Clam Pearl

At the end of June in Beijing, God’s face was dark for four days, and he only let out a few dull farts with no raindrops before showing the sun.It had just cleared up, and God played a new trick. A gust of evil wind came from nowhere, blowing up the dust in the streets and alleys of Shangjing, and accidentally eating ashes from passers-by.

That evil wind blows the east city and the west city, taking care of all sides, and finally the wind gathers and whirls outside the gate of Guangde Palace on the west side of Qiyuan Palace.

Qiyuan Palace used to be called Chengtian Palace. Chengtian was the name given by the founding monarch of the previous dynasty. There were 29 palaces in the previous dynasty. Now Qiyuan Palace is only as big as the [-]th palace.Take Guangde Palace and Guangde Gate as an example. It used to be an exquisite place. It can't be said that it is carved with jade.Now that it's here, for many years, the gate of Guangdemen has not been painted with new paint.

Speaking of the palace, the palace has a strange rule that it cannot name a single house. Therefore, a palace represents the entire building complex.Guangde Palace is an old-fashioned palace with four entrances. In the front, it is a place for the old ladies in the palace to retire.

As mentioned earlier, there were 29 palaces in the previous dynasty, but why did they become smaller later?When the first emperor brought his soldiers into Shangjing, he set fire to half of it.Not only is it lit here.The four small palaces and the ancestral mausoleum of the previous dynasty built in a hundred miles around Shangjing were also ordered by the late emperor.

The first emperor has always had a reckless attitude. He burned many houses in his life, and rarely said anything afterwards.This is the only one, burning the Chengtian Palace of the previous dynasty, the late emperor regretted it for many years, nothing else, the house was ordered, the late emperor had no money to repair, the 29th palace was fine, and finally he lived in the [-]th palace In the Qiyuan Palace, he was so useless as the emperor for a few years and then collapsed.

The Guangde Palace to the west of Qiyuan Palace is now regarded as the outer court. There are double alleys in the gate of the palace, leading to two side doors. The place where the palace people who took the sign and went out to do errands came and went.

In the past, this place was full of people coming and going, those who went in and out of the palace to do errands, the guards went to get off work, and the palace people who couldn't get out got the grace to meet their relatives.

It seems that the population is prosperous, but everyone knows that Guangde Palace looks lively, but there are more dirty things inside.

It's like a few days ago today when I went to the inner palace to catch the inner thieves, locked up groups of eunuchs, and the maids in charge, but now they are all imprisoned in the white secretary in the Guangde Palace.Ever since that incident happened, the gate of Guangde Palace has become quiet, people who come and go keep their heads down, and ghosts are behind them.

The evil wind outside Guangde Palace whirled for half an hour before dissipating quietly. The evil wind had dissipated, but unfortunately, the peeing anger brought by Bai Naisi could not dissipate.

That eunuch is not a perfect person at all, they are all people who have been exterminated. Like women, they squat with their legs crossed to excrete. Women can still hold back. Eunuchs can't do it, he can't control it, sometimes it will drip slowly , Therefore, the eunuchs in this palace who used to be happy and unsatisfactory can smell it by smelling it, and the eunuchs who are not doing well, and there are not many replacements on their bodies, all have a piss and coquettish air.

Now, Bai Naisi is considered unlucky, since this place, he has never imprisoned so many eunuchs.Entering Bai Naisi and expecting a replacement?Therefore, once one or two hundred eunuchs get together, the smell will become stronger.

"Drink! Enen... Bah!" The lowly guard Bao Zhu outside the Guangde Gate brewed a mouthful of thick phlegm and then continued to curse: "It's unlucky to be in this evil place. I just finished pouring sand. , turned over and poured piss on Grandpa's nose."

The guard standing on the other side gave a wry smile: "Come on, bear with it, that's [-] days of work, no matter how bad it is here, you can squat if you're free. Oh, otherwise, I'll tell you to guard the way of heaven and stand for four hours." You are not allowed to blink, people like us are not suffering there."

Bao Zhuba clicked his mouth, and was about to say something, but someone beside him interrupted and said: "My lord, look at your thick phlegm, you may have internal fire recently!"

Bao Zhu turned his head when he heard this, and saw not far away, a man was smiling at him standing outside the wooden gate outside Guangde Gate.

