Chapter 52: The Northern Suburbs: White Tiger Ya
Jiang Xiaobai looked left and right, and heard the man continue to shout: "Don't look, it's you, hurry up and come over to help!" ”
Following the prestige, I saw a young man standing in the cloister not far away, who was struggling to carry a bookcase.
Jiang Xiaobai walked over to take a hand, and he saw this person's appearance clearly. Tall, with a thin face, because of the upward movement of the corners of the mouth, there always seems to be a little smile on the face, although the eyes are not big, but they are bright, flickering revealing a cleverness.
Someone helped, and the young man's struggling expression eased a lot in an instant, and he breathed a sigh of relief, and complained: "I'm tired to death, why is this broken frame so heavy." ”
Jiang Xiaobai smiled and asked, "Where did you move to?" ”
"Backyard." The young man pointed behind him.
The scale of the White Tiger Ya is quite large, and it takes about ten minutes to walk from the front hall to the backyard. And along the way, Jiang Xiaobai could hardly see the figure of other errand workers, the houses in the house were extremely old, there were traces of falling paint blocks everywhere on the beams, and the vegetation in the courtyard was also wilted, as if it had not been taken care of for a long time.
For such a mysterious and historical institution, Jiang Xiaobai has imagined the scene inside the White Tiger Ya many times, but he didn't expect it to be such a depressed scene, if he didn't see it with his own eyes, it was really hard to believe.
"Okay, let's leave it here!" In one of the rooms in the backyard of the White Tiger Ya, after the young man put the bookcase down, he clapped his hands with satisfaction and said with a smile, "It's finally arranged, it's all my own credit, I hope the new director will like it." ”
Jiang Xiaobai looked around, there were not many furnishings in the house, the beds, bookshelves, and several cases were also newly moved, although it was a temporarily arranged room, but the simple style was also in line with his appetite, so he smiled: "He will like it." ”
"Hey, I said you're new, you're not him, how do you know he likes it." The lad retorted.
Jiang Xiaobai smiled and asked rhetorically: "Since you know that I am new, then how do you know that I will not be the new director?" ”
The young man was stunned when he heard this, and then laughed and said, "Impossible! Look at your young age, how can you be the person in charge. I said you're new to the shrilt enough to almost bluff you. ”
Jiang Xiaobai also smiled and asked again, "Then what do you think the new director should look like?" ”
"Of course, it's a fat head and a big belly!" The young man blurted out, "Pretending to be sanctimonious on the outside, but in fact, the heart is insidious and cunning, not all the current officials are like this, right?" ”
"Oh?" The corners of Jiang Xiaobai's eyes moved, and he dragged his chin and nodded, "It seems that this is indeed the case." ”
"Yes! You think so too! The young man grabbed Jiang Xiaobai's shoulder, laughed louder, and then said, "Brother, my name is Xiao Nengshou, but this old character in the White Tiger Ya, seeing that you are quite in love, call me Boss Xiao, and the things in this Yali will cover you in the future!" ”
Xiao Nengshou, a little expert? The name is interesting, Jiang Xiaobai smiled: "That... Boss Xiao, can I ask you something? ”
"What's the matter, just ask, your boss and I know everything, I know everything." Xiao Nengshou immediately agreed, quite high-spirited.
Jiang Xiaobai pondered for a moment and asked, "I heard that the White Tiger Ya was one of the four Ya established during the period of Emperor Taizu, but how can it be such a depressed scene now?" ”
"Brother, you don't know about this. Although the four yamen were established under the Taizu period, after the stability of the Yue Kingdom, these four special yamen were gradually abandoned. The imperial court reactivated the four ya, that is, in recent years. After that, Xiao Nengshou looked around again, and after confirming that there was no one, he lowered his voice and said, "The imperial court has successively restarted the four yas in recent years, and it should be something annoying." ”
Jiang Xiaobai bowed slightly, this move of the imperial court must not be unintentional, because there is no shortage of criminal agencies in the Yue Kingdom, and the Criminal Health Department under the Criminal Department that he knows is one of them. It seems that what the imperial court is facing now is not only the problem of turmoil in the domestic rivers and lakes, but also the situation abroad is not optimistic. Under the prosperity and prosperity of the country, a big storm may be set off. Xiao Nengshou can realize this, and this vision is not simple.
Then, I heard Xiao Nengshou sigh and say: "Alas, I said that your luck is really enough, brother, which one of the four yas you go to, but you come to this white tiger ya." ”
What does this seem to mean? Just when Jiang Xiaobai wanted to ask for an explanation, he heard a tiger roar from the main hall. Before he could react, Xiao Nengshou had already pulled him and ran up, shouting in his mouth: "This is the assembly order of the White Tiger Ya, and the commander is here!" ”
At this time, a group of people had gathered in the main hall, and Xiao Nengshou took Jiang Xiaobai to stand in the last row of the crowd and whispered: "This tiger roar means that there is a major matter in the yali, and everyone must assemble in the main hall and wait for the order of the commander." ”
Jiang Xiaobai nodded and counted carefully. There are only about 30 people standing in this huge main hall, and the number of people is small, even less than that of some local yamen. However, their costumes are very uniform and distinctive. All black power suits, with blood-red stripes on the neckline, cuffs, and waist, and a black mask around each person's neck, like a night suit.
In addition to these thirty or so people, there were four people standing above the main hall. At the head of the line was a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a black official uniform. Different from python robes, crane robes, etc., this official uniform is embroidered with a white tiger, which looks very majestic and vicious. It's just that this man's appearance is incompatible with the temperament of this official uniform, his body is bloated, his eyes are blank, and his sideburns are bald a lot. Seeing that the current commander of the White Tiger Ya was like this, it was not difficult to understand why Xiao Nengshou said those words before.
Seeing that the personnel had arrived, the middle-aged man first cleared his throat and signaled everyone to be quiet, and then took out an official document from his bosom and said, "I called everyone today to announce one thing, that is, someone has finally taken up the position of a long-vacant director of my office. He spoke very slowly, word by word, and seemed to show his majesty as a commander all the time.
Speaking of this, he paused, and after glancing at the official document, he suddenly smiled and said: "However, this new director named Jiang Xiaobai has not come to report until now, as if it is bigger than my commanding shelf." ”
Everyone in the hall also laughed, Xiao Nengshou was the one who laughed the most, he hurriedly patted Jiang Xiaobai on the side with his hand, and said with a smile: "Brother, listen, Jiang Xiaobai, how stupid this name must be." ”
But in the next second, he was dumbfounded, because Jiang Xiaobai left a sentence: "You kid...", and then stepped forward under his stunned gaze.
"Back to my lord, the lowly Jiang Xiaobai has come to report!"
As soon as the words came out, the whole house was shocked. For a while, everyone's eyes looked at the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man's body was shocked, but he didn't expect to finish talking about other people's slander, and the next second someone appeared. His face was a little panicked, but he quickly regained his composure, and after looking Jiang Xiaobai up and down, he asked, "You are Jiang Xiaobai?" What proof can you have? After that, it seemed to be threatening, "Impersonating an official is a capital offense." ”
Jiang Xiaobai smiled indifferently, raised his left hand, showed a token, and said to everyone: "Hello, I am the new director, Jiang Xiaobai." ”