Not far out of the valley, I saw two ox carts loaded with alfalfa slowly approaching. When the car approached, Gao Jun followed Liu Wu's teaching, looking at the mixture of alfalfa and bad on the ox cart, with a lot of barnyard grass, and even thinking that it was mixed with snow a few days ago, and there were signs of decay, and he couldn't help but shake his head secretly. Liu Wu said, "There is no other way to sort this kind of grass than to manually pick it, otherwise if the horse eats it, it will get sick." ”

"Do we harvest such grass too?" Gao Jun asked.

"This is that the current official is not as good as the current management, and the lowly post also said that the Wantuan official, but he has the support of Yue Mu Supervisor, and he always agrees more, what should he do in the future, what will he do. If you talk too much, you will slap me in the face, what can I do. ”

"Doesn't Pastor Yue understand this?"

"Hmph, it's not the lower official chewing his tongue behind his back, what Yue Mujian did was to change the "grass inspection room" to "grass picking room", hehe, one word is worse. However, the labor used is several times more than before, and the Wantuan officials still collect how they should collect when they go outside, and they don't know how to converge at all. ”

Gao Junxin said, it seems that this Wantuan official is not just lazy and slack, if he is lazy, there are easy errands in the pasture, and Pastor Yue can arrange for him, he is so blatantly generous to the ranch, there must be a chain of hooks between his brother-in-law and brother-in-law. "Take me to a grass harvesting spot." Gao Jun decided.

"Lord Hui, there used to be six or seven grass harvesting points, but now there is only one grass harvesting point left," Liu Wu said, "In the past, there were six or seven grass merchants who could compete, and they specialized in collecting scattered grass from each village and selling it to pastures, but now there is only one grass merchant left for Liuzhong Mu, which has also become a rhetoric for Wanshiju's indiscriminate purchase." ”

Gao Jun looked at Liu Mujian, Liu Mujian spread his hands, didn't speak again, they went against the way of the grass cart, and walked about thirty miles to the northeast, Liu Wu said, "It's in front, and it happens to be the village where my family is located." ”

Gao Jun thought that he would just take the time to go to Liu Wu's house to have a look. When the three of them approached, they saw that the village was very large, with straw deliverers from all over the country bustling, the houses in the village were scattered, and there were four or five restaurants and restaurants along the street, which was even bigger than a medium-sized town. In a large yard at the entrance of the village, stacks of grass were piled up, and two large poles were being used to collect and weigh the grass, and the yard was loading carts.

A person held the account book in his hand, and shouted after reading the scale, "Magui grass two loads, set the second class, remember the money and three papers-" Gao Jun saw that the grass was in good condition, but he was given the second class, and then he came to a car, which was obviously not as good as the Ma Gui grass, but the man didn't look at it, and shouted directly to the first class, and his heart couldn't help but be angry, and he asked a little angrily, "Who is this miscellaneous piece?" ”

Liu Wu and Feng Zheng were also very strange, shook their heads and said, "It stands to reason that such a major matter as harvesting grass should have been done by the people in the pasture, but I don't know him." Gao Jun's words were just heard by the person who held the account book, tilted his head to look at the three people, and said a little arrogantly, "Who is howling over there, is it tired and crooked?" "This man was born white and pure, but when he opened his mouth, he was very choking.

Feng Zheng saw that there were many people on the other side, and there were only three of them, and they were micro-suited, so he didn't want to cause trouble, so he hugged his fists and said to this person, "This brother, we are grass merchants from other places, and we have also collected some grass, so come and have a look first." ”

"Where's the grass? Where is it? Look at your nonsense, set a third class. ”

"We don't want to hand over our grass here, we want to send it directly to the pasture, this time it's just to see the market." Gao Jun said.

When the man heard this, his eyes narrowed, "I don't think you are a grass merchant at all, you are here to find fault with Uncle Jia, brothers, come out." As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen people rushed out of nowhere, all of them raised their eyebrows, carrying pitchforks, weighing stones, and wooden sticks in their hands, and surrounded the three of them at once. If it comes to fighting, Gao Jun is not afraid at all, these people are tied together is not enough for him to finger, but if the former Gao Mu Supervisor, who was a little weak, can fight suddenly, he is not very easy to explain in front of Liu and Feng, so he held back his anger and said, "You should also be a ranch manager, so there is no distinction between good and bad, and you are not afraid that we will sue Wantuan Guan?" ”

"Ho! You still know Wantuan Guan, brother, you don't inquire, what is the relationship between Liu Zhongmu's Wan Tuan Guan and our Jia family, you want to find Wan Tuan Guan? Isn't it? Tell you, Wantuan Guan is drinking with my father in the village, if you have the guts, you can go. ”

Gao Jun didn't entangle with this group, pulled the two of them on their horses and walked towards the village, and the man behind him said, "Boy, tell you, Wantuan Guan is riding a black horse, a bright silver stirrup, don't find it-" burst into laughter. Gao Jun and the three of them didn't pay attention to it, and walked towards the village, and there was a noisy sound of guessing the boxing order in a tavern on the side of the road.

