On the eve of New Year's Eve, Zhang Xing and Qin Bao had a full meal of fried crispy pork.
It's New Year's Eve. Let's indulge. Not to mention that we have just gone on a very difficult errand. Without this errand, in addition to those who are responsible for the planning work and the people who supervise the construction of Mingtang, there are no such errands.
A famous saying?
Let’s talk about it later in the year.
In fact, the entire Dongdu is filled with a Chinese New Year atmosphere, with people burning bamboo, offering sacrifices to their ancestors, and giving each other copper plates with small red slips tied on them.
The dignitaries in the north gave a feast like flowing water, but they didn't come to eat. No matter what they did, every time they changed the process, they had to replace it with chicken, duck, fish and meat, so that the servants were all full of food; although the poor people
Even though he was poor, he still had his neighbors chip in to buy a pot of oil and fry some dough for his children to chew. Even the new batch of laborers received a gracious reward from the Ministry of Works, adding a winter coat in addition to their regular winter clothes.
Fried sweet cake... Of course, you must thank Tian'en to get it.
It's strange to say that people who have left their hometown should miss their loved ones more during the festive season, but while drinking with Qin Bao, they suddenly wiped their tears and called mother in a low voice without realizing it. She was also like Yueniang, who looked carefree on the surface and sat in private.
Unlike staying at the stable for a night with two horses and a mule, Zhang Sanlang was unexpectedly happy this year.
In other words, he is heartless. He eats and drinks when he should, and reads novels when he should, but he seems not to care about anything and never mentions family affairs.
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And on the second day, which is the first day of the Lunar New Year, all the real officials have to go to the Zhengdan Palace to suffer. Especially this year, the Mingtang is still under construction, so they can only go to the Chengming Hall next to it...
Knowing why, Zhang Sanlang, who was entitled to enjoy annual leave, was even more joyful.
First, he forced Qin Bao and Yueniang to pay him New Year's greetings, and then they each held a red paper bag. When they opened it, they found it was just two copper coins tied with a red string... Of course, it didn't matter if Qin Bao and Yueniang didn't come to pay homage to him.
It doesn't matter if someone pays homage to him, at most he is stingy with the red envelope.
Then, the Bai Shoufu from Jing'an Terrace dropped down a basket of small crispy pork and dough balls that he was tired of eating and went out to wander around. When he met a child, he gave two slices to them and asked them if they could write "small crispy pork".
"The word "su"... those who knew it, naturally knew that it was a white ribbon from Jing'antai, a young and promising official. Those who didn't know it, thought it was a street kid.
However, these gazes could not stop Zhang Xing from wandering around the shop singing "It's not too much", and when all the pieces of his flesh were gone and only the dough was left, he naturally followed Qin Bao and Yueniang.
The figure came to the commune in the square...
This commune is not that commune, but a simple ancestral hall in the commune that enshrines the three radiances and four emperors. It is also called a public temple or a public hall. In short, that’s what it means.
In fact, in addition to the commune temple, each square usually has a decent independent temple. For example, the Qingdi Temple in Wenwen Square is particularly large, and the kidney-tonifying medicines sold there are particularly good. There is also a temple in Chengfu Square.
A White Emperor Temple has always been engaged in the business of forging iron tools, digging wells, treating injuries and illnesses, and opening up foundations for Mongolia, and it is quite well-known... But the problem is that it is the Chinese New Year, and it is the first day of the Lunar New Year. I only worship the White Emperor, and other supreme beings.
Don't you want to pay your respects?
Therefore, today, when almost everyone in every neighborhood in the city goes out to pay New Year greetings, they inevitably stop by the public temple in their own neighborhood.
Zhang Xing came over with half a basket of dough. Of course he wasn't here to worship the three splendors and four emperors, he was just here to watch the fun. Don't even mention it, he really found a new way of having fun.