This man led an old black donkey in one hand and a cloth parcel in the other.It looks like he is about 30 years old, wearing an old crow blue kudzu clothes, thin face, pointed chin, cloth scarves wrapped around his head, and double cloth shoes on his feet, but unfortunately all his toes are exposed. Zhu looked at him, and the man shyly retracted his exposed toes.

Outside the west gate, there are a lot of people coming and going, not just one or two who know how to make money, let's talk about it.

Bao Zhu sized this person up and down for a while, but no matter how he looked at it, he didn't seem like a man trying to make money.He looked at the phlegm he had spit out, and at the old package this man was holding, and then smiled: "You are a winking man, tell me, what happened to Grandpa, let's talk about it. If you ask me something, it’s just a matter of raising your hand, but you don’t bring oral letters and letters, understand? This is the rule!”

When the man heard this, his face was overjoyed, and he quickly tied the old donkey in his hand to the wooden fence. After tying it, the man walked around the fence and squatted down next to the thick phlegm from Baozhu's mouth carefully. Take a closer look.

Bao Zhu stood there, feeling a little shy for some reason. Seeing the man squatting for a long time, he hurriedly urged: "Get up, get up! What kind of place is this, and you also squatted?"

The man hurriedly stood up, put the package under his arm, embraced it with both hands, and sang aloud: "Brother guard, have you been eating yokan at banquets lately?"

When Bao Zhu heard this, he raised his eyebrows and said: "Yo, I really didn't see it, but he is capable." Yokan, that is what respectable people often eat.

The man smiled, bent his head and said with a low smile: "I just read a few more medical books, and I usually prescribed a prescription for colds and scabies. ability."

Seeing that this man spoke in a gentle manner, Bao Zhu didn't dislike him, so he also smiled: "It's done, why don't you talk about how to cure it?"

The man laughed again: "Just looking at the phlegm, I can't tell a thing or two. Brother guard will show the villain's tongue again."

Bao Zhu listened, looked left and right, twisted his face, stuck out his tongue and quickly retracted it.The man looked at it, nodded, turned around and ran to a nearby herbal tea shop, borrowed a pen and ink, asked for a piece of yellow paper, wrote the prescription, and trotted over to Baozhu, saying: "Brother guard, this is Our old prescription from the countryside is for floating fire, you go back and take a dose every morning and evening for three days."

Bao Zhu nodded, took Fang Zi into his arms, and then showed a shy expression and said, "Hey, this one? Where are you coming from?"

The man still bowed his waist halfway, and said with a smile: "The villain's surname is Feng, and his name is Feng Shang. He is coming from Jingnan Yaozhuang."

Bao Zhu nodded: "Hey, Yaozhuang, it's more than 200 miles away from Beijing! I've been to your place, and there are water radishes."

Feng Shang nodded: "Brother is very knowledgeable. It is Yaozhuang that produces the radishes. However, this year's drought, the radishes are not ready to be seen. If the elder brother likes it, next time the villain will pick some good ones for the elder brother to try."

Satisfied, Bao Zhu looked at the package under his arm, then nodded again and said: "You are a real person, so I won't hide it from you. Your package is too big, so I can't specify it. If it's clothes, don't give it away. There are rules for eating and using inside. Do you understand? Rules! However, if you are well-off, you can send some hard goods. You can rest assured that even if you send ten guan, I will not be ignorant of you. Come back in two months, I will Ask your relatives to give you a fingerprint."

Feng Shang was overjoyed, but he hesitated to speak, first he carefully looked around, and then said in a low voice: "Brother, can you take a step to speak?"

Bao Zhu was happy: "Well, it's still a secret. It's okay. Isn't it just the matter in the back room? This is Guangde Gate. Every day we talk about the things inside. Just talk about it. It's really okay." .”

Seeing what he said, Feng Shang said with a hint of shyness: "I don't know, big brother. A few days ago, a group of officials suddenly came to the house, and they tossed and tumbled at home for a long time. The little family is poor, so there are extra things. If there is early I took it out and used it myself.

Later, those officials didn't find anything. When they left, they said that my old father had encountered bad things in the palace and was implicated.Brother, I don’t know, my father is an honest man, he has been in this palace for 50 to [-] years, and now he is only a third-class old internal official doing rough work, what bad things do you think he can do?Even if there are good things going on here, it's not his turn. No, the family was in a hurry, so they cleaned up quickly, and asked the villain to inquire about it in a hurry. "

Bao Zhu was surprised to hear what Feng Shang said. How could a eunuch give birth to such a big son?He looked up and down carefully.Xu knew what the guard was thinking, so Feng Shang hurriedly added: "Brother doesn't know, the villain, the villain is also from this capital, but his parents died early, it was... my father picked it up, not the old man. Daddy's own."

