As soon as Ye Xiaotian arrived in Tongren Mansion, he went to settle down with his family first. It was impossible for him to bring a whole family to see Fatty Zhang at the magistrate's yamen.
Before Ye Xiaotian went to Tongren to take office, he had already sent people to Zhang Luo’s residence in Tongren Mansion. The mansion he finally chose was located at the foot of Dongshan, which was in Tongren City. There are large moso bamboo forests, and the environment is very elegant.
Of course, the price of such a mansion is not cheap, but as a Gu Sect Venerable, the most important thing Ye Xiaotian lacks is money. For thousands of years, the Gu Cult has accumulated a lot of wealth. Mountains of gold and silver are piled up in the temple, moldy and rusty, but they are rarely spent.
From Ye Xiaotian's point of view, money is of no use if it is not used. Of course he will not be a miser, and he has wronged himself in terms of residence. A group of people rushed to the foot of Dongshan to check into the mansion, family Zhang Luo moved in, and Ye Xiaotian, accompanied by Hua Yunfei and Mao Wenzhi, took a look at the surrounding environment.
When it was time to release the yamen, Ye Xiaocai rushed to the magistrate's yamen to report to Zhang Zhifu. Zhang Zhifu has recently been worrying about the dispute between the Jia family and the Guoji family. The two families refuse to give in to each other, and the constant disputes have greatly reduced his prestige.
For more than a hundred years, the Zhang family has always been the overlord of Tongren. The chieftains from all over the country have never questioned the authority of the Zhang family, but now the dispute between the Yu family and the Guoji family has completely exposed the weakness of the Zhang family. From Zhang's ability to rule, this is what really worries Fatty Zhang.
The Guoji family is a half-life-like existence, neither listening to the tune nor listening to the announcement, and Fatty Zhang basically has no binding force on them. As for the Yu family, the chieftain of the Yu family was killed, and the murderer was identified as the Guoji family. In this case, he could not put pressure on the Yu family to force the Yu family to stop.
This situation caused Fatty Zhang to be helpless in the face of the predicament. Although Ye Xiaotian had arrived at this time, since Ye Xiaotian went to Mercury Mountain, not only did not resolve the disputes among the tribes, but made the situation worse, Fatty Zhang treated him as well. Not confident anymore. Therefore, although Fatty Zhang admired Ye Xiaotian more, he couldn't arouse any interest, chatted briefly, and sent him out.
Ye Xiaotian came out from the magistrate's yamen, went to buy a meeting gift, and visited Li Jiaoyu. At this time, his status was already higher than that of Li Jiaoyu, but Li Jiaoyu was his teacher, so the necessary etiquette must not be short, and the code of ethics is often indiscreet, which is a taboo for an official.
Early the next morning, Ye Xiaotian took Li Qiuchi to the magistrate's yamen, ready to officially take office. Zhang Zhifu asked Li Ching to accompany Ye Xiaotian to the official office to go through the formalities. After finishing, Ye Xiaotian asked: "Brother Li, where did the original Yu Tui officials work."
Li Shiji said: "You mean Yu Tuigong? Yu Tuigong always works in his own home, and rarely comes to the yamen."
Ye Xiaotian frowned when he heard this, but when he thought that the magistrate's yamen was actually the original Tusi's mansion, it was also a collection of family and government. I'm not used to handling cases at home, isn't there a criminal hall in this government office?"
Li Jingji looked a little weird, and said: "Yes...of course there are, but Yu Tuiguan has never used the Criminal Office to work, so I'm afraid it's a little messy."
Ye Xiaotian said with a smile: "That's all right. When a new official takes office, there must always be something new. The yamen is a bit messy, so just ask someone to clean it."
Li Shiji said: "Since that's the case, then I'll take you there right away, first identify the door."
Ye Xiaotian saluted and said, "Thank you, Brother Li."
There is no independent yamen for the Tuiguan, but a separate courtyard has been set up in the magistrate's Yamen as the place where the Tuiguan works, which is called the Criminal Office in the Yamen.
Li Jingli led Ye Xiaotian into the gate of the criminal hall, Ye Xiaotian stopped in astonishment as soon as he entered. If it wasn't for the "Punishment Hall" signboard with mottled paint on the gate, he almost thought he had entered a farmhouse by mistake.
As soon as you enter the door, you will see a neat vegetable garden. There is a piece of green onions, which are juicy and juicy. There are a few shelves of beans next to it. The green seedlings climb up along the bamboo brackets, full of wildness. A few wandering chickens are leisurely planing food under the bean seedling shelf.
