Yan Songnian knew that Le Yi was a jealous and hateful character, although Le Yi's connections and energy were good, if he was willing to help, buying an official would definitely get twice the result with half the effort, but he didn't come forward to tell Le Yi about it at all, because he knew that if he told Le Yi, he must be asking for trouble.

Unexpectedly, he didn't look for Le Yi, but Le Yi came to the door by himself.

He wasn't sure what Le Yi meant when he asked him to say this, so he had to look at Le Yi suspiciously and refused to speak first.

Le Yi looked at Yan Songnian's expression and said, "Brother Yan, the imperial court explicitly prohibits the purchase and sale of official positions, if this incident happens, do you know what the consequences will be?" ”

Yan Songnian pouted and said: "It is because some people buy it, and there are many people who buy it, that it is expressly forbidden." Can those fools who were caught compare to me? I have served as a pacification envoy before, and perhaps when my term of office expires, the person who recommended me will still be praised by the Holy One. ”

How could Le Yi not know Yan Songnian's middle and lower evaluations. The evaluation of court officials is divided into five categories: upper, upper, middle, lower, and lower. Unless there is treason and collaboration with the enemy, or endangering one side to the point of shocking the government and the opposition, he will not give an evaluation. Even if it's just a foolish official, you can get the middle. Yan Songnian has a middle and lower level, and it is needless to say how he is an official. Over the years, officials who have been evaluated by the middle and lower levels should not want to be used again if there is no other reason.

Seeing that Yan Songnian was so self-aware, Le Yi was unhappy in his stomach, and said: "You don't think about others, but also for the children at home." Since you have already bought a knighthood and have an industry in your family, how can you not be a leisurely rich man than to go all out to be an official? ”

Yan Songnian twisted his round body, and said with a smile: "The ancients, self-cultivation to govern the country and level the world, this self-cultivation, I have almost cultivated now, so I have the idea of governing the country." It's a pity that the saint seems to have forgotten me, so I have to find some other way to make him remember me. This kind of resurgence, when discussed in detail, is not considered to be buying officials. ”

At this time, Yan Songnian was still a dead duck with a hard mouth, Le Yi was disappointed for a while, if it wasn't for the fear of being tired of Yan Qingge, he wouldn't have bothered to care about Yan Songnian.

Yan Qingge said lightly on the side: "Father, are you going back to continue to be a pacification envoy in Southern Xinjiang?" ”

Yan Songnian stayed in southern Xinjiang for three years, and felt that the place was poor and bad, the people were fierce, and the people were idle, and the miasma was full of miasma, except for the production of worthless things such as kudzu cloth and rice, there was nothing to scavenge. I bought the officials of that place and came back after a few years in office, but it was not enough to return to my roots.

When Yan Qingge saw his expression, he knew that he was reluctant to go to southern Xinjiang, smiled slightly, and said, "Father, last year, King Zhong went to the north to fight, but he didn't fight, and he barely left his life to return to Beijing. You can't do anything about this pacification envoy from the north. The Western Army only started this spring, and the army has not yet returned, so it is certainly impossible to set up a pacification envoy from the west. The east side has always been the territory of my Great Zhou, next to the sea, does my father want to be the pacification envoy of the Dragon Palace? ”

Yan Songnian's face was ugly, but in view of Le Yi's presence, it was not good to lose his temper with Yan Qingge, so he said with a cold face: "You are tricky, it is a shame that Aunt Ying and Aunt Liu told me good things about you a few days ago, and asked me to take you home for the New Year, I see that you are finding fault everywhere, and you don't want to come back." Where I go to be an official, you can't control your children. ”

"Brother Yan, is what Qingge said wrong?" Le Yi didn't like to see Yan Songnian's face of being arrogant to his family and swallowing his anger to outsiders, so he interrupted him and scolded.

Yan Songnian was afraid of Le Yi, and took a sip of stuffy tea: "Brother Le, what do you want me to say before you believe me?" I can get the official position I ask for, and if the saint knows about it, he will not blame it, but will reward me. ”

Le Yi listened to his nonsense and said, "Then tell me, what is the official position?" ”

"Brother Le, I have an excellent and reliable friend, and he and I believe that next spring, there will be a pacification envoy in the Northland."

"What?" Yan Qingge and Le Yi said in unison.

The Northland has not been beaten down at all, and the spy who reported to the Barbarian King of the Northland has not yet been caught, at this time, the Northland pacification envoy is set up, what good things can be, if this news is true, I am afraid that there will be some big moves in the court.

According to the news that Yan Qingge got from Shui Ying before, the official position of the Northern Land Pacification Envoy was only set up by the imperial court to find out the spy.

Yan Songnian, a stunned young man who knows nothing and doesn't know, wants to be an official and wants to go crazy. This official position, which no one else touches, he rushes up happily, and crashes headlong into these undercurrent turbulent battles, just afraid that there will not be even a little bone residue left in a minute.

When the words opened, Yan Songnian became more and more overjoyed the more he spoke, so he simply opened the folding fan, shook it, and said: "I have already asked clearly, the Holy Lord sent a message to set up this northern land pacification envoy, and no one is willing to go." The north land has not been defeated, and those people are greedy for life and afraid of death, but I am different from others, although tens of millions of people have gone to me! ”

"Besides, the Northland is full of gold and silver, isn't it?" Yan Qingge suddenly interjected.

The north is bitterly cold, but there are also a lot of gold and silver deposits, which is why the emperor has been fighting the north for many years and still refuses to let go. The reason why Yan Songnian wanted to go to the Northland to be a pacification envoy, Yan Qingge could figure it out with his toes.

