"Where's Erlang?!"

With a loud shout, Wang Jue, who started to nap after getting into the car, was suddenly awakened.

When I opened my eyes and looked up, I saw an old man reprimanding a servant at the entrance of the carriage.

"Didn't you follow Jiro? How did you lose people in a blink of an eye?! ”

The old man was furious and scolded the little guy to wipe only tears.

Wang Jue sat up and looked left and right, the officials in the carriage who were originally wrapped in blankets and sleeping on the beds were now awake one by one, sitting up and looking in the direction where the noise came.

The dozen or so people in the car are basically petty officials of the eighth and ninth grades, and there are a few officials, although they can sit in the official car, they can't enjoy a separate box. If you are carrying your family, you still have a glimmer of hope to get a small room, but unfortunately the ones in the list are all on the road alone.

But here, almost all of them are high-grade, well-paid, and green-clothed officials, how can there be an old man who arbitrarily scolds the boy in front of them.

It's just that everyone, like Wang Jue, is watching coldly from the sidelines.

This old man dared to do this, either because he had no eyes, or he had no fear in his heart.

can be a servant in the official eunuch gate, and those who don't have long eyes won't stay long. dared to shout in front of more than a dozen officials, and I was afraid that I didn't take them seriously.

Wang Jue looked at the clothes on the old man and the little guy, at least at the level of the important minister.

“…… Parliamentary ......"

The fragmentary words came into Wang Jue's ears, and Wang Jue was not the only one who saw this in the carriage.

"Erlang!" The old man screamed.

"Jiro is here." The little guy also screamed in surprise, relieved.

Wang Jue looked over.

The one who appeared at the door of the car was a young man with clear eyebrows, only fourteen or fifteen.

He walked into the carriage and caught everyone's attention.

The man was white and tall, and his clothes were very simple, there was no embroidery on his clothes, and there was no decoration on his body, only a piece of jade was tied around his waist.

But the clothing is cotton, and it should be expensive Longxi muslin, and one horse should be more than eight times. Wang Jue once gritted his teeth and bought it for the Hun family, using up his month's money.

After this boy came in, the old man and the little guy also came in, and behind them, there were two guards with knives, one tall and one short, but they both had a fierce face. Except for the old man, the other three people all carried a large backpack with a strange shape behind them, which was made of cowhide, and the little guy also carried a square rattan box in his hand.

The old man followed the boy and chattered, "When I came out, the lord and the lady told me not to run around. ”

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Han Cheng looked helpless.

Behind him is the old capital manager in the house, who is also the husband of Wang Yi's nursing mother, and his identity in the house is different from that of ordinary servants. When their brothers and sisters saw them, they also had to be courteous for a few weeks.

Han Cheng was watched by him to grow up, and he has also traveled to and from Jiangning, and he is familiar with the road, and he can take care of big and small things. Therefore, when he came out, Han Cheng was told that he must be obedient and not run around.

The old guy had the gold medal in hand, and Han Cheng could only listen.

"Erlang, where did Fang Cai go?" The old man babbled a few words, and finally asked where Han Cheng was just now.

Han Cheng found his own bed, which was the top bunk. Directly across the passage was a middle-aged official with a round face. The two beds below, fortunately there are no one.

Han Cheng glanced at the official, turned around and said, "I just went to the back carriage to take a look." It stinks, so don't squeeze into the back, just rest here. ”

In a hurry, there was no special train, no exclusive carriages, and no private compartments, so I could only squeeze this kind of carriage with two bunks with other petty officials.

Han Cheng felt that his father was completely deliberate, otherwise as long as he said a word, what trouble would he have with a carriage? Now, according to his own rank, he went to get a ticket and four servants' tickets.

Except for the four people who can sleep here, they can only go to the carriage where the servants of each family live together. Han Cheng also looked at the carriage. The bed board is nailed to the wall of the board, three layers up and down, and can only barely sit up, just like that, there are many people who can only sit on the ground, or even lie under the bed.

And the biggest problem is that many officials let their servants carry the goods they trafficked, taking up most of the carriages.

Su Shi was first accused of borrowing official ships to sell illicit salt, regardless of whether Su Shi did this or not, the behavior of officials borrowing official ships and official vehicles to traffic goods has always been repeatedly prohibited. Stamp duty is levied on the goods on the train, and ordinary passengers have to search their bags when they get on the train to prevent anyone from evading taxes. But official cars are not searched, so the smuggling of officials remains unscrupulous.

Han Cheng only glanced at it, and immediately decided to let all the servants who followed him come to the official carriage. I don't know what goods are inside, and the smell of sweat and aroma in the servant's carriage almost made him faint.

If the people around him were also infected with this strange smell, Han Cheng couldn't imagine how he would live after he arrived in Sizhou, and he would rather not be able to do without them when he went south to Jiang.

