Be a small county magistrate in ancient times

The people in Group No. 20 said again: "We can save ten work points."

Meng Changqing looked at the speaker and smiled, "Where are the other groups?"

All groups remained silent except for the first group, who hesitated and then said, "We can ask for fifteen less."

Meng Changqing's eyes fell back on the people in Group 20 of No. [-], "Are you still cutting back?"

"We could have twenty less."

"You must do what you say now." Meng Changqing said, "If it is built within five days, I will give you 180 work points. If it is not built well, all the work points that your team has here, which are not many, will be deducted from you."

The person in Group 25 shivered and felt panicked at this moment.

Meng Changqing asked: "Can you do it and give you the last chance to regret it?"

"We..." The man hesitated to say a complete sentence.

"Can you!" Meng Changqing asked coldly.

The man lowered his head, hunched his shoulders and did not dare to speak.

"You dare to come even if you can't do it and don't back down!" Meng Changqing asked the others, "The new conditions this person just offered are five days and 180 work points. Which of you is willing to take this job?"

Except for the first group, which was still hesitating, no one in the other groups was willing. Seeing someone taking the lead to retreat, almost everyone followed suit.

Only the first group stayed and said, "We are willing to do it." The leader of the first group thought that as long as this job was done quickly, it would be more cost-effective than opening up wasteland.

"Okay, then you will take over this job." Meng Changqing said, "The construction time is not limited to you, and the work points will still be the previous two hundred work points."

As soon as these words came out, the other groups all regretted it. If they had known that Master Meng was going to do this, they should not have retreated just now.

After all, it's still the fault of the troublemaker in Group 25. He should be taught a lesson sometime.

"Let's break up. Go and do whatever you need to do."

Seeing the people walking away, Zhang Yuan sighed.

"Colonel Zhang, you look bad, is it because you didn't get enough sleep?"

Zhang Yuan rubbed his forehead, "Mr. Meng, to tell you the truth, I really can't sleep well. Ever since I moved here, I have been calculating the additions and subtractions of each group of work points every day. It's really hard for me to fall asleep and dream." They were all settling accounts, and were frightened awake by the abacus beads several times."

He sighed and said: "I am a rough man, and I don't even know these things. I am deeply afraid that I will do something wrong and cause you trouble."

"It's my problem." Meng Changqing said, "I didn't see your distress, so I let someone else take over this matter."

"I'm so sorry, Mr. Meng."

"I'm really not sorry." Meng Changqing smiled and said: "You came out of the military camp and were originally my personal soldiers, but I don't have anyone on hand, so I need you to take care of these things."

Zhang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief when Meng Changqing agreed that he would not care about work points. "Mr. Meng, you can give me a job that doesn't use much brainpower. I will not shirk the responsibility. I will take care of it."

"Everything requires the use of brains. I think your brain is not bad, but you just don't like abacus. From today on, I would like to ask Lieutenant Zhang to concurrently serve as the county captain, responsible for the county's security and arrests. You will be among the soldiers for the time being. Select 15 people to take charge of this area with you.

Your seal. "Meng Changqing stretched out his hand towards him, "I'll engrave it for you again. "

Zhang Yuan immediately took out the seal from his arms and said, "Thank you, Master Meng."

"I want to thank you all a lot." Meng Changqing said with a smile.

"I wonder who your lord will ask to take care of the work points in the future?"

Meng Changqing said: "I don't have anyone available at hand, so I can only trouble Captain Yang." When Yang Zheng learned the news, it was already dark. Zuo Datou came to him with the account deducted today and brought him some money. Received the seal of concurrently serving as the registrar.

"What do you mean? I will be the bookkeeper and manage the work points? Where is Zhang Yuan?"

"Colonel Zhang also serves as county captain." Zuo Datou said, "He has been promoted."

"What matters whether you get promoted or not?" Yang Zheng took the account book from Zuo Datou's hand, "It's Master Meng who has the final say to be a low-ranking official in this border area. Under him, there is no high or low official position. It’s just that everyone does something different.”

Yang Zheng's arithmetic is not very good, but he values ​​Meng Changqing's trust in him more than the difficulties he faces. He counts any number twice. Anyway, there are only 25 groups in total. Even if the calculation is slow, there will be a time when the calculation ends. .

The days haven't passed much yet, and I've been skipping for two days.

On March [-]th, Zhang Yuan led his people to Yangmen County early in the morning and brought back the masons and several carriages of bricks and tiles.

The mason himself bought firecrackers and brought peach branches and pear trees, and the preparations were so complete that even Wen was surprised.

Peach branches and pear trees were buried in the four directions of the southeast, northwest, and incense was placed on the altar. Firecrackers were lit at four o'clock in the morning. Meng Changqing and Lao Baitou each dug out a shovel of soil, and the construction began.

Meng Changqing asked them to build a wall to surround the back office first, so that during the construction of the front office, there would not be so many people rushing to the back office.

Lao Baitou took the drawings Mao Chunfang gave him and discussed with Meng Changqing to see if there was anything that needed to be modified.

Meng Changqing didn't have any big objections to the front office, but she made some changes to the back office. Compared with the original ones, the changes she made were more private.

Old Baitou brought fifteen people, mostly teachers and fathers, and only two or three young apprentices. After all, they were working for the government, and they were afraid that the young people might accidentally say something that would offend the government.

Meng Changqing also sent some people to help Lao Baitou.

After five or six days of busy work, the wall of the back Yamen was built, and the main hall of the front Yamen could be seen.

That day, Meng Changqing heard Zhang Yuan say that the first group had built the huts. She put down the pen in her hand and planned to go out and take a look.

There are two doors on the wall surrounding the backyard. The one on the west can go out directly, and the small door on the south leads to the front office.

Meng Changqing came out of the small door on the south side and wanted to take a look at the progress of the Yamen construction.

She walked half a circle around the place where the workers were busy, and suddenly saw a scene that surprised her.

The child in Mancang was actually squatting in the corner.

Meng Changqing took two more steps forward and saw a chubby boy squatting in front of Mancang.

The young man was chewing on a rice ball, and his eyes were glued to the rice ball.

Meng Changqing stepped forward, wanting to call Mancang back.

The result was that the young man took off a small ball of rice as big as a fingernail from the big rice ball and handed it to Mancang.

Mancang took it and stuffed it into his mouth, then stared at the boy again.

The young man asked: "Is it delicious? I made it myself. It contains pickles. It is much more delicious than the rice balls made by my mother."

Mancang looked at him and nodded, then stretched out his hand.

"Why do you want more? I've given you a lot to eat." The young man couldn't bear to part with it, "Then I'll give you another one, the last one."

The young man reluctantly took out a small ball and shaped it into a round shape before handing it to Mancang.

"Whose family brought you here?" the boy asked, "Why didn't you say anything after eating so much rice grains from me?"