Happy Little Scholar

"What's going on?"

Li Yi walked up to the two yamen runners and pointed at the man and asked.

One of the yamen runners was stunned for a moment, and then immediately said: "Reply to the county lieutenant, this man was caught on the street for malicious wounding, and we are about to take him to the county jail."

"Benefactor!"

At this time, the man also reacted, looked at Li Yi, and said with surprise.

The two yamen runners saw this scene and immediately became confused. Could it be that he knew the county lieutenant?

"It's just a trivial matter. Don't mention the word benefactor again." Li Yi waved his hand at the man, and then asked the two yamen runners: "Tell me specifically, what's going on?"

The big man in front of him was the man he met when he was solving the silver theft case on the street last time. That day, he was stolen by a middle-aged scholar. The two argued over the ownership of the silver. In order to get away from Li Mingzhu, Li Yi made a bet with him on this matter and inadvertently helped him. He still had an impression of him at this moment.

This man is very filial to his mother at home, and he doesn't look like a criminal. The county jail is not easy to stay in. Even if he is not tortured, it will be uncomfortable to stay there for a few days. If it is not a big deal, it is okay to spare him once.

The yamen runner saw that the county lieutenant was interested in the case, and immediately told him everything he knew.

Only then did Li Yi know that the reason why the big man was arrested to the county government was because he injured a clerk in the medicine shop. It is said that the clerk in the medicine shop sold the moldy medicinal materials to the man in order to make a small profit. The man's mother was seriously ill. After drinking the medicine juice, she almost died. It was not easy to save her life.

After learning the truth from the doctor, the big man was immediately angry. He rushed into the medicine shop and beat the clerk half to death. He was seen by two constables passing by and arrested.

Although the drugstore clerk was at fault, fortunately no major disaster occurred. The man beat him half to death and intentionally injured someone, so he was taken back to the yamen on the spot.

"What's your name?" Li Yi asked the big man.

"Well..., sir, I am Wu Er."

The big man originally wanted to call him benefactor, but when he thought of what Li Yi had just said, he immediately changed his name and imitated the two yamen runners.

Li Yi turned his head and looked at the two yamen runners and asked, "Is the clerk seriously injured?"

A yamen runner shook his head and said, "Although he was beaten with a swollen nose and a horrible face, he is not in danger of death. He will be fine after a few days of recuperation."

Li Yi nodded and said, "Catch him back to jail and provide him with two meals a day. Wu Er is also worried about his mother. His filial piety is commendable. His impulse can be understood. If the drugstore clerk is not in serious trouble, let him go."

The two yamen runners were stunned for a moment, and then nodded immediately, "Yes, sir. What the man said makes sense.

The two men let go of the man, and seeing that he was still standing there stupidly, one of them slapped him on the head and said, "What are you doing? Hurry up and thank the county lieutenant!"

The big man came back to his senses, a hint of joy appeared on his face, and he immediately knelt down and said loudly, "Thank you, county lieutenant! Thank you, county lieutenant!"

I don't know who these people learned from. They have to kneel when they see an official. Li Yi wanted to help him up, but the big man was very strong. He knelt on the ground with a plop and kowtowed twice steadily.

"Okay, okay, don't kowtow. This time, I also think about your filial piety. In the future, think more about what you do. If you have any problems, you can come to the government office for help. Don't be so impulsive." Li Yi waved his hand and said.

The big man laughed twice, thanked several times, and left in a hurry because he was worried that no one would take care of his mother at home.

"Your Excellency is kind and I admire you!"

Ignoring the flattery of the two yamen runners, Li Yi waved his hand casually, called Lao Fang from the back hall, and walked out of the county yamen.

In this era, the working hours of officials were very different from those in later generations, because the main officials such as the county magistrate and the county magistrate lived in the yamen, and had to start work at six or seven in the morning, but they also got off work early, and could go home at about three or four in the afternoon.

According to the unified regulations, except for some important festivals, officials were subject to the rule of "five days off", that is, every five days of work, they could take a day off to go home and take a bath, etc., which was relatively scientific.

However, Li Yi was a special case in the county yamen.

Perhaps Li Mingzhu's conscience was revealed, and he wanted to make up for his debt to him, so many rigid regulations were relaxed for him. He did not have to live in the county yamen, and he did not have to come to work early in the morning. He was much freer than County Magistrate Liu.

Li Xuan is very trustworthy. Last time, Li Yi received the fine horse that he said he would give him. It was a pity that he had not learned to ride a horse yet.

The horse was temporarily requisitioned by Liu Ruyi. She seemed to like the horse very much and never mentioned returning it since requisitioning it.

Wearing fine clothes and riding a horse, and traveling the world with a sword were not just Li Yi's dreams. He and Liu Ruyi had a lot of contact during this period. She liked the rivers and lakes in the martial arts novels that Li Yi told the most. Every time Li Yi talked about those female knights with unparalleled martial arts, her eyes would sparkle.

As a sister-in-law and martial arts coach, she did say that she would teach Li Yi to ride a horse. Li Yi had been looking forward to it for several days.

It must be very cool to imagine wearing a gorgeous dress and riding a horse on the road. If it is matched with a long sword like Liu Ruyi, it may really have some chivalrous style.

Li Yi actually didn't like the waist knife that was assigned to him. There's a saying that the sword is the best of all weapons. In his impression, heroes usually use swords. When he thought of the knife, the first thing that came to his mind should be a group of rough men, each holding a big saber in their hands, rushing down the mountain, shouting "I opened this mountain, I planted this tree..." and so on. The sense of disobedience was too strong.

In the future, he would switch to a sword when he had the chance. He always thought that Liu Ruyi looked cool when she used the sword, with a cold expression and silent sword. If she was in the martial arts world in the future, she would be nicknamed "Death Fairy", which would probably scare a lot of people.

If you think about it carefully, the princess head constable wearing that uniform and a waist knife is actually quite cool, but I've never seen her draw the knife, but when you think about her slashing with the knife, no matter how cool the image is, it will be gone.

After bargaining with Li Mingzhu, Li Yi's life after becoming a county lieutenant was not much different from before. He went down from Liuye Village in the morning and went back in the afternoon. The only difference was that the place where he stayed during the day changed from Ruyifang to the county government office.

It was just the beginning of winter, and it hadn't snowed yet, but the weather was already a bit cold.

When he went out in the morning, he told Xiaohuan to wait for him to come back in the afternoon to eat hot pot. At this time, they were probably preparing.

After entering the village, Lao Fang went back directly when he passed by his door. Li Yi continued to walk forward for a while. Just as he stepped into the yard, he saw Ruyi sisters and Xiaohuan were in the yard.

In addition, there was a strange woman in the yard.

The woman looked to be in her thirties or forties, wearing colorful clothes, looking quite festive, and was smiling and saying something at this time.

Seeing Xiaohuan running over here, Li Yi looked at the woman with some doubts and asked, "Who is she?"

The little maid had a bitter look on her face and whispered, "It's the official matchmaker. This time she came to urge the second lady to get married quickly. She has been to the house several times this year."