Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 22 Uncle Fu

Go to the imperial dining room for dinner!

For Wang Zhongxiao, who was determined to be the final minister of the Qing Dynasty, this incident was still a bit unbelievable.But Zhang Xiaobao, Cao Yin, and Guo Jinbao are familiar with the way, and they don't take it seriously at all.Zhang Xiaobao casually handed Wang Zhongxiao and Li Jixiang two waist tags engraved with the words "walking in the imperial dining room", and then led the big guys out together, walking along Chaoyangmen Inner Street towards the majestic Forbidden City go.

On the way to the Forbidden City, Li Jixiang, who didn't know how heavily guarded the imperial city was, asked Zhang Xiaobao in a low voice: "Brother Xiaobao, can you really enter the palace with this wooden sign? No one will be caught." Bar?"

Zhang Xiaobao turned his head and gave him a look, suddenly realized that this guy was Chunni's brother, immediately put on a smiling face, and said with a smile: "Auspicious, doesn't the sign I gave you say? Walking in the imperial dining room, this sign is issued to The chef of the imperial dining room, Baitang A, the successor, the apprentice, and the cook who came to the palace.

Take this sign to enter Dong'anmen, Donghuamen, pass by outside the third South Institute, and go all the way to the imperial dining room outside Jingyunmen. No one can stop you.But if you want to go in, you have to use another brand. "

"Any other brands?" Li Jixiang continued to inquire.

"Of course," Zhang Xiaobao said, "Jin Bao is holding the sign of walking in the Armed Forces Institute, and his Ama has set him up as an apprentice in the Armed Forces Institute. When he responds to the challenge of Tang A, he will enter the Armed Forces Institute Become an official apprentice."

"Hey, how do you talk, you little bun?" Guo Jinbao got annoyed when he heard it, and rolled his eyes, "Why do I have to pick things up?"

"You don't learn well," Zhang Xiaobao said, "It's fine to eat and drink, and you always go to Bada Hutong."

"What's wrong with me going to Bada Hutong?" Guo Jinbao didn't deny it, but he still said plausibly, "I'm going to do good. I have a kind heart, and I don't want anyone to suffer. The girls in Bada Hutong are all hard-working people. I have accumulated great virtue!"

Zhang Xiaobao seemed to like bickering with Guo Jinbao, and now he murmured along with his words: "Just use the money stolen from your ama to accumulate virtue? Does your ama know?"

oh?When Wang Zhongxiao heard this, he immediately took a look at Guo Jinbao. This guy is a good guy, knowing that he stole his father's ill-gotten gains to do good deeds, how kind, how kind!
Guo Jinbao's face was still a little thin, and Zhang Xiaobao pointed out the matter of stealing money, so he didn't dare to say anything about doing good deeds, but pointed at Cao Yin, and changed the subject: "Don't talk about me, talk about Xiao Caozi! Xiao Caozi's waist card is very powerful, let's go! Brother Yin, show your card to Brother Datou and Ji Xiang to open your eyes."

"Well." Without saying a word, Cao Yin took out a gold-lacquered sign and handed it to Wang Zhongxiao with both hands, "Brother Big Head, you, Mama, should have a piece of this brand when you become Big Brother in the future." The guards will also get the sign of Walking in the Great Inner Temple or Walking in the Qianqing Gate. The sign of walking in the inner palace is to enter the palace to protect the emperor, while the sign of walking in the Qianqing Gate can only go to the Qianqing Palace. "

Wang Zhongxiao had seen Wang Fuchen's Da Nei Walking sign a long time ago, but now he took Cao Yin's sign and looked at it carefully for a while, and then asked with a smile: "Brother Yin, you said that the coater of the Three Banners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has a chance Should you choose a guard in the selection?"

"It's difficult," Cao Yin shook his head, "Although we go to the Three Banners and Baoyi are the emperor's own people, but the guards are a one-step job, even Lan Ling's guards are also of the sixth rank, if they are released outside, it will be even more serious. So the relatives and nobles of the three banners are all staring at those quotas. The coater of our Ministry of Internal Affairs wants to be a bodyguard, and usually the emperor or Grand Master Ao personally promotes him. Of course, he can't occupy the quota of each banner. But depending on you, big brother With his martial arts skills, he will definitely be able to advance in the future by taking the path of Bai Tang'a picking up bodyguards. But this time... it's very difficult."

It seems that we still have to go the way of Kang Mazi!Wang Zhongxiao said heartily: I will go to Mingzhu's mansion to pay my respects tomorrow, he belongs to Xiaomazi's party!

"Brother Big Head, do you want to choose a bodyguard this time?" At this time, Guo Jinbao, who was short, dark and fat, with a wretched smile, had already seen through Wang Zhongxiao's intentions.

Wang Zhongxiao didn't hide it from his good buddies, and immediately nodded with a smile: "Jin Bao, do you have connections?"

"No," Guo Jinbao spread his hands, "This is a gateway to heaven, where do I have it? Brother Yin, does your family have it?"

"My family doesn't have either." Cao Yin still shook his head and sighed, "My mother also arranged for me a flag officer of Luan Yiwei."

