Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

Mrs. Hu also stood up excitedly, "Shuh": "Ying'er, please keep your voice down, don't let your father hear it, otherwise it won't work."

Mrs. Hu: "Su Mu, I didn't expect you to come up with such a second plan. Speaking of which, I think of someone. The Immortal Chongxu from Wudang Mountain was recently ordered to enter Beijing to accompany his driver, and now he is staying in Baiyun Temple. But a real expert, he can count everything, he is a person with great cultivation. If I can ask him to say a word in front of my husband, Ying'er's father should give up."

Hu Ying: "But is such an expert willing to help us tell lies?"

Mrs. Hu: "It's a big deal to give him some money."

Hu Ying said worriedly: "Mother, this kind of god may not see a little money in his eyes. Besides, he came to Beijing under the order of the emperor, so I'm afraid he won't see us."

Madam Hu was also a little embarrassed, and she turned her eyes to Su Mu.

Su Mu had a bad feeling: "I can't help it."

Hu Ying snorted: "You can't help it. Aren't you an old man from the time of Shanglongqian today? You will be a dignitary in the future. Daoist Chongxu also wants to have a good relationship with you."

Su Mu bowed his head and remained silent.

Hu Ying: "Okay, okay, it's up to you, otherwise I'll never end with you."

"I have to try it, I don't guarantee it will work." Su Mu was speechless.

Seeing Su Mu nodding, Madam Hu felt relieved, and gritted her teeth: "As long as the old man knows that heirs are hopeless, he will naturally not waste his time on those vixens. A man's body pays attention to the three treasures of spirit, energy, and spirit. Don't compromise too much, he also understands this truth."

"Mother..." Hearing what her mother said, Hu Ying blushed with embarrassment.

The mother is the daughter of a military household, and she doesn't pay much attention to her words.

Mrs. Hu: "At that time, at worst, your father will pay those women away."

……

"I always feel it's not good to do this." Coming out of Mrs. Hu, Su Mu whispered to Hu Ying.

"What's not good?" Hu Ying was upset.

Su Mu smiled wryly: "In the future, if your father finds out that I have played against him, how will he hate me?"

"He dares, don't worry, with my mother and I backing you up, Daddy doesn't dare to do anything to you. Besides, if you become an official in the future, I'm afraid he will still dare to provoke you if the official position is bigger than him."

Su Mu smiled: "You have such confidence in me."

"of course."

Su Mu shook his head: "I wanted to talk to you today, but I didn't want your house to be in such a mess."

"Why, I'm disappointed, come and talk later."

Su Mu: "I'm afraid these few months will be busy for a while."

"Isn't it just to study for homework and prepare for the exam? Is it possible that you don't even have time to talk to me?" Hu Ying was a little unhappy.

Su Mu: "No, I'm going to work, and I only take two days off for bathing every month."

Standing at the door, he roughly told Hu Ying that he was going to work as an errand for the General Secretary.

Hu Ying: "That's it." Disappointment filled her face.

Su Mu: "I still have a few days off, why don't we go out for an outing together and see the red leaves of Xiangshan Mountain."

"Okay." When Hu Ying heard that Su Mu had an appointment, she felt sweet in her heart. Seeing that there was no one around, she suddenly straightened her neck and kissed Su Mu's face: "You have done a great service to my mother today, and I will reward you." of……"

Before she finished speaking, she covered her face in shame and ran away like a puff of smoke.

In the next few days, Su Mu accompanied Hu Ying to play around the capital all day long, and felt that the relationship between the two was a little closer.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and it is the depths of winter.

Su Mu didn't think too much about the future.

The women around him have deep affection for him, and he refuses to give up on any of them.But the Ming Dynasty practiced the system of monogamy and multiple concubines, and it was an insult to her relationship with Su Mu and each other.

There is no way to decide, so simply don't think about it.

For Miss Hu, although Xiaodie has many prejudices, she is inconvenient to say more about the master's affairs as a maid.Of course, it is impossible to go out with Su Mu, and simply pretend not to know.

On the contrary, Zhao Hulu has been by Su Mu's side ever since he returned to Beijing.

Ever since the kid knew that the Hu family was a senior official of Jinyiwei, he had been frightened enough, and seeing Hu Ying's expression, he was also quite frightened.

On the third day, he really couldn't bear this kind of mental pressure, so he went to Xiaodie: "Sister Xiaodie, can you change to another kid to serve Master Hou, that Miss Hu is really scary."

Xiaodie: "Master will go to work tomorrow, you won't be entangled by that woman again, don't worry." She raised a letter in her hand again: "In another month, madam will be back. "

It turned out that since Mr. Wu was dismissed from the post of Yangzhou promotion officer and transferred to the General Administration Department for experience, he wrote to Yangzhou and asked Miss Wu to come back to Beijing.

After reading her letter, counting the time, it should be here in a month at most.

Zhao Hulu asked curiously, "Madam doesn't know what kind of person she is."

Xiaodie smiled: "You will know when the time comes."

Zhao Hulu asked again: "Sister, I don't understand something, I don't know if I should ask?"

Xiaodie: "Tell me."

Zhao Hulu: "This master and his wife are not married yet, so Mr. Wu will live in our house. After Madam comes back, it seems not good if he also lives in our house?"

Xiaodie: "That's what you said, don't worry, Second Young Master Wu also bought a house in the capital, and he can live there after his wife comes back. Because Mr. Wu is used to living here with us, he doesn't want to leave, so he just decided to leave." with him."

