Chapter 200: 207. Arranging Future Affairs and Visitors from Luoyang

207. Arranging Future Affairs and Visitors from Luoyang

The long-term officials and government office runners of the Longcheng County government office discovered that a certain young magistrate had become much easier to talk to recently.

Even when he caught County Assistant Diao dozing off on the spot yesterday morning, he didn't say anything, just walked away silently with his hands behind his back, only joking with the old county assistant afterward and punishing him with a small salary deduction.

These changes seemed to have started after he recovered from his cold and returned to the government office.

In addition, the Magistrate seems to have some leisure and elegance for sightseeing in the past two days.

But he was not like those Confucian scholars and magistrates in the past, holding elegant gatherings and literary meetings with public funds, and summoning literati and elegant scholars to dance with ink at scenic spots.

Instead, he took his entourage and officials, in the name of inspecting the people's feelings, from the upper reaches of Butterfly Creek to the sandbar at the mouth of the Yangtze River at the farthest downstream.

Relying only on a pair of legs, he walked silently along Butterfly Creek, visiting places like the Di Gong Gate, Zhe Yiqu, Little Gu Mountain, and Big Gu Mountain, and even went to some remote villages and villages in the mountains. The Magistrate visited them all, and finally walked around the entire Longcheng County territory.

Looking left and right along the way, he spoke very little, and then returned to Luming Street silently.

Some officials in the county government office couldn't help but guess whether this Magistrate, who loved to toss and turn and was always unexpected, had any new policies to promulgate.

But after a walk, returning to the Longcheng County government office, the young magistrate settled down again, going to work and getting off work as usual.

It should have been a long parting, but Ye Weilai was exceptionally silent. "What are you doing?"

"Good." Liu Ashan raised her small face, couldn't help but puff out her small chest and asked: "When I reach 100 catties, how do I tell Tanlang? Can I write him a letter?"

He slowly raised his face, looked at the sunny door, frowned and whispered: Liu Ashan shook her head, then nodded, not knowing what she was answering. "Oh."

"Ashan."

Finally, she buried her face, and her soft, glutinous voice was stuttering: "Good... Tanlang... sleep... sleep."

Walking into the main hall, Ye Weilai took off his hat, drank cold tea, stared at the "Upright and Bright" plaque directly below the main hall, and whispered:

"What are people from the palace doing here?"

Approaching noon, he put down his brush and twisted his left wrist with his right palm. But after a while, the Ye Weilai who proposed "sleeping" suddenly spoke: The next day.

"These books, it's too troublesome for Weilai to take them back, so just give them to Su Xiaolang, encouraging him to study hard. After all, it's a gift from the youngest Metropolitan Graduate and top scholar of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Well, don't be polite."

Ye Weilai joked to himself, took the remaining salary, and left to go home.

He saw several officials rushing to the front of the official desk. The leading County Assistant Diao tripped over his left foot with his right foot, fell heavily, and fell to the ground. Before he could get up, he hurriedly straightened his hat and reported:

"That Liu family has been dismantled by you into this appearance, and the public trial of the whole county has swept away their prestige among the people. There are still the junior sister and Balang behind us grinding their knives."

But he only wrote halfway when a burst of hurried footsteps came from the main hall of the county government office.

"Ashan."

In the courtyard, after saying goodbye to the little girl and others with laughter, Ye Weilai looked at the white-haired maid who was leaning against the door of the room, quiet and quiet.

Ye Weilai pushed a thick stack of neat envelopes toward the little girl, instructing: Not long after, the fire in the room was extinguished, and they went to bed.

But the white-haired maid's timid, well-behaved, and hard-working performance did not shake someone's firm attitude in the slightest.

Liu Ashan nodded busily, stuffing the two coins tied with red thread back into her chest. This was the "goal" originally given to her by Geng Yanwei, and she had a goal again.

Take the letter and leave.

The atmosphere in the house became more and more silent.

Tonight's dinner also ended in the tacit silence of the two. "Good."

These letters were sent to the original body's same-year good friends and teachers. As long as he remembered the names and addresses, he sent a letter to each of them.

Ye Weilai reached into his bosom, took out the small cloth bag that was more than half deflated, and pointed to the salary rice and other items, signaling Liu Ashan and the maids to put them away.

"Here, sir."

Like Ye Weilai, it was unexpected that he would start personnel adjustments so long after taking office, and come up with a set of regular three-board axes. This point instead made everyone in the county government office feel surprised.

"I mean, ask for leave to send you back to Nanlong, but only to ensure your safety on the road. When you arrive, I will turn around and leave."

"I am 80 catties."

Liu Ashan followed with a group of maids, surrounding and serving. The little girl seemed to be counting her fingers in the quilt, and her serious voice came:

This evening, Ye Weilai and Geng Yanwei had only said single-digit words until now, all of which were daily questions and answers. This was the first time Liu Ashan had taken the initiative to speak in these two days.

"Only a dilapidated sword shop is left, and half of the craftsmen in the sword shop have been dug up by me and included in the county government's industrial register in the name of repairing the gate. This Liu Zian didn't stop smiling when he saw me today, and didn't mention this at all."

