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Chapter 167 The Lord of Liuning County
Regardless of the doubts in the minds of the Li family, now that the imperial edict and rewards have arrived, everyone can only seize the time, pack themselves up, and then gather outside the hall to wait for Eunuch Gao to read out the imperial edict.

When Eunuch Gao saw that everyone in the Li family had tidied up, he put down his tea cup, stood up and walked to the corridor of the main hall, stood on the steps and looked down, and then sang loudly: "Li Xiao accepts the order!"

As soon as the sound fell, everyone in the Li family knelt down, including the people outside the door who had planned to watch the fun. Seeing the bright yellow imperial edict held high in Eunuch Gao's hand, they couldn't help but kneel down.

When Eunuch Gao saw everyone kneeling down, he began to read the imperial edict loudly.

The main idea of ​​the imperial edict is naturally to praise Li Xiao. During the natural disaster in Beihai County, he generously donated food and materials to the disaster area, went to the disaster area to rescue the people, shared the difficulties with the people, etc. In order to commend Li Xiao's timely family, the emperor specially canonized Li Xiao. He is the lord of Liuning County and is the first county in Shiyi County.

As for which county it is, it is naturally Rong County.

However, this imperial edict used a lot of words to praise Li Xiao, such as "excellent, intelligent, knowledgeable and courteous", which made my ears turn red.

Ninety percent of the rewards that followed the imperial edict were given to Li Xiao, and the remaining [-]%, [-]%, were given to the Li family as a tribute to their parents, and the remaining [-]% ​​were also awarded to Li Qingsong and Li Qingbai for their contributions to the disaster area. .

Moreover, Li Qingbai is now an infantry captain!

After politely seeing off Eunuch Gao, Li Qingzhu looked at the pile of rewards and felt quietly unhappy.

Why?

Because he was the only one in the whole family who didn’t receive any reward!
In addition to imperial edicts, Eunuch Gao also brought oral instructions. The emperor praised this and rewarded that, but he was the only one missing.

No wonder, he was alone in Beijing at that time!
Alas, he is so pitiful, he needs comfort!
Or because he thinks so, his comfort will come soon!
In the capital, news always spreads very quickly, not to mention that the emperor detailed Li Xiao's achievements in front of hundreds of officials.

This is not only the millions of grains for disaster relief, but also the amount that Ouyang Yiyun counted in detail before, and the emperor also used some.

Then the emperor waved his hand and wanted to canonize Li Xiao as the princess. However, many officials opposed it, feeling that the reward was too much and was not conducive to the growth of a peasant girl!

The Emperor, King Xiaoyao, and Li Qingbai: I just laughed!This is obviously jealousy!
After several "pulls and pulls", the emperor finally "adopted" the opinions of the officials more or less and demoted the princess to the county owner, but gave Li Xiao the food of Rong County!
You know, most county owners have always been honored and have no real estate. Li Xiao is a special case.

Although some officials still have opinions, they don't dare to confront the emperor anymore, and they have already taken a step back without seeing the emperor?
If they still hold on to it, they might not want to see their ancestors!
After Li Xiao's reward was finalized, the rewards for other members of the Li family also came out. In contrast, they were just yellow and white things, so no one said much.

Except for Li Xiao's family, the rewards given to other soldiers and some people in Liuning were all in the form of gold and silver cloth.

After everyone dispersed, Li Qingbai waited for the opportunity for the father-in-law to deliver the edict. Those officials had already returned home and informed everyone at home that there was going to be a civilian county head in the capital.

So, not long after Eunuch Gao left, people began to come to give gifts and congratulate him.

The first ones to come were the Qi family, and then Li Qingbai's three senior brothers. Each family specially sent their butlers to come with generous gifts.

As soon as the four families left, the gift-giver from the Min family also arrived. Unsurprisingly, it was Min Shulan who came personally from the Min family.

Guessing that Li Qingzhu was really "grieved", when she saw Min Shulan, she didn't hide away as usual. Instead, she came forward to express her grievances.

He was so pitiful that the whole family was praised by the Emperor Chrysostom and even received gifts. He was the only one who was a pitiful little person who had no ability to be praised by the Emperor.Min Shulan naturally knew that Li Qingzhu was joking, but she still patiently coaxed him until he was happy.

Because Li Xiao became the head of the county, which was a great joy, Min Shulan kept it on the pretext of talking to Li Xiao about herself.

After all, Li Qingzhu was also a sixth-grade worker from the Ministry of Industry. Not long after Min Shulan arrived, some officials who were familiar or not familiar with Li Qingzhu, and whose official ranks were not high, also sent congratulatory gifts one after another. This movement lasted until the end of Shenshi.

On this day, the neighbors near the Li family knew that the Li family had a county head.

Many people are envious.

The Li family has only been in Beijing for a little over a month and a half, and they still don't really know much about the capital, especially the etiquette between official circles and aristocratic families.

At this time, the advantage of having a good housekeeper comes out.

Except for the first batch of Qi and Min families who came over, Li Xiao's family personally received them, and the subsequent servants of the official family who came to give gifts were all received by Li Gang, the butler.

Li Gang registered all the congratulatory gifts, and then made a booklet of return gifts for each family's gifts and gave them to Li Xiao and others for review.

If the human relations in this era are just come and go, then there is basically no need to continue the relationship.So no matter how big or valuable the return gift is, whether it is given or not, the message conveyed is completely different.

Li Dashan and Li Yuan naturally didn't understand this, so they left it to their children to decide in return.

However, this is not important. After all, the return gift is not something that needs to be returned immediately after receiving it. Li Gang asked his eldest young master and young lady to take a look at it slowly. He had to go down and keep an eye on the servants to sort out the rewards and gifts they received today. Gift.

Min Shulan had been talking to Li Xiao in the afternoon, telling her some etiquette and habits in the aristocratic circle of the aristocratic family in Beijing.So we ended up staying for dinner.

However, before dinner, another distinguished guest came to the Li family with a generous gift.

"Brother Ouyang, why are you here at this hour?" It's almost a quarter to three o'clock, it's already dark, and they are preparing to set the table for dinner!

"I'm sorry, Xiaoxiao, I'm late." Ouyang Yiyun thought Li Xiao was blaming him for being late, "Father just returned home today, so it took some time to wait to see him."

"And I thought there would be a lot of people coming and going at your house today, so I won't cause trouble when you are most busy, so I chose this time to come here."

With that said, he gestured to Liuliu behind him, who waved, and several servants carried a bunch of things into the yard in front of the main hall of the Li family.

"This is a gift for you, see if you like it!" Ouyang Yiyun looked at Li Xiao expectantly.

Li Xiao looked at the one, two or three large boxes that his servants had brought in, and looked at Ouyang Yiyun speechlessly.

"Brother Ouyang, is your gift too heavy?"

(End of this chapter)