Master Wang went home and waited for news from Xu Boyi, without any panic in his heart. With Hua Qingfeng's usual personality, even if he wants to make a difference, he will not be so quick. He always has to make indirect remarks first, then show off a little, and then carefully test. Once encountering a strong backlash, he will die down. This time should be no exception , even with Ye Xiaotian's instigation.
But he didn't expect that Ye Xiaotian had already seen through Hua Qingfeng's character, so this time Ye Xiaotian tied Hua Qingfeng to his chariot, dragged, dragged, and forced him to rush into the battle with him. Earlier, it turned out that Hua Qingfeng brazenly drove Xu Boyi back to the county government office. What he got was not a piece of news, but a result.
This time Wang Ning couldn't sit still anymore, he immediately dressed neatly, and went straight to the county government office. Master Wang strode forward, and just walked to the ring stone in front of the main hall of the county government office that said "Your salary, people's fat and people's ointment", Ye Xiaotian happened to Walk quickly from the other side.
Seeing Mr. Wang, Ye Xiaotian immediately cupped his hands, and said with a smile that was not a smile: "Oh! Isn't this Mr. Wang? I heard that Mr. Wang is seriously ill and bedridden. Why did you come to the office? Your officer I'm planning to visit your lord after I'm released."
"Ah! So it's Ye Dianshi! It's been a long time, it's been a long time!"
As Wang Ning spoke, his straightened chest collapsed little by little. After he finished a sentence, he had turned into a hunched waist, slightly bent legs, and a half-dead face. He coughed weakly, and said: "Old man I'm getting old, ahem, I'm in poor health, but now the county magistrates are on the post road in person, as the second official, I have to do my best..."
Wang Ning pointed to the ring stone inscription written by Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin himself from the eighth year of Taiping Xingguo in the Song Dynasty, and it has been erected everywhere in the government since then, saying: "Your salary is rich, the people are fat and the people are anointed. The people are easy to abuse. God is hard to deceive! I wait for the royal salary, I should bow to my best, and I will die!"
Ye Xiaotian said with a full face of admiration: "Master Wang is really a role model for my juniors! Admire! Admire!"
Wang Ning said hypocritically: "Don't dare, dare not! The old man has been recuperating for a while, and has a backlog of a large amount of official documents. The old man will deal with it first, and then get close to Ye Dianshi, you Haosheng, when you have time."
Ye Xiaotian said: "Okay, Mr. Wang, please go ahead!" Master Wang nodded slightly, and walked away. He looked sideways at Ye Xiaotian's movement, and when he saw Ye Xiaotian's figure disappearing at the gate of the courtyard, he immediately quickened his pace and went straight to Xu Xiaotian. Boyi's signing room.
When Ye Xiaotian returned to his signing room, there was a clerk waiting at the door, as soon as he saw him coming, he went forward and reported: "My lord, there is a scholar who has been waiting in your room for a long time, saying that he is your old friend."
Ye Xiaotian wondered secretly: "Scholar's old friend? Could it be that Tang Xianzu came?"
Although Ye Xiaotian was born in Juren, he never went to county school or government school, and rarely interacted with scholars. He had neither classmates nor friends of scholars. There were a few in the same year who won the exam together, but they had no contact with each other. .
This signing room is like candied haws. There is a small room at the door, which is where the servants are, and then there is a large room, with seven or eight tables. This is the office space for all the subordinates. One set of rooms is Ye Xiaotian's room.
When Ye Xiaotian walked into the room, he saw a white-clothed scholar standing up gracefully. Ye Xiaotian looked at the man intently, and couldn't help being startled. He almost cried out. He quickly closed the door, and then hurried forward, and asked in a low voice, "Ma'am? You... why are you here?"
It turned out that the white-shirted scholar sitting there was Su Ya. This time Su Ya was wearing men's clothes differently from the last time. The last time she visited Ye Xiaotian on a rainy night, she was wearing men's clothes for the convenience of walking, and she didn't really cover it up, so it was easy to see She turned out to be a woman, and this time she did a serious job of pretending to be Joe.