Geng Yanwei finished bathing and came to the study. He had many more Daoist scriptures, Buddhist classics, and books written by metaphysical hermits on his desk recently.

Geng Yanwei also noticed that the little girl used "I," and didn't use humble terms like "slave." "Send them all out."

This was the recruitment of Geng Yanwei and other young and strong men of the militia team into the county government office, and a new Cao department was established in the government office to prevent floods and provide disaster relief and help the people, which was considered an expansion.

I, who had been busy in Longcheng for so long, took the salary of a "Grade 1 civil servant" of the Great Zhou Dynasty and mocked myself in bitterness.

Ye Weilai turned his head vigilantly, leaned back slightly, and looked disgusted:

Liu Ashan, wearing a thin nightgown, held an oil lamp in both hands and entered the room silently. Her big eyes with blue pupils were slightly swollen and red. She quietly looked at Ye Weilai's busy figure by the desk, lowered her head and walked to the outer room, put down the lamp, and spread the quilt to warm the bed.

She raised her big hand, the back of her hand seemed to be ready to wipe her eyes, but stopped halfway, changed to scratching her nose indiscriminately, lowered her head and said "Oh," and didn't speak again.

"If I send you all the way there, will you feel better?"

He was silent for a long while:

He went to inspect the Zhe Yiqu side again this afternoon.

"By the way, am I too much? I don't hit a smiling face with my hand... Forget it, I hit a smiling face."

Ye Weilai washed his hands and went to eat dinner. There was no sound in the room.

"Parting should not be so sad like this, so, can you stop crying secretly?"

Generally speaking, in the various states and counties of the Great Zhou Dynasty, local officials such as county magistrates would bring some trusted aides into the government office upon taking office, arrange positions, and come up with a set of three-board axes to streamline or expand the team.

"Good, good, good!"

Hearing the wrong word again, and hearing him say "dirty" in a bad mood, the little girl's shoulders trembled. Ye Weilai leaned against the back of the chair and let out a long sigh.

"It's the age to grow, eat more, 100 catties is normal." "..."

These were to be taken back to the Zhen clan and the Nanlong Ouyang clan, although they were not worth much money. A certain bulging "big quilt" suddenly said.

The little girl wanted to say something but stopped, but someone who didn't like "using public office for private gain" had already got up and left. "Good fellow, not much money, you kid is addicted to it, right?"

"This is the cost of renting a boat, you take it and distribute it to the boatmen."

Liu Ashan handed out two coins foolishly and asked softly: "Do you want it?"

The big quilt bulging on the side of him was a ball, and I didn't know what kind of sleeping posture it was.

The salary silver was not much, all on the table. The salary rice and the harvest of the allocated official fields were all in the booklet, and you could take them with this.

Ye Weilai held the teacup, stood for a while, and nodded gently.

Ye Weilai's hand holding the pen paused, and the thick ink gathered into a small ink ball on the paper.

These were borrowed from Donglin Temple and the homes of some scholars and gentry in the county. They were just for show, and there was no intention to read them.

However, the officials in the county government office were not surprised by this. This kind of thing was within the scope of the Longcheng County Magistrate's authority, and the Magistrate had asked Jiangzhou for instructions according to the process. The procedures were reasonable and compliant, and there was nothing to say.

The only movement that attracted everyone's attention was just caring about and asking about the progress of the Zhe Yiqu that was about to be completed, and routinely summoning some grain merchants and gentry who invested in Zhe Yiqu in the main hall of the county government office to discuss future planning and some detailed changes.

Ye Weilai muttered to himself, lost in thought for a moment, and then picked up his pen to write again.

These were borrowed from Donglin Temple and the homes of some scholars and gentry in the county. They were just for show, and there was no intention to read them.

However, the officials in the county government office were not surprised by this. This kind of thing was within the scope of the Longcheng County Magistrate's authority, and the Magistrate had asked Jiangzhou for instructions according to the process. The procedures were reasonable and compliant, and there was nothing to say.

However, for this matter, everyone in the county government office was not surprised. This kind of thing was within the scope of the Longcheng County Magistrate's authority, and the Magistrate had asked Jiangzhou for instructions according to the process. The procedures were reasonable and compliant, and there was nothing to say.

The only movement that attracted everyone's attention was just caring about and asking about the progress of the Zhe Yiqu that was about to be completed, and routinely summoning some grain merchants and gentry who invested in Zhe Yiqu in the main hall of the county government office to discuss future planning and some detailed changes.

In these two days, he was checking for omissions, seeing if there was anything missing. After a walk, he found that there was really nothing he had to stay and do personally.

The sunset in the evening pulled the shadow of the official desk in the main hall very long, and so did the shadow of a certain young magistrate at the door.

"I mean, I don't bite, I don't want it, I want it, but keep it with you, keep it for me." Geng Yanwei lay down again, closed his eyes and said: "You grow up first and then talk."

