Chapter 86 The Chief Town Housekeeper
Before dawn, Mulan got up, took Ying Niang and others to boil water and heat the pot to prepare food.
When Gao Jin and the others got up, a rich and fresh smell came out of the kitchen. Du Tieniu, the general manager of the General's Mansion, was spitting directly. The Du family's servants ate well and saw meat every meal. However, the braised mutton in Gao Mansion was really delicious, not worse than the big restaurants in Camel City.
Mr. Guan squinted his eyes and walked out of the wing room. Seeing Du Tieniu and the others dressed neatly, he couldn't help laughing, "Why are you getting up so early today? Don't you feel tired!"
"Master Guan, aren't we going to set out early?" Du Tieniu smiled, but his eyes glanced at somewhere else. He saw the female butler in the Gao Mansion carrying a large basin with a few servants, and his saliva was about to flow down. "How dare we brothers delay? Before we could eat Gong Food, we would go with Gao Erlang and the others."
In front of the Gao Mansion gate, Chen Sheng and Yang Dayan and others had already returned. After getting used to the food Mulan made, they were unwilling to bother the ladies at home to get up early to cook. Many people set off from the village in the dark.
Soon, the Gaofu compound was filled with men. Everyone pulled the newly-made pot and dipped it in red mutton soup, and drank it with the crispy and tender mutton. Only the one who had the Mulan served soft and smooth noodles, and poured it with mutton soup, scallion and garlic paste, which was fragrant.
Gao Jin also brought a bowl of noodles and ate with Mr. Guan. He chatted with Mr. Guan for half a night last night. He knew that Mr. Guan had two sons and one daughter, and his daughter married outside. Both sons worked for the General Office. However, he had been fighting for most of his life and did not want his sons to follow his old path, so he did not let them continue to be the servants.
Although Mr. Guan is old, he has to pay attention to his father and son of the Du family, but he is old after all. When he returns to Camel City to retire, it will not take long for anyone to take him seriously. In order to consider his two incompetent sons, Mr. Guan decided to hand over Gubei Village to Gao Jin to take over.
First, Gao Jin has the ability to suppress the situation in Gubeizhai, and second, Guan Ye thinks Gao Jin is a person who values kindness. In addition, although Gao Jin is not famous, he also caught the eyes of the master Du Wenhuan. He is not sure that he will have a great future in the future, so Guan Ye values Gao Jin so much.
After a bowl of noodles, Guan Ye looked at Mulan, who was warm all over. He knew everything about the Gao family that Mulan was Gao Jin's own family, but his background was not good. He wanted to make a good relationship with Gao Jin, so naturally he would take Mulan as his adopted daughter. In this way, the two families would not worry about Gao Jin not taking care of his children and grandchildren in the future.
But Mr. Guan thought about this idea and gave up. Mulan's original adoptive father was a sworn brother of Gao Jin's father Gao Chong. If he really proposed the matter of accepting an adopted daughter, he might backfire.
Gao Erlang, who was not an ungrateful person, looked like a kind person, was a kind person! As Mr. Guan thought, he called Gao Jin to summon everyone to set off, but thought in his heart that he would still have to have sex with the Gao family when he returned to Camel City in the future, so that he would not be as good as the years.
At dawn, the servants of the General's Mansion rode out from Gao's Mansion. Gao Jin and his friends followed behind, and the team rushed towards the gate of Hekou Fort.
On the street, the people in the fortress followed the horse team with their families. They all knew that Gao Jin and his companions were supposed to be for everyone to stop the disaster. They went out of seclusion and fought with the Tartars, but they came to see him off.
At the gate of the fortress, Ni Da and Ma Chao led people to open the gate. Qin Zhong led the soldiers to wait. When he saw Gao Jin and others from afar, he took the lead and shouted, "I wish Gao Gong will come here and return victoriously!"
The soldiers shouted first, and then the people who came to see each other shouted, "I wish you a grandpa to go here and return victoriously!"
For a moment, the shouts were so loud that they even had some momentum. However, Zhai Da and others in the crowd looked ugly. They could not have imagined that Gao Jin would be so popular in just a few days, and they didn’t know whether the Hekou Castle was named Gao in the future. Is it a blessing or a disaster?
"Xiao Gao, you're so popular, it's really good."
"It's all thanks to Mr. Guan."
On the back of the horse, Mr. Guan looked at the people in the fortress to support the elderly and take them to see them off, and couldn't help but sigh, he followed the old man out of seclusion to kill the Tartars in his early years, and had seen such scenes, and ten times more than this, but he hadn't seen them for a long time in recent years.
After leaving the fortress, the crowd dispersed. Gao Jin and his team rode their horses until they left the three Dun Forts of Hekou Fort, and stopped at the foot of Guanjiang.
Du Tieniu and his servants were all covered in clothes and looked majestic. In fact, when they were really fighting, they were not as well dressed as they were, and they were only like this when they went into battle.
From the moment he got off, Mr. Guan said goodbye to Gao Jin, "Xiao Gao, old man, I have been in Gubei Village these days. If you have done your business outside, come to Gubei Village to find the old man."
"Don't worry, Mr. Guan, Gao Jin knows."
