Lan promised to be the eldest palace maid who could be used by Cixi. Li Lianying also wanted to give face to her on weekdays. Hearing Lan's voice of promise, he hurriedly opened the door.
"This is a cup of ginseng soup in the royal meal of Lafayette this morning. I gave it to this idiot... to help him recuperate!" At this point, Lan agreed and even blushed and laughed. With a wave of her hand, the little palace maid drank the ginseng soup. It was brought over.
Li Lianying patted her thigh and quickly put her arm around Lan Huanying's shoulders. He hugged her and kissed her on the face. "My good girl, do you mean I passed the test?"
Lan promised to stretch out her orchid finger and push Li Lianying's cheek aside. She said with disgust, "I don't even want to use the toothbrush and toothpaste given by the foreigners to brush it. The smell in my mouth..."
"You are lucky to be able to pick out such a girl... Do you think that woman is willing to kill such a treasure?"
"If it had been any other man, he would have been executed in Lingchi..."
Li Lianying laughed and clapped her hands, "Oh... It's true that success is a fool and failure is a fool... Because this fool caused trouble, but in the end, he was the fool who saved his life..."
"Haha... Where is the logic in this!"
"What does Lafayette mean?" Li Lianying asked cautiously.
Lan promised to dislike Li Lianying in her heart, but she still couldn't show it on the surface. She deliberately touched her hair and said meaningfully, "What Lafayette meant... How dare I say nonsense..."
"Ouch... look at how useless I am... I recently got a good head. The red gold is inlaid with red and sapphires from the Lion Kingdom. It was made by the top Chinese craftsmen... "
"I'll send it to my sister tonight..."
When she heard that there was a bribe, Lan agreed and said with a smile, "Oh... look at my memory, Lafayette said, he will be detained here for three days, and then he will find a way to send him out of the palace after three days..."
"Please serve delicious food and drinks... Lafayette will need to use these three days!"
"The manager will go back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to pass the decree and reward Yi Siha as a first-class bodyguard. From now on, he will be permanently stationed at Qixiang Gate!"
"I understand, I understand, sister, walk slowly..."
Li Lianying looked back at Yi Siha, "Haha... Silly boy, you are lucky, your good days are coming! Tell me where your home is, and I will send someone to send a letter to your home... "
"We can't let them worry... Come on, come on, get up... Are there any difficulties at home?"
"Oh... please keep talking to me, brother. This afternoon I will send the housekeeper to send you 10,000 taels of silver. From now on, you will benefit from your association with Lafayette..."
Just when Li Lianying was comforting Isiha, Li Tuo from the Military Aircraft Department also received the safe news from Eunuch Sura. Li Tuo looked calm on the surface, but he was actually more excited than anyone else on the inside. He pretended to sleep in the duty room last night. In fact, I didn't sleep all night.
When he received the news that he was safe, Li Tuo leaned to the side and almost fell to the ground. "This deal with the head is finally done..."
Li Tuo moved a handful of small horses and sat at the door of a house next to the military aircraft to bask in the sun. He asked the food delivery boy Sula for a bowl of soy milk, a piece of pancake with a freshly fried fried dough stick and spicy pickles inside. Silk.
Without using chopsticks, I just held the bowl with one hand and the flatbread with the other and ate it fiercely!
The warm autumn sun was shining comfortably on his body. The eunuchs, guards and low-level officials who came and went all took the initiative to salute or nod and say hello when they saw him.
Zhang Jing, the new star of the Military Aircraft Department, is really red, even redder than that soy tofu sauce!
After a while, he saw Guiziliu and Yixuan, surrounded by a group of eunuchs, walking around towards the three main halls in the south. Li Tuo didn't want to show off too much, so he got up and hid behind the door to peek, and took the rest of the Stuff the fried dough sticks into your mouth.
"Can Cixi still take care of state affairs today? Her body is strong enough! She has enough staying power..."
While he was talking, Li Tuo saw a friend of the telegraph office who was also a clerk. The two of them also exchanged information on whether they had shared official intelligence, and they also drank wine several times.
This friend had just sent the two princes to the Yangxin Palace and was walking back in a hurry. Li Tuo dropped his rice bowl, wiped his hands, and followed after him after a few steps.
When he came out of the corner of the steps of Zhonghe Hall, Li Tuo blocked his friend and looked around to see if there was anyone around him to ask questions.
"Old Wang, what's wrong? You don't look very good. Did the public opinion in the capital change last night?"
Then Lao Wang lowered his voice like a thief and said, "The capital is fine, we have been discussing Salonga's case all night, and of course your promotion..."
"This morning, the news of the victory in Xingxingxia has also spread, and the people in the capital are all happy about it..."
Li Tuo asked in confusion, "Then why do the two princes look so ugly?"
"Hey...don't mention it. I received an urgent message from Xi'an at around three o'clock this morning...guess what?"
"No one expected that the Long Live Lord himself actually sent an expedition team... It was the British Gordon who led the team from the Pamir..."
"They came from the territory of Lao Maozi and the rebels. They walked around and said that there was no man's land... actually they really bypassed the territory of the rebels..."
"At this moment, they have been rescued from the wind and snow by Zasak Tuhan's cavalry, and they are heading south all the way to Guazhou... It is estimated that they will be able to join Zuo Zongtang in less than ten days!"
"Let's go, let's go, don't talk anymore... I still have to go back to the telegraph office to wait for news. I'm very busy now!"
Li Tuo blinked and thought something was wrong. Long live the Lord sent envoys to appease the Han warlords who had military power without being personally in charge. This was taboo!
Go, go, go home and hide for two days, today is my holiday anyway!
Of course, Li Tuo knew all the connections in the court. At this juncture when the two princes were trying to force the palace, it was better not to inquire. The past two days had been enough to show off, so he had to hide his clumsiness.
Li Tuo returned to the duty room to pack his things, then turned around and left without even saying hello to his other colleagues!
When Li Tuo returned to his new residence in Xiangbikeng, he realized that Li Lianying had not lied to him. There was a long queue at the gate for officials delivering congratulatory gifts.
The butler outside the sedan quickly got off the sedan and whispered, "Sir... everyone is waiting to see you at the front door. This good guy is number thirty or forty!"
"The gift list is over a foot high...can you see it?"
"I saw his grandma... these are low-ranking petty officials. They are no good and are just trouble. Hurry up and go home through the back door... Remember, you can't accept gifts from these officials!"
"You have no skills at all. Can you give gifts?"
What Li Tuo said was not wrong at all. When it comes to official gift giving, it is not said that the official comes to see him with the gift list. In that case, his family's stewards, servants or brokers have to come forward.
When the gift order is sent, the broker must explain the situation clearly, and the giver and recipient must not be political enemies, and each must give the other room to think about it.
This is called giving gifts in a well-established way, but today I met these idle officials sitting on the bench in the capital. They had no means and even borrowed money to give gifts.
This kind of person's money is stained with shit, and anyone who touches it will stink!
Li Tuo, who returned to the study from the back door, made a cup of tea comfortably, dismissed the little maid who was waiting on him, and started grinding ink himself!
In the end, he actually took out a stack of rice paper from the bottom of the cage. It was filled with small characters!
Opening the first page, a line of large and clear ink letters "Record of the Appearance of Officialdom" came into view!
Li Tuolang's hair was covered with ink and he began to write furiously, "... It's not uncommon in this officialdom to give away women, and it's not uncommon to give away men... If you want to give away, you have to give away a strange man like Lao Ai..."
I really didn’t expect that Li Tuo was actually a literary giant. He secretly recorded all the details of the officialdom in the late Qing Dynasty, and then secretly compiled it into a book!
