Chapter 10: Green smoke comes from the Li Family Ancestral Hall ()

Let’s talk about Li You taking the little girl home. I’ve been accustomed to being alone for so long, and there was a strange girl in the room. Li You felt strange.

Li You leaned on the chair, and the dirty little girl sat on a small stool with a small cloth bag in her arms. The two of them were facing each other with big eyes.

"What's your name?" Li You suddenly asked.

Seeing Li You open your mouth, the little girl lowered her head and replied, "I don't have a name."

"Then I'll give you a name. Look at you so thin, I'll call you Xiaozhu in the future." Li You said decisively.

"Yes, Mr. Xie."

"Go to the yard to wash your face! I'm cleaning up." Li You finally couldn't help but look at a little girl with a disheveled face and pointed to the big water tank in the yard.

"Yes, lord." Xiaozhu stood up and said.

Li You's bones were lighter when he called out twice, and he began to assign a task: "Master, I'm going to the yamen to handle the job. There are rice and vegetables in the east room. I can cook and cook at night and wait for me to come back to eat." There are only two rooms in his dilapidated yard, one on the west serves as a bedroom and living room, and the kitchen on the east is.

At dusk, Li You came back to see the courtyard. The house was cleaned and the food was cooked and placed on the table. He was very satisfied. The little girl washed it neatly and didn't look so sloppy. She probably became familiar with the environment and was no longer timid.

Li You put down the bowls and chopsticks, Xiaozhu took the teacup and poured water and handed it over, making Li You very comfortable. He considered paying her next time to buy her a decent dress, so that she would not be so ragged all over and lose her face in the Li family.

He added a mouth, and the salary for one or two taels of silver a month was very tight. Fortunately, the family gave him a few dou of rice from time to time, which could barely maintain. In order to improve the quality of life, he had to try to make some money. While Li You were thinking about it, he suddenly saw the little girl taking off her shoes and socks and crawling onto his bed, shouting in surprise: "What are you doing?"

Xiaozhu said silly and naively: "Listen to the uncle next door, he is a maid in the city and he has to sleep with the master at night..."

Li You stroked his forehead with his hand and sighed, "My family does not have this rule." It is because of this rule that he has no interest in this kind of bean sprout that is malnourished, dry, thin and shabby, and can only see with big eyes.

Finally, I put in two chairs and put on wooden boards to let Xiaozhu rest in the kitchen. Li You's budget expenditure was a little more: I needed a narrow bed and a set of gauze bills. I had a headache. The two items combined together were the worst, and I couldn't buy the worst.

If I really couldn't afford it, I would throw it home to serve my mother... Li You thought irresponsibly.

Li You's tax collection task has not been completed very well these days. Other servants are veterans who are levying heavy taxes and sucking bones and marrow. Li You's soul comes from new people in the 21st century who have never been accustomed to doing such things.

It is natural to collect the imperial grain and national taxes in the feudal dynasty, and the consequences of tax arrears are very serious. However, most of the families who owed taxes had some miserable experiences. Li You always refused to bear it and could not collect the money without using cruel means.

He could buy a small bamboo, but in the eyes of others, he saved the family by doing good deeds, but could he buy ten or a hundred small bamboos? Even the two gangs Zhang San and Li Si had some complaints, complaining that they would not make any profits with Li You.

Reality is always helpless. Li You habitually wants to escape from reality, and is not upset. But he is obsessed with a mission, so how can he escape just by saying that he is escaping? The big boards displayed in the court are not decorations. This has been experienced twice.

In distress, Li You asked Master Huang to complain.

After hearing this, Master Huang sighed: "The tyranny of the military service is known to everyone, so this dynasty stipulates that military service is not allowed to go to the countryside without any work. But he has to use it. If the food tax is not collected, what is the cost of the imperial court?"

"How about saving me and waive my tax errand?"

Master Huang had a plan and said to Li You: "Mr. Li can read and write."

Li You wanted to roll his eyes and thought to himself, "My Lord, my poems have spread all over the city, and you still ask me such questions, "Of course I will get some."

Master Huang smiled and said, "It's amazing, you can understand the truth after reading. The ancients really did not deceive me."

What was the old man saying? Li You was inexplicably so.

Master Huang said again: "I already have an idea. Miss Li will wait for the good news for now."

I understood this sentence, and Li Yougong bowed and stepped down.

Mr. Huang did not break his promise and reported to the county magistrate Chen, the county magistrate: Li You, the county magistrate, was grateful for the county's education. Recently, he has become more and more knowledgeable about his studies and has always maintained the hearts of benevolent people. He is very contrary to his original intentions and cannot bear to witness the hardships of the people. He can be exempted from the service and become a clerk in the six-room house to fully demonstrate his actions and encourage those who are aware of their progress.

Mr. Huang’s reason is really political and fantasy, which fully reflects the essence of “rule of man” in feudal society. You can do it, and it’s okay if you don’t. To put it bluntly, this means just one sentence: Li You is now half a cultural person, so it’s a bit of a waste of resources to be an employee, so it’s better to be a clerk than to be a clerk.

County Magistrate Chen judged: Accurate! You can be promoted to the Secretariat. Of course, formal officials must report to the court, but there was a vacant official in Xujiang County at this time, so Li You directly added it.

During the reporting period, Li You's identity changed from a yamen runner to a minor official, which is of course a very gratifying change. Although both yamen runners and minor officials are often called clerks, they are not entirely the same thing. yamen runners are rough people, cheap men, and markets. And yamen can be considered half a cultural person. Those who play with pens naturally have higher status than yamen runners, and their reputation is even more than yamen runners. Although they do not have much less quarrels than yamen runners.

Thinking back then... In the Han and Tang dynasties, examples of minor officials being promoted to high-ranking officials were not rare. It was not until the Song Dynasty that officials were divided and minor officials became the lower-class people who were declining from the lower-ranking officials.

What's more, when Chen Magistrate directly promoted Li You to the classics, he was no longer an ordinary clerk, but a leader among minor officials. Although he was still not a classic and had no official official title.

There are also reasons why Chen Magistrate Chen promoted Li You. Last time he was very happy to coax Mr. Zhu, which made Chen Magistrate Chen realize that although Li You can write poems is useless to govern the county and the people, he is welcomed by the officials to brag and spank, and when he meets a boss who pursues elegance, he can come in handy.

This is also a specialty, but if you are a lowly yamen runner, no matter how well you write the poem, you will not be able to get on the table. So County Magistrate Chen took this opportunity to transfer Li You to an official position and promoted it to a classics by the way, so he could also take advantage of it in the future when needed.

Li Youxiu fell from the sky, this is a classic history! Salary... It will be called salary in the future. The monthly system is three s of rice. In the current dynasty, one s of rice and two s of silver, which is almost three times the speed of the constable. Finally, I can afford a little girl, and Li You is very pleased.

He immediately went to Mr. Huang to express his gratitude, and said in a very obscure way that his master was alone in other places, and the Li family wanted to sponsor some living expenses. Mr. Huang scolded: "I want to attract you as a confidant, why don't I pay for these taels of silver?"

The good news came back to Xishui Town. After the Li family learned that Li You had become a dictionary, they bought five taels of silver incense. The fog was rolling in the ancestral hall. Some neighbors looked at it and said, "There is a smoke coming from the Li family's ancestral hall!"

It is Li You who doesn’t know the original intention of County Magistrate Chen, nor how many poems he has in his stomach that can be copied.
Chapter completed!