"Sir, arrangements have been made for the beggars in the city, and some ownerless yards have also been tidied up and can be sold at any time."
At this time, a middle-aged man walked in, saluted the county magistrate and said.
The county magistrate put down the brush in his hand and nodded to the visitor, "Well done, you managed to get these things done in such a short time. I really did not misjudge you.
Xuyong, the money obtained from selling the yard will be used to build the Salesian Home. When the time comes, those who are homeless and unable to live on their own will be taken in, so that there will not be so many beggars. "
The middle-aged man who was called Xu Yong raised his hand and said, "Sir, you are so kind. Having a master in Wu County is really a blessing to the people. I will definitely finish the errands ordered by the master and not disappoint the master."
"Hahahaha... Xu Yong has been praised too much. I made a determination when I was in school. If I can serve as an official, I will definitely benefit the whole country!
Now that I have come to Wu County and become the parent official of this county, I naturally want to display my youthful ambitions.
Xu Yong, please do your best. If one day I take a step further, I will follow you for a worthy cause..."
The man named Xu Yong hurriedly saluted again and said with excitement: "The villain will only follow the leadership of the adults. The adults will only do the work, and the villain will go all out..."
Qingyan listened for a long time with her spiritual consciousness, then complimented each other, feeling that one of them dared to deceive and the other dared to believe.
The county magistrate didn't know whether he was really stupid or pretending to be stupid. He just let this person take responsibility for all these things and just listened to a report?
Didn't you ask someone to verify it? Listening to the conversation between the two of them, it was obvious that the county magistrate meant to resettle the beggars, not to drive them out of the city.
But that subordinate named Xu Yong obviously did not do this. As for those unmanned courtyards, it was not up to him to decide how much they would sell for. As long as he did not say enough to build the Salesian Home, the project would probably have died.
This county magistrate leaves things to one person, and there is no one else. At least two or more people can restrain each other and compete with each other, and the efficiency will be higher.
Qingyan shook her head. It seemed that the county magistrate was not carrying out any tasks or plotting in the city as she thought. Chun Chun was just a passionate young man from above who just entered the officialdom on a whim.
He withdrew his consciousness and looked around. Seeing that there was no one within two miles, he asked Chou Chou to take her and the carriage into the space.
After going into the house, washing up, changing into thin clothes and coming out, I found that Yuan Bao, whom I hadn't seen for several days, was back, and he and Chou Chou were lying belly up on the rocking chair together.
"Hey~ Who is this? It's so rare, the busy leopard is back! What? You're not taking your group of brothers all over the mountains?"
Yuan Bao raised his head and felt a little strenuous, so he lay back down.
He lazily said: "Forget it, they said that the entire mountain has been turned around. We originally wanted to go see the places outside the mountain, but it turned out that it was blocked by Chou Chou and we couldn't get through at all, so we came back again."
The decadent look made Qingyan unable to bear it, so she walked over to pick it up, held it in her arms and rubbed it vigorously.
"What does this look like? Our Yuanbao is the liveliest one. The mountain is so big and there are so many things on it. You can see the end with your eyes.
Besides, it’s not like you’ve never been to Chou Chou. It’s so dusty and there’s nothing to see. You might as well stay outside with me during the day. At least the location will change every day and the scenery will be different. "
Ever since Chou Chou merged with Gale's space, Yuan Bao hasn't gone out. He's either lying down in this small courtyard, wandering in the valley, or running all over the mountains and plains with his younger brothers.
She was alone outside. Apart from chatting with Chou Chou Transmission, she was really bored. It would be good to at least move her furry body.
Yuan Bao nuzzled into her arms and found a comfortable position for her to hold, "But it's so cold outside and you won't let me get out of the carriage. I can't see anything."
Qingyan: "Now that we have gone quite far south, it is not as cold as before. When we go further south, the temperature will be even higher, so we can spend the night directly outside in the mountains and forests without entering the space.
We are almost here in the capital. There are more and more people and it is becoming more and more prosperous. Don’t you want to take a look? I can take you into the city to visit the markets and shopping streets. "
Yuan Bao's two furry ears stood up, and his two yellow-brown eyes were wide.
"Really! Are you going to take me shopping? Aren't you going to lock me in an inn or a carriage like before?"
In fact, it has been in the space for a long time. It just feels that if it goes out, it will be bored in the car, and it is not as wide as the range of activities in the space, so it doesn't want to go out.
