Chapter 60: Planning to enter the palace
After arriving in Beijing a day, after entering the city, he found a magnificent inn, Xin Han climbed down from the horse, and asked for an upper room with a horseback squatting crotch posture under the surprised eyes of the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper.
No, this posture is really not good, the inner thighs are worn out of the skin, not moving and hot pain, as soon as you walk up like using a knife to cut meat, Xin Han went to Inner Mongolia to travel in the summer and learned to ride a horse, but just can ride, this way from Yangzhou to the capital even if he is at the peak of his strength can not stand it, so he had to cross his legs and cover his face behind the shopkeeper, and under the gaze of more than 20 drinkers, he seemed to escape into the room.
As soon as he entered the room, Xin Han threw Xiao Er a piece of broken silver: "This is your reward, teach me two girls." ”
The shopkeeper said that this master is really anxious, he came from afar, and he was anxious to find a girl as soon as he entered the capital, and he thought of Xin Han's walking posture just now.
Thinking about it, the shopkeeper still received the silver and went happily, this errand not only earned money but also enriched the conversation, think about the master lying on the bed, it is really a big forest and there are all kinds of birds.
Just as the two girls were about to do their best to take out the silver from the pocket of the local tyrant in the shopkeeper's mouth, they saw the handsome local tyrant on the bed who made the woman blush and pointed to his two legs and said: "Will you massage, one person and one leg quickly rub it, and wait for the master to come over and be rewarded." ”
Two hours later, Xin Han finally relieved the fatigue on his body, smiled and gave each of the two Qinglou girls who had cramps in their hands and complained in their mouths a silver ticket that satisfied the two of them, and they were all overjoyed.
Xin Han had lunch and walked on the streets of the capital, bought some pastries, wine and meat, and found a small courtyard according to the address given by Dodd, and knocked on the door knocker.
After a while, a middle-aged woman opened the door and looked towards the door, glanced at Xin Han and found that she didn't know her, so she asked angrily, "Who are you looking for?"
"You are an aunt, I am a friend of Zhang De from Yangzhou." Dodd's family name is Zhang, although this uncle is a distant relative, but his family is also surnamed Zhang, and he makes a good dish, and it is said that he was taken by a certain prince in the capital to take a fancy to his craft and brought him into the house to do things, but Xin Han didn't know which prince it was, and Dodd only heard about it before but didn't know the specific news.
There was a sound of footsteps behind the woman, apparently only coming after hearing the sound, Xin Han looked behind the woman, only to see Dodd with a broom in his hand, apparently cleaning the courtyard.
Seeing that it was Xin Han Duode, he smiled: "Auntie, this is my son-in-law, come in, uncle will come back on a business trip later, I have told my uncle about your affairs, and my uncle said that there is no problem." ”
When the middle-aged woman heard the conversation between the two, her face turned a little colder and she snorted, "Another one to eat rice." ”
Seeing that his aunt treated his son-in-law like this, his face was embarrassed and he didn't know what to do.
Xin Han didn't care, as if he hadn't seen the woman's face, and handed over the gift in his hand: "The first time I came to the house to visit, don't dislike some Bo Li aunts." ”
The woman saw that Xin Han's hand was rich in gifts, her face softened a lot, and she took the thing and handed it to Dodd, but said, "The countryman still knows some etiquette. ”
After speaking, he turned around and walked towards the house, and said as he walked: "Come in, my master will be back in a while, you can wait in the living room." After that, I went back to my room.
Dodd said apologetically: "Childe, I have wronged you, my aunt is this temper." Hearing Dodd say this, Xin Han knew that he had also suffered a lot of wretchedness these days.
Seeing that Dodd's face was ugly, he patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, after all, there are people who need to be, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't know who to ask for, these days are hard for you." ”
Dodd was moved and said, "It's not hard, young master, you sit down first, and I'll serve you tea." ”
After he finished speaking, he invited Xin Han into the main hall, served a cup of tea, and then continued to pick up the broom and sweep up.
Xin Han sat there and watched, thinking about Aunt Dode's attitude, knowing that Uncle Dode was afraid that he would look down on this distant nephew.
Just as I was thinking about it, there was another knock on the door accompanied by a rough shout: "Open the door, I'm back." ”
Dodd hurriedly put down the broom and was about to open the door, but his aunt hurriedly trotted out, and opened her mouth to scold: "I really didn't use this little work to finish it for so long a day, and I didn't know how to open the door when the master came back." ”
After speaking, he opened the door by himself, and a fat man with a big head and a thick neck walked in, and as he came in, there was a smell of green onions.
Out of politeness, Xin Han still stood up, and Dodd greeted him and introduced: "Uncle, this is my son-in-law, Xin Han Xin Gongzi." ”
Dodd's uncle's name was Zhang Defu, and after listening to Dodd's words, he glanced at it lightly and spit out a 'hmm' word in his mouth, and then went directly into the hall and sat on the main seat.
His wife followed behind him and muttered: "The world is peaceful these days, the situation is good, anyone dares to call a son, my lord is working in Prince Kang's mansion, and no one has dared to call him a son in front of him over the years." ”
Dodd's face was a little unpleasant, but he still hurriedly served tea to Xin Han.
Zhang Defu scolded with a smile: "Don't talk nonsense, your master and I are a cook, and others are looking at the face of the prince and his old man." "It seems that he complains about his wife, but in fact, he is proud in his bones, so he almost didn't say that what his wife said was good.
Xin Han was not angry because of the pretentiousness of these two people, but was attracted by the information in the mouths of the two, but he didn't expect Zhang Defu to be a cook in Prince Kang's palace.
