Being fooled by fierce beasts to travel through the beginning is fleeing famine

Chapter 488 Official Job (please subscribe and vote monthly)
They came out of the county seat in the middle of the night, and they didn't have time to have breakfast until now. They were already very hungry. It happened to be raining outside, so they took shelter here and had breakfast by the way.

Maybe the rain will stop soon, and other shops outside will open by then, and I can go check again.

Qingyan and the others learned about the situation in Qushui Town and Yong'an County from Chou Chou. Knowing that the men in black did not reveal anything about their industry, they felt relieved and called Yang Ping'an's family. , went downstairs generously.

In fact, their consciousness had been paying attention to the four officials, wanting to listen to their conversation to see if they would reveal some clues that they didn't know.

As a result, everyone just immersed themselves in eating, and no one chatted at all.

When they went downstairs, they deliberately found a table closer to them and sat down, thinking that they would chat with each other after they finished eating. It was raining harder and harder outside, and they couldn't go out for a while. Just sit.

After ordering breakfast, we found that the cooking skills of the chef in this inn were much better than those in Shayin Town, especially the fish fillet porridge, which was quite good. Qingyan couldn't help but add another bowl.

Even the third young master didn't let anyone go out and buy it, so you can see the gap between the two sides.

It is worth mentioning that Qingyan asked Chouchou to put the dry food she bought in advance yesterday so that it would taste better when taken out. Fortunately, it was placed on their side. If it had been put in the Yang family car, It's not easy to operate yet.

I originally thought that if there were people chasing after me and they were still coming for them, I would separate from the Yang family as soon as possible.

At most they would go together to the next county seat, which is the county seat where the Yang family lives. By then it would be normal to separate and would not arouse suspicion. However, the way things are going now doesn't seem to be what they thought.

Of course, we can’t say for sure yet. Chou Chou has been keeping an eye on the mayor of Qushui Town. After all, he was the one who found the people in the dark pavilion before. It’s hard to say whether he came for them or not. .

Or whether they will send more people later, I can't tell now. The information I got from those men in black is too limited. They only collect money to do things. They don't care about the reasons for killings. They only know how to intercept and kill. It doesn’t matter whether the people passing there are themselves or not.

Over in Yongning County, Chou Chou kept sending out a ray of spiritual consciousness, but the county magistrate's wife did not make any move.

Of course, it cannot be said that there was no action. The previous order was not retracted, and the search for tigers on the mountain road continued.

And over at Snake Valley, the fact that Jin Yang set up a formation to seal it off should not have been exposed yet, otherwise there should be some action taken there.

When Qingyan and the others were halfway through eating, the officials were finally full. The rain outside was still falling heavily, and judging from how cloudy it was, there was a high probability that it wouldn't stop today, at least at noon. It won't clear up before.

The four officials had obviously noticed it. The first thing they wanted to do after dinner was to ask the shopkeeper if there were any vacancies. They wanted to book two rooms to rest. They hadn't slept for almost the whole night, and they definitely couldn't do it without some sleep.

There are definitely no vacant rooms, only Datongpu still has a few vacant places.

But the officials obviously didn't know how to live there, and the shopkeeper didn't want to offend them, so he didn't even dare to mention it.

He thought for a while and said to the four officials: "Gentlemen, there are indeed no vacant rooms in front of us. The weather does not allow you to go to other places to find them. Do you think this will work? We live in our own house." There are several rooms in the backyard. We can spare two rooms for a few servants to live in. What do you think?"

The four officers glanced at each other, and finally one of the tall men nodded, and it was decided that this person should be the leader of the four, and the other three acted based on his look.

After he nodded, a thin man standing next to him said to the shopkeeper: "In that case, it's up to the shopkeeper. Let's sit in the lobby for a while. The shopkeeper will call us when the room is tidied up."

The shopkeeper nodded repeatedly, "That's right, that's right. I'll go and have someone clean it up right now. When it's done, I'll invite some servants."

After speaking, he bowed his hands to several people, and then led a waiter towards the backyard.

