's shouting, so that the whole yamen knew that the eldest master was going.

Up and down the cell, ready to go. Everyone tightened their nerves, and all of them made a look of wholehearted and diligent work, ready to meet the inspection of their immediate superiors with the best mental outlook.

However, Lu Dongli did not go to prison at all. In the past few days, in addition to looking through and sorting out old official documents, he just asked his younger brother to accompany him, came out leisurely, and walked around the county.

Walking around the streets, going up to the teahouse, the days are very leisurely.

Little Lu Dongjue was so eager to make a career out, he couldn't wait to travel in micro-suits, and immediately found out a few bullies and stubborn bandits to show his fame.

It's just that Lu Dongli just eats, drinks, and has fun, and sometimes talks with the guests of the teahouse, the junior of the restaurant, and gossip about the people's suffering, but he doesn't mention it at all.

This hot-blooded boy was so anxious that he jumped up and down all day long, fidgeting like a monkey.

On the third day, early in the morning, when Lu Dongli smiled and asked him to go out together, he finally couldn't help but shout: "Big cousin, you don't take official business seriously, I still have to read books, next year's imperial examination, my father and mother are waiting for me to become famous in one fell swoop, and I don't have time to hang out with you." ”

Lu Dongli couldn't help but smile and asked: "When did I hang out, we are new here, and we have to be familiar with the people's conditions, so that it is convenient to deal with the backlog of official business." ”

"Are you familiar with the people? I haven't seen you ask a serious question in the past few days. ”

"What is a serious question, you really think that those words are all true, as an official, pretending to be a fortune teller all over the world, everyone took out their hearts and said everything to you. You go out by yourself, grab a random citizen, and ask directly, how is your life here, is the law okay? How was the county magistrate's governance in the past, how many well-known people were there in the county, how many unscrupulous bullies were there, and how was the Fengjinjie, who I heard was very rich? Do you think that there are a few ordinary people who will answer this question of a stranger defenselessly and calmly. Lu Dongli took out a fan from under his sleeve and hit someone's head with great skill.

Lu Dongjue hugged his head in amazement: "Then according to what you say, what should we do?" ”

"In order to understand the people's feelings, many times, you don't need to ask all the questions directly, you can look carefully with your own eyes and listen with your ears. Look at whether the market is prosperous, see how many smiles there are on the faces of the people, carefully look at the prices of various commodities in the market, see how many people are generally in the restaurant and teahouse, look at the clothes of the people, listen to their gossip, understand the folk customs, from all this, you can draw the conclusion you want. ”

Lu Dongjue nodded again and again, made a teachable motion, jumped up and went out: "Then let's go quickly." ”

Before the words were finished, the people had already run away.

Lu Dongli shook his head in place: "Where are you going?" ”

"Go shopping and learn about the people." Lu Dongjue shouted excitedly.

Lu Dongli looked up to the sky and sighed silently: "We've been shopping for two days, we've done enough, and we already know about it." ”

Lu Dongjue's eyes widened: "However, I haven't learned anything yet." ”

Lu Dongli glared at his little brother with an unteachable expression: "Who is the county master, you or me." ”

Lu Dongjue was stunned for a while, and then like a frosted eggplant, he lowered his head and walked over slowly: "You are." ”

Lu Dongli nodded, hummed out from his nose, and then said in a rambling voice: "Let's go." ”

Only then did he slowly walk past Lu Dongjue.

After taking a few steps, he stopped and turned around: "Not yet." ”

Lu Dongjue hung his head and asked, "Where are you going?" ”

Lu Dongli sighed again: "Of course it's death row." Then he glared suddenly, and it was rare for him to use his fierce eyes to stare back at the big cheer that the little brother of the Lu family was about to come to his lips.

Even so, Lu Dongjue is still very happy, inspecting the prison cell, clearing the backlog of cases, he will definitely encounter someone shouting injustice, someone shouting at Master Qingtian, what an exciting and interesting life.

