The night is slightly cool.

The moonlight in the sky is beautiful, smooth and clean, like splashing water through the sprinkler, and the fields and courtyards after night are quietly silent.

Murono Heizo served Yun Shouni's mother and daughter, and after finishing the meal, he turned back to the front yard with a bamboo plate, and saw the four of them sitting at the door of the customs center in a daze, and asked with concern: "The night is cool and windy, why do you stay at the door and sit here?" Zhuangtou, the two Fannies are really pitiful, I persuaded for a long time, and then I barely drank some porridge and soup, and after drinking, I sat in the house and cried, and I couldn't persuade him. There's no way, I'll let the monk stay outside the house and watch, don't do anything else. ”

"The clerk has worked hard, don't worry about us, hurry up and go to eat first, and go back to the room early to rest!" At night, the busiest person in the village is Heizo Murono, who is busy cooking and going to the backyard to serve the two bitter masters, and he hasn't even drunk hot water until now.

"Hey, hey." Murono Heizo cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks used by the four of them, and the way he agreed, reminded Gao Shisheng of his father-in-law who raised himself in Junfu Castle and has now retired to retire.

Serving Shangguan seems to have become an inseparable part of their daily lives.

Gao Shisheng couldn't bear to see him overworked, and persuaded him: "Just keep an eye on a few of us at night, and the clerk doesn't have to worry." "As a rule, no idlers can be left in the village, but now in this meeting, we can neither drive the monks out, nor let them go in and out of the village at will at night. It can only be a hard work, taking turns to keep vigil.

Aoki Daizen had to stay in the middle of the night, so he went back to his room early to sleep.

After sitting at the door for a long time, he talked to Seto Fangjiu, the Kimura brothers, and the new Sun Ichiro for a while, and Gao Shisheng was also a little tired.

Standing up, he no longer thought about Hasegawa Hayato's family, no longer thought about his father-in-law, no longer wanted to gather people, and no longer thought about how he wanted to "live in troubled times", and said: "Shinkuro also rested earlier, Kimura, you two were more vigilant in the first half of the night, and I went back to the backyard to sleep first." ”

After that, he took out the copper coin that Guan didn't send out from his arms, threw it to Sun Ichiro Shinjin who couldn't get the "foot money", and said: "I asked you to ask the famous family to ask for help, but the reinforcements didn't arrive, but it was delayed by you, and I made up the money for you, and you and the clerk were half of each person." ”

"Thank you, Zhuang Tou!"

"How can this be! How can this be done! ”

When Niitsu Sun Ichiro arrived at Zenkoin, the money had already been divided, and on the way back to the village, he kept complaining that he had run in vain, and this time he saw that the money turned around and flew back into his hands, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Murono Heizo was inexplicable, and after Gao Shisheng walked into the backyard, he asked Sun Yilang of Shinjin: "Sun Yilang, it was your own bad luck that you didn't get the reward, how can you rely on the benevolence of the head of the village and ask him for it?" Don't hurry back and return it quickly, so as not to displease the head of the village. He said that he wanted to return the money.

"Zhuang Tou is benevolent and sympathetic, and it is indeed his own initiative to reward it... Not very interested... Probably because Fang just chatted a few words and said "Dazhi"... By the way, scholar, you are the one who reads the most among us, what does it mean to "the living will perish, and mourn with joy"? ”

“····· What a mess! ”

Seto Kasahisa didn't match the preamble, and Heizo Murono didn't understand a word. "The new head of the village, you don't know how to wait in the school, come and go to the house to see if the oil lamp is still oiled?" After a few words, he called Seto Fangjiu, "Shinjiuro, you go to the backyard to see if there is anything missing in the village, and put the futon on the handle." ”

Murono Heizo closed the door of the village, and refilled the pot of hot water for the monks of Meichuan Temple, but there was no tea in the village, so he could only make do with it. The food that was delivered before was still there, and it was already cold.

Or that the people are old and kind-hearted, he is afraid that the monks will catch a cold in the middle of the night, so he took out a few old futons, old mattresses, dusted off the dust, cleaned them and sent them to the monks.

Murono Heizo was so shocked that he didn't dare to do it, so he asked the Kimura brothers to pick up some firewood from the firewood house to make the fire burn stronger, and boil the rice with hot air again.

After going back and forth, I delayed for half an hour, arranged everything in the hospital, and then went back to eat and sleep.

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The lamp and candle placed on the corner of the desk trembled slightly, Gao Shisheng put down the file in his hand, rubbed his tired neck, and before he knew it, it was already night.

Although he has resigned from his position as a member of the Sunfu Concentric, he has been serving in the Sunfu Castle Town Office for a long time, and the habit of sleeping late that he has developed by handling official documents overnight will not change even when he arrives at the Hirayamaso Office.

Gao Shisheng blew out the oil lamp, put away the file on the case, put it back in the corner box, and then lay down on the couch with his clothes together, looking at the shack, and still did not feel the slightest sleepiness.

The bottom layer of the bed is made of single planks and is sturdy and durable. There is a mat dwelling on the top, and the living surface is flat and straight, even tight.

Seto Fang, who came to help, was afraid that he would catch a cold at night, so he deliberately spread two more layers of mattresses on the mat and lay on it, which made people feel quite comfortable, the only fly in the ointment was probably that the wooden pillow was too hard and did not wrap the cloth, but this was not the reason why it was difficult for him to sleep.

