The beloved baby has a space

Chapter 279 Issuance of Decrees
After lunch, Xiao Ayu got on Wang Dalang's donkey cart, which was filled with Xiao Ayu's clothes, steamed buns and dumplings prepared by her family, and small gifts for the villagers.

Most of them come from steamed bun shops.

Inside the donkey cart sat Grandma Wang, Little Ayu, and Tangyuan, who took care of Little Ayu.

The little lamb, with the Spirit-Testing Rat on its head, sat outside, side by side with Wang Dalang.

Xiao Ayu hadn't been back to the village for a while, and she noticed that the road back wasn't as bumpy anymore.

Out of curiosity, she lifted the curtain and looked out. She saw that the road was wide, there were not many large stones, and the ground was compacted and flat.

Little Ayu asked, "Big brother, has someone repaired the road?"

She remembers riding in a donkey cart with her grandmother before. The cart would be very bumpy, and sometimes she couldn't even sit still and had to be held by her grandmother.

"Yes, it was the villagers who did the repairs. This year, the villagers made money and used their own money to replace their corvée labor, so when they had free time, they helped repair the land in the village."

Wang Chuanfu and his group also participated. The busy farming season lasts for a total of four months: two months for planting, two months for harvesting, and the rest of the time is spent clearing land or doing other things. Overall, they are idle.

Since we're just idling around anyway, we might as well do something good.

Little Ayu nodded: "Oh."

The villagers are all very hardworking.

Only Tangyuan's eyes darted around. Come to think of it, Ayu's village is quite wealthy.

Moreover, she seems to be a good person. She had traveled to many places with her two uncles and had rarely seen anyone build roads themselves like this.

They were all waiting for the county magistrate to issue an order to have everyone participate in corvée labor, or for wealthy gentry and gentry in the village to pay others to do the repairs for their own convenience.

If their village is nice, then she'll find someone there to marry and live there from now on. Even though Tangyuan is only ten years old, her mind is already quite mature, which is why she's thinking so far ahead.

They were halfway there when someone from the Wang family in town arrived; it turned out to be someone sent by the county magistrate.

The man was Zhang Zhan's servant, who was there to deliver a thank-you gift to the Wang family, expressing gratitude for their previous help in sheltering Da Niu and the officials.

After taking over as magistrate, Zhang Zhan acted swiftly and decisively. He first purged the entire magistrate's office, taking the opportunity to eliminate those who were just loafing around and oppressing the people.

Even County Magistrate Cao was not spared. Zhang Zhan had previously thought County Magistrate Cao was a very upright person, but this investigation into the former magistrate's affairs revealed that County Magistrate Cao was not entirely innocent; he was just not completely evil.

Zhang Zhan submitted a memorial detailing the crimes of County Magistrate Cao, resulting in Cao being demoted from an eighth-rank county magistrate to a ninth-rank registrar.

The duties of criminal judgment that Cao County Commandant originally held were handed over to the new County Commandant, and the Cao family, which was protected by Cao County Commandant, was also implicated.

After the evidence presented by Da Niu and others was verified to be true, it also uncovered the hidden tricks left by the former county magistrate.

They even seized tens of thousands of taels of silver, which were all used as treasury in the county town. The government office, which was originally destitute and even had to pay out of its own pocket, was finally no longer so poor.

The first decree issued by Zhang Zhan after taking office came from Wanning City.

"From today onwards, the system of not marrying without a matchmaker is abolished. Everyone is free to have weddings and funerals. They can find their own witnesses and officiants, or have the county town witness the wedding on their behalf."

The mountain of matchmakers that once weighed heavily on people's heads collapsed with a roar.

This policy naturally brought joy to some and sorrow to others.

(End of this chapter)