Zhang Ben guessed correctly, Yang Fang was indeed wronged in the Wei Institute.

He was assigned to feed the elephants at the elephant training center......

Although Xiaoqi's rank remains the same, the monthly rice is not reduced, and occasionally he can take some banana fruits from the elephant's mouth to improve the diet, and most importantly, the elephant training center is still an idle fat poor. But for Yang Fang, who is bent on making achievements, the mahout is undoubtedly a cage, trapping him from climbing up.

The Jinyiwei Elephant Taming Institute established in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu was not too important in the Yongle period.

Mahout is mainly used for ceremonial purposes. The etiquette system stipulates that the emperor must attend 30 elephants on his birthday, New Year's Day, and winter solstice; pay homage to the temple ten; The emperor's enthronement ceremony is six elephants, two tigers, and two leopards, standing in left and right shifts; The most frequent early dynasty was six elephants.

Yang Fang's luck didn't seem to be very good, just as he was transferred to the elephant training center, the household department complained to the emperor, saying that the eunuch of the imperial horse asked for food from the household department to feed the white elephant.

After hearing this, Zhu Di said: "This so-called cannibal who leads beasts and cannibals must not be left unchecked. This generation sits on sorghum and wears light and warm clothes, how can they know the difficulties of ordinary people's lives? The elephants feed on a day, enough for several households. As the monarch of the country, I am in charge of supporting the people, and I am so good at doing this to make me lose the hearts of the people in the world, and next time, I will be punished! ”

So by the imperial horse supervisor affected the elephant training institute, the elephant training guard and other livestock houses, opened a few people to make a show, after all, the labor can be saved, but the elephant's rations are not saved, involving the last dynasty to drive the treasure and other ceremonial events, if the elephant is not full of food and loses his temper, it is not good.

Originally, washing the elephant was a matter of elephant slaves, but there was a lack of manpower, and Yang Fang had to go into battle to wash the elephant in person......

Lin Liangyou and they came out to see the elephant washing, and saw Yang Fang in a group of elephants, and then they knew that the grievances of the third brother were too big!

Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and June is in the blink of an eye.

June 7, Yongle 9th year, Xiaoxiao. The beginning of the dog days.

"Dog days wash the elephant, the brocade guard welcomes the elephant out of the Shuncheng door, and the bath rings the gate......"

This is talking about what happened after the capital was moved to Beiping. In Nanjing, elephant washing is from Tongji Gate, because out of Tongji Gate is the Qinhuai River, which is convenient for elephants to bathe; Today, the Xiangfang Village on the bank of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing is the former site of the original Xiangfang.

When the capital of Beijing moved to Beiping, it was used by the old Yuan to stay in the elephant house of Shichahai, and the elephant house was built on the side of the west city wall in Xuanwu Gate during the Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty, and it was close to the Jinyi Guard Yamen in front of the noon gate, and the elephant was easy to commute.

"Today, I'm washing the elephant, little sister, Miss Rong, I'll take you to see the elephant!" Lin Liangyou smiled and invited the two girls.

"After watching the elephant washing, buy a few more big watermelons, and come back to soak in the well water, it's beautiful to think about!" Zhang Ben said.

Yang Fang is not at home, as a low-level public official, he is very busy. But they didn't know that he was busy washing the elephants.

The four of them cleaned up and went out early while the sun was still hot.

Today, Yue Rong and Lin Long are wearing a horse-faced pleated skirt, with an elegant and pure beauty. Lin Long wears a lotus pattern, and Yue Rong wears a lily pattern, all of which are seasonal flowers.

Well, they picked and bought it themselves, using the silver that Lin Liangyou gave them before. Lin Liangyou only has more than 20 taels of silver saved in the past few months, and their silver is far from being spent, much more than him.

In the past few months, Lin Liangyou has been desperately thinking, desperately searching, looking for the bankers of the rest of the bank, and wondering where the box of gold is hidden...... However, to no avail.

Fortunately, Qiu Bu disappeared again for a while, and did not bother him; Fortunately, during this period of time, there are not many places to use money.

Fortunately, there is also Zhang Ben's wallet.

"How sad can you be...... Now you know that money doesn't come easily, right? Zhang Ben lobbied Lin Scale.

As usual, the two walked behind the two girls, one staring at the other.

"It's like a river flowing eastward......," Lin Liang lobbied, "I have always known that money is hard to come by, originally I was a social animal, very poor, so when I came here, I would take revenge on consumption." The most important thing is that I don't have any concept of Daming's silver taels! Look! For a penny, you can buy a cooking cake, and one or two pieces of silver is a thousand yuan, but you can only buy a pound of vegetable oil...... I don't even know if the cake is cheaper or the oil is too expensive, the price is not equal. ”

"The oil fluctuates according to the price of pork." Zhang Ben said, "Whether it's vegetable oil or meat oil. ”

"What about the bread?"

"You can't let the people eat well, at least you have to let the people eat enough, right?" Zhang Ben said, "So the cake is cheap." ”

While talking, the four of them came to the riverside teahouse that Zhang Ben had already booked, and went up to Qi Chuge'er on the second floor by the window to sit.

Through the window, the Qinhuai River turned a corner here, the river and the riverbank scenery are in full view, and the riverbank on both sides has already been full of people and spectators waiting to see the elephant washing. ”

A café and wine shop like Zhang Ben and them on both sides of the river can only be booked in a good location with a money trust relationship. Ordinary people could only stand on the riverbank and watch under the scorching sun. Because there are so many people watching along the way, there are stampedes every year - not people but elephants.

