It was not difficult for Liu Qi to answer the tricky question raised by the arrogant young man about whether the county government should recruit female soldiers or conduct beauty pageants or select concubines. However, it was difficult for Liu Qi to answer this question when faced with the questioning, angry and onlookers in front of him.
As for the issue of offspring, we cannot tell the truth that the county magistrate’s wife Huang Wudie wanted to be a female general and lead the army, so she recruited female soldiers, let alone what Huang Wudie said. After Liu Qi became famous, he could be matched with female soldiers and have merit.
The subordinates and soldiers said something that was not on the table.
"This brave man is recruiting female soldiers. It's not what you said..." Being in a large crowd of family members of female soldiers, Liu Qi can't be frightened. He has never seen any big scenes. Regarding the recruitment of female soldiers, Liu Qi
How can big things be made public?
Liu Qi slowed down his speech, thinking about reasons as he spoke, but his tone was calm and calm: "These female soldiers recruited by the county government are indeed in shape, about the same age, and they are also very beautiful. The key is the physique of these beautiful girls.
They are stronger and more durable than ordinary women. They have advantages over male soldiers in military uniform workshops, kitchens, and the delivery of county government documents. If on the battlefield, these female soldiers in red makeup are there to cheer them on, the male soldiers will be even more brave.
.Besides, the female soldiers train, live in Xinye, take care of the family, and come and go freely. The talk of beauty pageants is pure nonsense, and the talk of selecting concubines is even more rebellious."
Seeing that Liu Qi did not blame the young man for being reckless, and explained patiently like repaying evil with kindness, the family members who had brought girls to join the army listened to what Liu Qi said so logically, and naturally nodded frequently, and showed their utmost support to the Qingtian County Magistrate.
While Liu Qi was speaking, he observed his words and saw the young man blushing and slowly lowering his head. Although Liu Qi's words were not a very appropriate reply to the young man's questioning, Liu Qi's words were sincere and his attitude of caring for the people was very sincere. For other officials,
The younger generation has been driven away long ago, so where can anyone be as kind and comforting as Liu Qi?
At this time, some people were unhappy, and started pointing fingers at the young people, saying that the county magistrate had allocated the land and it was difficult for you to cultivate it, so you came here to cause trouble, and you were just a jobless vagrant...
"This..." After hearing the unfriendly comments from the crowd, the young man became even more embarrassed and wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in.
Liu Qi couldn't bear the embarrassment of his younger generation, so he threw his hands around and said with a smile: "Dear fellow villagers, thank you for supporting this county. Why are all the newly recruited female soldiers so beautiful? That's because the new wild people are outstanding, the sky is blue and the water is beautiful, and the men are
The women plow the fields and weave, the husbands sing and the women follow, and every family has beautiful women.”
"Hahaha...hahaha, Magistrate Qingtian is full of witty words, so eloquent, so eloquent!" The crowd burst into laughter, and no one cared about the younger generation.
But at this moment, an old voice came from far away from the crowd: "Where is that Yin Sini beast? Let me see if I don't break his legs."
People stepped back one after another and consciously made way for a way, but they saw a clever boy of seven or eight years old leading an old man with gray hair on his temples and a cane with a dragon head. The old man seemed to be old, but he was full of energy.
He was an old man with an immortal spirit. He was the old man Liu Qi met when he first came to Xinye to observe the people's sentiments.
"Yin Lao, Yin Lao..." Someone in the crowd stepped forward to help him. The old man glared at the young man who was questioning Liu Qi, and then greeted the crowd. It seemed that the old man was quite popular among his neighbors in the countryside.
The old man glanced around the crowd kindly, and when he saw Liu Qi present, he was stunned for a moment, coughed a few times, and gasped: "Ahem, the unscrupulous grandson of the Yin family has offended the Qingtian County Magistrate by contradicting him. He deserves death."
kneel.
How could Liu Qi make the old man kneel down? He quickly stepped forward to help him, and imitated everyone's name and said: "Yin Lao, we have met before. This county is new to Xinye, thanks to Yin Lao's guidance. I wanted to visit again, but I was busy with official duties.
