The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

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There is a hutong in the east of Nancheng called Maoyaner Hutong. This hutong is next to the back garden of Prince Teng’s Mansion. The whole hutong is less than a hundred steps away, and there is only one gatehouse that opens to the entrance of the hutong. That is to say, there is only one household in the whole hutong. people.

Although Yingtian Mansion is not Bianliang, it is also a large state capital with a population of nearly 40. There are no more than [-] families with such a large house in Yingtian City. Of course, in terms of the building specifications of the house, it is not very gorgeous. Tall and tall, especially against the corner of the glorious building protruding from the back garden of Prince Teng's Mansion, it suddenly looks short and humble. The whole house has three entrances and sixteen openings, showing a gray look.

If you walk along the alley, you will see seven or eight sealed doors. Although they are tightly painted, compared with the walls of the alley, you can still see that this is also the gatehouse that opened to the alley.

This is Qiye's house. The original seven or eight households have all moved out after Qiye took a fancy to this alley. When someone asked whether Qiye gave money to the house that moved away, those families were almost unanimous. He said yes, and it was [-]% higher than the market price, but no one believed it. How dare you ask for Qiye's money, and how much?Isn't it self-inflicted?

In fact, Qiye did give money, but each family gave five guan. The huge house was exchanged for five guan. These seven or eight families did not complain, but were lucky to get five guan. It is said that it was because Qi Ye was in a good mood that day. Someone gave him a Yangzhou girl with a small waist and a thin waist like a teacup mouth. Qi Ye played with the waist that could be held all night before agreeing to buy a house for Wuguan money.

At this moment, in the front yard of the house that has been connected together, there are nearly 50 or [-] people standing up and down, all of them covering their faces, wearing black strong clothes, and holding bright things in their hands, waiting quietly in the yard standby.

The main hall was brightly lit, Master Qi was holding a purple sand pot and was asking questions, standing in front of him were two people, one tall and one short, the tall one was Zhu Manzi and the short one was Xiao Hu.

"Is everything ready?" Qi Ye looked at Zhu Laizi and asked.

"Returning to Master Qi, the 37 brothers are all ready, just waiting for your order." Zhu Manizi was a little excited.

"Qi Ye, do you need to use so many people to deal with a scholar? Isn't it just four nurses, one coachman, plus one helpless scholar and two maids? So many people go together, it's like killing chickens." You have to pay more for the bounty, it's not necessary for the small ones." Xiao Hu looked at Qi Ye, but the words were meant for Zhu Manizi.

"Xiao Zhu said that the martial arts of those nursing homes were so strong that I was afraid that they would not be able to take them down, so I gave him a dozen more people. As for the reward, I still deducted it from the plate fee he charged. In fact, I also think it is a bit It's mobilizing a lot of teachers." Qi Ye said with a chuckle.

Zhu Laizi rolled his eyes and scolded: "Your surname is Hu, I don't want you to contribute money, and you don't want you to contribute. What's your business with rats?"

Xiao Hu sneered and said: "The news was found out by my people. The house and the number of people in the house were all found out by my brothers secretly. Isn't this an effort? What's more, you brought more than 30 people to get a A scholar who has no strength to restrain a chicken, was heard by a few dogs and mothers in the other three cities, and they still laughed to death. When the time comes, I will just lose my Xiaohu's face. Where will Qiye's face be? Is this none of my business?"

Zhu Manizi said angrily: "Wouldn't it be more embarrassing if you can't take it down? I don't have time to waste time with you. Seventh Master, you ordered. It's already three o'clock. The voices outside are gradually calming down. It's a good time to do it."

Qi Ye frowned and said: "It's not the first time this kind of thing happened, why do you look so anxious today?"

Zhu Manizi gritted his teeth and said, "Qiye, if you are stuffed with cow dung like the little one, you will be as anxious as the little one."

Xiao Hu shouted: "Zhu Mangy, have you eaten too much shit and got shit in your brain? How dare you talk to Master Qi like this."

Zhu Manizi repented of his promise, stretched out his slap and slapped his mouth several times, the teeth that had just grown stronger in the past few days began to loosen again, and blood proliferated from the gap between the teeth.

Qi Ye waved his hand and said: "Forget it, Qi Ye knows that you want to cut that kid into pieces, but you can't mess up your position, go, be quick with your hands and feet, and don't leave traces to teach Master Tang how to do it."

