The real dragon's fortune shocked the people on both sides of the street, and even Rong Xiucai only stared at Ao Huang.
Fang Yun didn't expect Liu Yu to not guess it, so he half-jokingly said, "No, since I've met you, I naturally have to sit down and chat about family matters. How can I just leave like that?"
Even though Liu Yu was not very worldly-wise, he could tell something was wrong. He blinked and said, "Master Fang, is there something wrong?"
Fang Yun smiled slightly, took out a scroll of documents from the Yinjiangbei, handed it to Liu Yu, and said, "Read it yourself."
"Oh?" Liu Yu took the document and read it carefully, blinked, then quickly rubbed his eyes with his hands and read it a second time.
"I... I'm not dazzled, am I..." Liu Yu rubbed his eyes again, and then looked at the document for the first time.
After reading it, Liu Yu's face flushed, his whole body trembled, he looked at Fang Yun, and said excitedly: "Master Fang... Master Fang, this... is this true?"
Fang Yun smiled and said, "From today on, you will be the 'general manager of all matters in Ning'an County Workshop'. As for those rewards, they are all real. Chief Engineer Liu!"
"Ah? Is it true?" Liu Yu looked at Fang Yun blankly, his vision completely unfocused and his mind wandering.
Madam Liu muttered at the door: "What's the use of the term 'general male and general female'? It's just a cover to deceive people."
The teenage Liu Shiyuan ran to his grandfather, jumping over the words and reading them intermittently.
"…Liu Yu, the official, is a man of solid character, skilled in craftsmanship, and a man of great talent… He can be appointed to manage all matters related to the Ning'an County workshop… Ah? He will also be awarded a house, some silk fabrics, some jewelry and jade, 100 taels of gold, and 300 taels of silver? We're rich! Grandma, our family is rich!"
Mrs. Liu was stunned!
She didn't understand the official words praising Liu Yu at the beginning, but she could hear the silk, jade, gold and silver mentioned later clearly.
"Really? Is it all true?" Mrs. Liu was trembling all over, even more violently than Liu Yu.
Liu Yu held the appointment document in his hand. Tears could not stop flowing out. At first, they just flowed silently, but soon he covered his face and cried loudly.
An engineering elite who had been forgotten by Jingguo for decades finally received real recognition today!
Liu Yu doesn't need money! He doesn't care about profit!
He cares whether his sweat and dedication are recognized and affirmed!
But after waiting for decades, no one gave it to me!
Those ridiculous commendations, those understated praises, and those thin reward documents are nothing but false baits created by high-ranking officials in order to save face and show that they value the people at the bottom.
They had failed the trust of countless people, like a betrayal.
Until Fang Yun personally handed the document to Liu Yu.
One of Liu Yu's granddaughters whispered, "Grandpa got promoted and became rich, why is he still crying? Is it all bad?"
Everyone was stunned, barely able to understand what the little girl meant. The child's mother hurriedly said, "I'm happy! Grandpa is happy. Everything is good."
"Oh! Well, I'm happy too." said the little girl with a smile.
Rong Xiucai looked at Liu Yu who was crying, his expression became very complicated, and he turned around and left silently.
At the moment of turning around, Rong Xiucai saw from the corner of his eye that Fang Yun was smiling at him. It was clearly a smile, but Rong Xiucai felt cold all over. It was creepy.
"He... knows me?" Rong Xiucai's legs and feet were weak, and he stumbled as he walked. He didn't have the courage to look back to verify whether the smile was real.
The people behind Fang Yun carried gift boxes one after another and delivered the reward money into the Liu family's house.
Liu Yu cried for a long time. Fang Yun stepped forward and patted his shoulder, saying, "Don't cry, the neighbors are watching us."
"Yeah." Liu Yu quickly wiped away his tears and snot. He raised his head, revealing his red and swollen eyes.
Fang Yun smiled and said, "Now that the appointment document is in your hands, I will go back. Let's buy some good wine and food to celebrate today."
"Ah? You... you don't want to come to my house for food?"
"No, there will be a lot of people coming to your house today, so I won't join in the fun. Goodbye, everyone."
