In August, the summer is in full swing, and the summer cicadas are jubilant on the locust trees on both sides of the street. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAt this time, the capital was hot and dreary, and the sultry air seemed to be soaked in oil, and a little spark could ignite a skyrocketing flame.

The blazing afternoon sun illuminated the "Ding" street at the entrance of the vegetable market with white flowers, and the branches of the national acacia tree in front of the Yirentang were hanging low, and the leaves were wilted. A large vat has been added under the eaves of the medicine shop, which is full of sour plum soup that clears heat and relieves heat, and is allowed to be drunk by guests without taking a penny. This is a medical virtue of the shopkeeper of Yirentang, and it is also a magic weapon to attract customers.

Half of the credibility of buying and selling is created by oneself, and half is held out by customers, who are the businessman's food and clothing. The proprietor of Yirentang knows this well, so he is very respectful to his customers, and even if someone who does not buy medicine passes by the door, he will invite you to drink sour plum soup for nothing. What is drunk is the name of Yirentang, and what is promoted is the reputation of Yirentang.

This has made the business of a few street corner vendors in the neighborhood hard. They sell seasonal snacks, selling Shaqima and Aiwowo in autumn and winter, pea yellow in spring, and cold powder and big bowls of tea in summer. At this time, he left the old site at the entrance of Yirentang, pushed the wheelbarrow westward along the "Ding" street entrance, and set up a stall in the shade under the eaves of the south side of the road. ，

"Jelly! Hot and sour noodles! ”

This shout, when heard in Yirentang, seemed far away. In the Yirentang store, Yin Lichen sat on a chair outside the counter, waiting for the guy to grab the medicine, thinking about his thoughts sullenly......

Over the past year or so, the major events that have happened in this world can be said to be dizzying. Last year's "Renchen Rebellion" led to the "Nine Governors' Discussion of Politics", and the majesty of the imperial court was swept away, and Tang Ziran, who launched the "Rebellion", was not punished. On the contrary, it is the "land of dragon prosperity" of the Qing Dynasty, the three eastern provinces. not only became the governor of the three eastern provinces. He also became one of the nine governors of the world. Immediately afterwards, the "Devil Six" took power again and started the New Deal Restoration, and most of the ministers who seemed to be stubborn and conservative were ordered to pay tribute. But people with a discerning eye can see that most of those who were ordered to be officials are Han officials, and now there are more and more full officials in the court, and the people who love the Xinjue Luo family for more than two hundred years have never believed in the Han people at all, and they used to be. This is even more true now, but now sometimes I don't even want to be so face-saving, and where I can use a full official, I naturally have to use a full official, as for the Han official, I will find a name and open it from the beginning.

The court here looks very lively, but the place over there is even more lively, where the big guys are all training the new army with their heads down, implementing new policies, and one day of innovation, in order to set the momentum of 10,000 years. But no one could see it. The trend of the world is not only uncertain, but it is becoming more and more chaotic. Although the imperial court painstakingly ran the new army. It is not easy to train the new army of two towns, but how can it be compared with the local -- Beiyang alone, isn't it also the new army of four towns, the Hubei side has also trained two towns and one association, and there is also one town and two associations in Liangjiang, and if this continues, how many soldiers will have to be trained in this world?

What does all this mean?

As a scholar, Yin Lichen never thought that the dozen or so new troops trained in the world were for the Qing Dynasty and to fight foreigners, and maybe they wouldn't last a few years, and the world would ...... It's not sure what the mess will be.

At this moment, the old shopkeeper of Yirentang shook the banana fan, walked out from inside, saw Yin Lichen at a glance, and said hello closely:

"Yo, Mr. Yin is here, is the old lady's condition better?"

"Oh, old shopkeeper,"

Yin Lichen was awakened from his solitary reverie, and had to politely entertain.

"My mother is old and sick and needs to be recuperated slowly; Since I changed the recipe you gave, it has been lighter, and I want to thank you a lot! ”

"Where, where! Treating diseases and saving people is the purpose of our store, what is the word "thanks"? ”

The old shopkeeper said with a smile.

"Still. Mr. Yi, I have long wanted to ask you for a painting of ink treasure, hang it in the store, and add glory to the small shop! ”

"Oh, the old shopkeeper has won a prize,"

Yin Lichen hurriedly said politely.

"Your store already has the treasure of the town store, how dare I give it away?"

He turned his face and looked at a pair of gold-lacquered couplets on the left and right pillars in the store.

"I hope that people in the world are free of diseases, so why worry about the shelf of medicine and dust"

It is said that the person who wrote this couplet was Liu Yong, the minister of military aircraft of the Qianlong Dynasty and the prime minister, whose calligraphy attainments were extremely high, and he was called the "prime minister of thick ink" in the early years.

