After the court this morning, Wu Zhi did not immediately return to the painting academy, nor did he rush to Kaifeng Mansion to take office, but took Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and a group of entourage guards to the subordinate institutions to receive a waist card.

Now Wu Zhi has become a powerful official, and according to the system, the imperial court must be equipped with an entourage to escort him, but these staffing officials can also be appointed and dismissed by themselves, as long as they are innocent and registered in the institutions under the ministry.

This is the difference between a real official position and a fictitious title, and now Wu Zhi's guards are also "civil servants" with rank and status in the system.

The so-called seven-rank official in front of the prime minister's door is talking about this.

The waist card should have been sent to Wu Zhi by the subordinate agencies of the officials, but Wu Zhi had something to do today and could not be delayed, so he led the guards to go in person, the subordinate agency was just a small office, and Wu Zhi had the power of "calling all the subordinate officials of the six departments" given by Zhao Ji, and the petty officials in it naturally did not dare to embarrass Wu Zhi and his party.

Leaving the ministry, Wu Zhi did not go to Kaifeng Mansion, but first came to the Hanlin Painting Academy in the palace, and now Wu Zhi is also the dean here, so he needs to come here to explain before leaving.

And Wu Zhi knew that there was still someone waiting for him in the Hanlin Painting Academy.

As soon as he walked to the gate of the Hanlin Painting Academy, Wu Zhi saw a man and a half in a gorgeous costume, a white jade belt around his waist, and a golden crown on his head, who was guarding there with a little scholar.

"His Royal Highness the Nine Emperor Princes."

The young man was none other than Zhao Gou, the Nine Emperor Princes, and Wu Zhi bowed slightly after approaching.

Zhao Gou saw that Wu Zhi still had that jerky expression, he looked at Wu Zhi and said to the scholar beside him, "You go down first." ”

Seeing that Zhao Gou seemed to have something secret to tell him, Wu Zhi also motioned for the guards beside him to stand a little farther away.

"You're going to Kaifeng Mansion to take office later," Zhao Gou straightened up unnaturally and asked.

"Not bad."

Wu Zhi was very calm, he knew why Zhao Gou was unnatural when he saw him, mainly because he didn't know what kind of identity to face Wu Zhi, he was the Nine Emperor Princes, which was more noble than Wu Zhi; But he is also the chief reporter of Bianjing Daily, a subordinate of Wu Zhi, and he also knows the relationship between Wu Zhi and Ling'er, from this point of view, he is Wu Zhi's junior, no wonder Zhao Gou is unnatural.

He wasn't very favored by Zhao Ji before, so he was a little stubborn in his bones.

"The main reason is not to handle the case of Lord Sun's family destroying the door," Zhao Gou's eyes lit up.

"Exactly."

"How will you handle this case?"

"Naturally, it is handled impartially and let the facts of the case be revealed to the world."

Wu Zhi felt that the reason why Zhao Gou came to ask him seemed to be that he didn't trust him to handle this case well.

"Sun's family must have been murdered"

Zhao Gou secretly gritted his teeth and looked at Wu Zhi again, as if he was struggling with whether to say something.

"Whether it is murder or not needs to be investigated and conclusive evidence can be determined."

Wu Zhi said leisurely, although he also suspected that the Sun family fire was murder, but now that he is the chief of the investigation of the case, he should speak more rigorously.

"Can you really get to the bottom of this case and bring the real culprit to justice?" Zhao Gou asked suddenly.

Wu Zhi raised his eyebrows, and said in his heart that this kid really doesn't trust me

"That's natural, if Lord Sun's family is really harmed, I will definitely investigate to the end"

"Good If"

After a pause, Zhao Gou's face suddenly turned red, and he didn't know if it was excitement or something else.

"What if," Wu Zhi asked.

"If you can find out this case impartially, I" Zhao Gou turned his head and whispered: "I will recognize you as a brother-in-law"

"Oh"

The corners of Wu Zhi's mouth rose slightly, stretched out his palm, and said with a smile: "Okay, then let's make a decision."

"A word is a certainty"

As he spoke, Zhao Gou slapped his palm with Wu Zhi fiercely.

"This is the snack that my seventh sister wants me to give you."

After the agreement, as if to alleviate the embarrassment, Zhao Gou took out a small box of snacks from behind and handed it to Wu Zhi.

