Chapter 44: A Chance Encounter with Bingji
Coming out of the palace, Liu Chang was in a much better mood.
Let him go in the past, at least in the present, his father, second brother and himself escaped, although his father was hit hard, he changed from the second oldest in the country to the head of Qian; From one person below, above 10,000 people to two people above and 10,000 people below the fugitives, of course, who are these two people, it is him and the second brother. Alive, at least currently alive, that's enough.
Originally, he was dressed up by a maid, a silk satin, and a full range of luxury equipment! It is conspicuous on the street, and now it is even more noticeable with a walking posture like a little adult. It's not that you have money, the businessman is a real rich man, do you equip one to try it? Grab it immediately and charge the army for 3,000 miles! Nowadays, wealth is not the pursuit of society, it is not the object of people's worship, it is a pig, and it is the meat on the board. Expensive, it's a knife, it's a wealthy family!
Walking with an authentic step, he shook his head and walked into a luxury wine house, in the lobby, the people were still relatively large, and no one cared about him. This is a foreign-related wine house, specializing in those rich and wealthy merchants who enter Beijing and the turtles of the Western Regions who come to the East to venture for wealth, and no one cares about a child.
"Shop!" Liu Chang was dissatisfied, they were all here to consume, why should he be inferior? However, it seems that he is really inferior, and it seems that he is more than a second. Forget it, this villain is magnanimous and doesn't care.
The runner immediately came over to offer courtesy: "Childe, which room are you from, I'll take you there?" ”
What do you mean? Look down on the master? Liu Chang's temper came up suddenly: "The master is here to drink, not to find someone!"
"How many of you"
"One"
"Huh? Just you? ”
"Not a single person?"
"How can it be, when you enter the door, you are a customer, where do you always want to sit?" The shopkeeper is always amiable: "Are you in the lobby or in the wing?" ”
"It's in the lobby"
"Okay, son, please" led Liu Chang to a couch leaning against the pillars, and there was a low table on the couch.
"The best wine, the best dishes, casually served" is the image of the gentleman, and the style of the gentleman.
"Okay, Childe wait a minute"
He is not afraid that he can't afford to pay the bills, not to mention the extravagant dress, do you know the background of the hotel? It's not a businessman, a prince or a minister, they're a piece of. We are a "state-run unit", dare to owe money to the state, rely on the state's account, sample, lend you a few guts! Salt, iron, liquor, all sold by the state!! Can't afford to pay? Find a parent!
Liu Chang threw out a money bag and asked the person who ran the hall to carry himself to the account, acting like an uncle. There are a lot of people drinking in the lobby, but he is the only one who drinks in the lobby in brocade clothes, and he is still a boy with hanging hair, a child. Originally, there were a few people around, and when they saw this posture, they left one after another, far away.
In a moment, Liu Chang's several cases were full, five painted lacquer plates and an ear cup, the ear cup is equivalent to the current wine glass, which is used to drink; A cup, the cup is equivalent to the current wine jug, used to hold wine; A bronze knife, used to cut meat, is equivalent to the current Western table knife. A pair of bamboo chopsticks. The five lacquered plates contain boiled dog meat, steamed pork and grilled chicken, and the basic cooking method of this era was steaming and grilling, a plate of vegetarian dishes, and a plate of carved rice.
Dog meat, since Fan Xu, has become the standard for banquets, Fan Xu is to kill dogs, Emperor Gaozu often goes to Fan Xu's dog meat shop to eat dog meat, who dares to say that dog meat can't come to the big banquet? The wine is indeed the wine that Zhang Qian brought back from the stopper, which belongs to high-end luxury, foreign wine! After Zhang Qian's exit, the trade routes to the Western Regions gradually became frequent, and the Silk Road gradually took shape, and some commodities from the Western Regions began to become popular in Chang'an, and wine was one of them.
"This little boy" just as Xiao Budian shook off his cheeks and feasted, a voice sounded in his ears.
Who is so annoying? Xiao Bu Dim Sum was a little impatient, and since the physical strengthening, the demand for food has gradually increased, and the meals a day have returned to the original state of the Prince's Mansion, four meals a day. Sometimes he still feels hungry, and if he returns to the state of Lake County, he will be starved to death if he is not killed.
