Tang's dining table

Yin Erhu did a lot of thinking and preparation, and chose an early morning when Yun Chu came to the cafeteria to share his thoughts.

After Yun Chu finished the buns on his plate, he kicked Yin Erhu out. He felt that all his subordinates were idiots.

Yin Erhu returned home excitedly and saw Xue Changfeng eating the cold noodles Xiu Niang had prepared for him.

The cold noodles in the cafeteria are noodles pulled out by the chefs by hand, mixed with garlic, vinegar, red chili pepper, and then topped with a large spoonful of sticky toppings consisting of egg drop, gluten, and fried tofu. It is ice-cold and cool on a hot summer day. It's best to eat a big plate.

The cold noodles made by Xiuniang are very different from the cold noodles in Jinchangfang Cafeteria. The noodles are rolled by hand, then cut into noodles with a knife, put into the water and taken out, rinsed with cold water, mixed with vegetable oil, and more vinegar. , stir more garlic, more chili, add a little sesame oil, sesame oil, and finally a spoonful of mustard water. No need for sticky toppings, just add a little shredded cucumber and fried tofu. It tastes better than the big canteen The cold noodles are ten times more delicious.

Yin Erhu once thought about giving this secret recipe to the cafeteria, but he was scolded by the master chef in the cafeteria.

There are tens of thousands of people who want to eat in the big cafeteria at the end of the day. Who has the time to slowly scratch at a bowl of noodles? Only noodles with everything simplified and convenient are suitable for the big cafeteria. If you want to eat the most delicious noodles, don’t Come to the big canteen, go to the Wannian County Yamen Canteen. Only the master chefs there have time, are not afraid of labor costs, and use ingredients to prepare a bowl of noodles that everyone loves.

Seeing Xue Changfeng eating happily, Yin Erhu was not so happy. He sat at the table and peeled garlic for Xue Changfeng while saying: "Is it delicious?"

Xue Changfeng took the time to pick out his thumb and said: "It's delicious. If you don't get angry, the noodles will taste better."

"I'm not angry because you ate my noodles. I was angry because I made an important suggestion to the Lord and was scolded by him."

Xue Changfeng finished the noodles on his plate in a few moments and took a look at Yin Erhu's nonsense proposal document.

He handed the empty plate to Xiu Niang and asked for another plate.

"The Lord is turning into a dead soldier. Can't you see such a simple problem? If he doesn't scold him, who is he scolding?"

"De-death? What do you mean?"

"It means that the Lord already has enough strength and no longer needs those dead soldiers who do dirty work. In other words, the Lord now has the strength to compete with others openly. If he has dead soldiers, it will be more important to the Lord. To put it bluntly, it does a lot of harm and no good."

After hearing Xue Changfeng's words, Yin Erhu hesitated and said, "I heard..."

Xue Changfeng nodded before he could finish his words and said: "What you heard is absolutely correct. When many noble people go through this process, they often choose to use another method to eliminate future troubles. What do you like, poison or a knife? ?”

Yin Erhu shook his head and said: "The Lord will not do this. All of his own people he has ordered to be killed over the years have their own methods of death."

Xue Changfeng smiled and said: "The fact that you can live to this day and give birth to a child is really beyond my expectation."

Yin Erhu said: "In this case, you can continue to be surprised. Since we people are no longer suitable to be death soldiers, I am going to find some people who can be death soldiers for the Lord."

Xue Changfeng finished a plate of cold noodles again, burped, and said to Yin Erhu: "Hunger is a very terrible thing. Although Chang'an is rich, not everyone can afford to eat. Many people can do it for one person." If you want a meal, you are willing to do anything. You can go to these people, but this kind of person can only be used once. Once he is full, he is of no use."

Yin Erhu looked at Xue Changfeng and said: "In this place in Chang'an, you can't get money unless you ask for it. However, if you beg for food, no matter good or bad, someone will always give you a bowl of rice. So, the meal you mentioned, You can’t buy a dead soldier.”

