"Guawazi, it's your turn."
"Hey, so fast?"
"What are you talking about?"
A Qing soldier took three steps and two steps at a time, sat on a small bench, and took off his hat to reveal his yin and yang head.
As soon as the barber cut the hair, the shiny whip fell to the ground. He kicked it aside with his foot. Holding the blade, he scraped the root of the hair on the back of the head with two clicks. He asked while shaving.
"Wazi, which camp are you from?"
"Zhongwu Camp."
"Oh, then you are too loyal, are you going to join the Ming Dynasty today?"
"Can it still be false?
The Marquis has surrendered, and we soldiers must follow him.
In the past two months, our food has been sent by Daming, which is enough. "
Having said this, the Qing soldier swallowed and ran his tongue around his lips, as if he was reminiscing.
Since Eldenbao surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, the food of the Qing soldiers has improved visibly.
Two meals a day became three meals a day. Rice was enough to fill up the stomach, and the unimaginable smell of meat and fish was eaten every day.
In the morning it's rice porridge, pickles and eggs or duck eggs.
Lunch is better, usually pork stewed vermicelli, with some canned luncheon meat added every now and then.
In the evening, there were two dishes, one meat and one vegetarian. When the day comes, you can still drink a small bottle of yogurt.
It's so pitiful, how have these soldiers ever seen this?
I heard that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty's standing division were raised like young masters.
The soldiers of the Qing Dynasty simply couldn't imagine how good they had to be to get such an evaluation.
This is a good surrender, better than the Mega Stone sent by the Puppet Qing Dynasty!
The barber listened and saw that Qing Bing's head was shaking. He quickly removed the blade and slapped Qing Bing on the forehead.
"I'm talking about melon seeds. Just say it. What are you doing by shaking your head? Be careful and you'll open your forehead!"
"hey-hey……"
Qing Bing sat upright in embarrassment and did not dare to move. He just rolled his eyes and looked at the pile of hair whips outside the shed, at the long queue of people, and to the south.
Eldenbao finally publicly surrendered.
The Qing army with 120,000 soldiers had their heads shaved directly in the military camp.
Officials from various ministries of the Ming Dynasty and generals from the General's Office officially began to receive large amounts of land in Jiangbei.
At this time, Eldenbao, after throwing 120,000 soldiers to the Ming Dynasty, took off his hat and wig to reveal short hair, put on a small leather hat and entered Jinling.
We arrived at Jinling Zhuque Street with ease, and turned at the end of the street into Longfu Community.
Longfu Community occupies the right side of Zhuque Street, and Yuting Community on the left is known as the most noble residential area in the Ming Dynasty.
If you want to live in it, you can't do it without money.
Eldenbao, on the other hand, was quite wealthy.
When Eldenbao entered the gate of the community, he saw a huge screen wall.
The road is very wide, with many precious trees, flowers and plants planted on both sides, and several small rockeries set up.
Going around the screen wall, there is a small pond in the back. It is early spring, and the lotus leaves in the pond are blooming.
There is a winding trestle on the pond, and a small pavilion in the center.
There are now less than 36 households in Longfu, and you can't see many people at a glance.
Eldenbao walked for a while and finally found his house number.
The housekeeper was trimming flowers and plants in the courtyard. When he saw Eldenbao coming back, he put away his tools and ran over to help Eldenbao get his luggage.
"Master, please let me know when you come back so that I can help you carry your luggage."
"Just two pieces of clothing, no need to bother.
Where are my sons? And where is my sweet grandson? "
"There is a parent-teacher meeting at Jinling Primary School today, and the young master and the others have all gone to school."
"I see. Ignore them. Has my new car arrived?"
"It's in the backyard!"
The housekeeper first put the luggage back into the cloakroom, and then took Eldenbao to the backyard.
I saw a very strange car parked in the middle of the open space in the backyard.
It has four wheels, two large and two small, and the vehicle is open-topped. The front of the car has a circular hollow plate that looks like the rudder of a sailboat.
There is a leather seat in the middle, which feels soft, and there are canvas straps on both sides, hanging from steel buckles.
At the rear of the car is a small boiler, with a tall chimney in the middle, and water tanks and coal boxes on both sides.
This is a steam locomotive.
Eldenbao walked around the steam locomotive several times, touching this and that, as happy as a child.
"Quick, take me out for a ride."
"okay!"
This was not the first time that Eldenbao had seen this novel car. He had seen this novel car in an advertisement in a certain issue of "Da Ming Pao".
Since he was not short of money and was particularly interested in new things, Eldenbao directly bought one to try it out.
However, in Daming, you need a driver's license to drive.
Eldenbao fooled Emperor Jiaqing in Rucheng, and it was difficult for him to have time to learn the driver's license. He could only let his sons learn it first and let the housekeeper learn it.
The housekeeper checked the boiler, filled the water tank, lit the stove and added some coal.
Unlike later generations of cars that ignite instantly, steam locomotives need to preheat the boiler and wait for a period of time for the steam pressure in the boiler to rise to a certain level before running.
Twenty minutes later, when the steam accumulated in the boiler was sufficient, the steward got into the car and asked Eldenbao to sit on the left side.
"Master, put on your seat belt."
"oh oh."
Now Eldenbao was doing as he pleased. At the butler's instruction, he passed the canvas strap around his body and fixed it on a buckle of the seat.
He watched curiously as the butler operated various levers.
The steward checked the two pressure gauges and confirmed that the vehicle was working properly, then pinched the rubber butt of the copper horn.
"Dudu~"
The steward started the steam locomotive, and the vehicle drove the two people slowly.
Eldenbao was like a curious child. He held his head high and watched the front wheel rolling over the stone pavement, and stared at the rapidly rotating steel wheel of the steam engine behind him.
Everything is so fresh.
The steam locomotive went on the road, and after leaving the community, it got onto the coking coal asphalt road.
There are not a few people driving steam locomotives in Jinling City, and most of them are emerging big businessmen, or young men from the north.
The price of 15,000 Ming silver coins is beyond the reach of ordinary people.
But for this group of people, they just gritted their teeth and just bought it.
While driving, the housekeeper explained the traffic rules to Eldenbao.
Honking horns are prohibited on Zhuque Street, and vehicles pass through various intersections in an orderly manner under the command of traffic diversion personnel.
"Hey, isn't this Mr. Hou?"
At this time, a steam locomotive stopped on the right side, waiting for pedestrians to cross the zebra crossing. The old man next to the driver stretched out his head, and it turned out to be an acquaintance.
"Buyanda Lai? Are you not...?"
"Hey, Mian En asked me to be a Jiaqing child, but I didn't expect to be saved by Duo Shan.
Fortunately, I met a noble man who asked me to run south.
Otherwise, the grass on my grave would be several feet tall! "
Speaking of this, Buyanda Lai thought of that night and what Duo Shan said to him that night.
Eldenbao asked: "What about you now? Have you ever been an official in the Ming Dynasty?"
Buyanda Lai shook his hand and explained: "What kind of official do you want to be? Those of us who are half buried in the earth should not bother with it.
I handed over all those lands and came south with my family property.
Now is a new era, everything must be done according to the Ming Dynasty law, and you can be a rich man in peace and contentment and live your life well.
Better than anything else. "
