Chapter 2 Chapter 2 The cold room has no temperature,...

The cold room had no temperature, and the faint sound of roosters crowing could be heard outside.

Hezhou blinked his dry eyes, feeling an indescribable feeling in his heart, as if there was a hint of joy.

He was secretly glad that there was someone similar to him in this strange world, so it didn't seem to matter if the conditions were a little difficult.

He wrapped the quilt around him considerately and smiled faintly, "It's okay, actually I..."

"for you."

The slender hands held a purse with the red drawstring lying on one side. The blue purse exuded a faint woody fragrance.

Their words collided, and Xie Xunzhi was stunned for a moment and looked at him with pursed lips.

Hezhou scratched his hair and felt embarrassed. "You keep it. I'm a poor scholar and don't have much concept of money. By the way, are you going to look for your family? I'll go with you. Do you have any memories?"

Xie Xunzhi didn't insist and placed the purse on the bedside. He shook his head and spoke softly, "I only remember a field of fiery red flowers where I lived. I can't remember the names of anything else. Money! Brother He, keep it. I see the medicine on the table looks like it was picked for me."

"It's okay. The medicine only cost two pieces of silver."

As soon as Hezhou finished speaking, he felt that Xie Xunzhi's eyes changed for a moment, and there was a look in his eyes as if he was looking at a fool. He shrank his neck in confusion.

"Brother He is really wealthy. I'm afraid he still has quite a bit of wealth."

He took out a dry purse from his bosom and poured the money inside onto the side of the bed. Two pieces of silver and a few copper coins rolled out.

Xie Xunzhi felt his eyes go dark, and for the first time he regretted his decision to stay. He slowly breathed a sigh of relief, "Brother He, if you're relieved, why don't you let me manage the money? I can keep the account book every day."

"No, no, I... am not very clear about the conversion rate of silver. My family didn't have that much money before... I believe Brother Xie." Hezhou probably knew that he was cheated again.

In fact, he had been cheated in the first few days after he arrived. When he paid for something, he didn't know how much to pay and just took what he felt like. As a result, he had very little money left in a few days.

For this purpose, he even found an accountant to teach him. However, he only heard some information about how much one tael was equal to, and he knew nothing about it and spent a lot of money.

"So, Brother Xie, are you still going to look for your family? I'll go with you."

Xie Xunzhi shook his head and said with a hint of loneliness, "Brother He, you asked me to get better. I am not fully recovered yet and I may not be able to leave for a while. Besides, Brother He is an official and there is no way he can leave."

"Yeah, or that... Xunzhi is still thoughtful." Hezhou supported his head and couldn't say he was disappointed. It was strange that after he knew that Xie Xunzhi had lost his memory, he always had an inexplicable good impression of him.

It was like catching a piece of fragile duckweed on the drifting sea. I didn't feel like an outlier. Both of us were outsiders excluded from the small county.

"Brother He, what are you going to do next?"

He couldn't see Xie Xunzhi's expression, but he felt a little sleepy. He yawned and said, "I thought they didn't like me, but it's okay. I can just bear with it. Anyway, I'll get my money when the time comes. Xunzhi, you don't have to be polite, just call me Hezhou."

A soft laugh came from above his head. Xie Xunzhi lowered his head with a cunning look in his eyes. He was not annoying, but rather like a kitten with bared fangs and claws, tempting people.

"Hezhou, why don't you... move those old things out and put them in front of the county government office? People will naturally come to the auction to look for them."

Hezhou became interested when he heard this. He looked up at him with a smile on his face. His eyes lit up and he couldn't wait to ask, "What if they said that they confiscated public property and didn't allow us to buy it?"

Xie Xunzhi also laughed. "That's easier to handle. What's the date for the case? If it's over, it will still be auctioned. If someone says it's on loan, how can we pay the official garden rental fee and prove it's his? There's no need to be too extreme. Just clean up the main house and knock it down."

"Is it possible?" Hezhou became excited instantly.

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Hezhou couldn't sleep at all in the second half of the night. Even when Xie Xunzhi was writing the price notice, he was still walking around in circles.

As soon as the sky outside brightened, Hezhou couldn't wait to move the things in the house out, because Xie Xunzhi was not well yet.

He picked out some small items that he could move, such as a mahogany chair, a celadon vase, a small dressing table, a bronze mirror, and a recliner.

He didn't miss any small items and opened all the cabinets. He probably moved in in such a hurry that he didn't take anything out.

There is also a round disc of skin care cream hidden in the dressing table. It looks like it has just been unpacked. As soon as you open it, the fragrance hits your nose, and it feels slippery and fragrant when you apply it on your hands.

He thought it was suitable for Xie Xunzhi. When he brought the man back yesterday, he saw that the man had many small wounds on his hands. Maybe this could come in handy.

After struggling to move the things to the front of the yamen, he remembered one thing: he couldn't write the characters of that era.

When Hezhou passed by the front hall, he saw rice paper and ink brushes on the table. He held the thick brush and scratched his ears and cheeks, not knowing what to do.

After writing a few words back and forth, I ended up getting ink everywhere.

When Xie Xunzhi arrived, he saw Hezhou sitting cross-legged in front of the desk with his head down, looking like he had a headache. When he looked up, he looked even funnier, with four black fingerprints on his cheek.

"Brother He, you'd better behave yourself in front of the government office."

Hezhou jumped down without caring about his image, and took out the skin care cream hidden in his arms like a treasure. "Xunzhi, I found it in the cabinet. It smells so good. It's a hand cream."

Xie Xunzhi looked at the round box for a long time, and a smile appeared on his lips. "Why would I use a girl's perfume? It looks like it's new. It seems I was right."

