When he learned the news that Xiao Xiantang was going to donate to the official, Mu Chonglan poked his head out of the spice pile: "You want to go to the Criminal Department?" ”

Xiao Xiantang looked at Mu Chonglan a little strangely when he heard this, and Mu Chonglan realized that he had said something he shouldn't have said, and hurriedly explained: "I heard my father a few days ago that someone from the Criminal Department had recently retired. ”

Is that so? Xiao Xiantang frowned slightly, feeling that there was something wrong with Mu Chonglan's explanation, but he couldn't think of anything wrong for a while: "The position is vacant, naturally someone is on top, I just donated a Xu official and was in the household department." ”

There are six departments in the court, officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers, the officials are in charge of Ding Wei, the household department is in charge of taxation and grain, the Ministry of Rites is in charge of the imperial examination and sacrifice, the military department is in charge of the soldiers and the examination of martial arts, the criminal department is in charge of writing cases, the criminal prison affairs, and the Ministry of Engineering is in charge of project construction.

Mu Chonglan nodded, but secretly said in his heart, obviously with Xiao Xiantang's talent, there is no need to spend money to donate officials, I really don't know why I have to donate officials.

But it doesn't hurt, because he is Xiao Xiantang, so no matter what official position he starts, sooner or later he will have to rise to prominence, but he has to take a moment to talk to his father, so that his father can seize the opportunity to take care of him when Xiao Xiantang is still down, so that Xiao Xiantang is already on the rise, and he should also think about the good of their Mu family.

"I came to you to tell you that this time I took office, and I am allowed to take my family." Xiao Xiantang put his hand in his sleeve.

Mu Chonglan was a little embarrassed when she heard this, because she remembered that Xiao Xiantang did not tell her about donating officials in her previous life, but left her and went directly to Dadu to take office.

I remember that at that time, I was so angry that I was choked after learning about it, and my stepsister Su Yan kept blowing the wind in her ear, saying that Xiao Xiantang threw her off like this, most likely because there was a fox spirit outside, this time it was fake, and it was true that she and the fox spirit stayed and flew together.

She believed it to be true, so she took the maid and the maid to Dadu to catch the adulterer, but fortunately she happened to bump into the reception banquet prepared by her colleagues in the household department for Xiao Xiantang.

"I ...... I'm not going. ”

"Why?" Xiao Xiantang frowned and looked at Mu Chonglan.

Mu Chonglan thought for a while and said, "You also know that the rouge shop can't do without me now, and my father is also here, I don't really want to leave Qingzhou, not to mention that in two years, the two of us will be ......."

"Shut up!"

"......" Mu Chonglan looked up at Xiao Xiantang, completely unable to understand why he suddenly yelled at himself.

Xiao Xiantang looked at Mu Chonglan and saw that her eyes were red, so he flicked his sleeves vigorously and left the spice room.

Mu Chonglan's nose is sour, she really can't understand, obviously she has tried her best to please Xiao Xiantang, Xiao Xiantang treats her well these days, and even she is fantasizing that it will be good to be like this friend in the future, but it turned out to be wishful thinking.

A few days later

As the so-called mountain is high and the emperor is far away, Qingzhou is a small piece of land, and the officials and squires of all sizes are looking at Mu Yuanshan, this Xiao Xiantang is Mu Yuanshan's son-in-law, and the matter of donating officials naturally cannot be hidden, so as soon as there is news from the Xiao family, everyone knows about it in half a day.

There are a lot of people who are active, and they rushed to the Xiao family to congratulate him, although Mu Yuanshan didn't go, he also sent someone to give a gift.

Mu Chonglan understood that the reason why Mu Yuanshan didn't go to Xiao's house was not because he was busy with official business, but because he couldn't look down on a small official at all.

Because strictly speaking, Xu officials are not even officials, that is, they don't even have grades, and they are exactly the kind of errands that can be bought as long as they pay for it.

The Xiao family is afraid that they also know this, but the Xiao family at this time is different from the past, and it is the time to go downhill, so no matter whether this official was bought or not, whether he has no real power, as long as he is an official, it will be helpful to the Xiao family's business, so they will tacitly ignore the word "buy".

When Mu Chonglan returned to Mu's house, Mu Yuanshan was not in the house, and after she gossiped a few words with the Liu family, Su Yan ran over and grabbed her to whisper.

This incident also happened in his previous life, and he would chase after her words at that time, so Mu Chonglan was a little resistant to Su Yan wanting to whisper to herself, but she was a little curious, after all, in her previous life, Su Yan said that Xiao Xiantang ran away with the fox spirit because of Xiao Xiantang's farewell, and in this life, Xiao Xiantang did not say goodbye.

"If you have anything to say, just say it, I'll go and say goodbye to my father later." Mu Chonglan urged Su Yan to make a long story short.

Su Yan obviously noticed the perfunctory in Mu Chonglan's words, and remembered that she had asked for a thousand crane pictures last time and was rejected, and she had an indescribable feeling in her heart: "Actually, it's nothing, I just want to ask Sister Chonglan how your relationship with that Young Master Xiao is?" ”

"Not bad."

"Really?" Su Yan asked hurriedly.

Mu Chonglan asked rhetorically: "Sister, doesn't she want me to have a bad relationship with Xiao Lang?" ”

"Of course not, I'm just ......" Su Yan twisted the handkerchief in her hand, as if she wanted to speak and stopped, and like a strong man breaking his wrist: "Actually, I heard...... Today, Xiangye is interested in recruiting your Xiao Lang as a son-in-law? ”

"Huh?"

"Looks like you really don't know." Su Yan was happy in her heart, but her face was not obvious, but she was uneven: "I heard that Xiao Xiantang was injured in Dadu, and he was saved by the daughter of the Xiangye's family, and then the two of them secretly fell in love, so according to my guess, this Xiao Xiantang came back from Dadu this time and brought you so much rouge, just because of his weak heart, he did not donate this time to enter the official career, but planned to go to Dadu to have a private meeting with the daughter of the Xiangye's family." ”

"......" Mu Chonglan secretly said that it is true that Xiao Xiantang was injured, it is true that he was rescued, and it is true that he was emotional, but whether the rouge was bought with his real money or not.

Su Yan saw that Mu Chonglan didn't lose her temper as she expected, and she was a little surprised: "Why don't you look at it at all?" ”

"What's the hurry?"

"Your Xiao Lang is going to become someone else's Xiao Lang."

Mu Chonglan blinked his eyes and smiled dryly: "This is just a rumor, Xiao Lang has already told me that the daughter of the Xiangye is his life-saving benefactor, but there is no strange relationship between the two." ”

"Do you believe this kind of deception to children?" Su Yan had a "you are so stupid" expression on her face.

Mu Chonglan pretended not to see it, nodded and said, "If he says it, I will believe it." ”

Su Yan immediately widened her eyes: "Sister Chonglan, this is not like you." ”

"Everyone changes." Mu Chonglan smiled bitterly, isn't his heart like it? Perhaps, at least he will no longer selfishly take the rise and fall of the Mu family to delusion.