Chapter 140 The Smart Wife (Monthly Ticket at the End of the Month)
An Lin cupped his hands and said with a smile: "I have long heard that my sister-in-law is a cheerful person, and when I saw you today, it turned out to be true. I will tell my sister later that I am a good man."
Yuzhu couldn't help but smile slightly, An Lin was really a straight man, this was too naive.
An Lin's intention was obvious. If Yuzhu really helped, he would become Yuzhu's ally and work together to deceive his sister.
When my uncle came, Yuzhu naturally wanted to keep him for dinner.
When An Lin first arrived, Wu Jiang took Yu Zhu's look and went out to tell Hu Biao to quickly ride to Zhimei Building to order a table of high-quality dishes.
The so-called etiquette means that when your uncle comes to your door for the first time, you must treat him well even if you borrow money to treat him.
What's more, Yuzhu is not short of money at all.
After the banquet started, serious relatives naturally chatted with each other while drinking.
In order to avoid future trouble, Yuzhu spent half an hour to let An Lin roughly understand the basic situation of their old Tong family.
Yuzhu has two fathers, two uncles, four uncles, and more than twenty cousins. In the next room, there are three uncles and six cousins.
The receptionist in the next room is named Elundai, and he is a unique kind of bastard in the world.
An Lin drank a glass of wine and said with a smile: "I know Elundai. Last time, Yuan Cheng in our yamen had his beloved concubine snatched away by Elundai. Alas, that Yuan Cheng, I feel so sad.
It’s terrible, I look sad all day long, and most of my hair is white, I look very pitiful.”
As a sister-in-law, how can you not know where your elder brother-in-law is working as an official?
Fortunately, An Lin was a straight person and took the initiative to tell Yuzhu before asking him.
"As for me, I am currently working as an errand in the Fengchen Courtyard of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. I was sent to Changchun Garden by my superiors to serve as a seventh-grade pen-sticker. I am not busy on weekdays. I can only go home every seven days..."
Following An Lin's eloquent talk, Yuzhu also listened with interest.
Hehe, what about Changchun Garden? Isn’t this a ready-made internal response in the future?
Yuzhu nodded secretly, this is really true, it takes no effort to get there even if you can't find anything even if you wear iron shoes!
Changchun Garden, what place is it? The place where Kangxi died!
In history, the fourth prince ascended the throne with only Longkodo's oral inheritance edict without even a succession edict.
According to historical records, after the death of Kangxi, Longkoduo led troops to blockade Changchun Garden. Lao San and Lao Ba met to discuss, and Lao Ba knelt down and admitted defeat.
With Yuzhu's rich experience in struggle, he can naturally see through the phenomenon and see the essence.
To put it bluntly, the steel knife of the fourth child has been placed on the neck of the eighth child. If you kneel down, you will still have a chance to make Xu Tufu. If you don't obey, you will die suddenly on the spot. There is no third option.
If you reach the seventh rank of the Imperial Household Bureau's post-writing style, you will be on your way to success. In the next step, you can be promoted to the head of each department or to the sixth rank of Yuan Cheng.
When an official reaches the level of chief executive or Yuan Cheng, he has some real power at hand. With real power, there are wild ways to make money, and you won't be too poor.
Without real power, even if you reach the seventh rank, you will still be very miserable. Your salary is not much, and you will often be criticized.
Under Yuzhu's warm hospitality, An Lin naturally drank too much.
Yuzhu accordingly sent his own luxurious carriage and ordered Wu Jiang and Hu Biao to take An Lin home.
It was so late, and it was impossible for Yuzhu to send An Lin home in person. The first time he went to his father-in-law's house was because he got his brother-in-law drunk. Wouldn't this mean that he was sent to his father-in-law's house to be scolded?
These days, when a son-in-law goes to his father-in-law's house for the first time, he must follow certain etiquette. A few snacks, a few gold and silver jewelry, a few fruits, a few snuff bottles, and a few meats, all of which cannot break the rules at all.
