Wei and Jin Cooks

   Chapter 247 Helping others

  Shangcai Manor has changed a lot. Surrounding Zhao's manor, houses of long-term workers and tributaries have been built, surrounding Zhao's courtyard and the village of tenant farmers.

  The whole Shangcai spends the winter quietly, except for this one.

   It is very lively here every day. People come and go to work, and many villagers come from the other side of Shangcai County. Even if they don’t pay for the wages, they make two meals a day here. It is worth their work here.

  Ji Yuan was doing all this in an orderly manner, while also dealing with news from the capital.

   Ji Yuan was fascinated, Zhao Tong walked in quickly, and said, "Mr. Ji, the magistrate of Chai County is here."

   Ji Yuan put all the letters on the table into the box and locked it, and asked, "What is he doing here?"

   Zhao Tong paused and said: "Looking at his face, it doesn't seem to be a happy thing. I asked the people who were with the magistrate of Chai County. I heard that it was because many people in Shangcai ran to Xiping County."

  Ji Yuan was at a loss for words. He was silent for a while before saying, "Invite someone to the front hall, I'll go right away."

   Zhao Tong responded.

  Chai County magistrate was very unhappy. He just received news that many people from villages near Xiping County have gone to Xiping County this year, and he does not know if they will come back.

   Zhao Hanzhang also went too far. Not to mention Chang Ning who robbed him, he even robbed the people under his rule.

  Ji Yuan represented Zhao Hanzhang in Shangcai, so naturally she couldn't let her relationship with the magistrate of Chai deteriorate. He said, "There may be a misunderstanding in this. How did the magistrate know that they went to Xiping and didn't plan to come back?"

   County magistrate Chai snorted and said, "What they are saying."

Ji Yuan thought for a while and said, "I don't know if I can meet these Lizheng people, but Ji knows that our girls have no intention of stealing people. Nowadays, there are refugees everywhere. If Xiping County is short of people, it's enough to gather the refugees. Why bother? Isn't it pleasant to fight with neighboring counties?"

  Chai County magistrate was instantly persuaded by him and felt that what he said was reasonable, and immediately brought Ji Yuan to see Li Zheng who came to complain.

  Ri Zhengmen:  …

   The New Year is approaching, and the winter is getting colder and colder. The locals are afraid that they will freeze to death and starve to death, so they visit the small village below.

As soon as I entered the village, I found that many young people in the village were not at home, not even the 12- or 13-year-old teenagers and the middle-aged and 40-year-old (with tears streaming down their faces). For Kou.

   After I asked, I found out that I went to work in the next county, and I went there for a long time.

  Li Zhengmen waited for a few days, and seeing that they did not come back after the day they were paid, they became more and more worried, afraid that they would stay in Xiping County and not come back.

  The most terrible thing is that Li Zheng was in a panic, so he went to the next door to talk about it, and then found that many people under his command in the next door went to Xiping...

   So I was looking for another one in a village, everyone joined together, and found that there were a lot of people who went there. It was a village with a village, and they deliberately avoided the village they were in.

  The most terrible thing is that although they avoided the village where they were located, some people in their village heard the news and ran away secretly, so they hid it from them.

   I’m so scared, it’s spring after the new year, and when spring arrives, it’s time for spring ploughing. If they don’t come back, what will happen to spring ploughing?

The population under the jurisdiction of    has lost a lot of people. The county magistrate must have a hard time, and the county magistrate is not well. Can they still live well?

   As soon as Li Zheng and the others discussed it, they went to the county town to file a complaint.

  We have already reported that whether we can **** people back from the neighboring Xiping County, that is the contest between your county magistrates.

  Jiyuan felt that they must have no conclusive evidence. Sure enough, when asked, they really did not have it, and everything was just suspicion.

   So Ji Yuan was relieved, and he began to refute them as soon as his face sank.

  The girl in their family is high-spirited and kind-hearted. Would she be the kind of person who robs the population of neighboring counties?

   She just felt sorry for the hardships of the people in Shangcai County in winter, so she recruited them to work so that they could earn some money to support their family.

   This is a manifestation of the friendship between Xiping and Shangcai. How can you, Li Zheng, treat the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain?

   Ji Yuan counted the reasons why Zhao Hanzhang did this, "Same as Xiping, Shangcai is the hometown of our girls, don't forget, our girl's grandfather is Shang Cai Bo, and Shiyi is in Shang Cai!"

  Chai County magistrate's eyes light up, yes, how could he forget this?

   Even Li Zhengs doubted themselves, is it really not for robbing people?

of course not!

  Yes, Ji Yuan can also refute him.

After successfully appeasing Xiachai County magistrate and Zhonglizheng, Ji Yuan wanted to go back to the manor to write a letter to Zhao Hanzhang. When he left the yamen, after thinking about it, Ji Yuan still said: "Xianjun, the tax hike this year has made the people sad. Seeing that the New Year is coming, but there are not many people buying New Year's goods in the market, it can be seen that they are in distress, if the county magistrate can provide one or two relief at this time, and continue to show kindness, they will be grateful."

  Chai County magistrate sighed: "I know of course, but the county government is poor, how can there be anything to help?"

  Jiyuan opened his mouth and wanted to offer advice. The county government did not have it, but he could contact the big households in the county.

   But thinking about it, now the biggest householder in Shangcai County is Zhao Hanzhang, so he held back his words and asked Zhao Hanzhang about this matter.

   So he returned to the manor. In addition to writing a letter to let Zhao Hanzhang relax, Shang Cai had already expressed dissatisfaction with her behavior of robbing people, so he just mentioned this.

   Zhao Hanzhang had already returned from the gluttonous banquet when she received the letter. Without even thinking about it, she agreed to Ji Yuan and wrote: "Take the lead in donating some food and cloth. The specific amount can be determined by yourself."

   Zhao Hanzhang said: "Don't worry about the competition between the county and the county. Although I was born in Xiping, my ancestor is Shang Caibo. Both Xiping and Shangcai are my hometown."

"Actually, you don't even need to care if you are from the two counties. We donate food more to save people, so that the people who receive donations can spend this New Year happily, not because he is from Shangcai, or from Xiping, So why bother about who he is?"

   Helping people is a very happy thing, otherwise, how could there be so many people who are willing to help people throughout the ages?

   Zhao Hanzhang also likes to help people, and she is generous to help within her ability.

   Zhao Hanzhang finished writing the letter, dried the ink, read the letter again and put the envelope up, he couldn't help laughing.

   Fu Tinghan, who was sitting on the desk not far away, heard the laughter and raised his head to look at her, "What's wrong?"

   "Nothing, I just thought of the joy of helping people."

  Fu Tinghan: "...Is it like you helped Zhu Zhuan at the gluttonous banquet today?"

"That's not worth mentioning, I'm talking about the joy of donating food to the people," Zhao Hanzhang touched his chin, "Shangcai County has food relief for the New Year, so should I send something to celebrate the New Year in Xiping County? It doesn't have to be all food..."

   Zhao Hanzhang thought about it, she had to put on a show to bring the people under her rule to celebrate the New Year with joy.

See you tomorrow

   (end of this chapter)