Chapter Twenty-Six: Don't boast about your mastery
Gu Qingning's ears were hot, and in a blink of an eye, he saw that the person who came was Liang Zhengqing, the construction deacon who majored in Guanghe Palace. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
When he drank this, the counselors didn't dare to make another stir even if they thought it was funny, and they all quieted down.
He came in, glanced at Gu Qingning, and introduced to them: "This Miss Gu was introduced by the ministry, and she will serve as a temporary counselor here, working with you and others, to help you, don't dismiss it, one more person will have more strength after all, Miss Gu has the heart to come here, in the future, you need to make tea, grind ink and cut paper, etc., just teach her to do it." ā
Tea making, ink grinding, paper cutting......
Hmph! This is what Lu Yuanze said, he has already explained?
Is she here to hold a public office, or is she here to be a maid?
Gu Qingning heard Liang Zhengqing say this, she did have a grudge in her heart, but she also had to say that in fact, this was all within her expectations, Lu Yuanze really couldn't help her, and she never could count on him, these colleagues would definitely despise and laugh at her as a woman, it was not an accident, she was still prepared.
So, her face did not change, she smiled, bowed to them a few times, "As the deacon said, the little woman came here to serve as a temporary counselor, she wants to help you complete the work as soon as possible, and she will do her best to do a good job in big and small matters. ā
She was so humble that she could not have lowered her posture any lower, and it was to their taste, and she was very useful to these counselors, and they returned the favor and looked at her differently.
After all, it was in the officialdom, no one dared to be too arrogant, and no one deliberately embarrassed Gu Qingning, they just despised her, and only felt that she was a girl who came to do chores, so they asked her to do small work such as cleaning up drawings, placing models, grinding and cutting paper, etc., and when everyone discussed the fortifications, they also put her aside.
Just came for a long time, she did not show a little talent and did not rush to participate in the fortifications, the supervisor Li Xiangtong arranged her position in the corner of the last row of the fortifications, she did not make drawings there, only ran with a smile from time to time to do the work for people, a "son" and "adult" shouted, they resisted the woman from the beginning to become acceptable, and after getting along with her, they also secretly admired her for having the courage to put herself in this situation, humble but not inferior, respectful but not flattering, gentle but not weak, strange women also.
The fortification room is divided into the east hall and the west hall, and is supervised by two supervisors, namely Li Xiangtong and Jiang Rong, who are the top bosses of the counselors, except for these informal subordinates under them, in fact, they are the officials at the lowest level of the Ministry of Works, but the tasks are the most arduous, the status is high, and the grade is low, how can they be angry? Therefore, both of them are not easy to provoke, they have a big temper, and they are easy to make trouble. After meeting Gu Qingning, the two tacitly did not give her a good face.
As Lu Yuanze thought, the two of them couldn't bear it, and soon found out that Gu Qingning was recommended by Lu Yuanze, and angrily went to the front court to make trouble with him, but they didn't expect to get the news that Lu Yuanze had taken leave. Liang Zhengqing, the top boss of the two of them, called them over to talk in time and asked them to keep the matter secret, Liang Zhengqing himself didn't fully know the situation, let alone how to explain it to them, so the reason was not clear, but it made them more suspicious, and privately guessed that Lu Yuanze recommended Gu Qingning to join the ministry because of personal affairs, and he despised her even more.
At the end of the day, Gu Qingning consciously took over all the small work in the fortification, which was much harder than others, and the two supervisors spoke coldly to her, and she could only bear it silently.
In the afternoon, the time for the officials to do their work was running out, and they were naturally anxious to return home after a hard day's work. The people above were more and more troubled by the recent mistakes in the fortifications of Guanghe Palace, and they didn't know how to solve it, but the counselors of the fortifications were not in a hurry, as if they were saying that when the monks hit the clock, they hurriedly handed in the drawings and chatted in groups.
Gu Qingning sorted out the drawings and prepared to send them to the supervisor, and saw the two counselors fiddling with the building blocks in front of the model plate in the middle of the hall, these building blocks formed a small Guanghe Palace, which was originally built completely according to the general pattern on the wall, and the daily discussion and modification will mess up the shape of the building blocks, and at the end of each day, someone has to restore the model, and the two counselors are doing this.