"Liu Wenqinggong's handwriting is also very imposing, and your store has left his ink, which is enough to be proud of!"

Then Yin Lichen sighed again,

"It's a pity, but he is extremely loyal, and he enters history in the name of loyalty, and he loses that this is not the Northeast, if it is the Northeast, it is like this, I am afraid that the old shopkeeper will have to take down his words!"

The Northeast is different from the mainland, and the loyal ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the Northeast seem to be naturally impossible to be loyal ministers, like the Manchu ministers who were born in Fengtian, no, they should be Fan Wencheng of Shenyang, and they are even listed on the "traitor tablet", engraved with their "merits", in order to teach the world to understand the harm to the nation caused by their recognition of thieves as their fathers. This is true for people who have been dead for hundreds of years, so it is natural to imagine the difference in the Northeast.

Come to think of it, if it were left in the Northeast, a "great loyal minister" like Liu Wenqinggong, who was listed as a loyal minister in the Qing Dynasty, would naturally not be treated by the Northeast, so Yin Lichen would have such a sigh, but there was some ridicule in his words. It's no wonder that China has always paid attention to "one death and a hundred", and when he dies, he has to turn over all the old things, so Yin Lichen naturally wants to say a "fair word".

"That's the store's golden signboard, but you can't take it off!"

The old shopkeeper smiled and shook his head.

"Mr. Yin, you are also more serious, no matter which dynasty or generation, the court will not be clear, this is just a few words, even if the Northeast is lucky to win the world in the future, can you still compare this truth?"

"You're wondering, isn't that reasonable?"

The old shopkeeper still has a signature smile on his face,

"Let's just talk about our Great Qing Kingdom, you say that the current situation is not clear, who is loyal? Who is the traitor? If there really is a traitor? Not to mention the Zhongtang Lord in Tianjin, he is the Tang Marshal who presided over the three eastern provinces, and he is also the governor of the three eastern provinces under the order of the imperial court. That's why I said. It's good to be loyal. Rape or not. But it's just an introduction to medicine, in the end, you still have to rely on your fists to speak, whoever has more foreign guns and more soldiers is loyal to ......"

Yin Lichen was secretly surprised, and now this complicated and incomprehensible situation was caught by the owner of the Chinese medicine shop! Isn't this the reason, the reason why the local army is training day and night now? It is not a soldier who is trained, but also the foundation of the foothold in this troubled world, and it is also the courage and future of the governors.

"Hey, the country will be in chaos......"

The two were chatting when a customer came in at the door of the store. He was in his early thirties, not very tall, with a wide head, high cheekbones, thick lips, and a high arch of his eyebrows. A pair of bright black eyes; He wears a green satin hat and a round silk fine summer cloth gown. Pedal double-beam cloth shoes. When I walked a few steps into the store, I walked even more vigorously, and inadvertently brought the "kung fu" on my body, which was obviously not an ordinary person.

"You're here?"

The old shopkeeper stopped the chatter for the time being, and stepped forward to greet him, even though he was a guest, he also greeted him with a smile.

"This gentleman, are you grabbing medicine, or are you here to rest and cool off?"

"Grab the medicine."

The man handed over a prescription, a mouthful of Huguang's official dialect, and when he spoke, the body was even more full of official spirit in his bones, and he didn't need to ask the well-informed shopkeeper to guess the identity of this master, it must be an official master, or a powerful official.

"Excuse me, hurry up!"

"Okay,"

The old shopkeeper stretched out his hand to take the prescription, and hurriedly and politely.

"This master, sit down and rest for a while, this will be for you, just talk!"

But the man didn't sit, put his hands behind his back, looked up and browsed the store, his eyes fell on the pillar engraved with Liu Yong's posthumous ink, and watched carefully.

"I hope that people in the world are free of diseases, so why worry about the ...... of medicine and dust on the shelf"

The man muttered the couplet standing on the pillar, and after a while he muttered softly.

"It's like Liu Wenqinggong's last ......"

Although this person's words were not loud, the more they still reached Yin Lichen's ears, so he hurriedly took a few more looks, and there were really not many people who could see at a glance that it was Liu Wenqing's legacy, after all, there was no money on the couplet.

In fact, since the man entered the door, Yin Lichen looked at him on the side, vaguely feeling familiar, but he couldn't remember who he was for a while. When the man stood with his hands behind his back, stared at the couplet on the pillar, he suddenly recognized it from that expression, stood up unconsciously, and asked tentatively:

"This gentleman, may I ask if you are surnamed Sun?"

