The city of Beijing in early spring is lazy, although there is a little bit of greenery in the cold wind of the cold spring, but the dust weather that must arrive at the beginning of spring every year has killed this bit of spring.

Many seventeen or eighteen-year-old children have been contaminated with the stinky disease of the Eight Banners, carrying bird cages to raise big yellow dogs, and the grasshoppers in the winter listen to a sound, and the high end of the teahouse will come to a bowl, and three or five people will sit together and start bragging for a long time.

No one thinks that they are wasting their youth, because all the children of the Eight Banners are living like this, how many of the Eight Banners can work?

"Oh, that third brother, you are auspicious...... Sixth Brother Doro, you are spiritual...... Hey, isn't that the second master of the Ma family? Come on, come here, let's do it together......"

The three brothers, Sanbao, Doluo, and Ma Qun, met again in a familiar teahouse, and after a set of standard Eight Banners greeting etiquette, one person had a bowl of Gaomo, and ordered three bowls of rotten meat noodles for breakfast.

Originally, this was a common scene in Sijiu City, but when it was used on these three half-grown children who were only seventeen or eighteen years old, they were idle.

The stubborn masters in the Eight Banners, they are all copper peas that are too old to cook and crack, and when they are older, they have no hope of being promoted, and all their energy is put on playing, and many things in Sijiu City are picked up by these idlers.

Fighting crickets, starling thrushes, walnuts, small gourds...... Boiling eagles, playing kites, painting snuffboxes...... It can be said that the class of Eight Banners has provided a lot of gadgets that people like to hear and enjoy in later generations.

But seventeen or eighteen-year-old half-grown children also learn to make teahouses as adults, and they get up so early and gather at dawn, which is really rare.

Isn't such a big Baqi kid exactly the age of visiting Bada Hutong? Even if you don't have two dollars in your pocket, there are still few half-hidden doors in Sijiu City? Those part-time girls, aren't they all pretty, these great guys can sleep for a night if they just throw a melon or two dates, and it's not impossible to post it upside down if they really don't have money.

How can you learn from those old gangsters at a young age? The shopkeeper couldn't understand it, and he didn't bother to ask.

Gao Mo tea, rotten meat noodles, the three brothers ate a mess, no one in the teahouse knows, these three brothers go to the city wall every day before dawn to run a few miles, and then practice a few times Kung Fu, it is really a rare enterprising faction in the Eight Banners.

A bowl of noodles was eaten, and the three of them ripped off the chatterbox.

"Two elder brothers, I heard that Prince Gong has begun to train our new army, saying that he invited British coaches, and all the foreign guns and cannons will be used at that time, and my fourth uncle also accompanied the prime minister's yamen to see the camp in the northern suburbs......"

"Come on, the devil is training the six soldiers? What strong soldiers can he train with his two knives? Even the commander has said that the soldiers of foreigners are not easy to train, except for Prime Minister Xiao of the East China Sea, who can find out what kind of Taoism the new army is in this world......

"Hey...... When it comes to Prime Minister Xiao Cheng of the East China Sea, I can't be at peace in my heart, if I want to say admiration, I really admire it at home, a literati can actually bring out an iron army on a horse, and the foreigners who fight are looking for teeth all over the ground, isn't this a natural star to go down to earth!"

"But looking at the losses that our people have suffered at his hands, I can't tell how panicked in my heart...... A few hundred people from Guangqumen took it down with one charge, and the military parade in the Taihe Hall really doesn't give us face......"

"Brother is right, there are those half-crippled masters on the street, and I really can't bear it in my heart......"

The so-called half-crippled uncle is a term that became popular in Sijiu City a few years ago, and they are all the Eight Banners who came back from the battle with Mailer, which can be said to be the last bit of vitality of the force of the Banner people of Sijiu City.

The hands of the dejected people were wrapped in white cloths, and the family members were dumbfounded, and all those who returned to Sijiu City alive were all cut off their thumbs.

The entire Jingshi was in mourning, and the banner family was scolding Xiao Letian for his lack of morality, but these witnesses of the battlefield were silent and didn't dare to say a word about Xiao Letian.

"Don't scold at home, it's okay to throw two fingers, haven't you seen the heavenly fire that Xiao Lotian fell, what kind of people were burned, the flames burned directly into the bones, and the bones were almost burned...... Heavy rain in the sky can't extinguish the fire, and there are elderly people in the team, guess what?"

"People say that those who are burned to death by this heavenly fire have their souls burned away, and they can't enter the six realms of reincarnation at all, and they can't be reincarnated when they die...... My ancestors, it's not easy for me to get this life back!"

Many women are shocked into a cold sweat, so it's not a big deal to lose two fingers, anyway, the big parts on the body haven't been lost, and they can be used on the kang at night.

But time has proved Xiao Letian's viciousness, and gradually the wounded soldiers in Sijiu City felt that something was wrong, and they used to think that their thumbs were useless, and losing two fingers was not a big disability. But I never thought that many movements could not be done without the support of the thumb, and the remaining four fingers were all costed.

