That night Li You gathered all his three wives, concubines, and maids together, and announced his decision to take office alone.
When the ladies heard this, they had different looks and expressions. Mei Zhi, the representative of the first house, spoke: "When the master is at home, he is naturally in charge. If the master is not always here, the mistress should be in charge of the house."
Mei Zhi's words obviously mean something. Mr. Li has always asked Aunt Guan to handle the expenses of the house on his behalf. After all, the majority of the public property comes from the silk industry, and it is more convenient for Guan Xiuxiu to manage it, but Li You is still in charge in name.
What Mei Zhi alludes to is that when Li You is away, Aunt Guan will no longer have this name.
Li You glanced at Mei Zhidao, then at Liu Shi and said, "Is it inconvenient for you, ma'am?"
Mei Zhi retorted: "My mistress is neither deaf nor blind, she can write and read, so why not?"
Li You was already upset, but when Mei Zhi made trouble, his face became full of displeasure.
Mrs. Liu saw that her husband looked bad, so she quickly stretched out her hand to hold the plum branch.
Guan Xiuxiu ignored Mei Zhi's incident, thought for a while and asked Li You: "Is it possible that your husband is not happy to go here?"
"That's not the case. It's just a new arrival. There's no good place to live. You're just suffering. So I'm asking you to stay in the county temporarily."
At this time Jin Baoer said: "There should always be someone by your husband's side to wait on you. I want to go with you."
Xiaozhu also said: "Master! The slave family is going too."
"There is no need to say more about this matter. Anyway, Fucheng is only a few hours away from here, so it is very convenient for me to come back. We will talk about this matter after I have made arrangements." Li You said decisively.
However, it was always a solution if there was no one in the family who could make the decision. Li You had people tidy up the abandoned courtyard at home and brought his parents to live there. It happened that his father was working in the county government again, so it was convenient to live here. With two elders guarding him, it was also convenient.
Don't be afraid of a backyard fire.
Originally, there were Xue Juren and others who wanted to serve Li You with drinks to see him off, but Li You declined them all. He knew his own affairs, so he really didn't have the mood or face to accept the invitation, so he had better keep a low profile and leave.
In this way, Li You, the former Xishui Inspection Department of Xujiang County and now the governor of Suzhou Prefecture, boarded the ship with his long follower Zhang San one night and quietly left Xujiang County. He would never have the chance to return to his hometown again.
He became an official. Even living in Xujiang County for a long time would become a luxury. There were only two possibilities, becoming an official or his parents passing away. Fortunately, due to the grace of the court, he only went to Fucheng, otherwise he would have become an eunuch wandering in a foreign land.
Already.
The next day, Li You went to the government office to take up his post. As usual, he went to see the prefect named Mao first. He went to the gate of the back hall and asked the disciples to pass the message. When he came out, he was told that the prefect was meeting with distinguished guests, and Magistrate Li was waiting for him.
stop.
Li You waited silently at the entrance of the courtyard until noon when he saw someone coming out. It was Magistrate Mao who was seeing off the guests.
As expected, the guest was an honored guest and one whom Li You knew. He was actually Xunjian Ma Yushi. It was said that Ma Xunjian came back from Xujiang last time and made a fuss in Suzhou, so he went to Songjiang Mansion again. During this time, he was inspecting
After finishing Songjiang, he returned to Suzhou Mansion. Because he had not visited Suzhou yet, he had to come where his duties were.
Li You was responsible for escorting Ma Xunjian when he was patrolling Xujiang County, so he recognized him. However, Ma Xunjian was disgusted with everything in Xujiang. When he saw Li You, he snorted and threw away his sleeves. If he knew that he
It was designed by Li You, so I'm afraid it was more than just a cold snort.
This was the first time Li You met Magistrate Mao. He saw that the man was in his forties, had a few long beards, and had a thin face. He stayed aside and waited for the magistrate to finish seeing off his guests. Li You then stepped forward to pay his respects and said, "I've seen the magistrate before him."
Respect."
Magistrate Mao frowned and said, "Are you Li You?"
"It's the lower official who will take office today." Li You said respectfully.
"Just take care of yourself." Magistrate Mao said and went in again. He didn't know what he meant.
Seeing that the biggest boss in the government had such an attitude towards him and said words that he couldn't understand, Li You was helpless and had no choice but to go to Wang Tongzhi again. After all, he was the director of Tongzhi Hall...
When Wang Tongzhi saw Li You, he nodded and said, "Are you here to take office?"
To be honest, Li You really wanted to grab this old man and give him a few slaps in the face. It’s okay for you to be a disgusting person. Why do you want to drag me into this? You know your situation, but you come here to drag me into something that you don’t know.
What is the purpose of bringing people to tea? He resisted the impulse and handed over his hand to Wang Tongzhi: "I have met Mr. Tongzhi."
Wang Tongzhi said very understandingly: "I know Mr. Li is very dissatisfied with his official position, but I can't blame him."
If you don’t blame me, who do you blame? Do you blame me for being a bitch and going to drink tea with you? Li You just thought in his heart, naturally he would not be stupid enough to openly contradict his boss, he only said: "They are all working for the imperial court, how dare a lower-level official do anything?"
dissatisfied."
Wang Tongzhi continued: "Things are not that simple. Although the governor has his faults, he is not a narrow-minded person. Originally, there was a governor in the Experience Department who was over forty years old and did not want to continue to waste the rest of his life on the paperwork of this government office. I wanted to
I will take this opportunity given to each government by the Ministry of Civil Affairs to seek an official position as a foreign inspection officer to get rid of the addiction to prestige. Therefore, I have vacated your inspection position."
So what, this is not the fundamental reason. Li You thinks Wang Tongzhi is shirking responsibility and despises him even more.
"Of course, things are not that simple. After all, you are also a famous person, and the palace master also knows that you have some friendship with that Zhao Daguan. Mr. Mao was the youngest disciple of Zhao Daguan's grandfather, a close disciple, and the Zhao family's face can't be
I won’t give it, so the governor also asked Mr. Zhao what he thought.”
Hearing this, Li You raised his head and listened carefully. Why was Zhao Daguan involved again?
"But official Zhao said to the government official that he would let you work in Fucheng. The more leisurely you can, the better. It happened that a governor in the government office wanted to leave, so he transferred you. You are lucky enough to be assigned to me. From now on,
You'll probably be lucky."
"Is this really true?" Li You lost his voice.
Wang Tongzhi smiled slightly and said, "I won't lie to you. If you don't believe me, you can ask Mr. Zhao yourself."
Li You secretly scolded Old Man Wang for being shameless. Is it good luck to come to a place like yours where you have no power and no power? At the same time, he was very angry that Zhao Daguan was not mean enough. Even if he didn't help, at least he didn't deliberately help.
There is an alleyway between the back office and the front office of the government office. All officials have residences in the back office. Li You was assigned a three-room courtyard to live in. He didn't have to worry about eating. There were chefs in the government office and a kitchen courtyard.
, specializes in cooking.
After settling down in the afternoon, Governor Li thought about going to Zhao Liangli to question the reason.
When Cao Cao's servant arrived, he saw that Zhao Liangli had sent a servant to deliver a message. Was he well informed? He sent someone so quickly. Li You opened it and saw that a banquet had been set up for him to welcome him. The location was in a
A place called Dongting Tower.
Li You agreed, and the servant returned to his master after receiving the letter.