The attack on the tea garden obviously shocked the bureau. This incident was no less than a gangster rushing into the police station to cause trouble. It was completely arrogant and provocative, which made the leader furious. Although the fat yellow man and the thin black man shouted that they were wronged and insisted that they did not know that the Observation Bureau had newly recruited human employees, this did not extinguish the anger of the monsters in the Observation Department.

Director Hu angrily accused the Observation Department of dereliction of duty and ordered Director Miao to put aside other work and quickly arrest the fugitive white-bearded prisoner, otherwise he would be the only one to be held responsible.

Chu Zhishui also received a condolence call from Director Hu in the evening. She didn't know who the strange number was at first, but she recognized Director Hu's voice after answering the call. Hu Chenrui first apologized guiltily, then asked about her well-being in a friendly manner, promised to give her an explanation, and finally repeatedly hinted that she should not resign, which was similar to what Hong Ximing said during the day.

"Director Hu, it's okay. Actually, I'm fine..." Chu Zhishui held the phone in one hand and pinched the sheet pendant with the other hand, and whispered, "Everyone came very quickly."

"Okay, okay, I'm glad you're okay. Don't let this matter alienate you from us. Most monsters are not like that."

Chu Zhishui smiled and said, "Yes, I know. Don't worry. I won't resign."

"That's fine. You should go to bed early and I won't disturb you."

"Director Hu, you should go to bed early too."

Chu Zhishui hung up the phone after the greeting. She first saved Hu Chenrui's phone number, then began to rummage through the jewelry box at hand, took out a thin silver chain, and strung the sheet pendant into a necklace. The ink-blue pendant shone brightly under the light, and its color was similar to the paper umbrella that Xin Yunmao brought today, except that it had an extra layer of smooth enamel on the surface.

She packed up her things, looked at the tea garden information for a while, then said goodnight to her parents and went to sleep.

After the rain, the clouds were light and the warm breeze blew, making people feel relaxed and refreshed.

Although what happened yesterday was thrilling, Chu Zhishui slept well at night. She drove to the bureau as usual, and as soon as she got out of the car, she saw a dark shadow in the bushes and a tail swinging flexibly.

"Mimi?"

The white-clawed black cat poked its head out from the leaves and looked at her with its clear golden eyes.

Chu Zhishui often encounters the black cat in the morning. Most of the time, she calls it from a distance. Occasionally, feeding it fish and shrimp can attract it. However, the black cat takes the food and walks away, basically not letting her get close to it.

Stray cats are all smart and wild. Chu Zhishui has never forced the cat to rub it, allowing it to frequently eat and come and go freely.

The first time she saw the black cat before she took the lunch box, she was naturally surprised and simply squatted down: "Are you waiting for me?"

"Meow."

The black cat walked over gracefully, rubbed around her affectionately, and even used its naughty tail to circle her wrist, changing its usual decisiveness of running away after eating fish.

Chu Zhishui was pampered and touched the cat's head, feeling the unprecedented enthusiasm and thoughtfulness of the black cat, and stroking its warm and soft body. She squatted and stroked the cat, but she had an illusion that it seemed to want to comfort herself and had been waiting here for a long time.

"No, I have to go, it's almost time..."

Chu Zhishui glanced at the time and found that she could not indulge herself any more, so she got up and prepared to go to work.

"Meow--"

The black cat said goodbye to her and disappeared into the grass.

In the Economic Development Department, it was not yet eight o'clock when Chu Zhishui entered the room. Jin Yu had not shown up yet, only Xin Yunmao in black. She found that this monster preferred to wear dark clothes, the style and details were different, but the main color was ink.

After the tea garden was attacked, another thing changed, that is, the Berlin Wall of the Economic Development Department fell, and the man and the monster ended the cold war and resumed normal communication.

Chu Zhishui put down her bag while taking the initiative to greet people: "Good morning."

Just as Xin Yunmao was about to reply, he suddenly frowned and looked at her suspiciously: "Who did you meet just now?"