Gu Qingning glanced at it when she passed by, they seemed to be very impatient, after all, it was really cumbersome to restore it little by little in front of such a large drawing, so she took the initiative to come forward and say that she could restore it for them, and she just happened to have a model today and got started. Someone takes on this drudgery, why don't they do it?
Gu Qingning gave them the artwork and asked them to send it to the superintendent, and she began to restore the model by herself.
Liang Zhengqing went to the fortification room to review the drawings with the supervisors and discuss the construction method according to the daily routine, and as soon as he walked into the fortification room, he saw Gu Qingning standing alone in front of the huge model plate, with his back to the pattern, there was no comparison at all, and he built it directly, and his movements were smooth and skillful.
He stood in front of the door in amazement, and saw her lying low, and then others noticed that he was looking at her, so they also saw her movements at this time, and unconsciously, the noisy fortification room gradually quieted down, and the whole room, dozens of construction talents, all looked at her dumbfounded.
Gu Qingning was enjoying herself, not noticing the movements around her, and when she finished building the last ridge, it took only a quarter of an hour, and after turning her head, she noticed that the hall was very abnormal, and the two eunuchs came out at some point, and there was Liang Zhengqing at the door with a surprised face.
She pretended to be alarmed, and stepped forward to salute a little confused: "I have seen Lord Deacon...... Did the little girl do something wrong? ā
Liang Zhengqing walked inside, walked to the model plate, looked at the miniature of this magnificent palace, and then looked at the pattern on the wall, "It is exactly ......
The counselors and supervisors also gathered around, and when they saw that the situation was as Liang Zhengqing said, they were all surprised: "How is it possible? ...... so quickly."
She still didn't know what to say, and Liang Zhengqing asked her: "How can you be so familiar with the structure of this Guanghe Palace?
Gu Qingning felt funny in her heart, how did they know that the sample of the palace map on this wall was made by her, and after a hundred revisions, it had been presented in such a complete way in front of them, how could she not be familiar with it?
She replied, "Oh, I just looked at the pattern carefully before modeling, and I made a note of it, so it will naturally be faster to restore." ā
After listening to her explanation, Liang Zhengqing couldn't help but shake his head: "No, no, this is too unusual!"
Everyone else couldn't help but praise: "Miss Gu is really a strange person!"
Liang Zhengqing twisted his eyebrows and looked at Gu Qingning, who seemed to be a little at a loss, and sighed softly: "I finally know why he recommended you to join the Ministry of Engineering......
It was Gu Qingning who returned home a little later, as soon as she arrived at the door, got off the carriage, and saw Tang Bo and Fusu waiting for her in front of the door, they were all happy, and when they entered the house, Gu Qingxuan and Gu Qinghuan were not in the study but playing chess in the front yard at that time, and it seemed that they were also waiting for her to come back. Such a scene made her feel a lot more at ease.
She sat with her father and brother around the stone table, and Gu Qingxuan asked her, "How do you feel when you arrive at the office on the first day today?"
She relaxed, showed her true nature, played with the chess pieces, and replied lonely: "I'm very tired, I have to deal with so many people, and there are so many rules and regulations, and I am an outlier among them...... It's just that I suddenly feel very small, and I have to put myself very low in order to fight for a little bit of land......"
Gu Qingxuan looked at his daughter with understanding and comforted: "Well, it's true, it's always difficult at first. ā
She looked up and asked her father, "What about after that?"
Gu Qingxuan replied: "It will be more difficult in the future." ā
Gu Qingning choked up, and then the three of them laughed at the same time, and they didn't know what it was funny, but they couldn't help but want to laugh.
After dinner, Tang Boyu reported that a person had just come, claiming to be a member of the Yin family, and asked him to tell Gu Qingxuan that Yin Jiheng would go fishing on the south bank of Weiyang Lake after noon tomorrow. Other than that, there is not much to say, inexplicable.
Gu Qingxuan was stunned and said with a smile: "Doctor Yin wants me to have an "encounter" by the lake with him." ā