"It doesn't matter if you tell me."
Seeing Lao Zheng say this again, Gu Chen was very speechless.
"Anzi." He opened the curtain and called to Gu An, who was sitting outside: "Why don't you get in the carriage and sit down? Don't fall off when the time comes."
Gu An's mobile monitor was still young, and he didn't want to bring it with him.
But people were crying and insisting on following him, so he had no choice but to accept it happily.
It's actually a good thing to have someone like Lao Zhu by your side.
Because he follows him, he will naturally find a way to let Lao Zhu know his every move, and there is nothing that others can do if they want to frame him.
It doesn't matter whether you get promoted or not. The main thing is that you can't die. It doesn't matter if you die. Your wife, children, brother, sister-in-law, mother-in-law, and your family can't be implicated.
"No, sir." Gu An quickly refused: "It's too stuffy inside. It's good for me to sit outside for some ventilation."
This Marquis Deqing is really not a good person. It would be strange to see him turn around and not tell Commander Mao to report him and let Your Majesty take care of him.
In fact, Gu Chen quite understood Liao Yongzhong's malice.
All emperors only allow generals to bring peace to troubled times, but do not allow generals to enjoy peace.
As generals who live their lives at the edge of the sword, their heads are pinned to their belts every day.
But once the emperor's boss became famous, they had to be careful, restrain their sharp edges, and live a humble and cautious life.
If you are not careful, you will be jealous of the emperor.
Even some petty officials of the fifth, sixth and seventh grades who had never been on the battlefield and had tender skin and tender flesh could point their noses and scold them.
They were punished by the emperor, scolded by the emperor, and even sentenced to death by the emperor, and the first, third, and ninth tribes disappeared.
Tell me, who would be convinced if it were someone else?
Liao Yongzhong was indeed angry about this, but he kept it in mind and didn't dare to play too hard for fear of something happening.
He was frightened by Zhu Huan's death.
Your Majesty can even kill his own nephew, let alone an outsider like himself?
In order to live well, he could only force himself to live a good life with his tail between his legs.
If something happened to Gu Chen, or these farm tools wouldn't be able to protect him.
Then I am really useless.
There is no need to keep useless people.
In the Prime Minister's Mansion in the capital, Hu Weiyong frowned when he learned that Liao Yongzhong personally escorted Gu Chen, and then relaxed.
"Good luck to him."
Liu Bowen was actually willing to come back and pressed him step by step in the court, making him feel helpless no matter what he did.
He felt from the bottom of his heart that he had something to do with this Gu Chen.
What did he say to Liu Bowen that time in Qingtian?
No matter what, the most important thing at the moment is to deal with Liu Bowen, this troublesome guy.
Besides, he was demoted to that hellish place in Zhuanglang, and he might not be able to come back in the future.
Why should I, the dignified Prime Minister, care about this little Luoluo?
There is no pattern!
Gu Chen set out in early July, and it was already early August when he arrived at Pingliang Mansion.
It was not easy to walk on this road. Not only were the mountains high and the water long, but the further we went, the more desolate it became. By the time we finally reached Pingliang, everyone was already exhausted.
"It's not easy."
Fortunately, this place belongs to the middle east of Gansu Province. There are grass and trees on the mountains, but it is not covered with yellow sand and not a single blade of grass grows.
It was rare that Liao Yongzhong didn't say anything sarcastic, and he was very sympathetic.
"This place is too remote. The people in Fucheng are still wearing such shabby clothes. After walking for so long, why don't you even see a brothel?"
Gu Chen: "..."
Zheng Shiyuan: "..."
Zheng Shili: "..."
Good guy, how long has it been and you are still thinking about the brothel?
Gu An curled his lips and silently made another note for Liao Yongzhong.
Obscene!
Liao Yuan also nodded silently and said softly: "The skin of women on the street is also very rough, not as delicate as the maids in the mansion."
Seeing that the eyes of Gu Chen and others kept wandering on the two of them, Liao Yongzhong realized that he had said the wrong thing when he remembered their former censor status.
"Ahem."
He coughed twice and signaled the adopted son beside him to say less.
When they arrived at Pingliang Mansion, Gu Chen wanted to take his master Bo Zheng Shiyuan to report to the prefect of Pingliang, Zhang Huaizhou, and then get the seal.
