When Man Bao and the others felt sleepy after eating, Mr. Zhuang returned leisurely with his hands behind his back and a guard.
He called the three of them into the room and asked them again, and when Man Bao said that he would not necessarily fight for property, he nodded and said, "I went to the teahouse today, thinking that since you are here, why not talk to the merchants?" The students of the state school communicate and communicate, which is also considered a study tour.”
He said: "Give me your post, and I will deliver it to you tomorrow. After two days, after you have dealt with the affairs of the clan, I will go around."
Study tour, study tour, tour of characters is still ahead of learning characters, Bai Erlang nodded again and again, and immediately went to get a pen and paper to write a post now.
But Bai Shan's heart moved, he nodded with a smile, and turned to write the post.
Man Bao wanted to use his own official posts to make up the number, but Bai Shan pulled her and said, "Let's write a few now. The writing will either be compiled by Chongwenguan, or I will give myself a name, and write it as Mr. Shifu."
Mr. Zhuang touched his beard with satisfaction, and said to Man Bao: "You don't need to point out that it was compiled by the Chongwen Museum. I heard that Shangzhou Prefecture School holds literary and poetry meetings every ten days. Not only the doctoral officials of the school will be there Even officials from the government and county magistrates occasionally come to participate."
He said: "Man Bao, you are an official. Since you have come to Shangzhou, it is not a public office. You should also say hello to the local officials. If you are afraid of trouble, you can write a confession letter and ask people to bring some of the capital. The soil instrument will be delivered to your door."
Man Bao: "I won't let people misunderstand that I am bullying others, can I ask them?"
Mr. Zhuang said quickly, "You were going to ask them to make things easier for you. Who are you afraid of talking about?"
Man Bao three people: ...
Mr. Zhuang said: "No matter how small the Xia family is, it is also a clan born and raised in Shangzhou. If they really want to make trouble regardless, the faces of Shangzhou officials are not good-looking. You should deal with them in advance, even if they don't care about selfishness. You know how to be polite, and you can be fair."
"Besides, are the earthen rituals you brought from the capital expensive?"
That's not expensive.
Although he has no relationship with the Xia family, he still came to visit relatives after all, so the old Zhou family still prepared gifts.
Cough, because everyone has never met each other and has no friendship, so what they prepare are all the famous earthen rituals in the capital, which are cheap and famous.
For example, the famous sauces in the capital, jar after jar, are not expensive at all. They are often prepared by visiting relatives and friends in the capital, because almost every household can use them.
Mr. Zhuang said: "Choose a few copies and send them along with the post, as long as you don't lose your manners."
Man Bao: "Let the guards deliver it?"
Mr. Zhuang nodded, "You are an official in the capital, you just need to be friendly, and there is no need to lower your posture too much."
Man Bao and Bai Shan looked at each other, then nodded.
The three of them suppressed their sleepiness, and then went back to the house to get paper and pens to write posts.
Man Bao had to write a lot, not only for literati, but also for officials.
As for the list of literati, Mr. Zhuang gave them a list and said: "These are some of the more famous students in Shangzhou Prefecture School that I found out today. You can write them down."
Man Bao and Bai Erlang took the Four Treasures of the Study in a particularly tacit understanding and then went to Bai Shan's room to meet up.
She first wrote greeting cards to those literati students, and then looked at Bai Shan.
Bai Shan had already finished writing, and when he saw this, he stretched out his hand and took a post and said, "Let me help you write two."
Man Bao cheered and planned to copy his.
Anyway, it's for officials, so it's nothing, just change the name on the title.
But Bai Shan tapped her on the head with a pen and said: "Be serious, be sincere, maybe you can form a good relationship, people don't see it for the sake of the earth, but also because you have such a good article In terms of sincerity and sincerity, I will give you a little favoritism."
Man Bao became more serious.
So in the early morning of the next day, all the people in Shangzhou City, down to the magistrate of Guo County, and up to the governor of Shangzhou received Zhou Man's post and Tuyi.
The official rank of Shangzhou Inspector is one rank higher than that of Zhou Man, but Zhou Man is a Beijing official and he is a local official. According to the usual practice, the two are almost at the same level.
He was a little confused when he received such a gift, and frowned when he saw that it was written on the post that she was visiting relatives in her hometown.
Although he had never met Zhou Man, but for the first female official, if he remembered correctly, she should be from Mianzhou, Jiannan Province, right
Since when is Shangzhou her hometown
After thinking about it, the governor asked someone to call the county magistrate Zhai. He planned to ask the county magistrate Zhai to investigate, but the magistrate Zhai didn't even need to investigate. He just told the relationship between Zhou Man and the Xia family. He said: "People from the Xia family should be here at noon today, sir, can you go and have a look?"
The governor thought for a while and shook his head, "You can mediate, it's not appropriate for me to go."
Zhai County Magistrate also felt that it was inappropriate for him to go, so he was relieved when he heard that he would not go, and he responded with a smile on his face, expressing that he would properly mediate between Master Zhou and the Xia family.
At this time, Xia Xia's carriage stopped at the entrance of the inn. Xia Rui jumped off the carriage and was about to go in to find someone. When he looked up, he saw Zhou Dalang and Wu Lang who had met yesterday, and he couldn't help but stop.
Zhou Dalang and Wu Wulang also saw Xia Rui, turned their heads and said to Man Bao: "This is Xia Rui."
Man Bao looked up, then looked at the carriage behind him, went up to meet him first, and saluted with a smile: "Is it Uncle Xia, is the uncle in the carriage?"
Xia Rui looked at her with a complicated face and said, "Yes, you are Xinniang's daughter, right?"
The people in the car coughed, Xia Rui hurriedly turned around and opened the curtain, "Father, why don't you go back first, I'll take them up the mountain."
Xia Xia shook his head, "No need, your uncle's granddaughter is back, I have to go and talk to him personally if I say anything, big lady, get in the car, I'll take you to see your grandparents."
Man Bao responded and said: "Uncle, wait a moment, my father, mother and husband are also going, and we still need to bring some things."
Lao Zhoutou and Qian's not only prepared such things as incense sticks and paper money, but also paid the inn to help steam a big rooster. If the conditions did not allow it, they would actually want the inn to help steam a pig's head.
Xia Xia realized after a while that Zhou Man's father and mother were calling her uncle and aunt, so he leaned against the car wall and raised the curtain to look out.
Old Zhou Tou and Qian Shi were still behind, and they came downstairs at this time. The staff helped them carry the sacrifices to the car, and the two sides met their eyes as soon as they looked up.
Looking at Xia Xia who was not much older than himself, old Zhou hesitated for a moment before calling out, "Uncle in-law..."
His seniority in the village is quite high, but now his seniority is lower than others, which is not used to him.
Xia Xia didn't expect that the father Zhou Man was talking about was about the same age as him, so he was taken aback for a moment before he smiled and said, "This is Zhou's nephew, please get in the car, this is the first time we've seen each other..."
He took a closer look at old Zhou, and found that he was somewhat similar to Zhou Yin, especially the shape of his face and those eyes.
After carefully looking at it, he squeezed out a smile and said, "Not to mention my in-laws, we can recognize it when we see it on the road. You are somewhat similar to Zhou Yin."
Old Zhou Tou said proudly: "That's natural, our brother was born with the same parents, can it be different?"
It's just that the age difference is too big, Xia Xia thought to himself, if he ran into him on the road, he would definitely think he was Zhou Yin's father.