The girl was dressed as a poor man, but the expression on her face was not that of the poor man's timidity.

"Dare to ask the little brother, have you bought a new girl here?" Liu Meibao asked.

"What kind of girl are we buying here!" The guy was stunned by her question, and immediately waved his hand, with an impatient face, "Go, I want to sell people to the cattle and horse market on East Street...."

Nowadays, in this world, there are Tartar disasters, soldiers and bandits, disasters and famines, and many families can only rely on their wives and children to live.

"No, little brother, I want to ask..."Liu Meibao said hurriedly, before he finished speaking, the little brother had already thrown his sleeves to his face, so he had to retreat a little embarrassed, and this retreat was tripped by the high threshold and almost fell out.

"What a mess of people are coming to our store." The guy said angrily.

Liu Meibao bit her lower lip and stepped forward again.

"What's the matter with your eldest sister!" The young man was a little anxious, and shouted.

Liu Meibao hurriedly laughed.

"Brother, that's the case, I have a relative who just came to your shopkeeper's house on an errand, and I don't know where it is, so I'm here to inquire." She said softly.

Hearing her say this, the man's face softened slightly.

"There are a lot of errands in the shopkeeper's house, what is the name of your relatives? Male or female? The guy asked.

"I know the nickname is Erya... Female, eleven or twelve years old. Liu Meibao said with a smile.

Today's girls rarely have names, they are all screaming indiscriminately according to the ranking, Liu Meibao is talking nonsense about a second girl, and there are eight out of ten calls.

Sure enough, I saw this guy scratch his head.

"Erya.. We all got our names back when we came in...", he said with a frown.

"Then what should I do, little brother, this is the first time I've come to her, I really don't know what I've changed..."Liu Meibao made a panicked look, "If I can't find her, how can I go back...."

"Don't ask before you come!" The guy reprimanded silently, looking at the girl in front of him tears about to fall, plus the shop is about to be a guest, if this is crying here, wouldn't it affect the business, busy to send her away, so he stretched out his hand and pointed out, "Since it's a girl, and she is young, she must be on an errand at home, you go to the house to find a mother-in-law and ask." ”

While talking about the location of the Wu family's main house, Liu Meibao thanked her gratefully, and asked carefully a few times before getting up and leaving.

The location of the Wu family is near the county government, surrounded by houses of blue bricks and black tiles, and it is obvious that this is the so-called rich area.

When passing by the county office, Liu Meibao stopped.

Xie County once set up a state, and the county yamen here used to be the Zhizhou yamen, which was more magnificent than an ordinary county yamen, but there was a practice of not repairing the yamen in the past dynasties, and the yamen looked very dilapidated after the state was withdrawn and the county was merged.

But the stone statue at the door, as well as the vermilion lacquer gate, still show the majesty of different places.

Through the door wall, you can see the inner layers of the house.

The front hall of the county government is an office area, and the back hall is a private house, where Liu Meibao's family used to live.

was looking around, and saw a group of people walking out of the gate, talking and laughing lively, Liu Meibao hurriedly lowered her head and walked over quickly, not paying attention to the difference in the dress of the group of people.

She hurried by, but was seen by one of them, and her eyes lit up.

"Your Excellency, please stay!" The young man immediately stopped, turned sideways, and bowed to a middle-aged man in official clothes who was very energetic.

The middle-aged man is the county magistrate of Xie County, and when he heard this, he nodded, and it was no longer an ordinary treatment to let a county magistrate personally send him out.

"So, Lu Jiaerlang, do a good job." The county magistrate said, looking at the majesty of the subordinates with a little bit of superiority.

"Thank you, sir." The young man bowed again, descended backwards down the steps, bowed again, and then hurried away.

As soon as he turned around, his eyes were keenly scanning the street, because it was close to the county government and not the location of a lively market, so there were not many pedestrians, and Liu Meibao's figure was particularly conspicuous.

The young man's attention was all on the girl in front of him, who was walking and looking left and right, as if looking for something.

Behind him were four men, who were excitedly exchanging heads.

"Brother, brother, show me..."A big man patted the shoulder of the man in front of him and said excitedly.

The man in front of him was glared at by him, but he still carefully handed him a piece of paper.

"Be careful, don't get dirty." He instructed.

Hearing this, the man hurriedly wiped his hand on his body, and then took it, and saw that there were words written on it, covered with a big red seal.

"Brother, Niannian, Niannian, what is this written?" He asked busily.

The man in front coughed, he had actually seen it, but he didn't recognize it all, and he didn't recognize these people either, so he said vaguely: "Galu Yan told the female salt pond to inspect from the ninth grade. ”

"Does this mean that our Erlang is really an official?" The men are very excited, in their eyes, this is a big trench between the government and the people, and those who serve the people are afraid of the officials, even if they are the smugglers who have killed salt and killed the officers and soldiers, no matter how much they have been wronged and bullied to act like this, their hearts are empty-hearted.

"Hey, brother." The man holding the document suddenly said, "No, did you read it wrong, there are several more words on it than you read.....

The man who was reading the paper was suddenly a little embarrassed and glared at the man.

"Anyway, that's what it means, where is there so much nonsense!" He shouted in a low voice, and while the paperwork was carefully folded, it was placed close to a small cloth bag.

"Brother, is this Erlang's official seal? Let me see it too—" The man hurriedly reached for the little cloth bag again.

"Go, what's there to see, on the street, I want to see it back!" The man slapped his hand away and shouted in a low voice.

Although the man was a little unhappy, he was still obedient and didn't ask for it again.

"What's the use of asking me to spend so much money on this!" At this time, someone raised an opinion and said in a low voice, "That evil tiger is dead, this realm is our Erlang, why bother to spend more on these roads, send a lot of money, and have to suffer from the troubles of these bird officials....."

"Yes, yes." The other two also nodded busily, "We are already comfortable enough, why put on this official clothes again, and be bound by some restraints in vain, I just heard the official master say at the table, this inspection department must lead the township soldiers, maintain law and order, and manage the post station, it is purely coolies, but it can make some salt profits, we still care about this salt profit, even if we are not this bird official, I think who dares to block our salt road....."

"Erlang has his own ideas!" Although the man with the documents and official seals was not much older than a few of them, he spoke very old-fashioned, and said in a low voice, "Let's just listen to his arrangement, which time did you miss it?" ”

That's right, the three men all laughed, and at the same time looked up at the young man in front of them, and when they looked up, they realized that they were walking the wrong way.

"Huh? Didn't you say go home right away? Where is this going? They asked each other, and were about to call the young man in front of them, when they saw him stand on his feet.

The Wu family is indeed a rich and noble family, the door house is very magnificent, the door is closed, and I faintly hear the laughter of people inside.

Liu Meibao took a deep breath and stepped forward to knock on the door.