After sending Xu Mao away, Guo Wenying packed up her baggage and prepared to leave the nunnery.

After all, I also lived here for a month, and I had a little feeling, and when I left, the nuns and nuns in the nunnery came to see each other, and the host also gave her a string of Buddhist beads for her self-cultivation.

Seriously, she hasn't recited any scriptures at all after living in the temple for a month, she has six unpurified roots, and it is foolish to say that she is a monk. Naturally, it is impossible to do family affairs, but if you really want to leave, you are a little reluctant, after all, such a quiet and unmixed day without any hustle and bustle, I am afraid that it will be difficult to have it again in the future.

After leaving the nunnery, she returned to her house on Zhuzi Street, where the nurse Xu and Green Jade still lived. She has been in the palace for so long, and she has only seen the nurse twice, and since she left, she has not come back for six or seven years.

When she got off the carriage and saw the big Guo Zi in front of the house, she was suddenly in a trance, she finally came back, and finally went home. This is her home, a home that belongs to her alone.

Standing at the door is Xu Ying, who has stayed in the mansion since Guo Wenying entered the palace, helping her take care of everything in the mansion, and sometimes helping Steward Du take care of some properties.

He saw Guo Wenying dressed in plain clothes at a glance, and he was a little stunned for a while, and it took a long time before he shouted: "Miss, is it you? Are you back?"

Guo Wenying nodded, "Go and talk to the nurse, and say I'm back." ”

"Good, good. Xu Ying shouted in surprise, turned around and ran in, ran a few steps and stopped, "Look, I'm so happy and confused, I forgot to invite the young lady in." ”

He asked someone else to deliver the letter, and then respectfully welcomed her in.

Walking into the house, Guo Wenying had a feeling of revisiting the old place, and then saw Xu and Green Jade, and comforted him softly.

Xu looks much older, his eyes are not very good, and his body is not as good as before. Guo Wenying was afraid that she would cry, so she hurriedly said a few jokes to make her happy, and sure enough, Xu's tears were laughed.

When people get old, sometimes they are like children, and they can't do it without coaxing.

Xu's asked people to cook a table of delicious food, and the family sat around and talked and laughed while eating. Since entering the palace, Guo Wenying has never been so relaxed, at this time I feel comfortable, take a deep breath, and feel free is really good.

Her former room still maintains the layout when she lived, and the Xu family kept it very well for her, and let the maid clean it every day. Lying on my own bed, the bed was soft and warm, and I really had a good night's sleep.

Guo Wenying got up early the next morning, the emperor ordered her to leave Beijing within three days, today she has to report to the Ministry of Officials, received the official seal and the official mansion, and has to go to the Ministry of Rites to ask for the Qin Cha to rely on, there are too many things, and there is really no time to be idle.

After seven years, she entered the Ministry of Officials for the first time, her uncle had already left Beijing, and the new Ministry of Officials had not yet arrived, and Zhang Mingchang temporarily acted in place of Shangshu.

Zhang Mingchang had already received the order, and prepared a variety of things in advance to wait for her, and someone informed her that she was coming, so she hurriedly took it out in person, smiled and saluted respectfully, "Congratulations to your Excellency for doing the Eight Mansions Patrol." ”

Guo Wenying said with a smile: "Okay, speaking of which, this patrol press is not as high as your servant, what is the point of you saluting me here?"

There are many officials in the ministry, and there are many who know Guo Wenying's identity, although she is deposed, but they all know that she is the biological mother of the prince, and she has newly sealed the Bafu Patrol, and she may not be reset in the future, so she is very respectful. It's just that he didn't dare to approach because of etiquette, so he just watched from afar.

Guo Wenying didn't stay here longer, she took the official seal and the official mansion and left, Zhang Mingchang wanted to send her out, but she didn't let her.

She also has to go to the Ministry of Rites to get the seal letter to receive the dependence, these things can be handed over to the people around her to do, with her identity does not come forward in person, and no one dares to say anything, but she has not been in the officialdom for many years, if she wants to be a good official in the future, she has to have more contact with these officials, otherwise it is not so easy to enter the cabinet to lead them.

As soon as he entered the gate of the Ministry of Rites, Lin Fengge, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, greeted him, "Hey, I knew that Lord Guo was coming, let's get ready, what else do you need?"

He handed over the booklet that relied on the utensils and the number of registered people, Guo Wenying then flipped through it, and then handed it back to him, saying, "Just do it according to the rules." ”

This Lin Fengge looked a little familiar, thinking about it carefully, he should have seen it on the day of the scientific expedition a few months ago, as if it was him sitting next to Yuan Yibo. At that time, he was talking to Zhang Mingchang, and she didn't pay much attention to it, but when she thought about it at this time, his relationship with Yuan Yibo should not be shallow.

Lin Fengge sent her out with a smile and respectfully, and when she was about to go out, Guo Wenying suddenly said, "How many years has Lord Lin been a waiter in the Ministry of Rites?"

"Back to my lord, my subordinates have only been in office for more than a year. ”

Guo Wenying let out an "oh", and glanced at her with a smile, and Lin Fengge shuddered at this glance, and the booklet in his hand almost fell to the ground.

Guo Wenying chuckled, turned around and left, so uncomposed, it was not a big deal. She thought it was such a difficult person to deal with, he was far worse than Zhang Mingchang.

When they were all ready the next day, Guo Wenying, the support of the eight governors, also went out of Beijing.

In fact, the name of the patrol is not a fixed official, but a temporary appointment by the imperial court to supervise the imperial history, inspect the provinces respectively, and evaluate the administration of officials. These eight governors are actually an imperial history, and the official name can be called "serving the imperial history". It belongs to the "Inspectorate", one of the three courtyards of the Goshidai. Today's administrative departments are the Ministry of Supervision or the Commission for Discipline Inspection.

The imperial history can supervise the emperor, hundreds of officials, and localities. This imperial history is to supervise the locality, generally a imperial history can supervise more than a dozen state capitals, it is called patrol, and the eight governors only supervise eight prefectures, which is a few.

The name of the Eight Governors often appears in folk dramas, and although the fame is loud, the grade is not high, and it is a petty official of six or seven grades. Even if it depends, it's just a few gongs to open the way, and a few evasive cards.

But who is Guo Wenying, she is a person who has been a second-grade governor and a second-rank general, even such a petty official can make the momentum of a big officer, and this should rely on her to borrow five hundred Jinyi guards from the Jinyi Guard's commander, and borrow five hundred firearms from the fire gun battalion, and suddenly became tall, mighty, more magnificent than any first- and second-grade officials.

Guo Wenying has always been good friends with people in the army, and others hinder her relationship with the emperor, and no one will sue her for overstepping, but she has shaken her majesty along the way.

The first stop she went to was Baoding Mansion, the new prefect Chu Chao got the news early and knelt at the gate of the city to greet her, and even Dong He, the governor of Zhili, also arrived, and knelt in two rows.