Civil servants of the Tang Dynasty

When a censor begins to clarify, what does it mean?

"It's not suitable to call on guests at dusk. I'll pay him a visit at the posthouse tomorrow morning. Firstly, I'm trying to be courteous. At the same time, I want to find out something." Tang Cheng stood up from behind the desk with a serious face, and said as he walked: " Ask Mr. Qian to find a smarter errand to go to Huairong. We also need to arrange people to stare Gan Hongyu to death, where he has gone, and whoever he sees must find out.”

Yang Jiao nodded in agreement and went out to make arrangements. Tang Cheng stood outside the office door and thought for a while before returning to the back office.

The next morning, Tang Cheng drove straight to the Longmen post house, but the post officials said that Gan Hongyu had gone out early in the morning.

"It's so early? Can the room you live in be returned?" Seeing the post official shaking his head, Tang Cheng asked again, "What did Yushi Gan bring with him when he went out?".

"Master Yushi asked for a horse from the post house, and although he had a small bag with him," the post official hesitated for a while and then suddenly said: "By the way, Yushi Gan has rain gear. How can there be rain if the sky is so dry?"

He didn’t check out and brought few things with him, which means that Gan Hongyu is definitely not going to leave Longmen; but he asked for a horse and also has rain gear with him, which means that the place to go will definitely not be in the city. Hearing this, Tang Cheng could almost conclude that he must have gone to Longmen Country.

By this time, Tang Cheng knew that Gan Hongyu was not a good person without having to meet again for an interview.

After turning around and going back to the Yamen, Tang Cheng directly found Yang Pao, "Have someone been watching outside the post?".

"It was arranged last night", Yang Jiao asked casually after answering, "How will the Ming Mansion gain from going here?".

"He had already left when I arrived, and if I expected it to be correct, he would have gone down to pay a private visit." Tang Cheng tapped lightly on Yang Pai's desk, "The largest road in the world is Hebei. , Longmen is the most inconspicuous county government in this province, and there are only three supervisory censors who are too busy elsewhere, how could they suddenly come here, and their behavior is so unreasonable, Mr. Yang, the person who came here is not kind."

"It's strange, but the most urgent thing now is to figure out what he wants to do."

"It's useless to think about it, just wait for the reward. Is the person sent yesterday alive? Don't be noticed by Gan Hongyu."

"Old Qian patted his chest to ensure that people would not be so careless, so what if they found out? Mingfu, you just categorically deny it, this is a matter that is not clear."

"Let me know as soon as there is any news," Tang Cheng said when he had reached the door of the office, "Although we need to be on guard here, don't delay our business."

"I know", Yang Jiao smiled when he heard the words, "If you can't miss the internal affairs, Mingfu can rest assured."

Two days later, following Gan Hongyu's errand, he entrusted a middle-aged farmer who went home to visit his sick mother to bring back the first memo, and after submitting it to Yang Jiao, he arrived at Tang Cheng's office without a moment's delay.

Chapter 249 Weird Dragon Gate, Weird Tang Cheng

"Gan Hongyu came here for disaster relief." In the office, Tang Cheng raised his head from the note and said, "Judging from this reward, he still acted in accordance with the regulations, and he didn't use any means to fabricate charges."

"You may not be able to believe what you say on the memo," Yang Jiao shook his head when he heard the words, "After all, when Gan Hongyu asked the question, the people we sent weren't there to listen. Do you know what they said in front of Gan Hongyu?".

"It's useless to think too much about it, and that's all we can do now. We'll talk about it after he returns to the city. I have to meet him before he leaves Longmen." Tang Cheng put down the note, with a relaxed expression on his face A lot, "As long as he doesn't use shady tricks, I will feel relieved a lot. In the past two days, he has been distracted by a lot of business, so let's put it aside now."

"Well, let's discuss it after we go to Zhoucheng to find out the details of the tolerance." Yang Jiao has a lot of work in his hands, and he doesn't have much time to spend here. When we got to the door, I suddenly remembered something again, so I stood at the door and turned around and said, "Ming Fu, Madam has started distributing food in person today."

Previously, Zheng Lingyi had been hiding behind the scenes to calculate the number of labor reports and food relief. I don’t want to admit that I made a mistake when distributing food in the team the day before yesterday and yesterday. , too many people and too noisy caused the manager to make a mistake. Although the mistake was small and discovered in time, it also made Zheng Lingyi unable to sit still.

