After all, Isiha told the truth to her family, because outsiders are easy to deceive, but family members are hard to deceive. You have been missing for the past few days. It can be said that it is a court errand, or even a secret. What should I tell my family?
A mother loves her son the most. You haven’t been home for five or six days and you have lost ten pounds. What have you been doing?
What's going on with the dark circles under my eyes, and I'm leaning on the wall when I walk? Were you injured in the battle or something?
Everyone has to give an explanation, everyone has to tell why!
You want to hide away? That's a dream. You have to change your clothes and take a shower at night, right? If you don’t have a wife, I still have to mend your clothes or even rub your back.
There are hickeys and scratch scars all over your body... How do you explain this?
Only telling the truth, Isiha could only choose more elegant words to tell what happened in the past few days.
When Huaihua heard that her brother had been insulted by the Empress Dowager Cixi, she immediately covered her face and ran out of the house in shame, and went into her own room to cry.
As for the mother-in-law, she was somewhat able to control herself. After all, she was a Manchu grandma, and she was more aggressive than a Han daughter-in-law. He got so angry that he slapped his son in the face, but then he shed tears.
The mother opened her son's collar and took a look inside, and she understood. The bloody scratches and the bruised and purple hickeys. Then she looked at her son's dark circles under his eyes and his thin face. She couldn't help but howl loudly. started crying.
The mother-in-law hugged each other and cried. They were afraid that the neighbors would hear it, so they could only lower their voices and choke with sobs!
After crying and howling for a quarter of an hour, the two of them calmed down. The mother took out a large wrapping paper from the hole in the kang, and it was covered with dust.
"Son! I asked you why three days ago, the housekeeper of Li Lianying's family sent a bag of silver. He said that the steward had given him ten thousand taels as a reward. I was so frightened that I couldn't sleep for several days..."
"I didn't say why I was rewarded with the money. I just put down the money and left... By the way, before I left, you even smiled at me weirdly and said you were already rich..."
"I've been guessing for three days but I still haven't figured out what's going on. Then I thought you'd actually...acted like this!"
Isiha drooped her head and said, "What can I do? They are all big shots we cannot afford to offend. Anyone who stretches out his hand can crush me to death..."
"Do I dare to resist? They are threatening me with the lives of my whole family..."
The two of them hugged their heads and cried for a while, and then I asked, "I didn't dare to ask the housekeeper how he said the reward was ten thousand taels. I counted it and it was only seven thousand taels..."
"Is there a conspiracy here? I don't dare to spend this money, so I can only hide in the kang hole..."
In fact, there were only more than 2,000 yuan in the package, which were dragon-patterned silver coins stamped and produced by the Chinese. The rest were rolls of banknotes, including southern and northern stamps.
I counted it carefully and calculated it again. No matter how I counted it, it was about seven thousand taels of silver.
Isiha patted his forehead, "By the way... I remembered... Isn't this the rule in the palace and the mansion... reverse?"
"Mom... stop counting, this is ten thousand taels. From Li Lianying's warehouse account, it's ten thousand taels!"
"But you know, the domestic slaves in this capital also have rules. Many of the rewards from the master are four, six or three or seven bucks..."
"In other words, no matter who the master rewards, the rewarded person will not get the actual amount. All the people who handle it below will get a little bit..."
"Think about it, the gentleman who does the accounting, the boy who keeps the keys to the warehouse, the housekeeper who holds the money... these people also have to get rich, and they have to eat your reward!"
"If you say you're weak, they'll give you a 46 bucks. If you're stronger, maybe they'll take a 28 bucks from you... Anyway, there's always a part of the money they have to take away..."
"Why!" The old lady suddenly became unhappy. "Why should they take the money they gave us for nothing?"
"Hey, mother, don't be angry. These are the rules on the surface! The prince and even the emperor must obey..."
"If you are not in the court, you don't know how deep the water is here. Is Marshal Zeng very powerful? When he was fighting, he had to pay bribes to the Ministry of War to reimburse military expenses, and the emperor and the queen mother knew about these bribes..."
"This thing is called 'ministry fee'. To put it bluntly, it is the hard-earned money given to the small officials on errands. Do you know how much this money is? It's a cent and a half cent..."
The old lady doesn’t understand what ministry fees are, and she can’t calculate how much one cent and a cent is, but everyone in the officialdom understands!
This means that if you, Zeng Guofan, want to reimburse one tael of military expenses, you have to give me a bribe of 1.30 cents. If you want to reimburse 100 taels, that is a bribe of 1.23 cents...and so on. According to Western mathematics, that is the total amount. 1.3% of the reimbursement amount
These money were clearly demanded bribes, and even the Emperor and Queen Mother had acquiesced! From this point of view, the servants and housekeepers of the palace below will give you face if they take 37 bucks or 46 bucks.
"What should I do with the money?" The old lady was in trouble.
Isiha gritted his teeth and said, "Hua! Let's buy a house and land, and spend money to go... We can be considered someone with a backer. The Queen Mother rewarded me with the title of first-class bodyguard and let me station at Qixiang Gate..."
"And the Queen Mother said that she will be promoted to General in one year, and she will definitely recommend me as a general in the future... Your son has sacrificed all his life, why can't he change to a first-grade crown, a title of a prince, and a chancellor?"
At this point, the old lady also knew that she could not offend the Empress Dowager Cixi. If her son was occupied, then he should occupy her. When the whole family was about to eat noodles with soybean paste.
Suddenly, a group of messengers arrived in the alley. It turned out that the Ministry of Internal Affairs had specially delivered the first-class guard badges, court uniforms and formalities to Isiha.
The people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs are all communicators. They have long known about Isiha's adventures. If they don't come here to flatter me, why are they waiting?
The general manager of the Ministry of Internal Affairs went to Shanghai, but the deputy general manager was still there. There were more than fifty people in this group, setting off firecrackers and blowing trumpets and suonas, which shocked the whole alley.
"Master Yisiha...is actually a first-class bodyguard, guarding Qixiang Gate...congratulations to the eldest master..."
Isiha's whole family had never seen such a scene before. As soon as the door opened, a stack of gift notes was stuffed into his arms. The officials who had never looked down on him in the past were all smiling like chrysanthemums.
"Lord Yi...you have to treat me tonight, you are so successful!"
"Tonghe Bureau... We have all booked seats in Tonghe Bureau... Mr. Yi must give face... let's go..."
The white smoke of the crackling firecrackers started to rise, and the trumpeter was so hard-working. People who didn't know it thought Isiha was going to get a wife!
In such chaos, the jounin on the roof quietly retreated and disappeared into the shadows like a gecko.
Half an hour later, a top-secret telegram was sent to the Northern Special Zone, and then flew to the CIA's headquarters in Naha, Ryukyu.
Emperor-level intelligence is not accessible to ordinary officials. The coded telegram flew south from Ryukyu and headed straight to Singapore, the Lion City!
Because Xiao Letian, the head of state of the Chinese ethnic group, arrived in the Lion City just last night!
