Chapter 122: The Jade Lion of the Night
The dignitaries and dignitaries on the segment, Qin Lin went to pay their respects one by one, what British duke, Linhuai Marquis, An Yuan Marquis, none of them were really received, they were all posts into the gatehouse, and after a while, a housekeeper came out, arched his hand and said, "The master is not at home, don't dare to be, block the drive", this is considered a visit.
These princes of the Ming Dynasty, where do they have the leisure and the hundreds of households in Jinyi and Wei? But if you really don't come, they will say that you look down on him, and you will cause countless troubles from then on.
Qin Lin couldn't see it, otherwise he would have to kneel down everywhere, and his knees would not be able to bear it, even if he reported the post, it would be convenient and trouble-free.
The most worried Wei State Mansion, Qin Lin first sent Lu Fatzi to take two taels of silver to inquire, and sure enough, the fat man's round appearance was very pleasing, and a kind old man told him very enthusiastically that Miss Xu went hunting and was not at home.
Qin Lin breathed a sigh of relief, and then he came to the door and threw the post in.
Those arrogant servants are all characters with sky-high nostrils, where do you put your little brocade clothes in your eyes? There was no tea, and there was no bench, so Qin Lin was allowed to stand in the gatehouse.
The old man shook his head and sighed, he couldn't get used to the behavior of these arrogant servants, but he was helpless.
Lu Yuanzhi pouted: "Why don't you get a bench for my parent officer, I've been running all morning, and both legs are trembling!" ”
"Sir?" Several uncles in the concierge snorted in their noses, and their mouths were crooked with laughter: "My grandfather is the garrison of Nanjing, in charge of the Nanjing Zhongjun Governor's Mansion, and has forty-nine guards and one hundred and eighteen thousand households, and the Wei commander has to lead the horse for his old man, and the thousand households don't even want to look at the gate, and you dare to call the chief of a hundred households, and you are not afraid of people laughing off their big teeth!" ”
It turned out that in the Ming Dynasty, Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, was the first of the founding military generals, posthumously crowned the King of Zhongshan, and his descendants were hereditary Duke of Wei, and he was extremely honored. In the Battle of Jingyan, Zhu Di killed Emperor Jianwen's courtiers, but Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei, who was still leading his troops to resist him until the last moment, was safe and sound - it turned out that Zhu Di's queen Xu was Xu Huizu's sister!
During the reign of Wuzong, the great eunuch Liu Jin was known as the "Emperor", and his power was monstrous, and he still did not dare to touch a cold hair of the Xu family, which shows the deep foundation and great influence of the Wei family in the Ming Dynasty.
This generation of Wei Duke Xu Bangrui is the sixth year of Longqing, with the Nanjing garrison in charge of the military capital of the Governor's Mansion, has been extremely prominent, these servants of the Guogong Mansion rely on the power of the lord to look down on people, even the brocade clothes and hundreds of households do not pay attention to it, and ridicule.
Lu Yuanzhi was about to argue with these dogs, but Qin Lin shook his head to stop him, arched his hand towards the smiling men, and stood in the corner of the wall.
Several porters leaned back and laughed, and the ridicule was endless.
Qin Lin didn't care about these guys at all, he was ready to wait for the sound of "blocking the car" and immediately flashed people, he came to pay his respects just for the rules of officialdom, but he didn't plan to ask Wei Guogong for anything, why should he care about the faces of a few subordinates?
Unexpectedly, a white-haired old steward came out, and he bowed his back and asked, "Which one is Chief Qin?" Little grandfather, please! ”
Qin Lin answered, wondering in his heart, he said that he didn't know any little grandfather, even that Miss Xu had only heard of it, and had never met her. I couldn't care much about it, so I took a step and arched my hand: "Old housekeeper, the next official is." ”
When the old steward saw that Qin Lincha didn't have any stools and didn't sit on a stool, he knew what was going on, glared at a few porters, and scolded in a low voice: "Dogs look down on people!" I'll clean you up later! ”
His attitude was extremely respectful, first kneeling down and bowing to the little grandfather's guests, and then bending down to lead the way.
Several porters stared at each other with big eyes, and they all cried and mourned: the old man is in charge of teaching people's wrists, that is very powerful! How did the Jinyi Wei Baihu official recognize the little grandfather?
"Call you dog eyes look down on people!" The porter slapped himself in remorse.
The scale of the Wei Mansion in Nanjing is not less than that of the Jingwang Mansion in Qizhou, but it is a little less resplendent and more solemn in the killing and conquest.
When Qin Lin saw these guards, he couldn't help but think of the four female soldiers and their master, Li Qingdai, and a trace of sweetness floated in his heart.
The little grandfather Xu Weizhi was already waiting outside the study, he was in his thirties, wearing a crown of three beams of gold and a cloud-patterned green swiftlet's suit, he didn't look outstanding at first glance, but he was very heroic.
Seeing that the old man was leading Qin Lin to come, he walked down the three steps of the study and said with a smile: "Brother Qin cleared my cousin's grievances and reconciled his father and son. ”
Oh, Qin Lin suddenly realized that since Xu Xinyi is Zhu Youfan's cousin, then Xu Weizhi is of course Zhu Youfan's cousin.
It is conceivable that Zhu Youfan received Qin Lin's great favor, and after learning that he was transferred to Nanjing, he must have written a letter to Xu Weizhi, asking him to carry Qin Lin.
