This is so inconsistent!

“Where have all those people gone?”

Ma Qingshan said cautiously with embarrassment on his face: "There is no business in the Zhanshi Mansion, so... everyone rotates one person to serve on duty every day, and the rest of the people should do whatever they want."

Luo Xinwen was already as deep as water and said coldly: "Who is the one who takes the lead in collective neglecting his duties?"

"This... we are discussing it." A cold sweat broke out on Ma Qingshan's forehead.

Luo Xin turned dark and said in a cold voice: "Aren't you afraid of Shangguan's investigation?"

Ma Qingshan smiled bitterly and said, "No one pays attention to us. Everyone knows that no one is willing to come to the Zhanshi Mansion. Even if one is sued, there is a vacant person in the Zhanshi Mansion, no one is willing to come. Instead, Shangguan is worried about who to send him here, so everyone thinks it is invisible."

Luo Xin was stunned and couldn't help but smile bitterly. This Zhan Shi Mansion is really a pitfall, no one wants to come. He took a breath and calmed down and said:

"Then what did they do?"

"I've gone to make money!" Ma Qingshan said awkwardly: "Some people run shops at home, buy calligraphy and painting, buy groceries, copy books for others, and do accountants for others. Anyway, as long as they can make money, they will do something."

Luo Xin frowned and said, "Everyone's salary should be enough for life, why do you lose your dignity?"

Ma Qingshan said with a bitter face: "Sir, if we only eat and drink, our salary will naturally be enough. However, none of us are locals in the capital, and we don't have houses in the capital. Therefore, we all rent the place where we live. The rent in this capital is large, and after paying the rent every month, there is only a lot left. To be honest, sir, we can't eat meat twice a month."

Ma Qingshan paused and said, "In the past year, the court could not pay any salary. If we hadn't found some work outside, we, the officials of the court, would have starved to death."

"The salary owed has not been repaid?" Luo Xin was a little surprised. Logically speaking, the Maritime Bureau had already earned money, and the court should repaid the salary.

"Send it..." Ma Qingshan finally swallowed the word "fart" and continued: "It would be great now that he could get his full salary."

Luo Xin frowned and said, "Are all the officials in Beijing like this? They are making money outside?"

"How could it be?" Ma Qingshan shook his head and said, "Only the Qingshui Yamen is like this. Those with oil and water don't point to their salary at all, and they cry out for us, the Qingshui Yamen, not to mention that the Zhan Shi Mansion is not ordinary Qingshui."

Luo Xin thought for a while, got up and walked out of the door, and walked towards the gate of the Zhan Shi Mansion. Ma Qingshan also hurriedly got up and followed behind. He didn't know what Luo Xin was going to do, but Luo Xin didn't say it, and he didn't dare to ask. Luo Xin walked to the gate and waved to a soldier, and the soldier ran over happily.

"Sir, what are your instructions?"

Luo Xin took out a ingot of silver and handed it to the soldier and said, "Go and buy me four dishes, a pot of wine, and you guys look at the remaining money and buy some wine to eat."

When the soldier heard this, he immediately smiled, took the silver, and ran to a tavern opposite him. Ma Qingshan said with an even more awkward expression:

"Sir, this... should be the official who welcomes you..."

Luo Xin waved his hand and said, "Don't be polite between us. You know my situation, it's better than yours. Please drink with me and tell me about the affairs of the Zhan Shi Mansion."

The two returned to the hall. After a while, the soldier ran in with a food box, opened the food box, took out the four dishes of vegetables and a pot of wine and put it on the table, and then ran away with the food box.

Luo Xin personally poured a glass of wine for Ma Qingshan, and the two of them clinked a glass. Ma Qingshan asked carefully:

"Sir, you won't blame us, are you?"

Luo Xin smiled bitterly and said, "In this case, what's wrong? You can't starve to death! Forget it, tell me the scope of my Zuo Shuzi's jurisdiction."

After hearing Luo Xin say this, Ma Qingshan finally felt relieved, got up and poured a glass of wine for Luo Xin, and then told Luo Xin about the scope he should be under.

Waiting for Ma Qingshan to finish speaking, Luo Xin looked at Ma Qingshan strangely and said, "Master Ma, what you said are what the Zuo Shuzi should do under normal circumstances. That is to say, if there is a prince in the Ming Dynasty, I know all of these. I want to know what I, the Zuo Shuzi, should do now when there is no prince in the Ming Dynasty?"

Ma Qingshan grunted for a long time and finally said, "There is nothing to do."

"There's nothing to do?" Luo Xin asked in surprise.

"Of course there is nothing to do!" Ma Qingshan smiled bitterly and said, "The Zhan Shi Mansion serves the prince. There is no prince now. What can we do? Not only you, but also the right concubine son, Sijing Bureau Xima also has nothing to do."

"Nothing happened at all?"

"Nothing happened at all!"

Luo Xin and Ma Qingshan looked at each other, and gradually, both of them saw bitterness in each other's eyes. Then, the two of them had nothing to say and just kept drinking. After a while, Ma Qingshan finally spoke:

"Actually, it's good to do nothing. Like the Sijing Bureau, if you do nothing, you will get flirted with it."

"Why?" Luo Xin asked with interest. He really couldn't think of any other slutty in such a clear yamen?

"The various classics of Zhan Shifu are placed in the Sijing Bureau, but now there are not one ten classics in the Sijing Bureau."

"This..." Luo Xin couldn't help but say: "All of them were stolen and sold?"

"Not it!" Ma Qingshan smiled and said, "Some of them were stolen and sold, but a small part was mostly borrowed by those high officials."

"Huh..." Luo Xin let out a breath and said, "I've lent it out, so I can still get it back!"

"Want to come back?" Ma Qingshan chuckled and shook his head, "Don't think about it, those books are just meat buns to beat dogs, and they will never go back."

"If this happens, it will be punished."

"Who said no! Otherwise, I'd be so slutty!"

Luo Xin really didn't know what to say, and then he said in his heart: "We won't have such a thing here, right? If so, tell me quickly, I can make up for it."

"Don't worry, sir!" Ma Qingshan smiled and said, "We have nothing to sell here, just a dozen houses, some tables and chairs. Even if we want to sell, there is nothing to sell."

"That's good!"

Luo Xin breathed a sigh of relief. He talked to Ma Qingshan for a while, then left Zhan Shi Mansion and headed towards his mansion.

*(To be continued...)
Chapter completed!