Chapter 14
Bao Qing was detained for nearly half a month and was finally released from the cell.
"Brother Bao, you are finally out." Bao Liuwen waited outside the prefecture government office early on, and saw Bao Qing coming out, and suddenly rushed into Bao Qing's arms.
"It's so good to be free! Sorry, Big Niu!" Bao Qing asked Zhu Daniu behind with a smile. This Zhu Daniu lost weight in prison.
Bao Qing looked up at the gate of the state yamen, and felt resentful in his heart, and couldn't help but curse: "Hmph, a bunch of birds, don't be proud. One day, I, Bao Qing, will find this place."
"Brother Bao, what do birdmen and venue mean?" Bao Liuwen asked curiously.
Bao Qing was happy after hearing this. He was about to explain, but a yamen runner rushed out of the yamen.
Bao Qing was shocked. He could hear him cursing at such a distance? He was about to come out, would he have to detain himself again?
"Bao Xiucai, please stay. No, Bao County Magistrate, stay stay. There is a document from the Ministry of Personnel." The yamen runs to Bao Qing and bows his head respectfully and says.
"What? Bao County Magistrate? What does it mean?" Bao Qing thought there was something wrong with his ears.
"Congratulations to Lord Bao, the official documents of the Ministry of Personnel have arrived at the prefecture yamen. You will be appointed as the county lieutenant. Now, Lord Dong asked me to inform you that you can go to the yamen to collect official documents and official uniforms and take office." The yamen runner looked at Bao Qing with anticipation.
Bao Qing was a human being for two lifetimes, so how could he not know that he waved his hand and shouted, "Big Niu, I will give me a reward."
The yamen runner received a reward of money, but he was very happy. This was his two-month salary. He quickly guided Bao Qing with great diligence.
Bao Qing walked in the prefecture yamen and felt extremely happy. He dreamed of being a civil servant in his previous life, but he didn't expect that he would go back to the Song Dynasty and jail and turned around and become a county lieutenant. By the way, he forgot to ask the county lieutenant what rank he was and what he did.
After Bao Qing finished all the procedures, he was invited to the back hall of the state yamen. An official with a slightly white temple and a dark complexion, about fifty years old, sat upright on the chair in the center of the upper head.
"Sit down, Bao Qing! I am Dong Guangxiao whom I hate." The official said.
Bao Qing was not polite, and did not show his respect, and sat down: "You are even more annoying than I imagined. I didn't bow. I don't think you would blame me. I would be compensated for my jail time."
"You are really similar to your father. Actually, I used to be like this. When I entered the officialdom, people would change. This is a big dye vat. I came to you, not to talk nonsense, nor to teach you a lesson. This time you took up the position of Changyuan County County and was supported by Master Lu. I am also Master Lu, so we both are our own people in general!"
"Who is your own person with you!" Bao Qing looked down upon him, but he was still a little happy when he thought that he was going to Changyuan County to become an official.
Dong Guangxiao smiled and said, "You don't need to say much, wait until I finish my speech. You are a small county lieutenant, and I, Mr. Dong, don't take it seriously. I just want to remind you that it is difficult to be a county lieutenant in Changyuan County. Three county lieutenants died within ten years, and one county lieutenant resigned with his seal. Bao Hong pretended to be stupid all day long to be a county magistrate who had been safe and stable for so many years. Master Lu put you there as a county lieutenant, probably because he had a great intention. Finally, I will tell you one more thing, this summer is coming, and the dam breaks every year in Changyuan County, Nanfei River."
"I'm done? Then can I leave?" Bao Qing pretended to be relaxed, but in fact he had a cold sweat. He was not asking him to be an official, but he was asked to die. Three county magistrates died in ten years, and one of them must have discovered some great secrets.
"Don't you see Yanran? For you, she almost turned against me, a father!"
"No! What's the matter with peace!"
"Okay, it's very good, it's as ungrateful as me." Dong Guangxiao waved his hand and signaled Bao Qing to leave.
After Bao Qing left the state yamen, he dragged Bao Liuwen and Zhu Daniu straight to the dock.
"Brother Bao, what's wrong? I'm so anxious to go back to take office! By the way, where are you going to take office?" Bao Liuwen said with a smile.
"That's it! Brother Bao, I will be your master in the future." Zhu Daniu was very excited.
"You are the master, you are almost the same as a chef, you know how to eat." Bao Liuwen quipped.
"What's wrong, Brother Bao? Are you thinking?" Bao Liuwen looked at Bao Qing's eyebrows frowned, as if there was a problem that could not be solved.
"I want to rush back to ask your father, by the way, do you know the former county magistrate in your yamen?"
"Ah! You went to our county lieutenant? I heard from my father that several county lieutenants in our county died, and they were all assassinated. Didn't it mean that when serving as local officials, they had to avoid their hometown location? How could you serve as a county lieutenant in Changyuan County?" Bao Liuwen said.
