Yanjing.

Since the entry of the Qing soldiers into the customs in the year of Jiashen, Yanjing has been peaceful for 20 years, and the population has recovered rapidly, from less than tens of thousands in Beijing at the beginning of entering the customs to more than 500,000.

However, most of them are banner people living in Mancheng, and there are about 100,000 Han people in the outer city, accounting for only one-fifth of Yanjing's population.

The population recovered, since the prosperity of all industries, and at the foot of the Son of Heaven, although the prosperity was not as good as that of the former Ming Dynasty, it was not comparable to Shengjing, the former capital of the Qing Dynasty.

Since there was not much entertainment in the city, the banner people in the city mostly went to the city to drink at banquets and drinks at home.

There is a restaurant called Zhenxiangfang, the roast duck is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, the taste is delicious, and it is most liked by the dignitaries and ladies among the flag people.

The prince of Pingxi, the prince Wu Yingxiong, and his wife, Princess Ajige of Jianning, are no exception, and the couple will go to the Zhenxiangfang to eat roast duck every once in a while.

The marriage of the couple is the master of the first emperor Shunzhi when he was in the time, although they all know that this marriage is used to tie Wu Sangui, but the relationship between the young couple is very good, and the life is also very harmonious, and soon after marriage, they gave birth to a son Wu Shilin, and two years ago gave birth to a second son Wu Shifan.

In the evening of this day, the couple changed into civilian clothes as usual and went out of the city to the Zhenxiangfang, and after arriving at the ground, Wu Yingxiong hugged his six-year-old eldest son Shilin to get off the carriage first, and then stretched out his hand to help his wife Jianning get out of the car.

Jian Ning was holding his second son Shifan, who was just over two years old, in his arms, and the little guy fell asleep in the car.

Except for the groom who drove the carriage and a maid who waited, the couple only brought two horseback guards.

It looks no different from traveling with ordinary flag man officials.

Only the husband and wife knew in their hearts that there were at least ten guards secretly protecting them in the place where they could not see.

These guards were not sent by the Pingxi Royal Mansion in Yunnan, but were specially dispatched by the palace guards.

It's called secret protection, but it's actually afraid that the princess and the child will run away.

In this regard, Wu Yingxiong was used to it, and he didn't pay attention to it, and was about to enter the building with his wife, but there was an angry scolding voice from the front: "You dog slave of the Internal Affairs Office, believe it or not, I punched you to death!" ”

Where the scolding came, a person rolled directly from the stairs to the outside of the house, and before he could get up from the ground, he saw a wicked man step forward and stomp on his stomach heavily, and scolded: "Go back and tell Mingzhu that he, the head of the Internal Affairs Office, is just a dog in the eyes of the master, and if you dare to bark in front of the master, be careful that the master tears his mouth!" ”

The wicked man was obviously drunk, and his body was a little unstable on his feet, if it wasn't for the entourage around him to support him in time, I am afraid that he would be able to fall himself.

The one who was trampled on his stomach was actually the leader of the banner, who looked like he was still from Manchuria, and such a character walked sideways like a crab in the outer city, and he didn't want to be at the foot of the evil man, but he didn't have any temper at all, so he only whispered for mercy there.

The shopkeepers in the building may know the identity of the villain and dare not come out to persuade him, and the diners are also irrelevant to themselves, hanging high and watching the excitement there, and the passers-by see the many followers of the villain, for fear of causing a good disaster, they dare not approach and only whisper in the distance.

Wu Yingxiong, who was not far away, frowned slightly when he saw the appearance of the evil man, and his face was disgusted.

It's just because that evil man is Shang Zhixin, the prince of Pingnan, who is hostage in Beijing like him.

This guy entered the palace as a guard at the age of nineteen, and somehow became good friends with the first emperor in the right temper, and the result was that when the first emperor was there, no one dared to mess with Shang Zhixin in Beijing.

This man is a good drinker, and he gets up in the morning, at noon, in the afternoon, and in the evening.

If you drink too much and don't sleep, you get drunk everywhere and beat people indiscriminately, no matter who he is, as long as he gets in the way, he will be beaten.

Over time, the banner people in Beijing hated everyone when they mentioned the prince of Pingnan.

may be because of the same illness and sympathy, Shang Zhixin often came to Wu Yingxiong for a drink a few years ago, but Wu Yingxiong was unwilling to associate with him and treated him very indifferently.

After a few times, Shang Zhixin also knew that the prince of Pingxi did not like him, so he no longer bothered, and turned his head to fool around with Geng Jingzhong, the son of the king of Jingnan, and Sun Yanling, the son-in-law of Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, who was martyred in Guilin, and others, and became a famous second-generation head of the Han dynasty in Beijing.

