Wang Erniang left home for the first time and walked thousands of miles to the capital, originally seeing everything fresh, but she was always a little nervous and uneasy. However, now living in my brother's house, I don't have to worry about safety like when I was in a hurry to stay in a hotel, I don't have to serve my in-laws every day, I don't have to take care of housework, as long as I am idle to accompany my sister-in-law to talk to the grandmother of the Cheng family next door and walk around, even if she has not been married in the boudoir in the past, she has to help her mother, or take care of the housekeeping alone.

However, she was used to going to bed every day, and she felt bored within two days. On this day, as soon as Xiaobei said that she wanted Ya Po to bring someone to pick at home, she immediately rolled up her sleeves to help, and said that she couldn't be an idle eater, let alone put people with ulterior motives into Calai, which made Xiaobei cry and laugh, but she couldn't tell the second aunt and grandmother that Wang Fulin deliberately gave people the opportunity to mix sand.

Therefore, when the extremely famous Ya woman in the Beijing division brought twenty or thirty people over for the alternative, Wang Erniang sat beside her sister-in-law, eager to sift everyone through with her eyes as a sieve. Xiaobei quietly patted her sister-in-law's hand lightly, and said in a low voice: "You don't have to worry, even if you enter the people, they are all placed in the front yard first, so that Yan's mother and them can slowly recuperate, and all of us around us are reliable people brought by the family." Besides, the person who fancys at first glance may not be good in the future, and the person who is mediocre at the beginning may be able to see his ability in the future, so why rush for a while? ”

Wang Erniang was stunned by her sister-in-law's words, and then nodded in admiration and said, "Yes, I listen to my sister-in-law." ”

Although Wu Yingjie was only a student of Huizhou Mansion, he had traveled in Hangzhou, Nanjing, Yangzhou and other places, and also had a few friends in Beijing. Besides, if a man stays at home during the day, it is more like eating idle food, so he has been visiting friends outside for days, and by the way, he also went to Guozijian to inquire about how to enter prison and other matters, and he didn't want to rely on Wang Fulin, the eldest brother, and Cheng Naixuan, a fellow villager. Wang Erniang has a pungent temperament, but she knows better what to take care of and what to let go, so not only did she not say anything, but also stuffed four taels of gold for Wu Yingjie in case of emergency.

She thought that her hands were big enough, but when she saw that Xiaobei picked four girls with clean faces, but their appearance was only average, and the girl who was about eleven or twelve years old was given a price of ten taels per person, she couldn't help but smack her tongue secretly. Today's silver is said to be more in circulation in the market than in the early years, so taxes and so on are often paid in silver, but it is still very valuable, in that place in Huizhou, when Wang Fulin bought Jinbao is eight taels, or bought out for life, now these four girls are sold for 20 years, one is worth ten taels of silver, and four people are already forty taels, is the price of this Jingshi so high?

Xiaobei has long heard Ye Mingyue say that most of the big families in Beijing are servants, and if they are newcomers, they are probably selected those who look mediocre in color, loyal and honest, so Ya Po is very aware of this preference, and when recommending people to various families, she often puts these people in front. And because of this convention, such people are also particularly susceptible to being mixed with sand.

Therefore, she didn't buy those seven or eight-year-old children who were not easy to have problems, but chose eleven or twelve, who seemed to understand but did not understand, but was not too cunning. When choosing a servant woman, after careful questioning, she picked two women who were not as honest as their faces, about thirty, and claimed to be widowed and childless.

As for the manservant, she didn't ask for any of them. After all, if the family is mixed up by impure men, it will be a big problem!

Wang Erniang watched from the sidelines, and gradually became a little confused. Seeing that the tooth woman took two taels of reward money and six people's worth of silver, she was busy thanking her again and again, and agreed to send back the unselected person for a while, so she and Wang Siming went to the Shuntian Mansion to handle the official deed, and then retired first, Xiaobei asked Yan's mother to take the selected people down to settle them separately, and he couldn't help but pull his sister-in-law aside.

