That Person In That River and Lake

  Chapter 9 The moth in the county office

  It has been snowing in Changling County, and the wind and snow are getting stronger.

  Gu Qingci practiced overnight, and specially took medicinal baths. This is the medicinal material he specially asked Ma Shilian to buy at a high price. This is the case for the so-called poor man and rich man. Just one medicinal bath consumed thousands of taels of silver.

   Originally ransacked Liu Qian's house, and he pocketed nearly one hundred thousand taels. He thought he was a rich man, but now he realized that he was still a poor man.

However, this thousand taels of silver, Gu Qingci thinks it is worth spending, because the Huashan mentality on the sixth floor has a vague feeling of breaking through, although he also knows that it is because of the integration of Lu Dayou's The realm of internal strength is already almost the same, but I can clearly feel the progress.

  Gu Qingci can see clearly that although he has now controlled all the power of the county government, he doesn't think he can sit back and relax. In this world, after all, his own strength can determine everything.

Originally, he hoped to exchange some pills that could increase his internal strength, but after looking at it, he found that Shaolin Xiaohuan Dan, which would increase his internal strength for five years, would require 500 chivalrous points, but now he only has a little more than 100 chivalrous points, which is far from it. .

  Finally, he set his sights on Pu Si Qu Snake Gallbladder. In The Legend of Condor Heroes, Yang Guo relied on eating this snake gallbladder to greatly increase his skill.

The price of this Pu Si Qu Snake Gallbladder is not high, twenty knights can order one, but now Gu Qingci has too few knights points, and I have to save some emergency, so I only exchanged for three, and only ate three. He immediately had a feeling that he might reach the seventh floor at any moment.

   When he was still thinking about getting another one, it was already dawn, and a servant outside the door announced that it was Zhang Xu's visit.

  When Gu Qingci got dressed and came to the living room, Zhang Xu had already been waiting for a long time, but he didn't dare to complain at all, and immediately stood up and respectfully said: "See the county lord."

   "No need to be too polite," Gu Qingci waved his hand, sat down beside the brazier, and said, "Is there something wrong? With your current identity, don't come to me casually, so as not to expose my relationship with Pang Xianwei."

"Yes, yes, this subordinate understands," Zhang Xu said, "I came here this time to report something important. My lord arranged for Ma Xiancheng to recruit servants yesterday. Later, Ma Xiancheng had other matters to deal with, so let me take a look. , this subordinate came today to report this matter."

   "Oh, yes, yes, yes," Gu Qingci remembered, and said, "What's wrong, is there any problem?"

"Yes," Zhang Xu said, "Now the yamen is mainly in charge of this matter. There are two team leaders, one surnamed Zhou and the other surnamed Wang. I went to recruit people for a while, but I took the money and went to my brother for a drink, and I didn’t return all night, and I’m still in the brothel.”

   "Boom"

  Gu Qingci slapped the table with a slap, frost appeared on his face, and he said coldly: "Don't they know how to write the word dead? Dare to defy me!"

   Zhang Xu stared at the handprint on the table and shuddered. This lord was really murderous, and he immediately said, "My lord, I don't know what to do now?"

   "Where are they?" Gu Qingci said coldly.

   "Red sleeve move!" Zhang Xu said.

   "Okay, you don't need to interfere in this matter, the county will go in person!" Gu Qingci snorted coldly, stood up and went straight to the Yamen.

  Although almost all the servants in the county government have left, there are still more than a dozen of them left, plus the 20 sent by Pang Shilong yesterday, there are more than 30 in total.

  As soon as Gu Qingci arrived at the county government office, he immediately called an old man Yan who stayed behind to call all the guards.

I don't know the name of this old man Yan, but according to the memory of Gu Qingci's previous life, he is a man of modest career, has no children, has always lived in the county government office, and is now sixty or seventy years old. It can be regarded as the entire county government, the person who respects Gu Qingci the most, does not delay for a moment for Gu Qingci's order, and immediately executes it.

  The twenty servants sent by Pang Shilong are all Pang Shilong's confidantes, and each of them was ordered by Pang Shilong to absolutely obey Gu Qingci's order. These twenty people, after receiving Gu Qingci's order, all rushed to the county government office.

  However, of the dozen or so guards who stayed before, only five of them arrived on time, and nearly ten of them hadn't arrived yet.

