Chapter 22 If you often walk by the river, how can your shoes not get wet?

The people of Wushang County hosted a banquet for the county governor Tang Mao.

More people came. Chen Guoxiang Luo Jun sent his clansmen to pay a visit. Wu Shangliu came with his family. Someone from Wu Shang's Kong family also came.

The guests enjoyed the meal, which lasted from lunch till late at night.

Yin time the next day.

Before daybreak, Tang Mao began to wash and get ready.

Wushang County deserves attention, for no other reason than that the county magistrate has run away, and Tang Mao must fill this loophole before the governor of Yangzhou finds out.

Otherwise, his political career would really have to rely on his daughter to continue.

If there is an opportunity to rise to the top through one's own strength, who would want to sell their daughter for fame?
A scholar can be killed but not humiliated! Tang Mao also had the pride of the scholar class in his heart.

"Yesterday, I saw Ni'er talking and laughing with that brat."

A dozen oil lamps lit up the dark night. Tang Mao opened his arms and let his mother and the maid tidy up his clothes. "What did the two of them say?"

"What else can I say?" Tang's mother smoothed her wrinkles and said calmly, "Let's talk about love and marriage."

"Jin Mao is so brave!"

"Humph!"

Tang Mao snorted coldly: "My parents said so, the matchmaker agreed, you want to marry my daughter? No way!"

"You." Tang's mother scolded: "You should think about how to make others work wholeheartedly."

"Humph!" Tang Mao said disdainfully: "How can a country boy have ever seen the world?"

"Just a few words and he'll obey!"

...

“You really shouldn’t have returned to your tribe!”

Jinmao is about to collapse. They came to wake me up at 5 a.m. yesterday, and now it’s 3 a.m. today?
I'm still growing, what should I do if I don't grow taller?
"Master, can't you let me sleep peacefully?"

“I didn’t have such hardship even when fighting the Yao people!”

Jin Gao was very disappointed: "The Yao people are nothing!"

"The county governor summoned you alone. This is a great thing. Are you not happy about it?"

cut!
There is no money to be made from the prefect, except Xun Yu... Oh no, it's Tang Ji.

"What good thing can come of it?" Jin Mao reluctantly let the maid help him dress and wash his face.

"Master, if the governor wants me to be a county official, I won't go!"

The maids chuckled. It was the first time they had seen someone bragging.

Jin Gao was very angry and wanted to beat this unfilial grandson to death for the second time.

"Cut the nonsense!"

"Be careful with your words when you meet the governor later!"

Jin Gao threatened: "Otherwise, you will collect your grandfather's body!"

“Well…” Jin Mao rolled his eyes, weakly.

The inner hall of the county government.

This used to be the county magistrate's residence, and now it is home to Tang Mao's family.

Tang Mao was wearing official uniform and a tall crown, looking quite dignified, kneeling at the top.

Jin Mao was dressed in a white robe, with his hair neatly tied up. He stood straight and looked a little handsome, but he had a black face, just like the handsome Justice Bao.

After the two of them greeted each other, they just stared at each other for a long time.

In the end, Tang Mao was defeated.

"Do you know why I called you here today?"

"I don't know."

Tang Mao was furious: "Do you not want to know or do you really not know?!"

Jin Mao bowed without being servile or overbearing and said, "Please give me your instructions, Governor."

This brat is so annoying, Tang Mao took a deep breath.

"A country cannot be without a ruler for a day, and a county cannot be without a county magistrate forever."

At this moment, Tang Mao just wanted to explain everything clearly as soon as possible so that he could get rid of this guy.

"I want you to represent Wushang County."

"Ah?" Jin Mao really didn't want to answer it. Such a small village had made him suffer enough.

Everyone else is grateful, why does this guy's attitude change?
Tang Mao's anger was like adding fuel to the fire, burning even more fiercely.

"If you don't want to be the boss, there are plenty of people who will be the boss!"

"Thank you, Governor." Jin Mao was overjoyed.

Tang Mao felt as if something was stuck in his throat. He stood up angrily and pointed his finger at Jin Mao: "How dare you, a small country bumpkin, raise a thousand soldiers?"

"This crime is enough to exterminate all three of your clans!"

He is anxious, he is anxious!

Jin Mao Xiao Xiong spread his hands and said, "This is the right given to me by County Magistrate Zhang to do what I want. If I want to exterminate them, I have to exterminate their three tribes."