Qingyan was a little curious. The backyard she saw before was already full of livestock and cars, and she didn't find any place for people to live. They couldn't live in stables. It would be worse than Datongpu, at least there was no smell of horse manure.

As a result, her consciousness followed them and discovered that there was a door leading from the back kitchen, and there was a small courtyard over there. The gate of the courtyard faced another street. She thought it had nothing to do with this place, but it turned out to be the shopkeeper's. A place where the family lives.

That yard is not big. There are only six rooms in total, including the kitchen and utility room, which means that there are only three rooms in the main house that are used by people, because one of them is the main room.

The main room is on the left. The one on the far left is a bedroom, the second one is the main room, and the two rooms on the right are bedrooms, which are the two rooms that will be freed for officials.

Qingyan raised her eyebrows, feeling that the shopkeeper was quite generous. After all, there were four grown men. If there were women in the family, it wouldn't be inconvenient.

She put her consciousness into the house and took a look, and found that there was no trace of a woman living in it.

It seemed that what she had thought before was wrong. The shopkeeper's family did not live here. Otherwise, even if the children had grown up and lived alone, his wife would have been there, but it turned out that she was not.

It's not that there are no women in the yard. There is a woman in coarse clothes cleaning the yard.

But at first glance, she was not the shopkeeper’s wife. After all, no matter how much he looked down on his wife, he would never let her dress up like that. The clothes were not patched, but they were also a bit shabby. It looks like he is a servant doing the work.

Sure enough, after the shopkeeper and the waiter passed by, they said to the woman: "Mother Zhang, put down what you are doing first, and quickly go and clean up the two main rooms on the right. Distinguished guests will be moving in soon.

Clean up a little bit, and pile all the messy things inside into my room first, and let the mistress help you, and move quickly. "

The woman named Zhang Ma stopped what she was doing and responded quickly. Then she put the broom sweeping the yard aside and asked the guy named Xiao Sanzi to go to the well to get a bucket of water first, while she went to do the chores herself. I took out a wooden basin and a smaller broom from the room.

The two rooms on the right are actually not dirty. After all, they have been tidied up all the time. Just clean them casually.

What's more, there are not many signs of people living in the two bedrooms. Of course, it can't be said that no one has lived in them. It looks like no one has lived in them for a while. There's not much dust inside, but again, even if there are dedicated people cleaning it, it's impossible for it to get dusty.

All I had to do was sweep the corners, put on the bedding, and move some personal belongings out of the room. There weren't many things, so it was done quickly.

Qingyan looked at the items. In the room on the far right, apart from clothes and shoes, there were only a few books.

In another room, there were some gadgets, like children's toys.

It seems that this may be the temporary residence of the shopkeeper. His family may occasionally come to stay for a while, and those two rooms are reserved for his family.

Judging from his age, the room with books should be for his son. It seems that his son is a scholar. He is either studying in an academy, so he is not at home, or he is out of town, or he has passed the exam.

This other room should belong to his grandson. Those gadgets look like they are for children to play with. Of course, they may also belong to his youngest son. After all, there is no idea of ​​contraception when giving birth to children casually. If you have one, you will be born. In many families, the eldest brother is already thirty or forty years old, and the youngest is just born.

The room on the far left is obviously where the shopkeeper lives, because there are a lot of clothes and traces of life in it. Even if the things moved from the two rooms are piled up, although it is not neat, it does not look dirty. It seems that Zhang Ma is really a neat worker.

After satisfying her curiosity, Qingyan withdrew her consciousness. At this time, the shopkeeper had returned to the front lobby. After speaking to the four officials, she returned to the counter.

The four officials sat at the table and started chatting. What they talked about was not what Qingyan and the others wanted to hear, but about the petty feud between their parents and the embarrassments between them, such as picking each other up.

Of course they are all innocuous, little things like gritting one's teeth while farting while sleeping, and if exposed in public, they would lose face at most.

Then while they were chatting, the four of them kept scanning their eyes at the people sitting in the lobby, including Qingyan and the others. Because they were closer to each other, they actually bore the brunt of the situation.

