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Chapter 11 Surrender early is worse than surrender late
Before dawn, Jia Liu, who dozed off dozens of times during Yu Fen’s (angry) reading, rubbed his blurred eyes, looked outside Shang Shang’s darkness, and took the half-book of "The Analects of Confucius". Throwing it into the corner, then breathed out into his hands, went out to the kitchen and unplugged the door from the charcoal stove.

Jia Liu needs to boil some hot water to wash his hair, because he feels that the uncut braid on the top of his head is a bit dirty, and his scalp is always itchy, probably because of lice, so he must take care of it to be refreshed in "Hezhongtang" In front of the debut.

While sitting on the small stool waiting for the water to boil, Jia Liu kept playing with the braid at the back of his head, and tried to pull it hard several times, but the result was that his scalp was so painful.

Instinctive disgust.

Smell it close to the nose, and there is a faint smell.

Nowadays, the braids of bannermen are not as small and short (commonly known as money rat tails) as they were when Manchuria first entered the customs, but have changed slightly.

The first is that the braids that were originally on the back of the head were moved to the top of the head, and the second allowed the hair storage area to expand from the root of the braids to the size of four or five copper coins. If there were no braids, it would look like a piece of psoriasis or a birthmark on the top of the head.

The hair storage area has expanded slightly, and the braid style is still the "money rat tail" when I entered the customs, but I no longer need to "braid every five days and shave my head every ten days", so the result of evolution is that the braids become more and more long.

Long braids look better than short braids, but it is troublesome to wash. You have to untie the braids one by one, and then wash them with water bit by bit. The whole process is very troublesome and time-consuming.

Therefore, walking in the streets and alleys of Beijing, you can see braids that are so long that they are almost dragged to the ground and glowing with oil. When you get closer, you can smell the sour smell that makes you want to vomit.

These are all traffickers, poor people living at the bottom.

The poor work hard for their livelihood every day, and they have no time to take care of their braids. In addition, most poor people cannot have water wells in their homes, so a kind of industry - water industry - was born in the city.

The water line is the same as the manure line, both of which use carts to pull large buckets, but the buckets are filled with water.Poor people either have to go to distant places to fetch water, or buy water from water dealers, usually for a few coppers per bucket.

The bought water is precious to the poor, so they are reluctant to use it for bathing.Over time, the braid is long and smelly.In order to save trouble, many people simply tie their braids directly around their waists, not to mention that this style is also convenient for hanging things around their waists.

"Master, are you up so early?"

Alarmed by the movement in the kitchen, Yang Zhi thought it was his aunt making breakfast, but when he saw that it was the young master boiling water there, he froze for a moment.

Conscience of heaven and earth, this is the first time the young master has done it himself in eighteen years.

"Your young master, I have read all night without closing my eyes,"

Jia Liu was very satisfied with his achievements in studying hard. Seeing that the water was about to boil, he ordered: "Shuan Zhu, you bring a bucket, I want to wash my hair."

"Oh."

Yang Zhi didn't think much about it, the young master was indeed still studying there when he fell asleep last night.I really don't know why my young master changed his temper, but it's good, at least the master won't faint from anger.

Yawning, he poured the hot water from the pot into the bucket. After testing the temperature of the water, Yang Zhi put the braids of the young master into the bucket to wet them.

Saponin is a kind of medicinal material, which has been used to wash hair for a long time. Because it is cheap, it is used by the poor and the rich.But earlier, Jia's family used Polyporus chinensis, which is much more effective in washing hair than saponins, but it's more expensive.

In addition to common shampoos such as saponins, poor people also use rice soup and plant ash to wash their hair, both of which are good at removing oil stains.

After rubbing and washing, Yang Zhi finally washed the young master's braids, and put the braids close to the stove, so that it would dry faster.

After a while, he felt that the young master's braids were almost done, so Yang Zhi was about to re-braid the loose braids, but he heard the young master said that his head was itchy and asked to use a grate.

As a result, this grate really caused two lice to come out of the grate, one fat and plump just after eating, and the other shriveled and just waking up.

Accompanied by a sound of "beat", Jia Liu's fingernails, except for the remains of lice, were his own blood.

For some reason, when the two lice were strangled, Jia Liu felt particularly relieved.

After re-braiding the braids, Yang Zhi wrapped the young master's braids with a cover made of a small piece of red cloth, so as to prevent the braids from getting dirty and to look beautiful.

The eldest brother-in-law Wang Zhian and the second brother-in-law Gao Delu both told the old man to "dry" him and fell asleep in the guest room.

Jia Daquan was still whimpering there, the saliva on the corner of his mouth probably hasn't been done all night.

At the dinner table yesterday, the Jia family discussed going to He Shen for help today, but it is impossible to go there at dawn, and it must be after Chen Shi (after eight o'clock).

In addition, you can't go empty-handed. Although Gao Delu said that He Shen wouldn't care about those customary etiquette, Jia Daquan still decided to buy some gifts to bring with him.

As the old saying goes, don't reach out and hit the smiling face.

Carrying things and going empty-handed will give people a different feeling, at least they feel that "something will happen" (sensible).

On this point, Jia Liu, who had always looked down on Jia Daquan, stretched out his hands to support him, and said that he must buy two jars of good wine and two bags of high-quality tobacco leaves.

There are no packaged Huazi these days, but most of the banner people smoke, the kind of tobacco leaves packed in pipes.

Tobacco, alcohol, alcohol, research.

Because it was not yet dawn, the original sleepiness disappeared after washing his braids. Jia Liu, who had nothing to do, simply washed the rice and cooked porridge.

