When Shang Ming and Wantong came to Cai Mansion, they took a sedan chair.
On the way back, we rode horses together. A group of subordinates followed from a distance.
Wantong asked: "Did the young man agree?"
Shang Ming replied: "Oh, of course I agreed. I've already checked him out before. A guy like him in Wei, who has no title to attack, can only dream of being promoted."
"All the engagements we made since childhood have been rejected. How can we not think about getting ahead and avenging our shame?"
"I'm afraid he dreams of hugging my thick legs."
Wantong asked: "Why does it have to go through his hands? Wouldn't it be convenient for us to put the letter directly in the box?"
Wantong is more than ruthless, but not resourceful. In terms of insidiousness and cunning, he is far inferior to the rootless Shang Ming.
Shang Ming answered patiently: "He put the fake letter in the letter box. If everything goes wrong, dirty water can be poured on him and we can take the blame."
Wantong finally got smart: "Well, if it comes to pass, I will have to kill him secretly. Only the dead can keep secrets."
Just as Chang Feng thought before. The two giants in the factory and guard wanted to kill him as easily as crushing an ant.
Let's talk about the front yard.
Chang Feng thought hard and couldn't figure out a way to escape.
He made a decision. First, as Shang Ming said, put the framed letter into the box and seal it with a new seal.
This is also a helpless move.
There was no way, if according to Shang Ming's words, this matter was handled successfully and the prince was successfully framed. At most, he was killed and silenced.
If you disobey the governor's order and act like a factory guard, you will not be silenced, but your family will be wiped out. Tangtang won’t survive either.
Chang Feng tore off the old seal of the letter box and put the framed letter into the box. Two new seals were affixed.
After finishing all this, he came to the door. The fourth flag was lit to guard the stolen goods all night.
The flag officer of the fourth small flag took a leave of absence because his wife gave birth to a child today. School Captain Shi Wenyi volunteered to stay on duty for an extra day and night to serve as a temporary flag officer.
Chang Feng got off work and took Hu Zi back to the courtyard.
Tangtang swung her legs and ran over with a bound: "Brother! Tangtang learned two words today!"
Huzi wagged his tail as usual and rubbed his head against Tangtang's chin.
Tangtang smiled broadly: "Don't make trouble, Huzi, Itchy."
Chang Feng asked his sister: "Have you eaten yet?"
Tangtang nodded: "I've eaten! My brother got off work late today. Aunt Huang made me fried noodles with soybean paste. It's delicious!"
My sister is Chang Feng’s fate.
For the sake of his sister, he could give up his ambition to get ahead, his own ideals, and even his own life.
Changfeng and Tangtang sat in front of the threshold, while Huzi squatted aside. The moonlight shines on the two people and the dog.
On a quiet autumn night, Chang Feng felt helpless and hopeless for the first time since entering Wei.
In the face of the monstrous power and shocking political tide, he was as small as an ant at the mercy of others.
No matter how smart a person is, he cannot compete with power that is ten thousand times greater than his own.
Tangtang nestled her little head in her brother's arms and looked at the moon in the sky with her big eyes: "Brother, is there Fairy Chang'e on the moon?"
Chang Feng replied: "Yes."
Tangtang asked again: "Is there a jade rabbit on the moon who can make medicine?"
Chang Feng replied: "Yes."
Tangtang asked again: "Then Fairy Chang'e can make pig head meat. Can the Jade Rabbit pound garlic paste?"
Chang Feng replied: "Fairy Chang'e kills pigs every day and stews pig heads to replenish the body of the Jade Emperor. As for the Jade Rabbit... if it knows how to make medicine, it should be able to make minced garlic."
Unknowingly, Tangtang fell asleep in Changfeng's arms.
Chang Feng carried Tangtang to the bed and covered her with a quilt. Huzi lay on the bedside, closed his dog eyes, and acted as Tangtang's guardian dog.
Chang Feng came to the rice vat, reached in and took out a small bundle from the bottom of the rice vat.
There were ninety-eight taels of silver in the little bundle. It was his savings over the past three years.
He thought mockingly to himself: Jin Yiwei's method of confiscating the family's main flag, but hiding the money, is so simple. I'm afraid if word gets out, people will laugh out loud.
Changfeng's annual income, whether it is good or not, is more than 200 taels.
However, be filial to your superiors, socialize with your colleagues, and nourish your family. Spend money everywhere. It is not easy to save these.
He looked at these things and sighed: "Oh. Ninety-eight taels is not enough for Tangtang's dowry."
He planned to hand over the money to Fatty Xu early tomorrow morning.
Chang Feng sat at the table, facing the swaying oil lamp, frowning... like a fish waiting to die.
Beicheng, the residence of Zhu Ji, the governor of Beizhen.
Zhu Ji was standing in the mourning hall of the mansion, offering incense to a person.
There was a spiritual tablet in front of him. A plaque hangs above the spiritual tablet. The four characters in the letter were "Haoran Zhengqi".
The spiritual tablet is engraved with "The Minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, Shaobao Yu Qian's official position"!
Nowadays, people in the capital only remember Zhu Ji as a shameless "dung-tasting envoy"; a loser of the imperial concubine party.
But they all forgot that Zhu Ji was Yu Qian's son-in-law!
Once, his father-in-law saved the country from collapse during a national crisis.
Even at the moment before he died in prison, his father-in-law was still upright and upright.
Why did Yu Qian's son-in-law degenerate into a bitch?
It's not a fall, it's a matter of working hard, bearing the humiliation, and waiting for an opportunity to strike back!
When Emperor Chenghua rehabilitated Yu Qian, he rewarded Zhu Ji with the title of Imperial Guard of Thousand Households, which was regarded as a dispensable compensation.
However, the imperial concubine party controls the factory guards, all the officials in the court are vegetarians, the country is in decline, and the administration is corrupt... Zhu Ji disdains to join the trend.
He simply took a long vacation and "recuperated" at home.
Until one day, the prince's crony, the eunuch Bingbi Huaien, found him.
Wynn told Zhu Ji that if he wanted to change everything now, he must keep the prince.
For ordinary people's families, children are hope; for the Ming Dynasty, the prince is hope.
Huai En asked Zhu Ji to get close to Wantong and become the prince's internal agent in the factory guard.
Zhu Ji asked Huaien: "The current situation is like a long dark night. Is it useful for me to do internal work?"
Wynn's answer was sonorous and powerful: "In the dark night, it's time for someone to walk with fire!"
"This is what your father-in-law Yu Shaobao did back then."
"Don't forget, you are Yu Qian's son-in-law! Yu Qian's son-in-law!"
Wynn's answer moved Zhu Ji.
In order to protect the prince and the future hope of the Ming Dynasty. He lost his dignity and acted shamelessly.
Finally, he won the favor of Wantong by eating the bitter, sour and slightly watery excrement. He became the sixth master of Jinyiwei and Wantong's trusted lackey.
He worked hard and bravely just to be able to block the open and secret arrows for the prince in an emergency situation like tonight.
Zhu Ji finished offering the incense to Yu Qian and said to himself: "Master Yue Zhang, you have a spirit in heaven, please protect the prince tonight!"
He left the mourning hall, rode on a horse, and went straight to Ludiaozi Hutong in Nancheng to find Chang Feng.
Chang Feng is an insignificant little person.
But when Yu Qian was still alive, he once said to Zhu Ji: "It is often the little people who change the overall situation."
