Wei and Jin Cooks

   Chapter 435 Are you comfortable?

   Zhao Erlang and Qiu Wu were fast, not to mention the yamen and soldiers, even the merchants who escaped first were counted as one, and they were all circled back.

   This also caused them to be busy here, talking and collecting taxes and letting them go. Xi’e County, which is not very far away, still didn’t know anything.

  The cold day is not necessary, who will come out?

   still ran so far away from the city gate.

   Zhao Hanzhang also found out that this place is quite a distance from the city gate, so he recruited the yamen to ask questions, "Is it possible that the general business tax is collected at the city gate, wharf, pass, etc. Why do you go to the official road to collect it?"

  The forehead of the yamen was sweating again, and after moving his mouth twice, he said, "These traders are cunning and detoured around the county seat."

   Zhao Hanzhang: "...Since you can bypass Xi'e County, it means that they don't have to pass through Xi'e County. How can you collect their business tax?"

   After a long time of trouble, the business tax she just collected should not be collected.

   The yamen said in a low voice: "They opened a trail privately and trampled on a lot of good fields, which belong to our Xi'e County."

   Zhao Hanzhang looked him up and down, and sighed after a while, "I now probably know what Magistrate Gao looks like."

  It is said that slaves are like their masters, and the magistrate Gao who wants to come to Xi'e County is similar to this yamen.

  Humph, trampling on fertile fields?

  Which foreign merchants dare to trample on the fertile fields of the local people?

   Zhao Hanzhang squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then turned his head and said to Fu Tinghan, "We'll go first, you'll take someone behind you."

   Fu Tinghan nodded.

   Zhao Hanzhang said to Qiu Wu, "Leave and protect Tinghan."

   After saying that, she took Zhao Erlang and her personal soldiers and urged the yamen and soldiers to run away first.

   Some of the yamen and soldiers had horses, some did not. Zhao Hanzhang also simply took away the horses. At this time, they were all running on two legs.

   When Zhao Hanzhang kicked the horse's stomach, they could only run away.

   When they reached the sparsely populated city gate, the guards at the gate recognized them from afar, raised their hands and said hello, "Old Zhang, you came back so early today? Who is the man on the horse?"

   Lao Zhang, who was running at the front, couldn't answer. Zhao Hanzhang rode forward, glanced at him, and said directly to the soldiers: "Control the city gate."

"Yes."

   The soldier guarding the gate heard that something was wrong, and the spear in his hand immediately slid down and shouted, "Who are you? What do you want to do?"

   Zhao Erlang picked up the long spear in his hand with one shot, and Fan Ying on the other side of Zhao Hanzhang immediately shouted, "Bold, this is the seat of the prefect of Yuzhou, and when I saw the envoy, I was not ready to kneel down."

   The other party was stunned for a moment, then glanced at Lao Zhang. Seeing that they were panting with their heads lowered, they knew there was nothing wrong, and hurriedly knelt down.

   knelt down, and the soldiers who had just heard the movement and ran down from the city gate hesitated for a while, and when Zhao Hanzhang's eyes swept over, they put down their weapons and knelt down.

   Zhao Hanzhang waved his hand in satisfaction, "Guard the city gate, no one is allowed to leave the city without my order."

"Yes."

  The four personal soldiers stayed behind, and Zhao Hanzhang took the rest to the county government office.

   Magistrate Gao was drinking at home, holding his concubine left and right. At this time, the sky was a little dark, and it looked like it was going to snow.

He was very comfortable, leaned back, stretched out his feet, and immediately a concubine gently took it and tucked it into his arms to warm him, he nodded with satisfaction and said, "Let Le Ling play a song, see It's sunny, there should be a heavy snow tonight, go and invite Master Du and the Qing guests, and tonight we will have a night chat around the fireplace."

   The servant bowed in response, got up and was about to exit, when suddenly there was a loud bang, the door of the courtyard was kicked open, and half of the door was instantly slumped aside.

   Gao Cheng was startled, he immediately shrank his legs and sat up straight, turned his head and looked out, "What's the noise?"

The servant hurried out to look, just as Zhao Erlang kicked the door and stepped aside, Zhao Hanzhang stepped in, and at a glance saw Gao Cheng sitting on the seat with only socks on, and there was a soft fox on the seat. Pi, he was looking at Zhao Hanzhang in astonishment.

   Seeing that they were holding weapons, his heart trembled a little, but he didn't realize her identity, so he said: "Bold, do you know where this is?"

   Zhao Hanzhang stepped on the edge of the mat, looked down at him and asked with a smile, "Where is this?"

"This is the backyard of the county government office in Xi'e County!" Gao Cheng tried his best to hold back his trembling voice and said as calmly as possible: "If you are for money, say a number, and I will give it to you, but if you hurt others Also, all the yamen and soldiers in Xi'e County are vegetarians."

   Zhao Hanzhang circled around him for half a circle, and found that his room was quite boring, not even a chair.

She simply swept away the things on the low table, dragged it over with one hand and put it in front of him, then sat down with her robe up, and smiled and talked to him, "I don't want money, and I'm about fighting and killing. I'm not interested either, so I won't do it for no reason."

   Zhao Hanzhang was so easy to talk, but Gao Cheng didn't dare to relax. As a gangster, he didn't even ask for money or kill him. This is too abnormal.

The thought of    flashed, and Gao Cheng realized that something was wrong. His gaze fell rigidly on Zhao Hanzhang's sleeve, and then he looked up at her face little by little.

   Zhao Hanzhang looked at him with a smile and encouraged him to continue watching.

Gao Cheng's face was pale, and he saw the orderly guards behind her. The most important thing was that the two women standing on the side, one was dressed in water-red Shu brocade, with delicate embroidery threads on them to outline a large group of flowers. Flowers, at first glance, are born rich and noble, not gangsters from the countryside;

The other was dressed in cyan and was dressed as a maid from a big family. He was holding a gleaming spear in his arms. He didn't need to look at anyone, just by looking at the spear, he knew who was sitting in front of him. .

His eyes were full of flowers, and many rumors flashed in his mind instantly. Among them, the first person to come to mind was the magistrate of Xianbiyang County. I heard that the magistrate of Hu was broken into the house by Zhao Hanzhang, and he didn't have time to react at all. Was dragged down and chopped.

   He supported the fox fur with trembling arms and wanted to stand up, but the fox fur that had been firmly attached to the mat suddenly slipped, and he fell forward abruptly...

His body trembled even more, and tremblingly retracted his legs and knelt down, pressing his head against the fox fur, and pleaded guilty: "No, I don't know that the envoy is coming, the lower official is far away to welcome him, I ask the envoy to come. Forgive me."

The concubines and servants in the house were shocked when they heard the words, and they all knelt down and kowtowed, but their minds were much more relaxed. The servants even thought that they were not gangsters, so they should not have to die. I heard that the new envoy is very kind to ordinary people. Gentle.

   They were relieved, but Gao Cheng was in a cold sweat. I don't know why Zhao Hanzhang suddenly broke into the county office. Even if he came out to inspect, he should have notified them first, right?

  He mustered his courage and said, "Your Majesty, the lower official will take you a seat in the front hall?"

   "No need," Zhao Hanzhang said: "It's still time for office. Since Magistrate Gao is in the backyard, he obviously often works in the backyard. In that case, let's meet here."

   Zhao Hanzhang didn't let him get up, picked up the fragrant jug on the stove, and sighed: "The stove, the fox fur mat, the fine wine, ah, and the beautiful woman, the magistrate Gao is very comfortable as an official."

See you tomorrow

   (end of this chapter)