"The military department is still in the book, and General Chen is moving, and he Jinhua has a bottle of tiger bone wine!"

"Ji Liao's chief soldier, General He Chen moved to a housewarming, and He Qilin pattern treasure knife has a mouthful!"

"Changping General Soldier Yang, send the staff general to congratulate him in person, and give the housewarming ceremony a hundred taels of platinum!"

"Chen, the right supervisor of the imperial horse, the housewarming of General He Chen, a set of porcelain pots of He Su!"

On the day Chen Mu officially moved into the mansion in the capital, the people who came to give gifts were far beyond his imagination, and he had a deeper understanding of the etiquette of the officials of the Beijing Division.

The officials of the military department, including Wu Dui, the seventh grade went up and the fourth grade went down, and there were seven people who gave gifts; An uninvited person from the Ministry of Rites brought a pie outside the Donghua Gate; No one from the Ministry of Officials came, but three messengers had sent gifts, and one from the Criminal Department sent someone early to say that he knew about it but couldn't leave, and he also sent some small things.

Especially the Jinyi Guard, the big and small Jinyi commanded Xu Jue to come in person, and brought eight Jinyi thousands of households, these people not only gave gifts, but also wore the most flowers, so that the house was like Xu Jue said before that the light market was opened, and the group embroidered flying fish and bullfighting everywhere.

In addition, the two palace neighbors and the guild hall on Wangfu Street, many guild halls have sent people to send gifts, and in some places even adults have come in person, filling the house that he originally thought was very big, and even Zhang Yongshou, Shao Xing, Shao Yong, and other people like themselves have to wait outside, exhausting a few slaves and maids in the family, if there are no family soldiers accompanying them, they will not be able to serve them thoughtfully.

There is no way, some uncles must be invited into the front hall, and they can't sit outside, for example, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites - Shen Shixing.

It's the pie he brought.

Sometimes the relationship between people is not as close as it seems on the surface, but it is forced by the times to do so, for example, Xu Jue, who is like the second male host in Chen Mu's house, there are too many strangers in the house, and some Chen Mu can't even tell the size of the official position and the seat, all relying on Xu Jue to guide him.

As a result, this Jinyi conductor, who was originally just a gift on the way, now kept whispering in Chen Mu's ear like a male host.

Sometimes it's not a problem to arrange the seats according to the color of the clothes, but sometimes it can't be based on the grade.

"Although this is a five-grade petty official, he is here for Cao Bangfu, the head of the Ministry of War, which needs to be paid attention to, not to mention that Cao Bangfu is Gao Xinzheng's cronies, and he should be arranged at the first table outside the hall."

"Although this is a six-grade Xingtai servant temple, he is in charge of horse politics, and the seat must be at the front, and it will be up to him to raise horses in the future."

"Brother Xian, can't you push back the nine pins, sit with the five pins at the front two tables, he? He doesn't have much real power, he is in charge of the Teaching Department, you said that there are not many girls around you, well, you understand what it means to be a brother. ”

Chen Mu listened to his big head, and he had to take care of everything inside and out. The officials in the hall don't need to take care of it, and no one really needs him to accompany those people who come over, just to add a scene.

Seeing Xu Juetian walking to the position of the fifth-grade official, he frowned and said to Chen Mu: "This fifth-grade, you should sit at the nine-pin...... He is not a five-grade official of our imperial court, and he is from the same hall. ”

It was a young man from North Korea, polite and polite, although his actions were a little old-fashioned, but he was indeed more polite than many Ming Dynasty officials that Chen Mu had seen, and when he saw his master coming, he hurriedly got up and saluted, and said in a fairly standard Jingshi official language: "Congratulations to General Chen on his housewarming, foreign minister Liu Chenglong has nothing to give, only a pair of Mrs. Luodian dressing box, and I hope the general will not be surprised." ”

As if because of this gift, he felt undignified, and somewhat shyly took out a small and exotic wooden dressing box from his large sleeve and offered it with both hands.

Liu Chenglong?

Chen Mu had two questions in his heart, the first question was who his wife was, of course it didn't matter, the thirty guns of Xiaoxi Camp didn't need a dressing box; The second is why the future prime minister of North Korea appeared in Daming at this time and sat in the courtyard of his house.

And, so young.

Liu Chenglong is only three or four years older than Chen Mu.

"Hahaha!" Compared with Chen Mu's prudence, Xu Jue can be said to be extremely rude, raised his head and laughed, and even raised his hand to point at Liu Chenglong and smiled at Chen Mu: "Virtuous brother Xu didn't know that you still had a wife!" ”

Xu Jue is a rude person, who walks in the middle of a serious person's walk. But after he said this rather teasing remark, Liu Chenglong's fair face turned red.

Chen Mu looked at Liu Chenglong a little distracted, because he thought of a person in his mind and remembered some things, but at the moment when he thought about something, there was already a laugh around him. Sometimes it doesn't matter if the joke is funny or not, if the person telling the joke is important, and he laughs, then everyone laughs along.

For example, when Jinyi commanded Xu Jue to laugh, the surrounding five or six officials would laugh, because his position seemed to be much more important than that of a general or a foreign minister.

Chen Mu also smiled, he hooked the corners of his mouth and didn't make a sound, took the dressing box handed by Liu Chenglong in a laugh, didn't even put it away, directly opened the dressing box and looked at it carefully, with a smile on his face, and then solemnly said to Liu Chenglong: "Thank you, I am Chen Mu, I like the gift you gave to my wife, and she will like it too, in a few years, because Chen has no wife." ”

"Chen has a reluctant request, can you give me another one?" Chen Mu ignored the inappropriate laughter just now, and said to Liu Chenglong very seriously: "I hope to give it to my Mrs. Ru, please be sure to give me another one." ”

As he spoke, Chen Mu untied the saber on his waist and handed it to Liu Chenglong, who was embarrassed by giving him a gift, and said: "This knife has made meritorious contributions to the Ming Dynasty with Chen on the battlefield, I will give it to you, I hope you can also use it to defend your monarch in the future." ”

Chen Mu's behavior was not in line with etiquette, which made the surrounding magnates look sideways, Xu Jue was puzzled, and even some officials on his side whispered and snickered, but it also made Liu Chenglong's face even redder, and his eyes were also slightly red, as if he was about to cry.

Liu Chenglong, who came from a famous family in North Korea, can feel Chen Mu's attention, and such kindness is extremely rare in the general feeling that he is inferior.

At this moment, the welcoming gong outside the gate sounded, and the family soldier who read out the congratulatory gift seemed to stammer a little and sang high.

"Mention, Admiral Dongchang, supervising the Imperial Horse Supervisor, Feng Governor came in person, and gave a pair of handwritten calligraphy and paintings......"

Before the family soldiers finished reporting, the net army had already swaggered into the large green water and green mountains that had been opened, and they went directly into the room to hang without the slightest question.

Surrounded by flying fish and bullfighting, the big eunuch in a python-clothed unicorn suit looked puzzled, frowning slightly and looking at the people who were still standing in the bow.

Chen Mu bowed his hand and finished the ceremony.