When we returned to the Prince's Mansion, it was already very late.
Xiao Yun, who had been thinking about it for several days, sighed deeply.
Forget about questioning the Hunjun, understanding the Hunjun, becoming... this.
But you still need to find someone who can do the job.
The talent attraction plan is urgent!
Xiao Yun turned over the original book with great expectations, trying to find a few talents that could be recruited at this stage.
As the virgin heroine of an ancient novel, the original heroine naturally has many admirers to help her survive so many crises and maintain a pure and beautiful heart until the finale.
For these admirers, appearance, talent and family background are all must-haves, while miserable childhood, regretful past, and boredom with aristocratic circles are all popular electives.
For Xiao Yun, these are excellent qualities for future employees.
She immersed herself in sorting out the plot with anticipation, and soon she found her first target in the original work - the prince of the Hou family who was both civil and military, gentle as jade, emotionally stable and only worried about the heroine.
An all-round talent who can work honestly as long as he is isolated from the heroine.
The only flaw is that he is only four years older than the heroine.
This year is fourteen.
Even if she doesn't follow the custom of aristocratic families and queens becoming officials, she is still far from the age to work.
Thirteen-year-old Xie Heng is still learning how to behave behind his eldest brother and has not finished reading. Shi Xuan, who is one year older than him, must be in a similar situation.
It doesn’t matter, if this one doesn’t work, there will be another one.
As chaotic as the world is, the man who protects the heroine is so outstanding.
Xiao Yun rummaged through and found a second suitable candidate - a talented Hanzhou scholar whose family was in decline and who passed the imperial examination with three yuan at the age of twenty.
If the male protagonist hadn't destroyed the Sheng Kingdom, this man would have risen through the ranks and become a powerful minister.
It's a pity that he likes the female protagonist and the male protagonist knows it. After recruiting the officials of Shengguo, the petty male protagonist keeps suppressing him and sends him to do heavy and unimportant chores.
So much so that he quickly resigned and returned to his hometown, creating a little conflict between the two of them before leaving.
He is a thoughtful, capable person with a bad background.
The problem is that he took the Enke exam after the restoration of the prosperous country, that is, the imperial examination eight years later.
He is twelve years old this year and studying farming in Hanzhou.
Xiao Yun frowned, having a bad premonition, and began to calculate the current ages of the people with names around the heroine.
The eldest son of the Duke of Guo, thirteen years old.
The son of the eldest princess, eleven years old.
The young master of the General's Mansion, nine years old.
…
The oldest one was actually the first one she looked at!
After being stunned for a while, Xiao Yun finally realized that he had made a common sense mistake.
In this kind of ancient redemption novels, most of the plots revolve around a group of young men and women of similar age. There is a generation gap of three years, and an age difference of more than five years cannot be considered a generation.
The female protagonist is ten years old this year, so the male characters who admire her or have a crush on her are probably between 8 and 14 years old.
When he first met Xie You, Xiao Yun was puzzled that "such an outstanding man has no contact with the heroine", but now he feels that it is normal.
There is a ten-year age difference between them. Although the heroine was only a teenager when she suffered the pain of love, and he was only in his twenties, to the author, Xie You is also an old man who does not need to be concerned.
Xiao Yun bit the cup depressedly.
She would now rather travel through another type of ancient literature from the same period - the Feng Aotian-type group pet literature represented by "The Princess is XX Years Old".
She is also a heroine who started to fall in love with the country when she was about ten years old. Her family is weak and kind-hearted, but her life is full of misfortunes. She is surrounded by all kinds of boys of the same age who "have my own difficulties". They play with the world and just shout four or five times when they go out. The best match is for a man to be a thug.
well--
Reluctantly pulling himself together, Xiao Yun called for the butler of the Prince's Mansion.
"Go and send a message to Marquis Zhongyong, saying that Gu Qi will hold a banquet in the mansion in the next few days, and invite him to bring his wife and prince as guests."
Fourteen years old is not too young. The earlier you go to work, the sooner you will be promoted.
Shixuan's qualifications are there, and with a little training, he can defeat 80% of the officials in the court.
No, judging from the current official environment, in terms of work efficiency, he should be able to exceed 99% of high-quality officials.
The remaining one percent is the prime minister.
The manager responded respectfully: "Besides Marquis Zhongyong, do I need to send messages to other families?"
Xiao Yun thought for a moment and decided to cast a wide net: "Send a message to the adults in the house who have young men of the right age who have not yet entered the official service... Mr. Cui Xun has a new funeral in the house. Don't bother him. Just send him a gift."
It stands to reason that doing this would be suspected of forming a clique for personal gain.
But in an era where banquets are common, what she did was considered common. It was strange that the original owner hardly attended the banquet.
If the emperor knew about it, he might even give her a few jars of wine to entertain the guests.