Xue Changfeng frowned and said: "There are always some death row inmates in the prison..."

Before Xue Changfeng could finish his words, Yin Erhu interrupted him and said: "The death row prisoners in the prison must be beheaded. No one should be missing. Let these people live, I am sorry for the evil they have committed."

Xue Changfeng said angrily: "Then show kindness, and then..."

Yin Erhu also didn't wait for him to finish his words, and pointed at his nose and said: "The Lord has treated me with great kindness. Now I can't help but be a dead soldier."

Xue Changfeng frowned and said, "You still look like you are willing to sacrifice your life for the Lord."

Yin Erhu looked at his daughter who was sitting on a small bench eating cold noodles holding a plate, and then at Xiu Niang who was busy in the kitchen, and sighed: "Sacrificing one's life used to be a trivial matter, but now even though it's okay to do so, it's a bit reluctant to do so." ”

Xue Changfeng sighed and said: "I have been studying the Chang'an Guild in Qujiang recently.

I discovered a very interesting thing. There are various commissions in the guild hall. These commissions include delivery, pickup, escort, and even notices issued by the government to search for various magical crops, minerals, pigments, and Some asked for a map of a certain place to be drawn, some asked for special medicinal materials from a certain place, and some even asked for someone to quickly deliver a letter to a distant place.

It was extremely lively with people coming and going. "

Yin Erhu said: "The people there have formed their own rules, just like some people who specialize in escorting goods for long distances. They are actually related to the gangsters and bandits in various places. The escort fees given by the guests include The boss part is used by them to honor the thieves who sit on the ground and divide the stolen goods.

However, things have been different in the past two years. These people have gradually gained money. After selling a lot of good equipment, they have begun to plot against bandits and thieves. I heard that they are making a lot of money. "

Xue Changfeng said: "Have you been to the alley behind the guild?"

Yin Erhu shook his head and said, "I never paid attention."

Xue Changfeng said: "After dinner, let's go take a look."

Yin Erhu didn't know why Xue Changfeng made this request. Seeing that this guy seemed very serious, he nodded in agreement.

Qujiangli is now a new city outside Chang'an City. This city is different from Chang'an City in that it does not have a tall city wall, but there is a huge pit around it.

These pits are so deep that even if the walls of Chang'an City were put into them, it would still be impossible to poke your head out.

There is no way around it. Building the Chang'an City Wall costs a lot of money, but digging deep pits in Qujiang River can produce a lot of bricks and stones.

The Chang'an city wall consumes money and food, and its natural scale is limited. The deep pits in Qujiang can generate money and food, so the local brick kiln owners can dig the big pits without the government urging them. If the government does not prohibit them from continuing to dig pits, these surrounding Qujiang The deep pit inside will definitely be more magnificent.

There is water in the pit, and the water is connected to the Bahe River, which allows ships from the canal to get closer to Chang'an.

Compared with Chang'an, Qujiang City has a different appearance. In the past, there were coal-burning brick kilns here. Since those brick kilns turned the two hills here into flat ground, and turned the flat ground around the city into deep pits, the The brick and tile kilns were forced to leave Qujiangli, leaving this city heavily polluted by soot to the huge business of Chang'an.

Qujiang City now no longer has falling coal ash. Instead, it is filled with fast-growing bamboos and slow-growing pine and cypress trees.

Locust trees, willows and the like are strictly prohibited here. No one likes the catkins flying everywhere in spring and the locust trees that can drop leaves everywhere before autumn.

The streets in Qujiang City are horizontal and vertical, which is very similar to Chang'an. However, the structure of the houses is different from Chang'an, which has cornices everywhere and carved beams and painted buildings. Most of the houses here are made of stone. Among them, the tallest and most magnificent building is the Qujiang Exchange. Place.