But it still can't stop the enthusiasm of the people to watch, after all, elephants are rare in Beijing, and they are rare to see.

It is really "jade water light yin and green acacia, incense car basket sedan brocade piles." Thousands of dollars are rented to sit in the windows of the building, all for the riverside to wash the elephants. ”

After a while, a few elephants chirped, the footsteps roared, and a group of elephants entered the river for the next time under the traction of Jinyiwei and elephant slaves. ”

"The elephant slave holds the spine of the rope and haunts its bun from time to time...... "Some of the elephant slaves sit on the back of the elephant, and some stand in the water with the elephant, and they all hold brooms in their hands and rub the back and wash the legs of the elephant.

They wash quickly, because "if you bathe for a long time, you will be male and female, and if you are male and female, you will be crazy". Elephants usually live in a separate elephant house and don't see each other often, but when they suddenly see so many people of the opposite sex, they will inevitably go crazy and want to talk about a hands-free love.

"It's huge!" Zhang Ben looked at the elephant outside the window.

"Well, that's big." Lin Liangyou tacitly agreed.

The two looked at each other and smiled.

"Is this an elephant? It's really big! Lin Long, who saw an elephant for the first time, also shouted excitedly.

"Elephant elephants, as the name suggests, are naturally big." Although Yue Rong was also seeing an elephant for the first time, he was much calmer, "But I really didn't expect it to be so big." ”

"Yes! It's bigger than an old buffalo! Lin Long jumped on the windowsill and watched.

"Of course! Elephants are the largest animals on land. A mad elephant can single out several old buffaloes! "Do you know what the biggest animal in the water is?" ”

"What?"

"What's that, brother?"

"It's a blue whale." Lin Liang lobbied, "A very big fish in the ocean can grow to more than ten zhang long!" ”

"So long? That's scary, isn't it? Lin Long and Yue Rong were both speechless.

Yue Rong said, "Isn't that bigger than the room we live in?" ”

Lin Long said: "Brother, aren't you bragging again and deliberately bluffing us?" ”

"How could I bluff you?" Lin Liang lobbied, "I don't believe you ask Lao Zhang." ”

Zhang Ben said: "That's right, that fish was like us when I was a child, and I also drank milk!" ”

"Where is there a fish to drink?" The two girls blushed, they were originally skeptical, but when they heard Zhang Ben say this, they didn't believe it at all.

"Big brother is right," Lin Liang said, "You know ambergris, right?" There is a kind of whale that pulls out the poop, and after drying, it is ambergris, which is more fragrant than musk! ”

"It's more expensive than gold." Zhang Ben smiled, "It's not like elephant poop, it's a stinky ......."

A few people said that they could enter the port, and they could see the elephant, the door of the private room was pushed open, and a woman walked in with a refreshment, and a few people thought it was the second child of the teahouse! But she didn't want the woman to go straight behind Lin Liangyou and cover a plate of soft cakes with his head......

"I'm ...... the Olympics"

Lin Liang was stunned, is this the so-called people sitting at home, and the cake comes from the sky?

Zhang Ben and the two girls were also stunned.

Yue Rong took the case: "What are you doing?!" ”

Lin Liangyou was reaching out to wipe the pastry that flowed to his forehead into his mouth, and he was greatly moved to see Yue Rong actually stand up for himself!

The woman didn't argue, she ran away after deducting the plate and throwing the plate, and a pair of little feet ran quite fast!

As soon as he left the door, he bumped into a person head-on.

"Yu'er, don't stay in the room, what are you running around?" That's humane.

The woman immediately hugged the man and said, "Good Dada, they murder me!" ”

Nest...... and a rake......

"I hear it all." The person who came looked at the four people in the room, and his eyes fell on Lin Liangyou's head, "Yu'er, you did this?" ”

"Who told them to insult the elephants first!" The woman's apricot eyes were wide open.

It turned out to be because of this...... Then you deduct Zhang Ben! What are you doing with me? Lin Liangyou was speechless.

"The elephant is a holy dharma, and it must not be insulted!" The person who came said, "You go back to the room first, and leave it to the husband to deal with it here." ”

It turned out to be a husband and wife! No, it should be a concubine...... Because it seems that the age difference is not ordinarily large.

Yu'er had her husband's support, so she didn't run away, but stepped forward: "Do you know who my husband is?" ”

"Do you know who my brother is?!" Lin Long, such a gentle girl, couldn't help but get angry when she saw her eldest brother being embarrassed, and she looked at Yu'er angrily.

The visitor looked at Zhang Ben and Lin Liangyou, and saw that they hadn't spoken all the time, but they couldn't touch their bottom a little, so they arched their hands: "In charge of the Ministry of Lower Rites, my surname is Wang." I heard what a few of them just said in the next compartment, although my little lady did a little too much......"

It turned out to be a six-rank official.

"Not too much, not too much." Lin Liang lobbied, "Isn't this still on the head!" Not ever. ”

Director Wang smiled: "But that's also Mr., you don't follow the etiquette law, and you speak disrespectfully...... I think so! The price of this tea is counted. If you are the head of the Ministry of Rites, you will be forgiven for your rudeness. ”

Lin Liangyou and Zhang Ben glanced at each other: This guy will wronged people more than our Jinyiwei!

Zhang Ben got up and arched his hand slightly: "The king is in charge, right?" Look up for a long time. ”

The king smiled and returned the salute.

"I haven't seen you in the Ministry of Rites!" Zhang Ben said.

"Oh? Your Excellency is ......"

Zhang Ben slowly took out his waist card: "Jinyi Wei Qianhu, Zhang Ben." ”

The king shook his body and almost fell......

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