"Master." Shui Yue, who was waiting outside the mansion early, walked up to help Ling Ruo get off the sedan chair, and if she looked closely, she found that her lips were pursed together and slightly upturned, with a smile that could not be hidden, and the water show that opened the sedan curtain on the side also had the same expression, as for Hongli, who ran outside in the morning, he let out a cheer for some reason.

The delicate willow eyebrows frowned slightly, and said strangely: "What's the matter?" ”

"Master, you will know when you see it." Shui Yue deliberately sold a pass.

"You girl." Ling Ruo scolded lightly, helped her men to get off the sedan chair, and before she could stand firmly, she saw a man in a gray robe striding up to her, clapping his sleeves and kneeling on the ground, and said loudly: "Slave Li Wei asks for peace to the master, and the master is blessed with Jin'an!" ”

Li Wei? Ling Ruo's surprise immediately turned into joy, and when he looked at it, it was Li Wei, who he hadn't seen for a year, no wonder they all looked smiling, and hurriedly helped him up and said, "Hurry up, when will you come back?" ”

Li Wei had an excited smile on his face, "Not long after the slave arrived in the capital, he wanted to ask the master to come and ask for peace, but the people in the palace said that the master went to pick up Brother Li, and the slave waited here for the master to come back." ”

Ling Ruo nodded, glanced around, and did not see a sedan chair or carriage, but a woman holding the boy standing not far away, looking a little cramped, Hongli was curiously looking at the boy younger than him, it was expected that it should be the wife and children mentioned in Li Wei's letter, Li Wei took office in Jiangyin County not long after Ling Ruo urged him to ask for a daughter-in-law, and gave birth to a big fat boy in the second year, and the family was also harmonious and beautiful, "How did you come here, what about the sedan chair?" ”

Li Wei smiled and didn't answer, but Shui Xiu pursed his lips on the side and said: "Back to the master, Li Wei originally hired a sedan chair, but he said that he was a subordinate from the palace, if he swaggered to the gate of the palace, wouldn't it be disrespectful to the prince and the master, so he got off the sedan chair on the front street and walked all the way here." ”

Ling Ruo glanced at him with disgust, "I didn't see you so pedantic before, you have to walk for more than half an hour from the front street to here, you can forget it alone, but what about your wife and children, don't you have to tire them?" ”

"Don't worry, master, Xiaocui is used to doing farm work and housework, these roads don't tire her, and it doesn't matter if Huzi has a slave and Xiaocui to hug her." As he spoke, he urged the woman and the child to come up and salute her.

Without waiting for them to kneel, Ling Ruo had already held him and said with a smile: "Li Wei is nominally my slave, but in my heart, I treat him as a family member, and my own family doesn't have to do these false courtesies." ”

Xiao Cui saw that she couldn't kneel, so she had to pull Huzi Fu Yifu and said, "Thank you Fujin." ”

Hongli quietly walked to Li Wei's side, pulled his sleeve and said in a low and excited voice: "Uncle Li, tell me about your case later, okay?" ”

It is also strange to say that Li Wei comes to the palace once a year at most, and usually exchanges letters, but Hongli and Li Wei are extremely close, which is even better than the small way of meeting all day. Especially since Hongli was sensible, every time he saw Li Wei, he asked him to tell him about the various strange and difficult cases encountered when he was appointed to the county and even the county order, and every time he listened to it with relish, and he was only three years old at that time, Li Wei was afraid that he couldn't understand the case he said, so he tried to pick up simple words to say, and later found out that he was redundant, Hongli's understanding ability is very good, even if he occasionally doesn't understand, he will immediately ask him.

Li Wei was flattered by his title, "The slave has said it many times, Brother Li's name is the name of the slave, and the slave of Uncle Li really can't afford it." ”

"It's okay, let him call if he likes it, you are also an official of the court now, and you can't afford it." Ling Ruo smiled and said, "Okay, don't be outside, let's go in and talk about it." ”

Ling Ruo was just about to take a step, Li Wei had already come over to hold her hand, naturally as if she was still on an errand in the palace, "The slave helped the master in." ”

Ling Ruo was very moved by his heart and loyalty, but he took his hand back, "I said that you are an official of the imperial court, so you have to look like a court official; How can you still serve me, the old master, as before, but it's not the same. ”

"Don't say that the slave is just a county order now, even if he becomes a prefect, governor or even governor in the future, it is also a slave of the master, without a master, there is no slave Today, being able to serve the master is a blessing for the slave for several generations." Li Wei was very resolute, and his hand was stretched out in the air and never withdrawn.

Xiao Cui was a little nervous and restrained when she saw Ling Ruo for the first time, but at this moment, she couldn't help but interject: "Qi Qi master, since the slave maid followed Li Wei, he has been thinking about the master's good in front of the slave maid, and he always looks forward to having the opportunity to serve the master." ”

Ling Ruo's eyes were slightly red, and he shook his head helplessly, and his hand wearing the tortoiseshell inlaid jeweled flower butterfly armor lightly put on the back of Li Wei's hand, just like he had been in the palace before.

Li Wei was very excited, his body trembled slightly and helped Ling Ruo in, until Jing Siju put it down, after Ling Ruo turned around and sat down, he saw that Li Wei's family was still standing there, motioned to Shui Xiu to bring the embroidery pier, waved his hand and said, "I'm tired from walking all the way, let's sit down." ”

"The minions have nothing to do, just stand." Li Wei said.

Without waiting for Ling Ruo to speak, Hongli had already said with a smile: "Uncle Li, since E-Niang is your master, then you should listen to E-Niang's words, otherwise it will be disrespectful." ”

Li Wei didn't expect Hongli to buckle such a big hat for himself, so he had to sit down diagonally, Xiaocui is also average, as for the tiger who is still a little ignorant, he has already been pulled by Hongli to sit beside him, and from time to time he handed the dim sum with red sandalwood to Huzi for him to taste.

Li Wei took the tea handed by a noodle maid and asked Shui Xiu curiously, "Are these the new people?" ”

"Well, after you left, Chen Shu betrayed his master again and was killed, and Jing Siju was short of manpower, so he asked the executives to transfer a few over, and they paid attention to it for a while, but they were honest." With Chen Shu's previous experience, they naturally chose people more carefully. Day and night defense, thieves are difficult to prevent, in this palace, the most afraid is that the people around him silently stab knives in the back.

Ling Ruo took a sip of fragrant tea and said to Li Wei, "How many days are you going to stay this time before leaving?" ”

"The slave is going back to Beijing to report on his work this time, I'm afraid that he will have to stay longer, and I don't know if the ministry's performance appraisal will let the slave stay in office or what." Li Wei is not too worried about the performance appraisal of the officials, his achievements in Jiangyin County over the years are real-handed, Jiangyin County originally had thieves and thieves, snatching food and women, making the people miserable, but every time they finished it, they hid in the mountains, and it was extremely difficult to arrest, but they broke a lot of manpower, so the matter has been shelved. It's just that if this trouble is not eliminated, Jiangyin County will never have peace. After Li Wei was appointed as the county magistrate, he offered a plan to the county magistrate at that time to arrest again, but the county magistrate at that time was a person who was afraid of wolves and tigers, and his term of office was about to expire, so he was afraid that another accident would affect his career, so he rejected Li Wei's proposal.