Li Xu left the prison of the Criminal Department, sat in front of the table and made paperwork for a while, and it was just time to go to the office.

Colleagues took up their cloaks one after another, walked out of the yamen and returned home.

"Master Li, aren't you leaving? Let's go back and rest for two days, I can't say that I will go to Dali Temple tomorrow to help? ”

"Even if we don't go to Dali Temple, our criminal department won't be easy in the future."

"I'm looking forward to the early New Year, and in the coming year, our criminal department will be relaxed, and the household department will be busy."

Li Xu raised his head when he heard this: "What do you say?" ”

I didn't expect Li Xu to be able to talk, the official was stunned for a moment, and then looked at each other with his colleagues and smiled: "You know it after you have been in the Criminal Department for a long time, our Criminal Department and the Household Department are always busy alternately, this year is the year of our Criminal Department, and next year it will definitely be the turn of the Household Department!"

During the New Year, we should put on more incense, so that next year's criminal department will be smooth and smooth. ”

Watching the officials walk out, Li Xu closed the official document in front of him, and sometimes he thought that it was also good to live a relaxed life like this.

Li Xu got up slowly, took his cloak and walked outside the yamen.

All the way back to Li's house.

Mrs. Li had already ordered someone to meet her at the door.

Li Xu changed out of his official uniform and went to greet Mrs. Li.

Mrs. Li's spirit has improved a lot, and she is sitting on the kang and doing needlework.

Li Xu brought tea over: "Mother don't be so busy, you still have to take care of your body first." ”

"I'm fine," Mrs. Li said with a smile, "It's getting colder and colder, make the right knee pads for you, you have to ride horses up and down, and if you don't get it right, you will suffer from the cold." ”

Mrs. Li put the needle and thread in her hand back into the basket and looked at Li Xu with a smile: "Xu'er, my mother knows that you have been strong since you were a child, and unlike your brothers, you have your own ideas for what to do. ”

Mrs. Li paused slightly when she said this: "If the capital is too dangerous, let's go back to the north, the streets here are full of dignitaries, not a place for us to stay, mother doesn't ask you to be rich and rich, hasn't the Li family come over all these years?"

My mother saved some money for you, and it wasn't necessarily a bad thing for you to use it to open a shop, and to stay away from your career. ”

Li Xu looked at Mrs. Li: "Did someone tell you something?" ”

Mrs. Li hurriedly said: "No, no, I think you are busy with official business these days to have such thoughts." ”

Li Xu shook his head: "Mother won't let me resign for no reason," he said as he looked outside, "Did the clan sister reveal any news to you?" ”

Mrs. Li still wanted to deny it, but Li Xu's eyes were slightly deep: "Mother is unwilling to tell the truth to her son?" ”

couldn't hide it, Mrs. Li sighed: "It wasn't your clan sister who told me, I went to ask, something happened at home, but I didn't know anything, so I asked your clan sister, what is the situation, my son's official rank is not high, why do you want to be in such a risk."

Your clan sister said, the Marquis of Anyi's mansion ......"

Hearing this, Li Xu frowned: "The clan sister has always been serious, but now there are some gossips everywhere, if she has such a spirit, it is better to interrogate the people in the courtyard and see who is taking care of the persimmons, so that people can easily poison them." ”

Seeing that Li Xu was angry, Mrs. Li was so frightened that she didn't dare to speak out for a while, and only when the anger on Li Xu's face calmed down a little before she said, "Why did Xu'er hear half of it?"

Your clan sister is saying that the Anyi Hou Mansion and that Lord Song are investigating this case together, and it may be difficult for others to understand the real case, you are now in the Criminal Department, Shangfeng has high expectations for you, and the burden on your shoulders is heavy, and the easy things have been done by others, and if you want to make some progress, you have to take risks, so there will be the situation that day.

Your clan sister suffered because of us, I was going to apologize, but your clan sister comforted me not to take it to heart.

Xu'er, if you say this about your clan sister today, it will be sad for her to know. ”

Li Xu's expression became calm again: "Mother will not have worries because of these two sentences. ”

"How could it not be," Mrs. Li pursed her lips, "An Yihou's prestige in the north is very high, they investigated the case like this and made meritorious contributions, could it be that they wanted to return to the north and take the opportunity to replace Zhang Yuchi, I am afraid that you will be suppressed in the future whether you are in the capital or in the north, and you can't help but feel unhappy in your heart, it is better to forget it than this, there is no need to work so hard."

Mother worked hard to raise you as an adult, and you can't be tossed like this. ”

Mrs. Li's eyes were slightly red as she spoke.

Li Xu knew that his mother had not recovered from the panic, and comforted Mrs. Li: "Mother thinks too much, her son is an official of the imperial court, and he only needs to do a good job in the affairs of the imperial court, and we have no deep hatred with the Anyi Hou Mansion, and they will not harm their son for no reason, this danger has nothing to do with the Anyi Hou Mansion......"

Mrs. Li said: "Then why don't they have such a danger, but they want to throw you out?" Are they hiding in the shadows to reap the benefits of fishermen? ”

Li Xu stood up: "It's not what my mother thinks, my son is guarding Huijing in the Criminal Department, and those people will naturally attack my son." ”

Seeing that Li Xu was leaving, Mrs. Li immediately changed her words: "Okay, okay, mother won't talk about this, mother doesn't know what's wrong today, she thinks of the bad side of everything." ”

Li Xu looked at Mrs. Li's pale face: "My son has invited an imperial doctor to see his mother, and he will go out to greet him now." ”

Leaving Mrs. Li's house, Li Xu heard a long sigh from behind Mrs. Li.

Li Xu put on his coat and walked out of the house.

The snowflakes blew on his face and soon melted, and the snow wrapped everything and covered the trees in the distance, and from a distance it looked like the figure of a girl.

Xu Qinghuan was wary of him because he knew what he was thinking, his ambition was not to be a petty official, he met two gentlemen when he was a child, and the gentleman passed on everything he had learned to him, which gradually made him ambitious, and then he planned cautiously and did not tell anyone what he thought.

After arriving in Fengxiang, when she met Xu Qinghuan, her eyes clearly reflected his shadow.

He once thought that she was reluctant to get too close to him because she could see through his future road would be dangerous, but later she was able to plan for Song Chengxuan wholeheartedly.

Song Chengxuan's identity may make the Song family and the Xu family suffer in an instant, but she didn't seem to care, so she jumped in without hesitation.

In her heart, he may not be able to compare with Song Chengxuan, just like her mother, who is pessimistic, thinking that he has offended the Marquis of Anyi's mansion, and he will resign and return home in horror.

Li Xu stopped, and couldn't help but have a smile on his face, he Li Xu is definitely not such a cowardly and cowardly person, not to mention that Song Chengxuan is in danger now, even if Song Chengxuan occupies the southeast? When competing for the world, the heroes rise together, and the overall situation is not yet in the hands of whom.