Chapter 58 Are you too sweet-mouthed? (Please vote!)
"Just eat, don't stare at my face all the time, you pick up the food."
On Luming Street, next to the patio of a lobby in the county government's back house, Ouyang Rong, Xie Lingjiang, and Yan Liulang, who had not seen each other for many days, gathered at the table for dinner.
Ouyang Rong couldn't help but put down the bowl, raised his head and said.
Xie Lingjiang and Yan Liulang immediately lowered their heads and continued to cook rice in perfect agreement.
The young magistrate sighed... It's okay for my little junior sister to take advantage of my beauty. Liu Lang, you don't want to take advantage of my food as well?
He placed a pair of bowls and chopsticks for Liu Ashan on the table next to him.
This morning, Ouyang Rong continued to work on the large sand table simulating flood control in the county government house. Xie Lingjiang and Yan Liulang came to him to discuss matters. At about noon, Wei Lai and Ban Xi came to deliver food to them.
Ouyang Rong did not let the two little girls wait for dinner, and asked Liu Ashan to take them back to Meiluyuan reluctantly. The main reason was that a certain silver-haired maid was a little too clingy. The junior sister and Liu Lang were both there, and someone had an old face and was embarrassed.
Ouyang Rong turned his head and looked at the huge sand table in the yard. It was clearly noon, but the sky outside the eaves was a little dim, as if a storm was about to come.
"Is there anything hotly discussed in the county recently?"
He picked up the bowl again, picked up the food and asked casually.
Xie Lingjiang and Yan Liulang couldn't help but look at him. Do they really not know about the things that have been talked about in the county for the past two days?
It was Yan Liulang who was the first to say: "Recently, people are talking about the Ming Dynasty."
"Me? What do I have to discuss?" The young county magistrate, who was holding a bowl of rice, paused.
"Thanks to the Ming Dynasty opening warehouses and releasing cheap grains every day, the price of rice in the Longcheng market is almost collapsing now. No one is stupid enough to buy the high-priced grains. They are all waiting for the 'five-cent grain' in the morning. Those grain merchants from other places
We and local grain merchants have begun to rush to sell grain, and the price of rice in Longcheng is currently no more than nine yuan a dou."
Yan Liulang was angry and shook his finger:
"Before the Ming government relaxed the grain restriction order to attract grain merchants, didn't some people say that the government was secretly selling grain? Now these people have shut up, and the people are happy to buy cheap grain, which shows that the government is a good official, and there are
The legacy of Master Di who provided disaster relief and flood control."
Xie Lingjiang said with a smile but not a smile:
"There is also the fact that senior brother left a vacant house without a wife or concubine, which was also talked about on the street. In addition, the day before yesterday, senior brother went to Kou Ma Shop to buy a maid, but ended up bringing back a white-haired girl...
"People in the city say that my senior brother is a truly upright official, honest and compassionate, and these things have spread to the counties next door... none of the county magistrates next door have wives and concubines, and only my senior brother is the most unsexy."
A young county magistrate twitched the corner of his mouth.
Why doesn't he feel happy at all when the people praise him so much? Well, a single dog can also be praised, right?
Ouyang Rong is not lewd.
On the contrary, he is an old scumbag.
It's just that at the moment, he just wants to pursue a career and go back after providing disaster relief and flood control. He feels more like a passerby than a returnee. What ties will he leave behind? Unless he can't go back.
Moreover, despite his status as a gentleman, he was afraid that he would not be able to restrain himself, especially girls like Junior Sister, Ye Weila, Banxi and others who were not at all on guard against him.
"Let's not talk about these irrelevant things." Ouyang Rong shook his head and asked: "How are the grain merchants doing now?"
Yan Liulang smiled and said:
"In compliance with the arrangements of the Ming government, my subordinates have been dragging the cases of Shopkeepers Ma and Shopkeepers Li these days. The inspection of grain depots at the dock has also been suspended. These grain merchants, big and small, were in a hurry just a few days ago. They come to see their subordinates every day.
The subordinates urged the progress, especially Shopkeeper Ma and Shopkeeper Li.
"But every time they urged me, I told them that the government had told me to stop the investigation and continue to check the grain depot, but the two people hesitated after hearing this. They must be afraid. I just kept putting it off.
Oh... By the way, for some reason they haven't come looking for me in the past two days. I wonder if they noticed something."
