I'm taking the imperial examinations in Liaozhai

"That's his business, how do I know." Rong Ge said.

"Hmph, anyway, you are not allowed to pester Mr. Gu anymore." The young man said domineeringly.

Rong Ge wasn't angry, he didn't know what he was thinking of, and a faint smile appeared on his face, "Are you foxes so stupid that you can just give up on someone casually?"

The boy took a step back, his eyes flickering, "What kind of fox, don't talk nonsense, I'm human."

"Look, the fox's tail is exposed, and he still doesn't admit it."

Hearing this, the boy touched his butt hastily, but there was no tail behind him.The boy's complexion changed, he turned his head and said angrily, "You lied to me!"

"I just want to test if you are really that stupid." Rong Ge said.

The young man simply admitted his identity, and said threateningly, "Yes, I am a monster, be afraid. If you pester Mr. Gu again, I will eat you!"

"I'm afraid not, but I'm curious, what exactly do you like about that Gu Xiucai?"

"Young Master Gu is talented, kind-hearted, and respects his elders... To be favored by him is simply the blessing I have cultivated in my life!"

"If he's really that powerful, why is he still just a scholar?"

"What do you know, Mr. Gu did not continue the imperial examination because he wanted to take care of his mother."

"Leaving aside his talent, do you think he really likes you?"

"Of course." The boy said proudly.

"Then why haven't we neighbors heard that Mr. Gu has an extra male daughter-in-law?"

The boy's imposing manner became a little bit, "He will take the imperial examination in the future, and it will not be good to say it."

"Then has he ever confessed to his mother about you?"

The young man's momentum became weaker, "No, he said that my mother was too old to be stimulated, so he didn't dare to tell her about us."

"Oh, he didn't dare to say it, it was because of his face and his mother's feelings, but he never considered your feelings, because your status in his heart is not as important as you imagined."

"That's his mother..." The young man tried to defend Gu Sheng.

"Then you know, not long after I moved across from his house, his mother came to tell him about his marriage, and he didn't object."

"Impossible. Gu Lang said that he only loves me, so he won't marry anyone else. You must have seduced him."

"Why are you foxes so stupid that you can't even tell such a bad lie? To Gu Xiucai, you are nothing more than a child prostitute, something he uses to pass the time in his business, and a few words of love will do the trick." It's very cheap to coax you. These scholars, who are self-proclaimed, want to fly to the sky by studying, and then marry an official lady as their wife, and some even kicked the wretched wives who accompanied them through difficult times , how could you fall in love with a cheap man of unknown origin, who can be easily seduced by a loose behavior."

"You're talking nonsense, no, Gu Lang is different from those scholars you mentioned."

"Yes, he's just a little more carefree than those scholars. Look at what's in the pot and what's in the pot. If he doesn't marry, there's still room for you around him. When he gets married, he'll have Child, if the mistress does not allow it, how should you stand?"

"No, I don't believe it, stop your alarmist talk."

"Then you might as well ask him, will he not marry a wife or have children for you in the future? I remember that he is the only child in his family. Will he be willing to die for you?"

The young man was silent. For ordinary people, he was afraid that he would have no heirs.They are afraid that after their death, no one collects their corpses, no one enshrines them, and no one pays homage to them during festivals, and they will become lonely ghosts.

"I believe that even if Gu Lang marries a wife, it's only for the children. He said he only loves me."

"Why don't we try and see how important you are to him."

The boy hesitated for a moment, then asked, "How to try?"

"It's very simple, you'll find out when you come here tomorrow evening," Rong Ge said.

The young man looked at Rong Ge with complicated eyes, "You said this, don't try to lie to me. After tomorrow's trial, if Gu Lang loves me the most in his heart, you can't pester him anymore."

"Don't worry, I'm not interested in that kind of man, and only you, a blind little fox, are interested." Rong Ge said lightly.

If this little fox really trusted Gu Xiucai, how could he agree to the temptation? He was afraid that he already had doubts in his heart and was just deceiving himself.

"I'm not blind." The young man left Rong Ge's house after climbing over the wall aggressively.

"Why are fox spirits so childish? There is no such charming appearance in the storybook." Rong Ge thought of the little fox in the county government and shook his head.He lowered his head and scrubbed the grains in the basin several times, until all the impurities were washed away, then he carried the basin into the kitchen and prepared to cook.

Cooking porridge is relatively simple and does not require any superb craftsmanship. You only need to watch the fire under the stove to mix rice and water into the pot.Before it was dark, Rong Ge took the time to change the uniform he brought back from the government office.She is relatively small, and even the smallest police uniform in the county government does not fit her well.Clothes that don't fit will affect her movements. What she is doing now is the job of a police officer, and she will inevitably have to be on duty, so she can't be held back by her clothes.

The next day, Rong Ge went to the county government office early in his modified uniform.

