December 26, 60th year of Kangxi

Babel House

Wang Yinyu, the general in a new blue robe, strode into the eighth master's study, hugged his fist and saluted the three brothers sitting around the room laughing, and greeted with a smile: "Brothers, forgive me, Yinyu is late." ”

The eighth, ninth, and tenth masters all turned their heads together.

With a smile on the corner of his lips, the eighth master stretched out his hand to signal Fourteen to sit on the vacant seat reserved for him on his left hand, "Our Great General King is finally empty, and he has been busy for the past few days." ”

Fourteen laughed and sat down: "Starling Mo made fun of his younger brother, he wanted to come to see the three brothers first, but he was really entangled by the ministers waiting in the palace and couldn't get out, and he couldn't get out, so he couldn't delay until now, no wonder!"

The ninth master looked at the high-spirited fourteen, squinted his eyes and smiled: "Seeing that the fourteenth brother can be as beautiful as he is now, we will only be happy, how can there be any reason to blame, right, old ten." ”

The tenth master, who was playing with a big jade pot with a thumb, did not raise his head: "The fourteenth brother is out on the expedition, and the ninth brother has worked hard to maintain the confidence of the ministers in the fourteenth brother, and has spent countless efforts, and now the fourteenth brother is in the scenery, which proves that the ninth brother is not busy in vain, so he is naturally very happy." ”

Listening to Lao Shi's words, Lao Jiu's face was gloomy, and he smiled, while the eighth master glared at Lao Eleven reproachfully and shook his head: "Since we have agreed to help the fourteenth brother, we should help him behind the fourteenth brother, what is the hard work." ”

Looking at the expressions of the brothers, Fourteen's eyes flashed, he stood up, and made a long gesture at the three brothers, with a sincere smile on his face: "For the sake of the old fourteen, the three brothers have worked hard in Beijing, and the old fourteen have all been in mind, the three brothers can rest assured, everything will only look at the future." ”

Later!

The eighth master lowered his eyes and smiled.

The Ninth Master's eyes narrowed into a slit with a smile, making it impossible to see what was contained in it.

The tenth master looked at the brothers in the room who were smiling meaningfully, and sighed in his heart, he couldn't tell what it tasted like, so he lowered his head and continued to study the jade carving of the hollow longevity pattern flat pot in his hand.

The brothers laughed for a while, and the eighth master first sighed and reminded the fourteenth: "The emperor's body is a little wrong, and the fourteenth brother had better ask for a will and stay in the capital." ”

Fourteen spirits, the nerves suddenly tensed: "Huang Ama is not in good health? When I saw my majesty a few days ago, I didn't see it at all. ”

Squinting at the nervous Fourteen, the Ninth Master sneered softly: "That's the emperor, when did he reveal the truth when he wanted to hide from someone?

Not long after you set out on the expedition, the old man's right hand has been no longer obedient, but he has concealed it to the death, and he is not allowed to leak the news to the scholars...... Our imperial father, with a strong heart and strong control, is unmatched by the Manchu Qing Dynasty. ”

Fourteen's face did not have the same ease and freehand as before, only his brows were furrowed, and his eyes showed a burning look.

The eighth master looked at the fourteenth with an uneasy look, coughed lightly, and comforted: "Fourteenth brother, don't worry about it first, the emperor can't write This matter has lasted for a few years, which means that it is not an emergency, but a natural reaction to the aging of the body at an advanced age, and it is not a big deal." ”

"Isn't it a big deal?" Lao Jiu rolled his eyes: "It's sixty years of Kangxi, and it's sixty-one years since the New Year, starling, you calculate, from ancient times to the present, which emperor can have the spiritual strength of our one, and he has been in power for sixty years, especially since he has grasped the authority, according to me, ......"

"Ahem!"

The eighth master coughed heavily and stopped the ninth master's rebellious words.

"In the Xian'an Palace, our second brother ......" The eighth master looked at the fourteenth who raised his head: "A few days ago, I sent a hand-copied scripture book, and the emperor has always carried the scripture with him." ”

Fourteen was surprised, and his eyes widened: "What does he want to do with the abolished prince......?"

"What else can you do?" Jiu Ye sneered: "Still dreaming of coming out to the throne as the emperor, you think about it yourself, he has been imprisoned for a few years, when did the emperor wronged him, it is not the same as in previous decades, but if it is good, it must be sent to him first, saying that it is circled, our former prince has not lived a bad day in Xian'an Palace, even the children keep jumping out every year, and the name is still taken by the emperor, if one day I suddenly hear that he was released by the emperor again and pressed on our heads again, I am not surprised at all." ”

"This!" Hearing the Ninth Master's speculation, Fourteen was dumbfounded, and he didn't know how to react at all.

"Think about Big Brother again. The eighth master shook his head bitterly: "It was also circled, and the eldest brother was really bitter that day." If there is no concubine Hui's mother's family to take care of her, whether the eldest brother can live now is still two words. ”

A room full of people was quiet, and this comparison of the eighth master reminded them of the days they lived when the abolished prince was in power, the kind of days when they were completely trampled on, suppressed, obviously talented, but never had the possibility of getting ahead.

