In front of the county magistrate, he asked straight ahead.

Tong Xiaowu was embarrassed for a while, coughed her throat, got up and blessed her body: "Lord Qi, I'm sorry, the women don't have a way now, when I go back and think about it, if I have a way, I will tell Lord Qi." ”

Qi Hengyuan sighed and replied: "It's because the official is too impatient, the business you do has nothing to do with this, it's me who is too anxious!" "He didn't have much hope in the first place, but now it seems that they are just a group of farmers doing business, what can they do?

Everyone got up again, and Lord Qi sent them away, sighing and preparing to go back to continue to discuss countermeasures with a few cotton farmers.

As soon as he walked a few steps, he heard Feng Yuchen, one of the three people who had already left, speak: "Madame, there is really no way?" ”

When Tong Xiaowu heard this, he stopped and looked back at him, he had never asked a question twice.

"In fact, it's not that there is no way, it's just a backlog of costs, and it's relatively troublesome, I'm afraid that cotton farmers won't agree." Tong Xiaowu replied in a low voice.

Lord Qi stopped, turned around and hurried over, stopping the three of them again, he glanced at Tong Xiaowu and took a step back: "This lady, can this official invite you into the inner hall to discuss this matter?" ”

Seeing him like this, Feng Yuchen glanced back at Tong Xiaowu, she frowned slightly, and thought about it, "But ......"

Lord Qi saluted again: "Madame, don't worry, it's just a discussion, and it won't bother Madame too much." ”

"This, okay!" It was difficult to be gracious, Tong Xiaowu didn't want to wipe the face of the county magistrate, so she had to agree.

In the inner courtyard, more than a dozen cotton farmers were sitting together, arguing, and when they saw Lord Qi coming in, they all fell silent.

An Luo also entered the house, lifted the door curtain, and Tong Xiaowu helped Feng Yuchen to appear.

Everyone turned their heads to look at the three people at the door, especially Tong Xiaowu, the only woman in it.

"This official would like to introduce to you that these three are villagers of Shanshui Village, and now they are discussing with us about cotton purchases."

"Isn't there no cotton growing in Shanshui Village?" These people are the heads of each village and know the situation in each village.

"Yes, but they're here to give you ideas." Lord Qi suddenly saluted Tong Xiaowu: "Madam, please take a seat!" ”

"Lord Qi, my surname is Tong, you don't have to be so polite!"

"Good! Mrs. Tong, please be seated! ”

These villagers are the head of the deceived village, they came here on behalf of the cotton farmers in the village to find a way, they arrived last night, this morning the county commander summoned them, everyone discussed all morning, so far they have not found an effective way.

"What kind of woman is this? Can the husband's house be available? Who is the husband's surname? Where? Can't you take care of your own lady? I don't know any politeness, and I still come to this man to show off? ”

On the side, an old man in his seventies opened his mouth coughing, with a look of rejection, looking at Tong Xiaowu and humming coldly in his nose.

It was already anxious enough, but Lord Qi actually found a woman, and she was so rude, and her surname was Tong? Every woman who marries must bear her husband's surname.

Lord Qi called her Mrs., she had already given her face, and she dared to use her surname to correct Lord Qi?

Feng Yuchen frowned slightly: "The surname is Feng, a person from Shanshui Village, my lady, what do you want?" I don't need you to talk too much. ”

"You, you, you, bold, rude, don't talk about the ancestral rules at all? You ......" This old man is the chief of Zhangjia Village, named Zhang Jiande, at this time, he has already stood up, blowing his beard angrily and glaring.

Tong Xiaowu's face also turned cold, and she took a step back: "Master Qi, I'm very busy, I'm afraid I won't be able to help with this kind of thing, so I'll leave!" ”

After speaking, she turned around and left, Qi Hengyuan hurriedly chased out: "Don't be angry, shopkeeper Tong, they are old, some things can't be turned around, please don't be angry, this matter has been bothering me for more than ten days, seeing that the cotton farmers' cotton has been picked home, but no one has bought it, I am also anxious!" ”

In the inner courtyard, the chiefs of several other villages were also angry:

"What details are Zhang Lichang still struggling with, as long as someone helps us buy cotton, it is better than anything else, you are also seventy or eighty, why don't you understand this reason?"

"Why don't I understand? We were harmed by these merchants, if they hadn't signed a contract with us, would we have been able to grow cotton? Growing wheat, corn, and potatoes can also be eaten to solve the problem of hunger, but this cotton, we can't do anything if people don't want it! ”

Zhang Jiande sighed heavily.

"What's the use of saying that? The seeds are all planted, is there any regret medicine? Lord Qi is following us and is trying to figure out a way, you don't help, and you make the person who came up with the idea angry? ”

"Zhang Lichang, it's not me talking about you, here, you are the oldest, but some things are not as thorough as our young people, now the emperor is reforming policies, and the children of businessmen can get famous, what gender issues do you care about? If you want me to say, don't tell me what this woman's last name is? If she can help us all solve problems, she can be a lieutenant. ”

"It's just ......"

These young lieutenants are very open-minded.

Feng Yuchen, who was standing in the outer courtyard, heard this, and the corners of his mouth curled.

There is only a curtain between the inner courtyard and the outer court, and what is said inside can be heard from outside.

Hearing this, Tong Xiaowu's thoughts also relaxed, after all, it is not easy for cotton farmers, but then, the old man suddenly shouted:

"Nonsense, she is a woman, how can she be the chief, besides, what can she do? So many of us men didn't come up with an idea all morning, and she could come up with it with just a woman? Are you kidding? It's okay to let them embroider, embroider, weave and weave, what else can they do? ”

"Shut up!" Lord Qi shouted, turned around and entered the inner courtyard, looking at the more than ten people seated, his fingers trembled angrily:

"You, you, the official asked you, do you still want to be your lieutenant chief, don't want to be, get out now, if you want to be, just sit down for me, don't say a word useless."

Qi Da's chest floated, and it took a long time to breathe, he looked at the old man in front of him, if it weren't for his age, he really wanted people to kick him out.

Zhang Jiande snorted coldly, but there was no sound, although he was the oldest among these people, and he was the same in the village, but this was the county seat, and it was the inner court of the county lord, if it weren't for this Qi Hengyuan's honest and diligent government, I am afraid that their problems, people would not even bother to take care of them.

Qi Hengyuan walked out of the inner court, but fortunately the three of them did not leave, and he pleaded again.