Zhao Hulu: "But, the second master is really messing around. He lives outside alone, and no one restrains him. I'm afraid it's inconvenient for Madam to go there."

Xiaodie nodded: "Yes, let's talk about it when the time comes, Zhao Hulu, you talk a lot!"

The next day, it was the day when Su Mu and Wu Shiqi went to take office in the Secretary of General Administration.

The old man was in good spirits, he got up before dawn, hurriedly asked someone to lift the sedan chair to report for duty, and asked Zhao Hulu to urge Su Mu.

When Su Mu was woken up early in the morning, he felt annoyed, and said: "Today is to report to duty, but not a formal duty, let Mr. Wu go first, as for my master, I will talk about it after I wake up."

He fell down and continued to sleep.

The weather is so cold, who has the patience to go out at three or four o'clock in the morning.

This time he slept until the sun was up, and Su Mu had eaten breakfast before he went to Xiyuan, went to the office of the Ministry of Officials to receive his dispatch, and then went to find the Secretary of the General Administration.

It was only after searching that he found out that the Secretary of the General Administration did not set up a value house in Xiyuan, and Su Mu would have to go to the imperial city to work in the future.

Su Mu smiled wryly in his heart, and immediately understood.To put it bluntly, the Secretary of the General Administration is just a communication office, and at most it will take on the role of the petition office for future generations. There is nothing to do all day long, and there is no need to come to Xiyuan again.

Where is Xiyuan, the place where the emperor works.It's not the core and vital departments such as the six ministries and the cabinet, you are not qualified to be stationed.

After dawdling for a long time, Su Mu was also hungry.Not in a hurry to leave, he simply went to Zhang Yong and had a meal with him.After talking for a long time, I went to the imperial city.

Once on the ground, Su Mu shook his head.The place is big, and it looks magnificent and majestic on the surface, but it is really too old.I heard people say that the buildings in this area were built during the Yongle period, and it has been almost a hundred years now, and they have not been renovated.

The Department of Experience was in charge of the personnel management of the Department of General Administration, so Su Mu asked the land to report to Mr. Wu, the new official.

As soon as we got there, we heard a commotion inside.

Among them, Mr. Wu's high-pitched voice was heard: "No, these things must be returned to the official. I am waiting for the imperial salary, how can I still receive things from others?"

Another sharp voice sounded: "Jiang Wu, the Daolu Department has a heart every winter, and it's just some cheap things like local products. Why can't you bear it?"

Wu Shiqi: "Today you received someone's local property, and tomorrow someone will send charcoal as a respect, telling you to bend the law for personal gain. Should you or should you not?"

The sharp and feminine voice was full of dissatisfaction: "My lord, you have really seen how the Secretary of General Administration and Secretary Gao are. To put it bluntly, it is an institution directly under the central government, the center of the emperor. In fact, it is just a porter. Really think we are What's going on, the reason why Daolu Division sent things here is because everyone has a lot of negotiations during the day. Your Excellency is so unreasonable, how will there be any communication between the two yamen in the future?"

Wu Shiqi was furious and shouted: "Duan Jiong, what are you talking about? You are also a student who has read a lot of poetry and books, and I admire the knowledge and articles of you, Mr. Duan Jian. Is this what a Confucian disciple can say? ?”

"you!"

Listening to the sound, it was a mess inside, people were arguing and trying to persuade.

Su Mu couldn't help frowning when he heard this, Wu Shiqi had only been in office for two or three hours, how could he have such a fight with his colleagues and subordinates, how can he do his job in the future?

This old Mr. Wu has also been an official for a year. From promoting an official to being a transit envoy in charge of a party's political affairs, he should also have rich political experience.Now that he is new to the General Administration Department, his eyes are darkened, and he doesn't know anyone, so he just messes with others like this.

This old man doesn't seem to be very good in terms of EQ or IQ.

Listening to the content of the quarrel inside, it seems that the people from the Daolu Department sent some local products, which are not worth much, and they will accept it if they take it. Anyway, it is just an emotional connection between two brother units.But the old man felt that it was against the rules and wanted to go back.

The people below were not convinced, so they began to argue with Mr. Wu with that person named Duan Jiong.

Su Mu stood at the door and looked inside, but saw about five or six people standing in the hall, all in official uniforms.The leader is naturally Wu Shiqi, who is dressed in a red official robe and is the seventh rank.

The rest of them were all dressed in grass-green robes, no need to ask, they were naturally eighth-rank governors who had experienced errands.

The entire Department of General Administration has a very high shelf and a high level.

There is one Tongzheng envoy, one of the third rank; one left and one Tongzheng of the fourth rank; one left and one right counselor of the fifth rank; one person with experience of the seventh rank below.

Below that is the eighth-rank governor who handles specific affairs, and there is no quota.

The Department of General Affairs is a high-level secretarial agency, nursing home, communication office and petition office.

Therefore, most of the adults who have experienced the above are old people without any political pursuits. They only go to the morning court every day at midnight, and then go home to sleep, and refuse to show up in the yamen.

Only the experience department, or the governors under the experience department, really handle things.

This group of people are selected officials from Juren background, old and young, each with a higher heart, life as thin as paper, and most of them have a bad temper, and they are not easy to match.

Especially the one with the surname Duan, who looks tall and thin, but has good facial features, but his face is pale, but there is a trace of downcastness on his face.

Seeing that there was a lot of noise inside, Su Mu felt amused, so he straightened his clothes and strode in.