Be a small county magistrate in ancient times

Chapter 688 Thoughts
Meng Changqing said, "I know how you feel. Go to sleep. I'll sit by myself for a while."

Cheng Guang could only go back to sleep.

Without being disturbed by anyone, Meng Changqing's thoughts wandered.

When people are alone, they naturally have more thoughts.

The county government office has been built for several years now. How long have I been in Beishan County? According to the emperor's calculation method, how much longer do I have to stay?

If you count on your fingers, it's only about six years.

I remember when I brought all that gold back, I was in great pain. Although I didn't show it and tried my best to cope, the pain lingered in my heart for a long time.

At that time, she felt that all her years of hard work had been wasted, and those superior people really didn't treat her like a human being.

She had served the Crown Prince diligently for many years, so how did she end up like this?

For the first two years after she arrived in Beishan County, all she thought about was going back to Beijing.

She can be a county magistrate, but she can't be a county magistrate for life.

Now I rarely think about it anymore, and I'm not so eager to return to the capital.

She seems to have completely gotten used to staying in Beishan County.

What is politics? In this feudal era, could the struggle between interest groups be considered politics?

Is it beneath my dignity to be considering politics from the border thousands of miles away from the capital?
What is human nature like? Am I different now than I was a few years ago?
If you look up carefully, you can see occasional starlight twinkling in the dark night sky.

Meng Changqing closed her eyes, feeling how insignificant she was under the vast sky, how insignificant Beishan County was, and how insignificant the Liang Kingdom was.

She was feeling tiny when she suddenly heard a noise coming from the direction of the county government gate.

"Hey, is there any meat in the kitchen? Go get me some," Zhou Xing said to the constables on duty at the door before even dismounting from his horse.

"Clerk Cheng knew you would be coming back tonight, so he specially asked the kitchen to save some food for you."

Just as we finished exchanging pleasantries at the door, Meng Changqing arrived.

Zhou Xing exaggeratedly said, "Sir, why aren't you sleeping so late? Are you waiting for me?" "Stop joking. Has Fang He been looking for you?" Meng Changqing asked.

Although Meng Changqing told Cheng Guang to mind his own business, the people selling plasters outside Xunxian Town hadn't left yet.

That's just how she is. When she talks to others, she has a whole set of grand principles, but when it comes to how she does things herself, she doesn't follow those principles at all.

"I've found it." Zhou Xing followed Meng Changqing into the county government office. Unsure whether the information he brought back should be kept secret, he didn't continue.

When Meng Changqing asked, "What did you see?"

Zhou Xing then spoke, "As it was getting dark today, many soldiers withdrew from Xunxian Town. They left Bishan County not long after they left. There are still people guarding outside Xunxian Town; they should all be yamen runners from Bishan County and Liangzhou Prefecture."

"Guard them?" Meng Changqing stopped in his tracks.

Fang He deduced from what they were saying that they didn't want the people inside to come out.

"Before the soldiers retreated, did any civilians come out of Xunxian Town?" Meng Changqing asked.

"No one came out. I heard that it was because no one came out that the prefect got angry and ordered his men to surround Xunxian Town."

"Any other news besides this?"

Zhou Xing shook his head, "Only Fang He came back."

"Okay, go eat." Meng Changqing said, then took two steps back.

"Subordinates retire."

Meng Changqing touched her chin. It was a pity she didn't have a beard, otherwise she could have stroked it a couple of times to better express the action of thinking.

I wonder what Lords Hua Rujin and Cao Hongxing think when they hear about this.

It's so inconvenient not having a cell phone.

Since it was the prefect who did it, these lower-ranking officials couldn't discuss it privately, much less communicate about it.