Chapter Fourteen: Twenty-seven Days and Nights
The county magistrate prepared three ox carts, and of course he was riding on a horse cart. The county magistrate, two of the ranks of the county magistrates, took a cart, and the yamen runners and uncle Zhao Mingda took a cart, Zhu Hongsan, the beggar father and son, and the big black father and son squeezed into a cart. Sitting on the shaking ox cart, Zhu Hongsan was very depressed. Unexpectedly, when he came to this era, he would have to give mourning to someone who didn't recognize him.
It would be fine if it was his own relative. So Zhu Hongsan didn't feel like talking in the car. The one with him had the big black man Zhu Yiyi, what kind of dog shit is this? And his two sons Zhu Jia and Zhu Yi (the name of the Zhu family is really hard to choose, so the dragon appendix is replaced by numbers).
I heard from my mother that this was obtained by his family’s money, but thinking about his digital name, Zhu Yiyi, is not bad.
Wuchang County is not far from Wuchang Prefecture City, about twenty miles away. Just as he walked out, the black man Zhu Yiyi drank to the beggar Lao Sixty-Er, "You old man, stay away from me, are you going to kill the uncle?" Zhu Yiyi's two sons came and pushed Lao Sixty-Er. Zhu Hongsan didn't want to stand up, but when he saw the pitiful appearance of the old man and his son, he stood up and said to the big man, "Uncle, I'm in there. Let's change seats, so let's have a better taste. The smell will be smaller."
The big black man Zhu Yiyi looked at me: "You are the boy from Chu Fan. You have grown up so old. OK, you are meant to be kind." He stood up and exchanged seats with Zhu Hongsan. Old Man Zhu and Zhu Liushiyi saw that they had a grateful look for them.
Zhu Hongsan said to Zhu Liushiyi: "Why did this uncle live in such a field when he sees his limbs?"
Zhu Liushiyi sighed and said, "I was fine when my grandfather was there. Although the Liao Palace didn't care much about us clan relatives, each of them was still paid in time. Since the Liao King was removed from the vassal in the early years of Wanli, our rice was gone. The imperial edict of Emperor Wanli said that the royal family that was not involved in the case was supported by the local government. But think about it, the Liao King was gone, who would care about these idle royal families? In the past, there were some money left, and I have spent almost all my money in the past few decades. I didn't have money to bribe those officials, so I was even more in a tight way. I couldn't make it to my generation that I could only beg for my father."
Zhu Hongsan saw the tragic situation of Sixty-one, not only celebrated that he had not traveled through their family. Although his family was not rich, he could still solve the problem of food and clothing under the care of his mother. After the sugar was sold, he had meat every meal. Zhao Goudan looked a little bit wide.
The big black man Zhu Yiyi heard Liu Shiyi muttering and said, "Don't say it damn it. You are saying that life is not easy now. Why don't you say it when the King of Liao was there? Your grandfather relied on his cousin who had not been out of five cousins and did so many things about slapping the stove. Did the girl from the old banker outside the city be forced to jump into the well by your grandfather? Now he complained about his suffering, this is all retribution, and you deserve it."
Zhu Hongsan heard the big black man Zhu Yiyi say this and think it was true. If it weren't for the fact that the people in the city had done too much before, they wouldn't be so cruel to Sixty-one and others. It seems that the pitiful people must be hateful. However, Zhu Yiyi and his two sons were not good at it at first glance. I also said that they had contact with the bandits in the Yangtze River. It seems that it was not unreasonable for the rebel army to kill the royal family. Maybe the demise of the Ming Dynasty was really God's will? Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan not only became optimistic about his future.
The six people in the car were thinking about their own affairs. For a moment, no one in the car could only hear the creaking sound of wooden wheels. Wuchang County was about twenty miles away from the city of the palace, and it was just one hour. After entering the city of Wuchang, it was almost dark. The county magistrate and the county magistrate and the magistrate were going to go to the yamen of the governor to mourn for three days before they could go home. The uncle Zhao Mingda led a group of royal families to the King of Chu's mansion.
When I arrived at the gate of the King of Chu's Mansion, I saw that it was really magnificent. The King of Chu's Mansion was built by Zhou Dexing, the Marquis of Jiangxia in the fifth year of Hongwu. The entire King of Chu's Mansion occupied half of the Wuchang City. However, Zhou Dexing, an old minister who told Zhu Yuanzhang for fortune, did not run away. In the 25th year of Hongwu, the whole family was killed. Only the magnificent King of Chu's Mansion and Wuchang City were left.
A row of reed sheds had been set up in the school military field in front of the King of Chu's mansion, and there were already some people in it. Everyone went in and picked their seats one after another. Uncle Zhao Mingda came over and whispered: "Pick one behind the middle, don't go next to the toilet." After that, he stuffed Zhu Hongsan a piece of oil paper.
Zhu Hongsan pinched it with his hands and it was cut into pieces, which was good.
Zhu Hongsan entered the reed shed and followed his uncle's instructions to find a position in the middle of the back. It looked pretty good, about one hundred meters away from the front and far away from the toilet. He looked around and looked at Zhu Yiyi and the other three, and they seemed to be old, just in the front two rows, which was also a good place. Sixty-one and Sixty-two were no longer able to do it, and were squeezed to the side.
After a while, all the royal families in seven counties and one prefectures around Wuchang Prefecture came, with about seven or eight hundred people. The one who knelt at the front was the King of Chu family. A eunuch standing was reading something loudly, probably the emperor's edict, and Zhihuzhe couldn't hear it clearly. After he finished reading it, a eunuch beside him shouted, crying. The whole seven or eight hundred people were really crying deafeningly.