Now that Qingyan has promised benefits, of course she is going down the slope.
"Of course not, there are no outsiders now, it's just the three of us, you and Chou Chou can go out and hang out with me.
Let’s leave as soon as we’re done shopping, and we’re not afraid of other people’s ideas, so we can do whatever we want. "
Chou Chou also nodded beside him, "I went out today and met five little beggars. They didn't make a fuss when they saw me."
Qingyan twitched her lips and said to herself that it was because I diverted their attention. They were all focused on how to stay with me in the future. Except for that little Douding, the other four people didn't even care to look at you.
Speaking of those five people, Qingyan asked: "Chou Chou, have those five people arrived in Zhoujia Town? My consciousness can no longer see them."
Chou Chou nodded, "Not long after they arrived, they didn't go directly to the shop or Zhou Fuling's house, but walked around the town first.
Xiaoan and Xiaokang also took Xiaodouding to beg in the shops on the street. Those shops did not chase them away, and two of them even gave them some food. "
Qingyan raised her eyebrows, "It seems they want to see how the people in Zhou's town are like. If they are all so unkind, they probably don't want to stay there."
This is normal. When you are new to a place, if the people there are xenophobic, it will be difficult for outsiders to survive, so it is good to be cautious.
"Where's Zhou Fuling? Has there been any action?"
Chou Chou: "Her father went to the clan elders, told everything, and came up with a plan to catch the cheating couple. Let Zhou Fuling pretend not to know about the woman and stay with her parents for a few days. God, wait until the other side relaxes their vigilance and take it down in one fell swoop."
Qingyan curled her lips and said with dissatisfaction: "You can't do anything to him just to catch an adulterer, right? If you can't reconcile, you can bring back a concubine at most and multiple bastards. That won't be an advantage for him."
Chou Chou looked at her and said, "You really don't know the ancient laws. Although concubinage is legal, adultery is not.
Another thing is that the people do not complain to the officials, but as long as one of the husband and wife files a complaint, the government will investigate and deal with it.
Especially since Bai Yansheng was married into a wife, his current status was that of a woman, and the head of the Zhou family could directly send him to the outhouse.
If Zhou Fuling were to marry into the Bai family, that would be a different matter. Bai Yansheng would be punished for at most a dozen times. If he bribed the official, he would not hurt his muscles and bones if he asked the other party to be gentle. "
Qingyan looked at it with surprise, "How do you know so clearly? Didn't you say before that you didn't have any information in your inheritance and didn't know the historical direction here?"
Chou Chou: "Hey~ I'm just sitting around here with nothing to do. I just found a few historical records here and read them.
Don't tell me, it's quite interesting. Do you want to take a look? You can go to bookstores in the city to look for it later. I secretly took someone else's copy and read it before putting it back. "
Qingyan was a little moved. She had also visited bookstores before. Maybe those cities were too remote. The books inside were all poems, songs, and storybooks, and she was not very interested in them.
Especially the story books, there are many of them in later generations, which are much more exciting than this.
When she arrived in the big city, she went to a bookstore to read about the history and laws of this world. She bought some and took them back to read, just in case she needed them later.
After dinner, Qingyan was not in a hurry to rest and opened the illustrated book of medicinal herbs given to her by Zhou Fuling.
I read a few pages first, and then I found that the descriptions and pictures on it were very familiar. I handed it to Chou Chou and asked, "Chou Chou, do you think these herbs look familiar?"
Chou Chou glanced sideways and said, "Aren't these just weeds in the vegetable garden? Xiong Da and the others will remove these weeds every two days and throw them outside the fence."
Qingyan took the book and ran out, ready to see if it was the same thing.
When we came to the edge of the vegetable garden, there were indeed a lot of weeds piled up, some were dry and some were still fresh. The ones above should be from today. They are still green but the leaves are a little wilted.
She reached out and picked up a few relatively complete ones, observing them and comparing them with the ones in the book.
Hey! When she returned to her hometown in later generations, she often saw these on the roadside. It turned out that they were all medicinal materials.
One is Amaranth, also called Mopancao. The stems can be used to make hemp ropes and sacks, and they can also be used as medicine.
There is also morning glory, which is the morning glory often seen on the roadside. Its seeds are medicinal materials.
