Following.

Tobe Shangshu changed into casual clothes and arrived at the Xike Tavern.

In the middle of the afternoon, the tavern was booming, and the lobby on the first floor was extremely noisy.

Chun Bao stood behind the counter with his chin in his hand, and said to Lu Jia in a suppressed voice: "Miss, he is a little restless, and he keeps looking at the door?" Not in the past? ”

Lu Jia shook his head, "Wait, consume his temperament, and let him make up his mind again, and when his back is wet with sweat, I'll go over." ”

The masked woman opened her mouth and came with a huge amount of 500,000 taels of silver tickets, and the Tobe Shangshu couldn't sleep all night.

What made him even more sleepless was that when he returned to the house yesterday, he found a neat stack of 100,000 taels of silver tickets on the desk in the study.

The masked woman said that she would give him 100,000 taels of silver tickets to show her sincerity.

This silver ticket appeared quietly.

One hundred thousand taels!

Regardless of whether he used it to buy snow lotus for his daughter, this silver ticket is a genuine silver ticket, and how many years will he have to work to make enough 600,000 taels.

Nowadays, there are too many corrupt officials, the people are too poor, and it is becoming more and more difficult to make money.

There are more monks and less porridge.

Ay~

Why hasn't the masked girl come yet?

There are so many people here, he won't be discovered, right?

Who is she going to appoint?

Just when Hubu Shangshu was uneasy, Lu Jia smiled and sat down opposite him.

Tobe Shangshu was stunned.

Lu Jia went straight in, "A young lady told me that Master Shangshu wanted to introduce me to the household department on duty?" Really? ”

Lu Jia asked with an innocent face.

Tobe Shangshu was shocked.

He naturally knew Lu Jia's identity, the third lady of the Lu family in Yuhang, the maiden sister of Lu Wei, the wife of Xiao Yizheng of the Marquis of Rong'an, and the owner of this tavern.

It's her?

The designated person that the masked woman said yesterday was her?

Hubu Shangshu looked at Lu Jia suspiciously, "What is your relationship with that person?" ”

Lu Jia said with a smile: "What can it matter, but the old man in the family saw the destruction of the Pingwei army, and he couldn't help but be sad that the rabbit died and the fox died, and he just wanted to give himself an extra layer of protection." ”

"Governor Lu?"

Yuhang Lu, Lu Jia's father, is currently the governor of Yuhang, and holds military power.

So, the masked girl is Lu Jia's father's person?

The 600,000 taels of silver tickets were given to him by Governor Lu?

is also, otherwise who can take out 600,000 taels so easily!

Who can appoint the concubine of Governor Lu's family!

No wonder the masked woman had such a strong aura yesterday, it turned out to be a person in the army.

Lu Jia's index finger was raised to his mouth, "Shhh ”

Hubu Shangshu was stunned and asked with a smile: "Ling Zun's health is fine." ”

Lu Jia looked at his expression and smiled, "It's okay, barely, thank you for your concern, so ...... Can I really be an official in the household department? Can a woman be an official? ”

Hubu Shangshu said: "This, this year is indeed a recruitment for female officials, but it needs to be assessed......"

Lu Jia leaned back, the innocence just now faded, and at this time there was cynicism on his face, "Assessment? Is 600,000 taels not enough for the assessment? ”

Tobe Shangshu's eyelids twitched.

Lu Jiadao: "The money is not in place? Lord Shangshu has a bit of a big appetite, if you think the money is not in place, we don't need to talk about it, I heard that the inner secretary said that 600,000 taels, 50,000 taels can be done, and it is not impossible for me to enter the palace. ”

Tobe Shangshu wants to take Qiao.

But he didn't expect Lu Jia to say it so directly, and his face suddenly became a little ugly.

Lu Jia gave someone a scolding, and softly handed out a step.

"My lord, I'm not going in to be an official with a few grades, you are so embarrassed, but let me hang up any idle position, sort out the documents or sort out the files of the previous years that have been piled up in the household department, you can be accommodating.

If you give me an important position, don't say that you are not at ease, I myself know that I have a few pounds and a few taels, and the errand will not be done well at that time, which will affect you and the old man in the family, and cause trouble for everyone.

Therefore, we don't want any important positions, but idle positions, the more inconspicuous the better.

Adults should find a way. ”

Lu Jia's begging, attitude is in place.

Let the ugly face of the head of the household department Shangshu gradually ease, and the worry and depression in his chest that he thought he was going to lose a huge amount of money of 600,000 taels of silver suddenly dissipated, "The idle position is easy to say." ”

Lu Jia immediately smiled and crooked his eyes, and stretched out his hand to pour a glass of wine for the head of the household, "Thank you, my lord, my lord is so good, in the future, my lord will come to my tavern for dinner, and the fee will be free, but there is one more thing to ask my lord." ”

"What?" Hubu Shangshu was very useful and drank the wine poured by Lu Jia.

Lu Jia said with a smile: "It's the matter that I went to the household department to do things, and the family hid it from the Rong'an Hou Mansion, so I ......."

Hubu Shangshu frowned, "I'm afraid that I can't hide this, you also know that the prince of Rong'an Houfu is now the secretary of the Criminal Department, and the Criminal Department is now investigating the explosion case, targeting our Household Department, and the investigation is very tight."

Moreover, there are many people in the yamen, and since you have joined the company as a female official, you must take office every day, and it can be spread in the blink of an eye. ”

Speaking of Xiao Yan, Hubu Shangshu gritted his teeth with a headache, and looked eager to eat Xiao Yansheng.

Lu Jia said, "Huh? So what to do? The news from the family said, let me do it first, let's hide it from the Rong'an Hou Mansion, and tell them when the time is right.

Do you think that's going to work? I go to work every day, but nominally I send drinks to the household department, so I won't tell everyone that I have received an errand from a female officer, can I?

In just three or five days, the family will be arranged, and whatever happens at that time.

Please, please. ”

Lu Jia's charming little face was pleading, and he looked at the Hubu Shangshu earnestly.

Hubu Shangshu couldn't bear this look, of course, he couldn't stand the 600,000 taels of silver tickets.

"Okay, but three or five days at most, and after a long time, I can't hide it."

"Okay, okay, thank you, sir."

"Then I'll go back and say, in order to open up sources and reduce expenditure, this year the household department has ordered a batch of special wine from your tavern, and you can take the wine jar to make wine there.

I'll get you the paperwork tomorrow. ”

"The remaining 500,000 taels will be sent to you in the study tonight."

Sending away the Hubu Shangshu, Lu Jia called the shopkeeper and the young man of the tavern, "I just won a big order for our tavern, from tomorrow, I will go to the Hubu to brew them the Mid-Autumn Festival wine, I can't take care of the tavern here, I can only work hard."

When the household department settles the money, I will give everyone a red envelope. ”

As soon as they heard that the tavern had taken the order from the yamen, the eyes of several young men suddenly lit up.

"Do you need us to come along? Can the third lady be busy by herself? ”

Lu Jia said with a smile: "The tavern is inseparable from you, you are all the pillars of our tavern, no one can do without it, as for that side, I will buy a few maids from Yapo and bring them over to use." ”

Chun Bao glanced at Lu Jia.

Their people will enter Beijing tomorrow.

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