A note

Two days passed in a flash, and the sky was clear again. The few puddles on the street reminded people of the heavy rain of the previous two days.

At 7:00 p.m., the sun began to shine, and there were still a few beggars sleeping at the entrance of Yulin County Yamen. The notices at the entrance of the Yamen were posted layer upon layer, disordered and old, and looked a bit depressed.

Indeed, Yulin County is the closest to Yangzhou City among the ten counties in Yangzhou, and has the best development, but the county yamen is the poorest.

The people don't understand why Yulin County is a big county after all, and why a county yamen is like a run-down courtyard that no one has cared about for 20 or 30 years.

Faced with this situation, everyone thinks that the county magistrate is incompetent.

Everyone says that the county magistrate is incompetent, but no one says that the county magistrate is corrupt. Because the facts are in front of us, a county yamen is like a kennel, with wild cats and dogs inside the wall and beggars and vagrants outside the wall. If it was a corrupt official, it wouldn't be like this now.

Who is the most pitiful in this ten miles and eight villages? It is estimated that more than 80% of the people in Yulin would say without hesitation that it was the county magistrate and the officials in the county government.

It is really too miserable. An official is actually sympathized by the people, so that his superiors or colleagues are embarrassed to say anything to him. They know that he has not done anything, but they are also embarrassed to find fault with him, so he has been holding a half-official position miserably.

The county magistrate of Yulin County is surnamed Chai, with a single name Guan. A fortune teller has long predicted that "Chai Guan" is homophonic to "dismantle officials". The official has been dismantled, and it is destined that he will not do much in his official career, and the mansion where he works will definitely not be glamorous, because of the word "dismantle".

This Chai County Magistrate is very famous in Yulin County. He came here as an official in the name of the second place in the imperial examination. In the whole Dahua, it is really a rare thing for the second place in the imperial examination to be assigned to be a county magistrate thousands of miles away.

Of course, the people of Yangzhou and even Yulin County will not care about what Chai Guan did in the capital, and why he was assigned to be a county magistrate in Yulin County? The only thing I was curious about was what glorious deeds a runner-up in the imperial examination could accomplish as a county magistrate?

When Chai Guan first came to Yulin County, it caused a sensation.

Who would have thought that after seventeen years, he had done nothing, and on the contrary, the county government was getting worse and worse.

Today, County Magistrate Chai was still sleeping, but his legal advisor Liang Zheng was already handling his daily affairs in the court.

Chai Guan had already given up, so he spent half of his salary to hire a legal advisor to help him manage the affairs of the government, and he rarely went to court to hear cases.

Seeing that the county magistrate was so lazy, how could Liang Zheng work seriously? He just muddled through and took one month's salary for one month.

At this moment, he was flipping through some official documents from above, and when he was drowsy, he suddenly heard the sound of drums outside.

"Dong... Dong... Dong..."

Master Liang frowned and shouted to the guard at the door: "Go and see what happened?"

As soon as he finished speaking, another guard ran out in a panic: "Master, there is a young man with strange clothes outside saying that someone will come to kill him today."

Master Liang frowned: "You... you... speak slowly, what do you mean by killing or not?"

"There is a strange young man outside saying that he was targeted by a female thief, and she left a note saying that she would come to take his life today."

The guard ran into the hall and handed Master Liang a note with a row of beautiful small words written by a woman: "Little thief, you dare to deceive me! Be careful today, I will come to take your life at any time."

"What does this mean?" Master Liang asked the guard.

The yamen runner was confused: "What...what does it mean? It's written very clearly here."

"I asked you what's the point of showing this to me?"

"Nothing! I just want to know if Mr. Liang should try this case?"

"Try a case? You want me to try a case?" Mr. Liang was so angry that his beard stood up. "How can I try a case with just this piece of paper? What do you think I can do? Then I will write a note right now, saying that I am going to kill you today. Do you want to go to the prefectural government to sue me? Let the prefect personally try the case?"

"This..." The yamen runner was confused by a series of questions, "Then what do you think Mr. Liang should do?"

Mr. Liang crumpled the note into a ball and slammed it into the yamen runner's face: "Let him go! Let him come back to seek justice after he is killed! These days, there are all kinds of weird people. Can a note report a case?"

The yamen runner knew that he had made a mistake, so he ran out quickly, thinking that the guy who reported the case caused him to be scolded, and he must teach him a lesson.

Unexpectedly, when the yamen runner returned to the yamen gate, the person who had just reported the case was gone.

Inside the yamen, Mr. Liang was muttering: "A piece of paper can scare people to report the case, I don't know where this tuberculosis person came from."

As he was talking, County Magistrate Chai came from the backyard. His official uniform was untidy, his eyes were slack, and his tuft of beard was drooping, making him look listless. He was yawning lazily and asked casually: "Master, what was the matter just now?"

"Sir, your policemen are too ignorant. A woman wrote a note saying that she wanted to kill someone, and she also reported it to the police?"

"Huh?" County Magistrate Chai didn't quite understand.

Liang Shiye quickly stood up, picked up the crumpled paper on the ground, opened it a little bit, and respectfully presented it to Magistrate Chai: "Sir, please read it."

Maintainer Chai took the note and glanced at it, then sneered: "Troublemaker."

After that, he was about to throw the note away.

But just as he was about to throw the note away, he suddenly remembered something and stopped his hand in mid-air.

"Sir, what are you doing?"

"Do you remember? The lord from Yangzhou City seems to be tracking down a female thief. Do you think this is her?"

...

Late last night -

In the small thatched house on the Xia family campus, the lights were on all night.

A man and a table of women were making final preparations for tomorrow's plan.

"Sir, how can you be sure that the man has a connection with the court and the government? And how can you be sure that he must be the one who is hunting Shangguan Chan?"

"Why was Shangguan Chan injured? Wasn't it to assassinate the prefect of Yangzhou? In the rain that day, when I told that man the situation, I was from the perspective of setting Shangguan Chan as my enemy. And he didn't make things difficult for me after listening, which shows that he is not in the same group with Shangguan Chan. And the palm print left on the wall is almost the same size as Shangguan Chan's palm print. He must be someone around the prefect of Yangzhou.

That night, when I bought medicine for Shangguan Chan, all the herbal medicines in the city were sold out. Only the government can do this, because only the government has the ability to buy all the herbal medicine silently in such a short time. And the government did all this naturally under the will of that man. So he must be related to the government. The first step tomorrow is that I will go to the government to lure that man out with a note. As for what to do next... it depends on you, Jiangnan."

"Don't worry, sir, I will definitely fulfill my mission!"