After Yin Erhu and Xue Changfeng entered Qujiang City on the tall suspension bridge, they both turned a blind eye to the Qujiang Exchange, which was magnificent and full of merchants. Today, their goal was Qujiang's guild hall.

Said to be a guild hall, this is naturally where various brokers from Chang'an City gather.

Whether it is buying and selling slaves or cattle and sheep, it ranges from a mansion worth one hundred thousand guan, to a small house that can only accommodate a bed, to all kinds of priceless treasures, to as small as the garbage discarded by the people of Chang'an City every day. , used goods can be found here.

If you want to buy a ranch with a radius of dozens of miles in a distant frontier, you can get it here as long as you have the money.

Even if you want to buy an island on the sea, it is not difficult to become the owner of the island yourself.

It can be said that whatever you want, you can find it in this group of tall stone houses that stretch across the entire street.

Yin Erhu stood in the war horse auction hall for a while, admiringly looking at the huge butt sitting on the back of a superb Dawan horse. That butt complemented the plump butt of the Dawan horse, and the war horse started to move. , all twisted and thought-provoking.

It is basically impossible for a woman with such plump buttocks to be a woman from the Tang Dynasty. Yin Erhu glanced up and found that she was indeed a tall and strong Uighur woman with chestnut hair.

Xue Changfeng pulled Erhu's arm and said, "Let's go. Neither that horse nor Hu Ji on the horse can get involved with you, a poor guy with only three hundred coins."

Erhu sighed and said: "I don't know since when, people with a net worth of 300 yuan have become paupers."

The two continued to wander in the huge hall of the guild, and soon Erhu discovered that not only could he not afford the BMW Beauty, he could not even afford a carriage, a dark red four-wheeled carriage placed on a huge wooden platform. , Erhu didn't need to read the label to know that he couldn't afford it at all, even if he kept embezzling in the big cafeteria, he couldn't afford it.

In the end, Erhu spent fifty guan to buy Xiu Niang a hairpin with a sapphire on it. Although it was only the size of a soybean, the color was very eye-catching blue.

He spent another thirty guan to buy the little girl a shiny gold necklace, and then dragged Xue Changfeng to leave. He didn't even watch the Orchid Auction that was being held nearby, and just wanted to finish his work and go home early.

After all, this is the highest level he can spend here.

The stone house of the guild was also tall and majestic, but in the alley behind the magnificent facade, Erhu immediately felt clearly that this was another world.

If everything in the front can be exposed to the sun, the people and things in the alley behind can only survive in the shadows and darkness.

The first thing that caught Erhu's eyes were dozens of strong men. These men were not only Tang people, but also mostly Hu people.

"Five hundred dollars!"

When Erhu passed by a strong man, he heard this guy's quotation. It was obvious that this guy was not selling his body, but his life.

Erhu whispered to Xue Changfeng: "You can earn 500 yuan a month as a clerk, right?"

Xue Changfeng smiled and said: "Once you are used to being a swordsman, no one is willing to lower your head and become a buddy who can be used by everyone."

After weighing the number of these people, Erhu said again: "I don't trust a killer with five hundred dollars."

Xue Changfeng said: "Most of these are liars. The world cannot be said to be good or bad. After all, some people will encounter things that the government cannot solve. Often at this time, some people hope to solve the problem through other channels."

Erhu looked in the direction of Xue Changfeng's finger, and sure enough, there was a notice posted on the wall over there. There was a portrait painted on the notice, and the text below was an introduction. At the bottom, there was only one line of words, fifty strings!

"This is the price for buying this man's life. If someone comes here with this man's head, they can exchange it for fifty dollars."

Yin Erhu looked around and saw no one who was eye-catching. There was a small stall selling wontons not far away. Behind the stall stood a toothless old woman who looked as old as a ghost.

