The current housekeeper of Loei Mansion is called Li Changming, who has followed Li Shule since he was born, and he is familiar with both civil and military affairs, and he is also a wonderful person.

After Menzi entered the lobby, he saw Li Changming talking to several people dressed as scholars, including two female scholars. Menzi lingered outside for a moment, thinking about whether to go in and report.

After he looked at those scholars, he estimated that these people were also here to be teachers or reading boys for Miss, and then looked carefully, their temperament and demeanor were much worse than Xia Xiaohu's, of course, this is also this wishful thinking.

When these people entered the house, Menzi did not know. It may be that the housekeeper brought them in directly, or it may be that the master's colleagues invited them directly from the capital to curry favor with the master.

If you are an ordinary scholar, if you want to enter the gate of this Loei province, you have to pass through him nine times out of ten.

Ordinary scholars, just like those in the house now, can talk to Li Changming directly, and they won't even look at them and go directly to the mansion. Menzi looked over, Li Changming was quite polite to those who were talking and laughing.

After careful consideration, Menzi rubbed his hands for his reward and walked towards the hall. He was afraid that after waiting here for a long time, Xia Xiaohu outside the door would leave, and at this time he muttered vigorously in his heart: "Boy outside the door, you have to be angry, otherwise Uncle I will be wronged in vain and destroy my future." ”

Although the people in the Li Mansion from the old man to the steward are all old men who follow Li Taishou, and to a certain extent, they all have a certain bearing, but a doorman who breaks in so recklessly and disturbs the conversation between the chief housekeeper and the distinguished guests, no matter how you look at it, it is a bit ignorant of the rules.

"Ma Qi, what are you doing when you come in, don't you see that I'm talking to a few gentlemen?" Li Changming saw Ma Qi come in, and his heart turned, knowing that he might have something important, otherwise he wouldn't be so ignorant of the rules, but he couldn't lose the face of the gentlemen present, so he scolded Ma Qi with a slight anger.

When Ma Qi saw the big housekeeper, his heart became more and more drumming, it seemed that these gentlemen were quite heavy, so his trust in Xia Xiaohu became heavier and heavier: "The boy outside the door, don't let me down, uncle." ”

Ma Qi cautiously walked to Li Changming's side, leaned over and whispered to Li Changming for a long time, Li Changming nodded twice, and said, "You go outside and watch first, and I'll arrive later." ”

This is not a sneaky thing, the reason why Li Changming did not blame Ma Qi. It was mainly a few gentlemen present, and after a while, he found that only those two female gentlemen had a deep background, and the others were all boastful.

But they are all people who were selected by the master's colleagues and sent over, and they can't be offended, so they have to take their feelings into account. If it is blatantly said that there is a fellow who is better than them in this family to compete with them for jobs, then the temper of these scholars is estimated to burst out one after another, and Li Changming will have to fight again.

This is not the first time, these scholars were personally selected by the master before, but once, when the master was talking with a few scholars, there was something important to deal with halfway, and he didn't leave a word to go out directly for two incense sticks, and when he came back, he was besieged by those scholars, talking about the gift of Confucius and Mencius, the model of the corporal of Taiwu and so on. nagged for a few hours, so that the old man couldn't say anything about his suffering, and finally threw the mess directly to him.

Since then, Li Changming has been careful to serve this group of self-confident scholars, and dare not make any mistakes, the reason why the status of scholars is so high is due to the fact that Emperor Taiwu's civil administration is more and more tight.

"A few gentlemen sit for a while, the following will not do things, I have to go out to deal with a little thing, a few gentlemen can rest here for a while, and communicate with each other. I apologize in advance. Li Changming bowed to several scholars, and then waited for their answers and prepared to go out.

"The big housekeeper is busy, we shouldn't have been bothering for a long time, how dare we complain again. One of them replied, and the others returned the salute, saying they wouldn't mind.

Li Changming came to the gate, saw Xia Xiaohu at a glance, stayed for a moment, a vague memory surfaced in his head, desperately struggling outward, and when he was about to break through the membrane, Xia Xiaohu glanced at him, and then there was no more.

