As soon as the door was opened, there was a lot of dust, everyone couldn't help but took a step back, and Tao Mo covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve and coughed.
The master was a little embarrassed: "Well, I really didn't expect my lord to come so early, so I didn't clean it. Please forgive me, my lord."
Old Tao said: "Master, you're being polite. The Chinese New Year is coming soon. We came late. Let the master stay here and wait for the handover. Thank you for your hard work."
Saying that, he took the master's hand, as if thanking him, but quietly stuffed a piece of silver into the master's hand.
The master was startled, but then put it into his sleeves calmly, and said calmly: "If your lord has nothing to do, you might as well hand over the formalities with Mr. Jin, and Mr. Jin can also go home for the New Year." He said and made a request pose.
Tao Mo asked him to go first, the two came to the study, and Master Jin handed over the official seal and other things to Tao Mo. It was Tao Mo's first time as an official, so he didn't know anything about it. He would take whatever Master Jin gave him. When it was over, he didn't know how to react.
Seeing that he didn't respond, Master Jin was a little displeased: "My lord, please sign here."
Tao Mo let out an "uh" and blushed. He hurriedly handed the items in his hand to Hao Guozi, and picked up a pen to sign. It was very smooth when I was writing pottery characters, but I paused when I was writing ink characters.
Master Jin received it in his hand and said with emotion: "My lord's name is not as good as the surname!"
He said it unintentionally, but Tao Mo felt so guilty that he couldn't speak.
Seeing that he was dull and unsophisticated, Master Jin was slightly disappointed, so he said goodbye: "Since the procedures have been handed over, Jin will leave. My lord is exhausted from the journey, so I should rest early."
Tao Mo was already nervous, but when he saw that he was leaving, he felt a sense of relief that he finally didn't have to deal with people in the officialdom, and he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief: "I'll send the master off."
Seeing that Master Jin was about to leave, Tao Mo not only refused to keep him, but he also let out a sigh of relief, clearly looking forward to his early departure, and immediately became angry. I thought to myself: If you don't keep me now, I don't know how long you can stay in Danyang County, which is full of lawyers? The former magistrate Zhang was pissed off by the litigators. Do you want to follow his mistakes
His face sank, and he walked away.
Lao Tao roughly cleaned the room, put down the luggage, and went to the study to look for Tao Mo. Seeing Tao Mo and Hao Guozi, but not seeing Master Jin, he was quite surprised: "Where is Master Jin?"
"gone."
"Gone?" Old Tao was shocked, "Master, why didn't you keep him?"
"His family is not in the county government office!"
"Young master!" Old Tao stomped his feet, regretting that he was in a hurry to clean up just now and didn't come to the study. "The county magistrate needs a master to help with official affairs. Besides, you are a newcomer and know nothing about Danyang. This master Jin is The local, who is familiar with Danyang affairs, is your right-hand man! Why don't you ask him to be your teacher?"
Tao Mo was stunned: "Isn't he the master?"
"He was the master of the former county magistrate, but not your master, young master! The master was not appointed by the court, but hired by the county magistrate himself!"
"Ah?!" Tao Mo was dumbfounded, "What should I do? Should I chase him back now?"
As he said, he wanted to chase after him, but was stopped by Lao Tao: "Forget it, it's all because Lao Tao didn't make it clear to the young master in advance. There is no need to chase now. It's the end of the year, and the young master should find out where Mr. Jin's house is and prepare a copy." Let’s come to the door to invite!”
Tao Mo was dejected: "It's all my fault, I don't even understand this. If I had just asked him to be my teacher, I wouldn't have these things. I'm so stupid!"
Old Tao frowned and said, "Master, don't underestimate yourself. You are only 19 years old this year. You are already a county magistrate and the youngest Jinshi in this discipline. How can you say you are stupid? You just don't know the key to this."
Tao Mo said sadly, "I'm just stupid! If I had been smart, I wouldn't have let Daddy and Brother Lian-"
"Hush—" Lao Tao raised his index finger and pointed it in front of Tao Mo's eyes, "We said we won't mention three years ago anymore."
Tao Mo lowered his head and hummed softly.
Lao Tao and Hao Guozi exchanged worried glances.
Twelfth lunar month twenty-four, small year. There was only one person who was still in business, so Lao Tao couldn't spare time, so he could only ask Hao Guozi to accompany Tao Mo to invite Master Jin.
When he arrived at Master Jin's house, he heard that Master Jin had gone to Mingcuiju to attend the gathering of disciples of the Yang family, and Tao Mo went to the teahouse Mingcuiju where the meeting was held.
