Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Guards (I)
The change of identity has made one person become another, which is determined by the rules of the dynasty, and it is also the constraints of feudal society for thousands of years that everyone knows a truth - there is a difference between respect and inferiority. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The person is still the same person as before, but now Yang Ming no one dares to look at him like he did at the beginning, and his title has also changed.
Master Xiao Yang!
All the soldiers who came to Hongcheng had a look of respect, yes is respect! That feeling was like the feeling of facing Shangguan, and it seemed to be suppressed, and even Liu Tieshan's expression was somewhat unnatural.
That's class.
Two people of different classes should never want to be in perfect harmony. Yang Ming's performance was very natural, and he even took the initiative to chat with some familiar old acquaintances, but when he saw that these restrained people couldn't even speak clearly, he seemed a little cramped.
When facing themselves, these people only have infinite compliments, and they carefully hold a human skin mask and put it on their faces, and it is not a good idea to stay here.
At least in Yang Ming's opinion, he is here, this celebration banquet will not be very relaxed, maybe tonight will become a rare chatting capital in their lives, maybe a memory.
The dull wine table had some popularity in Liu Tieshan's toast, and these big-headed soldiers who shouted at the civilians were full of smiles, Yang Ming picked up the wine glass and raised it high: "Thank you for your payment, I am really grateful for the banquet and entertainment, we are all villagers in Hongcheng, you don't have to be restrained, drink this cup full!" ”
As soon as Yang Ming's words fell, the soldiers at several tables raised their wine glasses high, how could they have received such courtesy? A gentleman who was about to be a man of public affairs actually toasted them? The ancestral grave is smoking!
They are more or less clear about Yang Ming's legendary events in just two months, especially officers like Liu Tieshan are the beneficiaries of it, whether it is the sweet soup at the city gate or the recent coal group, or even the current bandits, they have made enough money and credit, such an unpretentious and approachable young talent makes them respect and love.
This kind of mood is definitely from the heart, if possible, they are even willing to join the Yang family, but I don't know if they are willing or not.
After three rounds of drinking, people are already slightly drunk, and the autumn breeze is slightly sober.
The wine table is still lively, and now those soldiers no longer have the restraint they just started, but they are not very presumptuous yelling, in the bones of these people think that doing those vulgar things in front of a decent lord will make people look down on them, so they have become elegant, the sea bowl that the inn has prepared a long time ago has been replaced with a five-dollar wine glass, and they are very polite and polite to fill the wine jug with a very intoxicated cup of you and me, it seems that in this way their personalities have been sublimated and become a Sven person.
Yang Ming smiled, they were all a group of lovely and respectable people.
In this feudal society, life is to carry back food, send the old man away, and pull the child up, this is a man. He even saw that some veterans secretly put duck legs into their pockets, no one said anything, this banquet is not something they can often eat, leave a little at home for the wife and children or old parents to eat a bite and see the taste of this restaurant is the greatest happiness of the family.
He felt that he seemed to be beginning to worry about the country and the people, and he had just obtained the right to eat meat, where did he have the strength to care about other people?
But when these respectful and somewhat nervous smiling faces are facing themselves, why do they feel a little sour? This is not a sign!
At least as a gentry, this kind of psychology is not normal, Yang Ming secretly warned himself, this is a group of fart people, just like the fart people in his previous life, maybe such people will get used to seeing too much.
"Daddy!"
Just as Yang Ming was thinking about it, a milky voice sounded in his ears.
Looking at it, it was a boy about two or three years old, with a peach-shaped life-shaped hairstyle on his head, a swarthy mass that was very good-looking, a little pale face, wearing a small dress full of patches changed from old adult clothes, very wide, it was estimated that the woman in the family wanted to wear it for a few more years, he ran towards a table next to Yang Ming with small steps.
"Dog, why are you here? Where's your mother? A soldier in his twenties stood up, grabbed the boy and took a duck neck from the plate in front of him and handed it to his son.
The child is very sensible, took the duck neck and did not eat, although the saliva has been constantly lingering in the mouth still did not put it in the mouth, but said to the father: "Grandpa is sick, my mother took me to the dock and waited for you to come back, seeing you go upstairs and my mother and I waited below, but you didn't come down for a long time, my mother asked me to come up to find you!" ”
"Okay, let's go!" The soldier didn't care about eating, and was about to go downstairs, when he suddenly seemed to remember something, and then retreated with a flushed face, and the twisting look could be seen that his heart seemed to be struggling violently, and the little boy was led by him with his left hand and was trying to pull him downstairs, but his strength was too small to pull him down.
"Guard, can you ......" The soldiers finally came to Liu Tieshan's side, and spoke to his superiors in a voice as small as a mosquito.
"What a bad luck!" Liu Tieshan looked impatient, but he still untied a bag from his waist, took out a three-dollar silver coin from it and threw it to the soldiers: "Take this money first, and then return it to Lao Tzu when the reward is given!" ”
Three coins of silver is three hundred yuan, Yang Ming couldn't help but glance at Liu Tieshan, although the money is not much, but it is also a lot for these soldiers, but as a city gate guard, with additional income, this soldier can naturally share some money, how can he end up in a situation where he can't make up money for medical treatment?
After which soldier took his son downstairs, Yang Ming asked, "What?" Are you gatekeepers short of money? ”
Liu Tieshan smiled bitterly, and lowered his voice before saying, "Does Yang Gongzi think that Liu has done something from it?" ”
Liu Tieshan, as an officer of the city gate guard, is understandable for being greedy, and in some places he will not even issue rewards at all, and even a large part of the salary will be deducted, which is a normal state in the Ming army.
"Is there still an inside story?" Yang Ming was also strange, of course he was just curious, as a scholar, he didn't care about the affairs of these big-headed soldiers, but these people were also acquaintances, and the soldier just now seemed to be one of the soldiers who helped the Yang family transport grain back last time, so he asked casually.
PS: Today is more sent, the weather suddenly changes the idea of the body!