I'm really sorry for the delay."
The old man's eyes lit up, his whole body trembled, and he said excitedly: "Young master, you have such a good memory. Even though I am an old man, I can make the county magistrate take it to heart. Your son, the county magistrate, is really a blessing to the people of Xinye. Please accept my respect."
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Liu Qi helped him for a while, then he felt a little puzzled. In ancient times, people often knelt down and worshiped whenever they wanted.
After Yin Lao exchanged pleasantries with the county magistrate Liu Qi, he turned around and glared angrily at the young man who was standing with his head bowed. He tremblingly raised his staff and started to hit him, saying vaguely: "Yin Sini, you are so unworthy of your grandson, you are a worthless beast.
, are you spouting dirty words just for the sake of a child bride? If the eldest son hadn’t donated four or five baht to me years ago, your grandson would have frozen to death on the street, and he wouldn’t have knelt down to accompany Qingtian County Magistrate.”
Child bride? What's going on? Liu Qi was puzzled. It was difficult to ask due to the large number of people. He guessed that all the unusual behaviors of this young man today must be related to the child bride.
But what is the name of this descendant, Yin Lao? Yin kills you? Or is it Yin Sini? Why is this descendant’s name so weird?
He muttered the word "Yinsni" in his heart. After thinking about it for a while, Liu Qi understood that in fact, the ancients had quite a lot of weird names, and there were quite a few with "Ni" in their names. Not to mention the foreign Nietzsche, Che
Ernyshevsky, as everyone is familiar with, the great thinker, politician, educator, and founder of Confucianism in the late Spring and Autumn Period, Mr. Confucius is called Kong Zhongni; there are many people with "Si", not to mention the foreign Stalin.
, Ostrovsky, Li Si, the famous prime minister of the Qin Dynasty, must be familiar to everyone.
As for why the ancients liked to take the name "Si" or "Ni", there is a reason for it. Combining "Si" with the surname Yin, Yin Si Ni becomes "Yin Shi You", which is quite a cruel name.
It seems that this is a family of the Yin family, and the person named Yin Lao is probably the grandfather of "Yin Sini", which gives him a big advantage in naming him. Maybe the ancient homophonic pronunciation is not "Yin will kill you".
Just when Liu Qi was thinking about the weird name "Yin Sini - I'll kill you", he saw Mr. Yin raising his stick to scold Sun, so he stepped forward to stop Mr. Yin's cane. Even though he was Mr. Yin's tutor, he slapped him in front of the county magistrate.
People are also inappropriate.
However, at the moment when Mr. Yin raised his stick, Liu Qi had an interesting thought. If this young man who dared to confront the county magistrate in front of the public was kept by his side, the young man who dared to confront the county magistrate in front of the public, who had the same pronunciation as "Yin Si Ni", could call out "Yin Si Ni" from time to time.
"Death to you", isn't it possible to always be alert to the fact that you are being "yined" by others? Besides, this young man seems to be very eloquent and courageous. If he can be trained and used, he may become a useful person? If he accepts the "yin Sini"
, repaying evil with kindness, you will definitely have more confidants from now on, right?
When Liu Qi was about to stop the old man's cane, he found that his legs were shaking when he saw the old man. It seemed that his family was very strict and he did not avoid the old man's cane, so he knelt down to welcome the old man's cane.
It was too late, but it was too soon. Liu Qi used his eyes to signal the guard general Chen Chun not to step forward. He deliberately took a step diagonally and blocked the strike of Yin Lao with his shoulder. There was a muffled sound and the cane of Yin Lao hit hard.
It fell on Liu Qi's shoulders.
This is not bad. The cane used by the old man to teach his grandson hit the county magistrate for being disrespectful. Everyone was dumbfounded. Chen Chun, Chen Xia and others tried to move forward to capture Mr. Yin. Liu Qi waved his hand.
Chen Chun's four guards will retreat aside.
