When Wang Zhongxiao took his red rabbit foal back to his house in Bean Sprouts Hutong, it was almost dark, and when he opened the courtyard door, he saw Master Yu, Li Jixiang, and Li Fuhan all sticking their necks in the door to hear the news!

"Second son, how is the situation?"

"Big brother, seeing the emperor?"

"Shikai...... The sign that cleared the door and walked didn't take it back, did it? ”

Hearing their question, Wang Zhongxiao laughed and said, "There is something good today, but this is not the place to talk, let's go into the house and talk slowly." ”

When Li Fuhan heard this, he also laughed, and then instructed his son Li Jixiang: "Jixiang, quickly lead your brother Shikai to carry a horse and a gun...... Shikai, come in, hungry, right? I asked your aunt to cook your favorite old hen stewed with mushrooms, and also wrapped dumplings, cabbage and pork filling! ”

"Hmm, I smell it, it's so fragrant!"

Wang Zhongxiao had been busy for a day, and he was already hungry, and when he smelled the fragrance of chicken soup, his belly gurgled, and while handing over the reins of the spear and the red rabbit foal to Li Jixiang, he shouted: "Auntie, give me more dumplings, I want to eat the old hen stewed mushrooms!" ”

"Got it," Li Zhang's voice immediately came from the kitchen, "enough dumplings...... Chuniel, help your big brother blanch the wine and beat me three or four eggs! ”

Chunni happily agreed: "Okay! ”

Wang Zhongxiao, Li Fuhan, and Master Yu walked into the Hanging Flower Gate together, and then went to the empty main house. This main house, which sits north and faces south, is theoretically the residence of Wang Fuchen and his eight little wives...... However, Wang Fuchen is in Yunnan, so it has always been empty. After Wang Zhongxiao came back, he asked Li Fuhan to make use of the hall of the main house and use it as a restaurant for family dinners.

Candles have been lit in this restaurant, and there are cups, saucers, dishes and chopsticks on a table of eight immortals, as well as a stack of peanuts with wine, a stack of pickles from Liubiju, and a stack of pig's head meat that I don't know where to buy.

Wang Zhongxiao, Li Fuhan, and Master Yu were all seated, and Chunni brought a pot of scalded gold and a plate of scrambled eggs with lard with an attractive fragrance...... It's a fried egg with authentic local lard, which is called a fragrant!

Wang Zhongxiao couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks, put a large piece of egg into his mouth and chewed it a few times, before swallowing it contentedly, and then said to Li Fuhan and Master Yu with a smile: "It's done!" ”

"What has it become?"

"Shikai, don't sell it!"

Wang Zhongxiao poured himself a glass of wine, drank it all, and said with a smile: "The guard is done!" The emperor appointed me as a Lan Ling guard of the sixth grade today, and I am still walking in the Qianqing Gate! Let me go to Qianqingmen to see the gate tomorrow! ”

"Really?" Li Fuhan looked incredulous, "This is a guard!" ”

Master Yu didn't dare to believe it: "I heard me right, right? I should pick it up next month! ”

Wang Zhongxiao smiled: "Can this matter be fake? I'm a good escort today! ”

"Escort?" Li Fuhan was taken aback, "Could it be that there are assassins?" ”

"Second son," Master Yu had a complicated expression, "Is it the remnant of the previous dynasty?" It can't be the third prince of Zhu's people who came to kill the emperor, right? ”

"No," Wang Zhongxiao shook his head and said with a smile, "It's not that great, it's just a frightened wild boar, and I will slaughter it on the spot with a move of the Zhangliu spear!" When the emperor and Taishi Ao saw me, they praised me for my superb martial arts, so they rewarded a guard who watched the gate from Qianqingmen. ”

"Really? That's lucky! ”

"That's it, that's it, kill a pig and become a guard, and there's no one left."

Li Fuhan and Yu Deshui were both surprised. In the eyes of the two of them, if Wang Zhongxiao becomes a guard, then the carp jumps the dragon gate! In today's Qing Dynasty officialdom, it is not considered that the mother's womb was cast into the emperor's family, and the first-class background is a guard, which is harder than the champion and the first!

And Wang Zhongxiao is from a clothed person, so he only has the theoretical possibility of becoming a guard...... Even if his father, Wang Fuchen, is a second-grade general soldier!

In fact, there are only a few soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, and Wu Sangui's reinforcement and suppression generals have a lot of troops, and their subordinates are 3,000 green battalion soldiers, and the other general soldiers usually only have 2,000 green battalion soldiers.

Unexpectedly, this theoretical possibility was realized so easily by Wang Zhongxiao...... I didn't even wait to be picked, I just killed a pig and became a guard!

It's not difficult to kill pigs, Li Fuhan and Yu Deshui will do it, but relying on killing pigs as guards, it will be as difficult as climbing to the sky! Could it be that Kangxi also gave him a guard because Wang Zhongxiao was handsome?

