Chapter 42: Thoughts

Guizi poured a bowl of wine for Lu Yan, neither of them liked to talk, touched the bowl, and then ate with his head bored, occasionally talking about going to the Salt Patrol Division in the future, and how to arrange the growing people under his hands.

"That master, what are you going to do with it?" Takako asked, taking a sip of wine.

A few days ago, he caught one of the masters, this master is over fifty years old this year, it is said that he has read a belly of books, but he has never been admitted to fame, and he has not even married a daughter-in-law for half his life.

"How is he doing in the salt works these days?" Lu Yan took a sip of wine and asked, a smile on his lips.

Guizi laughed, working in the salt farm, running with the heat on his head, running shoulder to shoulder, the most hard, how could the old scholar who had never even taken a hoe stand it, it was only less than three days, and everyone was about to lose his appearance.

"It's still Erlang who is powerful, this is much more relieving than directly making this old thing angry." Takako said with a smile.

Lu Yan also smiled, picked up the dish with chopsticks and took a bite.

"I'm going to let him do it with us." He said slowly.

"What?" Guizi was taken aback and glared at Lu Yan.

"Brother Guizi, you also know that we people have come to this point purely by feeling the stones to cross the river, no one has ever read a book, nor has we gone out to see the world, only with a ruthless fight against the current scene, it looks very majestic, but it just so happens that these officials are greedy for life and afraid of death, and we send a lot of filial piety, so we turn a blind eye, in fact, we are still the people, or even thieves in the end...."Lu Yan took a sip of wine again, and said slowly, "If there is really an official who wants to deal with us, I think in the end we are just ants." ”

In the past year, or since the death of Lu Yan's elder brother, this eldest brother and noble son have become more and more incomprehensible, especially those ideas, which are always more than those villagers, and every time they bring great benefits.

"That's why you decided to spend five hundred taels of silver to buy the position of deputy inspector." Guizi thought about it and said a little suddenly.

Five hundred taels is enough for a farmer's family to eat and drink for a lifetime, and when this money was taken out, everyone was very distressed.

"Yes, I think that only if we have become officials, life is safer than being a thief, and it is more convenient to do things." Lu Yan said.

Guizi nodded and smiled innocently.

"Erlang, whatever you say is good, anyway, let's all follow you, there is meat to eat meat, and there is no meat to eat the wind." He said.

Lu Yan smiled and raised the bowl for Guizi to touch.

"I thought, since we have made this position of deputy inspector, we should make a good appearance, but we are from such a background, how do we know how to be an official, let's not talk about anything else, we don't even recognize the words..."Lu Yan laughed to himself, and the chopsticks paused on the table.

"But that master is very cunning, can you trust it?" Guizi said worriedly.

"Then let him trust us." Lu Yan said with a smile.

Guizi didn't understand this a little, but he didn't ask anymore, and made a note in his heart to be ready to think about it, the eldest brother said, if you don't understand something, think about it more, and if you think about it more, you can figure it out.

"Then I'll have someone bring him over." He said, picking up his bowl and snoring and finishing his drink.

Guizi's movements were very fast, and as soon as the next day was dawning, he and two people pressed the master over.

Looking at the young man sitting in the courtyard with a flat complexion and no emotion, the master took the initiative to kneel down without waiting for the person behind him to kick, crying bitterly and reproaching himself.

He cried and beat his chest and hit his head on the ground, but the people in the courtyard were as quiet as if they hadn't seen it.

Lu Yan looked at him, but he didn't speak, he didn't speak, and Guizi and the others naturally couldn't speak.

After making a fuss for a while, this master didn't have much physical strength, so he also stopped, knelt on the ground and lowered his head and twitched his shoulders, as if he was crying, but the slippery eyes did not escape Lu Yan's sight.

"Since you are the master of the Zhou Patrol, you can be regarded as half a person who eats Yulu." Lu Yan spoke.

This sentence made the master kneeling there raise his head suddenly, and he was as shrewd as he naturally immediately understood the meaning, but because the meaning was so shocking, he was surprised and forgot to continue to make a sad and repentant look.

"The weekly inspection is gone, but our inspection department has not dispersed yet, how can you just run away without saying a word?" Lu Yan's face was slightly gloomy, and he said slowly.

The master's body shook and kowtowed, this time it was a little less exaggerated than before, and a little more sincere.

"The little one is guilty, please punish the adult!" He slammed his head, his voice trembling, but he didn't have the intention of crying.

"If you have done these three days, you will be fined two months." Lu Yan said.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you." The master kowtowed again and said in a trembling voice.

"Get up." Lu Yan said.

The master kowtowed again, thanked the lord, and then stood up, although his body was still a little trembling, but it was much better than the trembling just now.

Lu Yan instructed Guizi a few things, Guizi took people away, and the two of them were left in the courtyard, Lu Yan was silent again, and the master looked at the young man cautiously on the side.

"Adult, what do you want the little ones to do?" After waiting for a while and not seeing the young man speak, the master couldn't help but speak, "The little one will tell the adults about the Yamen..."

Lu Yan waved his hand, stopping his words.

"This is naturally going to be talked about, and I am not in a hurry at this time," he looked at his master and said.

The master nodded yes hurriedly, and said with a bit of respect and flattery: "Then I'll write out some regulations for the adults first." ”

Lu Yan nodded.

"I wonder if there is anything else you have to explain?" The master asked again.

Lu Yan turned to look at him, as if he was pondering for a moment.

"In addition to these things, you have to teach me to read and write as soon as possible." He said.

At the same time, on the official road into the city dozens of miles away, a donkey cart was walking with a cart full of goods, and all kinds of household goods were piled up high on the cart, and as the car was shaky, Liu Meibao and Zhou Liangyu sat on the cart and held it carefully.

There was no place in the car, Song Sanniang and the car were on foot.

"Sanniang, you are from the city again." The man who drove the car grinned.

Song Sanniang's face was pale, and she didn't answer his words, but urged him to go faster.

"What's the hurry, no matter how early the city gate is, it won't be opened." The man was bored, pouted and said, looking at the car with some dissatisfaction, "My donkey is still young, this cart pulls so many things, and there are two people seated, go back to feed this forage better..."

When Liu Meibao heard this, she smiled and jumped off the car with her hands in hand.

"Sister, slow down." Zhou Liangyu was startled and hurriedly shouted.

Liu Meibao had already stood firm and smiled at him.

"It's been a long time." The rush muttered.

Song Sanniang still ignored him, and when she passed by the city gate, she attracted the attention of the guards, and when she saw that it was their family, she immediately turned her head and waved her hand to stop it.

"Sanniang, it turns out that you are not criminals wanted by the government." The driver said with a surprised face.

Of course, no one paid attention to him at this sentence, Song Sanniang led the way and came to a narrow alley.