That's it, Bao Zhu nodded, and after listening, he sighed and said: "You man, I think you are also a good person. I thought I could help you, but it was just a matter of lifting a finger, but what you said What's the matter... just look at me." Bao Zhu pointed to the place where he was standing, and smiled wryly at his attire: "I'm just a doorman, I have two legs less than a dead dog, and I work with dogs It's no different, it's your business... Tsk, hey, let's put it this way, let alone me, even if we are big heads, it won't work!"

When Feng Shang heard this, the torn package under his arm fell to the ground, and his face turned blue and white immediately.

Bao Zhu looked at him, showing a trace of sympathy, sighed slightly, then bent down, picked up a pair of thick-soled cloth shoes that fell out of the package on the ground, patted the ashes back into the package, and said: "Brother, let me see that the door is open. It has been many years, and I have seen a lot of things here, just listen to your brother, go back, look at your family is not rich, maybe... maybe your father is okay?"

Feng Shang took the package handed over by Bao Zhu, his mouth trembled a few times, and begged, "Brother Guanye, the wife and children at home are still waiting to be heard. You don't know, my father, because of poverty at the age of nine, entered the It's in this door.

He is an honest man, if he wanted to run, he would be able to run when the previous dynasty was over, but he didn't dare to go anywhere when he left here.Big brother, you are kind-hearted. I am just a poor person from a poor village, but no matter how hard it is, it is better than begging in the early years, isn't it?If it wasn't for Dad, the villain would have died long ago.Now even if you sell pots and sell iron, you have to help your father run away, but, as you can see, even if the villain sells his property and gets the money, he doesn't know where to send it. The official... Big brother, please, give me some pointers... Minglu is great..."

Feng Shang begged bitterly, but Bao Zhu heard some other meanings. He thought about it in a twist and turn, wasn't it just pointing the way?This bit of water can still be waded through, and it’s enough to earn some water money to support the family. After thinking about it, Bao Zhu smiled, and pointed to the herbal tea shop opposite and said, “Go there and wait for me. We'll have it in an hour, when the time comes we..."

Before Bao Zhu finished speaking, someone suddenly shouted from the side of the street: "It's not good, the donkey is shocked!"

The two people who were talking turned to the beginning of the chapter, but saw that the old donkey tied to the wooden railing by Feng Shang was dragging half of the rotten railing, heading south desperately.At the place where the donkey was tied just now, a seven or eight-year-old boy was lying on the ground on his back with a bruised face, and a large bloody soup slowly dripped out from the back of his head.

Xiao Tong is the youngest son of the owner of the herbal tea shop across the street. This kid is usually naughty, but today he is also in debt. I don’t know where I found a sharp iron tool. I poked here and there early in the morning. Well, his mother saw that he was in the way, so she kicked him out to play tricks.

It's also Feng Shang's bad luck. The place where he tied the donkey is just not far from the herbal tea shop. After playing for a while, the boy came here to tease the old donkey. , eye, that place can also be touched?In the blink of an eye, the donkey was startled. He kicked the urchin first, and then ran for half a street with the wooden fence, involving more people along the way.

Hey, Feng Shang was also unlucky, the boy fell in an unfortunate place, and the back of his head hit the stone corner of the car shaft by the fence.This chariot stone is square and has horns on all sides, and the labor slaves of the Sima used to set up the handlebars to unload their goods on weekdays.The boy was unlucky, so he couldn't live at that time.

That Feng Shang chased the old donkey for three streets, and one of his shoes flew off. He managed to hold the donkey, and then he was put on a chain around his neck, and the officials who rushed over locked Feng Shang. , came up with just a few kicks, and after kicking, he panted and cursed: "What a thief, you run very fast! But... grandpa is exhausted to death!"

Feng Shang trembled all over, scared out of his wits: "Officer, what did you say, it's this donkey... this donkey..."

The official came up and kicked again, and after kicking, he cursed: "You have a life lawsuit, why don't you be a donkey!!!!"

There was such a commotion outside the Guangde Gate, and people died outside the Tianzi Gate. The chief officials of the three yamen in Beijing all came to see it. Everyone came. After detailed investigation, they all sighed when they saw that it had nothing to do with the palace. In one breath, I shouted bad luck in my heart.