Not long after, the eldest sister Jia Juan, who heard the movement in the kitchen, came over, and was surprised to see her younger brother cooking porridge there.Surprised, of course, I felt warm and relieved, and at the same time, I was very distressed and asked my brother why he didn't sleep for a while.He also said that he can no longer stay up late to study in the future, and be careful of getting tired.

For the elder sister Jia Juan, Jia Liu is also close, the former one was actually brought up by the elder sister.

The mother left early, and the father didn't learn how to fool around all day long. Jia Juan, the eldest sister, has always played the role of mother. Jia Liu was brought up by her, and the same is true for the second sister, Jia Lan.

It is said that a loving mother often loses her son, and this loving sister will also lose her younger brother.

Because Jia Juan doted too much on the only remaining younger brother, she was never willing to beat and scold, which indirectly caused Jia Liu to become a prodigal son of the Bannerman.

Soon, the second sister Jia Lan also woke up.

As the sky grew brighter and the movement of people coming and going in the alley became louder, Jia Daquan, the head of the family, finally woke up wobbly.

The second brother-in-law, Gao Delu, actually woke up a long time ago, but he was afraid of being cold and lay still in bed. He didn't get dressed until he heard the old man's voice in the yard.

The elder brother-in-law Wang Zhian really didn't wake up, he didn't hold a lot of alcohol, and every time he finished drinking with his father-in-law, he didn't wake up until noon the next day.

Everyone in the Jia family was not surprised by this.

While eating breakfast, Jia Daquan was really stunned when he heard the eldest daughter say that the porridge was cooked by his son. He looked at his "enemy" son, but he didn't say what he wanted to say.

Jia Liu didn't care what Jia Daquan wanted to say, so he went to set up a car with Yang Zhi after eating.Yesterday he specifically asked Yang Zhi to feed more horse feed, so as not to waste the only horse in the family.

After Gao Delu took the towel from his wife and wiped his mouth, he said, "Father, let's go there now."

"it is good."

Jia Daquan glanced at the room where the eldest son-in-law lived, and specially told the eldest daughter to heat up the porridge, lest Zhian wake up without ready-made hot porridge to drink.

This father-in-law is really not in vain.

Even if the second son-in-law's family is richer than the eldest son-in-law's family, and they are also smart and capable, in the eyes of Jia Daquan, the two son-in-laws are good.

After coming out of the house, the members of the Jia family first went to a shop not far from the entrance of the alley to buy gifts. They must have wine and tobacco leaves, which are also necessary for walking among the banner people.In addition, there are some snacks and fruits, which are wrapped in red paper and tied with ropes, which look good.

The shops all over the city must be run by banner people, and the old lady of the Jia family was designated as a second minister by the emperor, and the Dutong Yamen put Jia's family on the list of flags. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the Jia family is looking for a way out.

He Shen is from Manchuria Zhenghong Banner, and his family lives in Donkey Meat Alley in Xizhimen.

The name Donkey Meat Alley was handed down from the Ming Dynasty. As the name suggests, this place must have been a place dedicated to selling donkey meat or slaughtering donkeys in the Ming Dynasty.

The second brother-in-law Gao Delu said that although He Shen's ancestors were in Manchuria with the red flag, there were no big names.Later, Heshen's second grandfather, Ahadunse, was killed in the battle of Junggar during the Kangxi period. Because Ahadunse had no children, the imperial court specially granted Heshen's father Changbao the hereditary third-class Adahafan title, that is, the third-class captain of light vehicles .

When Hong Chengchou, who was an important official in the Qing Dynasty and is now appointed as the head of the second minister by Qianlong, was almost 70 years old, he was conferred a third-class light car captain by the Spyker after several discussions at the meeting of the king and ministers. Attack IV.

According to the system, the Hong family can now receive 160 taels of Spyker subsidy every year, which is 75 taels more than the Jia family.

From the comparison of Spyker's subsidy only, Jia Liu felt that Hong Chengchou, an important official who opened the Qing Dynasty, was really at a loss, and the third-class light car captain of the Hong family was only allowed to inherit the fourth life. The family is hereditary to the end, so the Hongda traitor is not as good as the Jiaer traitor.

It is really better to surrender early than to surrender late.

I heard that Lao Hong's family was incorporated into the Han Army's Xianghuang Banner. I don't know if his family has been notified to leave the flag. It would be fun if he received it.

Jia Liu gloated a little, he also didn't like other people's kindness.

Donkey Meat Alley also has a school set up by the Manchuria Dutong Yamen of Zhenghong Banner, which is for ordinary children of banner people to study.The Xian'an Palace Official School that Heshen studied was directly under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The school was located at the Xihua Gate in the imperial city. It only recruited less than a hundred Manchurian banner students every year, and the teachers who taught were all Hanlin.

To some extent, Xian'an Palace Official School is equivalent to Tsinghua University and Peking University in later generations, but it is better than these two schools, because the main task of Xian'an Palace Official School is to train Manchurians to become officials for the Qing Empire.

The fact that He Shen can study here is related to his identity, apart from the fact that he himself is really hardworking.

No matter how the Heshen family declines, his father Chang Bao is the former governor of Fujian after all, and his grandfather Jiamo is the current governor of the river.In addition, after Heshen's mother died, Chang Bao continued to marry the daughter of Wu Mitai, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, so this Wu Zhongtang was also Heshen's grandfather.

With these two grandfathers around and the hereditary title of third-class captain of light vehicles, even if He Shen had no choice but to take Lai Wu, he would definitely have no problem entering the official school of Xian'an Palace.

Jia Zhongtang teamed up with Zhongtang to beg the sages in the society to collect and recommend this book, so that the two Zhongtang can continue to be happy.

(End of this chapter)