The dining room was unusually quiet, and Ah Duo on the side was standing next to him waiting, looking at Lin Haoran worriedly at this time.

Tie Zhu maintained a calm and calm attitude, and asked Lin Haoran seriously: "Master, what should we do now?" ”

"I handed over this matter to Wang Zhideng last night to deal with, you can tell him about it immediately!" Lin Haoran thought for a moment, and immediately made a decision.

"Yes!" The iron pillar solemnly bowed his hand, and turned away.

After eating a bowl of meat porridge, Lin Haoran got up and prepared to go to the office.

As he crossed the threshold, he was slightly stunned, and his left eyelid throbbed several times without warning, making him faintly aware of a catastrophe coming.

"Xianggong, are you alright?"

Wu Qiuyu and Hua Yingrong were already waiting in the front yard, Wu Qiuyu watched Tie Zhu leave in a hurry just now, and saw that Lin Haoran's face was not right, so he asked with concern.

Facing the concern of the two wives, Lin Haoran only explained with a smile, and then said goodbye: "It's just a little thing that happened, just deal with it properly!" There are two ladies who send each other off, and they go to the government for their husbands! ”

"Go slowly!"

Wu Qiuyu and Hua Yingrong are both very traditional women, and they also gave a salute to Lin Haoran who got into the sedan chair.

Even though Lin Haoran has already been a scholar in the official household department, he has never been an old-fashioned person, and he often makes some irrelevant jokes, and he is even more tolerant of the two ladies.

It's just that some etiquette has long been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and the two women still adhere to the usual set of times in this era, and even do it better than most people.

Getting up in the morning to see her husband to the office, and welcoming her husband back here in the evening, these are already things they insist on doing every day.

The corners of Wu Qiuyu's mouth maintained just the right curvature, and Hua Yingrong's beautiful big eyes were full of tenderness, but they showed their own happiness.

After seeing Lin Haoran's sedan chair leave, Wu Qiuyu turned to Hua Yingrong and said: "Yingrong, Concubine Chen gave two pearl hairpins yesterday, and one of them is for you, take a look at which one you like!" ”

"Good!" Hua Yingrong didn't shirk it, pursed her lips and nodded softly.

Because of their Lin family's amazing background, they naturally won't take a pearl hairpin in their eyes, and it is impossible for them to be unhappy with Wu Qiuyu because of the pearl hairpin, which is a way for her to get along with Wu Qiuyu.

And from this matter, she is more sure of one thing: compared to Concubine Li, who gave birth to the emperor's eldest grandson, this Concubine Chen Zheng is undoubtedly more kind, and she is a kinder person who can intersect better.

From the time when King Jing was still eyeing the throne, their Lin family was more optimistic about King Yu, and they also deepened the relationship between the two sides through "lady diplomacy", and they have given gifts to Concubine Chen Zheng and Concubine Li over the years.

Whenever Concubine Li received gifts, she always took advantage of them with peace of mind, but every time this Concubine Chen Zheng had something good, she took the initiative to give them a little gift back.

Although it is still their side that is still at a loss, Concubine Chen Zheng always does her best to return the gift, which undoubtedly makes their side more comfortable.

After an autumn rain, the streets of the capital seem much quieter, and there is still no bird cry on the trees.

Lin Haoran, who was wearing a second-grade official uniform, sat upright in the sedan chair, closed his eyes and thought about some things, and at the same time listened to the familiar voice of shouting and selling ginkgo seeds, and knew that he had come to Chang'an Street.

Just now he asked Lin Fu to send someone to inform Yin Tai of the news of Liu Ruyue's assassination, but he just listened to the words outside and found that there seemed to be no need for more than that.

"Did you hear that?"

This most commonly heard opening remark came one after another, so that Lin Haoran, who was sitting in the sedan chair with his eyes closed, also knew that something terrible had happened in the capital.

"Someone went to Beijing yesterday to file a complaint, but he was assassinated last night!"

"Who is this accusatory? Who did such a hurtful thing? ”

"This matter involves the big guy of the dynasty, you can tell it for your brother, you must not spread it!"

……

In addition to the high-ranking officials of the imperial court who took a sedan chair to the yamen of the capital, there were many low-level officials who walked, and they also intermittently became indifferent on the road.

As Lin Haoran inferred, due to Liu Ruyue's assassination, after many people learned that Liu Ruyue went to Beijing to sue the Yin family for forcibly occupying the fields and killing people, the first object of everyone's suspicion was already Yin Tai, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

For Yin Tai, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, although many officials respect Yin Tai's virtues, because Yin Tai is not favored, many officials have no scruples to publicize it.

Lin Haoran listened to these voices vaguely, although he wanted to fight for the teacher, but he knew that this kind of thing would only get darker and darker, so he sighed helplessly.

At this point, their side is already in a passive situation, and if the incident continues to ferment, I am afraid that many people will also suspect him.

As soon as he thought of this, his left eyelid jumped a few more times, and he couldn't help but feel more uneasy in his heart.

When the yamen goes to the yamen every day, the yamen of the household department is already the most lively yamen.

Lin Haoran came to the front of the main hall as usual, and after coming out of the sedan chair, he usually nodded majestically in the face of the salutes of many officials.

He stayed in the signing room for a while, and when he arrived, he came to the second hall.

In the face of the black oppressive crowd, a daily fixed process is carried out, and after the officials salute, the officials in charge of the roll call are holding a roster of flowers and starting the roll call.

The roll call officer quickly checked the officials present, and then presented the roster and said, "Lord Zhengtang, there are two people absent today, please take a look!" ”

There are really too many officials under the jurisdiction of the household department, even if he has always paid strict attention to attendance, but there will always be a few officials who are late, and today's Yang Junmin, the director of the Zhejiang Division, and Zhongqian Zhongyue, the Shandong Division, are not among them.

"Yang Junmin, the director of the Yunnan Division, has been dispatched, and his name does not need to be checked every day!" After Lin Haoran saw the names of the absent officials, he explained the authenticity.

Yang Futian secretly sweated, but forgot to officially submit Yang Junmin's matter.

Next up is the discussion session. The household department is responsible for the financial work of the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and there are many large and small affairs every day, so there is no doubt that they can brainstorm here.

Although the capital is very peaceful, there are many things in various places. There are many floods in the southeast, many droughts in the southwest, the Central Plains is afraid of the Yellow River, and the north is to guard against horse thieves and white lotus.

However, in Lin Haoran's view, the biggest problem is the silting up of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. If the previous loss was 10%, then the current loss can reach as much as 20%, and it will only be higher in the future.

It's just that in this meeting, they are more of a tinkerer, and they can't influence the decision-making of the imperial court.