On a cold day, Mei Xiaoren's forehead still broke out in a layer of cold sweat, and she stood here, even if there was a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of her.

When Mei Xiaoren walked into the hall with a hard head, it can be said that everyone was paying attention, and she buried her head in her hands: "I have seen an adult in my humble position." ”

"You're early, but you're not here yet."

Mei Xiaoren frowned secretly, Mao Zheng hadn't arrived, and the ghost knew that they would ...... early

Tao Fuyin sat behind the desk, supported the table with both hands, shook his head and said: "Let's take a look, everyone, this is the new Lord Fucheng, the adults who came back from Xuanzhou praised him for being young and promising, saying that the official picked up a bargain." ”

After a few glances at her, the two sides began to whisper.

"Bang-" With a bang, Tao Fuyin slammed his fist on the desk, which frightened the people present to immediately silence.

Tao Fu Yin said in a deep voice: "What are you yelling about, don't give a salute to Lord Fu Cheng!" ”

The surrounding officials turned to Mei Xiaoren one after another, and saluted in unison: "I have seen Lord Fucheng." ”

Without waiting for her to say no courtesy, Tao Fu Yin said impatiently: "Okay, there is no shortage of people in the yamen of this official, but since you are here, you can't have an idle meal, from today on, you will be in charge of the city defense." ”

Mei Xiaoren responded: "Yes." ”

Tao Fuyin casually pointed to the official beside her, "You, find out the patrol minutes and show them to him in a while." Then he turned to Mei Xiaoren and said, "The official gives you two days, and you must read all the minutes within two days, and then you will start to take people to the streets to patrol." ”

Mei Xiaoren and the official could only say yes again and again.

Listen to the words of Yin Xun of Taofu to Mao Zheng, and Mao Zheng is the time when the officials of Daning should go to the Yamen.

The officials dispersed to do their own errands, but there was still no one to pay attention to Mei Xiaoren, who was still standing in the hall.

An official looked back after going out, and whispered to the people around him: "Another one, I don't know how long this one can last." ”

Another said: "The younger he is, the more miserable he is, Lord Fu Yin is already in the age of the sixtieth year, and Lord Fu Cheng has not yet had a weak crown, and he has not yet been weakened to become a fourth-grade official, how can Lord Fu Yin tolerate him." ”

"But I heard that Xinfu Cheng has the support of Wei Guogong, and Lord Yin of Fufu doesn't give face?"

"Duke Wei ......" the man laughed a few times, "Today's Daning, with the support of His Majesty, it is useless. ”

The other person looked back again and sighed: "Alas, you said that he didn't know how to judge the situation, but he relied on the unreliable mountain, and I am afraid that the future will not be easy......

No one showed Mei Xiaoren the way, so she inquired all the way and found out which room she should sit in this mansion, which was very spacious, with only one room and one bookcase, so she didn't have to squeeze under the same roof with anyone.

About half an hour later, an official came in with a few servants carrying a few boxes and threw them on the ground in front of her desk.

The official pointed to the box and said reluctantly politely: "Lord Fucheng, these are the patrol minutes of the past three years, you can read it first, and you will know how to write it in the future." ”

Mei Xiaoren picked up a book at random and flipped through it, and found that this slightly thick book was only a five-day record, and the things recorded were very detailed, from how many patrols were dispatched every day, to which streets the officials turned, and what trivial matters were sorted out...... There's everything.

In the past, she had also seen the officials of the Xuanzhou Mansion write similar records, but they were all concise and concise sentences, and there was no need to write such complicated ones. And judging from the binding of these booklets, there should be no need to report to the imperial court, but just to show them to their own people.

From dawn to dark, there was a charcoal fire burning in the house, but it was still possible to feel that the weather was getting colder.

It was very quiet outside, and the people in the yamen had already returned to their respective homes, Mei Xiaoren walked to the window, pushed open a gap and looked out, and saw the snow flying all over the sky.

Two days after she took office, she stayed at the yamen for two days, reading the records day and night. Ye Zhi did as she instructed, avoided the north and east of the city, and finally landed a house in the south of the city, which she hadn't seen yet.

Before dawn on the third day, the sound of people outside greeting each other woke up Mei Xiaoren, who was napping on the table.

The officials of the Shangjing Prefecture will come to the yamen one hour early, and then go to the lobby to listen to the instructions of Tao Mansion Yin, and this is the case every day.

Mei Xiaoren stood at the front of the lobby, sneezing from time to time.

Tao Fuyin glanced at her, and put all the dissatisfaction on his face, "It's cold in Shangjing, it's warm in Xuanzhou, if you get caught in the wind and cold just two days after you came, it's better to go back early." ”

Mei Xiaoren hurriedly bowed his hand, and said in a nasal voice due to nasal congestion: "It's okay to be humble. ”

Tao Fuyin asked slowly: "On June 13 last year, what happened in Pingle Lane in the south of the city?" ”

Lord Fu Yin is asking her to see if she has been lazy in the past two days. She replied: "The houses are watery. ”

"Then on the twenty-first day of the first month of this year, what happened in the West Market?"

"Two hawkers argued, one dead and one injured." Mei Xiaoren sneezed again after speaking.

There is no need to memorize things like minutes, even if Lord Fu Yin wants to test her, it is also a major event that he can remember, he can remember, and she can naturally remember it.

However, passing the minutes is only the beginning, and her real errand is to take officials and messengers to patrol the streets every day to maintain law and order in key places in Gyeonggi. When she returned to the yamen at sunset, she still had to write the minutes of the day, and she had to show them to Lord Yin early the next morning.

In the fine snow, Mei Xiaoren put on a cloak and slowly turned from the east of the city to the south of the city with a dozen or so officials.

Her colleagues in the yamen didn't treat her very well, but she shared weal and woe with these officials outside, and she got acquainted with them first.

The patrol is boring, and along the way, they like to talk to her about the big and small things that happened in the capital, from which minister was raided because he offended the prime minister's house, to which family's noodles were delicious and which family's wine was delicious; Some people complained for her, how could she patrol the streets with them as a fourth-grade official, and someone bluntly told her that this was deliberate by Lord Fu Yin.

When her boss told her to do this, she had to do that.

Mei Xiaoren walked around the city every day, looking at the market, and solving trivial disputes on the street, she only felt that she had never been so close to the people when she was the county magistrate.

She was walking slowly forward, and saw a carriage coming in front of her, and she didn't pay attention to it at first, but then gradually realized that the person driving was Xingyun.

Mei Xiaoren hurriedly turned his back and faced the stall selling jewelry, pretending to pick something.

There was a bronze mirror on the stall, and when the carriage drove behind her, the curtain of the carriage was not closed, so that she could vaguely see the side faces of the people in the car.

Her heart was suddenly confused, she looked at the bronze mirror, picked up a hairpin in her hand and played absentmindedly.

"Master Mei, there's a fight over there, my lord, let's go and take a look." An official ran up and shouted.

As she spoke, the sound of wheels stopped in her ears.

Mei Xiaoren's heart tightened, and he hurriedly beckoned the official behind him: "Let's go, go and see." After saying that, he slipped into the alley.