The outer city was bustling with a large number of refugees, so that the streets and alleys were full of smoke and miasma, chickens and dogs jumping, refugees chatting in groups or corners, wandering around or begging along the streets, and everywhere there were shouts of adults and children.

The security of the capital cannot be chaotic, and the soldiers and horses of the southern city are the busiest, because the outer city is their jurisdiction, in addition to a large number of people in the commercial street of Qianmen Street, other main streets also send more people to maintain order.

Chang Yu's carriage in front of only Fanzi shouted to open the road, and the street people and pedestrians dodged one after another, although most of them did not know the identity of the owner, but more than ten guards of the car rode high horses and hung steel knives on their waists, and they all knew that the origin was not small.

The carriage slowly moved in the direction of Guangqumen, not to mention that Chang Yu stayed in the yamen and was so flustered that he finally couldn't help but want to go to see Su Guo'er, no matter how he controlled his emotions before the war, there was still a trace of nervousness and uneasiness, maybe that feeling of home could calm him down.

After bypassing a few streets, Chang Yu quietly slipped off the carriage at the mouth of a remote small alley and Linglong disappeared in a flash, and when the carriage continued to move forward to the next alley, Qiao Sanxiu and Song Luoyu were also gone.

Chang Yu has too many enemies, and he has to act secretly because he doesn't want to harm his family, after all, he has regarded the Huang Mansion as his home.

However, in a remote alley, Chang Yu, Qiao Sanxiu and Song Luoyu stared at Linglong who was looking confused and touching his head and turning around: "Humble remember that this alley can come out, and if you go out, you will go to Shuiguan Hutong......"

It turned out that I was lost.

"Auntie, how do you go down to Nanshuiguan Hutong?" When a few people were chattering, they saw a woman probe in a house, Linglong hurriedly asked, the woman looked at them with a vigilant face and said indifferently, "What are you doing?" ”

"Relatives" Linglong guessed that she should have treated a few of her people as refugees, and replied casually.

"Relatives?" The woman's mouth pouted: "What relatives, they live there are all big families, I have a clear door, you tell me which one it is."

"Master Huangfu Huang is my godfather" Linglong snorted, the woman's face immediately changed, hey, hey, that's really a big family, he raised his hand and pointed: "Out of this alley, go to the north, two alleys, and then turn east, and you will arrive" Several people hurriedly thanked and left.

As the woman said, there are many large households in Shuiguan Hutong, there are wealthy gentry, businessmen and some Beijing officials live here, similar to the rich area of later generations, that is, the Huangfu was originally bought by Chang Yu from a declining child.

This broken courtyard was originally bought by Chang Yu as a place to settle down from time to time, and he didn't even dare to repair the gatehouse when he bought it, thinking that if the real thief army attacked the capital and looked at this tattered appearance, he was not interested in coming to raid the house and exterminate the clan, until Chang Yu came back from Taiyuan and determined to deviate the historical trajectory a little bit, and then repaired the yard and finally looked like a home.

But it is not conspicuous in Shuiguan Hutong, there are many big households here, there are red-eyed and drooling gentry, and there are officials who are admired and nodding, and the yellow house is not outstanding, but it provokes the neighbors to be curious, and all kinds of gossip.

There are dozens of families, but they don't do anything to make a living, the door is closed on weekdays and I have never seen what the head of the household looks like, occasionally I see a girl and the family go out to buy some vegetables and meat, go up to talk but nod and close the door in a hurry.

Some people are curious but do not dare to make trouble, after all, the house can raise more than ten families, soon the neighborhood rumors have seen the knife in and out of the Huang Mansion, this year in the capital dare to bring a knife to the big person except the military no one else, so far the neighborhood realized, the original people are the military, more afraid of the Huang Mansion.

But then Huangfu expanded the house, and opened a rice shop on the street, this guy is terrible, the price of grain has skyrocketed in recent years and may not be able to buy, with such a neighbor who opened a rice shop, the neighbors are naturally stammered, so that Huangfu is very famous in the entire Shuiguan Hutong, and belongs to the kind of big family that has money, power and food in the neighborhood, so the woman who pointed the way before heard that Ling Leng was a relative of Huangfu and reacted like that.

Su Chenghuang's leg is almost healed, he was born as a monkey and never thought that he would live such a good life because of a blessing in disguise, every day he is not drinking tea at home and playing monkey or going to the store to sit, and his life is really comfortable.

