Chapter 116: Eun Gong and Brother
In the evening, when he returned to the shop again, Li Daming's face was slightly red, and he was full of alcohol, but the person's consciousness was very clear, and the whole person seemed very happy.
"Boss, the business is done?"
Taking the hot towel handed by Wang San, Li Daming smiled proudly.
"It's done, 20,000 pieces of cotton clothes, this is a business of tens of thousands of taels of silver!"
Smugly, Li Daming said to Wang San again.
"O man, if he accumulates virtue and does good, there will always be good. Hey, by the way, is the man awake? ”
When he learned that the man hadn't woken up yet, Li Daming told Wang San again not to forget to inform him when the man woke up.
When the time came, the man finally woke up, and as soon as he woke up here, Wang San brought a big bowl of noodles to the man according to the instructions of the owner, and there were even two eggs in the bowl. Perhaps it was the effect of the bowl of hot noodles and the two eggs, after eating the noodles, the man's face turned from yellow to red, and although his spirit had recovered a lot, he was still weak.
Lying on the kang, he looked at this place with some curiosity, it is not common in Xi'an warm kang, in the past this warm kang was only more common in Manchuria, even in the capital, not every household in the city has this kind of warm kang. Perhaps this is also a habit brought by the Manchurians in Xi'an, but of course, on the other hand, it is likely that the winter is too cold now.
And there are quite a few people in this room, more than a dozen people sleeping on this Chase bunk. And the position where he slept happened to be the warmest kang head.
What is this place?
What's wrong with me?
It took him a moment before he remembered what was going on with him, and it seemed that someone had saved his life.
Who saved his life?
Wang Shan, who was sleeping on the side, saw that this person had woken up, so she said there,
"You're awake, boy. You are blessed with a great life, and you met the owner and saved your life. If it were someone else, I would throw you out without even looking at you. ”
"Who saved me? Landlord? ”
He looked at the man a little strangely.
Hearing that the man woke up, Li Daming, who was about to sleep after finishing the account, came to the room where the guys were sleeping.
"The owner has come to see you,"
As soon as Wang San saw that the owner was coming, he hurriedly said to the person beside him.
"Don't hurry up yet."
As soon as he heard the words of the benefactor who saved him, he struggled to get up. Li Daming hurriedly pressed this person and said.
"Don't move, just lie down and rest first."
But the man got up anyway, knelt on the bed, and kowtowed.
"Eungong, you saved me! The grace of saving lives is for the great grace, the great grace is not grateful, and he will definitely repay you in the future! ”
As he spoke, tears slid down his face. He knew that if it weren't for the person in front of him, he would have really become a corpse by now.
Seeing that this person speaks in an orderly manner, and the accent is not a Xi'an accent, naturally he is not a local homeless person in Xi'an, and this person's accent is a little different. So Li Daming, who was a little interested in this person, pulled a chair and sat down on the side of the kang, and then asked with concern.
"What's your name? Why did you come to Xi'an? How did it come to this? ”
The man was half-leaning on the pillow, and his expression seemed a little hesitant, as if he was hesitating whether to say it or not. It took him a moment before he sighed.
"Engong, I really don't want to hide it, I'm not a Han ...... below"
When he said this, he deliberately glanced at Li Daming, and only continued after seeing that he had no reaction.
"Under is the banner man, surnamed Nalan, named Mingzhu, it is said that the ancestor defected to Emperor Taizu when he was in Manchuria in his early years, and he is also a little related to the royal family......
Li Daming looked at Mingzhu with some surprise, he never thought that he, who was known as a relative of the emperor, would actually end up in such a step. And the guys on the side were also full of disbelief. Of course, the look in his eyes didn't turn out to be very friendly. After all, those Manchurians didn't do anything good when they arrived in Xi'an.
If not, because now the Manchurian people in this Xi'an city are in the world, it is estimated that they have been scolded by the guys at this time. But under the knife of satisfying people, no one dared to scold out loud, at most, they secretly complained in their hearts about the nosy affairs of the owner. Actually saved a Manchurian.