Ye Xiaotian stared straight at the eyes. Speaking of which, the large courtyard of the criminal hall is actually not small. It has the same layout as the entire yamen. They work in the front yard and live in the back yard. Moreover, the main subordinate officials have to bring their families to live in the yamen. However, wealthy officials dislike the narrowness of public housing and the lack of privacy, so they will choose their own residences.
For example, when they were in Hu County, both Master Wang and Cheng Meng did not live in public housing. However, some officials who only rely on their salaries and have no external wealth can only live in public housing, because the cost of buying and renting housing by themselves is too high, so this criminal hall is actually a large institution compound.
But no matter how strong the atmosphere of life is, it shouldn’t be like a farmhouse, right? You must know that the front yard is used for offices. Ye Xiaotian hesitated and took a few steps, and saw a little guy wearing crotch pants and a tea veil shaved on the ground, squatting on the ground, defecating, and calling his mother at the top of his voice.
Immediately, a fat woman walked over, shoveled the shovel on the ground, quickly threw the mound of feces into the vegetable field, then stretched out her thick arms, held the child under her ribs, and began to help He wipes his ass. Ye Xiaotian's eyebrows twitched wildly when he saw it, but Li Jingchen didn't take it strangely, and shouted to the woman: "Are the adults from the Zhang family, Li Jing, Du Shi, and Zhao Mo, all here?"
The woman turned her head and looked in surprise, "Oh, isn't this Mr. Li? Why are you here today when you have time?"
Li Jiji said: "Hugh is so long-winded, hurry up and call the criminal office, Dushi, and Zhaomo officials to the lobby, the new promotion officer has arrived."
The woman glanced at Ye Xiaotian, and said in surprise: "This is the new Tuiguan master? My God, Tuiguan master is so young."
Ye Xiaotian forced out a smiling face, nodded to her with a smile, and then heard the woman say: "If Master Li doesn't say anything, the servants will think this is the young master of Master Li's family."
Ye Xiaotian's smile suddenly froze on his face, Li Jingli held back his smile and said: "You woman talks a lot of nonsense, hurry up and call someone, don't keep the pusher waiting for a long time." The woman quickly agreed, put down her son and hurriedly leave.
Li Jingji accompanied Ye Xiaotian as he walked forward and introduced: "This woman is the maidservant of Jiang Jingji's family. The Criminal Department of the government does not have many affairs, and there are many officials who have nothing to do. They only rely on salary, and life is hard to avoid. In addition, Uehara’s official Yu Tui rarely comes to the criminal hall, so even the front yard is occupied by them.”
Ye Xiaotian scratched his head secretly when he heard this: "The former pusher acquiesced to them occupying the entire yard, and my new pusher asked them to vacate the house as soon as he arrived. Wouldn't he be a villain?" Speaking, I had to hold my nose and bear it.
Li Jing led Ye Xiaotian around a vegetable field, turned around a few rows of drying clothes and sheets, chased away a barking dog, and came to the main hall of the punishment hall. The door of the main hall was half-closed, and when Li Jingli stretched out his hand to push it, there was a burst of tooth-piercing screams.
Ye Xiaotian looked at the lobby, and saw that the lobby was full of tables and chairs in a mess, and the silence and avoidance cards were also erected in the middle of the tables and chairs, covered with dust. Ye Xiaotian's eyes widened suddenly, whoever said that Officer Yu Tui didn't come to work in the criminal hall, judging by the thick dust in this hall, it must be at least three years that no one has visited it.
Seeing this appearance, Li Jing also felt that it was a bit outrageous, so he cleared his throat and said to Ye Xiaotian: "Brother Ye Xian, it is really difficult to get a foot in this hall, why don't we just wait outside until those subordinate officials arrive, Brother Ye Xian Just meet them first and let them clean it up later."
Just as he was talking, he saw four people walking over. They didn't wear official robes, but ordinary Yanju uniforms. When Ye Xiaotian looked carefully, he saw that two of them had a sad look on their faces. He said fresh scars, and the other two persuaded him as they walked.
Li Ching raised his voice and shouted: "The new promotion officer, Mr. Ye, is here. If you don't hurry up to meet him, you're too tired."
