Chapter 856: Good Guys, Wicked Guys, Behind the Scenes

At the west end of Yangzhou Hutong is East Chang'an Street, and it is close to Chongwenmen Street in the north-south direction. The spy department of the Ministry of War picked a courtyard to work here, except for a few bigwigs who knew about it, no one else paid attention to it, after all, this is a first-class downtown place, which is different from places such as Jinyi Weidong Factory. Besides, the spy department of the Ministry of War is in charge of going to the north to inquire about military intelligence, and it has nothing to do with Beijing.

Therefore, there is no sign hanging at the door of the small courtyard with three entrances, and there is no gatehouse plaque. Most of the people who came in and out of the gate were businessmen dressed in silk and satin, fat-headed, big-eared stewards, and it didn't look like they were engaged in secret business. If an outsider enters the courtyard, he can see that there are all kinds of goods piled up in all directions, and the people inside never talk to each other, they are all shouting and shouting, revealing a philistine atmosphere from the inside out.

In the west wing room of the three gates, the fifth child lying on the kang can clearly hear the endless sound outside. Although it was noisy, the shouting and footsteps and laughter were in his ears, and he was initially nervous, but he gradually settled down. He has been carrying grain bags and unloading goods on the Zhangjiawan wharf for many years to earn a living, and he has long been accustomed to this kind of noise, but it is the eerie and silent Jinyi Guard Captain who has been silent all day long that makes him uncomfortable, but fortunately the person has left.

At this moment, the young man drank the medicine bowl that was brought to his mouth, and when it came to the last sip, he couldn't help choking out, and when he saw that someone was hurriedly sending a soft towel, he couldn't help but be surprised, and even apologized. When he wiped off the spurted medicinal juice and saw that the person picked up the medicine bowl and turned to leave, he opened his mouth and asked, "...... this adult?"

Before he finished speaking, the young man turned around, waved his hand at him again and again, and said, "Don't call me an adult, I'm just a handyman!" What do you want to ask, I don't know, at most, I'll help you relay it when the seventh master comes back. Cough, your illness is not cured, don't think so much, the doctor has said, if it is later, maybe you will really freeze to death, or raise it first! ”

"Big ...... This brother, how can I be so expensive, I used to be sick, and I could work for two or three days, but now it's two days, why don't I have to stay in bed? ”

Lao Wu tried to get off the ground with his hands, but as soon as he bent down to put on his shoes, he felt dizzy, and when he reacted, he was already pressed on the kang, and the thick blue bottom small floral satin quilt was covered again. He struggled and tried to speak, but he couldn't withstand the young man's strength, so he had no choice but to obey.

"It used to be before, and now it is now, if it weren't for the seventh master to save you, you would have almost entered the ghost gate, and you would still be strong!"

When he said this, Lao Wu's heart churned. He didn't know what kind of yamen was here, only that it was the biggest official here who saved himself. This world is difficult, most people just look at things and avoid them, and if they can save their lives, they are naturally benefactors. But he worked so hard to get the opportunity, he just wanted his children to live a good life and not have to suffer poverty, so when people came to see him, he said such a request as soon as he opened his mouth. Now that he thinks about it, he is afraid, how can the small people make a mistake with the government?

"Don't worry, the seventh master said, even if you don't say it, he will definitely help you plead with you. The Seventh Master was able to pick you up from the snow at the beginning, and he would never have erased your credit. ”

Leaving these words, the young man walked out, and when he was about to go out, he suddenly remembered, and suddenly muttered: "Oh, I have been so busy in the past two days, and today is the Laba Festival, I haven't bought beans, and I can't drink Laba porridge!" ”

Laba Festival!

As soon as he heard these three words, Lao Wu was stunned for a moment, and counted with his fingers, only then did he remember that today was really Laba Festival. Lying on the hot kang, he couldn't help but think of the previous years.

Because of the lack of coal and charcoal, every winter, the kang he personally disced at home is cold most of the time, and only a few days can be burned hot, among which the day of the Laba Festival must naturally burn the kang. On that day, he and his two children would change into the only decent clothes to worship their ancestors at home, and at the same time boil a large pot of laba porridge, but those beans are often pieced together by the neighbors, after all, he always has to save money to cook a few white rice meals for the children to eat during the Chinese New Year. Even so, the children were still very happy when the two bowls of hot laba porridge were served. I just don't know if they will encounter anything on the road, whether they will be cold-eyed by their relatives when they go to the countryside, and they may be fed and clothed...... Thinking about it, his heart gradually tingled, and his eyes were a little confused.

