Three days ago, the county government.

The main house in the inner courtyard has a large space, divided into two rooms inside and outside, connected by a circular carved door opening in the middle.The room was plainly furnished, but had everything it should have.

Although it doesn't look obvious, the chairs and stools of this desk are all made of mahogany.

The charcoal fire in the stove was already burning very vigorously, and the sparks made a crackling and bouncing sound.

Yin Junfu pursed his lips: "You went directly to Chen Maosheng just now, would you be a little alarmed?"

Wen Yu shook his head lightly: "No matter what the situation is, the enemy is in the open, and I am in the dark. Even if I don't ask him alone, they will not let down their vigilance easily. If the facts are as you said, then the people behind thisNor will I be fooled by the appearance I deliberately put on."

Wen Yu blinked at Yin Junfu, and the ending sound rose: "It's not bad to be a silly character who is not afraid of anything and just rushes forward, isn't it?"

Yin Junfu's expression froze for a moment, and then he slowly opened his mouth, "That's right, Daqi has not had a precedent of being released outside for so many years. Even if you do nothing, as long as Tanhua's name spreads, it will definitely attract them.If you are vigilant, I will definitely want to test you."

The two looked at each other.

"But you may be in danger, do you want me to stay here to protect you." After all, you look a little weak, and you don't have martial arts.Yin Junfu glanced at Wen Yu, he was afraid of hurting Wen Yu and didn't say the following words, but the meaning was already very clear.

"No need, I have other plans." Wen Yu shook his head.

Yin Junfu seemed to want to say something more, but suddenly saw Wen Yu smiled, his eyes flickered slightly, a little cunning.

Wen Yu stood up and leaned over to Yin Junfu's ear, and said a few words softly.The hair of the two intersected for a moment in the air, and then separated in a moment.

Those thieves on Changfeng Mountain were not all fools. Even if they were collecting protection fees to rob things, they would not rob twice in a month.So, once the year is over, people gradually come back, after all, they also have to make a living.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, not only officials, big and small, from the Yi Xin Government Office started to go to work, but ordinary merchants and common people on the street also started to walk around.

Cao Juanhe's small inn was never closed even on New Year's Eve.

Her Cao's small restaurant is next to an early breakfast shop. It was opened by a widower named Gu Tieshu in his forties. He also rushed back from his hometown in the countryside on the morning of the fourth day of junior high school.

Because of the locust disaster last year, the price of rice and noodles has increased, and the price of this restaurant's breakfast can only be increased accordingly, and the revenue in the second half of the year is also very bleak.

Gu Tieshu put away his luggage and walked into the gate of Cao's inn. He saw that there were no customers in the inn, so he went straight to Granny Cao behind the counter.

"Old Cao, happy new year! You still didn't go back this year, but you have a good attitude. If I was robbed of my money by those bandits on the mountain, I wouldn't be in such a mood to continue to open the store."

Cao Juanhe put down the account book in her hand, and sighed in her heart.She rubbed her eyes to get rid of the soreness in her eyes, but only then could she see her son.

"Happy New Year, I'm back."

Gu Tieshu nodded, looked out, moved closer, and whispered, "Old Cao, have you heard? The new county magistrate from our county is said to be younger than the original one. This yearBut at the age of twenty, he is still a prostitute. Tell me, how long can the new county magistrate stay here?"

A complex emotion appeared on Cao Juanhe's face, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes suddenly deepened a little."What do I know as an old woman? How long I stay depends on her fate!"

Gu Tieshu suddenly felt a little discouraged: "That's a prodigy, Wenquxing from the sky is so talented when he comes to us. One-third of my shop's annual income will be given to the bandit, and the other three will be given to the Chen family.It’s nothing more than a small change. If only the new county magistrate could do anything.”

Complex emotions flashed in Cao Juanhe's eyes.

She has also been in contact with Chen Xiangkun, and she is obviously younger than herself, but thinking of Chen Xiangkun's bottomless eyes, she really can't understand at all.Chen Jianeng has almost monopolized most of Yi Xin and Qingchi today, and it is true that Chen Xiangkun's handwriting is indispensable.

Cao Juanhe took a handkerchief and wiped the golden Buddha statue on the counter again, clasped his hands together, and meditated on Amitabha in his heart.Each has its own destiny, which is determined by God. She is an old woman, and now she hopes that her family will be safe and well, and everything will be fine.

In the early morning of the fourth day of the lunar new year, Wen Yu got up early as usual.

In the study room of the County Government Office, there was a stack of papers on Wen Yu's desk, and each piece of paper was filled with words, with different handwriting, beautiful and ugly.

Among the officials of the Yi Xin County Yamen, there are eleven people with formal positions. Besides, there are four leading arresters, and the rest are about forty or fifty.

The fifteen people that Wen Yu saw in the lobby on the first day of junior high school were the leadership team of Yixin County.

Even the yamen servant who said he was illiterate that day sent a briefing today.

After reading them one by one, Wen Yu made a decision in her heart, and she ordered everyone to gather in the lobby.

"I have gone through all the county's account books. Now there is still a total of one hundred and twenty taels of silver in the county warehouse. I have also counted all the corpses outside the city wall. There are twenty-six corpses in total, including nine males and ten females.Seven."

