The silver coins minted during the Hongwu period are privately known as pig heads.
The silver coins minted in the Yongchang year are jokingly called pig heads among the people.
Two silver coins, a large soldier in the Beijing camp, and half a month's military pay.
In the capital city, those who work for a living have to say that their masters do not take any deductions. They work early in the morning and work late at night for six or seven hours. After a month, they can only have two silver coins and burn high incense.
For two silver dollars, a family of four could eat more than they could eat for a month.
But in the eyes of rich people, it is just money for a snack!
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The waiter in the teahouse took the old man and the child, who were in rags, to the door of the kitchen in the backyard of the teahouse.
In the kitchen, the smell of boiling lard makes people salivate.
The cook with the fat on his neck came out with a big horse spoon and asked sideways, "Second son, where did you get these two beggars from?"
"Little old man is not begging for food..."
Before the old man could say anything, the young man named Erzi smiled and said, "The shopkeeper asked me to bring it to you!" He said with a smile, "I guess it's the Chinese New Year. I see how pitiful the old and the young are, so I feel kindhearted!"
Having said this, he glanced into the kitchen and said, "Uncle, give these two gentlemen some food and cook a bowl of glutinous rice balls!"
"I think you look like glutinous rice balls!" the cook scolded, "No! There are leftovers from last night on the stove, answer them right!" After saying that, he glanced coldly at the old and young men begging for food, and cursed, "Bah!
If they eat it, they will be hungry when they come back!"
Hu Zi is the dog raised by this guy!
"Uncle! I didn't say it! It was the shopkeeper who said it!" The boy frowned and said, "How about I ask the shopkeeper to tell you?"
"You guys are going to rebel!" the cook scolded, and then looked at the two beggars, "Stay over there!" He said to the boy, "You serve them rice, and I'll cook glutinous rice balls."
!”
The two men begging for food squatted silently and fearfully at the far wall.
The boy smiled and went into the kitchen.
There were leftovers from their meal on the shelf, but when I turned back inadvertently and looked at the weathered old man and young man, I suddenly felt compassion in my heart.
He didn't touch the leftovers, but took two large bowls and filled two bowls with the hot rice in the wooden barrel.
I spread pickles on the rice, and when the cook wasn't paying attention, he poured a spoonful of lard and sprinkled a layer of freshly cooked oil residue on top of the rice.
But the next second, the cook suddenly turned around and said, "You kid! This is what we should have for lunch. You gave it to them, so don't eat your lunch portion!"
"If you don't want to eat, don't eat!" the boy curled his lips.
"Hey!" I thought the cook was going to scold him, but he shook his head and said, "In this world, the poorer you are, the worse your kindness will be!"
The young boy struggled to carry two bowls, and the old man who was squatting in the corner stood up just after leaving the house.
"Thank you, little brother!"
The boy shook his arms and said with a smile, "You guys eat slowly, and..."
He couldn't continue talking, because the moment the two men got the bowl, they started to eat it, obviously they were very hungry.
"Slow down!" the boy said again, and turned to the kitchen. When he came back, he had two more bowls of water in his hand.
"Where are you from?" The boy squatted opposite the two men and asked with a smile.
"We came to the capital from Huaibei to join our relatives..." the old man said intermittently while eating, "but as soon as we entered the capital, we lost our money, the little old man was illiterate, and he had no place to live or eat...
..."
Generally speaking, this is the way to talk when asking for food.
But the young man knew that what the old man said was not false.
Because if you are really begging for food, you will not be dressed appropriately, you will not be able to tell the purpose of the capital, and you will not even be able to enter the city gate.
Besides, who is really begging for food? They are all asking for money!
Looking at the two men devouring it, I knew it was not a lie.
"This is not easy to handle! I lost my household registration certificate and my relatives' addresses..." the boy frowned and said, "Are you refugees?" Then he asked, "When will I come in?"
From the city?”
"It should be the 30th day!" The old man lowered his head and plucked at the food, as if he had been hungry for several lifetimes.
But the boy noticed that the oil residue in the old man's bowl was not moved. Instead, it was transferred to the child's bowl while he was pulling rice.
