Chapter 80: Your Excellency the Mayor
When Zhang Hanwen and I came to the city hall, it was just after noon, and when we came out of the construction site, we found that it was time for dinner, and we went home for lunch before running to the city hall.
When we arrived at his office, we could tell that he had just taken a nap, maybe he had just been woken up, it was a sleepy eye.
However, I bought the chaotic place in the northwest corner of the city that has always been a headache for the municipal government, such a wealthy and troublesome lord, of course, is the mayor's favorite, so as soon as he heard that I and Zhang Hanwen's housekeeper were coming, he immediately came out to meet us, completely ignoring the rather terrible state of not waking up.
"Lord Mayor, I would like to ask a question about the location of our mercenary group!" I asked bluntly as I entered the mayor's office. I don't want to play a whole bunch of diplomatic rhetoric with him.
"Ah, is it about the land in the northwest corner? The Diao people on there have been driven away by me, and your Deputy Commander Ma came last time and asked to drive away all the Diao people who occupied there!" I frowned, my intuition told me that Ma Li couldn't do this, so this Deputy Commander Ma was a little suspicious.
I stared into the mayor's eyes and asked, "Really?"
"Of course it's true, why hasn't the Diao people on that piece of land moved out yet?" After speaking, he looked at me quite sincerely, but for a moment, his eyes flickered, and this look did not escape my eyes, there are ghosts in this!
"Is there anything else?" I asked, but I didn't believe him anymore, but I didn't seem to believe him since I entered this place.
"Ah, by the way, two weeks ago, a woman who claimed to be Ma Li came to me, saying that she was the deputy head of your mercenary group, if I hadn't already met the deputy head of your mercenary group, I would have been deceived!"
"What did the woman say to you?" I straightened up, relaxed, and calmed my breath.
When the mayor saw that my attitude had softened, he stood up from behind his desk and said, "Ah, Captain Ma, you see that I am not well greeted, why do you keep letting you stand and talk, come and sit over there." After speaking, he made a gesture of invitation to me, walked to the reception area in the corner of the desk, and saw me and Zhang Hanwen sitting down, so he sat down, and this courtesy was also thoughtful.
"The woman said that the people on that piece of land were the reservists of your mercenary group, and she yelled at me for me to order the engineering team to stop work immediately, so that she could arrange for the reservists to move back in for the winter. "When the mayor said this, he was also looking at me to see how I reacted.
Seeing that I didn't react, he continued: "Fortunately, I have already met your deputy head of the horse, and I also know that you are in an urgent need for that piece of land, otherwise, what the woman said has a nose and eyes, she will really be led away by the woman's nose, fortunately, I have seen through her tricks, she was driven out by me, head Ma, don't worry, the station of your mercenary group is under intense construction." ”
If I hadn't been to the construction site, if I hadn't met with Ma Li first, I might have been really impressed by this guy, but unfortunately I already knew the ins and outs, and I had also seen the construction site, and there was no construction at all.
"Is the deputy head of the horse who came to see you a man or a woman?" I asked, thinking for a moment.
"Huh?" The mayor was a little confused, but immediately reacted, I didn't ask the woman, the deputy head of the Ma who came to make trouble, he said: "It's a man, he said it's your nephew!" The mayor looked at me, this head of the regiment is a little young, and the deputy head of the regiment is about the same age as this young man.
A hint of unease flashed across his face, but he looked a little ...... It's not fake, it's just the face of a politician anyway.
He asked tentatively, "Is there something wrong with that deputy head of the horse?"
"Yes, we don't have a deputy commander in our regiment, and I don't have a nephew. I looked up at the mayor with a slight contempt.
"What?" the mayor sat up sharply, but was a little exaggerated, "So those two people are fake?"
I said to the mayor: "One is true, although my regiment does not have a deputy commander, but there is a logistics regiment leader, she is a woman, named Ma Li, who should be the one who came to see you two weeks ago, and I have just come from the construction site, there is no construction at all, I don't know which engineering team undertook the task, I want to meet their leader." ”
"Ah, how can this be?!, you want to see the head of the engineering team, no problem, I'll help you get in touch in a moment, and I'll ask him to come to see you tomorrow!" the mayor stood up this time, and walked around the house as he spoke, as if he had just knew.
"Lord Mayor, there is one more thing I want to tell you, those residents in the northwest corner of the city are indeed the reserves of our Eye of the Storm and the families of the reserves, so I want to protest to the city hall, now that those residents are homeless, I ask the mayor to hand over the so-called deputy head of the horse, so as not to affect the good cooperative relationship between us!" I also stood up and stared at the mayor again.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, this is a mistake in the work of our city hall, but we want to hand over this deputy head of the city, our city hall is also a victim, please be considerate of us!"
"Then I'm going to ask the mayor to help me find this guy! At the same time, the city hall has to compensate for the loss of my reserves!" I took an aggressive step towards the mayor.
"No problem, I will immediately notify the garrison department to arrange personnel to find out the liar, and I will definitely give Commander Ma an explanation, as for the loss of reserve personnel, how about compensating each person for a hundred copper coins?" the mayor asked with a face.
I frowned and said, "You're calling Hanako?"
"Of course not! The finances of our city hall are not sufficient, why don't you have an extra piece of space outside the east or west of the city?" the mayor thought for a while and said, this outside the city is all wasteland, although the orcs have not been here for decades, but the psychological shadow in the hearts of the people of Yecheng has not passed, they still dare not go outside the city to open up wasteland, so, for the city hall, the land outside the city is a burden, and if you can throw it out, you can throw it out a little more.
"Hmph!" I thought about it, this way of understanding is not impossible, but looking at the mayor, I always feel that he is insincere, but on the surface, it is like this, I said to him: "Okay, just do what the mayor says!"