Chapter 900 - 878 Riding Horses is Good
County Magistrate Yang had a lot of time when he didn’t need to visit the towns, especially now that it was spring planting season. All the seeds and farming tools that needed to be distributed at the beginning had already been dispatched, and it was only necessary to review them now, so he wasn’t busy at all.
Luojiang County wasn’t like Huayang County either, where cases cropped up every three to five days. Here, it was hard to have a dispute every ten or fifteen days, and unless it was a major case, County Magistrate Yang liked to accumulate half a month’s cases and judge them all in one day.
Everyone preferred it this way too. They needed to be out in the fields. Who had the time to come to the court every day?
So County Magistrate Yang went home early today, as was only natural.
Just after lunch, a group of people began to eagerly await the arrival of County Magistrate Tang.
County Magistrate Yang calmly drank his tea to reassure them, "It won’t be that quick."
But thinking of Tang Zhihe’s impulsive temperament and calculating the distance from Yizhou City to Luojiang County, he said, "If he speeds up his horse, he could be here in about an hour or so."
Manbao exclaimed, "That fast? It takes us an entire day."
"You were in a carriage, whereas he’s on horseback. Naturally, it’s quicker."
No sooner had he spoken than, just after they had sipped some tea, County Magistrate Tang arrived in a flurry, his hair somewhat disheveled.
He walked in following Wantian and didn’t notice Ms. Cui; he just nodded to Manbao and the others, then began to complain to County Magistrate Yang, "The wind was too strong. Have a servant prepare some hot water for me to wash up first. Oh, and I haven’t had lunch yet. I left at dawn, and it’s already been three hours."