The manager looked overjoyed and said, "Yes, I will draft a list of guests right now and will show it to you later."
He has been the general manager of the palace for so many years, but he has never organized a banquet. I often feel that I am just a decoration, and I dare not raise my head in front of those secret guards.
I didn't expect that I would receive such a big job just after being promoted to the position of general manager of the Prince's Mansion.
I must show my hand to His Highness the Crown Prince!
Xiao Yun was quite accustomed to his subordinates' high enthusiasm for work. He waved him off and called Mo Yi to arrange the "Ranger" to assassinate Crown Prince Rong. He checked the investigation results of the families who were planning to ransack their homes and arranged the next steps. .
It's a ruthless work machine.
Even when she inherited the family business in her previous life, she had never worked so hard.
After working all night with the determination of "if you don't work hard, you will die", Xiao Yun prepared to fail with the determination of "the worst possible outcome is death" the next morning.
She was still a child recovering from a serious illness and needed rest.
Moreover, Crown Prince Rong’s decision to go build the road would have to wait for the outcome of the negotiations between the envoys and the rebels, which would take at least two or three days.
Other things are even less urgent.
After changing into women's clothes at twice the usual speed, Xiao Yun left through the secret passage of the palace and took a carriage from another part of the capital to Zhuluan Lane.
Even if Yang Yu is currently recuperating in the Prince's Mansion, "Ms. Yang Ba" cannot always go home from the Prince's Mansion.
"Dong dong."
Xiao Yun gently knocked on the side door of Xie's Mansion in Zhuluan Lane.
It didn't attract anyone's attention or prying eyes.
It gave her a long-lost sense of relaxation.
Even though she has only been in this world for a few days.
There were slow footsteps behind the door, and they soon stopped behind the door.
Without too much pause, the door in front of Xiao Yun was opened.
Seeing the handsome and elegant man behind the door, she was a little surprised, and then smiled: "I have to ask you to open the door yourself. This little girl is really flattered."
"I happened to be reading in the courtyard." Xie You responded politely, "Is there something wrong with Miss Yang?"
Xiao Yun's smile paused.
Could this person be connoting that "every time I meet you, nothing good happens to me"?
"It's nothing important. If I have to say it, I'm here to keep in touch with my neighbor." She raised the snacks she planned to bring to Ye Wuming with a sincere smile, "I'm not here often, and my brother is injured. Hey, if something unexpected happens, we still have to rely on the help of our neighbors.”
Contact feelings...
Xie You felt weird, but seeing her clear and open eyes, he realized that this sentence was just a common expression for her.
Ah Heng said some nonsense every day, which actually made him want to give up.
As a gentleman from a well-known family, Xie You has always been considerate and considerate in his work. If the guests who come to the door give suitable reasons, he can't turn them away, so he welcomes them in.
"Ruozhu, make tea for the guests."
Xie You asked the guests to sit down, but did not notice that Ruozhu, who was going to make tea, looked strange.
Xie Heng was reading a book in his room. He saw Ruo Zhu entering the room to get tea through the window. He felt strange, so he climbed out of the window and stopped him.
"Didn't my brother make some Gu Zhu purple bamboo shoots that he really likes this morning? Why do you ask you to come get tea now?"
Ruozhu held the tea can and looked at him, saying nothing for a while.
He then opened the lid of the tea can, took a look, and sneered: "Phoenix Narcissus, brother is here to entertain female guests."
And the only female customer who can come to the door right now is the one from next door.
Ruozhu nodded, a little puzzled: "The Fifth Young Master seems to dislike Miss Yang Ba very much."
As far as he was concerned, although Miss Yang Ba was from an ordinary background, her appearance and intelligence were outstanding, and her behavior was something few could match.
The master always likes to associate with smart people, and when she came to the capital, she was involved with the prince, so it was reasonable for the two of them to interact.
Xie Heng almost rolled his eyes: "The first time we dealt with her, I almost got hurt by her without even seeing her face. Besides, if it weren't for her, my brother and I would have left the city long ago, how could there be so many things behind us? Something?"
Ruozhu: "It's not you who spoke ill of the prince first... Oh, these things are not difficult for the eldest son, so don't worry."
Xie Heng puffed up his face, thinking a lot, but in the end he just gritted his teeth and put the tea can back on, took a half step back and said, "Brother ordered you to make tea for the guests, you'd better go quickly."
Ruozhu nodded and left quickly without further delay.
When he was walking out the door, he glanced back and caught a glimpse of the fussy, worried and helpless expression on the fifth young master's face, and suddenly remembered an old thing.
When the eldest lady decided to marry Mr. Nie, the expression on the face of her younger brother, the Third Young Master, was exactly the same as that of the Fifth Young Master.
Ruozhu withdrew his gaze as if he had seen a ghost and left in a hurry.
