The young man nodded in response, but he didn't come over, but shouted towards the door: "Father, mother, my aunt is here, and my brother-in-law is also here!" ”

Then he ran over, leaned into the car door, first turned his head to look at the layout in the carriage, and then took out a gift.

"Aunt, no wonder you want to hire a carriage, why do you take so many things."

The young man shouted with a smile, this time there were more gifts than he imagined, and he remembered that his aunt had never been so generous.

The mother laughed and scolded, "What hired? This is our car! If you want to use a car in the future, just say hello, and I'll let Lao Zhang pick you up. ”

There was a sense of pride in the mother's tone, a sense of showing off her wealth that she did not shy away from at all.

The boy was shocked: "What? Our car! Aunt, you've made a fortune! ”

The mother couldn't help but be afraid of beating the boy: "What are you talking about, where is this, why do you buy a car and get rich?" Out of breath! ”

The young man smiled honestly, his arms were full of gifts, and he greeted: "Aunt, brother-in-law, brother, sister, all in, all in." ”

The mother smiled, looked at the ground carefully, took a step, and turned around and did not forget to tell Lao Zhang: "Lao Zhang, I will lead the horse to the backyard later, remember to feed it." ”

Lao Zhang answered, got out of the car and began to unload the horse.

As soon as they walked to the door, two middle-aged people, a man and a woman, were walking quickly out of the big house at the end of the courtyard and had reached the middle of the courtyard.

Yang Chao walked unhurriedly, he walked side by side with his father, and his mother and sister consciously left and right, in the later position.

Seeing a pair of middle-aged people with a smile on their faces, they had already greeted him.

Everyone stopped, the father pretended to arch his hand, and the mother bent her knees gently, and she arrived at the song in style.

The two shouted in unison: "Big brother." ”

Yang Chao then bowed his hand, bent over, and respectfully greeted: "My nephew has seen my uncle and aunt!" ”

These two are his uncle and aunt, and his mother's elder brother.

My uncle's surname is Zhao Dan, and it is said that when he was born, he thundered, and his grandfather gave him this name.

My uncle's surname is Yao, which is Zhao Yao's family.

Uncle and aunt bowed back to Yang Yong and his wife with a smile, and then his uncle came over to help Yang Chao up, and said with a smile: "In the end, it is a scholar, my nephew has a lot of etiquette." ”

Yao smiled, did not speak, and was very virtuous.

Uncle said to Yang Yue again: "The girl is also older, it's time to find her mother-in-law." ”

Yang Yue stomped her feet in shame.

The uncle laughed, and then he doubted: "Sister, how can this be a rich person, this nephew and niece really look like a young master and a young lady of a big family." It's the babies of hundreds of households, and they don't wear them so well. ”

At this time, the little cousin coaxed on the side: "Dad, it's not like you're getting rich." My aunt's family has bought a carriage, so magnificent! ”

The mother immediately laughed and scolded, "You little rabbit, what do you know?" ”

The uncle was stunned and said, "Feelings, I'm really rich!" ”

The mother smiled: "Say it inside, let's talk about it inside." ”

As he spoke, he walked towards the big house as if he had become the owner of the house.

The uncle was still stunned, but he saw a coachman driving a horse into the yard.

The coachman also shouted: "Uncle, where are the horses going?" ”

The uncle hurriedly greeted his son, but the son's arms were full of gifts, so he simply showed the way himself, helped drive the horse, and loudly beckoned his aunt to take out the tea leaves that had been hidden in the spring.

The family entered the lobby.

My uncle's family is actually not poor, and even slightly richer, so my father feels a little unable to raise his head over the years.

So this is the first time my grandfather came to my uncle's house after three years.

My uncle's house has three large tiled houses, but the courtyard wall is rammed earth, but it is better than Xiaolingwei and other families.

Although Xiaolingwei is also the guard of the Ming Dynasty, there are also other guards, a large number of land is occupied by officers, but the life of the military household is much stronger than other guards, and the military households of other guards are almost basically coolies, and they are not as good as beggars.

And Xiaolingwei's military households, although they are not rich, can at least have food and clothing, and after a few years, they can also save money to sell decent clothes.

The first is because this is the mausoleum guard for Zhu Yuanzhang and his wife, where the cemetery of the founding emperor is located, the emperors of all dynasties have attached great importance to it, and the military salary is higher than that of other armies, even higher than the battalion soldiers in Beijing, and every time the emperor sends someone to worship his ancestors, there are rewards.

Of course, the officers of the filial piety guard will also be deducted, but the deduct does not dare to be as blatant as other guards, and there are still a lot of soldiers left, often a mausoleum guard can get nearly one or two silver a month, which is not counting the reward of the emperor after worshipping his ancestors.

Therefore, as long as he can join the Xiaoling Guard, a soldier can even save more than ten taels of silver a year.

My grandfather was such a soldier back then, so he built three large tiled houses at home, not to mention, and married his son to a daughter-in-law early, unlike other guards, some of whom were singles for a lifetime, and some of whom were forty or fifty years old before they could ask for a daughter-in-law who fled from other places.

However, Yang Chao's grandfather was also very beautiful back then, and his craftsmanship was extremely famous in Nanjing, better than his father Yang Yong's. In addition, he has a blacksmith shop, and the Supervision Bureau is not as good as it is now, so life is quite good. That's why the Yang and Zhao families got married, and they were a good match at that time.

However, the blacksmith shop was passed into the hands of his father, and the business was not as good as that of his grandfather, and the officials of the supervision bureau became more and more corrupt, so life was tight.

In fact, the same is true of my uncle's family, my grandfather's mausoleum guards were not passed on to my uncle, because the number of mausoleum guards was very tight, and some people were scrambling, but my uncle couldn't grab them.

