Rebirth of the Tang Dynasty's strongest consort

Chapter 387 Silver?Official seal?
Walking out of Fuyang Village and walking about [-] miles west, a city wall made of bluestones faintly came into the sight of Fang Yiai and Qin Jingniang.

"Meiwu County? Judging from the size of the city walls, the county seat should be quite big." Fang Yiai sat on the horse, with both feet on the saddle, stood up and looked into the distance.

The one who was at the end of the group of arresters was the lead arrester, and when he heard the county magistrate's question, he said flatteringly: "Reporting to your majesty, our Meiwu county is well-known in Caozhou and even half of Henan Province."

In the middle of speaking, the policeman stopped abruptly, and looked at Fang Yiai with triangular eyes, flashing a sly look.

Fang Yiai frowned and asked: "What?"

The policeman from the "poor county" shook his head, and was about to flatter him, but Fang Yiai's sullen eyes forced him back.

Sitting on the saddle, Fang Yiai looked at the Meiwu County in front of him and thought, "The scale of the city wall is really not small, but the county is also quite large. Why does such a small county become the famous barren land of Henan Province?" land?"

Seeing that her husband was frowning and puzzled, Qin Jingniang lightly bit her vermilion lips, wanted to speak several times, but never opened her vermilion lips, fumbled for the luggage behind the saddle several times, as if there was something important inside.

When they came to the gate of the city, before Fang Yiai could speak, Zaoli, the city guard who was in charge of checking the vendors, came up to him first.

"Hey, Meidong Five Tigers, what's going on? The feelings went to Fuyang Village to confiscate the silver tax, but they were smashed into twists."

"Yeah, could it be that we met a villain on the way?"

Although the two Zao Li taunted the five arresters, they had already picked up the water and fire sticks in their hands, and walked to Fang Yi's horse from left to right, as if they wanted to "fight against injustice".

The five arresters walking in front of the horse saw that Zaoli was going to attack the county magistrate, so they quickly pouted and winked, but since Fang Yiai was behind him, they didn't dare to say anything openly.

"Boy on the horse, come down!" Zaoli spat, rubbed his hands together, and held up the water and fire stick with both hands, as if Fang Yiai would be knocked off the horse if he didn't get off the horse.

"It's two more villains!" Fang Yi happily pretended to be a pig and eat a tiger, turned over and jumped off his horse, cupped his hands at the two vicious scorpions, and said with a blank face: "Two policemen, do you have any questions?" What's the matter?"

Seeing that the county magistrate came to repeat the old trick again, the chief arrester cursed inwardly, "Little brat, come to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger again!"

"You two, this is..." The policeman had just finished speaking half of the reminder, but Fang Yiai swallowed the remaining half in fright.

Seeing the policeman's flustered expression, Zaoli was slightly taken aback, and asked curiously, "Who are you?"

"The student came to Meiwu County to look for relatives. I met him before." Fang Yiai was thinking about how to explain the origin of the "catch fast card" candied haws in a reasonable way, but was interrupted by Zao Li's hand.

A Zaoli detoured behind Fang Yi'ai, and the two of them held water and fire sticks, one in front of the other, sandwiching Fang Yi'ai in between, and said coldly: "You brat, how dare you tease the county yamen policeman? You have two tricks on your own Kung Fu, dare to run amok? I will definitely lock you back to the county government today!"

Rao's tone was bluffing, and the two Zaoli, who believed that Fang Yiai knew martial arts, took a few steps back one after another, holding the water and fire sticks in their hands, looking very alert.

"Oh, the students are just joking with a few big police officers. I'll untie the hemp rope right away." Fang Yiai deliberately showed weakness, and while untying the hemp ropes for the five policemen, she warned them one by one not to talk too much.

Seeing Fang Yiai's humble eyes, the two Zao Li looked at the water and fire sticks in their hands, and then at the frail Fang Yiai, their hearts dropped.

"Seeing your respectful attitude, the lock will be released, but you still have to take it back to the county government!"

Seeing Zaoli's solemn expression, Fang Yiai's heart trembled, thinking to himself, "Could it be that these two Zaoli are good people?"

Just as Fang Yiai was thinking, Zaoli, who had just turned his face straight for a while, suddenly revealed a fox's tail.

"But seeing your fair skin, I'm afraid you won't be able to stand the beatings in the cell. How about spending some money and spending money to eliminate disasters?"

The two Zaolis looked at each other with treacherous smiles on their faces.

