Gu Qinghuan's situation is completely different from Gu Qingning's talent in officialdom and interpersonal relationships, who would have thought that a new champion would suddenly be reduced to the Ministry of Rites to be a langzhong, which would be much more difficult than a woman mixed officialdom?

Gu Qingxuan has long said that looking at the entire officialdom, the atmosphere of the Ministry of Industry is better, this is not a lie, it is a fact.

The most serious of the six vain and corrupt departments are the three departments of officials, households, and rites, with the officials being the most severe; the Ministry of Rites is slightly better because of Dong Yehong's rectification, but it is not much better; the reason why the Ministry of Household is better than the other two is only because several departments of households are the most difficult nowadays, and Gu Qingxuan has been a secretary of the Ministry of Household for more than ten years, which has a great impact on this department, but later in the hands of Huang Zhengting and Lu Yuancheng, the atmosphere began to decline again.

Ministry of Rites, Ministry of Rites......

When he first entered the officialdom, he took on the burden of being a member of the five grades, which was a very difficult challenge for Gu Qinghuan, not because of the lack of means to handle official affairs properly, but completely because of official communication.

Most of the officials of the Ministry of Rites are from Jinshi, all of them are scholars, and there is no lack of so-called old scholars, so they are full of pedantic and vain atmosphere, except for a few high-level people who are more clean and self-conscious, and most of the others have poor conduct in private, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and they love to form gangs, crowd out newcomers, and corruption and bribery are also not uncommon.

If it is said that for Gu Qingning, a woman, other officials will be a little restrained and cover up the dark side of officialdom a little, then for ordinary new officials like Gu Qinghuan, those people are unreserved and unusually willing to show him those unbearable points, and there are many people who intend to bring him bad, he wants to love and respect himself, but he is not social, how can he get along well with those people?

Coupled with his extraordinary talent, he is really a weapon to attract jealousy, so that those pedantic scholars hate it so much, even few members of his Lang Intermediate Court are obedient to him, trying every means to exclude him, how can he be better?

Besides, Qinghuan is not Qingning, in the final analysis, he is a literati, it is difficult to be proud, and he seems to be gentle on the outside, but the temperament of the literati in his bones is very strong.

Even Dong Yehong, who has been in the officialdom for so many years, is cautious in the Ministry of Rites, although he takes care of it, there is too much chaos below, even if Yang Rong'an, a waiter who entered the officialdom several years earlier than him, has not walked on thin ice for a day, how easy is it for him to be a newcomer?

Gu Qinghuan struggled to survive in the Ministry of Rites, which was all kinds of uncomfortable, but fortunately, his boss Yang Rongan was also a young man like him, the two of them were very deed, they were resistant to the officialdom, and their interests were also the same, Yang Rongan took care of him many times, and the two helped each other in official affairs, and they also became close friends in private.

Speaking of Yang Rongan, I have to mention that his father is Yang Longxing, the right secretary.

At the beginning, Gu Qinghuan was all kinds of worries, he didn't know how to get along with him, he was afraid that he would hate him, who thought that Yang Rongan was completely different from his father, he was hearty by nature, noble in character, he didn't like to play with power, he didn't like to form gangs, and he was rational and upright, he didn't seek personal gain or personal enmity, he was simply a clear stream in the Ministry of Rites, so the two hit it off.

Before Gu Qinghuan became an official, Yin Qixiu had a good relationship with Yang Rongan, and later Gu Qinghuan had a life-saving grace, and the two also had a friendship, so these three young officials had a very good relationship and often traveled together in their spare time.

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At the end of May, when the summer heat was getting stronger, and the cicadas were singing endlessly in the courtyard in the afternoon, Tang Bo led a few servants to sweep the courtyard to dissipate some of the fire in the mansion.

There are also maids in the hall to decorate the hall, replacing some of the old cotton cushion cloth seats with new thin bamboo soft seats, preparing tea to quench thirst and quenching fever on the tea table, and use a fan to cool it and keep it ready at any time.

Fusu was at the side of the tea house in the side hall, picking up the fresh fruits sent by the Jiang family and placing them in the cold porcelain plate, all of which were clean and lovely, making people look away.

She was doing things, silently looking at the people who were happy inside and out, as well as the newly renovated Gu Mansion.

They were all people who had worked in the Gu Mansion before, and most of them came much earlier than Fusu. After Shen Lanxi left, the Gu family dismissed them, and the dignified Shangshu Mansion became extremely simple and weak, and now, they have all returned.

Gu Fu is also back.