"It seems that this official cannot be regarded as a person." Bao Qing thought of going back and revoking his official uniform and seal immediately.
Seeing this, Bao Liuwen hurriedly stopped him and said, "No, he resigned from office and refused to do it in less than two years. This is a serious crime of despising the court! Brother Bao, it doesn't matter if we become this county lieutenant. We don't care about anything. We just live like this. Wouldn't we be peaceful? Haha, this is what my father told me. That's what he did."
Bao Qing suddenly realized that the magistrate Bao was hiding deeply enough. At that time, he thought he was a confused county magistrate, but he turned out to be pretending.
"Brother Bao, there is something I didn't tell you. Do you know who I met in prison?" Bao Liuwen said mysteriously.
"You have acquaintances in your prison? Are there friends who work as jailers in your cell?"
"No, it's locked next door to me, the tall woman who is performing her skills."
"What? What do you do to keep her from doing?" Bao Qing was shocked. Dong Guangxiao's brain was in trouble. It would be fine if he refused to marry his daughter to him, but he even detained his goddess.
"I know you are nervous about this woman, don't forget that this woman may be a thief."
"Does the thief still need to perform their skills? Just think about it, a good person has been wronged again, just like we were locked up for no reason. The world is too dark, and we need to save those in distress!" Bao Qing said.
"I'm still saving you. I think you don't call him Bao Qing in the future. Forget it if you change your name to Bao Zheng. I know, you just fall in love with this tall woman."
Bao Qing heard Bao Zheng at first, and his spine was a little chilling. This was not a joke, as if the wheel of history was pushing him forward. "Even if you like him, you, a little girl, can't help your elder brother."
"Hmph, you don't look at such a beautiful little girl, but you actually like that tall man. I really don't know what you think." Bao Liuwen pouted and turned her head.
Bao Qing pulled Bao Liuwen and turned back to the government office. The yamen runner who had received the reward had seen the Bao County Magistrate come again, and hurried over happily.
"Take me to the prison cell of the government office!" Bao Qing said.
"Ah? This requires Captain Dong to agree!"
"You take me out of the door of the female cell and I'll go in by myself."
Bao Qing brought Bao Liuwen and Zhu Daniu to the door of the cell, and a fat female prisoner frowned and came to talk.
"The prison visit requires a warrant, so Captain Dong..." Before the female prisoner could finish speaking, Bao Qing took out ten coins of money, stuffed it in, and broke in directly.
"Are you dead? Get up quickly, someone will come to see you." A prison guard knocked on the door of the cell and shouted.
Bao Qing quickly glared at the prison guard, let Daniu lose all his money, and then shouted to the prison: "Zhan Fang, is it you?"
"Are you?" Zhan Fang slowly approached the prison door and looked sideways. He turned out to be the young master who rewarded him with ten thousand trump cards, but he couldn't remember the other person's name any more.
"Bao Qing, we have seen you when you were performing!" Bao Qing said quickly.
"Bun's bread, blue sky! It turns out it's you, me, isn't it ugly like this?" Zhan Fang asked.
Bao Liuwen, who was watching from the side, couldn't stand it anymore and shouted loudly: "Hey, you still have the mood to care about whether you look ugly or not. Don't waste time, quickly tell me Brother Bao, how did you get locked up. My Brother Bao is an official now, and maybe you can save you!"
When Zhan Fang heard that Bao Qing was an official, he immediately knelt down and said, "Mr. Bao, it's unfair. They said that my senior brother and I were great thieves in Jiangyang, and the murderer who killed the Lu family in the east of the city."
"What? Get up quickly and say it slowly!" Bao Qing felt very distressed when he looked at Zhan Fang with tears in his eyes.
After about half an hour, Bao Qing slowly realized that the city gate was closed that day to capture the murderer. What was hateful was that the murderer failed to catch it and actually asked Zhan Fang and the others to be scapegoats. The so-called evidence was that Zhan Fang and the others hid weapons, but each of the weapons had certificates issued by the county government. Zhan Fang and the others' Lu Yin were confiscated by the hateful Captain Dong.
Zhan Fang and the others were from Zhanjiazhuang, Mizhou. The one who spoke harshly to Bao Qing that day was Zhan Fang's senior brother Zhan Qing. This time, in addition to Zhan Qing escaping, the three senior brothers and Zhan Fang were arrested together. It was precisely because Zhan Fang and the others were from Mizhou that the recent news that the horses in Mizhou were circulating everywhere. I was afraid that Captain Dong was so happy that he wanted to solve the case that he arrested Zhan Fang and the others as the murderers of the Lu family's family destruction case.
"Then is there a trial?" Bao Qing frowned.
"No, I got the document a few days ago and forced me to write it out." Zhan Fang shook her head and said.
"Okay, you feel wronged first, I will be with you!" Bao Qing waved to the prison guard next to him, and threw out ten coins of money. "Take good care, you will be indispensable!"
The prison guard saw that there were ten coins of money, so he nodded and said yes.
Chapter completed!