"Sure enough, it's a chicken of the same feather!" Fang Yiai cursed secretly, but the smile on his face didn't fade, "I don't know how much money it takes to avoid this disaster?"

"Ten taels of silver! I can't do anything less!" Zaoli held the water and fire stick under his arm, and made a sign of ten with both hands.

"Oh, ten taels of silver is not much, the student will take it now." Fang Yiai nodded with a smile, put her hands on her waist, and began to search carefully up and down her eyeballs.

While Fang Yiai was searching for the "money", all five police officers showed signs of stroke, winking and winking, making Qin Jingniang laugh again and again, and the two Zaoli were even more confused, but seeing that the money was about to be obtained, How could the two of them have the mind to pay attention to the "convulsive" police officers.

"Hurry up, why are you so slow in doing things, kid!"

"Yes! Get the money quickly!"

Amid the urging voices of the two Zaolis, Fang Yiai half-clutched her left hand, and respectfully put the "silver" into the hands of a Zaoli.

"Two messengers, the student only has this ingot of silver, is it enough for ten taels?"

Zaoli let out a smirk, deliberately grinning and holding his head up, stretched out his hand to weigh the "money" in his hand.

"Well, the weight is not light."

In the middle of the conversation, after another Zaoli saw the "silver" in his companion's hand, the smile on his face disappeared immediately, and he shook his companion's cuff like a sieve.

"Dude. Put it down! Give it back to Grandpa."

"Huh? Grandpa? You kid must have drunk too much. If he is the grandpa, I'm still the magistrate."

As he said that, Zaoli lowered his head and glanced at the "silver" in his hand, and saw that the whole body of this ingot of "silver" was made of brass, and the upper end was carved with auspicious cloud twisting patterns, shining yellow and shining rhythm, just like the official case of the main hall of the Meiwu county government. official seal.

"My grandma!" Zaoli exclaimed, horrified, and almost threw the official seal away.

"I don't know the county magistrate's appointment, but I hope to be punished." Zaoli bowed his waist, holding the official seal in both hands, and presented it to Fang Yiai. Even if they didn't kneel down in front of the public, their faces were frighteningly pale, and they spoke Come and stutter, it seems like a word is jumping out.

Fang Yiai put away the official seal, pointed at the scolding on the ground, and said, "Follow back to the county government office!"

After finishing speaking, Fang Yiai got on his horse and walked side by side with Qin Jingniang. Under the watchful eyes of the common people in the city, he swaggered into the county town with candied haws skewers of "Catchers Mixed with Zaoli".

Entering the city, Fang Yiai looked around, and what he saw not only made the well-informed Fang county magistrate secretly speechless.

On both sides of the main road in Meiwu County, there is a depression. There are as few vendors as there are fleas on the head of a bald man. Moreover, most of the shops along the street are closed with closed doors. The only ones that open for business are coffin shops and shroud shops. , and the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion, which attracts young talents.

Although he was well prepared for the first impoverished county, looking at the depressed market, Fang Yiai realized that the "prevention shots" he had laid down earlier were too small.

Sitting on the saddle, Qin Jingniang looked at the people in the street who were dressed in coarse linen clothes with various patches on them. Although this young lady didn't know suffering, she also noticed something strange, "It's also Meiwu County. Although it is not as good as Chang'an, how can it be so depressed? These people are dressed in rags, but they look like refugees fleeing famine. Could it be that the locust plague and floods in Meiwu County are so serious? It is so serious that everyone can't even afford rations and clothes. Can't handle it all?"

"Hmph! The majestic county government is so barren. It's almost abnormal to be barren. Do you really think the county is blind?"

In a fit of rage, Fang Yiai said to the seven villains who were on their way: "Hurry up and lead the way! Did the county ask you to go shopping?"

Seeing the county magistrate getting angry, the seven bad guys all trembled, hurriedly stepped forward, half-running towards the county government office.

Along the way, the people of Li Min pointed at Fang Yiai, but respectful expressions on their faces were extremely rare, and more often they looked pity and regret.

Arriving at the Meiwu county government office, the Zaoli and the catcher, who had been informed by the postman this morning, had been waiting for a long time, standing on both sides of the county government office's entrance, looking very neat.

Fang Yiai and Qin Jingniang got off their horses at the same time, and carefully inspected the policemen on both sides. Seeing that their faces were serious and well-dressed, both husband and wife showed a gratified smile.

But before the smile on Fang Yiai's face dissipated, the closed gates of the government office with copper locks pierced Fang Yiai's eyes like a red-hot iron nail.

(End of this chapter)