Civilians only have two meals a day, and all they have to do is wheat bread and water. Well, now I'm also a rich man, and I'm still a very rich person. Lao Tzu can't stop eating some food? Xiao Budian raised his head unhappily and saw a person standing solemnly on the opposite side.
"Who are you?" Although he was impatient, his language was respectful and gentle.
"In the Lower Court Lieutenant Prison Bingji"
"What?" Short language, both the majesty of the superior and the expression of mood.
"There is only one person to eat again, and there is no entourage at home, so I came to greet you, but there is anything to help you with?" It turned out to be like this, Xiao Budian understood that he was treating himself as a lost child, and Liu Chang immediately had a good impression of this man who looked like he was in his twenties.
"Eunuch Tingwei, Lord of Tingwei's Mansion. I don't know where you work? ”
"County Mansion Prison" Bing Ji saw that this child spoke elegantly and behaved generously, and he was even more sure of his judgment, it must be the son of a prince of the royal palace who was separated from his family, although this situation is not much, but it is not nothing.
"Can a gentleman sit down and have a drink with him?" After speaking, he didn't wait for the other party to respond, called the person who ran the hall to come over, and added another copy according to his own style, without giving the other party a chance to refuse at all.
The one who ran the hall immediately placed a desk opposite Liu Chang's case, and Bing Ji saw that he couldn't refuse, so he knelt down in front of the opposite desk. After a while, an exact set of meals is placed neatly. Before the Qin and Han dynasties, China had always had a separate meal system, and it was one case for one person, and two people shared a case, only close relatives or great gifts could be used. There is only one person in the whole country who can sit at the same table with the Son of Heaven, Gaozu's true dog meat friend - Fan Xu.
Like now, a bunch of people are gathered around a table, using chopsticks stained with their own saliva, stirring on the same plate, tasting delicious food, and at the same time, they are also exchanging and tasting each other's saliva, which is really a regression of Chinese civilization.
"Gentlemen drink together. This is a fine wine in the Western Regions, which is really rare "little bit enthusiastic and heroic."
Bing Ji only smiled bitterly and drank a full glass. He didn't come to the wine house today to sell some meat to take away, and when he saw this strange scene, he thought that it must be a child from a big family, who got lost with his family and was left here.
After all, he is the person who is the court lieutenant and the prisoner, and he can help. I didn't expect this kind of scene to appear, this meal is not simple, especially this Western Regions wine is even more expensive, even if you are a serious national civil servant, you don't dare to consume it.
Today is good, I opened a foreign meat dish with a child.
"Childe" Bing Ji wanted to speak again.
Zi said: Eat without speaking, sleep without speaking. Gentleman, drink to win. Of course, Xiao Budian won't let him speak, what he wants to say, Xiao Liu Chang knows.
When one big and one small walked out of the wine house, they were all a little drunk.
"I don't know where is the Son's house? I can send my son home. ”
"No, no, no, I finally came out, and I don't want to go back so early." How could Liu Chang let him send him back, so that his identity would not be exposed.
"Then you can go to my mansion for a short rest, and then send you back."
"Okay" When they staggered to Bingji's office, the sun was already in the west.
"Childe sit down, I'll go back when I go" After saying that, Bing Ji went out with the meat he bought in the wine house. There was no one else in the department, Liu Chang wandered around for a while, and suddenly felt anxious, so he followed out the side door where Bing Ji went out.
This is an inner courtyard, turned around, did not find the thatched house, I really can't hold back, just a corner of the wall happy. After solving the urgent task, he saw that a small door was open, and thought that Bing Ji must be inside, so he also walked through the small door. After the small gate, it was actually the main gate of the Imperial Prison, which consisted of two huge fence gates and a huge wooden gate, and two soldiers guarded the left and right sides of the gate.
