Halfway through, Xu Ling went out to light the firecrackers that had been prepared early, and there was a crackling sound, but there were children around, waiting to pick up the unlit firecrackers, and they could play again.

Xu Ling casually pulled the pigtails on a little boy's head, "Bench, why don't you go in to eat?" ”

The bench is the little boy who follows Li Dayuan's ass every day, about five or six years old, he wiped his frozen snot and said: "My father asked my mother to take my sister to eat, and let me eat it next time." ”

The villagers are simple, even if Xu Lingzhen asks the people in the village to bring their families to eat, everyone is also particular, two people in a family, or simply only one person, no one is embarrassed to spend a few pennies to eat such a good feast.

Xu Ling didn't know what to say in his heart, these villagers are really good people.

He touched the head of the bench and asked about the other children, most of whom were left out to be older.

Xu Ling said: "You go home and get the bowl, don't go to the table, go to the back kitchen to find my daughter-in-law, and say that I will let you come to eat." ”

The children cheered and immediately dispersed to go home to get the bowls.

Xu Ling smiled and went back to the house, he bought the largest pig in Li Dayuan's family, which weighed almost two hundred catties, and asked Sun Butcher to buy two sheep for stew, and the banquet was set on this day, although there was no possibility of wasting if he couldn't finish eating, but Xu Ling thought that after this meal, the people in the village could change all their views of him.

Back at the table, Yang Tao's master and apprentice were drinking with his father-in-law Gu Litian, and when they saw Xu Ling coming, they asked him to punish himself.

Xu Ling's ears were almost calloused when he heard the auspicious words, this meal was eaten for almost an hour, and there was nothing left over from the food on each table, and it was all shiny with the plates and bowls that people ate.

Especially the bowls of fat and oily braised pork, it is estimated that few people will eat it at the banquet in modern times, but this dish is the most popular.

There is no way, the people at this time are not short of food like in their previous lives, let alone eating meat, and it is rare to be able to eat without being hungry.

Full of wine and food, the people in the village took turns to talk to Xu Ling, and some people went to Xu Ling's new house to look around, saying that his new house was built well, and it was one of the best in the village.

Xu Ling followed all these good words, and politely asked them to communicate with their families often in the future.

During this period, Yang Tao's master and apprentice ate and were a little drunk, and were invited by Gu Litian to rest in the house.

The two of them were not in a hurry to leave, so they must have come to find Xu Ling to have other things.

When Xu Ling saw off the guests outside and returned to the house, the fire in the hall was lit, the room was very warm, and Yang Tao and Sun Baoyao were chatting without a word.

Seeing Xu Ling coming in, Sun Baoyao hurriedly got up and asked him to sit down.

"Brother Xu, I really didn't expect that when you said that you moved to a new house, you actually built such a magnificent house, even if there are few families like you in the town!"

Sun Baoyao was full of praise for the structure of Xu Ling's new house.

Xu Ling smiled politely: "I also learned from others, the houses over there in Quanzhou are beautiful, and the roofs are all glazed, we can't compare." ”

"Are you doing business in Quanzhou? What kind of business do you do? Yang Tao asked at the right time.

There is nothing to do in the Three Treasures Palace, Xu Ling has already guessed that these two people are here for him to make money.

At this time, he did not hide his secrets, and said that he was doing business between Quanzhou and Lingbao Town.

"One or two trips back and forth a month, it's just a toss, this job is not easy to do, I met Jiang bandits on the way back from Quanzhou last time, alas, spend money to eliminate disasters to come back."

"I've heard that Jiang bandits robbed the prison in Lingbao Town last month and killed the magistrate, but is there such a thing?"

"It is true."

"Alas, the world is not easy today. It's hard for you to be a layman, and it's not easy for us public people," Yang Tao sighed, his face unhappy.

Xu Ling hurriedly asked, "Uncle Yang, is there anything bothering about this?" ”

"It's not the yamen who are making trouble!" Sun Baoyao and Yang Tao sang and harmonized, and told Xu Ling about the things inside the yamen.

Yang Tao was born in martial arts, and he was the head of the fast hunt in the Yamen, this position is not high, and there are three people on his head, including the county order, the chief bookkeeper and the county cheng.

Although the magistrates are all Jiupin sesame petty officials, they are the same as the county order, but they are a little different. For example, Erfang Town and Qinghe Town, which are bordered by each other, and both rely on water, but there are many wharves in Qinghe Town, and the water system is developed, and they can also live in the larger Lingbao Town.

Erfang Town, for so many years, the poor countryside, the people have not starved to death by eating fish, and there are no merchants here.

The poor people can't open the pot, and the officials don't worry about hunger, but they can't eat enough.

Therefore, these sesame-sized officials in Erfang Town want to be transferred out, even if they are transferred to Qinghe Town, it is better than here.

Lingbao Town died a magistrate, other petty officials don't know how many died, the positions of the Yong Dynasty are a radish and a pit, and now the radish is gone, and those idle pits are remembered by other radishes.

The county magistrate of Erfang Town spent money to hire someone to make trouble, transferred him to another pit, and before leaving, promoted the original master book as the new county magistrate.

Yang Tao set his eyes on the vacant position of the chief bookkeeper.

He is in his Chinese New Year's Eve this year, he is not too old, not too small, although there are no big cases in Erfang Town for him to do this arrest quickly, but it is still different from the idle position of the chief bookkeeper.

Xu Ling listened to it for a long time, and finally understood what Yang Tao and Sun Baoyao meant.

Originally, Yang Tao was able to sit in the position of the main book, but now another competitor has emerged, this person is the nephew of the original master book and now the new county order, and he is also a scholar.

But Yang Tao is not completely out of chance, he has been in the yamen for more than ten years, and he knows many people, and the brothers in the yamen are counting on him to be the master, not the airborne relation.

So Yang Tao thought about spending money to find a new county order to go through the back door to see if he could mix it into the main book.

So why did he find Xu Ling?

It was because Sun Baoyao bragged to Yang Tao, saying that he knew a businessman who was very good at making money, and he had made a lot of money in less than two months, and now the new houses have been built.

Yang Tao wanted to spend money to go through the back door, but he didn't have so much money to toss, so when he heard this, he followed Sun Baoyao to see the situation, and now that he saw Xu Ling, Yang Tao believed half of it in his heart.

He wanted to give money to Xu Ling, and asked Xu Ling to help him "by the way" when he was doing business, to see if there was any sure profit and no loss, and make money for him.

"Brother Xu, if you can help me do this, I will make the main book in the future, and I will not treat you badly!"

Yang Tao was probably drunk, or he thought that it was very possible for Xu Ling to help him make money, so he was excited for a while, and even followed Sun Baoyao to call Xu Ling's brother.

I'm afraid that Xu Ling doesn't want to agree to this matter, but he has to agree, where in the world is there any way to make money "by the way" without losing money?

If you earn it, it's theirs, and if you lose it, it's Xu Ling's.

It's hot.

But today Yang Tao came wearing an official skin, and the bet was that Xu Ling didn't dare not know each other!

Xu Ling laughed in his heart, but his face was not obvious, but he said with great joy: "There is such a good thing that you can be promoted with money, since I call you Brother Yang, there is no reason not to agree to this matter!" ”