It turns out that the San Taoist priest here is telling people's fortunes... There are two kinds of fortune telling, one is to draw lots to interpret the fortune, which costs ten cents; and the other is a high-level one, which requires using a light cinnabar to write the birth date and horoscope. This
It only costs fifty copper coins, which is extremely expensive.
So what kind of person is Zhang Sanlang? He would get into trouble for nothing, let alone seeing this kind of feudal superstition to cheat money? So he went directly over, drove the Taoist priest away, then put down the basket himself and sat behind the case.
Use the cinnabar to write words for people who come to tell fortunes.
That's right, Zhang Sanlang didn't need others to write for him, but took the initiative to write for others. He cut the paper into square buckets, but only wrote a big blessing... There is no tradition in this world of posting Spring Festival couplets, and Zhang Xing didn't do this either.
It means popularization, but this does not stop him from writing it out and telling the visitor who has a certain level of education to stand the word upside down and paste it on the door with batter. The other person wakes up instantly, and then drops the money and holds the word like flying.
Fang ran back.
In this way, Zhang Sanlang wrote forty or fifty words in a row, nothing more than "luck, wealth, longevity, wealth" and the like, and then he lost interest, but he didn't even care about the long queue in front of him, and only wrote for himself.
He wrote the word "福" in a big word and then directly killed them and ran away without burying them.
But it doesn't matter. The Taoist priest who was driven away earlier woke up early, but immediately changed his business on the spot and continued. This is much easier than writing fortune-telling, and the scope of business is not comparable to fortune-telling.
Looking back, Zhang Xing went home with an empty basket. Qin Bao and Yueniang had not returned from their visit to the temple, so he pasted the character "Fu" on his head and went to the courtyard to stretch his muscles... Although it was boring, there is some truth to it... You must know
, this time out, Zhang Sanlang also gained a new understanding because of Qin Bao's performance. Perhaps the great realms of cultivation such as Zhengmai, Qimai, Condensation Pill, Chengdan, and Grandmaster will produce a qualitative difference in the martial arts of practitioners, but
Obviously, horse-drawn kung fu, physical and mental torture, and weapon proficiency, like courage and will, are undoubtedly some of the terms on the line between life and death.
One of the simplest and most straightforward expressions is that despite Zhang Xing's cheating, he was ahead of Qin Bao, a recognized martial arts genius, in a real line of cultivation, but if the two of them were to fight to the death, Zhang Xing did not feel that he had two
You can win with more than 10% probability.
With a swing of that big iron spear and a dash of his horse, Zhang Xing was absolutely invincible from the point of view of Zhengmai.
While I was practicing, someone suddenly knocked on the door and opened it. My confusion instantly disappeared. The person who came was actually Mr. Zhou Xingfan, who was personally carrying large and small bags to pay a visit.
Mr. Zhou's father is the legitimate confidant of the saint. He has the same title and rank. Naturally, he has his own large mansion in the eastern capital city. However, his family are all in the south, and only dozens of servants stay here to take care of the house.
Keep up the real fire, so I can come over when I'm free.
After coming over, I could only stand there stupidly. I waited until Qin Bao and Yueniang came back, and then there was no sound of people in the yard, but it was already noon, so I hurriedly started cooking.
That's about it for holidays.
In the evening, Zhou Xingfan, who had had two meals, said goodbye first. Then, Qin Baozi focused on the newly purchased weapons from Baidiguan, Yueniang began to recalculate the firewood, rice, oil and salt at home, and Zhang Xing started as usual
Read his novels.
However, as the sky got darker and the three of them went back to their rooms to prepare for bed, Zhang Xing heard an obvious sound from the roof tiles above his head, so he got up helplessly, got dressed, went out and climbed up.
Sure enough, Bai Yousi had been sitting on the roof early, waiting for him for a long time. Also waiting for him were two bottles of wine and a plate of cold-cut braised beef.
"Happy New Year." Bai Yousi, dressed in men's clothing, said with a smile.
"Happy New Year." Zhang Xing rarely said anything, so he just cupped his hands slightly and sat down.
