Chapter 253 Rumors
Xia Dalang is handsome and steady, and because he has experienced major changes one after another, his temperament is naturally different from others.
In addition, he studied very hard, had a good foundation, and had some talent, so he quickly won the love of most of his classmates and teachers in the academy.
Xia Dalang heard the same rumor from his classmates and teachers who were on good terms with him:
The new county magistrate of Jixiang County, Mr. Yang, has a little-known hobby:
His old man likes to build city walls.
So far, Lord Yang has served in six different counties, and served as a county magistrate for the longest period of three years and the shortest period of one year.
But the very interesting thing is that no matter how long he served as a county magistrate in a place, he would always conscript laborers to build city walls during his tenure.
Some people wondered if this was a new way to enrich himself. However, Lord Yang was not without political enemies, but his political enemies had never attacked him from this perspective.
It can be seen that although this is a well-known hobby, there is really not much room for making money here.
However, although he didn't know why Lord Yang had such a hobby, Xia Dalang heard that every time Lord Yang repaired the city wall, he would call on merchants to donate.
Even if you donate 10,000 taels, he won't think it's too much.
Even if you donate a hundred cents, he wouldn't think it's too little.
Some people say that since we have the silver donated by these merchants, can't we do with it as we please?
But Lord Yang has an open account. Every time he asks merchants to donate money for some reason, he has to make it clear where every penny was spent.
No matter what the situation is under the water, at least above the water surface, County Magistrate Yang has made it clear and explicit.
So that you can't catch anything.
Xia Daohua thought about it carefully and felt that this Lord Yang had some of the demeanor of a time traveler.
On second thought, why must one be a time traveler to come up with these ideas? Can't the natives come up with a few smart people?
Xia Daohua smiled self-deprecatingly and let the matter go.
She didn't feel bad about donating money and materials, nor did she have anything to worry about. Instead, she took this opportunity to see what was different between this Lord Yang and his predecessor, Lord Xie.
But after that, Lord Yang remained silent.
Xia Daohua thought that the rumor Xia Dalang told her was just a rumor.
At this time, notices were posted on the bulletin board outside the county government office and at the city gate, calling on merchants and wealthy families to donate money and materials, and to conscript civilians to build the city wall.
For this purpose, the county magistrate's wife, Mrs. Wang, specially organized another flower-viewing party.
Xia Daohua was also among the invited guests.
She couldn't help her curiosity and found an opportunity to ask Wang why the notice was posted now?
The answer was unexpected:
"A few days ago, it was the time to harvest wheat. If we conscript civilians, wouldn't it delay the farming season?"
While Xia Daohua was shocked, she also had a new understanding of the county magistrate and his wife - at least this couple was not the lazy and ignorant type.
If one has some understanding of people's livelihood and does not have any major character problems, one will not exploit them too much.
The ladies and young ladies who came to attend the flower-viewing banquet donated some jewelry and silver on the spot. Seeing this, Xia Daohua followed the crowd and donated twenty taels of silver and two pearl flowers.
The amount of snacks purchased by Yangji Teahouse from her "Daohuaxiang" far exceeded this number. Although Xia Daohua did not want to be in the spotlight, she was embarrassed to donate too little.
Fortunately, this number is quite normal among all the ladies and young ladies, not out of the ordinary at all.
The two pearl flowers were also given because she was afraid that the twenty taels of silver would be the least in the whole venue...
Xia Daohua doesn't usually like to wear jewelry, mainly because she thinks it's too heavy. But she likes to see other people wearing jewelry.
Pearl flowers and fresh flowers are both relatively light and convenient.
If it falls off, it is less likely to get into trouble as it does not have your name tag on it.
So, when she goes out on weekdays, she wears men's clothes if possible.
If all else fails, women can wear silk headbands.
Just occasionally wear one or two pearl flowers or small fresh flowers.
Xia Daohua will usually only wear decorations such as beads when attending formal occasions such as flower-viewing banquets.
This time, she only wore two pearl flowers and left them all on the spot.
Wang looked at Xia Daohua's bald hair and couldn't help but smile:
"You are such a simple-minded kid!"
Then he called his personal maid and brought a box of pearl flowers for the inner court:
"It's useless if I keep it here, so I might as well give it to you so you can wear it for fun every day!"
Xia Daohua blushed and politely declined twice. Wang pretended to be angry:
"A gift from an elder cannot be refused!"
The summer rice flowers have just been harvested.
Xia Daohua didn't think her performance was particularly outstanding, but it seemed that this was not the first time that Wang had shown her favor for her.
After returning from County Magistrate Yang's house, Xia Daohua couldn't help but think - what should she do to repay Wang's kindness?
Before Xia Daohua could come up with a proper solution, the county government's notice to recruit laborers had been posted all over the city.
There was chaos in every branch of the Xia family for a while.
This time when civilians were conscripted, none of the four branches of the Xia family, from the second to the fifth, could escape.
Because County Magistrate Yang particularly emphasized that unless there were extremely special circumstances, his subordinates would not be allowed to use the money for substitute labor, and people had to be sent to do the work.
The second house originally planned to send Sanlang, but was rejected, so Xia Yougui had to go himself - because it was Erlang who went last time, and this time Erlang refused to go again, and the official refused to accept Sanlang, so Xia Yougui had no choice but to go himself.
The third, fourth and fifth rooms were also visited in person by the brothers Xia Youxi, Xia Youtian and Xia Youliang.
Because Xia Daohua had a daughter living alone, she had to pay an extra fee for labor service.
Fortunately, the labor this time was just repairing the city wall, which was not particularly hard, and did not require sleeping in the open air - as long as they worked for five hours every day, they could still go home and sleep.
After much consideration, Xia Daohua decided to donate a batch of mung bean soup to the construction site.
In fact, she originally wanted to set up a stall to sell mung bean soup.
But looking at County Magistrate Yang's behavior, he always felt that if he really dared to do this, County Magistrate Yang might overturn his business...
Therefore, Xia Daohua wholeheartedly turned the transaction into a donation.
When County Magistrate Yang heard about this, he smiled at Xia Daohua.
Judging from the look on his face, if Xia Daohua was a young man, he would pat him on the shoulder!
Magistrate Yang secretly thought that Xia Daohua was returning the favor to his wife Wang.
If Xia Daohua knew what he was thinking, she would definitely say: This is a beautiful misunderstanding!
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