Liu Haiming picked up the dry place on the ground to walk, the spring rain was like a crisp, the night before it had just rained, the mud-based Jingshi small alley was full of potholes. If it is ordinary rain, it is nothing, but the poor sanitation of the Ming Dynasty makes it difficult to fill the hutongs with a faint stench after the rain.

After a few days, Liu Haiming, who was obviously accustomed to the clean and hygienic environment and comfortable life in the Forbidden City, was obviously disgusted by the environment of the Hutong in his heart at this moment, frowned slightly, stretched out his hand to cover his mouth and nose, and accelerated the speed of progress.

Walk along the alley, and go south after two forks, which is already behind the Mahayana hermitage. This place belongs to Jinchengfang, and a few hundred meters to the west is the high city wall. The Mahayana nunnery is a Zen temple, and there was originally a vegetable field of its own in the east of the Zen temple, and the vegetable field is Liu Haiming's home a little south of it.

Liu Haiming pushed open the firewood door in the small courtyard of his home, and saw his wife He Shi squatting on the ground washing clothes, the spring water was cold, and He's hands were full of chilblains, which made Liu Haiming feel distressed for a while.

As if hearing the sound of the chai door being pushed open, He squatted on the ground and turned his head to look back, and suddenly saw a husband dressed in new clothes and carrying a big bag. A look of surprise suddenly appeared on his face, and he immediately stood up. Maybe it was because he had been squatting for too long and standing up too violently, He suddenly felt dizzy, his eyes were dark, and his body shook in place a few times.

Liu Haiming couldn't take much of it, stepped over in a few steps, and grabbed his wife's shoulders to stabilize her firmly.

A trace of blush appeared on He's face, and he gently pushed it on her husband's chest, "The official is back? The concubine is going to cook for the officials~ Huh?"

While He spoke, he pushed his hand on Liu Haiming's chest and found that Liu Haiming's body had changed up and down, although it was still the style of the guard's clothing, but the texture and color of the pattern were obviously different. Where has He, who is accustomed to housework, seen this kind of clothing, and was immediately surprised, her husband's top and bottom are clearly no longer the tattered cotton armor before, "But the palace has issued new clothes? This fabric is really good~"

Looking at the envy in his wife's eyes, he asked about the faint smell on his wife's body, but Liu Haiming did not dislike it, and hugged He Shi tightly, "You are suffering at home." There have been changes in the palace, and we will live a good life in the future. ”

The wife was a little moved by the faint fragrance of her husband's body, which seemed to come not only from her husband's new clothes, but also from her husband's body. Surprised, she immediately looked at her husband's neck and ears.

In just a few glances, He Shi recognized that his husband's skin, nails, and even the roots of his hair were clean and clean, without any dirt at all, coupled with the fragrance emanating from his body, where did he look like a big internal guard, clearly a high-ranking and powerful official with countless servants.

Don't look at the name of the guard, in fact, most of the people who take this responsibility are the children of military generals who are in the middle of the family, and the civil officials will not let the family go this desperate way. Because, the inner guards are not only bitter, but also mostly recommended by their ancestors, and their cotton armor and weapons are all handed down from their fathers; when they enter the palace and are on duty near the Son of Heaven, a slight mistake is the crime of killing their heads; the inner treasury of the heavenly family is poor, and most of the time, they are in arrears; the life of the inner guards can be described as not easy, and the biggest advantage is that they can mix a mouthful of food in the palace and save a little ration for the family.

"Why are you like this~" Before He finished speaking, he was hugged by Liu Haiming's shoulder, "Speaking in the house, it is inevitable that there will be many people here~"

He also thought that her husband hadn't seen her for many days, and wanted to do some good things with herself, so she was a little shy, "The concubine's clothes haven't been washed yet~"

Liu Haiming smiled, "What do you do to wash it, change it for a new one, change it all for a new one!"

He was about to say something, and was pulled into the house by her husband with a force, and after a while, the oil lamp was lit up in the house, and on the edge of the small courtyard, a figure quietly came to the vegetable field of the Mahayana Nunnery, looking at the small courtyard next door and being silent.

"The official is hungry? There are pickled tofu and a small plate of cabbage in the kitchen, and the concubine will go to wash the rice and put it in the pot, and the official can rest for a while. When He heard her husband say that she didn't want clothes and changed them into new ones, she thought it was an official who was in a hurry and said casually. I am the daughter of Mr. Teach, I know some etiquette, and I know that prostitution during the day is despised, even if it is a husband and wife, I miss it for many days, and I should pay attention to it at this moment.

When the husband closes the doors and windows of the house, it is clear that he wants to do something good, so he pretends to do something else to distract him.