However, Lu Dongjue was happy, but the prison guards were not.

They guarded against the old man from patrolling all day long, and they didn't dare to relax at all in their work, seeing that the uncle was shaking around outside every day, and there was no intention to check at the slightest star, so they gradually slackened.

I worked quite hard in the first two days, and now I am naturally crooked, and when I do office work, I also squint and sleep, chat, drink, and even two or three people get together to gamble.

At this time, I heard a big old man patrolling the prison like thunder, and I was really frightened, and I jumped up one by one.

When he stepped into death row, Lu Dongli actually expected the chaos and looseness he was about to see, so apart from sighing softly in his heart, there was no great anger. It's just that his face is a little more solemn, and under the guidance of Wang Dabao, the cell boss with blue face and white lips, he slowly inspects the cell. This inspection has given me some good impression of the people in this prison.

He has always known that those who eat in prison are all the masters who knock out the bones and suck the marrow and squeeze the oil and water, and if there is no filial piety, most of the prisoners in the prison cells will suffer.

And when he checked the case file, he knew that most of the prisoners in prison were poor people who had no money. I originally thought that this time it was sudden

?? A check will reveal a lot of non-criminal cruel things.

Who knows, the cells are extremely clean and tidy, and there is no such eerie horror as is common in prisons.

There was no dampness and gloom, no wailing and screaming, the prisoners were chained with only the lightest kind of torture, and the prisoners did not have much sadness. These people who could not afford to pay for it were able to get this kind of treatment in prison, and he could not help but bow his head to show his praise to the prison guards.

He was in a good mood, but Lu Dongjue was extremely unhappy, the prison, there was no miserable and terrifying place, there was no torture equipment hanging everywhere, shouting and moaning everywhere, and no one rushed to shout that he was wronged, which made him full of blood and ambition, but how to behave. When he was anxious, he remembered someone and asked, "That Wind Festival should also be on death row, where is it?" ”

Wang Dabao nodded and said: "Feng Jinjie's case is big, and he was detained in the last cell. As he spoke, he led the way.

Lu Dongli and Lu Dongjue followed him all the way in, until Wang Dabao stopped, but the two couldn't help but be stunned.

The cell was very large and clean, with a few small windows on the wall that no adult could penetrate, and the lighting was very good. A man half lying down and half sitting in the corner, the prison clothes on his body were so clean that people could not wash them every day, and he wore a thin iron chain casually on his hand, and a whole book of poems was covering his face, covering the whole face tightly, and he couldn't see it at all.

Wang Dabao stood in front of the prison and shouted twice: "Wind Festival." ”

But the man did not move, as if he had not heard.

Wang Dabao squeezed out a smile on his face: "Master, this Fengjin Festival is probably tired of reading and falling asleep." He was always like this, and when he fell asleep, he couldn't wake up even when the thunder hit. ”

Lu Dongjue's eyes widened and asked, "How can this be?" This is death row, right? This death row inmate is really comfortable, living in such a big and clean room alone, and he can still study in normal times? ”

The young man stared at the cell head with his eyes blazing, and his eyes were clearly saying, "You have taken a bribe, and you must have received a benefit." ”

Wang Dabao lowered his head and said: "If you look at the case file, you will know that there are no big cases in our county, and the real death row prisoner is only this one, and the others are only imprisoned for minor crimes, so they can't be locked up with dangerous death row prisoners." As for the cleanliness of the cell, this is because our servants don't want the prisoners to suffer too much, so they clean the cell from time to time. That Feng Jinjie is a person who loves to read, and he has been locked up in prison for so long, and he is bored in every way, and his family is afraid that he will not be able to think about it, so he has found a short view, so he brought in some good books, so that he can pass the time, and we see that it is not a dangerous thing, so we agree, if the adults think it is inappropriate, we will throw all these books out immediately. ”

Lu Dongli asked with a smile: "He often reads, and often reads like this until he is tired and sleeps?" ”

"Yes, at this time, even if he strikes the gong in his ear, he won't wake up."