"Hmm,"

The man suddenly looked back and looked at the old man beside him in surprise.

"Yes, how does the gentleman know me? Pls are you ......"

"Brother Zimin,"

After receiving an affirmative answer, Yin Lichen suddenly shouted excitedly.

"You don't know me anymore? My surname is Yin! ”

"Surname Yin?"

Sun Qiyun looked at the person in front of him carefully, and seemed to have some impressions, when he went to Beijing to take the exam many years ago, he seemed to have met an old brother surnamed Yin, could it be the person in front of him.

"Could it be that you are Junping's brother?"

asked tentatively, and immediately made Yin Lichen nod hurriedly and said.

"yes, yes!"

"Are you really Junping?"

Sun Qiyun was pleasantly surprised, when he went to Beijing to take the exam, he met several old friends from other provinces, and it was really fate that he could meet again.

"I haven't seen you for many years, but I'm sorry that my brother didn't recognize my brother!"

The two who had met again after a long absence, shook each other's hands, only looking quite excited.

"Brother Junping!"

Yin Lichen looked at the friend he had made many years ago in front of him, and hurriedly asked,

"Your ...... in Beijing this time"

Now no one still regards the examination as a general examination, for many scholars, they are more inclined to defect to the local governors, after all, the power of the commissioner is in the locality, not in the center, thinking of next year's examination, is it that the people in front of them are still running for the future like themselves? That's why I came to Beijing to take the exam.

"I just arrived in Beijing, and my relatives and friends haven't had time to visit them one by one,"

Sun Qiyun didn't answer directly, and then changed the conversation again.

"It's great to meet a virtuous brother today!"

"Isn't that the reason, Brother Zimin, where are you staying in Beijing this time? If you don't dislike it, you might as well live in your younger brother's house......"

Yin Lichen's words came from the bottom of his heart, although they were a few times ago, but it did not prevent him from inviting him to live at home to prepare for the exam, and the two of them could discuss the article in their spare time.

"Thank you, brother, but now my brother has settled in Xianliang Temple......"

Yin Lichen's enthusiasm made Sun Qiyun hurriedly say.

"Oh, Xianliang Temple?"

The old shopkeeper, who had just taken the medicine, did not wait for him to finish speaking, and then exclaimed. In fact, he didn't care much about whether the people living in the Xianliang Temple were virtuous, but he knew that the people who lived in the Xianliang Temple were not all the henchmen of the local governors.

"Lord Sun, the villain didn't know that you were coming, and I didn't welcome you, you have a lot of forbearance, I'm here to say hello to you!"

Saying that, the old shopkeeper bent down to beat Qian'er, and the heads who lived there, although they were all "alternate" Taoists, but who didn't know that in this capital, living in Xianliang Temple, that identity was no worse than the previous Minister of Military Aircraft.

The politeness of the old shopkeeper made Sun Qiyun hurriedly support him and said.

"Oh, don't dare to be!"

"Where, what should be!"

The old shopkeeper didn't know what to say, so he hurriedly dusted off his chair, invited Sun Qiyun to sit down, and shouted at the counter.

"Make tea!"

The guy brought out two bowls of tea and placed them on the coffee table between the two chairs, and even Yin Lichen ran out.

"You two, please have tea!"

After inviting him to sit down, the old shopkeeper looked at the two and seemed to be talking, so he respectfully returned to the cabinet.

"Brother Zimin, I wonder who you are in now?"

Yin Lichen, who knew the talent in Sun Qiyun's belly, after knowing that he had entered the local shogunate, was now curious about who he was in.

"These years as a brother has been in the Liangjiang curtain, and later by chance into the new army, this is not a while ago, when the bandits were suppressed in Jiangxi, he was wounded by a gunshot, and Liu Shuai was encouraged, and he went to the capital to serve as a member of the council and assist in military affairs......"

Sun Yunqi hurriedly replied that the so-called military assistance is actually a military representative, after all, there are also military issues that need to be coordinated between localities, and at this time it reflects the importance of the council, and this military council naturally came into being, which is nothing more than the representative of all parties to coordinate military issues at the council.

"Bandits? What kind of bandit is this, he can actually hurt his people's brothers. ”

I don't know what Yin Lichen, who is a military assistant, but he knows that with his talent, he will never be buried in the new army, not to mention that he was born in the background, and he is naturally by the side of the general, so he can be injured, what kind of bandit is that? It's so powerful, but it's more curious about the "bandits" in his mouth, and it seems that he hasn't heard much about it in the newspapers. It wasn't too tight not to mention it before, but when I mentioned it, my brows suddenly wrinkled.

"This bandit...... Hey, I'm here for my brother this time to solve this matter! ”

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