Chapter 5 The Heart of the Old (1)
Turning around the screen wall, Ding Yi saw a large circle of people gathered around the concierge, and there were about a dozen idle men outside the gate, leaning against the wall with a malicious smile and saying dirty things.
He said some weird words: "According to my opinion, this Ding Xiucai had to cut it off now...", "How painful is it to be cut now? He didn't even expect to be born today, so he cut it off with a single knife long ago!", "Don't do it!
Say, it really makes sense! In the past twenty years, has anyone ever heard of a servant girl of the Ding family being taken away from her house? No! You say it’s unkind to be rich, but don’t admit it when you put on pants, right? Some people were even kicked out for having a big belly.
I’ve heard of it all!”
This caused a lot of cheers from the laity, and they all said, "That's reasonable!" Some people also said that maybe even Ding Yi's father had been circumcised, and Ding Xiucai might have been brought back because the Ding family was originally an eunuch.
Ergouzi from the aristocratic family was angry when he heard that. He squeezed to the door and shouted at the idle men: "Your father is the one who has castrated your mother! If I hadn't touched your mother's bed in the middle of the night, how could anyone like you be here?"
Bastard!"
Those gangsters were not cheap lamps either. They cursed one after another. Some people had already touched their lower backs. The reflection of the metal in the sunlight was extremely eye-catching. They were probably carrying daggers, daggers and other household items on their bodies.
A white knife comes in and a red knife comes out.
"Er Gouzi." Ding Yi put his arm around Er Gouzi's shoulders and said with a smile, "It's common for dogs to bite people. Have you ever seen a person bite a dog?"
Those scoundrels laughed wildly and cursed more and more proudly and unscrupulously. Ding Yi smiled and shook his head, but said to the scoundrels at the outer door, "If the students handed the note to the Yamen, do you believe it or not? Even your master
Don’t you dare to say even half a sentence to you?”
This can be regarded as learning now and selling it now. Seeing Peng Zhang using his status as a scholar as a credit card, Ding Yi followed the same example and said this. As long as it works, don't be afraid of the same thing. This sentence, the door is opened.
Those laihan choked and immediately fell silent. For no reason, it was just the word "student" that Ding Yi called himself.
These days, those who call themselves students are not treating each other as teachers, but rather showing off their status as scholars and clarifying their own alignment.
The hands of those shabby men touched their lower backs and dropped them unconsciously. In the yamen, whether it is a clerk, a master, a county magistrate, or an elder in the Ming Dynasty, who is not a scholar? No matter how Ding Xiucai
In this way, once you gain fame, you are in the same group as these scholars. No matter how the scholars fight, it is their business. Where is the turn of these scoundrels to insult them?
Of course, if there are poor scholars with no money and power, the laihan will not be afraid, but the Ding family is obviously not in such a state. If they spend money, they think they can't do it. Ding Yi looked at these laihan and felt
Unable to bear the trouble, he said to Ergouzi: "Close the door. It's disgusting to see these flies."
"You don't have to be afraid! Ding's reputation won't last for more than a few days!" Someone suddenly shouted loudly in the concierge. The voice sounded familiar to Ding, so he turned around and saw a young man wearing a Confucian shirt.
The child ran out from inside, but he looked familiar.
The young master was born with a good fortune, and there was a piece of warm white jade inlaid on his head. He was young and rich, but he saw him running up to Ding Yi, pointing his halberd at Ding Yi and saying proudly: "Ding Rujin
, a classmate, let me tell you the truth, if you know the truth, you will hand over Ruyu, otherwise, don’t say you didn’t predict it!”
Unforeseen? Another time, right? Peng Zhang said this before, and this time the person in front of me said this again.
For Ding Yi, who traveled from his past life, he is particularly allergic to this sentence, and is more sensitive than people of this era. This is a fixed way of thinking, because in his previous life, once he said this sentence, he basically used
To put it bluntly, it means preparing to die.
Ding Yi's eyes lit up, and the smile on his face became more friendly. He raised his hand and bowed, and said with a smile: "This brother looks familiar... By the way, Ding remembered that he was running in the morning.
Are you here to scold me for being a ‘send-of-the-money’ person? Aren’t we cutting off our robes? Even though your robe was cut with scissors at home, it can’t be said to be a classmate, right?”
"I don't know whether to live or die!" the young man cursed fiercely.
It's not easy for a fool to pretend to be smart, but it's even harder for a smart person to pretend to be stupid.
Ding Yi smiled. Whether it was based on the intuition that had allowed him to avoid fatal crises many times, or from the perspective of criminal psychology or psychological profiling, he knew very well that the person in front of him was a smart man who was playing the role of a fool.
Because no matter what, the Ding family is not poor, and Ding Yi also has the reputation of being a scholar, and he is reasonable and reasonable. The young man in front of him, who seems to be a scholar, is absolutely impossible to rape a common girl. So even if he
If you want to get Ruyu, you should come quietly and tell Ding Yichen how powerful you are, and use inducements and threats. Why bring so many rogue idlers here? Naturally, it will cost money to follow these helpers. Is there no place to spend the money?
Even if Ruyu is really given to him - of course Ding Yi can't do such a thing - the young master will definitely put forward some conditions that Ding Yi can't accept... Ding Yi has a vague feeling that this man and Peng Zhang are a pair, a singer.
A red face, a white face.
