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It was inconvenient to say anything on the boat, so Li You asked the boat to circle the city along the moat and return to Dongguan Ferry. It was already evening when he boarded the boat again, but he still urged the boatman to sail quickly and change the anchorage.
Because Li You was worried that others would follow him and find him, which would make him unable to live peacefully and return to Suzhou first.
"No one is allowed to leak this matter without authorization. I will tell you everything!" Li You warned his subordinates. Everyone knew what this matter was referring to. Even the newcomer Mr. Cui was quietly reminded by Zhang San.
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It was night and everyone had not yet stayed at the inn. Everyone was huddled in the cabin to rest.
But Cui Jing and Zhang San were in the back cabin together, and they kept hearing Mr. Li next door sighing and seemed very worried.
Cui Jing felt something in his heart and whispered to Zhang San: "The proprietor went to Youyuan alone during the day. He must have had a bad time with Jin Wanwan."
Zhang San nodded and said: "What you said is true, but it is more than unpleasant. From my guess, the master must have swept away Jin Wanwan's face, and he swept it away like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves."
Seeing Zhang San's words as accurate as seeing them with his own eyes, Cui Jing was surprised, "Where did you know that?"
"With the master's temperament, if he is bullied by Jin Wanwan, he will definitely be happy and think of ways to take revenge. How can he worry so much? Since the master is so uneasy, he will obviously be ruthless.
Jin Wanwan was greatly humiliated and worried about the embarrassment when he and Aunt Jin meet as juniors in the future!"
When Zhang San said something he was proud of, his voice rose slightly, and it might have been heard outside the cabin.
Suddenly, a scolding voice came from next door: "What are you talking about, Zhang San? You will be fined one year of silver!"
Zhang San subconsciously shrank his neck in the darkness and said nothing. In fact, he didn't feel sorry for him. The master was in charge of a county. As a long-term follower, he had to receive countless gifts every year. The monthly salary of a domestic slave was nothing.
Cui Jing suddenly felt that a certain sentence made sense - like a master, like a servant.
After a night of silence, we took the boat on the road the next morning and continued our journey.
After the canal bypassed Yangzhou City, it branched to the south. It is commonly known as the Sancha River. You can enter the river in two directions. One is the ferry in Yizhen County, and the other is the Guazhou ferry in Jiangdu County. This is also what appears in many poems.
Place name.
Li You crossed the river from Guazhou. From then on, there was no natural danger. He turned from the canal to Xuhe River smoothly and arrived at Xujiang County, where he had been "away" for seven months, on the ninth day of April in the eighth year of Jinghe.
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Since Mr. Li left Suzhou Prefecture for his official career, his wife and concubines also moved out of Suzhou Prefecture and returned to the house in Fuxin Lane, Xujiang County to live with his parents-in-law.
When Li You returned home, all the slaves in the house, led by the chief steward Li Si, gathered in the front courtyard to salute.
"Master, Aunt Guan gave birth to a son in the first month of the month." Li Si was the first to announce the good news. Li You was overjoyed, nodded to Li Si and entered the front hall.
Li's father and his mother, Mrs. Zhu, were sitting in the hall, looking good. Their wives and concubines, maids from each house, and wet nurses were surrounding them on both sides. Li You quickly called him an "unfilial son" and went to pay homage to his parents. Mrs. Cheng and Xiao Zhu also followed.
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Mrs. Zhu was eager to look forward to her son. She said before Li's father: "My son got up. I heard that he was beaten up for contradicting the emperor in the Jinluan Palace? No wonder he is so haggard, poor waiter..."
Father Li turned his head and puffed his beard and glared: "How many times have I told you? The waiter is also a person of great status now, and we can no longer be so commensurate with him in the future! Besides, he is not the emperor!"
After hearing his mother's words, Li You stood up. He glanced at his long-lost wives and concubines, but he met several pairs of passionate eyes, as if they were about to melt him just a few feet away.
Even though he is a master of hundreds of battles, Mr. Li also felt his scalp tightening. He couldn't help but secretly rejoiced in his heart. Fortunately, he started cultivating himself after passing the Huai'an Mansion. He should be able to cope with it in the past few days... He will really have to take it easy in the future.
Looking away from the woman, Li You was talking to his father, and accidentally glanced at an extra plaque in the hall. It had three characters "Jieyi Hall" written on it. He asked, "Who wrote this?"
"Chen Xundao from Fucheng." Li's father twisted his beard and said, with a hint of pride in his tone. "After he learned that you received the imperial staff, he wrote a plaque and sent it over."
Li You fought for Mr. Xu Ge in the capital. As a disciple of Mr. Xu Ge, Chen Xundao should naturally have something to say after hearing the news. It is normal in officialdom to promote people with the same party and suppress those with different parties.
Father Li remembered something else: "Then Chen Xundao also asked, have the elders in the clan chosen a name for you?"
Li You didn't expect Chen Xundao to ask this. Although he had become prosperous in the past two years, he really didn't have the urgency to pick up the word.
Firstly, his family is not from a scholarly family and does not have this habit. Secondly, he is not very old, he is only nineteen now. Thirdly, the custom of literati in the country and dynasty is to use nicknames rather than words, and the number of words is much less. Fourthly, he
For people in the officialdom, the nicknames and nicknames of official names can in a sense replace the use of characters, such as in Zhongshu and so on.
Li You thought for a moment and asked, "How did father answer Chen Xundao?"
"My father said that in the small Li family, no one can give you a calligraphy. As for whether you got the calligraphy in Beijing, I don't know."
Li You didn't say anything more about this. Chen Xundao's meaning was self-evident, and of course he understood.
