Firecrackers crackled.

Zhang Wen was dressed and stood in the courtyard.

Fat Bao lit a firecracker outside, and then ran back with his hands on his ears.

The sound of firecrackers is one year old.

He has been in this world for five or six months, and it is the first time that he has celebrated the New Year.

The smell of gunpowder is pungent.

"Master, eat dumplings!"

Sister Hua and Xiaoyun came out of the kitchen with dumplings, and when they saw Zhang Wen standing there quietly, they shouted at him.

"Hey!" Zhang Wen came back to his senses.

Glanced back.

Sister Hua and Xiaoyun are busy collecting dumplings on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

The old lady leaned on the door frame and faced out.

Although she couldn't see, she could hear the movement outside.

From escaping the famine to now having someone to serve, meat and food, she is satisfied.

"Arwen."

"Auntie, what's wrong?" Zhang Wen came back and supported the old lady.

"Didn't you let Xiaohong go out to learn things and help you settle accounts? Why can't you come back for the holidays? The old lady asked.

Zhang Wen glanced not far away, and the figure of Xiaohong, the female ghost cousin, was standing in the shadows under the eaves.

She opened her mouth to speak, but eventually held back.

People and ghosts have different paths, with the old lady's weak body, if you get close to the ghost, the yin qi enters the body, even if there is an elixir, it can't be saved.

"Auntie, Xiaohong is studying in a foreign school, and foreigners are not more than the Spring Festival."

"That's right." Auntie nodded.

Zhang Wen said: "In this way, if you miss her, I will take you to Rong County after a while, where you can call and listen." ”

"She's a girl, is it useful to learn so much? Don't waste your money. "Auntie is still not at ease.

"Don't worry, the teacher I found for Xiaohong is a person in the Guangxu period and is very knowledgeable." Zhang Wen waved his hand at Xiaohong vaguely, Xiaohong nodded, said thank you with a lip shape, and disappeared without a trace.

"Moreover, we are now a new society that values equality between men and women!"

Zhang Wen helped the old woman into the room.

Take a seat at the dinner table.

Zhang Wen looked at the fat figure standing guard at the gate and said, "Sister Hua, tell Feibao to give him a vacation later, and let him go to the Zhujia Teahouse to eat dumplings with his fiancée." ”

"Yes, sir."

Sister Hua nodded and trotted out.

On festive days, it is rare for the old woman not to give Sister Hua an ugly look.

Zhang Wen sat down and just picked up a dumpling.

There was a "haha" laugh outside, and the lung capacity of the person who came was also good, laughing from the door to the lobby.

"Captain Zhang...... No, it should be said that County Magistrate Zhang, I came to pay New Year's greetings. ”

The person who came was the mayor of this town, and he looked at Zhang Wen enviously: "County Magistrate Zhang, it is really not a thing in the pool, and now it is soaring into the sky, and I hope to carry it more in the future." ”

When Shen Dashuai was finished, the mayor of the town somewhat looked at Zhang Wen's jokes.

And after knowing that Boss Zhao of Rong County bought the position of county magistrate, he gave gifts early, but it was only in the past few days that a letter came.

The immortal chief of Rong County is not surnamed Zhao, but Zhang Wen!

The mayor scolded the surnamed Zhao to death in his heart, he wanted to remove Zhang Wen from power and take the police team into his own hands, but he spent a lot of money for this.

Who would have thought that the surnamed Zhao didn't say anything about it, and he hid the news.

Now the news has finally returned to the mayor's own ears, not only did he fail to replace Zhang Wen, but Zhang Wen became the county magistrate.

lost his wife and lost his soldiers, and the mayor was even more afraid that Zhang Wen would find his own trouble to retaliate.

He now remembers how miserable the Shi Wan family, who were against Zhang Wen at the beginning, died.

In the past two days, I couldn't sleep and eat, and finally borrowed the stall on the first day of the Lunar New Year, nominally came to pay New Year's greetings, but actually gave a gift to apologize.

