As soon as Ye Xiaotian arrived at Tongren Mansion, he went to settle his family first, and it was impossible for him to take a large family to the prefect's yamen to see Zhang Fatzi.

Before Ye Xiaotian went to Tongren to take office, he had sent people to Zhang Luo's residence in Tongren Mansion, and finally chose the mansion located at the foot of Dongshan, Dongshan is in Tongren City, this mansion is backed by Dongshan, there is Jinjiang River in front, the mountain is facing the water, and there are large bamboo forests around the mansion, and the environment is very elegant.

Of course, the price of such a mansion is not cheap, but as a Gu Sect Venerable, the last thing Ye Xiaotian lacks is money. For thousands of years, the Gu Sect had accumulated a lot of wealth, such as mountains of gold and silver piled up in the temple that were moldy and rusty, but they rarely spent it.

In Ye Xiaotian's opinion, if the money is not used, it is useless, of course he will not be a miser, and he has wronged himself in the residence. The group rushed to the foot of Dongshan to check into the mansion, the family Zhang Luo moved in, and Ye Xiaotian looked at the front and back environment accompanied by Hua Yunfei and Mao Wenzhi.

When it was time to release the yamen, Ye Xiaotian rushed to the prefect's yamen and reported to Governor Zhang's mansion. Governor Zhang's family has been worried about the dispute between his family and Guoji's family recently, and the two families do not give in to each other, and the disputes are continuous, which has greatly reduced his prestige.

For more than 100 years, the Zhang family has been the overlord of Tongren, and the toasts have never questioned the authority of the Zhang family, but now the dispute between the Yu family and the Guoji family has completely exposed the weakness of the Zhang family, and the toasts around the country have begun to question the ruling ability of the Zhang family, which is what really worries Zhang Fatzi.

Guoji's family is a half-life-like being, neither listening to tunes nor listening to announcements, and Zhang Fatzi basically has no binding force on them. As for the Yu family, the Yu family's Tusi was killed, and it has been determined that the murderer is the Guoji family, in this case, he can't put pressure on the Yu family to force the Yu family to stop.

This situation caused Zhang Fatzi to be helpless in the face of the predicament, although he saw Ye Xiaotian arrive at this time. But since Ye Xiaotian went to Mercury Mountain, not only did he not solve the disputes among the tribes, but made the situation worse, and Zhang Fatzi had no confidence in him. Therefore, although Zhang Fatzi admired Ye Xiaotian more, he couldn't arouse any interest, and after a few simple chats, he sent him out.

Ye Xiaotian came out of the prefect's yamen, went to buy a meeting gift, and came to pay homage to Li's teachings. At this time, his status was already higher than that of the Li Sect, but the Li Sect was his teacher. The necessary etiquette must not be short, and the code of ethics is often inappropriate, which is a taboo for officials.

Early the next morning, Ye Xiaotian took Li Qiuchi to the prefect's yamen to prepare for his official appointment. Governor Zhang asked Li to accompany Ye Xiaotian to the official's room to go through the formalities, and after finishing, Ye Xiaotian asked: "Brother Li, where did the original Yu Tuiguan work?" ”

Li said: "You said that Yu Tuiguan? Yu Tuigong has always worked in his own home, and he doesn't come to the yamen. ”

Ye Xiaotian frowned when he heard this. However, I thought that this prefect's yamen was actually the original Tusi Mansion, and it was also a collection of family and government, and Guizhou could not be treated according to the common sense of the Central Plains officialdom, so I was relieved. said: "The younger brother is not used to handling cases at home, isn't there a torture hall in this palace?" ”

Li Shi's expression was slightly strange, and he said, "Yes...... Naturally, there are, but Yu Tuiguan has never used the torture hall to work. I'm afraid it's a little messy. ”

Ye Xiaotian said with a smile: "That's okay, when a new official takes office, there must be some new atmosphere." The yamen is a little messy, just ask someone to clean it. ”

Li said: "In this case, then I will take you over and recognize the door first." ”

Ye Xiaotian saluted and said, "There is Brother Lao Li." ”

There is no independent yamen for this magistrate, but a separate courtyard has been set up in the prefect's yamen, which is used as the place where the magistrate's office is located, and the yamen is called the torture hall.

Li Li led Ye Xiaotian into the door of the torture hall, and as soon as Ye Xiaotian entered, he stood stunned. If it weren't for the mottled "Torture Hall" sign hanging on the door, he would have almost thought he had strayed into some farmhouse.

As soon as you enter the door, there is a neat vegetable garden, a good piece of green onions, which grows smart, and there are a few shelves of beans next to it, and the emerald green seedlings climb up along the bamboo bracket, which is full of wild interest. A few wandering chickens are leisurely shaving under the bean straw rack.