"Sister-in-law, not to mention the high price for buying people here in Jingshi, it is not clear whether the roots are innocent or not, there is really a shortage of people at home, why didn't you bring a letter to your hometown before? I knew that I would bring a few more people from Huizhou to Beijing this time, so as to ensure that all of them are good and diligent people. ”

Since Xiaobei entrusted everything to Yan's mother, she was not in a hurry to answer at this time-in fact, she hadn't thought about it at all-and when she returned to the room with Wang Erniang, she thought about it in her heart, so she sent Fangrong Fangshu outside, and said with a smile: "Good sister, I know that you are kind." During their stay in the capital, these officials will always accept a few local domestic servants, and there will be no local accent when they take them out, and they also know some local customs and customs. You and your brother-in-law are going to stay in Beijing for a few more years, and Xianggong said before that when the time comes, when the time comes, when the people are adjusted, they will put a girl to serve by your side, and a servant woman will go out with you. In fact, it's not that the manmaid doesn't buy it today, but the husband said that he has a very handy bookstore in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he asked him to recommend one to his brother-in-law. ”

"Huh? How can this be! ”

Wang Erniang's face suddenly turned red, after getting married, her brother gave her and Wang Xiaomei a lot of valuable private money, which was enough to make her embarrassed, and now her sister-in-law actually made it clear that there are still those who are picked for themselves today, and even those who go out with her husband are already watching, how can she be happy?

She grew up in the countryside of Huizhou, and she was originally a native accent, if it weren't for the fact that Wang Fulin gradually accumulated money and invited someone to teach her and Wang Xiaomei official language, and now that she has entered Beijing, she can't pass this speaking level alone. But the maids and servants around her are still native after all, and if they go out to socialize in the future, they will naturally be looked down upon.

Although the Wu family in Xixi South is rich, it has always been active in the southeast and Huaiyang, and her in-laws only wanted Wu Yingjie to study in Nanjian before, but Wu Yingjie was a little high-spirited and wanted to take the exam after her brother, so the decision to come to Beijing was made temporarily, and she was in a hurry, she wanted to give her brother an unexpected surprise, and she never reported it early, let alone prepare such a subordinate. Now that I think about it, how much trouble did my sudden attack cause? Thinking about it, she couldn't help but sneer: "Sister-in-law, you and your eldest brother are too bothered......"

Xiaobei just had an idea, and then she found such an excuse, but she didn't expect Wang Erniang to take it seriously, she was secretly glad at the same time, but she couldn't help but be a little embarrassed to use their husband and wife as an excuse. However, she had to continue to hold her sister-in-law's shelf and teach Wang Erniang that Wang Fulin often talked about it, saying that it was not to be stingy with money, etc., until she finally sent her sister-in-law away with a guilty face, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

This is really a little unstoppable as soon as you lie, and you have to be on guard next, don't let Wang Erniang see the flaws! You have to prevent these guys from coming out of the mouths of their families, Liu Bo and the others, according to the chronological order of doing things for Wang Fulin, they have to give good orders one by one, don't really leak the news, then it's troublesome!

Li Youzi, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was sixty-four years old, eleven years older than Zhang Juzheng. Although he was not selected as a gentleman, he started as a pedestrian, although he was once demoted for offending the powerful, but after all, he was still appreciated by the big figures in the court, and he returned to the court not long after being demoted. Since Zhang Juzheng became the first assistant, with Zhang Juzheng's dual identity as a fellow villager in the same year, his official position began to experience a triple jump. In the sixth year of Longqing, he was only the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and after a short time, he was promoted to the secretary of the Taifu Temple, and in the first year of Wanli, he was directly promoted to the secretary of Dali Temple. Soon became the head of the household department, the right capital of the imperial history, and finally sat on the seat of the Ministry of Works.

If you want to say his greatest achievements in so many years, there are two in total.

The first is that when Minister Wang was in the case, he successfully persuaded Zhang Juzheng to change his mind, stopped Feng Bao's madness, and saved Gao Gong from a catastrophe.

As for the second item, after taking over as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry last year, he played the role of Pan Jitao, an expert in water control, to manage the Yellow River, which was quite effective.

Now, the same year of Zhang Juzheng's 26th year of Jiajing is no longer as conspicuous as the previous two years, and Li Youzi and Yin Zhengmao are the only remaining party in the same year among the seven secretaries of the six Shangshu and the imperial history of Zuodu. However, Yin Zhengmao has always looked down on Li Youzi. The reason is very simple, although Li Youzi has been in the Liuke Corridor for a long time, he has been the prefect after being deposed and reinstated, and he has never served as the chief official of the two divisions, let alone the governor. Since he has never been a Hanlin or a provincial-level chief official, how can Yin Zhengmao, who has made great contributions to the governor of Liangguang, look down on him?

