Chapter 336 The end of the year in Volume C
The snow finally fell in heavy torrents. Is this the first snowfall since the beginning of winter? Feng Ziying can't remember clearly, but the capital city is getting colder and colder this winter.
In the city gate cave, under the stone bridge, inside the Guandi Temple, and on the edge of the city wall, the bodies of frozen beggars were carried out one after another, and were thrown into the carts that were specially used to pull debris. In the mass graves on the outskirts of the city, a dozen or twenty bodies can be buried in a large hole.
"It's miserable, it's so miserable!" Baoxiang stomped from the door of the house and ran into the outer courtyard, breathing out heat mist, "Another car just pulled over over there, I guess there are six or seven more, Brother Ruixiang, what's going on? La?"
Seeing Ruixiang leaning against the door with a stunned look on his face, Baoxiang was startled and asked quickly.
"I was thinking, my master picked me up by the wall of Datong eight years ago. I was also frozen at that time. My master was passing by with his troops. When he saw that I was still breathing, he gave me some **** soup. , I was thrown into a carport and squatted for two nights before I came back to life, and then I came to the house. What about you, Baoxiang?"
After Baoxiang was startled, a look of reminiscence appeared on his face, "I can't even remember what happened six or seven years ago. Anyway, when I remember it, I followed people around, eating one meal and three hungry meals. Later, the people I followed were arrested. After the government took it, they realized it was a kidnapper. After Qiu asked, I had no place to go, and the government wouldn't take him in, so he had no choice but to sell me. But I am a six or seven-year-old kid, who would want it? Later, my aunt bought it. Come in,…"
“Where do you live from?” Ruixiang asked.
Although both of them knew that they had been in the family since childhood, neither of them knew the origin of the other, and they also knew that the other was not a child of the Feng family.
"Who knows? I heard that the kidnapper who beheaded was from Suide, maybe he is from that side." Baoxiang shook his head: "Brother Ruixiang, what about you?"
"I don't know either, but Sister Yunshang and I were both brought into the mansion together. Sister Yunshang is from Datong, but I don't know which county she is from. I guess it's about the same." Ruixiang thought. After thinking for a while, she said: "Sister Xiangling seemed to have been abducted by a kidnapper, and was later sold to the Xue family uncle. The Xue family gave it to the uncle. I heard Sister Xiangling say that day that maybe my son-in-law can help her find it in the future. Where are the parents?"
"How can it be so easy? Not to mention that Sister Xiangling is in the south, thousands of miles apart. Even if she was kidnapped in Shuntian Mansion for seven or eight years, she may not be able to find the owner. Human life is not valuable these days. Look at the previous Those who were pulled over might have been abducted and lost, so they had no choice but to beg for food. If they couldn't survive the night, they would be thrown into a mass grave in a stiff state."
Baoxiang is not one who likes to talk, but after following Ruixiang for a long time, he talks a lot more than before, "Brother Ruixiang, I've seen in our mansion that most of them were brought back by the master and his wife from Datong. Not many last long,…”
"Our Feng family is not as good as those who have lived in the capital for a long time. I heard that the master, the eldest master, and the second master have always been in Datong. That is to say, the master stayed in the capital city for some years when he was young. The eldest master and the second master passed away. I just returned to Datong, and then I came back two years ago, and now I went to Yulin, which is your hometown."
Ruixiang is a talker, and he said it happily, "Both my wife and my concubine were not happy for me to go to Yulin. In addition, I was already studying, so I didn't go with him. I was thinking that if I wait a few years for him to become an official, I'm afraid he would have to become an official." Come back and enjoy the happiness of raising your grandson."
Suddenly I heard a clear cough, and Ruixiang jumped a lot, but saw a tall and pretty figure coming out of the house with a cold face.
When Ruixiang saw this, he was so frightened that he quickly shrank his neck and said with a smile on his face: "Sister Jinchuaner, are you going out? I'll call a car for you."
Baoxiang also quickly shrank his neck and did not dare to say a word.
Of the four people in the uncle's room, Yun Shang is the most familiar and easy to talk to. Xiang Ling is the kindest and doesn't care about anything. The jade bracelet is the smallest, a little smaller than Baoxiang, and can't be seen, but the gold bracelet is the smallest. The child is unusual.
I didn't realize it at first, but after I came here, the yard suddenly changed. Everything was in order and arranged neatly. The windows on the ground and the doors of tables, chairs, cabinets were all clean, and even the fallen leaves on the ground were clean. No one can be seen, and the flowers and grass along the way have been pruned neatly.
The rules of the inner and outer courtyards have also been set. There are fixed times for entrance and exit through the two main gates, transportation of toilet debris inside and outside the house, and collection of clothes for washing in the backyard. There is no need to do anything.
This is all the credit of this sister Jinchuaner, and even everyone is a little in awe of this sister Jinchuaner.
“Let’s wait a moment, I will be going out soon.”
The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and more and more people are coming and going.
