Chapter 24: The East Wind Blows the War Drum

When Li You opened his eyes again, it was bright and he had already fainted for a night. There was no beautiful lady or pretty maid in his eyes, but only a teenage servant with a snot in his nose.

"Mr. Li is awake!" The servant ran out to report.

Li You sat up with a split headache and looked at his place. It was just a simple bedroom with furnishings.

There were three people coming in, a middle-aged man and woman in front. The man looked tall and mighty, and the woman only looked normal. It seemed to be a couple, and a maid behind her was holding a pot of soup.

"Hello Li Dianshi?" said the middle-aged man.

Seeing that he looked familiar, Li You remembered it after thinking for a moment. He saw it yesterday. One of the three inspectors in this county should be named Liu.

After all, he is a ninth-rank official. Li You struggled to get out of bed and greet him. Because he is the lowest-level military officer, there is no need to kowtow. "Is the minor official rescued by Lord Liu last night?"

"That's right." Liu inspector Liu said.

It turned out that the territory where inspector Liu was responsible for was along the Taihu Lake in the western part of the county and the water surface of Taihu Lake. It was named Xishui Inspection Office, and its headquarters was in Xishui Town. Therefore, most of the soldiers he ordered were familiar with the water nature. Last night, inspector Liu took the unconscious Li You back to his home in the county.

"Thank you, the little official, and remember the great kindness and virtue in my heart." Li You thanked politely.

Inspection Officer Liu said: "There is no small matter. Ling Zun is the head of Li Ban? I know you too. You should regard you as a junior. You don't need to thank you for your thrift."

So kind? I feel like I'm catching up with relatives and reminiscing about the past. Li You was very strange. He was a ninth-rank official with hundreds of soldiers under him. He was also a truly powerful figure on the ground of Xujiang County. He had no choice but to find a place for himself as a minor official. Why was he so approachable? It was very strange.

As he spoke, the maid next to him put the soup on it. When he approached, he realized that the maid was extremely tall and almost equal to Li You. You must know that Li You is also considered tall among men.

With such a tall figure and a normal appearance, why do you feel like a model in later generations? Li You muttered to himself, and couldn't help but take a few more glances, but saw the maid's face turned red and she hid out. I don't know what she was ashamed of.

Li You hurriedly drank a bowl of soup, then bid farewell to Inspection Liu, thanked him again and again, and then went straight to the county government office.

After walking around the yamen, neither the master nor the master Huang came out to take charge of the matter, and Li You took leave and returned to Xishui Town.

Why go home? Is there anything else? Li You humiliated both Yan Xiucai and Mr. Yan and his son. Although he was not afraid, he still asked his father to have an idea. After all, his father has been a leader for many years and is familiar with the world. Moreover, after humiliating Mr. Yan, he involved the problem at the family level. It would be better to go back and tell him.

In fact, Li You felt that he had always been very passive. Yan Xiucai gave him eye medicine twice in the magistrate. Master Yan provoked in front of Shangshu Lu and celebrities in the city at the banquet. He really believed in his fame and honor, and looked down on him as a clerk, so he did the action.

Li You entered the house and ran into his brother Li Zuo in the vestibule. Li Zuo grabbed Li You and said, "You are here well! Brother is looking for you if you have something to do!"

"Brother has something to say, but he says."

Li Zuo said: "Don't the waiter writes poems? How about writing a poem for our own inn? Brother, I have a long face to attract business."

The brothers have a good relationship, and Li You said politely: "Your wild shop, you can build a few big shops that cost ten cents a night, raise a few inferior powder heads that cost twenty cents a day, and make some rough meals. The ones come and go, either cool laborers or servants. My brother thinks that lying on my younger brother's poems can make you look good? My younger brother is embarrassed!"

Li Zuo complained, "Waiter, you have a great reputation in the city. Brother, I am very happy, so I want to borrow it. But after looking at it, it is useless for the family business. You are not a scholar, and you don't know if you can use this reputation as a meal."

"You brainless person knows what you know! Don't you get out and see the store!" Li's father suddenly appeared at the door of the main hall, scolding Li Zuo and ran away with his head. However, Li's father was very kind to Li You: "What's wrong with the waiter coming back?"