Thinking about it, if I really said I was one year older, I would probably be dumped directly.
"Has your mood gotten better in the past few days?" Bai Yousi waited for the other party to sit down, then directly raised the pot.
"Not bad, not bad." Zhang Xingqian laughed. "It's the Chinese New Year. There's always something to say about coaxing the kids. I've done a lot of messy things..."
"Are you still worried about what happened in Huaibei?"
"yes."
"Why is this so?"
"The focus and values are different... The common people always regard the life and death of the common people as the fundamental and regard meat-eaters as contempt, just as the meat-eaters always regard the rise and fall of the meat-eaters as the fundamental and regard the common people as nothing."
"I see."
"Do you understand?"
"Aren't you watching or studying?"
"In this way, it seems that I am biased."
"If you are not biased, how can you catch my eye?"
"Don't they reflect each other? You have to learn and change them."
"Right."
"Let's drink."
"Let's drink."
The two touched the wine bottles and each just drank a sip of wine.
"Chen Ling's matter was not worth mentioning to the Nanya officials, but they also made the decision to transfer him to the northwest to guard the poisonous desert of the witch tribe." After a while, Bai Yousi suddenly lowered his hands.
The wine pot held up his cheeks and smiled. "After the new year, we will deal with the Long Whale Gang's affairs. We can also announce the transfer order on the way..."
"I don't know if he dares to hate Jingantai or the Bai family." Zhang Xing shook his head in response. "But, isn't the inspection going to Fulongwei?"
"There is such a saying." Bai Yousi answered frankly. "In Nanya, there has always been an opposition between Zhongcheng and Zhang Gong... Then my father went there, and naturally formed an alliance with Zhang Gong... Do you understand?
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"Understood." Zhang Xing blurted out. "Zhongcheng is an old minister left by the late emperor, and he is not the same as the other veterans. He is naturally unshakable. He has become his own pole in Nanya, and all the veterans are willing to obey him. And Zhang
The meritorious service of the Duke was achieved after the current saint ascended the throne, so this can be regarded as a typical opposition between the old and the new. As for the respected father, although he is a noble of the Bai family, he came under the command of the saint. He is a new noble promoted by the saint, so he roughly belongs to the newcomer.
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"That's what I mean." Bai Yousi nodded repeatedly. "However, these are not obvious. There are few conflicts of spirit in Nanya. The previous enmity between Zhongcheng and Zhang Gong was only about the conquest of Dongyi.
Disputes... My father also had some arguments with Zhongcheng because the saint recently insisted on building Mingtang and Babel Tower."
Zhang Xing nodded naturally.
To put it bluntly, the imperial rulers in Nanya are all human beings. At least on the surface, they are still discussing matters.
But it is obvious that this level of confrontation is likely to be just a word, and a call to the corresponding departments to provide evidence will trigger fierce partisanship and confrontation below.
The most obvious thing is that since the beginning of winter last year, the series of actions of the second patrol team, as well as the continuous encounters of Zhang Xing and others, are essentially inseparable from the small verbal argument in Nanyanei.
"My father meant that there was no need to make me tired of dealing with such a trivial matter. Therefore, as early as when we encountered a murder in Xiajiangdong, he complained to Zhongcheng in front of everyone during lunch break in Nanya, and Zhongcheng was taken advantage of by him.
I have no choice but to agree in public and wait until I come back to be transferred to Fulongwei." Bai Yousi said slowly. "I actually agreed, but I also told my father and Zhongcheng that since everything has a beginning, there must be a beginning.
Wei, after the New Year, we will take care of the affairs of the Long Whale Gang together, and then make respective arrangements with Sima Zheng."
"Thank you very much." Zhang Xing was grateful from the bottom of his heart.
"Not just for you...of course it's also for you, but the words you promised that day were originally for what I asked for that day by the river. How could I ignore it because of emotion and reason?" Bai Yousi sighed.
