The backyard of the criminal hall is a row of five-room houses, half of which are occupied by two experience officers, Hua Dalang and Jiang Xiaobai, because the governor and officer Zhaomo are locals, so they don't live here. In the main room in the middle, a wooden wall was built in the middle of the room, and the family occupies half of it, and each other's farts can be heard next door.
An earthen wall was also built in the middle of the courtyard, so that it became two independent small courtyards. The courtyard wall is not high, only reaching the waist of an adult. The children of the two families climb and ride on the wall every day, creating a crescent-shaped gap in the middle of the earthen wall. The lowest part of the wall can be passed by adults just by lifting their thighs. .
At this time, Hua Dalang, the manager of Ji Dian, was kneeling upright in the courtyard, with a washboard under his knees. The washboard is placed along the lines, which is the experience summed up by Hua after long-term kneeling on the washboard. It is less painful than placing it sideways. Hua Dalang was punished by his wife today because he secretly moved the family's money.
Hua Dalang is an eighth-rank official. Since he is an official, he must have the airs of being an official outside. As for a man, he can lose his face, but he can't lose face, so even though he only relies on his salary and has no other sources of income, he still has to support his daughter. Huan Xiaotong's family Ding Pozi.
Although in order to save money, he didn't choose people based on the criteria of being diligent, smart, and good-looking. In fact, he hired two families. It is not a small expense for the son to be a servant, after all, so his life as an official is very tight.
However, Hua Dalang, who was not satisfied with his official career, fell into the bad habit of gambling after being disappointed. This morning, the lady wanted to get some money to make a new dress for her daughter, but found that she was missing a consistent one. He lost everything by stealing, so Hua Dalang was fined to kneel.
There was a creaking sound from the courtyard door next door, and Hua Dalang was taken aback, afraid that Jiang would find out his embarrassment, so he had an idea and quickly bent down. Jiang Jingli tiptoed into the courtyard, saw Hua Dalang lying on the ground through the gap in the wall, and wondered, "Brother Hua, what are you doing?"
Hua Dalang raised his head and said to Jiang Ji: "Ah, good morning, brother Jiang. Hey! The dog is naughty, stole his mother's jewelry to play, and accidentally dropped a pearl from the crested hairpin. I was in the yard. Look for, hey, look for..."
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Seeing Hua Dalang's embarrassment, Jiang Chengji knew what had happened, so he teased: "It turned out to be the pearl on the hairpin, but it was a little small. No wonder Brother Hua wanted to look for it on the ground. For Brother Hua's quick wit , I really admire the five-body throwing! Haha, Brother Hua, you can continue to five-body throwing, and I won’t accompany you..."
Jiang Jingli flicked his sleeves and went back to the house happily. Hua Jingli blushed with anger and looked down at his body. Really annoying.
At this moment, a woman's roar was heard, and Hua Jinji hurriedly knelt down in fright, but suddenly felt that the voice did not seem to be coming from her own mother-in-law, so she hurriedly stretched her neck and looked into the courtyard next door, and saw Jiang Jinji rushing out of the room holding her head in her arms. , the Jiang family lady followed closely behind with a broom.
Jiang Jingji was running around in the yard, and Jiang's wife chased and beat her from behind, yelling and cursing at the same time, listening to her yelling and yelling, it turned out that Jiang Jingji didn't come back all night last night, saying that he was invited to have a drink by a friend of his acquaintance. As a result, when his wife came back just now, she noticed a hickey on his neck.
Hua Jingji knelt there gloating, when his wife heard the scolding in the yard next door, she opened the door and listened carefully, she heard Jiang's wife scolding her husband for going out to find fans, and then looked at herself kneeling upright in the yard Men, suddenly feel that a small gamble is no big deal now and then.
Lady Hua was hesitating whether to ask her husband to get up and go back to her room for breakfast, when the courtyard door opened with a squeak, and a gentleman in green shirt walked in with a high spirit, shaking a small fan, followed by a handsome young man , a rough guy with a beard.
It was Li Qiuchi, Hua Yunfei, and Mao Wenzhi who came. Li Qiuchi came to urge the officials and subordinates living in the criminal hall to clean up the front yard. The criminal hall has become a large farmyard with chickens and dogs, without the majesty and decency of a yamen, how can it work
Master Ye planned to use these two days of free time to visit the scenery of Tongren, Jinjiang, Dongshan Temple, and Fanjing Mountain, so Li Qiuchi volunteered and came to supervise the cleaning of the criminal hall.
Ye Xiaotian took Duoni and Yaoyao up to Dongshan Temple early in the morning, planning to go to Fuxue to pay a visit to Li Jiaoyu after going down the mountain, and asked Li Jiaoyu to help him find a learned old Confucian for Yaoyao to be his teacher. To Ye Xiaotian's surprise, Duo Ni also asked to study with the teacher.
As Ye Xiaotian's official position became bigger and bigger, and the management of the official mansion became more and more complicated, Duo Ni finally felt illiterate, illiterate, ignorant of knowledge, unable to manage such a large family at all, and unable to provide for her. Ye Xiaotian was worried.
There are too many rules and regulations in the family of officials, even when Ye Xiaotian was just a small canonist, the leader of the rules and regulations was much more complicated than her father who was in charge of thousands of people, and such a real Compared with the secular officials, a tribal chief like her father is nothing more than a poor village chief.