Lu Dongli couldn't help but smile, he was on death row, he could still be so free and easy, and he was still in the mood to read books and poems, this person was quite interesting.

Wang Dabao said respectfully: "If the adult wants to ask, the villain will go in and wake him up." ”

"No need, even if he reads so hard, tell him to sleep a little longer." Lu Dongli chuckled lightly, even he couldn't have imagined that he would see such a situation during this prison patrol. But he didn't delay much, walked around the prison again, and went back with Lu Dongjue.

The first time Lu Dongli met Feng Jinjie was in a cold and closed cell, he never saw Feng Jinjie's face, and Feng Jinjie didn't know about his arrival at all.

Lu Dongli made his first prison patrol after taking office, and left a good impression on the jailers in Jixian County, and also felt that Feng Jinjie was an interesting person.

However, what he didn't know was that the neatness and cleanliness of the cells and the kind treatment of the prisoners had nothing to do with the moral standards of the guards, but was purely stained with the light of the Wind Festival, and it was because of the requirements of the Wind Festival that all parts of the cells could be cleaned and the prisoners were treated better. Among them, the Wind Festival did not give less money, and the jailers did not take any less benefits.

Later, the so-called good story about Feng Jinjie who was on death row without panic and still read and practiced poetry was actually a complete scam.

The fact is that since a few days ago, after drinking and talking about some legends and so-called heroes, the Wind Festival has not been able to lift its spirits and is always lazy. The arrival of the new county master, Wang Dabao, other jailers, and Fu Bo at home have urged him many times, asking him to explain quickly, how to please the new master, he actually just ignores it, anyway, he doesn't think there is anything wrong in prison, let's talk about it in a few days. These days, he just keeps drinking. When Lu Dongli arrived, he happened to be very drunk, and he didn't know who was going to work.

Wang Dabao was in a hurry to greet the eldest master, and was busy kicking other jailers to cover up at the first time.

The jailer had no other way in a hurry, so he hurriedly put away the wine jugs, wine glasses, and wine tables, dragged Feng Jinjie to the corner of the wall, hurriedly tied him with an iron chain, and covered his face with a cloth moistened with water, so that he could hide a lot of alcohol, and then took a book of poems that Feng Jinjie usually used to teach them to read and write and put it in his face, and it was seamless. Basically, as long as the old man doesn't open the cell door and comes closer, he won't be able to see the flaw.

Let the eldest master see the prisoner studying in the prison, at most he will scold the lax supervision, but if he knew that the death row prisoner could actually be there

?? Drunk every day, there are so many people up and down, no one's ass can escape

Lu Dongli can also be regarded as an official for several years and a well-trained and transparent character. However, even he never imagined that such a thing would happen, so he was easily covered up.

After getting out of the prison, Lu Dongjue couldn't wait to jump up again: "Big cousin, they obviously received the benefits of the surname Feng, otherwise how could they give such preferential treatment, why don't you say anything." ”

Lu Dongli shook his head lightly: "Dongjue, when I first became an official, I was as innocent as you, and I couldn't tolerate a little dust in my eyes, but now I know that I can't be a good official like this." As an official, you should not lose your integrity, but you can't be stubborn, if you are too rigid, I am afraid that it will be difficult to do anything. ”

Lu Dongjue muttered: "I don't understand, it's obvious that they took the prisoner's money......"

Lu Dongli looked at his young brother, and he didn't know whether he was stunned or sighed in his eyes, and after a long time, Fang said: "If you really have a heart for officialdom, then, one day, you will understand." You're still young in front of you, it's okay if you don't understand these things, let's go back first. ”

Lu Dongjue asked in a daze: "What are you going to do when you go back in less than half an hour?" ”

Lu Dongli said with a smile: "Of course, when I go back to the office, what else can I do, and I should start doing the official work that has been accumulated for so long." ”

Lu Dongli came to Jixian County for only six days, the first day to do a good job of handover, the second day to entertain the county's gentry celebrities, folk elders, and the county's famous scholars, between the banquet and conversation, idle and nothing, he found out a lot of the situation in the county, in the county, big and small, the power position is also confident.

