Chapter 142: Idle bones are about to fall apart
More than two months have passed in a flash. During this period, Liu Chuan found another residence for Liu Hua and wanted Liu Hua to move in, but Liu Hua refused Liu Chuan's arrangement. He spent money to hire villagers to clean up the garbage in the abandoned house, and then went to the city to hire someone to renovate the house.
After the house was repaired, Liu Hua and Chen Jiaolin moved in. After seeing the stove inside the house, in order not to suffer here, he bought 100 taels of charcoal and 100 taels of silver firewood at once. When the charcoal and firewood came, he directly piled up the yard full of flowers.
The problem of heating was solved, but the problem of food and clothing came again. Chen Jiaolin could not cook, and Liu Hua could only cook clear soup noodles. After drinking the clear soup noodles for half a month, they couldn't stand it anymore, so they had to go to the village to have a good meal. Fortunately, the villagers were simple and simple. No matter which house Liu Hua and the others went to for dinner, everyone warmly welcomed and welcomed.
At the beginning, Liu Hua went to the prefectural office to handle the work for a few days, but nothing went well. First, he asked about his salary, but the person in charge of the salary told him that the prefect's office was financially in a hurry and he would give Liu Hua a salary after the financial pressure eased.
Later, Liu Hua wanted to recruit a batch of constables again to replace the original constables, but Liu Chuan rejected this idea without hesitation and said that he did not agree with Liu Hua's recruitment of new constables.
Seeing this, Liu Hua had another plan, intending to follow the example of Yangzhou, hire a few Han people to hire as temporary constables and go to the casino in Liaoshun Prefecture to check gambling. However, after this incident reached Liu Chuan's ears, he stopped it, saying that those casinos were legally operated, and the yamen issued a business license, which strictly ordered Liu Hua not to do anything wrong.
This is not Yangzhou. None of the constables in the yamen listened to Liu Hua. They don’t care whether you are of a rank or not. In the eyes of these constables, their identity is more noble than any rank.
The constables under his command were disobedient, so Liu Hua became the commander of the bare hands. The constables deliberately avoided Liu Hua in everything they did, and the officials in the prefect's office ignored Liu Hua. During the past few days in the prefect's office, Liu Hua felt like he was like air.
After staying for a few days, Liu Hua came up with several good ideas for governing the jurisdiction, such as implementing the classification policy of Yangzhou constables, serving the people with their own duties, or solving old cases and obtaining income through fines. However, these ideas were eventually rejected by Liu Chuan.
Seeing that Liu Hua's minds were emerging one after another all day, the prefect Liu Hua was worried that Liu Hua would cause trouble, so he didn't want Liu Hua to come to the yamen to do the job, but he couldn't expel Liu Hua openly, after all, Liu Hua was the chief constable sent by the court.
After thinking about it, Liu Chuan came up with an idea. He ordered the redecoration of the office house in the punishment and arresting room area and focus on the decoration of Liu Hua's office. According to Liu Chuan's instructions, the decoration team first dismantled the stoves in each room.
As soon as the stove was removed, people could no longer stay in the house. So during the renovation, all the constables went home to live. During the day, except for the on-duty staff, the rest of the constables did not need to go to the yamen to handle the matter.
As a result, Liu Hua's office was no longer in a daze. So he had to go home and have fun. However, more than a month later, the other houses were decorated, but the house used by Liu Hua's office had not been repaired yet. Seeing this, Liu Hua also understood Liu Chuan's intention.
I wanted to go to Liu Chuan, but it happened that Chen Jiaolin was sick because she was not adapted to the local conditions. In order to take care of Chen Jiaolin, Liu Hua had to give up the idea of going to go to Liu Chuan.
After Chen Jiaolin recovered from illness, Liu Hua was worried that her condition would recur, so he stayed by her side, told her stories to relieve her boredom, taught her to play cards and play mahjong. After a while, Liu Hua's fighting spirit gradually faded.
"Three with one, straight, four with two, one-on-eight, Ouye, spring is done, each person doubles and loses twice, give money, clear the accounts in one game, and don't pay any credit." Liu Hua happily queued the accounts while washing his homemade cards.
Opposite him, Chen Jiaolin and Mr. Zhang handed the copper plate to Liu Hua with some dissatisfaction: "You can't let us go a little? This landlord has been fighting for a day, and I haven't won a game. If I lose, my coffin will probably have to run into your wallet. Forget it, I still have to end it."
Seeing that Mr. Zhang wanted to leave, Liu Hua hurriedly advised, "Where is this? Let's have a few more games. If I win enough fifty cents today, I will invite you two to eat mutton tonight and fight with me for two more games, otherwise I will have to get sick.
When he came, Thirteenth Master said that Tuoheqi would lead troops back to Shengjing to train troops, so he asked me to keep an eye on it, but I have been here for more than two months, and Tuoheqi did not even show up. What kind of information did Thirteenth Master provide?"
After hearing Liu Hua's complaint, Mr. Zhang laughed and said, "How long has it been, you can't hold back. Since Heqi has brought troops here for training, he must go to the Ministry of War to submit an approval and file a record. After the Ministry of War passed the approval layer by layer and agreed to his training plan, he also had to dispatch military uniforms and food.
In this way, it will take about three months to arrive at Shengjing at the earliest. It has only been two months now. If you want to see the troops that are in charge, according to my calculations, you will have to wait at least one month."
"I have to wait for more than a month. How should I survive the rest of the days." After complaining, Liu Hua seemed to think of something: "By the way, Dad Zhang, I want to hire two maids to cook and wash clothes. Whose girl from nearby is willing to come out to do this? Where can I get better salary and better salary."
"Why do you remember to hire a maid?" Old Dad Zhang looked at Liu Hua in confusion.
After hearing this, Liu Hua said, "That's right. Isn't Jiaolin weak? During this period, in addition to drinking clean water with me and cooking noodles, she even had to eat with me. In the cold weather, she had to help me wash clothes. Only after she was sick did I realize that she owed so much.
I don’t know how long I have to stay here, so we can’t live like this in the future, right? That’s why I wanted to hire two maids. You are familiar with this place. Where can you hire a good child from a good family? As long as you know how to do laundry and cook, it doesn’t matter anything else.”
After hearing Liu Hua's words, Mr. Zhang pondered for a while, and then told Liu Hua: "That's right, then you go to the Baishanling Education and Management Camp to see. There are many female relatives there, all of whom are female relatives in the family of the criminals in the Guanwei. The head of the family committed crimes, and they were affected, so they were all implicated and exiled.
They knitting women, washing clothes, cooking, and housework, are all experts. As long as you take the approval from the local chief constable and pay a "premium" to the local tutors according to the number of employees, you can hire people. In fact, this so-called premium is to redeem money. Once the exiled personnel in the tutors are hired, they are equivalent to being the employer.
Chapter completed!