In the wing, in the face of the dignified imperial history, the lowly Sun scribe was confused and recruited all the things he knew, and the imperial history patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction, "Okay!" This official will keep the secret for you, don't be afraid, and there will be a reward after the case is closed. ,”

"Oh!" Sun Shuzhi stupidly agreed, and said in his heart to pull it down, I don't have any rewards, just ask not to drag me into the lawsuit, then thank God.

The official smiled: "Please go and invite the master to come in." ”

"Oh!" Sun Shuyi walked out stupidly again, and walked to the outside of the signing room, only then did he wake up from a big dream, and secretly asked himself why did he say everything? I wanted to slap myself, but then I felt glad again, and when I thought about it, I was still very scared, and stammered and shouted, "Master, that? The man told you to go. ”

The master walked out, looked at his newly repaired head, didn't understand what was going on, and asked, "Which one?" ”

"Just?? It's the one, the one who shaved his head. ”

"I don't shave my head, what do you want me to do?"

Scribe Sun was dizzy, and his words were not good, but he pointed to the chamber with his fingers, and squeezed out a sentence with all his strength: "That??" The one who shaves his head, oh, officer? Officials. ”

The master was confused and said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about? ”

Scribe Sun couldn't speak anymore, after all, the county magistrate was sitting in the house, just opening his mouth in a daze, and kept pointing to the wing. Probably the master felt that his face was not good-looking, and he didn't know why he was scared like this, so he simply raised his feet and went over to take a look.

Scribe Sun hurriedly slipped back into the house, and while his heart was pounding, he and Brother Wang and Brother Zhang looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

After a while, the master came out, only to see that his face was pale, and his mouth was open, trembling and trembling. It doesn't look like it's any better than Sun Shuren.

The master seemed to want to go quickly, but his legs didn't obey the call, and he couldn't go fast when he staggered, so he pulled his trouser leg with his hand, and then slapped his thigh hard, and finally walked into the signing room.

After a while, the county master came out, and the master's problem seemed to have been infected to him all at once, and the county master was also pale. With his mouth open, he couldn't walk on his legs, and repeatedly wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead with a snow-white handkerchief.

The two of them finally walked into the wing, half an hour later, the county master came out first, and then the master came out, the two of them stood at the door with their heads down, stretched out their hands in fear, and said, "My lord, please!" ”

Yushi strode out. Carrying his leather bag, he went to the back garden. The county master and the master also followed, looking very deferential.

What happened next, the officials did not know. I just saw the master keep running in and out. I don't know what I'm doing. When I came out the first time, I had a sad face, and when I came out the second time, I was already smiling.

The scribe who had been in the yamen for half his life understood what was going on at a glance. Secretly scolded, obviously the two sides have already talked about it, how much silver is counted. All that's left is to push the cup and change it.

Sure enough, as everyone expected, the back garden at night was brilliantly lit with candles, and a feast was placed, and the county's leading characters came one by one. In order to save costs, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that there would be no county in an area of less than 20 miles, and large counties similar to Shangyuan County could have many people, and the rest were elsewhere, and this county was equivalent to the executive deputy county magistrate or party secretary of later generations.

The county is under the county order, above the main book, like a sandwich biscuit, since ancient times it has been a rather embarrassing official position, like an invisible person with a position but no power, but in the Ming Dynasty, because of the strong structure of the Jinyi Weidong Factory and the like, the county gradually followed the convention, and many people had a secret mission.

The second one is the chief bookkeeper, which is roughly equivalent to the secretary general or office director of later generations, and is the lowest-level administrative officer, assisting the county order in governing government affairs, and has quite real power in his hands. Presumably, if the county magistrate wants to pay for the imperial history, he has to pay in advance from his hand or simply find an opportunity to reimburse, so he is carrying a heavy package in his hand.

The third one who came in was the grandmaster of the county, who was one of Xu Hao's childhood friends, who was familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics when he was young, and went to Liaodong to study when he was older, bringing back some "new thoughts".

The grandmaster admired Xu Hao's concept of hygiene and physical exercise, and got up every morning before dawn to practice Tai Chi in the garden, and was very opposed to spitting, saying that it was the source of all diseases. Every time he says I'm in Liaodong, everyone knows what he's going to say, and it's definitely a matter of spitting. Sure enough, he said: "Spitting is not good, this year our county will issue a notice to tell the people, spit casually against the law, and if you violate the law, you have to pay a fine." After saying that, he took out a handkerchief, spit out the phlegm on it in a very civilized manner, and then carefully wrapped it.

Then more and more people came in, the warden who was in charge of the thieves, the patrol in charge of the security and the landlords and squires who were tall and short, fat and thin, giggling and sorrowful. In principle, the section chiefs of the sixth room cannot be promoted to officials, and they are small officials for a lifetime, so they are not qualified to attend the banquet.

The group bowed to each other, or shook hands and hugged, chattered about the past, and then walked into the flower hall.

