Chapter 289: Asking for an Official Position
Afternoon.
The sun was warm, and the breeze was calm.
The Liu family did not know where they heard it from, but Miss Dong was actually at home embroidering her own wedding dress.
She had even prepared so, so many dowries.
They were obsessed.
After thinking it over, the Liu family still felt that Miss Dong was suitable for their son.
Dong E was someone they had watched grow up; she was simple, loved to smile, and had a good temperament.
She was still better than their adopted daughter, Fairy Liu.
Even though they knew Fairy Liu’s aunt was the Seventh Princes Consort, the Seventh Prince currently did not have much of a reputation, nor was he a strong candidate for the Crown Prince; he didn’t seem to have much of a chance.
He was just an ordinary imperial relative.
There were a bunch of imperial clan members in the capital.
So, they pressured Liu Tong to come and apologize and propose marriage again.
Madam Dong was furious.
The key point was that he claimed to be coming to apologize.
Yet, Liu Tong said: “I am sorry, Miss Dong, but I only have Qingqing in my heart. No woman in this world can compare to her. Even if I marry you, my heart will only have her.”
Madam Dong was so angry she found a stick and beat Liu Tong with it.
Was this coming to apologize?
This was coming to stab someone in the heart.
Could my daughter not get married?
You insist on marrying her, but once you do, you still have to keep someone else in your heart.
How shameless can you be?
Madam Dong couldn’t take it and cursed him away on the spot.
“My daughter will be married by someone a hundred times better and more outstanding than you, someone who will come on a tall horse to welcome her. Someone like you isn’t even fit to carry his shoes!”
“You are a commoner with nothing. What qualifications do you have? My daughter’s husband must have an official position. Get out!”
She beat and scolded him until he was driven away.
Madam Dong’s hands were shaking with anger.
Seeing her Mother like this, Dong E said a bit embarrassedly: “Mother, my savior seems to be a commoner; he does not hold an official position.”
Madam Dong said angrily: “Make your father use the back door. Your father has been an official for a lifetime; I will make him lower his old face to ask. I don’t believe he can’t beg for an official position.”
The nanny:… The master probably cannot do that. Forget it, let the master say such things himself.
Dong E happily went back to embroider her wedding dress.
Afternoon.
The sun was warm, and the breeze was calm.
It was a suitable time for drinking tea and chatting.
Happy laughter drifted from the palace from time to time.
Jiang—the master of bad-mouthing—the Vice Minister knew that there was a limit to bad-mouthing.
After saying those two sentences, he didn’t mention Prime Minister Lu again.
Then, he started chatting about family matters with the Emperor.
The Emperor asked Vice Minister Jiang what he had been doing these past two days.
Someone who wasn’t good at chatting might answer that they were working.
Although you want to show that you are working hard, just showing the results is enough.
When a leader asks you this, they want to chat about something different.
Answering that you are working just kills the conversation.
Before Jiang Changtian answered, a smile appeared on his face.
It instantly made people feel as if the whole room was bathed in a spring breeze.
When some people smile, it is truly dazzling.
The Emperor was even stunned for a moment.
He suddenly felt that Jiang the Second looked familiar.
His heart even skipped a few beats.
He didn’t know if it was because he had just taken the elixir.
Recently, after he finished taking the elixir, his heart would beat forcefully.
It thumped and thumped, and he could feel it himself.
If Mianmian were here, she would tell him that this was palpitations and arrhythmia, that something big was about to happen, and that it wasn’t that he was about to cultivate immortality and achieve the Dao, but that he was at risk of becoming an immortal.
“These past two days, there might be happy news in the family. My eldest son is not yet married, and it just so happens that Minister Dong is a good friend of my in-law. From my in-law, General Meng, I learned about my eldest son’s situation, and they want to form an alliance between the two families. I heard from my in-law that Minister Dong is also a very good person. My in-law said that Minister Dong is very capable of getting things done. Although he speaks with curses, he always gets things done well. A daughter from such a family sounds very pragmatic. If I could ask for her hand in marriage, it would be my son’s blessing.”
The Emperor did not care much about the affairs of his officials.
But he did listen to gossip.
Speaking of Minister Dong, the Minister of Works, he had dealt with him many times.
He remembered.
He had a daughter who was the center of gossip a while ago.
It was said that her fiancé recognized an adopted younger sister, that Fairy Liu, and then Minister Dong broke off the engagement for his daughter in a fit of anger.
The Emperor also did not like that Vice Minister Liu. He himself believed in ghosts and gods, but he did not like others to believe in them.
Seeing others do this, he felt like they were idiots.
He felt a bit implicated and was unhappy.
The Miss Dong who had her engagement broken naturally did not have a good reputation.
The Emperor was a bit strange as to why Jiang the Second was so happy.
“That young lady doesn’t have a good reputation, does she?”
“Your servant is just a small Vice Minister, and my background is average. My reputation is even worse; there are even more people outside saying bad things about your servant. The innocent remain innocent. Since this Minister Dong can be on good terms with my in-law, I feel that he is a rare and honest person. He does not mind that my son has no official position or job, that he is a commoner. How could I be picky about his daughter? I am too grateful to be picky.”
At this moment, Eunuch Yan, who was sitting next to the Emperor pouring tea, suddenly spoke: “Your Majesty, that Feng-geer recognized me as his godfather. He is getting married, and I don’t have anything good to give him. My things are all given by Your Majesty, and I am reluctant to give them to others. Why don’t you bestow him with the status of a guard? Minister Dong also works diligently and conscientiously; it wouldn’t be a disgrace for his son-in-law to receive a reward. It would save people outside from wagging their tongues, saying my godson is not as good as that Liu family boy. At the very least, this godfather of his is more useful than some biological father.”
After Attendant Yan Wenxin finished speaking, he glared at Vice Minister Jiang.
The Emperor generally avoided people around him asking for official positions.
But Wen Xin had never asked before; this was his first time speaking up.
And originally, he was going to give Jiang the Second a reward anyway.
However, Jiang the Second had just arrived and was already an Attendant of the Yellow Gate, so it wouldn’t be good to promote him immediately.
If he wanted to give reward money, this money was actually sent by Jiang the Second, which didn’t seem to have much meaning.
Hearing Wen Xin say this, it was just right.
It could satisfy Wen Xin’s wish.
Wen Xin was never willing to make things difficult for him.
It was just a small guard position.
The ranks of guards range from the sixth grade to the third grade.
Bestowing a sixth-grade sword-bearing guard would not cause any ministers to chatter about anything.
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