Ye Xiaotian's eyes straightened, to put it mildly, the courtyard of this torture hall is actually not small, and the pattern of the entire yamen is the same, it is the front yard office, the back yard live, and the main subordinate officials have to bring their families to live in the yamen, but rich officials dislike the cramped public housing and the privacy is not good, so they will choose their own residence.

For example, when they were in Huxian, Wang Zhushu and Meng Xiancheng did not live in public housing. However, some officials who only rely on money and have no foreign wealth can only live in public housing, because the cost of buying and renting a house by themselves is too great, so this torture hall is actually a compound of an institution.

But no matter how strong the atmosphere of life is, it shouldn't be like a farmhouse, right? You know, this front yard is used for office. Ye Xiaotian hesitated and walked a few steps, and saw a little guy wearing open crotch pants and a tea hijab on his head, squatting on the ground and pulling, shouting at his throat.

Immediately a fat woman walked over, shoveled the ground with a shovel, and threw the shit into the vegetable field very quickly, and then stretched out her thick arm, grabbed the child by the side, and began to rub his buttocks. Ye Xiaotian's eyebrows jumped for a while, but Li Shishi was not surprised, and said loudly to the woman: "Zhang family, are the adults of the Zhang family, all the things, and Zhaomo here?" ”

The woman turned her head and said in surprise: "Ouch, isn't this Master Li, why are you free to come here today." ”

Li said: "Hugh is verbose, go and call the torture hall experience, the capital and the Zhaomo official to the lobby, the new magistrate has arrived." “

The woman glanced at Ye Xiaotian and said in surprise: "This is the new magistrate master?" Oh my God, the magistrate is so young. ”

Ye Xiaotian squeezed out a smiling face, nodded at her with a smile, and listened to the woman: "If Master Li doesn't say it, the slave family still thinks that this is the little son of Master Li's family." ”

Ye Xiaotian's smile suddenly froze on his face, and Li Cheng couldn't help but smile and said: "You mother-in-law talks a lot of nonsense, go and call people, don't let the official wait for a long time." The woman hurriedly agreed, put down her son, and hurried away.

Li experienced accompanied Ye Xiaotian and introduced as he walked forward: "This mother-in-law is the maidservant of Jiang Cheng's family. There are not many affairs in the criminal department of this government, and there are many subordinate officials who have nothing to fish, and they only rely on money, so it is inevitable that life will be tight, and the original officials will not come to the punishment hall, so even this front yard is occupied by them. ”

Ye Xiaotian scratched his head secretly when he heard this: "The original magistrate acquiesced to them occupying all the yards, and as soon as my new magistrate arrived, I asked them to vacate the house and land." Wouldn't he be a wicked man? But he couldn't tell Li Shi about this complaint, so he had to pinch his nose and endure it.

Li Cheng led Ye Xiaotian around a vegetable patch, turned around a few rows of clothes and sheets to dry, drank away a barking earth dog, and came to the main hall of the torture hall. The door of the main hall was ajar, and when Li Shi stretched out his hand to push it, there was a tooth-aching scream.

Ye Xiaotian looked at the lobby, and saw that the lobby was messily piled up with tables and chairs, and the silence and avoidance cards were also erected in the middle of the tables and chairs, and the top was full of dust. Ye Xiaotian's eyes widened suddenly, who said that Yu Tuiguan would not come to the torture hall to work. Given the thickness of the dust, it must have not been visited for at least three years.

Seeing this, Li Shi also felt that it was a little too unreasonable, so he cleared his throat and said to Ye Xiaotian: "Brother Ye Xian, it's really difficult to get down in this hall, why don't we just wait outside, when those subordinate officials arrive, Brother Ye Xian will see them first, and then let them clean them out when they go back." ”

As he spoke. Seeing four people coming over in a tugging manner, they were not wearing official robes, they were ordinary Yanju's regular clothes, Ye Xiaotian looked at it carefully. I saw that two of them had a stupid look on their faces, and there were a few fresh scars on their faces, and the other two persuaded them as they walked.

Li Shi raised his voice and shouted: "The new magistrate Lord Ye is here, and you don't want to come forward to meet you quickly." Too tired. ”

Only then did a few people stop pulling, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute Ye Xiaotian, and the middle-aged man with a few tanuki-like scratches on his cheeks arched his hand and said, "My subordinate Ji Dian has experienced Hua Dalang." I've seen the old man who pushes the official. ”

This Hua Dalang is also an experience officer, but his rank and status are much worse than Li Xiangrong's experience officer, which is like the same office director, the director of the Municipal Party Committee Office and the director of the District Party Committee Office must be very different. Hua Dalang is a subordinate official of the magistrate, with experience in accounting and writing, and is specifically responsible for auditing.

