At the critical moment, the old family general rushed over, he killed those officials who wanted to hurt me, hugged me and ran, just arrived at the mouth of the alley, only to see Dong Xiucai and his daughter Xiaowan were waiting for us, they were leading two horses, and there was a camphor wood box at their feet, which contained five hundred taels of silver.

Dong Xiucai and his hometown will work together to put the silver on another horse, and then Yin Yin told his hometown to take care of me, Xiaowan also cried and said to me: "Sister, if life is difficult outside, write to me, and I will send you money if I sell the embroidery village."

After I fled, the government harassed her family twice for three days, asking me about my whereabouts and blackmailing me for money. Dong Lao Xiucai was scared and died of illness.

After the death of the father, Xiaowan's mother and son did not know how to operate, so they handed over the business of the embroidery village to the guy to take care of, and at the end of the year, not only did not make a profit, but also owed thousands of taels of silver outside, which was clearly a trickster, because there was no evidence and helpless, after selling the embroidery village, the debt was still not paid off, Xiaowan's mother was angry and hateful, got seriously ill, and soon died, in order to bury her mother and repay the debt, Xiaowan gritted her teeth and came to the painting boat on the bank of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing to perform art.

Xiao Wan's beautiful appearance and otherworldly temperament made her famous in Qinhuai River very quickly. And with Chen Yuanyuan, Bian Yujing, Li Xiangjun, Kou Baimen, Ma Xianglan, and Liu Ruyi, they are collectively known as Qin Huai Bayan. At that time, the literati and scholars, wealthy businessmen and high-ranking officials were proud to see Xiaowan's side.

Xiao Wan is clean and self-conscious, only selling her art and not selling herself, for vulgar people, no matter how much money she has, it is difficult to see her, and the literati are loyal and noble people, even if they have no money, they are friends. At that time, the four sons of the late Ming Dynasty - Chen Zhenhui, Hou Fangyu, Fang Yizhi, and Mao Bijiang were all his friends. In particular, he risked the frontier, and wanted to marry her as his wife, but he didn't have to redeem the silver, and then he finally got together the silver taels, which coincided with the war and the fall of the Ming Dynasty----。

Before Ji'e's words fell, Shunzhi put his hands together and said: "Bodhisattva bless, fortunately they passed by, otherwise, there would be nothing to do with me."

She was surprised: "Master, what are you talking about?"

Shunzhi hurriedly put on a solemn face and said: "It's nothing, I'm asking, what happened to her?"

Lady sighed and said: "Change of dynasty, swords and soldiers, Suzhou was originally the foundation of the world's money and grain, rich land is more prone to robbery, fortunately Qinglian sister is a person who has seen the world, regard money as dung, he took out his savings, bought off those rebels to escort him to the capital for refuge, and there are really a few bold rebels greedy for money, protected him after coming to the capital, divided his property, and then threw away the knife and gun and fled.

These rebels also had some conscience left, they were afraid that Qinglian would not be able to survive without money, so they left her a silver ingot when they left. Qinglian relied on this ingot of silver to spend her years in the capital.

Qinglian didn't know what a poor life was since she was a child, and she was used to spending a lot of money, how long can this ingot of silver last? In order to survive, she took the guqin to the street to play, not to sell art, but to hope that a big family would be able to discern the pearls and hire her to teach her own daughter in the house.

It happened that Xiong Zhanting was wandering around the street, and he was very appreciative of the sound of the piano, so he talked with Qinglian, and wanted to invite her into the house to be my companion, at that time I was just pregnant, and the old man wrote to Zhanting every day, asking him to hire a woman who had read books to serve me, what he meant was that knowing books must be reasonable. There is an elegant person around you, and you can also receive education earlier after the child is born.

Zhan Ting is not a stingy person, as soon as he opened his mouth, it was three hundred taels of silver a year, and when he saw Qinglian hesitating, he hurriedly added two hundred taels,

Qinglian silently put away the guqin and sat in the small sedan chair hired by Zhanting.

Qinglian entered the mansion and saw the jasper golden hairpin on her head, I was stunned, this, isn't this my benefactor Qinglian's sister? Then the two of us hugged and cried. In any case, I couldn't let my sister serve me, so I bought two more maids to serve him, and Zhanting also took him as his own sister, and lived in the house until today.

Speaking of this, Auntie hesitated for a moment before continuing: "Master, I am a woman, and my mind is naturally more careful than that of you men, I know what you mean very well, but I just want my sister to enter the palace, but my sister is a Han person, and the Manchu and Han do not intermarry, and you can't break this big rule." Also, don't look at him as beautiful and refined, like a flower-like girl, in fact, she is ten years older than you, such a big gap, not to mention that the Manchu Dynasty civil and military will oppose it, and you can't explain it to the Queen Mother."

