Chapter 206 Stone, Wood: My monthly salary is not for nothing

After celebrating Shen Yuan's birthday, Xie returned to the carriage. Princess Kang Le sitting opposite him suddenly asked, "Why is your face so red?"

When he heard his mother say that he was blushing, Xie Hui subconsciously reached out towards his lips, but when he was about to touch them, he suddenly reacted and stopped.

“Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha”

This action was met with wild laughter from the unscrupulous parents opposite. Xie Hui put down his hand with a sullen face, turned his body to the side, and avoided his parents' sight.

After a while, Princess Kangle kicked her son and said sternly, "Don't mess around before you get married. Do you hear me?"

"Of course I know who you think I am."

"What? A man."

Xie Hui glanced at his father. Xie Yuan sat up straight. Seeing his son looking at him, he cleared his throat and said, "Your mother is right. Listen to her."

After everyone had left, Shen Yun asked his daughter to go to his study, and Shen Su followed.

"What do you want to give me? You're so secretive."

Shen Yuan knew that her father and brother had not brought out the birthday present in the evening, so why else could it be that they saw her coming to the study at this time?

Shen Yun smiled and gave his daughter a red envelope first. "I don't know what you have been busy with these days, but you must have your own ideas. You didn't want the money I gave you before. This is a birthday gift, so don't tell your father that you don't want it."

Shen Yuan took the thick red envelope and after opening it, he found a stack of brand new banknotes inside.

"Thank you, Dad. You have quite a lot of private money."

This time Shen Yuan did not refuse. Opening a clinic would indeed cost more money than she expected, and her father said it was a birthday gift. If she refused again, wouldn’t she be immature?

Shen Su also took out something he had prepared for his sister, a bracelet.

Shen Yuan's outfit today didn't fit well with the red coral bracelet that Xie Hui had given her, so she only wore a plain white jade bracelet.

Today, Shen Su bought Shen Yuan a gold bracelet inlaid with pearls and gems. After Shen Su took it out, he put it on his sister directly and nodded with satisfaction.

"This one looks good, and it goes better with your skirt."

Shen Yuan turned his arms and thanked him sweetly, "You have a good eye, thank you brother."

After thanking him, he generously gave Shen Su a hug. Shen Su was quite pleased with himself, "Of course, my vision is naturally the best."

After all, he picked the most expensive one in the shop at first sight. According to his current salary, he would have to go without food and drink for half a year to be able to afford such a bracelet. But since his sister likes it, it's all worth it!

Shen Yuan asked his father and brother again, "Is there anything else?"

After all, there is no need to hide these two things and send them to the study.

Shen Yun picked up something that looked like a memorial from the desk and handed it to his daughter.

"Open it and have a look."

Shen Yuan placed the red envelope he had just received on the table, then took the memorial and opened it. This was a memorial stating that the Dali Temple was preparing to recruit female officials.

There are two Dali Temple officials who are responsible for assisting in the trial of cases. When the victim or suspect is a woman, such female officials are needed to assist.

There are four prison warden of the Dali Temple who are in charge of prison management. Originally, male and female suspects were detained separately in the Dali Temple, but the prison warden were all men. If there were any inconveniences, female detectives would take over. However, there were not many female detectives in the Dali Temple itself, so female prison officers became very important.

In addition, there is a Siwu. As the name suggests, the main responsibility of the Siwu is to manage the daily affairs of the Dali Temple. Since there will be female officials, there should also be a female Siwu to be in charge of the affairs of the female officials.

"This exam is open to all women over the age of 15. Whether you can pass it depends on your own ability."

"But the Dali Temple's Chief Justice is my father, and the Dali Temple's Junior Justice is also somewhat friendly with me. My brother is also in the Ministry of Personnel. Is it appropriate for me to take the exam for the Dali Temple?"

When people saw her status, they saw that she had "back doors" everywhere, from the Dali Temple to the Ministry of Personnel.

Shen Su ruffled his sister's hair and said with a smile, "I, your brother, am still a nobody in the Ministry of Personnel. You don't have to worry about this."

"That means there will be seven more officials, and the salary expenditure will increase significantly. Will the court agree to this?"

Shen Yun looked at his daughter approvingly. He had not expected her to be so thoughtful. There was a quota for officials. Recruiting more female officials would mean more expenses for the court. However, the emperor had also approved the female officials. Therefore, in the early stages, the court was still willing to bear this part of the expenses.

"Don't worry about it. If the court doesn't agree, Dad won't show it to you. Don't worry too much. Dad can't help you with the exam. Think about it, how long has it been since you last read a serious book? There are so many talented women in the capital, you can't take it lightly."

"I know. I will study hard and won't embarrass you!"

Even when the news of recruiting female officials is released, the examination will not be held immediately. It will be next year at the latest.

Shen Su was indeed worried before that no government office would respond to this matter. However, not long after the news spread, someone came to the Ministry of Personnel to inquire about it.

The first people to arrive were those from the Matchmaking Department. Lord Qu from the department came to ask if there was an age limit for the female official, as his sixty-year-old mother wanted to try it out.

Finally, I learned that, although he was already over the age of 60 and was very regretful, his old mother had really longed to work in the matchmaking department for a long time, and she was indeed an expert in this field!

After the sixteenth day, Shen Yuan will start preparing to return to Nanjing. This time, she plans to bring Indigo and White Peony with her. Fuling will stay in Beijing to take care of the clinic, while Baizhi is good at martial arts and has great strength, so she can help Fuling if she stays in Beijing.

She brought stones and several guards with her on the way, so she didn't have to worry about encountering danger. This time she went back to Jinling alone, and her sister-in-law and her father waited until the wedding date was approaching before going there, and the wood was left to her sister-in-law and her father.

Shitou and Mutou were very free at the Shen family. They felt that they could not eat for free, so as long as Shen Yuan did not go out, they would train the original guards of the Shen family at home. Shitou and Mutou were the best of the best royal shadow guards. With their teaching, even if the guards only learned a little bit, it would be enough. Baizhi's kung fu also improved a lot.

Shen Yuan planned to set off on August 22nd. The 20th was a day off, so she took advantage of the day off to make an appointment with Xie Hui. She was not in the capital for Xie Hui's birthday, so she had to send the birthday gift in advance.

The two of them did not go anywhere else but went to their future home, which was now the Ning'an Earl's Mansion.

"Change your tiara. You wear the same one every time I see you."

Xie Hui had always been wearing the black jade hair crown that Shen Yuan bought for him. This time, she bought three different ones for Xie Hui at once and let him change them.

He thanked his subordinate for the hair crown and handed one of the jade ones back to Shen Yuan, "Manman, help me put it on."

Shen Yuan took the hair crown and stood up. Xie Hui sat down while she stood up. After putting it on, she tilted Xie Hui's head and looked at it from top to bottom and left to right.

"Nice, Jun!"

Xie Hui couldn't help laughing, and Shen Yuan couldn't help laughing either, and in the end, the two of them fell down laughing together.

After a long while, Shen Yuan finally got up from Xie Hui's arms and handed him the real birthday gift, a painting she had drawn.

The painting shows two people releasing river lanterns by the river on the Qixi Festival.

There were lights nearby, fireworks were being set off in the distance, the fire trees and silver flowers were very beautiful, and young men and women were carefully holding a river lantern to release it into the river...