"Someone."

Meng Changqing and his entourage were stopped by the officials as soon as they arrived at the gate of the county ya, and Bafang stepped forward to report their identity, "This magistrate of Beishan County, I have something to do with your family, and I am tired of spreading the word." ”

"Kitayama ...... Please wait a minute. The official retreated to the door and talked to the people inside for a while, and Meng Changqing saw the people inside the door going to the office.

She turned over and dismounted and waited at the side door for two quarters of an hour, and the person who went to report it slowly came out, "My lord, my family is busy with official business, and I am afraid that it is inconvenient to see you today, so please come back later." ”

Meng Changqing grabbed Bafang, who wanted to speak, and stepped forward and said: "I don't have any personal relationship with your lord, I came to him today for official business, please go and spread it again, if Lord Wei insists on not seeing, then I can only invite him to the prefect's mansion for a gathering." ”

The person who reported it retracted into the ya, and after another quarter of an hour, the man came out again, "Lord Meng, my lord, please come in." ”

"Lead the way."

Meng Changqing and his entourage followed inside, but before they had walked a few steps, the messenger who reported said again: "Lord Meng, please don't enter the yamen." ”

"Okay." Meng Changqing turned around and said, "You all stay here, Lord Bai and I will go in." ”

The official secretly looked at Chu Mufeng, "Who is this Lord Bai?" ”

Meng Changqing: "The guards of the Royal Forest Army are ordered to follow, and they are not idle people. ”

"Yes." The official did not dare to offend after hearing only the three words of the Imperial Forest Army, and led them into a reception room.

"Please wait here for the two adults, and my adults will come over when they are busy with the business at hand."

Meng Changqing watched the official withdraw, directly put together a few chairs, and lay down to sleep.

"Lord Meng." Chu Mufeng was surprised, "What are you doing here?" ”

"We have to wait, Lord Bai, you see there is a row of chairs over there, you can sleep for a while."

"Lord Meng......" Chu Mufeng shook his head, "Forget it, you can rest." ”

Meng Changqing went to Weishan County to have lunch, and there was no hope for lunch, so let's take a lunch break.

Sure enough, when she woke up from sleep, Cao Hongxing's official duties were not over. In the room, only Chu Mufeng stared outside and walked a few steps from time to time.

"They all said to let you sleep for a while." Meng Changqing got up and moved his body, then took out the shortbread he was carrying and ate it, "Master Chu, if you have jerky on you, I will exchange the shortbread with you." ”

Chu Mufeng untied the cloth bag around his waist, sat down next to Meng Changqing, and simply ate some cakes and jerky.

"I think you offended Lord Cao before, and he deliberately embarrassed you." Chu Mufeng said, "If you want to leave from here, I'm afraid it's as difficult as climbing to the sky." ”

"Not really." Meng Changqing gathered the crumbs from the oiled paper and ate them together.

waited until Shen Shi, that is, after three o'clock in the afternoon, Cao Hongxing, who had been busy with official business, finally appeared.

"Lord Meng, oh, and this Lord Bai." He stood at the door and greeted very reluctantly, "I'm really sorry to keep you two waiting for a long time, but you two didn't inform me in advance, so I couldn't pull away." ”

"It doesn't matter." Meng Changqing said with a smile: "There are only a few people in my county, so there is nothing to do, let alone more than two hours, even if it is two days, I can afford to wait." ”

Cao Hongxing sneered, lifted his robe slightly and walked in.

"I don't know why Lord Meng is looking for me?" Cao Hongxing pretended not to know, sat down on the main seat, picked up the teapot at hand, and realized that there was not a drop of tea in it, and immediately scolded outside: "What are you doing, Master Meng doesn't know how to add tea at any time here, what do you want!" ”

He scolded loudly, and the officials outside also pretended to be obedient, and immediately served hot tea and put it in the hands of the three of them.

Meng Changqing waited, waited for the official to finish serving the tea and withdrew, and waited for Cao Hongxing to pick up the teacup and drink half a cup slowly.

She never spoke.

I've been waiting for two hours, and I don't care about that.

Compared with patience and the strength of yin and yang, Cao Hongxing can't compare to Meng Changqing, who has been trained in the palace.

"Master Meng, you have also sat down until now, let's talk about something directly."

Meng Changqing said kindly: "On the twenty-fifth day, Lord Wei specially went to my Beishan County and told me that there is a village in Weishan County, that place is not suitable for farming, and the people are having a hard time, so they want to move to my Beishan County. ”

"It turned out to be for this." Cao Hongxing picked up the teacup, saw that the tea in it was almost bottomed out and put it down again, "Master Meng has not been scientifically examined, and I don't know how much you know about officialdom." ”

Meng Changqing looked at him and waited for him to speak.

Cao Hongxing continued: "Do you know how many people there are in that village? If I give those people to you, what will be the result for me in the evaluation at the end of this year?

I know that you have few people in Beishan County, but if you ask me directly, you are really willful, this is officialdom, not a joke between your children. ”

After he finished speaking, it was Meng Changqing's turn to pick up the teacup, "It turns out that Master Cao thinks that Lord Wei is playing with you, so you must have coaxed Lord Wei before you should do this." ”

Cao Hongxing was a little moved, "You don't want to be involved in everything. ”

"It's Changqing's rudeness." After she finished speaking, she stood up and apologized to Cao Hongxing, "Lord Cao, I was young and frivolous and ignorant of etiquette before, and I offended you, I hope you don't blame you."

As you can see, I have not undergone scientific research, and my words are inevitably a little rude, so I ask for your forgiveness again. ”

Meng Changqing's accusation ended, and without waiting for the other party's reaction, he continued: "Speaking about the matter of returning to the village, when Master Wei told me about this, I was also surprised, as you said, this matter is related to your political achievements after all.

At that time, I asked Master Wei, why was Master Cao willing to agree to such a thing?

Lord Futai only said one sentence......"

Cao Hongxing really pricked up his ears and waited.

Meng Changqing paused for a moment before saying, "He said that you are thinking about the people. ”

Cao Hongxing took a breath and held it.

"Meng Changqing." Cao Hongxing said: "I also looked down on you in the past, thinking that you were cheap as an official, and you yourself didn't have any ability.

Since the completion of the city wall of Beishan County, I have changed my opinion of you.

Regardless of whether you have real talent or not, but it has always been a big thing, and it is not a trip to Liangzhou in vain.

I heard that you personally went into battle to kill the enemy that day, and I respect your blood.

In that case, I won't go around the bush with you.

Regarding the relocation of the village, Lord Wei agreed, and I also agreed, but the people who live in that place, they may not be willing to go to your Beishan County.

No matter how bad it is next to the Red Sand Death Land, it is also their hometown, where their ancestors lived.

Before you, Beishan County was a battlefield, and there were graves all over the place, and it made people scared when they heard it, and they didn't want to go over.

The people on my side are different from the displaced people in Beishan County, they are all farmers who do their duty, and they cannot be treated the same way they treat prisoners.

They don't want to go, and I can't drive people away. (End of chapter)