"Xu Guanren, I didn't expect to see you here!"

Just when Xu Ping and Duan Yunjie were awkwardly silent, a lantern came over and a greeting came.

Xu Ping looked back, it turned out to be a small yellow gate in the palace, vaguely recognized, as if it was with Shi Quanbin's side, and hurriedly stood up and said: "Today, I am on business in the Niuma Market, and it is getting late, so I can have some light meals here." ”

Xiao Huangmen came up and saluted, and said: "The official has a good eye, although this small shop is small, the utensils are clean, the vegetables are delicious, and there are many nobles in the palace who like it!" Moreover, many of the dishes here are Lingnan flavors, and the officials have been in Yongzhou for many years, so they should like it. ”

Xu Ping noticed that most of the side dishes in the store were dishes that he was familiar with in Yongzhou, and there were many kinds of dishes made by himself according to the memories of his previous life, with his own obvious imprint.

However, Xu Ping's rough and leafy approach is comparable to Duan Yunjie's skillful hands, although the side dishes in this store are simple, they are extremely exquisite, making people feel comfortable at a glance.

Xu Ping sighed in his heart and glanced at Duan Yunjie.

Duan Yunjie stood up casually and said to Xiao Huangmen, "Pavilion Chief Yan, what do you want today?" ”

Xiao Huangmen took out a piece of paper: "I have a list here, Miss Duan said yes according to the list, and the money will be counted as you later." ”

Duan Yunjie took the order, turned around and entered the store, and prepared dishes for Xiao Huangmen.

It's not far from the back entrance of the palace, and people from the palace often come here to buy knick-knacks and snacks. From the queen concubine to the palace maid, they are all interested in the things in the market, and the business of the shops in this area is quite prosperous.

Shi Quanbin is in the palace and has the errand of lifting the queen's palace, this little yellow door is his subordinate, and he should also serve Queen Guo, but he doesn't know whether to buy it for the queen or for himself and the little palace maid.

Xu Ping was not easy to inquire about the affairs in the palace, seeing that it was not early, and the officials over there had already eaten and drunk, he greeted Duan Yunjie who came out of the store, and whispered: "I have to come to see you later." Then he took his men and departed. Turning the corner of the street, Li Tian led the people of cattle and horses to separate from the crowd.

After walking not far, I saw several big men walking towards me, and two fierce-looking men followed behind a few people, scolding as they walked: "Zhou Chui'an, you big official, you dare to use chicken feathers as an arrow!" Grandpa just came back from the Guangji Army for less than two months, and you dare to transfer me to Bozhou again! Who doesn't know that there will be a reward for sacrificing prisoners in Yongzhou? Do you dare to scare me? ”

The first few people just walked forward and ignored the two of them.

But the two refused to give up, and kept following behind and scolding, and the more they scolded, the more unbearable they became.

Wang Ke pulled Xu Ping: "These seem to be the forbidden troops in the Imperial City Division, let's avoid some." ”

The two took the official to the side of the road, and Xu Ping asked Wang Ke in a low voice: "Since it is a forbidden army, why do you make noise on the street?" It's still on the edge of the imperial city, and the people who are not afraid of patrolling will arrest them into Kaifeng Mansion! ”

Wang Ke sighed: "That's it, who is angry with them?" Like those two people, I'm afraid that they are arrogant and difficult to control, and their bosses who don't see them should just not see them? Listening to them scolding and scolding is nothing more than sending people out before the sacrifice ceremony. ”

"Sent out? Now that the ceremony is coming, the forbidden army has rewards, and it doesn't make sense to send people away, right? ”

Wang Ke said with a smile: "Officials have always been officials in other places, and they don't know these stories in the capital. Where there is a great ceremony in the court, there will be a reward. But hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops, where can everyone be satisfied? Even if they are all the same rewards, there are people who dislike their own appearance and take the opportunity to make trouble. Therefore, according to the convention, every time there is a ceremony at the imperial court, those slippery and arrogant lawbreakers in the forbidden army must be driven out of Beijing. The man said that he had just come back for two months, and he thought that it was the emperor's ploughing ceremony this spring, so he had been transferred out once, and this time he had to be transferred out again, so he came to the chief to make trouble. ”

Xu Ping is also a native of Kaifeng, and he has long seen the military discipline of the forbidden army, and he can't help but be stunned when he hears it.

Hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops, stationed inside and outside Kaifeng City, are a major scourge in the capital. As the years go by, there are many generations of people who have joined the army and generations of generals in the forbidden army, and they are isolated from normal society, and they are the most difficult to control. From the practice left over from the Five Dynasties, the imperial court used heavy rewards to buy the heart of the army, but the heart of the army is so easy to buy? The more money is used, the more chaotic the military discipline becomes. Every time it comes to the imperial ceremony, it has become a common practice for the forbidden soldiers to make trouble, and every time Kaifeng Mansion is like a great enemy.

In view of the many drawbacks, some ministers have written to demand that the rewards of the imperial court ceremony be cancelled, even if it is changed to the military and sent it in peacetime, it is better than making trouble once in a few years. But when the recital reached the emperor, there was never a reply. This is the time when the emperor is kind to the army, and the reward is issued in the name of the emperor himself.

The two troublesome forbidden soldiers walked past Xu Pingren, glared at him viciously, and continued to shout at the people in front: "Zhou Chui'an, you don't have to pretend to be deaf!" If you dare to send your grandfather out again this time, you will have to tear down the small shop where you have your concubine when you come back! Straight mother thief, you are a sesame petty official who climbed up by relying on your father's popularity, and you dare to take care of your grandfather! ”

Speaking of this, the leader who had not spoken in front of him turned around abruptly and said to the scolding man: "Wu Er, if you dare to mess around, I will dismantle your bones first!" ”

"Come on! Come on! I can't cut off my grandfather's head, you are raised by me! ”

Wu Er sprinkled, jumped into the middle of the road, and shouted at Zhou Chui'an, patting his chest with "dong, dong".

Xu Ping had already seen that these people were going to Duan Yunjie's shop, and Tan Erniang was standing at the door of the store and kept looking here. Thinking of what Duan Yunjie said about Tan Erniang's experience, this Zhou Chuian thought that she was a good little official when she was a child.

Seeing that Wu Er was still scolding the sky, Xu Ping raised his feet and stepped forward.

Wu Er looked Xu Ping up and down, and said, "Where are you an official?" Never mind our forbidden army! ”

Xu Ping said: "In Xia Xu Ping, he is now a judge in the Third Division. ”

"Xu Ping who broke Jiaozhi in Yongzhou?"

"Not bad!"

General Wu Er was suspicious, but Xu Ping's reputation spread all over the city at this time, and he didn't dare to make a mistake, so he put on a posture and said to Xu Ping: "What are you doing?" Now you are an official in the Third Division, but you don't care about the army! ”

Xu Ping said coldly: "I'm just here to ask your names." ”

Wu Er looked at his companions, patted his chest and said loudly: "Wu Er, who is a family, is known as the Tiger of the Lower Mountain." This is my brother Zheng Dahai, known as the Diamond Mountain Leopard, a well-known figure in Kaifeng City! ”

Xu Ping nodded: "Wu Er, the tiger who went down the mountain, Zheng Dahai, the leopard who drilled the mountain, I remembered." ”

After speaking, he turned around and left, taking a group of officials away.

Wu Er watched Xu Ping and his party leave, and the second monk was puzzled, not knowing what Xu Ping was asking for his name.

The forbidden army belongs to the Sanya, and there are many relatives and nobles as officials, Xu Ping can't do anything else, but it is not difficult for Li Zhang to find someone to beat the two troublesome forbidden soldiers to death. I was feeling unhappy when I met Duan Yunjie, and the two of them had to make trouble in the store. (To be continued.) )