"Who could I meet?" Chu Zhishui was at a loss, "I'm the only one in the bureau."

"No." Xin Yunmao stood up and moved closer to her, his eyes moving back and forth, his tone very affirmative, "There is a smell."

"What smell?" Seeing that he was suspicious, Chu Zhishui simply picked up a strand of hair, put it to her nose and sniffed it. There was only the fragrance of shampoo, "I took a shower after being caught in the rain yesterday..."

"It doesn't smell good."

"..."

He has so many problems. He even complains about such things and is picky about the smell of other people's shampoo.

"Why do you have to care about this?" Chu Zhishui complained, "You wear black clothes every day and you have the nerve to say that to me?"

Xin Yunmao ignored her remark. He stretched out his hand and lightly snapped his fingers. His cold expression relaxed: "It's much better now."

Chu Zhishui didn't know what he did. She didn't feel any changes. Her hair was still stained with fragrance. She casually pushed it aside: "It's inexplicable."

Xin Yunmao was about to sit back, but when he lowered his head, he was dazzled by the faint light. It was a thin silver chain, which was almost invisible on her clean neck. Only the sunlight made it sparkle.

He stretched out two fingers and lightly picked it up without touching her skin. He hooked out the familiar sheet-shaped pendant and hung it on the silver chain, shining.

Xin Yunmao was startled: "So she's wearing it."

The pendant was soaked in her body temperature, and the warmth slowly invaded his fingertips.

Chu Zhishui directly pulled back the pendant and said lightly: "Pay attention, it's almost eight o'clock."

According to the agreement between the two parties, she is the leader of the department during working hours, and she can't talk nonsense or be disrespectful.

Xin Yunmao didn't comment. He didn't return to his seat, but went out for a walk. In less than a minute, he came back and changed into a light-colored top. The texture of cotton and linen, with a little green, is no longer dark, and the temperament is much gentler.

Chu Zhishui's face was full of confusion, and seeing him slowly passing by her, she couldn't help but become more speechless.

The idol burden is really heavy, others come to work, but he comes to show off.

She had a moment of doubt, whether Xin Yunmao would change clothes in the corridor in broad daylight, but thinking about the magical spell of his snapping fingers, there should be no such embarrassing and funny scene.

A moment later, Jin Yu appeared in the office on time. After greeting Chu Zhishui, she talked about the result of the punishment: "Sister Hong said that the monsters from yesterday have been arranged to the tea garden. If you don't want to contact them, I will be there to keep an eye on them in the future."

Jin Yu knew nothing about tea making. She used to handle procedures in the bureau and rarely went to the tea garden.

"It's okay, I'll go." Chu Zhishui hesitated, "There shouldn't be any danger anymore?"

"The Observation Department has already put handcuffs on them, there must be no problem, you will know when you see it." Jin Yu said happily, "I will go with you later."

Chu Zhishui didn't quite understand the procedures of the Observation Department, so he agreed to Jin Yu's suggestion and asked her to help explain it.

In the tea garden, the fat yellow man and the thin black man showed up as expected. They no longer had the demonic chains on them, but instead had handcuffs on their left feet. The texture of the black iron was engraved with complex and beautiful mysterious patterns on the surface. In the center was the logo of the Huaijiang Observation Bureau, which was a simple eye pattern with slight decorations on the side.

Chu Zhishui was quite alert when he saw the two demons at first. After all, they were not tied up now, so who knew if they would suddenly attack. However, the fat yellow man and the thin black man looked pale and exhausted, and had no strength to resist. They seemed to have become much more haggard overnight.

"It seems that the Observation Department interrogated them for a long time last night." Jin Yu said, "After putting on the handcuffs, they are under control and need to obey the arrangements of the Observation Department. Director Hong said that they are restricted from leaving the tea garden. If we have other needs, we can report to the Observation Department, and we can also change the existing settings."

"So smart." Chu Zhishui sighed, "Then how do I assign work to them?" "

Just give orders directly. As long as they are on the list, the handcuffed monsters can be mobilized."