These days, numbers can be given away randomly, but not just anyone can give you a nickname. Only your teacher has this qualification. Chen Xundao asked him if he had a nickname. It was an implicit question, and he couldn't hear it.
It's just too stupid, just like the king of Chuzhuang asking about the importance of Jiuding.
Mr. Li, who has become famous all over the world, is a strange being who takes an unusual path in the officialdom. He has no fame, no teacher, and no three-no products of the same year. It is simply impossible to use normal relationship theory to study his origins.
If we have to borrow the existing concept, we will transfer Mr. Li from a servant to an official, help him to be promoted from a ninth-grade miscellaneous person to a recommended official, recommend him to study in prison and get a mixed degree (an attempt failed), and also introduce him to the Ministry of Personnel.
Chen Yingzhen, Chen Xundao and Chen Enzhu, who met directly in the center, can be compared to Mr. Li's master in a sense.
Yes, compared to Li You, Chen Xundao is like the examiner of the provincial examination compared to the admitted candidates. He is naturally qualified to give Li You a name. But Mr. Chen can't open this mouth, mainly because of his heart.
Do you agree or not, or is it worth using this special way to deepen the relationship?
Therefore, Mr. Chen is not asking about words, but about relationships. Relationships, this invisible thing, are the true foundation of success in officialdom.
Different from the 21st century, where friends are friends in fair life, the communication between literati and officials in this era can be called a science, and it is enough to write a book. It has its own set of rules. It is not just as simple as paying for a treat.
In communication, from identity recognition to public opinion recognition, from titles to etiquette, it is a complex but clear-cut system. Each has its own way of speaking, each has its own "etiquette". For example, people from the same hometown, same age, classmates, fellow students, fellow disciples, teachers
Birth, generation, old age... Even including the most unpleasant comrades, they all have different opinions and are completely different.
In a society of etiquette and law, this is a kind of order. If you want to integrate into the ruling class, you must integrate your mentality into this system. Of course, your identity must first reach a certain weight before you can be qualified.
Take Mr. Li's interactions in Beijing as an example. He met Lu Shangshu. He was an undisputed fellow countryman, a junior, and a disciple (not a disciple);
When facing Zhao Zongxian, because Li You has a lasting debt of gratitude to the second wife of the Zhao family, and is acquainted with the second and third masters of the Zhao family, even if he is more than 30 years older than Zhao Dazhongcheng, he is still an old friend of the same family and the last of his generation;
But the relationship between Li You and Xu Tianguan is the most complicated. Some connections can be drawn from the benefactor Chen Xundao, but it is not clear and there is a layer of separation. But he is indeed reused by Xu Tianguan. So it is probably only
It can be described with the word "party members". Zuo Bulang and others who are also party members can be regarded as comrades.
Li You dared to conclude that Chen Xundao's recent visit to ask questions was not prompted by Xu Cifu, but was instigated by Master Huang...
This was a very, very important matter. It was so important that Li You, who had just entered the house, temporarily put aside his thoughts of teasing his children and being intimate with his wives and concubines, and began to meditate in the hall.
The only person who can choose the name for you is your teacher. Chen Xundao, who is only 28 this year, simply said that it is "longer", which is a bit difficult. How can it be called Li Youqing, a time-traveling man with a mental age of 234, and it will probably be very difficult to adapt to it.
Kung Fu. But Chen Xundao is definitely qualified as a "teacher", and together he can be called a "teacher commander".
In fact, according to etiquette, it does not depend on age. Even if the examiner is younger than the candidate, the candidate must call the examiner "teacher" after being admitted. If Li You went to Jiangdu County and took office, the county's scholars in their thirties and forties would meet.
He also has to call his parents...
Teachers and students in official circles are naturally different from teachers and students in schools. They are directly related to your future, destiny, qualifications for office and other very practical interests.
Li You thought about Chen Xundao's resume again: a solid high-ranking Jinshi, a fifth-level official under thirty, with a strong background as a secondary assistant who sympathizes with his father and son. He can come to Beijing at any time to supplement his potential as a Ci Linguan. More
Not to mention Mr. Chen's unparalleled protagonist's temperament from his birth to his appearance to his official position...it's the most enjoyable thing to ride on the protagonist's coattails.
Of course, with Mr. Li's academic qualifications and his level close to that of Chen Xundao, he probably wouldn't be able to get along like a normal teacher and student. He would be more like a registered disciple who is both a teacher and a friend.
Seeing that Li You was still in a daze, Li's father suddenly changed his face, slapped the case and yelled, "You idiot! I thought you had made some progress, but it didn't work! You can still think and hesitate about something that can be seen clearly at a glance? Really?
I don’t know how you got around in the capital and became the county magistrate!"
"They are not just flattering you and praising you. Although I don't know whose idea it is, they are definitely testing your thoughts after you become famous and powerful and take charge of your own business! To put it bluntly, it is to see if your wings are stiff. You
Don’t be dissatisfied, people think highly of you if they are willing to test you! People in the world are like this. If you dare not agree, it will definitely arouse more or less suspicion! You are just a duckweed-like official with no roots.
Can you afford it? It’s as clear as window paper, but you still can’t figure it out!”
Mr. Li, who was scolded all over the capital as being invincible, was scolded by his father. It was like a sapling that was shaken by a storm. He could only shout silently in his heart: "It's not that we don't have any foundation, we still have Princess Guide as a big spare tire."
Ah! Isn’t this because I’m afraid that my father will be too frightened to say anything..."
"You don't need to think about it, you can't refuse at all! After staying at home for a few days, go to Fucheng to get the letter back! It's really not a worry-free thing." Father Li finally dropped these words, got up and went out to the county government office.
Gone to do official business.
Mrs. Zhu also got up and left the house knowingly, leaving behind her son and several of his wives and concubines.
