Two days later, the sky was clear again. The few puddles on the street reminded people of the heavy rain of the previous two days.
At midnight, the sun was beginning to show, and there were still a few beggars snoozing at the Yulin County government office. The notices at the government office gate were posted layer after layer, they were messy and outdated, and they looked a bit depressed.
Indeed, Yulin County is the closest to Yangzhou City among the ten counties in Yangzhou and has the best development, but the county government is the poorest.
The people don't understand, although Yulin County is a big county, why a county government is like a desolate courtyard that has been neglected for 20 to 30 years.
Faced with this situation, everyone thought that the county magistrate was incompetent.
Everyone said that the county magistrate was incompetent, but no one said that the county magistrate was corrupt. Because the facts are before our eyes. A county government is like a dog kennel. Inside the walls are all wild cats and dogs, and outside the walls are all beggars and vagabonds. If it is a
Corrupt officials will not be like this now.
If you want to say who is the most pitiable among these ten miles and eight towns? It is estimated that more than 80% of the people in Yulin will say without hesitation that it is the official difference between the county magistrate and the county government.
It's really too miserable. An official is so pitied by the people that his superiors and colleagues are embarrassed to say anything about him. They all know that he has done nothing, but they are embarrassed to find fault with him. That's why he is miserable all the time.
Holding an official position in his mouth dismally.
The magistrate of Yulin County's surname is Chai, and his single name is Guan. A fortune teller had already approved for him that "Chai Guan" is a homophone for "dismantling officials." Since all his officials have been demolished, he is destined to have little success in his official career, and the residence where he will work is certain.
It's not glamorous because of the word "dismantle".
This magistrate of Chaixian County is very famous in Yulin County. He came here as an official as the second in the list. In the whole of Dahua, it is a rare thing that the second in the list is assigned to be a county magistrate thousands of miles away.
The people of Yangzhou and even Yulin County certainly don't care about what Chaiguan did in the capital. Why were they sent to Yulin County to be the county magistrate? The only thing they are curious about is what glorious deeds a second-placed person can do as a county magistrate?
When Chaiguan first came to Yulin County, it caused a sensation.
Who would have thought that seventeen years have passed and the county government has become worse with each passing year.
Today, Magistrate Chai is still sleeping, but his master Liang Zheng is already handling daily affairs for him in the hall.
The firewood manager was already a broken man, so he spent half of his salary to hire a master to help him take care of the yamen affairs. He rarely went to court to hear cases.
Mr. Liang saw that the county magistrate was so lazy, how could he work seriously? It was better to just muddle along and count one month's salary as one month.
At this moment, I was flipping through some official documents, and when I felt drowsy, the sound of drumming suddenly came from outside.
"Dong...dong...dong..."
Master Liang frowned and shouted to the officer on duty at the door: "Hurry and see what's going on?"
As soon as he finished speaking, another government servant ran outside in a panic: "Master, there is a young man in strange clothes outside who said someone will come to kill him today."
Master Liang frowned: "You, you, you...speak slowly, who can't be killed?"
"There is a weird young man outside who said he was targeted by a female thief and left a note saying that he would come to take his life today."
The yamen servant ran to the lobby and handed Master Liang a piece of paper, on which a woman wrote a row of beautiful small characters: "Little thief, how dare you deceive me! Be careful today, I will come to take your life at any time."
"What does this mean?" Master Liang asked the officer.
The officer looked confused: "What...what do you mean? It's written very clearly on it."
"What do you mean by showing me this?"
"It's not interesting! I just wonder if Master Liang should try this case?"
"Trial the case? You want me to interrogate the case?" Mr. Liang was so angry that his beard stood up. "With this note, how do you want me to interrogate the case? Why do you want me to interrogate the case? Then I will write a note right now.
, saying that I am coming to kill you today, are you going to go to the magistrate’s office to sue me? Are you going to let the magistrate personally review the case?"
"This..." The yamen servant was confused by a series of questions and didn't know how to respond. "Then what does Mr. Liang think we should do?"
Mr. Liang crumpled the note into a ball and smashed it into the government officer's face: "Tell him to get out! Tell him to be killed and then come back to seek justice! These days, there are all kinds of weird people, and you can report the crime with just a piece of paper."
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The yamen officer knew that he had made a mistake and ran out quickly, thinking that the guy who reported the crime had caused him to be scolded, so he must teach him a lesson.
Unexpectedly, when the yamen officer returned to the yamen gate, the person who had just reported the crime was gone.
In the yamen, Mr. Liang was muttering: "A piece of paper can scare people into reporting the crime. I don't know where the tuberculosis guy came from."
Just as he was talking, Magistrate Chai came from the backyard. His official uniform was disheveled, his eyes were unfocused, his beard was drooping and he looked listless. He was yawning lazily and asked casually: "Master, why did you get angry just now?"
"Sir, the police officers under your command are so incompetent. A woman writes a note saying that she wants to kill someone. Does this mean she should report it to the police?"
"Huh?" Magistrate Chai didn't quite understand.
Master Liang quickly stood up, picked up the crumpled note on the ground, opened it bit by bit, and respectfully sent it to Magistrate Chai: "Sir, please take a look."
Magistrate Chai took the note, glanced at it, and sneered: "Tricky people."
Having said that, he was about to return the note.
But just when he was about to throw away the note, he suddenly remembered something and his hand stopped in mid-air.
"Sir, what are you doing?"
"Do you still remember? The gentleman from Yangzhou City seemed to be tracking down a female snitch. Do you think this could be her?"
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Late yesterday night——
In the small thatched cottage on the Xia family campus, the lights were on all night.
A man and a table of women are making final preparations for tomorrow's plan.
"My lord, how are you sure that that person has something to do with the court and the Yamen? And how are you sure that he is the one who hunted Shangguanchan?"
"Why was Shangguanchan injured? Wasn't it just to assassinate the governor of Yangzhou? In the rain that day, when I told the man about the situation, my perspective was to set Shangguanchan as my enemy. And after hearing this, he did not make things difficult for me. It can be seen that
He would not be in the same group as Guan Chan. And the palm print left on the wall was almost the same size as Guan Chan's. He must be someone close to the governor of Yangzhou.
That night to buy medicine for Shangguanchan, all the drug stores in the city had bought out all the cordyceps. Only the yamen could do this, because only the yamen had the ability to buy all the cordyceps silently in such a short period of time.
.And the yamen did all this, naturally because of that person's wishes. So he must have something to do with the yamen. The first step tomorrow is to go to the yamen and lure that person out with a note. As for what to do next...
…It’s up to you, Jiangnan.”
"Don't worry, sir, the students will fulfill their mission!" (To be continued)