"There are some small gifts here." The mayor handed over the gift box in his hand and said, "Hundred-year-old ginseng, replenish the old lady's body." ”

"Hundred-year-old ginseng, it's not common."

Zhang Wen is also welcome.

Seeing him nodding, Sister Hua hurriedly took the old ginseng.

"Not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning." The mayor hurriedly shook his head.

"On the fourth day of the junior high school, we still have a banquet, I wonder if County Magistrate Zhang is free?"

"This ......"

Zhang Wen didn't want to reunite with the group of squires with low eyes, and after a long time, he knew that these people were as timid as mice, stingy, and didn't dare to make money if they had the opportunity.

Now that the mine is open in the east of the factory, Zhang Wen has a lot of money on his books, although this money is only a drop in the bucket compared to the few truckloads of gold and silver he brought back from Goose City, but it is not a small number.

"If we're not available, we'll meet another day." The mayor hurriedly said.

Zhang Wen shook his head: "Free, of course free!" It just so happens that I still want to expand the police department, and when the time comes, I will have to bother the shopkeepers to help me a lot. ”

"Expansion?" The mayor's face twitched, but he said, "Of course." ”

Seeing off the mayor, Zhang Wen picked up the cold dumplings.

"Master, why don't I go and warm it up for you?" Sister Hua came over to ask.

"Well, heat it up."

Zhang Wen picked up the teacup.

Aunt and Xiaoyun had already eaten dumplings, but only Zhang Wen had no food in his stomach.

"San'er! San'er! ”

"Third uncle!"

Shouts came from outside.

Three figures strode into the gate of Zhang's house.

The person who came was Zhang Muzhi, Liuzi and fake Huang Shilang.

"I've met County Magistrate Zhang." Fake Huang Shilang arched his hand at Zhang Wen.

After the tanuki changed to the prince, although he was monitored by Zhang Muzhi, the fake Huang Shilang days became real, singing small songs every day, drinking tea, and walking birds, all of which were very happy.

Those who doubted his identity were also killed in the case of Zhang Muzhi's brothers.

Now, he is the real Huang Shilang.

"How are you!" Sister Hua came with hot dumplings, and when she saw the fake Huang Shilang, her face changed.

She just hated the face.

"Sister Hua, there are days when I don't see you, and I am getting more and more watery, it seems that my brother's water raises people." Zhang Muzhi laughed and put down his hat: "San'er, where is your aunt?" ”

"Rest in the backyard."

"I'm going to pay my aunt's New Year's greetings!"

Zhang Muzhi turned around and left, leaving the fake Huang Shilang and the sixth son.

"Huang came to pay New Year's greetings, and it was not good to be empty-handed." Fake Huang Shilang handed over a small box and said: "This is the top treasure in the Huang family's warehouse, thousand-year-old ginseng, known as a thousand gold is hard to find, no matter how serious the injury, you can hang your life with a piece in your mouth!" ”

"Millennial ginseng?"

Zhang Wen hurriedly took it, he opened the small box, which was tied with back satin, an ordinary ginseng.

It's just that on the top of the ginseng, there are bones like flowers, red and like pearls.

"Millennial ginseng, evaluation: The treasures produced in the deep mountains of Changbai Mountain seem to be alive."

"Still alive?" Zhang Wen looked at the thousand-year-old ginseng in his hand.

Ginseng is enough for a thousand years.

Zhang Wen covered the box: "Master Huang, bother." ”

After a while, Zhang Muzhi came back, his eyes were red, as if he had just cried.

After sitting down, Zhang Muzhi said: "I can't help it during the New Year!" Come on, eat dumplings! ”

"Eat dumplings!"

Everyone eats dumplings, and they all taste different.

Zhang Wen took a bite of the dumplings, and the salty aroma of the juice entered his mouth.

The tongue kept secreting saliva, and the teeth chewed twice, and swallowed it into the stomach with a hot "grunt".

It was the first year he had passed since he crossed over.