Scholarcholar, the saint heard that you haven’t even eaten your lunch at Pan Ku, so he let you eat here before returning. In addition, His Holiness is sympathetic to the fact that you have been auditing the Taicang for days, and has specially granted you a ten day leave, so Scholarship Master can take a good rest for a ten day period, and spend time with his family.”Huang Jin walked from the inner hall to Zhu Pingan’s side and said to him with a slight smile.
Behind Huang Jin followed several maids of honour and small eunuchs, holding plates of delicious food, which were placed on the desk closest to Zhu Pingan, setting up a whole large table.
“My lord, thank you for your great kindness.”
Zhu Pingan made a face of gratitude and knelt down facing Fang Xi in the inner hall to thank him.
“Scholar Lang get up and hurry to have your meal. The miscellaneous family still has to be ordered to bring the factory guards to raid the properties of the Taicang officials, so I won’t accompany Scholar Lang.”Huang Jin smiled faintly and gave a false support.
Zhu Pingan obediently got up, arched his hand and thanked Huang Jin, “Official business is important, Duke Huang, please.”
“Scholar Lang is polite, later when Scholar Lang has had his evening meal, Xiao Zhuozi, you take Scholar Lang out of the palace.”Huang Jin slightly smiled and nodded to Zhu Pingan, then instructed a small eunuch beside him to wait for Zhu Pingan to use the evening meal and lead Zhu Pingan out of the palace.
Obviously, one of the secret orders that Emperor Jiajing had just commanded Huang Jin was to copy the family. Zhu Pingan’s heart was clear.
Copy the family.
Hey.
Zhang pipe library, Jia Langzhong and other people deserve to be punished, just pity their families. Daming is a feudal society, pay attention to etiquette, for the women here are generally not out of the door, weekdays is to play the piano, play chess, look at the book, painting, the skills they will be that is all.
If the family was copied, even if not punished for slaves as maidservants for the official prostitutes of the Department of Education, is to be driven out of the mansion, seek their own way of life, on these weekdays will only be the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting of the lady lady, but also no less than a catastrophe.
The family wealth are not copied, not a penny to be driven out of the residence. How could they make a living on the streets if they only knew how to play the piano and calligraphy? Do manual labour? Even if they can pull down their faces, put down their bodies, and engage in the most basic manual labour in exchange for a meagre income, but they may also face bullying, or even be trafficked or forced into prostitution, and so on. Without the shelter, the once rich white beauty, in the eyes of some people in the industry is the existence of the meat and potatoes.
Of course, if they have relatives to take them in, it’s a different story.
Of course, they are not completely innocent, enjoying so long, so much of the people’s fat and wealth ……
Thinking about it, it is also that they are still not mentally trained enough, they are only copped a forfeiture of their family property.
Did not be implicated in the forfeiture, is already a very good result.
Without ten thousand strands of money, it is just standing on the same starting line with thousands of masses of ordinary people.
The dangers they faced, the ordinary people would also face.
To put it another way, it might be a good thing for them to come out of the golden birdcage, change their lifestyle, and create a new life with their own hands.
Thinking of this, Zhu Pingan looked towards the wide array of delicious dishes on the table, and could not help but get his fingers tingling.
The delicacies on the table were all leftovers from Emperor Jiajing’s dinner, but they were all left untouched by chopsticks, but there were seventeen or eighteen dishes on the table. Shark fins and sea cucumbers and other eight treasures need not be said, what West Lake vinegar fish, mushroom fat chicken, cassoulet mutton, called the children’s chicken, oil popping shrimp, dry fried ringing bells, fire heel fairy duck, fish head soup, and so on is also everything, each of which makes a hungry day of Zhu Pingan mouth watering.
What about the number one delicacy in the world – the imperial meal.
It is better not to waste it.
Zhu Pingan sat down at the table without any distractions, and feasted on a mouthful of West Lake vinegar fish, a mouthful of oil-exploded prawns, a mouthful of hot tea, and then a mouthful of shark’s fins, and ate without joy…….
Outside the temple to serve on the side of the maid, small eunuchs, was Zhu Pingan feast sound attraction, can not help but turn their eyes over, and then could not shift away …..