Regardless of the weird expressions of everyone in the hall, she said in a tone that could not be refused: "The family members will claim those corpses first, and each household will be given a subsidy of three taels of silver. If no one claims them, the county government will bury them. Within three days, all of them must be buried. County magistrate, I will entrust you with the full power to take charge of this matter, and the people of the county government are at your disposal."

Wen Yu didn't give the people in the hall any time to breathe, and continued: "Master, you plan to write a notice that all the people in Yi Xin County who have grievances can come to the government at any time to sue the officials, and the officials will interrogate them in person.Even if it was a grievance a few years ago, as long as they want to, I will help them retry it again."

"After all, according to the law of Daqi, the retrospective period of all cases can reach more than ten years. Although I am not talented, the book "Law of Daqi" is also memorized and memorized. Am I right? Chen Xunjian."

Chen Maosheng was smacking his tongue inwardly, Wen Yu was really a new official who didn't understand any bullshit rules.

He didn't expect that his name would be called just as soon as he was distracted.

"Right." He nodded quickly.

Wen Yu looked at Chen Maosheng and narrowed his eyes slightly, and smiled even brighter, "The case files of the past ten years, I will trouble you to inspect and punish you according to the crimes, from serious to light, and put them in my study one by one. II heard that you came to the county office ten years ago for inspection, you should have heard about these cases more or less, and it should not be difficult to sort them out, how about finishing it tomorrow afternoon?"

"Yesterday, when I had nothing to do, I counted the cases in recent years, and there were only more than 400 volumes. The task load is not very large. It would be a bit inferior to Chen Xunjian to tell you the truth." Wen YuHis eyes are full of sincerity, and he seems to be extremely close and important to Chen Maosheng.

After Chen Maosheng heard this, he wanted to refuse, but he couldn't open his mouth no matter what.He usually relied on the fact that there were people behind him who were defiant, and his relationship with his colleagues in the county government was not good, and he didn't want to lose face in front of them at this moment.He gritted his teeth and agreed.

More than four hundred volumes is not much, but how did you ask me to sort it out? Don't you know if the task is too big?

Chen Maosheng took a deep breath, his hairs on end standing on end, and suddenly remembered that the new magistrate was a weak-ranked prodigy. Could it be that these tasks were really nothing to her?How could it be his grandma's, Chen Maosheng thought with jealousy and uncertainty.

Wen Yu didn't leave a single official behind, and she assigned tasks to each of the three shifts and six rooms in the county government agency.

As for the prison, Wen Yu went to see it as early as the first day she came to the county office, and it was empty, not a single prisoner.

As for the reason, according to what Ma Hongchang said at the time, after the locusts crossed the border, the county government itself was struggling.However, since the county prison provided food, the crime rate in Yi Xin soared after that. Many people who could not survive on their own began to commit some sneaky petty crimes so that they could live in prison.

The previous county magistrate could not bear the "harassment" and "helplessly" made the decision to temporarily close the prison.

When he heard Wen Yu questioning the prisoners inside, Ma Hongchang's expression also showed some fear.

He was stunned for a long time, then slowly sighed and said: kill what should be killed, let what should be let go.

The day of the fourth day was much clearer than usual.

Near noon, a group of people dressed as policemen, holding red paper in their hands, shuttled around Yixin County to post this notice issued by the new county magistrate on various bulletin boards in the county.

After the red list was posted, the policemen started to beat the gong to signal the crowd to gather, and began to read the contents of the notice list aloud.

"Silence, silence.... Anyone who has a grievance can report to the county government from now on."

After the policeman repeated the contents of these notices three times, he left.

The group of people who were at a loss were left standing there in a daze, silent for a long time.

An old man whose clothes were thin and patched suddenly let out an ah, waking up everyone nearby.His dim eyes were full of unbelievable surprises, and he muttered to himself: "Could it be that the young little benefactor is a living god? Will this Yi Xin really change?"

Before he finished speaking, he was refuted by one of the people beside him.

"Old man, how is it possible, how many county magistrates have been changed, how do you know this is not a superficial effort."

"Yeah, who can't do superficial skills?"

There was gradually noise in front of the bulletin board, whispering, disbelief, disdain, and complete disbelief.There are all kinds of voices, but after all, people who don't believe it account for the majority.

The old man didn't say a word after being refuted, but after a long, long time, he finally trembled and said, "What if, what if, I want to try."

His voice was not loud, but it was as if the mute button had been pressed around him, and there was no sound at all.

Later, don't know who sighed.

One after another, it was all sighs.The people in front of the bulletin board changed wave after wave, and this situation happened again and again, but none of the people surrounding the bulletin board really made up their minds to enter the county office.

In the early morning of the next day, the hour had just passed.

A man who staggered and wobbled, with a beard almost covering his entire face and looking extremely decadent, walked towards the county office.

He looked at the two yamen guards at the door with some trepidation, and slowly approached the big drum on the right side of the door.

He took a deep breath, picked up the drumstick, and beat it hard with all his strength.

deafening.

The author has something to say:

Wen Xiaozhen: I'm just a young man who just entered the officialdom, I don't understand anything, so if those things are done wrong and someone is offended, then I'm sorry, you just bear with it!