"Moreover, all your strategies and decisions can't stop the sword of the second son of the Zuo family. If I don't go, who will kill this whale for you?"
"Indeed." Perhaps because he is used to it, Zhang Xing is not too embarrassed. "But I can't always rely on the patrol inspector to be my protector. I still have to work hard to improve my cultivation."
"Speaking of this." Bai Yousi suddenly asked, "Do you want to follow me to Fulongwei?"
Zhang Xing was silent for a long time, and then asked cautiously: "I heard that the Fulong Guards just live in Xiyuan and occasionally come out to serve as guards of honor and bodyguards?"
"Fulongwei is not as relaxed as you think." Bai Yousi said with a smile. "How could there be less trouble in the royal family? Zhang Xing..."
"Why."
"The reason why I agreed to this is, firstly, because I also felt that what Luo Fang did before was too stingy and meaningless; secondly, because of some of your ordinary words, I wanted to get in touch with the real court and see the real ruler.
What are the people doing... Not to mention, when you get to Fulongwei, you can go to Xiyuan Langya Pavilion to check the documents and documents to know the true story of the matter." Bai Yousi's eyes were burning and he came to see Zhang Xing again. "Do you want to come?"
"I think." Zhang Xing responded simply. "But if that's the case, can Fulongwei just come in if he wants?"
"Of course not." Bai Yousi replied with relief. "For ordinary people to enter, there is a hard condition for cultivation, which is the perfection of the Zhengmai... So, according to the truth, in our patrol group, I can actually only
Take Brother Hu and Qian Tang there."
"What's the truth?" Zhang Xing couldn't help but laugh after hearing the meaning of the words.
"Actually, Brother Hu had a grudge against me last time, so it was difficult for him to come over and continue to help me." Bai Yousi replied calmly. "But at Fulongwei, because of the tradition, we can discuss merits and deeds.
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"I know." Zhang Xing couldn't help but let out a long breath and interrupted the other party on the spot. "I also learned about the provisions of the "Dawei Code" after Jiang Dong, and it is the legacy of the late emperor... A penny can kill someone, but in terms of crime
However, there are eight exceptions to this rule, namely, discussing relatives, discussing old friends, discussing talents, discussing abilities, discussing merits, discussing nobles, discussing diligence, discussing guests... Those who are officials above the ninth rank and have a relationship with the emperor will be considered talented by the emperor.
Yes, people of noble birth, and envoys from all barbarians can publicly reduce their crimes and exempt them... This is just treating the people below as human beings... Forget it, I am cynical again. This is not the case in any dynasty or generation, but it is not like "The Great Wei Dynasty"
"Laws" is just written clearly, the inspector will continue to talk about it."
Bai Yousi shook his head: "In short, besides Qian Tang, Li Qingchen and Zhou Xingfan can all discuss matters, and you and Qin Bao can also discuss merits... Especially you, this trip has really shocked everyone, you can definitely go to Huaihe first
Go up, come back and add the black ribbon, and then discuss the merits and transfer to Fulongwei. As for Qin Bao, it is actually a little more difficult, so I can only give it a try by adding the white ribbon."
"Very good." Zhang Xing nodded. "That's how the inspection is arranged."
Hearing Zhang Xing's promise, Bai Yousi wanted to say something else, but for some reason, he paused for a while and just nodded lightly: "Zhang Sanlang, do you know? I thought you were going to leave me after this incident."
And go."
"Although the world is big, it's really hard to find a boss who is better than an inspection officer." Zhang Xing responded with a wry smile. "The road in life is difficult, so I have to temporarily use the wings of an inspection officer to cover me."
"Okay." Bai Yousi stood up and brought the wine. "Let's support each other and go on a journey together. We'll talk about it in the future."
With that said, Bai Yousi raised the wine bottle, raised his head and drank.
Zhang Xing also sat on the ridge of the roof and drank a pot of wine in one gulp.
PS: Welcome the God of Wealth on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, good night everyone.