Fang Yun clasped his fists to everyone in the Liu family.
"Goodbye, Brother Fang! Goodbye, Brother Long!" Several children waved their arms vigorously. In their eyes, Ao Huang was more attractive than Fang Yun.
"Little brat." Ao Huang curled his lips, shook his tail, and proudly returned to the car.
"Farewell to Saint Fang Xu!" Liu Yu bowed and sent him off with great ceremony.
"Farewell to Saint Fang Xu!"
"Hurry up, kowtow to Fang Xusheng!" Liu Yu's son and daughter-in-law immediately asked the children to kneel down.
The children knelt down with smiles on their faces and kowtowed earnestly towards Fang Yun's carriage.
After Fang Yun's convoy left, the entire street, even people from nearby streets, rushed to the door of the Liu family!
"Old Liu, you finally got a promotion. No, you have to have a buffet!"
"Good people will always be rewarded!"
"God has eyes!"
"Bullshit, the heaven has eyes. It's County Magistrate Xiao Fang who has eyes! All those county magistrates before were blind!"
"Comparing those shitty officials to Fang Xusheng is the same as insulting Fang Xusheng!"
"Yes, yes, yes. Mr. Liu will hold a buffet tomorrow to entertain the neighbors. You must come and enjoy the feast!"
"Of course! My parents have been friends with Mr. Liu for decades, so they will definitely come to help tomorrow!"
"Hehe, good news, good news..."
Holy Court, Editorial Office of Wen Bao.
"Hurry, hurry... This is Fang Xusheng's article, we can't delay!" Then a scholar rushed into the main hall of the Editorial Office.
A university scholar frowned and said, "The layout has been decided. The Engineering Department has already requested six full pages for Fang Xusheng. Why does he still need to write an article for Wen Bao himself?"
"Perhaps he did not communicate well with the Palace of Works, young man, you are a little anxious. Others don't know, but we all got the news. With his merits, it is understandable that he would take credit for himself in the Literary Newspaper. After all, before publication, there will be three semi-saint examiners who will exclude the palace examination terms. Fang Xusheng must be far superior to others in the subjects of civil administration, criminal justice, and construction, but in other subjects, he is much worse, I am afraid he is still a D-level."
"Fang Xusheng is very down-to-earth. He improves his subjects one by one, unlike the others who try to improve all ten subjects at once just to appear on the palace examination rankings of the Literary Newspaper. As far as the current ranking is concerned, ten subjects with a lower grade are higher than one subject with a higher grade and nine subjects with a lower grade."
"Bring it up and take a look at Fang Xusheng's recommendation article." Academician Song, who was in the middle, stretched out his hand and a stack of papers flew in front of him and were lined up in a row.
Scholar Song glanced at the article and read it in one breath. His eyes lit up and he said, "Such a reward is obviously not unusual, but compared with Lei Shushan's article, the difference is obvious! Take a look."
The other two grand secretaries quickly read Fang Yun’s reward to Liu Yu and the content promoting Liu Yu.
"Once this article is published, along with the promotion of the Gongdian, Fang Xusheng will become the trend-setter of Gongjia after the rookie of the military strategist and the young phoenix of the medical strategist."
"This article is almost aimed at Lei Shushan's 'contentment with poverty and happiness with the Tao', and it almost sounds like a loud slap in the face."
"I really don't know whether it was done by the staff or was an idea that Fang Xusheng came up with alone. It's really like an antelope hanging its horns, leaving no trace."
"This article is worth publishing. I wonder how Lei Shushan and the others will respond. There will be another interesting show to watch."
The three university scholars smiled and drafted the new layout of "Wen Bao" on the first day of March.
The three editorial masters of the "Holy Way" Editorial Board who were not far away were at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
Who would have thought that Fang Yun, Lei Shushan and Mo Shan each wrote an article on the improvement of the cotton-popping mechanism. According to the level, all three articles were qualified to be published in "The Holy Way", but when these three articles were published together, all the readers in the world could not help but laugh, especially since Mo Shan did not forget to attach a story about Lei Shushan's "first at a moment" at the end.
"Forget it, let's put the three articles together and let the readers judge for themselves!"
(To be continued…)