Chapter 143: Duan Yu returns, the County Magistrate panics!

Inside Jinyang City.

Noon.

County Magistrate Chen Wei, who had just finished handling official business in the county, returned to his spacious mansion.

After changing into casual clothes, Chen Wei sat down in the main hall.

Maids dressed in cool clothing placed exquisite dishes in front of Chen Wei with wooden vermilion-lacquered trays.

Two maids with delicate features knelt on the left and right, using long chopsticks to pick up the dishes and gently place them in the lacquer bowls and plates in front of Chen Wei.

Another one used a wooden spoon to scoop out fine wine from the wine jar beside her and put it into the wine vessel.

Chen Wei didn't pick up the bowl and chopsticks in front of him, but unfolded a bamboo slip.

Between opening his mouth, there were maids holding long chopsticks to serve dishes, and then he drank a mouthful of fine wine.

"Three-year evaluation, this time it's top-tier, if it goes smoothly, I can enter the commandery government next year."

Chen Wei stroked his chin while imagining a beautiful future.

Although Bingzhou was bitter and cold.

But fortunately, the mutual market here was quite developed.

With income from fur, mineral, and salt well businesses, plus the Administrator himself was his mentor, Chen Wei had saved up quite a bit of family wealth during his three-year tenure.

This time he had hooked up with Wang Yun, as long as he went to Luoyang before winter and paid a sum of money, his next term would definitely be a commandery official.

Although it couldn't be a Commandery Administrator, he wouldn't miss out on being a Commandery Assistant.

As long as he endured for three or five years, the next term would be Commandery Administrator.

As a Commandery Administrator, a two-thousand-dan regional official, he could be considered to have truly entered the ranks of officials.

"Wine."

Chen Ye, feeling happy, called for wine.

The beautiful maid beside him hurriedly picked up the wine vessel and sent it to Chen Ye.

But before Chen Ye could stretch his head to take it.

Suddenly, a burst of hurried footsteps came from outside the main hall.

A middle-aged scholar walked quickly into the main hall with an anxious and panicked expression on his face, and after walking into the main hall, he immediately bowed to Chen Ye anxiously:

"Lord, it's not good."

"Something big is not good, disaster, disaster!"

Hmm?

Chen Ye, who was about to drink wine, was stunned.

"What disaster?"

"Speak clearly."

The middle-aged man who walked into the main hall was Chen Ye's advisor.

He was also the Chief Clerk of Jinyang County.

Officials like Chen Ye, or administrators like Liu Wei, would have their own advisors.

Which was also a think tank.

Usually used to discuss and plan strategies.

And basically, they also held civil official positions.

Usually helping to check for omissions and fill gaps.

The Chief Clerk looked at Chen Ye with a look of horror, and then turned his gaze to the maids in the hall.

Chen Ye frowned and waved his hand.

The maids all understood and stood up, bowed, and then placed their hands at their waists, bowed their heads, and respectfully backed out of the main hall.

After all the maids had left, the Chief Clerk then spoke:

"Lord, something big is not good."

"That Duan Yu... that Duan Yu is back!"

"Ah?"

Chen Ye was stunned.

Duan Yu is back?

Still alive?

This...

How is this possible?

That Longshan bandit group had more than three hundred people, and the bandit leader Li Shanfeng and others were even more fierce.

Duan Yu only had twenty-something people, and they were the ones who had planned it, how could Duan Yu come back alive?

"He escaped?" Chen Ye asked with a frown.

The Chief Clerk shook his head hurriedly.

His tone and expression were extremely solemn as he said: "No."

"Lord, that Duan Yu slaughtered all three hundred or so Longshan bandits, and at this moment he is carrying the heads of more than three hundred Longshan bandits and is currently in the east of Jinyang City."

"The city is already in an uproar."

"Thousands of people gathered outside the city gate, and all of them witnessed it with their own eyes."

Chen Ye's eyes widened instantly.

Even the bamboo slip in his hand was scared to the point of falling to the ground.

"You... what did you say?" Chen Ye raised his voice: "You said Duan Yu slaughtered all three hundred or so Longshan bandits?"

The Chief Clerk nodded repeatedly and said: "Yes, my lord, more than three hundred people, more than three hundred bloody heads are piled up outside the east of the city."

"Duan Yu and his subordinates are completely unharmed." ===== CHAPTER 145 =====