PFC Chapter 320 Father and Son Meet at the Government Office (1)
Chapter 320 Father and Son Meet at the Government Office (1)
The carriage has docked at Moon Bay Pier.
After Li Lanzhen and the others got off the boat, Manager Hua asked the carriage to take them back to the Sifang Restaurant first.
Then come back and pull the vegetables on the boat.
When they arrived at the Sifang Restaurant, they still stayed in the backyard.
Han Mingxiang and his children were arranged to live in two rooms. The rooms were spacious and equipped with desks, pens, ink, paper and inkstones.
Li Lanzhen knew that this was specially prepared by Manager Hua.
After they packed up, Xuan Shen prepared to take her, Han Shunde, Sanwang and others to the government office to handle household registration matters.
When they arrived at the gate of the government office, it was as lively as a vegetable market.
Li Lanzhen did not expect that there would be so many people coming to handle household registration resettlement.
Xuan Shen glanced at the people in line and said to them.
"Auntie, you guys stand here and queue up first. I'll go in for a while."
Li Lanzhen knew that he had a good relationship with Lord Wu, the governor of Youzhou City, so she nodded and waved.
"Got it, go do your thing."
In front of them stood more than twenty people, each of them looking worried and whispering something.
Han Shunde hurried over to listen to what they were talking about.
"Oh, what should we do? There are only about twenty people left from our village who escaped, but now we can't be assigned to one village and have to be scattered all over the place."
"That's right, village chief, look at our family, how can we be separated? My two sons and I will be separated into three villages!"
"That's right, village chief, you should talk to the people in the government office about our situation."
"Even if it's a little far away, it's fine as long as we're all in the same village."
Han Shunde stepped back after hearing this and shook his head at Li Lanzhen.
Li Lanzhen was not worried about this problem.
She knew that Manager Hua and Xuan Shen had already informed the government office.
All of them will be assigned to Lishu Village and will not be separated.
She had also prepared herself mentally for what would happen if the people working in the government office wanted to disperse them to various villages.
She won't handle this matter today.
Soon I reached the group of people in front.
The village chief and several older people came up to persuade them, but Li Lanzhen looked at the two elderly people and they were about to kneel down in front of the person who was doing the job.
There was so much noise for a while that the household registration process came to a standstill.
"What's going on? There are still a lot of people queuing up behind you, and the queue is so slow. What happened?"
Li Lanzhen heard a familiar voice and looked up.
It was the clerk of Youzhou government office whom they had met last year.
The two yamen runners stood up and spoke.
"Secretary Zheng, this is what happened..."
The two yamen runners told the story of the people mentioned above.
Looking at the clerk, seeking an answer.
"How many households do you have? How many people are there?" he asked the village chief.
The village chief quickly said to him with a smile on his face.
"We have 11 households, a total of 27 people, big and small."
After the village chief finished speaking, the twenty or so men and women looked up at the clerk with eager eyes.
They were afraid that as soon as he opened his mouth, he would disperse them and send them to various counties, towns and villages in Youzhou City.
The clerk flipped through the household registration book and said to the two yamen runners.
"Assign their household registration to Wangyou Village."
Li Lanzhen's mind moved, "Forget Worry Valley, Forget Worry Village?"
This can't be that place, can it? If so, that's great, go ahead, go ahead, it would be great if more people go there.
The bailiff nodded and said.
"Understood, Secretary. We will do it right away."
A group of people had tears in their eyes and kept bowing to the clerk to express their gratitude.
Secretary Zheng nodded and said, "Go and register your household registration, and then follow the yamen runners to Wangyou Village.
That is a valley, and some people have settled there. You can just go straight there."
Li Lanzhen was certain at this time that this Wangyou Village was Wangyou Valley, haha!
Just as she was thinking about it, she heard the clerk calling her name.
"Which one is Li Lanzhen?"
Sanwang tugged at her sleeve and pointed at the clerk standing on the steps.
Li Lanzhen smiled and quickly responded, "Hey, I'm Li Lanzhen, I'm here, hello, clerk."
The clerk looked down and saw Li Lanzhen in the crowd. He smiled slightly, thinking that this was an acquaintance.
She looks like an ordinary farm woman, and no one knows how she became friends with the current emperor.
Never mind all that, just get this thing done.
"Li Lanzhen, have you brought all the documents you need?"
"Yes, we brought our original household registration and certificates."
"Okay, come in with me with the information."
As they walked up the stairs, the twenty or so people in front of them, expressing their gratitude profusely, walked back happily, holding the newly issued household registration certificates in their hands.
They stepped out, and Li Lanzhen and her group lined up in front, and the clerk personally handled their household registration.
He sat down and picked up a pen to fill in their names on the household registration certificate of Youzhou Prefecture.
The yamen runner who was in charge of this matter asked.
"Secretary Zheng, where are these people going to settle down?"
"Oh, prepare the information. They will all be settled in Lishu Village."
When the bailiff was about to say something, his sleeve was tugged by another person, who gave him a look. He immediately shut up, lowered his head and began to prepare the materials.
First, I filled out the household registration certificates for Li Lanzhen’s relatives, the people she brought with her, and Li Erhan’s family.
Then there were ten people from the Shuisheng family, the Shuiniu siblings, and the 103 people including Brother Hong San from the small mountain village.
As for the nine orphans including Shitou, and the eleven people including Tiehua who were brought out from the bandit camp, no one knew where their original household registration had gone.
However, Manager Hua had already written a certificate for her.
Li Lanzhen also showed it, so the new Youzhou Prefecture household registration certificates for Shitou and the nine orphans and Tiehua and the eleven women were successfully issued.
Finally, there are Shanxing Sanwang and the eleven children from Lishu Village.
Sanwang took out their original household registration.
Secretary Zheng picked it up and said, "You are the grandson of the village chief of Lishu Village, Zheng Sanwang?"
When Sanwang heard him mention his grandfather, his eyes reddened and he nodded, then replied.
"Yes, Mr. Secretary, my grandfather is the head of Lishu Village, and I am his grandson. I am the only one left in our family.
There were eleven people who survived in our village, all of them were children.”
Secretary Zheng sighed, "Alas, Lishu Village has also suffered an unprovoked disaster."
Sanwang looked at the clerk and asked, "Mr. Clerk, what are these thieves looking for in our village that have brought disaster to the people in our village?"
The clerk was silent for a moment, then raised his head, looked into the eyes of the three kings and said.
"Zheng Sanwang, don't ask anymore. The couple in your village committed a crime that was not their fault. You should take revenge. Every wrong has its perpetrator and every debt has its creditor.
Let’s go find their home!”
Zheng Sanwang didn't say anything else, just stood there, clenching his fists tightly.
Li Lanzhen thought to herself, "This incident was probably an accidental killing. Someone from the government must have gone there for some reason and was looking for something, so they killed the whole village by mistake.
However, Secretary Zheng was not wrong. The couple were the culprits of the disaster!
"Okay, auntie, your household registration has been processed. Please manage it properly."
Han Shunde carefully collected the thick stack of household registration certificates and put them in a bag, then folded the bag and put it back into his bag.
Li Lanzhen said, "Let me manage it!"
Han Shunde handed it to Li Lan.
When they turned to leave, they ran into an acquaintance on the opposite side.