Liaodong, Shenyang Zhongwei.

After Wang Shouren sent troops to the grassland, Shenyang Zhongwei has not stopped transporting grain and grass materials from Nuer Gandu Division, and a large number of grain and grass will pass through Shenyang Zhongwei every day and send them from eastern Liaodong to northern Liaoning.

And the father and son of the Zhang family, Zhang Ye and Zhang Ping, since they went to North Korea to transport grain, they stayed in Shenyang Zhongwei as a grain supervisor, and their errand was nominally to supervise the transportation of grain, but because the two of them did not even have a grade, at best they were soap subordinates who worked for the army, doing the hardest work, taking the least amount of money, only being able to maintain food and clothing every day, and then staying away from the frontline battlefield, it seemed that they would never get through.

On this day, after a busy day, the father and son returned to their residences one after another, that is, the barracks dormitory prepared for them.

Zhang Ye went back a little earlier, and had already prepared the meal, while Zhang Ping looked unkempt when he returned.

"Son, was he dragged to fight the goods again today?" Zhang Ye also felt sorry when he saw his son's situation.

Zhang Ping sat down, as if he was so tired that he didn't even have the strength to speak, and after nodding with a sad face, he picked up the rice bowl, but he didn't move his chopsticks for a long time.

Zhang Ye said: "Eat quickly, eat quickly, I have already written to your mother, ask her to send some money and clothes, our father and son will stay here this winter." ”

Zhang Ping turned his head sideways and looked at his old father pitifully, and asked, "Why don't we go back?" ”

"What are you going back to?" Zhang Ye said, "Your second uncle is so powerful now, we still have a little hope here, if you go back to Nanjing, there will be nothing." ”

"But Dad, I heard from the head of the soldier that the second uncle has been transferred to Nanjing to be the secretary of the military department, and he is in Nanjing, why do we want to be a coolie in this bitter cold place in Liaodong?" Zhang Ping was a little sad.

In his opinion, the old father seemed to have been fooled by his second uncle.

Zhang Ye shook his sleeves and said: "You listen to those people talking nonsense, your second uncle is a national prince, how can he be a scholar?" The son of the military department is too high, it is impossible, they just know the identity of our father and son, and deliberately sow discord. ”

Speaking of which, even Zhang Ye felt very depressed.

At first, Zhang Zhou's status as the elder brother allowed them to enjoy a lot of convenience in Liaodong, especially when they walked out of Shanhaiguan to go to Zhang Zhou, the enthusiastic attitude of the generals along the way...... Zhang Ye feels like he is in heaven when he thinks about it.

Can ...... now

It seems that everyone knows that the Zhang family brothers are not in harmony, and it is rumored that he is very mean as a brother, so that when Lai Guogong is down, he looks down on people, and then Lai Guogong is developed......

is a typical inspirational play, but unfortunately in the play, he Zhang Ye is the opposite of the rat's eye, and then everyone knows that Zhang Zhou left their father and son in Liaodong as coolies...... At first, others were so mean to them, and now those who are officials are so mean to them.

"Dad, let's go. Back in Nanjing, even if you let your mother be in charge, there is nothing wrong with it. Zhang Ping said as if pleading.

Zhang Ye took a bite of food, and complained first: "I don't even have saliva and water, do you think I don't want to leave?" ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Ye seemed to be ruthless and said: "But only when you have to endure hardships can you become a master, son, you will think that this is your second uncle's test for us, and when you have endured all the hardships, then it will be another village." ”

Zhang Ping said: "Dad, I still have to go back to take the imperial examination." ”

"Dream your big spring and autumn dreams! Are you supposed to be your second uncle? Until now, your father and I haven't understood how he got into the top prize. The fortunes of the Zhang family have fallen on him alone, so don't struggle. ”

It means that the lottery has been won by your second uncle, the crater theory, the same good thing cannot fall to the Zhang family twice, you don't have to be white like a dream, work hard.

Or go with your second uncle.

"Dad, is it because you were looking for a woman outside and your mother found out, so you didn't dare to go back?"

"Fart, don't talk nonsense, you kid, the little widow of the Song family just met me twice, and wanted to sell their family's ancestral property to prevent it from being snatched away by the Song family. That's a business, and I really have nothing to do with her! ”

"Oh."

"You kid, your father and I raised you with hard work, and now I take you out to work hard, and you always want to tear down the stage?"

"Dad, I was wrong, I want to eat and sleep, I also want to go back to the south before winter, I miss home."

