Rise From the Humble

"Please wait a moment. I will go in and pass the message. Please wait a moment."

After the officer on duty finished his duties and offended Zhu Pingan, he came to Zhu Pingan with his waist bent and a smile on his face. He was respectful and enthusiastic, completely different from the previous one. After that, the official on duty ran all the way to Hou Ya Tong, looking like a good public servant of the people who was loyal to his duty.

Regarding the scene at the gate of the county government office, the corner of Huang Zan's mouth twitched. Is Liu Tou possessed by evil spirits? ! Or suddenly discover that the nerd is his long-lost brother? There is no reason!

Stuffed!

The officer holding the smelly socks touched his face, which was so hot from being beaten by the officer on duty, and looked at the figure of the officer on duty running with dull eyes. He felt that his whole world had been overturned, and that the whole world was not good.

What made their worldview subvert even more was that a moment later, the county magistrate, whom they rarely saw a few times a year, came out of the backyard of the county government office with a smile on his face, laughing as he walked, laughing on this snowy day. It's like a spring breeze.

The official on duty bowed his head and followed behind the magistrate.

"I've met the magistrate," Zhu Ping'an said in salute before the magistrate arrived at the door.

The magistrate of Tongcheng County is about fifty years old, with a shiny face.

No introduction is needed. Zhu Pingan can recognize him as the county magistrate at a glance, because he is not only wearing the black gauze hat he wears at work, but also wearing a cyan official robe. On the official robe, there is an 鸸鸒, pronounced "West Wing", which is embroidered on it. It is a kind of water bird with beautiful colorful feathers. The male and female often accompany each other. They like to live together and swim together. In Daming, official costumes were custom-made, and according to the system, those embroidered with 鸂鶒 on official uniforms were seventh-rank officials. And in the county government, only the county magistrate is of this grade, so that such a bird can be embroidered on the official uniform.

"Clothed beast" sounds like a curse word today, calling a person a beast in clothes, calling him a man like a beast. But if in the Ming Dynasty, you said something like a beast to someone, the person you said to you would not only not be angry, but would happily invite you to tea. This is because in the official uniform system of the Ming Dynasty "civilian officials wear birds and military officials wear beasts", if you say that he is dressed as a beast, he thinks you said that he has an official portrait.

Huang Zan, who was outside the gate of the county government office, saw Zhu Ping'an, a bookworm, just bowing his hands when he saw the magistrate. He was so rude and was really making his own trouble. He must wait for the wrath of the magistrate.

"Hello, Mr. County Lord."

Huang Zan led several guards forward. After crossing Zhu Ping'an, he bowed his head and bowed to the magistrate to say hello, while the other guards knelt and kowtowed. For them, it's not that they can meet the Lord Zhixian just by seeing him, so now they can see the real magistrate, it's an effort to step forward to show their presence.

"I've met Mr. Qingtian."

Yang Dacheng and the hostess also knelt on the ground tremblingly. After Yang Dacheng knelt down, he kept rubbing his shoulders against Zhu Pingan's legs, urging Zhu Pingan to kneel down quickly, lest Zhu Pingan would offend the magistrate and be punished again. .

"My dear brother, why should you be so polite?"

The magistrate is coming. He complained with a smile on his face, very enthusiastic.

Good brother?

Huang Zan, who bowed his head in front of the magistrate, almost burst into tears when he heard the words, what did I hear. The county magistrate actually called me my virtuous brother. Suddenly, a stream of eggy heat rushed from the soles of my feet to my head. With this claim, wouldn't he have the opportunity to be promoted from Huang Zan to Huang Dianli? In fact, you can just call me Xiao Huang, you don't need to call me Xiandi, my magistrate, Huang Cuan, is about to fly in his heart.

Just when Huang Zan raised his head excitedly. But when he saw that the county lord had no birds, he passed him and came to Zhu Ping'an with a smile.

"My dear brother, why are you being so polite? I have heard the name of my good brother for a long time. During this Enke Township Examination, my good brother raised eyebrows for our Anqing Mansion. Come on, let's talk about it."

The magistrate of Tongcheng was all smiles, and extended his hand to invite Zhu Pingan to go to the Houya.

"My Lord, the County Lord, has given me too much praise. Peace is just a fluke. Compared with the Lord County Lord's political education and enlightenment in Tongcheng, it is nothing more than a firefly in the bright moon. Tongcheng is the 'thorough of seven provinces', the 'cultural capital of China', and the 'first city of Jianghuai'. The name is like thunder, this is all the merit of the lord, I have never had the chance to pay a visit, and today I can see the lord of the county, I am really lucky."

With an admiring smile on his face, Zhu Pingan cupped his hands to thank the county magistrate, then changed his voice, watched Huang Zan apologize to the county magistrate and continued:

"However, I'm afraid Ping An won't be able to go to the back office with the county magistrate. This Huang Zan will take me to the prison."

The excitement on Huang Zan's face turned into fear in an instant. What kind of existence had he provoked?

Just now I thought he was just a nerd with no power and a useless heart, but in the blink of an eye, the magistrate became so polite to him. According to the magistrate’s words, it turned out that the nerd was a candidate who just passed the exam this year, and it seems he is still here. Ci Enke became a prominent figure in Juren.

As for Juren, he is still such a young Juren. At his age, he was still worried about passing the county examination. Damn it, everyone has promoted people, it’s so irritating that people are so different from each other.

In addition, just now, I thought that he was just a pedantic nerd who didn't understand the world, but the flattery he had just now was hundreds of times smoother than mine.

This must be such a big city. From the moment he entered Yang Dacheng's house, he had been hiding and pretending until now. It wasn't until he met the county magistrate that he suddenly broke the disguise and exposed his fangs to himself unprepared.

This is clearly a tiger covered in pigskin.

Thinking about it, he had provoked such a person. Huang Zan couldn't help but feel fear on his face, and his face was ashen. What grudge do I have against you?

"Oh, what's going on?"

After hearing Zhu Ping'an's words, the Tongcheng magistrate turned around and looked at Huang Zan with slightly narrowed eyes.

"My lord, I, I."

Huang Zan's face was ashen, his hands were shaking, and he couldn't say a complete sentence before his whole body collapsed.

This nerd was too ruthless and scheming. He used Spring and Autumn's style of writing and didn't talk about other things. He just grabbed himself and let him go to jail. If it was about Yang Dacheng first, I could shirk it no matter what, but asking him to go to the prison to ask questions was something I couldn't shirk.

Not even the county magistrate has the right to put a juren into a prison cell. He can only ask the imperial court to deprive him of his status as a juren. However, he wants to put a juren in jail.

If you make a mistake in this matter, you will have the first impression, and you will not be able to quibble about the subsequent matters.

So ruthless and scheming!

Huang Zan looked at the smiling Zhu Ping'an, as if he saw a fierce tiger opening its bloody mouth towards him, and his whole body felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave. How could he have provoked such a ruthless character? He wanted to cry without tears, with regret and fear at the same time. Attacked, Huang Zan was submerged.