Things seemed to be going exceptionally smoothly. Zhao Da responded to the official's questions with a straight face as usual, but in fact his thoughts had spread to the sky.
He hypnotized himself over and over again, it was all a coincidence! Everything is a coincidence! His girl is doing embroidery at home, his girl is doing embroidery at home!
But his girl is the most impatient with embroidery! As soon as such thoughts surfaced, they were forcibly extinguished by the girl who was muttering about embroidering at home.
The county government sent a message to Li Sizhu, the sufferer, for questioning. He was in the county seat, and it didn't take much effort for his wife to be brought there.
Li Sizhu has been quite popular in Changshun during this period. How many gamblers can be considered normal people? Selling children, selling girls, and even selling wives happens all day long. There are still those thugs who don't even have enough money to gamble and don't even need to do it themselves. They can use an ax to chop off their fingers one by one. If you think this can change, there are those who are missing a finger and still gamble. Still missing?
He had long wanted to go home. Even Manager Huang kindly asked him to be a minor manager, but he refused without hesitation.
Li Sizhu is not really stupid. Now he can see that his niece is looking for someone to deal with him. If he really dares to keep Changshun as a steward, he doesn't have to wait for the old man and his brothers to deal with him. The niece can still talk and laugh. Yan Yan sold him.
Li Sizhu felt more and more aggrieved when he thought about how his little niece didn't say a word on her way to the county town.
On the way here, someone had already talked about everything, and Li Sizhu was almost confused.
Since the Li clan split, Wang Mao personally went to Lijia Village to speak for his family. He thought the matter was over. There was also the matter of my little niece helping Huang Guanshi to treat his illness. When she returned home, she said that she had become a disciple of a miracle doctor. From time to time, she would get some pills and soups and tell them to take them. In the past two years, no one in my family has gotten sick. I just thought that my life was better, my food was good, and I was less likely to get sick.
It turns out that my little niece can really treat people. Yes, that’s right. My niece can treat fruit trees, so why can’t she treat others?
Li Sizhu arrived at the county government office tremblingly. When he saw Zhao Da was there, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. He answered honestly what the official sitting above asked him.
In fact, there is nothing the Zhao family can do about this matter. It was Zhao, the leader, who complained about this matter, and he was the first to be summoned for questioning.
As soon as Li Sizhu stepped aside, the blind widowed woman knelt on the ground with a plop, "Please ask Mr. Qingtian to make the decision for the old woman..."
After the old woman burst into tears and explained her grievances clearly, someone from the family whose leg was broken also came out to cry.
Everything is related to the Zhao family. When it comes to Li Sizhu's affairs, the Zhao family cannot be affected.
So robbing women of the people, seizing fertile farmland... This kind of thing has been discussed, and maybe the entire Zhao family will be implicated.
The county magistrate signaled the master to appoint a Yamen servant to summon the Zhao family to come and respond.
The master took the order and dispatched two government servants to whisper the affairs of the Zhao family in the ear of the county magistrate.
Just now, someone told the county magistrate about Secretary Zhao.
In the past two years, Linshan County and surrounding counties suffered from widespread drought. Because of Li Zhenzhen's early warning, Magistrate Qiao organized county residents to dig canals to store water in advance, and the water resources were distributed rationally just after the drought began.
People in Linshan County are having a hard time, but most of them are barely surviving.
Later, when floods were predicted, Magistrate Qiao promptly joined forces with surrounding counties to organize people to clear the rivers. These many defensive measures have made Linshan County's disaster situation much better than that of surrounding counties.
Not to mention the drought of the first two years, there was also the flood that followed. In addition to Linshan County, I heard that many farmhouses in surrounding counties had collapsed. The loss of property alone was still fine. I heard that there was a farm in the next county. The village was directly wiped out by floods.
For this obvious achievement, the imperial court will definitely issue a document to reward him for his merits. As the father and mother of Linshan County, Magistrate Qiao is about to be promoted.
Did he take credit for Li Zhenzhen’s family? Others have no way of knowing!
Experienced farmers can also predict droughts and floods, but they are not as accurate as Li Zhenzhen.
Magistrate Qiao accepted Li Changqing as his disciple, and at the same time he did not stop his youngest son from traveling to Lijia Village to find Li Zhenzhen, who was engaged. To his surprise, Li Guangping's family remained unmoved.
This made Magistrate Qiao take a higher look at their family. This was not a secret in the county government. Officials and servants of all sizes treated Li Guangping's family with special attention and courtesy.
Magistrate Qiao had just taken up his post in Lashan County and relied heavily on local officials. Seeing that he was about to be promoted, although he could not do anything like killing birds and hiding rabbits, he could not be clear about the transition between old and new officials. maintain.
It would really cause trouble for him!
Magistrate Qiao glanced in the direction where Li Sizhu and Zhao Da were standing in confusion.
At this time, someone from outside came to report that the newly appointed county magistrate had arrived at the boundary of Linshan County, and it would not take long for him to arrive at the county seat.
As a colleague, Magistrate Qiao had to go and greet him, just like he was sent off when he was promoted and transferred to another place as an official.
Magistrate Qiao had received an order from the court a while ago, and he heard that there was an imperial edict specifically for him that had come with the newly appointed magistrate.
What was originally a happy event has come to a critical point and someone is causing trouble.
One was handled poorly or not in time...
The new guy didn't know his temper. He heard that he was very young, so he was afraid that this matter would fall into his hands. This young man was so angry that he was eager for quick success and quick gains to establish his authority, and he was using it to scare the monkeys.
Magistrate Qiao was thinking about the gains and losses.
When the Zhao family was informed, County Magistrate Qiao wanted to take matters into his own hands and decided to cut through the mess with a quick knife.
The matter came to a conclusion quickly, and all the Zhao family members involved were imprisoned in the county government jail.
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It was getting dark, and Zhao Da drove the mule cart back to Lijia Village.
Li Sizhu followed him and sat on the edge of the car, feeling very uneasy.
He heard someone call him Manager Zhao in the county town, so he also called him Manager Zhao, "...Do you think Suisui will be unhappy that I'm going home now? Otherwise, I'll...just wait at the head of the village. I’m looking at you, why don’t you go back and tell me first? If not, I’ll go back to the county seat!”
Zhao Da didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Just call me Zhao Da, the fourth master. The girl didn't say not to let you go home. She just doesn't want to get involved in things like gambling. Don't go to that kind of place in the future."
Li Sixhu nodded hastily, "I won't even go to the county town from now on. If I continue to gamble and don't need others, I will chop off my hands myself."
"The fourth master will keep his word." Zhao Da kept talking to Li Sizhu, but he was actually thinking about other things in his heart. He went to inquire about it later in the afternoon, and found out that from yesterday to today, only Secretary Zhao went crazy in the county.
This matter really has nothing to do with my girl!
He met Secretary Zhao in the lobby of the restaurant. It was time for dinner, but they were not the only ones present. He crushed a pill in the purse given by the girl. It can make people go crazy immediately. So how come he and everyone else are okay?
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Zhao Da asked the mule to stop. Xiao Shitou heard the noise and ran out to help unload the mule cart and tie it up.
"Where have you been?"
Zhao Da has been in the county town for the past few days, and at night he settled in the newly bought house and slept casually.
"I'm going to the county town to do something. Is the girl at home?"
"Yes! The girl and the eldest girl didn't go anywhere today. They should have had dinner by now."
