[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Yuan, March 25, Mao Shi, Tsing Yi Weibei Anping Division, and thousands of official offices]

Xu Ke rarely got up early in the morning today, and he went out before mid-hour.

After he agreed to Hu Yiyi's marriage last night, he suddenly felt that if he faced Yao Zibei again this morning, he would inevitably be embarrassed for both of them, so it was better to go out early, and after Sister Hu and Xiaobei explained, when they returned to the house, or when the two of them met, they could be more casual.

In order to avoid Yao Zibei, he didn't even bother to eat breakfast at home, so he hurried out.

He deliberately went to yesterday's Xiangmanlou to have breakfast, and the person who ran the hall saw that last night's official had come to take care of his family's business this morning, so he was naturally very courteous.

He ate the plate of fragrant meat buns brought by the shopkeeper, and kept praising him, while still thinking about whether to go to Mr. Qiu's thatched cottage after the next duty?......

After breakfast, Xu Ke walked into the door of Tsing Yiwei. The guards guarding the door couldn't help but be surprised when they saw that this Qianhu had come so early today. However, they didn't have time to think about it, and when they saw Xu Ke striding over, they were busy lining up on both sides, and they each leaned over to salute:

"Senno-sama is early!"

One of the two guards guarding the door is surnamed Huang, and because he ranks third in the family, everyone calls him "Huang San". This Huang San is also more than ten days ago, when the seventeenth princess came to Tsing Yi Wei to be on duty, and stopped Li Qi's people.

On that day, after Ding Chunqiu left the thousand-household office, he came to the gate of the guard, and couldn't help but say, he opened his bow left and right at Huang San's horse face, and slapped his slap more than a dozen times before stopping. Huang San covered his face, endured the pain, and asked why, Ding Chunqiu told him about his arrogant remarks and offending the princess.

Huang San knelt on the ground with a "poof" at that time, begging Captain Ding to let him go and plead with the princess, begging the princess to spare his life no matter what. Ding Chunqiu snorted coldly, and said, Xu Qianhu has a lot of face, and he has already interceded with Her Royal Highness the princess, otherwise, even if you kid has nine lives, you will have to "settle the account" today!

Huang San was naturally grateful, and the next day, he also scraped together twenty taels of silver from home, sealed it into a big red money bag, and carefully gave it to Captain Ding, thanking him for his "life-saving grace".

Since then, Huang San has listed Xu Ke as a great benefactor in his heart, and he has been able to be as polite as possible regardless of respect and humility.

Naturally, Xu Ke didn't know that there was another person in this world who was grateful to him, he stepped proudly through the door of the Tsing Yi Guard, looked forward with his eyes, and didn't pay attention to the demeanor of the two guards next to him.

At this time, Xu Ke, dressed in a brilliant eagle dove pattern indigo blue official uniform, and also carried a jeweled imperial Kunwu sword on his waist, looking from a distance, his steps were calm like a boat sailing along the river, and his posture was as tall as a green pine.

He walked calmly and leisurely in the guard, and when the guards came and went, everyone could not help but stop at a distance, bow to him, and call out respectfully:

"Please be a thousand households!"

"Well...... "If the person who salutes is in the position of captain and a hundred households, he may nod slightly and respond, if it is below the flag, he will not even look at the other party.

As Xu Ke said, there are 10,000 people under the jurisdiction of this Tsing Yi Wei, but there are only five thousand households, plus a governor, there are only six people in total.

After passing through the long corridor and walking through the small courtyard in the guardhouse, he came to the gate of the North Ya, and through this gate, it was the boundary of the North Anhei Division.

Since Xu Ke served as the inspector of thousands of households, he almost did not go to the official office of his southern department, and it was already his daily routine to enter the northern office.

"Brother Xian, you came so early!" As soon as he stepped into the gate of Beiya, he saw Nangong Buyu standing not far in front of him.

"Brother Nangong, are you so early?" Xu Ke hurriedly bowed to Nangong silently.

"Ahem, I can't sleep at night, so I just get up......" Nangong silently took Xu Ke's hand, and the two walked towards the official room of the thousand households.

Xu Ke saw that Nangong was silent and his face was haggard, as if he hadn't slept well all night, and couldn't help but wonder: "Brother Nangong, why is your spirit so bad? Are you still worried about the cat demon?"

"Ahem......" Nangong waved his hand silently, but nodded again. He originally wanted to say, "It's not the sister's business!", but when the words came to his lips, he hurriedly changed his words:

"That cat demon, there is still no trace of her, I really don't know, how to catch her!"

Xu Ke naturally couldn't guess what Nangong was silent about at this time, he saw that Nangong Wu was worried, and hurriedly relieved:

"Brother Nangong don't worry, that cat demon won't come out again in the future!"

"Oh...... Why is this?" Nangong asked silently.

"Let's go...... Let's go in and talk!" At this time, the two of them had already walked to the door of the thousand official offices.