"Thirty? No wonder, the Military and Patrol Corps were busy in those days and had no time to pay attention to you!" The boy laughed again, "You guys who can't produce household registration certificates can't tell your relatives that the landowners haven't secured the insurance."
It’s human, take it and send it to the shipyard to work!”
After saying that, he smiled and said, "Don't be afraid, it's just work, you'll be tired, but you still have to worry about whether you'll starve to death..."
"I know the addresses of my relatives!"
Suddenly, the child who had lowered his head to eat spoke directly.
"This is my grandson..." The old man quickly protected the child.
"No one believed us when we said it!" The kid looked at the little boy again and said.
"Who are your relatives?" The boy seemed to see in this child the hard times he had gone through when he was a child.
He thought that if the child could speak out, then he would be a good person and help spread the word.
"Yang Shunbao!" the child shouted, "he should be my uncle..."
"Uncle is a close relative, so why should we?" the young man said with a smile.
"When my mother was alive, she said that my uncle was sold by my uncle when he was very young! When my mother found out, she could no longer catch up with him!" The child lowered his head, "When my mother took her last breath, she told me, come on.
In the capital, my uncle will definitely support me!"
"The little old man didn't want to be related to relatives, but last year there was a flood and everything in the house was lost. His father and mother both died of illness. We, the grandfather and the grandson, really can't survive..." The old man
Open your mouth and say.
The young man felt sour in his heart. He was also a child of a poor family in the countryside!
"Then do you know where your uncle works?" the boy asked again.
The child was silent for a long time, looked up at the little boy, shook his head first, and then said, "He is not a worker!"
The boy is about to cancel. Isn't he a worker? Is he an official?
"When my mother was alive, she said that my uncle was an official in the palace and was a eunuch!" She said, "He was a eunuch!"
Plop!
The boy's legs went weak and he fell down.
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"There are so many kinds of things in the den of thieves!"
In Fusi, North Town, the Jinyi guards were counting the stolen goods they had raided in Nancheng over the past few days, laughing and cursing.
"Damn it, we're overstretching our talents now, and we've even caught petty thefts!" Another Jin Yiwei laughed.
"If the superiors ask us to arrest them, we will arrest them. There is so much nonsense!" an elderly Xiao Qi scolded, and then suddenly became nervous, "Everyone, please be energetic, Guo Laosi is here!"
Guo Guanseng, the Tongzhi of Fusi in Jinyiweinan Town, walked into the warehouse with a straight face and looked at the various stolen goods with some disgust.
"Sir!" Xiao Qi stood up, "I am waiting for you to count the stolen goods!" He said, and began to point out, "Here are the gold and silver items, which have been filed away. Over there are the clothes..."
He said and laughed, "Those thieves steal, even clothes!"
Guo Guanseng fanned his nose. The piles of tattered clothes, bedding, sheepskin and the like smelled very pungent.
He used his belt knife to open a rolled up luggage roll.
"I asked you to clean up the evildoers, but I didn't ask you to bring these rags back!" He said, "No one wants these things when they are thrown on the ground. What are you doing with them?"
Xiaoqi said hurriedly, "I don't know how to deal with the low-level people. Anyway, they were all found in the den of thieves, so we can only classify them first!"
"Why!"
Guo Guanseng sighed and put down the luggage roll he picked up, but suddenly, an envelope fell out of it.
Suddenly, his face became solemn.
This luggage roll looks like the luggage of a poor person, but the envelope in the luggage roll is actually made of fine kraft paper.
Moreover, it looks like something made inside! In addition, this envelope seems to be old.
These two things are completely incompatible, how could they be mixed together?
Out of his professional acumen, he bent down and picked up the envelope, looked at it for a moment, and then slowly opened it.
Inside was a letter with very ugly words and even many typos.
The general meaning is, sister, how are you? I am fine. I am well fed and clothed warmly in the palace.
You have loved me the most since I was a child. When I became successful, I naturally couldn't forget you and sent you five taels of silver...
Guo Guanseng slowly looked down and saw that it was inscribed on the 23rd year of Hongwu...
Suddenly, his body shook violently.
Yang Shunbao!
"Where are the people?" Guo Guanseng's hands were shaking and his voice was a little panicked.
"What do you mean?"
"Where did this luggage roll come from? Where is the person?" Guo Guanseng shouted.