Be a small county magistrate in ancient times

Chapter 47 3 people arrived

Bafang climbed up to the top of the wall, and Meng Changqing was standing on the wall looking north.

"Master, what are you looking at?"

"I'm looking at the great rivers and mountains."

"Madam asked you to go back for lunch."

"Let's go." Meng Changqing ran down the slope and walked towards the hole where her mother and mother lived.

On the way, I saw the guards leaving in groups with the new servants.

"How many people are here this time?" Meng Changqing asked.

"I heard from Lieutenant Zhang that there are more than 5000 people, and the list has been handed over to Lai Cai."

"There are still people." Meng Changqing said.

"Why is this happening?" Bafang was so naive that he couldn't figure it out. "No one listened to Sir Wei's orders as the prefect. You gave the servants a holiday and everyone showed up?"

"If you are an official, how can you trust your neighbors? You can also think of the heavy labor in Liangzhou and the suffering of slave laborers." Meng Changqing suddenly turned around and asked: "Bafang, if you become an official in the future, will you be a corrupt official or an honest official?"

"Am I an official?" Bafang himself doubted, "Can someone like me be an official?"

"Why can't you?" Meng Changqing said, "You and Laicai are not really servants. You have studied with me since you were a child. When you become successful in learning, I will send you to take the scientific examination."

Bafang laughed loudly, opened his mouth to take a mouthful of dusty wind, and then turned his head and puffed several times.

"Master, don't make fun of me. It's better for you to take the exam. Maybe you can get the top prize."

Meng Changqing said: "I can't pass the exam, so I'm counting on you."

"You'd better not count on me. Why don't you count on money? He..."

Before Bafang finished speaking, he saw a man not far away, following Zuo Datou, and kept saying: "Just give it to me, and I will give it to him again."

"Get out!" Zuo Datou was annoyed by the man. He took out his whip and was about to beat him. "I don't know what you are thinking. Have you ever thought about it?"

"Go ask something."

"Hey!" Bafang ran over quickly, "Brother Zuo, what's wrong?"

"This guy has evil intentions, and I'm trying to teach him a lesson." Zuo Datou said, "He introduced a man who was looking at the location of the well, and he insisted that I ask you to give him the one tael of silver, and he would give it to the man. The man who dug the well.”

When Meng Changqing walked over, he thought this person was quite interesting.

"What's your name?" Meng Changqing asked.

The man lying on the ground just wanted to raise his head when Zuo Datou yelled: "Go back to the county master! Don't look up!"

The man trembled in fright, "If you want to go back to the county, my name is... the villain's name is Chi Xing."

"How did he get involved with you?" Meng Changqing asked Zuo Datou.

"When he saw that I was leading the Feng Shui master to do things, he thought I could speak."

"Brother Zuo, go and do your business."

Zuo Datou was worried because Meng Changqing and Bafang were not very old after all. "What if he doesn't know how to attack you..."

Meng Changqing: "I have a knife on me."

"What did you tell Mr. Feng Shui?" Meng Changqing asked the man lying on the ground, "How much money are you going to give him?"

"Tell the truth!" Bafang suddenly roared, startling Meng Changqing.

"If I return to the county master, I plan to give him five hundred coins."

"Really?" Meng Changqing said, "I don't believe it."

Chi Xing lay on the ground and shivered, "Yes... it's three hundred coins."

"Did you call Mr. Feng Shui here at this price?" Meng Changqing asked.

"Yes."

"I will send someone to ask Mr. Feng Shui. If the price you told him is really this price, and the location he chose really digs out water, then the remaining [-] yuan will be given to you." Chi Xing was surprised and looked towards Meng Changqing He kowtowed one after another in the direction of the master, "Thank you so much, Lord County, thank you so much, Lord County!"

"Master!" Bafang trotted to catch up with Meng Changqing, "Why do I get more and more confused about what you do? Why do you still help me when you take advantage of others?"

"He can't keep the seven hundred coins I gave him. There are ten people living in a cave. Where can he hide?"

"Even if he can't hold it, what's your motive? You're not just trying to save the seven hundred coins, are you?"

Meng Changqing: "I let him see the dangers of the human heart."

Zhang Yuan brought back more than 5000 people both times. Adding in the laborers sent from previous counties, there are now more than 6000 people in the camp.

Five to six thousand of them were women.

There is not much difference from the 3 people Meng Changqing wants.

By the evening of that day, the third batch of slave laborers came back and brought back more than 3000 people.

The number exceeded 3.

The greater the number of people, the greater the logistical pressure. Now all the slaves are divided into 800 groups, and the total number of guards in each group is [-].

Of the soldiers sent from Hongjia County, only 200 were left in charge of logistics.

This number of people is definitely not enough, so Zhang Yuan and others will naturally go to help.

No matter what Zhang Yuan thinks in his heart, things can still be done.

It was dark outside, and Meng Changqing was calculating the abacus in the county government office. She was working hard when Lai Cai suddenly rushed in and said, "Master, there is someone in the kitchen who has fainted. I don't know what happened."

Meng Changqing opened the bookcase, took out the silver needle box inside, and asked as he walked: "Who is he? Has he suffered any external injuries?"

"It's a woman. She just came here today. She suddenly fell down while standing in line outside the kitchen."

"Are you still angry?"

"It was still there when I came."

When Meng Changqing arrived, the fainted woman had been carried into the kitchen. Several people surrounded her, blocking Meng Changqing from seeing the people on the ground.

"Give way!"

Laicai shouted loudly: "Quickly give way, the county master is here!"

The crowd dispersed quickly, and the three guards cleared a way out for Meng Changqing.

Meng Changqing came to the side of the fallen person and saw that the person's face was pale and her lips had no color at all. Although her whole body was wrapped in a large cotton-padded jacket, it could be seen at a glance that she was very thin.

She reached out to explore and found that the man's breathing was very weak. She quickly pricked the acupuncture point with a needle and felt his pulse.

I know she fainted from hunger.

"Go to the southernmost kitchen and bring a bowl of porridge."

When Meng Changqing spoke, a guard immediately took an empty bowl and ran over there, and soon a bowl of hot porridge was handed to Meng Changqing.

Meng Changqing called a woman who was watching over and asked her to open the mouth of the man on the ground and pour porridge and soup into it.

After drinking less than half of the bowl, the people on the ground faintly woke up.

"Wake up, wake up! Meizi, you scared us to death!" The woman helped the person who had just woken up.

Meizi didn't know what was going on. After her dazzling was over, she almost fainted again when she saw the person in front of her clearly.

She saw the person in front of her holding a needle and covering her face, with only her eyes exposed. "Who are you?" She was frightened and helpless.

"This is the county master. He rescued you and fed you half a bowl of porridge just now." The woman holding Meizi said, "You have to kowtow to the county master and thank him properly."

As expected, Meizi was about to sit up on her knees, but Meng Changqing stopped her, "If you are weak, don't move. Don't watch others either. Eat when you should, and go back to sleep if you should sleep."

Meng Changqing handed the porridge in his hand to Meizi, "Drink it up."

(End of this chapter)