In March of the first year of Tai'an in the Great Zhou Dynasty, inside and outside the capital, the willows were still around.

Outside the Yongding Gate, one after another carriages surrounded by people ran over the bluestone road and slowly drove towards the city.

A gust of wind blew, lifting the curtains, revealing a delicate face.

In the corner of the wall, Zhang Lingyang looked at the carriage greedily and swallowed his saliva from time to time. He shrugged his nose again, and a faint fragrance penetrated his nostrils.

Zhang Lingyang showed a fascinated look on his face: "These little ladies, if you can let me kiss Fangze, I will die without regrets." ”

The old beggar next to him couldn't help but show a look of contempt when he saw Zhang Lingyang's appearance: "You are a stinky beggar, you still want to kiss Fangze, and you don't look at your identity?" ”

"......" opened his mouth, Zhang Lingyang wanted to refute a few words like 'the prince will have a kind of Xiangning', but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed it again.

The old beggar made a lot of sense, he is a stinky beggar now.

Not to mention those official ladies, even ordinary people have to stay away when they see Zhang Lingyang's appearance at this moment.

Without him, Zhang Lingyang's body is too stinky.

Zhang Lingyang hasn't taken a shower for three months.

Not to mention taking a bath, if you can't get any more money before sunset, Zhang Lingyang will be hungry again tonight.

Perhaps, Zhang Lingyang is the saddest time-traveler in the world.

Other traversers, after crossing, will either become kings and grandsons, or they will be children of a family, no matter how poor they are, they are also a commoner's home.

And what about Zhang Lingyang?

He was a beggar who didn't even have a name.

In the beggars, people call him Ergouzi.

I have been in this world for three months, and every day, begging in the streets after dawn, and hiding under a sheltered eaves after dark.

In this way, Zhang Lingyang has lived to this day in a daze.

As the sun gradually set in the west, there were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road, and Zhang Lingyang knew that he was going to be hungry again tonight.

"Phew!" The old beggar spat at the ground fiercely, "These dogs!" ”

The old beggar definitely has a reason to scold like that.

After the Yongding Gate, it is the inner city, and the people who live there are all high-ranking officials and nobles.

Outside the Yongding Gate, there is the outer city, and the inhabitants are all civilians.

Separated by a wall, are two worlds.

In the inner city, Zhumen wine and meat stink, and in the outer city, there are frozen bones on the road.

On weekdays, Zhang Lingyang followed the old beggar to beg in the outer city, and at the end of the day, he could ask for so much three or two dollars to fill his stomach.

But when I arrived at Yongdingmen, at the end of the day, I didn't even get a penny.

You know, there are countless luxurious cars and horses passing by here every day.

Are they all blind and can't see the two beggars outside the city gates?

As for why don't you go directly into the inner city to beg?

Because as beggars, they can't even step through this door.

"Looks like I'm going to be hungry again tonight!"

The sky gradually darkened, Zhang Lingyang got up and patted the soil under his buttocks, helped up the old beggar who had also been squatting for a long time, and wanted to find a sheltered place to spend the night.

At this moment, a horse-drawn carriage slowly approached this direction from the inner city.

Wang Qin, the eunuch of the celebrant and the commander of the East Factory, has been having a very hard time these days.

Emperor Zhao Chenxi of Tai'an first ascended to the great treasure, and his original form was revealed.

In the harem and concubines, not to mention the lewd pleasure every day, these days they have seen a woman in a green building in the city, so that they stay outside the palace every night.

Didn't Emperor Tai'an know that there were countless pairs of eyes and countless ears staring and looking at him every day?

Well, now even the Queen Mother knows about it.

Angry, the Queen Mother gave Emperor Tai'an a grounding order, and Wang Qin, a eunuch who had followed Emperor Tai'an since childhood, had a good life at an end.

Not to mention being beaten by the Queen Mother, he lost all his face, which made many colleagues look at his jokes.

What's more, Emperor Tai'an forces him to find a way every day.

Wang Qin understood that everything he had was given by Emperor Tai'an.

Otherwise, he would not have become the celebrant and the eunuch of Bingbi and the governor of Dongchang at a young age.

If you are disgusted by Emperor Tai'an, then the best end is to go to Xuzhou to see the imperial mausoleum.

has followed Emperor Tai'an since he was a child, and Wang Qin is very clear about his character.

No, today someone took advantage of his absence to slander in front of Emperor Tai'an, so that today he was reprimanded by Emperor Tai'an.

Moreover, Emperor Tai'an also issued a death order, if he can't think of a solution within three days, then he can only go back to Xuzhou to see the imperial tomb.