The rice shop is a chain of Octopus, and Su Chenghuang doesn't know a few big characters and can't make a living, but fortunately, there are people from the shopkeeper to the head office of Mr. Bookkeeper, and Su Guoer is reading and writing with Mr. Bookkeeper.

A huge rice shop needs a lot of guys, but fortunately, many people in Huangfu happen to have work to do, and they are not idle at home to bask in the sun, Chang Yu's original intention to open this rice shop is to let them support themselves and be self-reliant. I don't want to make much money, I just want to support myself.

Chang Yu is the head of the family for the people of the Yellow Mansion, mysterious and terrifying, especially those who have only seen him a few times, but there is a heartfelt fear of him, this fear comes from Chang Yu's mystery and background, they don't know the exact identity of their head of the family, but they are definitely real power figures, plus those who came when the rice shop opened, it is said that they are all famous gangsters in the capital, in short, black and white.

For this Su Chenghuang also asked Chunxiang and Linglong on the side, but both of them are Tai Chi masters, and Su Chenghuang has also figured it out after a long time, if the master doesn't say anything, don't ask more, and if you don't think about it, you won't harm yourself.

When Chang Yu came to the door, Su Chenghuang was fertilizing the loose soil of the flowers and trees in the courtyard, sweating profusely, while Aunt Su was helping on the side and sighed from time to time: "What if this Tartar siege comes in, and I heard that the head of the family has not heard from him for a long time when he is leading troops to fight, so something will happen, right?" ”。

"You old woman can't speak, don't speak" Su Chenghuang glared at him: "The head of the family, Jiren, has his own heavenly appearance, what can happen" said and looked up at the east city wall, and vaguely saw the officers and soldiers in the city walking: "The sky has fallen, and there is a high top, if the Tartar really comes in, he will die."

"Uncle Su, Uncle Su" At this moment, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy ran over, he was the youngest in the family, and he didn't go to the store on weekdays to help run errands at home.

Su Chenghuang was just about to reprimand this frizzy little sixth son, but when he heard him, he hurriedly said, "The head of the family is here."

"What kind of family......" Su Chenghuang sighed, dropped his hoe and ran to the outer courtyard and almost ran into Chang Yu, who was just about to come in, and was immediately overjoyed: "Master, you can come back, just come back, just come back......"

Chang Yu smiled slightly: "Uncle Su, auntie, I'm back......"

This feeling is so good, Chang Yu and Su Chenghuang walked to the inner courtyard with their hands, while Qiao Sanxiu and Song Luoyu took a look, then silently retreated to the outer courtyard, found a stone bench under the tree and sat down.

"Is Master Qiao married?" Song Luoyu asked softly.

Qiao Sanxiu nodded, he had a son, and a trace of love appeared on his face looking at the clouds in the sky: "I should see it soon." Song Luoyu was mistaken, and hurriedly apologized: "Master Qiao, I don't mean it...... Is it a loss to the army of thieves? ”

Forehead...... Qiao Sanxiu was stunned and reacted casually that it was his glance that caused a misunderstanding, and he couldn't help laughing: "My wife and children are fine, and I should be on my way back to Beijing in the army at this time."

Song Luoyu laughed awkwardly, very hearty. Qiao Sanxiu sighed: "But then again, if it wasn't for the factory supervisor at that time, don't say that my wife and children are afraid that even I planted ......" and told Chang Yu about the trouble when he was in Jizhou.

Song Luoyu was furious when he heard this, and scolded: "Officers and soldiers are no different from thieves, they are really hateful," and said angrily after a while: "But our factory governor is still good, not to mention those bastards who killed with his own hands, but also led troops to fight in the south and the north, killing thieves and killing Tartars, that is a big good man and a big hero."

Yes, Qiao Sanxiu nodded slightly: "It's just that it's hard to be a good person these days, and the factory governor has offended many people because of this, but I don't know how many people in this capital want to kill the factory governor, not to mention the arrogant generals outside" said and looked at Song Luoyu as if he was smiling.

Song Luoyu knew what he meant, and snorted: "It used to be before, and now I am here to protect the factory superintendent, if anyone wants to kill him, step on my corpse first......"

While he was talking, he suddenly saw the door being pushed open with a bang, and a girl quickly ran past the two of them and rushed into the inner courtyard, Song Luoyu wanted to raise her hand to stop it, but was stopped by Qiao Sanxiu, and finally couldn't help but say: "What a cute girl."

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