As night came, Hou Dayong recalled the scene in the bath room and was a little excited. The ancients said it very well, "Food, color, and nature." Because he and Chunlan broke the window paper, Hou Dayong and Chunlan became much casual, carrying Qiuju. When Chunlan passed by or did things, Hou Dayong secretly and quickly stroked or kissed Chunlan from time to time. Chunlan always actively cooperated, and the two formed a tacit understanding and tried to avoid Qiuju's intimacy.

"Why should I avoid Qiuju's intimacy? Qiuju is also at the age when men are old and women are old. What do she think?" When Hou Dayong saw Qiuju busy, he couldn't help but think of this question.

Qiu Ju knew that Chunlan had already had acquainted with Alang, and couldn't tell what it felt. She was happy for Chunlan, but when she saw the sweet appearance of the two, she was very disappointed. She couldn't help but feel sour in her heart, and she always felt like she wanted to cry. I remember that only when I was a child, I saw my father taking my brother to play with him. This was the feeling I felt. The more complicated the feeling in my heart, the more Qiu Ju was hidden in her heart.

Chunlan was immersed in happiness. After passing through the bathhouse, Alang was not pure Alang, but her lover. Every time Alang was intimate, she made her happy for a long time. While she was happy, she saw Qiuju depressed. She knew Qiuju’s thoughts. She had been with Qiuju since she was a child, and her common life made them feel like brothers, but she was also very conflicted. On the one hand, she wanted to share happiness with Qiuju, and on the other hand, she wanted to have this happiness alone.

When we arrived at the other courtyard, although everything was still the same, everyone's mood changed. Chunlan and Qiuju had their own thoughts and had a night of difficulty falling asleep.

Chunlan and Qiuju slept in the outer room. Hou Dayong picked up his cell phone in the inner room, put it in his ear to listen to his wife's instructions, looked at his daughter's photos, and quietly immersed in the darkness.

Hou Dayong lived in a villa. He felt a little psychologically uncomfortable when he thought that Liu San was taken away by Liu San, but then he thought that Liu San was killed by the Liao people. Someone would have to manage such a big mansion. There were dozens of people dependent on this mansion to survive. Cao Han gave Liu San's property to himself. If he didn't want it, there would always be someone to ask for it. Instead of others, he would want it himself. He could take care of the people around him with his conscience. "It's still the same old saying, if you can't save the world, just save the people around you."

In the morning, Hou Dayong asked Chunlan and Qiuju to have dinner with him and not eat in the kitchen. The two women refused in every way, and they rushed over until Hou Dayong pretended to be angry. The three of them surrounded the table, and the two women sat only a small part of the chair, which was uneasy, as if they could stand up at any time when sitting. It seemed that the three feet of ice were not a day long, and it was even more difficult to change the habits and consciousness that a person had established since childhood.

Shi Hu was taken care of by the military camp, and Hou Dayong was not in a hurry, so he went around the mansion to get familiar with the terrain and learn about the lives of wealthy families at this time.

Liu San seemed to be a cultured person, and there were quite a few books in his study. In addition to the common classics, history, and collections, there were two major categories of books the most, one was military books, including Sun Tzu's Art of War, Sun Bin's Art of War, and the other was business books, which were miscellaneous books at that time. Qiu Ju saw that Hou Dayong was very interested in books, and said to Hou Dayong: "Does Alang know how to read?"

Since the Five Dynasties, scholars have low status and high military generals, which is exactly the opposite of the later Song Dynasty. After the death of the Later Han emperor Liu Zhiyuan, four assistant ministers were appointed, including Shi Hongzhao, Yang Bin and Guo Wei. Except for Guo Wei who was able to write and calculate, the rest were ignorant and ignorant. Su Fengji, the only civil servant, was a vulgar hooligan. Guo Wei has led troops for a long time, and the other three were arrogant in the capital, and they were domineering and hated reading for no reason.