There is a small door on the right side of the gate, the door is closed, but the small door is open, presumably Bing Ji entered through this small door, Liu Chang looked at the door, and the four guards did not stop him, seeing that he had just come out of the small door of the office, he must have thought that it must be the inner family of a certain office. Liu Chang is also uninterested, just in prison, he has not been there. Then he turned around and wanted to go back.
"Little boy, little ancestor, you can slow down, don't fall" A child ran out of the door, more than a year old, the road was still unstable, all the way deep and shallow and shallow, staggering, as if he was about to fall down at any time, and giggled all the way.
Behind was a woman's voice shouting. Seeing Liu Chang, he came to Liu Chang with the steps of not recognizing his six relatives, held his small belly, looked Liu Chang up and down, put his right hand in his mouth, and shouted "brother" timidly.
Looking at this little guy who is not even smaller than himself, his face is flushed, his skin is also white, although his body is also coarse linen, but he is cleanly washed, and a pair of tiger head shoes are bright and delicate, which is very lovely.
Suddenly opened his arms and said "hug" to Liu Chang, Liu Chang subconsciously bent down and hugged the little guy. As soon as it reached Liu Chang's body, the little guy immediately burst into laughter. At this time, the woman who followed behind also came out, and when she saw that the "little ancestor" was on the body of a strange child, she immediately apologized nervously.
But no matter how the woman persuaded and threatened, the little guy just hugged Liu Chang's neck and didn't let go. Liu Chang also saw that she was not the child's mother, but should be a maid or an old mother.
And the strange thing is that this little guy is lying on Liu Chang, but Liu Chang has no disgust at all, and even has a faint liking.
The little guy hugged Liu Chang's neck, his face was close to Liu Chang's face, but he didn't let go, Liu Chang tried a few times, but he didn't break free.
"Can I send him back?" Liu Chang went to the door and said tentatively to the soldiers at the door.
"Let's go in" The soldier seemed to be very familiar with the child, and was very tolerant, not caring about the child's comings and goings.
The woman followed behind with a nervous look on her face, and kept saying apologetic. After entering the gate, the woman walked in front to lead the way, and Liu Chang also followed her, turning around and around, and came to a relatively large cell in the innermost, which turned out to be the prisoner's son! From the outside, this cell is still relatively bright and the environment is relatively good, so it should be given special care.
As soon as Liu Chang walked over with the child in his arms, he saw Bing Ji bending down and retreating from the cell, his attitude was unusually respectful, and when he turned around and saw Liu Chang holding the child, he immediately greeted him with a smile on his face:
"Come, I'm sick, come down, don't let my brother hug me, uncle hug me"
The little thing who was sick turned his little face away, ignoring the smiling guy at all. He continued to hug the neck of his brother, whom he had just recognized.
"Look at Uncle brought you something delicious" to make a trick, a big carrot.
The little guy still ignored it, which made Liu Chang a little embarrassed.
Seeing that it was not possible to convince people with reason, and it was ineffective to convince people with food, in the end, there was only one way to convince people, so Bing Ji had no choice but to come up and forcibly tear this small sticky cake off Liu Chang's body.
"Wow! Wow! "The little guy saw that he was really incompetent, and he also released a big move, crying! Cry!! Heart-rending cry.
It worked, and it stuck again. Bing Ji and Liu Chang glanced at each other, both helpless.
"I'm sick, come here, come to my mother." A voice came from the cell, not to mention, this voice was really effective, and the little guy immediately got off Liu Chang's body and ran into the room.
The big one outside finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Madam, the official retires" Bing Ji bowed and saluted, and was about to say goodbye to Liu Chang.
Who knows, just when the two of them turned around, the little guy in the house actually ran out crookedly again, and crawled on Liu Chang with his greasy hands, Liu Chang had no choice but to pick up the annoying thing, and it was covered with oil stains.
The little guy was still holding a piece of meat in his hand, and when he saw that "brother" had picked himself up, he stuffed the piece of meat into "brother"'s mouth: "Brother eats".
This can frighten everyone, this body is worth a lot of money, everyone knows it, Bing Ji's annual income is not enough to compensate. The lady in the house couldn't be reserved, hurriedly ran out, bowed her head and apologized, for more than a year, all relied on Bingji's care, and their mother and son could survive.
