The team had to spend the night in Longzhou Town, so the local officials naturally had to prepare and entertain Lu Chonglou and others.

The place to entertain is the town yamen of Longzhou Town. Often ordinary villages and towns will not set up separate yamen. Longzhou Town is really too big. For this county, it is more important than the county town.

70% of the county's tax revenue comes from this Longzhou Town.

The entertainment items were not luxurious, and the officials at this time had already understood that this was not the time of the Great Chu, so no one dared to waste them.

The reception banquet is simple and not rude, which shows that the people in the county government are attentive enough.

The officialdom of Dachu has always been a matter of ups and downs. How can the officials above take the money and get the money, the officials below will naturally follow suit.

And often the more you go to the local area, the more deformed the appearance you learn, and is not very beautiful.

If those upper-level figures in the officialdom of the Great Chu are very particular when reaching out, then those who reach out are straightforward and ugly enough.

But now King Ning tore the officialdom of the Great Chu apart and crushed it, and then threw it on the ground and stepped on it with his feet for a few times.

This formed a new upward and downward effect. King Ning hated that the officials below at least dared not be so blatant on the surface.

Moreover, the only thing that brought about by the chaos in the Chu State was that local officials in various places were no longer the original people.

The former local officials either ran away or died, but now the new officials are all people who have experienced war and suffering.

They know what they should do and what they should resist.

The one in the Chu State officialdom now has no space for existence, and the new order is full of light.

And how long this light will last depends on how long the upper class can last.

Lu Chonglou likes the current officialdom. He knows that no matter how old it is, it is impossible to be truly clean.

But what I saw in front of me was the cleanest time in hundreds of years.

That's why Lu Chonglou kept thinking. He was unwilling to let such cleanliness be flashy. He wanted to do his best to make this cleanliness last longer.

And this was the reason why Li Chi promoted him in an extraordinary manner. Li Chi saw his ideal.

The local county magistrate is named Yu Shunxin, and Lu Chonglou also likes this name, which seems to be particularly suitable for the current environment.

In addition to the county officials, there are also several local professors and gentlemen from the county school and township school in the county.

Yu Shunxin stood up and raised his glass and said, "Mr. Lu is in business, so he dare not invite adults to drink, so he had to use tea instead of wine and toast Mr. Lu a cup."

Lu Chonglou also stood up and said, "Thank you, Lord Yu and you for your hospitality."

The two raised their glasses and were about to drink, but Ye Xiaoqian suddenly reached out and grabbed Lu Chonglou's wrist.

Lu Chonglou was startled and looked at Ye Xiaoqian with his head turned around.

Ye Xiaoqian said: "Sir, you have just taken medicine. Drinking tea affects the efficacy of the medicine. It's better to drink white water."

After he finished speaking, he said to Yu Shunxin: "I think you all, you might as well accompany Lord Lu to drink white water."

Yu Shunxin was a little confused by the actions of this young Baidian, but they all knew that the people from the Tingwei Mansion could not be provoked.

Ye Xiaoqian turned around and greeted: "Change water for the adults."

His subordinate Tingwei immediately stepped forward and replaced the tea on the table.

Lu Chonglou lowered his voice and asked Ye Xiaoqian: "What medicine did I take?"

Ye Xiaoqian said: "If you drink this cup of tea and eat the dishes here, you will probably have to take medicine."

Lu Chonglou frowned slightly.

Ye Xiaoqianxiao said, "Sir Yu, your back-cook in the town yamen looks good."

Yu Shunxin hurriedly said: "There is no full-time chef in this town yamen. In order to entertain Lord Lu and Lord Ye, Beizhi is a chef who sent someone to invite from outside."

Ye Xiaoqian then smiled, "No wonder."

He lowered his voice and said, "Sir, don't eat these wine and food for now. I'll go to the kitchen to see it. I'll continue when I come back later."

After saying that, he stepped out.

This made the local officials a little dissatisfied. Although they did not show it, they could not help but feel that this Baidian was a bit domineering.

Could it be that he still suspects that the local officials are trying to harm Lu Chonglou?

However, the level of the Tingwei Mansion is not low. It is the sixth rank in terms of grade, and is the same level as the official master of the local prefectures.

The county magistrate is a seventh-rank official. Although he is a parent official of hundreds of thousands of people, he has no privileges in terms of the level gap.