Xuzhou is the place where Zhou Taizu raised his troops, and it is also the hometown of Zhou Taizu.

Because of this, since leaving the palace, Wang Qin has been frowning all the way, and he only feels that his chest is stuffy.

Opening the curtain of the car to ventilate, Wang Qin saw two figures walking into the distance.

One of the figures, Wang Qin felt a little familiar, but he couldn't remember it.

"Stop!"

Recalling carefully in his mind, Wang Qin finally remembered something, and his eyes suddenly lit up, so he hurriedly ordered the coachman to stop.

Then, Wang Qin said to a strong man who followed: "Go, call those two beggars." ”

"Yes, father-in-law!"

The strong man agreed, and hurriedly ran to Zhang Lingyang's side.

He ran and shouted, "Wait a minute, those two beggars!" ”

Zhang Lingyang and the old beggar looked back in confusion, and saw a strong man coming towards him, so he couldn't help but stop.

Turning around, Zhang Lingyang asked, "This strong man, I don't know what you have to do?" ”

The strong man glanced at Zhang Lingyang and the two of them with disgust, avoided it from a distance, covered his mouth and nose and said, "My family is invited!" ”

Zhang Lingyang thought that he had finally met a kind man, so he didn't care about the look of the strong man, and helped the old beggar to walk happily towards the carriage.

Separated by a distance of one zhang from the carriage, Zhang Lingyang was stopped by a strong man: "It's stinky, don't smoke it to my family!" ”

After speaking, he turned around and came to the carriage and said to Wang Qin inside: "Father-in-law, the person has arrived." ”

Regarding the words of the strong man, Zhang Lingyang did not feel angry at all.

Because he had heard not ten thousand times, but eight thousand times, and he had heard many of them even more viciously, so he had long been immune.

Inside the car, Wang Qin opened the curtains and looked carefully outside, the more he looked, the brighter his eyes became.

In the blink of an eye, Wang Qin's face was already full of smiles, and he said to the strong man: "Bring that little one to our house!" ”

After speaking, Wang Qin lowered the curtain.

The strong man looked back at Zhang Lingyang and said, "Boy, do you hear that?" My lord, please come to the house and see you! ”

Not far away, Zhang Lingyang naturally heard Wang Qin's words clearly.

I thought: "This person in the carriage won't be as good as Longyang, so he has taken a fancy to me!" ”

The more he thought about it, the more Zhang Lingyang felt that it was possible.

After all, for dignitaries, such things are very prevalent in their circles.

Thinking of this, Zhang Lingyang shook his head: "Don't go!" ”

"Not going?" The strong man let out a strange laugh in his mouth, and pulled out a long knife from his waist and put it on Zhang Lingyang's neck, "Think about it carefully?" ”

Zhang Lingyang only felt a chill in his back, and his body trembled, but he still said stiffly: "At the feet of the Son of Heaven, I don't believe that you dare to kill someone?" ”

"Boom!" Listening to Zhang Lingyang's words, a strange laugh came out of the strong man's mouth, "Don't dare? My family is the master of ceremonies and the commander of the East Factory, boy, do you think Lao Tzu dare? ”

Seeing the strong man say this, Zhang Lingyang breathed a sigh of relief for no reason.

Why? It's because since the person in the car is a eunuch, it means that this person is not as good as Long Yang at all.

So, Zhang Lingyang's voice changed and said: "If you can give me a sum of silver, I will promise to go with you!" ”

"Boy, you dare to bargain? Believe it or not, Lao Tzu slashed you with a knife? As he spoke, the strong man used another strength in his hand.

Zhang Lingyang only felt a chill on his neck, and cold sweat flowed down his face.

At this time, Wang Qin in the car spoke: "Give him a sum of silver!" ”

"Yes, father-in-law!"

The strong man replied, and then reluctantly put away the long knife around Zhang Lingyang's neck, took out a silver ticket from his arms, and threw it at Zhang Lingyang's feet.

Zhang Lingyang didn't think it was a pestle at all, and picked up the silver ticket from the ground casually, opened it, and saw that it was a hundred taels, and his eyes couldn't help but light up.

Without thinking too much, Zhang Lingyang stuffed the silver ticket into the old beggar's arms: "You can also see the situation, so I won't say more." This is a silver ticket of one hundred taels, you take this silver ticket and leave the capital, go back to your hometown to buy a few acres of thin fields to retire! ”

"......" The old beggar opened his mouth with tears in his eyes, but finally said nothing.

"Let's go!"

Wang Qin in the carriage spoke, and the carriage slowly drove forward again.

Waving his hand to the old beggar, Zhang Lingyang turned around and followed the carriage, leaving without looking back......