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Chapter 47 Boring, Depends on Blood Flowing into Rivers

"Shopkeeper Wang Shao, look, do you know the magistrate of Ouyang County?"

The old socialite Wang Caozhi returned to the viewing platform where the grain merchants belonged. Shopkeeper Li twirled his goatee and curiously asked the thoughts of the grain merchants on the stage.

"uh-huh."

Wang Caozhi was noncommittal, but lifted his chin lightly and said:
"There is a familiar sister from the Xie family who happens to be in Longcheng. Her father is a well-known scholar in the world of literature. She is full of peaches and plums. Ouyang Lianghan is his father's disciple... I guess we know each other. I just made an appointment for dinner."

His tone was light and casual, as if he was chatting, but when the shopkeeper Li and others saw it, they looked at each other in blank dismay.

A small grain merchant sighed: "As expected of the Wang family of Langya and the Xie family of Chenjun, they can lead people everywhere in Jiangnan Road. They are also doing business, but the shopkeeper Wang Shao... well, I am really envious."

The short young man waved his hands modestly.

But the more modest he was, the more the shopkeeper Li, who was stroking his beard, gasped. After thinking for a while, he couldn't help asking in a low voice:
"So this time the food price in Longcheng County is relaxed, there must be some shopkeeper behind it. No wonder the food can be brought to Longcheng so soon in advance. It turns out that it is the dealer."

Everyone looked in surprise, even the shopkeeper Ma with a strong background looked sideways.

Wang Caozhi just smiled, waved his hands, and continued to eat sweet rice dumplings without explaining.

Although he is a descendant of a collateral lineage and is not valued very much in the clan, he traveled all over the world at a young age, ran a big business, managed all kinds of contacts in a stable manner, made many friends, and relied on this "true" If you don't tell all the lies, don't tell all the lies."

The grain merchants in the stands toasted and chatted one after another.

The horse shopkeeper also put down the rosary, smiled and toasted a glass of wine, but he continued to pay attention to the subjective stage, and turned his head to ask:
"Shopkeeper Wang Shao, what is the relationship between the county magistrate of Ouyang and that noble daughter of the Xie family? Seeing that the two of them are very close, there must be no love between men and women, otherwise a girl from the Xie family would come to this poor place to work Well?"

"how is this possible."

This time Wang Caozhi was not calm anymore, and immediately replied, as if he had heard something very funny, he laughed and said:

"My elder sister of the Xie family is a seed for studying. She is very famous in our Wang and Xie families. She studied in the academy with her father very early. It is normal to have a close relationship with her seniors. How could she marry someone with a different surname? But the daughter of the first wife of the Xie family in Chenjun, if I say it presumptuously, even the first son of the family behind you, Shopkeeper Ma, would not be able to marry me if she proposed."

Shopkeeper Ma was not annoyed, and nodded, "That's right, even the current emperor has nothing to do with you forbidden marriage families."

Everyone no longer had doubts, and chatted about selling grain to make money. There might be disputes about other things, but they were united like never before in making money.

Wang Caozhi stood up and raised his glass, signaling to everyone:
"Come on, here's a toast to all of you! The price of food has been stuck at the price of [-] yuan a bucket for a long time. You see, these people outside are doing well. It seems that everyone is quite rich. After this Dragon Boat Festival, tomorrow's food Prices must be raised uniformly!"

The short young man pointed to the wealthy households who had wallets to get off the viewing platform.

The burly shopkeeper clapped his palms and laughed, full of pride: "Hahaha, well said, go up! Go up! Damn it! It just so happened that another [-] shi arrived this morning. We have the final say on the price of grain in Longcheng County." !"

"Hey, look!" Just as he was talking, the shopkeeper's eyes suddenly lit up, and he ran to the railing with the sloshing liquid wine glass in his hand, and threw the glass into the river forcefully. He pointed at the dragon boat race in front of him and said loudly:
"I won the dragon boat bet, hahahaha good omen!"

Wang Caozhi, shopkeeper Li and others also stood up immediately, smiling and applauding to congratulate.

At this moment, beside the Butterfly Creek, with the birth of the first dragon boat race champion boat in the morning, amidst the din of gongs and drums, today's atmosphere has reached its climax!

Countless eyes along the Butterfly Creek converged on the subjective stage.

The oarsman, helmsman, drummer and gong players of the winning dragon boat walked onto the stage with bare arms, and the magistrate of Longcheng County personally praised and congratulated them.

