When I got up the next day, the old man came to me and asked me how the guards were doing recently, and I told him what I had experienced.

"Yes, the status of becoming a civil servant has also improved, which will still be helpful for your future development, but you have to find a way to release it when you go back, it's not bad to be a prefect or something, you have your own territory, and you can develop and expand your strength, you can't rely on Leiyun Village alone, the place is too small and close to the capital, and it's not very safe."

I thought that the old man was right, it was too unsafe here, even if Jinyiwei had a cheap dad to cover him, but he was not the boss.

"Old man. I'm going to teach a girl now, what kind of future do you say, I'm afraid it's not easy to do. ”

"You're wrong to say that, don't look at Princess Shouyang as a girl, she is the emperor's eldest daughter. The emperor is very fond of her, you can use her as a way to be promoted, his mother is also a concubine, and he can also talk to the emperor, but don't despise that girl. I won't say anything more, you go back early, you have to socialize when you should be connected, it's good to have more connections. Zhang Juzheng admires you very much, you will go back to see him today, the gift is heavy, this person is also greedy for money, although he has the ability, but his nature of greed for money will not change. ”

"Old man, what will that Zhang Juzheng like. I'm afraid that giving gifts will disgust him. ”

"Such people like to be vassals and elegant, calligraphy and painting are the best, nothing else may be fine, you go back and buy a pair of celebrity calligraphy and paintings."

After a while, a few people who had breakfast came over, and now that everyone knows my identity, they don't have to hide it, and they just ask me how to develop.

I said: "Now that there are more people in the cottage, I should pull them out to try their skills after a period of training, so that they can have more actual combat experience. It's good that the old man is responsible for your assistance, I will go back in a while, the weapons are ready, I asked Liu Lianjiang to tell you, go far away during training, find someone who is usually good at fish and flesh, and declare that the knife is not good, you can't kill people, just grab more supplies, and there are enough people in the cottage to defend, don't go to the old man, at home, let them young go. ”

I explained a lot more, and I didn't stay any longer, so I took Liu Lianjiang to leave the cottage and return to the capital.

Sitting in the study, I thought about the time when Zhang Juzheng went home, whether to eat or not to eat, to eat, I am afraid that I will not be able to say that people will have to eat in a few minutes, if I eat there will be no one there, I don't know much about these interpersonal interactions, so I came to the front yard, Lao Liu is cleaning up the stable, the father and son are in full swing, seeing that I am coming Lao Liu said: "Young master, why did you come out." ”

"Brother Liu, go out and hire a few people to clean up, why do you have to go down by yourself."

"It's going to be cold, take advantage of the fact that it's not very cold yet, quickly clean up the horse shed, it's not easy to get it to freeze in the future."

"Brother Liu, I want to ask you something, I want to go to Zhang Juzheng's house at night, do you say to go before or after dinner."

"The young master wants to go before dinner, because if he values you, he will see you, if he doesn't pay attention to you, he will say that there are guests at dinner, see you another day, if you go at night, I don't know how many people go to him, it may not be our turn."

Lao Liu is worthy of being a veteran, and I also know that it is better to go early, so I made up my mind, so I said to Lao Liu: "Brother Liu, do you see whether you go with me or Liu Lianjiang with me." ”

"Young master, let's both go, there are fewer people, and the concierge doesn't pay attention to us at a glance, and they don't necessarily give a report, and the children don't understand these things, I have seen more with the master in your house, so I understand everything."

"Okay, I'll go prepare the gifts, we'll go early in the afternoon, and when he comes back from the cabinet, he can see us, it will be better that way, what do you say?"

"Just do what you want, young master, I'll prepare the saddle and everything in advance."

I went back to the backyard study, opened the mechanism and came to the secret room, I remember that there were a few boxes of calligraphy and paintings in the secret room, look at it and pick two pieces for him, open the box and pick it and look at it, I don't know much about calligraphy and painting, I looked at it casually, and only saw that there were two paintings of Song Huizong, because of the conversation in the Wei Mansion, I also felt that Song Huizong was a good person, a little good, so I picked out his two paintings, one is a picture of Ruihe, and the other is a picture of a hibiscus brocade chicken. I don't know the value of these two paintings, so I'll take these two anyway.

I looked at only two paintings that looked too shabby, I looked at the boxes with jewelry, and took two strings of pearl necklaces, before leaving the secret room, so it was not good to take it, so I called Lao Liu, went outside to buy two boxes and put them up, so it also looks good, and also decorates the façade.

Waiting for Lao Liu to buy the box, and put the things in the time is not early, Lao Liu knows Zhang Juzheng's mansion, the three of us rode out of the yard to Zhang Juzheng's house, five or six miles away from the distance, soon arrived, Lao Liu got off the horse and went to the concierge to hand over the hand fold, which is equivalent to the current business card, which says my official position and current position.

The porter looked at my fold and threw it directly on the ground, Lao Liu was not angry, picked up the fold, took out a piece of silver from his sleeve and handed it to the doorman, which door weighed the silver in his hand and said: "The master has not come back yet, you wait outside, but if the master comes back and does not see you, don't blame me." ”

"How can I complain about you, my young master and Master Zhang are old acquaintances, so come to visit, you just need to fold your hand to Master Zhang, if he doesn't see my young master, he can't complain about you, big brother."

The man waved his hand and said: "You go and wait in the distance, the master will come back in a while, the master will be unhappy in front of the door, fold my hand and I will hand it to you." ”

Lao Liu returned to the horse, led the horse and a few of us to a place about fifty steps away from Zhang's mansion before stopping, I said: "Why is Brother Liu so arrogant, doesn't Master Zhang care." ”

"Young master, you don't know, these men are all relatives of Lord Zhang, and they have a lot of oil and water a year, and asking for silver is their forte, in fact, the big people with real power are like this."

I didn't say anything, I knew that this was the rule, but this would affect Zhang Juzheng's image very much, if I became a big official in the future, I couldn't find such a person to be a protégé.

A few of us chatted about family life, waiting for Zhang Juzheng to come back, and after a while, I saw a sedan chair coming to the door of Zhang's mansion surrounded by more than a dozen people.