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Chapter 58 Sweet mouth? (Ask for votes!)
"Eat when you eat, don't keep staring at my face, you take food."

On Luming Street, the back house of the county government, beside the patio of a lobby, Ouyang Rong, Xie Lingjiang, and Yan Liulang, who hadn't seen each other for a long time, gathered at the table for dinner.

Ouyang Rong couldn't help putting down the bowl, raised his head and said.

Xie Lingjiang and Yan Liulang immediately bowed their heads and continued to eat rice, in a tacit understanding.

The young county magistrate sighed... It's fine for the little junior sister to eat my face, but you don't want to eat my face, Liu Lang?
He placed a pair of bowls and chopsticks for Liu Ashan on the table next to him.

This morning, Ouyang Rong continued to work on the large sand table simulating water control in the back house of the county government office. Xie Lingjiang and Yan Liulang came to discuss matters with him. It was almost noon when Wei Lai and Banxi came to deliver meals to them.

Ouyang Rong didn't let the two little girls serve the meal, but asked Liu Ashan to send them back to Meilu Garden reluctantly. The main reason was that a certain silver-haired maidservant was a little too clingy, and both Junior Sister and Liu Lang were there, so someone looked embarrassed with an old face.

Ouyang Rong turned his head and looked at the huge sand table in the yard. It was clearly noon, but the sky outside the eaves was a bit gloomy, as if a storm was about to come.

"Is there anything hotly discussed in the county recently?"

He picked up the bowl again and asked casually about the vegetables.

Xie Lingjiang and Yan Liulang couldn't help looking at him again. They really don't know about the things that the county is talking about these two days?
It was Yan Liulang who was the first to say: "Recently, the common people are discussing the Ming government."

"Me? What do I have to talk about?" The young county magistrate who was serving a bowl of rice had a meal.

"Thanks to the fact that the Ming government opens warehouses every day and releases cheap grain regularly, the price of rice in the Longcheng market is about to collapse, and no one is stupid enough to buy high-priced grain. They are all waiting for the 'five-dollar grain' in the morning. Those grain merchants from other places Both local and local grain merchants are rushing to sell grain, and the highest price of rice in Longcheng right now is no more than nine cents a bucket."

Yan Liulang let out a bad breath, shook his finger and said:

"Before the Ming government released the grain restriction order to attract grain merchants, didn't some people say that the government was secretly selling grain? Now these people have shut up, and the common people are happy to buy cheap grain, which shows that the government is a good official. It is the legacy of Mr. Di, who helped disasters and flood control back then."

Xie Lingjiang said with a smile that was not a smile:

"There is also the fact that senior brother is alone in a vacant house without a wife and concubine, which is also talked about on the street. In addition, senior brother went to the shop to buy a maid the day before yesterday, but he brought a white-haired girl back...

"People in the market say that the senior is a real upright official, honest and compassionate, and these things have spread to the next few counties... Which of the county magistrates next door is not a wife and concubine, only the senior is the most unfriendly."

The corner of a certain young magistrate's mouth twitched.

Why does he feel that he is not happy at all when he is praised so much by the people, eh, single-born dogs are also praised, right?

Ouyang Rong wasn't shy.

On the contrary, old scumbag.

It's just that at the moment he only wants to start a career, and when he goes back after disaster relief and flood control, he feels more like a passer-by than a returnee.Unless you can't go back.

And he has always been a gentleman, he is afraid that he will not be able to restrain himself, especially girls like Xiao Shimei, Ye Weilai, and Banxi who are not at all wary of him.

"Let's not talk about these irrelevant things." Ouyang Rong shook his head and asked instead: "How are the grain merchants doing now?"

Yan Liulang smiled and said:
"The subordinates follow the arrangement of the Ming government. These days, the case of shopkeeper Ma and shopkeeper Li has been dragging on. The inspection of the grain depot at the dock has also been suspended. These grain merchants, big and small, were in a hurry a few days ago, and they came to find their subordinates every day. The subordinates urged the progress, especially shopkeeper Ma and shopkeeper Li.

"However, every time they urged me, I told them that the government had ordered to stop the investigation and continue to check the grain depot, but the two of them hesitated after listening to it, probably because they were afraid. I kept procrastinating like this By the way, for some reason in the past two days, they haven't come to look for it anymore, I don't know if they noticed something."

