More than two months have passed in a flash, during which Liu Chuan found another place for Liu Hua to live and wanted Liu Hua to move in, but Liu Hua refused Liu Chuan's arrangement, he spent money to hire villagers to clean up the garbage in the abandoned house, and went to the city to hire someone to renovate the house.

When the house was repaired, Liu Hua and Shen Jiaolin moved in, and after seeing the stove in the house, in order not to be guilty here, he bought one hundred taels of silver charcoal and one hundred taels of silver firewood at once.

The problem of heating was solved, but the problem of food and clothing came again, Shen Jiaolin couldn't cook, Liu Hua could only cook clear soup noodles, after the two drank clear soup noodles for half a month, they couldn't stand it anymore, so they had to cheekily go to the village to mix rice and eat, fortunately, the villagers were simple and honest, no matter who Liu Hua and the two went to eat, everyone welcomed and entertained them warmly.

At the beginning, Liu Hua went to the prefect's yamen to run a few days of errands, but nothing went well, first of all, he went to ask about his own affairs, but the person in charge of Yulu told him that the prefect's yamen is now financially tight, and he will give Liu Hua a silver after the financial pressure is relieved.

Later, Liu Hua wanted to recruit a new batch of fast catchers to replace the original ones, but Liu Chuan rejected the idea without hesitation, saying that he would not agree with Liu Hua to recruit new fast catchers.

Seeing this situation, Liu Hua came up with a plan, planning to follow Yangzhou's practice, hire a few Han people as temporary catchers, and go to the casinos in Liaoshun Mansion to check gambling, but after this matter reached Liu Chuan's ears, he stopped it again, saying that those casinos were operating legally, and the yamen issued a business license, strictly ordering Liu Hua not to come nonsense.

This is not Yangzhou, none of the fast catchers in the yamen listened to Liu Hua's words, they don't care whether you have a grade of fast catchers, in the eyes of these Manchurian people, their Manchurian status is more noble than any grade.

The catchers were disobedient, Liu Hua became the commander of the light pole, and the catchers deliberately avoided Liu Hua in everything, and the officials in the prefect's yamen also ignored Liu Hua, in the past few days in the prefect's yamen, Liu Hua felt like air.

After staying for a few days, Liu Hua came up with several good ideas for governing the jurisdiction, such as implementing the classification policy of Yangzhou catchers, serving the people in their own duties, or solving old cases and obtaining income through fines, but these ideas were rejected by Liu Chuan in the end.

Seeing that Liu Hua's mind was constantly popping up with new ideas all day long, Governor Liu was worried that Liu Hua would cause trouble, so he didn't want Liu Hua to come to the yamen on an errand, but he couldn't expel Liu Hua clearly, after all, Liu Hua was the chief catcher sent by the imperial court.

After thinking about it, Liu Chuan came up with an idea, he ordered to renovate the office building in the area of the torture room, focusing on the decoration of Liu Hua's office, and the decoration team first demolished the stoves in each room according to Liu Chuan's instructions.

As soon as the stove was dismantled, there was no one in the house, so during the renovation period, all the catchers went home to live, and during the day, except for the staff on duty, the rest of the catchers did not have to go to the yamen to run errands for the time being.

In this way, Liu Hua's office was not in a daze, so he had to go home to rest and play, but more than a month has passed, and the other houses have been renovated, but the house used by Liu Hua for office has not been repaired.

I wanted to toss Liu Chuan, but it happened to catch up with Shen Jiaolin who was sick because of the water and soil adaptation, and in order to take care of Shen Jiaolin, Liu Hua had to give up the idea of tossing Liu Chuan.

After Shen Jiaolin's illness recovered, Liu Hua was worried that her condition would recur, so he stayed by her side, told her stories to relieve her boredom, taught her to play cards, and played mahjong.

"Three with one, straight, four with two, one against eight, Ouye, the spring is done, everyone doubles and loses, give money to money, settle accounts in one game, and no credit." Liu Hua happily urged the account while washing the homemade cards.

Opposite him, Shen Jiaolin and Father Zhang handed the copper plate to Liu Hua with some dissatisfaction: "Can't you let us a little?" It's been a day of fighting the landlord, and I haven't won a game, and if I lose, my coffin will probably have to run into your money bag, forget it, I'm still not done. ”

Seeing that Daddy Zhang wanted to leave, Liu Hua hurriedly persuaded: "Where is this?" Let's have a few more rounds, if I win enough fifty wen today, I will invite the two of you to eat mutton in the evening, and fight with me for two more rounds, otherwise, I will have to be idle.

When I came, the Thirteenth Master said that Tuoheqi was going to lead the troops back to Shengjing for training, so I wanted to keep an eye on it, but I have been here for more than two months, and Tuoheqi has not even appeared a shadow, what kind of information do you say the Thirteenth Master provides? ”

After hearing Liu Hua's whining, Father Zhang smiled and said: "It's only been a long time, you can't hold your breath, since Tuo Heqi has brought troops here for training, he must go to the Ministry of War to report for approval and filing, and after the Ministry of War has passed layers of approval and agreed to his training plan, he will also dispatch military uniforms and grain and grass."

In this way, it will take about three months at the earliest for the troops to rush to Shengjing, and now it has only been two months, and if you want to see Toheqi's troops, according to my calculations, you will have to wait at least one month. ”

"I have to wait for more than a month, how should I survive the rest of the days." After complaining, Liu Hua seemed to think of something: "By the way, Daddy Zhang, I want to hire two maids, usually cooking, washing clothes, whose girls near us are willing to come out to do this, where do I have preferential wages and generous treatment." ”

"Why did you remember to hire a ring?" Father Zhang looked at Liu Hua suspiciously.

After hearing this, Liu Hua said: "That's the case, isn't Jiao Lin weak in body, during this time, in addition to drinking water and cooking noodles with me, she is rubbing rice with me everywhere, and she has to help me wash my clothes on a cold day, she is sick, I realized that I owe her so much."

I don't know how long I'm going to be here, so I can't do it again, right? That's why I want to hire two Yahuan, you are familiar with this place, where can you hire children from good families, as long as you can do laundry and cooking, nothing else. ”

After hearing Liu Hua's words, Father Zhang pondered for a while, and then told Liu Hua: "That's the case, then you go to the Baishanling Correctional Camp to have a look, there are many female dependents there, all of them are female dependents of the criminal ministers in the Guannei family, the head of the family committed a crime, and they suffered with it, so they were all exiled."

As long as you take the approval of the local chief arrester, and then pay a "premium" to the camp officer in the local correctional camp according to the number of employees, you can hire people, in fact, this so-called premium is the ransom money, and once the exiles in the correctional camp are hired, they are equivalent to the employer's people.

You are now the chief catcher in the prefect's yamen, and you also happen to be in charge of the correctional camp, so you don't have to worry about the approval, the rest is only the premium, according to the regulations of the Shengjing General's Mansion, to hire a person from the correctional camp, you must pay a premium of one hundred taels of silver. Do you have that much money on you? ”rs