In fact, Ji Yuan doesn't need to find any house, there is only one with an open door in the corridor on the left, and it is the house with the word "household" written on it.

It is already November, and in about twenty days it will be Chinese New Year's Eve, and when the end of the year is approaching, the county yamen also has a lot of things to be busy with.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

Ji Yuan knocked on the door frame a few times, attracting the attention of the people inside, and then bowed his hand.

"Lord Bookkeeper, I am planning to pick up the letter from the post. ”

The person inside stopped his pen and looked at the fate carefully before bowing back.

"Sir, please come in!"

Entering the room, Ji Yuan looked at the main book, about thirty years old, wearing a square crown with a short beard and a short bun, the details were not clear but the appearance of the body was quite clear.

"Dare to ask Mr. Can I bring the household registration papers?"

"I've brought it, so please take a look at it. ”

Ji Yuan took out the official seal document again and handed it to the master bookkeeper, who nodded after reading it, confirmed the strokes of the word "Ji Yuan", and then handed it back to Ji Yuan.

"Sir, wait a minute, I'll check where your things are. ”

Dazhen's post office generally only accepts letters to the people, but if the money is enough, small items and other things will also be sent by the way, so the master book does not know if there is anything else.

I found a few booklets from the side, and after rummaging through them, I found the books of Tianniufang, and then turned over the pages one by one, and it took some time to finally find Ji Yuan.

There are names in the book, most of them are ticked behind, and they are not ticked at a glance, and they appear many times, but the main book does not need to find every name, because the same person's letter will be placed in one place, and if you find one, you can take it all, and he only needs to tick it all afterwards.

After seeing that there was indeed a letter and that it was in the storeroom, the master bookkeeper wrote a note on the table and stamped it with his own private seal.

"Whirring ......"

The master bookkeeper blew the ink on the slip of paper, and then handed it to Ji Yuan.

"Take it and go inside, give it to the official at the door, and he will lead you to the storeroom, be careful, the ink is not dry. ”

"Okay, thank you, Lord Bookkeeper!"

Ji Yuan gave up his hand again, carefully took the note, and then walked out of the house, and when he looked back, the master book had already buried the case again to deal with the paperwork.

In the end, it is out of Yin Zhaoxian's place, and the former magistrate of Ning'an County is also clean and clean, and under the good atmosphere and pride, the public servants of Ning'an County who handle government affairs are all conscientious.

Half a quarter of an hour later, in the county treasury, Ji Yuan was waiting outside, and it took him a long time to turn over Ji Yuan's things.

"Huo, it's a lot!"

Holding a bundle of letters, patting the dust on them as he walked, Ji Yuan saw that the letters in his hand were as thick as a palm's width, not to mention dozens of letters.

Depressed walked outside, untied the thin rope that tied the letter tightly, flipped through it at will, and confirmed that it was all for "Ji Yuan", and then handed it to Ji Yuan, who had been waiting for a long time.

"Sir has been waiting for a long time, here, this is all your letters, and there should be nothing else. ”

"Thank you!"

Ji Yuan held the stack of letters with both hands, thanked him, and waited for the other party to relock the door before going out with him.

"Sir, you have a lot of letters, how long has it been since you came to get them?"

Each fang has a different errand in charge, if there is a letter will go to the house to see, no one will call back to the county office, this official view of some letter paper envelope color, know a lot of letters have been years.

When sending a letter, it is normal for people from not too bad families to give two copper coins or ask for something to eat, and it is also the income of the county government to acquiesce in it.

Hearing this official say this, Ji Yuan smiled.

"yes, I've been out there for a long time. ”

The two didn't talk much, and when they arrived at the outer entrance, Ji Yuan left alone, and when he left the door of the public office, he bowed to the messenger before.

At the entrance of the inner courtyard of the public office, the messenger stood still for a long time, and was chatting with his colleagues on the side, when he was patted on the shoulder, turned to look, and saw a sturdy man with gray hair.

The two officers hurriedly bowed and saluted, and said in unison.

"I've seen Master Zhu!"

"Hmm!"

The person who came was Zhu Yanxu, the county lieutenant of Ning'an County, who was different from the previous county commander Chen Gao, Zhu Yanxu is now old, but the current county commander feels his virtue and knows his martial arts, so he asked Zhu Yanxu to be the head of the regimental training and help train the official errand.

Zhu Yanxu frowned and looked in the direction outside, then looked at the official beside him and asked.

"I looked a little kind to that person just now, he came to pick up the letter, what is it called?"

"Back to Lord Zhu's words, that person did come to receive the letter, called 'Ji Yuan', it is a plan for strategy, the fate of fate, it is also strange to say, the letter is thick, many of them are very old...... Uh, Lord Zhu, Lord Zhu?"

The official said and said, and found that the old man Zhu Yanxu was actually stunned and looked outside in a daze, although this adult is old, but his martial arts are recognized as the first in Ning'an County, and his body is tough and his hands are harder, it is impossible to be guilty of dementia.

"Lord Zhu, Lord Zhu!"

"Ahhh

Zhu Yanxu said absentmindedly, and then hurriedly walked outside, and the two servants hurriedly saluted, but then they also looked at each other.

"This fate is very familiar with Lord Zhu?"

"I don't know......"

Zhu Yanxu is old but still neat, and soon except for the door of the office, he looked towards the street, except for the bustle, he didn't see Ji Yuan's figure.