Chu Zhishui looked at the two monsters left and right: "Do they have names? How to call them?"

"When they are handcuffed, they should be numbered." Jin Yu squatted down to observe the handcuffs. She scratched her ears and cheeks in distress, "I forgot where the number was written. Otherwise, you can call them whatever you want..."

"Okay, that one is called Xiao Huang and the other is called Xiao Hei."

"Not bad!"

The two demons were originally listless, but when they heard them name themselves, they became furious. However, they were imprisoned and unable to fight back, so they could only speak out in protest.

The fat yellow man said angrily, "What do you mean it's really good? We have names!"

The thin black man agreed dissatisfiedly, "After being transformed, the heaven and earth will give us names. We are not called Xiao Hei or Xiao Huang."

Jin Yu corrected him seriously, "We don't have names. Once we are handcuffed, our names will be confiscated. This is the rule of the bureau."

Seeing them jumping with anger, Chu Zhishui said calmly, "Your original names are not very good either."

"Who said that..." The fat yellow man was furious, "My original name is quite loud, and it makes the heaven and earth change color

when they hear it!" "It should be something like green onion, ginger and garlic, which makes people cry after smelling it." Chu Zhishui blinked, "Ginger? Jiang Sheng or something?"

The fat yellow man was surprised, "Aren't you a human without evil spirit? How do you know my name is Jiang Dasheng?"

"I guess this one doesn't need demonic energy, and the other one is probably a black rhizome." Chu Zhishui has gradually figured out the pattern and said casually, "Could it be He Shouwu?"

"...My name is Wu He Shou."

Chu Zhishui nodded kindly: "Okay, Xiao Huang, Xiao Hei."

The two demons were very angry about being named.

"You are a human who enforces the law for fishing! If you hadn't been in cahoots with them, how could we have fallen to this point!?"

"Which human would come to work here?"

They relied on the darkness under the lights of the Huaijiang Observation Bureau and had been hiding in the unattended tea garden. Who would have thought that Chu Zhishui, the new official, would come in and not only take away the tea garden directly, but also put them in jail for life. There has never been a human in the Observation Bureau. Attacking her will be punished more severely than injuring a monster. Isn't this fishing law enforcement?

"If I am not from the bureau, can you attack? This logic is not right." Chu Zhishui frowned and asked Jin Yu, "If I don't need them anymore, who should I hand it over to?"

Jin Yu said in surprise, "Don't need them to pick tea? They will be thrown into the demon fire by the observation department to be roasted, but their crimes are serious, they may be scattered without being roasted."

The two demons' expressions changed suddenly: "..." The

dark and thin man smiled flatteringly, and his face changed in an instant: "Sir, don't joke, how can you not need us? Xiao Hei has been staying here. I usually like to plant and pick tea the most. I will do my best to help you solve your problems!"

Chu Zhishui: "But I may only need one to pick tea..."

"Oh, you see he is fat and troublesome, and I guess his hands and feet are not flexible. He may not be suitable for the tea garden."

"Who said that? I have plenty of strength to work. He is a slippery-tongued monster and you can tell at first glance that he is not a good monster. He was the one who instigated us to come to the tea garden!"

"That was obviously the old man's idea! What does it have to do with me!?"

"I am the poor monster being used as a gun by you. Your Excellency, you have to understand clearly--"

The former monster allies were fighting each other. They wanted to stomp on each other's feet and wrestle with each other on the spot.

Jin Yu looked at the two monsters tearing each other apart and said in a daze, "Then who should we keep?"

Chu Zhishui took out a schedule from his bag, handed it to Jin Yu beside him, and decided, "How about this, they all stay and work together for a while. I'll keep whoever meets the requirements of the spiritual civilization construction of the bureau."

Jin Yu looked down at his watch, "Just let them do this job?"

"Yes, but add one more thing at 7pm, watch the "News Broadcast" on time." Chu Zhishui raised his eyebrows and said, "What about gods and adults? It sounds like feudal remnants. If it gets out, it will ruin the reputation of the bureau. They must accept the baptism of new era ideas." "

Okay."