"What? Banner Captain?" Guo Jinbao looked envious, "That's from the fourth rank! It's much bigger than Lan Ling's guards! Brother Yin, you are only 15 years old, so you are from the fourth rank, and there is no one in this official luck. "

Cao Yindao: "I won't be able to take office until next year, and I will be sixteen by then!"

16-year-old Cong Sipin. Wang Zhongxiao said heartily: If you compare goods, you will throw them away, and if you compare people, you will die!From the fourth grade, if he is placed as a civil servant in a local government, he will be a magistrate of a prefecture, equivalent to the deputy mayor of a prefecture-level city.Such a big official, Cao Yin was appointed at the age of 16!

What does it mean to be young and promising?This is the real young and promising!
When Wang Zhongxiao was sighing with emotion, he had already followed Little Baozi, Guo Jinbao and the others all the way to the outside of Dong'an Gate of the imperial city.Dong'anmen is the east gate of the outer city of the imperial city, not a part of the Forbidden City, the core of the imperial city. The guards here are not the guards or the guards of the Three Banners, but the soldiers of the Xiaoqi Battalion.These soldiers were all wearing jackets, warm hats, and waist knives. They looked quite fierce, of course they were not as fierce as Wang Zhongxiao!
As for Wang Zhongxiao's body and appearance, which he inherited from Wang Fuchen, he attracts attention everywhere in this era.So as soon as he followed Zhang Xiaobao to the Donghua Gate, he was followed by a "grandfather"!
"Little Baozi, you brought someone to the imperial dining room for dinner again, and you brought such a big man, do you want to make the emperor's family poor?"

Hearing the sound, Wang Zhongxiao turned his head to look, wanting to see who was meddling in other people's business, but when he looked back, he found a group of "blue jackets"—everyone had blue jackets and melon caps, and the leader was fifteen or sixteen-year-olds. Kid, don't know what's going on?

When he was thinking about it, Zhang Xiaobao, Guo Jinbao, and Cao Yin had already stepped forward, saluted the child, and said in unison: "Greetings to Mr. Fu."

Uncle Fu?
Wang Zhongxiao thought to himself: Who is this?So the young is the "uncle", is it because of the seniority or the hard background?

Just as he was thinking, Zhang Xiaobao found that Wang Zhongxiao and Li Jixiang were still there in a daze, so he hurriedly turned around and shouted: "Big head, Jixiang, come quickly and say hello to Master Fu!"

Would you like to greet me?This "little uncle" seems to be a character?Wang Zhongxiao looked at the "little uncle" again, and found that he was an ordinary-looking child, with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks and big ears. He was not tall, only a little taller than Zhang Xiaobao, and most importantly, there were no pockmarks on his face. It looks like Kangxi, but he must be a "grandfather" figure!
So Wang Zhongxiao still stepped forward with a smile all over his face, and deliberately saluted a thousand salutes hastily, and said with a smile: "Big head, I wish you good luck."

Li Jixiang, who was with him, was much more respectful, and even flicked his horseshoe sleeves, and made a very standard salutation: "Li Jixiang, please be safe, Mr. Fu."

This thousand salute is actually a very common etiquette among banner people, it can be done between peers and neighbors when they meet.Of course, salutations among peers, neighbors, and friends are not so formal. When Wang Zhongxiao greeted this "Master Fu", he used the "sarcasm of peers". Although sloppy, it seemed close.

On the other hand, Li Jixiang is a respectable official who gives thousands of gifts to his superiors.

Although Li Jixiang's attitude is more respectful, this "Uncle Fu" is still more interested in Wang Zhongxiao. He looked up at the tall and burly "Big Head Wang" and asked with a smile, "Big head? The head is quite big." ! In the flag?"

"Yes!" Wang Zhongxiao smiled stupidly, "The House of Internal Affairs is covering the Han army with a white flag." Then he asked back, "Master, which flag are you from?"

"Me?" Uncle Fu was stunned for a moment, and then replied with a smile, "I am from Manchuria with a white flag."

"White flag inlaid?" Wang Zhongxiao inquired, "Yellow belt?"

Uncle Fu smiled even more happily, "I really guessed it for you. You big man is a friend of Little Baozi, right?"

On the other hand, Wang Zhongxiao said nonsense with a full face: "Returning to the uncle, the little bun is my senior brother, and I came to learn how to make buns from Deputy Chef Zhang."

"Learn, learn to make steamed stuffed buns? You?" Uncle Fu was amused, "You can do it, you will be able to be selected as a Ba Yala Baijia soldier in the early years, and you want to be the cook of the imperial kitchen ? Can you be more successful?"

Wang Zhongxiao said solemnly: "Master Fu, you can say that this is bad. I didn't learn how to make steamed stuffed buns for the purpose of being a cook. I'm not overwhelmed by my skills! After a while, I will have to accept Tang A and the guards. I'm a Han army in a coat, so it's a bit difficult to pick a bodyguard in one step, but if I only pick Baitang, it's not bad to work in the imperial dining room in the future, at least I can eat and drink. Sir, don't you think so?"

"Hahaha!" Uncle Fu laughed loudly, "You are quite interesting. Let's go to the Imperial Dining Room with Uncle Ben to have dinner!"

(End of this chapter)