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Chapter Thirty-six Going for a meal

After leaving the morning court, it was almost midnight. The sky was completely bright outside. Bao Zheng, the governor of Kaifeng, left the palace from the right gate. He took a carriage and did not go to the street yamen to discuss the matter with Wang Hao, who was the chief of the yamen, but went directly to the Kaifeng yamen, and thought about it in his office.

In Bao Zheng's view, he was a prefect of Kaifeng from the third rank. If he wanted to seek the help of an eighth rank street chief, if he continued, his face would be lost and he would not have to be able to do this.

As a result, he spent a total of two hours from Chen to Noon to lock himself in his office for one morning. He racked his brains and thought hard, not only failed to find a solution, but also had no thoughts at all.

In desperation, Bao Zheng finally made a difficult decision, which was to go to the street yamen and push the arduous task assigned by the Zhao official family to Wang Hao to complete.

Anyway, after a few days of short time together, Bao Zheng believes that Wang Hao, a young man who is just in his prime, has a brain and ideas, otherwise he would not have been able to demolish all the illegal buildings in the streets and alleys of Tokyo in just a few days.

When he thought of demolishing illegal buildings, the deadline was the last deadline today. Bao Zheng was worried about finding an excuse before, but now he immediately thought of a legitimate reason.

Just after noon, Bao Zheng, who had not even used breakfast, had no lunch. He was hungry, dressed in regular clothes and rode a carriage to the yamen of the street department and headed straight to the office room of the street department's chief Wang Hao.

Bao Zheng was anxious and had no time to knock on the door, so he pushed open the door of the office room from outside, but found that Wang Hao was not in the office room, which meant that Bao Zheng was empty.

After standing outside the office for a long time, Bao Zheng met a street officer passing by. After inquiring, he learned that Wang Hao was having lunch with other street officers in the backyard.

As soon as Bao Zheng heard that he had no food to eat, he suddenly felt like a conditioned reflex, and his stomach was rumbling like a conditioned reflex, which made him feel a little dull in front of a street guard.

However, Bao Zheng still thanked the street officer who was asked, and then walked straight to the backyard of the street officer to see how the dishes were like for everyone who had just been in the restaurant for a few days.

After arriving at the backyard of the street department, Bao Zheng saw Wang Hao, wearing a green public uniform, sitting on the ground with dozens of street department officials on the empty ground in front of a row of dormitories, gathering together for meals.

Seeing Wang Hao talking and laughing with the street officials sitting together while eating the food in the bowl, he felt very envious.

Perhaps it is because Bao Zheng has a very serious personal impression on the weekdays and has a stern face in front of others. Since he took office as the prefect of Kaifeng, he has been a yamen runner, a constable, or even a clerk, who is obeying his advice when he is assigned a task, but in private, he keeps away from him.

At first, Bao Zheng didn't care about this strange and familiar relationship, but now, when he saw Wang Hao, who had just been appointed as the Secretary of the Street Department, had just been a few days ago, he felt a little sad.

When Bao Zheng walked quickly and walked in, he found that the dozens of street officials who were sitting on the ground with Wang Hao were sitting on the ground. The dishes in them were all made of cabbage stewed tofu, while in each of them they were holding one or two white masks.

Bao Zheng heard that the street officials had a meal a few days ago. He originally thought it was at least a combination of meat, vegetable and soup, but it surprised him. He felt that it was so hard for street officials to go around the streets and alleys to get the wind and sun on weekdays, and the food should be better, but the scene in front of him was pity.

What made Bao Zheng feel even more touched at this time was that although the observers of the street department were eating cabbage and stewed tofu, each of them almost had a satisfied smile on their cheeks, which may be in line with the old saying: Those who are content will always be happy.

At this time, Wang Hao sat in front of Bao Zheng after knocking. When Bao Zheng walked from the front yard to the back yard, Wang Hao kept turning his back to him. At first, he did not find Bao Zheng's existence.

Until Bao Zheng walked behind him, about less than ten feet away, after Zhang Sanmu, who was sitting opposite him, Bao Zheng put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hand, quickly stood up, turned around, and welcomed Bao Zheng's arrival.

"Xiaguan Street Chief, I don't know if the arrival of Kaifeng Yin Bao Daguan is wrong. I hope Bao Daguan will be forgiven!" Wang Hao, who was still scratching the oil on his mouth, quickly bowed his hand and said without having time to wipe it.

Bao Zheng, who was approaching, saw Wang Hao's oily mouth, was a little unlucky. He waved his hand and said indifferently: "Wang Sicheng, you and me are old acquaintances. There is no need to be so polite in private. I, Bao, will not go to the Three Treasures Hall without any trouble. If you have any important matters, I will discuss with Wang Sicheng. I wonder if Wang Sicheng is free at this time?!"

What Wang Hao never expected was that Bao Qingtian, who was standing in front of him, was almost tied with him. He immediately felt honored and flattered.

"I dare not, I dare not. The lower official is just a minor official of the eighth rank. How dare I not know the importance of the third rank officials? Besides, the upper official is over twenty years older than me, and I am also my elder. If the upper official does not dislike him, the lower official will call you "Bao Gong" like others in the future?!" Wang Hao did not dare to be negligent. He first refused and said respectfully.

Seeing Bao Zheng standing in front of him nodding, Wang Hao paused for a few moments before continuing to speak: "Bao Gong, if you can come to Wang's clear water yamen, even if you look down on me, Wang. Wang has always admired Bao Gong's character. As long as it is within the scope of Wang's ability, Wang must do his best to help."

On the way here, Bao Zheng thought that after he met Wang Hao, Wang Hao would refuse to give in before he could mention what was going on, but in the end it was beyond his expectations.

Not only did Wang Hao not refuse, he agreed without waiting for him to tell why he had come. At this time, Bao Zheng's view was that Wang Hao, a young man who was just in his prime, was very responsible and would definitely have great achievements in the future and would have a bright future on the road to retirement.
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