Chapter 63, Forest City
"Wake up!"
Su Chen yelled, Xianglan became more direct, and actually twisted Xuan Qi's ear, "Get up quickly!"
The moment Xuan Qi woke up, he also witnessed the imminent city wall ahead. He hurriedly grabbed the reins and wanted the horse to stop.
Fortunately, the horse is not stupid either. He will not bump into the city wall by himself. He kicks his front hooves and whistles.
Yu--
The horse was braked and the carriage was braked, but the three people couldn't stop, and they hit the city wall like three bags.
At this moment, the soldiers guarding the city at the gate and the passers-by were shocked. What kind of confusing behavior was they planning to knock down the city wall with a carriage?
Su Chen had a jade pendant to protect his body, but he did not hit him substantially. He just flipped it in a series of ways, and his head was a little messy. Xianglan rubbed her chest and stood up, crying bitterly. Xuan Qi was the most strange. He was facing down and his legs were upside down at the base of the wall, with stars appearing.
"What are you doing!"
A team of soldiers surrounded them and pointed them alertly with their spears.
"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding..."
Su Chen stepped forward and tried his best to make no sense. In the end, he could only take out the official seal to prove that they were not spies from Ling Kingdom. During the entire negotiation process, Xianglan covered Xuan Qi's mouth tightly, fearing that he would be even more unexplainable when he said that he was from Ling Kingdom at this time.
After a small episode, they successfully entered the city.
The streets of Lincheng are also very lively. Although they are not as prosperous as Yecheng, they also have a unique rural style. What surprised them the most was that old ancient trees were planted on both sides of Lincheng's streets and alleys. Su Chen imagined whether it would be a jungle scene when he looked from the sky. This Lincheng was indeed as its name.
Except for the numerous trees, the other layout of Lincheng City is roughly the same as that of Yecheng City. Cross Street each leads to four city gates. The closer it is to the main road, the more prosperous it is. There are not many large buildings in the city. Perhaps because the tree technique is too dense and the houses seem to be not tall, it will give the illusion of walking in the jungle.
Su Chen and others followed the guidance of the soldiers at the door and walked along the street. The city lord lived in the east city, and the officials of the fifth department lived in the west city. They walked west along the east-west avenue. After walking for half a quarter of an hour, they saw a mansion with the door sign of the General Manager of the Ministry of Personnel.
The door of the mansion is closed, and there are two ancient trees at the door. It is much shabby in terms of momentum than the Xizhou Prince's Mansion, but the yellowed courtyard walls complement the two ancient trees, which have a good smell of time.
"This is the mansion that really belongs to me."
Su Chen sighed that he had never had his own home for so many years. Perhaps it was because he lacked a harbor that belonged entirely to him that he did not really belong to him.
Xianglan was also very excited. Although her situation improved in the palace, she could not really indulge her temperament. But when she arrived here, she always felt that she should show her strength and turn this place into what she wanted.
"Young Master, what are you waiting for? Let's go in!"
Xianglan rushed up and was about to push the door, but the door opened by itself. A gentle man walked out from it, wearing a simple clothed man, who was about the same age as Su Chen, but his behavior carried more scholarly spirit.
"I am the clerk of our government. The master died of illness a few days ago. The new general manager has not arrived yet. I wonder who the girl is looking for?"
Xianglan's eyes lit up when she saw him. When she was still a maid of a chef, she dreamed of meeting a polite scholar who fell in love with her and could elope with her at all costs, just like the love story in the book, with great enthusiasm.
"girl."
When Swen scholar saw that Xianglan had no reaction, he reminded him again.
"He is the newly appointed general manager of the Ministry of Personnel, Su Chen and Prince Su."
Xianglan woke up from her fantasy and was busy pulling Su Chen over and introducing.
Su Chen showed him the official seal and then asked, "Is the family of the former manager living in this mansion now?"
Sven scholar was also stunned and stared at the young master in front of him. He was about the same age as him, but he was already the head of the high school official. However, he studied hard for more than ten years, but his recent literary selection failed. The difference between the two made him feel sad.
Su Chen looked at him quietly with gentle eyes, and he also looked at Su Chen seriously, as if he saw the wheel of fate running over the two of them.
"Sir, please, please. I am the only one here now. The family members of the former manager have moved out."
The scholar woke up and opened the door to welcome Su Chen into the door.
