Chapter 266: Encountering something on the way

"Finally, there is a real official, who is a smaller grade."

A month later, Wang Juan sat on the bow of the boat, looked at the scenery on both sides and said to Zhang Xiaobao.

Zhang Xiaobao was rocking the boat, and this time they were the two of them on the road. When they arrived at the place, Shutong and the guards could only come over. Shutong was the one who wanted from Sanshui County. There were two, one man and one woman. They were both eleven years old this year, one year older than Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, and they were very smart.

I have learned a lot of knowledge in Jianjia Academy and have answered the same questions as I did when I was taking the exam. If I also took the exam, I would definitely be among the top ten. I will continue to study in distant places and can no longer learn much unless I meet a better teacher.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were so short of people, so they transferred the two of them to follow each other and contacted government affairs to lay the foundation for the future. The guards were transferred from Niujia Village. This time, there were 100 people, and many children were sent at the age of thirteen and fourteen.

It takes two people to wait for a while after arriving in Baoxin County. Now the person responsible for protecting the two people is the four people sent by Gao Lishi. They dress up as small merchants on the land, pull a car, and follow them with pomegranate, cherry, Xiaohong and others.

Zhang Xiaobao is a coolie. Wang Juan insisted on watching the scenery on both sides of the strait along the road, so she bought a small boat and swayed it. At this time, there were not many flowers on both sides of the strait, so she could not help but the grass that emerged from loneliness, which made the yellow and green make the place more spring.

The willow catkins on the dike have not appeared yet, only the branches with a little bag are swaying in the wind.

Zhang Xiaobao doesn’t need to scratch hard, just go down the water, pay attention to controlling the direction and not hitting the shore.

The two of them were relatively thick, with a pure cotton shirt inside, a small jacket, and a faded satin jacket with a fur-lined fur on the outside. They didn't look so poor, but they couldn't stand the rich or powerful.

Wang Juan said casually, and saw Zhang Xiaobao observing the river, then continued: "I am a ninth rank. You are from the ninth rank. I don't know how much things you have to be busy in the county. I guess it's quite tedious, and I hope it's not too messy."

"It's better to be a little messy, otherwise how I do it, what I worry about is that when I arrive at the local area, all the local people are dead. If I want to be in administration, no one will cooperate. I will explain a problem randomly, and the people there are more active."

Zhang Xiaobao asked a fishing boat that came out to fish without caring about the cold water and hot water, and replied to Wang Juan.

The two of them moved in the water during the day and rested at night. After walking for five days, they changed to land and finally arrived at 0 counties, a very small county. Although it is Zhongxian, it is calculated by population, not by local size. This place is considered a good place, with relatively large population density.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan walked side by side. The land here is nice. From other counties, you can see local people composting into the fields and preparing for spring plowing.

Others followed him from afar after dressing up, asking the locals about the situation from time to time, and asking if they were buying something. The three cars were loaded with a lot of daily necessities and simple medicines. The price was very cheap, so cheap that it was only a little higher than the cost, and it was not enough for shipping.

The most important thing is that there are many farm tools, which brings people who are not busy with work to the scene, and whether they look or ask, the contact between Zhang and Wang family has received a lot of news.

Baoxin County is not big, but if you want to walk all the way out into the county town, you won’t even think of going to the place without most of the day.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan walked all the way, wanting to find a tool for transportation. When the people in the field saw them, they looked at them for a moment and then continued to work. The little kids were curious about what they wore. The satin was not like ordinary people, but it was very old.

If someone has some money and can't see the adults follow him, would he have sneaked out? Or something happened to the family?

Some children insist on thinking about the two people they just saw in the family, and they feel sad.

Some kids are not the case. When they see two kids dressed well, they want to get some benefits from the two of them. With a greeting, they gathered six companions, who were about twelve or twelve years old, and surrounded Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.

"Hey, where did you two come from? Do you know where this place is?" asked Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, who were taller than him, and said, "There are so many people, so you're not afraid."

"You are not in the field to help with work, and you run outside to make trouble. If something happens, it's time for the family to be sad. Take advantage of the river water to open up and find a few more people and use a fork to point the toad. When someone in the county goes back, they don't just collect their thighs, but they just want the whole thing."

Zhang Xiaobao looked at the six people and saw that the linen clothes they were wearing were not thick and the weather was not completely warm. He gave an evaluation. He was not poor, but not rich. Ordinary families, or a little bit better, always treat themselves as adults, but do not help with work.

This shows that the family has enough staff and the adults can get busy. Thinking that a toad has already emerged, it is good to eat some sauce and stew it, so I reminded the six people.

Three of the six people had their eyes lit up and they were really ready to go to the toad, but the other three people did not intend to do that. The person who spoke just now pinched his waist and said angrily: "What do you want to ask you, don't worry about the toad's affairs? Tell me, did you come here after you made a mistake? Did you bring money?"

"You want to rob? That will be a big crime. Your family can't protect you. Have no money? It's here. Should you rob or exchange it for a toad? It's best to grab it with your hands and weave a basket to put it in, and ten toads cost a penny."

