Nancheng, Donkey Hangzi Alley.

The northern city of Jingshi is a gathering place for high-ranking officials and nobles.

Nancheng is a son of a poor family; Merchant; It is the residence of the people who lead the car to sell pulp and farm manure.

The children of the poor are not poor. refers to the declining sons of the nobles, and there is no lord to attack. For example, the wind is normal.

Later generations will say at every turn, "it is difficult to produce a noble son from a poor family". In fact, it is to confuse the poor with the poor.

There must be at least one door in the cold door. At least in the capital, there should be a single-family courtyard. In the words of later generations, there must be a villa within the Third Ring Road.

Chang Feng, who had a bad day, led the tiger to the mouth of the alley, and it was already the willow tip on the moon.

The night market in the capital is thriving. On a street outside Donkey Hangzi Hutong, there are dozens of stalls of all sizes.

"Rock sugar gourd to ......"

"Pork head meat is fragrant......"

The crisp sound of selling can be heard from three streets away.

Chang Feng bought a pound of pig's head meat, two pounds of cakes, and a rock sugar gourd. Let the three stall owners each wrap them in lotus leaves. Tie it with a rope. carried it into the donkey hangzi alley.

Chang Feng's home is in the depths of Donkey Hangzi Hutong, a neat courtyard. It was the only property his father left to him and his sister.

The family hired a mother-in-law surnamed Huang to take care of Chang Feng's six-year-old sister Tangtang during the day.

Sugar Candy is playing with sheep crutches in the yard at night. Mrs. Huang stood beside her and watched.

Seeing that Chang Feng was back, Mrs. Huang made a blessing ceremony: "Master Chang is on a business." ”

Chang Feng said: "Hmm. It's a bad deal. You go home. ”

Tangtang hugged Huzi all of a sudden: "Haha." Huzi, the meat I ate at noon, the bones I left for you! ”

Huzi belongs to the Laizhou red dog breed, similar to the wolf dog of later generations, and is very fierce.

When he saw Sugar Candy, he was docile like a rabbit, wagging his tail and rubbing his head against Sugar Candy's chin.

Little Sugar Candy is innocent and cute. It looks like a porcelain doll. The big eyes are flickering, and they are very beautiful.

Chang Feng shook the lotus leaf bag in his hand: "I bought pig's head meat, and I also bought your favorite sugar gourd." ”

Sugar candy is a snack. When I heard the pig's head meat, I drooled angrily: "Okay, good!" Sugar Candy helps my brother pick garlic, and my brother pounds garlic for Sugar Candy! ”

Chang Feng changed out of his soap suit and put on a cloth suit. The brother and sister sat on the threshold, busy picking garlic and pounding garlic. The moonlight shone gently on the faces of the brother and sister.

Tangtang looked up at Mingyue while picking garlic skins: "Brother, is Dad really in the sky?" ”

Chang Feng said: "It's here." Maybe his old man is sitting on the moon drinking wine and looking at the two of us. ”

After mashing the garlic, it's time to eat.

The pig's head meat was placed on a colorful plate from a Jingdeguan kiln. The garlic is served in a multicolored cockfighting cup. As for the container for flatbread, it is a celadon sea bowl from Ru kiln in the Song Dynasty.

Although Changfeng is a side line of the marquis, it has handed down some good porcelain from the marquis's mansion of the old ancestors.

"Sugar candy eats."

"Brother eats."

The brother and sister began to feast. Sugar candy eats a mouth full of oil.

In Daming, if you can eat flatbread every day, you can eat pig's head meat, and you are definitely a first-class family.

Famine is raging in the world today, tormenting the poor people.

Last year, there was a severe drought in Shandong, and thousands of miles of hunger died. The number of starving people reported to the emperor by the household department was 352 people, ranging from zero to whole.

The actual death toll secretly investigated by Jinyiwei was about 40,000.

Naturally, the investigation of this figure is not to report to the emperor to know. Wan Tong, the big shopkeeper of Jinyiwei, relied on this number to extort 8,000 taels of silver from the governor of Shandong at one time.

There is a folk nursery rhyme: Chenghua Dynasty, ten years of prosperity, ten years of bear.