After all, this is the job that Tang Cheng arranged for him. The importance of this job was also mentioned that day. Since then, Zheng Lingyi couldn't sit still behind the scenes. After coming back last night, he discussed with Tang Cheng that she would go to the Tang Cheng presided over the distribution of food in front of others, of course Tang Cheng would not stop it.

Although there were not many restrictions on women's behavior in the Tang Dynasty, there were not many people who showed their faces in public as the official wives of officials married as wives. She is a shy little daughter, but she hesitated a bit before going out this morning.

Thinking of the way she gritted her silver teeth in the mirror to cheer herself up in the morning, Tang Cheng couldn't help showing a slight smile on her face, "Well, I know about this, what's wrong?".

"Nothing? The food distribution place is much quieter today than in the past, and the food distribution is fast and accurate." After Yang Jiao looked at Tang Cheng's face carefully and said this, he was about to leave. He hesitated and said, "Madam Tang's actions today...Mingfu...".

"Just say what Mr. Yang wants to say."

"Ah...it's nothing, it's nothing." Yang Jiao waved his hand, and he had already left from the door.

Seeing this, Tang Cheng shook his head with a smile. Of course he knew what Yang Pai meant, but he didn't want to discuss this matter. It's normal for women to come out to do things in later generations, but it's normal for people these days not to think about it. It is an unbridgeable gap created by the difference of the times, even if it is explained, it is useless.

Since the explanation doesn't make sense, then don't explain it, just do what you should do, and you can't just make yourself uncomfortable just because you care about other people's opinions.

After laughing, Tang Cheng put this episode aside, bowed his head and concentrated on the business at hand.

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Two healthy horses carried Gan Hongyu and his personal servants in the fields in the countryside of Longmen.

The cold wind messed up Gan Hongyu's civilian clothes like a knife, and also blew away his neatly combed temple hair, some of which even got out of the brim of his hat and swayed back and forth on his face with the wind.

But what puzzled the accompanying young man was that his master, who had always been the most groomed, turned a blind eye to this today. He stared fixedly at one place on the horse, and didn't know what he was thinking.

Gan Hongyu was thinking about Tang Cheng, and his current thoughts could only be summed up in one random word.But this chaos comes from contradictions.

This kind of contradiction is almost everywhere, and the land under our feet is the best example.

It wasn't until he actually set foot on the land of Longmen that Gan Hongyu knew how severe the drought was in this place this year. All the way down from the county town, the crop fields on the hillsides along the way could not see any green, and the barren fields were full of cracked wide open fields. In the mouth of Ke Rongquan, the disaster caused by the severe drought has really reached a shocking level.

When Gan Hongyu saw such a scene for the first time, his heart was really heavy. As a supervisory censor, he had been to many places, and the people's sentiments were also clear.According to past experience, any place that encounters such a disaster contains great risks.

Food is the most important thing for the people, and the great natural disasters not only brought about the failure of the harvest, but also the despair of the people. In addition, there was nothing to do in the fields, which constituted the root cause of the turmoil.At such a time, the local yamen should be especially cautious about politics. Once it is handled improperly, it is like lighting a fire on a pile of dry wood, and it can become a prairie fire in an instant. What is contained is endless.

The severe drought in Longmen County was like this, but according to the news I heard before, the county government was imposing corvee at this time, and natural disasters and man-made disasters came together. This made Gan Hongyu, who was dedicated to serving the court, not worry or anxious.

However, when the worried Gan Hongyu began to visit the peasants, something he had never encountered before appeared!Not only did the people here not have the despair he had expected, but they were full of hope. Seeing that their spirits were no worse than those in good harvest years.At the beginning, Gan Hongyu thought it was because the common people dared not speak ill of the county magistrate, but when he visited dozens of farmers in a row, and all of them were like this, he had to admit that this abnormal situation turned out to be true.

After the first contradiction appeared, the second followed.As you can see along the way, the lives of the people are really miserable. In such a catastrophic year, the young and strong men who set up households have been taken away, leaving only the old and the weak, women and children. The things eaten in the stomach, bark, grass roots, and then a little bit of stored food support a life.

