novelaction Chapter 1184 I have the final say on my people
Chapter 1184 I have the final say on my people
Zhou Guo smiled mysteriously, "I can't afford it now, but maybe I can afford it in the future. By next year, I can give you a county magistrate and chief clerk."
He looked at the dilapidated government office and said, "Your county government office is too small. Why don't you choose a new one? It will be too expensive to rebuild it."
After all, it is still a poor county, so spending money so lavishly is not advisable, and we should save as much as possible.
The county magistrate had no idea what she was up to, and thought she was talking in her sleep, so he changed the subject, "If we continue like this, in three or four days, all the relief grain will be distributed."
Zhou Guo took the account book beside him and said, "Let me see."
The next day, before she had finished her breakfast, two families who had not invited anyone the night before came directly to the yamen to block her.
I was going to go straight in, but was stopped by someone.
"Get out of the way. Do you know who we are? We want to see the adults!"
The gatekeepers were all brothers who came down from the mountains. They looked them up and down nonchalantly, then smiled and said, "Hey, look at these well-dressed guys, they actually have some money. Ah, brothers, the fat sheep are coming!"
The brothers got excited.
Having been a bandit for a long time, he subconsciously had some evil ideas when he saw such a rich man.
Under normal circumstances, they would never let such a person go.
The malicious grin made everyone in the group feel scared.
A young man in his teens rushed up and said arrogantly, "What are you doing? I tell you, this is Fengfei County. In Fengfei County, even if you are a tiger from outside, you have to lie down for me, and even if you are a dragon, you have to coil up for me, otherwise, I will not let you leave Fengfei County!"
He spoke with extraordinary confidence, looking at the few people coldly, watching the brothers guarding the gate as if they were dealing with a dead man.
The brothers were stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter. "Oh my, it's not easy. We have lived for so long, but we didn't expect that someone would say such a thing to us. I have never said this before, but we often say similar things to others."
Someone ran in and said to Zhou Guo who was eating, "Sir, there are people from those two families again last night."
Zhou Guo was peeling a tea egg when he heard this and asked, "Why is there so much noise outside? What are you doing?"
The visitor told everything.
Wu Lazi was the first one who couldn't help himself. He slammed the table and stood up, angrily saying, "This is outrageous. These people actually want to break into the government office. They dare to say such things in the county government office. They don't take us seriously at all! Master, I'm going to go out and teach them a lesson!"
Zhou Guo finished the egg in a few bites, drank the last bit of porridge in the bowl, wiped his mouth slowly, stood up and said, "I'll go with you."
Wu Lazi said: "You are not needed for this matter, I am enough."
The magistrate stood up and asked, "Am I going too?"
Zhou Guo turned around and said, "No, you can go outside the city. The disaster relief work is not over yet. If you distribute the food as soon as possible, everyone can have food to eat sooner."
The three of them all went to the door. After all, they were county magistrates, so they couldn't go out through the small door, right?
When they arrived at the door, they found that things were not over yet, and the two groups were still arguing.
But no one took action because they were concerned about Zhou Guo and Wu Lazi. If they had taken action, they might have been the ones to suffer.
The people on the other side looked at their tall and strong men with big swords on their waists, and finally did not dare to attack them. No matter if they were right or wrong, they would definitely suffer if they attacked, so why bother?
Besides, a gentleman takes action rather than talks.
As soon as they saw Zhou Guo and his companions coming, the two groups consciously stopped talking.
"grown ups!"
"grown ups!"
I don't know whether this salute was to the county magistrate or to Zhou Guo, but the salute was performed anyway.
The county magistrate nodded to everyone in a haughty manner, then walked away calmly with two constables, without even stopping in full view of everyone.
The other side was a little dumbfounded. Why didn’t the county magistrate make the decision for them?
However, the county magistrate was gone, but Zhou Guo was still there. They came to find Zhou Guo, so it was useless to ask the county magistrate for this matter.
Zhou Guo looked at both sides and asked, "What's going on?"
"Sir, they came to provoke you, openly disregarding the government and you!"
"Sir, your men are rude. They relied on your reputation to speak rudely to us and refused to let us in. You must take good care of your men, otherwise they will get you into trouble sooner or later!"
"Sir, it was clearly them who provoked you first. You are not someone that anyone can see. They came here and openly wanted to see you without even saying hello, and they just barged in. How can this be justified?"
"Sir, we just want to see you, we have no ill intentions. Your subordinates won't let us in. They are relying on your power to attack and kill us. I suggest you punish them severely!"
Everyone had their own opinion, you said yours, I said mine, and the argument was so intense that the entrance was like a vegetable market.
"Shut up!!"
Wu Lazi held the knife handle in his hand, and roared with all his might. Everyone was instantly silent, and the sound of a needle falling to the ground could be heard.
Zhou Guo first glared at his own people, then looked across. It seemed that those who came this time were all younger generations of the family, and the oldest two were only in their twenties.
She asked, "Who are you from? What are you doing making such a fuss at the government gate so early in the morning?"
One of the men, who looked to be in his twenties, said, "Sir, we are from the Liu and Li families. We came to your house last night to invite you to have a chat. Do you remember?"
Zhou Guo nodded.
The man next to him said hurriedly, "Sir, we came here today to invite you to our home, but these people are so ruthless that they didn't even report us. If you don't punish them severely, they will probably come after you one day."
Zhou Guo said coldly: "Why, are you teaching me how to discipline my people and teach me how to do things?"
The man on the other side was stunned, and seeing Zhou Guo's look, he quickly waved his hands, "No, no, I wouldn't dare to teach adults how to do things even if I had ten thousand guts. I just think these gatekeepers are not suitable."
Zhou Guo said: "I have the final say on whether my people are suitable or not. You should all keep your mouths shut. If you can't even keep your own mouths shut, and you want to keep others shut, that's a joke."
The brothers on the side were overjoyed, their hearts felt like a burning charcoal, warm, and they looked at the opposite side proudly, like a victorious rooster.
Wu Lazi's eyes were full of smiles, and she raised her head higher as she stood next to Zhou Guo. Look, this is the future she chose for herself and her brothers.
The people on the other side didn't seem to expect that she would protect her own people so much that they were not allowed to say a bad word. Their faces became much uglier. After all, they were well-known figures in the local area. Who wouldn't give them some face?
Even if he was a county magistrate, he didn't put on airs when he met them and even greeted them. Why, just because you are an outsider and don't even know what kind of official you are, you can put on airs like this?