Xiao Huang and Xiao Hei were placed in the tea garden and received labor reform according to the schedule. Because the physical fitness of monsters is different from that of humans, even the observation office is on duty 24 hours a day, so their labor reform is also full-time.

Chu Zhishui was thinking about the protection of human rights in prison at first, but then he thought that they were not human beings, so it was meaningless to discuss human rights.

The tea garden has free labor, and all kinds of work are much easier. Xiao Huang and Xiao Hei are more efficient than humans under the competition mechanism. They pick young leaves on time every day and can also stir-fry them finely. It seems that they have stayed in the tea garden for many years. It is said that they took advantage of the loopholes in the bureau's neglect of asset management.

The freshly baked green tea is beautifully packaged and sent as samples to the Yinhai, Qiwu and Kongsang Bureaus respectively, in order to develop the economic development department's tea sales business. Unfortunately, Chu Zhishui only received a response from the Yinhai Observation Bureau. The other two bureaus did not give a clear answer, which was almost like a stone sinking into the sea.

In fact, Chu Zhishui was able to get a reply from the Yinhai Bureau by using some tricks. After all, she had studied and worked in Yinhai City for many years and knew quite a few friends. She asked Wang Yiwen to bring tea to her house and boiled water to make tea for the other party on the spot. This was considered to have settled the matter. Face-to-face talks are always more effective than messages and phone calls.

After the two parties contacted each other, the Yinhai Bureau agreed to buy tea, but there was a special request that they only buy one kind of green tea.

Chu Zhishui was very puzzled when she heard about this. She did not immediately agree to the Yinhai Bureau, but went to the tea garden to ask the two monsters first.

"If I remember correctly, the green tea sent out recently should be of the same variety." Chu Zhishui held two cans of tea leaves and asked doubtfully, "Did you roast them in different ways? Or did you cut corners along the way?"

Logically speaking, both cans of tea leaves were picked and roasted by Xiao Huang and Xiao Hei, so there should be no difference between them.

"How is that possible? We work diligently, and the heavens can see it!" Xiao Huang shook his head violently. Seeing her serious expression, he quickly added, "...at most, he was distracted for a while while reading the news."

"But people responded that the tea leaves are different, and now they are only willing to accept one kind."

"What's the difference? They are all freshly brewed."

Xiao Hei stepped forward to open the package. He grabbed the tea leaves with his hands and began to grind them carefully with his fingers, and occasionally put them to his nose to smell them.

Chu Zhishui did not stop him. She saw that the other party was checking another can and asked, "Is there a difference?"

Xiao Hei crushed the tea leaves from another can and smelled them. Suddenly, his face changed slightly and he couldn't help but inhaled sharply. He was quite intoxicated and wanted to float up. Then he suddenly realized, "I understand. There is indeed a difference. It's the effect of that evil spirit!"

Chu Zhishui looked puzzled, "That one?"

"This jar of tea was picked when we raided..." Xiao Hei hurriedly changed the topic, "It was picked from the tea field where we met you. It may have been affected by that evil spirit, so it is different from other tea trees. I thought it grew particularly well at the time."

Chu Zhishui was stunned, and then she had an idea, "It would smell particularly fragrant to the evil spirit, right?"

The first time she left the bureau with Xin Yunmao to do something, she received a truckload of vegetables from Lao Li the next day. Jin Yu tasted it that day and praised it highly.

Xiao Hei confessed: "In fact, it is not simply fragrant, but it has a nourishing effect on monsters. Tea originally gathers the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and absorbs the light of the sun and the moon. Compared with other plants, it is more sensitive to these, so the taste is naturally different."

This means that tea is more effective than the vegetables at the beginning.

"Does your demonic energy have no effect on tea?" Chu Zhishui said, "He said that plant monsters are very good at these."

"How can we compare with that person!"

"If we hadn't met that person, we wouldn't have hit the iron plate..."

