"Xiao Meng, in the future, Cloud Town will be handed over to you, and it will not be in vain for me and Wen Changbo to promote you." Chen Xianling handed over the appointment document and official seal to Meng Chengguang, and patted him on the shoulder encouragingly.

In the past, Meng Wenwen will change his name to Meng County Order from now on.

The tanned man did not look like a literati or a scholar, but a farmer who had just returned from farm work in the field, holding a black gauze hat and an appointment document and an official seal.

Chen Xianling looked at him for a while, and whispered: "Doctor Wen, there seems to be a recipe that can make people white, you remember to ask for one before he leaves, tsk, you ......"

Chen Xianling sighed, shook his hand behind his back, and called Wen Xiuyi, who was waiting for him in the county office, to go to the Drunken Immortal Building to eat and drink.

Leaving the current Meng County Order in the county hall, he can't come back to his senses.

"Your Excellency." Jiao Yang, as the head of the big catcher, is in charge of dozens of catchers in Yunwu Town, and he will naturally be called by Chen County Order to hand over the work.

He looked at Meng Xianling, who was still stunned, and didn't move for a long time, so he had to go up to remind him.

"My lord? My lord! Jiao Yang raised his voice before calling Meng County's order back to his senses.

"Huh?"

Jiao Yang sighed helplessly, looked at his outfit and said, "My lord, you go to the Houya to clean up first." ”

A county order, dressed like this, I don't know how poor they think their county government is.

Meng County Ling also came back to his senses, and the black gauze hat and official seal he was holding in his hand were not a dream.

He became a county magistrate?

It was personally promoted by Lord Chen and Wen Changbo, and the county lord stamped it and went to the Ministry of Officials to ask for it, he was a scribe, but he didn't expect such a creation.

In addition to being happy, Meng Xianling thought that Wen Changbo and Chen Xianling had taken him to various villages in the past month, and learned about the situation of each village, which was called taking him to learn the advantages of others.

It's been a long time, is it a handover work in the open and in the dark?

These two people, why don't they give him a breath, otherwise they wouldn't have come dressed like this today, and there is still something going on in the village.

As soon as he thought of this, Meng Xian Ling came back to his senses.

"Ouch, there's still something to take care of." They hurriedly called him, and he thought that there was something urgent, so he left his work and came to the yamen in a carriage.

After speaking, he stuffed the things into Jiao Yang's hand, and said, "Brother Jiao, I have to go back first, you can help me collect these things first, and I will officially come over tomorrow to hand them over." ”

"Oh, no." Jiao Yang looked at Meng Xian Ling, who was gone, and the corners of his mouth twitched, can there be a normal person in this yamen?

However, he still intimately helped Meng Xianling send things to the back office, where Chen Xianling and his family's things have been moved, and when Meng Xianling officially took over, he and his family members moved in.

The person who was waiting, Chen Xianling, was also taken away, so Jiao Yang temporarily called a few mothers-in-law who were doing chores in the yamen to come and clean up.

Meng County Ling was stunned and returned to Gutong Village, the village chief just came back from the field, and when he saw him, he also said hello: "Hello Lord Meng." ”

The village chief is happy, and he is happy to see Meng Chengguang become the county magistrate.

First, Meng Chengguang has always been in charge of their village, and the relationship with their village is naturally different, and second, the Wen family is from Gutong Village, and Meng Chengguang became the county commander only after being exposed to the light of the county lord, so he naturally has to treat Gutong Village more preferentially.

Therefore, no matter how you look at it, Xiao Mengdang's county order is the most suitable for them.

Meng Xianling was stunned for a moment, then reacted and asked, "Village chief, do you know?" ”

The village chief nodded: "I know, Lord Chen and Wen Changbo said, and let me pick a suitable person to take over the matter you are doing now." ”

Meng Chengguang was stunned: "Then did you pick it?" ”

The village chief shook his head: "Not yet, don't worry, there are more literate people in the village now, if you want to remember something, I'll just ask them to help, and when the exam for Xiucai in the autumn comes down, I'll find a suitable one." ”

Such a good thing, if it weren't for the children in the family not fighting, the village chief would have wanted to find this errand for his children.

Although he was on an errand in the village, he was also prepared by the Yamen, and he was paid the wages of the Yamen, and the treatment was the same as the people in the Yamen, and he could stay at the door of his own house, how good it was.

Pity.

The village chief regretted this, and accompanied Meng Chengguang to hand over the work at hand, temporarily find someone to take over, and wait until he found a suitable scribe to come to the top.

In addition, Meng Chengguang's family of four also had to move to the city and live in the yamen.

When Meng Niangzi heard that her father-in-law had actually jumped from a clerk to a county magistrate, she couldn't say anything in shock.

This surprise came too suddenly.

But as soon as she heard that they had to move to the county government to live, Meng Niangzi suddenly sobered up.

"Can I not go? If you don't get along, you live there yourself? Meng Niangzi was blunt.

Meng Chengguang was very puzzled, is it not good to be a county magistrate and go to the county government to live as an official's wife? As a county magistrate, he has a lot of monthly salaries, and he can have twenty taels a month, and when the time comes, he will hire a mother-in-law and maid to take care of their mother-in-law at home, isn't it good?

"Why?" Meng County was confused.

Meng Niangzi stroked the broken hair behind her ears and said: "I'm doing a good job here, Aunt Li also gave me a salary increase, now I have a salary of three taels of silver a month, and I am not tired of doing work, the child can still go to school in the school, and the little one is also taken by the village chief's wife to help me, I ...... I don't really want to go. ”

This county lady looks quite good, but the two of them have no family background, and they have no support, and thanks to Meng Chengguang becoming this clerk, the family has a better life.

But it was only slightly better, because they had to repay the money borrowed by their in-laws when they were studying for Meng Chengguang.

The two of them have been working hard for many years, although they have also saved some money, but compared to those official wives and Kuo wives, it is too far behind.

When she enters the city, she has to socialize, and those people are used to praising the high and the low, to put it bluntly, she is going to entertain those ladies now, and she has to spend a lot of money to buy decent clothes and jewelry for the sake of face, right?

What's the difference between this and slapping a swollen face and being fat for the sake of face?

Of course, there must be people who see them living so shabby and want to throw an olive branch.

Thinking of this, Meng Niangzi suddenly became serious: "Xianggong, there is another thing, we can't be short-minded when we are poor, Lord Chen, Wen Changbo and the county lord promote you like this, you can't do anything against your conscience, it doesn't matter if you are hard at the beginning, let's save it up slowly, but you must not do the things that are corrupt and perverted and lured by others, you know?" ”

"Please rest assured, I won't, since you don't want to live in the county government for the time being, then we will continue to live here, I usually live in the yamen, and I will come back to live when I am not busy."

This Meng Chengguang still knows in his heart, he reads and writes to gain fame, that is, he enters the yamen to do things, all with the idea of being able to do practical things for the people, which has remained unchanged in the past, and now that he is a county commander, it will not change, and when he becomes a county magistrate, he can do more, and naturally he will not shoot himself in the foot at this time.