The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia's frown and said softly: "Okay, I'll ask Xu Chun and Xu Dong to go there early tomorrow morning and report the situation in Qingchuan. It's just that the fields at home have been invaded. I'm afraid there will be no trace of them in a short time." I'll go back and take care of it. Once we get it settled here, you can manage it here while I go back and take care of it. It's up to you."

Zhou Jia reached out and took Li Yu's hand, looking at Li Yu with affectionate eyes, "Yu'er, I made you run around with me, I'm sorry for you."

Li Yu said angrily: "You and I, as husband and wife, should be like this. Don't say such things in the future."

Zuo Qing, the bandit leader of Qinglong Village, waited for several days in the village, but did not wait for the bandits who went out to plunder to return. Zuo Qing said to his confidant Tu Gang: "Tu Gang, have any of the people brought out by the third brother returned to the village? "

Tu Gang recalled for a while and said: "Brother, I didn't see anyone coming back. Isn't it possible that the third master's family will be taken advantage of by the group of people from Hutou Village?"

"No, Hutou Village will not know that someone is coming." Zuo Qing recalled the situation when he received the news from Huang San. At that time, only Lao San and two of his confidants were present. Logically speaking, the news would not be leaked to Huang San. Keren from Hutou Village has been out for three or four days and hasn't come back yet. Could it be that he was killed by those people?

Zuo Qing said to his confidant Tu Gang: "Go outside the city to see what's going on with Lao San and the others. By the way, go to the city to see if the new county magistrate sent by the imperial court has taken office?"

"Yes, the boss." Tu just left the village and rode a big green mule down the mountain, heading towards Qingchuan City.

At Tu's house, Tu Dianshi put a piece of braised pork in a bowl, took a bite, and it melted in his mouth. Tu Dianshi smiled and said, "Oh! It's delicious! I haven't eaten such delicious braised pork in a long time."

Zhou Jia and Mr. Qian smiled at Tu Dianshi, and after he finished eating, they walked towards the county government office opposite.

Li Yu looked at the lush oleander bush in the corner in the backyard. The branches were full of pink flowers. There was a small door next to the flower tree. Xiaoyu boiled the bath water and brought it to the room. Seeing Li Yu standing in front of the flower tree, he walked over and smiled at Li Yu: "Madam, hot water has been sent to the room. Please go and wash up quickly."

Seeing that Xiaoyu was sweating profusely from her busy work, Li Yu smiled and said, "You must be tired! Tomorrow morning I will ask Ruyi to go to the dental shop and buy two rough men back so that they can help you with some rough housework."

Seeing that Li Yu was considerate of her, Xiaoyu smiled sweetly and said, "Really, you are not tired with such a small amount of work, so why are you spending so much money?"

Li Yu tapped the tip of Xiaoyu's nose and said, "Little money fan, it's settled." He walked towards the room with a smile.

Li Yu leaned in the bathtub, thinking about what he saw and heard after arriving in Qingchuan City, and thinking about the bandits he met when he was approaching Qingchuan: Those bandits had been waiting there for a long time, and so many people came, just for To rob and kill a few carriages would be too much! Also; this place was worse than she imagined. She would go outside the city early tomorrow morning to see how many people had returned to their hometowns after the disaster?

Zhou Jia, Mr. Qian and Tu Dianshi were sitting in the dilapidated lobby of the county government office. Zhou Jia looked at the leaky walls and thought: Fortunately it is autumn. If you sit here in two months, you will be frozen.

Tu Dianshi took out a few stacks of files from the cabinet and placed them on the broken wooden table. "Sir, the other files and records were all recorded during the severe drought the year before last. They were burned by bandits who came down from the mountain to plunder them. Those bandits were in the city. They smashed, looted, and tore down the city walls." Tu Dianshi paused and pointed to a few piles of files. "These are the books that the lower officials took home and hid before the bandits rushed into the city gate. The others from the Yamen The staff have long since fled, and the last four government officials have also fled. Even if they did not flee, the court has not sent anyone, and no one has paid them salaries. They have stopped working long ago. Now the Qingchuan County government office is empty. Shell, nothing.”

Zhou Jia flipped through it and thought: Fortunately, all the important files are still there.

Zhou Jia bowed to Tu Dianshi and said, "Tu Dianshi, thank you for risking your life to keep these files. For other matters, I will ask someone to go to the Qingzhou Prefecture Magistrate's Yamen early tomorrow morning for instructions."

Tu Dianshi's eyes turned red and he said: "Sir, my daughter's family has also been killed by bandits, leaving me alone as an old man. I just ask you to invite officers and soldiers to annihilate Qinglong Village as soon as possible, to avenge my daughter's family, and for Revenge for those who died at the hands of bandits.”

Zhou Jia looked at the sad and angry Tu Dianshi and said sternly: "Don't worry, I will inform the Qingzhou Prefecture and invite officers and soldiers to destroy the bandits."

Mr. Qian was a little confused and said to Ambassador Tu Dian: "Envoy Tu Dian, I heard that there are two groups of bandits around Qingchuan County. One group of bandits is called Qinglong Village, and the other group is called Hutou Village. Isn't it the only one who burned down and robbed the county town? Qinglong Village ?”

Tu Dianshi nodded and said: "There are only two large mountain villages, one is Qinglong Village and the other is Hutou Village. The bandits in Qinglong Village do all kinds of evil. The people in the north of the county cannot even eat enough, and they have to hand over protective food to them. The bandits in Hutou Village are similar to them, and the people south of the county town pay them protection grain, so the county government cannot collect taxes at all."

Mr. Qian looked at Tu Dianshi in surprise, "Oh! We still need to pay them protective food. The bandits are so arrogant. Didn't the state government send officers and soldiers to exterminate them?"

"Why not? What's the use of just coming? When the officers and soldiers are here, the county government has to entertain them with food and drinks. After eating and drinking, they go for a walk in the mountains. They don't even see the shadow of the bandits," Tu Dianshi said angrily He slapped the table, "As soon as the officers and soldiers left, the bandits began to retaliate against the people. They used to collect grain secretly. In the first year of the drought, after scaring away the county magistrate, the bandits openly collected grain outside the city. Now it's better There are no city gates anymore, so it is more convenient for the bandits to collect grain."

After hearing this, Zhou Jia and Mr. Qian both thought in unison: there is something fishy, ​​a family of soldiers and bandits.

After a few people sorted out the files, they closed the door and returned to Tu's house across the street.

Zhou Jia returned to the room and told Li Yu what he heard from Tu Dianshi, "Yu'er, I think those officers and soldiers and the bandits must be colluding with each other to commit crime!"

Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia and said: "I have always suspected that there was an inside story about how we were intercepted by bandits two days ago. When you say it like this, it makes sense. The news about our arrival in Qingchuan may be because they don't want us. Go to Qingchuan and destroy their interests. Write a letter to Shen Wu and find out which general's officers and soldiers were sent to Qingchuan to suppress the bandits over the years. Then you will know who took the food in a county and why the bandits wanted to The county government office was set on fire."

Zhou Jia nodded and said: "Okay, you rest first, I will write a letter and ask Qingzhou Mansion for money to build the city wall, submit a note to the government office for the money, and prepare for the recruitment of officials and government servants."

Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia's thin cheeks and felt a little distressed, "Go! Don't be too late. Get some rest early." Zhou Jia led Li Yu to the bedside, "I know, you have been tired for so long. , rest early."

Li Yu took off his shoes and climbed into bed, and the couple cuddled together. After a while, Zhou Jia kissed Li Yu before getting up and going to the study.