358, Mid-Autumn Festival
358, Mid-Autumn Festival
The father and son had a long conversation for half the night. The next morning, Lu Mingfei personally escorted his father to the city gate and saw him off.
Mid-Autumn Festival was coming soon, so he asked his father to hurry back to celebrate the festival with his mother.
As for him, he has the people of the city to live with him, so he doesn't need his father to stay with him.
"Dad, be careful on your way back. Tell Mom and the others that I'm doing fine here and they don't need to worry about me."
"It's not peaceful here. If there's anything happening at home, just send me a letter. You don't have to come here all the time." It's not that he doesn't want to see his parents and family come to visit him, but he is more afraid that if his family encounters something along the way, he will not be able to accept the consequences.
"Okay, you're here alone, so take care of yourself." Lu Youtian raised his hand and patted his eldest son's arm. Looking at his son who was taller than him, there was only admiration and pride in his eyes.
"I know, I will." Lu Mingfei smiled and nodded, and said to his father: "Go back and tell Mingrui, Mingcong and the other boys to study hard with the teacher."
"You should go back as soon as possible."
"Okay, Dad is leaving." Lu Youtian nodded. Although he was reluctant, he still climbed onto the horse under the eldest son's gaze. He looked back at the eldest son, waved to him, and told him to go back to the city. He then rode away with his men.
Lu Mingfei stood at the city gate and watched his father leave. He stood there unwilling to leave until he could no longer see his father's back on horseback.
When people passing by saw him standing there, they probably recognized him and came over to greet him.
"grown ups."
Lu Mingfei held the old man's arms with both hands, not letting him kneel down to him, and just said to him, "Old man, there's no need to be so polite."
"From now on, you don't have to kneel when you see me. We are all the same." He said the latter sentence to everyone at the city gate.
After leaving these words, he turned around and went back to the city with the guards behind him.
Outside the city gate, people were queuing to enter the city, and everyone was watching their masters leaving.
The old man who was helped up stood there for a long time without moving, with tears of emotion in his eyes.
Since the arrival of their new master, they have obviously noticed that their place has undergone great changes.
Now, ordinary people like them don't need to pay any money when they go into the city to do small business and pass through the city gate.
The guards at the city gate also behaved well with ordinary people like them and did not dare to take things from their burdens at will.
Even caravans entering the city would not be charged high lijin, but only a small cleaning fee based on the number of livestock.
This is a regulation that was only issued in the last two days. Regardless of whether it is a mule or a horse, as long as livestock enters the city, a cleaning fee of two cents per head will be charged.
The posted notice also clearly tells everyone that the money collected will be used to maintain the cleanliness of the city.
Seeing the streets of the city swept clean, without a speck of feces, they also felt that the two cents were well spent. Therefore, no one had any objection to the two cents cleaning fee.
Lu Mingfei led his men to walk on the streets of the city, looking around as they walked. At the same time, he was also thinking about what he could do to bring economic income to the people of this city.
Hey, got it!
An idea flashed through my mind.
After returning to the yamen, he told Senior Fu his thoughts in detail.
After listening to it, Fu Zheng nodded in approval and said, "Well, this is the first time I've heard of your idea.
If we can do it well, it will leave a good impression on the passing caravans. They will choose to stop by Li County to rest and resupply when they pass by us in the future. This will also be a great thing for the people in our area."
Lu Mingfei's idea was very simple. He applied modern service awareness and planned to improve the management and service of the inns and restaurants in their county town to give passing travelers a good service and impression.
At the same time, he also wanted the people in the city to join in, and provide the spare rooms in their homes to passing travelers so that they could live in them and earn some rent and food expenses.
"Okay, then I'll write a notice and post it now, asking the owners of inns and restaurants, as well as the people who want to open hostels at home, to come to the government office. I'll explain the rules to them. I also have a few cooking recipes here, and they can learn from them as well."
"Let me write it. When is the date set?" Fu Zheng asked.
"Let's set it for the day after tomorrow."
"good."
Since someone was doing it for him, Lu Mingfei handed the matter over to Fu Zheng and went back to his office to write down his idea in detail.
Then have someone give it to Fu Zheng and let Fu Zheng do it according to his ideas, so that he can be a hands-off boss.