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Father and son have been staying up.

It seems that there is no hope, this day the governor Lu Wan sent someone down to inspect, Zhang Ye specially used Zhang Zhou's identity to go over to talk to the people of the governor's yamen, the main purpose is to exchange for a more relaxed working environment.

Incidentally.

Zhang Ye also wanted to know when Zhang Zhou would come to Liaodong again and pick up the father and son.

"Master Zhang? It's been a long time! Lai Guogong has been the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, but he is afraid that he will not come to Liaodong in a short time. "The subordinate officials of the governor's yamen spoke politely.

Zhang Ye widened his eyes when he heard this, and said, "He ...... Brother, he is already a scholar? Why ...... that?"

The subordinate official said: "The family affairs of the Zhang family, I don't want to ask outsiders, or you should write and ask." In addition, I heard that your father and son are not military households, since you were both hired as craftsmen and invited back, if you feel hard, you can go to Nanjing to find Lai Guogong. ”

Meaning, you can stay if you want, and you can leave at any time if you don't want to stay.

Although it is also an honor for us to stay in Liaodong with the eldest brother and eldest nephew of Lai Guogong, those of us who run errands for the imperial court do not want to make trouble for ourselves.

You father and son go to other places, and the generals of the state capital of Hohobe are the best.

Zhang Ye hurriedly asked, "Then can you make a fulcrum first?" ”

The subordinate officer glanced at Zhang Ye.

It was like looking at a monster.

You father and son knew that coming to Liaodong was to suffer, but you still had to come, and found that it was a chore and wanted to leave, but you didn't even save a little bit of pestering? So what are you guys trying to figure out about?

"There is nothing that can be done." The subordinate officer didn't want to deal with Zhang Ye, so he turned around and took people away.

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Since Zhang Ye knew that Zhang Zhou was transferred to Nanjing to serve as the secretary of the military department, he held back the fire in his belly, and he felt that he had been let down by his younger brother.

"Dad, are you really going to leave now?" Zhang Ping asked.

"Hmm." Zhang Ye lay on the bunk on the side, looking at the thatched roof.

Zhang Ping hurriedly asked, "When will you leave?" ”

The person sleeping next door scolded, "Be quiet, don't disturb other people's dreams." ”

Zhang Ping was dissatisfied: "The snoring is shocking, why don't you talk about them?" ”

"The eldest son of the Zhang family, don't give you a shame! If you have the ability to continue to go back to sleeping in the tuba, don't be in this cat. "Most of the people lying in the shop are some five big and three rough men, and they naturally won't give Zhang Ping a good face.

"Forgive me, forgive me." Zhang Ye hurriedly made amends, pulled his son to lie down, and said in a low voice, "Isn't this saving money?" Otherwise, I won't move here, if I live here for a month, my father and son can save fifty dollars and save until the end of the year. ”

Zhang Ping asked, "What if you buy clothes and bedding before winter?" ”

Zhang Ye said helplessly: "Then wait until after the beginning of spring next year." Out of this barracks, is there a place outside for our father and son to stay? ”

Father and son fell silent at the same time.

After a while, Zhang Ye looked sideways and found that his son was facing away from him, his body trembled slightly, and then he pulled his son over and said, "Stinky boy, don't say you're crying, a man can't cry." ”

Zhang Ping said: "Dad, is my mother sending us silver, and we can leave?" ”

Zhang Ye said helplessly: "Silly boy, my father was fooling you before, and now I want to find someone to send silver...... How did Nanjing come to Shenyang? There are no people who do business here! Do you know how much silver they want if I want someone to send a message to your mother? Do you still want to go back to Nanjing? ”

Zhang Ping asked: "Then after we go back to Nanjing, won't my mother give us a good face?" ”

Now it was Zhang Ye's turn to sigh.

When almost everyone around him fell asleep and snored one after another, Zhang Ye said to his son's back: "This is all fate, the first half of my life was too smooth, the ancestors of the old Zhang family are retributing us, otherwise why is his second child developed, and it is our turn to suffer?" ”

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In the next few days, Zhang Ping continued to work as usual.

And Zhang Ye walked out of the barracks without anything, tried to go out and sell some things, sold everything he could, and went to do work for others by the way, trying to earn a few pennies more to come back, this is to prepare for leaving Shenyang City as soon as possible.

On this day, Zhang Ye left the barracks, helped people push a few carts of swill, and when he came back, he was thinking about whether to find a place to enjoy the bathhouse in the north, and he was worried about how few children he had in hand.