Zhang Xiaobao frowned and had a bad impression of the child's family. If he was more disciplined, how could the child dare to steal other people's things?

Just now, the three children who were already moved could exchange for a penny when they heard that ten toads could be exchanged, so they immediately chose to exchange them, and ignored the leader, and threw a word and went to catch them and ran to the river.

One of the remaining three kids was also moved and didn't run to catch them, but took a few steps back and expressed the meaning very clearly.

There were only two children left. Looking at Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, hesitated for a while, but finally did not dare to take action. The child who had just spoken said to Zhang Xiaobao again: "There is too little to give ten, one penny, five penny."

"Ten." Zhang Xiaobao replied.

"Six." The kid continued to increase the price.

"Just ten, if you want to change, we will only buy one hundred, and if we have enough, we won't buy it." Zhang Xiaobao said again.

"Then you don't allow me to leave, I'll catch it." The kid compromised, turned around and ran to catch the toad, and asked another person to make a simple basket.

Seeing that the children left, Wang Juan sighed and asked Zhang Xiaobao: "Xiaobao, is there any problem with the folk customs here?"

"No, it has nothing to do with the customs of the people. There are good and bad people everywhere. Wait, wait, wait, take them over and stew them over the oil and taste them."

Zhang Xiaobao saw a big tree nearby. Under the tree there was a big stone that people often sat on. He went there and said to Wang Juan.

"Then do you want to educate them? When you take over the job, you will find someone to promote it." Wang Juan followed him to Dashitou, slapped the soot, and sat on it.

Zhang Xiaobao looked at the big tree behind him and shook his head, "Don't publicize it first, think of ways to improve the lives of local people, and then carry out infrastructure construction and beautify Baoxin County, so that many people will very consciously maintain this living environment.

It seems that some people in villages always like to spit. Not to mention on the way to the village, they will spit even on the mud on their own homes, and rub it with their feet. It has nothing to do with quality and is just a habit. However, when they go to a luxurious hotel to have a meal, they will not spit on the ground even if they have phlegm. This is the impact of the environment."

"I know this, but it has nothing to do with kids bullying outsiders, right?" Wang Juan always feels that this kind of thing is a family education problem.

"How can it be okay? The kid bullies outsiders, which means that the adults at home do not pay attention to it, but when life is better, they will cherish this life very much and pay attention to certain behaviors that can make life worse. If you don't believe it, let's try it, and you can also promote it at that time."

As Zhang Xiaobao spoke, he took out eleven cents from his pocket and felt that it was much easier. The money was too heavy. The two of them brought a total of 100 cents of copper coins, and the remaining one was silver. If they didn't bring the flying money, they might not be able to move in this place.

"Just try it. Why do you take one more cent?" Wang Juan glanced at the money and found that one more.

"I will let them know now that they will pay off if they pay. Even if the facts may not be true, I have to give them this idea and let them work hard to get it, and the basket can be sold for money."

Zhang Xiaobao put eleven copper coins into a single sheet, and patiently waited for the six kids to catch the toads.

While waiting, three more children came, two boys in their teens and one girl in their seven or eight years old.

"You guys go quickly. Xiao Hei is so bad. He always bullies people. If he leaves late, he should beat you." The girl kindly persuaded.

Zhang Xiaobao glanced at Wang Juan and said that it was, how about it, is there any good one?

He pulled out a dagger from his legs, shook it at the three of them and said, "I'm not afraid, I have a knife."

The three of them felt relieved. In their minds, there was a knife that was very powerful and could kill people.

"Then you are not afraid. Did you escape from the famine and come here?" the girl asked again.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan shook their heads at the same time.

"What's going on?" The girl seemed to have to ask clearly.

"My name is Zhang Xiaobao, and her name is Wang Juan. She is here to take office, and she is an official. In the county, she is the county magistrate, and I am the lord, a ninth rank official."

Zhang Xiaobao pointed at Wang Juan and pointed at himself.

The girl blinked her big eyes and shook her head in disbelief, "Hehe, you are lying to someone, official, how can you be a little kid be an official? My name is Luo Xianger. This is my eldest brother and second brother. The eldest brother is older than the second brother, and he is one and a half years older, but the second brother is older."

"We are really the head Bo and the county magistrate who came here to serve. Now I ask you if you have any suffering?" Zhang Xiaobao coughed slightly and asked with his chest straight.

Luo Xiang laughed louder and hugged in his elder brother's arms, "It's fun, then if I have something to do in my family, I have to make the decision."

"Mr. Wang, it's your business. I don't care about this." Zhang Xiaobao gave in to the side and pushed Wang Juan forward.

Wang Juan looked helpless and thought to himself that Zhang Xiaobao likes children, but he can't just play with them when he meets children, right? How old is it?

Seeing Luo Xianger looking expectant, he had to cooperate and ask, "Luo Xianger, what are the sufferings in the family? Come quickly, I will make the decision with you."