Ye Xiaotian is of course happy to let Doni learn a little bit more, at least don't make a fuss about going to the street to buy things and only know how to barter. It's about change.
Li Qiuchi was so happy that Ye Xiaotian let go. He invited Hua Yunfei and Mao Wenzhi to help him early in the morning, intending to completely change the criminal hall. Wonderful scene.
Li Qiuchi looked at Hua Jing who was kneeling in the courtyard, and then looked at Jiang Jing who was still running around in the courtyard next door, and suddenly felt that the criminal hall is not in a hurry to clean it, and the most important thing right now is to let the criminal hall be frustrated. The down-and-out officials must cheer up, otherwise, no matter how glamorous the yamen is, it will be useless. This is really a long way to go!
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Ye Xiaotian took Duoni and Yaoyao to visit Dongshan Temple early in the morning, had a vegetarian meal at Dongshan Temple at noon, visited Li Jiaoyu in the afternoon, and then went to visit the Jinjiang River, and returned to the mansion in the evening.
Not long after he came back, Li Qiuchi also came back with Hua Yunfei and Mao Wenzhi. As soon as Mao Wenzhi saw Ye Xiaotian, he told Ye Xiaotian the wonderful scene he saw this morning. Ye Xiaotian didn't find it funny like him. After listening to Mao Wenzhi's eloquence, Ye Xiaotian just sighed.
In fact, he had already discovered that something was wrong. In other places, the criminal court office, which should be popular, is just a decoration in Tongren Mansion. He traveled around the mountains and rivers all day, and took the opportunity to learn about the local folk customs and customs, and felt that it was as difficult as heaven to make some achievements in promoting officials.
But now that he is a seventh-rank official, he is only one step away from his goal. Can he give up like this? But he can only keep these thoughts in his heart, and leave things to Li Qiuchi. This is the benefit of having a master. It would be best if Li Qiuchi can really break through the situation. If not, at least he will come forward to clean up the mess. .
Right now, Ye Xiaotian shouldn't make a big fuss and come forward directly. This is the consequence of him destroying all his colleagues in Huxian County. A lonely minister is only useful if he is in the heart of the emperor. There is no emperor to support him in this high mountain and far away place. Being a lonely minister here is to cut himself off from the "people" up.
He already felt that Fatty Zhang was not as enthusiastic towards him as before, and Fatty Zhang's attitude would naturally change if he was a Juren who could make Fatty Zhang look good and a subordinate who most of his bureaucrats did not welcome.
Ye Xiaotian has been in office for a few days, so far, apart from Li Jing, who once worked with Tixi Company, has had contact with him, no Tongren mansion officials have tried to get in touch with him, this is too unreasonable.
When he was in Hu County, no matter whether it was him, Xu Boyi, Bai Hong, or Zhao Wenyuan, there were people who got close to him when he took office. Regardless of whether he had power or not, once he got married, he would be able to strengthen his reputation, but he had no one. Forget it, who would be stingy with a meal
In fact, this is a very dangerous signal. If the new official cannot afford to burn three fires after taking office, it will be difficult for him to burn them again in the future. Leave it to Li Qiuchi.
On the third day, Ye Xiaotian was officially promoted to the Yamen. When I came to the torture hall early in the morning, I saw that the courtyard was clean. I don’t know where a ring stone was moved from the place where green onions were planted. This ring stone should be newly engraved by Li Qiuchi, "Your Feng Erlu, the people are fat and the people are anointed, the people are easy to abuse, but the heavens are hard to bully." The big characters are still red like blood.
Ye Xiaotian personally promised to keep the shelf of beans clean, which was pulled out by Li Qiuchi's orders. According to him, the yamen should look like a yamen. If you don't know the dignity, who will respect it? you
Officer Ye Tui wore a brand-new official robe, and after sitting in the lobby to sit in the case, Jidian experience, criminal name experience, prison manager, Dushi, Zhaomo, Dutou, Shuban, Menzi, Kuaishou, Zaoli... all gathered together. Li Qiuchi stood on the right side of Ye Xiaotian's case holding a folding fan, Su Xuntian stood on the left side of Ye Xiaotian's case with his hands down, Hua Yunfei and Mao Wenzhi also followed, standing behind Ye Xiaotian's seat.
Ye Xiaotian asked the two of them to follow him in the yamen as trainees first. Later, he wanted to arrange the two of them into the criminal hall as arrests. He is a long follower by his side.
Everyone lined up the yamen, seeing the new officials one by one, Ye Xiaotian thought that they would be the same as when he first saw Hua Qingfeng promoted to the yamen in Hu County, they shouted powerlessly, the servants were listless, and the officials and colleagues were lazy. But he didn't want all the officials in the hall to be full of energy, shouting loudly, and the servants of the yamen stood upright.
Especially the left and right experiences that Ye Xiaotian was secretly paying attention to had a solemn and solemn expression, especially the eyes of the two of them, when they stared at Ye Xiaotian, they were too eager, like an old man who had been single for fifty years and suddenly saw A big bare bottomed girl stood in front of him, Ye Xiaotian's chrysanthemum tightened.
Ye Xiaotian looked in surprise at Li Qiuchi who was standing on the right side of the case with a smile. An idle yamen that has been idle for many years or even has never opened a yamen to handle a single official business. The officials and subordinates are so imposing. It must be Li Qiuchi who has worked hard up.
Ye Xiaotian was very curious, wondering what ecstasy drug Li Qiuchi had given these people, and it had such an effect, what a genius!