Liu Qi rubbed his sore shoulders, grinned, and whispered to the stunned Yin Lao: "Yin Lao, I have something to say first, and the person who speaks is not guilty. You, Sun Yin, a strong man who speaks outright and has no fault in his heart, don't do it.
Blame him."
"Oh, you are such a good eldest son." Mr. Yin slammed his cane on the ground and pointed at Yin Sini. He burst into tears and slowly said in front of everyone that he was the child bride betrothed to Yin Sini by Yin's family.
After recruiting female soldiers, Yin Sini, who had been wandering around the recruitment office for several days, was afraid that her daughter-in-law would eat official food and become an official's family and lose her.
Ling Liu Qi's words were expressed with deep emotion, which is understandable.
After hearing this, everyone was in an uproar again. Huang Wudie saw that Liu Qi had resolved a crisis of public dissatisfaction. He didn't think it was too much for Yin Sini's recklessness. He came to Liu Qi and said softly: "Master, I think this Yin Sini is brave."
Since there is love and justice, it is better to retire the female soldier and go home, so that lovers can become lovers."
Liu Qi chuckled: "Die'er is a female general. It's up to you to make the decision regarding this female soldier."
Huang Wudie said: "Well, let me ask this strong man what his wife's name is?"
The soft conversation between Liu Qi and Huang Wudie was clearly heard by everyone nearby. Yin Sini was not happy when he heard it, but became anxious. He quickly knelt down and took two steps forward, crying: "County Magistrate Liu, you
I was obsessed with my passion and wrongly blamed the county magistrate. Since there is no beauty pageant, it is a great honor to serve as a soldier under Magistrate Liu. My daughter-in-law has finally been selected. Don’t give up.
Come back."
"Well, let's ask Mr. Yin." Liu Qi did not directly answer Yin Sini's question, but smiled and looked at Mr. Yin who was holding the cane.
Yin Lao's mood returned to calm, and he pointed at Yin Si Ni who was blushing with shame and said: "This little beast said something humanly. It is really an honor for my Yin family to be able to obey orders under the eldest son's tent. How can we recruit troops?"
Child's play? You don't have to worry. The young master is magnanimous and has strict laws, so he won't change his orders day and night. You should study harder and practice harder every day. If it doesn't take more than two or three years, I'm afraid you won't be able to keep up with your wife who is a soldier."
"Hahaha, hahaha, what Mr. Yin said makes sense." Mr. Yin made everyone laugh heartily.
Jiang Wan took the opportunity to persuade the crowd of onlookers to disperse, so as not to affect the recruitment work for the last day. People dispersed voluntarily out of respect for Qingtian County Magistrate Liu Qi.
After a small interlude, the recruitment work was carried out normally, and the recruitment quota was only four or five places short. In order to avoid a large number of people crowding the gate of the county house, Huang Wudie did not sit on a chair, but simply walked around among the female soldiers who had applied.
, based on his vision and first impression, he randomly selected a few girls for physical fitness tests, and quickly got a hundred special female soldiers.
After the recruitment work was over, the people who gathered in front of the county government left reluctantly. Some were happy, some were disappointed, but most of them still left talking and laughing. They were worried about Sini's confrontation with Qingtian County Magistrate Liu Qi because of his wife.
It was enough for people to talk about it for a long time, and the many deeds of the county magistrate repaying evil with kindness and the Qing Dynasty's suppression of the local tycoons in Echeng who "immediately ennobled them" were also talked about by the new people.
When the people who applied for the draft left one after another, Liu Qi and Zhao Yun helped Jiang Wan and Huang Wudie clean up the tables, chairs and benches, put away the female soldier registration book, and packed it up. Everyone was about to leave, but saw Yin Sini sweating profusely from the rush.
, ran up to Liu Qi, clasped his fists with both hands, and said loudly: "Young Master, I also want to be a soldier."
Seeing Yin Sini's embarrassment, Huang Wudie smiled and joked: "Yin Zhuangshi, you are not mistaken. I am recruiting female soldiers here, not to mention that the number of female soldiers is full. You don't want to replace your wife."