If you deduct six months' salary, there must be something wrong here.

However, looking at the malnourished appearance of Cui Zhubu, it was really a world of difference compared to Xue Ping's oily face. Zhou Ze said oh and then asked:

"Everyone?"

"Yeah, everyone."

"What's the reason for Luzhou?"

Zhubu Cui stood up and saluted respectfully before saying.

"In July, the chief of Luzhou committed suicide due to corruption. The case involved more than a dozen people. The greedy silver liang was recorded as 1,500 taels. He had not paid his salary for four months. In this way, the prefecture thoroughly investigated the case and had not yet cleared it, and the salary had not been paid yet."

Zhou Ze understood that although this matter was a corruption case, the prefect of Luzhou wanted to investigate it himself and make the matter smaller so as not to affect it widely. However, the hole was too big and could not be blocked for a while.

But logically speaking, such a thing will not take too long. It seems that this case is not as simple as it is.

"I have recorded this matter. Even if I ask, it will be difficult to solve the urgent problem. Is there any remaining money in the county government's accounts?"

Zhubu Cui smiled bitterly.

"I'm not hiding it from the Ming Mansion. At this time, there were only debts in the accounts of the government office, and no spare money."

Zhou Ze looked embarrassed. As expected, he was really poor.

"I understand. I haven't seen the county magistrate. He is not in the county government?"

Zhou Ze came for half an hour and should have shown up in front of him. He had basically arrived at the lobby just now, but he didn't see the county magistrate. It is logical that the second-in-command also has his own confidants. He should have shown his face when he knew he was here.

I can't say that if I can't get a salary, I won't go to work, right?

Zhuzhu Cui quickly explained.

"Liu County Chenggong's mother was seriously ill. She had not had a drop of water for several days. She vomited after eating and drinking. She was so thin that she was no longer as thin as a bucket of stomach. She had found many doctors to treat her but she had no good way.

County Magistrate Liu has been taking leave these days. His father died when he was young. His mother grew up by washing clothes and supporting him. If he had some money on hand, he could hire a famous doctor from Luzhou, but now..."

Zhou Ze nodded. He understood that the chief clerk Cui said three words without leaving the word "Salary", and they didn't say it clearly. Anyway, I'll tell you the difficulties, so I can do it myself.

However, there is priority for matters, and helping life is the most important thing.

"Sanbao comes in!"

Sanbao quickly opened the door and came in. Xiaobai, who was on Sanbao's shoulder, jumped directly on Zhou Ze. Cui Zhubu was stunned, not very surprised. Sanbao walked to Zhou Ze with some restraint.

"What are the instructions for the young master?"

"How much money do you have?"

Sanbao fumbled on his body. Because he wanted to settle the ship fee, he left a lot of money. He fumbled and took it out and put it on the table.

Zhou Ze pushed the silver to Zhubu Cui and said frankly:

"These silvers are taken first to respond to the emergency."

Zhubu Cui was shocked. This was his boss who actually gave him money. What did this happen? He urged him just to hope that his salary would be delivered sooner.

"This is not something that Mingfu can do!"

Zhou Ze raised his hand and stopped him.

"I don't have much money, but I still have some surplus after selling the carriage. I don't have a salary for six months. I know how difficult the family is. Besides, County Chief Liu does need money, so I will pay it back to me after I get the salary."

Zhubu Cui was a little excited and did not refuse anymore. It could be seen that he was really short of money.

"Then I would like to thank Ming Mansion. I will take my leave first. You need to place it. The backyard has been sorted out. If there is any need, I will order someone to do it."

Zhou Ze waved his hand. The county government was so poor that it was not embarrassing to ask them for credit.

"You go!"

Cui Wenbin left without any more greetings.

Sanbao looked unhappy, and when he saw someone walking away, he kept muttering with his lips:

"Young master can't spend money like this. We don't have much money either. How much money will be spent on the way? If we deduct our salary for another six months, we will be tying our necks."

Zhou Ze waved his hand.

"Don't talk nonsense, ask someone to clean the courtyard behind me. I took a rough look. Although I cleaned it, the details were still dirty, and then took out my medicine box."

The three treasures blinked, looking puzzled.

"What are you doing with a medicine box? Are you injured?"

Xiaobai turned around and she couldn't stand it anymore.

"I'm so stupid. He wants to treat Liu County Chenggong's mother. I guess he wants to save money."

