TSBFL Chapter 76
Chapter 76.3: 认罪
[Plead guilty]
The county magistrate straightened his waist and back, looked down at everyone below and cleared his throat. He said in a deep voice, “Since the matter has been resolved, everyone can go back to rest early, ba! As for what Zhou Qing and the others did, this official will have Shi Ye post a notice tomorrow to inform everybody of what they did.”
After the county magistrate finished saying this, he still subconsciously glanced at Gu Lang, wanting to see his reaction. Upon this look, he only saw that Gu Lang was frowning at him, seemingly not very agreeable to his arrangement.
Gu Lang is indeed not very satisfied, the common people are mostly illiterate, also like to spread an error or fake information, if it is only in the form of official paper to spread, he is afraid that it will take a very long time for them to get their name right, and it may not even that effective. If this is his own personal shop, then he will not feel any problem, and even feel that these rumors of truth and falsehood will be helpful to his plan afterwards, but …
Gu Lang turned his head to look at Chen Xing who was still hiding behind him at this time, looking at the small half of his hair top that was exposed, he sighed softly, but this was Chen Xing’s shop. Chen Xing, at that period of time, for this shop had spent all his painstaking effort that he had seen one by one and took it all in, he did not want to destroy his painstaking labor, thus, he stood forward with a posture that did not fit his status and bowed towards the county magistrate above him.
The county magistrate looked at Gu Lang’s furrowed brow and his heart was startled, recalling his arrangements, he really didn’t know that where he hadn’t arranged things properly, just as he wanted to open his mouth to ask, he only saw Gu Lang below him bowing in his direction and said towards him, “Your Honour, this student still has one more request.”
The county magistrate shivered as he watched the man’s movements, hesitated or answered, “You, speak.”
Gu Lang raised his eyes to look straight at the man in front of him, and directly said, “This student hopes that when Your Excellency sends someone to post the notice, he can have someone explain the content shown on the notice to those people, and if any of the people ask about it, he can explain the causes and consequences of it to them.”
The County Magistrate who originally thought that Gu Lang would make some big request, immediately let out a sigh of relief after hearing Gu Lang finish his request. He then laughed: “There is naturally no problem with this, when posting the notice, this official will send Shi Ye to go there as well. You can rest assured!”
“Trouble county magistrate.” Gu Lang said politely towards the county magistrate.
The county magistrate hurriedly waved his hand and repeatedly said, “Not a trouble, not a bother.”
Chen Xing, who was originally a little afraid of the county magistrate, looked at the county magistrate’s actions and gently laughed out loud.
The county magistrate also seemed to feel that this action did not match with his image, so he coughed gently, then sat upright, returning to a solemn and dignified demeanor, “Alright, it’s getting late, it’s better for all of you to return home as soon as possible.”
“Yes.” Everyone under the hall saluted towards the county magistrate, and immediately left Yamen one after another.
Waiting until Chen Xing and the others were out of the Yamen’s entrance and looked at the bright moon hanging high outside, it dawned on him that they had been in there for so long. This sigh of relief from him only surfaced for a moment, next he turned his head to look at everyone that had followed him here and said aloud, “Everyone is tired today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow everyone will rest, and when we go back I will give you all big red envelopes.”
Everyone was all excited to hear this, and they left after they shouted loudly.
On the way back to Gu Lang, because Qiu Jiu said he was going to go talk to Qiu Shi, only Gu Lang and Chen Xing were left.
The two walked side by side on the silent streets, occasionally one or two pedestrians would pass by beside them, as they walked, the two gradually held their hands together.
The moment his hands were held, Chen Xing was shaken for a moment, then he turned his head to look at the man next to him, looking at his handsome side face which appeared extraordinarily perfect under the moonlight, he quietly squeezed and tightened his grip on his hand.
“Let’s go back and soak in some grapefruit water? I’ve heard that unlucky people take a dip so that bad luck would not follow them.”
“Good.”
“How much money do you think it’s appropriate for me to give them a red envelope? They’ve followed me all around in fear today.”
“How about half a month’s monthly money?”
“Hn, I think it’s fine, after all, they’ve followed and suffered for this period of time.”