[Chapter Word Count:3730Last Updated:2014-09-2418:00:00.0]

The year 1864 of the Western calendar, that is, the three years of Tongzhi will pass, and since entering the wax moon, Beijing has fallen into an extremely strong New Year's flavor, and this year's New Year's flavor is much heavier than in previous years. The reason is very simple, just this year, the long-haired disaster that has been in trouble for 13 years has finally ended, and with a fire in Nanjing, it can be regarded as a prelude to the revival of Tongzhi.

The streets were full of children running around, and grocery stores and rice and noodle shops were crowded with ordinary people from the imperial capital who were shopping. The shouting that was characteristic of hundreds of years ago was put to the maximum at this moment, and the boys shouted like a game, they knew that it was up to them to get a few pennies more to go home at the end of the year.

In fact, life in Beijing is still as miserable as ever, the war-torn economy has not recovered at all, and the price of rice and noodles is still the same as during the war. But isn't life just a hope, since the Qing Dynasty completely eradicated the long hair, then the future should be better, right?

It is in this kind of illusory hope that there is a smile on people's numb faces, and the incense that goes to the temple every day to pray for the long live of our emperor and the Qing Dynasty is also full of three points.

It's already the twenty-sixth of the lunar month, as the saying goes, twenty-six to cut meat, twenty-seven to slaughter New Year's chicken, 2829 to hair, this is almost the last wave of big purchases a year ago. And it is today that the belated flag salary has finally been issued, and it is a rare seven discount, not the five or four discounts of the most fierce time.

At this time, the flag-bearers in the city were thunderous, and everyone shouted Long live the emperor, the queen mother, and the turnover of all shops in Beijing soared by fifty percent that day.

For example, when Britain and France entered Beijing four years ago, the banner people were reduced to begging for food along the streets, not to mention that it was a luxury to drink multigrain porridge after the banner. And then the emperor has no intention of making up, and the situation is slightly better in the next few years, but the monthly money and grain are also four folds and half offs.

In the past few years, the flag men have really lost a lot of weight. Just a few days ago, the banner people in the city were still complaining that the flag salary was delayed, and the New Year could not go on, but I didn't expect the emperor and the queen mother to have a big surprise in the root of the year, which can be regarded as a fat year.

In the joy of this city, a group of people came to Beijing, not caring about admiring the market of the imperial capital a hundred years ago, urging the horses to go straight to the flower alley in Xicheng.

The Flower Hutong in Beijing's Xicheng has been a gathering place for Manchu nobles since ancient times, and in a dark courtyard deep in the alley, several quaint and vigorous trees emerge from the courtyard. One look at this house has been around for many years, and the tethered horse stones at the gate have been polished, and you can think of the glory of this house back then.

This is Fuqing's home, Qing Sanye inherited this mansion from his ancestors, although this is only a foreign house purchased by Fukangan back then, but with the peak of the Fucha clan in the Qianlong Dynasty, a foreign house is already extraordinarily luxurious.

"Oh, you guys are really pig brains, you said that the beef and mutton are going to be bought at Jubaoyuan in Niujie, it's really not a long memory......" In front of the main gate of the courtyard, a Manchu aunt and grandmother were knocking melon seeds to command.

"Where's Steward Wang? Let him buy firecrackers, why hasn't he seen anyone for most of the day......?

"Oh, my sister of the Fan family, why did you run out to work? You are a guest, how can you let you do it, accompany your sister to watch here, let's eat mutton at noon, we don't have so many rules, women are on the table like ......"

The sister of the Fan family who ran out of the yard is Fan Yao's daughter Hu Niu, after Yi County and his party, the friendship between their family and the Fuqing family is one step deeper, and the two families move around from time to time. And that Manchurian aunt and grandmother is Fuqing's sister Fu Hui, who is just twenty-nine years old this year, and she will be thirty after the New Year.

