Chapter Fifty-Six: Buy Some Bear's Paws in the Mountain Village

Zhang Zhong continued to walk forward, and sure enough, it didn't take too much time for a village to appear in front of him, not the smoke curling in his imagination, and the chickens and dogs chasing each other.

There is some land outside the village, and there are cucumbers and eggplants on it, and the eggplants have not yet grown, and there are a few cucumbers hanging alone, and there is a fence made of thick wood outside.

There was some sand and gravel on the road, wild flowers and weeds grew beside it, a river flowed behind the village, the houses in the village were made of adobe, and some grass grew out of them, there were no children playing outside, there was no shortage of dogs barking, and there was not a single poultry or livestock to be seen.

There was no smoke coming out of the chimney, and it was already noon.

"They don't eat at noon?" Zhang Zhong asked the official in the inner courtyard.

The officials also wondered, where did the people go? Shaking his head blankly, "Master, I don't know, why don't you go in and have a look?" ”

"Or wait, our people come here, if there are people in the village, they should take a look, and now there is no one to see, maybe they are going out, all the people in a village are out, what is the matter?"

Zhang Zhong took out the monocular that Zhang Xiaobao had sent, looked towards the village, and adjusted the distance between the two lenses of the telescope from time to time.

The official looked at the things in Zhang Zhong's hand enviously, he used it once, it was very useful, he could reach a distance that he couldn't usually see, he thought about it and said, "Master, why don't I take a few people to look around?" ”

"No, wait, you can take this and say it when you see someone, and the same goes for beasts." Zhang Zhong handed the binoculars to the servant, found a place to sit down on the side of the road, took out a water bag from his backpack, and drank it in small sips.

He is now also learning from his son and daughter-in-law, and when he goes out, he carries a specially made bag, and no one in the county will say that he is not in good shape, and it contains some things that can be used at any time, which is very convenient.

The official excitedly took the telescope, and in the envious eyes of the other officials, he looked around, and he was not public, let alone talking, he looked at it by himself, and some places were blown by the wind, and he also stared for a while.

A group of people waited for half an hour, and finally, the official with the telescope shouted excitedly, "Master, there are people, I see people, a large group, and a few people are carrying things." ”

As soon as he shouted, Zhang Zhong stood up, took the telescope and looked in the direction of the northeast, only to see the men, women and children there, laughing, talking and walking here, there are two places in the crowd that are different from other places, they are several strong people carrying wooden poles on their shoulders.

From the cracks exposed by the crowd, Zhang Zhong finally knew what he was carrying, it turned out to be two bears, it seemed that someone had hunted the bear, and the whole village went over to pick it up.

When I got closer, I saw more realistically, the two bears looked not small, their bodies were covered with wounds, and they didn't know how the people in the village had hunted them.

After reaching a certain distance, the people in the village also found Zhang Zhong and his party, and with the messy and stopped figure, none of them dared to go back.

"Go over two people, tell them who I am." Zhang Zhong saw that the villagers didn't dare to come back, so he gave an order to the people beside him.

The official of the inner courtyard beckoned to a person behind him, and ran towards it first, and the person who was greeted by him did not dare to slack off, he knew that he was not as good as this colleague who was valued by the county commander, and the person was from the inner courtyard of Zhuangzi, but he always had to behave.

The two of them took a bite and ran to the villagers.

"Don't worry, let's go back to the village quickly, we are the county officials, take a look, look at our clothes."

The official of the inner courtyard said to the villagers in front of him, the villagers did not show their happiness because of their arrival, but looked at them vigilantly, the older ones were okay, they didn't say anything, the little baby didn't care about that.

A little boy about nine years old shouted at them, "Do you know that we hunted two bears, and you are going to come and rob them again?" ”

The two officials were stunned, especially the one who came up after him, he remembered the previous things, and his face changed, he had also come to bully the people in the village, it was the village that had just hunted a fox, and he helped Wen County Order rob the fox.

Today, they just got two bears back, and suddenly the people in the yamen came again, and everyone would be the first to think about whether they were coming to grab things again.

The official of the inner courtyard has studied for a year and a half, and knows a lot of things, so he hurriedly said: "Don't think about it, the county order in Huayuan County has changed, and the original surname Wen was arrested in the capital, and the surname Xiao was also arrested, and the family was also copied, and the new county order is different from the original, and he loves the people like a son."

I heard that there are two villages here, and I walked here, so I wanted to see how everyone lived. ”

"Who are you fooling? If you are an official, you don't have a good thing, you go and another one comes, is it that you have seen a person who has been taxing for two years, and there is no oil and water to fish, and he comes to us to grab something? The little baby who spoke just now said again.