People, the Later Han royal family conspired to kill them, but the civil servant Yan Jinqing knew about it. He thought that the Later Han royal family could not succeed, so he surrendered to Shi Hongzhao and wanted to inform him. Unexpectedly, Shi Hongzhao looked down on civil servants from his heart and refused to see him. The Later Han royal family was able to kill three assistant ministers in Guangzheng Hall. If Shi Hongzhao looked down on civil servants, he would have the possibility of rewritten the history of the Later Han Dynasty when he saw Yan Jinqing, who was of a high rank. This was a vivid example of the domineering military men and the low status of literati at that time.

Qiu Ju was a little familiar with writing and writing, and he followed her father's back. Her father taught her to read and make sentences. She was considered a cultured person at that time. She had never seen Hou Dayong read and write, and Hou Dayong held a military position, so she took it for granted that he was illiterate. Seeing that Hou Dayong was quite interested in various books, she seemed to be able to understand, so she asked this question.

After hearing this, Hou Dayong laughed and said, "It turns out that Qiuju thinks I am a rough man. Do I really look like an uneducated person? Take a pen and let me lift the curtains - reveal a little hand."

Qiu Ju quickly prepared a pen, ink, paper and inkstone for Hou Dayong. Hou Dayong danced on the paper and wrote the "Journey to the Army" by Wang Changling, whom he remembered the most familiar: "The desert is windy and dusty, and the sun is dark, and the red flag is half rolled out of the gate. He challenged Taohebei on the eve and reported to capture Tuyuhun alive." Qiu Ju saw that Hou Dayong was really able to understand the sentences of the text, and the poem he wrote was very appropriate and his identity was just a stroke of words. It seemed that he had not practiced it seriously, and was not very good at complimenting.

"Why don't you practice calligraphy?" Qiu Ju was very confused. After Hou Dayong finished writing the characters, he looked left and right, and felt that the characters were not good. "If you have enough time, practice slowly in the future." At this time, Chunlan walked in angrily and said, "It's all messy. Several manors have sent pigs and vegetables, but no one cares about them. More than a dozen farmers who delivered goods were waiting to curse." Qiu Ju said, "In the past, these things were arranged by the housekeeper. Now the housekeeper is gone, and he can't get the money when he wants to use it, and he can't buy what he should buy. No one knows what to do."

After hearing the two women say this, Hou Dayong thought: "Liu Mansion, no, it should be the Hou Mansion. There are nearly a hundred people, and there are many people serving the mansion. Although Liu San is gone now, the livelihoods of these people still need to be maintained. Liu San's business is big, and there are a lot of goods in and out, and someone needs to take care of him. My main job is military position, and I will go to the military camp for a long time in the future. Now there is no suitable housekeeper. Who will manage this mansion is a troublesome. Chunlan and Qiuju are caring people, after all, they are girls, and they are more suitable for some supervision work. As the saying goes: There are a hundred people, all kinds of people need to be informed."

"Just, I will give a few questions to test the people in the house, understand their level, engage in internal competition to take up jobs, and arrange jobs according to the best."

Hou Dayong asked Qiu Ju to prepare paper and pen. Hou Dayong first wrote a notice of internal competition for employment: "The staff of this government have changed a lot recently. In order to adapt to the needs of affairs in the government, it is planned to take the examination among the staff of the government. All personnel, regardless of gender, age and age, can register at Qiu Ju before dinner today. Those who pass the exam will reassign the positions according to their abilities." Qiu Ju was startled when she saw her name on the paper. She looked closely and didn't understand what it meant. Hou Dayong explained in every way. Finally, she used the example of a martial arts competition to recruit a bride to explain the matter clearly.

Hou Dayong asked Chunlan to gather the entire mansion together. Hou Dayong used the most popular words to explain the meaning of competing for employment to everyone, and posted the notice on the inside of the gate of the courtyard so that everyone could see it. Finally, Hou Dayong said: "If you don't understand, ask Qiu Ju." If everyone comes to ask him, he might have to explain it dozens of times, which can annoy people. It is better to let Qiu Ju say it. She is patient and everyone can hear it better.