The life of the people is already so difficult, but the county government has never distributed a grain of food to these old and weak women and children. According to past experience, the people at this time must have been excited, and they don’t know what to call a sitting county magistrate look like.But here, when Gan Hongyu visited the farmers, these people who couldn't even get enough to eat the bark and grass roots didn't have many complaints about the county magistrate Tang Cheng. Not only that, but also many people praised him while drinking grass root soup.

The land that should have been hopeless is full of hope, and the people who can't afford to eat are full of praise for the county magistrate who hasn't given them a grain of food. After a few days of visits, what Gan Hongyu saw and heard in the countryside of Longmen I have never encountered such a situation in my life, and I can't even imagine it.

How could this be?How is this possible?

The more he interviewed Gan Hongyu, the more confused he became, and the more difficult it was for Tang Cheng, the subject of this investigation.Tang Cheng is undoubtedly a talented person who can soothe the people's hearts and minds of the people under his rule in such a catastrophic year. This Tang Cheng is obviously a complete stupid official, and it is not too much to say that the disabled people are doing their best.

One positive and one negative, two completely different sides, and these two sides are so distinct that Gan Hongyu can't tell which side is the real Tang Cheng. A foolish official?

This is the question that Gan Hongyu has been thinking hard about. He has been visiting for several days, but as he visits more and more, it becomes more and more impossible to write this memorial.

"The weird Longmen County, the weird Tang Cheng", Gan Hongyu, who had been thinking for a long time, murmured to himself and then poked his horse's head suddenly. Seeing this, the servant asked in surprise, "Master...".

"Go back", while speaking in his mouth, he had already whipped his horse back to go back and forth.

It's meaningless to visit anymore, and now Gan Hongyu only thinks about one thing - Tizitian!It was because of this thing that he had never heard of that the people of Longmen County were full of hope, and they praised Tang Jiao while eating bark and grass roots.

Gan Hongyu now wants to see what this thing is, and he hopes to find the answer to the doubt there.

It was much faster to go back than when he came. Outside Longmen County, Gan Hongyu asked a few passers-by, then led the horse rein in his hand, and went straight to the mountain pass on the right.

Soon he saw everything that Ashdezhi had seen a few days ago, the caravan of Xiren oxen that cycled back and forth without seeing the beginning and the end;

In addition, there is another thing that Ash Dezhi has never seen before. When Gan Hongyu saw in the valley that the person who distributed the grain turned out to be a beautiful woman, he was really shocked.

During the catastrophe, the distribution of food relief was the most important thing, so many troubles were caused by this. It is really a joke that the Longmen county government dared to entrust such an important matter to a woman.Following the farmers sent by the teams to collect the food, Gan Hongyu moved to the front little by little.

Watching the woman distributing the food with his own eyes, from the roll call to the check of the workbook, and then to the release of the food according to the book, Gan Hongyu watched the crowd for two incense sticks and did not find any mistakes, everything was well-founded Ke Yi, and the farmers who received the food did not complain. What is even more puzzling is that these young adults not only did not speak rudely because the person who distributed the food to them was a woman, but showed respect in their eyes.

It wasn't until after hearing the whispers in the team that Gan Hongyu knew that this plainly dressed, well-spoken woman was... actually the wife of the county magistrate Tang Cheng.

A county magistrate who can let his wife show up in such a messy place and do such trivial and complicated things is a stupid official?Gan Hongyu, who walked out of the team silently, then went up the hillside again. When he visited the men of the farmers who were constantly busy, the answer to the county magistrate Tang Cheng, these farmers who were staring at the cold wind and working hard, was still full of praise .

Gan Hongyu stood on the hillside and looked at the rudimentary ladder fields built by the farmers for a long time, then turned around and went down the hillside, and then went straight to the Longmen County Government in the city.

Chapter 2 Fifty

Tang Cheng, who was talking to Tolerance, froze for a moment when the handyman came in with Gan Hongyu's famous thorn, so fast?The tolerance standing in front of his desk was the person who had been sent to follow Gan Hongyu a few days ago, and he hadn't been back for a while.

After waving his hand to let the official leave, Tang Cheng got up and straightened his official clothes, then walked straight to the gate of the yamen.

Gan Hongyu was sitting in the concierge drinking tea. He was a man in his 30s, with a thin figure and a strong bookish atmosphere.At a glance, Tang Cheng, who was smiling all over his face, had already walked in, "I don't know Gan Yushi is here, welcome if I am lost, forgive me!".

