Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 722 Rules
Cao Hongshou is a narrow-minded person who always seeks revenge and has a strong desire to control.He used to be a county magistrate, and later became a magistrate of the state. Although his official career was not very prosperous and his promotion was not fast, he has always been the chief official.He never allowed his subordinate officials to disobey him and ignored him.As long as they are disobedient, he will use various means to deal with them, or force them to leave.

At this time, he had doubts in his heart, and he was afraid of Du Jinning, but the matter had reached this point, and the two sides were on the verge of tearing each other apart. Naturally, he couldn't just let Du Jinning go and get along with her peacefully, otherwise, it would be difficult for him in the future Convince the public, Wang Yugui and others will ignore him.

He raised his hand to stop what Wang Yugui was about to say, and then shouted outside: "Zhong Dianshi."

A short man with a goatee walked over quickly and bowed his hands in salute: "Lord Cao, what's your order?"

This canon history is different from that of the officials.Dian Shi is a subordinate official of the sixth house, not an official of the court; but Dian Shi is a miscellaneous official who knows the state. Although he is not popular, he can be regarded as an official of the court.Because he is Zhizhou's deputy, the affairs in charge of him are very complicated.

Cao Hongshou ordered: "You lead Mr. Du to the room on the east side, and all the items in the yamen will be distributed to him according to the rules."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to Du Jinning and said, "Lord Du, you also served in the Imperial Academy, you know the time to come to the yamen, so I won't say more, I just hope you come to the yamen on time, Don’t be late and leave early.”

Worried that Du Jinning's vicious mouth would spit him out again, he explained without waiting for Du Jinning to speak: "Because the spring plowing is coming soon, we went down to the villages to see the situation in the first two days, so we were not in the yamen. Yes. Master Du should do the same. Even if you have business to do, you must get my consent before leaving the yamen, and you must not make decisions without authorization."

Logically speaking, as an official, it is a rule that must be followed.

But in Du Jinning's situation, it is impossible to come and sit in the yamen every day.If she wanted to live like this, she would not have left the Hanlin Academy in the first place.

But she didn't say anything, just nodded, and then looked at Cao Hongshou quietly, wondering what other tricks he had.

Don't you just want to tie her up in the yamen and prevent her from working in the fields?Then she can't manage the agricultural affairs, or can't manage them well, so she can't make political achievements.

But your Shangguan told you to order Mao, would you not order it?No, this is the rule of the court; do you dare to express dissatisfaction with the arrangement of the Shangguan?also can not.As a subordinate official, one must obey the dispatch and orders of the superior officer, otherwise, why should he be respected?

This Cao Hongshou really has two brushes, just two words of rules can crush her to death.It's just that he miscalculated Du Jinning's situation.

She waited for Cao Hongshou to continue, but Cao Hongshou stopped talking, and just said: "Let's do this, you go with Zhong Dianshi first."

Du Jinning didn't argue with him, just nodded, then turned around and went out to the host's yamen.

Zhong Dianshi was stunned, looked at Cao Hongshou, saw his livid face, but did not make a sound to stop him, he cupped his hands, turned around and chased after Du Jinning.

Cao Hongshou was annoyed by Du Jinning's rude behavior just now, and he couldn't get over it for a while.It wasn't until Zhong Dianshi left the door that he pointed at Du Jinning's back with trembling hands and shouted at Wang Yugui: "Look, look, what kind of attitude is this? How can he see me as a superior?"

Wang Yugui quickly comforted him: "My lord, don't be angry. The future will be long, and we have plenty of opportunities to deal with him well."

Du Jinning walked to the gate of the yamen on the east side, and stood there motionless, looking at the trees in the yard with his hands behind his back, waiting for Zhong Dianshi's arrangement.

As Cao Hongshou's adjutant, Zhong Dianshi knew his master's mind best.He took out the key to open the room in the corner, but did not go in, and said to Du Jinning: "Master Du will work here." Then he turned and left.

Du Jinning watched him walk a distance, and then said with a half-smile: "Does Zhong Dianshi come here every morning to open the door for me? If I come early and Zhong Dianshi comes late, do you want me to wait for you here? "

Zhong Dianshi has exactly this intention.

But these methods are really not on the table, they can only be used secretly, not overtly.At this moment, Du Jinning shouted at him, so he couldn't go any further, so he could only pretend to slap his forehead: "Oh, look at my memory, I forgot to give you the key." Then, he turned around and handed over the key .

Aoki stepped forward and took the key in his hand.

After taking the key, he walked quickly to the front of the yamen room, gently pushed the door open, and suddenly, the dust inside rushed to his face, and Aoki was choked as he retreated so fast, he coughed twice.

"Wait, don't leave yet." Aoki grabbed Zhong Dianshi who was about to slip away, "You call a few people to come and tidy up this yamen room until there are enough people to sit."

Zhong Dianshi wanted to ignore Aoki, but he held him tightly and couldn't get away, so he turned his head to Du Jinning and said, "Master Du, the yamen is busy at the moment, and there is no one to clean the house for Master Du. Ma'am, you can make do with it for a day, and help you clean up tomorrow when everyone is free?"

It's a joke that the government servants in the Mansion say that no one is available.Moreover, this tomorrow will definitely come back tomorrow, and Du Jinning will wait for them to clean it up, probably a year later.

Du Jinning didn't even look at him, and told Aoki: "Aoki, go back to the mansion and ask two young men to come over and help me clean up the house." Then he said, "See if the tables and benches in the house are usable, If not, you can bring something from home."

Only then did Aoki let go of Zhong Dianshi.

Zhong Dianshi left quickly as if he had received an amnesty.

"Master, you..." Aoki looked at Du Jinning.If he returns home and leaves Du Jinning here alone, there is not even a place to sit, he will really feel aggrieved for his young master.

"It's okay, I'll go to the workshop for a while, you go and come back quickly." Du Jinning said, turned and went to the workshop.

The workshop is in charge of farmland water conservancy and other matters. Du Jinning is in charge of farming now, and the workshop is her subordinate department.Although the entire state government is bullying Du Jinning, but Aoki believes that the subordinate staff of the workshop still dare not openly embarrass the young master.

He went into the yamen room to have a look, and saw that the tables and chairs inside were really unusable, so he turned and went back to Du's mansion.

And when Du Jinning entered the studio, sure enough, even Yu Huaigu who had bumped into Du Jinning yesterday did not dare to make things difficult for her, but just treated her coldly.

Du Jinning is really not afraid of being treated coldly.She found a chair and sat down, then closed her eyes and meditated.The owner of that chair came back from the hut, saw that his chair was occupied, but did not dare to make a sound, and silently found another little one to sit on.

After Aoki led the servants back to carry the furniture, cleaned up the yamen room, and then put the furniture in place, Du Jinning wrote a note in ink and asked a servant to give it to Cao Hongshou, explaining that he was going to inspect the farmland up.Without waiting for the boy to come back, he left the yamen directly and took a car to Zhuangzi.

(End of this chapter)