The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

   Chapter 172 173 Where Birds Don't Poop

Zhou Jia flipped through the files brought by Shen Zhong, and saw that there were only more than 500 households in the county before the Qingchuan disaster, with a total population of less than 30,000. There was only one person in the entire county, an old man in his forties named Tu Chengdong. Xiucai, currently serving as a clerk in the county government office, and four government officials. Three years ago, the former magistrate was only two months into Qingchuan County when he was threatened and blackmailed by Qinglong Village.

In the Daqingshan Mountains to the north of the county, there is a bandit den called Qinglong Village. There are about 200 bandits. On the Dalou Mountain to the east of the county, there is a bandit den called Hutouzhai. There are three or four hundred bandits, and in a county with a population of five hundred or so, there are two mountain bandit dens with hundreds of bandits. Zhou Jia frowned, is such a county still a county? The 30,000 people are still the population before the disaster. Based on this calculation, it is a blessing to have half of the population left after the disaster! I am afraid that the rest are still the old and the weak!

   Zhou Jia sighed, rubbed his eyebrows, and said in his heart; he can only take one step at a time.

   Li Yu heard Zhou Jia sigh, turned his head and glanced at the file in Zhou Jia's hand, and said, "Xiao Xi, how is the situation? Are you not optimistic?"

"It's not optimistic, it's too bad, you see," Zhou Jia pointed to the file and smiled bitterly: "There were only 500 households before the disaster, I'm worried, when we get to Qingchuan, I'm afraid there are more bandits than the common people. When I think about it, I can only go to Qingzhou to see if Shen Wu has returned, and ask him to help exterminate the bandits, and let the people feel at ease first."

  Li Yu looked at the dossier and frowned: "Is it still a county town? I think it's a place where birds don't shit. What do the previous officials eat? A good county town is governed like this."

Zhou Jia saw Li Yu's angry look, smiled and comforted: "Speaking of which, it really looks like a place where birds don't shit, but fortunately, Shen Zhong brought good news before departure, saying that His Majesty will decree that Qingchuan will be spared. Five years of taxation, as long as the mountain bandits are exterminated, the people will be spared the intrusion of mountain bandits, and the population will increase."

"You and Master Qian have worked out measures to benefit the people, and you can preach at the places where there are disaster victims along the road, and see if you can attract the disaster victims to Qingchuan," Li Yu leaned against Zhou Jia lazily, squinting, "there are three more It's a month's journey! You and Master Qian can slowly come up with countermeasures along the way, and adjust according to the situation when you arrive in Qingchuan."

   Zhou Jia asked Li Yu to lie down and said softly, "Okay, while the road is still flat, let's get some sleep, otherwise it won't be easy to sleep when the road is bumpy."

   Li Yu was lying in Zhou Jia's arms, squinting and said: "Okay, don't read it, reading books in the car hurts your eyes."

   "Yeah!" Zhou Jia responded with a smile, watching Li Yu fall asleep peacefully.

Qian Liang was sitting in the car, leaning against the carriage and squinting, watching Yang Wei holding the booklet, chanting words in his mouth, Qian Liang thought to himself; this week, the servants and servants of the great family, why don't they go to the back of the car to wait and see their masters. How is it different between servants and others?

  Qian Liang saw Yang Wei put down the booklet and asked with a smile, "Your name is Awei, right? What are you reading?"

  Yang Wei looked at Qian Liang and replied respectfully, "Mr. Hui Qian, I just learned the characters. My name is Yang Wei. My young master took his name, right?"

  Qian Liang looked at Yang Wei's efforts to open his eyes and looked at himself, feeling a little amused, touched his head, and said with a smile, "Mighty, Yang Wei, are you the son of your young master's family?"

  Yang Wei looked at Qian Liang doubtfully: "What is a family child?"

   "Even your parents are also servants of your young master's house. When you give birth to you, you are a family child."

After hearing this, Yang Wei shook his head and said, "My parents were gone when they escaped from the famine, Ale and I, sister Erya, Uncle Zhao, no one ever bought it in Yaxing, my wife was not there yet. We got married with the young master. The young master and his wife came to buy people at the Yaxing. Seeing that we were pitiful, they bought us. The wife said that as long as we keep our jobs, we will be able to eat and clothe ourselves, and no one will beat and scold us for no reason.”

  Qian Liang thought to himself after hearing this; it seems like a very low requirement to be safe, but how many people can do it?

   "If someone does something disturbing, how will your young master and wife punish him?"

"Uneasy? How could it be?" Yang Wei frowned and thought for a moment, "On the day we first got home, our wife told us about the house rules. Madam said that she doesn't like beating and scolding. Once someone is disturbed and violates the house rules, Direct sales. Madam also asked us what we were doing in our own house and what we were good at, and when we asked clearly, we were assigned to work. We were in Zhuangzi, and everyone had their own work to do, and we had three meals a day for everyone to eat. Don't worry about wearing it, when a girl is sick, she can find a doctor, and it's better than when she was at home, so why are you still restless?"

  Qian Liang nodded and said, "Yeah! You don't have to worry about food and clothing, and even if you're sick, you can get medical treatment.

  Tongzhou Osmanthus Lane, Li Qing said to Jixiang excitedly: "Brother Jixiang, shopkeeper Chu really said that my sister was given the title of First-Class Protector of the Country?"

Jixiang also had an excited look on his face, "Yes, the letter from the young master and his wife came from the post station. It may take some time before they can receive it sooner than Shopkeeper Chu. Shopkeeper Chu asked me to give the letter to the Qianzhuang and take it away. I gave the letter to the shopkeeper Chu and took it to Kyoto."

  Li Qing said in a low voice: "I finally lived up to the teachings of my sister and brother-in-law, and obtained the title of scholar, but I am still much worse than my brother-in-law."

Jixiang smiled and comforted: "Aqing, you're studying late, it's not bad to get second place, we'll set off to go back to the village, the village must have heard the news, it's the busy farming season, you can go back. Help Zhou Bo manage the spring sowing in Zhuangzi."

  Li Qing nodded and said, "Okay brother, let's set off now!"

  Time flies, Li Yu and his party have traveled for two months from the season when the flowers are blooming to the summer when the sun is blazing.

   Exhausted and exhausted, the group arrived in Qitong County. After resting in the city for a day, they started to head towards Qingzhou.

This afternoon, after resting on the road for half an hour, after setting off and walking for a while, the convoy entered a dense forest. Li Yu, who was hanging behind the convoy, found that Ruyi and the others had just entered the forest, and a startling bird was flying in the forest in front of them. ,

  Li Yu said to Zhou Jia: "Xiaoxi, there may be someone in an ambush ahead, notify Xu Chun and let him notify the front, Ruyi and they are careful."

   Zhou Jia got out of the carriage and told Xu Chun, who was driving the car, the news, and Xu Chun told Xu Dong in front of him.

  Tie Zhu passed the news to Ruyi, and Ruyi instructed Xiaoyu in the car: "Xiaoyu, there may be robbers in front of you, don't sit on it, lie in the carriage."

  Xiaoyu hurriedly sat on the floor of the carriage and responded loudly, "I see, be careful."

   "Got it." Ruyi looked around vigilantly, taking precautions.

   (end of this chapter)