Gan Hongyu put down the teacup in his hand and took the opportunity of getting up to look Tang Cheng over, "Magistrate Tang is too polite, I dare not be the magistrate."

It's okay, this Gan Hongyu's face doesn't look bad.And he can take the initiative to go to the Yamen to see him this time, which in itself has shown an attitude.After all, the supervisory censor and the magistrate belonged to two systems, and they had neither affiliation nor friendship. As an investigator, Gan Hongyu didn't have to see him, let alone visit him on his own initiative.

After seeing the ceremony, Tang Cheng pointed to the sky outside and said with a smile: "It's better to drive well than to drive well. It's time to go to the Yamen soon. Recently, I just heard that a new batch of fine wine has arrived at the Longmen Inn, so I asked Mr. Gan to go and talk about the wine at night." how?".

"There is a severe drought in Longmen, and the people can't get enough from eating bark and grass roots, so they really don't want to have a feast." Xu Shi thought of the suffering of the old and weak, women and children, and Gan Hongyu's face suddenly showed a look of sadness, "Banquet It’s just a matter of drinking, and you can talk in a secluded place in the magistrate of Tang County.”

As soon as he said this, he put on a gloomy expression again, and Tang Cheng immediately said that the wine and meat of the wealthy family stinks, and the road is frozen to death, but looking carefully at his face, it does not seem to be deliberately sarcastic. Tang Cheng, who was depressed in his heart, I don't want to persuade you anymore, and I can't persuade you anymore, so I immediately pointed out, "Please!".

As soon as the sentence was rushed, the good atmosphere during the ceremony was suddenly dissipated. On the way to the office, the two of them didn't speak. After that, it was just a routine to give up their seats to pour tea.

Picking up the teacup and taking a sip silently, Gan Hongyu cleared his cough twice and then looked up at Tang Chengdao: "I have come here to ask for something, please ask Tang county magistrate to suspend the construction of the ladder field, and recruit all the young men When they are released, the relief food will also be distributed along the human head, so that thousands of people in the disaster can enjoy the emperor's kindness together."

Tang Cheng held the teacup and looked at Gan Hongyu quietly, tapping his fingers on the edge of the teacup silently, without speaking for a while.Gan Hongyu didn't surprise him when he said this, but what puzzled him was his way of speaking and his attitude.

The supervisory censor does not have the right to directly intervene in local political affairs, so if he wants to change the governance strategy of Longmen county government, he can only pass through himself. The question is why he wants to do this?If he is dissatisfied with his administration, he can just submit the memorandum to impeach him, so why should he come to the door to say such a thing?

In short, Gan Hongyu's job status is contradictory to what he is saying now, so that Tang Cheng is not sure what his real intention is.

After Tang Cheng thought for a while in silence, he put down the teacup in his hand and said slowly and seriously: "Master Gan has been in Longmen for a few days, and he must know a lot about the situation in this county. wrong?".

"Master Tang's ability to govern the government and appease the people, especially the courage to act, all make me admire." Seeing what Tang Cheng wanted to say, Gan Hongyu raised his hand and shook, "What a certain person said is not official talk, but it is from the heart It is precisely because of this that a certain person took the liberty to visit the Yamen today. It is naturally good that Mr. Tang is brave enough to do things, but the timing of this choice is really inappropriate."

"Appreciate further details".

"In the year of a catastrophe, the first thing to do is to support the people, but the Longmen County government has been heavily involved in corvee labor during these natural disasters. Now many old and weak women and children in the countryside of Longmen are homeless, and [-]% of their daily food comes from grass roots and trees found in the mountains and fields. For the genus of the skin, the harvest of the fields is ruined, and the stomach is ringing like thunder, but there is no grain of food. As a parent of the Tang county magistrate, how can he bear to see the people so deprived." At this point, Gan Hongyu sighed in a low voice, "It is so, During my several days of visits, the common people still praised Tang county magistrate, so the magistrate should take pity on them and have a way to survive. Now, what the county government is doing can be carried out in a good year, so why bother at this time?".

