Chapter 6: The Poisonous Tongue
I woke up the next morning, and it was another big sun.
Li Xi could even hear the voice of relief in his heart.
No matter what the point of view, no one would want the heavy rain in Shuzhou to continue.
When I came to the yamen after breakfast, I saw that Pei Jun, the county magistrate, had already arrived, and was assigning a tribal task in the second hall according to the results of last night's discussion, but Li Xi went in and sat down on his chair and looked left and right, but he didn't find the figure of the county commander Zheng Shuang, and he didn't ask it, everyone had a lot of busy things on hand, even an ordinary scribe and soap official couldn't hide from being lazy, but Li Xi had nothing to do and was light, from beginning to end, Pei Jun didn't even look at him.
After the errand was explained, everyone rushed out after the county Cheng Pei Jun gave a salute, and many people secretly turned their heads to look at Li Xi when they went out, with an inexplicable banter in their eyes, and Li Xu, who went out with everyone, had some embarrassment on his face, but at this time, he was not good at standing up and talking to Li Xi alone, so he had to pretend not to see Li Xi, hide in the crowd and walk out along the flow of people.
From beginning to end, Li Xi was expressionless.
When everyone was gone, only Zheng Shuang and Jiang An were still sitting there whispering something, Li Xi coughed, got up and straightened his clothes, and was about to go back to his house, but Zheng Shuang suddenly stopped Li Xi.
"Master Li, do you think it is feasible for this official to be assigned like this?" He looked at Li Xi with a smile and asked.
Li Xi thought to himself when he heard this, you were almost finished when I came, even if I was not satisfied, what could I do?
At that moment, Li Xi also looked back at him with a smile and said, "Master Pei is fair and judges people to the best of their talents, so good, very good!" β
Pei Jun heard the meaning of ridicule in his words, but he still smiled and nodded, turned to Jiang An and said, "Master Li is a person who knows the general situation!" Insightful, capable! β
Jiang An heard the meaning of the two of them fighting openly and secretly, but at the moment he had no choice but to echo and nodded, "Master Li is young and promising, and he can act decisively, and he can serve the people wholeheartedly, which is not comparable to old decay and rotten wood like me." β
Li Xi smiled and threw his hand at him, "The two adults have won the award, if there are no other arrangements, I will leave in the future, and I still have some official business to deal with." β
When the two of them heard this, they both nodded and said, "Master Li will go slowly, and he won't send it." β
Seeing Li Xi walk out of the door, the smile on Pei Jun's face suddenly retracted and cleaned, and his eyebrows were just full of anger, Jiang An saw his face, thought about it, and said with a smile on his face: "This kid is a slippery head, he is young, and he doesn't leak!" β
Pei Jun couldn't help but snort coldly when he heard this, and said, "The old man will give him a great taste sooner or later!" β
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After leaving the second hall, Li Xi walked to the front of the county magistrate Zheng Shuang's room and knocked on the door.
Inside, he said "come in", Li Xi pushed the door in, smiled and saluted first, and then raised his head to look at Zheng Shuang, and sure enough, he saw that his face was clouded, even if he saw himself coming in, he didn't put it away.
Zheng Shuang gave up his seat, Li Xi sat down on the side, and said with a smile: "Lord Cheng Pei of the county has been a great official!" β
As soon as these words came out, I saw Zheng Shuang couldn't help but snort coldly, and then adjusted his mood and turned his head to look at Li Xi, "Have you ever sent you an errand?" β
Li Xi shook his head, nodded again, and said with a smile: "My errand is just no errand." β
As soon as he heard this, Zheng Shuang couldn't hold back any longer, couldn't help but slap it on the table angrily, got up and said angrily: "It's too unusual!" β
Li Xi smiled silently.
According to the theory, the county order Zheng Shuang is the chief official of a county, even if he wants to assign errands, it should naturally be assigned by him, not to mention that Jin Yuan has encountered a rare catastrophe at present, Zheng Shuang, as a county commander, has the greatest pressure on his body, of course he wants to seize all the power in his hands, but it is obvious that Pei Jun has been operating in Jinyuan for many years, and he has already put the iron bucket inside and outside the county government office, as long as he is willing, he can put Zheng Shuang's genuine county order empty at any time.
And regardless of asking, if some achievements are made in this disaster relief in the future, it is naturally that he, the county lord, has a good plan, and if something goes wrong, I am afraid that Zheng Shuang, as the chief official, will be pulled out of the black pot. It's such a big disaster, Zheng Shuang doesn't dare to make trouble if he wants to lose his temper, at this time, not to mention the top, it is the common people, what will they think of him? Therefore, he can only hold this breath! - At this time, I was naturally very angry.