After all, Liao Yongzhong was a marquis, so he naturally wanted to go with him.
So his adopted son Liao Yuan and others went to the inn to take a bath, eat, and feed the horses.
They don't know the specific situation in Zhuanglang County yet, and they won't even be able to take a shower by then.
Zhang Huaizhou was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Zhishun in the Yuan Dynasty. He is fifty-two years old this year, but he still seems to be in good spirits.
He has a good appearance and is kind and congenial.
"The magistrate of Zhuanglang County has not come to the county for decades, but now you are here. The people and the county chief Wen are all looking forward to your coming."
The government office looks a bit old and has few furnishings, but it is large enough.
There are probably more than a dozen rooms in front and back.
"I don't have any good tea here, so you two can just drink it."
If other prefects said this, it would definitely be modesty.
But when the prefect of Pingliang Prefecture said this, it was indeed the truth.
Not to mention that this tea is loose tea, the quality is not good, not as good as the tea in Yushitai's office, but Gu Chen is not a picky person.
A place like this is great if it has a stutter, so what else could you choose?
"Master Zhang."
Gu Chen took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and then cupped his hands.
"I'm new here, I don't know if there's anything I need to pay attention to. I'd like to ask Mr. Zhang for advice."
The folk customs of each place are different, and people need to abide by them.
Even if you are an official, you cannot destroy or change other people's folk customs.
Because that’s their belief and bottom line, and if they make you angry, your life may be at risk.
"Zhuang Lang is nothing." Zhang Huaizhou sighed: "Zhuang Lang is just poor and doesn't have enough to eat. A few days ago, there was a case where he sold his daughter-in-law to be a vegetable waiter."
Vegetarian...
Hiss~
Everyone took a breath, and even Liao Yongzhong, who had killed countless people, sighed.
"In troubled times and famine, there will always be dishonest people. I think back when they besieged the Yuan army, the Yuan army had nothing to eat, so they roasted women alive who were tired of playing with them."
"Your Majesty governs the army strictly and does not allow us to rob food. We will also be beheaded if we rob women."
"I have never seen that scene before. I was so shocked that I couldn't stop vomiting. I didn't eat for three days and three nights. Even though I am used to seeing blood, it was also a nightmare."
"Those Yuan soldiers said that the Han people are two-legged sheep. So what if they are sheep and are eaten?"
"And in order to taste good, they have to be roasted alive. Looking at the skeletons and heads left behind by them, I just..."
"After reading some books, I realized that not only the Yuan army, but also armies without food during wars have often done this since ancient times. I didn't expect that it still happens today."
Under His Majesty's rule, this custom still exists in the world.
This is simply incredible.
"There's only one reason why the waiter appears." Gu Chen closed his eyes and sighed softly: "That's because he's hungry. He's so hungry that there's nothing he can do."
This topic was a bit heavy, and even Zhang Huaizhou had tears in his eyes.
"Master Gu, since you are here, you should naturally serve as an official well. Without asking for more wealth, it will be a great merit if you can prevent such tragedies from happening again."
"You are the county magistrate. Although in the eyes of the lords in the capital, the seventh-rank official is just a sesame-sized official, here you are in the eyes of the common people."
"You are God, their parent and official, you can dominate everything about them."
The county magistrate has great power over his own county. To put it bluntly, he is the local emperor.
Gu Chen nodded repeatedly. No matter what, he just didn't bully the people.
After taking out the seal from the government office, Gu Chen was not in a hurry to return to the inn.
"General Liao, I want to ask you for a favor."
On that day, Gu Chen was in Fucheng and bought the entire Fucheng's piglets and chickens. Unfortunately, there were not many, and there were only about twenty chickens.
There are more than ten piglets, which I bought after going door to door.
Most people refuse to sell it and want to keep it for their own consumption.
"You bought these because you wanted to distribute them to the people, but you don't have enough?"
Liao Yongzhong was a little confused. Unless he divided it into parts, it wouldn't be good to favor one thing over another, right?
"The land here is so poor. If we don't support ourselves, what will we eat and drink?"
If you tell Gu Chen not to eat eggs or meat, he won't be able to bear it.
He is a carnivore, and the flesh-eating bacteria had already begun to grow wildly during the three months in prison.
