Chapter 211 The Thousand-Li Horse Returns to the Capital
Su Yanli became the magistrate of Weizhou County, completely disrupting the Su family's original life.
Cheng Yingzhen was the first to ask: "Ajin, what should we do now?"
Su Ruojin was caught off guard when her father became the county magistrate. For a moment, she was also confused by the imperial edict. But after that, Su Yanli had to be the county magistrate and the Su family had to live.
"I will settle down in Weizhou until my father's term of office is completed."
Shu Tong interrupted, "Second Madam, our business is all in the capital. Are we going to move to Weizhou County?"
"No, we will continue to do business in the capital." Su Ruojin said, "Not only that, the morning tea shop at Dongshan Academy will also be open for business as usual. Shopkeeper Ye, you should take Uncle Shi and his family back to open the shop as usual in the next two days."
Ye Huaizhen did not agree, but clasped his fists and apologized: "Little Boss, before I didn't know who the enemy was, I still had the mind to manage the shop. Now that I know the enemy, I have to go and take revenge first. After the revenge, if the little boss still needs me, I will come back with a thick face."
It’s really strange. There has been no news from Uncle Hua in Beijing. Could it be that Yang Yushi was not captured?
Yang Si Niang didn't know that the enemy Ye Huaizhen wanted to kill was her father. When she heard that the Su family was returning to Beijing, she couldn't stay any longer, "Ajin, I'm going home with Shopkeeper Ye."
She agreed, "Okay." After being out for so long, the young lady wanted to go home, and she couldn't stay any longer. Besides, she also had to go back to Beijing to plan the shops in Beijing and Wenshan Street. Only after everything was planned out could she stay in Weizhou County with peace of mind.
Su Yanli was anxious when he heard that his daughter was going back to Beijing: "Ajin, if you go back to Beijing, what should I do here?"
"Ah?" Su Ruojin knew clearly what her father was worried about, but pretended not to know. "It's been more than ten days, and Dad hasn't adapted to his new identity yet?"
Su Yanli could see that his daughter was doing this on purpose and glared at her, "It's only been ten days, how can your father adapt to it?"
"Family affairs, opening of the market, helping the people, and reassuring the people, Dad did a great job in everything!" Su Ruojin smiled and turned to look at the middle-aged man with a mustache, "Mr. Pei, right?"
Pei Qixu couldn't help but roll his eyes at the young lady who was speaking in flowery language, "If you want to praise your father, then go ahead and praise him. I didn't hear anything."
Su Yanli's face turned red, and he bowed to the teacher his daughter hired for him, feeling very embarrassed: "I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, sir."
"There's nothing I can do. Who made you give birth to a good daughter?" He forcibly carved out a path through the chaos and brought Weizhou County back to life. The county magistrate next door was still in chaos, so many people ran to Weizhou to buy food.
Su Yanli coughed lightly, signaling his daughter to stop while she was ahead.
Dad's obedient little cotton-padded jacket was of course obedient, and he bowed to the teacher solemnly, "Sir, you are very talented, please help my father sort out the myriad issues in Weizhou County so that we can prepare for the autumn planting and let the people live a stable life."
Pei Qixu snorted, "You make it sound simple, how do you explain it?"
"First, search for those officials from Weizhou County who have fled or are hiding, and then calmly repair the streets and roads inside and outside the city. It will probably take about half a month. Once these two things are done, autumn planting can begin."
Su Yanli: ...I could understand every word, but when they were put together, he, a seventh-rank official, just couldn’t understand anything.
Pei Qixu's eyes flashed, as if he was thinking about something.
Shangguan Yu: ...Let a newly appointed county magistrate do these things? Madam Su Er is the biological daughter of Lord Su, she would never betray her father, so what is the meaning of these two things?
He still remembered vividly the last incident of asking Hu Dianli's eldest son to deliver the note. It seemed to be done at will and without any rules, but every detail was an open conspiracy. People were asked to contribute, and it was made clear. Those wealthy gentry dared not speak out, and during this sensitive period, they all chose to spend money to avoid disaster, and suddenly revitalized Weizhou County, which was on the verge of chaos.
Su Ruojin looked at Pei Qixu and Shangguan Yu.
Pei and Shangguan looked at each other, and then looked at Su Ruojin together.
Su Yanli pondered over his daughter's words for a while before asking, "Ajin, do you mean to search the homes of the county magistrate, county lieutenant, chief clerk, and others?"
Su Ruojin smiled and gave a thumbs up.
Shangguan Yu didn't quite understand, "These people must have taken all their wealth with them when they fled."
Su Ruojin smiled like a young girl who knew nothing about the world, and asked softly, "Isn't it probably all gold and silver that were taken away?"
Su, Pei, Shangguan and the other three were not naive and immediately understood the meaning of her words.
"Ajin, this is personal property."
Su Ruojin shrugged, "Mr. Pei, my father is a scholar."
Pei Qixu understood and sneered, "So I am a scoundrel?"