It's just that in Li Xi's opinion, Zheng Shuang is the rightful county magistrate after all, if he insists on grabbing power, in the face of this catastrophe, it may not be a good opportunity, but now he can only sit here and sulk, but this matter is also a little strange. After thinking about it for a moment, he asked, "I didn't see the adults pass just now, could it be ......?" β
Zheng Shuang slapped the table helplessly when he heard this, "The official has always come from the back office on time, but when the official came over today, the people in the second hall had already gathered, and Master Pei had already been dispatched, and the official was very angry at the time, but after entering, before the official could speak, Pei Xiancheng actually said to the official, 'Your Excellency has something to do and wait for a while, your subordinate will finish the order immediately, and I will go over and ask the adult later'!" β¦β¦β
ββ¦β¦ That means that he actually pulled the official out of this matter all of a sudden, and he actually thought that the official was staying there and getting in the way, so he actually opened his mouth to coax the official outside, this, this...... This is really too deceitful, and it is infuriating! β
Li Xi nodded when he heard this, thinking that this Zheng Shuang is a scholar after all, although he has all the knowledge and is not bad at decisiveness, but he is still not thick enough!
After thinking about it, he said slowly: "Forgive me for being blunt, in fact, in my office, adults don't dare to come out!" You just stay there, that is, the commander, even if he continues to assign, you can't go without asking your opinion in everything, right? At that time, you can just intervene, what can he do! β
Zheng Shuang couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, and said helplessly: "Who said it wasn't, as soon as the official came out, he understood that it was his way, alas, Brother Zi Xian, you were not there at that time, if you were there, seeing his face, you must have been so angry that your chest would explode!" The official was also angry with him at that time, and he was careless for a while! The results are now ...... Alas! β
Hearing that he suddenly changed himself to a virtuous brother, Li Xi smiled, thinking that this county magistrate was much more aggrieved than himself, even if he was set up, he would not do anything at best, but he had no responsibility, but he Zheng Shuang was the local chief official, and he may not have his credit if he did a good job, but he would definitely have his fault if he did a bad job! That's why this time I suddenly looked like I met my bosom friend, and I put my heart to heart.
Of course, if it's just like this, it must not be enough for him to be so polite and close to him, presumably today's encounter made him think of the two big backers standing behind him again, and his desire to win over him became stronger and stronger.
At the moment, he thought about it and said: "My lord, I don't have to be too bored, well, just now my subordinate came over there, think about this Lord Pei, my subordinate is suddenly full of poetry, and he has a small poem, please correct it!" β
"Oh?" Zheng Shuang was a little stunned when he heard this, he didn't know why he was talking about the, why did Li Xi suddenly come to Shixing, but since he said so, Zheng Shuang had no choice but to nod, and said a little dejectedly: "Virtuous brother, don't dare to give advice, since there is a good poem, then please say that the virtuous brother will do it!" β
Li Xi smiled and said, "He is strong by him, and the breeze blows the hills." He is horizontal, and the bright moon shines on the river. β
After all, Zheng Shuang was born as a Jinshi, and his academic talent is still very high, Li Xi's poem just came out, although he was stunned for a moment, thinking that Li Xi has always been famous for being a genius, how can he make such crooked poems, he doesn't even have some rules, it is really not exquisite. But soon, he had already figured out the meaning of Li Xi's poem, of course, after pondering for a while, he felt that the more he touched this little poem, the more flavorful it became, and it was very appropriate to use it to deduce his mood and encounter at the moment!
At that moment, he glanced up at Li Xi, and couldn't help but think in his heart, there is no void under the fame of humanity, sure enough, this Li Xi is talented, but it is just the urgency in front of him, it is already rare, and it is even more rare that there is a faint sense of inexhaustibility in this poem, like a Buddhist verse, and like a Taoist poem of the immortals...... It's already quite a bit of a suave and self-reliant celebrity.
At that moment, Zheng Shuang couldn't help but praise the case, "Good poetry, good poetry!" Zi said that the virtuous brother is really talented, speaking of this state of mind, the foolish brother is actually a little ashamed...... Admire, admire! β
At this time, I remembered Li Xi's song "Ripe. Women's Poems", he couldn't help laughing, but suddenly he felt that his heart was much brighter, and he couldn't help but turn around and sit down, holding his long hair in his hand, and said with a smile: "Yes, the breeze blows the hill, this hill just needs to sit still, how can a few wisps of breeze be helpless?" Well, good poetry, good poetry! β
A well-known martial arts poem was made, which immediately made Zheng Shuang's heart open, and then Li Xi took the opportunity to say that he wanted to transfer Li Shuang away so as not to fall into the handle, and Zheng Shuang immediately agreed. Then the two chatted again, and Li Xi said goodbye.
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Three times in a row, Shuzhou is sunny.
