Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 35 Loyalty and filial piety betray father! (Seeking collection, asking for recommendation, asking for monthly pass, asking for follow-up)
When Wang Zhongxiao returned to his home in Bean Sprouts Hutong with his Chituju, it was almost dark, and when he opened the courtyard door, he saw Master Yu, Li Jixiang, and Li Fuhan all stretching their necks inside the door, thinking Listen to the news!
"Second son, how is the situation?"

"Brother Big Head, have you seen the Emperor?"

"Shikai. Didn't you take back the signboard for walking at the Qianqing Gate?"

Hearing the three of them's questions, Wang Zhongxiao laughed and said: "There is something good going on today, but this is not the place to talk, let's go into the room and chat slowly."

When Li Fuhan heard this, he also laughed, and then he told his son Li Jixiang: "Jixiang, quickly give your brother Shikai the horse and gun Shikai, come in, are you hungry? I asked your aunt to cook your favorite food." The old hen stewed mushrooms, and made dumplings, stuffed with cabbage and pork!"

"Well, it smells, it smells so good!"

After a busy day, Wang Zhongxiao was already hungry. Now he smelled the smell of chicken soup and his belly started to growl. While handing over the reins of the spear and the red rabbit foal to Li Jixiang, he yelled: "Auntie! , give me some more dumplings, I want to eat with the old hen stewed mushrooms!"

"Understood," Li Zhang's voice came from the kitchen immediately, "Dumplings are enough. Chun Ni'er, help you boil the wine for big brother, and add three or four eggs for me!"

Chunni cheerfully agreed: "Good job!"

Wang Zhongxiao, together with Li Fuhan and Master Yu, walked into the Chuihua Gate, and then went to the empty main room.This main house facing south is theoretically the residence of Wang Fuchen and his eight wives. However, Wang Fuchen is in Yunnan, so it has always been vacant.After Wang Zhongxiao came back, he asked Li Fuhan to use the hall of the main house as a restaurant for family gatherings.

Candles have been lit in this restaurant, cups, plates and chopsticks are set on a table of eight immortals, a pile of peanuts for wine, a pile of pickles from Liubiju, and a pile of pig heads that I don’t know where to buy. Meat.

Wang Zhongxiao, Li Fuhan, and Master Yu all took their seats, and Chunni brought a pot of hot rice wine and a plate of scrambled eggs with lard exuding a tempting aroma. That is a fragrance!
Wang Zhongxiao couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks, picked up a large piece of egg, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it a few times, then swallowed it with satisfaction, and then smiled and said to Li Fuhan and Master Yu: "It's done!"

"What became?"

"Shikai, don't be a fool!"

Wang Zhongxiao poured himself a glass of wine, drank it all, and said with a smile: "The bodyguard is done! The emperor appointed me as a sixth-rank Lanling bodyguard today, and I am still walking in the Qianqing gate! Let me go tomorrow Clean the door and watch the door!"

"Really?" Li Fuhan had an unbelievable expression on his face, "This is a guard!"

Master Yu couldn't believe it: "Did I hear you right? You should be selected next month!"

Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile: "Can there be a lie in this matter? I have done a good job in escorting today!"

"Escort?" Li Fuhan was taken aback, "Is there an assassin?"

"Second son," Master Yu said with a complicated expression, "Is it a remnant of the previous dynasty? Could it be someone from the third prince Zhu who came to kill the emperor?"

"No," Wang Zhongxiao shook his head and said with a smile, "it's not that great. It's just a frightened wild boar. I used the zhang-liu long spear to shoot the spear and killed it on the spot! The emperor and Grand Master Ao praised it when they saw it. I have superb martial arts skills, so I rewarded a guard who guards the gate of Qianqing Gate."

"Really? That's lucky!"

"That's right, that's right, if you kill a pig, you'll become a bodyguard, that's fine."

Both Li Fuhan and Yu Deshui were surprised.From their point of view, if Wang Zhongxiao becomes a bodyguard, then the carp jumps over the dragon's gate!In today's official circles of Qing Dynasty, not counting the mother's womb cast into the emperor's family, the first-class background is a bodyguard, harder than the number one scholar and the first rank!

And Wang Zhongxiao was born as a coater, so he could only theoretically become a bodyguard even though his father, Wang Fuchen, was a top-ranked general soldier!

The general army of the Qing Dynasty was actually not a few soldiers at all. Wu Sangui's general army for aid and suppression led a large number of troops, with only [-] green battalion soldiers under his command, and the other general soldiers usually had only [-] green battalion soldiers.

Unexpectedly, this theoretical possibility was realized so easily by Wang Zhongxiao. He didn't even wait for the selection, he just killed a pig and became a guard!
Killing a pig is not difficult, Li Fuhan and Yu Deshui can do it, but relying on killing a pig to become a bodyguard is as difficult as climbing the sky!Could it be that Kangxi also gave Wang Zhongxiao a bodyguard because he was handsome?
Li Fuhan and Yu Deshui thought of this, and carefully looked at Wang Zhongxiao's pretty face, and found that his handsome face was covered with traces of sadness.

