Chapter 54: Recruitment
"I wonder if the Queen Mother can lend me a few masters of the Great Interior, so that I can act conveniently?"
Thinking that he wanted to complete the task of 'killing people without leaving traces' by himself, Li Shuangxi still couldn't help but beat the drum in his heart.
"Li Gongzi, you are taking tens of thousands of people outside Yangzhou City to attack the hundreds of thousands of troops of my Qing Dynasty, killing in and out, do you still need to borrow people from the palace? Besides, if you take someone from the palace, isn't that telling outsiders that the palace is with you. ”
The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang looked at Li Shuangxi in disbelief, as if she was making fun of how he could make such a ridiculous request.
"That..." Li Shuangxi was like a fish in his throat, he had to admire the strength of this woman in Xiaozhuang, who could make him unable to say a word.
"However, this palace will give you some compensation in terms of funds, and will also give you a mansion in the capital as your activity venue, I don't know if you are satisfied?"
"Of course it's a good one." Hearing that he had a house to live in and money to take, Li Shuangxi couldn't help but rush out with joy for a while, but he immediately regretted it, this was obviously to spy on himself.
"Since you are satisfied, then go and do something, the palace for three years and five years can wait, but if it takes a long time, the emperor will grow up. If the regulations should be amended to allow 'Manchu and Han intermarriage'. This palace can't guarantee that Miss Shi will become the emperor's blessing. After all, Hongu admires her talent and beauty. ”
In the last sentence, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was clearly threatening him, Li Shuangxi was so angry that his face turned blue, but he could only pretend that nothing happened.
Exiting Cining Palace, Li Shuangxi walked out of the palace under the leadership of the little eunuch. There was a carriage parked outside the noon gate, driven by a handsome young man.
"Xiao Quanzi, this will be your new master from now on, you have to be careful of scouting."
"Xiao Dezi, I'm out of the palace now, can you call me by my full name, my name is Zhang Fuquan?"
Hearing that the little eunuch suddenly revealed his true identity, the young man was a little unhappy.
"Xiao Quanzi, don't think that the Queen Mother will allow you to leave the palace, you don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, be careful in a few days, I want the mother to edict you back to the palace again."
"It's enough for you to have one, I'm going to go out of the palace and be happy, don't think about me, I'll turn my face."
It can be heard from the tone of the conversation between the two, in fact, the relationship between the two should be very good, but one is finally able to leave the palace, and the other is a little envious, jealous, and hateful.
The carriage slowly drove towards the outskirts of the city, and in the conversation with Zhang Fuquan, Li Shuangxi learned that the mansion he was going to now was originally the house that his mother was going to give to a father-in-law who was about to retire. However, before he could rush in, the father-in-law died of smallpox.
"My father-in-law really hasn't lived in this house for a day." Zhang Fuquan may have found that he was talking too much, so he quickly swore.
Li Shuangxi doesn't care, he is a modern person who has grown cowpox, what smallpox can be said to be no threat to him, where will he talk about tiger color change like these people in the Qing Dynasty. ’
The interior of the carriage is spacious and luxurious, and it is a royal gift, and it suddenly feels 'noble' when you sit down. Li Shuangxi stopped talking, he closed his eyes, he wanted to feel this feeling of 'superiority' to the fullest.
"Master, it's here." Li Shuangxi was in a hazy mood, when he suddenly felt the carriage stop, and as soon as he lifted the curtain, he was stunned by everything in front of him. The two vermilion gates were closed, and two big stone lions squatted majestically on both sides of the door, and the word 'Li Fu' hung on the door.
On the left and right in front of the door, two housekeepers and two maids were already standing neatly, waiting for the arrival of their new master.
After getting out of the carriage, Li Shuangxi found that this courtyard covers an area of at least several hundred square meters, and the tall courtyard wall stands tall, covering the scene in the courtyard, but it can't cover a willow tree with a crooked neck, and stubbornly pokes its head out.
There are no other houses around, only a small pond not far away, and you can faintly hear the croaking of frogs, which is really a good place for leisure and retirement.
"Welcome to the young master's new home." The uniform voices of the servants show that they have been specially trained to achieve the effect.
"Master, are you still satisfied with this place?" Xiao Quanzi asked respectfully.
"In the future, I will call you Xiao Zhang, and you can call me Gongzi." Being called the master made Li Shuangxi feel as if he had become a eunuch, and he couldn't help but get goosebumps.
"Childe, my name is Koharu." "My name is Xiaohua." "My name is Xiaoqiu." "My name is Satsuki." The four servants saw that the new master was not very old and seemed to be approachable, and they all rushed to introduce themselves.
"Spring, flowers, autumn, moon. Okay, well, that's a good name, it's exactly 'When is the spring flower and autumn moon?' How much do you know about the past? Xiaolou had another east wind last night, so the country could not afford to look back at the moonlight. ”
"Childe is really literary and romantic, but this kind of 'anti-poetry' will be less good in the future."
Li Shuangxi rushed out of a poem on a whim, which startled Zhang Fuquan, and he hurriedly stopped him.
"Ah," Li Shuangxi was on his head, was splashed with a basin of cold water, and came back to his senses after a trance.
The two gates were pushed open, and when you entered the courtyard, you felt a strange fragrance, and in the middle of it was a gray brick road pointing straight to the hall. The hall doors are four dark red doors, and the middle two doors are slightly open. The rhombic wooden windows in the side porch are open, clean and refreshing. In front of the porch, there are rattan chairs and rattan tables, three feet away from the rattan table, and the flowers and plants are thick. On each side of the main hall are two side rooms, which should be for the family and the maid. Across the patio is the master's room, which is a two-story attic, downstairs is the guest room, upstairs is the main room, the room is estimated to be 200 feet, the round table in the middle of the room is glittering with gold, it turned out to be a large plate of gold ingots.
"Childe, this is the monthly 'Yulu' that the mother has given you, please save some flowers. And the luggage of your inn has been moved by you and put it in the cabinet. Li Shuangxi didn't react for a while, although his heart was excited, but on the surface, he still had to suppress the expression on his face.
"Xiao Zhang, go out, I'm going to take a break." As soon as Xiao Zhang left, Li Shuangxi happily rushed to the round table. Touching these gold ingots with his hand, he secretly thought, this errand is really good, he can not only kill the enemy, but also have a house and gold, it seems that he really has to plan well, how to start.
I slept really soundly this night, and when Xiao Zhang came to ask him to have breakfast, he glanced at Xiao Zhang and said, "You wait and call me a trustworthy person to help me send a letter to the Shaolin Temple in Fujian, to a monk named Ma Chaoxing, remember to go and return quickly." ”