Feeling the other party's sizing eyes, they did not dodge or stare back. They had nothing to be afraid of. Even though the place was coming towards them, they felt that they had done nothing bad and were doing harm to the people. .

In addition, they know the purpose of the other party's coming, and they can control their expressions.

It's different for other people. They will be somewhat resistant when facing official duties. Except for them, that is, Yang Ping'an and the others don't know what's going on on their side, so they eat their meals openly, followed by the third young master. One line.

He must have seen the world, and probably had the opportunity to meet some officials, so he didn't take official duties seriously.

To put it nicely, it is an official job, but seriously it is actually a yamen servant. The status of a yamen servant is lower than that of an official. He has no official status and only serves for the yamen.

These people are responsible for the yamen's duties such as standing in the hall, arresting, detaining, dispatching dispatches, requisitioning grain, and detaining people from custody.

Qingyan had heard from Xue Huan'er before that there were two types of government officials: Minzhuang, Kuding, Doujie, Pubing, and good people. Zao, Kuai, Zhu, Wu, Jailer and Men are untouchables.

The untouchables were in the same category as the slaves and slaves, among which the slaves had the lowest social status and were almost regarded as quasi-criminals.

Untouchable government officials, including their descendants, were not allowed to take part in the imperial examinations (limited to three generations), and were not allowed to donate money to buy officials. They were despised by the gentry, and some families even strictly prohibited their children and grandchildren from engaging in government service.

The duties of the Zaoban are to be forward guards and guards of honor, and to carry out torture and torture when the magistrate goes to court to handle cases. The Kuaiban is divided into Ma Kuai and Bu Kuai. Their duties are to patrol the night, summon and arrest, and to go to court to be driven by the superior when questioning a case. The countryside pressed for taxes.

The duty of the catcher is to investigate cases and arrest thieves. He also patrols the night together with the fast squad, and the escort officer Ginshi acts as a guard.

The duties of the strong class are to guard granaries, vaults and prisons, escort officials and prisoners, and also serve as miscellaneous errands.

The Menzi is in charge of the ceremonial gate (the door between the main entrance and the main hall in the yamen. When the official ascends to the hall to work, the ceremonial gate must be closed), calls the ascending hall, calls out prisoners, and is in charge of the bamboo stick for issuing orders.

The reason why they make some people afraid to offend is because the people behind them are not themselves, so they usually seek refuge with some powerful people. This is how the so-called seventh-rank officials of the Prime Minister and Concierge come to be.

Fortunately, these people didn't seem to be the kind to bully others, and they didn't ask for the upper room to be freed up for them. Of course, they also saw that the inn was indeed full, and there was no place to park the carriage.

Even the lower-class rooms on the first floor were full, and there were only a few vacancies in Datongpu. However, they thought and knew that it was impossible to live in Datongpu. Even if they wanted to live there, others would not dare to let them live there. ah.

If they moved in, those people would probably be scared away.

Of course, the look in their eyes now is really hard to ignore. At least everyone eating in the lobby saw it. But because the other party was wearing such clothes, no one said anything. After all, if you don't commit a thief, you won't feel guilty. Look Just watch, there won’t be any missing piece of meat anyway.

The other party may just want to use this kind of probing gaze to see if there is anyone with a guilty conscience or evasive eyes. At that time, they can go forward and interrogate.

It's a pity that after looking around, nothing was found. Qingyan and the others definitely don't know how to do it. Even if they are guilty, they won't show it on the surface. What's more, they know why the other party is here, so they can't act casually. .

When the waiter named Xiao Sanzi came back and said that the room was ready, the shopkeeper took four official servants and went to the courtyard on the left again.

Qingyan found that as they left, the people in the lobby relaxed obviously. It turned out that everyone was pretending before.

Qingyan shook her head in a funny way and said to Yang Ping'an and the others: "It seems that we can't leave again today. If the rain doesn't stop at noon, we can only stay for one more day."

Yang Ping'an nodded, "The sky is very overcast, there is not a single cloud, and there is no wind. It looks like it has been raining all day. There is nothing important to do anyway, so it doesn't matter if we stop for one more day."