It's been a few months since the emperor's official appointment, and the end of summer and autumn are just around the corner, and the letter of appointment has finally been issued from the capital.The official worships the fifth rank, and serves as an agricultural doctor. He will soon go to Beijing to work in the newly opened Agricultural Education Department.In addition, the person who came to pass on the seal of Ren Shuguan also said that the mansion of Dr. Shi Nong had already been completed, and Ji Ran and his family could live in directly when they went there. The address of the mansion and the house key were attached by the way.

During this period, Ji Ran had already arranged the affairs of the family. He also heard from Lu Zhen that the tooth shop bought another batch of servants, and the number was wrong, just in direct proportion to the batch of Uncle Chen and the others.

When I go to Beijing to take up the post in a few days, the left-behind candidates have to make a quick decision. After much deliberation, Ji Ran finally keeps Uncle Chen, Sister-in-Law Chen, his wife and the newly bought people, and only takes Li Gui, Zhang Ping, Chuntao Qiuyao, And later Lao Liu.In addition, Ji Ran also specially left a copy of the capital address for Uncle Chen, so that he can contact him in case of matters, and also asked him to tell him the new address when Li Kui came.

After making the final arrangements, Ji Ran will have the old and the young, and eight servants (actually nine), put away all the trivial things, the ox carts, horse carts, and donkey carts, and just say goodbye to Lujia Village. He set off for the capital in a dangling manner and took office immediately.

It would take about ten days at the fastest to go to the capital. In order to avoid suffering on the road, they traveled day and night, and they only arrived in Beijing three days earlier.

When Ji Ran hurried to death on the road, he didn't feel anything but tired. Now that he was really at the bottom of the city tower, looking up at the heavily guarded, towering and heavy gate through the window of the carriage, he felt a little bit of excitement as a country bumpkin entering the city.

Ji Ran tried his best to identify the big stone characters on the plaque of the lower city gate, but he didn't recognize any of them. The fonts were obviously made by a master calligrapher, and they were more abstract than the characters on Lu Zhen's tablet. , but this is completely incomprehensible.

"What's the word on it?" Except for three or four of their family, there was no one else in the carriage, and the servants were all in the ox and donkey carts behind. Ji Ran had no scruples and turned to ask Lu Zhen.

"Wu Xiang." Lu Zhen said, "The capital of our Southern Dynasties is in Wu Xiang, and even a three-year-old child knows it."

This is... In a disguised form, Ji Ran is not even as good as a three-year-old child.

Ji Ran is really not as good as a three-year-old child, he is a foreigner, where would he know where to go.But even with such a good reason, Ji Ran couldn't help but blush.

The carriage lined up at the gate of the city in a blink of an eye, and the sentinel respectfully let them go after routine inspections to confirm their identities.

After the carriage entered the city gate and ran a certain distance, Ji Ran asked, "Is this capital city so heavily guarded every day?"

"No." Lu Zhen said, "It should be investigating someone."

"Oh." Ji Ran responded casually, and put the matter behind him.

The carriage swayed past the city gate, went west, crossed the North Street, crossed the East Road, and ran around the city for nearly two hours before finally arriving at the place, which was Yong'an Street in the West City.The entire mansion of the official farmer stands facing the street, with red walls and green tiles, carved beams and painted buildings. From the outside, it is more luxurious than the mansion Ji Ran built in Lujia Village, especially the two Zhu Qi gates look high-end.

However, the only shortcoming is that this kind of official residence is good-looking, but it must be just a superficial light that is not useful. It only cares about the elegant scenery, but has no practical value.But Ji Ran can also think about it, go in and have a look first, if you don’t like it, then you can make a full improvement. It’s definitely unrealistic to open up the soil like you do at home, but it’s not impossible, anyway, he is a farmer who is engaged in agriculture. , It is also a flaunting feature to really open the soil to plant and breed livestock.

Ji Ran regretted that he was reluctant to part with the house in his hometown, but the servants who came with him were full of hope and joy. If it wasn't for the fact that the master didn't speak, and he didn't have the key, they might have rushed to push the door.

Ji Ran saw everyone's reaction, smiled, untied the key and handed it to Lao Liu, "Go up and open the door."

Lao Liu said yes, took the key and ran up the stone steps to open the door.

The door was pushed open, revealing the exquisiteness of the tip of the iceberg full of flowers and brocades inside. The few people could no longer hold back, surrounded Ji Ran and the old man and walked up the stairs.After entering the gate, Li Gui and Lao Liu were alright, but the two little girls Chuntao and Qiuyao were having fun, chattering around and admiring.

"Okay, don't get together, look around, get familiar with the environment by the way, don't turn around and make jokes when you get lost at home, that would be embarrassing." Seeing them like this, Ji Ran waved his hand The little guy Ji Pingan didn't know if he understood, so he wriggled in his arms and yelled to join in the fun. He couldn't help but slapped the child's butt, "Don't make trouble." .”

Speaking of Ji Ping'an, Ji Ran also has indescribable distress. Boys generally walk early and talk late. Usually, they will start walking in October and eleven months. The little guy is lucky, he is almost one year old. It’s okay if he can’t talk or walk, he can’t even climb, when he is asked to climb, he either draws a cone-like circle, or slips backwards, anyway, he can’t crawl forward, and he can’t correct it no matter what. The guy is a bit lazy, once he was put on the ground and taught him to stand up and move, he would fall down in a blink of an eye, let alone move.

But what's going on with this little guy right now, he's trying to slip down, is he trying to get down?