Zhou Ze raised his hand and rubbed Xiaobai's head. Since he had experienced it more together, Xiaobai no longer rejected him. He would never say one more word to Sanbao before, and he would only pretend to be asleep when he was like this.

Seeing her complaining, Zhou Ze couldn't help laughing.

"Okay, go and prepare."

Sanbao curled his lips and went there quickly.

Zhou Ze changed into casual clothes and walked around the county government. Not to mention that the county government occupied a lot of land.

Entering through the gate, there are east-west team rooms on both sides of the left and right sides, which is the office location of the bad people. Through the Yimen Gate, you can reach Jieshifang. On the west side is the Bingxing Workshop. When you go to the platform, you will be the lobby. This is only half of the front yard of the yamen.

The other half, entering through the east side of the yamen, was Masiyuan, which was the place where the horse and carriage were parked and the sedan chairmen stayed. When Zhou Ze went over, he found that the sedan chair was so broken that it was difficult to hide the rain.

Between Masiyuan and the county government gate is the outer courtyard of the prison cell, behind which is the southern and northern prison cells are ordinary criminals, and they are detained separately from Qiu Houwen.

Behind the cell is a completely sealed wall, here is a small inn, and behind these two courtyards, a veranda from the lobby, is the place to live behind.

Anyway, after walking around, Zhou Ze felt a word, that is, destruction.

All the buildings here are almost completely leak-free. Just now in the lobby, the roof had defective tiles that could transmit light.

Zhou Ze sighed, Xiaobai lay on Zhou Ze's shoulder, looked at him and asked:

"Repent?"

"I didn't regret it. I didn't come at that time and it was a crime of deceiving the emperor. I just didn't expect it to be so destructive here! Didn't I say that the Qing magistrate had 100,000 silver silver in three years?"

Xiaobai didn't take this incident. After contacting him these days, she also gained some understanding of Zhou Ze. Although she was not listened to, she had her own principles.

Apart from being lazy and afraid of being poor, there is nothing else wrong with it.

"You said, why did the old emperor throw you here?"

Zhou Ze was startled and quickly pressed Xiaobai's head.

"Auntie, don't you harm me? Who knows if there are any masters around me? Otherwise, how can I lose the five hundred taels of pension?"

Xiaobai stood up, a little furious.

Zhou Ze sighed and quickly comforted:

"Don't be excited, this can tell you that the saint threw me here because I solved the case, the whole thing exceeded his plan, and it also involved royal relatives. The saint couldn't hold it in his face."

The little white face was filled with anger. After thinking about it carefully, he realized it.

"So that's it. Why didn't you say it earlier?"

Zhou Ze's remarks made Xiaobai's laugh, but the maintenance in this sentence still made Zhou Ze very useful.

"It was useless to say it was useless, you were very annoyed by me at that time."

Xiaobai suddenly lost his voice, obviously agreeing with Zhou Ze's words.

"What should I do now?"

Zhou Ze rubbed his chin and sat on the chair in the pavilion. He thought carefully. It was already winter. Although it was not particularly cold here, the crops that should be matured are basically mature.

So it is impossible to do planting. It takes principal to do business. Just a little money for yourself. It is not realistic to have a monopoly or short selling, so I will give up.

All the county governments in this place are so poor, and the people need to be poorer. It seems unrealistic to find a big family to search for it.

Zhou Ze sighed, this is quite difficult!

Just as he shook his head, he suddenly thought of the repayment that Xu Gongzhu had said before.

The previous Hejiang County Magistrate Liu An went to the Huangjingshan area in northwest Hejiang to encircle and kill monsters tragically. I don’t know if this monster is rich?

I remember when I was in school, I saw Jiao Aozhi in the library. I said that the monsters in the mountains are also called monts. One of them is called Shan. The annotation means that they are like light and light, and they like to hide gold, silver and gems. It can be seen that this thing moves very fast and likes to make money.

Thinking of this, Zhou Ze became energetic and raised his hand to poke Xiaobai.

"Hey, they said there are monsters around Huangjing Mountain here. Is this monster a goblin?"

Xiaobai nodded.

"The monsters mentioned in the general court are fairies, as well as various monts, etc. When I arrived here, I saw it. The three rivers gathered here, with high mountains and dense forests, and they were all ancient mountains and forests that had not been cut down for many years. Naturally, there were monsters that were indispensable."

Zhou Ze's eyes lit up.

"Does that monster have a habit of storing gold and silver?"
Chapter completed!