"They are all thousand-year-old foxes, so they can understand Liaozhai." Ouyang Rong smiled.

"Liaozhai?" Xie Lingjiang was curious.

Ouyang Rong didn't explain, but asked her, "Is there any grain merchant looking for me?"

The little junior sister said crisply:

"Senior brother has been busy with the sand table in the back house for the past two days. Wang Caozhi and some other grain merchants came to look for it privately, but according to your previous instructions, I made excuses for you and sent them away."

Ouyang Rong asked more, "What excuse did Junior Sister find?"

Xie Lingjiang glanced at him, "The last time I fell into the water, I was seriously injured, and it hasn't recovered. It's the root of the disease."

Ouyang Rong nodded, turned his head and asked, "The Yicang released so much 'five-dollar grain', how much do we have left?"

Yan Liulang seemed to have been prepared for a long time, dipped his fingers in water and scratched the table, raised his head and said:

"Including the grain donated by Liu Ziwen and other thirteen gentry before the Dragon Boat Festival, as well as the grain we harvested secretly by raising the price of rice, minus the loss of work for relief these days... At present, the county government's free warehouse has been exhausted. Selling more than [-] shi, the remaining grain is more than [-] shi."

Ouyang Rong said directly:

"Leave [-] stones for the bottom line, and the remaining [-] stones must be thrown away within three days."

He also told Xie Lingjiang: "After three days, if anyone comes again, bring them in."

"Okay, let's say that brother is cured."

Yan Liulang looked serious, and reminded: "Mingfu, with more than [-] shi of grain, I'm afraid it won't be possible to completely break through the price of grain at once."

The young county magistrate looked curious: "Who said I'm going to blow up the price of food in Longcheng?"

This time it was Xie Lingjiang's turn to be confused with Yan Liulang: "Otherwise, how can we let them sell food at a low price?"

"Why let them sell food at a low price?"

Xie Lingjiang and Yan Liulang looked at each other and blurted out:

"It goes without saying that we can collect all their food cheaply, so there will be no shortage of food anymore."

Ouyang Rong laughed and shook his head, then joked:
"Little junior sister, thanks to Wang Caozhi, who is your younger brother, every time we meet, he calls you a big sister. I didn't expect you to wish that he would lose all his money and lose his underwear."

Xie Lingjiang wrinkled her nose, "I told you that I don't know him well, and the profiteer deserves it."

After a pause, seeing her senior brother smiling and not speaking, she suddenly turned her head away, looking out of the courtyard with a little wandering eyes, and whispered:
"It's been said that he is yelling nonsense, senior brother... Maybe it's because of his sweet talk that he wants to let him go."

Ouyang Rong was taken aback for a moment before realizing that the little junior sister was referring to the last time Wang Caozhi called "brother-in-law". He shook his head, "That's not true."

"Oh."

The chopsticks in the hand of a certain junior sister poked a few grains of soft rice in the bowl.

Ouyang Rong didn't hold back anymore, and said directly to Xie and Yan:
"I don't have time to accompany them to death, and I guess Liu Ziwen won't watch me eat meat for nothing. Besides, I said on the first day that I only come to Dragon City for one thing this time."

Xie Lingjiang's eyes were bright and energetic, looking at senior brother Ping Jing at the table, he said instead: "Disaster relief, flood control, justice."

Ouyang Rong nodded: "Do as I just ordered."

"Yes."

Xie Lingjiang and Yan Liulang responded together.

bang~
It was noon, but the lobby was dimly lit. First, there was a flash of lightning, then the sound of thunder, and then the drizzle.

The ancient fragrance inside the hall, the plum rain outside the hall, there is a taste of Jiangnan... Oh, I forgot, this is the ancient town of Jiangnan.

Ouyang Rong got up, walked to the moss eaves, reached out to catch a raindrop, and looked down carefully.

Yan Liulang's joyful voice came from behind:

"Great, Ming Mansion, it's the rainy season, and the grain piled up in the dock warehouse is more likely to stale, and the grain merchants are in a hurry!"

The young county magistrate shook his head and stated softly:

"The flood in Yunmengze is coming soon."

He stared at the sand table in the rain.

　coming!Cough, good brothers, have you gone to school... (fog)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)