With this relationship, of course Xu Weizhi had an excellent attitude, Qin Lin just made a bow posture, and hurriedly stopped: "I can't help it!" Brother Qin cleared his cousin's grievances and bridged his father and son, so that Aunt Ke's spirit in the sky could rest in peace, and it should be said that Brother Qin should be thanked for it...... If my father hadn't had something to do with the garrison mansion, he would have to thank Brother Qin in person! ”
Xu Weizhi said, and he smiled and made a gesture to kneel.
Qin Lin hurriedly said that he was ashamed, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him, joking, in the future, Grandpa Guo, you can also make him kneel?
The two walked into the study side by side, and Xu Weizhi ordered the maid to make good fragrant tea to offer.
Xu Weizhi and his cousin Zhu Youfan are completely opposite, they do not have that gloomy and depressed atmosphere, but talk heartily and heroically, and tell a joke from time to time, which is very funny.
"Brother Qin came to our Nanjing, he really chose the right place, ten miles of Qinhuai, countless beauties, gentle township, Pinjin Grotto, I just don't know if Brother Qin's eunuchs are abundant?" Xu Weizhi laughed and blinked ambiguously: "If Brother Qin wants to redeem which red man he wants, just ask me if he has a short amount of silver!" ”
Qin Lin only laughed at Xu Weizhi at this time, and didn't take it seriously, but he didn't know that Xu Weizhi was the No. 1 bastard boss in Nanjing City, when he was young, he fought cocks, praised Qing people, and spent a lot of money in Qinglou, and he played everything, and now he has sons and daughters, and he gradually relented, but the big guy's temper has never changed, and he likes to match his friends the most, as long as anyone says that he likes to fall in love with a certain celebrity but lacks money to redeem her, Xu Weizhi immediately took out a thousand taels of silver, and didn't even blink his eyelids.
The first time Qin Lin met, he didn't know if he was joking if he was telling the truth, so he had to say: "Thank you for the kindness of the little grandfather, but the lower officials are not interested in the women in the party." ”
Xu Weizhi was stunned, thinking that it was a pity that such a young hero as Qin Lin was incomprehensible.
The two talked and laughed for a long time, Xu Weizhi insisted on staying with Qin Lin for dinner, Qin Lin excused himself and said that his subordinates were still waiting outside the door, so he asked the old capital to arrange Lu Yuanzhi and Niu Dali, and finally left Qin Lin for a sumptuous banquet.
At the table, Qin Lin mentioned that there was no spacious ground in the hundred households, and Xu Weizhi waved his hand: "No problem, the east garden on our house is a little far away from the mansion, and it is under the city wall in the east city, and no one usually goes, and there is a lot of wasteland. ”
Qin Lin thanked him repeatedly, the house of the hundred households was too small and old, and he was going to buy a big house to live in and also serve as a yamen, but he couldn't find a martial arts arena that could accommodate the training of two hundred people, so it would be easy to borrow the East Garden of the Guogong Mansion.
"Xiao Ke has a sister who can't get married, her surname is very stubborn, and she is spoiled by her mother......" When he was full of wine and food, Xu Weizhi said to his sister intentionally or unintentionally: "Brother Qin may have heard of it, so, that, in case it is ...... Haha, please also Brother Qin Haihan, Haihan! ”
Qin Lin was worried when he heard this, and he didn't know who the ugly Miss Xu who "couldn't get married" was, but Xu Weizhi wanted to tell himself to prepare in advance.
After being full of wine and food, Xu Weizhi gave another gift, and finally personally sent Qin Lin to the second gate before saying goodbye and going back.
The old man kept sending Qin Lin out of the door, but this time the attitudes of the porters were diametrically opposite, and they all bent their waists into curved rulers.
Lu Yuanzhi and Niu Dali were waiting in the gatehouse with red faces, obviously eating and drinking, and walked out of the Guogong Mansion with Qin Lin, and when they arrived at the fat man on the street, they smiled directly: "Brother Qin, don't you see the red marks on the faces of those porters?" The big slap just now made me laugh to death......"
"Laugh, if you laugh more, your legs won't hurt." Qin Lin said with a smile.
"Oh mom, let's buy a few horses, I ran down this morning, and my leg was about to break!" Lu Yuanzhi smiled wryly.
The city of Nanjing is too big, one hundred and twenty miles around, and it is too difficult to run on two legs alone.
The place of the hundred households is small, because he is in charge of patrolling in the city, he does not raise horses, Qin Lin originally wanted to buy horses but was worried that there would be no place to feed, since Xu Weizhi promised to divide the East Garden into a piece, then there would be no problem.
Knowing that they were going to buy a horse now, Lu Fatzi and Niu Dali were so happy that they rubbed their hands.
"You two ......" Qin Lin suddenly covered his stomach and laughed wildly: "Don't, don't ride a horse, let's buy an elephant to ride!" Only an elephant can afford to carry your body! ”
The fat man and Niu Dali rolled their eyes in unison: Qin Lin, this is Chiguoguo's discrimination...... The Nanjing horse market is in the saddle bridle workshop on the inside of the treasure gate, and with silver, you can buy any kind of good horse.
As soon as Qin Lin arrived in the horse market, he saw that he was a young Jinyi Wei Baihu, and they all thought that it was a hereditary prince who came, and many horses came up to grab business, and finally a thin and tall northerner won, because he only said: "What kind of horse do you have, comparable to my jade lion in the night?" ”
Sure enough, a good horse!
I saw that the horse was tall and long-legged, and his body was snow-white, and there was not a single stray hair on his body, and there was a mane under his neck, which looked like a lion.
Qin Lin was about to bargain with Ma Yazi, when suddenly a crisp Nanjing official dialect sounded behind him: "Shine on the night jade lion, good horse, how much?" Miss Ben wants it! ”
(To be continued)