His face was in a trance, and he muttered to himself.

"Fate...... It's really fate! It's still like that, it hasn't changed at all!"

In the past, when Ji Yuan's name was in his prime, there were people who guessed his age when he was idle in the county office, because of his conversation and demeanor and his elegant face, most people guessed that he should be in his forties, but he didn't look old, anyway, no one thought that Ji Yuan was very young, at least definitely older than Yin Zhaoxian.

Today, Zhu Yanxu is still the same as when he sees Ji Yuan again, and some rumors about Ji Yuan many years ago have also come to mind again.

Sometimes people are very forgetful, in addition to things that are closely related to themselves, many things will be inadvertently forgotten, and people who are closely related to Ji Yuan are not many in Ning'an County, plus the passage of time, now remember Ji Yuan can be few, not to mention whether this part of the people can bump into Ji Yuan.

But as long as I remember it, I am deeply impressed, just like Zhu Yanxu now.

Zhu Yanxu stood in place for a long time, and when the two officials guarding the gate in the back were about to step forward to ask a question, he gritted his teeth and left quickly, causing the two behind to look at each other.

Zhu Yanxu is a martial artist in the end, he is old but his martial arts are there, and his feet are fast, and he returned home after a while, and began to rummage through boxes and cabinets.

An old woman came in from the courtyard and felt strange when she saw her husband like this.

"What are you looking for, old man?"

Zhu Yanxu kept his hands on him, and he was still busy asking.

"Oh yes, have you seen my Fang Bao Yan?"

"What Baoyan, isn't the bird's nest stewed for our daughter-in-law!"

Zhu Yanxu frowned and turned around.

"What kind of bird's nest, I said it's an inkstone, Yunshui Liumo inkstone, it was given to me when Lord Chen left!"

The old woman smiled.

"You are a martial artist, of course you can't use that kind of thing often, and you don't have it in the study?"

"Hey, if there was one, I would look everywhere?"

"Then ask your son!"

Zhu Yanxu's home is not small, divided into two courtyards, but there is no one under him, hearing his wife's words, he hurried to the front yard, and happened to see his son coming back from the county office, and suddenly saw his father flash in front of him before he changed his clothes and saber, and Zhu Cheng, who was startled, almost drew a knife.

"Dad, you're going to scare people to death!"

Zhu Cheng patted his chest, but his father was in no mood to joke with him.

"What about my inkstone, Master Chen gave it to me back then!"

Zhu Cheng immediately felt weak and hesitated.

"I see you, you don't need it, Yuqiu came to our house to see your inkstone, begged me several times to borrow it, I ......"

"Little bastard!"

Zhu Yanxu scolded, and in the blink of an eye, he was gone.

In the afternoon, Zhu Yanxu had already carried the inkstone rewrapped in a sandalwood box, as well as a few bags of good tea, two pots of Huadiao wine and a few boxes of snacks from the outer building of the temple, and walked quickly to the location of Tianniufang with these.

He didn't come here often, so he found several people and asked for directions before he found Ju'an Xiaoge.

At the beginning, Ning'an County, especially Tianniufang, was secretive about the murderous house of Anxiaoge, and now few people in Tianniufang remember this stubble, and the younger one only said that "the deserted house where the jujube tree never blossoms and bears fruit".

The closer he got to the small pavilion of Ju'an, Zhu Yanxu, who was in his old age, actually began to get nervous, and finally arrived not far from the front of the courtyard, and saw that the courtyard door was half open, and he had not yet walked to the courtyard gate, so he looked up and subconsciously wanted to confirm it, but he didn't see the plaque of the small pavilion.

"It's Lord Zhu, please come in!"

Ji Yuanzhong's peaceful voice came from inside, and it was clear that Zhu Yanxu hadn't walked to the door yet, and it was impossible for him to be seen by the people inside, but since it was Ji Yuan, it was nothing strange.

Zhu Yanxu eased his mind, hurriedly walked to the door of the small pavilion, pushed open the courtyard door and walked in, and saw that on the stone table inside, the plaque was placed horizontally, and Ji Yuan was standing at the table, fiddling with pen and ink.

Ji Yuan looked up at Zhu Yanxu and said with a smile.

"Lord Zhu, please come and sit, this plaque in the small pavilion has been too long, and the vermilion paint has almost fallen, and it just so happens that Ji is still a little confident in writing, so I thought about writing it myself. ”

"Oh, I see, by the way, Mr. Ji, since you want to write, try my inkstone, this inkstone has a beginning, the name is Yunshui Liumo inkstone, it is made by a skilled master in my early years in Ning'an County, and it is also a cherished material, it was given to me by Chen County, I am a rough person who uses it too wasteful, so I will bring it to Mr. Ji, oh, and these, they are all small gifts, it's almost the New Year, and I just came to see him and bring something......"

Ji Yuan nodded.

"Lord Zhu, please sit down, put the things aside first, this inkstone was given to you by Lord Chen, and Ji is not easy to receive, but I will accept the others." ”

"Uh, oh!"

Zhu Yanxu was a little nervous, and wanted to put things on the table, but the plaque was there, so he put it on the table first, watching Ji Yuan carefully study the ink there, and a faint smell of ink wafted out.

Even if Zhu Yanxu is a martial artist, he instantly understands that this is the best ink.

(End of chapter)