Zhu Hongsan looked at the man beside him and cried with his head, and was crying with his throat. This was a good idea. No one had shed tears yet. Zhu Hongsan also imitated him to let go of his head and howled loudly, lay on the ground and shouted twice to put a piece of meat into his mouth. His uncle gave him beef sauce, which tasted good.
After crying for ten minutes, the eunuch shouted again, stop. Everyone stopped. Then they distributed food, each of them had two steamed buns and one pickled vegetables. They wanted to drink water and drink it in the water tank next to them. Zhu Hongsan felt a secret cry: It’s really not a human being. The foods made by my mother at home are all full of flavor, so she had to eat pickled vegetables. Zhu Hongsan saw that the big black Zhu Yiyi gave the eunuch who gave the food, and the little eunuch quickly stuffed Zhu Yiyi a bag of oil paper. Haha, it turned out that there was something wrong with this. No wonder I stuffed silver to myself before coming.
When he arrived, he saw that the gentleman next to him gave him the little eunuch the same benefit. The little eunuch gave him a paper bag. Zhu Hongsan leaned over and asked, "What is the price for this clan uncle?"
The man looked at him and said, "One tael of silver, half a chicken."
Damn it, it’s so bad. One tael of silver is enough for an ordinary family to eat for half a month, so they can only buy half a chicken here. As expected, monopoly is the way to make money.
The guy continued, "This is just here. It would be nice to buy a chicken leg for one tael of silver in the last few days."
Zhu Hongsan asked: "Uncle, this is my first time here. Is there anything else to pay attention to?"
The man said, "I don't pay much attention. You have a good place to choose. Please give me some advice from the elderly. I just cry three times a day, once in the morning, noon and evening. There is nothing else."
After Zhu Hongsan found out, he didn't ask anything. He ate a pie with a half pound of beef sauce and started to sleep. Fortunately, it was just after August 15th, and the weather was not too cold, and he wore a lot, so it was not very uncomfortable to wear one night. But this kind of day was OK a few days ago. On the tenth day, Zhu Hongsan was really fed up and suddenly realized that Zhang Xianzhong's massacre of the city was not annoying.
Zhu Hongsan was a little better. At least in a few days, my uncle would ask someone to bring in some food. With the money given by his mother, he basically had a good meal. The person next to him was so bad. The money had been spent long ago. He fainted from hunger last night. Not to mention the adults, Zhu Hongsan himself was not enough to eat. The big black man, Zhu Yiyi, ate well every day, and saw a bottle of wine a few days ago.
Zhu Hongsan pushed the man next to him and said, "Look at the big black man in front, does he have so much money to drink?"
"He, a bully, is all robbing money from other royal families. Watch it carefully. When they see a wealthy person going to the toilet, they will follow in and rob in the toilet."
"No one will take care of the open robbery?"
"Who cares about those nostalgic business? I won't let you drink and eat meat during the national funeral? See who cares about it."
Zhu Hongsan thought: "Since that's the case, I'll tease him, just in time to be bored."
Zhu Hongsan spent three days observing Zhu Yiyi's work and rest time and found that he had to go to the toilet in the morning and before going to bed at night. Zhu Hongsan thought about it and had an idea.
The next morning, Zhu Hongsan got up very early, calculated the time, and waited at the toilet door. Seeing that there was no one in the other squatting positions, he used wooden pieces to block the door, leaving only one squatting position open. Seeing Zhu Yiyi getting up and walking towards the toilet, Zhu Hongsan went in and kicked one of the squatting boards, then faced it with his hand, and placed it in the squatting position. After looking at it, he couldn't find it out. He calculated that Zhu Yiyi was about to reach the door. When he opened the toilet door, he happened to see Zhu Yiyi coming to the door.
Zhu Hongsan said, "Oh, uncle got up early, everyone else has people. My nephew just finished leaving, use this." Zhu Yiyi snorted with his nose, and went in and closed the door casually. As soon as he closed the door, he heard a thump inside, and Zhu Yiyi shouted inside, "Help."
Zhu Hongsan held back his laughter and shouted, "Someone has fallen into the toilet, come here." Zhu Yiyi's two sons came over to catch his father in a hurry, and the Jinyiwei who was standing guard next to him also came to help. It took a long time to kill Zhu Yiyi. The big black man was covered in feces and his belly was bulging high.
Zhu Hongsan said on the side: "Don't untied your clothes quickly, press hard on his stomach, and don't spit out the water." The two sons untied Zhu Yiyi's top, revealing her black-haired chest, and pressed it hard. At this time, a small flag of an Jinyiwei saw a paper bag and a wine gourd falling out of the clothes, and said: "Bold, you dare to drink and eat meat during the national mourning period. Aren't you afraid of the king's law?"
Zhu Yiyi's two sons were so scared that they turned pale. They were just concerned about saving their father, but they forgot about this. The Jinyiwei Xiaoqi ordered people to catch Zhu Jia and Zhu Yi and search them, and found that they had wine and meat hidden. This was a major event. During the national mourning period, they drank and ate meat as a royal family, and the crime was higher than the top. The Jinyiwei immediately reported the matter to his superiors. Ten minutes later, a eunuch came to pass the order of the King of Chu. Zhu Yiyi and his son knew that the law had violated the law. The Jinyiwei was first detained and waited for handling after reporting to the emperor.
Zhu Hongsan knew that the father and son were basically finished. With Chongzhen's mean and ungrateful personality, he still had to maintain his legitimacy now. The imprisonment of the three of them was considered light, and if they were not done properly, they would lose their heads. Zhu Hongsan was very happy. While eliminating the harm to the people, he was also happy and felt good.
However, Zhu Hongsan's good mood disappeared in the next few days, and it rained ten days in the last ten days. Although Zhu Hongsan was in the middle, he didn't have to worry about leaking rain or being flooded while sleeping, but his mood was really disappointing when it rained.
Chapter completed!