The bed is located on the inside of the central hall house, diagonally facing the low bamboo forest in the courtyard. The windows are hidden, and through the gaps, you can see the hazy moonlight and the shadow of the bamboo, and the night breeze blows into the room, slightly moist and cool.

"It's a pity that the mage is thin, and it is difficult to cover the ugliness of greed."

The sound of the monks chanting scriptures in the front yard of Meichuan Temple can be faintly heard. Gao Shisheng couldn't help but think of the criticism of the monks of Daxiangguo Temple in the first round of the southern capital of "The Tale of the Heike Family".

As early as when he was in Junfu City, he heard that the temple family was stingy and contemptible, and the baht must be compared, and he knew the truth when he saw it today.

The sorrow of the empty good of the Umegawa Temple is not the death of the son, but the crying for money. If you really have a mercy, how could you come empty-handed when you heard that Zenkoin Temple had already paid the fine, I am afraid that she would have already spent all her family wealth to buy the officials in the county, severely punish the murderer, and avenge the son.

Combined with his past of paying hundreds of copper coins for a mere hundred copper coins and repeatedly provoking the "sectarian theory" in one house, today's grief is probably the grief for the money he has scavenged and accumulated, and in the end it will be cheaper for outsiders.

Thinking of this, I sighed even more, as a monk, I am obsessed with money and foreign things, who dares to say that it is not karma when I suffer such a catastrophe.

Zong talks about killing, Zhuang is crying and mourning, what happened today can be regarded as the past, he has officially taken up the post of head of Zhuang, tomorrow, how to deal with the interrogation of the county's general judgment.

As soon as he took office today, he encountered a murder case, which was something he did not expect, in addition to not catching the murderer, the handling methods of other situations are still qualified, and he can only hope that Shangguan will not be demanding perfection.

The Shonai officers have seen it all, and they know a thing or two. The people in the village also met a few, but these were far from enough for him to stand firm and plot slowly.

He has lived in Junfu since he was a child, and he studied Chinese studies as a young man, and learned the laws and regulations, and was also taught by his family. When serving the public with one heart, his father-in-law teacher often used "first-class people are loyal to the ministers and filial sons, and the two things are served by the public and the people" to supervise and admonish him.

But he never told him how to be a good acting official of the village, and never taught him how to save his life in the battlefield between the barrels, perhaps in the heart of the old official, the Imagawa family will always be peaceful and peaceful under the governance of the virtuous ministers and the lord, and it is not easy for a hundred generations.

Being a good acting official is similar to serving the public in Junfu, combined with what you have heard and practiced, you can sum it up: as long as you can be fair and strict, eliminate violence and stop evil, compassionate to the people, and comfort the lonely and elderly, you can be a good acting official.

But it's hard to save your life on the battlefield.

He can be said to have no fighting power, let alone military strategy. Going around or back, collecting money and gathering people, recruiting the number of ways where the samurai had already existed.

When Noyama Yoshitomo handed over the county, he said to him: "Aoki and Beizhuang master and apprentice have the courage to resist insults." The Kimura brothers and Sun Ichiro are from Honjo Township and can be driven. Murono is honest and reliable, and is valued by the villagers of Zhuangsuo. The consignment merchant has a lot of money, and if there is an emergency, he can donate it to relieve the urgency. If all the people in the village are driven and used properly, and all of them are subdued by you, it will not be difficult for the people to govern. ”

This is the pragmatic method of the former head of the village, earnest teachings, starting from the servants of the village, and then using their prestige in the village to convince the people, which is the right way for officials.

Gao Shisheng recalled his judgment from the observation of everyone in the village.

"Pay the thief" Aoki Dashan, the two of them have been walking all the way, although they have talked, but they are only general, they can only say that they are withdrawn, and it is a pity that they have not seen them draw their swords and fight.

Beizhuang Manjiro, speaks smartly, handles things properly and reliably, and can wander all the way with Aoki Daizen, which shows that he is also a loyal and filial person.

Brother Kimura, a rough and straight villain, doesn't have many talents, but he can be a light man with his bravery. Sun Ichiro Xinjin, can only say that he is greedy for money and has a good name, exaggerates his words, and has little courage, the only merit is that he is obedient and does whatever he wants.

"Door Holding Clerk" Murono Heizo, judging from his performance on this day, is honest and reliable, and is a generous elder. Among the errands, he is the most respectful in his words and deeds, up and down in the village, large and small, all inseparable from him.

The merchant is headed by Seto Fangjiu, looking at his words and deeds, he is an ambitious person, he has worked as a businessman, let go of debts, and his subordinates still do not abandon him after he is down, Gao Shisheng asked himself, if it is really difficult to break the stream, it will not be able to do the other party's level.

It's a pity that Gao Shisheng has his own family affairs and knows that he doesn't have much real talent and hard work to convince people. Therefore, we can only start by caring for the lonely and elderly, and gather people's hearts.

After serving the public for many years, he still has a little savings, and he deliberately brought some furniture before taking office.

Gritting his teeth, he secretly said in his heart: "Isn't it just money?" I can still afford tens of thousands of dollars. ”

Maybe he had a strategy and was not worried, or maybe he was really tired and sleepy, and soon he fell asleep.

Note 1: "First-class people are loyal and filial sons, and two things are to study and plough the fields." "A thatched cottage couplet from Ji Xiaolan in the Qing Dynasty.