As a result, just as Yuzhu expected, Hu Biao and Wu Jiang were interrogated by Yuzhu's father-in-law Changde for a long time.
According to Hu Biao, someone has been hiding behind the screen. His guess is that it is probably the young lady of our family.
Wu Jiang said that when he heard subtle footsteps, there must be more than just the mistress behind the screen, and there were other women coming and going.
Before leaving Fucha's house, it was raining a little outside, so a pretty girl brought an umbrella to Hu Biao and Wu Jiang to avoid getting wet.
Yuzhu nodded with satisfaction and smiled, obviously in a good mood.
When dealing with their father-in-law's family for the first time, although Hu Biao and Wu Jiang did not see his wife in person, judging from the gesture of delivering an umbrella, she should be a considerate woman.
After Hu Biao retreated, Wu Jiang leaned close to Yu Zhu's ear and whispered: "Sir, from my humble opinion, the big girl next to our young mistress is much more beautiful than Han Xue."
It can be seen from this that our young mistress is definitely more beautiful.
Wu Jiang wouldn't dare to say this even if he killed him, but that's what he meant.
Hehe, get it together, this is what Yuzhu wants to hear!
In this current era of strict etiquette, falling in love with this princess today and going on an outing with that princess tomorrow is a joke that can only be seen in TV series like "Return to Zhugege".
Princess Gege from the dignified palace showed up in public and talked about love triangles with many men. Hey, maybe you don’t know how serious it is to face the whole family being humiliated and die suddenly, right?
In real marriages, the powerful were married by Kangxi and had no autonomy at all. Between Han officials and gentry, it was the orders of their parents, the words of the matchmaker, plus the three matchmakers and six etiquette.
Poor people, in most cases, exchange marriages with each other. In other words, your sister will marry Zhang San, and Zhang San's sister will marry you.
As for the poor people who cannot exchange marriages, there is no other way. After a life of loneliness, it is natural for genes to disappear.
With Yuzhu's family background, he couldn't even decide who to marry, let alone the ordinary rich and powerful?
Wu Jiang is really smart, and what he says is what Yu Zhu likes to hear.
According to general logic, if the young mistress Fucha is ugly, she will never dare to have a girl who is more beautiful than Han Xue next to her.
Hey, if you really do that, wouldn’t it be heartless?
Yuzhu understood very well that although his wife had not met him yet, she had already communicated with him for the first time calmly.
This exchange, which they never met, made Yuzhu understand two important things. One is that his wife is considerate and considerate, and the other is that his wife must be very beautiful.
It means that under marriage, it is impossible to break the marriage, divorce it or reconcile it.
No matter how ugly the Fucha family is, Yuzhu must hold her nose and marry her into the Tong family.
When you have no choice, there is a big difference whether you hold your beautiful wife or the salt-free witch in your arms!
The next morning, Yuzhu still slept until he woke up naturally.
Hehe, the emperor sent Wei Zhu to reward him, so what does it mean to just sleep in?
Besides, in Yiyantang's own territory, I don't even dare to sleep. Is there such a leader?
Complain? Hehe, Yuzhu is really not afraid!
When Yuzhu was really upright and law-abiding and there was no way to catch him, would Kangxi still dare to reuse him?
Don't take bribes, don't bend the law, don't take bribes, don't be lewd, and have a reputation comparable to that of a saint. What do you want to do?
Do you want to learn from Wang Mang?
When she is not in a hurry, Yuzhu habitually takes a hot bath in the morning.
After Lin Yan'er rubbed his back and massaged it some more, Yuzhu got out of the tub.
After brushing his teeth with green salt, Hanshuang helped him comb his hair and change clothes. After breakfast, Yuzhu boarded the sedan chair and went to the Yamen.
After entering the yamen, Yuzhu was the top leader here, so he didn't notice anything about the respect of his subordinates.
Wu Jiang was different. He could clearly see that the expressions of the subordinate officials were much more serious than yesterday's perfunctory look.