Speaking of this rich wisdom, he is a celebrity among the Manchurian aunts and grandmothers, and at the age of 17, he married a commander of the Zhenglan Banner, and within three years of marriage, the commander died of illness. And the Manchurian woman didn't talk about the Han people, and when she was 22 years old, she remarried a Niu Lu with a blue flag, but unfortunately within two years of marriage, Niu Lu died on the battlefield in the south.

Two unhappy marriages did not hit her, and the strong Fu Hui began his third marriage, and the result was that four years ago, when she was 25 years old, he actually married a Hanchen. Of course, the woman who killed both husbands, people took pity on her, and they all turned a blind eye, too lazy to care about the ban on intermarriage.

I never thought that Fu Hui's life was too bitter, just in the year of the marriage, the British and French troops broke through the city of Beijing, on the way to escape, the Han Chen disappeared and did not even find a corpse in the end, God knows how he didn't.

Since then, no one has dared to propose marriage to Fu Hui, and this Manchurian aunt and grandmother is completely unwanted. That Hanchen's family is not a prestigious family, and there is no property in the capital, so Fu Hui has no choice but to go back to his mother's house to be with his younger brother.

Although Fu Hui's life is not good, he is very hearty, and he is quite good at handling housework and contacting relatives and friends in the Eight Banners. Gradually, there was also a female Zhuge nickname in Sijiu City, and even the queen mother of the two palaces sighed for her life experience.

To tell the truth, this time Fuqing wants to operate back to the capital, and the way to go is still managed by the old sister, counting on Fuqing's idealist, he can't pull his face to rub the cold ass of power.

"Hey, why is the little girl's hands so cold, come on, hurry up and make a bowl of ginger brown sugar water, one by one, you have no eyesight, and you will be deducted from your wages...... Hahaha, don't be weird with my sister, these minions in my sister's family just don't know how to serve, and if you don't scold for a day, your skin will be itchy......"

Just when the tiger girl was serving the hot ginger syrup, there was a sudden sound of dense horses' hooves on the long street, and soon a familiar figure appeared in front of him.

"What's the matter? Is it hot......" Hu Niu didn't care what Sister Fuhui was talking about, she stood up and looked at the figure in the distance with her eyes, the man who haunted her dreams actually did what he said and really rushed to Beijing before the festival.

It's okay now, with Xiao Letian, a bad guy, no one dares to bully him anymore, including his uncle.

"What are you looking at, girl? Who are these people, so swaggering...... Oh, is the one who started singing Xiaosheng? Why is this face so handsome......" Fu Hui chuckled in her heart at that time, as if she had knocked over the five-flavor bottle.

"Hahaha, tiger girl, you can make it easy for me to find, I'll go to your house in the south of the city first, but the housekeeper sued me that you and the old shopkeeper are here, I think Fuqing is not an outsider, I can come to the door to be a villain......" Xiao Lotian turned over and dismounted, and the figure was as handsome as it was.

At this time, where is Xiao Lotian still half of the wolf bèi energy when he was in the deep mountains, in just over two months, Xiao Lotian has revealed a superior temperament from the inside out, and his eyes are full of aggressive light.

Xiao Letian looked back at Fu Hui, and exclaimed in his heart, God, isn't this a realistic version of Wang Xifeng? But he didn't have time to appreciate the beauty now, so he nodded to her in a friendly way, and then grabbed the hand of the tiger girl and rushed inside.

"Fuqing...... Qing Sanye...... The wicked guest is coming, you have to take care of the food......" said as he broke into the house, just like his own home. The whole concierge looked stupid, they have never seen such a guest, there is no post, no appointment, shouting the name of the master and rushing inside, so that the third master of Qing still has the title of the fourth grade, and he went in without even a door bag.

"Hey, auntie, look at it, what are you talking about...... "The housekeeper slapped his thigh and wanted to chase people inside, but at this time, they had already heard the hearty laughter of the third master in the backyard.

"Brother Xiao, you can be regarded as coming today, you and I will not be drunk today, and the shopkeeper Fan is also ......" The housekeeper shrunk his neck when he heard it, oh my God, he is Xiao Letian?

