high official

Chapter 98 Jade musk deer
Hearing that Wang Xian was coming, Li Sancai rushed out to greet him, and when he heard that he was here to adopt a girl, Li Sancai patted his chest and said, "Brother!" Then he went out to pick someone for him.

"Why does he look like an old bustard?" Wu Wei, who came with him and also had the task of adoption, muttered in a low voice.

"That's because your heart is not pure." Wang Xian said with a smile: "Like me, I just want to find someone who can wash clothes and cook. I don't feel like you."

"Oh, my lord is still a boy..." Qin Shou who was standing behind said with a chuckle.

"Ahem..." Wang Xian coughed twice in embarrassment, no doubt acquiescing.He has to admit, because he and Sister Lin are still siblings...

"No wonder." Qin Shou said with a smile: "But I just picked a skinny horse to go back and train it slowly. After two years, the adults will open the meat, and I can enjoy it."

"Skinny horse?" Wu Wei said with wide eyes, "What we want to adopt is a human, not a horse."

"Hey, Ling Shi doesn't even know about skinny horses?" Li Sancai walked in and said with a smile, "That's what they say in Yangzhou. Over there, people buy girls from poor families and teach them how to please people." , when they grow up, they can be used for themselves or sold. Because poor women are often thin, the name "thin horse" comes from this."

After speaking, he pointed to the dozen or so girls standing behind him and said, "The best girls in the game are all here."

"Ahem." Wu Wei blushed unexpectedly, and said in a low voice, "Just adopt two, what are you doing so much?"

"Choose." Li Sancai smiled and said, "Let's see which one you like, even if you are raising a daughter, you have to pick the one you like."

"It's almost..." Wu Wei whispered. "Unkempt, sallow and emaciated..."

"Why don't you call it a skinny horse?" Li Sancai said with a smile, "It's like an uncut jade. Whether you can pick it up or not depends entirely on your eyes." He said with a smile to Wang Xian: "You first please?"

"Yeah." Wang Xian nodded, and was not satisfied after looking around. Jiangnan women are thin and small, but they are not as practical as northern women.He coughed twice and said, "Which of you can cook?"

The girls were stunned when they heard the words, they all thought that they were going to be skinny horses, and skinny horses don't carry loads.

"Actually, my family lacks someone who does laundry and cooks." Seeing no one answered, Wang Xian smiled at Li Sancai, "Please help me out and find someone who has a rough hand..."

The girls all lowered their heads, but they looked down on this person somewhat in their hearts.I said in my heart that we can go to a rich family to enjoy the blessings, so we don't want to go to such a family to suffer hardships...

"I can cook..." Before Li Sancai could answer, a timid voice sounded. Wang Xian saw a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl in a tattered dress. Big eyes full of begging.

Wang Xian wanted to say, no, you are too thin.But under the pitiful gaze of this little girl, he really couldn't bear to refuse...

"Jasmine is really lucky," Li Sancai stretched out his thumb and praised, "To be able to go to a high official's family to enjoy the blessing!"

"Scared..." The girls didn't expect this boy to be a 'high official'. Although they don't know what he does, he must have money and advantages, otherwise how could he be called a high official?
"I can do it too!"

"I can cook too!"

It's a pity that it was too late, Wang Xian shook his head, and signed a contract with Jasmine on the spot to work in his house for five years, including food, clothing and lodging.

Looking at the employment contract, Wang Xian secretly lamented that it was so dark that he didn't even pay him wages.However, he has seen too many black-hearted contracts in the house, and there are also contracts of prostitution of slaves and handmaids for generations, so where is this?

The document was in duplicate, and Wang Xian signed and stamped it, while Jasmine pressed her fingerprints. From now on, within five years, she will be his family's maid.

Putting the document in his arms, Wang Xian took Jasmine back home.

At home, Lin Qing'er saw that he had brought back a little beggar, and asked in puzzlement, "Who is this?"

"This is the girl I brought back from the Salesian Bureau." Wang Xian said. "It's a little thinner, but it's all the same."

"It's wrong to pick the fat and the thin." Lin Qing'er has been a family member, and the Lin family has at most a dozen servants and maids. This experience can surpass him by a few blocks.Looking at the little girl up and down, she said with certainty: "This girl is very good." Then she asked, "What's your name?"

"I... My name is Jasmine." The little girl said timidly.

"Jasmine, this name is vulgar." Lin Qing'er was obviously more accustomed to superiority and inferiority than Wang Xian, and said with a smile to him, "Great poet, give me a name."

"This is the one that bothers me the most." Wang Xian murmured in his heart, the name Qing'er is about the same as Jasmine.

"Then call it Jade Musk." Lin Qing'er thought about it and said, "This is Jasmine's elegant name."

' Doesn't that mean something? 'Wang Xian muttered to himself again, and Ya's not going anywhere?
"Mrs. Xie..." The little girl obediently responded.

One sentence made Lin Qing'er's face flushed, and she whispered: "Call me a girl, don't call me a madam." After a pause, she explained unnecessarily: "You can't call me now..."

"Yes, girl." The little girl nodded obediently.

