Chapter 255: Opening the Court
The next day, Zhao Yunlan and Li Mingren got up early.
"Don't sleep more?" Li Mingren asked with concern.
Zhao Yunlan said while dressing: "Yesterday's rest for a day is enough, there are still a lot of things at home, so it's better to get busy early." ”
Li Mingren helped Zhao Yunlan pull a simple bun, and the husband and wife don't go out at home on weekdays, and the work of pulling the bun is handed over to Li Mingren.
"I'll leave the matter of buying people to He Wen."
Li Mingren: "Okay, I'm going to open the hall today." ”
Zhao Yunlan thought of the opening of the court to handle the case before, and when she thought of Li Mingren sitting in the hall with a straight look, she was shocked, and there were two vertical rows of errand officers standing at the bottom and shouted, "Might~", and couldn't help but smile.
"Why are you smiling so happily?"
Zhao Yunlan shook her head with a smile: "I won't tell you, let's eat quickly, bring some pastries today, I won't wait for you to come back for dinner at noon." ”
Li Mingren: "Gotcha! I'd have to eat more in the morning, or I'll not be hungry with those pastries. ”
After the husband and wife had eaten, they went about their own business.
Li Mingren took Ye Sheng to the front hall, and there were already many people standing in the public hall at this time. Li Mingren looked at the neatly arranged cases on the table in the public court and was very satisfied, at least Cao Yingfa was still doing things safely. Of course, there are no pictures as Zhao Yunlan imagined, Li Mingren devoted himself to official business as soon as he came.
"My lord, you should go through all these case files first!" Cao Yingfa bent down slightly and said respectfully.
Li Mingren nodded, and after about half an hour, Li Mingren only felt a sore neck, raised his head and looked at the time, so he said, "Let's open the hall!" ”
Cao Yingfa: "Yes." ”
In Li Mingren's view, these cases are trivial matters, but they are extremely troublesome to deal with. For a while, the plaintiff was messing around, and the defendant was stingy again, and the court never stopped in the morning. The quarrel made Li Mingren's brain buzz, and finally solved all these cases.
At noon, the sun shone on the whole county. Li Mingren simply soothed the rumbling roar of his stomach with a few pieces of pastry while drinking tea in the yamen, and after squinting for a quarter of an hour, the case was tried again in the afternoon.
At the end of the day, Li Mingren was exhausted, his hair was fluffy and fluffy, and he always felt a buzzing sound in his ears.
"Lady, I'm so hungry!" Li Mingren drooped his face, and he had no energy.
Zhao Yunlan was sorting out the account books, and the bills for the expenses on the way from the capital to Shiyang County. Although He Wen has memorized it, Zhao Yunlan still has to think about it, and then she has to feast guests, buy land, and run all kinds of household affairs, and there are too many places to spend money. There is not much silver brought, most of them are silver tickets, but the economy here is not developed all the way to the north, and there is no money village in Shiyang County that can access silver, so it is very troublesome to exchange silver tickets for Youzhou City.
"Chunxiang, let's set the meal." Zhao Yunlan put away the account book, looked at Li Mingren's frizzy hair, and couldn't help but smile.
"How does it feel to open today?"
Li Mingren sighed deeply: "It's all a trivial matter of the East and West families, what old Zhou family occupies a small piece of land in the old Zhang family, and the old Li family poured a basin of water on Xiao Wang's family." Hey~ There are even cases where the two sides have disputes and fights because of a trumped-up sentence. After listening to it for a day, my head is big. With that, Li Mingren shook his head and sat on the stool.
He Hua quickly arranged the dishes, and Chunxiang added food to the two and then retreated.
Zhao Yunlan: "Small places are just some things that are short of the east and the west. It is always beneficial for you to deal with these things well and accumulate them little by little. ”
Li Mingren nodded, and kept sandwiching dishes for Zhao Yunlan. "Lady, eat more, I see you've lost weight."
"Really?" Zhao Yunlan couldn't hear this, and suddenly became excited.
Originally, Li Mingren just said it casually, but he was excited by the lady, so he looked at it carefully: "Well, my face feels a little smaller!" His face was still a little pale. ”
Zhao Yunlan thought for a while and said: "Maybe the rush hasn't fully recovered, it's easy to be tired in the past two days, and I slept for more than an hour today in the afternoon." ”
Li Mingren: "I always said that you should rest for a few more days, and you don't have to get up so early in the morning." ”
Zhao Yunlan: "Let's talk about it after the banquet." ”
"What date are you going to book?"
Zhao Yunlan: "The eighth day of the next month!" ”
Li Mingren smiled slightly: "I also booked the eighth day of the new year, and on that day, I will invite the students of Shiyang County to hold a symposium." ”
Zhao Yunlan had almost eaten, and put down her chopsticks: "Symposium? Are you sure? ”
Li Mingren nodded: "Well, I have already told the county priest and asked him to give me a charter." ”
"Hahaha, okay, apply what you've learned! After the symposium, it will be arranged here, so that everyone can relax and talk freely, and everyone will have a meal together. ”
Li Mingren hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks, and said, "Then there is Lao Niangzi to handle it." ”
"Pi, eat your meal. I went to the yard to digest my food. ”
Li Mingren hurriedly put the last few mouthfuls of rice in the bowl into his mouth, and wanted to follow Zhao Yunlan to visit the garden.
"Hiccup~Hiccup~"
Zhao Yunlan: "You said you ate so fast." ”
Li Mingren smiled a little embarrassedly, and hurriedly drank water to suppress the burp.
"Let's go, let's go to the garden."
Zhao Yunlan came over with a roll of eyes, but still took Li Mingren's hand and walked towards the garden.
"There will be no case tomorrow, I will go to a nearby village."
Zhao Yunlan: "Then you can also bring He Wen, let's buy some land." ”
Li Mingren: "Okay. ”
The moon is exceptionally bright tonight, and Zhao Yunlan's sleepiness is coming.
"I'm going back to wash up, sleepy!"
Li Mingren always felt that he had forgotten something, and after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't think about it, and when he saw Yunlan yawning again and again, the two of them turned back to the main courtyard.
"It's getting colder."
……
Here in Lijia Village, the Wang family was pulling Li Mingmei to chat, but his face was sad.
"Mother, don't worry, big brother, they will definitely arrive safely."
"Hey~" Wang couldn't help but sigh.
Li Mingmei: "Mother, rest early." Big brother, they must have written back when they arrived. ”
Wang nodded, and turned his head to look at Mama Cui beside him: "When the letter arrives, Mama Cui, you will go over to help Yunlan." ”
Mama Cui: "Yes, old lady. ”
"Mother, then I'll go back to the room to rest first."
Wang nodded, suddenly thinking about his third brother, and asked, "I haven't seen your third brother today?" ”
Li Mingmei: "The third brother is on the side of the mountain today, and a new batch of trees has arrived, and the third brother has gone to help plant the trees. ”
Wang was a little relieved: "The third child has become more and more stable recently. After thinking about it, he looked at Li Mingmei and asked, "Are you going to the mountain again?" ”
Li Mingmei hurriedly patted Wang's sycophant: "Third brother, that's a good mother's education." After saying that, he ran out, "Mother, I'll go to sleep first." ”
"Come on, girl!" Wang smiled and shook his head.
Mama Cui couldn't help but smile: "The fifth sister has to be lively." ”
Wang: "Now even you are facing her, and I am a wicked person!" ”
Mama Cui pursed her lips and smiled.