Yan Songnian was exposed by Yan Qingge, his nose was almost crooked, and his face turned purple.

"Father, Li Shengdao and no one picks it, it will be bitter!" Yan Qingge said meaningfully: "There are so many nobles from the family, why don't they come forward to fight for the pacification of the northern land, why doesn't my father want to think about it?" Although wealth is in danger, you have to have a life to enjoy. ”

Yan Songnian's face became more and more ugly.

Ever since he fell in love with the position of the Northland pacification envoy, it was the first time that someone poured cold water on him.

Yes, why do so many nobles of the family not compete for this position? And the person who came to lobby him said that he could get this official position for only five taels of silver, which was too cheap.

The man's words are still fresh in my ears.

"Lord Yan, what is 50,000 taels of silver, when you get there, you can find a gold mine to mine it, and you can return to your capital in a month."

"The northern land has not been defeated yet, and the emperor's hand can't reach so far, what are you doing there, how will the emperor know that what you get in your hands is yours."

"The barbarians in the north don't know how to mine at all, Lord Yan buys more private soldiers, and then brings hundreds of craftsmen over to occupy a place of minerals, and they can't move you, safety is not a problem at all."

"You are diligent there, in three years, you can not only get gold and silver. When the time comes, what can't you do when you want to return to your hometown? ”

The man's words made him angry and bloody, and he dreamed of sitting on a pile of gold and laughing after becoming a pacification envoy of the Northland. However, as Yan Qingge said, Li Sheng's avenue and no one picks it will be bitter. Could it be that those old foxes in the DPRK are all fools?

Before, in order to buy the official position of a small county magistrate, he ran for two months, but no one paid attention to him, and some didn't even open the door for him. Why, then, did the Northland pacification allow this big pie to fall on his head?

Yan Songnian's folding fan didn't shake anymore, and his little eyes that were squeezed into a slit by fat were full of stunned light.

Le Yi and Yan Qingge saw that he didn't speak for a long time, knowing that he had muttered in his heart. The pacification of the north made this kind of official position, which looked like a trap, even the stupidest officials in the court could see it, and they could deceive and deceive Yan Songnian. Moreover, even if it is an idiot like Yan Songnian, if he is awakened a little, he knows how ridiculous this official position is.

There's only so much they can do about it. For more inside information, Yan Qingge promised that Shui Ying would not spread it. She didn't want to say more, so she stood up and said, "Father, think about it yourself, let's go." ”

Yan Songnian looked at Yan Qingge, he hadn't seen him for more than half a year, Yan Qingge was taller, and his eyebrows were gradually growing, Yan Qingge didn't look like him, but more like her mother back then. He squirmed his lips with difficulty, and said, "You can go back to Yan's house for the Chinese New Year this year, it's always at your uncle's house, it's not the same." ”

Yan Qingge saw that he actually opened his mouth to say this, and smiled faintly: "Aunt Ying and Aunt Liu persuaded you?" ”

She had given ideas to Aunt Ying and Aunt Liu before, asking them to get a good relationship with Aunt Chu, and in the future, they might be able to ask for a son and a half daughter from Aunt Chu to raise, and they would have a good old age. At present, Aunt Chu really gave her daughter to the two of them, and they said good things to Yan Qingge in front of Yan Songnian, which can be regarded as a kind of reciprocation. It's a pity that Yan Qingge is not uncommon with this.

Yan Songnian looked at her with small eyes, and suddenly said, "That's it, Aunt Xingying and Aunt Liu are right." You didn't mean to be close to me, you just ...... It's just that you gave birth to the wrong family, and our Yan family can't afford ...... like you."

"What nonsense is Brother Yan talking about!" Le Yi's face changed greatly, and he suddenly interrupted Yan Songnian's words, glanced at Yan Songnian coldly, and pulled Yan Qingge's arm: "Let's go." ”

Yan Qingge listened to Yan Songnian's words and said half of them, and knew in his heart that there must be an inside story, but Le Yi seemed to be very taboo about this, so he pulled her and left, not asking Yan Songnian to talk nonsense.

Leaving Ruyi Building, Yan Qingge suddenly asked Le Yi, "Uncle, what does my father want to say?" Does it have something to do with my mother? ”

She is not a fool, so far, Le Yi has hardly talked to her about her mother, and when others mention her mother, they are all secretive. Yan Songnian's posture is also related to her mother.

Princess Rouhui said that she looked like her mother, Ling Xiao's mother also knew her mother, her mother studied at Bailu Academy, and the Yan family had a dowry left by her mother that was comparable to the status of a princess...... All indications show that her mother must have been a woman with a lot of stories.

Le Yi sighed, sadness appeared on his face, and he touched Yan Qingge's head: "Don't think about it, what your father said didn't mean that." Do you want to go back to Yan's house for the New Year? ”

Yan Qingge thought for a moment and said, "I want to go back and take a look." ”

She let the mother and daughter of the Hai family go free for a year, but she couldn't be so careless in the future.

She is thirteen years old and the crown prince is fifteen. I can't say when someone will come to the palace to propose, she must keep an eye on it, don't let herself be selected, and in the same way, she can't let Yan Shuyu be selected easily.

She has been dormant this year, not because she has forgotten those blood feuds, but because she is waiting for an opportunity to move and accumulate strength.

The hardships she has endured and the injuries she has suffered must make the mother and daughter go through the same re-experience, and even make them even more miserable!