Chapter 480: Finding a Backer
Fingers lightly tapped on the wooden box, although Xu Wenlan's face was not obvious, but the bottom of his heart was already burning.
She had been sitting for more than an hour, but the person she wanted to see didn't even have any news, and the girl who went to ask for instructions didn't reply, so she was left in the flower hall.
It took three days to rush from Fucheng to Wula City, just on the road, which was still a day and night journey, Xu Wenlan felt that she was already very sincere, but the other party obviously trampled her sincerity directly.
The light flickered into the flower hall, casting a dark shadow of carved flowers, Xu Wenlan finally stood up and looked out of the flower hall.
As soon as she stood up, the little girl standing in the courtyard outside the door immediately noticed it, and someone laughed: "I can't wait!" β
The other little girl sneered: "What if you can't wait?" What is she going to be here? Is it the old man in the countryside who fills a big clove of garlic with a few dollars (wide, rich, and rich)? We are here in the General's Mansion, the Ningguta General's Mansion, just her, she deserves to be impatient?! β
Well, before she could say she was impatient, the big hat had already pressed over.
Xu Wenlan lowered her eyes and smiled bitterly.
Indeed, this is the palace of General Ningguta, not a place to wait.
Although General Ningguta is a military attachΓ©, he is a first-class official in the northeast, and no one can compare with him except for the governor, and there is no governor in the northeast.
From Jilin to Heilongjiang, the military in this area is in the hands of General Ningguta alone. In the Northeast, he can be regarded as a real power figure.
This position of general is not like other civilian officials, who are transferred every three years, and return to Beijing to be reinstated, either high or low, and only a few people remain in their original posts.
The position of General Ningguta, generally speaking, is considered to be lifelong, if the general himself does not make a big mistake, he will not be transferred at all, and there is even a good story that the father and son have successively served as General Ningguta.
In a way, General Ningguta is the Emperor of the Northeast. Chengyu is also lucky, he is engaged to the general's daughter, as long as the general does not fall, he is equivalent to the "forehead" of the Northeast.
However, from another point of view, General Ningguta has strength in the northeast, but for those servants in Beijing, this is a chore.
What about you, the Emperor of the Earth? Not a dirt yet!?
Poor water and bad water, 108,000 miles away from the root of the imperial city, you may not be able to see the emperor for more than ten years, the emperor still remembers who you are? What good thing can come your turn?
I didn't see the words in the play: Dispatch Ningguta!
It can be seen that anyone who breaks the law will be assigned to such a remote place, and being an official in such a place, no matter how big it is, it will not go well!
In the hearts of civil officials, this Ningguta is cold and snowy, it is a barren land, and there is really nothing to stay in, so there is really no one in Beijing who rushes to be an official here, and they are all afraid that one day they will be assigned to Ningguta, and they have inadvertently been friendly to General Ningguta, which can be regarded as leaving a line for the future.
Under this mentality, General Ningguta is at ease in the Northeast, and no one cares about it, that is really the existence of one person and ten thousand people, the king of the Northeast in the actual sense.
Let's not talk about the trivial matters under the jurisdiction, even if it is to move the general's mansion to Wula City, which will be Jilin City in the future, and let the deputy capital sit in Ningguta City, it is also a matter of reporting.
Such a great god, if you want to say that the best backer of this pimple in the Northeast, who else is there besides him?!
However, Xu Wenlan is self-aware, she can't climb the general, and the benefits generated by her small business will definitely be unsightly to the general.
can't climb the general, Xu Wenlan can only find another way, no, she and the general's daughter Huiru can be regarded as very fateful.
Although this fate is completely evil in the eyes of others, it can't stand Xu Wenlan's thick skin! It doesn't matter what you say is a bad fate, as long as you can climb up to Minghui Gege, bad fate is also fate!
Since she entered the General's Mansion alone, she has been left out in the cold, and as soon as she heard her name, the family already hated her from the bottom of their hearts.
What circulates the fastest in the world? Except for money, it's rumors.
Although it is far away, but the general's daughter is going to get married, how can she not inquire carefully? Thinking about the rumors about her and Chengyu over the years, Minghui Gege has not heard much, no, as soon as she came in, she got off the horse.
The mother-in-law who brought her in greeted her girl, and none of them had a good voice towards her, and the cynicism intentionally or unintentionally made Xu Wenlan clearly understand that she was an unwelcome guest in the General's Mansion.
But she couldn't just walk away.
With a wry smile, she moved her hands and feet, as if no one outside was looking at her, and leisurely stretched her arms and legs to move.
After a turn, I sat down to drink the already cold tea, and looked around, as if admiring the decorations of this flower hall, without the restraint at the beginning.
When she first came in, she thought not to make people laugh at her for being rude, but this time, she was not afraid of any rudeness.
The two little girls outside were dumbfounded, and it was inevitable that they would talk about (maliciously belittle) people, but Xu Wenlan didn't seem to hear it at all, and there was nothing unusual at all.
Another cup of cold tea, the little girl who went to pass the word before finally turned back, followed by a big girl, at a glance, I felt extraordinary, those little girls wearing gold and silver were enough, but this big girl, but there was no gold and silver on her body, she was wearing a hosta, her ears were falling with Dongzhu, and she was wearing Shu brocade.
This kind of dress, let alone a girl, even the Minglan Gege of the Guo Buluo family is nothing more than that.
I don't know if it's deliberately pretending to be like this to deter her, or if it's usually like this, but it's not common to look at it.
But no matter what, this girl is the big girl next to Huiru Gege, it's for sure.
Don't ask Xu Wenlan how to know that this person who is wearing such a luxurious dress is not the general's daughter Huiru Gege, heh, this beggar doesn't look like a prince when he wears a dragon robe, does he?
The temperament is there, no matter how well dressed she is, she usually raises it like the deputy lady, but the girl who is called always has a bit of deference between her eyebrows and eyes.
Xu is wearing this body, just a little to scare Xu Wenlan, the girl entered the house, just looked at Xu Wenlan intently, and did not speak, the corners of the little girl's mouth were slightly upturned, but it was a bit of a lively meaning, but Xu Wenlan smiled calmly, and said loudly: "Which sister is this next to Gege?" I'm tired of you running this trip, it's hard work. β
The big girl's eyes flickered, and she seemed to be slightly surprised, but she looked at Xu Wenlan carefully, and then said lightly: "Slave Chunqiao, I've seen Miss Xu." β
He said politely, but he didn't even bend his knees.
Xu Wenlan naturally didn't care about this, but only asked: "Gege called me to meet?" β