"If you go back to Wang County Magistrate, my family, my family...my mother is really sick. My brother and I came out to cut some grass and feed the pig at home. We rushed to the county town tomorrow and sold it to my mother to get medicine, but the grass only grew a little."

Luo Xianger thought it was fun at first, but when she talked about specific things, her eyes turned red and tears rolled inside.

Zhang Xiaobao looked at the expressions of Luo Xianger's two brothers and knew that this was not a play, but a real thing. He nodded to Wang Juan. Wang Juan immediately put away his playful thoughts and said to Luo Xianger: "Sister, please help me. Take this thing and let one of your brothers go on the way here. There are peddlers who buy all kinds of things. If you think you can use it, you can ask for whatever you want. There are also ordinary medicinal materials there."

When Wang Juan was speaking, she took out a piece of silk from her pocket, and rusted rice seedlings on it and handed it to Luo Xianger.

Luo Xianger was sad. When she saw the sister who was pretending to be accused, she reached out to take it and knew it was worth it as soon as she touched it. She hesitated and handed it back, saying, "Dad and mother often say that they can't be benefited in vain. Does this beautiful sister want to use this thing to change the medicine? No."

Wang Juan suddenly discovered that the gap between Luo Xianger and the kid family just now was too big. One wanted to grab things, and the other was to be unsuccessful and unpaid. If he was an ordinary person, it was called giving alms, but he was really an official. Although he was not of high rank, the entire Baoxin County in the future would be under his control and Xiaobao. The new county magistrate would be a decoration.

So he said, "Xiang'er, my sister is really an official, a very big official. Do you know from the second rank? This brother is a third rank. Even the governor of Yuzhou Prefecture will have to greet him. Go and take the things over and take them back when the time comes. My sister has something to ask Xiang'er to help each other. Could it be good?"

"Okay~! Is the second-rank official very big? Are the village afraid?" Xiang'er finally accepted the thing and asked her second brother to try if she could bring it. She would have medicine for her mother to take it.

She had no specific concept of officials, just knowing that the village was big and they had to listen to the village. If they were bigger than the village, they would be a big official, which was a great one.

Wang Juan took out a small bag of beef jerky from his pocket, pulled Xiang'er to sit aside, and stuffed it into her hand, "Sister invites you to eat beef jerky. It's really made of beef, no one dares to care yet. Do you think my sister is an official? The big one."

Luo Xianger always thought that the brother and sister on the other side were lying, but when she saw the jerky beef, she found that it was indeed not the taste of pork and chicken. Now she couldn't even believe it, so she nodded and said:

"Yes, the high-ranking official, no one cares about killing cattle? I told my sister that last year a cow in the village broke its thigh and could not work, so he could only kill meat. The village hid it from the yamen runners who died of illness, and even took a lot of money and cut one leg for the yamen runners.

Do the yamen runners dare not care about my sister’s beef jerky? Then I will eat it. If I do, I will not eat it. Then I will give it to the yamen runners, and it will not be difficult for the yamen runners to be.”

Wang Juan nodded, signaled Luo Xianger to eat, turned to look at Zhang Xiaobao, "It seems that we have a long way to go. As soon as we took office, we have to deal with the yamen runners. We can't kill people casually like we did in Luzhou, so we have to do it according to the law."

"It's not easy to kill people. We don't reveal our identity at first, find ways to anger the yamen runners, and then use good things to lure them to rob them. When the time comes, no one can tell anything. You just go over and kill them directly, and it's okay. My godfather is Gao Lishi, and having a good father is amazing."

Zhang Xiaobao said to Wang Juan, and laughed as he spoke.

"Go, do your own thing, don't always take out your dad. Go through whatever procedures you should go, otherwise what should you do? Xiang'er is not afraid. My sister is talking to her brother and she doesn't kill anyone. Do you think her sister can kill someone?"

Wang Juan gave Zhang Xiaobao a blank look and comforted Luo Xianger who shrank to the side when she heard the words of the two people.

Luo Xianger vented a long sigh and replied with a smile: "The beef jerky is so delicious. My sister is not the kind of person who can kill people. My sister looks so good when she smiles. My sister wants Xianger to help. Tell me, Xianger will definitely help, even if she can't get the medicine back."

The simple Xianger didn't know how many warriors' smile in Tubo once made many warriors scared, and even found reasons to prove it.

Wang Juan hugged Luo Xianger, looked at the sky and said, "Sister just wants to know how she lives in Xianger's village. Is there anyone who teaches?"

"Life...just that's it. Even if my mother is sick, she has food to eat and clothes to wear, and no one teaches. Those who are capable don't come to our village. No one will let their children learn and can't afford to do anything. I heard from a passerby who came last time that there is a place where she doesn't have to give her things to her master."

Luo Xianger seemed helpless about the second question, and her brother next to her also said: "I heard that the place is called Sanshui County, which is very far away from here, but the children inside have been in charge of literacy since they were young. It would be great if this place could be like that, and they have a good official there."
To be continued...