26, first arrival
On June 17th, after several days of bumpy weather, Ishihara and his party finally saw the city walls of Yi'an County from afar.
When there were five or six miles away from the city gate, a middle-aged man who looked like a housekeeper quickly came up and asked with his fists, "Is there Lord Ishihara Hiroshi in front?"
Upon hearing this, the head of the deck strangled the horse and waved his hand to stop the carriage behind him. Then he bowed to the middle-aged man immediately and said loudly: "That's right! Who is your lord?"
"Shi Quan, the second-class manager of the Marquis of Wuyue, is here to welcome Lord Shi on the orders of my marquis and grandma."
When Ishihara Hai heard that it was someone from Wuyue Marquis’ Mansion to pick him up, he hurriedly got off the carriage.
Shihara Hai and Shi Quan, the manager of the Hou Mansion, bowed to him and said a few polite words, Shi Quan led the escort and the carriage into the city.
Yi'an is a small county, and the roads are not very wide. Because it is approaching dusk, there are not many pedestrians on the street. Ishihara and his group look very eye-catching.
Shi Quan quickly led everyone to the gate of the county government.
It was not until this time that the people in the county government learned that the new county magistrate had arrived. It was only at this time that many people had already returned home, so there were not many people coming out to greet them.
The county government office is a typical architectural form of the ancient front and back houses. Behind the case-trial lobby is a place where people work and temporarily rest in the county government office. There are 30 or 40 rooms in all sizes.
Further behind is the Hanhuamen, inside it is the back house, which is also the residence of the county magistrate and his family. Of course, there are also people from different families who do not live in the back house, but instead set up another residence, but Ishihara Sea is obviously not listed here.
After a few simple greetings with the people from the county government, Ishihara took his daughter, servants and a few studs to the back house.
The back house is not divided into several places, but consists of five separate small courtyards.
Shi Quan brought everyone to the largest courtyard in the middle, and then sent more than a dozen servants to the Marquis of Wuyue to help unload the suitcases and cages on the carriage to the ground.
Shi Quan stepped forward and asked Shihara Hai for advice: "Sir Shi, you have just arrived and may not be familiar with the back house. Let me first move these cages to the wing room, and you will ask someone to organize them later, okay?"
Of course, Shi Yuanhai had no objection. Then Shi Quan directed everyone to carry the suitcase and cage into the wing room.
When everyone moved things, Ishihara Hai gave the remaining half of the fee to the escort.
Ishihara Hachi originally wanted to invite the mates to have a meal and rest for a night before leaving, but the mate refused. After Ishihara Hachi thanked the mates, the mates left.
At this time, Shi Quan also walked out of the wing room. Seeing that the yard was packed, Shi Quan bowed to Ishihara Kaito and said, "Mr. Shi, I bought some rice, grain, meat and vegetables in my own way, and now they are all in the kitchen.
.In addition, the hot water is ready. If there is no other order, I will take people back first."
Ishihara Hai thanked him quickly and turned to look at his daughter. Now all the money in the family is on her daughter, so now she can only let her daughter come to check out.
Shi Jinrou stepped forward with a smile, bowed to Shi Quan, and said, "Manager Shi has been bothered! The arrangement is so thoughtful, my father and I thanked me here." As she said that, she took off her purse and handed it over.
He said to Shi Quan, "My father and I don't know the price here. There are a few taels of silver here. We all think it's money to buy those ingredients. If there are too many, we think it's just to ask Manager Shi to have a cup of herbal tea to cool off the heat.
Now, please accept it with a smile!"
Although I don’t know the prices in Yi'an County, Shi Jinrou knew that the prices of those things would not be higher than two taels, and there were four taels of silver and dozens of big money in this purse, so Shi Quan would never be allowed to do so.
If you suffer a loss, of course, you will get rewards.
I first arrived in Yi'an and I were not familiar with the place. If I had to rely on my own management, there would definitely be a lot of inconvenience. Now the people in the Hou Mansion have helped me get some trivial matters in order to save me and my father a lot of trouble.
.Not mentioning that Shi Quan is the manager of the Hou Mansion, even for the sake of the busyness of others, he and his father should have expressed it.
Shi Quan was not polite, so he took the purse openly. After thanking the county magistrate and son, he took the servants from the marquis's mansion away.
After Shi Quan left, Shi Jinrou directed Xiao Lian, Xiuhe and Gu Pozi to open the cage. First, he found Shi Yuanhai's luggage, arranged the room, and asked Shui Sheng to carry hot water and let his father clean it.
Then he took Xiao Lian and others to the yard behind.
Shi Jinrou was not busy decorating the room, but asked Gu Pozi and Xiao Lian to carry hot water and take a comfortable shower.
Afterwards, several servants were asked to take turns boiling water and taking a bath.
After Shi Jinrou finished washing, she started to make the bed by herself. At this moment, Xiao Lian, who was going out to pour water, walked in and said, "Miss, Brother Shuisheng said that there are two people who look like hotel friends, carrying several large food boxes.
When he came, he said that it was the dinner that Shi from the Hou Mansion ordered for us. The master said that the lady had finished cleaning up and went to eat."
After hearing this, Shi Jinrou sighed in her heart the attentiveness of the servants of the Hou Mansion.
"I understand, let Mom Gu wash quickly. We will go to my father's yard to have dinner together." Shi Jinrou replied.
After dinner, everyone rested and didn't mention it.
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The next day, Shi Jin slept softly and felt refreshed after getting up, and the fatigue along the way disappeared.
Shi Jinrou stood in the yard, spread her arms as much as possible, and took a deep breath. The feeling of freedom was so good!
After Shi Jinrou asked Xiao Lian, she realized that her father had gone to the former yamen and the former county magistrate to handle the handover.
After breakfast, Shi Jinrou changed into men's clothes and took Xiao Lian out of the side door of the back house. She wanted to go and understand the people's feelings for her father.
After walking a distance from home, Shi Jinrou hired a carriage without a shed on the street.
The coachman is a young man in his twenties. He looks honest and Shi Jinrou ordered the coachman: "Brother, I just arrived in our Yi'an and want to go around the city. Please do some things.
The tour guide, no matter where he is, will take me to see it. I will pay you a few more cents for the car in the future.”
Although the young coachman couldn't understand the word "tour guide", he could understand "going around" and "paying more money on the car".
Chapter completed!