The scene of Zhu Pingan feasting, in their opinion, is similar to some people in modern times watching the island country Kinosh*ta, the domestic Mizijun and other big appetite kings live broadcasting gourmet food, right?
How could he eat so much?
How could he eat so much?
Is his stomach a bottomless pit? God, this is just how much time ah, that plate of oil explosion prawns and called the boy chicken bottomed out ……
The night is hazy, Yan Song, Xu step two people on orders from the Wu Yi Hall to come to the Wanshou Palace to see Jiajing Emperor, also saw Zhu Pingan feasted on this scene, the table of seventeen or eighteen discs of mountain delicacies, has become yesterday’s yellow flowers, was eaten in bits and pieces.
Sven beast.
Probably that was their impression.
In their eyes, although Zhu Pingan ate in a very civilised and courteous manner, but Zhu Pingan’s speed of eating, the amount of food, and so on, was simply beastly to them.
“Lord Shoufu, Enshu ……”
Yan Song and Xu Shi are walking to the front, Zhu Pingan only afterthought found that when he got up to salute his mouth are still bulging.
“Oh, Zi Hou has a good appetite.”Yan Song nodded with a slight smile.
Xu Yi reached out and pointed to Zhu Pingan’s mouth, shook his head with a smile, and waved his hand downwards, signalling that Zhu Pingan should just sit and eat.
Yan Song and Xu Shi were here to meet the Holy Spirit, and just took a glance with Zhu Pingan before going into the inner hall to pay their respects to Emperor Jiajing.
So, Zhu Pingan sat down and continued.
While Zhu Pingan was gourmandising the imperial meal, Liu Mu and Liu Dazhou, who were waiting outside the palace gates of Xiyuan, were also at a nearby food stall, eating while waiting for Zhu Pingan.
This food stall is similar to a modern day stall, on the stall there are officials returning home from work straight from the Xiyuan Division, there are also officials returning home from the nearby yamen from their yamen, and more like Liu Mu and Liu Dazhou who are waiting for the officials to get off work, after all, the officials are a bit more particular, and there are far fewer of them eating at this kind of stalls.
The curfew was one shift and three o’clock, that is, more than eight o’clock in the evening.
Now there is still some time before the curfew, the business of the food stalls is still very hot, eight or nine tables are full of people.
Liu Mu, Liu Dazhou two people sat on the edge, can see the palace gate at a glance, asked for a cage of large meat buns, two bowls of free steamed soup, a few heads of garlic, while eating and waiting to keep an eye on the palace gate, while listening to the stall diners chatting.
Stalls on the diners began to talk about the north and south of the world, and then wait until gradually there are officials from the Xiyuan Division straight from work passed by the food stalls, as well as a team of East Factory tomatoes out of the Xiyuan, slowly the topic of the theft of the treasury ran into the Taicang case.
And then
The topic then ran to Zhu Pingan again.
“The East Chamber soldiers who just left the palace all ran towards the Taicang Treasury theft case. What? You still don’t know about the treasury theft case ah, this news of yours …….Tsk, just now Zhang Daren passed by here, personally said, said Taicang treasury theft, the whole half of the treasury has been emptied, I heard that it is still the supervisor to steal it.”
“I also heard about it, I heard that this Taicang treasury theft was found out by a lord called Zhu Pingan.”
“What do you call this, I also heard that this Lord Zhu went in to check the silver treasury with his bare buttocks.”
“My God, you’re joking.”
“What? Bare-assed? Hahaha, no, why is he taking off his clothes to check the treasury? Isn’t this taking off his trousers and farting?”
“What do you know, Lord Zhu was also forced to do so. I heard that Taicang that group of people in order to stop Lord Zhu, slander slander Lord Zhu, what into the silver vault will hide private goods ah, less silver is Lord Zhu stole got …… Before all said who who who when the official clean, I do not believe, now I believe Zhu Ta-Jen, Zhu Ta-Jen this bare ass check silver library, this is the real clean, and which when the official has bare ass Zhu Ta-Jen is still spotless, clean and honest ……”
The topic of conversation at the food stall is basically related to Zhu Pingan and the Taicang theft case.
This is praising our duke ……Liu Mu and Liu Da Dao both looked at each other and listened with great interest.