Li You quickly stepped forward to pay homage to his father and helped him into the hall to sit down. Then he talked about the grudge between himself and his father and son of the Yan family and said, "What should I do if my son messed with the Yan family?"

Li's father frowned and his fingers beat the armrest of the chair rhythmically, which seemed to be thinking hard. After a long time, he said, "These things... Although you are reckless, you don't blame me. The Yan family also bullies people too much and even denounces you in front of Lu Shangshu. Now the talented name is the foundation of your life. Although it cannot be changed, it can also socialize with officials, gentry and men, which has many benefits. If you lose your reputation, it will be even more difficult to make up for it in the future. My family's disciples have only a little bit of reputation. You should cherish it and benefit your descendants."

After hearing the words of disciples from all generations and benefiting their descendants, Li You felt his father's high hopes for him.

Father Li said again: "As for the Yan family, although there are two generations of fame, no one is an official at home, and you have a magistrate valued it, so you don't have to be too afraid. Next to the village of your uncle's family is the Yan family's village. These gentry, the man can't move easily, but the servants must have illegal things, just look at whether they have the heart to search for it. When I send someone to visit, I will find some good articles to do it."

Li You said cautiously: "Although no one in the Yan family is an official, the father and son have many classmates in the same year, and it is difficult for scholars to form cliques in groups."

"Let's try it. Although scholars are powerful, they have many shortcomings that are easy to be grasped." Li's father said to him and ordered his servant Yi Ge, "Go to the shop and invite the Wang brothers."

Li You also vaguely understood the Wang brothers. When his father was the headmaster of the fast class, he had two murderers under his command, specializing in doing shameful and vicious things, and even killed people.

After his father returned home to recuperate when he was old, the two brothers had no shelter and then withdrew from the county town. When he was idle, he sat in his brother's store to watch the scene. His father distributed the shares of the inn to the two brothers and bought five acres of food fields for them each. The two of them were devoted to their father.

Soon, the Wang brothers came into the room. Both of them had big faces, wide mouths, medium body, thick and powerful. They had seen Li's father and Li You, so they decided to follow the instructions.

Li's father explained the matter, but the Wang brothers didn't say much and agreed to leave.

The Li family did not mention it, but said that Yan Xiucai was getting more and more angry when he heard that his father was slapped by Li You again. He thought that Li You had the support of the magistrate, but it was really difficult to fiddle with. He failed repeatedly, but instead made his father and son lose all his face. The methods of exposing themselves were difficult to achieve, so he had to think of another way.

The scholar rebelled for three years. Yan Xiucai was just a good student and took exams. He could not think of any harmful ideas. The two gossips he made was already his IQ limit. He had no idea for a moment, and the lady in the room thought of Li You, and was very upset, so he sat in the hall and sighed.

The Yan family also has some business shops outside, and they use a few managers to take care of them. One of them happened to come to the house to make a reconciliation today. When he saw the eldest young master sitting in the hall and was worried and intended to please him, he asked about the matter. Yan Xiucai said it all the time.

"The little thief is extremely hateful!" Manager Fang had been walking in the market for a long time, so he naturally had more thoughts than Yan Xiucai. After thinking about it, he said: "Now he has the protection of the magistrate and his master. He is also cunning. He can do anything easily with some verbal things. He must find real shortcomings to be easier."

Yan Xiucai said: "How can he hold on to his shortcomings in the county government all day long?"

"So I need to lead him out and create some handles." Manager Fang nodded and said, "I have a fellow villager who works in the yamen. After I win over it, I will make a plan and come up with an idea."

Yan Xiucai said with some doubts: "Then Li You are also from a yamen runner for generations. The Li family is familiar with those yamen runners and officials. I am afraid this will not happen."

"A fellow villager, I am generous and righteous on the surface, but I love money very much in my heart. He can save it for 20 or 30 taels, and his relatives refuse to recognize him." Manager Fang was very confident.

In this way, the clerk Li family and the gentry Yan family carried out actions almost at the same time, not knowing what kind of collision would occur.
Chapter completed!