Due to the inexplicable baptism of memory just now, Li Changming's affection for Xia Xiaohu increased suddenly.

"Dare to ask Gongzi's surname? Is he so young, can he be called a gentleman?" Li Changming looked at Xia Xiaohu with an appreciative expression.

When Ma Qi saw the appearance of the big housekeeper, he was immediately overjoyed, he didn't do anything wrong this time.

"Xiaosheng is free of your surname Xia, Xia Xiaohu, the big housekeeper can call me Xiaohu. Xiaosheng has the ancestors of the family on the Yin De, and is fortunate to have read a few volumes of poetry and books, and heard that your mansion is looking for a companion for the lord of Qianqi County, so he boldly recommended himself to come to join and eat. ”

"Xia Xiaohu, uh, what a familiar name. I heard that Ma Qi said that you and he are fellow villagers, who else is there in the family now?"

"During the war years, my family suffered misfortune eight years ago, and I was left alone to live in the world. ”

"Hey, there are many disasters in the war years. Li Changming sighed, over the years, he has followed Li Shule to fight in the east and west, and he is used to seeing too many families ruined, so he is helpless about this, so he can only sigh.

"Because the county lord is the pearl of our Taishou's palm, he loves him very much, isn't it someone who can be a companion to the book boy casually? I see that your words and deeds are like a person who has read a book, and your appearance is also beautiful, so you can follow me into the house first, wait in the side hall, and wait for the master to come back and see it before making a decision." ”

"Xiaohu thanked the big butler in advance. Xia Xiaohu bowed to the housekeeper.

"Since I led you into the door, you don't need to be too polite, our master is also a big career right away, and he is very casual. ”

"But I have heard the outside world's evaluation of Taishou as a Confucian general, quite elegant and graceful, talking and laughing to defeat the enemy. ”

"It was, and so did I. ”

"The big butler turned out to be the same as Taishou, Wen Taowuluo. Under admiration, the admiration for the big butler rose spontaneously. ”

"You don't need to shoot this sycophant, the reader should look like a scholar, you are like this, I doubt that you are here to kidnap our young lady and come to the door to be a son-in-law? haha. ”

"The big housekeeper misunderstood, since the big housekeeper is so funny, if Xiaohu is extremely sour, it will look out of place. ”

"That's not bad, it's a buildable material. ”

"The big housekeeper has won the award, and the little tiger has to adapt to this era. I heard the big butler say that it was, and then what about later. ”

Later, as everyone can see, the old man did not want to forge ahead, did not claim the king, stayed in Yongzhou, and was cynical. ”

In less than a moment, Li Changming took Xia Xiaohu to the side hall and asked him to wait here for Master Taishou to come back.

In the main hall, several scholars were talking with great interest about the scenery and deeds of Li Taishou in his early years.

"Everyone, I don't know if you've heard of it, Li Taishou's talent in his early years was the first in that year, although the chaos list only ranked Taishou third, but later people knew that it was Taishou deliberately hiding clumsy. A young scholar said to the others while knocking on his fan.

"Zhu Gongzi, everyone knows what you said, is there something that everyone doesn't know?"

"Well, since you want to hear some secrets, I have one here, but I don't know if it's true or not. Zhu Gongzi continued, and deliberately sold a pass.

"Say, say..."

"Everyone knows that my grandfather was a scholar of the imperial court, but he asked me to come here to teach the little county lord to read, do you know why? Brother Jia, your father is the founding general, and when he asked you to come over, he didn't tell you anything?" Zhu Gongzi pointed to one of the scholars and said.

The person who was called Brother Jia by Zhu Gongzi was the son of Jia Zhang, the fifth military general of the dynasty.

Jia Gongzi hesitated for a moment and said: "Since Zhu Gongzi mentioned it, I will no longer hide it, I came here, and my father did mention a sentence, or a rumor." This is a secret circulated among the court officials, an open and secret sentence 'where is the reading of the past and now'. ”

After hearing this, the two women sitting on the side raised their heads with interest, thought for a moment, didn't say anything, and then continued to drink the tea in their hands.