the heavy vitality that this season should have, and the empty ears sway listlessly from side to side with the hot water rolling through the fields......

The closer you get to the state city, the worse the situation becomes. Ripe fields that people have been willing to give up appear in large chunks, and they are no longer planted with vegetables for this season. However, due to the lack of water, the growth of vegetables is also worrying. But people with despair on their faces are still stubbornly trying to find a way to keep this little gain, preferring to run a long way to carry water back. Alas, the price of this rotten dish may not be as good as their foot power......

Along the way, Shang Cheng's mood was extremely heavy. Looking at the situation in front of him, looking at the wheat that lived in symbiosis with the weeds and the dead yellow cabbage leaves that were dying, it was like a whip on him. It was his mistake and the health department's mistake! Neither the Health Department nor he could foresee that the drought would expand further last winter and this spring, so the focus of this year's water conservancy project is still on the Yanzhongbei area, and as a result, the agricultural production in Yanzhongbei has improved, but the prefecture capital has fallen into a serious drought...... What made him even more unforgivable was that he had walked this path more than ten days earlier, but he had not noticed these circumstances at all, let alone taken any remedial measures. This is simply an unforgivable mistake!

While blaming himself, he immediately thought that this incident happened on the edge of the state city, and it was impossible for the local county government and Yanzhou prefect Pan Lian not to know, why didn't they deal with it? There is also Lu Ji, he is Wei Mu, doesn't he know the situation?

He thought angrily: What are these people doing all day long, and they don't say a word about such a big thing! Haven't they heard that "the people live on food"?

He's going to go back and clean up these people!

But after thinking about it, he was a little discouraged. Lu Ji and Pan Lian may not know the situation, nor may they not have dealt with it, but the four imperial court Qin, who didn't know what the idea was, were almost bored in Yanshan, looking here today, and shopping there tomorrow, picking their noses and eyes, making people panic all over the city; In this case, even if the pastoral government and the state government have made arrangements, the people who should be sent may not be able to do it wholeheartedly. Some people who have a lot of ideas put most of their minds on how to please the Qincha, and where do they have the time to worry about the crops in the fields and the people in the fields?

Fuck him! He cursed in disgust. But even he didn't know who he was scolding......

He returned home with a belly of nameless fire.

He took a shower in his small courtyard. The dust and sweat stains all the way back and forth were washed away, but the anger in my heart couldn't be suppressed no matter what, kicking a pair of scornful sandals and wearing a gown rummaging around the room to find the nearest paperwork.

Baukan came in.

Shang Cheng took out the papers in the two large filing cabinets in the corner, screwed his brows and browsed the title of the file, and asked without looking back: "Today is Xiu Mu, you are not at home with your mother-in-law teasing the doll, what are you doing here?" ”

How could Bao Kan not hear the anger in his words. He shrunk his neck, didn't hurry back to Shang Cheng's words, and didn't say what he was going to do, he first turned his head and glared at Duan Si, who was quietly standing outside the door looking at the excitement, and asked in a low voice: "Didn't you go to send Yi Guogong, why did you provoke him so much resentment?" Before Wang Yi's kid left, did he say any nonsense that is not worth it? ”

Duan Si grinned, and said like a mosquito: "Wang Yi didn't say anything. It was on the way back that I met the orchid. "He squeezed his eyes and made a strange appearance." That's it...... You know who I said, right? At that time, the governor chatted with her and smiled, looking very energetic. How do you know that when you are separated from that orchid, you will look like this. ”

"Nonsense!" Bao Kan glanced at him. Shang Cheng has a fart relationship with the bearded girl. Shang Cheng really wants to accept that bearded girl, and he still uses rumors to create momentum first? Not to mention that Shang Chengcai accepted one, he just accepted seven or eight in one go, and he felt that no one dared to stand up and fart! The dignified admiral has a concubine room, and he has something to do with others! Just because he understood this truth, two days ago, he found a few of the most rumor-mongering guys in the Health Department and beat them up. No, the Admiral's Mansion locked up a few chickens, and the monkeys immediately came to their senses, and the state city was clean all at once!

"I really met that orchid ......," Duan Si said with a sly smile. But his words slammed his tail, his chin was raised, his eyes were straight ahead, his hands were crossed on his waist and his thumbs were picking at his belt, and he walked away with his head held high.