I can't hold things, I can't hold things, the little thumb turns out to be the most important organ that works with other fingers, the little finger is nothing, but the thumb can't be lost.

If you lose your thumb, you can be regarded as a self-abandoning martial arts, your civil and military skills are all in vain, there is a waste person at home who does not look like a waste person, and the Eight Banners people are crying everywhere in their homes.

That is, from that day on, there was a group of people in Sijiu City, and everyone called them half-crippled uncles. This group of uncles are all flag people, and they have hardcore crops to eat at home, and now they are very bad because they have lost their fingers, and they love to cause trouble during this time.

Groups of people gathered outside the Internal Affairs Office and the Prime Minister's Yamen to cry, you can't beat or scold or scold, and if you say two heavy words, you will hit the wall and seek death, which will make the court miserable.

In the past, when the new army was in the city, they were scared like rats and shrunk at home and did not dare to come out, but after the new army withdrew from Beijing, these rats began to make trouble in tandem.

Facts have proved that when a person despairs of the future, his moral level will fall like a dive, and these half-crippled masters in groups of three or five know to find trouble all day long, and they are extremely mud-legged scoundrels.

Eat and drink without giving money, if you dare to chase after you, you will be knocked to death on the counter, and if you walk you have to look at him more and rush up to find you trouble, there is a sudden popular saying in Sijiu City.

"What do you see...... What are you doing...... Try again...... Try it......"

A good forty-nine city, the Jingshi who was originally governed by Xiao Letian and never closed his door at night, was ruined by this group of half-crippled masters.

The three brothers of Doro sighed, "Yes, I also feel sorry for these masters, they are all the Eight Banners with broken bones and tendons...... But in the past few months, they have made too much trouble, and the court doesn't say anything about it......"

At this moment, the matter came to the door, and the three of them didn't know that the two so-called half-crippled uncles were drinking tea there in the corner, and they didn't see the eyes of the three brothers who had just shopkeeper.

"Little cub, what are you talking about? Without us fighting and killing in front, you still want to drink tea and eat noodles here? Master, I was injured for the imperial court, so that it is not that you juniors have food to eat, and dare to speak ill of us behind my back, your grandmother's ...... Newspaper a name and come out......"

The so-called newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, it is a young man like Doro, and the three treasures slapped the table, "You don't give me a name to scare people, and I am afraid of scaring you to death if you raise the name of my ancestors, which flag are you with my yellow flag?"

"The third brother doesn't talk nonsense with them, what do you want to do......?

The two half-crippled uncles sneered, "Hehe, there are really a few shadows of us back then, if you beat you, I will bully you, obediently report your name, and I will negotiate with your parents......"

The shopkeeper is well-informed and well-informed, and at this time he hurriedly came over to persuade him, "Ladies and gentlemen, the small shop can't withstand a finger from you, this meal is mine, it is all mine, and it is ...... to dissipate your anger."

The shopkeeper came to the side of the three treasures and whispered, "The three masters are all angry, don't make trouble for the family, these masters are all a gang, and the things they do are extremely damaging, pouring feces and bad medicine...... The Nancheng family provoked them before, and when they turned around, the little girl fell into the well......"

"They don't care about the royal law at all, they are all crazy, and the court also feels that they are indebted, so they have always turned a blind eye, and the Internal Affairs Office, the Nine Gate Admiral, and the Shuntian Mansion are also too lazy to care...... As soon as they were in charge, they gathered together to make trouble and mutilate the silver......"

Listening to the words of the shopkeeper of the teahouse, the three of them became angry in their hearts, "Is there any royal law?"

"Oh! Wang Fa ...... Hahaha, the emperor is no longer in the Forbidden City, what else do you need? The kid doesn't dare to report to his family? What about the courage just now?"

"If you want the royal law, wait for the emperor to return to Beijing, the current Sijiu City is a place without the royal law, what can you do with me?"

At this moment, a voice came from outside the teahouse, "Who is so bold? If the emperor is not in Beijing, there will be no royal law? This is a big disrespect......

A group of people walked in from the door of the teahouse, led by the housekeepers of the three young people's houses, and behind them were a group of eunuchs surrounded by guards with knives.

"Young master, this is the Manshun father-in-law who has come to deliver the decree, the emperor has a decree for the three young masters, kneel down and accept the decree!"

Everyone in the teahouse who was frightened by a sentence knelt down, even the two half-crippled kneeled and didn't move, it didn't matter if they said two cruel words behind their backs, but if they talked nonsense in front of the nobles, they would be looking for trouble.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor said: Smell the three treasures, Doluo, and Ma Qun, young but ambitious, humble but loyal and patriotic...... He is specially summoned to take the post of a guard with a sword, and immediately go to Tanggu to gather and protect His Majesty's left and right......"

The decree was not long, only a few dozen words, and when Man Shun finished reading it, there was a dead silence in the entire teahouse. Your Majesty actually sent a decree to China overseas, and Your Majesty actually began to reward the guards.

The two half-crippled people couldn't believe their ears and whispered, "Is the emperor in power? This can give the guard......s?

"Bold! Dare to question the emperor's will, come and take it for me!"