Bing Ji doesn't have much money, he has to take care of his family and their mother and son, and his money is almost used up, and he can't afford to pay for this piece of clothing. hurriedly swept the little thing away from Liu Chang's body, raised his hand and slapped it. The little thing seemed to know that he was in trouble, so he pursed his mouth and didn't dare to cry.
"Forget it, it's out of the way. Isn't it just a set of clothes? Liu Chang really didn't take it seriously.
Besides, he and this kid are really in love, and he is not angry at all. Bing Ji and the lady also secretly breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Liu Changzhen had no intention of pursuing it. It's not that I don't want to pay, it's that I really can't afford to pay.
"Little brother, don't cry, my brother doesn't blame you, my brother will come to see you one day."
"Well, my brother must come, woo" Xiao Budian finally cracked his mouth and cried.
"Little three!? Three Boys!? The lady took advantage of Liu Chang's comfort to see this rich little boy and couldn't help blurting out.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person." immediately bowed his head and apologized, Xiao San couldn't be alive, his in-laws were dead, how could Xiao San survive. Besides, if the junior is alive, he should be seven years old, and this child is still four or five years old, so he must have confessed his mistake.
Liu Chang was also taken aback by this sentence, who is this, how does she know that I am a junior? Looking at her with her head down, she couldn't see her face. Fortunately, he was short, so he leaned over and looked up.
"Mrs. Wang, sister-in-law!?" Liu Chang still has memories of this sister-in-law, after all, they have only been separated for less than two years, when they were separated, the sister-in-law had just been born, and the brother did not flee with him because he had to take care of the sister-in-law.
"You're really a third child?!! Yes? Are you really San'er? The lady picked up Liu Chang's face, looked at it seriously, and after confirming, the lady jumped up happily: "Great, it's really you, it's really you!" Regardless of the defense, he picked up the three boys and kept turning in circles, stunned the slug.
Bing Ji also left with interest and took the maid with him. The slug watched his mother hugging another person, quitting, and pulling the corner of his clothes to hug him, Liu Chang was held in a circle by his sister-in-law, and he was at a loss, and he didn't even have a place to put his hands and feet, so he stupidly let his sister-in-law hold him.
When he put the little brother-in-law down, the tears had already wet the placket, and he hugged his son and Liu Chang together, sat on the ground and cried. The minor illness saw her mother crying, and she also started crying, Liu Chang's eyes were also red, and tears flowed involuntarily down her cheeks.
The sister-in-law pulls a nursing child in prison alone, and the hardships can be imagined.
"I don't know~~" The sister-in-law asked cautiously, she wanted to know her father's news, and she was afraid that it would be bad news.
"My father and second brother are very good, and they are also in Chang'an" Liu Chang knew what his sister-in-law wanted to ask, so he said it bluntly.
When I knew that my father and two brothers were also alive, I couldn't help but burst into tears again.
When everyone's emotions stabilized, Liu Chang looked at the slugs around him with mixed feelings, this is my nephew, the only bloodline left by my brother, no wonder he is so close to me, this is the call of blood, my nephews are so old.
"Call Uncle"
"Brother"
"Call Uncle!"
"Uncle" Under the obscenity of the uncle, the little nephew succumbed.
Mrs. Wang also smiled when she saw her uncle and nephew arguing. Seeing that this confession turmoil had passed, Bing Ji also appeared in sight appropriately. Liu Chang straightened his clothes, raised his hands over his eyebrows, moved to his chest, and bowed in thanks.
Bing Ji turned sideways, and hurriedly wanted to see it, this is the prince and grandson, Bing Ji didn't dare to accept Liu Chang's gift, and Liu Chang also hurriedly helped Bing Ji up. Several people entered the cell together, the cell was quite clean and tidy, there was a bamboo mat on the top of the thatch, there was a low table, and on the low table was an earthen pot containing meat, which was brought back by Bing Ji today, although they were nobles in the sky, but they were also Qin criminals, although the abuse rarely happened, they could be given special care, and even with their own money to support it is not a favor, it is a kindness.