Of course, there are exceptions, and sickness, childbirth, death and bereavement are all passable. For example, in the later novel "Divergent Lights", a story is told, saying that there is a gambler who gambles home at night, and happens to meet the county official patrolling the night, so he lies that he is taking medicine, and the county official wants to go through the prescription, and then look at his honeysuckle, and ask him who he is taking medicine for, what kind of disease that person has, and he can see through it at a glance, but he is generous, and he does not say it. He had spent five cents of silver to buy a bag of honeysuckle, and he had used it three times.

Out of Guanghuasi Street to the west, it is Deshengmen Inner Street.

This is a pattern similar to the crossroads, but it is not very regular, the north-south avenue is a bit northeast and southwest, and the Guanghuasi Street to the east is very obvious to the southeast, and to the Jishuitan side, it is northwest.

The night was dark.

Because it is a road intersection, it is also on the fence at this time, the fence is one zhang high, and the top is sharpened wood, not to mention that ordinary people can't climb up when they are idle, but they can climb up, and they are afraid that they must be careful to tie a transparent hole.

There was a three-foot-wide door open on the fence, and now the door was closed and locked, and there was a light coming out of the card room on one side, and there were faint voices coming from inside, apparently someone was there.

Xie Sheng's group was not small, and before they reached the fence, the people in the card room heard it and came out with lanterns.

The name of the lantern is Zhang Fengshi, perhaps his parents gave him this name at the beginning, hoping that their children would be able to eat all day long in the future, and the family was also rich and fruitful. But I didn't expect Zhang Fengshi to be as his name, very full and sturdy, not tall, short and stocky.

He was about to speak, but when he saw this, he was immediately startled.

Good fellows, big night, why did so many people come all at once? It's dancing knives and sticks, and carrying a sedan chair, what are you going to do?

He is a servant of Shuntianfu, and he has been doing this business for more than 30 years, from the age of 14 to his father's class, and he has been working until he is 48! In the past 30 years, most of the time has been guarded at night in the north card room of Deshengmen Bridge. For more than 30 years, more than one day and night, I don't know how much I have seen. To tell the truth from the heart, let alone a human, it's a ghost, and he's bumped into it a few times.

This Beijing city is also evil, relying on the Shichahai and Jishuitan are also a little evil, legend has it that when the Yuan Dynasty built the capital, this whole Beijing city from a high place down is an eight-armed Nezha shape, there is a particular.

He could see at a glance that this must be a big family going out at night, and if he can have the courage to go out in such a big battle at this time, he must be either rich or expensive. And it's not ordinary wealth, this kind of battle, but only the rich and noble can put it out.

He suddenly felt a sudden shock in his heart, and quickly stared at the faces of those who came and went, and by the light of the lantern, although the faces of those who came and saw were serious and vigilant, none of them had stiff and wooden faces, and their eyes did not turn a moment. And the chest can also be seen to rise and fall, and it seems that it can pant for breath.

Seeing it clearly, he sighed softly and put his mind at ease.

There is no way, he has been bitten by a snake for ten years and is afraid of the well rope, so he can't be careless.

He remembered very well that on a midwinter night eight years ago, he was also on duty with the old fellow next to him now, and a team of people came, also carrying a sedan chair, about seven or eight. He didn't pay attention at first, but when he thought about it later, he realized that there were strange things everywhere. Those people all wore cloaks and hoods, covering their faces tightly, looking at their figures, all of them were very thin, except for the first one, the others did not say a word from beginning to end. The man who took the lead also spoke in a hoarse voice, as if his throat was leaking.

And they turned out to be white lanterns!

But at that time, Zhang Fengshi didn't notice it at all-his whole mind was attracted by the small silver ingot in his hand, which weighed two or two.

The man told them that they were from the Chengnan family, and that the old lady of the family was stubborn today, and he had to go to the edge of the pond to find an old friend, which was not to urge them to go quickly. Zhang Fengshi was carried away by the silver at that time, for him, these two taels of silver are not a lot of money, and the girl is about to get married, just a silver hairpin, and it is also a dowry that can be beaten.

Poor families, where are so many exquisite?

So he let him go, but as soon as those people passed, he trembled in his heart and suddenly realized that something was wrong.

The edge of the pond is very remote, except for the rice field, which is a mass grave, where is there any family?

When he was about to inquire again, he found that it was just such a blink of an eye, and those people were gone. He noticed the strangeness, and didn't dare to think about it anymore, so he honestly stayed in the card room until dawn, preparing to wait for dawn to visit later.

As a result, after dawn, when he opened his hand and looked at it, he was so frightened that he almost sat on the ground.

What silver do you have in your hand? It's clearly a chicken bone!

After relieving himself, he went to walk around the pond, but there was no one.

Later, I inquired again, where there was a wanderer in the east of the city, and there was a rare thing a while ago - a dead body was found in a small forest not far from the city gate.

When the news went up, the soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division went in and killed them, and it was said that they had beaten a lot of yellow skins and came out.

After Zhang Fengshi heard the news, he was so frightened that he was in a trance for several months.