He stood up and hugged his fists and said: "In Xia Xinhan, I have seen my uncle, my uncle is a big man doing things in Prince Kang's mansion, disrespectful and disrespectful, how dare you call yourself a son in front of your old man, Zhang De's joke made his aunt laugh." ”
Zhang Defu saw that Xin Han could speak, and couldn't help but feel a lot happier in his heart, so he glanced at Xin Han and said: "Your matter, Dezi told me, it's not difficult to enter the Han Army Banner, but" He said here, he looked at Xin Han and was silent.
Xin Han smiled secretly in his heart, knowing that this was asking for silver, he directly took out five hundred taels of silver tickets and handed them over, it is not a big deal to enter the Han military flag in this year, haven't you seen the selling officials of Ao Bai and Wu Sangui who are clearly marked.
He inquired about the two hundred taels of silver that was enough to enter the flag, but there was no guarantor, and he heard Dodd say that his uncle was also in the flag and should be a guarantor.
So Xin Han doesn't care about this bit of silver, it's easy to come anyway.
Although Zhang Defu works as a cook in the palace, he also has a face outside, and he can't see much silver all year round.
After receiving the money, he looked at Xin Han and looked much more pleasing to his eyes: "Let's stay here today, the matter will be done in two days, I am a little sleepy and go back to the room to rest for a while, Dezi will take your son to the guest room." After speaking, he glanced at his wife, and the two of them went back to the room to count the silver tickets.
When Dode saw his uncle walking away, he said, "Son, I have given too much money." ”
Xin Han knew what he meant and smiled at him: "Anything that can be done with money is nothing." ”
The next morning, Dode served Xin Han breakfast, and only after he finished eating did he tell him that Zhang Defu had something to say to him.
When Xin Han saw Zhang Defu, the fat cook greeted him with a smile: "Virtuous nephew, I deliberately took a leave of absence today to do your business, but after thinking about it, it's better to add some of this money to be safe enough." ”
Dodd was immediately anxious when he heard this, he didn't expect his uncle to be so dark-hearted, five hundred taels was not enough, he was just about to speak but was pulled by Xin Han and stopped abruptly.
I only heard Xin Han say: "What Uncle said is that it is not appropriate to think about it, and here is five hundred taels, so it will be troublesome for uncle." After speaking, he handed over another five hundred taels.
Zhang Fatzi's eyes lit up, he didn't expect the young man in front of him to be so generous, and he didn't blink his eyes when he threw out a thousand taels of silver.
Zhang Fatzi took the money and went out with a smile, and when he came back in the evening, he handed a document to Xin Han and told him that the matter had been done, and he really didn't mention how much money he spent.
Xin Han looked at the paperwork in his hand, and said in his heart that it is good to have money, and he didn't have to come out on his own, so he immediately took Dode to say goodbye to Zhang Fatzi, and Dode thought that his uncle was black-hearted, and he didn't want to stay longer for a moment and followed Xin Han.
With the identity of the flag man, Xin Han planned to infiltrate the palace to get close to the biggest boss in the Luding world, 'Kangxi', he inquired in many ways, and finally let him get an important news, the deputy head of the imperial guard, the master of the inner 'Ruidong' is the most greedy for money, which made Xin Han's heart move.
In the original book, Ruidong was bought by the fake Empress Dowager Mao Dongzhu, and as a result, he was sent to assassinate Wei Xiaobao and finally died in the hands of Wei Xiaobao.
But now, Xin Han plans to use Ruidong's route to infiltrate the palace and become a big internal guard first, and then find a way to get close to Kangxi.
Xin Han suddenly had an idea, if he had found a way to prevent Wei Xiaobao from going north, would Wei Xiaobao still be able to become the future 'Lord Wei'?
And is it possible to take his place along his own line? Thinking of this, Xin Han's heart beat violently, if he could take Wei Xiaobao's route, he would definitely be able to do better than him, because he understood the development of the plot, then the resources he could get in this world were unimaginable.
Forget it, let's take one step at a time, Xin Han put his thoughts aside, and spent money to hire an idle Ouchi guard as an intermediary to contact Ruidong.
Under the attack of Xin Han's large sum of money, the guard worked very hard to say good things for Xin Han: "Manager Rui, this is what I told you about my cousin, who has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, in order to learn the art of literature and martial arts and sell goods to the emperor's family, always thinking about serving us in the Qing Dynasty and the emperor and the queen mother. ”
After speaking, he only glanced at Xin Han, Xin Han took out the two thousand taels of silver tickets prepared in advance and presented them respectfully: "Lord Steward, this matter has become your grace, not my own life, don't dislike this little money, buy some tea to drink." ”
Ruidong smiled: "You kid is also clever, how do you know that I love tea!" When he heard Xin Han speak, he felt that he was a reliable person, who knew how to advance and retreat, so he reached out and took the silver ticket, and smiled with satisfaction when he saw the number.
Seeing that Ruidong was satisfied, the middleman hurriedly said, "It's not all a matter of your manager's words." ”
Ruidong coughed lightly: "What kind of manager, I'm just a deputy manager, don't let people listen to this, as for this matter, it's not impossible, now Ao Shaobao is sending people to the palace, they are all some domineering people, don't talk about me, even the chief manager doesn't pay attention to it, which makes the old brothers complain, some brothers have resigned, and there are a few positions, but how is your cousin's kung fu?" ”
When the middleman heard this, he laughed and said, "My brother's kung fu is not much worse than mine." ”
Ruidong scolded with a smile: "If it's like your kid's two knife skills, then this thing can't be done." He burst out laughing.
The man hurriedly laughed and said, "Stronger than me, stronger than me." ”
Ruidong said to Xin Han: "Come, practice, let me see if it can be successful." ”