However, Mrs. Gao has not yet arrived, the banquet can not start, this Mrs. Gao is the first gold-lettered signboard in Shangyuan County, his family has been an official in the previous dynasties for several generations, and the family has thousands of hectares of fertile land, and I am a person at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. But suddenly, the world was turbulent, and the dynasty changed, and Comrade Zhu hated the eunuchs of the previous dynasty the most, not to mention that he was still a big landlord with fish and flesh, and these people were not allowed to become officials through the imperial examination.

Therefore, the old lady Gao often complained, saying that if the court allowed him to rush the exam, maybe he would be the top student in the exam. is because he is not used to anything in the Ming Dynasty, as if anything bad happened in the world is related to his failure to win the top prize.

The two sons have become quite an official, and the eldest son disdains to be greedy for ink because of the family's wealth, and he has been prosperous all the way, and now he is a waiter in the Ministry of Works. The second son also made several county orders, but only the third son, Mrs. Gao, thought that he was not angry and did not take the imperial examination as an official.

Even so, he is considered the most outstanding person in the county, young and handsome, dashing, with a lot of money and money like water. However, people can also make money, and they first went overseas to start trading, and recently opened a money bank, which is said to be making money every day.

The first thing that the county lord who goes to Shangyuan County to do is to worship the old lady Gao, and he has to rely on being a protégé before he dares to come back to take office. Therefore, no matter what banquet needs to solve political affairs, if you don't invite Old Lady Gao to come, then no one dares to order a banquet.

Of course, the most expensive in Shangyuan County now is the Xu family, but the men of the Xu family are all in the capital, and the Xu Qingtang brothers are very low-key like Xu Hao, and Xu Wen and Xu Hai will fight in the county.

Why did Mrs. Gao delay her arrival? A lot of people in the hall were weird. Suddenly, a particularly loud voice came from outside, and I knew that someone was coming. Sure enough, the sedan chair carried by four people drove straight in, and because the county lord also worshipped under his door, the sedan chair could be carried in unusually, and the two housekeepers helped the white old man out.

The county magistrate and everyone else ran out to greet him, and they all said hello: "Hello old lady!" ”

Old lady Gao also nodded to everyone with a smile, and everyone hugged him into the flower hall.

There was constant laughter inside, pushing the cup to change the lamp and guessing the order, which was very lively. Outside, the six section chiefs and a group of scribes didn't dare to go home, so they hurriedly finished eating a bowl of tea and rice, and sat silently in the house waiting, hoping that the county magistrate would summon them in.

The brother-in-law yawned and said: "According to the old rules, today is my brother-in-law's invitation, tomorrow it will probably be the old lady Gao's invitation, the day after tomorrow it will be the county lord's invitation, and the day after tomorrow it will be the joint invitation of the official gentry. Hehe! It's just a formality, and then I'll send the Cheng Yi I prepared, what kind of gift do you say this time? ”

Idle is also idle, and everyone began to discuss it. The head of the household section said: "What is worth giving anything, but you must pay attention to an elegance!" Your business is easy to do, and when Lord Yushi wants to take a horse back, I have to be responsible for Zhang Luo's series of send-off banquets, what should I eat? ”

Everyone was talking about it again, and suddenly Lao Sun asked, "Why didn't Lord Xu come back?" ”

The room was instantly quiet, yes, why didn't Xu Hao come back? It's been a whole day, where has the main one gone?

Someone said: "I probably returned to the Gongfu and went to Yunnan for a year, how can I not be happy under the knees of the old lady?" ”

"Makes sense." Everyone nodded frequently. Someone else said to Nunu inside, "If this is seen by Lord Xu, it will probably fall to the ground again, haven't you heard that Eunuch Yao was cut off by a sword?" ”

"No, it won't." Wang Lao shook his head and said: "Shangyuan County is different from other places, this is the foundation of the Xu family, and the rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest." Over the years, I have never seen the Xu family pointing fingers at our yamen, but they are polite everywhere. ”

Suddenly, the big guy was silent, and they all looked at the brother-in-law who closed his eyes intentionally or unintentionally, and secretly said that the previous county masters, which one was not conscientious? lest I offend the people and thus offend the Xu family, only this county master is amazing, not only does he not care about anything, but he has long hands, do you really think that the villagers can't let people do it?

The imperial history in the eighty percent is taken care of by the Xu family, but unfortunately, this guy is not a good bird! Wait, I don't know how the Xu family will react to this, if you don't think about the villagers, it's okay, if you read it, hehe!

At the same time, in Qianshoutang, the old lady chanted to her children and grandchildren: "The fallen leaves return to the roots, I often miss our family's old house recently, when will I go back to live for a while?" ”

Xiao Shi hurriedly said: "You can go back whenever you want, or let's leave tomorrow?" ”

The old lady shook his head and said: "With such a big family, you have to do everything to mobilize the people, forget it." Don't spend money on repairing the house and buying things for me, and don't go back. ”

Xu Hao looked at the old man, who was over seventy years old, and didn't know how many years he would live, he only hoped that God would bless him and live to be eighty or ninety years old.

It's a pity that things often backfire, and in the past year, the old lady's health has deteriorated, and there are probably not many days left. (To be continued!)

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