In the Great Chu State, Yamen servants are not as lowly as they were in the previous dynasty, and they are looked down upon by people.The emperor of the Great Chu State still attached great importance to the yamen servants. After all, the yamen servants worked for the state apparatus, and even the police were always called the minions of the court.

In the hearts of the common people, in fact, many times it is difficult to distinguish the difference between officials and government servants. They are all handling cases in the government.Among the Yamen servants, the catchers often deal with the common people, and the virtues of the catchers are easily linked to the virtues of the officials by the commoners. If the catchers do evil, the people will resent the court.

In the past, when yamen servants were regarded as cheap, who would be willing to be a yamen servant and serve the court.How high quality can those idle people of three religions and nine streams be, if they become government servants, they will have a very bad influence on the government.Therefore, the emperor simply raised the status of a yamen servant, and it is an honorable thing to be an errand for the court.Although the salary is not high, the treatment is good, and the social status is high. The common people no longer despise the job of yamen servants, and even regard yamen servants as a very popular profession, which is about to catch up with the civil servants of later generations.

There are quite a lot of yamen servants in the yamen, but in fact there are not many official arrests, only a few dozen people.But there are sub-captains under the cops, and assistants under the sub-captains, so there are more people.Street patrols come in rotation, and only a few people are needed every day, so the interval between rotations is relatively long.

In addition to rest, the police still have to be on duty in the county office to avoid emergencies.If there are civil disputes in towns that cannot be resolved by the gentry, you can also ask the police to go to the countryside to negotiate and resolve them. After all, not everything requires the county magistrate to personally adjudicate, and the county magistrate will not be exhausted.Of course, there is a fee for the arresters to go to the countryside to handle cases. Although it is not much, the Yamen does not take any money, and it is all overtime pay for the arresters.No matter how few mosquitoes are, they are still meat, so the catchers are more than happy to take a trip.

But now is not free time, Chen Mo'er's case is still pending, most of the arrestees are led by the county captain to search outside, and there are very few arresters staying in the yamen.Thinking that Rong Ge was a newcomer and a woman, Ji Zihe didn't let her go out to search, but let her stay in the yamen.

Yan Ruyu was walking in the county office with a stack of tall files in his arms. Although he was not an official, all the officials and servants, big and small, greeted him warmly along the way.Who doesn't know that Master Yan is a trusted confidant of the county magistrate, even if he doesn't have any fame, so what, he still has to curry favor with him.Yan Ruyu just nodded slightly, returning the salute in a distant manner, and didn't have much contact with anyone.

Walking to the fire escape building, she greeted the guards, Yan Ruyu took out the key, opened the door of the building, and walked into the building.

The so-called Bihuo Building is the archives room in the county government office. This is a comprehensive archive room built by the county government offices personally ordered by the first emperor of the dynasty, in order to prevent any further documents from being destroyed.

What files, documents, household registration information, etc., are all stored in this small building.Because they are all made of paper, they are afraid of fire, so with a swipe of the emperor's pen, they can simply be called fire shelters.The name is concise and to the point, it is to warn Xiao Xiao, whoever dares to set fire to the fire shelter will be a capital crime!

Only the magistrate has the key to this small building, and no one else can touch it.As for the documents needed by the officials of various departments, they have relevant backups in their respective offices. Unless they are accidentally lost, there is no need to go to the fire shelter to find them.

The reason why Ji Zihe handed over the key of the fire shelter to Yan Ruyu was not only because he valued him, but also because it was convenient for him to search the files, so that he would not have to go to the county government office to search them all the time and disturb their work.

There is an old smell of books in the fire shelter, and one can tell that the books in this building have not seen the sun for a long time.However, the walls in this small building are made of moisture-absorbing and moisture-proof materials, and the bookshelves are mostly made of camphor wood, and rat poison is regularly injected, so that these files are not eaten by insects or mice.

After Yan Ruyu returned the files in her hand one by one, she took a lot of new files from the shelf, and sat at the table to read them.

The small building was very quiet, as if the only sound left was his breathing.Yan Ruyu's concentration is very good, she can sit for a whole day without any problem.But it doesn't matter to him, other people in this building can't stay anymore.

This fire escape building has three floors, and it is also a very large building.Yan Ruyu put down the file in his hand. He felt that there was something wrong with the case recorded in the file, so he planned to go to the second floor to check the household registration information in the county.

Yan Ruyu was not a human being in the first place, and now that there was no one around her, she naturally didn't have any worries.He didn't even go up the stairs, he just flew up, passed through the roof and went up to the second floor, and then met the "little thief" on the second floor.

"Why are you here!" Yan Ruyu was surprised.

It's over, what should I do if I'm seen through the wall.He just wanted to be lazy, why was he so unlucky, if he said now that he was a juggler, would anyone believe him?

"I..." Rong Ge looked at the household registration booklet in his hand, then at Yan Ruyu, and said solemnly, "What a coincidence, where is this place? coming."