"If you want to post a notice on the wall here, you have to eat a bowl of wontons at the old woman's wonton stall. If someone completes the commission, he will also go to the old woman to eat a bowl of wontons. Oh, by the way, let me tell you, the old woman screams Po Meng, when I established Qingyi House, I planned to start with Po Meng. I have seen everyone here, and they should be the most organized one."

The two of them walked past Meng Po's stall while talking, without looking at the sleepy Po Meng.

A scantily clad woman was sitting under the wall with a memorial tablet in her arms. When Erhu and Xue Changfeng passed by her, the woman said to them: "Kill Liu Jianliang, and I will belong to you two."

Xue Changfeng and Er Hu did not answer, and continued to walk forward. As they walked, Xue Changfeng said: "Her man was killed by Liu Jianliang. After the government investigated the case, they said that her man died of illness. She didn't believe it and complained to the government several times. This is the official answer. This woman wanted to find another way to avenge her man, and her family had no money, so she had no choice but to do this..."

Erhu frowned and said, "Isn't that right? The case of the dead person has to go through Dali Temple. Nowadays, Dali Temple enforces the law strictly, so there shouldn't be any scenes where people's lives are taken lightly, right?

Also, if this woman blatantly paid for a murder, how would she survive? "

Xue Changfeng smiled and said; "Who can tell clearly about the grudges and grudges? There are people who are willing to use their own lives to breathe a sigh of relief, but we can't control them.

This place is full of people who want revenge no matter what. It seems that the saddest thing about all this drinking, sex and wealth is the anger. "

"What are you going to do with your Tsing Yi Building?"

Xue Changfeng looked at the various notices in the alley and said with a smile: "Of course I have to help these people get rid of this."

Erhu whispered: "You want to kill innocent people indiscriminately?"

Xue Changfeng smiled and said: "We will investigate... Even if someone is innocent, the number of innocent people who can be risked and killed is very limited. Many times, we will decide the cases that the government has no way to decide.

If Tsing Yi Tower wants to develop in the long term, it must set clear programmatic goals for itself. We are not just killers, but also part of the law, which can make up for the deficiencies of the law..."

Yin Erhu felt that Xue Changfeng was talking nonsense and was looking for an excuse for his Qingyi Building to kill people randomly.

Seeing Xue Changfeng frothing at the mouth, Yin Erhu felt that it was necessary to inform the Lord of his current situation and ask the Lord to judge whether this guy was crazy.

He also understood that just because he and Xue Changfeng were brothers, this guy would speak his mind.

With his perseverance, even without the Lord's support, he can still build his Qingyi Building...

"In the Chang'an guild, we often receive some life-threatening bounties. I heard that the market is good. I paid special attention today and saw no less than six bounties. These are open bounties. If you include hidden bounties, there will definitely be more. .

Therefore, it is speculated that there should be many people in this field in Chang'an City. If the Lord does not take these scourges into his own hands as soon as possible, sooner or later there will be a situation full of killers. "

Yin Erhu said: "What exactly do you want to do?"

Xue Changfeng said: "Keep these people in your hands."

Yin Erhu hesitated and said, "The Lord may not like it."

Xue Changfeng said: "As long as it is useful, I will do it while no one knows about me. It will be a benefit to the Tang Dynasty. You also know that it is better to block than to open up."

Yin Erhu said: "You mean these people can replace the dead soldiers?"

Xue Changfeng nodded and said: "They don't belong to anyone, but they belong to no one, so they are Qian's death warriors.

If the Lord needs dead soldiers to do something in the future, he can ask these people to do it through me, and the effect should be better. "

Yin Erhu did not answer immediately this time. When he reported the suggestion to the Lord to search for the dead soldiers again in the morning, he could not see the Lord's true intention. If according to Xue Changfeng, the monarch will take an upright path in the future, but he will not Like, this makes Yin Erhu very embarrassed.

Under the autumn weather, Chang'an is still unbearably hot, but with this hot wind, when the northwest wind blows, depression will begin.

Back home, Xiu Niang still made cold noodles for the two of them.