"Hmph!" Tang Mao laughed angrily: "Okay, I will take back your right to act at your own will now."

Jin Mao was fearless: "Governor, you must be prepared for the invasion of more than 10,000 Shanyue people."

"what!"

"Do you think that apart from you, no one else can govern Shanyue?"

Tang Mao said viciously: "A few days ago, Taimu Jiao Zhengqiang reported that he had defeated the Yao tribe and captured more than a thousand heads." Jin Mao frowned. The Yao tribe had been regarded as his private land. What did the Jiao family mean?
He selectively forgot about Pan Lin.

Tang Mao thought Jin Mao was finally starting to get worried, so he immediately calmed down and said in a gentle tone, "As long as you serve as the acting county magistrate, everything will be fine."

"Is everything really easy to deal with?"

"Ah."

"I want to marry Tang Ji."

"this is not OK."

"I want to make friends with Tang Ji."

"No."

"I want to maintain a relationship with Tang Ji and exchange letters."

"no!"

"I want…"

"no!!"

Tang Mao raised his hand to interrupt: "Except my daughter."

In fact, Jin Mao was extremely excited from the moment he heard that he was going to become the acting county magistrate.

But Tang Mao's attitude made him feel that he could ask for more benefits.

"Well, Wushang County is short of salt and iron, and I need a lot of salt and iron."

"No."

"I'm short of people, a lot of literate people to help with governance."

"nor."

"Wushang County is short of farmland and livestock. I think the horses and cows outside the door are good."

The veins on Tang Mao's forehead were bulging, that was his ceremonial weapon as county magistrate.

"no!"

"Neither this nor that."

Jin Mao was unhappy: "The acting county magistrate is just a gimmick with no substance. Once the new county magistrate takes office, I will have to step down."

"Sir Governor, you can't have the cows plow the land but not give them grass to eat, right?"

Tang Mao also felt guilty, but the brat had a bad attitude and he just didn't want to give anything, even if it was just a grain of rice.

The two of them just stayed in a stalemate.

Just when Jin Mao was about to give in, Tang Mao spoke first: "I still have three years left in my term."

"In the next three years, no county magistrate will come to Wushang County."

Jin Mao stared and waited for what was to come.

Gone?

There is no benefit, and you still want me to work for three years?

Capitalists would cry when they see this.

Tang Mao was angry again. This brat is so ungrateful. I will never let Tang Ji marry him!
Suddenly, Tang Mao had an idea and smiled: "As long as you do a good job in the next three years, I can consider you as my son-in-law."

Tang Mao had more than one daughter, Tang Ji, so at worst he could just adopt a goddaughter.

Jin Mao's eyes lit up. Do you think I like your daughter?
Bah! Women will only be the messenger between me and Xun Yu.

But if we really say so, it would be like tearing someone's face off and the fight would not end until one dies.

"Sir, I have an unwelcome request."

"Since it's all an unreasonable request, then don't say anything."

Jin Mao didn't care about that. In front of Xun Yu, everything had to be put aside.

"I admire Tang Ji's talent and want to make friends with her through poetry."

"Oh?" Tang Mao was surprised for the first time: "You can also write poetry?"

"Then let me test you." Tang Mao pondered for a while.

"We will be separated after today." Tang Mao said meaningfully, "Let's make it a farewell topic."

farewell!

Jin Mao just happened to remember Li Bai's "Present to Wang Lun". Wouldn't it be a good poem if he made some minor changes?
Pretending to think, Jin Mao was in the hall, imitating Cao Zhi's seven-step poem.

"Jin Mao is about to set sail on his boat."

"Suddenly I heard singing on the shore."

"The water in Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep."

"Not as good as the love Tang Ji gave me."

Tang Mao was stunned. This boy is really talented!

"ah!"

Suddenly, a girl's scream broke the atmosphere.

At this time, the morning sun was rising, and a ray of golden light entered the hall. Tang Ji, who was hiding behind the screen, couldn't help but stick her head out. Under the golden light, the girl's face was red, like a blooming peach blossom.

"It's over!" Tang Mao couldn't understand the look in his daughter's eyes when she looked at Jin Mao. "I lost my daughter and my army."

Tang Mao originally wanted to go fishing, but it was a shark that took the hook and pulled him into the water.

(End of this chapter)