"What? So the one who tripped me was a girl?" Hezhou blinked.

"No, the box is brand new, and the things inside are good too. The things were just moved in to give you a heads-up." Xie Xunzhi stared at the rice paper on the table.

Xie Xunzhi smiled and looked at the table, then reached out to pick up the rice paper. As soon as he picked it up, it broke in the middle along with the ink. Hezhou used too much force when writing and the ink went through it, or maybe the rice paper itself was not very good.

only……

He looked at Hezhou who turned the ink pen to take off, and was puzzled for a moment, "You can't even recognize the characters now?"

"Hehehe." Hezhou smiled embarrassedly, "Just a little bit."

Xie Xunzhi sighed, took the brush from Hezhou's hand, and began to write. "Tell me what's out there."

"Got it! Xunzhi, your handwriting is really beautiful..."

After writing the word "Hezhou", he praised Xie Xunzhi for a while, then pushed him back to the inner room and sat on the recliner outside waiting for someone to come. During this time, he ran in once and saw that Xie Xunzhi didn't know what he was writing. He only saw the word "He" written by himself.

But what bad thing could it be if it was on the table? He didn't care and picked up the teapot on the table and ran out again. Halfway through his run, he came back.

When Xie Xunzhi saw him coming back, he subconsciously blocked the rice paper on the table, but it was only for a moment, and then he let go naturally.

"What's wrong, Brother He?"

Hezhou leaned against the doorway, hugging the teapot, a worried look on his face. "Xunzhi, what if no one comes to buy?"

"Nothing, the room is now vacated. I've seen the furniture here and it's considered good stuff. Some people would feel bad if it was left here for too long."

Hezhou thought about it and realized that this was the truth. He turned around and ran out happily. Xie Xunzhi looked at his back, breathed a sigh of relief, and continued writing.

When Ading and Ajia arrived, they were both startled and began to stutter. "Sir... what are you doing?"

The two tried to move the things but were stopped by him. At this moment, he still had the dazed look as before, standing there with a gloomy face, giving off an awe-inspiring aura.

His tall body pressed against them, his eyes filled with contempt, "What are you doing?"

Ajia let go of his hand and smiled, "Sir, these are all public property. Why are you moving them out and putting a price on them?"

"Public property?" Hezhou also laughed and continued, "Was it handed over voluntarily by the people, or was it seized? Is there a note from the government?"

"No... no... sir, this is temporarily placed here by the people."

"It's here! Didn't the notice for my coming just come down? Are you asking me to write a letter and ask what went wrong, that the borrowed items were actually placed in the official's main room?"

Hezhou's voice was cold and hard, and his thin lips were pressed into a straight line.

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Ajia quickly shook his head, sweat running down his temples. "No, no, it's just that Ading and I have bad memories. These are all outdated public property."

"Yes, yes, yes. I had been thinking about how to deal with it before, which delayed the adults' business. It was the adults who were smart enough to come up with an idea."

Hezhou sat down again, his eyes raised as he poured himself a glass of water calmly, "That would be best."

Ajia and Ading looked at each other and whispered.

"I feel like he's a different person. He wasn't like this yesterday."

The yamen was next to the county's vegetable market, and there were quite a few passersby. Word of this spread quickly, and suddenly a lot of people gathered at the door.

Everyone who sees the price will clap and say it’s so cheap!

Even so, no one dared to step forward. There were a few ignorant people who wanted to step forward, but they were pulled back by people nearby.

Hezhou was not in a hurry. He sat slowly on the recliner, holding a book he couldn't understand to block the sun.

Not a single item was sold until noon, and the people who had gathered dispersed, and the front of the yamen returned to its previous deserted state.

He patted his face, stood up, stretched his neck, and walked in the direction of the crowd buying vegetables.

The reason why Qilan County was classified as a county is because of its large area, but in fact the people here are not rich. Apart from the people who come out to buy vegetables early in the morning, there are very few people on the street.

The vendors on both sides were holding their lunch boxes and discussing the market today, and they casually complained, "If things continue like this, I will have to go home and farm."

"Come on, the recent natural and man-made disasters haven't yielded as much as we have now."

Hezhou took note of their words. He majored in agronomy and thought he might be able to gain a foothold here. When he reached the door of the hotel, he deliberately looked back.

Ading was indeed following behind him, wrapped up with only his eyes left, as if he was afraid that he was being followed.

"Boss, give me some light dishes to take away." Hezhou walked into the inn.

The inn fell silent for a moment. The waiter stared at him and smiled, "It's you, Mr. Guan. Tsk~ What a coincidence! We're out of vegetarian dishes."

"Meat dishes are fine too, but don't make it spicy."

The waiter laughed dryly and said, "Sorry, sir, we've sold out of everything we ordered today!"

"Wow! Business is so good?" Hezhou raised an eyebrow and sneered, then threw the county magistrate's badge on the table. "The warehouse is just cleared out, so how about we check the taxes?"

"ah?"

The waiter exclaimed softly, his eyes flickering as he turned to Ading at the door, saying in a flattering tone, "Sir, we're just a small shop. Business was not good before, and the government exempted us from taxes a long time ago."

Hezhou sneered and looked outside. "Really? Bring the bill and you'll know. I'll check every household! Every household! Check the records on the bill."

"I remembered! The kitchen still has a portion of fresh vegetables I bought this morning. My Lord must be tired after a day's work, so I asked the kitchen to make some. After you're full, we can talk about business!"

Hezhou smiled and nodded, "Well, don't forget to pack."

"Okay!"

This matter was raised high and then dropped lightly. The spectators around were already used to it. The waiter just now kept winking at Ading.

This is completely different from what they talked about yesterday! This one is not a pushover, this one is a living ancestor!