Liu Haiming is the queen of the gate, his father used to be the commander of the state, but in a fight to suppress bandits, he died in a foreign country, his mother died early due to illness, and he was shaded by his father's friends, so he reluctantly settled in Beijing and entered the Forbidden City as a guard for the night vigil. His wife He is a baby family since childhood, and she did not dislike the death of her parents, but still found a marriage in Beijing, and her father-in-law's family now lives in Tianjin Wei countryside to teach for a living.

Two months ago, Shanxi was captured by thieves, and as a guard, he could not leave his post without permission, but he could not ignore his family, so he arranged for his wife and children to leave Beijing and take refuge in the house of his father-in-law Wei in Tianjin. If Jingshi falls and he is loyal to the Son of Heaven, his wife and children can still live in the south by boat, leaving a little blood for the Liu family. Who knows, after his wife sent her two children to her parents' house, she returned alone, wanting to go to life and death with her, which really moved Liu Haiming.

For the sake of his family, Liu Haiming really fought bloodily in the defense of the Forbidden City, fought to the death, and finally got lucky enough to get on the Arctic immortal ship and saw the methods of immortals.

Hearing his wife's words in his ears, and remembering that his wife was suffering at home, he suddenly grabbed He's shirt, "I'm not hungry, don't be busy, I have something good to tell you~" After speaking, he removed the things on the table, took off the package on his back, and lowered his waist and put it on the ground, making a dull sound. Only then did He notice that the package her husband was carrying was really not light.

"What do officials like to say~" As Liu Haiming's wife, He naturally knows how husband and wife get along, and wants to help her husband, but she doesn't know how to carry the package with both hands, and when she mentions it, she doesn't move at all.

"So heavy?"

"One hundred and twenty pounds, do you say it weighs much?"

"What kind of baggage is this, cloth has never been seen before, and it can hold so many things. He Shi looked at the big earthy yellow backpack in front of her, she had never seen a burden and could carry it on both shoulders, so that her hands were free, and she could also lift things to do things, which was very convenient, but she didn't know many patterns on it, and some different shades of yellow earth-colored squares were scattered around the backpack at will, looking from a distance, it looked like a pile of dead grass.

"The immortals sent it from other worlds and sent it to us for use, of course you haven't seen it. Liu Haiming said with a smile as he opened the buttons on the backpack, unzipped them, and took out things from it one by one.

"The official has really seen the immortals, the immortals~" He naturally heard that the immortals in the capital were born, and the thunder swept away the 200,000 anti-thieves, who had never seen it, the matter of three hundred-meter immortal beasts guarding the Forbidden City Gate, she also heard the people on the streets and alleys talking, but she never expected that her husband would be able to get the treasure from the hands of the immortals. She was about to open her mouth to ask questions, but she was speechless, for she was frightened by what her husband had brought out of his hand.

Roast chicken, roast duck, smoked fish, bacon, sausages...... There were twenty or thirty kinds of meat, and there was a barrel of oil and two bags of rice, although these things were wrapped in unknown transparent things, but through the outer packaging, you could recognize what was inside.

My God, who still has this thing in the capital now? Even for more than ten years, since I can remember, I have never seen anyone who can have this meat at the same time, except for those high-ranking families who live behind the vermilion wall. Something that can usually be eaten in one bite is now full of tables, and He only feels that everything in front of him is starting to become unreal.

"Come~Take it, wash your hands with this~" He was in a daze, when he saw his husband handing over a purple box, which was very beautiful, it seemed to be a paper shell, through the shell, you could smell a fresh fragrance from afar, and there were some words on it, which seemed to be printed like a book, and the colors were very beautiful.

He is a family of poets and scholars, and he is naturally literate, but after the box, he couldn't help but read, "Six gods cool soap?

"You go and get a basin of water and wash it. Liu Haiming watched his wife linger on the scent of this soap, and immediately reminded.

Under the guidance of her husband, He rubbed her hands nervously for the first time, saw her hands full of foam and dirty water, and took a never-before-seen towel from her husband, wiped her hands carefully, and finally couldn't help but put her hand on the tip of her nose and breathe this moving aroma greedily.

It's so soft, so soft~ This is the first time He used a towel, I really want to use it to wash my face and try it, after smelling the aroma, He remembered the comfortable square towel again.

"Put it here when the soap runs out. The one you hold in your hand is for wiping your hands, and there are long ones here for washing your face and bathing......" When her husband, who looked as if he had suddenly changed a person, took out a piece of cloth with different patterns and patterns from his bag, He couldn't help but read the small words on it, "Jieliya long-staple cotton towel?"

"The box where the soap is put is steel?!"

"And the soap for bathing? Shanghai sulfur soap?"

