Be a small county magistrate in ancient times

After Meizi finished her porridge, Meng Changqing asked someone to help her sit down in the corner.

He asked Laicai and the guards to move away, and then asked Meizi: "Which county are you from?"

"Master County, we are from Qian Zengzhuang under Liangzhou Prefecture." After the woman next to her finished speaking, she was afraid that the county magistrate would blame her for talking too much, so she quickly added: "She is a person who doesn't talk much."

Meng Changqing nodded and said to Mei Zi: "You are weak due to long-term hunger. Your condition does not meet the conditions for conscription. Why are you here?"

"We are all……"

"Let her speak for herself."

Mei Zi said: "It was my man who said that coming here can give me enough food and save food at home."

"There is indeed plenty of food here, but we only accept people who can work." Meng Changqing said, "I am particularly gracious and allow you to rest in the pothole for a day tomorrow, and let this eldest sister bring you food, but for one day After that, you have to work with other people.”

"Thank you, Mr. County." Mei Zi knelt down to Meng Changqing.

The eldest sister next to her taught her how to speak, "I want to thank the county master for his kindness."

"Go back and rest after you have recovered your strength here. I'll go out and say hello to the guards in your group."

The eldest sister who was supporting Meizi sighed repeatedly, "Oh! It turns out that Beishan County has found a good official. No wonder the men are well fed and can bring food home. Oh, Meizi, we have found a good official."

Meng Changqing came out of the kitchen, and the people waiting outside changed from all directions.

After explaining to the guard, she asked, "Where is Lai Cai?"

"Madam called you over to drink soup. He took the first step." Bafang wiped his mouth, "Master, how is the man inside?"

"Get over it." Meng Changqing handed him the needle box.

"That's no big deal, right?" Bafang said, "If we die just after we arrive, we will be unlucky."

"What's so bad about it?" Meng Changqing said, "Which of the times did labor not kill people? As long as the city wall is built, hundreds of people will die without being held accountable."

Bafang asked: "Look at what you said, that person can't survive?"

"If she continues to live as usual, she won't live long. She is under the rule of Liangzhou Prefecture, so she won't be so hungry." Meng Changqing asked: "What kind of soup did my mother stew?"

"Red bean soup, boiled with brown sugar, very sweet."

"Since you've had your drink, please take the needle box back for me first, and then find a new official document. I'll use it when I get back."

"Yes."

When they came to the pothole where Wen and the others were, her mother also mentioned this matter.

After Meng Changqing finished talking about the woman's situation, Wen sighed: "The poorer the family, the harder it is for the woman to survive."

Liang tweeted: "The ones who stutter and barely keep you alive have already been settled, and most of them will be sold for some silver to keep the rest of the family alive.

If they were sold to a good owner, they could escape death, but most of them were sold to shady places and tortured to death. "

Wen Shi patted her back and said, "It's getting late. You go to bed first and I'll talk to Changqing for a while."

"Why is my mother so excited?" Meng Changqing asked.

Wenshi lowered her voice slightly, "You will know sooner or later, so I might as well tell you now. Your mother was sold by her family for money. She was resold several times in the hands of Ren Yazi. Fortunately, she did not end up in a dirty place and was even raped by her master. I bought it and learned the art of embroidery.

Your mother is a very kind person. It was in order to save her master that she entered the general's mansion and became a concubine.

Otherwise, how could your mother fall in love with someone of your father's age? "

Meng Changqing vaguely heard rumors spread by others. There were various versions of the gossip, but now he knew the truth.

"What did my mother's master commit?" Meng Changqing asked. "It's because of a piece of embroidery sent to the palace." Wen said, "This happened more than ten years ago. At that time, the previous emperor was still on the throne, but the current emperor was actually in charge of the country. It was because of the chaos in the harem. when.

The East Palace is even more uneasy. The current imperial concubine and the then crown princess are fighting for power, looking for trouble everywhere to find faults in each other.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with the embroidery itself.

But in the end it affected your mother's master. Your mother had no relatives in the capital and wanted to save people but had no way.

When she was stuffing money everywhere, she happened to hear the news that I was going to marry your father.

She volunteered to be your father's concubine, and her only request was that I rescue her master. "

"I see." Meng Changqing put down the soup bowl.

Wen heard the movement behind the curtain and decisively changed the subject, "Now that there are thirty thousand people, are you sure that you can build the city wall?"

"It must be built! We have all the personnel and materials. Even if the Yan army comes, I will build the city wall in the face of the war!"

Meng Changqing suddenly remembered, "Can mother see Brother Dai today?"

"I asked him to go to Liangzhou City to buy things, and he came back in the evening. Do you want to see him if you have anything to do?"

"I asked him to go to Liangzhou City to find some doctors before, but he never got back to me about this matter."

"Xiao Dai told me that after two days of persuasion with the doctors, no one wanted to come here." Wen said, "Liangzhou is already short of medical treatment and medicine. When you went to the military camp to recruit people, I was there in Liangzhou. Visited Zhoucheng.

In the entire Liangzhou City, there are only two conspicuous drug stores, and there are only one or two doctors inside.

They are too busy with their own business, so how can they be willing to endure hardship here?

Xiaodai even went to see the doctor in Yangmen County. The doctor said that he would be willing to treat patients if there was an emergency, but it was impossible for him to stay here every day. "

"What kind of emergency can wait for a doctor to come from dozens of miles away to save his life?" Meng Changqing suddenly asked: "Doctor Hu's pharmacy business is doing pretty well."

"Don't blame him for your thoughts." Wen said, "It's not easy for him to stay in Liangzhou. If you go further, I'm afraid he will take his family and run away overnight."

"Mom misunderstood, I wanted to ask him to prescribe some medicine."

Wenshi: "Then just think I misunderstood."

Meng Changqing coughed twice, "I still have to write an official document to Mr. Wei, so I'm going back first. Mother should rest early."

"You should also rest early."

Meng Changqing was destined to be unable to sleep early. He revised and rewritten the official document he wrote to Wei Fangyun, and even wrote the mysterious part without feeling sleepy at all.When she heard the third watch call outside, she simply got out of the pothole.

Not far away, you can see the outline of the city wall under the moonlight.

The official document, originally delivered to Wei Fangyun, arrived in front of the emperor a few days later.

"How could Mr. Wen have followed the rules and raised a man like Meng Changqing?" The emperor stared at the large piece of praise in front of the official document and was puzzled.

There are a total of five pieces of paper in the official document, and three of them are all about flattering the boss.

Day and night rotate between heaven and earth, and three shifts on the construction site are non-stop.

In a blink of an eye, the twenty-eighth day came, and another six days passed, and it was time to change shifts.

At the beginning of the day, Meng Changqing, who happened to be finishing her morning shift, walked toward the city wall with her thin hemp rope. At this time every day, she would measure the length of the newly built city wall.

From the end of yesterday to now, the city wall has been built for nearly half a mile.

The current length of the city wall is nearly eight miles.