Why are you still worried?

"Second Young Master," Yu Deshui asked Master Yu, "you have got your wish now, why are you not happy?"

Li Fuhan also nodded and said: "That's right, you have to be happy to be happy in life!"

Wang Zhongxiao said: "Satisfaction is self-satisfaction, but I owe a lot of favors to others. Not to mention repaying, then I have to pay a visit to the mansion to thank you, right?" As he spoke, he made a gesture of counting money, " But now I'm short on cash!"

"Shy?" Master Yu was taken aback, "Isn't it? You didn't steal one thousand and eight from your father, and borrowed two thousand from Wu Shicong and Wu Shijue, and the prefect Lu of Qujing returned two thousand. There are five thousand eight hundred taels!"

"What?" Wang Zhongxiao was startled, "Fatty Lu from Qujing gave me two thousand? When did it happen? Why didn't I know?"

Master Yu said: "That's right. When you said goodbye to the Wu family members at Bailian Temple, the prefect Lu gave you the silver ticket because he didn't find you."

"This, this old thing really doesn't learn well!" Wang Zhongxiao got angry immediately, and said angrily, "Even my own son's money!"

"Ah, he didn't give it to you? Then you now"

Wang Zhongxiao said: "I only have a little over a thousand, and I have to go to King Yu, Prince Pingxi's son, Dingnan Gege, and Duo's guards for a while. Cao Yin, Zhang Xiaobao, and Guo Jinbao also helped a lot. I can't help but express it. In addition, there is a lot of communication between colleagues. Yu Shiye, Second Uncle, do you think I should ask someone to borrow some usury?"

"Borrowing loan sharks?" Master Yu frowned, "It's ugly to say loan sharks, but Beijing officials spend a lot of money, and it's not uncommon to borrow money to survive. It's just that the guards' families usually have a solid foundation, so they don't need to borrow money. If Second Young Master wants to borrow it, but I have a way."

Li Fuhan quickly waved his hand and said: "No, no, master, I know your ways, it is the big gangsters in the outer city who borrowed their money, and Shikai will be released to other places in the future, so you have to take their people to fish together Money! At that time, they will run amok in the name of Shikai's family, and Shikai will have to wipe their ass!"

Master Yu spread his hands: "Second Master, isn't Second Young Master in short supply now? Don't go to the outer city to borrow, why don't you borrow some? Do you have money?"

"Me? Where do I have money?" Li Fuhan just shook his head, "All the income from the Zhuangzi outside the city was used to build a retirement home for my brother. He, Jizhen, and Shikai's coaters don't have much money and food, and they don't have much now. How many are left."

"The child's father!"

As soon as Li Fuhan mentioned the money and rations he had received for the coaters "on behalf of" Wang Fuchen and his son over the years, his wife Li Zhang entered the house with a big hot casserole, delicious old hen stewed mushrooms.After putting down the casserole in her hand, she smiled and asked again: "Is it because Shikai's money is tight, and he is short of the money he has collected?"

Li Fuhan looked back at his wife: "Do you have a solution?"

"Yo, you really asked!" Li Zhang said with a smile, "I still have a way!"

"Auntie, if you have any ideas, please tell your nephew quickly," Wang Zhongxiao said, "My nephew is about to borrow loan sharks!"

Li Zhang said: "Shikai, Auntie's method is to ask you to borrow money for turnover, but it's not loan sharks, and you don't have to pay it back."

"Don't pay it back?" Li Fuhan said, "Isn't that just to bring others with you when it's released later? It's even more troublesome!"

"That's not necessary," Li Zhang said with a smile, "I don't lack this kind of connections."

Wang Zhongxiao asked: "There is no shortage of contacts, and who is so conscientious if we don't want us to pay back the money?"

Li Zhang said with a smile: "You know this person, she is Aunt Zhang Xiaoyu."

"What? Aunt Xiaoyu Zhang Xiaobao's older sister?"

"Yes!" Li Zhang said, "She is a popular person around the empress dowager, except for the emperor, king Yu, the fifth elder brother, and Taishi Ao, everyone else has to go to her to greet the empress dowager." Sai Yinpiao, after all these years, I always have tens of thousands of taels of savings in my hand. Shi Kai, it is a bit difficult for others to ask her to borrow money, but it is not difficult at all for you to ask her."

"Me?" Wang Zhongxiao's heart skipped a beat, "I don't know her well, why should she lend me money?"

"Depending on your father!" Li Zhang said with a smile, "Your father hasn't continued the string yet, right?"

"Not yet." Wang Zhongxiao shook his head and said, staring into big eyes, "Aunt, you mean I sold my father to Aunt Zhang Xiaoyu?"

(End of this chapter)