Only then did they stop tugging, and rushed forward to salute Ye Xiaotian, the middle-aged man with a few civet cat-like scratches on his cheeks cupped his hands and said, "My subordinate Ji Dian has experienced Hua Dalang, and I have seen Mr. Tuiguan."
This Hua Dalang is also an experience officer, but his rank is much lower than that of Li Xiangrong, an experience officer. It is like the director of the office. There must be a big difference between the director of the municipal party committee and the director of the district party committee. Hua Dalang is a subordinate official of Tuiguan, with experience in Jidian, and is responsible for auditing affairs.
At this time, the frail middle-aged man with several bright red fingerprints on his cheek, who had just been slapped, also stepped forward and saluted: "Jiang Xiaobai has seen Mr. Pushing Official!"
The other two have slightly lower official positions than the two. One is Dushi, the other is Zhaomo. Li Jing said to Ye Xiaotian: "There is also a prison officer who lives in the prison, named Ren Yibing, I know you are here today, and I will come to see you later."
Ye Xiaotian looked at Hua Dalang and Jiang Xiaobai, frowned and asked, "Why did the two fight each other?"
Hua Dalang and Jiang Xiaobai looked at each other, and replied embarrassingly: "Master Tuiguan, the two of us...the two of us didn't fight."
Li Qiuchi looked at the scratch marks on Hua Dalang's face, and said with a half-smile: "Perhaps, these two adults have Hedong lions?"
The faces of the two veterans blushed when they heard this, and Ye Xiaotian suddenly realized that it was domestic violence—his wife beat him!
Li Ching coughed and scolded with a straight face: "Look at what you guys have made the torture hall into a mess. Today's Tuiguan has arrived, and you are limited to clean up this hall within two days." , the vegetables are pulled, the chickens are driven away, the dogs are tied up, the clothes are hung in the backyard to dry, and children are not allowed to play in the front yard... "
Ye Xiaotian thought about how he was new here, he was too bad at doing things, after all, he still had to point at these people to do things for him, so he interjected: "Well... don't rush to pull out the few vegetables you planted, they haven't grown yet, pull them out It's a pity, anyway, there is no flower garden in this courtyard, so let's keep it and treat it as flowers and trees. Hehe... "
Li Jing put on a black face and said: "Officer Ye Tui is magnanimous, you can't bully the students, look at you, you don't look like a court order official, go down, we must clean up the torture hall as soon as possible!" Several officials promised , quickly retreated.
Li Jiji shook his head at Ye Xiaotian and sighed: "These two men live in the backyard. They live in five-bay houses separated by a wall. Both of them are afraid of their wives. His wife is Tai Sui who suppresses her husband. Sometimes two wives attack at the same time, it is really a spectacle that the lion roars in the east of the river and the tiger roars in the west of the river.”
Ye Xiaotian wondered: "Why are the officials in my criminal court so afraid of his wife?"
Li Chin smiled and said: "Isn't it because they are idle officials? Those who are capable and capable will be idle officials, and those who are incompetent and incompetent will not be bullied by shrews? There is no outside money, only relying on such a small salary, Madam naturally complains , the husband was justified and dared not refute, and over time, he developed a Hedong lion... "
Seeing that Ye Xiaotian's face became more and more ugly, Li Jingli suddenly realized that he had talked too much, so he quickly found an excuse to slip away. A group of children ran past in front of them, Ye Xiaotian smiled bitterly and said to Li Qiuchi: "Sir, you must be very disappointed by this, right?"
Li Qiuchi said: "How could it be? If this place is orderly and well-organized, how can it show Dongweng's ability, how can it show the student's ability? As for the torture hall is the Qingshui Yamen, hey! The most lively place in the world It’s where the judiciary is litigating. Is it free? That’s because the chief officer is incompetent! If there is no lawsuit, we will make a lawsuit. No one will file a lawsuit. We can find someone to file a lawsuit. Don’t worry, the students will definitely turn our criminal hall into a magistrate’s yamen. The liveliest place!"
Ye Xiaotian looked at him dumbfounded.
Li Qiuchi said embarrassingly: "The adults look at me with such admiration, which makes the students very embarrassed."
Ye Xiaotian was stunned for a long time, shook his head and sighed: "No wonder people say that lawsuits are used to create institutions, have bad intentions, instigate lawsuits, reverse right and wrong, use knives and pens, arguing with words, collude with government officials, and lure village idiots. It is really hateful. Today Ye Only then can we understand what it means.”
Li Qiuchi said with a smile: "Dong Weng is overwhelmed!"