He hurried to return to the barracks before noon, to have lunch at noon.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the barracks, he saw a man in official uniform standing there, greeting him from afar: "Isn't this just talking, just here?" ”

Zhang Ye hurriedly walked over and said, "A few people, I just have some family affairs, and I just went out to finish it, but I didn't slip away." ”

The official smiled and said, "My lord, you are really joking, the little one is here to congratulate you first." ”

"What?" Zhang Yeren is still a little confused.

As he was talking, Zhang Ping trotted out of the barracks, followed by a large group of people watching the excitement, it was the time to have dinner at noon, I heard that there was a bustle here, and almost the entire barracks ran out.

"Dad, they seem to say that the reward of the court has come. It is to be rewarded for meritorious deeds. Zhang Ping was also a little excited.

The official smiled: "These two are the brother and nephew of Lai Guogong, right?" The eldest master of the Zhang family, the eldest young master of the Zhang family, received the will of the imperial court, and the holy lord personally issued an order, because Lai Guogong planned the battle of the northwest, and the new Bo Yu grassland broke Hulu, and specially rewarded the eldest master of the Zhang family as a thousand households of Nanjing Jinyi Wei, and the eldest young master of the Zhang family as the deputy thousand households of Nanjing Jinyi Wei......

Originally, Zhu Youzhu wanted to give Zhang Ping a hundred households, but later he directly gave it to the deputy thousand households, which means that your father and son went to me to Nanjing on an errand.

"A thousand households?" After Zhang Ye listened, everyone was a little dizzy.

The official said: "That's the case, the two of you directly received the real shortage, and the Jinyi Wei also sent more than a dozen people over to escort the two to Nanjing to take up their posts, and the official uniforms and so on were brought to you." In addition, tonight, Lu Zhongcheng, the governor of Liaodong, specially held a banquet in the mansion to entertain the two. Pack up and get ready for the feast! ”

Hearing this, Zhang Ye's father and son were like crazy.

The father and son hugged each other, and then regardless of the strange eyes of the people around them, the father and son hugged each other and cried with joy.

The people next to him were stunned.

In particular, many people don't know what the identities of the Zhang family father and son are, and they don't know what the real lack of Jinyi Wei Qianhu represents.

"What's wrong with them?"

"Jinyiwei Qianhu, don't you know Jinyiwei? Someone who can kill! ”

"Obediently, I didn't give me the money I borrowed a few days ago, he won't kill me, right?"

"Haven't you heard? Even the governor of Liaodong held a banquet to entertain him. ”

"Don't look at their unsightly appearance, they are the eldest brother and nephew of Lai Guogong, and their background is not ordinary."

"I don't know Tarzan with my eyes!"

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The father and son were excited, and they did not forget to quickly pack up their belongings and follow the officials to the governor's yamen for a perfunctory manner.

Arrived at the place.

Lu Wan personally came out to greet him, and warmly invited the two of them into the inner house to the banquet table specially prepared for them.

"Haven't you changed your uniforms yet? Come on, quickly ask Zhang Qianhu and his son to go to the inner house to change clothes. "Lu Wan understands the rules of officialdom very well.

Before he ignored the Zhang family father and son, because there was no need for contact, and now the emperor remembers to promote the Zhang family father and son, which means that the emperor may want to promote reconciliation within the lintel of the Zhang family, which may be to pave the way for Zhang Zhou's filial piety.

How to say that the emperor also respects filial piety, even if there is no harmony within the Zhang family, the emperor wants to help reconcile.

Besides, the father and son of the Zhang family work in Liaodong, no matter what they do, but at least they are sincere.

After the father and son of the Zhang family came out in a very awkward brocade guard uniform, Lu Wan couldn't help but laugh when he saw it.

Sure enough, wearing a dragon robe doesn't look like a prince, probably Zhangye's father and son don't have the life to be officials, or maybe the official uniform itself is not tailor-made, and it doesn't look like an errand when worn on the two, it is better like singing.

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At the banquet.

Lu Wan didn't call anyone else, he wanted to contact the people of the Zhang family, which was equivalent to a private relationship, and it was not appropriate to publicize it.

"Lord Lu, don't worry, after the lower official returns to Nanjing, he will definitely talk to his brother and mention your care for my father and son." Zhang Ye seemed to understand the rules, and vowed to go back to his younger brother to intercede with Lu Wan.