Lin Qing'er took the jade musk deer to take a good bath, washed her up, and asked her to put on her dress and come out.

When Wang Xian saw it, it was indeed much more pleasing to the eye. Although he was still sallow and thin, he could still see that he was a beauty.

But what Wang Xian is most concerned about is still: "Are you really good at cooking?"

"Really." Jade Musk nodded, and whispered: "When I was at home, I have been cooking for three years..."

"Then don't be dumbfounded..." Wang Xian waved his hands, thinking that the children of poor people were already in charge of the family, and he wondered if this was considered child labor.

Jade musk deer went to the kitchen to work for a while, and soon served several dishes, fried pumpkin seedlings in clear oil, steamed bitter herbs with flour, shepherd's purse mixed with minced garlic...and a pot of brown rice.The magistrate of Wei County asked all the officials in the county to take the lead in weathering the spring famine and eat more vegetables and less food. As the number one dog leg, Wang Xian naturally had to do it himself.

In fact, even if the magistrate of Wei didn't call for it, Wang Xian would eat the same food as ordinary people. If he doesn't understand the difficulties of the people, he won't be able to do relief.

Of course, he is more bitter than the common people, because it was Sister Lin who was cooking before...

After eating the meal made by the jade musk deer, Wang Xian couldn't help but burst into tears. It couldn't be said how delicious it was. After all, the ingredients were there, and she could only cook ordinary farm meals, but Wang Xian still felt like it was dawn.

After dinner, Jade Musk cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks, and Lin Qing'er made scented tea. Just as she was about to talk, someone came and shouted: "My lord, Fourth Master told you to come over."

"Okay." Wang Xian looked at Sister Lin guiltily, shook her little hand, and hurried to the yamen.

As soon as he entered the Hall of Dianshi, he saw that the yard was full of men and women kneeling, with their hands bound behind their backs with ropes. Wang Xian couldn't help being surprised, and hurried in to see Ma Dianshi.

After seeing the ceremony, Wang Xian asked, "Fourth Master, the one kneeling outside is..."

"Mingjiao." Ma Dianshi was still very polite to the magistrate's cronies: "These people took advantage of the uneasiness of the victims, opened incense halls in the countryside, and blatantly recruited believers! The inspector and I got Li Zheng's approval." report, raided one of their incense halls, and captured all the missionaries and believers."

"What does the fourth master mean?" Wang Xian asked puzzled, what does this have to do with me as a household secretary?
"Ask you, the general manager of disaster relief, what should you do with these people." Ma Dianshi said, "You still have to eat in prison, and you can't let them go. What do you think should be done?"

"Send those who believe in religion to build terraced fields." Wang Xian thought for a while and said, "As for the few who preach, let's close it..."

"Well, good idea." Ma Dianshi remonstrated Ruliu: "But it's useless to catch a few missionaries, you have to find a way to catch their leaders, otherwise another batch of missionaries will be created at any time." He sighed. Dao: "Under these years of suppression, Mingjiao is almost extinct. But the power of these cults is that 'the wild fire is endless, and the spring breeze blows again'. Many times stronger."

After finishing speaking, Ma Dianshi clasped his fists and said: "Zhongde, I know that you can make good decisions, please help me find a way to catch that guy!"

"Uh..." Ma Dianshi is responsible for the security of the whole county.

Cults are terrifying to spread. If they are allowed to grow to a certain extent, it will be impossible to eradicate them.In the year of the catastrophe, the government is strictly guarding against cults, and Fuyang County is no exception.However, the Mingjiao has extremely rich experience in struggle, and the vast rural areas outside the county seat are used as the area of ​​activity. The key elements are like fish in the sea, and it is difficult to catch them.I am very lucky to be able to catch a few preachers this time...

Ma Dianshi wanted to get it done once and for all, so he invited Wang Xian here to ask this 'wisdom star' for advice.

With the name of a person and the shadow of a tree, Wang Xian has become a wise man in the eyes of everyone.

"Fuyang is so big, trying to find those Mingjiao backbones is like looking for a needle in a haystack." Wang Xian thought for a while and said, "If we can think of a way to get them to come to the county, it will be much better."

"They won't be obedient." Ma Dianshi smiled wryly. "How could you throw yourself into the trap?"

"There is a way. For example, the county government announced that all the believers arrested this time will be beheaded." Wang Xian said with a smile: "When killing people, members of the Ming religion must come. so that the hearts of believers will not be chilled.”

"En." Ma Dianshi's eyes lit up and said, "It's a good trick to lure the snake out of the hole." But his face quickly turned ugly: "What if they really rob the execution ground?"

"With your heart and mind, you can let others rob the court?" Wang Xian said helplessly: "Besides this method, it is really too difficult to catch those people."

"I'll think about it, I'll think about it..." Ma Dianshi struggled in pain and said, "It's okay if there are reinforcements..."

"Let the Elder Master write a letter to the yamen, Zhou Niantai will definitely support it." Wang Xian said in a deep voice: "At that time, choose a favorable terrain, arrange it in advance, and just catch the turtle in the urn!"

"Okay!" Ma Dianshi nodded and said.

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　Sleepy!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)