Han Cheng stood in front of the bed, his brows furrowed again, in fact, his bed was not bad. It's a little better than the servant's side, but it's only a limited amount of good. I don't know how far away from my family and other industries are different. Growing up, he had never slept in such a bed.

In one carriage, a two-foot-wide passage connects the front and rear, with beds on the left and right of the passage. The bed is made in two layers, facing each other on the left and right, lying on the bed, breathing and smelling each other.

Just standing in front of the bed, when I thought that after I fell asleep, there was someone else's foot across the wall above my head, and a strong sense of disgust came up from my heart.

Not to mention how many people have slept on this bed, and how many dirty things have been stained, it feels disgusting to think about. What should I do if I get sick?

Han Cheng is well-dressed and well-fed at home, although his parents don't like luxury, and there is no gold and jade in the utensils and furnishings at home, but the quality of life of the prime minister's family is also the best in the world, how can the son of the prime minister's family get used to the shabby on the journey?

But Han Cheng didn't put his thoughts into his mouth.

When he came out, he was instructed by his mother to 'pay attention to his diet, not to cause trouble, and to arrive at his grandfather's house as much as possible', which is better than following his housekeepers and servants to receive more orders from the ear. And my father said that going out is not as good as being at home, and you should be patient in everything and not be picky.

Since he was a child, he has heard a lot of stories about his father's blue wisps, and he knows how his brother lives in Hengqu Academy, Han Cheng doesn't want to go back and be said to be pampered and not a big deal.

But although he didn't say it, there were still caring people below.

"Erlang, you wait for a while, and the little one will clean up first."

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The little guy said, and his hands and feet were even more nimble.

The futon that had been spread on the bed was lifted and thrown on the ground. I saw that the little guy took out a copper bottle from the backpack behind him, unscrewed the lid, flipped it over, and the lightly scented medicinal powder was sprinkled from the bottle onto the bed board.

The taste is very familiar, Wang Jue thought about it for a while, it seemed to be the anthelmintic powder sold by the Pharmaceutical Bureau.

He didn't hear it clearly when the little guy replied with a crying voice, but now he heard it with a faint Kansai accent, to be exact, it was because the Beijing accent was a little awkward, so Wang Jue, who had been from Kaifeng for several generations, heard a little of the Kansai accent. However, the old man is a standard Jiangnan accent, which seems to be from Jiangxi.

The little guy sprinkled a layer of medicinal powder carefully, and then took out a fine linen sheet from his backpack, laid it neatly, and took out another piece of felt, ready to spread it.

"It's too hot." The boy frowned.

Immediately, I heard the old man say behind me: "Madame has instructed that when you go out, you would rather be hot than frozen." ”

The boy stopped talking, and the little girl honestly spread the felt, and then spread a layer of cotton sheets.

Linen sheets, felt, cotton sheets. Finally, there is a thin quilt covered with a white cloth quilt, which is covered by the body. But that's not all, what keeps people asleep is a sleeping bag sewn up in satin.

It's a good arrangement, but it's just a good sleep. It made Wang Jue feel itchy all over his body, as if the bedding on his bed was crawling with fleas and bed bugs.

The noble man stood in the carriage and waited until the next person had made the bed and waited for a long time before he was willing to sit down. This action fell in Wang Jue's eyes, confirming his previous judgment even more. must be a pampered son, and the family must be a first-class family.

The backpacks on the back of several servants are of the same style as the cowhide backpacks of the Shenji Battalion.

Since the forbidden army's armament was changed from leather armor to iron armor, a large number of cowhides have been idle, and in the past two years, a large part of the idle cowhides have been made into backpacks, inner armor, and ropes. The best known to the world is the cowhide backpack on both shoulders. It can hold more things than furoshiki, and it is also more suitable for long walks. But among the forbidden army, only the border army and the Shenji battalion that need to fight are equipped. There are a lot of imitations on the market, but genuine cowhide backpacks have always been priceless.

But compared to the status of important ministers, a mere military backpack is nothing. There is also the sleeping bag, which is actually a military thing, but most of the military is made of fur.

After Han Cheng sat down, Wang Jue immediately came up, got out of bed and saluted first, and asked, "I don't know which Yanei the little brother is?" ”

At the age of fourteen or fifteen, you can get on the official car, which is naturally Yanei. Because of the smell, he put the servants into the officials' carriages, which was also the temper of the yamen.

In the eyes of the children of the Zhu Sect, a petty official with no background and no backing is also a brocade official. It's not surprising that he didn't even bow his hand after coming over.

It's just that in the yamen of a eunuch's house, how could he not get a box and run to this carriage that only low-class officials can take? This made Wang Jue unable to figure it out.