Fourteen's cheeks on the side of his face bulged and bulged, and after a while, he nodded heavily: "What the starling meant, the old fourteen understands, our second brother, can't let him come out." ”

The tenth master finally pulled his eyes out of the jade pot and looked at the two elder brothers and one younger brother: "If the second brother comes back and sits in the position of Huang Amana, the first one to be cleaned up, except for the eldest brother who was circled, it must be the four of us." ”

The prince was jealous of the emperor until he was finally deposed, and the Eight Masters Party did not contribute less in those years, if you want people to know unless you have done nothing, the prince has been seen for so many years, and he has already seen it, as long as he comes back, but if he has his brother, there is absolutely no good life.

The tenth master's words caused the eighth master and the ninth master to nod in unison.

Fourteen clenched his fists, his eyes flashed with a fierce light, and he saw that he was only one step away from success, but there was such a big threat, how could he be willing.

"The outside of the Xian'an Palace is heavily guarded, and it is guarded by the royal family of the Zongren Mansion every day, so it is impossible to have a chance. Seeing Fourteen's thoughts, the Ninth Master directly said to extinguish his ambition: "There is no chance in the Xian'an Palace, the last two times the second child knocked on the cloud board, both times he got a response at a speed of 100,000 urgent, as long as there is a little gap for the second child to ask for help, we will be finished." ”

Fourteen gritted his teeth and was unwilling: "Can we just wait like this and resign ourselves to fate?"

Life?

The eighth master chuckled lightly and closed the tea lid in his hand heavily, just because he didn't accept his fate, he was still struggling desperately, wanting to change his life against the sky.

"Fourteenth brother, don't worry. In the end, Xian'an Palace has been abolished, even if the emperor really wants to let him out, he has to think about it repeatedly, so that we can slowly plan and make the emperor completely dead. ”

……

In the first month of the sixty-first year of Renyin, the emperor summoned 680 people who were over 65 years old and above the ministers of civil and military affairs of the Eight Banners.

On the third day of the Yue Dynasty, the banquet was the same for 340 people over 65 years old.

On the poem, the vassals and, the title is a thousand banquet poems.

Two days after the banquet, the general Wang was invited to meet outside the Qianqing Palace, and the emperor was discussing political affairs with the three scholars of the court, and he heard the report and summoned him.

After the general Wang entered the palace and got up, he stood down to the emperor, bowed his head and listened to the emperor and the three scholars discuss political affairs for an hour, and never intervened, and behaved steadily and properly, without a trace of the arrogance when he first returned to Beijing, several scholars saw it and nodded secretly.

After the completion of the political affairs, the general Wang suddenly said, a few days ago, he personally participated in the banquet of Qiansuo, and often heard that the children and grandchildren of the ministers of the banquet were outside, and they could not accompany him, and he regretted it very much. The general Wang Dao, he is also the son of the emperor's father, when he is far away in Beijing, his heart often misses the emperor's father, and he is very sad after hearing the words, and he is afraid that the emperor's father is old, and he is reluctant but does not speak, so he asks to stay in Beijing to serve around.

After listening to the words of the great general Wang, the emperor sighed, his face showed a touched face, and the three university scholars said with a smile, "The son is filial and the father is at ease." ”

The scholars smiled and congratulated the royal father and son, father and son, filial piety, and set an example in the world.

The emperor smiled and nodded: "How is the family of Zhuqing? ”

He also talked about a few stubborn deeds of the princes when they were young, and sighed that it was not easy to be a father.

The three scholars laughed and said, "Fathers and sons all over the world are like this."

After chatting for a while, the emperor's face showed a look of exhaustion, and the three scholars saw the opportunity to make a speech, and the emperor nodded in agreement, but at that time, the three scholars still did not hear the emperor say the words of the general Wang Liujing.

……

In February, he was stationed in Changchun Garden.

Go to the garden of Prince Cheng and Prince Yong respectively.

In April, Wang Yinyu, the general of Fuyuan, who had been in Beijing for four months, was ordered by the emperor to return to Ganzhou to join the army, and did not accompany the emperor.

In the winter of October, the emperor had a secret report that the former prince had an affair with a concubine in the harem.

The emperor was furious, and the person who told him was put to death, and sent the chamberlain to the harem to arrest the concubine.

The emperor was very old, he was so angry that he fell ill and was still stationed in Changchun Garden.

In November, Prince Yong, who was ordered to go out of Beijing to inspect the grain depot, returned to Beijing, and saw his imperial father, who was sick and emaciated to the point of being out of shape, mourned, knelt in front of the dragon couch and kowtowed and wept.

The emperor said with a smile: Zheng Zheng man, I prefer to be a child, don't be afraid, you have to be served by your wife and son, your father is already safe, and he can take care of you for two years.

Hearing Di Da'an, Prince Yong burst into tears and laughed, nodded to his son with satisfaction, and thanked his wife at the couch.

The wife avoided it, and said: Your father is my father, serving my father, and I want you to thank you, for fear that no one will know that you are worried that your wife is not fulfilling her duties.

The king was amused and helpless, so he only shook his head and sighed: I blame me for treating you as an outsider, I am wrong.

The wife nodded: Look at the face of the emperor's father, spare you this time, and next time, I will let you taste the taste of the yellow lotus.

Wang smiled bitterly and nodded.

Zi bowed his head and snickered.

The emperor watched from the sidelines, and also laughed on the couch.