Even so, as long as you look carefully, you can still see that she is a woman, at least she is also a man with the ultimate male and female appearance. No wonder the subordinate's expression was full of ambiguity just now. It's just that although Mrs. Ya has lived in the county yamen for more than five years, there are very few people in the yamen who know her, and the subordinate staff would never have thought that she is actually the matriarch of the county.
When Su Ya saw Ye Xiaotian, she hurriedly said: "Ye Dianshi, I have an important matter to tell you."
Ye Xiaotian said: "No matter what, Madam shouldn't take the risk of coming to the front office. Once someone recognizes her identity, what will happen?"
Su Ya was angry and said, "What's the big deal? I'm not afraid of a woman, what are you afraid of?"
Ye Xiaotian could only smile wryly, why does this sound so ambiguous, I have no personal relationship with you, besides, I, Ye Xiaotian, have never been a gentleman, and I am not afraid of people's gossip, isn't this just for your sake? Ye Xiaotian said helplessly: "Isn't the lower official worried about affecting Madam's reputation?"
Su Ya said angrily: "Okay, okay, don't say these are useless. My wife just got some important news, but there is no one around me who can use it. Although Tweety is a hearty girl, she is not a person who can explain important things. People, she couldn't even understand the words, so Mrs. Ben had no choice but to do it herself."
Su Ya's back house is full of ordinary maids and women, who can help her deliver news and handle things. Originally, her brother Su Xuntian was free to enter and leave the inner house, but after Hua Qingfeng went to the post road, As a brother-in-law, Su Xuntian naturally has to accompany him to help his brother-in-law, so Su Ya has no one to use.
When Ye Xiaotian heard that she said it was so urgent, he became more cautious without realizing it, and quickly asked Su Ya to sit down, and he himself sat down opposite, and asked anxiously, "I wonder what's urgent for Madam?"
Su Ya said: "Xu Boyi is going to play tricks on the post road to force the idiot to invite him back. The idiot has always been upright and doesn't understand such tricks at all. I'm afraid he will suffer a big loss. Mr. Dian Shi is alert and has a unique eye. It's not easy for Xu Boyi to plot against you, so please hurry back to Yilu to preside over the overall situation."
Ye Xiaotian was slightly stunned, his eyes drifted for a moment, and he said: "Xu Boyi is going to tamper with the post road? Hey! It's so frustrating! For his own selfish desires, he wants to ignore the court and Li Shu!"
Su Ya said: "This villain, what else can you expect from him? After hearing the news, Mrs. Ben was really anxious. Ye Dianshi, you have a countermeasure!"
Ye Xiaotian thoughtfully said: "Xu Boyi must be very cautious when he is going to do things. How did Madam know? Could it be that Madam found the news in the inner room buried beside Xu Boyi?"
Su Ya said vigilantly: "What? Do you still want to find out about me at this time? Ye Dianshi, the news I got is absolutely true. You just need to be careful. Your two families share weal and woe. Don't you still Don't trust me?"
Of course, you can't tell others all your cards, otherwise there is no capital for cooperation. Although Su Ya is a woman, she still has some shrewdness. Ye Xiaotian smiled, and said: "I'm just curious, since Madam doesn't want to say anything, I don't want to ask!"
Su Ya said anxiously: "How can Ye Dianshi sit so steadily, go back to the post!"
Ye Xiaotian blinked at her, and said: "If the official is on the post road, even if Xu Boyi wants to play tricks, the method will be more secretive, and it will be more difficult to find out. Only when the official is not around can Xu Boyi jump out boldly." ah!"
Su Ya was originally a very smart woman. When she heard Ye Xiaotian's words, she couldn't help but stood up in surprise, and said: "You already knew that he must have a means, right? You already have a countermeasure?"
Ye Xiaotian smiled slightly, followed her to stand up, and said: "Ma'am, Xu Boyi has suffered a big loss, of course he will not give up easily, this matter can be imagined without much thought. The next official is now waiting for him to make a move, if not , How to help the magistrate to establish his prestige
Don't worry, madam, go back to the back house early, it's very inconvenient for Xiaguan to come and go, if someone really recognizes madam's identity, I'm afraid there will be a lot of nasty words coming out, Xiaguan certainly doesn't care, To you, madam, it is a great harm. "
Su Ya heard him mentioning this matter again and again, and said angrily: "Since you were prepared, why didn't you tell me? If my wife didn't feel that this matter is urgent and needs to remind you to be careful as soon as possible, how could you come here at risk?"