The stagnant water in the fields is gradually discharged, and the water level of the Dujiang River is gradually beginning to fall, and the haze shrouded in the land of Sichuan and Shu is dissipating in a day.
In the afternoon of this day, Li Xi had just been resigned, and he went home to rest for a while, and was about to go to Zhou's mansion to learn calligraphy, but Zheng Shuang suddenly sent a government official to call him, saying that he should go to the county government office as soon as possible to discuss matters.
Li Xi didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly took the carriage back to the county office, but saw that in the second hall of the Pingyueli discussion, the county commander Zheng Shuang, the county Cheng Pei Jun and the county lieutenant Jiang An were already present, so he was sent to the main book.
As soon as he had confessed his guilt and sat down, a scribe handed over a wad of transcribed statistics on the disaster.
Zheng Shuang said: "At present, the disaster is not as serious as we originally thought, if it ends here, God will not continue to rain, but it can be regarded as leaving some vitality for our Jinyuan." β
"Oh? Good news! Li Xi praised the words when he heard this, and then looked down at the disaster statistics in his hand.
At a glance, I found that Zheng Shuang's words that left Jin Yuan with some vitality were really not wrong.
This time the rain is so big, more than 90 percent of the county's acres of land are different degrees of water, serious and even the field is already an ocean, only see water, not seedlings, originally expected, even if the rain recedes after the drainage, can grab back a harvest of one or two percent, it is already good, but now it seems that the name of the land of abundance in Sichuan and Shu is not called in vain, drainage and irrigation is indeed very convenient, Rao is so much waterlogged, but still did not frustrate the bones.
According to the statistics on the disaster situation, there are more than 300,000 mu of the county's 1.4 million mu of upper, middle and lower third-class mature fields, which basically do not produce any losses.
In addition, there are about 600,000 acres of fields, which have not been completely harvested, and after timely removal of stagnant water, according to the estimates of local villagers and Li Zheng, there will be about three or four percent or even six or seven percent of the harvest.
The seedlings in the fields have been completely drowned, so this year's early rice production will definitely be completely extinct, and at most there will be one or two percent of the harvest, which is only about 500,000 mu.
In addition, the foundation of the field has been washed away, and there are about 200,000 acres of fields that need to be repaired urgently. More than 700 houses collapsed, totaling nearly 4,000.
In addition, during the current disaster, as well as in recent days, there have been more than 40 casualties of various kinds.
Li Xi looked at this statistic, while silently calculating in his heart, looking back and comparing, he found that although the old man Li Yifeng had not gone down to investigate the disaster, and had not even left the county seat at all these days, his prediction of the disaster on the acres of land was not much different from this statistic!
This made Li Xi have to sigh, if you want to talk about being skilled in government affairs, this old man is really a good hand, not to mention anything else, just after he has been the master bookkeeper in Jinyuan for a few years, he can actually be familiar with the situation in Jinyuan to this extent, he is already a genius.
After reading this statistic at the moment, Li Xi thoughtfully handed it back to the scribe on the side, and said with a smile: "God has eyes, Lord Zheng said it well, and finally left some vitality for our Jin Yuan." β
The foundation of twenty acres of land was washed away, this is the simplest, each field has its own owner, and everyone points to these fields to eat, so there is almost no need for the government to do anything, once the field is slightly dry, can settle down, those distressed old farmers will go to trim themselves, think that it will definitely not affect the matter of late rice.
As for the reconstruction of the house, the government does not need to do anything, whenever this kind of thing happens, it is always when people are most united, and when the house collapses, the neighbors will help, plus all the houses that collapse, most of them are simple thatched cottages, and it is not too complicated to say that the reconstruction is not too complicated.
As for those who died due to the disaster, the results have been given in that statistically, and the bereavement benefits of the county government have been properly distributed.
At present, the most important thing is actually only one thing, that is, the problem of the affected people having to open their mouths to eat, because many people's rice has been soaked in water. At present, the yield of early rice has been reduced or even extinct, and it is still very early for late rice, saying that it has left a trace of vitality for Jin Yuan without injury, but it has to survive this period of time.
Hearing Li Xi's words at this time, Zheng Shuang smiled and said: "There is one more thing, it is inconvenient to write it in, but I want to tell you that because the sun came out immediately after the heavy rain went, many people hurriedly took out the blistered rice in their homes to dry, so they grabbed some back." β
Even if Li Xi has just been an official for a few days, after all, he also worked in a large company in his previous life, and when he heard this, he immediately understood what Zheng Shuang meant, and when Zheng Shuang finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Pei Jun and Jiang An, and saw that they were also calm, and immediately understood that no matter how big the contradictions between them were, in terms of exaggerating the disaster to relief, they still reached an agreement that they knew each other well before they came over.