"Sister Wen, don't stare at me, I didn't step on the ground, these are my brother's footprints, it's all his fault, you know that I practice light skills, and I don't have a trace of snow treading, not bragging to you...... Come, Sister Xiangyun, give you the fruit, I just picked it from the tree...... In order to pick this mulberry, my brother fell into the mud, didn't you see it, I really laughed to death, haha...... Uncle Tang, we've caught a fish, let's eat roasted fish tonight......"

Hearing this noisy sound, he knew that it was Gu Qingfeng, he took Gu Qinghuan, who was at home, to go fishing by the river early in the morning, and only came home at this time, seeing that the mansion was lively again, he was the happiest one, jumping up and down on the ground, greeting everywhere, while showing off his "achievements" this morning, while publicizing Gu Qinghuan's troubles, which made the whole house laugh everywhere.

Gu Qinghuan sat under the porch, his face was red from the heat, he was sweating profusely, and his body was covered with mud, fanning the wind and panting at the same time, so tired that he couldn't speak.

Before the tea brought to him by the maid was put in his mouth, he saw his father and sister walking briskly from the backyard corridor with gloomy faces.

"Father, sister......" He looked up at them in a daze.

Gu Qingfeng also rushed over, and smiled at them with a cat-like face: "Father, eat fish tonight...... Sister, it's a pity that you didn't go, I don't know how fun it will be today......"

He was still babbling, and was pushed away by Gu Qingning, Gu Qingxuan looked at the two sons left and right, as if he was unbearable, and turned his face away in annoyance.

Gu Qingning's hands were stained with the mud on Gu Qingfeng's body, so she ran over there, slapping Gu Qinghuan while smearing all the mud on his clothes, and taught him a lesson: "You two! What day is today? Are you still running out of crazy fun? Do you look like this! Three-year-old child? Qingfeng is just that, Qinghuan, you are a brother, and you are still taking the lead in messing around! You are so angry that I have to die! Do you know that my father has been looking for you all morning!"

Gu Qinghuan was aggrieved, but Gu Qinghuan didn't speak.

Gu Qingfeng blushed his face, grinned, and leaned in front of Gu Qingxuan and said, "Father, didn't you say that you will only report to the Royal Forest Army headquarters in the afternoon? It's still early, I went out with my brother to have a while, and I didn't delay anything, won't I come back? Don't be angry with you and your sister." ”

Gu Qingxuan shook his hand and glared at him, "So you still remember? Then why don't you go and clean up! Ready to go! Still messing around?"

"Okay, father, I know it's wrong, I'll go ...... right away" Covered in sweat, he hurriedly put down the fish basket and ran to bathe and change clothes.

After he slipped away, Gu Qingxuan looked at Gu Qinghuan, and received his father's gaze, Gu Qinghuan, who was exhausted and didn't want to move at all, immediately jumped up from the ground and hurried to clean himself up.

Looking at the backs of the two brothers, Gu Qingning couldn't help but be happy, Gu Qingxuan complained: "How old are you?

Saying this, he actually couldn't hold back, laughed, shook his head helplessly, and bent over to pick up the fruits that Gu Qingfeng had dropped to the ground one by one.

Gu Qingning squatted there and teased the fish they caught for a long time. She loves to eat fish, especially carp, and most of the fish baskets in front of her are carp.

The two brothers had wiped the dirty floor clean and shiny, and the green shadows of the poplar branches under the porch could be faintly seen in the water, and their muddy and sweat-stained clothes were changed and washed, and even the fishing rods that were randomly thrown under the stone steps were picked up and put away.

However, after bathing and changing, they came to the front yard from their respective rooms, their hair had not yet dried, and the two appeared behind Gu Qingning in a drape, so frightened that she almost fell to the ground, and was reprimanded by her again.

Listening to her nagging for a while, plus the maid fanning them, the hair was almost dry soon, and the maid took their hairpin crown, combed the bun crown, and went out.

Gu Qingning was also tired, took the wooden comb from Fusu's hand, stood in the back, and personally combed Qingfeng's hair, and the active Qingfeng stabilized at once, and obediently let his sister pull his hair, and didn't scream when it hurts.

Gu Qinghuan on the side looked up at Gu Qingning faintly, looked at Gu Qingfeng's smug smile, his eyes were full of resentment, and said sullenly: "I'm probably a fake brother, only Qingfeng is real......

Gu Qingning pinned Gu Qingfeng's hair crown, turned around and knocked him on the head with a comb, and said, "Qinghuan, why don't you tell your sister why you two don't have to go fishing on this hot day?