  Gu Qingci's face was frosty, staring at the stick of incense in front of him, without saying a word, he kept silent, making all the servants below look bewildered.

   It wasn't until the stick of incense burned out that Gu Qingci slowly stood up, looked at Old Man Yan, and asked, "Uncle Yan, did you notify everyone?"

  Because Old Man Yan was old, people in the county government called him Old Man Yan, while Gu Qingci, the predecessor, followed the style of a gentleman, he was very good at respecting the old and caring for the young, so he always called him Uncle Yan.

Old man Yan heard Gu Qingci's question, and immediately replied: "Yes, the county lord, all the younger ones have been notified, but Bantou Zhou and Bantou Wang are both drunk in the red sleeve trick, I will call them , and was scolded!"

   "How dare you!"

Gu Qingci yelled angrily, and said: "As a public official, he dares to stay in a brothel, and he doesn't even come here. This kind of people, staying in the county government office is just a vegetarian meal. How dare you follow the county to take down these wastes of public food? scum?"

When the five former guards heard Gu Qingci's words, their faces changed drastically. They knew that the county lord was a reckless person. Some time ago, he took people to attack the Cheng family. After seeing the consequences, they didn't want to Willing to repeat the same mistakes.

  However, they didn't expect that the twenty new guards who arrived yesterday didn't even think about it, and they all said in unison: "I would like to go with my lord!"

   Now, the five former guards were embarrassed. Everyone expressed their opinions, but the five of them stood together again without speaking, which was too obvious.

  Gu Qingci looked at the five people and said, "Do you have any objection to the county's order?"

  Regardless of Gu Qingci’s prestige in the county government, it is not something a few servants can afford to offend. When Gu Qingci questioned him, they all trembled in fright, and hurriedly expressed their opinion.

   "No, no, the subordinate just didn't react..."

   "Yes, yes, we should obey the orders of adults!"

Gu Qingci glanced at these people coldly, just snorted coldly, did not say any more, picked up the long sword on the table, and said loudly: "All follow the county, today the county will take you to clean up my Changling County yamen, get rid of these moths!"

I have to say that Pang Shilong is a smart man. He knew that Gu Qingci was short of people, but it was inconvenient for him to send too many people to Gu Qingci, so these twenty people were all the most elite group under his command. All are well trained.

   Gu Qingci took the lead, and a group of guards followed him to the Red Sleeve Zhao. To Gu Qingci's surprise, Yan Touer, who was already very old, followed him, and rejected Gu Qingci's offer to let him rest.

The snow in Changling County is getting heavier and heavier, and Gu Qingci felt the chill hit him as soon as he went out, but now that he has internal strength, he doesn't feel cold, he just sighed with emotion: "Oh, it's snowing so heavily, and I don't know how the city is going to be. How are the people outside?"

  The old man Yan who has never been left behind, but was able to follow Gu Qingci, suddenly raised his head in surprise, and said: "Adults care about the people, and it is the blessing of the people."

   "Oh," Gu Qingci sighed, and said, "Speaking of which, it's the county's negligence. It has been snowing for two or three days in a row, and I didn't even think of sending someone out of the city to check."

  Old Man Yan cupped his hands and said, "The little one is willing to investigate for the adults."

   "No," Gu Qingci refused, "Uncle Yan, you are too old, so don't go. The county will arrange for some young people to go."

  Old man Yan's eyes were shining with brilliance, but he didn't insist anymore.

  …

  Hongxiuzhao is the largest brothel in Changling County and the most popular brothel, no matter what time of day it is always full.

  Bantou Zhou and Bantou Wang were leading a group of servants to drink in a large private room. A group of people came and went, drinking happily, and ordered a few girls to accompany them.

  However, after drinking for a while, Bantou Wang suddenly said: "Lao Zhou, just now the county lord sent someone to call us. If we don't go, will everything be fine?"

"Hehe," Bantou Zhou smiled slightly, and said, "Gu Qingci, he's a nerd, what can he do to us, he doesn't have anyone in his hands, and it's not like you don't know that Captain Pang and him are like fire and water, He has no chance to move us."

   "However, the money we spent was public funds for recruiting new guards." Bantou Wang said.

   "I'll use it, what can he do about Gu Qingci? I..."

   "Boom"

   At this moment, the door of the private room was kicked open suddenly, and a cold voice came:

   "Then the county will let you see what I can do!"

  (end of this chapter)