Clerks are not official positions, but candidates who fail to get a high ranking in the exam every year. Their relationship with officials is equivalent to employers, workers, and officials' daily copywriting work, saying that it is okay for officials to be lazy or that it is okay for officials to train them on purpose, because they write too much, it is helpful for future copywriting.
After entering the mansion, Su Chen followed the clerk to the study and began to hand over some work. On the other hand, Xianglan began to accept the territory excitedly, and Xuan Qi was also taken to be a tyrant by her and began to clean the yard.
There were a lot of backlog of official documents piled up on the table in the study. Su Chen sat upright at the table and listened to the clerk's explanation slowly.
After a conversation, Su Chen knew that his name was Ye Sheng, and he met the former general manager during the selection of literature. After nearly ten years of examination, he finally got what he wanted. When he came to Lincheng to take office, he brought him over and became a clerk. Unfortunately, the former general manager had not enjoyed his good life for two years and fell seriously ill. At the age of high spirits, he entered the loess early, which is a pity.
"You just keep staying and being my clerk. The treatment I gave you in the past remains unchanged."
After listening to his report, Su Chen determined that he was a serious, responsible and talented talent. As for why he had never passed the exam, the reason was unknown. According to his description, he had only one place in the list several times. Such luck made Su Chen feel ashamed.
Before he came to take office, the lord of Yecheng said that Lincheng had many management problems. After Su Chen became familiar with the work, he also understood the meaning. Lincheng belongs to a border city and is very likely to get into the enemy spies. Moreover, because the sky is high and the emperor is far away, all kinds of supervisors and governors of the Frost Country are too lazy to come here, so the style of the officials here is not very careful. There are often night-long sacrificing behaviors of drinking and sex without doing their jobs. Secondly, the gang management in the city is chaotic, and gangs are secretly doing some illegal transactions.
"It's a mess indeed..."
Su Chen sighed that he is only a sixth-rank chief executive of the Ministry of Personnel. Although he is considered a high-ranking official in Lincheng, it may be difficult to rectify Lincheng with this. If he could have the purple-falling gold medal from the King of Xizhou, it might be fine. If he could be the lord of Lincheng, he would have to keep his word here.
In the blink of an eye, three days passed, and Su Chen finally finished reading all the documents of the Ministry of Personnel in Lin Cheng. He had hardly left the study room in the past three days, and the meals for the three meals were sent in by Xianglan. He relaxed a little this day. Lin Cheng's problem was too urgent, so he planned to go out for a walk.
As soon as he stepped out of the study, he met several maids and maids who were born. When he was surprised, he was surprised to find that many of the dilapidated furnishings in the mansion were completely renewed. There were a lot of bonsai vegetation in the central garden, and even many aisles were covered with new floor tiles. There was a quiet path paved with stones in the garden. At the end of the path was a unique pavilion.
"How is it? Do you like it?"
Xianglan appeared behind him at some point, and the servants around her were respectful to her and even called her the butler.
Su Chen asked in surprise: "Are you arranged these? Where did you get the money? My salary this month hasn't been paid yet."
Xianglan replied playfully: "Of course I took it from the royal palace. When I left, I took a lot of money in your name, and planned to come to this new home for a good rest."
Su Chen was helpless. He thought he would be a good official with a clean and honest style in the future. Now the atmosphere of the entire mansion reveals a corruption, which makes him stand up for this image.
"What about these servants, you bought them?"
Xianglan shook her head and said, "They are all poor beggars on the street. I also recruited them into work according to your philosophy. I didn't pay wages the year before, just pay for food. When they are really suitable for work in the future, they will be paid for their jobs."
This made Su Chen a little relieved and was considered doing good deeds.
"Where is Xuan Qi?"
Su Chen didn't want to worry about the matter in the mansion anymore, so he just followed Xianglan to make trouble. When she had no money in the future, she would naturally be more relaxed.
"It's a practice in the pavilion! The practitioners are so comfortable. They can become more powerful by sitting there and dozing off. Alas, I would have been able to practice."
The two walked up the stone path and came to the pavilion to secretly look at Xuan Qi, all of whom were envious.
In the pavilion, Xuan Qi was sitting cross-legged on the stone table, his eyes slightly closed.
“Huhu…”
Su Chen realized something was wrong. He remembered that when Taoist Haiyan practiced, there would be colorful spiritual power lingering around him. There was nothing around this guy, and it didn't look like he was practicing.
Could it be that it was, I fell asleep!
Chapter completed!