The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 5
Nancheng, Lvdiaozi Hutong.

The northern city of the capital is the settlement of high-ranking officials and nobles.

Nancheng is the residence of the children of poor families; merchants;

Children from poor families are not poor.It refers to the descendants of noble children, the kind who have no collateral.For example, Changfeng.

Later generations often say that "it is difficult to produce a noble son from a poor family".In fact, the humble and the poor are confused.

A poor family must have at least one door.At least there must be a single-family courtyard in the capital.In the words of later generations, one must have a villa within the third ring road.

Changfeng, who was off work, led Huzi to the entrance of the alley, where it was already the tip of willows on the moon.

The night market in Beijing is very prosperous.On a street outside Ludiaozi Hutong, there are dozens of stalls, large and small.

"Ice candied haws are here."

"The pork head meat is delicious."

The crisp cries can be heard across three streets.

Chang Feng bought a catty of pork head meat, two catties of cakes, and a stick of candied haws.Ask the three stall owners to wrap each lotus leaf.Tie with string.Carried into the donkey diaozi alley.

Chang Feng's home is in a neat courtyard house in the depths of Lvdiaozi Hutong.That was the only property his father left to him and his sister.

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

Tangtang is playing with the goat crutches in the yard at night.Huang Pozi stood beside her and watched.

Seeing Chang Feng came back, Mrs. Huang made a blessing: "Master Chang is on a business trip."

Chang Feng said: "Yeah. I'm on a business trip. You can go home."

Tangtang immediately hugged Huzi: "Haha. Huzi, the meat for lunch, the bones I left for you!"

Huzi is a Laizhou red dog breed, similar to later generations of wolf dogs, very fierce.

Seeing Tangtang, it was docile like a rabbit, wagging its tail and rubbing its head against Tangtang's chin.

Xiaotangtang is innocent and cute.It looks like a china doll.The big eyes are flickering, very beautiful.

Chang Feng shook the lotus leaf bag in his hand: "I bought pork head meat and your favorite candied haws."

Tangtang is a snack.As soon as he heard the pig's head meat, he drooled in disbelief: "Okay, okay! Tangtang helped brother chop garlic, and brother mashed garlic for Tangtang!"

Chang Feng changed out of his soap clothes and put on a commoner suit.Sitting on the threshold, the brother and sister were busy chopping and mashing garlic.The moonlight gently shines on the faces of the brothers and sisters.

While peeling the garlic, Tangtang looked up at Mingyue: "Brother, is Dad really in the sky?"

Chang Feng said: "Here. Maybe the old man is sitting on the moon drinking wine and looking at us right now."

After pounding the mashed garlic, it's time to eat.

The pork head meat was placed in a multicolored plate from Jingde official kiln.The mashed garlic is served in colorful fighting cock cups.As for the container for the pancake, it is a Ru Kiln celadon sea bowl from the Song Dynasty.

Although Chang Feng's branch is a collateral lineage of the Marquis, it has passed down some good porcelain from the Marquis Mansion of the old ancestor.

"Tangtang eats."

"Brother eats."

The two brothers and sisters began to eat happily.Tangtang eats his mouth full of oil.

In Daming, pork head meat is the only food that can be eaten on a daily basis, which is definitely considered first-class.

Famine is raging in today's world, afflicting the poor people.

There was a severe drought in Shandong last year, and thousands of miles of people died of starvation.The number of starving people reported to the emperor by the Ministry of Household Affairs was 350 people, some of which were small and some of them whole.

The actual death toll secretly investigated by Jin Yiwei is about 4.

Naturally, the investigation of this figure was not for the purpose of reporting to the emperor.Wantong, the chief treasurer of Jinyiwei, blackmailed the Governor of Shandong 8000 taels of silver at one time by relying on this figure.

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

During the first ten years of Emperor Chenghua's reign.He made great use of Shang Ren, Peng Shi, Li Xian and other virtuous officials.The world is governed.

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

Of course, who the emperor uses and what the country's status is has little to do with Chang Feng's seventh-rank general banner.

What he's worried about now is that he won't be able to copy [-] copies, so he won't be able to report to Wei Li.

Although the official position of Jinyiwei General Banner is small, it has great weight.In addition, what he did was a lucrative errand of ransacking the house, so he could get a lot of "outsiders".

The annual salary of the general banner is 45 taels of silver. "Wailuoer", that is, gray income, can reach nearly 200 taels.

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

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

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

There was only one piece of pork head left in the colorful plate.

Tangtang just picked it up with her chopsticks and realized that this was the last piece. She said childishly, "Wow! It's the last piece! Brother eat."

Chang Feng said casually: "You are growing tall. You can eat."

Tangtang stood up and fed the pig's head meat to Chang Feng's mouth: "Brother is working hard to raise Tangtang! Brother, eat!"

Chang Feng bit the pig's head into his mouth: "Well, Tangtang is good. You're so sensible. It's delicious."

The siblings ate and drank enough.Tangtang suddenly remembered something: "Ahhh! Why did I forget! Elder sister of the Liu family asked the servant girl to deliver a letter to you!"

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

The elder sister of the Liu family she mentioned was Liu Xiaoyan, the daughter of Liu Bingyi, the chief envoy of Beizhili.

Liu Bingyi was a neighbor of Chang's family before he became a Jinshi.Chang Feng has played with Liu Xiaoyan since he was a child, he can be called Qin's sweetheart, a childhood sweetheart.

At that time, the Chang family had a good relationship with the Liu family.The two parties made a baby kiss.

However, ten years ago, Liu Bingyi was a middle-aged Jinshi in high school and was ordered to the Imperial Academy.Moved away with Liu Xiaoyan.

In recent years, Liu Bingyi has been ingratiating himself with Liu Ji, the "Old Man of the Cotton Pavilion", and joined the sect, promoted step by step, and became a feudal lord of a province.

He was a snobbish eye, and thought that the Chang family was just an honorable offshoot, with no title to attack, and no family background, so he simply broke the marriage contract.

Liu Xiaoyan looks stunning.The people who came to Liu's family to propose marriage naturally stepped through the threshold, and they were all the children of high-ranking officials.

But Liu Xiaoyan resisted with death.Let me marry someone?Don't blame me for stabbing the neck vein with scissors and staining the wedding dress red with blood!

Liu Bingyi was helpless.Had to delay her daughter's marriage.But she will never let go, and she is not allowed to marry Chang Feng.

Liu Xiaoyan is the same age as Chang Feng, who is already twenty.This has become an old lady in the capital.

But in order to wait for Changfeng, she would rather stick to her boudoir and watch her age grow old.

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

She is still the old way, resisting with death.This door is naturally yellow.She asked Chang Feng to work in Jinyiwei with peace of mind, and seek a promotion as soon as possible, so that she could ask her father to propose marriage and marry her.

Chang Feng smiled wryly after reading the letter.

It's still rising!Whether Jin Yiwei's waist card can be kept or not is debatable!
Chang Feng thought to himself: It's a pity that Cai Zhong used to be a poor official in Taichang Temple.It was only last year that he flattered the prince, and was recommended by the prince as the servant of the household department.

If he had worked in the household department for ten or eight years, he would be more than enough to steal 3 taels of silver.If I want to keep my official position, I can only count on Cai Zhong to be a huge greedy man who has a good way of making money!
(End of this chapter)