However, this matter was handed over to someone else, as he had other things to do.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon. This year is his first year in Li County. He plans to hold a lantern festival in the city, so he invited many craftsmen to the yamen to make lanterns.
Seeing these masters making lanterns, he couldn't help but join in and show these craftsmen the lantern-making skills he had learned from his father.
When a master saw the lanterns made by their masters, he couldn't help but praise them, "Master, the lanterns you made are more beautiful than the ones we made."
"Haha, no, no. Compared with the masters, my skills are still a little worse." Lu Mingfei said modestly.
When Fu Zheng and Wang Wang passed by the corridor, they saw their parents making lanterns with a group of masters, and they were laughing so happily. The two seniors couldn't help but smile.
"Looking at adults like this, I feel that our adults are not very old." Wang Wang said to the old colleague standing next to him.
"Haha, they are not that big to begin with. Lord Lu is several years younger than those kids in our family." Fu Zheng was envious of other people's children who were so outstanding.
He used to think that his legitimate son was the most outstanding young man in the entire capital, unmatched. But after meeting Lu Mingfei, a junior, Fu Zheng realized that other people's children were far more outstanding than his own.
These children from aristocratic families only look up and never look down. They cannot see that the people at the bottom are wearing tattered clothes or that they are starving.
But Lu Mingfei was born into a poor family. He looked up from below. He could see the suffering of the people and care for them. From everything he did when he became the magistrate of Li County, we can see what this young man was thinking and for whom he was doing it.
At this moment, Fu Zheng even had a very absurd idea in his mind. If such a person were allowed to be the king of Dayan, would the people of Dayan be able to live a good life?
Feeling someone was looking at him, Lu Mingfei looked up and saw two seniors standing in the corridor. He called out, "Uncle Fu, Uncle Wang, do you two want to join us in making lanterns?"
Hearing this, Fu Zheng and Wang Wang came over to admire the lanterns made by their parents. They also picked up their pens and wrote poems and drew pictures on the newly made lanterns.
***
August 15th, Mid-Autumn Festival.
On this day in Li County, for the first time on the Mid-Autumn Festival, the streets were filled with various lanterns.
Both sides of the street were filled with small stalls selling all kinds of things, especially food stalls, and there were many foods that had never appeared before.
The reason was that two days ago, their county magistrate set up several stalls in front of the yamen and taught everyone how to make various snacks and delicious desserts.
At first, everyone just went to take a look out of curiosity, but unexpectedly, they actually learned some skills.
It was the Mid-Autumn Festival, so they responded to their elders' call and came to the street to set up a stall to sell food. No matter whether they could make money on their first try, as long as it could add a bit of popularity and liveliness to their Li County, it was enough.
It was a holiday, and Lu Mingfei gave holiday to all his subordinates who were not responsible for security, except for the officers in charge of inspection and himself.
He went out to the street under the pretext of patrolling to eat.
"Sir, come and try the dessert we cooked."
"Sir, please try our fried dumplings."
"grown ups……"
As he walked along, the stall owners he met would stuff food into his hands as soon as they saw him.
He was full before he even finished walking down the street, and his hands were filled with so much that he couldn't hold them all, so the guards behind him came over to help him carry them.
Of course, they had to pay for their food. Even though the uncles, aunties, and sisters who stuffed food into their mouths told them not to pay, how could they eat without paying?
This money must be given!
So this led to scenes where he was eating while pushing money around with people.
Until the sun set and the sky darkened, the lanterns on the entire street were lit up.
There are many men and women, young and old, on the street, and many families come out together to go shopping and watch the lanterns.
Today is a festival and there is a lantern festival in the city, so the city gates will be closed a little later.
After strolling on the street for an afternoon, when it got dark, Lu Mingfei came into the restaurant to rest and sat on the balcony on the second floor to drink tea.
Looking at the people coming and going on the street, he couldn't help but smile.
What I wish in my heart is that the people here can always live such a good life, without war, without famine, but with stability and happiness.
Although he knew that this wish was a little difficult to achieve.
Just as he lowered his head to look down, he met a pair of eyes looking at him.
The two people's eyes met in the air, and the one looking at him smiled, and he also smiled.
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