Chapter 218: Sit in the study
"Brother Qi! Thanks to your words!" Meng Changqing clapped his hands, "All the difficulties in the world are caused by the disunity of people's hearts. Now we brothers are united just for the prosperity and stability of Beishan County, and we are not afraid of any dangers. ”
Qi Renli nodded excitedly, "Nothing to fear!"
"Okay!" Meng Changqing changed his tone, "Go back to sleep."
"Ah?" Qi Renli's emotions were suspended in mid-air, and he couldn't react for a while.
"You have been tired for days. Go back and have a good sleep tonight. When you wake up tomorrow, come to me in the study." Meng Changqing stood up and said goodbye. "We will discuss your work then. Remember, you don't have to get up early. The most important thing is to get a good rest."< br>
Despite Meng Changqing's words, Qi Renli still got up at four o'clock in the morning.
After all, Qi Renli felt a little uncomfortable because he had changed the place of residence and was living in a government office. He asked his followers not to move around casually and to be careful with their words and not to cause trouble.
"Master, would you like to bring you breakfast?" the attendant asked.
"Where is Mr. Meng?"
"Still in the back office, but the steward from all directions has come over. If we need anything, we can go to him."
"Let's eat first."
After a simple breakfast, Qi Renli changed into his official uniform and looked around the front office.
He now lives in a house in the last row of the county government office. When he leaves the door and looks to the east, he can see the door leading to the back office.
Then to the east is the stable. The stable here does not have much smell. When he got closer and took a closer look, he discovered that there were many small ventilation windows on the east wall. Three yamen were happily shoveling horse manure in the stable.
Looking at this scene, Qi Renli was puzzled, "How many of them?"
When the yamen servant saw his clothes and knew that he was the new county magistrate, he immediately stopped what he was doing and saluted him.
"No need to be polite." Qi Renli asked them, "You are cleaning these things so early in the morning. Why are you so happy?"
"You don't know something. Although horse manure doesn't look very clean, it can fertilize the fields after fermentation. When we transported this stuff out, there were people at the door begging for it."
Another yamen servant continued: "The county yamen has rules. Whoever cleans the stable will get the money from the horse dung."
"Although there are only a few copper coins, a little bit is worth it." "I see, you continue." Qi Renli took two steps back, "I won't disturb you."
Walking south along the road in front of the stable, he saw a row of locked houses. As he was looking over there, he saw a row of government servants coming towards him, and the leader stopped in front of him.
"Good morning, sir. Have you had breakfast?"
Qi Renli had some impression of this man. When he arrived at the county office yesterday, this man came to lead his carriage, "Brother Zuo."
"I don't dare to take it seriously. Just call me Datou." Zuo Datou said, "I think you want to get familiar with your surroundings. Why don't you let me lead the way."
Qi Renli smiled and said: "If it doesn't delay your business, that would be great."
"Don't delay, I'll go over and take care of you." Zuo Datou shouted to the team of government officials: "Run ten more laps and exercise on your own."
The government officials responded loudly: "Yes!"
When Zuo Datou came back to the front, Qi Renli couldn't help but ask: "What are you doing?"
"Exercise." Zuo Datou explained, "If you don't train, you will become lazy every day, and if you don't practice, you will become weaker and weaker. We are all the personal soldiers sent by the emperor to Master Meng, and we dare not slack off."
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Qi Renli nodded thoughtfully, and Zuo Datou pointed to the house next to him and introduced, "These are the county government's warehouses, and most of them are currently stored in grain.
When the county government office was first built, the warehouse was not here, but after using it for a period of time, the adults thought it would be more reasonable to arrange it here, so they moved it here.
Look to your right, this row of houses is where all the adults work. Beyond it and to the west is the court hall opposite the county government gate..."
Zuo Datou introduced things carefully. If there was anything that was not explained clearly, as long as Qi Renli asked, he would explain it until the other party understood.
When they turned from east to west, almost the entire county government office came down, and they happened to see Meng Changqing coming from the back office.
"Brother Qi! Good morning, Brother Zuo."
"Sir." Zuo Datou saluted and said, "I'm going to patrol the streets."
"Hard work."
After watching Zuo Datou leave a distance, Meng Changqing smiled and invited Qi Renli, "Brother Qi, come and sit in my study."