He looked at the most lively tavern, and there was no black horse with silver stirrups at the head of the door, and Feng Zheng also said, "Wan Tuanguan's horse is indeed not there." They pretended to want to eat, and when they went in, they saw that there were indeed two tables in the innermost part, surrounded by a dozen people, one table was empty, and there was one sitting next to it, Liu Wu whispered that it was a recorder in the Liuzhong pasture, surnamed Wang; At the other table were a few shepherds and laborers from the pasture. It looks like the wine is almost drunk. I thought that the empty seat was Wan Tuanguan's, but now I don't know where I went.

The three of them sat down, each ordered a meal, and didn't ask for wine, and sat down to eat, without attracting attention, thinking about waiting for this Wantuan official to come back, Gao Jun hadn't seen Wantuan Guan since he came back from Xizhou, and he couldn't find any memory of Wantuan Guan for a while. The group of people was already half-drunk, and their words were incoherent, and one of the old men who accompanied the old man was full of fat brains, and suddenly asked, "Tuan...... What do you ...... about the official? Why haven't you come back," one person answered, "Master Jia, you don't know that the regimental officer has a good friend in this village, I'm afraid he won't come back." A table of people laughed maliciously.

There was a heartbeat that went over and slapped the record in the mouth twice to get angry, and when he thought about it, he forcibly suppressed his anger, and after seeing that the two of them had eaten, Gao Jun brought it out, and said in his heart to go back and settle the account!

As soon as I got out of the store and went to the street, suddenly a lot of people came from the entrance of the village, hugging four black-clothed officials, and the person who held the account book just now saw Gao Jun and the three of them at a glance, and said to the officials, "Liu Zhutou, a few poor brothers, they are them, they have nothing to do and disturb the peace." That Liu Zhutou waved his hand, and the other three came over with iron chains, and couldn't help but put a set around the necks of the three people, and said, "Let's go to Jiaohe County with the master...... Dare to go against Master Jia, I see that you are impatient! ”

I couldn't help but say that I put the people on the horses that Gao Jun and they were riding, and pulled them up and left. Feng Zheng wanted to reveal his identity, so he shouted at them, "Bad officer, you are mistaken, this is our Liu Zhongmu's senior pastoral supervisor......

Without waiting for the official to speak, the white man came up and asked, "Which one is the high pastoral supervisor?" You are? He looked at Gao Jun's dress, "The shepherd is a buddy, so you, the shopkeeper, are the shepherds?" After that, Leng Buding raised his foot and kicked on Gao Jun's leg and said, "I'm still a pastor of Jia!" Grandma, if you are a high pastoral supervisor, why don't the officials of the Wan Tuan invite you to a few drinks? ”

"Take it away, and treat it well at the county office!"

There is a way that the people do not fight with the officials, and at the moment, the three of them are dressed as civilians, and it is not easy to come hard. Liu and Feng were very uneasy in their hearts, but when they saw Gao Jun's casual appearance, they didn't care, and they were only at the mercy of the other party, so they didn't resist. Jiaohe County Ya is not far away, and it will be there in a short time, Liu Zhutou took the three of them to a room, Gao Jun carefully looked at this room, except for a large wooden table, there was nothing else, and there was a thick cotton curtain on the window. The head catcher glanced at a few people, and someone went over and tightened the curtains, the curtains seemed to be customized, and the room immediately darkened.

"Boy! Look at anything, stand with your face facing the wall, don't move, if you move, you may not have your hands in your hands, I don't know where I will be beaten. The men came over with a smile, one holding a whistle stick in his hand.

As soon as Liu Zhutou went out, he pulled the door casually, and when the door was closed tightly, the room was pitch black.

Liu Wu and Feng Zheng never imagined that they would fall to this point, they were secretly afraid, they only felt that as soon as the room was dark, they were pulled by a hand, and they involuntarily followed the footsteps, their heads were pressed, and they squatted in a corner, listening to the whisper of the high pastoral supervisor in their ears, "Squatting and don't move." After speaking, the two of them suddenly felt a light breeze on their cheeks, and then, they heard the sound of ping-pong beating meat in the room, and the sound of "oops" was endless, and someone said, "Why did you beat me, oops...... Ah...... Don't fight! …… Oops,......"

After a while, the room was quiet, only the moaning of a few people was heard, and there was a light wind, or the high pastoral supervisor whispered, "Let go out and go out again", and then I heard the door ring, and the house lit up. Liu Zhutou listened outside to the end of the fight, pushed the door and came in to take a look, stunned there, his mouth wide open.

Liu Wu and Feng Zheng also saw those officials lying on the ground crookedly, with blue noses and swollen faces, and blood coming from their mouths and noses. Very puzzled, he turned his head to look at Mr. Gao, only to see Mr. Gao with his head down, looking honest, squatting beside him. "What's going on? You useless things, get out of here first! Liu Zhutou roared angrily.

