Chapter 257 Maizi Magistrate
Dou Ping took a few people around and accidentally saw a landslide mansion. Dou Ping asked the people around him in disbelief.
"Is this your county government?" Dou Ping looked at a young scholar beside him.
Dou Ping asked about it was Zhou Heng, the magistrate of Maizi County in Gaochang County. Zhou Heng stayed in a thatched hut near the county government every day to handle official duties. Today, he happened to come out and met Dou Ping and his group who came from afar.
"This is our county magistrate." Zhou Heng said embarrassedly. After the spring plowing in the first year, we must find someone to repair the county magistrate. If Shangguan still let himself be the county magistrate.
"Who has ravaged this county government so much?" Dou Ping said with a smile.
Zhou Heng looked at the handsome and unparalleled man in a black scholar's gown in front of him, lowered his head in shame, and whispered, "Sometimes ago, heavy snow collapsed."
"Then why don't you find someone to repair it? It doesn't seem like your county doesn't even have money to repair a county government." Dou Ping walked to the landslide of the county government and looked at it. It was indeed crushed.
Zhou Heng didn't want to answer, but when he saw the bright eyes as bright as stars, he couldn't help but say, "I don't want to work hard to lose money. In winter, the people finally had a rest for a while. I really don't want to let the people come to repair the county government at this time."
"So you are the magistrate of Gaochang County. You are so rude." Although Dou Ping had seen Zhou Heng's portrait, he still didn't recognize him at first sight when he saw the real person.
"It's okay, it's okay. What do you call me? You're not a local person." Zhou Heng waved his hand with a smile, without the airs of a county magistrate at all.
"I'm here, Huangfulin. He is doing silk business and is preparing to go to Dunhuang County. When he passed by here, he saw the county government doing this, so he asked this question." Dou Ping said with a smile.
"Oh, I said no wonder, brother like this, how could he be unknown if he was in Zhangye County?" Zhou Heng said without a trace of perfunctory and seriousness.
Dou Ping shook his head and laughed, "The county magistrate praised it. I am just curious, where is the county magistrate working like this?"
"I'm in that thatched hut, and the people will go there to find me if they have anything to do." Zhou Heng said with a smile.
The two were chatting when suddenly a group of young men in gorgeous clothes came, "Marriage Maizi, why didn't they harvest wheat? Oh, by the way, now I say that I can't harvest wheat in winter. Hahaha."
After the young man in Jinyi who was leading the way, the other five or six people laughed. Zhou Heng blushed and stared at the group of young men, but did not speak. Seeing that he did not speak, the young man's teasing became louder and louder.
The people around him looked like they dared to be angry but not speak out. Looking at the group of young men in gorgeous clothes. Hu Hui looked at Dou Ping, but Dou Ping saw that he had any expression, and Hu Hui and Li Fugui did not act rashly.
Seeing that Zhou Heng had no reaction, the young people in the Chinese clothing felt that it was meaningless, so they took the lead and whispered a coward and turned around and left.
An old man came over and sighed, looking at Zhou Heng with some anger and said, "Mr. Li, Miss Li, and you are childhood sweethearts. Do you really have the heart to watch her marry that playboy?"
Zhou Heng's lips moved several times and finally shook his head without saying a word. Seeing Zhou Heng's appearance, the old man sighed angrily and turned to leave.
"You are too handsome. Those things are ridiculed by you. Just ask the yamen runners to clean them up. You don't have to sulk here." Dou Ping said to Zhou Heng.
"The yamen runners are not from me, Zhou Heng, but from Gaochang County." Zhou Heng whispered in a firm tone. After saying this, Hu Hui and others who had originally despised him a little changed their minds about him a lot.
"It's almost evening at this time, let's have a drink together." Dou Ping said to Zhou Heng. His tone was like a pair of friends who had been together for many years. After Dou Ping said this, he pulled him to the tavern without waiting for Zhou Heng to refuse.
Dou Ping secretly gave Li Fugui a look. Li Fugui nodded to show his understanding and turned around and left. Diao Chan and Hu Hui followed Dou Ping and Zhou Heng into the tavern.
The four of them found a place to sit by the window. Diao Chan sat next to Dou Ping, and Hu Hui stood behind Dou Ping. Although Diao Chan had a tulle on her face, her stunning appearance was still difficult to hide.
Zhou Heng looked at the two people sitting together, and they seemed to have walked out of the painting. Zhou Heng was slightly lost. After the wine came up, Zhou Heng came to his senses when Dou Ping poured wine for Zhou Heng.
"Sorry, I just lost my mind." Zhou Heng said embarrassedly.
"It's okay, the county magistrate. Let's drink this cup first." Dou Ping picked up a cup and said. Zhou Heng had to drink another cup.
Seeing that the two of them had finished drinking, Diao Chan filled them up again. Dou Ping raised his glass again, "It's a fate to meet, let's drink another glass."
"Brother Huangfu, Heng, you can't bear to drink. Let's drink slowly." After Zhou Heng finished speaking, Dou Ping raised his glass and drank it all. Zhou Heng had to drink another big glass.
Diao Chan was understanding and filled the wine again. Dou Ping was about to raise his glass, but Zhou Heng pressed down the wine in Dou Ping's hand. "Brother Huangfu, can I let me slowly first?"
Dou Ping put down the wine glass in his hand and asked, "Does the county magistrate take us seriously and are not willing to drink with me?"
"No, I definitely didn't mean that. I..." Zhou Heng quickly explained.
"Then let's drink this glass again." Dou Ping picked up the wine glass, touched the wine glass in Zhou Heng's hand, and drank it all in one go. Zhou Heng could only drink it with a bitter face.
After three glasses of wine, Zhou Heng's face began to turn rosy and talked more. "Brother Huangfu, you know that when I was a child, I grew up here. I loved this place more than anyone else. When I was a child, the county magistrate was corrupt and abused the law, making complaints. At that time, I thought that if one day I could become an official, I must be a good official. But when I really became a county magistrate, I realized it was really difficult. What do you mean by being a county magistrate? When General Wenyuan recommended me, but I had no talent. I just had seriousness. I wanted the people under my ruler to live a good life. They told me that Maizi County Magistrate, I was not angry, but Wan'er was going to marry the playboy from the Sun family. I was the county magistrate, and I had a way to stop me, but if I used the power in my hands to stop me, wouldn't I be no different from those I hated?"
Dou Ping looked at Zhou Heng who was full of complaining, but couldn't hate him. "You are too pedantic." Dou Ping said.
"Brother Huangfu, you must stick to something that you should stick to. It has nothing to do with anything else, it just has integrity." Zhou Heng looked at Dou Ping seriously and said.
"Even if it's your beloved girl, marry a bastard?" Dou Ping asked rebelliously.
Zhou Heng suddenly raised his head and looked at Dou Ping with anger. After a long time, he sighed, "You said I have known you for only a few hours. What do you mean by telling you?"
Chapter completed!