Thinking of this, Li Fuhan and Yu Deshui took a closer look at Wang Zhongxiao's little white face, and found that his handsome face was actually shrouded in a trace of sadness.

Why are you still worried?

"Second son," Yu Deshui asked Master Yu, "you have got what you want now, why are you still unhappy?" ”

Li Fuhan also nodded and said, "That's it, life must be happy!" ”

Wang Zhongxiao said: "I am proud, but I also owe a lot of favors, not to mention that I will pay it back, then I have to go to the house to see and thank you, right?" As he spoke, he made a gesture to count the money, "But I'm shy now!" ”

"Shy?" Master Yu was stunned, "No, right?" You didn't steal it from your father...... took 1,080, and borrowed 2,000 from Wu Shicong and Wu Shijue, and the Lu Governor of Qujing returned 2,000, a total of 5,800 taels! ”

"What?" Wang Zhongxiao was stunned, "Qujing's Fat Man Lu gave me two thousand?" When? How did I not know? ”

Master Yu said, "That's it...... When you said goodbye to the Wu family in the White Lotus Temple, Governor Lu didn't find you, so he gave the silver ticket to your father. ”

"This, this old thing really doesn't learn well!" Wang Zhongxiao became angry all of a sudden, and said angrily, "Even his son's money is pitted!" ”

"Ah, he didn't give it to you? Then you ...... now."

Wang Zhongxiao said: "I have more than a thousand on hand, and I have to go to King Yu, Pingxi Wang Shizi, Dingnan Gege, and many guards to walk around, Cao Yin, Zhang Xiaobao, Guo Jinbao and they have also helped a lot, and I can't do without a little expression." In addition, there is a lot of communication between colleagues...... Master Yu and Second Uncle, do you think I should borrow some money from anyone? ”

"Borrow money from India?" Master Yu frowned, "It's hard to say that Yinzi money is ugly, but Jingguan has less oil and water and spends a lot, and it is not for nothing to borrow money, but the guards generally have a foundation in their families, so they don't have to borrow money." If the second son wants to borrow it, I have a way. ”

Li Fuhan hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no...... Master Yu, I know those ways of yours, that is, the gangsters in the outer city, who borrowed their money, and in the future, Shikai will have to take their people to make money together! When the time comes, they will do nonsense in the name of Shikai's family, and Shikai will have to wipe their butts! ”

Master Yu spread his hands: "Second master, isn't the second son tight on hand now?" If you don't go to the city to borrow it, why don't you borrow some? Do you have an old book? ”

"Me? Where do I have the money? Li Fuhan just shook his head, "The income from the Zhuangzi outside the city is used to build a pension house for my brother, and he and Ji Zhen and Shikai's Baoyi people don't have much money and food, and there are not a few ...... left."

"Daddy, kid!"

As soon as Li Fuhan mentioned the money and food he had received on behalf of Wang Fuchen's father and son over the years, his wife Li Zhangshi entered the house with a large casserole of hot and fragrant old hen stewed with mushrooms. After putting down the casserole in her hand, she smiled and asked, "Is it that Shikai is short of money and short of some silver?" ”

Li Fuhan glanced back at his wife: "Do you have a way?" ”

"Yo, you're really asking!" Li Zhang smiled, "I still have a way!" ”

"Auntie, if you have any way, just tell your nephew," Wang Zhongxiao said, "My nephew is about to borrow the money from Yinzi!" ”

Li Zhang said: "Shikai, Auntie's method is also to let you borrow silver for turnover, but it is not Yinzi money, and it does not have to be repaid." ”

"Not paying it back?" Li Fuhan said, "Isn't that just to bring others with you when you go out in the future?" It's more troublesome! ”

"That's not necessary," Li Zhang said with a smile, "There is no shortage of ways to do this." ”

Wang Zhongxiao asked: "There is no shortage of ways, and we don't want to pay back...... Who has such a good conscience? ”

Li Zhang smiled: "You know this person, it is Aunt Zhang Xiaoyu." ”

"What? Aunt Xiaoyu...... Zhang Xiaobao's sister? ”

"Yes!" Li Zhangshi said, "She is a celebrity around the Empress Dowager, except for the emperor, King Yu, the fifth elder brother, and the Ao Taishi, others have to stuff silver tickets into her hands to ask the Empress Dowager for peace, and over the years, there is always a savings of tens of thousands of taels in her hand." Shikai, it's a little difficult for others to ask her to borrow money, but it's not difficult for you to open your mouth at all. ”

"Me?" Wang Zhongxiao chuckled in his heart, "I don't know her well, why did she lend me money?" ”

"By your father!" Li Zhang smiled and said, "Your father hasn't renewed the strings yet, has he?" ”

"It's not ...... yet" Wang Zhongxiao shook his head and said, glaring at the big eyes and saying, "Auntie, you mean that I sold my father to Aunt Zhang Xiaoyu?" ”