The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 24 Solicitation
Mu Xu left the palace and did not go back to the palace. He rode the horse left at the gate of the palace and went directly to the outer city.

When they came to the outer city, according to the address Liu Xianglian mentioned before, they asked some passers-by before they found a small house.

Only the faintly visible red paint remained on the gate of the house, and there was no plaque on the gate.

Mu Xu stepped forward and knocked on the door. After waiting for a while, he heard footsteps coming from inside.

"Squeak," the door was opened, and the person who opened the door was an old man in his sixties or seventies. He had a hunched back, holding a cane, and his face was full of hills and valleys left by time. He tried to keep his eyes open. He saw a young man leading a horse in front of him.

"Excuse me, who are you looking for, my lord?"

Judging by his appearance, he should be the old servant Liu Xianglian said. Mu Xu knew that his surname was Tian, ​​and he was actually only in his early fifties this year.Because of admiration for his character, Mu Xu didn't take it too seriously, and respectfully saluted him,
"The old man must be the Uncle Tian in Brother Liu's mouth, right? I am a friend of Brother Liu."

Uncle Tian hurriedly opened the door, "Young Master, you're a little old man, since you are my young master's friend, please come in quickly."

Mu Xu led the horse into the yard, tied the horse to the tung tree in the front yard, and followed Tian Bo into the main room.

The house of Liu Xianglian's family is not big, at most there are only two entrances.It looked shabby, but it was cleaned very well.

Tian Bo asked Mu Xu to sit down and was about to serve him tea.Mu Xu hurriedly called him back, "Tian Bo, don't be too busy, I'm not thirsty, I'm here to find something important to talk to Big Brother Liu."

"The young master will go out at noon." Hearing that he had something important to do, Uncle Tian hesitated for a while, probably worried, so he asked,
"I don't know why the young master is looking for my young master?"

Mu Xu knew that he and Liu Xianglian had an unusual relationship, so he didn't take it personally, so he said bluntly that he wanted to invite Liu Xianglian to be an official.

After hearing what he said, Tian Bo was stunned, thinking that he had misheard, he hurriedly asked again, and Mu Xu answered again.

Tian Bo was taken aback, checked again and again, and carefully asked Mu Xu's identity.Hearing that Mu Xu said that he was the prince's son of Dongping County, he hurriedly knelt down to salute.

Mu Xu grabbed him, pushed him onto the chair, and said bluntly, "You don't have to do that, Brother Liu and I are congenial, and we are called brothers, so why should you do such a big gift?"

Although Tian Bo heard what he said, he was at a loss, so Mu Xu could only ask, "Where did brother Liu go?"

Uncle Tian didn't dare to neglect, and quickly replied, "Someone came to invite me before noon, and it was said that Uncle Feng from General Shenwu's family invited the young master to Ruifeng Tower for a drink."

After hearing what he said, Mu Xu knew that he was talking about Feng Ziying.In the original book, Liu Xianglian and Feng Ziying were friends, and Jia Baoyu was introduced to Liu Xianglian by Feng Ziying.

After asking about the location of Ruifeng Building, Mu Xu took his leave and left. Uncle Tian kept sending him to the door. After seeing him ride away on horseback, he turned around and walked inside. Xiang, tell them that the young master is going to be an official.

Mu Xu left Liu Xianglian's house and found Ruifeng Building according to the direction Tian Bo said.

When I came downstairs to Ruifeng, I asked the handyman at the door to take the horse away, and stepped into the restaurant.The clerk at the door saw her and hurried up to say hello, Mu Xu asked the clerk if she knew Feng Ziying.

Sure enough, Feng Ziying often came to this restaurant, so the waiter in the restaurant naturally recognized him.He pointed Mu Xu to the private room on the east side of the second floor, got a reward of silver barley from Mu Xu, and happily led the way for Mu Xu.

When he came to the door, Mu Xu asked the waiter to go. Seeing that there was no one guarding the door, he didn't knock on the door, just pushed the door open and went in.

I saw Liu Xianglian, Feng Ziying, Han Qi whom I met last time, and a son whom Mu Xu didn't recognize. The four of them were drinking and talking and laughing, and Liu Xianglian seemed to be still singing.

When the four of them saw someone directly pushing the door and entering, they thought it was the shop waiter and no one cared.Only Feng Ziying and the unknown son were sitting facing the door.

Feng Ziying naturally recognized Mu Xu, and when she saw Mu Xu coming in, she was naturally startled. Although she didn't know why Mu Xu had come, she still didn't dare to neglect her, and got up quickly, almost turning the table over.

Regardless of the surprised eyes of a few people, he hurriedly left the wine table and quickly stepped forward to greet Mu Xu.

Liu Xianglian and Han Qi discovered Mu Xu only now, Liu Xianglian was pleasantly surprised, but Han Qi hurriedly pulled the young master over, introduced Mu Xu's identity to him, and went forward to greet him together.

Mu Xu clasped his fists and bowed back, "I'm sorry, everyone, because I have something to do with brother Liu, I disturbed a few Yaxing, I'm really sorry."