This thousand-household office of the North Anping Division was originally Sun Xun's office. Since Sun Xun served as the Qianhu of the Bei'an Ping Division, relying on the trust of the Son of Heaven and the strong support of the King of Chu, his daily actions have been extremely flamboyant. Not only did he triple the size of his office, but the furnishings inside were even more exquisite and extravagant, with almost everything he needed.

According to the system of senior cadres, officials above the fourth rank and below the third rank can have two official rooms, one for office work and one for daily rest. Sun Xun, with his official rank from the third grade, actually set up five excellent inner rooms in the official room. An outer room is used for daily office work, and the inside is the most spacious, an inner room is used for washing and resting, and you can go to bed at any time, a retreat room is used for meeting external guests, and can also gather for small banquets, a storeroom is used for storage, which can be divided into categories to store a large number of valuables, and there is a secret room, but I don't know what it is used for.

Since he came to Bei'an Pingsi in a tone of voice from Nangong, he saw that Sun Xun's official room was so extravagant, even more magnificent than Shen Huan's governor's official room, and he felt that it was inappropriate, so he planned to divide this official room into two, and he only took two of the inner rooms.

However, Xu Ke didn't think so, he felt that Sun Xun had already built the official house and installed it perfectly, if it was forcibly divided into two, no one would dare to ask for the remaining three houses, and it would inevitably have to be abandoned. Such a toss is a waste of manpower and material resources, just for a false name, and it is not necessary.

In addition, the five hundred households in the Bei'an Ping Division also begged the thousands of households in Nangong not to abandon this good set of thousands of official houses.

Since even Xu Ke said so, Nangong unceremoniously enjoyed this set of luxury official rooms handed down by Sun Xun.

At this moment, the two saw that it was still early, so they walked into the exit room of the official room together. Nangong Buyu personally brewed two cups of "Flower Rain" tea, and the two sat together on the two rosewood chairs in the retreat room.

"Brother Xian, you just said that the cat demon will not come out again in the future, why does Brother Xian have such a conjecture?"

Xu Ke picked up the tea cup, opened the lid of the bowl, blew the floating leaves on the tea surface, and saw that the tea was still hot, so he put it down again, and said:

"Is that cat demon...... It should be because I am afraid of my senior brother's prestige, so I don't dare to come out, you see that for ten days in a row, Chang'an City is peaceful, I estimate that the cat demon should have escaped a long time ago......"

Xu Ke thought about what Shu Hatian told him ten days ago, that Mao Jiaojiao had already entered Cuiyun Tower. In the past ten days, no dead bodies have been found in Chang'an City, and it seems that the cat demon has really changed his temper and no longer harms people. He wanted to open his mouth to comfort Nangong Yiyi, but then he thought about it, after all, Mao Jiaojiao was married to Hu Yiyi and Shu Hat, and it was better for others not to know about this matter except for himself, so he changed his words on the spot.

Nangong said silently: "That's great! If the foolish brother expected it to be true, the cat demon ran away, not only because he was afraid of His Royal Highness King Zhao, but also because of Young Master Murong......

While the two were talking, suddenly a guard on duty came to report that the Luan Yi Division had arrived in Qianhu Zhuleyun.

The two of them were not surprised, so they went to the signing room outside together, and ordered the guards to invite them in.

As soon as Zhu Leyun entered the door of the signing room, he immediately hugged his fists with Xu Ke silently to Nangong, and said with a smile:

"I'm not mistaken, both of you are here!"

Nangong returned the salute without saying a word, and invited Zhu Leyun to sit in the hall, and the guards sent a tea cup to Zhu Leyun. Nangong asked, "Why are you free, and come to my Bei'an Pingsi early in the morning as a guest?"

Zhu Leyun picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea slowly, and said: "Lord Nangong, Xu Qianhu, Zhu Mou came here to thank the two adults!"

Nangong said silently: "Thank us, what do you have to thank you?"

"Ahem...... It's not for the sake of that uncompetitive dog minion under my command!" Zhu Leyun sighed, and then talked about the reason why he came to thank him this time.

It turned out that since the seventeenth princess Li Qi came ten days ago, the princess was blocked outside the gate of the Tsing Yi Guard, and was humiliated in public by Huang San, the guard guarding the door, also reached the ears of Zhu Leyun. When he heard this, he immediately jumped like thunder. At that time, he wanted to beat Huang Sanzhong to fifty boards, and even beat him to death. However, when he inquired afterwards, Fang Zhi didn't care about the princess, but just let Ding Chunqiu slap Huang more than thirty times.

Zhu Leyun listened to the report from his subordinates, at noon that day, Princess Li Qi had already gone out, she walked to the door, and saw Huang San, whose cheeks had been swollen, Princess Lingyu actually "poofed" and smiled, and the person had already left Tsing Yi Wei and walked away.

Zhu Leyun speculated that Princess Lingyu should not have moved that day, and he carefully sent someone to inquire, only then did he know that Princess Lingyu was in order to inspect the face of Xu Ke of thousands of households, so that he was exempted from heavy punishment for his subordinates.

