The snow finally fell in heavy torrents. How many snows did this fall since the beginning of winter? Feng Ziying couldn't remember clearly, but the capital city this winter has become increasingly cold.
In the city gate cave, under the stone bridge, inside the Guandi Temple, and on the edge of the city wall, the bodies of frozen beggars were carried out one after another, and were thrown into the carts that were specially used to pull debris.
In the mass graves on the outskirts of the city, a dozen or twenty bodies can be buried in a large hole.
"It's miserable, it's miserable!" Baoxiang stomped from the house door and ran into the outer courtyard, breathing out heat mist, "Another car just pulled over over there, I guess there are six or seven more, Brother Ruixiang, what are you doing?
La?"
Seeing Ruixiang leaning against the door with a stunned look on his face, Baoxiang was startled and asked quickly.
"I was thinking, my master picked me up by the wall of Datong eight years ago. I was also freezing at that time. My master was passing by with his troops. When he saw that I was still breathing, he had someone give me ginger soup.
, I was thrown into a car shed and squatted for two nights before I came back to life, and then I came to the house. What about you, Baoxiang?"
After Baoxiang was startled, a look of reminiscence appeared on his face, "I can't even remember what happened six or seven years ago. Anyway, when I remember it, I followed people around, eating one meal and three hungry meals. Later, the people I followed were arrested.
After the government took it, they realized it was a kidnapper. After Qiu asked, I had no place to go and the government wouldn't take me in, so I had no choice but to sell it, but I was a six or seven-year-old kid, who would want it? Later, my aunt bought it.
Come in,……"
"Then where is your home?" Ruixiang asked.
Although both of them knew that they had been in the family since childhood, neither of them knew the origin of the other, and they also knew that the other was not a child of the Feng family.
"Who knows? I heard that the kidnapper who looked at his head is from Suide, maybe he is from there." Baoxiang shook his head: "Brother Ruixiang, what about you?"
"I don't know either, but Sister Yunshang and I were both brought into the mansion together. Sister Yunshang is from Datong, but I don't know which county she is from. I guess it's about the same." Ruixiang thought.
She thought for a moment and said, "Sister Xiangling seemed to have been abducted by a kidnapper, and was later sold to the Xue family. The Xue family gave it to him. I heard from Xiangling that day that my son might be able to help her find her in the future.
Where are the parents?"
"How can it be that easy? Not to mention that Sister Xiangling is in the south, thousands of miles apart. Even if she was kidnapped in Shuntian Mansion for seven or eight years, she might not be able to find the owner. Human life is worthless these days. Look at the previous
Those who were pulled over might have been abducted and lost, so they had to beg for food. If they couldn't survive the night, they would be thrown into a mass grave in a stiff state."
Baoxiang is not one who likes to talk, but after following Ruixiang for a long time, he talks a lot more than before, "Brother Ruixiang, I have seen in our mansion, most of them were brought back by the master and his wife from Datong, and there are also people in the mansion.
Few last long,..."
"Our Feng family is not as good as those who have lived in the capital for a long time. I heard that the master, the eldest master, and the second master have always been in Datong. That is to say, the master stayed in the capital city for some years when he was young. The eldest master and the second master died.
I just returned to Datong, and then I came back two years ago, and now I went to Yulin, which is your hometown."
Ruixiang was a talker, and he was talking happily, "Both my wife and my concubine were not happy for me to go to Yulin. In addition, I was already studying, so I didn't go with him. I was thinking that if I wait a few years for him to become an official, I'm afraid he would have to become an official." Come back and enjoy the happiness of raising your grandson."
Suddenly I heard a clear cough, and Ruixiang jumped a little, but saw a tall and pretty figure coming out of the house with a cold face.
When Ruixiang saw this, he was so frightened that he quickly shrank his neck and said with a smile on his face: "Sister Jinchuaner wants to go out? I'll call a car for you."
Baoxiang also quickly shrank his neck and did not dare to say a word.
Of the four people in the uncle's room, Yun Shang is the most familiar and easy to talk to. Xiang Ling is the kindest and doesn't care about anything. The jade bracelet is the smallest, a little smaller than Baoxiang and can't be seen, but the gold bracelet is the smallest. The child is unusual.
I didn't realize it at first, but after I arrived, the yard suddenly changed. Everything was in order and placed neatly. The windows on the ground and the doors of tables, chairs, and cabinets were all clean, and even the fallen leaves on the ground were clean. You can't even see them, the flowers and grass along the way have been pruned neatly.
The rules for the inner and outer courtyards have also been set. There are fixed times for entrance and exit through the two main gates, transportation of debris from the toilets inside and outside the house, and collection of clothes for washing in the backyard.
This is all the credit of this sister Jinchuaner, and even everyone is in awe of this sister Jinchuaner.
"Let's wait a moment. I will be going out soon."
The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and more and more people are coming and going.
There are a lot of new year's goods sent back from Yulin, including smoked lamb legs, sand fox skins and a lot of various medicinal materials. There are dozens of specially cut and processed high-quality sand fox skins. It is said that there are Produce this thing.
