The next day, Mei Xiaoren took the appointment order that had been shelved in Chu Yu's hands for a long time, put on the dark green official uniform that he had not seen for a long time, and went to the Shangjing Government Office to take office.

Her promotion was proposed by the Ministry of Officials, the ministers seconded the petition, and King Yu helped, and His Majesty personally decreed, coupled with her meritorious service, she sat behind the public case in the lobby, and sat rightly. The subordinates who greeted the ceremony in front of the hall were also convinced.

A few days passed, Mei Xiaoren sat in the spacious public hall, in addition to looking at the errands that the Beijing Government Office had done in recent months, he still remembered other things in his heart.

She still doesn't know what happened between the Wei scholar and his wife, and it turned out to be the scene of that day.

Mrs. Wei's resolute words left traces on the goose, and even she, an outsider, still felt uncomfortable in her heart, and what shocked her even more that day was that a heroine who galloped across the field and was happy to enmity shed tears.

In the past few days, the scholars of Wei University have not been to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and they have stayed in the mansion all day long. Mrs. Wei returned to her parents' house and never showed up, and Mei Xiaoren had no way of knowing the reason for the time being, but the rumors outside not only did not weaken, but also intensified.

In the past, the folk wind blew for a while, but the current situation is too unreasonable.

Mei Xiaoren took advantage of the lunch break to change into her regular clothes and went to Dongshi to eat noodles, and her ears were still full of all kinds of ridiculous remarks.

The diners chatted enthusiastically, and it was nothing more than a few sentences: what Wei scholars have always liked to mess with flowers and grass, and they sink into the land of wind and moon day by day; What was caught in bed by Mrs. Wei's triumphant return...... However, there are also new theories, such as why there are many illegitimate children outside the university.

Mei Xiaoren was eating noodles, and when he heard this, he almost choked and squirted.

She didn't interfere explicitly, listened silently, and then looked at the alley on the side, and when the official poked her head out, she tapped the back of the heads of a few diners with the chopsticks in her hand.

Mei Xiaoren finished eating, got up and left with an expressionless face. The few people who were talking about it just now were still chatting hotly there, and among the crooked people were both old men and women.

She returned to the yamen, and half an hour later, she had just ordered a lot of people, all of whom stood in front of her.

When several people came in, they all looked terrified, and even worse, they were trembling while walking, and they were trembling in front of her.

What ordinary people are most afraid of is a lawsuit, and they are afraid of the yamen as if they are afraid of the ghost gate, especially the yamen in charge of major affairs such as the Shangjing Government Bureau.

After everyone arrived, Mei Xiaoren got up from his seat, walked in front of several people, glanced at them, and lightly ordered: "A few people are chatting lively, presumably they are already dry-mouthed, come here, serve tea." ”

The mother-in-law at the head of the row was frightened, knelt on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "My lord, we don't dare, we don't dare anymore." ”

Mei Xiaoren took a few steps back, returned to her mother-in-law, glanced at her and asked, "Don't you dare to do anything?" ”

"Don't dare to chew your tongue ......"

"It's not human nature to talk too much and talk less?" Mei Xiaoren stared at her mother-in-law, and said, "If you don't dare in the future, you won't dare, if the official doesn't let you have a long memory, how can you get rid of the habit of talking too much?" ”

The mother-in-law shook her head, "No...... It's not nature, it's someone who instructs us, someone gives us money to say outside......"

"Say what?"

"Say that the scholar is a negative man."

Mei Xiaoren asked: "Who is that person, and what did he teach you?" ”

"It's a man, and the grass people don't know who he is, he only told us that the scholar was caught and raped in bed by his wife, and his wife was so angry that he wrote a letter of resignation, and if else we want to make it up, the more ridiculous the better." The mother-in-law said sadly.

Mei Xiaoren then asked a few people who didn't say a word, and the explanations they got were exactly the same.

Behind the whole thing, there are really people who are making waves and adding fuel to the fire, and they have a lot of mouths, and they are not short of silver.

After Mei Xiaoren finished asking, he looked at the few people who were drooping their heads, and said: "This official thinks that you are not the mastermind, let you go, shut up after you go back, and you must be tight-lipped about today's affairs, otherwise the official will invite you to come to tea." ”

Several people said yes again and again.

Mei Xiaoren beckoned his sleeves and asked the official to come in and take a few people away.

Prime Minister's Office.

The sun set, Mei Xiaoren came back, and saw that Chu Yu was still flipping in the Xuan Pavilion.

She didn't bother much when she came in, and sat aside alone, planning that he would finish his business and talk about anything else.

The weather was getting colder and colder, and when she came back, her hands were a little cold, so she kept her eyes calm and rubbed her hands quietly.

Gu Chuyu said while watching the performance: "Xiao Xiao, the Xuanzhou prefect is not good for governing the state government, and he has been dismissed and investigated. ”

"Hmm." Mei Xiaoren replied calmly.

Such a disposition was expected by her. The Xia State has not yet broken through the city of Daning, and the dignified government and the Yamen have been in chaos to the point that even the bandits cannot be suppressed, and the prefect is in a hurry to send troops to Yunxian County to defend, and he can't let the government soldiers pour out of the nest without any planning.

"Don't you ask, who do I want to send to take over?"

Mei Xiaoren glanced at him and smiled slightly: "It's just a prefect, can you use Xiangye to personally consider the candidate?" ”

Gu Chuyu's gaze was still wandering, and he said slowly: "You know this person, I want to hear what you think." ”

Mei Xiaoren was surprised: "Who?" ”

"Li Daoyuan."

Mei Xiaoren was stunned, looked at Gu Chuyu, and was silent for a long time.

Gu Chuyu raised his eyes, "What's wrong?" ”

"Xiangye, are you really willing to return to the position of Lord Prefect?" Mei Xiaoren was incredulous.

"There is no difference who is the prefect of Xuanzhou to the prime minister, but you can also be rewarded for meritorious deeds, Your Majesty praises you as a genius in the world, then Li Daoyuan helped you enter the office back then, and it is not impossible for the official to be reinstated." Gu Chuyu closed the notebook in his hand and continued to look at the next volume.

Mei Xiaoren stood up, excitedly like a little girl, rushed to his side in three steps and two steps, and pretended to be distressed: "How can you pay off so many favors?" ”

Gu Chuyu took her to sit on her lap, and the corners of her lips raised, "I'm afraid it's not enough to make a personal promise, it doesn't matter, I can't pay it off in this life, and I will continue in the next life." ”

Mei Xiaoren glanced at him, with a smile on his lips, and in a blink of an eye he saw the book he had just picked up, the handwriting on it was extraordinarily beautiful, it was written by a woman and was better than hers.

The fold is a secret of the government, and if Chu Yu doesn't show it to her, she can't go beyond the rules, so she hurriedly took her eyes off it, and inadvertently swept the payment.

This letter was folded by Ji Nanrou.

Mei Xiaoren had already looked elsewhere casually, but Chu Yu said in her ear: "She borrowed someone else's hand to hand over the fold just to thank me for taking Haoyang back, nothing else." ”

"I don't need to mention the above things."

"Wei Shuying once said that you can't hide another woman's words and deeds in front of a woman, otherwise it will be unreasonable."

Mei Xiaoren couldn't help laughing, and said: "I have found out the clues of the rumors, Lao Xiangye invited the university scholars to come here, or I can go to the Wei Mansion." ”