With Shu Shu here, I can protect them, but I still hope that their lives will go well.

A man gives up and doesn't want to get married, but it doesn't matter if he regrets it when he is older. If a woman delays her regret until she is older, she won't have much choice. She is basically a stepmother, and her life is even more uncertain.

After a while, the dinner table was set and Xiaotang came.

In addition to the pan-fried noodle sausage and sauerkraut blood sausage pot, there is also a plate of grilled glutinous rice blood sausage.

They were busy at the end of the year, and it was rare for the master and servants to get together to talk, so Shu Shu asked Xiaotang and Bai Guo to sit down.

As for Xiao Chun, she is still sending New Year gifts outside.

There are only three days left for the Little New Year, and all the New Year gifts will be given out in these days...

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At the Yamen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, meals are also being laid out in the duty room.

Brother Jiu is treating us to a treat at noon today and sends Sun Jin the table he ordered from Baiweiju.

In addition to the ninth elder brother and the twelfth elder brother, Gao Yanzhong and Zhang Baoshu were also called.

"The seal will be sealed tomorrow. Lao Gao will go to Nanyuan with me. Mr. Zhang will just arrange the formal notice for the Yamen. If anything happens to the Yamen down below, just send someone to the twelfth elder brother to make an idea..."

Brother Jiu explained.

All three listened.

Brother Jiu asked everyone to take their seats.

They were all familiar with each other, so they should have been less reserved, but because Brother Ninth had scolded Gao Yanzhong a while ago, Gao Yanzhong was very respectful now.

Brother Jiu didn't say anything when he saw it. He only said to Gao Yanzhong: "Your in-laws have chosen well. He is a cautious person. By the end of next year, if there are no mistakes in his work, he should be able to resume his job."

This is about Gao Yanzhong's neighbor and in-laws, Zhong Guoding, a member of the Guangzhou Prefecture Department.

Gao Yanzhong said gratefully: "Let Master Jiu take the trouble."

Brother Jiu waved his hand and said: "It doesn't matter. He is smart and did not make any mistakes in the rules."

At this point, he glanced at Gao Yanzhong and said: "On the other hand, you yourself have suffered a lot in the past two years as a retinue, always working as a foreigner. You also picked two people to teach, and prepared a replacement. You are not young after all."

Already."

Gao Yanzhong is forty-eight this year.

In the past few years, I have had a lot of errands and travels, and I have been exposed to wind and rain, so I look a lot older.

Gao Yanzhong nodded and said: "Well, I'm thinking about this too. I'll look at it in two years and we'll have to pick two reliable people."

Compared with Gao Yanzhong, Zhang Baozhu seems to be a generation younger.

In fact, Zhang Baozhuo is also a young man, but he has always been a civil servant and has less to worry about. He looks like he is around thirty.

Zhang Baozhu felt a little ashamed as he listened to the conversation between the two.

What he does as a doctor is a writing-type job.

But he also knew that he had an additional identity as the prince's father-in-law, so he could not be a foreigner running errands and following orders. He could only be raised as a noble person, and he would not be able to share the worries of his ninth elder brother.

Brother Jiu saw Zhang Baozhuo's reaction and said nothing.

Earlier, he had the idea of ​​​​promoting Zhang to keep a hand and make the fifth brother more respectable. In the past two years, he has not had such thoughts.

The emperor's father was so protective of the calf, but he didn't even mention it. He had his own intentions, and he didn't need to add any unnecessary extravagance.

The twelfth elder brother glanced at Gao Yanzhong and Zhang Baoshuo, and asked the ninth elder brother: "Ninth elder brother, can we choose the yearly minister and the minister in charge of the court from our Yamen?"

Brother Jiu shook his head and said: "This is a step up. It should be that the emperor has appointed a high-ranking guard or official to take up the post."

Gao Yanzhong and Zhang Baozhu were only among the fifth-grade doctors, and their grades and qualifications were insufficient.

The exception is Brother Twelve, whose identity is here...

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Chapter completed!