After Li Yuanying finished painting, he found out that their internship plan had been postponed for several days because of his painting in retreat. So early the next morning, Li Yuanying packed up and took his friends to the internship location assigned by his superiors.
Because he was no longer in the Imperial College, Li Yuanying solemnly brought all the attendants with him, assembled a small convoy and headed for the destination: Hu County.
Hu County is west of Chang'an, on the edge of the flooded water. It is a fairly economical county in Gyeonggi, with good mountains and rivers, and fertile soil. Li Yuanying had never been to this place before, and he was very excited along the way. This time, he was accompanied by the only four girls from the Imperial College and Di Renjie.
There is no way, Wei Shu and Wu Mei must be following him, and of course Chengyang cannot be alone. Since Jin Shengman also signed up, Dr. Ma and the others stuffed Jin Shengman into his small team. Originally, it was enough for five people to be responsible for the internship work in a county, but it was inevitable that one person with four young ladies would appear to be in a bad mood, so Di Renjie was also assigned.
Hu County is not far from Chang'an, about the same as Mount Li, and it only took half a day for the convoy to arrive. As early as when the internship location was finalized, Dong Xiaoyi sent someone to set up a yard, not far from the county government. When Li Yuanying and his party arrived, they directly moved their luggage in.
Although Hu County is Ji County, it is naturally not as rich as Chang'an, and the house is not too big. However, this was the first time that Li Yuanying brought his friends to live independently outside, and he was very excited to drag Wei Shu to choose a room. Everyone wanted to leave the main house to Li Yuanying, and he chose the location he wanted to live in according to his preferences, while the servants who had been waiting by the side quickly helped them move their luggage to the rooms they selected.
Li Yuanying and his party packed up and were about to see the county magistrate, but someone came in and said that the county magistrate had arrived. Although the county magistrate is not a high-ranking official, the county magistrate of Ji County is much more important than the Sima of Xiazhou. For example, Xu Jingzong, the magistrate of Hu County, is trying to return to Ji County as the county magistrate after being relegated to a foreign post to prepare for activities The activity goes back to the power center.
As a veteran official who has a good eye and has been trying to hook up with the capital, Xu Jingzong is very well informed and knows that Li Yuanying is not an ordinary Imperial College student, but His Majesty Li Er's favorite younger brother. His Majesty Li Er's connivance towards Li Yuanying made everyone feel strange. It is said that even Wei Wang Li Tai has been compared!
Hearing that Li Yuanying was going to Hu County for some kind of internship, Xu Jingzong naturally asked people to watch him early on, and went to visit Li Yuanying at the right time. The last thing you want when you are in the officialdom is face. After spending so long in the background, Xu Jingzong has already put his face aside!
Seeing Li Yuanying, Xu Jingzong squinted his eyes, and greeted Li Yuanying with a smile: "Your Highness, why didn't you say that you are coming here today? If you said that, I would take people out of the city to meet you!"
Xu Jingzong's face was slightly round, his eyes were small, and his smile was a little more treacherous out of thin air. Li Yuanying asked himself that he is not a person who judges people by appearance, but Xu Jingzong's hospitality still made him a little vigilant. Although he was wary, Li Yuanying followed Xu Jingzong with a smile: "We are here to work, not to put on airs. The county magistrate Xu needn't be so polite."
Xu Jingzong looked at the few "interns" brought by Li Yuanying, and murmured in his heart: This is either a brat or a dainty little lady, what can she do? I'm afraid you didn't come to visit the mountains and rivers, did you
Of course, Xu Jingzong would not be so stupid as to speak out what was in his heart. He said with a smile: "Since you are here to do something, the next step is to work together. I asked someone to prepare a reception banquet, and introduce to His Highness who is in the county government."
Li Yuanying said: "Alright."
Xu Jingzong then asked Li Yuanying if there was anything that needed help, whether there were enough people, and if there was anything you wanted, just tell him, and he would ask someone to bring it over early, so as not to rush to find it when it was needed.
Li Yuanying said: "I have asked someone to come over and take care of it in advance, there is nothing missing."
Now that they had met face to face, Xu Jingzong didn't stay any longer, and wisely left space for Li Yuanying and the others.
Li Yuanying asked someone to make tea, and sat around with Di Renjie and the others to talk.
Di Renjie said: "This county magistrate Xu came really timely, I'm afraid people have been watching this house for a long time." He glanced at Li Yuanying and said his evaluation, "I don't think this magistrate Xu is worthy of friendship. "
Wu Mei nodded, agreeing with Di Renjie's opinion.
Firstly, Xu Jingzong asked people to keep an eye on when they would arrive, obviously he likes to cheat; secondly, Xu Jingzong was too attentive to Li Yuanying, and he only circled around Li Yuanying the whole time. Such a person doesn't look like he wants to be a good official!
Li Yuanying said: "It's not that we want to have a relationship with him, so we don't need to think about it."
Wei Shu said: "That's not what I said. We will work under him in the future. We still have to find out his background." , Don’t offend the villain, since everyone thinks that this person is not suitable for a close relationship, then these words should not reach his ears, and you should be more careful when you speak.”
Li Yuanying didn't care: "Even if he hears it, it doesn't matter. Does he still dare to attack us? He dare not!"
Wu Mei analyzed to Li Yuanying: "If you think about it in the long term, we will go to the fiefdom in the future, and he will return to Chang'an, one far and one near, no one knows how the situation will change, it is always right to be careful."
Wei Shu nodded, that's what she meant.
Cheng Yang said: "According to his current attitude towards Uncle Yao, there should be little possibility of us having a conflict with him."
