Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 37 Xiao Guizi's father-in-law
On the second day after returning from hunting in Haidian, early in the morning, before dawn, Wang Zhongxiao and Li Jixiang, who was yawning all over the place, arrived outside Dong'an Gate together.Wang Zhongxiao was carrying the bag, and Li Jixiang was leading the horse. On the horse's back were the bedding that Li Zhang had packed for Wang Zhongxiao, as well as Wang Zhongxiao's spears, bows and arrows, waist knives, shields, a box of books, and pens, inks, papers and inkstones.

In fact, a set of spears, bows and arrows, waist knives, and shields must be brought along according to the old rules.You have to have a good guy to protect the emperor. Just a waist knife. If you really encounter a group of assassins who are fully armed, you can't protect yourself. Why protect the emperor?
But those are old rules, today's guards don't bring those when they enter the palace on duty, they just come with a waist knife.So when Wang Zhongxiao showed up at Dong'anmen with this set of equipment for going out to fight, he even surprised the guards of the Xiaoqi Battalion. Aren't the ones going out the villain Ama and Mafa who have already suffered retribution?When I got closer, I realized that I was not seeing a ghost, but seeing an old antique.If it weren't for the high gold content of the waist card for walking at the Qianqing Gate, and the fact that Wang Zhongxiao's reputation as a "pig-killing warrior" is so famous, the guards guarding Dong'an Gate would have almost refused to let Wang Zhongxiao in.

Although Wang Zhongxiao went in, Li Jixiang was still stopped by others. Who made him lose his badge?Therefore, Wang Zhongxiao could only send Li Jixiang home first, and then let Zhang Xiaobao or Guo Jinbao send it to him after he got his badge.

Of course, Li Jixiang's "family of guards" cannot enter the Forbidden City, but they can reach the red shop outside the Forbidden City, which is the house where the guards live.These houses are all old houses, and like the Forbidden City, they are all passed down from the Ming Dynasty, and the people who once lived in them were the soldiers in brocade clothes who protected the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.Yesterday, Master Yu was bragging to Wang Zhongxiao, saying that his father, his grandpa, his great-grandpa, and other grandpas all lived there.

Following the instructions of his master Duolong, Wang Zhongxiao walked straight along the main street inside Dong'anmen, and arrived outside Donghuamen in a short while, where he built a row of small courtyards leaning against the walls of the Forbidden City.

The Donghua Gate has been opened at this time, and there are still many carts delivering water, vegetables, meat, and rice noodles coming in and out. These are all oil and water from Zhang Xiaobao's family and other masters of the imperial dining room!This imperial dining room is not only responsible for the food and drink of the emperor's family, but also manages hundreds of guards, more than 1000 guards, and the Eight Banners guards who are on duty in the imperial city, servants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, officials of the outer court, eunuchs, The daily flow of water for the maids, servants, etc. to eat and drink is astonishingly large!

The row of small courtyard houses at the root of the Forbidden City wall had door plates. Wang Zhongxiao quickly found the small courtyard where Duolong lived.Wang Zhongxiao didn't dare to disturb the leader's sleep. Only when the leader sleeps well can he serve the people well. No, he is now serving the emperor!So he obediently waited outside the courtyard gate.

I don't know how long I waited, the sky was bright, and the guards in the nearby courtyards went out to have breakfast in twos and threes, but there was no movement in Duolong's courtyard.

Just when Wang Zhongxiao suspected that his master was about to oversleep, he suddenly heard a familiar voice behind him: "Shi Kai, you came so early?"

This is Doron's voice!
Wang Zhongxiao hurriedly looked back, and saw that his Master Duo had already changed into the yellow mandarin jacket of the bodyguard, was carrying a thin waist knife, and put on a hat with double eyes. He was accompanied by a man in a blue robe, holding a Gen Fuchen's little eunuch. No, not a little eunuch, but a big eunuch of a child!Because Wang Zhongxiao saw that although the eunuch was young, he was still a child, but the top of his hat was golden. He was the chief eunuch of the seventh or eighth rank.

So young is the chief eunuch. This must be Xiao Mazi's confidant!
Wang Zhongxiao hurriedly trotted all the way to Duolong, and saluted: "My apprentice greets you, Master."

Duo Long smiled and nodded, then pointed to the little eunuch beside him, "This is Lord Gui. It's Lord Gui!"

Lord Gui?Eunuch Gui?Xiao Guizi?

Sure enough, he is the emperor's confidant!
Wang Zhongxiao hurriedly bowed to the little Guizi, "Zhongxiao greets Master Gui."

After performing the ceremony, he took out a ten tael silver bill and stuffed it into the little eunuch's hand, and said with a smile, "Grandpa Gui has tea."