Just when his cloudy eyes couldn't help revealing water, he suddenly heard a sound of talking outside the door, and quickly turned sideways and went inside, rubbing his eyes with his hands. After a while, he heard someone enter the house, hurriedly turned over, and recognized it as the seventh master who had come to ask him several times, and was busy turning over and sitting up, but was pressed down.

"You don't have to be busy, it's important to recuperate with peace of mind." Hu Qi didn't bring an entourage when he entered the house, at this time he pulled a cedar chair from the side, lifted the hem of his robe and sat down in front of the kang, and saw that the faces of the people on the kang were much better than the day before yesterday, so he nodded with satisfaction, "Fortunately, you have a strong body, change to a delicate one, and you will really die if you freeze down that night." Don't worry about what you begged me for, I have already reported it to my lord, and he said that it has been written in the inscription. If it is according to the old practice, there will always be a hundred households for you. ”

Hearing this, the fifth child suddenly couldn't lie down anymore, lifted the quilt and struggled violently, and kowtowed his head along the kang, and his tone was already with a trill: "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" ”

Hu Qi hurriedly dragged the person up, pulled the quilt over and covered the person, and then smiled: "What is there to thank, I just handed a sentence to the upper peak, it depends on your luck whether it succeeds or not, since the adult said so, things are at least nine points accurate, if it goes well, there may be a hereditary." You will recuperate here in peace. You've already told Jinyiwei what you should say, and you won't come over there to interrogate you again. Also, I already sent someone to pick up your two children in the township yesterday, and I happened to spend the New Year in Beijing when I turned back. ”

Just got such good news, and then Hu Qi said that he had sent someone to pick up the two children, the fifth child was overjoyed, and habitually wanted to get up and kowtow again, and was pressed on the shoulder by the big hand, so he lay down and said in a low voice: "The seventh master is a great kindness, I will definitely be ...... to be a cow and a horse in my next life."

"Needless to say, I didn't lose a good person at the city gate this time, and I was equally divided into the credit. However, I also have a message to remind you, you are not a military household after all, even if you are rewarded with a military title, it is best to just receive a salary, don't rush to the army, after all, those places are deep-rooted relationships, you are not easy to be excluded, not to mention, even the people who were implicated in your previous lawsuit, there must be a reason to be angry for them......"

Where does the fifth child understand this, but for many years on the dock, there are also good and bad things among the coolies, and there is always a little bit of sophistication, so he understands most of it when he listens to it, and his face gradually shows a deep sense of gratitude. In the end, after Hu Qi finished speaking, he couldn't help but ask: "Seventh Master, I am an ordinary poor man, thanks to you for reminding me of this." May I ask, why do you care so much? ”

Being asked like this, Hu Qi was stunned for a moment, and only after a long time did he show a wry smile, and gently patted his shoulder before he stood up: "I have also suffered and suffered poverty in the past, and my situation is not much better than yours." If I hadn't been heavily promoted, I wouldn't have been where I am today, and naturally I wouldn't want the future you earned with your life to be wasted. ”

While speaking, there was another shout outside: "Seventh master, seventh master, two children are here!" ”

Hu Qi suppressed that inexplicable emotion in his heart when he heard the voice, and then strode out of the door, and saw a gray-clothed man in the courtyard holding two shabby children in one hand, so he smiled and said, "Take people into the house to meet their Lao Tzu, and then cook porridge with those bean materials I brought back...... I was going to come back from the adults with some porridge, but the adults were so happy that they gave them directly. There is only one Laba Festival this year, so you can't be so vague! If you continue to speak, you will go back and send two catties of red dates, one catty of lotus seeds, and two catties of sugar per person, and go buy them immediately! ”

"Okay!"

With such a sentence, everyone was happy, the man in gray led the two children into the house, and after a while, he turned out, touched his nose and smiled: "I still thought that the seventh master had nothing to do but be a good person, just now this father and son met, and it was really sour to look at it." The two children also came up to kowtow, and the face was full of tears, and I thought of the mother-in-law and children at home. ”

"There is no end to the injustices in the world, but sometimes it is a family who can help them." Hu Qi smiled faintly, then made a gesture, and when he saw that the two entourages outside the courtyard and the two people here were approaching, he said in a low voice, "That matter has been told to the adult, the adult has given a death order, no matter what method is used, you have to pry open that person's mouth!" Good people have done it, and now we have to be the most vicious villains! ”

Since the leader said this, the rest of the people agreed in unison, and then some rolled up their sleeves cooperatively, some grinned and showed a sad smile, and some people pinched their knuckles there...... Only when a group of people arrived at Sanmen, someone muttered softly: "Seventh Master, you just brought beans back from there, and now we can't even drink a mouthful of Fushou porridge." ”