During the first ten years of the reign of Emperor Chenghua. He reused Shang Chen, Peng Shi, Li Xian and other virtuous ministers. The world is under great rule.

In the past ten years, Emperor Chenghua has reused a bunch of mediocre ministers and evil eunuchs. The country's strength is declining year by year.

Of course, who the emperor reuses and what the country's situation is, has little to do with Changfeng's seven-grade general flag.

What he is worried about now is that he can't make enough copies of 30,000 to make an account of Weili.

Although the official position of the Jinyi Wei General Banner is small, it is powerful. In addition, he did an oil and water errand to raid his family, so he could get a lot of "outsiders".

The annual salary of the total flag is forty-five taels of silver. The income of "outward children", that is, gray children, can reach nearly two hundred taels.

If you lose this official, let alone pig's head meat, you won't have to eat coarse grains.

What's more, this seven-rank official hat is the only way for him to realize his ambitions.

The more Chang Feng thought about it, the more worried he became, and the chopsticks in his hand stopped in mid-air.

There is only one piece of pork head meat left in the multicolored plate.

As soon as Sugar Candy picked it up with her chopsticks, realizing that this was the last piece, she said in a milky voice, "Wow! The last piece! Brother eats. ”

Chang Feng said casually: "You are growing taller." You eat it. ”

Tangtang stood up and fed the pig's head meat to Chang Feng's mouth: "Brother is hard to raise sugar and sugar on an errand!" Brother eats! ”

Chang Feng bit the pig's head meat into his mouth: "Well, sugar candy is good." Really sensible. Delicious. ”

The brother and sister were well fed and drunk. Tangtang suddenly remembered something: "Ahhh How could I forget! Sister Liufu asked the maid to bring you a letter! ”

After speaking, Tangtang took out a letter from the hat tube at the foot of the wall and handed it to Chang Feng.

The sister of Liu Fu she is talking about is the daughter of Liu Bingyi, the political envoy of Beizhili, Liu Xiaoyan.

Before Liu Bingyi was admitted to the Jinshi, he was a neighbor of the Chang family. Chang Feng has played with Liu Xiaoyan since he was a child, and he can be described as Qin Mei's sweetheart, and the two have no guesses.

At that time, the Chang family was friendly with the Liu family. The two sides set a baby kiss.

However, ten years ago, Liu Bingyi, a middle-aged high school jinshi, was ordered to Hanlin. moved away with Liu Xiaoyan.

In recent years, Liu Bingyi has become a "Cotton Pavilion Elder" Liu Ji, connected to the sect, rose step by step, and achieved a provincial domain.

He is a snob, and he feels that the Chang family is just a side of the nobles, with no knight to attack, and no family background, so he simply ruined the marriage contract.

Liu Xiaoyan looks like a country and a city. The people who went to the Liu family to propose relatives naturally broke through the threshold, and they were all children of high-ranking officials.

But Liu Xiaoyan resisted to the death. Let me marry? Don't blame me for grabbing my neck veins with scissors and dyeing my wedding dress red with blood!

Liu Bingyi was helpless. had to delay his daughter's marriage. But he never let go, and he didn't allow her to marry Chang Feng.

Liu Xiaoyan is the same age as Chang Feng, and she is over 20 years old. This has become an old girl in the capital.

But in order to wait for the wind, she would rather stay in the boudoir and watch her grow old.

Chang Feng opened the letter. Liu Xiaoyan said in the letter that her father told her the door again.

She is still the old way, fighting to the death. This pro is naturally yellow. She asked Chang Feng to work as an errand in Jinyiwei with peace of mind, and seek a rise as soon as possible, so that she could find her father to propose marriage and marry her.

Chang Feng smiled bitterly after reading the letter.

It's still rising! Jin Yiwei's waist card can not be kept, both said!

Chang Feng secretly said in his heart: It's a pity that Cai Zhong used to be a poor official in Taichang Temple. It was only last year that he became a prince and was recommended by the prince as a household servant.

If he had been in the household department for ten years or eight years, he would have been greedy for more than 30,000 taels of silver. If I want to keep my official position, I can only hope that Cai Zhong is a huge greedy person and has a good way to accumulate wealth!