That night, Li You gathered all the wives and concubines in the three rooms together and announced his decision to take office alone.

When the women heard this, their expressions were different. Mei Zhi, the representative of the big house, said: "The master is at home, naturally the master is in charge, if the master is not always there, the house should be in charge of the house." ”

Mei Zhi's words are obviously meaningful. Master Li has always asked Aunt Guan to control the expenditure of the house on his behalf, after all, the majority of the public property comes from the silk industry, and it is more convenient for Guan Xiuxiu to take care of it, but nominally Li You is still in charge. Mei Zhi's allusion is that when Li You is away, Aunt Guan will not have this name.

Li You glanced at Mei Zhidao, and then looked at Liu's Dao: "It's inconvenient for the lady?" ”

Mei Zhi retorted: "The master mother is neither deaf nor blind, she can write and read, why not?" ”

Li You was already upset, and his face was full of displeasure when he was troubled by Mei Zhi.

Mrs. Liu saw that her husband looked bad, and hurriedly reached out to pull the plum branch.

Guan Xiuxiu ignored Mei Zhi's stubble, thought for a while and asked Li You, "Isn't it unpleasant for the husband to go?" ”

"It's... Not really. When you first arrive, there is no good place to live, and you suffer in vain. Therefore let you stay in the county for a while. ”

At this time, Jin Bao'er said: "There should always be someone waiting by the husband's side, and the slave family wants to go with the husband." ”

Xiaozhu also followed: "Master! The slave family is also going. ”

"Needless to say, anyway, Fucheng is only a few hours away from here, and it is very convenient for me to come back. I'll talk about it when I'm settled. Li You said categorically.

But it's not always the best way to stay in the family. Li You asked someone to clean up the abandoned courtyard of the family, and took his parents over to live, and it happened that his father was doing official work in the county government again, and it was convenient to live here. There are two old guards in the town, and they are not afraid of a fire in the backyard.

Originally, Xue Juren and others wanted to send Li You off with wine, but Li You politely refused one by one, and he knew his own family affairs, he really didn't have the mood and cheekiness to be invited, so he should keep a low profile and leave.

In this way, Li You, the former inspector of the Xishui Inspection Department of Xujiang County and the current governor of the Suzhou Prefecture Experience Division, boarded the ship with Zhang San at night and quietly left Xujiang County, and he never had the opportunity to return to his hometown as an official in the future. Even living in Xujiang County for a long time will become a luxury, and there are only two possibilities, Zhishi and his parents will die. Fortunately, due to the grace of the imperial court, he just went to Fucheng, otherwise he would really become a wandering eunuch in a foreign land.

The next time, Li You went to the government office to take office, and according to the custom, he first went to meet the prefect surnamed Namao. He went to the gate of the back hall and asked the disciple to pass the word, and when he came out, he was told that the prefect was meeting the distinguished guests, and Li Zhi was waiting in advance.

Li You waited silently at the gate of the courtyard, and waited until noon, only to see someone come out, it was the prefect of Mao who was sending off guests.

The guest was indeed a distinguished guest, and he was also known to Li You, and he was actually a patrol horse royal history. It is said that Ma Xunji came back from Xujiang last time, and he was embarrassed to stay in Suzhou, so he went to Songjiang Mansion again. After inspecting Songjiang during this time, he returned to Suzhou Mansion, because he had not inspected Suzhou yet, and he had to come to his duty.

Ma Xunji was guarded by Li You when he was patrolling Xujiang County, so he also recognized it, but Ma Xunji was very disgusted with everything in Xujiang, and when he saw Li You, he snorted coldly and shook his sleeves and left. If he knew that he was designed by Li You, I am afraid it would not be as simple as a cold snort.

It was the first time Li You saw the prefect of Mao, and saw that this old man was in his forties, with a few long beards and a thin face. Hiding aside and waiting for the prefect to send off the guests, Li You stepped forward to greet him and said, "I've seen the mansion." ”

Governor Mao frowned and said, "You are Li You?" ”

"It's the lower official, and I'm going to take office today." Li You said respectfully.

"Let's do it ourselves." Governor Mao went in again, and he didn't know what he was referring to.

Seeing that the biggest leader in the official office had such an attitude towards him, and said things that he didn't understand, Li You was very helpless, so he had to go to Wang Tongzhi again. After all, I am a division of the same knowledge hall... Wang Tongzhi saw Li You, nodded and said, "You are here to take office?" ”

To be honest, Li You really wanted to grab this old man and slap him the face. It's just that you hate dogs, why are you dragging me into the water? I know my situation, but I come to drink tea with a person who doesn't know the inside story, what is my intention? He resisted the impulse and gave up his hand to Wang Tong: "I have seen Master Tongzhi." ”

Wang Tongzhi said very understandingly: "I know that Master Li is very dissatisfied with his official position, but he can't complain about the old man. ”

Who don't blame you? Do you blame me for being a slut and going to have tea with you at that time? Li You only thought in his heart, he was naturally not stupid enough to openly contradict his boss, and only said: "They are all serving the imperial court, how dare the lower officials be dissatisfied." ”

Wang Tongzhi continued: "Things are not so simple, although there are people in the palace, they are not narrow-minded people. Originally, there was a governor in the Department of Experience, who was over forty years old, and he didn't want to continue to be driven by the copywriting of this government office for the rest of his life, and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity given by the ministry to the various governments to seek an official position for foreign inspection, and to get over that prestige. Therefore, I vacated your patrol seat. ”

So what, this is not the root cause, Li You thinks that Wang Tongzhi is shirking responsibility, and despises him more and more.

"Of course, things are not so simple, after all, you are also a famous person, and Fu Zun also knows that you have some friendship with that Zhao official. Master Mao was the youngest protégé of Zhao Daguanren's grandfather, a closed disciple, and the Zhao family's face could not be denied, so Fuzun also asked Zhao Daguanren's opinion. ”

Hearing this, Li You raised his head and listened carefully, why was Zhao Daguan involved again?

"But Zhao Daguan said to Fuzun, just let you come to Fucheng to serve, the more idle the better, it just so happened that there was a governor in the government who wanted to leave, so he transferred you. You're lucky, and you'll probably be lucky in the future. ”

"Really?" Li You lost his voice.

Wang Tongzhi smiled slightly, "The old man won't lie to you, if you don't believe it, you can ask Zhao Daguan by yourself." ”

Li You secretly scolded Old Man Wang for being shameless, is it good luck to come to a place where you have no power or any power? On the one hand, he was very angry that Zhao Daguan was not interesting enough, even if he didn't help, at least don't deliberately help.

The back office of the government office and the front office are separated by a lane, and all the officials have residences in the back office, so Li You is assigned to live in a three-room courtyard. You don't have to worry about eating, there are kitchen officials in the government office, and there is a kitchen yard built to specialize in cooking.

After settling down in the afternoon, Governor Li thought about going to Zhao Liangli to ask the reason.

said that Cao Ying's house slave had arrived, and he saw that Zhao Liangli had sent a servant to deliver a letter, and he was very well informed, so he sent someone so quickly. Li You opened it and saw that he had set up a banquet for him to catch the wind, and the location was in a place called Dongting Tower.

Li You agreed, and the servant got the letter and returned to his master.

(To be continued)