According to the official system of senior cadres, the Tsing Yi Weiluan Ceremony Department is responsible for the royal honor guard, travel escort and on-site order maintenance of major ceremonial activities in the palace. To put it bluntly, this Luan Honor Division is a guard of honor used by the emperor. All the guards in the Tsing Yi Guard were wearing soap-colored cloth clothes, but only the guards of Luan Yisi could wear red brocade robes. Just because the people in the Luan Yi Division are all ochre and bright, and they are the guards who guard the door, they are all served by the subordinates of the Luan Yi Division. Zhu Leyun, as a thousand households of the Luan Yi Division, how could he allow his subordinates to offend the royal princess? Moreover, this Princess Lingyu is also the seventeenth princess who is particularly favored by the current emperor.

According to Zhu Leyun's original approach, his subordinate Huang San made such a big mistake, and he was either killed or severely disabled. It's just that Zhu Leyun thought about it, the princess went out with a smile that day, she shouldn't have taken this matter to heart, if she had to punish her at this time, it would not be good if the news spread. It was Zhu Leyun who only called Huang San to admonish him, and did not punish him.

On the one hand, he strictly ordered Luan Yi to not leak the slightest bit of information about this matter, otherwise, he would be punished on the spot! On the other hand, he naturally thought of going to the door in person to thank Xu Ke.

Helplessly, Zhu Leyun came to Xu Ke's office many times in the past ten days, and was told by the guards on duty that the thousands of households were not in the room.

Later, he learned that Xu Ke stayed in Bei'anping Division for three days, so he went to Bei'anping Division many times to look for Xu Ke, but in the past ten days, Xu Ke and Nangong Buyu spent most of their time patrolling around Chang'an City.

Yes, Zhu Le Yun simply came to Beiya early this morning, he originally wanted to wait for Nangong to be silent and Xu Ke in Nangong's thousand-household office, but unexpectedly, he went out at the end of the day and hurried to the Tsing Yi Wei, but he was still a step late, Nangong was silent and Xu Ke was already sitting in it drinking tea......

Nangong asked the reason silently, and when he saw that Zhu Leyun was here, he didn't thank him for himself, so he didn't speak anymore, but just glanced at Xu Ke.

Xu Ke laughed and said:

"I said Qianhu, what is there to thank for this trivial matter? As for you to come here yourself?"

Zhu Leyun hurriedly said: "Zhu Mou is here, one is to thank the two adults for interceding for my Luan Yisi subordinates in front of the princess, and the other is to inquire with the two adults, how is the cat demon case progressing now?"

"This ......" Nangong looked at Xu Ke silently, and muttered silently.

Xu Ke then said: "Is this cat demon case...... At present, the investigation has almost been completed! Thousands of households have also seen that in this Chang'an City, for ten days in a row, has there been news of a cat demon causing trouble?"

A smile appeared on Zhu Leyun's thin black face, and he hurriedly asked, "Xu Qianhu, so you have caught this cat demon?"

Xu Ke waved his hand and said, "The cat demon hasn't been caught yet, but she heard that my 'Beijing Trial Team' is full of talents, so she must be ...... She's long gone, isn't she?"

Zhu Leyun hugged his fists at Xu Ke again and said: "Lord Xu, congratulations! Lord Xu is the deputy envoy of the emperor's imperial seal to investigate the case, this time the cat demon escaped, Chang'an City has been peaceful from now on, and the deputy envoy can be said to have made indispensable contributions! If the emperor knows, he will inevitably have to reward the deputy envoy with a great reward!"

Xu Ke also clasped his fists and saluted: "Your Excellency is polite, what we are waiting for is not only the rice bowl of the public family, but it is within our share of duty to share the emperor's worries and solve problems for the people! Not to mention, although this cat demon has escaped, has it not been captured after all......

Zhu Leyun smiled, and by this time, what he should have said was almost finished, so he got up and said goodbye.

At the time of parting, Zhu Leyun once again arched his hand to Nangong Buyu and Xu Ke, and issued a sincere invitation:

"Today's dinner, Zhu will be the east, please two adults to sit in the Yuelou, the two of you must enjoy the light!"

Xu Ke was puzzled: "My lords, I'm really sorry! I have already made an appointment with Mr. Qiu, and after today's duty, I have to rush to Mr. Qiu's Autumn Leaf Cottage ......."

"Since Lord Xu has made an appointment with Lord Qiu, then our dinner will have to be made another date......"

Zhu Leyun showed a look of disappointment, so he turned to Nangong silently, and said earnestly again: "Lord Nangong, you must come!"

"This ......" Nangong Bu's face was also hesitant, he had already promised his sister, and he would go home to eat with her when he got down. At this time, I heard Zhu Leyun say:

"At two o'clock today, Zhang Qianhu and I are in the 'Xiuchun Pavilion' of Deyue Tower, waiting for Brother Nangong!"

"Okay, Nangong must be there on time!" Nangong replied helplessly.