The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 258
Huang Han didn't spend any extra money to buy a house. The house he used as his new house was the inner house of Sifang Express Head Office on Guangqumen Inner Street.

The buildings here do not have carved beams and painted buildings, but they are relatively spacious, which may be due to the cheap land in the outer city.The inner house is not small and has several yards, enough to accommodate Huang Han's family to temporarily live here.

The maids Cailian and Tianxiang, who grew up in the mansion of the civil servants, took the lead in the new house. They brought a hundred women and teenagers living in the outer courtyard to decorate it, which really made the place look festive.

Huang Yizhou was still training soldiers in Kaiping. He made a very high-profile statement that he could not spend public money for personal reasons, so he arranged to rush to the capital in early December.

In fact, he is very uncomfortable with being greeted and sent away, and chooses to escape. He likes to live in the barracks and fight with his subordinates, so he rushes to the capital at the right time, so as not to see many civil officials again, and has to Stop kowtowing and flattery.

Huang Han's mother, Huang Zhang, is most concerned about her son's marriage and looks forward to having a grandson as soon as possible. At this time, she has been accompanied by her two married daughters Huang Xin, Huang Yan and her aunt to live in Sifang Express's inner house.

The Huang family was actually a rich peasant in Daming, one of the most grassroots ordinary people. Even though the Huang Zhang family had the imperial order, they couldn't immediately improve their vision and knowledge.

After all, Cailian and Tianxiang came from the family of a scholar-official, and this scholar-official was a corrupt official.

Under normal circumstances, a corrupt official should be more humane, more capable, more petty feudal, live a better life as a servant of relatives and friends at home, use better things at home, and be more ostentatious...

In such an environment, Cailian and Tianxiang have different visions, so they become the protagonists who arrange things big and small.

Huang Zhang didn't care about it at all, and she couldn't manage it at all. Later, she simply went to the temple to burn incense and make a wish accompanied by her two daughters. Anyway, Huang Sifang, a trusted brother of Huang Zhang's family, was responsible for all expenses.

The headquarters of Sifang Express is located in Guangqumen Inner Street in the outer city. This is a residential area where merchants gather and is not upscale. Even the two sons of the Zheng family are not satisfied after visiting.

But they all have a sense of propriety and keep a low profile, and they don't gossip in public.If the eldest son of the Zheng family who was grounded came, I'm afraid there would be a lot of unhappiness.

Zheng Guochang didn't take it seriously when his two sons reported the preparations for the Huang family's marriage. On the contrary, his wife was a little unhappy.

She knew that Huang Han was actually very rich. In Yongping, there were 10,000+ taels of dirty silver handed over to Fantai. From this, it can be seen how much the Huang family should have embezzled?

Mrs. Zheng complained a little: "My lord, the Huang family doesn't care too much about the Zheng family's face. They didn't build a house in the inner city to marry Xiu'e. The people living in Guangqumen are all traffickers and pawns. What's the point?"

Zheng Guochang said: "This is very good, why buy a luxury house in the inner city? Huang Han is not a Beijing official. It is true that he has money, but his expenses are also quite scary. This time there are tens of thousands of mouths to eat , I need a house to survive the winter, and I don’t know how much food will be needed to last until next autumn’s harvest.”

Nowadays, the extravagance of the Ming Dynasty is intensifying, and military generals are imitating military officials and scholar-bureaucrats to be arty, and they actually have to sit in sedan chairs when they go in and out, and they have to be supported by maidservants to pretend to be ostentatious.It has become a common practice for men to paint and wear bright clothes, and it has become a common practice to regard fragility as beauty.

Zheng Guochang, who has a public heart and a sense of justice, lamented the decline of the world. In the first month, Yongping Mansion was captured by the Houjin Army, and none of the former subordinates could survive, which deeply stimulated Zheng Guochang.

Huang Han's practice of raising the people and selecting his sons and soldiers achieved immediate results, and a brave and capable "Red Banner Army" was born.Now that the country is in a difficult situation, only those who have loyalty and courage to fight will be able to gain a foothold and have a chance to make contributions.

Therefore, the father-in-law agreed with Huang Han to use the money for the important things of reassuring the people and training soldiers.He didn't mind at all that the Huang family didn't have a mansion in the capital, and he even thought that Huang Han's simplicity would be easier to be reused if it was heard by the emperor.

Seeing that her husband seemed to dislike her for putting too much emphasis on ostentation, Mrs. Zheng quickly explained: "It's not that I care about this, but I'm afraid of wronging my daughter."

Zheng Guochang said disapprovingly: "Why are you wronged? Girls are extroverted. The old man reckons that Huang Han only has three thatched huts and Xiu'e will not dislike her. My daughter is familiar with sage books and has lofty aspirations, so she won't care about these trivial things."

"Xiu'e has been terrified for nearly a month, and only smiled after hearing the news of Huang Han's complete victory in the past few days. The concubine just feels uneasy in her heart and is always afraid of accidents."

"Extraordinary problems? Don't worry, ma'am, Huang Han has already beaten the Karakin people thousands of miles away, and he is now less than a hundred miles away from Da'ankou. If it wasn't for that kid who was reluctant to part with his belongings, he should have entered the customs ten days ago."

"Master, I am not worried about this."

"It's not about Huang Han's safety, what else do you need to worry about?"

"Mrs. Qin's daughter, Qin Yuyi, in order to deliver the official dispatch of the Ministry of War as soon as possible, actually drove more than [-] miles to Shanhaiguan in two days in the coldest winter. It is said that she fell ill due to the wind and cold on the way.

Now there are rumors that she and Huang Han have made a private life long ago, and the jokes made up by good people have been widely circulated in restaurants and teahouses. Those people made up the story of Qin Yuyi's exhaustion for Huang Han as touching as Liang Zhu Woolen cloth! "

Zheng Guochang suddenly felt that something was wrong, his face darkened, and he said: "There is such a thing. Tomorrow, the old man will send government servants to restaurants and teahouses to arrest people. He will arrange rumors and gossip for no reason to destroy the reputation of our two guerrilla generals in the Ming Dynasty. The storyteller can be sentenced to exile. crime."

"Master, you can't be like this. Those storytellers didn't name them. They all stated in advance that it was a story from the previous dynasty. They asked the audience not to sit in the same place. Isn't the master mobilizing people to arrest people to cover up?"

"This matter is tricky! Then Huang Han is a master who dares to love and hate. If he knows all this, there will be no accidents in Xiu'e's marriage."

"Master, is it possible for Huang Han to marry Miss Qin Yuyi as his equal wife?"

"What does Madam mean, don't you understand? You're just deceiving yourself. What a proud person Qin Liangyu is. Her niece is a descendant of a martyr with a noble status. How can she become Huang Han's equal wife?"

"Hey! It's a long time coming. I've always been restless these days. I hope Xiu'e's marriage won't go wrong again."

Qin Yuyi was indeed ill, and the situation was not good. That was because it was an inconvenient day when she was galloping through the Shanhaiguan Pass. Not only did she suffer from the cold, but she was also overworked.

She refused to listen to the advice and refused to rest in Shanhaiguan for a few more days and insisted on rushing back to the capital because she was afraid of missing Huang Han's wedding.

After returning to Beijing, Qin Yuyi suddenly fell ill. Many famous doctors in the capital had been invited to see her, but nothing improved. It might be that the beauty of the model saw that her sweetheart was going to get married, but the bride was not discouraged and lost her vitality. reason.

Originally, Qin Liangyu was furious after hearing too many gossip, but seeing her daughter getting sick and losing weight, she lost the mood to pursue it.

(End of this chapter)