"I know the hardships of the common people, but how can a major task be accomplished without bearing hardships? Before recruiting young men, I have sent civil servants to check the bottom line in every village and mile. There is no problem with Yu Dang. When the time comes, our government will distribute the relief food as appropriate. Lord Gan can rest assured on this point." Tang Cheng's tone in the explanation was also very sincere, "My lord also said just now that the common people The county is still praised for such a difficult life, which is enough to show that the people support the current actions of the county government. In the year of the catastrophe, it is not only necessary to provide relief, but also to make the people have a job. Now that the disaster in the fields is fine, the county Taking this opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity of food distribution to gather the people and change the fields, as the Master said, is "benefit without cost", but now the cost is simple and cheap, and the beneficiary is public and generous. Is the way of government more beautiful than this? Sir Gan, think twice."

"Forgive me for being stupid, but I didn't know that my master's words can be interpreted in this way." Gan Hongyu was unmoved at all, "The imperial court has limited food, and the magistrates of Tang County put it in the construction of terraced fields. The hard work of the young and strong will inevitably lead to food intake The increase is huge, and one day's expenses are enough to cover the three-day relief amount proposed by the Ministry of Household Affairs. May I ask how much relief food the Longmen County Government has to afford such extravagant expenses? How much will there be left after one month? To help the old and the weak, women and children in the countryside?"

"This county is trying to find a way."

"It turns out that the county magistrate is still unable to achieve the law." Gan Hongyu was annoyed when he heard this. absurd!".

I don’t understand such a simple truth. These days, the people in the county government are not exhausted because of the matter of the terraced fields. Now they are doing well, but Gan Hongyu, a person who doesn’t do anything, picks around and gives a "ridiculous" remark , Tang Cheng was also angry, how could he bear this evaluation, and his face sank at the moment, "The whole yamen can be described as sleepless nights because of this winter's severe drought. Thank you, as for the food relief after January, the county has its own solution, if there is no food to provide relief by then, it will not be too late for your lord to come and show the official authority of Yushitai."

"It will be too late at that time, and the lives of more than ten thousand people are not a trifle." Gan Hongyu stood up suddenly from the chair, "I think you still have the heart to love the people and do things well, so I can persuade you with good words. I don't want you to be so obsessed However, the imperial government’s food relief is dedicated to helping the people, but you are not allowed to go your own way for a ladder field that you have never heard of.”

"Relief with work, what I do is not against the court's laws. As for the terraced fields..." Tang Cheng smiled coldly, "Whether Lord Gan has heard of it or not, this is good governance that benefits the country and the people. This official should do his best to promote it."

Just at this moment, there was a knock on the door, Tang Cheng said loudly without turning his head, "Go out".

"So far, I have misjudged you, wait for the impeachment, and leave." Gan Hongyu didn't even bow his hands, and after saying this, he went straight to the door and opened it to go out.

The moment the door opened, Gan Hongyu was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly bent down and saluted respectfully, "Why is the teacher here?".

teacher?When Tang Cheng followed the sound and looked, he saw three people standing outside the office which opened the door, Yang Jiao stood at the end, and in front of him was a fifty-year-old old man in sackcloth. The white-haired old servant at the side and rear was seen at Kong Gui's house in Liuguan Village that day.

Tang Cheng understood who the old man was in a flash of his thoughts, took a deep breath, walked from behind the desk to the door, bowed his hands and said, "Duke Gui".

Kong Gui ignored Gan Hongyu first, looked at Tang Cheng carefully from head to toe, nodded slightly and said: "The creation of the terraced fields was done in EMI, and they were built in the year of the catastrophe. Those who rely on this as food are by no means only young and strong, and those who are skilled in craftsmanship and food can benefit. It is rare to be able to govern like this at your age." When he said this, Kong Guiqing's face There was already a bit of a smile on the face, "The old man wants to use the adult's office, what do you think?".

"Mr. Gui's absurd praise", while speaking, Tang Cheng stepped aside and said, "Please".

Kong Gui nodded, and when he walked into the office, he said lightly: "Come in." Tang Cheng just heard Gan Hongyu's voice when he closed the door with his backhand. ?”.

The white-haired old servant stood at the door, Tang Cheng didn't want to listen any more, he closed the door and walked a few steps to the courtyard with Yang Pao, "What's going on?".

"A few days ago, when the tolerance from the prefectural government came back, I was moved. Gan Hongyu was from the Imperial College, and Kong Gui spent a long time in the Imperial College. There is probably a teacher-student friendship between the two of them," Kong said. Gui smiled, "It's just that I can't be sure about it, and I'm not sure that I can invite Kong Gui because of his temperament, so I didn't tell you about it. I just wanted to try it out. I didn't expect that he would come immediately after receiving the letter, and it was such a coincidence that when I first arrived at the county government office, I heard that Gan Hongyu had also arrived. God's will, God's will!".