After that, it took another day to simply check the copywriting books and learn about the situation of the yamen, and then for two days, he walked up and down the county, playing, and occasionally going out of the county to the countryside to make sure that he understood enough of the people's feelings, handled official affairs, and did not have biased mistakes and did unintentional evil politics.

Early in the morning of the sixth day, he inspected the prison and then went back to the yamen to deal with official documents.

The mountain of paperwork, but he waved his hand, made decisions very quickly, and dealt with them very quickly. The servants of the Manchu government were busy running up and down to deliver official documents and handle errands, and everyone was so busy that they knew that this old man was actually a capable person.

This official business was actually handled from the morning to late at night, and most of the backlog of official affairs in the government was handled. He was so busy that he didn't bother to eat, and the servants didn't have much rest without touching the ground.

Lu Dongjue was extremely excited, he was young, energetic, not tired, disgusted and happy, in the evening, he was still in excellent spirits, pestering the tired Lu Dongli and shouting: "Big cousin, big cousin, I just see your ability now, it turns out that the legendary genius and virtuous official really exists, there are really people who can finish most of the official business for half a year in a day or two, if you let Shangguan know that you are so capable, don't hurry up and promote you, lest you stay in this small county town to give in." ”

Lu Donglian's expression was solemn: "Don't have this kind of thought, what kind of genius and virtuous official." This kind of behavior is nothing more than betting on the official affairs of the state and the welfare of the people, in order to show one's talents, and to win the other people's eyes by playing and having fun all year round, waiting for the officials to patrol and go on patrol, and then doing their official duties one day. ”

Lu Dongjue was stunned and asked, "How come?" Isn't this kind of story all good stories? “

"What a good story, the case that happened half a year ago, I will investigate it after half a year, I am almost sure that I will find out the truth, and the person who disappeared half a year ago will be pursued after half a year, but I am afraid that the body will not be found. The disaster that occurred half a year ago will be dealt with again after half a year, and all the victims will die, and the taxes paid for grain and taxes that will be paid half a year ago will be collected again after half a year, and the treasury will be empty for a long time, and the bridges and collapsed roads that were broken half a year ago will be repaired again after half a year, and how much suffering will be added to the people. Lu Dongli said lightly, "One party is an official, only sincere and diligent, not relying on any genius skills, think about it yourself." ”

Lu Dongjue lowered his head sullenly, only to feel indescribably irritated in his heart, why his thoughts, no matter what, his brother always said that it was wrong, why so many things he expected, why he thought that what would happen, the result was all denied, why what he longed for and admired him was the most amazing thing, in the eyes of his brother, it was all just like this.

For the first time, the young boy realized that the real world, as it turned out, was so easy to disappoint.

Lu Dongli saw that his expression was gloomy, and he also felt that he had hit a teenager's beautiful yearning for the future, the world, and justice in the officialdom too much, so he smiled and said: "Hurry up and rest, take care of your spirits, and you have to deal with the case tomorrow?" ”

"Trying a case?" Lu Dongjue immediately raised his head excitedly, the young man's heart is easy to be depressed, but it is also easier to be excited, trial case, trial case, all the stories of the Qingtian master are inseparable from the trial of the case.

"Yes, we have dealt with so many backlogs of official business today, and we should deal with the backlog of cases tomorrow, our small county town, there are not so many cells, so many prisoners who have not been tried or sentenced, and there are not so many rations to support idlers." Lu Dongli couldn't help laughing, looking at the little brother's eyes shining with golden light, and for the first time, he felt that being young was really an extremely enviable thing.