Chu Zhishui ignored the two monsters' mumbling. She didn't expect it to be a patented technology. She began to think about letting Xin Yunmao manage the tea garden. He has never found a suitable position in the Economic Development Department. It will definitely not work in the long run. Maybe this is a good opportunity.

With the ink pendant still hanging around her neck, she hesitated for a moment while pinching the necklace, and asked tentatively, "Xin Yunmao?"

The next moment, a black crack appeared in the air, and a thick black flame spread from it, gathering into a human shape behind her. The black-haired young man landed on the ground. He didn't bring the dragon-bone umbrella today, but he still frightened the two monsters to death.

"What do you want me to do?" Xin Yunmao approached her, and he saw the two monsters again, his eyes like a lake full of broken ice, and asked in doubt, "They are handcuffed and still don't obey?"

Xiao Huang and Xiao Hei were stabbed by his eyes, and they were scared to death on the spot. They kept saying "God, spare my life" and fled to the tea field in a hurry, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"You came really fast." Chu Zhishui was stunned. He did say that you can just call him by his name, but it was still amazing to see it in person. Even the delivery guy was not as efficient as him.

Xin Yunmao sighed and said hesitantly: "You didn't just want to call my name." "

...Of course not."

He looked suspicious.

Chu Zhishui asked with gritted teeth: "Does your demonic energy help the growth of plants?"

"It should." Xin Yunmao said frankly, "I don't pay much attention to it."

Chu Zhishui said gently: "In that case, why don't you manage the tea garden? You don't seem to like staying in the department. You can come here to take a walk and get some fresh air."

He used to like strolling around the bureau and often take a nap under the shade of green trees.

Xin Yunmao glanced at her and refused flatly, "No."

"Why?"

"Why not let the fish take care of it?" His eyebrows were filled with smiles, as if he had caught her handle, and he sarcastically said, "Using people forward instead of disposing of people backward, do you think it's so good?"

Chu Zhishui was silent for a moment, and she muttered softly, "But you are not a human being."

"On the one hand, you insult me ​​as worse than a fish, and on the other hand, you can summon me and dismiss me at will. Do you really think I have no temper?"

"..."

Good guy, she was just telling the truth. Jin Yu had more work than him, so this escalated to verbal insults.

Xin Yunmao pretended to be cold and arrogant, like a snow mountain that could not be defiled, but his afterglow swept over her from time to time, obviously silently waiting for the next step.

This expression is so easy to understand. It's not a refusal to work at all, but an opportunity to take advantage of Qiao and want to let someone pass the stage.

Coax him.

This sentence was almost written on her face.

Chu Zhishui began to reflect on herself, how she had thought too much to recruit this ancestor into the Economic Development Department. Fortunately, he is a typical person who is hard on the outside but soft on the inside, and basically he is not particularly difficult to deal with. He just wants to hear some nice words.

Chu Zhishui smiled: "No, I feel that your temperament is more suitable for the tea garden than Jin Yu."

"Temperament?"

"Yes, the atmosphere of the tea garden is very close to you. Green tea originally gathers the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and absorbs the brilliance of the sun and the moon. In addition, the tea culture has a long history, and the artistic conception of tea has always been lofty, which is very consistent with your status and taste."

Xin Yunmao's expression eased a little.

"When I see green tea, I don't think of Jin Yu, but I will naturally think of you. Look, even this outfit is so suitable..." Her eyes fell on his shirt, and she said with a smile, "Light blue, very elegant."

Xin Yunmao's face was originally stiff, but after hearing what she said, he softened and raised a slight arc at the corner of his mouth: "Do you really think my temperament is more suitable for the tea garden?"

"Yes, of course it is." Chu Zhishui showed an impeccable smile, "I'm sure no one understands green tea and tea gardens better than you!"

On the one hand, he said weird things and sent pendants to show his temper, and on the other hand, he emphasized that he could not respond to that kind of human emotion. He understood the essence of green tea, and he was the only one who could be the owner of the tea garden.