On this day, in the main hall of the household department, when I heard that Zhang Yun, the official of the capital, ran in and reported that Li Youzi had come to fight with him for the matter of river work, but it was for the distribution of money for the prisoner, Yin Zhengmao stood up impatiently: "I don't care which squire to find and entangle him, I don't have the spare time to play with him, just say I'm not there!" Remember to prepare more tea for him as usual, Li Sanju can't hold it back, so he will definitely go back! ”

Li Youzi used to be a waiter in the household department, even if he was a lot older, he could name more than half of the officials in the household department. He was obese and weak under his feet, and when he walked into the main hall of the household, he found that Yin Zhengmao was not there, which was not trivial. Although the two household servants who heard the news were very dissatisfied with Yin Zhengmao's troubles, they were crushed to death by the officials, not to mention that Yin Zhengmao and Zhang Juzheng had a special relationship, so they could only laugh and deal with Li Youzi. Zhang Yun, the official on the side, served the tea diligently, and his cheeks were almost sour with a smile, and finally saw Li Youzi showing a hint of discoloration.

"Hmph, what a Yin Shiting, I don't believe he can avoid me all the time!"

When he came, he trembled, but when he left, Li Youzi's pace was hurried and fast, and it could even be said that he was running away. The two Hubu waiters who had long heard of Li Youzi's nickname glanced at each other, and they suddenly realized, and one of them frowned and said to Zhang Yun, the initiator: "You are so bold, Li Yihe is the secretary of the Ministry of Industry after all, aren't you afraid that he will really make a big joke and come back to you to settle accounts?" ”

Zhang Yun hurriedly replied: "There may not be other things in our household yamen, but whether it is a clean room or a urinal, there is no shortage of them, but Li Butang refuses to solve it in our household department, so he has to go back to the Ministry of Industry, how can this be blamed?" The guests come over, the small one serves the tea, if Li Butang feels that it is not to the taste, he can not drink it! ”

"You are right, but if something goes wrong, Li Yihe will sue Yuanfu, and Da Situ will not be able to save you." The other squire couldn't get used to Zhang Yun's style of holding chicken feathers as an arrow, and he didn't take Li Youzi in his eyes, so he said with a smile, "You'd better recite Amitabha Buddha a few more times, after all, there are not a few steps from the door of the household to the gate of the Ministry of Industry, but if you count the distance from the main hall to the door on both sides, it is difficult to say." ”

Zhang Yundeng was stunned for a moment, and when he found that the two waiters had already left the main hall, his face was gloomy. However, there are several officials in the household department, he was promoted to his side after Yin Zhengmao took office, and he did not receive the benefits of this household department. Moreover, he knew that Li Youzi's reputation for Li Sanju, that is, teapots, urinals, and wine pots, was also deliberately promoted by Yin Zhengmao, so after worrying about it at this time, he patted his cheeks.

"I've done everything, and I'm afraid of retaliation?"

said this, but Zhang Yun was worried in his heart. Especially when an hour later, he heard that Li Youzi was sweating profusely after returning to the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry, struggling to return to the main hall, and fainted after going to the toilet, and immediately knew that something was wrong. He didn't dare to expect that Yin Zhengmao, a high-ranking official of the second grade, would carry it for him, even if what he was doing was obviously serving tea that others couldn't find anything wrong with.

Plantain with diuresis added to the tea was specially ordered by Yin Zhengmao every time Li Youzi came in the past, and the two waiters obviously didn't know, but they both warned themselves together, so Li Youzi, who was originally not dealing with Yin Zhengmao, was sick this time because he held his urine for too long, can this still spare him?

Although the first thought was to run quickly, but knowing that he still had a family, the monk couldn't run to the temple, and if he left, he would not be able to admit himself at all, so he could only tremble and mention these rumors in front of Yin Zhengmao, but all he got was a cold snort.

"When Chen Nanquan was the imperial history of Zuodu, he was still walking steadily in his early seventies, with a loud voice, Li Yihe was only in his early sixties, one year younger than me, he was already so fat that he couldn't even walk, but he still had to love the power of the stack, and he didn't go, he fainted after walking back and forth like this today, what else did he have to say, it was serious to hurry up and resign!"

Yin Zhengmao said hardly, but after all, he didn't mention a word about tea, where could Zhang Yun feel at ease when he heard it. trembling until Yin Zhengmao went home, he thought about whether he could find someone to please, and finally thought of the official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Hu Quanquan, who used to be from the same family as him. However, he hurried to Hu Quan's house, only to learn that Hu Quan had not returned from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so he pounced. He didn't dare to go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to wait for the rabbit, so he could only wait and wait at the door of Hu's house, and waited until the treetops on the moon, and then he waited for the old acquaintance.

He hurriedly stepped forward, pulled Hu Quan, who didn't know why, to the corner of the alley, and knelt down straightforwardly: "Brother Hu, I beg you to help, you must give me an idea!" ”

PS: The first update (to be continued.) )