Wu Weihou looked at Su Ziqiu, his lazy appearance was really different from before.

It's been five years, and Su Ziqi has changed again!

No one can see his changes more clearly than his own father. Five years ago, he was as gentle as jade, polite, and virtuous. In the past five years, he has been cold and ruthless, and anyone who comes close to him is frozen three feet in front of him.

Today, he is chic and graceful, light-hearted, leisurely, lazy and comfortable.

This feeling, he looked at it, and faintly felt a little familiar, as if he had seen it on someone, but when he looked at Su Zi's face for a while, he couldn't remember it.

He asked with a gentle face, "Zi Shu, where did you go out of Beijing more than half a year ago?" Who cured you of the cold? ”

Su Zi sat with his legs bent and said slowly, "Why does father ask so much? For so many years, I just asked my father about his private affairs, so why did my father ask me? ”

Wu Weihou suddenly became angry, and his face tightened, "Zi Chop, you and I are always father and son, even if it was wrong for my father back then, five years have passed, and it will be six years in the blink of an eye, do you hold a grudge against your father for a lifetime?" ”

Su Zi said casually, "Father, you also said that it has been six years, and six years have passed like this, so why do you want to bring up the old things again?" After the words fell, he retracted his legs, got up and half-stood up, and reached out to pick up the curtain, "Since my father has decided to resign after His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's wedding, don't worry too much about it, and live a good life with your stepmother." As the words fell, he jumped out of the carriage and entered the door without looking back.

Wu Weihou was a little breathless in his heart, staring at Su Ziqi who got out of the car and entered the household, he was dressed in a crimson robe, hunting lightly in the cold wind, the young man was full of spirit, but his steps were calm and calm.

Wu Weihou wanted to scold a "unfilial son", but he couldn't scold, the former Su Zi was extremely filial, and he was very respectful to him, and he was so gentle that he even saw an ant on the ground and had to take a detour, who knew that five years ago it made him change his temperament, and five years later he is like this now.

He couldn't help but think, if he hadn't been so confused and married Liu Fuxiang five years ago, would Su Zi be the same as the previous Su Zi ? As a father, it is difficult for him to decide whether Su Zi is better than Su Zi five years ago or Su Zi is good now.

"Master Hou, can you go home?" Chang Sui looked at Wu Weihou's face and asked cautiously tentatively.

Wu Weihou lowered the curtain, rubbed his eyebrows, and said very tiredly, "Go home." ”

Chang Sui hurriedly responded and ordered the coachman to go home.

Su Zi slashed into the household department, and the officials of the household department were already waiting for him, and when they saw him, they hurriedly saluted and called him "Lord Shangshu".

Su Zi glanced at the officials of the Hubu Mansion, he was the youngest one, he nodded, and after meeting the others, he waved his hand and let everyone feel free, and he took the file given by Yun Chi and entered his office.

Everyone thought that Su Zi would always burn the three fires when he took office as a new official, but he didn't expect him to go in without saying anything. Everyone looked at each other, and they couldn't tell what this son who had been walking sideways in the capital for five years, had a ruthless reputation, cleared the filth and filth of the top ten families in the north in one fell swoop, and returned to Beijing with great achievements.

But even if Su Zi didn't say anything, no one dared to underestimate him.

Su Zi is not a fledgling, and if his sword is aimed at anyone, he has never shown mercy.

Therefore, after everyone looked at each other for a while, they secretly made up their minds to be careful not to offend him.

Su Ziqi knew what the officials of the household department were thinking, but he didn't have time to pay attention, he needed to get familiar with the household department as soon as possible.

Although the treasury is quite abundant, there are too many places that need to use money, although the flood in the Sichuan River Valley does not have the silver taels of the user department, and the private treasury of Zhao Zaifu is used, but before the advent of the thawing flood season next year, the Heilong River embankment will be repaired, and the silver taels need to be transferred from the household department.

Although there are a lot of family properties of the top ten families in the Northland, but the restoration of the vitality of the Northland must be put into it, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is going to get married, and he will not naturally let Yun Chi be wronged, so the pomp and circumstance of the big wedding should be big, and this silver two is a large number.

In addition, the court wants to raise soldiers, and some people want to usurp the throne behind their backs, and I am afraid that in the future, I don't know when, there will be a tough battle to be fought, and the expenditure on recuperation will not be able to deduct military salaries, but will have to spend more, so that the soldiers will be strong and strong.

Today's household department really has a key to spend several large sums of silver, and I am afraid that it can spend the entire treasury.

What he needs to do is not to let the treasury be spent, but to find a way to fill the treasury with silver taels.

