Be a small county magistrate in ancient times

Chapter 236 Just waiting like this
She replied with a smile: "It's okay, I'll just wait inside."

"Mr. Meng." The yamen servant looked embarrassed, "If you are not here, we can't let you wait in the yamen. Why don't you go back first, and then send someone to notify you when our lord comes back."

Meng Changqing put the reins on the stakes himself, "You are considerate, but what I want to tell your family is very important to me. So, I will wait in the concierge."

The yamen servant had no choice but to lead the person into a small room next to the main entrance.

The government servants who were resting inside had no choice but to get out.

Soon someone came inside to report, "Sir, the gentleman from Beishan County has not left. He is waiting in the small room at the door."

Mao Chunfang felt as if he had swallowed a toad, "Call Master over here."

The man who reported the news was about to leave when Mao Chunfang said again: "Prepare a carriage for me."

"Sir, do you really want to go out?"

"He blocked the door. Where can I sit? Go quickly!"

"Alas!"

In the concierge, not long after Meng Changqing sat down, he heard the conversation outside. He only gave Bafang a look. Bafang immediately understood and went outside to listen carefully.

"Why are you here?" This was the question asked by the squad leader who had just replied to Meng Changqing. The man standing in front of him looked very familiar. He was the guard who had met him at the city gate.

"Is the master here?"

"The master just went out. What happened at the city gate?"

The guard pointed to the horse tied to the side and said, "Beishan County has placed another group of people at the city gate." This man ran all the way and couldn't help but take a big breath in between talking, and couldn't help but raise his voice.

"Keep your voice down!" the squad leader scolded in a low voice, "Those people from Beishan County are right over there!"

The guard looked in the direction he pointed and said in a low voice: "When will the master come back? I have to report this to the master."

"The master is really not here." The class leader asked him to take a rest. "I'll ask the master."

Bafang listened to the whole story before going back and repeating it to Meng Changqing, "Master Mao is really not here, young master, are we still waiting?"

"Wait." Meng Changqing noticed Xi Bei dozing next to him, "Put the stools together and let Master lie down and sleep."

As soon as she finished speaking, Xi Bei opened her eyes, coughed twice and said, "No need, I'm just bored sitting here, so I'll inevitably feel sleepy."

Upon hearing this, Meng Changqing took out a bunch of money from his purse and handed it to Xi Bei.

Xi Bei wondered, "What are you doing? I'm not Bafang. I can't sleep when I see money."

"Since Master is bored here, let's go to the county town and buy some lunch."

Xi Bei directly put the money into Bafang's hands, "Tell Bafang to go, I have to watch you."

"Master is too careful. With Master Bai and the others here, even if you go out with Bafang, no one will be able to hurt me."

Xi Bei didn't say anything, just glanced at her ankle.

Meng Changqing rubbed his eyes, "Bafang, go ahead."

"Okay. Master Bai, what do you want to eat?"

Chu Mufeng was very talkative, "I can eat whatever I have, just like you."

"Then young master, I will go and come back."

Meng Changqing moved a table in front of him, found a rag and wiped it again, then went out and said to the class leader: "Please pass a message to the master."

The squad leader said respectfully: "Please give me your instructions." "I want to borrow his pen and ink for use. Please help me and ask him if it is okay."

"Yes." The class leader trotted in quickly and came out quickly with pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

He handed the things to Meng Changqing with both hands, "Master wanted to send it out himself, but unfortunately he was too busy with official duties and didn't have time, so I asked Mr. Meng to take care of it."

Meng Changqing took the things with a smile, "Since we are not allowed to meet each other, could you please thank him for me?"

After saying that, she returned to the small room with a pen and paper.

The class leader paused for a moment, just to see what Meng Changqing was going to do with those things. He saw the other party spread out the paper, sat aside, rolled up his sleeves, and began to rub ink.

It's not easy for him to stare. Besides, from his perspective, even if he stares, he can't see clearly what the other person is writing, so he can only leave.

"Squad leader, what are you doing inside?" As soon as he returned to his position, a fellow officer on duty approached him and asked.

"Don't ask!" The class leader said with a bad expression, "Do your own thing!"

In Yangmen County, Bafang led horses and smelled them to find food. This was a method he used to do in the capital, but he didn't want to lose his temper here. After smelling everywhere for a long time, it didn't smell good.

After walking for a while, he finally smelled some food. He hurried over, but he didn't expect Mao Chunfang to be sitting where the smell came from.

Bafang immediately wanted to rush over. He wanted to tell the other party that his young master was waiting in his yamen.

But as soon as he took two steps, he thought of what Meng Changqing said before, and stopped immediately. Not only that, he also led the horse around to a sheltered place.

He stuck his head out to see Mao Chunfang, and saw that he had a leisurely expression. He was holding his thigh with one hand and talking to the stall owner with the other hand as he gestured to the fried cakes in front of him. There were three or four government officials standing beside him.

He didn't look like he was talking about business at all.

Bafang was not a brainless person. He guessed that Mao Chunfang was hiding out because of his young master.

He simply changed direction, bought some dry food and returned to the county government office.

"Master!" Bafang said as soon as he entered the door, carrying dry food on his back, "Guess who I saw on the street?"

Meng Changqing looked at him with a pen, "I guess it's Mr. Mao, right?"

"How do you know!"

Xi Bei asked: "Didn't you tell him that Changqing was waiting for him?"

"No." Bafang put down his things, "I think he probably hid out on purpose, so I didn't make a sound and didn't let him see me."

Meng Changqing praised him for doing a good job.

"Since he wants to hide, then give him space to hide." Meng Changqing said, "I don't want to push people too hard."

"But it's not an option for Master Mao to keep hiding." Bafang walked towards Meng Changqing, wanting to see what she was writing just now.

When he reached the table, Bafang saw many small squares drawn on the paper, "Are you ready to play backgammon again?"

"It's boring to wait for nothing." Meng Changqing dried the paper, took out half a bunch of money from his purse, and distributed half of it to all directions, "Just in time for you to come back, it's better for you to use the heads and I to use the tails."

Bafang immediately took the copper coins and sat down with Meng Changqing to play backgammon.

The two of them are about the same level of chess players, so they both only like to play chess with each other.

Seeing that it was lunch time and the yamen was getting ready to serve the meal, the head of the class was in a dilemma. There was also an unsighted yamen servant who came to ask, "Boss, do you want to send the food over there? The adults didn't care, and the cook didn't make any preparations. He A county magistrate can’t give us food, right?”

"What are you talking about!" The class leader felt that his head was too big and he was caught in the middle of a battle of wits with others.