The two officials looked at the distrustful gaze of the villagers, sighed at the same time, and the person who was still in the inner courtyard said, "Whether it's true or not, what's the use of you stopping here?" Could it be that there is no village yet, and when you get to the village, besides, okay? ”

The villagers thought about it, people who stopped here would not come over, and more than 20 people could still carry two bears, so what if they really came?

At the beckoning of the village, the villagers continued to carry the two bears towards the village.

When they arrived at the village, Zhang Zhong also brought someone to greet him, he had no official authority, with a smile on his face, he walked out of the protection of the guards, and said to a villager who was at the head: "Amazing, I can hunt two bears, and one bear paw can be sold for a lot of money." ”

If it weren't for the official uniform he was wearing, the villagers would have thought that an errand boy had come over, when would he be an official and smile at ordinary people, and the smile would still be so sincere.

Only those officials understand that as long as they don't do too much, the county magistrate is very talkative, and he can even chat with you when he has free time, but as long as he does something that shouldn't be done, such as bullying the people when the officials go out, at least thirty sticks will fall on him.

There was a doctor waiting next to him, and he didn't dare to show mercy to his subordinates, and the real thirty sticks fell on his body, and the taste was raised, and after the fight, he had to carry it to the bullying people for people to see.

If it is the second offense, then it will be beaten directly with a hundred sticks, and then driven away, and there will be no need for servants, and no one has committed the second offense until now, and the first time will not be committed, and after a hundred strokes, the person will die.

The villagers didn't know this, and they felt very comfortable looking at Zhang Zhong's smile, the village is not like other places, it is served by an old man, the village is a twenty-four or five-year-old person, standing up and saying, "You are the new county magistrate?" ”

"Yes, it's a newcomer, you two bears might as well sell them to the county, and sell them to Jinlailou, the current Jinlailou is not opened by the original relative surnamed Wen, it is opened by my family, the price given is absolutely fair, and even more can be given, after all, there are many restaurants in my family, and you can make more money by selling them in the capital."

Zhang Zhong opened the backpack while talking, took out the candy from it and handed it to the little baby next to him, the candy was prepared for himself, and when he had no food to eat, he could also top one with two pieces of candy.

The little baby stared at the candy, but she didn't dare to take it, looking cowardly.

Zhang Zhong took the little baby's hand and stuffed the sugar into it, "Take it, don't worry, I won't ask for everyone's things in vain, I am different from the Nawen County Order, my family has money, I dare not say more, tens of thousands of dollars can be taken out casually, don't be afraid that the living money is not enough, how much can you two bears worth?" ”

"My lord is the head of Zhangjia Zhuangzi in Sanshui County, it is not rare for you to have this little thing, my lord has hundreds of restaurants and shops alone."

The official of the inner courtyard helped to talk about it at this time, and Zhang Zhong turned his head and nodded at the official with satisfaction.

Some of the villagers who went to change things had heard of Zhang's Zhuangzi, and when they came back, they told the people in the village that at this time, the villagers heard that the new county order was the head of the Zhang family, and they finally didn't worry.

The little baby who took the candy stuffed it into his mouth, and asked unscrupulously, "Did you send something to your farmer?" Build a big house for the farmer? ”

"Don't talk nonsense." The parents from the side said at the same time.

Zhang Zhong didn't care, nodded, and said to the little baby: "That's not for nothing, the Zhuang family has done a lot of things for the main family, and if you don't give it, you can't say it, tell your uncle, how old is it?" ”

"Eight...... Eight years old. The little baby was told by her parents, and her courage also became smaller, and she said timidly.

"Eight years old is not too old, you can go to the school to study, and in the future, I will build a school for you here, and find someone from outside to teach you, just right, the two Zhuangzi are in charge together."

Zhang Zhong thought of the plan that his son said, and planned to get a person who couldn't pass the exam here, believing that the people who came here would not suffer too much, and the villagers would be able to take care of it.

At this time, Muramasa also noticed the difference in the new prefectural ordinance, and said, "My lord, will taxes still be collected this year?" ”

"Collecting taxes? Haven't you already paid this year's money, don't accept it, and collect it next year, it's useless for you to eat the two bears yourself, send gold to the building, one hundred times. ”

Zhang Zhong glanced at the two bears again, and said to the village, in fact, he wanted to eat, Zhang Xiaobao mentioned eating bear paws more than once, but unfortunately others made it, and it didn't get it good in the early stage, and the taste was much worse, where the two bears were two right forepaws, although the solar terms were not so good, but they were not bad.