A group of people often get together to mess around, and for this reason, they are not less impeached by the Imperial History, but they are all suppressed because of their respective backgrounds.

Wu Yingxiong didn't know how Shang Zhixin pinched Mingzhu, the head of the Internal Affairs Office, and didn't want to pay attention to this kind of thing, so he planned to wait for Shang Zhixin to leave before entering Zhenxiangfang, so as not to be pulled by this drunk man and talk nonsense.

Unexpectedly, someone came out in front of him to accuse Shang Zhixin of openly beating the court officials in broad daylight.

Wu Yingxiong looked familiar, and immediately remembered that this person's name was Mo Luo, Manchuria with red flags, and it seemed that he was the left deputy capital of the Imperial History in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

"The dog takes the mouse, looking for a fight!"

Shang Zhixin, who is on the top of the wine, is not to mention that he is a mere left deputy imperial history, even his father Shang Kexi can also give two slaps, and he will give Mo Luo a slap when he jumps.

slapped Mo Luo so much that he didn't come back to his senses for a long time, and when he went back angrily, he was going to fold the bullet to impeach Shang Zhixin.

Seeing that his young master had beaten the left deputy capital Yushi, Shang Zhixin's guard captain Zhang Yongxiang was a little worried and said, "Grandpa, that one just now was Manchuria,"

"Manchuria? What happened to Manchuria? ”

Shang Zhixin took a sip, "Manchuria is a hanging!" ”

Hiccuped and ignored the leader of the Internal Affairs Office who couldn't move because he was beaten by himself, and went to the Qinglou to be happy.

The diners who watched were dumbfounded, and they also saw that Wu Yingxiong's head hurt, and they couldn't help but say to his wife Jian Ning beside him: "King Pingnan will be destroyed on this son sooner or later." ”

Jian Ning hugged the youngest son in his arms up and didn't say anything.

I vaguely felt that the prince of Pingnan and his husband were like two extremes, one wanted everyone in the capital to know that he was a bastard, and the other wanted everyone to forget him.

Thinking about the court's suspicion of his father-in-law Wu Sangui over the years, and the fact that her husband was a hostage in the capital, although he was glorious and beautiful, he couldn't help but feel a little worried.

silently followed her husband into the stairs.

On the second floor opposite, someone looked at the backs of her husband and wife and sighed: "Wu Yingxiong is also here?" ”

"He's coming, let's come, it's not that I haven't seen it, what's the matter, he Wu Shizi is a forehead, and you Geng Shizi are not foreheads? Speaking of which, my grandson Yanling is also a forehead

But you two are married to real Gege, what kind of thing is my Gege, phew, stealing things! If he hadn't died early, I might have fucking had to raise wild seeds for him! ”

After speaking, Sun Yanling picked up the wine bowl and drank it cleanly, looking puffy.

"Okay, let's not say a word. You listen to me, go back and coax your four grids, tell her to enter the palace and intercede with the empress dowager, as long as you let you go to Guangxi, your father-in-law's old department will all belong to you, understand? ”

Sitting opposite Sun Yanling was Geng Jingzhong, the prince of Jingnan.

Only he and Sun Yanling didn't go downstairs to greet the drunk Shang Zhixin from beginning to end.

Sun Yanling hesitated a little: "That girl is really willing to think for me?" ”

"Marry a chicken with a chicken, marry a dog with a dog. As long as you coax her, doesn't she really treat you as a husband?

The Empress Dowager likes her very much, as long as she speaks, the Empress Dowager will definitely not brush her, in this way, brother, you can get ahead, unlike my brother, I don't know how long I want to be a hostage in this ghost place, alas. ”

Geng Jingzhong is sincerely thinking about his good brother Sun Yanling.

Don't look at the brother and his father-in-law died in Guilin, but the thousands of elite soldiers and fierce generals under the Dingnan Domain are still there, and now they are all under the command of the generals of the Dingnan Domain, Guangxi Admiral Lian Guoan.

Therefore, as long as the good brother can coax his daughter-in-law to intercede with the empress dowager, eighty percent will be able to inherit the old ministry of the old father-in-law Kong Youde and become a de facto town.

"Okay, I'll listen to my eldest brother, I'll coax this when I go back, damn it, I'll go out and lick her!"

Sun Yanling got up and poured a full bowl of wine for Geng Jingzhong, thinking about it and saying unconvinced, "I have to coax a woman to ask for a chance to make a living, how can he Wang Yaowu be awarded the Yellow Flag of the Han Army!"

If Ao Bai really wants to do this, then what are we? It's not as damn as early as he surrenders overnight, what the hell! ”