For guys' thoughts. Li Daming didn't care. He is a businessman, and it doesn't matter what Manchu or Han people are. It's the business that matters. What's more, when he was saving this person, he didn't know that this person was a Manchurian.
“…… After the Ming army seized Shengjing, Yu Shengjing's wife and children were not enough, although there was a desire to look for it at that time, first, he was on an errand in front of the emperor, but he could not leave without authorization, and secondly, it had been seized by the Ming army, so he could only be sad in vain. Later, the emperor went hunting in the west, and he could only drive with him...... Who would have thought that the Mongols would be treacherous and actually attack us, originally thinking that they would repay the emperor with death, but who would have thought that they would fall into the river that day and survive......"
Maybe it was because he thought of his wife and children who didn't know his life and death and what happened to him, Nalan Mingzhu, who only felt sad for a while, wiped a handful of tears, and then choked up and said.
"Fortunately, I can speak Chinese and speak it fluently. So after being exiled to Shanxi, I begged all the way to the south, wanted to come to Shaanxi from Tongguan, along the way, I don't know how many sins I suffered, and several times I lost my life, I came to Xi'an alone, originally thinking, I was on an errand by the emperor's side, and then I could return to the emperor's side in nature, where did I think, the city was chaotic, even if I wanted to go back to the emperor's side as an errand, I couldn't find the roadside, although the old master also went to kowtow, but I couldn't touch the door, and even thought of the camp, for the time being, there was no landing, I had to live on the streets. Pity me, although I am also a hairpin family, I ended up like this today...... It has been snowing heavily these days, and I am hungry. I wanted to hide from the snow in front of this store, but I didn't know ......."
The more Mingzhu said, the more sad she became, not to mention that now his wife and children don't know their whereabouts. Even he himself almost lost his life. If it weren't for someone to rescue him. I am afraid that he has frozen to death on the streets of Xi'an, and finally he simply cried loudly.
"Eun Gong! If you save my life, you will be Mingqiu's reborn parents! Grace is great, the pearl is difficult to repay in this life, and the next life will definitely be rewarded with a grass title ring! ”
What he said at this time was not a lie. It comes from the heart. After all, I owe this person a life-saving grace. Of course, there is another layer of relationship because Mingzhu knows. He has nowhere to go, and now he can rely on this life-saving benefactor who saved his life. If the life-saving benefactor in front of him can't send the Buddha to the west, it is estimated that he will not last a few days, and he will still freeze to death on the streets of Xi'an.
Li Daming never thought that his unintentional move would actually save a relative of the emperor, and Wang San and others on the side were also dumbfounded, they also didn't expect that this person was actually a relative of the emperor. I didn't expect her experience to be so tragic, even though he was a Manchurian, but when the guys around him listened to him talk about his experience, they also sympathized with him.
"Look at what you said, Li saved you, and it was for the picture."
Li Daming hurriedly comforted.
"Mingzhu, you have suffered so much, and it is already God's blessing to survive, what relatives do you have in Xi'an to go to?"
Mingzhu shook her head and said.
"I don't have any relatives for a long time, but there are, at this time, I'm afraid I don't know if I have made it to Xi'an alive."
Li Daming nodded, Mingzhu was telling the truth, although the court of the Qing Dynasty fled here, many people were lost on the road, and I don't know how many people's relatives were lost on the road. Even if there are relatives still alive, it is unknown whether they will come to Xi'an alive. Even if you live in Xi'an, you may not be able to get in touch, after all, there are so many people in Xi'an now, no one knows where that person is now?
After pondering for a while, Li Daming said to Mingzhu.
"In that case, you should stay here for now. You are not only well-versed in literature and ink, but also a relative of the emperor, so you will not have a chance to enter the country in the future. If he has the opportunity in the future, I can also help you introduce a few princes to Baylor, ask them to help you with one or two, and see if I can find you an errand when the time comes. By the way, the contemptible Li Daming, a native of Luoyang, is doing business here. ”
Mingzhu was originally an extremely smart person, otherwise he would not have moved his mind before, and now he heard that the other party has agreed to him to stay here. Naturally, he was grateful, and he immediately struggled to get out of bed again, and quickly kowtowed three times on the ground.
