It was midday, the smoke from the village’s cooker rose lazily, and the snow that had fallen on the chimneys was melted by the smoke, revealing dark chimneys.
Looking at the wailing bear children disappeared, Zhu Pingan slightly smiled and shook his head, then rolled over and dismounted, leading the horse into the village, stepping on the snow to make a “click click click” sound.
This village was not as large as the Lower River Village, with only about thirty to forty households. Zhu Pingan led his horse along the narrow path in the village, and looked for a house with the snow cleared in front of the door and knocked on the door.
“Who is it?”
A sound of footsteps came from the courtyard, and a man’s voice asked from the courtyard, his voice deep and brash.
Zhu Pingan patted the snow on his body and answered, “Trouble, I’m a passing scholar who wants to borrow a bowl of hot water to drink.”
As soon as Zhu Pingan’s words fell, the courtyard gate was opened, and a burly, dark, rough-skinned man appeared in the doorway, dressed in plain, shabby clothes, with the tops of his shoes covered in mud.
“Excuse me.” Zhu Pingan slightly arched his hand, and his face released goodwill.
“No, nothing.” The dark-skinned man was somewhat overwhelmed by Zhu Pingan’s arching his hand like this, scratching his head, he said, “If you don’t mind, let’s have a casual meal together, the child’s mother also just happened to have cooked the meal.”
“Many thanks big brother, then I’m sorry to disturb you.” Zhu Pingan once again arched his hand and thanked him.
The dark-skinned man was about thirty-odd years old and helped Zhu Pingan tie his horse to the barn, and added the cow’s grass to the horse-killing black horse in a broken basin.
One could tell that this was a simple and kind family.
However, this dark-skinned man seems to have a disability in his left foot, walking with a limp, it is not clear whether it is a congenital disability or a recent injury to the leg and foot. It was just that the han seemed to be very open about his leg, without a bit of hiding it, and his face was all positive.
The children of the family are curious about the guests in the house, quietly from the house to explore the spring head to see what the guests look like.
Who knows that one look at Zhu Pingan, this child’s whole body became bad, shivered a little, pointed at Zhu Pingan and shouted. “The demon is here.”
“You child, what are you talking nonsense about.” A woman’s voice came from the house, then pulled the child inside and seemed to teach him a lesson. The bear child wailed as he was beaten.
Ugh.
Coincidentally, when the child was looking at the door just now, Zhu Pingan recognised that this child was the leader of the bear child who had stopped in front of his horse in front of the village gate and “robbed” him in a boisterous manner.
“This child is talking nonsense, little brother don’t take it to heart haha. Walk into the house.” The dark-skinned man said to Zhu Pingan with some embarrassment, and then invited Zhu Pingan to go to the house.
The house was a little dark, Zhu Ping An went in for two or three seconds to get used to the light in the house, the house was very simple, but very clean. There was a hostess in the house who was busy cleaning up the table, although she was dressed plainly, but she still looked a little good-looking, and this dark-skinned man was still quite blessed.
Although the hostess has a little bit of beauty, but for Zhu Pingan, who is used to seeing the kind of demonic scourge level of the dark girl Li Shu, it’s just nothing. The heart is like still water.
The hanyou who was observing Zhu Pingan from the side instantly rose much more favourably towards Zhu Pingan when he saw this.
“Trouble sister-in-law.” Zhu Pingan slightly arched his hand.
“What trouble can there be.” The mistress waved her hand carelessly.
“He’s a bird demon.”
The bear child on one side pointed at Zhu Pingan and shouted, looking ready to take a bubble of child’s urine to exterminate the demon.
“Why are you so ignorant.” The mistress pulled the bear child and looked about to pull the bear child into her lap for a slap.
“Don’t blame him, it’s what I said when I was joking with them at the village entrance.” Zhu Pingan stopped and explained.
For the bear child, Zhu Pingan had his own way of dealing with it, pulling out a handful of jerky from his pocket he coaxed this bear child to call his brother. As for the bird demon or whatever, it was long forgotten with a mouthful of dried meat.
This family’s food is very simple, the vegetables are home-pickled radish, wins in the taste is not bad. Especially with millet porridge, let Zhu Pingan drink two big bowls.
When he was almost done eating, the door of the hanzi’s house was rudely kicked open, and about five or six people aggressively barged in. In the courtyard, they yelled and cursed at the top of their voices.
“Yang Dacheng, get your arse out of here.”
“Yang Cripple, get the hell out of here, the county magistrate is distributing the corvée according to the fish scale book, it’s your turn to repair the Great Wall.”
“Ha ha ha, if you don’t want to go, you can. I hear you’re very handsome.”
The man who was eating in the house heard this, pressed his chopsticks on the table, gave an apologetic glance to Zhu Pingan, and stormed out of the house in a fit of rage.
“Don’t you guys bully people too much!”
Yang Dacheng went out of the house, grabbed the shovel placed in the corner, and glared angrily.
“Hahaha, Yang Cripple still dares to think about making a move, it seems like the lesson from last time wasn’t enough.”
“What, don’t you want the other leg too?”
Yang Dacheng’s action not only didn’t intimidate the few people dressed as errand boys in the courtyard, but instead made them laugh.
“Hey, what are you saying. We can all be on official business, don’t be so rude, we have to treat each other with courtesy understand, how many times has the county master, his old man, said that.”
A middle-aged man in the courtyard preached to a few officers, this person is well dressed, or robes, seems to have an unusual identity. But the long can not how to compliment, a handful of eight beard, obscene obscene, looks like a fine weasel like, at a glance is not a good bird.
“Yes, yes, yellow saving point lesson is.”
A few of the errand boys nodded their heads to this man, looking as if they were looking up to Huang Zaodian.
Saving point, is a kind of position in the county government office, not even an official, but barely a dignified one, right? Don’t look at the county yamen is inconspicuous, but it is also a complete set of all the organs, the daily office of the county yamen is also a mandarins, households, rituals, military, criminal, and six rooms of the work. Six rooms is the county’s organisational structure, attached to the county hall of the left and right, each room set the official 1 person, the staff called “save point”, “bookman”, “book office”, The staff members were called “save point”, “secretary”, “secretary”, “secretary”, “secretary”, “secretary”, “secretary”, “secretary”, “secretary”, “secretary”, and so on. In the Household Room, there was one official (also called “Household Book”) and one saving point, who was in charge of collecting taxes and paying taxes for food and grain throughout the county; in addition, the Household Room was also in charge of the “Fish Scale Atlas”, money, grain and land inventories, etc., as well as the distribution of corvée service, and so on.
Although the county magistrate is in charge of the county, there is a history to help deal with official business, but due to the small number of people is very difficult to handle the task. Therefore, its official office is the six houses of Xuyun, they actually take over all the things and powers of the magistracy, although its staffing is not regulated by law, and does not pay salaries from the state treasury, but in fact, it becomes a fixed office within the magistracy, and is recognised by the imperial court. Since they are not paid, but hold real power, these people make use of their power by all means to extort money, demand and accept bribes, and enrich themselves.
This yellow save point is the household room of a save point, that is, a staff member, this yellow save point can get such a position, but also because of his own or a scholar, but also because of his scholar status, so in addition to the household book in addition to the household room, the number of him.
Read a lot of saintly books, most of them can not do saintly.
Since into the household room this fat vacancy, this yellow save point small life don’t mention how to live a nourishing, personal hobbies have been given full play.
In fact, yellow save point hobbies are not much, just two, one is to help others to keep silver, the other is to help others to take care of the women.
If you don’t let me help you, you can’t, because Huang is very particular about it. Don’t be polite to me, or I’ll be rude to you!