He raised his hand to weigh the small cloth bag, pondered for a moment, took out a few strings of copper coins, and lined them up on the table in a calculating manner.

The officials of the Household Department retreated, and in the spacious county government hall, only the sitting figure of Ye Weilai at the head and behind the official desk remained.

"What?" In the darkness, the Ye Weilai who closed his eyes turned his head slightly toward her direction. Ye Weilai reacted keenly, his voice softened:

Half an hour later.

The little girl nodded, "Okay, sir."

Behind the desk, Ye Weilai, who was in black underwear after bathing, turned his head to look at the books and ink treasures piled up on the bookshelf, lowered his head and thought for a while, he got up and stepped forward, packing up those books.

In the darkness, Ye Weilai looked at the desk direction silently. There was a bronze mask there, it seemed to be useful...

The official of the Household Department was stunned.

Besides that, if you have to say what other big moves there are.

"It's hard to be an official, wanting to collect local specialties and earn extra money. Even a Grade 1 official has no surplus food." On the dining table, there was only the sound of chopsticks hitting porcelain bowls and plates, and no one spoke.

However, today, his official desk was full of stacks of envelopes.

"Magistrate, Magistrate, it's bad, people from Luojing are here! And people from the palace, it seems to be a colored-clothing female official beside the Empress!"

This was the salary of Ye Weilai's Grade 1 official status, divided into salary silver, Gengyan, and some allocated official fields. Geng Yanwei withdrew his hand, thought for a while, and said seriously:

"When Tanlang bought me home, I was 30 catties, now I am 40 catties." She said. There was a slight "clucking" sound of metal grinding teeth.

In the evening, Ye Weilai returned to the Longcheng County government office as usual.

He first went to the Household Department to redeem the salary rice, and with the little girl and others, carried it back to Meilu Garden together.

Originally, Ye Weilai, who had a bit of parting melancholy, was directly amused. He got up suddenly, lifted the big quilt on the side, and rubbed the furry silver-haired big head hard, very speechless:

A moment later, he ordered the little girl at the door without looking back, and then a long-term official of the county government Household Department was summoned,

In the darkness, the little girl seemed to tilt her head and was stunned for a while.

"Sleep."

Ye Weilai remembered that at that time, the little girl was locked in an iron cage, and he used millet to redeem her. She came out of the cage and weighed the same as seven dou of millet, which was 30 catties.

The little girl has a good appetite.

Ye Weilai didn't know that his every move was so watched by his subordinates and colleagues. Even if he knew, he wouldn't care too much.

Ye Weilai lowered his head to check, sighed and shook his head:

The two went to sleep again.

"This Liu Zian, looking really honest, the investment in Zhe Yiqu promised is not a cent short, and even posted a lot, he is a good law-abiding citizen. If he is pretending to be a grandson, this is too good at pretending."

And everyone in the county government office knew that the little girl and other men were Ye Weilai's closest confidants besides Yan Balang.

Ye Weilai was a Metropolitan Graduate, so there were many connections among scholars. They were not far away, not close, but maintaining them through letters was not a bad thing. Mentioning the Nanlong Ouyang clan in the letter.

Geng Yanwei heard the wrong word, and there were white lines on his forehead: "I don't bite, it's too dirty, take it away." Ye Weilai sat upright, spread paper and ground ink, and started to write.

Until late at night, there was no moon tonight, it was pitch black outside the door, and the cold wind was blowing.

Looking at the back of the little girl going away, Ye Weilai sat down silently and looked at the last blank letter paper on the public desk.

"However, it is really impossible to think of any other place where the Liu family can pose a threat." Ye Weilai summoned the little girl and gestured to the copper coins on the table:

He thought carefully for a long while, frowned for a long time, then his brows relaxed, and he shook his head gently:

Thinking of the rich expressions on the face of the bearded Su Xiaolang when he received these books in a few days, Geng Yanwei laughed dumbly, and his mood improved a lot.

"I have to leave a letter for the junior sister and the teacher... This letter must be written well... What should I say? It's better not to be too cheesy."

The inner room fell into darkness, the air was silent, Ye Weilai closed his eyes and lay on his back, covering his quilt and folding his hands. "30 catties became 40 catties, Tanlang didn't lose."

After saying that, he didn't wait for Liu Ashan to be polite, a certain young magistrate slipped away like oil on the soles of his feet.

In the darkness, Ye Weilai turned his head silently to look at the desk direction. There was a bronze mask there, it seemed to be useful...

The official of the Household Department was stunned.

Besides that, if you have to say what other big moves there are.

"It's hard to be an official, wanting to collect local specialties and earn extra money. Even a Grade 1 official has no surplus food." On the dining table, there was only the sound of chopsticks hitting porcelain bowls and plates, and no one spoke.

"Does the millet you eat not count?"

Maybe among these people, there will be those who become high officials and reach the rank of minister in the future? Leave a bit of incense, better than nothing.

Ye Weilai and as usual, went to the county government office to work early in the morning. A bit short... (orz 6th day of abstaining from lust) ===== CHAPTER 201 =====