"People who do things like us still expect to have a good life by drinking porridge?" Hu Qitou didn't reply, and when he got out of the gate and got on the horse, he turned his head and smiled at everyone, "After this matter is done, I invite everyone to have fun in Gooqian Hutong!" Besides, when you get to the land over there, it's hard to eat something else, and it's not easy to drink a bowl of porridge? ”

Overnight, the entire Jingshi suddenly showed a heavily guarded posture, and people were sent to guard the mansions of the ministers and nobles, and the Ten Kings' Mansion was naturally no exception. After all, the emperor's younger brothers, big and small, although they were crowned princes, they have not yet been vassaled, and King Zheng, King Yue, King Xiang, King Jing, King Huai, King Liang, and King Wei all live here. Coupled with the prince's mansions in the past, this large area is full of mansions, but there are not many guards now. After all, nobility is no match for power.

In a mansion to the east, it was as quiet as the other mansions. Because it is a mansion, it is naturally not as grand as the feudal king's mansion, but the main house is still very close to the spaciousness. It was a harsh winter, and there was a dragon burning in the warm pavilion of the east house, and a thick sheepskin mattress was spread in the center, and two beauties in light clothes were sitting on the left and right, and the man in the middle was reclining on the naked thighs of the beauty on the left, lazily eating the raisins fed by the jade hands, but he didn't look at the kneeling person sitting not far in front of him.

"Don't bother me with these messy things, it's a thing to die a few servants, not to mention that you invited me to play! Jinyi Wei wants to check, let them check it, horizontal and vertical is just to be scolded by a few words, what's the big deal! This is so fierce outside, what am I going to do in the palace? ”

The man suddenly pushed away the naked beauty next to him and sat up, Xiao seemed to Zhu Zhanji's face with a deep look: "Don't think you are pinching my handle, let me tell you, if I turn my face and go to the palace to sue at this time, saying that you threaten your relatives, are you dead or alive?" ”

"Your Highness laughed, how dare the little one?" The man hurriedly lowered his head, but there was not much fear in his voice, "Xiao naturally doesn't dare to threaten his relatives, but it's just a few maidservants, how can it be worth anything?" But Your Highness, don't forget, the emperor is outside, and the crown prince in the palace is sick again, if there are any three long and two short...... It is important to know that His Highness is not only filial and virtuous, but also ...... in name"

When he said this, the man's face suddenly froze. Thinking about the situation in the palace, he couldn't help but think of the situation in the first year of Hong Xi, and his face changed unconsciously. Although the crown prince is sick and should have nothing to do with the queen mother, who knows if something else will happen, and besides, the queen mother's speech is the most effective. After thinking about it, he stepped forward and kicked the man to the ground, and then stomped heavily on the man's head, face, and shoulders a few times, and finally snorted coldly in relief.

"I managed to get into the palace when I got back...... But if you dare to be so bold in the future, I will kill you alive! ”

The man didn't snort until the man was done venting his anger, he barely struggled, and said vaguely "Little don't dare", and when he saw that he had nothing to say, he quietly retreated. And when he left, the man angrily smashed a vase, and one of the broken porcelain pieces grazed the right cheek of a beauty, bringing up a bloody flower, but the person concerned only covered it with a silk handkerchief in a panic, and the person who was smashing the thing did not care at all.

"Get out, if you dare to leak a word about today's incident, don't blame me for filling the pond with you!"

At the back door, a man wearing a hat successfully passed the inspection of Jinyiwei, hurried out of the alley and got into a carriage, and walked around the streets and alleys before getting off the car in another place, but the clothes and hats were all changed to another one, and only a few bruises remained on his face. After a while, he turned into the alley in front of the Ten Kings' Mansion, and this time he had a different face in the face of the guards. It wasn't until he entered his mansion and walked all the way through the hall to the warm pavilion that he took off his hat and respectfully saluted the person sitting in the middle of the house.

"The matter has been done, and he promised to go into the palace to take a look."

"It's good to have someone start ......"

The man didn't raise his head, but his gaze swept to a box on the desk. This is a box that is directly attached to the desk, which is said to be beautifully decorated, but it can prevent people from dropping the bag and taking it away. Moreover, what is placed in the open place, others will not pay too much attention, only he knows what is inside. At this moment, he unconsciously reached out and rubbed it, and muttered a low word in his mouth.

"Earlier, my father and the king of Han had a bad relationship, but the emperor's grandfather has always loved you, I didn't expect you to go so early, leaving only these things for me......"