Yin Erhu finally ate the cold noodles brought by Xiu Niang. He added an extra spoonful of chili and started eating it happily.

After finishing the cold noodles, he put down his chopsticks and said to Xue Changfeng: "You can't do it alone. According to our organizational structure, one person must work and two people supervise. Besides me, if you want to do this, you also need a willing person." Someone who will vouch for you with his life, and someone who is willing to supervise your behavior.”

Xue Changfeng said in confusion: "The Lord should send someone down."

Yin Erhu sneered and said: "Such a disgusting thing must have nothing to do with the Lord."

Xue Changfeng said: "We formed a society on our own and it has nothing to do with the Lord?"

Yin Erhu said: "This must be the case."

Xue Changfeng said: "Not controlled by the Lord?"

Yin Erhu sneered: "You are dreaming."

Xue Changfeng spread his hands and said: "This is difficult to handle."

Yin Erhu nodded Xue Changfeng with his thick finger and said: "This is your business, the rules have been set."

Xue Changfeng thought for a long time and said, "Money?"

Yin Erhu said slowly: "I have about three hundred dollars at home, you can figure out the rest by yourself.

You need to make rules and come up with a set of rules that satisfy the Lord, otherwise there is no need to discuss it. "

Xue Changfeng stood up, shook his shirt, and said to Yin Erhu: "I need to borrow some people from you."

"How much do you want?"

"Ten experienced warriors."

Yin Erhu looked at the huge locust tree outside the yard, nodded and said: "Okay, after they finish what they have done this time, the dead men under the Lord's command will tend to a clear path, which can be regarded as an explanation to them.

After they take the clear path, a lot of space will be freed up, and I can leave these spaces to you. "

Xue Changfeng said: "Take me to have a look."

Three days later, it was said that the commissions posted on the street behind the Chang'an Guild had been completed by some people.

At the same time, the menacing bad guys also entered the dark street and began to vigorously search for the killer.

The bad guys also found those who commissioned the murder and imprisoned them all.

People who are not desperate to a certain extent will not hire murderers to kill people on the Liushui sign in an upright manner. Now that their great revenge has been avenged, they will be happy to be jailed, sent out, or beheaded.

But their wish was fulfilled, but the backstreets of the guild were completely renovated by bad people. From then on, there were no more murderous streets in Chang'an.

Only Granny Meng still cooks and sells wontons there day after day. Without those vulgar killers, such a good place in the back street was quickly occupied by various wandering birds, and no better business was born.

Of course, Yunchu knew that Xue Changfeng wanted to be the owner of Qingyi Building. After weighing the pros and cons, he gave Yin Erhu and Xue Changfeng the newly drafted plan to Wenrou. He believed that Wenwen would definitely build a suitable management framework for them. .

This kind of matter cannot be left to Di Renjie. Yunchu was very worried that after Di Renjie knew about this matter, he would take the opportunity to kill all the killers.

In the first year of Linde, which was actually September of the fourth year of Longshuo, Emperor Li Zhi confirmed that in February of the first year of Linde, he would tour Henan Road and enshrine Mount Tai by the way.

It is a very troublesome thing for the emperor to set out to inspect the place. The roads need to be renovated, and garrison palaces have to be built every hundred miles. Compared with these small things, the relocation and recruitment of the army are a bigger trouble. It can be said that a single move affects the whole body.

This time, there were 120,000 troops accompanying the emperor on his eastern tour. Adding in the hundreds of civil and military officials and their families, the overall number would not be less than 150,000.

Yun Chu is a Marquis or a Martial Lord, so he must accompany him as a guard. Yu Xiurong is the queen's concubine, so she naturally has to follow. Yun Jin is the eldest son of the Yun family, and must also participate in this grand ceremony with her mother.

If Yun Chu, Yu Xiurong, and Yun Jin all had to go, it would mean that the entire Yun family would be mobilized.