"We are all foxes with thousands of years of experience. Naturally they can understand Liaozhai." Ouyang Rong smiled.
"Liao Zhai?" Xie Lingjiang was curious.
Ouyang Rong did not explain, but asked her: "Have any grain merchants come to see me?"
The junior sister said crisply:
"Senior brother has been busy making sand table in the back house these past two days. Wang Caozhi and some other grain merchants came to see you privately. However, according to your previous instructions, I made excuses for you and sent them away."
Ouyang Rongduo asked, "What excuse did Junior Sister find?"
Xie Lingjiang glanced at him and said, "I was seriously injured when I fell into the water last time. I haven't recovered yet. It's the root of the disease that fell."
Ouyang Rong nodded and turned to ask: "The charity warehouse has released so much 'five-cent grain', how much do we have left?"
Yan Liulang seemed to have been prepared. He dipped his fingers in water and scratched the table, raised his head and said:
"Including the grain donated by Liu Ziwen and other thirteen rural gentry before the Dragon Boat Festival, as well as the grain we collected by secretly raising the price of rice before, plus the loss of work-for-relief these days... At present, the county government warehouse has been
More than 16,000 shi were sold, leaving a surplus of 15,000 shi."
Ouyang Rong said directly:
"Leave 10,000 stones as a guarantee. The remaining 5,000 stones must be thrown away within three days."
He also told Xie Lingjiang: "If anyone comes again in three days, bring them in."
"Okay, let's just say that senior brother is cured."
Yan Liulang looked cautious and reminded: "Mingfu has more than 5,000 shi of grain. I'm afraid it won't be able to completely hit the price of grain in one go."
The young county magistrate looked curious: "Who said I was going to break the price of food in Longcheng?"
This time it was Xie Lingjiang and Yan Liulang's turn to be confused: "Otherwise, how could we let them sell grain at a low price?"
"Why do you want them to sell grain at a low price?"
Xie Lingjiang and Yan Liulang looked at each other and blurted out:
"Needless to say, we can collect all their food cheaply, and there will no longer be a shortage of food."
Ouyang Rong laughed and shook his head, suddenly saying:
"Little junior sister, Wang Caozhi is your brother-in-law. Every time we meet, he calls you "sister" so affectionately. I didn't expect you to want him to lose all his money and lose his underwear."
Xie Lingjiang wrinkled his nose and said, "I told you I'm not familiar with him, and besides, the profiteer deserves to die."
After a pause, she saw her senior brother smiling but not saying a word. She suddenly turned her head away and looked outside the courtyard with a slightly wandering gaze, whispering:
"I've already told you that he was yelling nonsense, senior brother... maybe it's because he talks sweetly and I want to let him go."
Ouyang Rong was stunned for a moment before realizing that the junior sister was referring to Wang Caozhi calling him "brother-in-law" last time. He shook his head, "That's not true."
"oh."
A certain junior sister used the chopsticks in her hand to poke a few grains of soft rice in the bowl.
Ouyang Rong did not show off any more, and thanked and Yan directly said:
"I don't have time to accompany them to fight to the death, and I guess Liu Ziwen won't watch me eat meat in vain. Besides, I said on the first day that I only came to Dragon City to do one thing this time."
Xie Lingjiang's eyes were bright and alert. He looked at Senior Brother Jingping at the table and said on his behalf: "Disaster relief, flood control, justice."
Ouyang Rong nodded: "Do as I just told you."
"yes."
Xie Lingjiang and Yan Liulang came together.
Boom~
It was clearly noon but the lobby was a little dark. First there was a flash of lightning, then the thunder came slowly, and then the drizzle came belatedly.
The antique fragrance inside the hall and the plum rain outside the hall give it a Jiangnan flavor... Oh, I forgot, this is the Jiangnan Ancient Town.
Ouyang Rong stood up, walked to the moss eaves, reached out to catch a raindrop, lowered his head and looked at it carefully.
Yan Liulang's joyful voice came from behind:
"Great, Ming Mansion, it's the rainy season, the grain accumulated in the dock warehouse is more likely to age, and the grain merchants are in a hurry!"
The young county magistrate shook his head and stated softly:
"The flood in Yunmengze is coming soon."
He stared at the sand table in the rain.
Here it comes! Ahem, good brothers, have you gone to school... (fog)