Even Jin Chuan'er was used to luxury in the Jia family, and was shocked by the Feng family's wealth at the end of the year.
There are also sand fox furs in the Jia family, but they are only owned by the ancestors and the second master Bao. The Feng family returned dozens of them at once, and this one is probably worth a hundred or ten taels of silver. ?Even if you make first-class furs, you can make three or five pieces.
This does not include the income from Zhuangzi's shop.
Jinchuan'er also gradually came to know that the concubines of the Feng family were each in charge of a lot of business. On the contrary, the wife had a carefree and careless temperament. Even Jinchuan'er was astonished by such a hands-off approach.
In contrast, Jin Chuan'er felt more and more that the Jia Mansion looked a bit bleak and declining.
Look at the new year, the wife and mistress Lian in the mansion are planning all day long. Maybe they have to pawn a lot of things and go out to exchange for some money to survive the new year. They also have to fool the ancestors and the two families. If we say that the original background is not the same, why don't we talk about it now, but the gap is so huge?
Today my sisters and Xiangling are going back to the Jia Mansion. In the past few days, the Jia Mansion has sent some New Year's goods, so they should reciprocate the gifts.
Most of the food sent from the Jia Mansion is food, such as green rice, rouge rice, and a few deer and roe deer, which means that the return gift here will not be too heavy. It is also a courtesy, like a bear skin. One piece, two pairs of bear paws, plus some northwest medicinal materials, etc. It is already quite good.
But these return gifts are not the most important thing today. The key thing is that there are still a few things that need to be sent to Jia's house.
One is a white fox fur coat for Miss Lin, and the other is a dark cloud fur coat for Miss Bao.
That's all for these two, the key is that there are women's fur hats that are quite fashionable in the capital nowadays, made of firefox fur, and they are actually given to the third girl.
This shocked Jin Chuan'er. Could it be...?
But I left it to him to do it, so naturally he trusted himself, so Jin Chuaner could only keep this secret in his heart, and he had to do it well.
Feng Ziying also wants to go to Jia's house, but this time it is a purely courtesy visit. Jia She, Jia Zheng and the old lady all have to go there, but they will not stay long.
In the past few days, he had a very heavy task. All the good friends of the Feng family in Beijing had to be visited one by one, so as early as a few days ago, he went to visit Qi Yongtai, Qiao Yingjia, Guan Yingzhen, Zhou
Yongchun, the residence of Chen Jingxuan and others.
Just arranging various greeting gifts is an extremely complicated matter. Every family's situation is different, and no one else can help. I can only arrange it for myself, my mother, and my aunt.
*******
Feng Tang was a little restless.
Chinese New Year is coming soon, and the situation is not good.
I got up and walked around the festival hall several times, but still couldn't let go of my inner uneasiness, and finally walked out of the hall.
"Someone is coming!"
"Master." Feng Zuo appeared outside the door. The wrinkles on his face caused by wind and frost made this man even more sinister and ruthless.
"Get your horses ready, take a few people with you, and I'll go out for a walk." Feng Tang knew exactly where his irritability came from, but he was helpless.
The situation in Ningxia Town is reported intermittently, and it is very bad. However, this bad situation is not the same as this year. Last year, the situation seemed to be even worse, and nothing was seen. There were more than ten people hanging on the walls of Ningxia Town.
The matter was suppressed, so what else could be done?
However, this situation was difficult to explain clearly, so Feng Tang could only arrange his subordinates as well as possible.
"Is there any news from Shixian?" This was the third time he asked in one day, but Feng Tang was still worried.
"Master, there is no news yet, but you don't have to worry. Mr. He is also experienced in military affairs. If you remind him again and again, there is no way he will not pay attention to it."
Feng Zuo has followed Feng Tang for so many years, and has rarely seen his master in such a state. Even when he encountered the Tatar invaders ten years ago, broke through the border wall, and fought all the way to Datong Town, he never saw his master be so upset.
Confused, is the master really old?
Besides, that is a matter in Ningxia Town. All the military information that should be reported here has been sent back. Whether it is the Ministry of War or the Fifth Army Commander's Office, they should have considered and prepared it long ago, but there has been no movement so far.
, can this be blamed on this place?
As for whether there is really going to be a mutiny in Ningxia Town, it is nothing more than the impulsiveness of a bunch of drunk soldiers. What kind of trouble can they cause? It is nothing more than killing a few people in charge of military supplies.
Thousands of households, I just want to give everyone an explanation. If it doesn't work, just push one or two annoying guards to carry it, and give out some money, and that's it.
A group of people, wearing armor and robes, roared out, rolling up bursts of snow on the ground.
The biting cold wind did not affect Feng Tang's determination at all. He had to move around his camp on the ground. Others could not control it. At least he had to take good care of his own three-thirds of an acre.
As long as nothing happens on the ground, it will be conducive to the invincible position. As for Sibyl, she can only do her best and obey fate.