Thinking of this, Ji Ran simply put the little guy down.

Then, a miraculous scene happened.

The little guy got down to the ground and stood on Ji Ran's legs for a while, then let go of his hands and ran after a jumping bird that had just fallen from the tree, ran, ran... actually ran...

Not only Ji Ran, but the big guys all forgot their enthusiasm for visiting the new mansion for a while, and watched the little guy chasing the birds around in a daze without reacting, everyone's face was full of shock .

"Ah, the young master will leave?"

After a while, Old Liu was the first to come to his senses, the expression on his face was both shock and surprise.And he is also the only one who calls the little guy young master, and everyone else calls him young master.

Lao Liu's yell woke everyone up instantly, Qiu Yao and Chun Tao even hugged and danced happily, Ji Ran's heart was pounding, his face couldn't hide his joy, he exchanged a glance with Lu Zhen, and ran over He scooped up the little guy, and hugged him for a kiss.

"Hahaha... This housewarming catches up with An'er walking, it's a double happiness, okay, okay!" With Zhang Ping's support, the old man also looked at the father and son and applauded repeatedly.

Lu Zhen also smiled and said yes, but it's a pity that apart from Ji Ran and the little guy, he couldn't share the joy with other people. Under the warmth, he couldn't help but feel a little bit sad that he was alone.

After the freshness of first entering the new house, everyone got busy in an orderly manner, tidy and tidy, and Ji Ran had nothing to do, so he simply tidied up his and Lu Zhen's rooms, and let the old man settle down Afterwards, he simply hugged the child and started wandering with Lu Zhen in the front and back yards.

Verandas, long pavilions, arched bridges, lakes, rockeries and flowers, among which there are rare trees everywhere, but plum blossoms are the most diverse.At the moment, they are all bare and nothing can be seen. When the season comes, when the plum blossoms are pressing on the branches, it will definitely be another beautiful scene.

The two of them went around to the backyard to have a look. The back door was facing an alley, but it was not quiet. Could it be that you could see hawkers passing by yelling and children chasing and fighting in groups? People with the appearance of a servant girl came and went, presumably the people living in this area, if not all of them are high-ranking officials, are also well-to-do families.

"It's very lively." After closing the back door, Ji Ran said with a smile.

"It's more lively outside, but let's not go out for a stroll today." After a pause, Lu Zhen reminded, "Brother Ji, it's time for you to go to the palace to greet the emperor."

"Ah?" Ji Ran was holding the child and turned around to go elsewhere. Hearing this, he couldn't help but stop and turned to look at Lu Zhen. Is it enough for the secretary to take up his post? Why do you still have to go to the palace to see the emperor, isn't this against the rules?"

"Everyone above the fifth rank needs to go to the court. You are not a sesame mung bean. Others naturally don't need to go to see the emperor, but you are different. After all, your office was newly established by the emperor against all opinions. You don't want to say hello. Not good." Lu Zhen said.

"The emperor didn't say he wanted me to report when I arrived. I entered the palace rashly. What if I offend the emperor?" Although Ji Ran was curious about the palace, he also knew that it was a place that eats people and doesn't spit out bones. He didn't care. Wherever he went, he was a petty young man with no big ambitions. Curiosity was nothing but curiosity. If he really wanted to go, he would be cowardly.

As a result, as soon as the two of them finished talking, before Ji Ran went to the palace, someone came to the palace. The one who came was a little father-in-law, who was in charge of picking Ji Ran into the palace to face the saint.Now it's all right, even if you're guilty, Ji Ran even took a bath and cleaned himself up for this trip to the palace, and changed into the official uniform that had been kept under the box for many days before getting into the carriage with the little father-in-law.

Ji Ran was still nervous when Lu Zhen told him to enter the palace before, but now she is really ready to go, but her mind has calmed down. This is the difference between being rushed and being invited.

"Aren't you nervous?" The little eunuch and the coachman sat on the shaft outside together, which facilitated the communication between Ji Ran and Lu Zhen, otherwise it would be really uncomfortable to stare blankly all the way.

"Hey, don't be nervous right now." Ji Ran put down the raised car curtain and said in a low voice.

"Why?" Lu Zhen raised an eyebrow.

"Rushing forward is not a business, I don't understand this, stupid." Ji Ran shook his head.

Lu Zhen laughed, "You, really... I don't think you are an official, but you are more talented as a profiteer."

"That's right." Ji Ran was not ashamed but proud, "If I didn't have this talent, how could I have such a good life today?"

Lu Zhen pursed her lips into a smile, but still nodded seriously, "Well, it makes sense."

Then the two looked at each other and smiled.

While chatting and laughing, I didn't realize that the journey took a long time. It didn't take long for the carriage to stop.

Ji Ran thought he had arrived, but he lifted the curtain and looked out, only to find that just after arriving at the gate of the palace, the little eunuch handed the guard something that was probably a passing jade token, and the guard looked at the jade token without further questioning. Then let go.

The little eunuch thanked the guards, and then jumped onto the carriage shaft again. The coachman yelled to stop, and the carriage continued to stagger into the palace gate.

"Master Ji, the carriage can only go a little ahead, and then you have to walk in. The rules in the palace do not allow carriages to run around." The carriage traveled for a while, and the little eunuch shouted outside through the curtain.

"Okay, I got it, write more reminders from my father-in-law." Ji Ran was playing with Lu Zhen's hair in a crooked way, but when he heard this, he corrected his sitting posture and raised his voice to reply.

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