Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

"Wu Lizheng, actually I am not good at swimming." Shen Zheng began to lie.

In fact, she is better at swimming than most people. In her previous life, she had worked in countless part-time jobs, and swimming pool lifeguard was one of them. The salary for this job during the summer vacation was quite considerable.

Because she is a woman, the threshold for becoming a lifeguard is higher.

A man only needs to obtain a junior lifeguard certificate to be a lifeguard, but she obtained the national second-level swimming certificate, which allowed her to work part-time in the swimming pool every summer vacation.

But she could also understand that men had a natural strength advantage.

Since she is a woman, she just needs to work harder. There will always be a day when she will be stronger than them.

Wu Lizheng looked suspicious after hearing what Shen Zheng said: "Then...how did you rescue Erya?"

"When I was on the shore, I vaguely heard a voice in my mind saying that as long as I went down to the river to save people, I would be safe."

"I don't know why, but I jumped in. After I got into the water, I found that I could swim!" Shen Zheng continued to make up stories.

"Wu Lizheng, why do you think this is happening?"

Shen Zheng asked deliberately.

Wu Lizheng's face lit up with joy, and he actually believed it, shouting, "Lord River God has appeared!"

Then he kowtowed several times towards the river surface!

Shen Zheng looked at Wu Lizheng's pious expression and smiled secretly.

Wu Lizheng turned to Shen Zheng and said, "Sir, if you don't mind, please come to my house to change clothes. My daughter has a similar figure to you, so her clothes should fit you well."

Shen Zheng looked at her wet clothes and felt quite cold when the wind blew over her, so she nodded and agreed.

A moment later, Shen Zheng and Xu Zhubu arrived at Wu Lizheng's house.

At this time, Wu Lizheng's wife and daughter were doing needlework at home. When they heard the door open, they looked up.

They first saw the leader Wu Lizheng.

"Why are you back? Didn't you say you wouldn't go home for lunch after digging the canal today?"

Wu Lizheng waved his hand and called to his daughter, "Hehua, go get the county magistrate a set of your clothes."

Only then did the mother and daughter see Shen Zheng and Xu Zhubu beside them.

When Hehua saw that Shen Zheng’s clothes were soaked, she cried out “Ouch” and ran back into the house, lifting her skirt.

When Shen Zheng changed her clothes and came out, Wu and He Hua were already preparing lunch for them.

Wu Lizheng also tried to persuade them to stay: "My two lords, please have dinner before leaving."

Shen Zheng shook her head. She wanted to go and see what the workers were eating, as she was afraid that the people in the public kitchen would not be sure of the food and would mistreat them.

"I have something else to do with Xu Zhubu, so I'll leave first. Wu Lizheng, please stay at home and have dinner with your family before going to Bashang."

After saying that, Shen Zheng pulled Xu Zhubu's sleeve and left together.

After the two of them left, Xu Zhubu stopped and Shen Zheng looked at him puzzledly. Did he want to stay for dinner?

Following Xu Zhubu's gaze, Shen Zheng saw that her hand was still pulling Xu Zhubu's sleeve.

She laughed awkwardly, loosened her hand, and stroked Xu Zhubu's sleeves: "Just now I was worried that you would not leave, so I was a little anxious."

As for the Wu family behind them, after Shen Zheng and Xu Zhubu left, Mrs. Wu grabbed Wu Lizheng.

"Dad, that woman just now is the magistrate of our county?"

Wu Lizheng nodded: "Don't look at you as a woman, you are a man of great talent!"

Wu continued to ask: "What about the other man, who is he?"

Wu Lizheng looked at her suspiciously: "Xu Zhubu, what's wrong?"

Wu touched the handkerchief in her hand and asked tentatively, "I think Xu Zhubu is gentle and elegant, and he is about the same age as our Hehua..."

"Nonsense!" Wu Lizheng interrupted Wu with a wave of his sleeves.

"You are so bold! He is the chief clerk of a county!"

Lotus beside her also stamped her feet and said, "Mother! I don't like that chief clerk! But father, you... you should ask the county magistrate to come home more often."

A month ago, when she learned that the new county magistrate was a woman, she wanted to meet her.

How impressive it is for a woman to be an official! I don’t know how much effort she put in to get to this point.

She regarded Shen Zheng as her goal. Although she had not read much, she believed that if she worked hard, she would be able to become as dazzling as the county magistrate in other aspects.

When she saw Shen Zheng today, she couldn't take her eyes off her. The aura emanating from Shen Zheng made her want to get closer to her.

On the other side, when Shen Zheng and Xu Zhubu returned to the dam, Xu Zhubu looked like he wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Master Chief Clerk, just say whatever you want to say." Shen Zheng couldn't stand his dullness anymore and urged him.

"Is it true what you said about the river god appearing?"

She thought it was something else.

"What do you think?" Shen Zheng teased.

Seeing Shen Zheng's expression, Xu Zhubu immediately understood. He almost believed such an outrageous thing just now!

After learning the truth, Xu Zhubu hurried on his way, and Shen Zheng had to quickly follow him.

When the two returned to the dam, they happened to see Uncle Lai, who was in charge of the public kitchen, pushing a cart with a few temporarily hired waiters.

The wooden barrels on the cart are filled with the workers' lunch for the day.

After the public kitchen staff stopped the carts one by one, they struck a gong: "It's time to eat!"

The laborers had been working for the whole morning and were already hungry. When they heard that it was time for lunch, they hurried back to the rest area, picked up their own bowls and chopsticks, and trotted over.

Everyone was pushing each other and no one was willing to give way to anyone else, fearing that they would have nothing to eat if they came too late.

Shen Zheng frowned as she looked at the chaos. It would be extremely unsafe to continue like this. She was afraid that people would start arguing or accidents would happen.

Shen Zheng called Uncle Lai over and told him to divide the carts into five teams to deliver meals to the five large groups of workers.

She raised her hand again to ask the people who were pushing and shoving to calm down.

"Fellow villagers, please line up according to your respective groups. The public kitchen will divide five food carts to serve food to everyone. Everyone will get the same amount! Don't crowd!"

How could they disobey the county magistrate's words? Although the laborers were extremely hungry, they still obediently lined up according to Shen Zheng's instructions.

At this time, the kitchen boy opened the lid of the wooden barrel, and a fragrant smell instantly came to the nose.

The glutinous fragrance of rice mixed with the aroma of vegetables fried with lard instantly conquered the people in the queue. They tried hard to sniff their noses, it would be good to smell the aroma of oil more!

"This rice smells like new rice! I haven't eaten it for several months!" said a middle-aged man.

"We're talking about rice, but that dish smells so oily that it's making me drool!" The old man behind the middle-aged man smelled the oil in the air with an intoxicated look on his face.

For people in Tongan County, cooking with lard is a luxury.

They could eat dishes fried with lard once every two weeks, which was a great luxury!

What? You mean meat?

I only eat it once a month! Every time I hold it in my mouth, I can't bear to swallow it!

At this time, the man first in line had already received his meal. He was holding the bulging rice and greasy vegetables, but he didn't dare to leave.

He swallowed and asked the guy who served the food, "Brother, why is there so much? Did you make a mistake? I can't pay it back if I eat it."