Pitch dark night.

I don't know how many people can't sleep at midnight.

Scold.

Inside the room, Zhu Yunwen stared at his bright eyes and sat up from the bed.

"He's sick!"

After thinking about it for a long time, he didn't understand what the third child meant by running over to him tonight to say such a thing.

Definitely crazy.

Zhu Yunwen, who was not sleepy, her eyes were bloodshot, and she looked back at Qiu Niang, who was sleeping quietly, and a warm smile appeared on her face.

Zhu Yunwen's fingers swept through Qiu Niang's hair, pressed the futon for her, and then she lay down again.

For what will happen tomorrow, Zhu Yunwen began to hypnotize himself.

Speechless all night.

The next day.

Taiyuan City woke up in the white smoke of the city.

In the streets and alleys, there are those vendors who rush out of the street to provide bowls of hot food for the people in Taiyuan City.

When the snow falls in winter, the wealthy can hide in their homes to warm themselves, but the masses still need to be busy for their daily work.

The snow on the streets doesn't survive at all, and it disappears after dawn when people trample on it.

In front of the small courtyards, the people are holding shovels to remove snow and clear a way for the family to go out.

At the entrance of the street and alley, the stall boilers with boiling water vapor exude an attractive fragrance.

Zhang Hui walked outside from the hiding place of Taiyuan City, and followed the familiar route to the street not far in front of the Li Mansion Compound, where many stall vendors in the city gathered.

It was still the location of the tea stall originally, but the old man no longer boiled tea after the winter snowfall, but rushed to the earliest time every day to boil several ingredients that Zhang Hui knew or didn't know in a pot, and then added spicy seeds.

It's just such a pot of mush-like things, after cooking, when the lid is lifted, the aroma is so strong that it will always open the taste buds of all passers-by.

A bowl of it costs only three pennies. Served with two pieces of bread, a total of 5 cents.

The day was full.

"The old rule, two bowls of soup, four cakes."

There are fewer people on the street today, probably because people have found that Taiyuan City can no longer come and go at will in the past few days, and the people can always be keenly aware of some differences, and choose to stay at home honestly, or buy food to eat at home.

Zhang Hui found a shelter from the wind and could see the Li Mansion compound from a distance and sat down, took out ten copper coins from his arms, and slapped them on the table.

The old man pursed his lips, looking at Zhang Hui's eyes, which was a little inconspicuous.

But business still has to be done, and with so many grandchildren, one or two qualified ones are always picked out and sent to the school to study.

The old man was very fast, took the tray and sent the two bowls of soup and four cakes that Zhang Hui wanted.

When the tray was retrieved from the table, the ten copper coins were gone.

"Eat, eat, eat, know to eat all day long. I didn't see how much work you do, how much money you earn, and how much you eat more than others. ”

The old man habitually squeezed, and probably hoped that Zhang Hui would have more ambition to work hard and make money.

Zhang Hui moved his mouth, and he had long been accustomed to the old man's inconsistent attitude: "Then you return the money to me, and I'll go to the old man Liu to eat." ”

"Don't!" The old man was anxious and glared: "Old man Liu's boiled things can be eaten?" It's not that he can't eat it, or if there is an old man here, he has to lose. ”

Suck and suck.

Zhang Hui hummed and nodded, and had already started to drink the first bowl of soup.

Half a bowl of soup went down to the stomach and then he began to gnaw on the cake, and the whole cake went into the stomach in three or two bites, and then he drank a few mouthfuls of the soup, and the second cake also entered the stomach.

After waiting for the two cakes to enter his stomach, Zhang Hui drank the first bowl of soup.

Then he began to slowly tear the remaining two loaves apart, tearing them into small pieces and throwing them into the second bowl of soup.

At this time, Zhang Hui also had the kung fu to talk to the old man.

"The left and right are just to fill the stomach, and if you can eat enough, it doesn't matter what it's like."

The old man pursed his lips, and looked down on this bastard more and more: "You are a boar who can't eat fine chaff!" ”

After that, the old man saw that there were probably not many customers on the street, so he pulled the rag on his shoulder and sat sideways opposite Zhang Hui.

"Tell me, I've made money these days, have you gone into any big family to tell stories?" The old man frowned, and persuaded in a low voice: "There is one more month until the end of the year, and I still have to earn some money to take home."

At your age, the old man must have more than one child in the family. There are old and young, you can't let the family go hungry for the New Year, right? ”

The old man is good at everything.