Not to mention anything else, when these subordinate officials knelt down to salute, their waists were even lower than yesterday!
Not to mention how beautiful Wujiang is, you guys, a bunch of old cunning subordinates, do you still dare to behave like this?
Hu Biao also saw that the momentum in the yamen was completely different from yesterday.
Just the way everyone looked at Yuzhu was much more in awe than yesterday.
You can indeed see a lot of things in your eyes.
However, eyes are something that only experienced people can understand, and they can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words.
In a word, Master Yu's yamen is different from yesterday!
The first thing Yuzhu did when he arrived at the Yamen was to reward him based on his merits, and ordered Hu Biao to find Wendena, the ninth-grade pen-sticker who came forward yesterday.
When Hu Biao arrived at the door of the official hall of the Bitieshis, he saw Wendner sitting alone in a corner of the room. The other Bitieshis next to him were far away from him.
Hu Biao could tell by looking at the arrangement in the room that Wendner was actually isolated by everyone.
No matter what dynasty or generation you are from, pinkeye sufferers in the office come from both young and old.
Yesterday, Wendner took the risk and stood in Yuzhu's team, showing his face in a big way.
Today, everyone is envious and jealous, so they naturally isolate Wendner.
It was Hu Biao who fought his way out of the crowd of villains to join the old gang beside Longkodo.
What doesn't he understand?
However, Hu Biao stood at the door of the official hall and called lightly: "Wendner, the eldest master calls you over, come with me."
Wendner had long been eagerly looking forward to the opportunity to change his destiny. After hearing Hu Biao calling him, he immediately stood up, walked over, and bowed to salute.
"Master Hu, I'd like you to take a trip."
Hu Biao smiled and said, "Come with me quickly. Don't keep me waiting."
"Yes." Wendner quickly followed Hu Biao and left the official hall.
On the way, Wendner took two quick steps and secretly stuffed two taels of silver into Hu Biao's cuffs.
The cuffs sank sharply, and Hu Biao smiled silently, Xiaowen, you are really sensible.
"I have a humble position, Wendner, please greet me!" After Wendner entered the second hall, as soon as he saw Yuzhu, he knelt down and saluted.
Yuzhu smiled slightly and said: "Get up, I asked you to come here because I want to ask you that I am missing an eighth-grade pen-sticker beside me. Are you willing to come over?"
Wendena's status was so low that Yuzhu didn't bother to talk around in circles with him. He told him directly that for your meritorious service yesterday, today I will reward you with an eighth-grade crown, and you will be given the pen-stick style of following the master.
Can a secretary in a big office be the same as a secretary who follows the boss?
"Thank you for your grace, sir. I'm willing to do this for you. I'm so willing..." Wendner knelt down and kowtowed three times.
Yuzhu smiled, no matter whether Wen De Na was used in the future or not, he would be rewarded now.
If he is not rewarded for his merits, how can the people behind him come to seek refuge with him?
For many powerful men, there are always traitors in their ranks. The core issue is unclear rewards and punishments, and nepotism in hiring people, which makes careerists disloyal.
The most obvious example is Xiang Yu.
Xiang Yu in history was actually much more graceful than Liu Bang, a gangster. His shortcomings were fatal, he was indecisive and only based on his birth and blood.
The great rogue Liu Bang did the opposite. No matter his origin or bloodline, he would be rewarded heavily for his great achievements. With this approach, even if he was ten times more rogue, he would still have many capable ministers and generals to follow him to conquer the country.
Where does history come from so many inevitabilities?
If Xiang Yu had been more ruthless and rogue, Hongmen Banquet would have directly chopped Liu Ji into pieces, and the whole world would have been named Xiang.
As long as Liu Ji is killed, how can the world still be surnamed Liu?
(PS: Is the heroine smart? You can communicate with men about many things without meeting each other or being rude. Hey, it’s the end of the month, so you should be rewarded with monthly tickets!)