However, Xiaolingwei is a guard army in the end, and there is an advantage that there is land to plant, of course, these lands have long been occupied by officers, and most of the land of Zhou Baihu is Zhou Baihu's family, but the landlord will not cultivate it himself, and the land is still cultivated by these military households, and the Zhao family rented four acres of paddy fields from hundreds of households, and life is quite passable.

"Hey, girl, how the hell did you make a fortune?"

The uncle asked several times in a row, and the mother diverted the topic with sloppy eyes, but she couldn't help but smile on her face, and her face was about to curle.

The rule of officials is corrupt, not only the Yang family is not as good as in the past, but the Zhao family is not as good as in the past.

Although the uncle is bent on letting his son enter the mausoleum guards, it is difficult to enter the world now.

Moreover, in recent years, the officers guarding the tomb have deducted military salaries blatantly, and the military salaries have heard that sometimes there is not even a penny of silver a month, and Emperor Chongzhen has never issued a reward after he succeeded to the throne.

Many military households in Xiaolingwei said that this mausoleum guard could not be done, and the old Emperor Zhu's food was not delicious.

But my uncle didn't believe this, he thought he was a knowledgeable person, and he felt that the world was not peaceful, so he didn't reward him.

That's why the emperor didn't have time to take care of those officers, let the officers be so deductive, and when the world is peaceful in a few years, it will be fine.

I heard the old man say that the years of the troubles were also like this, haven't they all passed?

So the uncle still made up his mind to send a son to the imperial tomb to guard the mausoleum.

But my uncle has two sons, even if he can send them to the imperial mausoleum by trust, he can send one in at most, and what about the other.

Even if you send it in, according to the current situation, you can only make ends meet, and you will have to help yourself in marrying a daughter-in-law and building a house in the future, seeing that the two boys are old, especially the eldest one, who is eighteen years old, and there is nothing to do, I can't help but let my uncle worry.

When I heard that my sister's family had made a fortune, I even bought a carriage, and the carriage was nothing, but the horse didn't have one or twenty taels of silver, so I couldn't help but buy it, so my uncle's mind couldn't help but come alive, and he wanted to know how this sister's family made a fortune.

"Oh, you mean, you're afraid that my brother will steal your door?"

When the uncle saw his sister talking about him left and right, the conversation was back and forth, and he couldn't help but be a little anxious.

Yang Chao sat aside and didn't speak, he was a scholar, he had to look like a scholar outside, since he was a child, he came over like this, every time he went to a relative's house, he had to pretend to be a scholar.

Seeing that her uncle was in a hurry, her mother breathed a sigh of relief.

smiled: "Big brother, look at you, you're in a hurry again, or this temper!" ”

The uncle snorted and sulked and stopped talking.

The mother laughed and said, "Brother, look at you." Okay, tell you no, I'm not afraid that you will rob, and you won't be able to rob it. ”

When my uncle saw this, he calmed down and listened carefully.

"Hi. It's also the Yang family, there is green smoke on the ancestral grave, my son, I'm an official! ”

Mother said it lightly, with a calm demeanor, as if it were not a big deal at all.

The uncle was stunned, and blinked twice with straight eyes, this information exceeded the speed of his brain.

After being quiet for a while, my uncle's eyes blinked more than ten times, and only after a few mutters, he seemed to have regained the ability to speak.

"What kind of official? What officer? How many products? ”

Saying that, the uncle looked restrained, and looked at Yang Chao with a blank face, as if he didn't know what to look at this nephew, the current official.

"What a few products are not a few products, he is a petty official, the chief official, and the water camp by the river."

The mother still said that the clouds were light and light, but her tone was flat, but her expression was extremely high, and she almost danced with her eyebrows.

Uncle exhaled: "Put the general." ”

There was still a little disappointment in his tone, the first thing he actually thought about was the civil official, thinking that his nephew had been promoted and became the county master.

I don't want to be a military attaché, as a military household in the guard, I know more about the army, and I know that the military attaché's business is not good.

As soon as she heard her uncle's tone, her mother's radiant face suddenly changed, and she was quite displeased: "Yes, a small chief military attaché, no interest." ”

The uncle didn't know his mother's mind at all, and asked, "The real job is still good, and the one hundred and ten people under his hand are called." ”

According to my uncle's understanding, those commanders in the imperial mausoleum, some of their subordinates work for nothing, and they can still deduct military salaries and cattle.

Mother's face was a little better: "Naturally, it's a real job, and a false job is a fart!" ”

"It's still a real job!"

Uncle exclaimed.

"That's good. The general manager of our filial piety is not worse than Zhou Baihu. ”

The 100 households of the Zhou 100 households are hereditary from the Zhou family, so they have become the big landlords here, and the family has 200 acres of dry land, and the 100 families in the house are all tenants of his family.

However, there is a real shortage of money in the imperial tomb, and the money that can be scavenged every year is not less than that of 100 households, and under normal circumstances, such a total is also done by the surrounding hereditary households such as Zhou Baihu.

Mother nodded: "That's nature. ”

Uncle looked at Yang Chao, laughed, and sighed, "It's out, it's out."

finally stood up and quietly pulled the younger son on the side: "Go to the wine shop and call your brother back." and let him take a pound of soju on credit. Hurry up, you will drink more with your aunt and cousin later, he is the chief officer, I am afraid that there is no hope for you to enter the imperial mausoleum, and being a personal soldier with your cousin is no worse than guarding the mausoleum. Just go! ”

The youngest son nodded violently, and then ran out, being able to be a soldier is the greatest hope of the Xiaoling Guards, and they are all squeezed out of the heads of those hundreds and thousands of households who are rushing to tie up one by one.

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