When Bao Kan turned his head, he already had a smile on his face, and he originally wanted to make fun of it, but seeing that Shang Cheng's expression was not good, his cold eyes glanced at him up and down, and he immediately said with a smile: "Deputy Lieutenant Duan's words, I definitely don't believe ......."

Shang Cheng interrupted him: "What's the matter with you?" ”

"It's nothing......

"If it's okay, go to the yard to watch the ants move!"

Bao Kan smiled, entered the house with a hippie smile, found a tea bowl and poured water, and said in his mouth: "It's not a business matter, it's a little private matter." ”

This time, Shang Cheng didn't get angry again. He could see that Bao Kan had something important to say to him. He looked at Bao Kan with a dossier.

Bao Kan took two sips of water from the bowl and said, "Miss Pan'er's father is already in Yanzhou now." ”

Shang Chengleng paused for a moment before he realized what Bao Kan's words meant. He put the large brown paper file in his hand back to its original position, took out another one, untied the string that tied the seal, took the paperwork and browsed it, and asked, "Pan'er's father?" …… Who is it? ”

"Yesterday, I went with Chang Shilang to see your Yang Heng, the director of the Ministry of Works, who is Pan'er's father."

Shang Cheng tore out several documents in the file one by one, browsed through the titles and nodded, and said, "It's a good thing that their father and daughter meet." She's going back to her parents, and we can't stop her. He stuffed a few papers that weren't what he was looking for back into his file pocket, tied the strings again, and put them back in. I will talk to Yue'er when I go back, and ask her to prepare a generous gift for Pan'er to bring. It wasn't easy for the two sisters. Besides, Pan'er also helped her a lot...... Heh, I'm also worrying about it, Yue'er should be more reasonable than me in this regard. He muttered, pacing to another large cabinet, tiptoeing over to look for something.

Bao Kan was stunned with the tea bowl. He said that the purpose of this was twofold. The first is Yang Heng, a Jinshi and the first to be reduced to a nine-rank petty official, which is no different from the punishment of cutting his post for the people, obviously he is very deep in the Liu Lingtai case; Now his daughter is borrowing from the merchant, and in the long run, she will definitely not be able to contain the fire in the paper, and talking to Shang Cheng about this is, of course, to let Shang Cheng have a preparation in advance. In addition, Sun Zhongshan repeatedly asked him to see the opportunity to say good things for Pan'er in front of Shang Cheng, and he also had the idea of taking this opportunity to persuade Shang Cheng. But Shang Cheng sent Pan'er back with a gentle sentence, and when he landed, his two ideas were in vain. Moreover, Shang Cheng didn't even leave a crack in the circle.

He couldn't think of what to say next for a while, so he had to pretend to drink water with a tea bowl. But a bowl of water was poured into his stomach, but he couldn't think of any idea in his head.

Shang Cheng was busy for a long time, but he still couldn't find the official document he wanted, clapped his hands and stood up, looked up and saw Bao Kan still standing in front of the table, so he asked him strangely: "Is there anything else?" ”

"Huh?" Bao Kan suddenly became stumped. He was silent for a long time before he found a sentence, "Miss Pan'er said that she didn't want to go back...... She, this, she can't bear Miss Yue'er. ”

Shang Cheng, who was rummaging through a few stacks of documents on the big table, said "oh", and said after a while: "She doesn't want to go back......" He opened a few drawers under the table again, took out a few large stacks of documents and threw them on the table. "Why wouldn't she want to go back to her parents? What did she think? ”

Only then did Bao Kan see that Shang Cheng's mind was all about finding things, and he didn't care about what he said at all, and he was just talking to him. He said: "She just can't bear Miss Yue'er." As he spoke, he smacked his lips and sighed, as if he was very moved by the friendship between the two girls. There was no way, he had just moved a stone and hit his own foot, and now he could only bite this reason and not let go.

Shang Cheng finally found the paperwork he wanted. He moved aside the messy pile of things on the table, spread out the official document before browsing the essentials, and said, "Really? Oops, that's not good. Although she and Yue'er have a good relationship, they are also her parents over there, so they can't be like this no matter how you say it. Okay, you go back first, and I'll take care of this. When I see her when I look back, I will say a few words to her. ”

Bao Kan was silent. He didn't even put down the tea bowl, he just grabbed his hand and walked out lightly, for fear that he would accidentally wake up Shang Cheng.

He went out and stuffed the bowl into Duan Si's hand, without saying a word, turned around and left.