At this time, there were a few red fingerprints on the cheeks, and the weak middle-aged man who had obviously just been slapped by someone also stepped forward and said, "Jiang Xiaobai has seen the official master!" ”

The other two have slightly lower official positions than the two, one is a metropolitan officer, the other is Teruma, the governor of the Torture Hall is named Zhang Bin, and the Teruma of the Teruma is called Yang Shenming. Li Shishi said to Ye Xiaotian: "There is also a prison officer, who lives in the prison, called Ren Yibing, I know that you are in office today, and I will come to see you when I turn back." ”

Ye Xiaotian looked at Hua Dalang and Jiang Xiaobai, frowned and asked, "Why did the two of them beat each other?" ”

Hua Dalang and Jiang Xiaobai glanced at each other, and replied, "Master Hui, the two of us...... There was no fight between the two of us. ”

Li Qiuchi looked at the scratches on Hua Dalang's face, and said with a smile: "Perhaps, these two adults have Hedong lions, right?" ”

The two experienced masters suddenly turned red when they heard this, and Ye Xiaotian suddenly realized that it was domestic violence - he was beaten by his wife!

Li Cheng coughed, and reprimanded with a straight face: "Look at what has become of the torture hall by a few of you, this Ye Tuiguan has arrived, and you are limited to clean up this courtyard within two days, the vegetables are pulled, the chickens are blown away, the dogs are tied, the clothes are dried in the backyard, and children are not allowed to play in the front yard......"

Ye Xiaotian thought that he was a newcomer, and he was too bad at doing things, after all, he still had to point to these people to do things for himself, so he interjected: "Hmm...... Don't be in a hurry to pull out the few cabbages you planted, they haven't grown yet, it's a pity to pull them out, anyway, there is no flower garden in this courtyard, and the right to keep them as flowers and trees. Hehe......"

Li Cheng pretended to be black and said: "Ye Tuiguan is magnanimous, you can't bully people, look at you, how can you still have a little bit of the appearance of an imperial court official, go down, you must do your best to clean up the torture hall!" A few officials were only chattering and hurriedly retreated.

Li Shi shook his head at Ye Xiaotian and sighed: "Both of these experiences live in the backyard, and the five-studio house is divided into two families, and there is only a wall in the middle. Both of them are afraid of their wives, the lady who has experienced Hua is a demon who has defeated her husband, and the wife of Jiang is the Tai Sui who suppressed her husband. Sometimes the two ladies are in trouble at the same time, it is really the roar of the lion in the east of the river and the roar of the tiger in the west of the river, which is a wonder. ”

Ye Xiaotianqi said: "Why are my subordinate officials in the Criminal Hall so afraid of their wives?" ”

Li experienced a smile and said, "Isn't it because they are idle officials? Who has the ability and ability to be an idle official, and how can those who have no ability and no ability not be bullied by a? didn't go out to fish, just relying on a little bit of money, the lady naturally complained, the husband was wrong, and did not dare to refute, and over time, he developed a Hedong lion ......"

Seeing that Ye Xiaotian's face was getting more and more ugly, Li Li suddenly realized that he had said too much, and hurriedly found a reason to slip away. A group of children ran past in front of them playfully, and Ye Xiaotian smiled bitterly and said to Li Qiuchi: "Mr. must be disappointed in this, right?" ”

Li Qiuchi said: "How come? If this place is orderly and organized, how can you show the ability of Dong Weng, how can you show the ability of the students? As for saying that the torture hall is the Qingshui Yamen, hey! The most lively thing in the world is where the judicial prison lawsuit is, leisure? That's because the chief officer is incompetent! If there is no lawsuit, we will make a lawsuit, no one will fight a lawsuit, we can find someone to fight a lawsuit, Dong Weng rest assured, the students will definitely be able to turn our criminal hall into the most lively place in the prefect's yamen! ”

Ye Xiaotian was dumbfounded, looking at him

Li Qiuchi said embarrassedly: "The adults looked at me with such admiration, which made the students very embarrassed. ”

Ye Xiaotian was stunned for a while, shook his head and sighed: "No wonder people say that lawsuits are made by sticks, bad intentions, instigating lawsuits, reversing right and wrong, habitually playing with knives and pens, framing words, colluding with yayads, and trapping village fools, it is really hateful. ”

Li Qiuchi said with a smile: "Dong Weng has won the prize!" ”

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