Su Ruojin's eyebrows curved, and she smiled like a little fox. "In a family, when educating children, some people play the good cop and some people play the bad cop. The same is true for a county. The county magistrate is the parent official, so he must be kind and gentle. Don't you think so, sir?"
"So I should..." Pei Qixu jumped up in anger.
"Shh!" Su Ruojin stretched out her hand to stop him, with an even more mysterious expression than when Mr. Pei was a fortune teller. "Sir, I am a scholar who wants to become famous. Black and red are also red, don't you think?"
Pei Qi Preface: ...
The anger on his brows instantly died down, and he looked at the little fox girl in confusion, "You really are a fox."
"Hehe, whatever Mr. Sui thinks, I really don't know how to govern a county, but you know that you and my father are one good and one evil. If you two join forces, I believe you will be invincible."
Su Yanli was so shocked by his daughter's words that he couldn't close his mouth for a long time.
Pei Qixu couldn't help but ask, "How did you see through this old horse of mine?"
Haha, is this saying that he is a good horse trainer and he is a good horse? Su Ruojin raised his eyebrows and just smiled without answering.
Pei Qixu was angered by the young lady's laughter: "If you don't tell me, don't even think about me staying in Weizhou County Office to help your father."
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you." Su Ruojin replied as if she was forced to do so. "Of course it was that night, when everyone was incited to follow the trend, but you were the only one who either stood quietly at the back of the crowd or sat on the curb at a 45-degree angle looking up at the sky, thinking about life and the court."
Pei Qixu: ...What the hell is forty-five degrees? How did she know that I was lamenting about life and lamenting that I couldn't serve the court?
After a long while, he blurted out, "It's really a waste of talent to only open two shops." He rolled his eyes at the young lady.
"Thank you... Thank you..." Su Ruojin smiled like a little fox that had stolen food. Her insincere smile made Pei Qixu feel a chill in his teeth. He couldn't help but glance at the honest Su Yanli and his wife, wondering how they could have given birth to such a shrewd monkey.
Su Ruojin understood that he had agreed to become Su Yanli's aide and help him govern Weizhou County.
With this person, Su Ruojin could go back to Beijing and set up the shop with peace of mind. Just as she turned around, Shangguan Yu blushed and asked embarrassedly: "Su... Second Madam Su, can I... help..."
"Take care of yourself first. When I come back from the capital, you will be busy."
Really?
Shangguan Yu couldn't help but ask, "Second Madam wants me to help you?" Instead of Su Yanli?
Su Ruojin nodded, "You are not suitable for officialdom."
Su Yanli: ...Daughter, can't you be more tactful?
Pei Qixu: ...Young lady, how old are you to say such old-fashioned words.
Shangguan Yu: ...Do you really have to be so blunt? He is really speechless.
The Su family temporarily rented a courtyard behind the county government office. The daughter led her steward and the shopkeeper out of the main hall. Su Yan bowed and said, "I will trouble you in the future, sir."
The daughter is old-fashioned, but the father is polite and courteous.
Pei Qixu sighed.
"My little girl is naughty, please sir..."
Pei Qixu stretched out his hand, signaling him to shut up, but he spoke up, "To be honest, even though I have traveled to many county offices, I have never encountered a scene of a prince seizing the throne or a drought and chaos. When Lord Su was appointed as the county magistrate by the new emperor, I was still thinking about how to start governing a county. I was worried about where to start, and your daughter's idea was like a ray of light that cut through the smoky and chaotic Weizhou County."
My daughter, at the age of six, already knew how to paint on broken stones in exchange for silver. She has so many weird ideas in her mind!
Su Yanli was very pleased with himself, with a fatherly smile on his face.
Mr. Pei, who was in deep emotion, said:...Why do you seem to be laughing at me for not having a daughter?
Leaving Qiuyue to take care of the Su residence's affairs, Su Ruojin took Ye Huaizhen, Shi Jia and others back to the capital.
After walking for a day and resting for a night, they returned to the capital at noon the next day after being away for almost a month. Shi Er and his family did not follow them into Beijing. They went directly to Wenshanpu Breakfast Tea Shop. Ye Huaizhen had some private matters to attend to and could not run the shop, so Su Ruojin asked Shi Er's second son, Shi Baogui, to be the shopkeeper and be in charge of the business of the Su's Breakfast Tea Shop.
Shi Er knelt down immediately, crying with snot and tears, expressing his gratitude to his young master and saying that he was willing to work like a slave for the rest of his life to repay him.
Su Ruojin, who came from the modern times, did not believe in the saying of cattle and horses. She used the shareholding system to give the Shi family the motivation to run the shop.
"If you do a good job, you will get more shares. If you do a bad job, you will get nothing. But don't blame me for replacing your Shi family."
"No, definitely not. I, Shi Er, will never give Xiao Dongjia such an opportunity."
"I hope so."
Shi Baogui was so excited that he kept glancing at Mao Ya secretly.