Then there is plantain, which is really everywhere. It is so common that most people treat it as a weed. It can treat wind and cold.
But these are so common that not many people would buy them and sell them for money, and they would probably be very cheap if they were collected in pharmacies.
Qingyan was not doing it to make money, she just wanted to know more Chinese medicinal materials so that when needed in the future, she would at least know which ones could save her life.
She took the book and walked around the nearby mountains again, memorizing more than a dozen kinds of medicinal materials, some of which were more imaginary. She carefully observed them to avoid making mistakes, but they looked similar but were not the same thing. It was confusing. Very dangerous.
It wasn't until after eleven o'clock that her eyes hurt, so she went back to sleep.
She slept with Yuan Bao in her arms at night. She hadn't held it for several days and missed it quite a bit.
When I woke up the next morning, it was already past nine o'clock. If I slept late yesterday, I got up late.
After washing up, he ate something with Chou Chou Yuan Bao. Just as he was about to ask Daxiong to come over and set up the car and go out, he was stopped by Chou Chou.
"Wait a minute. There is someone where you came in. It should be a passing caravan who came to the forest for convenience. It's not too late for you to wait until they leave before going out."
Qingyan twitched the corner of her mouth. This was really unfortunate. Fortunately, she went around to the other side yesterday and did not go into the forest. She thought she would not step on a thunderstorm as soon as she went out.
After waiting for a long time, Chou Chou didn't say he could go out, "What's wrong? They haven't left yet? It's not like they're having a bowel movement, right?"
Chou Chou looked at her without saying anything. Oh well, she guessed it right. What the hell was going on? It was disgusting in the morning.
"Forget it, I'm not in a hurry to go out. Come on, Yuanbao, let's go for a walk in the mountains. I just didn't go far last night. Let's see if we can find any medicinal materials today."
After taking two steps, he turned back to Chou Chou and said, "Since it's already late, I'll just finish my lunch before going out. I'm not in a hurry anyway.
Let's stir-fry two vegetarian dishes for lunch. Just cut some braised pork and don't stew the meat. I've been getting a bit angry these past two days. "
Chou Chou nodded, "Okay, stir-fry a green bean and a leek and an egg. I'm the best at this."
Qingyan gave it a thumbs up, "Chou Chou is the best. Call me when the time comes and we'll be back right away."
After saying that, he carried Yuan Bao up the mountain, walking in the opposite direction from yesterday.
This place is close to the valley, and they come here often. In fact, they are already very familiar with it. But before, they only paid attention to the wild fruits on the trees and did not take a good look under their feet, so they really didn't know that there were a lot of medicinal materials.
After wandering around the mountains with Yuan Bao for more than two hours, Chou Chou called me back. It was almost twelve o'clock and it was time to have lunch.
Qingyan took a bite of beans and a bite of steamed buns, and said with emotion: "Stir-fried vegetables are still delicious, but now I lose my appetite when I think of stewed meat.
We don’t know how long it will take for the vegetables we grow to mature, especially the cucumbers. The ones we bought have been eaten, and we don’t know if we can buy them again in the next city. "
Although the cucumbers in the vegetable garden are only over a foot tall, they have already bloomed, but they are still some time away from growing.
The leeks and green vegetables are edible, but there is a lot left over from what I bought before, so I didn’t harvest them and let them continue to grow.
Chou Chou shook his head, "It should be ten days and a half later. I'm really not sure about this. After all, the climate here is different from outside. Maybe it will be a few days earlier."
Qingyan sighed, "It would be great if we could speed up the process here. Like Xiangxiang Space, you can harvest a crop in two days outside. How cool!"
Chou Chou also sighed. As expected, it still lost to that guy. It couldn't do it with force, and even the space was not as good as it. Hey, it seemed that it still had to find a way to upgrade the space.
After finishing the meal, Qingyan went out. She quickly drove the carriage out to the official road. She didn't know if it was a psychological effect, but she always felt that it smelled bad.
It was a sunny day today, and the sun was shining brightly above our heads. Yuanbao jumped directly to the roof of the carriage and lay down.
Although the space is like spring all year round and it is always daytime, there is no sun. It still likes to bask in the warm sunshine.
Although the temperature outside is not high, only about ten degrees, it warms a lot as soon as the sun shines. After Yuan Bao basked his back, he stretched and turned over, and then basked his belly.
(End of chapter)