Ye Xiaoqian came out of the living room, asked where the kitchen was, and then walked over.

He signaled his subordinate Tingwei not to follow up and stayed in the living room to protect Lu Chonglou and others.

When we arrived at the kitchen, two yamen runners were guarding here. Obviously, the county yamen really did their best.

The two yamen runners saw the people from the Tingwei Mansion and quickly leaned over to salute.

Ye Xiaoqian smiled and said hello, and then stepped into the kitchen.

Several helpers and two chefs were still busy, but the dishes were not served, and they were all sweating.

When they saw Ye Xiaoqian coming in, they had never seen anyone from Tingwei's mansion and didn't know what this person was doing.

Ye Xiaoqian asked: "All people are there?"

One of the chefs replied: "Sir, except for the chef who cooks the dishes, who just left home, everyone else is there."

Ye Xiaoqian nodded: "Do you know the person who mixes vegetables?"

A helper replied: "I don't know you, he said he is the master of Jiuxianzhai."

Ye Xiaoqian asked again: "Who among you is still from Jiuxianzhai?"

The few people looked at each other and shook their heads.

One of them replied: "We are all from Zuiyuelou. I don't know why a master from Jiuxianzhai came. He said that the county magistrate specially asked him for it and said that the dishes were the best, but we dared not ask, after all, it was found by the county government."

Ye Xiaoqian turned around and looked at the two yamen runners outside the door: "Who is responsible for the chef?"

A yamen runner replied: "It was invited by the county yamen chief clerk."

Ye Xiaoqian thought about it and found that there was no chief clerk there when he was having dinner just now.

The yamen runner said, "At the morning of the morning, the chief clerk's family came over and said that the chief clerk's body was unwell and vomited and had diarrhea last night, so he couldn't come."

Ye Xiaoqian said: "No one who is optimistic about this place can leave. Wait for me to come back."

The two yamen runners nodded and responded, no one knew what was wrong.

Ye Xiaoqian stepped out: "Where did that dish mixer go? Where is Jiuxianzhai?"

A yamen runner pointed: "To there, Jiuxianzhai is more than half a mile east of the town yamen."

Ye Xiaoqian thanked him, and he turned around and waved to the Tingwei, and immediately two people ran over.

Ye Xiaoqian ordered: "Go and invite the people from Chenyitang in our team to come over and tell Lord Lu that he should not eat any food, and no one should eat it."

After he finished speaking, he got a little under his feet, and his body was like a afterimage, and it directly swept out of the courtyard wall.

This scene stunned the two yamen runners.

Jiuxianzhai is indeed very close to the town yamen. Ye Xiaoqian arrived at the entrance of Jiuxianzhai and found that the door was closed and there was a sign hanging outside that was closed today.

He walked to the door and raised his hand to knock on the door. After knocking several times, no one responded.

Ye Xiaoqian pulled out a gauze scarf from his cuff and covered his face, then reached out and pressed it on the door panel. There was a click inside the door, and the door was broken.

After entering the door, Ye Xiaoqian couldn't help frowning. Even though he was covered with a gauze, a smell of blood still came into his nose.

He saw blood on the ground, which was obviously caused by dragging the corpse, so he walked back along the blood.

When we arrived at the back door, we just stepped out with one foot and a long sword stabbed us from outside the door.

This sudden sword is even more cruel than a poisonous snake.

Ye Xiaoqian retreated a little with his upper body, and the sword stabbed in front of his eyes.

The next breath, the black iron rod in Ye Xiaoqian's hand slid out from his cuffs, and the iron rod pierced into the neck of the man holding the sword.

There was a sound behind the door, and someone closed the door.

Ye Xiaoqian turned around and saw several men in black holding knives in their hands and surrounded him.

Ye Xiaoqian couldn't help laughing.

He said as if he was talking to himself: "Do you know... I hope to have a real fight, and I have been waiting for it for a long time."

"Kill him!"

One of the men in black shouted softly and rushed towards Ye Xiaoqian first.

Ye Xiaoqian raised his hand, and the black iron rod flew out and pierced through the man's neck.

With a loud bang, the iron chisel was thrust on the pillar and was still buzzing rapidly.

When the man was stiff, Ye Xiaoqian reached out to bring the man's long sword over.

Another breath, Ye Xiaoqian took a knife, and this knife turned out to be the battle formation sword developed by Li Chi.

The sword is extremely domineering.
To be continued...