The rain was pouring down, rattling on the roof tiles, and the streets were flowing into streams.

Days of heavy rain drove away the summer heat, but it also left the streets with few pedestrians. With such heavy rain, no one wants to go out if it is unnecessary.

However, after all, things in this world are not as good as they should be, and there are many people who are running for a living. No, a man walked alone in the rain, his tall body covered by a shabby umbrella, and most of his clothes were soaked from his chest down.

The man's name is Gu Jincheng, 20 years old this year, from Fengjie, Sichuan.

In the first month of this year, the thief Zhang Xianzhong led the army to attack Sichuan, and conquered Kuizhou in March. Gu Jincheng's father was a deputy general who guarded Kuizhou, and sacrificed his life for the country in the battle against the thieves. Gu Jincheng originally planned to go to the Sichuan general army Qin Liangyu to avenge his father, but his mother stopped him and told him to go to Nanjing immediately so that he could inherit his official position.

The Gu family is a hereditary general of the Wupin Wujie Festival, Gu's father was martyred, and Gu Jincheng should inherit his official position, but the inheritance is not so simple, and he must go to Nanjing to be approved by the Ministry of War. Gu's mother thought about it very carefully, if Gu Jincheng went directly to Qin Liangyu's army, at most he would be a small flag officer, and if he went to Nanjing to inherit his own official position and then joined the army, it would be completely different. The Wujie general of the fifth grade can be at least a general or guerrilla general in the army.

So, although he had an incomparable hatred for the thief, Gu Jincheng still obeyed his mother's order and did not want to come to Nanjing for thousands of miles.

However, it has been a few days since he came to Nanjing, but the matter of his succession to the official position has not been completed for a long time.

He entered Nanjing in early May, just in time for King Fu to usurp the throne and the Pingnan army to attack the city, where did the Nanjing military department have time to pay attention to such things as him. When Chongzhen defeated King Fu, the six departments of Nanjing faced reorganization again, so Gu Jincheng's affairs dragged on.

It was easy to wait until the officials of the six departments were confirmed, and when Gu Jincheng went to the military department in a hurry, who knew that the officials of the military department were all kinds of prevarications, and they couldn't get things done for several days, which made Gu Jincheng extremely depressed.

Today, he braved the heavy rain to go to the military headquarters again, but he didn't even see anyone, so he could only return in a huff.

By the time Gu Jincheng returned to the Longsheng Inn where he lived, his whole body was almost soaked.

Hurriedly walked to the backyard and came to his room to change into dry clothes, Gu Jincheng felt hungry. At the age of 20, it is the time when I can eat, and the two steamed buns in the morning can't last until noon.

Longsheng Inn, like most inns, has an inn in the back and a restaurant in front, and the hotel provides meals for guests staying at the hotel and also receives diners from outside.

With such a heavy rain, there were few guests in the lobby of the hotel, and there were only two or three tables of people sitting at more than ten tables.

"Little Er, four steamed buns, a plate of fennel beans, and a bowl of Yangchun noodles." Sitting down at a table against the wall, Gu Jincheng commanded. He has been in Nanjing for too long, and he has little left, and he can't afford to eat big fish and meat, so he can only make careful calculations.

The noodles and steamed buns were quickly served, Gu Jincheng looked at the rain curtain outside the store, sighed, lowered his head and began to eat and drink.

"I'm going to die quickly, this ghost weather, it's so annoying!" A man hurriedly rushed into the restaurant from the street, stomped the rain on his feet, and scolded his mother loudly, which immediately attracted the attention of everyone who was eating.

Gu Jincheng raised his head and recognized the person who came in, this was a Suzhou man named Yang Xiaolei, who, like himself, came to the military department to inherit the hereditary official position. The two often discuss together how to succeed and have become friends.

After taking the towel sent by Xiao Er and wiping the water stains on his body, Yang Xiaolei sat opposite Gu Jincheng with a smile.

"Brother Gu, you are so hard!" Yang Xiaolei glanced at Gu Jincheng's food and frowned.

Gu Jincheng glanced at him and didn't answer, a full man doesn't know that a hungry man is hungry, and if he is rich, he doesn't know how to eat big fish and meat!

"Xiao Er, pick up the dishes you are good at in the store, come up, and bring another jar of bamboo leaves, I want to accompany Brother Gu to have a drink today!" Yang Xiaolei commanded loudly.

When Gu Jincheng heard this, he pushed away the half-eaten Yangchun noodles, and he wanted to keep his stomach for a good meal. This Yang Xiaolei's family is a rich man, with 100 acres of mulberry fields at home, and a silk reeling workshop, and the income from raising silkworms and reeling silk is as much as 10,000 taels every year, which is far richer than himself!

"Brother Yang, you are so happy today, isn't it a happy event? Is there a problem with the affairs of the Ministry of War? Looking at Yang Xiaolei's excited face, Gu Jincheng asked tentatively.

Yang Xiaolei's family has money, and he has to be much more flexible, when Gu Jincheng was repeatedly rejected by the guards of the military department, Yang Xiaolei relied on the silver in his hand to enter and leave the military department unimpeded. It's just that for some reason, his affairs have never been done.

"Haha, Brother Gu, in fact, I had already obtained the documents from the Ministry of War a few days ago, and I successfully inherited my family's official position." Yang Xiaolei said with a smile, his family is the hereditary captain of the Suzhou Guard, and after getting the military position, he can at least get a position in the Suzhou garrison.

"Then Brother Yang, why are you still here in Nanjing, do you want to continue to see the wind and moon of the Qinhuai River?" Hearing that his friend successfully inherited the hereditary military position, although Gu Jincheng felt quite unhappy in his heart, he was still happy for him.

"Haha, what's so good about the wind and moon of Qinhuai River, the eldest husband should make special merits, how can he indulge in the gentle township." Yang Xiaolei patted his chest and shouted loudly, causing the other diners in the restaurant to applaud loudly.

Gu Jincheng rolled his eyes, he didn't know who it was, ten days ago, he boasted to himself about how good Qin Huaihe's top singing voice was, how elegant his temperament was, and he thought that he could be with the spring breeze for a while, and he spent hundreds of taels of silver and couldn't touch the hand of the top brand, so he gave up stupidly.

"Young Master Yang is so courageous!"

"What a good boy!"

Most of the diners in the store are frequent customers of the inn, so they naturally know Yang Xiaolei's identity and coquettish nature, and when they saw that he finally got what he wanted, they complimented him loudly.

"Thank you, thank you, shopkeeper, give each table a pot of good wine, it's all on my account!" Yang Xiaolei hugged his fist and said generously.

Suddenly, everyone in the store cheered and boiled.

Gu Jincheng rolled his eyes again, and silently dealt with the food in front of him, since you kid is rich, Lao Tzu will eat hard, eat poor, you bastard!

"Brother Gu, do you know why I went so well this time?" After greeting the other guests in the store, Yang Xiaolei quietly poked his head over and asked in a low voice.

"What else can it be, it's nothing more than silver to open the way." Gu Jincheng said softly.

"No, no, how can things be so simple!" Yang Xiaolei shook his head and said.