Zhu Laizi bowed and said, "Don't worry, Seventh Master, there will be no mistakes." After speaking, he turned around and walked out.

Xiao Hu suddenly said: "Brother Zhu, my brothers found out that this person spends extravagantly on food and clothing on weekdays. He seems to be a rich master. Don't forget to keep these guys under control. Hand it over to Master Qi, if anyone dares to be greedy, you should remember what happened to Qian San'er last time."

Zhu Manizi's body trembled, and he said in an angry voice: "You need to remind me? I, Zhu Manizi, will serve Qiye loyally. If I have the slightest bit of greed, I will be skinned by Qiye just like Qian San." That's it." After saying that, he left angrily.

Xiao Hu glanced at Qi Ye, reached out to help Qi Ye fill the small teapot, and said softly: "Qi Ye, Zhu Laizi doesn't take you seriously when he talks now, this kid..."

Qi Ye interrupted him, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Zhu Mangy is a reckless man, but he is loyal to me, Xiao Hu, you have to be tolerant. After all, we are doing things for the master. If the master asks for money, we will ask for money, and if the master asks for other things, we will follow suit. Whether the work is done well or not depends on the final result. Do you want us to do it ourselves? It's too low, like Zhu Manizi, I wish I could have more, this old man will tell you this when you are a caring person, the way of manipulating others is infinitely wonderful."

The little Hu gang said: "What Qi Ye said is that Xiao Hu is short-sighted; the little one is just afraid that this mangy Zhu will take nearly forty brothers with him in a threatening way, maybe the trouble will be big, if it is really big, you will save face It’s hard to justify, isn’t it? It’s not easy to explain to the master, and the official Mr. Tang can’t save face. If it really spreads to the capital and alarms the big shots, then it will be troublesome.”

Qi Ye squinted his eyes and thought for a while and said: "Zhu Mangy would not be so stupid, but what you said is also reasonable, so, you take my message over and watch quietly, if Zhu Mangy makes too much trouble, you can come forward and stop it. Just cut that boy up to let the lameness relieve his anger, and at the same time scare those troublemakers who dare not pay the plate fee, that's all."

Xiao Hu clasped his fists and said: "Follow Qiye's order, I'll go right away." After saying that, he hurried out the door, stretched out his hand to summon two people to follow, and went out of the hat brim alley into the darkness.

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The night was silent, the streets were pitch black after the third watch, and there were hardly any people. Occasionally, people who walked along the shadows were either the watchmen who were playing the watch, or those who went to the brothel to buy a laugh, but they didn’t dare to spend the night there. A glutton who came home and lied to his old lady and made up nonsense, four mule carts creaked past, and the mules pulling the carts were strangled and rolled their eyes. It's a pity that the mules couldn't understand human language. If they could speak, I am afraid that the three generations of ancestors scolded by the seven or eight men in black who have already crowded the car will climb out of the coffin.

The car stopped abruptly at the entrance of the alley of Sujin's house, and dozens of men in black clothes emerged from the four cars like a conjurer, all of them covered with black scarves, and holding bright steel knives in their hands; one of them waved his hand, Dang rushed into the alley first, and the rest of them rushed into the alley right behind.

As soon as the group entered the alley, another mule cart followed to the entrance of the alley, and a short man jumped out of the cart, with two masked passengers in the same dress behind him, and the three quickly followed the group in front of them into the alley. alley.

The footsteps in the alley were chaotic and echoed. Under the moonlight, Xiao Hu opened his mouth wide and watched as Zhu Manizi led three or forty people stretched out their feet and kicked open the courtyard door of a resident with a bang, and couldn't help stomping his feet repeatedly.

Xiao Hu hurriedly followed, lowered his voice and shouted softly: "Idiot, kicked the wrong door."

Xiao Hu suppressed his voice and shouted, and at the same time rushed forward to stop it, but it was too late, Zhu Manizi made a very quick move, leading the crowd to kick several times, and rushed into the inner hall behind, regardless of whether it was a man or a woman It was always young, pulled up from the bed, and the steel knife rose and fell randomly.

After Xiao Hu rushed into the inner hall of this family, lit a lantern and took a photo, the old couple and the two old servants in the inner hall were already dead on the ground, not to mention breathing in, even the air coming out was gone. .