BHBF Chapter 78.6

Boss, He’s Becoming a Father (Arc 4) Chapter 78.6: Playful Son (33)

But when Shao Yu insisted, they could only let it go, and even prepared themselves that it might taste bad. However, they couldn’t stop eating it. They felt that it was obviously a very ordinary dish, but in Shao Yu’s hands, it could emit a different brilliance.

The carriage continued on the road and soon arrived at the border of Lingnan.

Lingnan is an area with many mountains and trees, and there are even many bandits who claim to be kings. Even the official roads are not peaceful.

But this group of people had no danger along the way. The biggest crisis they encountered was the miasma in the forest.

A servant fell ill and finally survived with the help of medicine. Under the supervision of Shao Yu, everyone in the Shao family strictly ate one bowl of barley with each meal, so the family was in good condition.

After days of traveling, the carriage finally arrived at a place called Qingning County.

Shao Yu lifted the curtain of the carriage and took a look at the mottled city walls of Qingning County and the almost blurred words “Qingning”.

“This place is very broken.” Shao Jiashu said.

“The broken conditions mean that they are difficult. The more difficult the conditions are, the more help is needed,” said Shao Yu.

Along the way, Shao Yu made it clear to the children that he came to Qingning County not to be an official, but to try his best to find a way out for the people of Qingning County. Therefore, he planted the seeds for them early on that their lives might be difficult.

Shao Jiashu snorted when she heard this and said, “The people in this place are so lucky to have my father here.”

Qingning County is backed by the sea, with many mountains and trees. The city walls are dilapidated, but when you walk in, you find that the conditions inside are even worse.

It is called a county town, but it is more dilapidated than the small towns under the jurisdiction of the capital. The whole county town is very poor, and the county government office is even more dilapidated, like an ancient temple in a deserted mountain.

Shao Yu was not in a hurry to take up his post. Instead, he took a carriage around the city, found an inn for his family to stay in, and then took a tour of the county town before going to the county government to take up his post.

Shao Yu came to take up his post with the imperial seal, but the officials here did not seem to buy into it. Except for a few who were relatively warm, the others seemed a bit perfunctory.

Shao Yu had no intention of pursuing the matter, but instead asked where the back house was. After all, his family couldn’t always live in the inn.

According to the rules, most county magistrates had to live in the back house of the county government office. However, the back house of the county government office in Qingning County had been in disrepair for many years, leaking badly, and was extremely dirty inside, making it uninhabitable.

“Where did the previous county magistrate usually live?” Shao Yu asked.

Wu Xiancheng replied, “Lord Zou rented a house outside the county government office at that time. If you need it, I have an empty house in my house that I can rent to you.”

Shao Yu frowned slightly when he heard this, and walked around outside the dilapidated house.

Seeing that Shao Yu had no intention of renting a house, Lord Wu said, “If you insist on living here, I’m afraid it will need some repairs. I’ll go check the account to see if there’s any money I can give you.”

County magistrates usually seldom renovate their government offices. After all, renovating a government office is to improve their environment. If this were to get out, people would probably think that the county magistrate is not honest.

When Lord Wu said this, he was certain that Shao Yu would not be able to repair the yamen.

Shao Yu heard this and said, “There is no need to repair the yamen, but I will take a look at the account.”

Upon hearing this, Lord Wu frowned slightly, and after thinking for a moment, he said, “Your Excellency may as well wait a little longer. The clerk in charge of the accounts has been busy these two days, and the account book is not clear enough. I am afraid that it will offend your Excellency.”

“Earlier you said you wanted to check the public account to see if there was any extra money, but now you say the account book is messy and unclear. Does it mean that in your opinion, you can read this account book but I can’t?” Shao Yu questioned.

He had already seen that this Lord Wu seemed to have absolute power in the county government and was not someone who was easy to deal with. Shao Yu understood that to deal with such a person, he had to suppress him from the beginning, otherwise the other party would only become more and more aggressive.

Sure enough, Lord Wu was stunned for a moment. After all, he was a local and his family was very powerful in the local area. Therefore, there was a saying that the county magistrates came and went but the county magistrate remained the same. Therefore, the several county magistrates who came and went did not change their positions for the sake of their own political achievements.

A person wants to have a good relationship with him.

Only Shao Yu wanted to give him a slap in the face as soon as he arrived.

“Your Excellency is overthinking. I was just afraid that you might not understand, so I didn’t mean to stop you from looking at the accounts.” Lord Wu said.

Shao Yu immediately said: “Maybe I was overthinking. I thought it was Lord Wu who had something to hide, so he wanted to stop it.”

Shao Yu had said this, and Lord Wu could no longer stop him. However, he was thinking in his heart that the county government’s accounts were in such a mess that Shao Yu would definitely not understand.

But who would have thought that Shao Yu took the account book, flipped through it a few times, and then said to Lord Wu: “Lord Wu, you are so nice!”

Lord Wu was startled when he heard this, but soon calmed down and said, “Sir Shao, what do you mean?”

“This month alone, one hundred and eight taels of silver are missing from the account. How do you explain that?” Shao Yu asked.

When Lord Wu heard this number, his heart skipped a beat. He didn’t expect Shao Yu to be so smart and report the number exactly as it was.

But soon Lord Wu calmed down again, thinking that everyone in this yamen was his own people, and he had already taken care of even the provincial officials, so he was not afraid of Shao Yu’s trouble at all.