Fu Hui's eyes suddenly lit up, and he secretly thought in his heart that he was really a character, no wonder my brother who was above the top would be so obsessed, and he said that he was talented and talented, and he looked like a top rich and noble person. At this time, she saw several big men standing at the door, and quickly smiled and asked the housekeeper to arrange wine and food.

I don't know when the sky is overcast, and when the big copper hot pot completely blooms at noon, snowflakes suddenly fall from the sky, and the whole yard is white after a while.

"Enjoyable, it's really enjoyable, watching the snow around the fireplace, and there is also Mr. Xiao's Qiwen to drink, fortunately! "I haven't drunk three glasses yet, Qing Sanye is already drunk, he and Fan Yao rushed to see the manuscript brought by Xiao Lotian, and when they saw the highlights, they raised their hands to be a glass of wine, and the ancients said that Hanshu can be accompanied by wine, and it is really honest not to deceive me."

The family banquet of the Manchurians really does not have the rules of the Han people, the three big men and two women drink and eat mutton together, which makes Xiao Lotian feel warm, especially when he can clink glasses and chat with the two beauties from time to time, and then take two bites of mutton slices that are absolutely really not real, and a sense of happiness from a hundred years ago immediately surrounded him.

Xiao Letian looked at Fuqing with some disdain, this guy really didn't know anything, isn't it the story of the Spanish Armada? There is also the shopkeeper Fan, who is an old money fan at a glance, and his eyes light up when he sees countless sea ships full of treasures sunk in the Atlantic, and if he is given a treasure exploration ship, the old man will definitely be the first to rush up.

Tiger girl don't mention how virtuous she is today, her face is already red after two glasses of wine, and she doesn't talk funny, a pair of chopsticks is dedicated to serving Xiao Letian, and after a while, she figured out how many mature meats Xiao Letian likes to eat, and she also carefully discovered that she put more leek flowers in the sauce. This is good, it is really beautiful to serve Xiao Letian.

Sigh with emotion, sigh with emotion, in the era when Xiao Lotian grew up, where was there such a virtuous girl, she didn't eat and took care of her beloved man, and her eyes were full of attachment.

"Good article, really good article!" Just when Xiao Letian was enjoying it, the shopkeeper Fan slapped the table, "I can't stop, I can't stop reading this book at all, I'll arrange someone tonight, and I'll double the reward to let Mr.'s book come out early!"

"But Mr. Xiao, you haven't finished writing this book yet, how did England, France, and the Netherlands rise up later......?

Xiao Letian smiled after listening to it, "Hahaha, shopkeeper Fan, you don't understand, this is called serialization, it is the latest form of book publishing, and these 150,000 words are just enough to print a copy." The story here is enough for a reader to peruse it all night......"

"With these texts at the bottom, those readers are already addicted, and then I don't print them, and every time I write a chapter, I post them all over the street for people to read for free, and I want to make these readers who wait for more books to die. Hahaha......"

Fu Qing rolled his eyes angrily, "Shameless, shameless, how can you be so shameless as a scholar, you are too unkind, so that the world's scholars will scold you to death......"

"Shameless? The third master has discovered my advantages so quickly! Oh, thank you, thank you...... You are really discerning......" After speaking, Xiao Letian, who was half-drunk, pounced on him and shook hands with Fuqing.

Now Fu Hui couldn't hold it anymore, he covered his mouth and laughed out loud, in this dull Qing Dynasty, where have I seen such an interesting young man, there is actually a kind of bad that comes out of the bones, and this kind of bad is really addictive.

"Smile like a flower!" Xiao Letian only flashed this word in his mind, at that moment, the more he looked at Fu Hui, the more he looked like Wang Xifeng in the 84 version of Dream of Red Mansions, and that radiant temperament was simply out of a mold. Xiao Letian, who was half-drunk, seemed to feel that he had swallowed a big mouthful of saliva, and he made a loud bang.