Chapter 0161 Just now, it was just a thunderstorm, but it scared him to death! (1 / 2)

“Magistrate Shen, the Rizheng of Shifeng Village has been imprisoned, is it necessary to choose a new Rizheng?” A word woke up the dreamer, Lan Luoluo successfully diverted that excitement from the villagers.

Upon hearing that they were going to choose a new Rizheng, the people from the Zhou and Zhao clans both looked at their own clan heads. Unsurprisingly, the new Rizheng should be chosen from one of their two great clans.

The people of the two families began to leap up inside, thinking that no matter who was the Rizheng their days would be better than the days when the Zhang family was in power.

The second prince looked at Shen Che and Lan Luoluo, and pondered in his heart that a village head might as well let Shen Che serve as a head, although the head is small, at least it’s also a village official, able to manage hundreds of villagers.

“Cousin, why don’t you take over the position here?”

A sentence that invites blue Luo Luo and Shen Che two people’s blank eyes, I can really thank you le!

“Lord Magistrate, it’s still appropriate for the Li Zheng to be the village people, they know everything about the village like the back of their hands after living here for decades.” Shen Che was busy opening his mouth to reject the Second Prince’s good intentions.

“Li Zheng is definitely chosen from among the Zhou and Zhao families, it is better to let the patriarchs of the two families make the decision, the villagers’ character and ability how they know best.

Or to be fair the Zhou and Zhao families will each select two people of outstanding ability from their own clans, and everyone will vote on them.” Lan Luoluo spoke out her suggestion.

Nowadays, the Zhang family had no say, so whether it was the Zhou family or the Zhao family that was the most suitable to be this li zheng. The two families had a large number of people, and so many people would always be able to choose four candidates.

The villagers began to talk, “Being a lizheng not only need to be fair in dealing with things, but also need to know how to read, or else you won’t even be able to write a paperwork when you go to the Yamen in the future.”

“We’re not even qualified to write, and it’s a shame that the village chief can’t read or write. I think it’s better to let Patriarch Zhao be the head of the village, his family at least has a grandson who is studying in the county town.”

“That’s the rationale, I don’t have a problem with letting Patriarch Zhao be the head of the Li, always as long as it’s not a Zhang family member.”

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The Zhao patriarch’s voice was the highest among the villagers, and the Second Prince looked to the patriarchs of the Zhou and Zhao families to have an argument in his heart.

The patriarch of the Zhou family was an old man who was around sixty years old. The Zhao family’s patriarch looked younger, but was only in his fifties, and had an advantage over the Zhou family’s patriarch in terms of both age and physical condition.

More importantly, the Zhao family had a grandson who studied in the county, so it would be easier to write a document or something in the future, and Patriarch Zhao also knew a few simple words under the influence of his grandson.

In this way, Patriarch Zhao became the head of Shifeng Village by virtue of his advantage of knowing a few words better than others.

The newly appointed Zhao Lizheng gratefully expresses his gratitude to the Second Prince, Lan Luoluo and Shen Che, and impassionedly expresses his determination to do a good job as a Lizheng to the villagers in a fair and just manner.

The Zhang family had been duly punished, and the new head of the village had been elected, so the villagers gradually dispersed to go about their own business. The Shen family also planned to go home.

“Lord Magistrate, now that there are no outsiders and things have been done, are you free to leave?” Lan Luoluo gave an expulsion order to the second prince.

The second prince stopped his steps and spoke with a reluctant face: ”Cousin sister, you seem to have come to let people into the house to have a cup of tea, right? Auntie is still here, as a junior, you have to do your filial piety to your aunt, right?

Look I even brought pastries from the best pastry store in the county.” The Second Prince brought over a **beautiful** food box from the guards.

Wu Peiyu heard the second prince said so footsteps quickly pulled Shen Wanjing to go home, once bitten by a snake ten years afraid of the well rope she still do not quite believe what the second prince said.

Lan Luoluo swept a glance at the second prince, ”You drink tea with added ingredients? Aren’t you afraid that this is your life-sending tea? And that pastry you’d better take it back.”