Although they were surprised how Liu Xianglian recognized the prince of Dongping, they also knew that now was not the time to ask, so they hurriedly invited him to a seat, called the waiter to come, cleared the table, and opened another table.

After arguing for a long time, everyone finally sat down. Liu Xianglian first introduced the unknown son to Mu Xu, who was Wei Ruolan, the second son of Pingliang Hou's family.

Of course Mu Xu knew about him, because he was also a well-known supporting role in the Red Mansion, and he was also Shi Xiangyun's future husband-in-law.Another reason is that Wei Ruolan and Mu Xu are actually relatives.Wei Ruolan's grandmother is the younger sister of the Supreme Emperor, the aunt of Mu Xu's mother, Princess Changping, but she has passed away for many years.

The two saluted again, and after talking about their age, Mu Xu even called him cousin.Wei Ruolan was naturally flattered, after all, his grandmother passed away many years ago, and his relationship with the royal family has long since faded.

Everyone was gossiping again, and it seemed that they couldn't let go, so Mu Xu explained to Liu Xianglian why he came, and watched the expressions of the remaining people.

Seeing the expressions of envy on the faces of several people, Mu Xu was secretly happy. He talked about this matter in front of several people at the wine table, so he naturally wanted to include these people in the embroidered clothes guard.

Liu Xianglian heard that Mu Xu wanted to invite him to be an official in the Embroidery Guard, so she was willing.He is free and easy, without being coy, and he agrees directly.

Firstly, although he has been in and out of the three schools and nine streams all day long, he may not have the idea of ​​revitalizing his family, otherwise he would not practice martial arts hard.Both, as soon as Mu Xu got this errand, he could think of him, so he was naturally moved.

Seeing that he didn't even ask the officials of several ranks, Mu Xu agreed, and he was very happy in his heart, as expected, he saw the right person.

Immediately, he explained the arrangement for Liu Xianglian, "Brother Liu, please be a deputy Qianhu first. Brother Liu often travels outside and knows a lot of people, so I can just recruit some people to come in."

"I promise you to recruit a hundred households first, and you will appoint and dismiss the three general banner officials. You tell them, whoever does a good job in the future will be promoted to a hundred households."

Feng Ziying and the others saw that Mu Xu was a real power deputy Qianhu who was a fifth-rank official, and they were even more envious.

Liu Xianglian is not stupid, he can see that Mu Xu intends to recruit a few people.Immediately, he asked for them, "Brother Feng and the others are also talented people, why not arrange an errand for them?"

Mu Xu pretended to be hesitant and said, "After all, Xiuyiwei has a bad reputation, so I'm afraid that the brothers will not give in?"

The few people were overjoyed when they heard this, and quickly agreed.You have to know how they look like, call friends and make friends every day, have fun every day, and live a happy life.

But in fact, the ancestors of these people all came from honorable backgrounds, and they wanted to start a career, but either their families were in decline, or they were not favored at home. Now that they heard that they could join the Embroidered Clothes Guards, how could they not want to.

As for the bad reputation of the Embroidered Clothes Guards, don't they know that the entire honorable class doesn't have a good reputation among civil servants?

Seeing how many people are willing to work in the Embroidery Guard, Mu Xu directly arranges a few people at the wine table,
He first said to Feng Ziying,
"I know that Brother Feng has a lot of friends, so I appointed Brother Feng to be a deputy Qianhu. What you have to do is to build an intelligence network near the capital first."

Feng Ziying originally thought that it would be good to be a hundred households, after all, he and Mu Xu had no friendship.Unexpectedly, Mu Xu also appointed him as deputy Qianhu, and entrusted him with such an important matter as the establishment of an intelligence network, so he was both happy and moved.

Immediately assured Mu Xu, "Don't worry, my son, Ziying will not disgrace her life."

Mu Xu nodded. To be honest, he valued Feng Ziying more than Liu Xianglian.In the original book, he has a wide range of friends, so it is appropriate for him to form an intelligence network.

He also asked about Han Qi and Wei Ruolan, knowing that both of them are good at martial arts, so he said,
"I feel wronged that you two first go to Brother Liu to be a hundred households." After thinking for a while, he added, "The two of you can also recruit a Xiaoqi manpower first, and Xiaoqi appoints you yourself."

Although not as big as Liu Xianglian and Feng Ziying, they are also very satisfied, after all, they are also officials of the sixth rank.You must know that in the imperial court martial arts, in addition to the fifth-rank officials awarded by Wu Zhuangyuan, only the sixth-rank officials were awarded by Wu Bangyan and Tanhua.

Several people paid an official visit to Mu Xu again. After confirming the superior and subordinate, Mu Xufang said seriously,
"I received a military order from His Majesty this time. You must not recruit people indiscriminately. Otherwise, if something goes wrong in the future, it will be a small matter for you, and it will be a big thing for your Majesty."

Several people quickly took orders seriously.

(End of this chapter)