"Thank you"

Wu Zhike was much more experienced than Zhao Gou, and naturally took over the box.

"Where's your seventh sister?"

Open the box, inside is Wu Zhi's favorite glutinous rice balls, because the painting academy is in the palace, so when Wu Zhi went to work in the past, Ling'er often took some delicious and fun to Wu Zhi's office and stayed with Wu Zhi for most of the day, except for the fact that there was no husband and wife between the two, the intimacy seemed to be the same as that between husband and wife.

"The seventh sister accompanied her mother to worship the gods." Zhao Gou turned around as he spoke, "Then I'll go back and say goodbye." ”

"Wait, Xiao Gou" Wu Zhi stuffed a glutinous rice ball in his mouth, and stopped Zhao Gou: "Remember that during my case, the newspaper should not stare at the case so closely, so as not to startle the snake, and I will send someone to inform the newspaper if there is a result." ”

Zhao Gou had a helpless face, said "I know" to Wu Zhi, and walked away very unnaturally.

"Hey, hey, kid"

Looking at Zhao Gou's back, Wu Zhi smiled meaningfully, he deliberately called Zhao Gou "Xiao Gou" just now, since Zhao Gou intended to admit his brother-in-law's identity, then Wu Zhi would not be polite to him, and directly changed his name now, so Zhao Gou looked helpless just now.

In fact, from the moment Zhao Gou kept the secret for Wu Zhi and Ling'er, he had already tacitly acquiesced that Wu Zhi was his brother-in-law, but he didn't know it.

Zhao Gou, if Wu Zhi hadn't crossed over, then he would have been the first emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty in the future, but now, everything has become a variable.

Entering the painting academy, there was indeed a handsome man in the hall, and the young officials in the cyan official mansion were sitting there waiting for Wu Zhi.

Wu Zhi didn't go to entertain him immediately, but walked around the academy, and after explaining to all the painters, he finally walked into the hall.

"Student Qin Hui, meet Master Wu."

Although Qin Hui is in his early twenties, Wu Zhi is not a few years older than him, but Wu Zhi is higher than him in the literary world, and he is a high-ranking official in a crimson official uniform in the officialdom, and this time he promoted Qin Hui to handle serious cases, so Qin Hui regarded himself as a "student" as soon as he opened his mouth, which not only seemed humble, but also brought him closer to Wu Zhi.

The hustle and bustle of the meeting is enough to see a little bit of Qin Hui's cleverness.

"Haha, will you be able to ride a horse?"

It will be Qin Hui's word, Wu Zhi did not say any polite or encouraging words, but came up and asked Qin Hui such a strange question.

"Horseback riding is one of the six arts, and I learned it in Xia." Qin Hui said a little nervously.

In front of Wu Zhi, the dignified Qin Hui was still under pressure.

"It's a good thing, then come with me to Kaifeng Mansion" Wu Zhi took his belt and strode out of the hall, quite a bit resolute.

"Come on, prepare the horses"

Qin Hui hurriedly followed, only to see that after Wu Zhi arrived outside the palace, Wu Zhi had already stepped on a tall and fiery red horse, and behind him was a guard wearing a uniform waist with a cross sword, riding horses neatly arranged in two columns, and there was a black horse next to Wu Zhi that was led by no one by his entourage, which was obviously prepared for him.

"Come up"

"Good"

A flash of excitement flashed in Qin Hui's eyes, and he immediately rolled up his wide official robe and stepped onto the horse very flexibly.

"Driving"

Wu Zhi took the lead in raising the whip, rushed out in the lead, and galloped in the direction of Kaifeng Mansion, followed by Qin Hui and the guards.

This is the real "taking office", in fact, the judges of Kaifeng Prefecture are civil officials, and the general civil officials take office in a carriage or sedan chair, only soldiers or 100,000 people are in a hurry, so they will ride a horse and gallop to take office.

The reason why Wu Zhi chose this way of taking office was not for show, nor for fun, but the moment he left the Hanlin Painting Academy, he was no longer the indifferent fame and fortune, amiable, and even ambitious little courtier in the impression of hundreds of officials

If you don't show some ruthless skills, I'm afraid that even if you give Wu Zhi the official title of Kaifeng Mansion Yin, Wu Zhi won't be able to do anything.

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