"Soap for washing underwear, carved super soap, detergent for washing dishes, white cat detergent?" He wondered if this so-called immortal could be a woman? Otherwise, why would she love cleanliness so much? The things she gave to her husband were either eaten or washed.

Liu Haiming happily introduced the role and usage of these new things to his wife, and for the first time, he felt that there were still so many famous halls in the housework, and it turned out that the hygienic life he was used to needed so many things to support.

"Official, you said that these things were all sent by the queen??, the immortals got them from other worlds?" He Shi understood, no wonder these seem to be things for home use, if they are queens, then it should be a different matter, women always have to be careful.

Liu Haiming nodded.

"If the queen doesn't give them anymore in the future, will we still be able to buy them after we get used to them? Can we afford them?" asked Ho worriedly, as the main executor of household chores, she knew the convenience and practicality of these things. It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, and she is afraid that one day after she gets used to these things, she will feel very uncomfortable to lose them again.

Liu Haiming touched his wife's face and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I'm coming back this time to discuss this matter with you." Do you know how much I have?"

He was shy, pinned his head to his big hands, and said, "The official came to tease me again, you only get five stones a month, just like that, you can only get half of it every year, and some of them are also exchanged for silk cloth, cotton cloth, and treasure money, and the family can't even eat a trace of meat all year round." ”

Liu Haiming rubbed his hands, "Yes, five stone rice, now five stone rice can only be bought for twenty taels of silver." I think that when Hong Wuye was in power, one tael of silver could buy seven or eight stone rice, and when the orthodox lord was in power, one or two pieces of silver could also buy four stone of rice. ”

He shook his head, "Now there is a shortage of food in Jingshi, you can only enter but not out, there is more gold and silver and less rice, the price of five stone rice has been fried to thirty-eight taels, I heard that one stone of rice in Henan costs ten taels of silver, no wonder the people have become chaotic." ”

Liu Haiming frowned and said, "It's so serious?!, but don't worry, the price of grain will come down soon, do you know how much this kind of rice sells for in the world of immortals?"

He picked up a bag of pearl fragrant rice with Fulinmen written on it, although she didn't know what 5KG meant, but with the experience of housekeeping, she could still feel the approximate weight, "This bag of rice is crystal clear, there are no impurities after the shell is removed, full and lubricated." It weighs at least ten catties in his hand, and I'm afraid it's worth no less than four dollars of silver. ”

Liu Haiming laughed and said, "That world is not so expensive, twenty-five yuan is enough, more than two yuan per catty." ”

When He heard this, he immediately stood up from the bench, "You lie!"

Liu Haiming shook his head, "No, you haven't seen the food in that world, like mountains and seas, extremely cheap, and now the palace is piled up everywhere, and there is almost no place to put your feet." ”

Pick up a roast chicken in his wife's dementia, "a roast chicken eighteen wen, a roast duck eighteen wen, a box of soap sanwen, a towel five wen......"

When He heard the news from her husband, she was stunned for a while, and then she reacted, "No! The food is cheap, what should you do? It's not much money when converted into money, how can we afford to use these things?"

Liu Haiming coughed, "From now on, the Yulu in the palace will be distributed in the form of money, according to my level, the basic Yulu per month is seven thousand Wen, and the daily necessities are issued a fixed amount every month, in addition to various bonus rewards, seven, seven, eighty, eight and eight add up, there is no problem with 12,000 Wen a month." ”

He Shi hugged her husband, "You mean, not only are these things issued in the palace every month, but also your monthly salary is 7,000 and the price of rice is 2 or 3 wen per catty?

Liu Haiming nodded, "One hundred and fifty-five stones." ”

"Oh my God!" He Shi heard this, and immediately sat on the bench, stunned by this sudden happy news, in her opinion, only the basic money is money, and any other bonus rewards are floating clouds, just listen to the royal words, don't take it seriously, or why the treasure money is not worth much, it is not even as good as waste paper.

After a while, He Shi looked at her husband with a smile and grabbed his wrist, "Let's take the child and my father and mother~" Speaking of this, he paused again, "There is no empty house at home, where does my father and mother live? ”

Ho kept talking, acting extremely excited.

Liu Haiming said, "I just came back to discuss this matter with the lady, the fog will dissipate after half a month, and then the Jingshi will be unimpeded again." And if the small courtyard we live in now is willing to be handed over to the royal family, the royal family will build a new house for us in the outer city, as an example, the first batch are independent three-story small buildings, I have seen it, very beautiful. ”

He Shi lightly slapped her husband, "The officials are talking nonsense again, and the houses have not been built, how can you see it? The land price in the inner city is more expensive than that in the outer city, and the anti-thieves have invaded the capital, and the outer city has been burned, ten rooms and nine emptiness, uninhabited, and the land price is not worth much." Officials, don't do stupid things for the sake of greed. Moreover, the outer city is far away from the imperial city, so it is extremely inconvenient for you to be on duty, and it is also extremely inconvenient to buy things. ”

Liu Haiming waved his hand, "These are not things, this is the workshop specially modified by the queen in order to commend us internal guards." The surrounding neighbors are all Ouchi colleagues, so you don't have to worry about being on duty. He thought to himself, his wife didn't see those supermarkets, kiosks, night markets... With these things, life is not a problem at all.

