"Yes, the ministry will be closed tomorrow, and the servants plan to go over the day after tomorrow." Faced with Yinzhen's question, Li Wei remembered Ling Ruo's words, raised his head and glanced at Yinzhen carefully, hesitating whether to speak.

His behavior was looked at by Yin Zhen, and he glanced at Li Wei with interest and said: "With your political performance in Jiangyin County, the performance evaluation of the officials is not a problem, what else do you want to say?" ”

Seeing Yinzhen asking, Li Wei bit it and said, "The slave wants to stay in the capital to serve, I don't know if it's possible?" ”

"Why?" Yinzhen only had two simple words, but Li Wei felt an invisible pressure pressing on him, and the atmosphere in the room instantly became solemn.

Yinzhen was born in the heavenly family as the prince, and has been on the throne of the prince for many years, and has the momentum of a superior person, which made Li Wei's hands tremble slightly, and he determined that the god said: "The slave has been taken in by the prince since the flood of the Yellow River, and he has the honor to serve Fujin, in the heart of the slave, the prince and Fujin are both the masters of the slave and the relatives of the slave, I originally wanted to serve you two for the rest of my life, in order to repay the great kindness, but the prince treated him favorably, and let the slave serve as an official, in the past six years, There is no day when the slave does not want to come back to serve the prince and his master. ”

"Now, you are an official of the court, and you are no longer a servant of the palace." Yinzhen's voice couldn't hear joy and anger.

Li Wei kowtowed vigorously and said in a deep voice: "The slave will never dare to be that ungrateful." ”

In the room, you can hear the sound of your own heartbeat, "plop" and "plop", as if it is about to pop out of your throat at any time.

After a long time, Yinzhen's voice sounded again, "I heard that you offended the brother-in-law of the Changzhou prefect when you were in Jiangyin, which made the prefect very dissatisfied with you, right?" ”

Li Wei was taken aback, he didn't expect Yin Zhen to even know about this matter, and he didn't even mention a word in front of Ling Ruo about this matter, so as not to worry her. The reason why Shicai said in front of Yinzhen that he wanted to stay in Beijing was that it was indeed as explained, and secondly, because of his brother-in-law's affairs in the past year, the prefect thought that Li Wei did not sell his face as a Shangguan and looked for trouble for him everywhere, which made him heavy and difficult to be as comfortable as before. If this continues, it will be difficult for him to get ahead, and returning to Beijing is an excellent way out, after all, there is the prince Yinzhen here.

"Damn it!" He knew that his little thought had been pierced by Yinzhen, and Yinzhen hated others to lie and be confused the most, so he didn't deny it and confessed his guilt.

Yinzhen knows that the prefect is Lao Jiu's doorman, and he has some ability, but he has a small heart and is extremely protective of his shortcomings, and there are not a few things that have happened over the years, but he has Yinzhen behind him, and no one dares to move.

His fingers tapped lightly on the spring and autumn book, and all of them knocked on Li Wei's heart like a drum, and he waited anxiously for his next fate.

Suddenly, the sound of "knock knock" stopped, and just as Li Wei was nervous like a broken string, Yinzhen's voice slowly came from the top of his head, "If you want to stay in Beijing, you have to stay in Beijing, there is a shortage of foreign officers in the criminal department recently, but I prefer you to experience a few more years." As for the prefect of Changzhou, I have looked through his files, and he has been in office for seven or eight years, so it is time to move it. ”

Although Yin Zhen doesn't care about the officials, what is his identity, even Zhang Tingyu has to weigh what he says, not to mention that it is just a person, it is really not a big deal.

"The minions obey." Although the goal was not achieved, the removal of a big mountain on his head still made Li Wei's heart feel relieved, and he quickly kowtowed and agreed, but Yinzhen's words were not finished, "Good life and work, if the assessment of the officials is still excellent after three years, then you can go back to Beijing." ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang." This time Li Wei was completely relieved, no matter how stupid he was, he could hear that Yinzhen was planning for him, although Jingzhong was good, but the six or seven officials grabbed a lot of money in Beijing, which can be said to be a carp crossing the river; With his current situation, at most he will make up for a sixth-grade official position, and it will be too difficult to advance step by step, and he may only be a fourth- or fifth-grade official until he is sixty or seventy years old, but if he has more experience outside, has a certain amount of merit, and then transfers to Beijing, then the chances will be much greater.

Yinzhen is not unwilling to promote him, but hopes that he can walk more steadily and have more room for expansion in the future.

Coming out of the room, it was almost noon, when Li Wei arrived at Jingsiju, the table was already full of dishes covered with silver lids, and Ling Ruo was chatting with Xiaocui, and Hongli next to him peeled a grape or longan from time to time and handed it to Huzi, like an elder brother.

When Li Wei came in, Ling Ruo got up and said with a smile: "Okay, everyone is here, let's start the table." ”

As she spoke, someone immediately came in and lifted the silver lid that was used to keep the dishes warm, and the aroma instantly filled the whole room, making people appetite so much that the young tiger couldn't hold it back, and swallowed his saliva there.

After everyone sat down, Ling Ruo picked up the full wine glass and said to Li Wei and his wife: "When you got married, my master, who was far away in the capital, could not come to congratulate you, but now I will take this wine to wish you and your husband and wife a deep love and a long life." ”

"Thank you, master." After touching and drinking with Ling Ruo's cup, Li Wei took the wine jug and poured it for Ling Ruo, himself, and Xiaocui and said, "The slave also wishes the master and Brother Li a long life and a hundred years of life, and there will be no disasters and no difficulties." ”

"Okay." With this word, Ling Ruo drank all the refilled wine, and Hongli also poured the juice squeezed from the fresh grapes and said loudly: "Xie Lu, thank you, Uncle Li." ”

After saluting each other like this, they began to raise the chopsticks and chopsticks to carry the vegetables, and Hongli took a large shrimp that was cut open from it and roasted to a golden brown and put it in the tiger bowl, like a little adult: "Here you go, this shrimp is delicious, remember to spit out the shrimp skin." ”

Both of them are children, and they are similar in age, plus Hongli knows how to take care of people, Huzi is already quite close to him, without the rustiness when he first met, and after happily agreeing, he took a big bite of the prawn, and the sweet and chewy shrimp meat was better than anything he had eaten before.

Halfway through the meal, Ling Ruo suddenly remembered something and said, "You will live in the palace for the past few days in the capital." "Li Wei is no longer a subordinate now, and he can't live in the subordinate room in the backyard of Jingsiju, but how can there be no guest rooms in the palace, just clean up.

Li Wei knew that Ling Ruo had good intentions, but there was more than one Fu Jin in the house, and his own family lived in it, and he was told by other Fu Jin, so it was inevitable that there would be a burst of gossip, so as not to bring trouble to Ling Ruo, he refused: "When the slave arrived in the capital, he had already found an inn, and the luggage and everything were placed there, so he would not bother the master." ”

Ling Ruo said disapprerovingly: "The palace is so big, where can you bother a few of you, what's better than the guest house, according to me, you can go and return the inn and bring the luggage later." ”

Li Wei made up his mind this time, no matter what Ling Ruo said, he refused to agree, and Ling Ruo had no choice but to let him go, and only asked him to take Xiaocui and them to the mansion to sit down.

By the time the meal was over, it was already dark, and Ling Ruo prepared a carriage to take them back to the inn.