super god ancestor

Chapter 44 The Covenant of the County Magistrate
On their way back from Yang Mansion, Li Cezhi and Li Ru are planning to go home.

But when they walked to the door of the house, they saw a sedan chair parked in front of the door.

This sedan chair has a maroon color and a spacious space, it can be carried by four people, so it shouldn't be too crowded if several people sit on it.

These bearers didn't know how long they had been waiting at the door, and they didn't go in to disturb them, they just squatted silently at the door.

"who are they?"

Li Ru was slightly taken aback, and looked at his elder brother in confusion.

"It should be sent by the county magistrate."

Li Cezhi glanced at the color of the sedan chair, and his heart was like a mirror.

The Dali Dynasty also had some rules and particularities about the carriage and sedan chair. For example, only scholars or students with a flat head and no official status were allowed to travel in green sedan chairs.

The maroon color is the official sedan chair designated by the senior officials above the seventh rank. If the sedan chair has a golden roof and bright yellow curtain, it is the royal sedan chair.

Of course, these rules were the strongest in the first few dynasties of the Dali Dynasty, and everyone must strictly follow this standard to travel by sedan chair.

However, with the passage of time, the original strict rules gradually loosened up.

More than two hundred years later, in today's Qianyuan Dynasty, as long as you don't overstep the rules and go too far to concoct royal chariots, ordinary people will not care about these things with you.

Right now, it was clearly an official sedan chair, and the ones that could stop in front of the Li family's gate were probably only those sent by the magistrate of the county.

"Third sister, go back to sleep first, I'll take care of it."

Li Cezhi patted Li Ru on the shoulder and told her to go home first, while he walked over to the people waiting with sedan chairs.

"I'm Li Cezhi, I don't know if you stop in front of my house, is there something wrong?"

He arched his hands and asked.

When the bearers heard this, their spirits lifted, and they hurriedly said, "Mr. Li, I've waited for you to go home."

"Following the order of the county magistrate, Li Xianggong is invited to the mansion for a talk."

Several bearers hurriedly let him get on the sedan chair.

"It turned out that the magistrate of the county invited me, and Li did not dare to shirk."

Li Cezhi nodded slightly, bowed his head immediately, and then sat on the official sedan chair.

As early as when the list was just released, the county magistrate personally sent someone to send a congratulatory gift, and made it clear that he wanted Li Cezhi to come to the mansion to get close to him.

However, just moved to Liyang Mansion, there were too many chores, and Li Cezhi had no time to take care of them, so it dragged on until today, and the magistrate of Ling County couldn't wait, so he personally sent a sedan chair to carry him there.

Along the way, sitting in the sedan chair, Li Cezhi secretly wondered, even if his parents in Yixian County favored him, why did they bother to ask him to go?

Li Cezhi still has a good understanding of his current status. Although he has won the first place in Tongsheng's case, in the end, he is just a scholar.

He didn't even pass the exam, let alone be compared with a big man like the county magistrate who has become an official.

In terms of dealing with people, there are very deep rules in the officialdom. It is already a demeaning act for the county magistrate to send someone to invite him in person.

According to normal circumstances, as the county magistrate, he should be at home, waiting for him to pay a visit.

So urgent, unless there is a special reason.

Thinking of this, he felt a little apprehensive about meeting the magistrate next.

He opened the sedan chair curtain and looked at the direction he was walking along. He was also silently thinking about what he had seen and heard about Liyang Mansion these days, and analyzing why the county magistrate condescended?
As a parent from a county, Lu Tunan lived in a mansion located in the southernmost part of Liyang Mansion, a place called Chang'an Lane in Qingping Street.

This is the mansion of the nobles, and those who can settle down here, without exception, are very respectable and powerful figures in Liyang Mansion.

In addition to Lu Tunan, the county magistrate, there are also two prominent families in Liyang Mansion living in this Chang'an Lane, the Xu family and the Wang family, and they are big families that can influence one side.

Speaking of which, in Liyang Mansion, the influence of the two prominent families, the Xu family and the Wang family, is deeply rooted, not less than that of County Magistrate Lu.

"Li Xianggong, we're here."

Just thinking about it, suddenly, the sedan stopped.

The four bearers put down the sedan chair, and someone immediately lifted the curtain for Li Cezhi, and brought him into the county magistrate's mansion.

"so big!"

Li Cezhi followed his family members into the mansion, and his first impression was that the mansion was luxurious, with an area at least three times that of the mansion owned by the Li family.

The courtyard is lush and lush, winding paths lead to secluded places, there are rockery and flowing water, and even a few very vicious wolf dogs are specially raised, which seems to be the style of a wealthy family.

"I heard that Li Xianggong came from a humble villager. I'm afraid he has never met someone in the officialdom like my master?"

The servant who led the way seemed to see Li Cezhi's astonishment, and explained with a smile: "In the officialdom of Dali, anyone who becomes an official and has an official position will not be short of money and silver. Don't envy Li Xianggong. In the future, you If you can be elected as an official, you will also have such a rich and dignified style."

"Lend your auspicious words."

Li Cezhi nodded and didn't say much.

Soon, he was led to the main hall of the central hall, where sat a man in his thirties with a square face and firm eyes.

This person is exactly the county magistrate, Lu Tunan, who presided over the children's examination.

It's just that at home, unlike when we met that day, he didn't wear official robes, but just casually put on a brocade robe, if you don't look carefully, you really look like an ordinary rich man.

"Student Li Cezhi, met the county magistrate."

When Li Cezhi met him, he bowed his head and bowed to him as a courtesy.

"They are all our own people, so there is no need to be so polite."

Lu Tunan raised his hand, motioning for him to skip these customary etiquette and sit down directly.

"Look at the tea."

Lu Tunan yelled in a low voice, and immediately a servant came to make a cup of strong tea for Li Cezhi.

"How old is this county's idiot, so I call you brother, brother Li, this tea is picked from the Jingshan Mountain in Yizhou, and I am reluctant to bring it out to ordinary guests. You have to take care of it." Taste, don't disappoint me."

He looked at Li Cezhi with a smile, and said quietly.

No matter what you are doing!
Li Cezhi immediately became vigilant, the county magistrate must be looking for him for something, otherwise it would never be the case.

The last mountain god who treated him with exceptional enthusiasm and invited him to drink in person wanted to entrust him with a token. I wonder what the county magistrate wanted?
He was thinking a lot, but he calmly took a sip of hot tea: "It really is good tea."

This sentence is not a polite one. Although with Li Cezhi's taste, he can't tell the difference between good and bad tea, but he has drank coarse tea since he was a child, and he drank this spring tea after the rain. The contrast is naturally strong.

Next, the two of them drank tea and said some insignificant polite words.

Lu Tunan wanted to cut to the point a few times, but Li Cezhi noticed it, so he just pretended to be stupid and didn't answer.

In the end, Lu Tunan couldn't bear it any longer, so he took the initiative to cut straight to the point: "Brother Li, don't go around with me anymore. I came to look for you today to give you a fortune!"

　Thanks to the book friend Tongshan for the 200 starting point coins.

　　Thanks to book friends 160410220359033 for the 100 starting coins

　　
　
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