Chapter 195
Feng Maocai's life has not been as comfortable as he imagined since the day of the seal, and when he goes out, he always feels that someone is staring at him outside the mansion.
The thugs sent to Hezi Village all came back with injuries, and when they came back, they didn't say a word about what happened in Hezi Village, and they all shouted that they wouldn't do it.
If you don't do it, you won't do it, he has already bought off Zhizhou, and he can get the documents after the New Year, and the whole family will move to Jiangnan.
Only although his plan was good, but the people who were staring at him outside the mansion did not leave until the Chinese New Year's Eve, and he asked the housekeeper in the mansion to go out to see, and he could see someone hiding behind the trunk.
Who the hell is he targeting?
Feng Mao's Chinese New Year's Eve meal was not fragrant, and it was not until the morning of the first day of the new year that he rushed to the county to pick up Qu Qingyan and go to the Shuangyi Courtyard to worship the gods, and from her smiling eyes, he realized that he was being targeted by this county master.
What is Qu Qingyan staring at him for?
Feng Maocai panicked all morning, and even the process of the sacrifice was almost wrong.
"Why is Feng Dianshu a little distracted today? But what's going on at home? ”
Qu Qingyan finished the last incense, turned his head to look at him with a smile, the cold sweat on Feng Maocai's head had not disappeared, and he smiled awkwardly: "I drank a little more on Chinese New Year's Eve, so my stomach and intestines were a little uncomfortable." ”
"In the New Year, Feng Dianshu should be more careful."
It was obviously a bland sentence, and Feng Maocai just felt that he heard the threat from it.
"Lord Xie cares, and the lower officials will definitely pay more attention."
"Well, the beginning of spring is on the third day of the new year, and the official is waiting for Feng Dianshu to accompany the official to fight the spring cow."
On the day of the beginning of spring, it is a customary tradition to beat the spring cattle, which means to beat the laziness of the spring cattle, usher in the harvest of the new year, and also have the meaning of hitting the five grains.
No matter where you are, this day is extremely valued, and the era of relying on the sky to eat needs a beautiful meaning the most.
The cold sweat on Feng Dianshu's head couldn't stop pouring out: "My lord, rest assured, this is the ninth year that the lower officials have been making the book, and we know which is more important." ”
"Well, Feng Dianshu is still relieved to do things." Qu Qingyan put her hands behind her back, her body was hidden in the shadows, Feng Mao raised her eyes and felt that she couldn't see the look on her face clearly, only a pair of crystal eyes, and there was no temperature in it at this time.
He hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to look at it again.
When you can beat, you naturally need to beat, but sending someone to keep an eye on Feng Maocai is also a link that cannot be omitted.
Feng Maocai felt that the carriage had just left the city gate, and the uncomfortable feeling of being stared at came out again.
The panic in his heart was suppressed by indignation, and he called the coachman to stop and ordered someone to arrest him.
"My lord, there are only two beggars in the back of the car."
The coachman carried a little beggar in one hand, and he still didn't understand why he had trouble getting along with the beggar.
Feng Maocai couldn't help but frown when he looked at the dirty faces of the two of them, as well as the bodies that smelled of sourness.
"Say, who told you to follow me!"
"No, no one, we are just people from the county who said that your family uses silver to pave the road, and you can't spend all the money, so you ...... I just wanted to get out of your house and see if I could pick up a few bites to eat. ”
What is called a lot of money can not be spent, paving the road with silver! Where did this bullshit come from.
"Where did you hear this bullshit, when will the money in this official mansion be spent too much!"
"It's just a nursery rhyme in the county." The little beggar stared at Feng Maocai and the carriage very aggrievedly, as if wondering if he had paved the road with silver, and whether the car was simply made of gold.
Nursery rhyme...... How to come out with this kind of nursery rhyme at such a time.
Feng Maocai didn't want to think about Qu Qingyan very much, but he didn't want him to really know who else in this county could target him like this.
The coachman threw a few copper plates at the two little beggars and threw them to the side of the road, and he actually heard a sentence in his ears before the car rolled.
"What kind of wind blows the Feng family to drop the ingots, you look at this stingy, he actually gave us five copper plates."
Feng Maocai is so angry, five copper plates are a lot, okay, he hired thugs from various villages to urge the printing money, and most of the ones that can be scavenged are just a few copper plates, if it weren't for his smart way to deliberately deduct some of the printing money this year, where would he be able to get so much silver money this year.
Thinking like this, he felt that if he just walked to Jiangnan, he would only have talent and fame, and it would not be easy to be a squire.
He has been in the ninth year of this Shouyang County's bookkeeper, and he should not be easily bluffed by a hairy boy like this.
Thinking like this, he had a bottom in his heart again, and he sat in the carriage and hummed a little song comfortably.
"Young master, we have said everything according to your explanation."
"How?"
"We followed the two little beggars and saw that they had been caught by Feng Dianshu's coachman, and after saying a few words, Feng Dianshu asked the coachman to give them five copper plates."
Five copper plates...... This Feng Maocai is really a little stingy.
Qu Qingyan smiled sarcastically, raised his eyes and looked at it again: "Did you say that to Feng Dianshu?" ”
"Having said it, young master, don't worry."
Qu Qingyan nodded with satisfaction, she can't rest assured now, but it is necessary to eliminate Feng Maocai's caution first, the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, and the rabbit will bite when she is in a hurry, she can't rush to get out of the way at the last moment.
"Let the person you find pretend to be a beggar and keep an eye on Yongfeng Town."
"Yes, young master."
Qianshan couldn't figure out the intention behind Qu Qingyan's series of actions, so he could only listen to what she said.
The young master of his family is unparalleled in intelligence, and he can't understand it as a subordinate......
Once Feng Maocai suppressed the idea of wanting to take his family away immediately, and then heard that there were beggars outside the mansion who came to beg for food, he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
On the third day of the first lunar month, as soon as Qu Qingyan left the hospital, he saw him standing outside the door in a new official robe.
"My lord, the lower official has ordered someone to prepare a spring cow outside the city, please go this way."
Beat the spring cow, the way and customs are different in various places, Qu Qingyan has the impression that when he was in Shandong, the officials in the county government used colored paper and bamboo strips to tie a paper spring cow, and the cow was loaded with five grains in the body, and at the spring party, let the 'Gou Mang God' raise the whip and beat it hard, the cow was knocked down, the paper was broken, and the grains in the stomach flowed out.
Shouyang County here is different from Shandong, and on the day of the beginning of spring, all the officials in the county government need to go down to the fields and personally plow a ridge of land.
They ploughed before the spring ploughing began.
No matter what the war in the northwest is, whether the wind and rain can be smooth every year, from the officials to the common people, they pay special attention to this ceremony on the day of the beginning of spring.
Qianshan had already been outside the city early in the morning, and knew that Feng Maocai had not made any side moves, so he went out of the city with him.