The boiled tea is not as rough as the roadside tea stall, and the winter warm food is also delicious, and it is quite simple and sympathetic to the family.

The only downside is that there is a lot of talk.

Long-winded.

"I am one person who feeds the whole family."

Zhang Hui said lightly, and at this time, the two cakes had been torn by him, and he began to turn them in the soup bowl with a spoon.

The old man's face changed slightly, this was the first time that the young man in front of him had mentioned his origin.

I can't help but feel a sense of regret, chagrin and pity in my heart.

The old man hummed and chirped for a while before he spoke again: "Then it will take some effort." Taking advantage of the fact that I am earning more money now, I went back to my hometown to build a house, and bought a few acres of land, so that I could always marry my mother-in-law and give birth to a few children.

Although one person eats enough for the whole family to worry, he can live freely. But when you get a little older, you feel lonely.

This person must have a concern, otherwise he is like a duckweed without roots, always floating on the water, who knows where it will be washed away by the water tomorrow. ”

Zhang Hui's eyes flickered, he sighed a little in his heart, and said in a low voice: "I am not suitable for having a family and a room. ”

What I did was to ruin yin morality, if I really had a family in this life, it should also be a disaster to my family.

Although most of the people in the yamen are cold-faced and ruthless, the blood in their hearts is still hot, and many brothers can only retire for various reasons over the years, but everyone is often helping, and they are not lonely.

He said it quietly, but the old man could hear it clearly.

He opened his mouth and did not speak again. In a flash of his hand, the previous ten copper plates reappeared on the table.

"Something is not quite right in the city these days, and when the stall is closed today, the old man will stay at home tomorrow and wait for the New Year. Today's meal is an invitation to you, and I don't know if I can see you after the New Year. ”

The old man was a little embarrassed for no reason.

Zhang Hui pushed the copper plate in front of the old man: "I am not short of money, I have to go to the Jin Palace's Mansion tonight to tell the story, the steward agreed, give a full reward, and when this order is finished, it will not be in Taiyuan City." ”

"Jin Wangfu?"

The old man was a little puzzled, but he just glanced at the copper plate that was pushed in front of him on the table, but he didn't move, but returned to his original temperament, and said: "Just like you, those businessmen in the city don't invite you to tell stories, and the Jin Wangfu can still call you over to tell stories?" You don't know what the Jin Wangfu is going to do today? ”

"Look down on people, don't you?" Zhang Hui sucked the mixture of soup and cake in the bowl, raised his head and stared at the old man: "I wish you a long life and a hundred years old, and after you are busy with your grandson's affairs, you have to worry about your great-grandsons and great-great-grandchildren!" ”

The old man raised his chin a little arrogantly: "That's also the old man's ability." Seriously, are you really going to King Jin's Mansion tonight? ”

The best, the tsundere old man stared at Zhang Hui with a solemn face.

Zhang Hui nodded: "What are you lying about?" Do you want to close the stall now, and I'll take you to the palace tonight? ”

The old man's eyes widened, and he was a little incredulous: "You were really called over by the people of the Jin Palace?" ”

Zhang Hui couldn't help laughing: "Collect the stall, I'll help you send it home, and I'll call you when the night comes." I told you that I can't bring your grandchildren in, and I can only take you as a helper. ”

It is impossible for Taiyuan City to be peaceful today, so it is better to get this old man who is a little verbose but can always warm people's hearts home earlier.

The old man squinted his eyes and stared at Zhang Hui silently for a while.

Finally, under Zhang Hui's puzzled eyes, the old man suddenly came up to him and whispered, "You shouldn't be a storyteller." ”

Zhang Hui was stunned for a moment, and his heart suddenly became nervous.

The old man laughed: "Look at you like this, that is, you are a storyteller, otherwise what else can you be." ”

After that, the old man also stood up directly and began to clean up his stall.

"I'm not doing business today, let's go to the old man Liu in front of me to eat, his house is better than the old man's."

Zhang Hui hurried up the time to pull the food in the bowl into his mouth, and the old man had already begun to clean up, and when a guest arrived, he waved his hand at the old man Liu's stall in the distance.

When Zhang Hui had just finished eating, the old man's voice also came.

"Have you finished eating, hurry up and don't delay me to go home and hug my grandson."

Zhang Hui rolled his eyes, put the copper plate on the table into his sleeve, took the bowl to the old man's boiler, filled a scoop of water, rinsed the bowl and spoon and put it in the basket, and began to help the old man clean up the stall.