Ye Xiaotian smiled wryly and said: "Madam, everyone has their own secrets. Madam, where did you get the news? Didn't you never tell me? If Madam asked that inner room to directly contact the lower officials, wouldn't it be possible for Madam to come forward directly?" ?"
Su Ya was at a loss for words: "This... I..."
Ye Xiaotian flicked his sleeves gracefully, and made a gesture to see off the guests: "Go madam, I won't see you off!"
"you… "
Su Ya stomped her feet resentfully, and walked past Ye Xiaotian angrily, because her feet were too hard, her chest suddenly felt choppy.
On the post road, something happened soon.
First, there is a section of cliff, next to the abyss. The post road is opened in the middle of the cliff, and the rocks on it are very steep. The heavy rain a few days ago caused some rocks to fall to the ground. After being cleared in time, it is possible to pass. Since it is not stable, if there is a landslide when a vehicle passes by, the vehicle will be destroyed and people will be killed. Therefore, taking advantage of the lack of convoys passing through today, the county government began to organize manpower to repair it.
As a result, some foremen cut corners and used more than half of the required wood and stones when supporting and reinforcing the cliff part. As a result, the cliff collapsed during the construction process. Smashed his head.
Hua Qingfeng was shocked when he heard the news, and rushed to the scene of the accident. The mountain road was difficult, he couldn't sit in a sedan chair, and riding a horse was too dangerous. He walked all the way there, and he was already sweating and panting when he got there.
The two contractors are in charge of this lot. The two shirk each other's responsibilities. He rushed to report that Zhang Shiyun, the businessman in charge of quarrying, had a problem, and the supply of stone materials could not be supplied.
Originally, most of the mountain roads can be repaired with local materials, but there are always some areas where there are no large stones, or the roads are dug on the cliffs, and the surrounding stones cannot be mined to prevent the road from collapsing, so they need to be mined from other places. The stone was delivered.
And Xu Boyi contracted out road construction, quarrying, and wood picking to several people separately, so that each person was responsible, organized, and more efficient than a group of laborers who took care of everything, but the premise was that these People can't hold back, now Zhang Shiyun has found various reasons, and would rather breach the contract and pay a large sum of money, and insist that he can't mine enough stone, or can't transport it to the designated road section in time, no matter how Hua Qingfeng understands the righteousness, he just won't Ken is accommodating.
"Why did so many problems arise as soon as I took office?"
Hua Qingfeng is not stupid, knowing that there must be something wrong, he suppressed his anger, so to speak, those foremen and merchants just didn't give face, Hua Qingfeng was trembling with anger, and said angrily: "Whether the post road is smooth or not is related to the frontline soldiers. Your safety, you wait...you are not afraid of delaying the military plane if you do this?"
Zhang Shiyun was not afraid of the big hat that Hua Qingfeng would buckle down, so he called out to Qu: "Master, you can't say that, Xiaomin has tried his best, if you can't finish it, you can't finish it, sir, you can't use power to overwhelm others, sir If you don’t believe me, organize your own people to try it out.”
Before the words were finished, a person from the arresting squad suddenly jumped out, with a flash of steel knife in his hand, he saw a flash of snow flashing past, and with a "poof", a red bloody light shot straight up for a long time, Zhang Shiyun's body was still standing upright. Standing there, still maintaining a gesture with one hand, his head has already rolled into the dust.
This turn of events only shocked Hua Qingfeng dumbfounded. Before he could react, the steel knife in the catcher's hand flashed twice. The two foremen who cut corners were caught off guard, and the two heads fell to the ground one after another. Thinking that such a thing would happen, hundreds of people on the post road were all stunned for a while, only the mountain wind roared.
kill! It really kills!
The three good heads rolled to the ground, and the three bloody corpses fell into the dust. No one thought that the magistrate would really dare to kill, kill? That deserves the emperor's imperial pen and verdict, not to mention, do the three of them have a way to kill them? This kills? !
The three heads and the three puffs of blood scared Hua Qingfeng to death. He took three steps back and almost fell off the cliff with his foot in the air. He fell to pieces.