When He heard this, he was immediately moved, if the house was surrounded by her husband's colleagues, wouldn't it be very convenient to move around, and it would be beneficial for both public and private affairs.

Liu Haiming took out a picture album from his arms, "Lady, please take a look." ”

She was attracted by a beautiful picture, between the flowers and trees, the rockery pavilion and the water, the small courtyards were independent, and the nature was revealed in the quiet, and the neighbors could see each other through the trees and flowers. I don't know what the clean and transparent thing on the wall is, which makes everything look very bright.

He couldn't help but take the album and look at it. As a poetry and book heirloom, she immediately fell in love with the house above.

The small garden in front of the door, can you plant some favorite flowers and plants, there is a lawn behind the house, it seems that there are swings and toys, Trojan horses, the two children will be very happy. What is this? It was called a hall, but it can be like this?!

In the album, there are halls, living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, cloakrooms, and storage rooms...... The design and explanation of this ordinary woman in the Ming Dynasty opened a new window in her heart, and it turned out that life could still be lived like this? Is there no war in the future? He didn't want to think about this, she just looked at the patterns in the atlas and introduced the future life and fell into a deep fantasy. Although there were many things she didn't know how to use or what to do, it didn't hinder her instincts.

Washing machine, dryer, dishwasher, microwave, refrigerator, air conditioner, TV...... Can my family really use these things? Can my husband's money support them?

Schools, clinics, supermarkets, what are these things, and why do so many things that I haven't heard of appear in picture books?

He was about to ask her husband again when she heard someone outside the house.

"Master Liu, the old man is empty, I heard that the donor has returned from the imperial city, so I came to disturb. ”

Liu Haiming gently patted his wife's shoulder and stood up, "It turned out to be the master of the pure space of the Mahayana Nunnery, and it is inconvenient at home, so I can't invite the master into the house to rest, forgive my sins." ”

"Where~ But Liu Shizhu and our nunnery have been neighbors for many years, Lao Wei has some doubts and wants to ask Liu Shizhu for advice, and also asks Liu Shizhu to move to the meditation room of the nunnery and drink a cup of tea?"

He nodded to her husband, Liu Haiming often went to the palace on duty, and he was alone at home, relying on the protection of the Mahayana Nunnery, and no one dared to harass him. At this moment, it is clear that the old monk of the clear space has something to ask her husband for, and it is difficult to shirk it.

Liu Haiming also understood what He meant, pushed open the door of the house, and walked down the steps, "Then disturb it~"

"Please~"

Liu Haiming jumped over, crossed the fence of the small courtyard, and landed in the vegetable garden of the Mahayana Nunnery.

--- dividing line---

An old man with white hair stood at the window, looking at the boats on the sea in the distance, and the fishing fire drifted along the water, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Cao Dudu is late at night, it's time to rest~" A thin voice came.

The old man did not look back, but cleared his throat and said, "You go down first, and Pontus will stand for a while." ”

"The spring is cold and the wind is cold, and the governor is careful of catching a cold. The man reminded.

"Hmm~" The old man has a pair of phoenix eyes, and his eyebrows are mixed with majesty, this person is the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi and the commander of the East Factory Cao Huachun!

At this moment, Cao Huachun's heart was full of fire, and his former little eunuch Wang Chengen became an immortal.

The saddest thing about being a eunuch is that his body is mutilated, and he doesn't even accept it after death, so the eunuchs regard their property and relatives as important.

And now, everything doesn't matter, there is a land slave star Jun Meiyu in front, as long as you are loyal, you will have a chance, and any money and power are all illusory. The most important thing is that the Son of Heaven remembered him, and the opportunity came.

Originally, he was 55 years old this year and took leave to return to his hometown because he presided over the funeral of his second brother Cao Huayu.

I began to hear that the anti-thieves were besieging Beijing, and I was very anxious, but after January, the situation changed, and all kinds of characters appeared on the stage, and one good show after another was staged on the land of Beijing.

The immortal is no longer an ethereal legend, and now he responds to the call of the Son of Heaven and sets off to return to Beijing.

Loyalty, only with thorough loyalty, can you have a real chance.

But Cao Huachun didn't know that the Jingshi at this moment was no longer the Jingshi he was familiar with, but countless changes had occurred.