He looked at the busy old man, and knew in his heart that this old man had noticed something wrong, and he also understood that he was not a storyteller.

But this old man.

It's true that the older you get, the more you get better.

"This is the old man's home, you have to remember, don't forget to come and pick up the old man at night to go around the palace, I haven't even entered the yamen in my life, I didn't think there would be a chance to go to the palace."

Outside a courtyard somewhere in the city, the old man put his stall in the corner of the wall, pulling Zhang Hui and whispering, his face showing joy and expectation.

Zhang Hui nodded: "Don't worry, wait for me to come to you." ”

With that, Zhang Hui withdrew from the courtyard and watched the old man enter the house inside.

Then he walked to the base of the wall, reached out and took out a silver ingot from his bosom and threw it away.

There was a clang in the courtyard.

The silver ingot fell into the old man's pile of things.

After doing all this, Zhang Hui was relieved.

There are no eggs under the nest.

I don't know what kind of chaos will happen in Taiyuan City tonight, and what kind of chaos will occur.

The old man is an honest man, a good man for a lifetime, and he shouldn't have lost this good family before his grandchildren grow up and start a family.

When he walked out of the alley where the old man's house was, there were already two subordinates waiting at the entrance of the alley.

Zhang Hui suppressed the hat on his head and said in a low voice: "Send two people to watch here tonight, don't let anything happen." ”

The people waiting here were a little puzzled, and the Baihu officials were not like such compassionate people.

But the interior of Jinyiwei is the most disciplined, with clear hierarchies up and down.

The two immediately bowed their heads: "My subordinates understand." ”

When the three of them walked to the main street in the city, they saw that it was already very lively.

Although Taiyuan City was sealed by the emperor's grandson at present, the official yamen in Taiyuan City still paid enough attention to the birthday of the Jin Dynasty.

The streets are lit up everywhere, as if they are going to celebrate the New Year in advance.

Today is also beautiful, and the sky is cloudless.

The red lanterns were hung high, lined up on both sides of the street all the way to the majestic Jin Palace.

At this time, it was just after noon, and the eunuchs, gentry, and merchants in various parts of the city had already begun to drive the carriage and send a cart of congratulatory gifts to the Jin Palace.

Too many people, too many congratulatory gifts.

As a result, congestion began to occur in some parts of the city.

Zhang Hui and the three of them walked around on the side of the road, and he suddenly spoke: "The wife of the braised man is also pregnant, and I don't know what will happen in the city tonight, so I also sent someone over to keep an eye on it, don't have any accidents." ”

"Subordinates obey."

After telling the matter, Zhang Hui was relieved.

"Let's go, let's go to the Jin Palace" and wait."

……

Outside the city of Taiyuan.

In the big tent of the Chinese army in the big camp on the northern tour, Zhu Yunxi has rarely changed into the bright and yellow clothes rewarded by the old man.

Outside the tent, some of the selected civil and military officials have been assembled with a thousand households under the leadership of cabinet ministers Gao Yangzhi and Jingchuan Hou Cao Zhen.

Inside the account.

Zhu Yunxi, who rarely wears this outfit, opened his arms and let Tian Mai wait to tie the jade belt for himself.

"Someone must be sent to keep an eye on the other side of the dark road, and nothing can happen before tonight."

Tian Mai nodded: "Your Majesty has already arranged the manpower, just wait for the Jin Palace's signal tonight, and the army in the camp can rush into Taiyuan City." ”

"The three guards of the Third Uncle Jin Palace, where are they now?"

Zhu Yunxi's eyes were deep, he looked at himself in the bronze mirror, and asked in a low voice.

Tian Mai didn't think about it, and said: "The news sent this morning shows that the three guards and horses of the Jin Wangfu have arrived near Qizi Mountain, and they are only forty or fifty miles away from Taiyuan City. ”

Zhu Yunxi thought for a moment, nodded and said, "So you can go outside the city tonight." ”

Tian Mai hummed and repeated worriedly: "When the signal is sent out in the city tonight, the Zhenyuan Gate will take out the pre-prepared text transfer order and take over the Zhenyuan Gate."

No matter what happens in the city tonight, His Highness can no longer go into battle in person, and the ministers will swear to protect His Highness's safety. ”

Zhu Yunxi's eyes were gloomy.

But he nodded very simply.

"Don't worry! Alone will never risk his life! ”

………………

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