The broken donkey brought by the countryman injured dozens of people by bumping and kicking along the way. Feng Shang is from a poor family. Look, something happened at last, why don't you rush to look for him at this point, there is no place for you to seek death.

The people in the Sansi Yamen hated Feng Shang so much, they naturally did not miss this poor man when they went back.He only said that Baozhu, a mouthful of thick phlegm caused a murder. Although he was not involved in this matter, he knew that if he hadn't been nagging, Feng Shang might just have a look, and he had no choice but to go back.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt uncomfortable. Bao Zhu went to a small wine shop on the south bank of Lianhu Lake all the way, and bought fifty qian wine. dry drink.

While drinking, Bao Zhu thought, this person will not be able to owe other people's bad debts in this life, his old mother said it well, people have their own beginnings and ends, and what can't be owed must never be owed.Now he really owes Feng Shang, and he sincerely wants to help, but who is he?

"Hey, Da Zhuzi? What a coincidence, you are so proud of your life. Why are you drinking here..." Bao Zhu was pulling his intestines in his belly when he was suddenly patted by someone with heavy hands. He almost wiped his face off the table when he took the picture.Bao Zhu was furious, and was about to scold when he turned his head, but he was happy.

It's an acquaintance, the elder brother he hasn't seen for a long time, Gu Huaizi, the head of the inner guard of the Gu family.

This Gu Huaizi is usually good at wine, but his wine quality is not good, he has to sing opera every time he drinks it, that's all.

"Brother Huaizi, you are a rarity, what's the matter today? Are you willing to come to such a small door?" Bao Zhu was delighted, first he sighed, then he pulled a stool from the side and wiped it with his sleeves. After a few hands, Fang asked Gu Huaizi to sit down.

Bao Zhu and Gu Huaizi used to work in the army, but now that they are back in Shangjing, Bao Zhu's family is a commoner, what good job can they find for him?He didn't know how much he envied Gu Huaizi. There was a master who took care of the food and drink, the house and the daughter-in-law. Even after he died, Gu Huaizi would not worry about a good grave.Unlike him, the father does not kiss, the mother does not love, and the daughter-in-law is still difficult to deal with.

"Drinking is not about looking for a girl. I don't care about appearance. The wine here is good, you know it." Gu Huaizi sat down while talking. Meat, cold salad, and a jar of wine.

"That's natural. If you talk about drinking, you're the big brother." Bao Zhu gave a thumbs up and sat with him, knowing that today's meal was for nothing.

The old brother was sitting in the wine shop, drinking and gossiping.Bao Zhu had something on his mind, so he poured it out without worrying about it.

That Gu Huaizi was an upright person, and he was very embarrassed when he heard it, and felt that bad things in this world would be met by good people, and while he was talking, Gu Huaizi's heart moved.Don't look at him as a rough man, a rough man has a rough mind.

A few days ago, I heard the uncle (Gu Maode) say that there are a lot of new things in Beijing recently, and I don’t know what happened to those eunuchs. My uncle loves to listen to wild books. If there is any gossip about this, You might as well tell the little uncle, just to have fun and pass the time for the little uncle.

Gu Huaizi was worried that he couldn't find a chance to curry favor with Master Qi, it was true, that's how good things came.

Don't talk about how Gu Huaizi eats wine or how to use clichés, let's talk about Gu Zhao. A few days ago, he came up with a good idea in his heart, how to implement it, and how to pave the way for that matter, which made him difficult. Today, my elder brother quietly took the file from Bai Naisi, not to mention the nearly 60-year-old eunuch, there are quite a few, dozens of them!It's a pity that the various conditions did not match what he thought. What he did with his eldest brother was not at all ambiguous, and there should be no loopholes.

Gu Zhao was sitting in the room worrying, the people in the room didn't dare to provoke him when they saw that he was unhappy, and hid far away.

Xizai is hungry today, he just finished a plate of chicken butts from the kitchen, and he is sitting in the doorway gnawing on them.He didn't notice it for a while, but someone pushed him behind him. Unluckily, a pile of big fat chicken drumsticks scattered all over the floor.

Xizai was furious, and was about to scold when he turned around?Unexpectedly, when he turned his head, his nose reeked of alcohol.Taking a closer look, the person who came was Gu Huaizi who was hiccupping and laughing at him.

Xizai dropped the plate, turned around and ran, shouting as he ran, "Close the door, it's bad! Gu Huaizi came to our house to sing, he's going to die!"