It is not that Gao Jin has the final say when he will return to Hekou Fort, but that when Du Wenhuan, the general, will defeat the Tartars and report his merits to the inner gate, he can bring the official troops in Hekou Fort back to the fort village openly.
"Okay, you guys go first, someone will come here to pick you up later."
"Master Guan, it's better to wait until the receptionist arrives, and it's not too late for us to leave."
Gao Jin made Chen Sheng and others scattered and warned. Although the wall was peaceful and his actions were a little extravagant, Guan Ye, who was fighting an old war, admired him quite well. Du Tieniu and others were covered in slumbers, and the war horses under their crotch could not last long. At present, they could only be infantry envoys.
"Mr. Du Bai, thank you for your hard work this time, everyone is here to support the scene for Gao. I also invite Mr. Du Bai back to Camel City to invite his brothers to have a good meal. It is Gao's wish."
After talking to Mr. Guan, Gao Jin walked to Du Tieniu and stuffed a bag of silver and money. Du Tieniu sank his hands. His face, which was already tense, suddenly laughed. Gao Erlang was generous enough, so he had to be at least thirty taels.
"Brother Gao, please be polite."
Du Tieniu put the silver money in his arms and called out Brother Gao, aren’t they the chief servants doing money for the sake of their generals?
In the border towns of the Ming Dynasty, the atmosphere of generals raising family members has existed since the opening of the court. After the Tumu Fort Incident, the essence of the Ming Dynasty's official army was completely destroyed, and it became even more popular for generals in the border areas to support family members to resist the northern enemy.
Later, the military army of the garrison was in name only, and the court wanted to use troops, but instead recruited soldiers, and the servants became the main force of the battalion. In the end, even the court had the name of "buying servants", and even allocated food and money to support the servants in the border generals, hoping that these servants who only knew the generals but did not know the court could be loyal to the court.
However, the generals and generals, like Du Tieniu, would not register the quota at all, and they would still be supported by themselves by themselves. As for the servants who reported to the court, they would still receive their money privately. When it was time to fight, they would only know that there was a general but not a court.
Under such a trend, the servants of the local generals here are often greedy for money and profit. Even if Du Tieniu is honest, he still values money very much. He is generous in his hands and naturally treats him as a friend he can make.
"In the future, Brother Gao remembers to come to Camel City to drink!"
After chatting with Du Tieniu for a while, Gao Jin returned to his team. Wang Dou had also dealt with Du Tieniu yesterday and asked a lot of things, but it was not as much as Du Tieniu said just now.
"Second brother, that black charcoal head looks honest and honest, but he is a slippery person."
Seeing Gao Jin coming back, Wang Dou couldn't help but go forward and said, "He thought he and Du Tieniu loved to listen to books, so he started to talk about it." But when he asked him something serious, the black charcoal head looked around and said nothing. In the end, he just talked about something with him about how heavy the Qinglong Yanyue Sword of Guan Er Ge's Qinglong Yanyue Sword is.
"He is the General Manager Needing Bai of the General Office. He has never seen anyone before. We just want to talk nonsense and think that they are fools."
Gao Jin said in a deep voice that he gave Du Tieniu so much money today because he asked Wang Dou to get nothing to talk about and told him to wake up. No one from the general's mansion came out of the general's mansion. In addition, Mr. Guan gave some money to make some friendship.
After resting for nearly half an hour, the people who came from Guan Ye's mouth arrived. Gao Jin, the leader of the Gubeizhai Lima team, also knew that it was Wen Da, the leader of the Gubeizhai Lima team. The team he brought with him carried several large trucks and spare pack horses.
Du Tieniu and his team took off their armor and piled them onto the cart, and rode another pack horse to the road. As for the war horses they brought, they were taken care of by their own special horse slaves. Seeing Du Tieniu and his wife acting like a man, Wang Dou and others were stunned.
After saying goodbye to Mr. Guan, he watched the other party leave. Gao Jin turned to his friends and said, "That General Du Bai is the confidant of General Manager. His mate is not an ordinary horse riding servant, but an iron-armored man who specializes in the formation. There is nothing strange about having such treatment."
When Mr. Guan took Du Tieniu and his friends to Hekou Fort, there were forts along the way to rest. In addition, the peace inside the walls of Guan were so peaceful that Du Tieniu and his friends walked all over their bodies to show off their majesty. But now when they were outside the border, they had to follow the rules of the army.
"This iron-armored man is not cheap. I think everyone below Mr. Du Bai is very arrogant!"
Yang Da's eyes curled his lips and said, since these servants of the General's Mansion entered the Gao Mansion yesterday, they looked very arrogant when they looked at them, and they didn't take them seriously at all. Even if they were talking on their own initiative, they would ignore them. Only Wang Dou's thick-skinned guy can make friends with Mr. Du Bai.
"It's also worthy of being arrogant. General Du Bai and his team followed General Du to attack Huo Luochi, and two hundred people defeated the thousand Tartars."
Gao Jin looked at the circle of friends who were not very convinced on his face and said in a deep voice, and everyone fell silent. Two hundred to one thousand, or most of the Tartars like Huo Luochi, their achievements were really not enough to compete with others.
"Okay, go."
Chapter completed!