There are a lot of new year goods sent back from Yulin, including smoked lamb legs, sand fox skins and a lot of various medicinal materials. There are dozens of specially cut and processed high-quality sand fox skins. It is said that there are Produce this thing.
Even Jin Chuaner was used to luxury in the Jia family, and was shocked by the Feng family's wealth at the end of the year.
There are also sand fox furs in the Jia family, but they are only owned by the ancestors and the second master Bao. The Feng family returned dozens of them at once, and I am afraid that each one is worth a hundred or ten taels of silver. ? Even if they make first-class furs, they can make three or five pieces.
This does not include the income from Zhuangzi's shop.
Jinchuan'er also gradually came to know that the concubines of the Feng family were each in charge of a lot of business. On the contrary, the wife had a careless and careless temperament. Even Jinchuan'er was astonished by such a hands-off approach.
Look at the New Year, the wife and Mistress Lian in the mansion are planning all day long. Maybe they have to **** a lot of things and go out to exchange for some money to survive the New Year. They also have to fool the ancestors and the two families. If we say that the original background is not the same, why don't we talk about it now, but there is such a big gap?
Today, my sisters and Xiangling are going back to the Jia Mansion. In the past few days, the Jia Mansion has sent some new year's goods, so it is logical that they should reciprocate the gifts.
Most of the food sent from Jia's Mansion is food, such as green rice, rouge rice, and a few deer and roe deer. It means that the return gift here will not be too heavy. It is also a courtesy, like a bear skin. One piece, two pairs of bear paws, plus some northwest medicinal materials, etc. are already quite good.
But these gifts in return are not the most important today. The key is that there are still a few things to be sent to Jia's house.
One is a white fox fur coat for Miss Lin, and the other is a dark cloud fur coat for Miss Bao.
That's all for these two, the key is that there is also a women's fur hat that is quite fashionable in the capital city nowadays, made of firefox fur, and it is actually given to the third girl.
This surprised Jin Chuan'er, could it be...?
But I left it to him to do it, so naturally he trusted himself, so Jinchuaner could only keep this secret in his heart, and he had to do it well.
Feng Ziying is also going to Jia's house, but this time it is a purely courtesy visit. Jia She, Jia Zheng and the old lady have to go there, but they will not stay long.
In the past few days, he had a very heavy task. All the good friends of the Feng family in Beijing had to be visited one by one, so as early as a few days ago, he went to visit Qi Yongtai, Qiao Yingjia, Guan Yingzhen, Zhou In the residence of Yongchun, Chen Jingxuan and others.
Just arranging various visiting gifts is an extremely complicated matter. Each family's situation is different, and no one else can help. I can only arrange it myself, my mother, and my aunt.
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Feng Tang was a little restless.
The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and the situation is not good.
I got up and walked back and forth in the festival hall several times, but still couldn't let go of my inner uneasiness, and finally walked out of the hall.
“Come here!”
“Master.” Feng Zuo appeared outside the door. The wrinkles on his face caused by wind and frost made this man even more sinister and ruthless.
"Prepare your horses, take a few people with you, and I'll go out for a walk." Feng Tang knew exactly where his irritability came from, but he was helpless.
The situation in Ningxia Town is reported intermittently, and it is very bad. However, this bad situation is not the same as this year. Last year, the situation seemed to be even worse. Nothing was seen. There were more than ten people hanging on the walls of Ningxia Town. The matter was suppressed, so what else could be done?
However, this situation is difficult to explain clearly. Feng Tang can only arrange his subordinates as well as possible.
"Is there any news from Shixian?" This was the third time in one day that Feng Tang asked, but Feng Tang was still worried.
“Master, there is no news yet, but you don’t have to worry. Mr. He is also experienced in military affairs. If you remind him again and again, there is no way he will not pay attention to it.”
Feng Zuo has followed Feng Tang for so many years, and has rarely seen his master in such a state. Even when he encountered the Tatar invaders ten years ago, broke through the border wall, and fought all the way to Datong Town, he never saw his master so upset. Confused, is the master really old?
Besides, that is a matter in Ningxia Town. The military information that should be reported here has been sent back. The Ministry of War and the Fifth Army Commander's Office should have considered and prepared it long ago, but there has been no movement so far. , can this be blamed on this place?
As for whether there is really going to be a mutiny in Ningxia Town, it is nothing more than the impulsiveness of a bunch of drunken soldiers. What kind of trouble can they cause? It is nothing more than killing a few people in charge of military supplies. Thousands of households, I just want to give everyone an explanation. If it doesn't work, just push one or two annoying guards to carry it, and give out some money, and it will be over.
A group of people wearing armor and robes roared out, rolling up bursts of snow on the ground.
The biting cold wind did not affect Feng Tang's determination at all. He had to move around his camp on the ground. Others could not control it. At least he had to take good care of his own three-thirds of an acre.
As long as nothing happens on the ground, it will be conducive to the invincible position. As for the west, we can only do our best and obey the destiny.
(End of this chapter)