A few people were beaten and didn't know what was going on, as soon as it was dark in the house, the whistle stick in his hand was taken away, and then the stick rained down on his body without a head or face, Liu Zhutou saw three people squatting under the table, and said angrily, "Whoever asked you to squat there, give me out!" ”

The three of them crawled out from under the table as if nothing happened, and Gao Jun said, "Didn't you let you squat here?" I said that a few bad officials have good intentions, and they are afraid of hitting us...... Excuse me, I don't know what kind of business you have. ”

The head catcher was so angry that he couldn't say a word, obviously his brother was the way of this group, but it was too embarrassing to say it, and said, "Wait until I go to Lord Yuming to deal with you!" "There was a commotion here, and the head catcher saw Liu Wencheng, the county magistrate of Jiaohe County, who was accompanying a person over, and Liu County Ling also heard the movement in the house here, stopped and asked, "Head catcher, what's going on?" ”

"Back to my lord, we just arrested a few troublemakers who disturbed the law and order at Master Jia's side, and just brought them back."

Liu Xianling said to the person next to him, "Lord Zhao, Jia Fugui, a grass merchant in this county, has always been enthusiastic about animal husbandry, not only to supply grass for Jiaohe pasture, but also to supply Liu Zhongmu, has always been enthusiastic about public welfare, admirable!" For those who maliciously make trouble, the county ordered Liu to arrest the head and investigate all of them, and never spared them. ”

Just listen to the other person say, "Oh? Liu Zhongmu ...... I have a friend in Liuzhongmu, I wonder if Lord Liu knows? This person is Liu Zhongmu's deputy supervisor - Gao Jun. So saying, the two of them went into the house.

Gao Jun looked at it and felt that one of them was familiar, thinking of "Lord Zhao", his heart lit up, and he said, "Lord Changshi, the lower officials are here, and they are worried." "It was Shi Zhaozhen, the governor of the West who came in, and Gao Jun had a drink together when he was at Guo Dudu's. Zhao Zhen and Gao Jun are really only one-sided friends, and at this time, Gao Jun is not wearing an official robe, so he was stunned for a moment before he suddenly said, "Master Gao...... Brother Gao, just talking about you, why are you here? ”

Since the last time he drank wine, Zhao Zhen has connected Liu Zhongmu and Gao Jun together. As an official who is at the top of the fifth rank, he may not remember that Liu Zhong Muyue Qinghe, the pastoral supervisor who is from the sixth rank, is five or six levels apart. But he remembers this senior deputy pastor very well, just because Gao Shepherd is a person who is valued by Guo Xiaoke, the governor of Xizhou. Therefore, Lord Zhao said to Jiaohe County that he was friends with Gao Jun, intending to show that he was also close to Gao Jun. Zhao Zhen asked, "Yesterday I heard Gao Dudu talk about you, I don't know how you got here, brother?" ”

"You ask Liu Zhutou, I took two of my subordinates to just inspect the purchase of pasture, and the head catcher said that I disturbed the public order and hindered the affairs of Master Jia in your county, and was locked here by Liu Zhutou and others, and they beat each other for a while just now, giving me a good dismount."

Liu Xianling has been in the officialdom for a long time, and immediately knew that it was an oolong, and said busily, "Where did this come from, the water washed ......" Gao Jun interrupted Liu County's words and said, "My lord, don't say it, the lower officials don't dare to be big, and now they have committed something, just wait for the adults and the head catcher to find out the fate as soon as possible, and let me go back." Liu Xianling's face seemed to have been beaten, and he yelled at Liu Zhutou with a purple face, "You are a mess!" If Lord Zhao says a few more words to Guo Dudu, the county will almost dig a pit and jump down, you will hurt me! ”

Liu Zhutou squeaked and couldn't speak, and he didn't know where the north was, but he just said, "Jia Gongzi said ......", Liu County Ling roared, "his Jia Gongzi!" You think I don't know what he is! ”

Gao Jun continued, yes, yes, it is this Jia Gongzi, the official remembered, my subordinates also told him at the time, and also revealed the identity of the official, who knew that he said, "You are the high pastoral supervisor?" Then I'm still Pastor Jia! "May I ask Lord Liu, this Jia Mu Supervisor is Jiaohe Mu? I am going to meet this colleague.

Liu Xianling saw that this tall man didn't think things were messy, he kept arching the fire, and he really lost his face in front of Lord Zhao, and shouted at Liu Zhutou, "Damn, you are deaf!" Tall asked that rabbit cub to come over immediately! While brazenly apologizing to Gao Jun. When Liu Zhu's avatar encountered the amnesty, he slipped away, and in just a moment, he brought the fair-skinned Jia Gongzi in.

Gao Jun hurriedly got up and slammed Jia Gongzi to the ground, "Pastor Jia, it's polite here!" That Jia Gongzi had already been told clearly by Liu Zhutou 1510 along the way, and he didn't dare to speak at the moment, just knelt on the ground and kowtowed.