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

She turned over and called Fang Ziyan: "Fat Master, let's go."

Fat Young Master! The county residents nearby laughed loudly. Fang Ziyan felt humiliated. He turned around and glared at Shen Zheng, then followed them dejectedly.

When the three of them arrived at the county government office, there was still a long queue at the entrance.

Fang Ziyan pushed Pei Zhaoqi next to him and asked, "What are you doing at the county government? Are you collecting taxes?"

In Fang Ziyan's understanding, his family had to pay taxes when they went to the county government office, and they had to pay a large sum of money every time they went.

Pei Zhaoqi didn't want to pay attention to him, but when he looked at the people who were collecting food coupons, he felt proud of his county government and answered:

"Everyone is lining up to get food coupons. With the coupons, you can go to the grain store to buy affordable food. Rice is eight cents a pound."

"What! Rice is only eight cents!" Fang Ziyan screamed.

Pei Zhaoqi thought he was shocked by the welfare of their county government. Just as he was about to say a few more words, he was left speechless by Fang Ziyan's next words.

"I always thought rice was only a few dozen coins per pound, how come it's so cheap!"

"......" Pei Zhaoqi took a breath and explained: "The price of rice these days is 15 cents per pound. The price in Quanyang County should be the same."

Fang Ziyan nodded in understanding, finally grasping the key point of their conversation: "Then why is it only eight cents per pound after you get the food coupons?"

Finally, the question came to this point. Pei Zhaoqi spoke calmly:

"It was the county magistrate. She negotiated with the grain store to lower the grain price to that of a good year, and the county government will subsidize the difference until the autumn harvest. This way, all the people in our county can eat cheap grain."

This time Fang Ziyan was really shocked. He silently calculated in his mind how much money the county government had lost, but he couldn't figure it out. He could only glance at Shen Zheng who was standing next to him:

"He can be considered a half-good official."

When Shen Zheng heard this, she wanted to mock him again: "How can you be considered a good official? Why don't you arrest this playboy today?"

Fang Ziyan knew that he couldn't win the argument with her, and every time he spoke to her he would be defeated, so he had to keep silent.

He secretly warned himself not to say anything bad about this woman in front of her next time, not even good things!

Shen Zheng took the two of them quietly back to the backyard of the county government office without disturbing the people in the front yard.

She arranged a double room for them. The facilities in the room were ordinary, with only two beds and a desk.

As soon as Pei Zhaoqi entered the room, he started cleaning and wiped the bed and desk clean.

After seeing the room environment, Fang Ziyan was very disgusted and insisted on moving out to an inn.

Shen Zheng sneered. When she showed him a friendly look, he lost sight of the situation again: "You are dreaming. If you don't stay in jail, go to jail right now."

Fang Ziyan immediately shut his mouth, thinking that his elder brother would be here soon and he would not have to stay in this shabby house tonight.

He took a small stool and sat in the front yard of the county government office, staring at the gate of the county government office, waiting for the figure of his elder brother Fang Wenxiu.

Everyone in the county government office looked at this strange little fat man and cast puzzled looks at Shen Zheng.

Shen Zheng pointed at her head with her index finger, and everyone looked at her with an expression of understanding.

The adults picked up a fool.

The fool waited until nightfall. All the villagers who came to collect food coupons had left, but he still didn't see his elder brother.

He stood up and rubbed his numb buttocks, comforting himself that it must be because it was getting late today and his brother was thinking of picking him up early tomorrow morning!

Shen Zheng brought Pei Zhaoqi to call everyone to eat. Only then did everyone in the county government realize that the master had brought back two young men today.

As soon as they sat down in the public kitchen, Shen Zheng introduced Pei Zhaoqi to everyone in the county office: "This young man lives in the east of our town. He is a student I recruited for Mr. Li. He will live in our county office from now on."

Li Hongmao, who had been busy all day, opened his mouth wide. After a day's work, he got one more student?

Shen Zheng explained to them, "All the students in our county have to go to the neighboring county to study. The tuition fees of Liuchang Academy are also very high. So I decided to open a private school in our county government office. I wonder if Mr. Li is willing to stay here to teach. From now on, the food coupons will be taken turns between the two of us."

Li Hongmao was flattered. He thought that he would be an ordinary farmer in Shanghe Village in the future. Now the county magistrate asked him to teach. How could he be so worthy?

In panic, his first reaction was to refuse: "Sir, although I have studied for more than ten years..."

"Mr. Li, you don't have to refuse." Shen Zheng interrupted him, "You passed the examination and became a scholar many years ago. If you hadn't been unlucky, everyone would have to call you a juren master. You can teach the students."

In fact, Li Hongmao was aware of his own level. If he had taken the examination at that time, he would definitely have passed.

It's not that he is arrogant, but he really has the ability. So when he first met Shen Zheng, although he was down and out, he was able to say those words without any modesty.

Now that the Lord trusts him so much, if he refuses again, it would be tactless.

"Thank you for your appreciation, sir. I will definitely teach the students in the cram school well!" Li Hongmao bowed to Shen Zheng.

Pei Zhaoqi was very excited to hear that this teacher had passed the imperial examination. Although his family was poor, he should go home tomorrow to prepare a gift to pay his respects to his teacher.

At this time, Xiao Yuan looked at Fang Ziyan who was sitting next to him and asked curiously, "Sir, what about this young master? Is he also a student recruited by Mr. Li?"

Fang Ziyan showed a disdainful expression on his face and was interrupted by Shen Zheng when he was about to refute.

"The landlord's stupid son, don't worry about him."

As soon as these words came out, everyone started to hold back their laughter. Fang Ziyan couldn't hold back his pride and stood up suddenly: "My Fang family is the richest in Quanyang County, not a landlord family!"

"Hahahahahaha!" Hearing his rebuttal, everyone laughed out loud without giving him any face.

Fang Ziyan didn't understand why they laughed at him even though he said he was the richest man, and he felt a little helpless.

Shen Zheng also had a smile on her face and raised her hand to greet him: "Hurry up and sit down to eat, stupid son of the richest man."

Only then did Fang Ziyan understand why everyone was laughing at him. He was so angry that he wished he could find a hole to crawl into. He lowered his head and saw the food on the table. There was no meat at all!

How could he eat without meat? He turned his face away and said, "I won't eat these pig food. You guys can eat them yourself!"

After he said that, he ran out without looking back.

Xiao Yuan quickly turned around to look for her mother, and when she found that she was not in the public kitchen, Xiao Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

If my mother knew that the food she cooked was called pig food, I wonder how sad she would be...

Shen Zheng teased him, "Xiao Yuan, instead of caring about Aunt Yuan, why don't you care about our colleagues who are being called pigs?"

Everyone burst into laughter again, but the boy's angry words were not to be taken seriously, so everyone ignored him and just started eating.