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Chapter 137: Flattering the County Magistrate

The whole family gathered around to help, and lunch was soon ready.

After four people tossing and turning in the middle of the night and working on six large buckets of ice jelly all morning, everyone was feeling sleepy.

One person started yawning, and soon everyone followed suit. The only sounds in the yard were yawns, one louder than the other.

It turns out that yawning is contagious.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin were also very sleepy, so they decided to let everyone take a nap. It just so happened that they had never had the chance to take a nap since they came here.

Thinking that they had to go to the county town tomorrow, the children were afraid of delaying things and did not want to go to bed, but were forced to go to the room by the two men.

Although the sun was scorching outside, it was unusually cool inside the little thatched hut, and I slept very comfortably.

When the two woke up, it was already time for dinner. The yard was quiet. I thought the girls were still asleep, so I went over to see that no one was in the room. I thought they must have gone.

The two of them staggered to Zheng Yuan's house. The yard was already filled with the smell of food, and the girls had already prepared dinner.

Now I start to enjoy the blessing of having a daughter!

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin looked at the girls, and they were more and more satisfied. How could they be so considerate? Then they looked at the three boys who were laughing foolishly in the yard. There was really no harm without comparison.

The three boys, who had just fed the pigs and chickens and found pig grass, suddenly felt that their mother and aunt looked at them with disgust, but they couldn't figure out why.

After dinner, we have to prepare ice jelly for tomorrow’s trip to the county town. There will be more people in the county town tomorrow, so we have to prepare at least ten buckets.

It would be fast if there were more people, but there weren't that many buckets at home, and I was so busy today that I totally forgot about it.

They could only ask Sizhu and Erhe to go to the Chen family’s old house and borrow a few.

The whole family worked until dark and finally finished everything.

Just when I was about to go back to bed, Zhao Youwang came.

"Dashu's mother, Tao'er's mother, I have asked those who are not going to the county town tomorrow. The ox cart can set out according to your time." He did not come in but stood at the far door and shouted inside.

Because there were so many things to bring to the county town this time, the two of them had already discussed it with Zhao Youwang when they came back in the afternoon.

If any villagers were going to the county town, he would send them there first and then come to pick them up; if not, then they would wait until they had almost packed up and set off at noon.

Because there were a lot of things, they paid him the chartered car price of 40 cents per trip.

It would be best if no one went to the county town. I wouldn't have to get up early or wait at home. It would be just right to arrive at the county town around 11 o'clock.

"Okay! Thank you for taking the trouble, Brother Zhao. Come in and have a drink of water."

"No, no, that's all you need to know. I'll be back soon. I'll wait for you at the entrance of the village tomorrow morning."

Zhao Youwang was very happy. He didn’t have to get up early and could earn more than twenty cents more than usual for a round trip. Why not?

Normally, villagers would carry large and small bags when riding in the car, and no one would pay an extra penny like the Zhao and Chen families.

In fact, he had just gone around the village, and there were two or three people who wanted to go to the county town. However, he told them that he was not feeling well and would not go to the county town tomorrow, and he just told those who wanted to go to the county town to give up.

These two or three people have to get up early and make the trip. It would be fine if it were a normal day, but now the people from the Chen family and the Zhao family have to charter a car, so these two or three people are not enough.

After Zhao Youwang left, Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin repeatedly told Sizhu not to get up by himself tonight and to wait until they came to call him. The two were afraid that if they said one less word, he would come and knock on the door as soon as the rooster crowed.

After receiving Sizhu's affirmative assurance, the two went back to sleep with peace of mind.

After taking a nap in the afternoon and without the interference of the four pillars, I didn’t find it difficult to get up early the next morning.

After packing up their things, the family carried the buckets and walked to the village entrance to catch the bus.

Eighty cents was enough for both transactions. Zhao Youwang now treated the two of them as the God of Wealth, helping them with all kinds of tasks.

There were people and more than a dozen buckets, filling up the car.

By the time the ox cart arrived at the county town, the time was just right.

Before the children had time to admire the majestic city walls, they were already being dragged towards the market by their two mothers.

Seeing that they had to pay to enter the city, the children were even more shocked. This county town has so many rules. But looking at the officials wearing swords, the children dared not say a word, and just lowered their heads and followed Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin forward.

Lin Biao was still the leader of the city defense today. There were not many people entering the city at this time, and they were not in a hurry, so the two men walked up to him and greeted him.

Lin Biao also recognized the family and nodded to them.

The group went into the city and headed straight for the market, where they found a slightly more spacious place and set up their stalls according to the division of labor made last time.

Before the sale officially started, Zheng Yuan asked Dashu to take some to the soldiers guarding the city, and Erhe to take some to the county government.

The two boys ran very fast and came back soon. Looking at the empty buckets in their hands, they knew that they had accepted all of them.

So Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin started shouting according to the same rhetoric as yesterday.

The last incident happened in the county town, and later the county government posted a notice, so many people knew about it.

As soon as the two of them shouted, a long line formed in front of the stall in an instant.

There were too many people in the county town and there were not enough bowls, so some people had to bring their own bowls from home.

Some of those who received the ice jelly were not in a hurry to leave. They surrounded the two people and waited for them to be free to chat with them.

"Ladies, you are so generous. You just give me this three cents a bowl of ice jelly. I think there must be thousands of bowls." An old lady drank from her own bowl and smacked her lips.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin had some impression of her. Last time when Fu San made trouble in front of the stall, this aunt said a few words for them.

"Aunt, if you hadn't stood up for us last time, we would have been blackmailed by Fu San and our family would have been ruined. Although we are poor, we know how to be grateful. A bowl of ice jelly is really nothing."

"We just said a few words, it's not worth it for you to be so generous. You are a good person, and it is not easy to raise so many children. You have to be more frugal in the future, otherwise how will you live?" The old lady gave them a few more instructions.

The two of them were grateful for her kindness and went to give her another bowl.

"We have to thank our county magistrate for this. If it weren't for his keen observation, we would have been in trouble. In fact, the ice jelly we have today is thanks to the county magistrate."

The two of them took the credit for themselves.

"Yes, I went to see him that day. Lord Ma is truly a good official."

"That's right. Fu San is still trying to quibble. Lord Ma has already collected all the evidence."

"I used to think this county government was terrifying, but now it seems that our county magistrate is a really good official. I guess I'll have to go to him for help if I run into any problems in the future."

"This is a blessing for our Yongding County!"

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Soon the crowd began to discuss how impartially the county magistrate enforced the law and worked diligently for the people.

The commotion here was so loud that the police came to check it out. Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin also made a bowl of ice jelly and handed it over.

The inspector was so happy to hear people around him praising the county magistrate and his colleagues. He drank the ice powder in a few gulps and went back to the county magistrate to report.

Ma Zhiming was writing an official document with a bowl of ice jelly that Erhe had just brought over at hand.

After hearing the officer's report, Magistrate Ma put down the pen in his hand, took a sip of the ice jelly, and seemed to be thinking about something.

Soon he started laughing again.

The chief clerk who was following beside him asked curiously, "Sir, why are you laughing?"

"These two women are really smart. They are good at flattering us. Don't you think it's interesting?"

The chief clerk thought about it for a moment and shook his head and laughed, "Indeed."