This year, there were disasters in various places, and it was impossible to increase taxes from the people, so we could only start with the ideas of the family's high families.

A Zhao Zaifu Mansion can take out the silver taels to govern the Sichuan River Valley, although the Zhao Mansion has no way to use the power of the entire Zhao clan to help it keep Zhao Zaifu's position in private, but the financial resources are also amazing, then, the mansion that is comparable to the Zhao Mansion will not be inferior to the Zhao Mansion.

While looking at the file, Su Ziqi pulled through the major families that were not much different from the Zhao Mansion in his mind, calculating how to enrich the treasury.

Everyone knows that the household department is a fat shortage, but it is also the most difficult department to manage among the six departments. If you manage it well, you will be promoted to the top of the cabinet, and the marquis will be admitted to the cabinet, and if you don't manage it well, you may be like the previous Hubu Shangshu, who was directly pushed out of the noon gate and cut off his head.

Su Zi is not afraid of losing his head, and Yun Chi will not cut him, but this tricky department, now that he has taken over, it is really not so easy to take it on.

Liu Fuxiang was overjoyed when she heard that Su Zi had returned to Beijing, and was about to go out to see him in a hurry, but was grabbed by the maid beside her, and whispered, "Madam, although the prince is back, but you also have to avoid suspicion, the last time you went to the East Palace to ask the whereabouts of the crown princess, the Hou Ye was afraid that he was also very angry in private, but he didn't say it." ”

Liu Fuxiang paused suddenly, woke up suddenly, stood for a moment, and suddenly covered her face and shed tears, "Why didn't I think about it back then?" I was wrong, I was wrong. ”

The maid's face changed, and she hurriedly closed the door, "Madam, don't cry, the Hou Ye will come back in a while, if you see your eyes red, I'm afraid I will ask." ”

Liu Fuxiang suddenly said hatefully, "He asked about it, after so many years, don't think I don't know, he still thinks about the first wife." ”

The maid suddenly lost her voice, about the first lady, it is a taboo in Wuwei Houfu, and in ordinary times, no one dares to talk about it. Whether it is in front of the Hou Ye, or in front of the son, or in front of the lady.

Liu Fuxiang cried and squatted down, "How do I know...... How did I know he ......"

"Madame is cautious." The maid was afraid that Liu Fuxiang would say something inappropriate, so she hurriedly reminded her.

Liu Fuxiang really didn't dare to say anything, and she didn't dare to cry too hard, for so many years, although she married Wu Weihou, although she was in charge of the inner courtyard in this Hou Mansion and occupied a place, but because she was not right, so although the people in the Hou Mansion respected her on their faces, they despised her in their hearts.

She knows best that the yin of the inner house can ruin a woman, so she must endure it in case the partition wall has ears.

She stood up slowly, and the maid immediately handed her a handkerchief, Liu Fuxiang reached out and took it, wiped her eyes, and wiped her tears, because she had just cried twice, she couldn't see the redness and swelling, only a pair of eyes were glowing with moisture, and she could vaguely see the water.

She walked to the mirror, retouched her makeup, and after calming down for a moment, she asked, "Will you tell me the news you inquired about carefully, did Childe really serve as the head of the household?" Will he be back home today? ”

The maid hurriedly said carefully the news she had inquired about, "Mrs. Hui, there is not much news that can be inquired, and no one knows when the son will return to Beijing, in short, he was already waiting in Xuandemen when others found out today." Gongzi has made great contributions in the north, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince appointed him as the head of the household, and no one in the ministers objected, as for whether he will return to the house, it is not yet known. ”

"Send someone to inquire again." Liu Fuxiang commanded.

The maid hesitated and whispered, "If Master Hou knows that Madame inquires......"

Liu Fuxiang immediately said, "After so many years, why don't I care about my son?" If Gongzi comes back, I won't send anyone to inquire, and Master Hou will be strange. Just send someone. ”

"Yes." The maid answered and immediately went.

After the maid left, Liu Fuxiang sat in front of the mirror and looked at herself in the mirror. Five years ago, she was also more beautiful than a flower, and now five years later, she looks at herself with her head full of pearls, and she doesn't even feel that she knows the stranger.

Her life was ruined five years ago, but once, she never regretted it, but now, she regretted breaking her intestines.

She remembered the plain and beautiful color of Huayan, although it was not gentle and lovely, but it was extremely comfortable and pleasing to the eye.

Compared with Huayan, she is a ruined flower, even if she only asks for a place the size of a sesame seed in Su Zi's heart, I am afraid that she will never be able to ask for it again.

She thought about it, and she cried uncomfortably again, and the makeup she had just touched up was spent again.