Mao Ya pretended she didn't see it.
Shi Baogui is just 20 years old this year, one year older than Mao Ya, so they are a good match in age.
Su Ruojin also noticed Shi Baogui's eyes. If both of them were interested, they would be a good match. But if only one of them was interested, then it would be inappropriate for her to interfere in this matter.
Regardless of their quarrel, he took Ye Huaizhen and headed straight for the city gate.
Su Ruojin noticed that the walls inside and outside the city gate had been repaired, and new bricks could be seen at a glance. The city gate was also newly painted, and it looked brand new. What did this mean? The rebellion in the imperial palace had reached the city gate.
I don’t know if the houses, shops, etc. in the city were affected.
Yang Si Niang was eager to go home, so Su Ruojin accompanied her all the way to her doorstep.
Before Su Ruojin came back, she asked someone to bring a letter to Madam Yang. She had already been waiting at the door. When she saw her daughter, she burst into tears, "Arong..."
"mother……"
The mother and daughter reunited as if they had been separated for life and death, and they cried so hard that they almost couldn't breathe.
Su Ruojin sighed secretly, not knowing whether Lord Yang was the real Lord Yang or the fake Lord Yang. If he was a fake, what Madam Yang had done over the years... This was even more unbelievable than a fairy tale. If Lord Yang was real, then how could he explain his actions?
Only after the mother and daughter had cried enough did Su Ruojin come forward and said with a smile, "Aunt, I have returned Arong intact to Zhao."
Mrs. Yang reached out and held her hand, "Good girl, thank you for your hard work." She wanted to pull her in to eat.
Su Ruojin turned him down, "Aunt, I have something else to do. I'll come and bother you when I have time."
Madam Yang let go of her hand and said, "Okay, then you must come."
Yang Si Niang pouted her lips and said, "Mom, I'm afraid Ajin can't come to our house for dinner."
“(⊙ o⊙)Ah!”
"Ajin's father is now the magistrate of Weizhou County. He will not return to Beijing for at least three years." Yang Si Niang heard from Su Ruojin that a county magistrate's term of office is three years.
There was chaos in the capital, and Madam Yang was terribly scared. She locked the door and hid in the guarded mansion of Duke Zheng. She really had no idea what had happened to the Su family. When the turmoil subsided, she hurried back, and had no idea what was happening in the court.
"I... I haven't heard your uncle say that." Madam Yang said this, feeling guilty and embarrassed. From a few days before the emperor's death until now, she had never seen her husband, and she didn't know where he died.
Thinking of the bad days, Madam Yang suddenly wanted to let him die outside. When she realized what she was thinking, she quickly put away her thoughts and said, "Ajin, no matter what, you must come to your aunt's house for a meal before you leave the capital."
Su Ruojin looked at Madam Yang, whose temples were covered with white hair, and nodded reluctantly, "Okay, Auntie, you must make a lot of delicious food for me."
"Definitely."
After getting in touch with the family, Su Ruojin said goodbye to the Yang family and went straight to Su's breakfast shop.
It was already dusk in the afternoon. The front shop was clean and empty, but the door was open and there were voices from inside. Su Ruojin strode in, "Mother Dong, Aunt Gui, I'm back."
The Su family shop was taken care of by Prince Zhao. Mother Dong and others not only knew when Lord Su and his son left Beijing, but also knew that Lord Su had changed his official position and became a county magistrate. When they heard Su Ruojin's voice, they all ran out of the workshop and kitchen excitedly.
When they saw her, they all cried.
"Second Madam..." Mother Dong rushed over and hugged the little master, "I miss you so much."
"Mom, I miss you too."
While taking refuge, Su Ruojin was always worried about these people. Later, Prince Zhao went to the cave and learned that the shopkeeper Huang Shun was also from the Imperial City Investigation Department. Only then did she feel relieved, otherwise she would have found a way to go to Beijing to see them.
The master and servant cried for a while before wiping away their tears.
Su Ruojin asked everyone, "Is everyone okay?"
"All good, all good."
Shi Liu's son leaned shyly against the table and looked at his beautiful sister timidly. Su Ruojin's eyebrows curved when she was looked at by the little boy. She quickly took out some candy from her purse and said, "Zhong, do you still remember your sister?"
Little A Zhong shyly snuggled into his mother's arms.
Su Ruojin stuffed the candy into his little hand and said, "Take it."
Xiang Gui saw that her son was very shy, so she picked him up and let him hold the candy. She took the opportunity to ask, "Second Madam, if the master becomes the county magistrate, do you want to follow him?"
Feng Dashi and others looked at Su Ruojin nervously.
She nodded, "Yeah."
Feng Dashi asked quickly: "Then...what about the shop?"
"The shop is operating as usual, but..." Su Ruojin changed the subject and glanced at everyone, "Mother Dong is going to Weizhou with me this time."
Everyone looked at Mother Dong.
Mother Dong was very calm and showed no emotion.
(End of this chapter)
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