Hou Dayong was in the study, seriously recalling the various exams he had encountered before, and suddenly had an idea, "The questions in the administrative ability test for civil servants are good, and they should be suitable for this kind of exam." After Hou Dayong's cousin graduated from college, he took this kind of exam. When he encountered questions that he could not do, he came to ask his cousin for help many times, so Hou Dayong also vaguely remembered several exam questions.

The first test question is: if there is a weight of eight coins, a few goods with a weight of two coins, and the total weight is 122 coins, then there are at least a few goods.

The second test question is: choose the most reasonable order of doing things: collect books, buy wood, make bookshelf, ask the carpenter to arrange it neatly.

The third test question is: A house was stolen, four people were suspected. The four people confessed as follows: A: None of us committed the crime. B: Some of us committed the crime. C: At least one of B and D did not commit the crime. D: I did not commit the crime. If two of the four people were telling the truth and two were telling lies, which of the following conclusions is true. A: The truth is A and C; B: The truth is A and D; C: The truth is B and C; D: The truth is B and D; E: The truth is C and D.

Qiuju gave the registration list to Hou Dayong. There were 22 people in the mansion who signed up, all of whom were men.

The next morning, Hou Dayong recruited everyone together. Considering that many people were not literate, Qiuju asked everyone to recite the test questions one by one, and they were not allowed to discuss them. Chunlan monitored them. If they could answer them, raise their hands and go to Hou Dayong to tell the answer separately.

After finishing the first test question, everyone calculated carefully. Five people raised their hands to Hou Dayong to explain the answer, but three of them got it right.

After finishing the second test question, there were many people raising their hands this time, and in the end, ten people got it right.

After the third test question was finished, everyone looked at each other, but they didn't know what the purpose was. Hou Dayong asked Qiu Ju to recite the test question again, and everyone bowed their heads and thought hard. In the end, only one answered correctly.

Hou Dayong wrote down the names of all the people who answered the test questions correctly, and then asked everyone to go back to do their own work. Qiu Ju notified everyone to gather in the afternoon and then announced the results of the exam.

Only one person did all the exams correctly. This person was named Fu Gong. Now he worked in the accounting room. Two people did the two questions correctly, Ouyang Yu and Xu Qing, and the rest only did one question correctly. Hou Dayong asked Chunlan Qiuju about Fu Gong, Ouyang Yu and Xu Qing's situation and learned that the three of them were kind people. When Hou Dayong asked everyone to choose that day, they all had elderly people and children in their families and had no property, so they did not leave. They could survive in the house. If they left, the whole family would have no food and clothing.

In the afternoon, Hou Dayong announced to everyone that Fu Gong was the steward, Ouyang Yu was in charge of the account, and Xu Qing was in charge of the money. Regulations: General Fu Gong was in charge of the affairs of the house. Those who were in charge of the affairs must use money to do the work and report to Fu Gong's office first, and Fu Gong could only handle it after Fu Gong agreed. Xu Qing could only pay when he saw Fu Gong's notes; finally all the notes were all transferred to Ouyang Yu and he would make the account; Qiu Ju and Chunlan check whether the account amount was consistent from time to time; Fu Gong signed the expenses of less than 500 guan, and more than 500 guan must be reported to Hou Dayong; the general account was reported to Hou Dayong once a month.

Fu Gong, Ouyang Yu and Xu Qingben were unknown in the mansion. After answering the test questions correctly, they were entrusted with important tasks. None of the rest expected them, and the three of them did not expect them. The three of them were smart people. Seeing that Hou Dayong stipulated that those who were in charge of business, those who were in charge of money and those who were in charge of each other, Chunlan and Qiuju had to check the money account. They all felt that although Hou Dayong was a warrior, he was very smart. On the one hand, he was grateful, and on the other hand, he was also very energetic to do things, afraid of mistakes in that place.

(End of Chapter 16)
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