Then the twenty-fifth group said, "We may take ten points less." ”

Meng Changqing looked at the person who spoke and smiled, "What about the other groups?" ”

All the groups were silent, except for the first group, who hesitated and said, "We can have fifteen less." ”

Meng Changqing's gaze fell back on the people in the twenty-fifth group, "Are you still reducing?" ”

"We can have twenty less."

"You have to do what you say now." Meng Changqing said, "I will give you 180 points of work if it is built within five days, and if it is not built well, all the points that your group has not stored here will be deducted for you." ”

The twenty-five group of people shuddered, and then they felt panicked.

Meng Changqing asked, "Can you do it, give you one last chance to regret it." ”

"We ......," the man hesitated, unable to utter a full sentence.

"Can't!" Meng Changqing asked with a cold face.

The man hung his head, his shoulders hunched and did not dare to speak.

"If you can't do it, you dare to open your mouth and come, and you won't retreat!" Meng Changqing asked the others again, "The new conditions offered by this person just now, five days, one hundred and eighty points, which of you is willing to take this job?" ”

Except for the first group, which was still hesitating, no one in the other groups was willing, and almost everyone followed suit.

Only the first group remained, "We're willing to do it." "The leader of the first group thought that as long as this work was done quickly, it would still be more cost-effective than clearing wasteland.

"Okay, then you'll take over the job." Meng Changqing said, "There is no limit to the time of construction, and the work is still based on the previous 200 points." ”

As soon as these words came out, the other groups regretted it, they had known that Master Meng had come to make this move, and they should not have retreated just now.

Speaking of which, it's still the twenty-five groups of-stirring sticks, and he should really find a time to teach him a lesson.

"Let's go, what to do, what to do."

Watching the people walk away, Zhang Yuan sighed.

"Captain Zhang, seeing that your face is not good, is it not enough time to sleep?"

Zhang Yuan rubbed his head, "Master Meng, to tell you the truth, I really can't sleep well, since I moved here, I have been counting the addition and subtraction of each group of work every day, I really fell asleep and dreamed of settling accounts, and I was scared to wake up by the abacus beads several times." ”

He sighed: "I'm a rough person, I can't count these things at all, I'm afraid that I have done something wrong and caused you trouble." ”

"It's my problem." Meng Changqing said, "I didn't see your distress, so I let someone else take over this matter." ”

"I'm really sorry, Lord Meng."

"I'm not sorry." Meng Changqing smiled and said: "When you came out of the barracks, you were originally my personal soldiers, but I didn't have anyone at hand, so I bothered you to take care of these things." ”

Meng Changqing was able to agree that he didn't care about the work, and Zhang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, "Master Meng can change me to an errand that doesn't use my brains much, I must not shirk it, and keep it well." ”

"You need to use your brain for everything, I think your brain is not bad, but you don't like to plan the plate, then from today onwards, please trouble Captain Zhang to concurrently serve as the county lieutenant, responsible for the security and arrest in the county, you can temporarily choose fifteen people among the pro-soldiers, and follow you to be responsible for this."

Your seal. Meng Changqing stretched out his hand to him, "I'll engrave it for you again." ”

Zhang Yuan immediately took out the seal from his arms, "Thank you, Lord Meng." ”

"I want to thank you for that." Meng Changqing said with a smile.

"I wonder who will take care of the work in the future?"

Meng Changqing said: "I don't have any available people at hand, so I can only trouble Captain Yang." ”

When Yang Zheng learned the news, it was already dark, and Zuo Datou came to him with the account deducted today, and brought him the seal that served as the main book.

"What do you mean? Do I do the main bookkeeper to divide the work? What about Zhang Yuan? ”

"Captain Zhang is also the county lieutenant." Zuo Datou said, "He's been promoted." ”

"What's not going to go up." Yang Zheng took the account book from Zuo Datou's hand, "To be an unpopular official in this border place, it is all Lord Meng who has the final say, under him, there is no distinction between high and low official positions, only everyone does different things." ”

Yang Zheng's arithmetic is not very good, but he values Meng Changqing's trust in him more than the predicament he faces, any number is counted twice more, anyway, there are twenty-five groups in total, even if the calculation is slow, there is a time when the calculation is over.

The days haven't passed much, so I jumped for two days.

On March 18, Zhang Yuan took people to Yangmen County early in the morning and brought back bricks and tiles from the masons and several wagons.

The masons bought their own firecrackers and brought peach and pear wood, and the preparations were so perfect that even Wen was surprised.

In the southeast, northwest and four directions buried into the peach branch pear wood, inserted incense on the offering table, selected at four o'clock in the hour to light the firecrackers, Meng Changqing and Lao Baitou dug out a shovel of soil, this is considered to be the start of construction.

Meng Changqing asked them to build a wall to enclose the back office first, so that during the construction of the front office, there would not be so many people rushing to the back office.

Lao Baitou took the drawings given to him by Mao Chunfang and discussed with Meng Changqing to see if there was anything to be modified.

Meng Changqing didn't have any big opinions about the front office, but made some changes in the back office, and compared with the original, she changed it more privately.

Lao Baitou brought fifteen people, most of them were teachers and fathers, and there were only two or three young apprentices, after all, they were doing things for the government, for fear that the young man would accidentally say something that would offend the government.

Meng Changqing also sent some people and asked them to give the old white head a hand.

After five or six days of busy work, the wall of the back office was built, and the main hall of the front office could also be seen.

On this day, Meng Changqing heard Zhang Yuan say that the first group had built the thatched house, and she put down the pen in her hand and planned to go out to have a look.

There are two gates on the fence wall surrounding the backyard, the one on the west side allows you to go directly, and the small gate on the south side is the front office through the door.

Meng Changqing came out of the small gate on the south side, thinking about taking a look at the progress of the construction of the yamen by the way.

She looked around the place where the workers were busy for half a time, and suddenly saw a scene that surprised her.

The boy in Mancang was actually squatting in the corner.

Meng Changqing took two more steps forward and saw a chubby teenager squatting in front of Mancang.

The young man was nibbling on the rice balls, and Mancang's eyes were glued to the rice balls.

Meng Changqing walked forward, wanting to call Man Cang back.

As a result, the young man took a small ball of rice the size of a fingernail from the big rice ball and handed it to Mancang.

Mitsukura took it and stuffed it into his mouth, then stared at the boy again.

The boy asked, "It's delicious, I made it myself, and I have pickles in it, which is much better than the rice balls my mother made." ”

Man Cang looked at him and nodded, then held out his hand again.

"Why do you want more? I've got a lot of food for you. The boy was reluctant, "Then I'll give you another ball, the last one." ”

The young man reluctantly divided a small ball, and kneaded it into a circle before handing it to Mancang.

"Whose family brought you here?" The boy asked, "Why don't you speak after eating so much rice from me?" ”