However, the other party wanted to act stupid, but Ding Yi complied with him: "Uncle Zhong, do we owe this man some money?" Ding Yi asked the old housekeeper. Seeing the old housekeeper shake his head, Ding Yi felt relieved.
Half of it, luckily, it's not the kind of bloody plot where debt collectors come to your door, "Do we owe him food? Not yet? Do we have a dog at home?"
"That's true." Uncle Zhong was hunched over, surrounded by a bunch of gangsters, and the island seemed to be submerged at any time. "Dogs are the ones who look after the house and guard the house. They have to be kept anyway. We have eight in the house.
, there are three smaller ones in the backyard.”
"Close the door." Ding Yi and Er Gouzi ordered the door. The door had just been closed. At this time, there was only one side door. Er Gouzi was able to move quickly, but before it was closed, many people squeezed it aside.
Ding Yi said again, "Let the dogs out."
It seems that the young master and the gang of helpers are all spies, and there is no way to fight and curse with others. Once the dog comes up, it is really hard to fight. Besides, as Ding Yi asked Uncle Zhong just now, I don’t owe you anything.
I don’t owe you money, I don’t owe you food, you are neither a creditor nor a businessman, what’s wrong with breaking into private houses and letting dogs bite you?
If the trouble comes to the Yamen, it's not like the Ding family doesn't have money to throw money at them.
What's more, Master Feng didn't really come here to try and get a maid by force.
"Ding! You're done!" Young Master was outside the door. The jade crown on his head was a little crooked, and he shouted angrily: "From today on, the Feng Family Escort Agency will not escort your Ding Family Escorts! I see.
How can your Ding family's goods get away! Uncle Zhong, if Ding doesn't know, you should know, right? Go north to the waterway, east to the sea, huh, without my Feng family's signboard, how can your Ding family's goods get away? Ridiculous!
Let’s go, let’s see how long the Ding family can last!”
Ding Yi's face darkened, as expected!
The so-called picture is poor and the dagger appears.
This is the reason why this man surnamed Feng came here with dozens of thieves to cause trouble.
He wanted to use the mouth of such an idle man to spread the word: The Ding family is done.
It's not for a little maid, but to cut off Ding Yi's roots.
The Ding family's property collapsed. Apart from following Peng Zhang's advice and joining the eunuch, what other options did Ding Yi have?
And Ding Yi immediately had a target of hatred. This person, Feng, who ruined the Ding family's foundation, must be the target of revenge that Ding Yi wants to get rid of soon. And Ding Yi, who has cut off his financial resources, what power does he have to take revenge? So
Once this happened, it was no longer the mastermind who wanted Ding Yi to go undercover, but Ding Yi himself who wanted to go undercover in order to gain power and take revenge.
After sending the young master of the Feng family and the helpers away, Ding asked Uncle Zhong to the side and asked the old housekeeper: "What rank of official is Tixue Dao in Guangxi? How much power does he have? Uncle Zhong, this is an important matter. You
If you don't know or can't explain clearly, forget it, I have to ask someone else quickly." Ding Yi added this half sentence, but he was afraid that this old housekeeper would not be like Peng Zhang, always talking in roundabout ways, and he would be confused after hearing a sentence.
It takes nine turns to understand.
"In the first year of Zhengtong, the Admiral of Academic Affairs was established. The two capitals were censors, and the Thirteenth Chief Secretary was appointed by the Chasi. This is called Tixuedao. According to the Chasi's Qianshi, there are five ranks of officials. This Tixuedao should also be the fifth rank.
.As for power, admiring academic affairs is to control the academic affairs of a province. The so-called admiral of academic affairs..." Uncle Zhong knew the importance, but he knew everything he knew and talked about it in detail.
But after he finished explaining his words, Ding Yi looked at him with a half-smile, but said to him: "Those who are leaving have all paid their bills, so let them return home quickly."
Uncle Zhong frowned: "But Master, there is no one at home now..."
Ding Yi shook his head, looked at Uncle Zhong for a long time, and then said: "We don't have time to play this kind of school test game, Uncle Zhong. We don't have enough money, so this is the stupidest way, so you and Ruyu will have to suffer."
Uncle Zhong's expression changed, as if he didn't recognize the young master he had grown up with.
This so-called stupid method that Ding Yi casually mentioned is simply corruption.
The young master rewarded ten taels of silver, half of which was withheld from Uncle Zhong, and another half of which was withheld from Ruyu who handed out the silver. When it was in the hands of the servants, it was two and a half for the whole family.
So Ding Yi said that Uncle Zhong and Ruyu were affected.
But this idea is just a casual list of regulations for old officials in the yamen who have become old. How could a scholar who only knows how to study come up with such a method? Dante just chose it.
Just grab it at your fingertips and easily destroy Uncle Zhong's previous ambition to take the exam.
Uncle Zhong looked at Ding for a long time. This was his young master. The faint old scar on the back of his hand was caused by the young master falling from a longan tree when he was five years old. But Uncle Zhong knew that he could no longer treat Ding Yi as his young master.
, so Uncle Zhong habitually took a step back, just like he did in front of Ding Yi's father: "Yes, I will do it now."
Ding nodded and told Uncle Zhong to just take care of it.
At this time, he had no time to pay attention to the transaction of these few taels of silver, because he finally understood how Peng Zhang could take away those few pieces of silver jewelry almost like an open robbery.——————————————
Chapter completed!