The party was on the second floor. Hao Guozi helped Tao Mo and was about to go up the stairs, but was stopped by Tao Mo: "It's rude for us to rush up to the gathering of brothers from the same school. Why don't we wait downstairs."
Hao Guozi said: "You are the magistrate of the county, why don't you give them face when you go up? Maybe they are all waiting to see you!"
Tao Mo didn't speak, but walked to the side of the stairs, picked a seat and sat down.
Hao Guozi had no choice but to come and sit down and wait.
The shopkeeper of the teahouse didn't know Tao Mo, and saw that although he behaved with restraint, he was wearing a big cloak with a lot of fur falling out, and a heavy cotton jacket was faintly exposed inside. , only sent a buddy to say hello. Hearing from the buddy that Tao Mo ordered a pot of tea that was neither good nor bad, confirmed his opinion even more.
Not long after, a voice came from the stairs. Tao Mo looked up the stairs and saw Master Jin coming down with them. Tao Mo hurriedly stood up, went to the stairs, and saw Master Jin looking towards him, he gave a long bow.
Seeing that he made such a big salute to him, Master Jin hurried down the stairs in three and two steps, and returned the salute: "It turns out that Master Tao is here."
Tao Mo said: "I have come here specially to invite you to be my master." As he spoke, he took the gift from Hao Guozi and handed it over.
Master Jin was a little surprised. He has served as a teacher for several county magistrates, and every county magistrate has just come to ask him to continue to be a teacher. That day when he saw Tao Mo looking forward to his quick departure, he thought Tao Mo had opinions on him and felt unhappy, and seeing Tao Mo's lack of worldly knowledge, he felt that it would be tiring to be a teacher to such a person, so he shook his face and left. Unexpectedly, Tao Mo made a special trip to invite him today, chased him to Ming Cuiju, and waited humbly downstairs, and even made such a big salute when he saw him. All kinds of things, not only do not seem to have opinions on him, but also appear to be very sincere.
He couldn't help hesitating: "This—"
The junior brother who came downstairs with him joked: "What? The county magistrate is so sincere, isn't it enough to impress Senior Brother Jin?"
Master Jin said awkwardly: "No."
Tao Mo said happily, "Then you agreed?"
This was simply the first happy thing in Danyang, and Tao Mo's eyes shone brightly.
Master Jin was in a dilemma, not knowing what to do, when footsteps were heard on the stairs, and someone came down again.
The footsteps are neither fast nor slow, calm and measured, as if no one or anything will disturb its rhythm.
Everyone looked up subconsciously, and saw a pair of exquisite silver boots. When the silver boots went down, a section of silver cloak was exposed at the top of the stairs, and the dark lines were shining brightly between their movements. Without thinking about it, the silver boots had already walked to the lower stairs, revealing a stern face like ice and snow.
"ah!"
Tao Mo and Hao Guozi both exclaimed.
Hearing Tao Mo's exclamation, the man turned his face, his eyes just glanced at Tao Mo, and Tao Mo suddenly lost his breath.
The man turned around the corner of the stairs and turned to walk down towards Tao Mo. Tao Mo was already standing at the stairs, and when he saw this, he involuntarily took another step towards the stairs, completely blocking the stairs.
The man frowned and approached, looking at Tao Mo's face that was already full of tears.
"Excuse me."
Tao Mo choked up and couldn't speak, just stood still.
Hao Guozi was the first to react: "You—who are you?"
At this time, a person pulled Tao Mo away from behind: "My son said I'm sorry, didn't you hear?"
The man cast a displeased look at the boy who tore Tao Mo away, and the boy shrank his neck involuntarily: "My lord, the car is ready."
The man then went out and left.
Tao Mo chased after him, and saw an unimaginably exquisite and luxurious carriage parked outside the door. The man walked up to the car, looked back at him again, seemed a little puzzled, but didn't stop, got into the car and left.
Master Jin came over: "Your Excellency, do you recognize Gu She?"
Only then did Tao Mo come back to his senses, he turned his head and quietly wiped his face with his sleeve, then turned around and asked, "Who?"
"Gu She."
"You said—his name is Gu She?"
"So the adults don't recognize him?"
Tao Mo shook his head: "I just feel like an old friend."
"My lord! My lord!"
Tao Mo and others followed the prestige, and saw Wu Er, the yamen servant, running over panting: "My lord, it was so hard to find you! I ran to Mr. Jin's house, and they said you came here again! Go back to the county yamen, Someone complained!"
The author has something to say:
34,000 words, Gu She finally came out, 5555555 I wrote so anxiously and hard.
The updates are too intensive these days, so tiring. Take a few days off work.