Lu Wan said with a smile: "I just learned that Your Majesty has transferred Lai Guogong to the north, and Lai Guogong is no longer in Nanjing. ”

"Transferred away so soon? He ......"

Zhang Ye was also a little confused.

I'm still waiting to go to Nanjing, find my brother to thank me, and learn from my brother how to be an official by the way.

Tell me now, my brother is no longer an official in Nanjing?

Lu Wan said: "Although the imperial court has no clear text to explain Lai Guogong's next errand, it is expected that after being transferred back to Beijing, he will take over as the secretary of the military department." ”

"The book of the military department? Isn't it the book of the Nanjing Military Department? Zhang Ye said, "It's amazing, he just took the Jinshi exam, I didn't expect him to rise so fast, and sure enough, it was the ancestral tomb that was smoking." ”

"What did Zhang Qianhu say?" Lu Wan pretended not to hear it when he heard it.

Zhang Ye smiled bitterly: "It's nothing, it's because he is lucky to be able to do so many things for the court, and I haven't seen him have much ability before." His life is too good. ”

"Huh. Come, drink. Lu Wan was very polite and poured wine for Zhang Ye again.

Zhang Ye also knew each other, and quickly got up to toast Lu Wan.

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After some politeness, Zhang Ye and his son stayed in the governor's yamen that night.

After Zhang Ye drank a meal, he thought that he had become a Jinyi Wei Qianhu, and he was full of pride in his heart, and he was drunk and hairy with the maid.

But he still has experience in serving women's families.

This kind of guests who eat dry and wipe clean and leave with their pants up, they have seen more, so they will not be casually swept away.

The two maids worked together to press Zhang Ye on the couch, Zhang Ye couldn't kick his legs even if he wanted to, and finally almost tied him to it, and then the maids left with the basin of water.

"That's nice."

Even so, Zhang Ye had a smile of "happiness" on his face.

After coming out for so long, it seems that I have had contact with a woman for the first time, although the result is not very friendly, but the process is still worth remembering.

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Early the next morning, the person who came to answer the Jinyi guard had already arrived.

The carriage is ready, and there are customs clearance documents or something, after the father and son receive the order, they can go directly to the Nanjing Jinyiwei office to report, as for which 1,000 households in Nanjing are actually 1,000 households, but they have not yet been specifically commissioned.

"Son, what are you ......?"

When my father was drunk yesterday, he didn't get any benefit, but looking at Zhang Ping, it seemed that something was wrong.

When Zhang Ping came out, his face was red.

Zhang Ping said: "Dad, let's go." ”

Zhang Ye seemed to have an understanding, and sighed: "It's good to be young." Okay, I have the style of your father and me when I was young. ”

Lu Wan didn't come out to send it, but there were many people in the governor's yamen who came out to make a familiar face.

Zhang Ye actually wants to see the people in the military camp who have bullied their father and son, but unfortunately the official position of those people is not high, and this kind of big scene of sending brocade clothes to thousands of households, that group of people is not qualified to attend.

on the carriage.

Zhang Ye said to Zhang Ping: "When our father and son arrive in Nanjing, they won't go home to see your mother!" Your father, I'm going to divorce your mother! It's all your mother who missed the big thing of our father and son, and in the future, our father and son will make a name for themselves in Jinyiwei. ”

Zhang Ping said: "Dad, haven't you woken up yet?" ”

"Humph! Shall thou speak nonsense for the sake of thy father? What have you experienced over the years as a father? A tigress like your mother, I just didn't recruit him before, but now that we are all Jinyi guards, are you still afraid of her? ”

Zhang Ye is full of pride.

seems to have forgotten that he was a little person who was bullied yesterday, and the swill in the car seems to be a portrayal of his life.

Zhang Ping said: "What is my father going to do, don't tell my son, my son just has an idea, after I go back, can I marry my relatives as soon as possible?" ”

"Okay, you are now the deputy Qianhu of Jinyiwei, and you will inherit your father and my position as a Qianhu in the future, and you can choose the girl of a big family in the future...... I'll find you Miss Daughter. Zhang Ye bragged and said, with expectations in his eyes, "When I go back, my father will take another concubine, no, it's a continuation of the string, and then our father and son will do things together." ”

Zhang Ping couldn't help frowning when he heard this.

The heart said, why does this sound so awkward?

How much did my father suffer in the first half of his life? Now is it a rush to vent out?

No wonder even if he knows that he is ashamed, he has been taking me to join the second uncle, and his feelings are just for the sake of having such a day, he wants to stand on his own?

(End of chapter)