Jin Shengman was out of Chang'an for the first time, so he didn't express any opinions. He ate the hot tea served by his servants while listening to Li Yuanying and the others analyze the situation.
After discussing with the several people, they roughly decided on the basic policy for getting along with the county magistrate of Hu County: as long as they didn't find anything wrong with him, they would get along with him peacefully, and at the same time use his hospitality to find more things to do. .
In the afternoon, Xu Jingzong came over in person again and invited Li Yuanying and the others to have a banquet and meet the officials and officials in the county government.
The county seat in Gyeonggi is very crowded, and the county magistrate controls everything, and all matters, big and small, must go through his hands. Then it is necessary to set up the county seat, the master book, the county lieutenant, etc. to assist the county affairs, and there are officials, recorders, government servants, etc. to be responsible for various affairs.
As soon as Li Yuanying arrived, everyone stood up and greeted him. It didn't look like he was here for an internship, but he seemed to be parachuted down to take over Hu County. Having more contact with people outside, Li Yuanying was a little more friendly than other clan children, and he didn't have any prince airs at all. He smiled and dismissed everyone's courtesy, greeted them to sit down, and under the introduction of Xu Jingzong, the county magistrate Recognized over and over again.
The county magistrate and the master book assistant are in charge of education and education, and the county magistrate is in charge of law and order. These are the people they may have frequent contact with in the future, so Li Yuanying has a good temper and recognizes each other one by one.
Due to Li Yuanying's natural affinity, the welcome banquet quickly became lively, and there was no silence during the whole process. At the end of the wind banquet, someone came from the capital on a fast horse, and it turned out that they were dressed as guards in the palace.
The imperial guard recognized Li Yuanying, said "I'm sorry to bother you", and went to find Li Yuanying, and handed Li Yuanying a letter that His Majesty Li Er asked him to bring.
Li Yuanying heard from the imperial guard that His Majesty Li Er asked Xiaoxin to come here, and he was a little puzzled, wondering what kind of medicine was sold in his imperial brother's gourd. But his imperial brother was far away in the capital, so he was not in a hurry to read the letter, but instead invited the guards to sit down and have some wine. Anyway, when he rushed back to the palace, the gate was also locked, and he couldn't return to the palace to return to his life, so he simply went back the next day, and took his reply letter by the way and brought it back to Beijing.
The imperial guard did not shirk, and sat down as promised.
Everyone saw it, and felt that Li Yuanying was valued by His Majesty Li Er, so they sent someone to deliver a letter in a hurry when they arrived in Hu County, not because they were worried about what this younger brother was
After Li Yuanying finished the welcome banquet, he declined the follow-up "entertainment activities" arranged by Xu Jingzong, and returned to his abode with a letter from His Majesty Li Er. Others thought that His Majesty Li Er sent the letter because he was worried about him, but Li Yuanying deduced from his rich experience that there would be nothing good in this letter!
Sure enough, Li Yuanying asked someone to light the lamp to open the letter and saw that it was full of insults to him.
Wei Shu asked Li Yuanying curiously: "What did the saint write in the letter?"
Li Yuanying snorted, handed the letter to Wei Shu, and let Wei Shu read it by herself, sitting in front of the lamp and getting angry.
Wei Shu took the letter and looked at it, only to see that His Majesty Li Er scolded Li Yuanying bloody in the letter. The first scolded Li Yuanying for going out and not returning to the palace to bid farewell, simply lawless, who allowed him to go outside by himself? Three hundred words of curse words are omitted here. The second is to scold Li Yuanying for drawing messy portraits of Li Jing, not to mention drawing people so much younger, but also including horses and falcons, is it so plausible? Serious? People who didn't know thought Li Jing went hunting! After seeing the other 23 portraits, how could they still be painted like this? Five hundred words of curse words are omitted here.
Wei Shu only found out after reading the letter that His Majesty Li Er is so good at swearing!
Wei Shu complained for Li Yuanying: "The sage is a bit too much." They all thought that Li Yuanying's paintings were good, how could they be as dishonest as His Majesty Li Er said
Li Yuanying said angrily: "I will ignore him again!"
Wei Shu said: "Didn't you ask someone to bring the letter back for you tomorrow?"
Li Yuanying said: "Stop writing, everyone is scolding me, what's the point?"
Wei Shu looked at Wu Mei, wanting Wu Mei to persuade Li Yuanying.
Wu Mei understood, and said to Li Yuanying: "If you don't reply, will you be scolded by him for nothing?"
Li Yuanying thought about it, and thought it made sense, so he immediately asked someone to serve him with pen and ink, and he wanted to scold him back!
Li Yuanying was angry here, and His Majesty Li Er was also angry in Chang'an. His Majesty Li Er took his eldest grandson Wuji and the others to see Li Yuanying's masterpiece, and they didn't know whether to be angry or to praise them, they all felt that Li Yuanying's portrait was really beyond their expectations. If there were no previous twenty-three pictures for comparison, this portrait could be included in Lingyan Pavilion. However, the problem is that I have spent several months drawing twenty-three pictures of heroes!
His Majesty Li Er pondered for a while, and asked someone to go to the Imperial College to bring Li Yuanying into the palace, and let him see what he had done. Didn't you deliberately read the first twenty-three pictures first and said that you should draw them so that they don't look obtrusive? It's all right now, if it's not obtrusive, it's not obtrusive, but it's too prominent, making it hard to catch the eye compared to other people! As a result, the sent person came back quickly and reported that Li Yuanying packed up his things and went to Hu County!
It's really unreasonable!
Did he allow him to leave Chang'an without authorization? Even if he nodded for the internship, shouldn't he go back to the palace and say something when he is about to leave
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