"Engong, Mingzhu will never live up to Engong's life-saving grace in this life!"
There is no other way to say it, and at this time, there is no need to say much. Talking too much doesn't do anything. Since then, under the care of Li Daming, Mingzhu has lived in the cloth village, while raising his body, he is working like other guys, after all, in these years, except for the Qing Dynasty, there is no one to raise idlers, and there is no place to raise idlers.
Although the two of them are a man and a man, they can talk very well. Sometimes, Mingzhu would also give Li Daming some points about some things he knew, and with his points, he also negotiated a few small deals with those flag people.
During this period, Li Daming also specially recommended Mingzhu to several princes Baylor, in fact, as a relative of the emperor, Mingzhu had his turn to recommend, but now there is chaos in Xi'an City, who can take care of Mingzhu, but Li Daming, a businessman, is in order to be able to speak in front of several princes, so that Mingzhu has entered the palace and become a guard in the palace after verifying his identity. Although he left Buzhuang, Mingzhu still lives here, but his identity is very different from before, and he has become Li Daming's "brother". However, most of the time, the pearl who is Ouchi's guard lives in the palace. Only during the holidays will it come out.
On this day, Li Daming and the cloth merchants from Henan were talking about business there, after all, the cotton cloth used in Xi'an City now came in from Henan, and those Henan merchants came in from Jiangbei. When the two were discussing the price, the cotton curtain was lifted, Wang San walked in, and whispered a little nervously.
"The owner, the eunuch Sun in the Fangcai Palace came to procure cotton cloth, it should be all plain white cloth, he said, saying that the emperor has died!"
"The emperor has died!"
The news spread far and wide, but it only took a few hours for it to spread throughout the city. But before the imperial court issued an edict, the people in Xi'an City could only hide aside and watch quietly, and privately compare things there.
"You said how old the emperor is, he is young, how can he say that he will die when he dies?"
The sudden news made Li Daming stunned, and even the Henan businessman who was talking about business on the side looked at Wang San who had just entered the door in surprise and asked,
"How is this possible, then the emperor's year is not big."
It's not Shunzhi, but it's only in his 20s, how can it be good, and suddenly say no, it's gone.
In fact, for these things, ordinary people do not particularly care, unlike the people in other places, the people of Xi'an City, these 20 years or so have experienced two emperors, and both emperors came to Xi'an at the end of the road, naturally they are probably thinking there, maybe this one is the same.
But no one dared to say it, after all, everyone knew that the Manchurian soldiers were unreasonable. This Xi'an city is different from other places, since the second year of Shunzhi, there are garrison eight banners in this city, and it is precisely with the five thousand steps of horses and eight banners in the city that when the world is in chaos, this Shaanxi is still the place of the Qing Dynasty, so that the Shunzhi monarchs and ministers who fled in a hurry have a place to stay.
Correspondingly, because of the existence of the Manchurian soldiers, the people in this city did not dare to act rashly or even speak out when the Ming Dynasty was in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.
When the ordinary people were waiting for the edict of the imperial court, Li Daming, as a businessman, had already begun to get busy, he instructed his men to prepare more cloth, in addition, in order to hear the news, he even went to see Mingzhu outside the palace, because the Han people could not enter the city, so he had to spend a few taels of silver to get the Manchurian soldiers who guarded the city to agree to pass the word for him. At this time, Mingzhu was completely different from the past, he was wearing the yellow jacket of the Ouchi guard, and a waist knife was held around his waist. There is still a hint of the old sense of depression in this dressed pearl.
"Big brother, why are you here?"
Mingzhu took Li Daming's hand, pulled him to the corner of the city, looked left and right, and then asked.
"Big brother, you sent someone to call the little brother, but what do you have to ask?"
Li Daming laughed again and again.
"I haven't seen you for a while, and I miss my brother,"
As he spoke, Li Daming pulled him and said.
"Let's go, let's get together in the Taibai Building over there and have a good drink!"
was pulled by Li Daming like this, Mingzhu said again and again
"Not this one, not this one"
After saying this, Mingzhu looked around again, lowered his voice and said.
"Brother, Lord Shunzhi has returned to heaven!"