The little eunuch seemed very happy that Wang Zhongxiao called himself "Master Gui", not because he wanted to be "Master", but because "Master" was a common name in Beijing.Although they all serve the emperor, the eunuchs are not proud of their jobs, they just want others to treat them as normal people. The title "Eunuch" is respectful in the eyes of others, but it is still a bit harsh to the eunuch himself. Therefore, if you really have a good relationship with a certain eunuch, you usually call them by an ordinary name.Among the eunuchs, they don't know what father-in-law is.

"Don't call me Lord," Xiao Guizi smiled slightly, "You are a sixth-rank Lan Ling bodyguard. I am just a rank-[-] minister and we will still be called brothers. You can call me Brother Gui, and I will call you Brother Wang."

"Alright, Brother Gui!"

Wang Zhongxiao was so happy, he is now Mingzhu's student, Duolong's apprentice, Xiaoguizi's elder brother Wang—there is someone in the court!

Xiao Guizi said to Wang Zhongxiao with a smile at this time: "Brother Wang, the emperor heard that you kicked Guanyin Bao when you were competing with Guanyinbao outside the Jingyunmen Arrow Pavilion. Avalokitesvara has a good match! Go to Yingtai Island in Xiyuan for a match. Don’t play tricks this time!”

"Since the emperor has issued a decree not to cheat, then I will definitely not cheat!" Wang Zhongxiao replied with a smile, "Brother Gui, when will I go to Yingtai Island in Xiyuan?"

Xiao Guizi said: "Now settle down first, and then go to the guard's stall with your master to go through all necessary procedures, and then immediately go to Yingtai with me and wait. When the emperor finishes his work, he will come Come to Yingtai to watch you wrestle with Guanyinbao."

As soon as Xiaoguizi finished speaking, Duolong pointed to the small courtyard where he lived, and said to Wang Zhongxiao: "Teacher, this is the red shop for the teacher. I use it alone now, and there are still several rooms vacant. You can live here. However, I usually don’t come to sleep at night. I have an acquaintance in Bada Hutong, so you actually live in this yard alone. In addition, your horse has to be led to the stables dedicated to our guards. There is someone to take care of it. You carry your luggage into the yard first, and then I will take you to the stables and put your big horse in place. You are a majestic horse, and it takes a lot of effort to raise it. Remember to take care of the horse Only a gift from your groom can he take good care of you."

When Wang Zhongxiao put on the guard's yellow mandarin jacket, put on the warm hat decorated with gilt clam crown, and hung the gilt waist knife in sharkskin sheath specially used for the guards, he followed Xiao Guizi and his father-in-law across the Forbidden City , and walked through the Xihua Gate to enter Xiyuan, and when they landed on Yingtai Island, it was almost noon, and Uncle Fu and Guanyinbao had already arrived.

Uncle Fu was sitting and fishing in Yingxun Pavilion, the southernmost part of Yingtai Island, near the Taiye Lake. Guanyinbao was standing behind him as a bodyguard. When he heard footsteps behind him, Uncle Fu looked back. At a glance, he found that Wang Zhongxiao and Xiao Guizi were the ones who came, and he laughed loudly: "Big head, you look very energetic in this yellow jacket. If you stand behind the emperor, those third princes Zhu will see you." How dare you resist?"

Wang Zhongxiao hurriedly saluted the little uncle: "May the uncle be well."

Uncle Fu stopped fishing, and turned around to look at Wang Zhongxiao with a smile, "Tell me the truth, if you don't play tricks, can you beat Guanyin Bao?"

"This." Wang Zhongxiao glanced at Guanyinbao, a short and strong man, "My lord, to be honest, I'm not sure that I can beat brother Guanyin. I have the upper hand. But Brother Guan is much stronger than me, if I were to be slammed by him, I might fall down."

"So you just kicked him out of the blue?" Fuquan asked back with a smile.

"Isn't this cheating!" Wang Zhongxiao was quite thick-skinned, and even admitted to cheating, and said with a smile, "If you don't cheat, follow the rules of wrestling, and I will definitely lose!"

Fuquan turned around and asked Guanyinbao, "Is what he said right?"

"Yes!" Guanyinbao said, "Brother Wang's ability is on horseback. Yesterday's move to the sky gun was put on the table 30 or [-] years ago. Maybe he can earn a Batulu. But compared to falling down, the slave is still I'm sure I can beat him."

Fuquan nodded. Just as he was about to say something, the voice of a boy who was changing his voice came in from outside the Yingxun Pavilion, "I still want to watch a real kung fu fight. It's good for you two, one admits defeat, one Sure win, what's more important than that? It's boring!"

(End of this chapter)