After traveling through time, she still led the villagers to make money as a county magistrate

After getting dressed, Li Jing sent Gu Niannian back to the Gu Mansion. From a distance, he saw Bai pacing back and forth at the door, "Mother, I'm back."

The word "mother" finally put Bai's heart at ease, but she was still not forgiving, "Why didn't you come home all night, child? Do you know how worried I was?"

"Do you still know that you are a woman..."

"Cough...cough"

Gu Niannian coughed and interrupted what Bai was about to say in time. She limped to Bai's side and said, "Mother, County Magistrate Li is with my son and is safe."

"Oh~ County Magistrate Li is here too! I feel relieved." Reassured, she would be relieved. If a woman stayed out with a man all night and didn't come back, the girl's reputation would be ruined. This is a crime that should be punished by being thrown into a pig cage.

"Sir Li, thank you for sending my son back. You should go back quickly too. Your mother must be worried."

Li Jing didn't say much, "Then I'll go back first."

"You still need to see a doctor about your foot. He can prescribe some ointment for the wound..." Li Jing walked a few steps and then turned back.

"Okay, I get it. You should go back soon!" For the first time, Gu Niannian felt that Li Jing was such a long-winded person.

Mrs. Bai helped her daughter back to the house and said, "Is Lord Li such a talkative person? In my impression, he doesn't talk much at all."

"He's like that, a sharp tongue but a soft heart, he becomes nagging when he gets to know someone." Gu Niannian had no choice but to explain it this way.

"By the way, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with your leg?" Bai finally remembered the important matter and asked.

"Mom, can you let me take a bath and have a meal first? I haven't eaten all night and I'm starving." Gu Niannian pleaded.

Bai said, "The hot water lady has asked Lianhua to cook it, and the food is also ready."

...

After taking a shower, Gu Niannian was eating her meal when she looked up and saw her mother staring at her without blinking. She said helplessly, "Mom, just ask whatever you want to ask!"

"Where did you go yesterday? Did anything happen? Does he know that you are a woman?" Bai asked all the questions in her mind in one breath.

"We went to see the rice fields yesterday. It rained halfway. It was dark and the road was slippery. I twisted my ankle, so we found a cave and waited until daybreak. He didn't know I was a woman, and nothing happened between us..." Gu Niannian patiently answered each question.

"Can I eat now?"

Bai sighed and said, "I'm glad you're alright, I'm glad you're alright, go eat!"

"Mom has called a doctor. Remember to see him after dinner. It takes a hundred days to heal a broken bone. You can't be careless."

Gu Niannian said obediently, "Yes, I will listen to my mother's arrangements."

……

Lee House

"Mom, why are you staring at me?" Li Jing felt a little scared when he saw his mother staring at him.

"You and Master Gu were out all night together?"

"Yeah! We're two grown men out all night, mom, you don't have to be so concerned, right?"

Li Jing didn't quite understand what his mother meant. He and his colleagues had stayed out all night while working on cases before, but he had never seen his mother so curious.

"You... nothing happened between you two, right?" Mother Li looked like a curious baby.

In fact, she was not worried, she was just gossiping about her son's sudden emotional confession.

"The county magistrate sprained his foot and couldn't walk, so his son carried him to a cave to spend the night. What could have happened?"

"Le'an sprained his foot. Is he serious?" Mother Li asked worriedly.

"My son has checked it out and it should be fine after three to five days of rest."

"But Le'an's feet are small, about the same size as my son's palm. I have never seen a man's feet so small."

"But he's small, so it's normal for him to have small feet," Li Jing said disapprovingly.

Mother Li thought to herself, "There aren't many men with small feet, and Le An looks quite feminine, so could she really be a girl?"

Mother Li decided to get straight to the point, "Do you like Le'an?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Li Jing's heart skipped a beat, and then he laughed and said, "Mom, what are you talking about? He is a man, and I am also a man, why should I like him?"

Mother Li put a piece of meat into her son's bowl and said, "I can see that you like him. The way you look at him is different from the way you look at others. I am not a pedantic person... Tell me the truth."

After a long time, Li Jing finally mustered up enough courage to speak, "Yes, my son likes him."

"But my son won't tell him anything, I'll just accompany him silently."

Mother Li: "What's the matter? Are you going with Gaosheng?"

Li Jing, "Why not?"

"Okay, then mom will go with you too," Li's mother said excitedly, slamming the table.

Li Jing didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Mom, why are you different from other mothers?"

Li’s mother: “What’s the difference?”

Li Jing, "If someone else's mother knew her son was gay, she would definitely break his legs, let alone this kind of support and encouragement."

Mother Li, "There's nothing wrong with liking someone. I know you simply like this person, regardless of gender."

"It's not easy to find someone you want to protect for life in this world. How can I blame you? Besides, we are an orphan and a widow, so it doesn't matter where we go. We can go wherever you want."

Li Jing looks like his mother, but his personality is exactly like his second father: stubborn, perverse, reserved, cold on the outside but warm on the inside.

Mother Li sighed, "Alas, that's your fault. Unlike me, your mother, I keep everything to myself and never speak out. If you don't speak, how will others know?"

"But it's better not to say this out loud. I'm afraid Le'an won't be able to accept it and we can't even be friends."

"But mother always feels that Le'an is not a boy, but more like a girl."

Li Jing shook his head and said, "How is that possible, mother? How can a woman take the imperial examination? My son has experienced the imperial examination, and the body search basically means stripping naked."

"That's what I feel is weird here!"

"Didn't you spend a night in the cave with him? Did he behave in any unusual way?"

Li Jing seemed to be thinking about it, "I don't know if this counts. He asked his son to guard the door when he took off his coat and didn't allow his son to watch. But after he took off his coat, he allowed his son to watch."

Mother Li, "Is there anything else? This doesn't mean anything. It may be the rule of a wealthy family."

Li Jing thought about it carefully, and his face and ears turned redder the more he thought about it. "When he was sleeping on his son's legs and tossed and turned, his son saw that there was a white cloth wrapped around his chest."

"What is this? My son has never wrapped it before!"

When Li's mother heard this, she slapped her thigh and said excitedly, "Then she is most likely a girl. That is the white cloth wrapped around her chest."

Li Jing was surprised, "Le'an is a girl?"

Mother Li said, "Don't worry, I'll find another opportunity to test it!"

"But even if this is true, you can't tell anyone. This is a capital crime..."

Li Jing said seriously, "I understand, son."

All that came to Li Jing's mind that night were these five words: Le'an is a woman.

But if she was a woman, how did she overcome so many obstacles and become the magistrate of Qingshan County?

Another sleepless night, Li Jing finally went to the yamen with two panda eyes.