When it came to this, if he couldn't guess what those 'people' were that night, it would have been in vain.

Zhang Fengshi thought about it afterwards, it was also very strange, he was a very cautious person in his life, although he was greedy for money, he would not see money to such an extent, and he was mainly careful, many things could be observed, but on that day, he didn't see any of the flaws.

The old guy next to him obviously thought of the stubble eight years ago, and hurriedly asked in a low voice, "What?" ”

Zhang Fengshi made a gesture to reassure him and greeted him.

The two family members who played the lantern in front of him leaned over and whispered a few words to him, Zhang Fengshi was shocked, and quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Oh my God! This is the master of the Ministry of Officials! It was the first time in his life that he had seen such a big official.

Xie Sheng's family was a little polite, helped them up, and then passed.

This is thanks to Xie Sheng's daily teaching, Xie Sheng himself is a rather low-key person, the kind who makes a fortune in a muffled voice. This is also to restrain his subordinates, if it is found that his subordinates are swaggering and deceiving outside under their own name, and they are tyrannical, then they must be severely punished.

At this time, the pond is still very remote, the surrounding area is very desolate, basically all the way to the city wall, there are no people to live. It is winter, if you come earlier, at a glance, the ice and withered grass, a withered yellow with white in the west, taking advantage of the sunset in the west, it looks particularly desolate.

There are even remnants of rice paddies on the east bank of the pond, and there are still people growing rice here when the season is right.

However, next to the pond, there is a special boundary.

Ice Factory.

There is a waterway connecting the moat under the wall of Jishuitan, which communicates the water system inside and outside the city, and through this waterway, the sweet springs of Xishan and Yuquan Mountain outside the city continue to flow into the city.

And in the southeast corner of the pond, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, a river channel called the fork river dug in the middle of the Ming Dynasty leads straight to the Qianhai of Shichahai, the water of the pond flows into the Shichahai from this, and then there is to the south through the west pressure gate into the imperial city, at the same time to the northwest, through the silver ingot bridge and flows into the back sea of Shichahai, this is the scene of the so-called "silver ingot view of the mountain and water backwards".

The Ming Dynasty Ice Factory, to put it bluntly, is to mine ice cubes in winter to preserve, and then take them out and sell them in summer for use. The "Zhengde Gu Su Zhi" repaired by Wang Wei of the Ming Dynasty has the words "selling cold ice in the dog market", which shows that there is already a professional ice factory in the Zhengde Dynasty at the latest.

There are two kinds of ice factories in the Ming Dynasty, one is royal, which belongs to the internal supervision management and is specially supplied to the royal family. One is civilian, which is sold to the outside world, regardless of whether it is a high-ranking official or an ordinary person, and it will become rich if there is money.

The ice factory belonging to the internal prison, because it is supplied with the royal harem, is very particular, and the location of ice mining is Yuquan Mountain in winter.

Yuquan Mountain is in the northwest direction of Beijing City, the mountain is northwest direction, the shape is like a saddle, the mountain is not big, it is not high, but it is two miles in depth, the widest place of the east and west is less than one meter, dozens of zhang high. However, the mountain is not high, the spirit is beautiful, this mountain is a strange rock and a secluded cave, the stream is murmuring, the flowing spring is alive and well, there is a feng shui treasure land. The six peaks are intertwined, the north and south, it is the branch vein of the eastern foot of the West Mountain, in the sun of the mountain. The spring water here is famous all over the world, the water is clear and blue, clear and jade-like, so it is called the jade spring. As the saying goes: the spring under the mountain flows like a jade rainbow, and Qingling is not the same as the springs. The spring water gushes from the stone gap in the mountain, the water rolls up the silver flowers, just like the jade rainbow, since the Ming season before there is the "jade spring rainbow" said, it is one of the eight views of Yanjing.

Not only the ice used in the summer, but also the water for drinking in the palace every day, is also transported from Yuquan Mountain.

The water of the jade spring is sweet and mellow. People often measure the quality of water by the severity of the water, the light is good, and the heavy is inferior. The ancients of the past dynasties mostly took the curtain water of Jiangxi Lu Valley or the Jinshan water of the Yangtze River as the first, and the Huishan Hupao Spring Water as the second. In fact, it is not: Jinan Pearl Spring Bucket weighs one or two or two centimeters; The Yangtze River Jinshan water is one two or three centimeters; Huishan Tiger Run Spring Water is one or two or four cents; Pingshan water weighs 126 centimeters; The water of Liangshan, Baisha, Huqiu and Biyun Temple weighs one or two points, only the water of Yuquan and Yixun weighs one or two, and the water is light and sweet. The royal ice factory is so exquisite, but the folk one is much worse. At this time, the largest ice factory in Beijing is on the edge of this pond, a large house, at a glance, I am afraid that there are dozens of them, and there is a huge yard inside. Although it is night, it is very lively, and there are many lanterns inside and outside the courtyard, which illuminates the place. The door was open, and people were constantly coming in and out, talking loudly and shouting, and they were very noisy.

One

%77%77%77%2e%64%75%30%30%2e%63%63/