Hearing this, Tang Cheng stretched out his hand and patted Yang Pai's shoulder, "Thank you very much."

"Why so?" Yang Jiao shook his head and smiled, then poked his head over to look at the closed office room, "With Kong Gui here, you can rest assured about this matter. In terms of prestige among the scholars of the Imperial Academy, even today's Sacrificial wine is also inferior to Kong Gui, and when Gan Hongyu met him, it happened to be one thing and one thing."

"Actually, Gan Hongyu is not a bad person. It is a good intention to say that he came today. It is just that his temper is too stubborn, and he does not allow people to talk and explain."

"Both of you have a stubborn temper. I'm afraid it won't get better when you meet each other. Did you quarrel just now?".

Hearing this, Tang Cheng smiled, "Yeah, it's quite noisy."

The two were talking outside while waiting. After about three incense sticks, the door of the office room opened, and Kong Gui and Gan Hongyu came out from inside.

When Tang Cheng went up to greet him, he also sent out an invitation to go to the Longmen Inn. He thought that Kong Gui would probably not agree to it, but he didn't expect the opposite result, and the old master nodded without hesitation.

In the Accord of the Longmen Inn, Tang Cheng explained in detail the idea and process of the distribution of food relief by the state government and the construction of terraced fields by the Longmen County Government by way of gossip, while Gan Hongyu didn't say anything superfluous. In fact, I invited Tang Cheng to drink three cups.

From then on, we only talked about poetry and prose, and it was only at this time that Gan Hongyu suddenly realized that many famous works that have been circulated in the world in the past two years were actually written by the Longmen county magistrate in front of him. Feeling ashamed, he firmly rejected his rhetoric of impromptu poems, and the atmosphere in the Accord was happy and harmonious for a while, until the excitement was exhausted.

That night, Tang Cheng arranged for Kong Gui's master and servant to live in the Longmen Inn, and Kong Gui never refused, but when Tang Cheng went again the next morning, his master and servant had already left at dawn.Even Gan Hongyu checked out of the post house.

The meaning of Kong Gui's move was clear, so Tang Cheng stopped galloping to chase him, and temporarily returned his thoughts to the construction of terraced fields. After about seven or eight days, the waiting Ashtek didn't come, but the former Lai Fu, who was sent to Daocheng some time ago, came back with a dusty face.

Before he could say anything, Tang Cheng knew from his expression that the trip to Daocheng might not go well.

Chapter 251 I'm in danger

The matter of Laifu going to Daocheng was indeed not going well.

"After getting the defense from Ning Mingyuan, the young one rushed to Daocheng immediately, followed the orders of the high-ranking officials, and found a shabby person from Guizhou in the city to make the first complaint. I wrote ten copies, each of which contained Ning Mingyuan's red-fingered seal of obedience." At this point, Laifu stretched out his hand and poured another cup of tea, and drank it clean in one gulp. After a loud belch, he continued: "When he was handing over the official clothes at the gate of the Taoist Yamen, the younger one was watching from outside the street. He was also forced to go to the marching ambassador’s office not far away to submit the complaints, but in the end...these complaints were like mud, and there was no news for several days.”

"What is the condition of that shabby household you are looking for?".

"This man's name is Yan Xingguo. He is a poor and helpless man. He is in his 30s and doesn't even have a wife. He earns a living by doing manual labor to support his widowed mother. This time his old mother is seriously ill and waiting for medicine. The little one That's when I found out that he came out and brought down this huge lawsuit against the government."

Tang Cheng originally wanted to ask to see if the dilapidated hukou of the first report was reliable, but after hearing this, he suddenly thought of the despair and family life that Tang and Zhang had to sell themselves when they first crossed over. "It's a felony to sue an official by the people. If there is a reason, there will be [-] small boards waiting. In Yan Xingguo's situation, if one is not good, it will cost two lives." He put his hands on his knees and sighed, "Go on."

"I waited for a few days and saw no movement, the younger one..." Laifu paused and glanced at Tang Cheng, then gritted his teeth and said, "The younger one made him go to the Taoist office to beat drums and complain."

Hearing this, Tang Cheng pursed his lips and said, "Say".