At that moment, Li Xi nodded, even if he acquiesced to Zheng Shuang's statement.
At this time, Zheng Shuang had no choice but to speak again, so he heard Pei Jun suddenly say: "Speaking of which, this time the disaster is so bad, relying on a little grain stored in our county alone is not enough at all, I am afraid that I will have to rush to open my mouth, and under such a catastrophe, this year's taxes will have to sprint Lord Shi to cry!" β
Hearing this, Jiang An hurriedly nodded in agreement, and said, "Yes, yes, Master Pei said it well, only crying children have milk to eat." β
Zheng Shuang was suddenly interrupted by Pei Jun, and he was a little unhappy in his heart, but he agreed with Pei Jun's words, so he immediately put away the smile on his face and nodded silently.
Then I saw Pei Jun suddenly turn his head to look at Li Xi with a smile, "Speaking of this matter of disaster relief and stabilizing the people, although the official and the county magistrate Jiang are not talented, they have also been local officials for many years, and they are familiar with each other in the township...... Hehe, I heard that Master Li is the proud protΓ©gΓ© of Lord Zhou of the Assassin History, and he is married to Lord Sima's family, so this thing of running up is going to work for you, Lord Li! β
Li Xi couldn't help but sneer in his heart when he heard this, and his heart said this too beautifully, it is better to simply make it clear, let me go up and ask you for money and food relief, and you are responsible for spending it! How can there be such a truth in the world!
At this time, Li Xi smiled and was about to speak, thought about it, but swallowed back everything he wanted to say, and turned his head to look at Zheng Shuang.
This is a good opportunity to seize power, I'm afraid that Zheng Shuang will not let Pei Jun go over easily.
Sure enough, at this time, when he heard that Pei Jun was directly assigning errands to the next place, and almost didn't take himself, the chief official of a county, in his eyes, Zheng Shuang immediately blushed with anger. What do you want to say, in fact, Pei Jun's words are exactly what he wants to say, and it is not easy to object, so he had to cough at the moment and said with a straight face: "It is said that Master Pei and Gao Beijia's family have also recently married?" You two have to be diligent in this thing! β
Li Xi heard the words and looked at this, and then at that, thinking about Li Yifeng's words, knowing that now was not the time to be polite, he immediately smiled and said: "Yes, I heard that Lord Don't drive the concubine of Xinna, but he loves him very much, and as long as Master Pei is willing to come forward, there is no need for anything else, just a pillow wind blowing, and it is not what you want?" β
Pei Jun's face couldn't help but turn red when he heard this, and he also knew that he gave his sixteen-year-old daughter to Gao Yue, the old man, as a concubine, which was very bad in the community, and even many people scolded him behind his back.
But he is really unwilling to end up in the position of a small county, eager to get a support from above, and although Gao Yue is about to be in the age of the sixtieth year, and he has moved here to the left, but after all, he is still a state, and there is a lot of Austrian aid in the court, which is the character he longs for, so he can't take care of a lot, and he sent a young and beautiful daughter out.
Although he failed to seek the county order of Qingcheng County last time, he still saw the benefits of someone above, so although he was talked about behind his back, he didn't regret it, he was just afraid of being mentioned in person, and his face couldn't get up. Fortunately, he has been operating in the local area for many years and has great prestige, although everyone is not ashamed behind his back, no one has ever rushed to talk about this in front of him.
Speaking of which, Li Xi was the first one who dared to point at his nose and say this to his face.
When he heard this, he couldn't put on that hypocritical smile anymore, so he couldn't help but snort coldly and turn his face away.
At this time, Li Xi still had an unrelenting posture, and smiled at Zheng Shuang: "It is said that because of this wonderful marriage, someone in the market specially wrote a poem to praise it, well, let me think about it...... By the way, the poem is: Sixteen brides and sixty langs, with pale hair and red makeup. The mandarin ducks are made into a double night, and a pear flower presses the begonia. β
After finishing speaking, he patted his thigh there and praised, "Good poetry, good poetry!" β
Including the scribe who was in charge of recording on the side, several people on the spot couldn't help but be stunned when they heard this.
Li Xi said that it was spread in the streets, why had they never heard of it?
Besides, is this a compliment?
This is a powerful irony!
can be qualified to sit in this room, they are all characters with tens of thousands of hearts and eyes in their sleeves, and at the moment it is just a stunned kung fu, everyone has already understood that such an appropriate and spicy poem, which ordinary people can write, this poem will not be written by others, but only Li Xi himself!
Thinking about this, when everyone looked at Li Xi again, in addition to admiration, they couldn't help but have a look of fear in their eyes-
The mouth of the master bookkeeper ...... It's poisonous!
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