It's just that amidst the joyful din around the high platform, when Ouyang County Magistrate who greeted the winning dragon boat team just got up, he seemed a little dazed, but the surrounding Diao Xiancheng, Yan Liulang, and Xie Lingjiang who returned from Zhen's place and others Didn't notice anything.

When the helmsmen with excited faces came to him, Ouyang Rong's slightly abnormal expression returned.

"Thanks for your hard work, fellow warriors."

With a sunny smile, he hung garlands and colored cards for a group of people one by one, turned around, and faced the audience.

The people of Dragon City, the participating dragon boats, and the gentry and rich businessmen in the audience became quieter, waiting for the usual county magistrate to speak.

On the long street not far away, a figure of a fast horse suddenly appeared, galloping towards it.

At first, only some outsiders noticed it, but when the focus of the audience—the county magistrate Ouyang Rong silently stopped speaking, and looked sideways in the direction of the fast ride, most people on the field also noticed the abnormality.

The bustling crowd moved out of the way, and the fast horse galloped in. The hoarse shouts of the knights on the horses resounded throughout the audience:

"Jiangzhou urgent report, Jiangzhou urgent report, Longcheng county magistrate received the report!"

Discussions erupted in the arena, but they fell silent again with Diao Xiancheng's resounding "quiet".

Liu Ziwen and Liu Zian frowned and looked at each other. On the other viewing platform, Wang Caozhi, shopkeeper Ma and shopkeeper Li looked around curiously.

Everyone saw that the weary rider reined in his horse in front of the subjective stage at the ferry, the postman turned over and got off his horse, fell down, and dragged his legs and crutches onto the stage to deliver the letter.

The young county magistrate on the stage frowned slightly, first glanced back at the accompanying officials behind him, then walked forward, verified his identity with the Panting Post official, then took the urgent official document, and in full view of everyone Open it down, lower your eyes and read silently.

Countless eyes fell on the calm face of the magistrate of Ouyang County. He didn't speak immediately, and the atmosphere on the field couldn't help becoming tense.

Everyone knows that such urgent official documents of hundreds of miles are generally negative and serious matters, and the local authorities need to be notified quickly, otherwise some simple official matters can be delivered slowly.

The last time a similar official document came, it was the corruption case of Jimincang.

Thinking of this, many people in the crowd had some bad premonitions, worrying about where natural disasters and man-made disasters happened, or whether it was chaos?

Some local gentry and landowners are also worried. Some local policy changes are most likely to be affected by them.

On the other side, Wang Caozhi and other foreign grain merchants did not have these worries. The official documents from Jiangzhou generally had little effect on these mobile merchants, and they certainly could not restrict their personal freedom. mentality, want to see if there are new business opportunities.

However, what was unexpected was that on the high platform, the young county magistrate, who was tall and independent and silently reading official documents, suddenly smiled relaxedly, raised his head, shook his head with a smile at the audience, and waved his hands to appease the nervous officials and subordinates behind him.

"Don't worry, it's not a big deal, it has nothing to do with everyone." He said in a relaxed tone. "Everyone continues to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, playing music and dancing."

The stone that weighed on the hearts of many people in Longcheng was suddenly relieved, and the quiet crowd returned to excitement. On the contrary, Wang Caozhi and other foreign businessmen were a little disappointed.

"However, I and my colleagues have to be busy again. Hey, after the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, I still have an official document to work overtime..."

The young county magistrate lowered his head and folded the letter paper according to the original seal. As if thinking of something, he raised his head and asked casually:
"By the way, everyone is here. Is there anyone in the audience who has a large amount of food in this county? Please come to the county government to have a cup of tea and report to the county government. Relax. It's not a big deal, but the supervisor suspects Master Shen of being corrupted." The food in the Jimin warehouse was still parked at the boundary of Jiangzhou, so he asked the imperial court for an order that the counties in Jiangzhou were not allowed to leave Jiangzhou without permission from now on because of the large amount of grain stored. , before it can be transported away..."

After the words fell, the sound of the audience was only slightly quieter, and then returned to normal. It was indeed a trivial matter. Most people didn't care about it, and they didn't even understand it, so they dispersed.

On a viewing platform somewhere, Wang Caozhi, shopkeeper Ma, shopkeeper Li and other grain merchants who were planning to go to the team building were all stunned. They even wondered if their ears had heard it wrong, and they uttered several times "ah "Character.

Until a certain young county magistrate "happened" to stop on their stage alone after looking around, and the young county magistrate in his field of vision seemed to be smiling with white teeth and a very sincere smile, Wang Caozhi and others immediately shuddered trembling.

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