Shunzhi said stubbornly: "I don't care, no one can stop what I want to do, the rules are also set by people, age is not a problem, you don't reveal my identity, let me think of a way to get the best of both worlds." Qinglian is destined to be my person, I haven't seen her for thousands of years, and when we meet today, no one wants to break us up."

Everyone looked at Shunzhi blankly, not understanding the meaning of his words.

Shunzhi smiled indifferently and said: "I'm confident, you just need to cooperate fully",

"Suide, Guohao, prepare to return to the palace, when I finish dealing with state affairs, I will come to Xiongfu again, and I will marry Qinglian as my wife in this life."

Although Shunzhi was only fourteen years old at this time, he was very different from before, he studied and cultivated his temperament, honed himself to be calm and resolute, and was also polite to the minister. Thus won the unanimous support of the ministers from the beginning,

After Dolgon kept his promise and handed over the soldiers and horses of the Three Banners, the imperial power increased dramatically.

At this time, the call for the emperor to govern also came and went,

Dolgon secretly regretted that he shouldn't have handed over so many military powers at once, and now Shunzhi is popular everywhere, what if the tail is too big to be controlled?

The strategists were also helpless, but only instructed Dolgon to find fault with Shunzhi in his private morality and government affairs, and once he caught the slightest fault, he could write a big article to force Shunzhi to abdicate.

Dolgon casually played with the dust beads that his subordinates had paid tribute to, and said lazily: "Don't be nervous, the situation is still under my control, although the strategy of finding fault is good, but after all, what can be picked out is a small problem, we must create some sensational events for him, in order to do the abolition of the establishment, otherwise, Xiaozhuang is not easy to provoke? I will have a headache when I see her."

Master Wenbi frowned and said: "Xiaozhuang is indeed difficult, for the throne of Shunzhi, she really dares to work hard." The prince refused to be ruthless to her, and was bullied by rats. What's more, the emperor is getting older and older, and it seems that it is unreasonable to return to power with him. According to my information, Fan Wencheng had already entered Beijing and was making suggestions around Xiaozhuang. That guy is cunning and calculating. Whether we find fault or cause trouble, we are afraid that we will not be able to succeed in front of Fan Wencheng."

Dolgon was even more upset when he heard this, he slammed the table, just wanted to say something, but the dust bead in his hand slipped out, he instinctively took a step, and then narrowly followed the dust bead, did not fall to the ground, but was also scared out of a cold sweat.

He hurriedly put the dust beads carefully into the brocade box, and then said absentmindedly: "That's it, keep an eye on Shunzhi, find fault with him in the details, and at the same time see if there is a chance to frame him, it is best to take him down in one fell swoop."

After speaking, he didn't look back, and went into the inner room with the dust beads.

The strategists sat dumbfounded, they really couldn't figure out what happened to the prince now? The situation was so critical, and they still used some useless empty words every day to perfunctory these loyal subordinates. Is it really a plaything? Alas, which boy paid tribute to the dust beads?

While Dorgon was at a loss, Shunji sent his handle to the door.

When he usually sat in the court to deal with state affairs, Shunzhi always listened carefully to the suggestions of the ministers and supplemented the deficiencies, so as to win the unanimous praise of the courtiers. But once he went down, a dusty face appeared in front of his eyes, he patted his head with his hand, and kept muttering to himself: "There will be a way, I will definitely be able to come up with a way." Sometimes he was so frustrated that he kicked the stones on the side of the road into the lake.

He also inspected the Ministry of Rites in the name of worshipping the heavens, and then summoned Xiong Zhanting alone, secretly asked about Xiaowan's movements, and then used various excuses to reward Xiong Zhanting repeatedly.

This move stunned Dolgon, who was about to promote Xiong Zhanting, and he thought to himself, could it be that Shunzhi also received some jewel from Xiong Yankun? Otherwise, why was he so attentive? In order to find out, he sent more people to monitor Shunzhi.

In fact, Shunzhi's heart is also very tormented, and he wants to see Xiaowan's thoughts becoming more and more urgent day by day. The beautiful face, the elegant sound of the piano, and the agile poetry stirred his heart every day and kept him awake at night. But he knew he couldn't do anything. Zed had secretly told him that Dorgon's men were always in the vicinity, constantly monitoring his every move. In order not to destroy the big situation designed by the queen mother, he could only grit his teeth and endure.

On this day, Shunzhi was a little sleepy studying in the study, so he lay on the bookcase and pretended to sleep.

In a trance, I felt that I was wandering on the street with Suide and Guohao, and suddenly there was a familiar sound of the piano, looking up, a plain-clothed woman in the teahouse opposite was hanging her head and playing the piano, Shunzhi was overjoyed, stepping on the iron shoes and finding nowhere to go, it took no effort to get it, hey, isn't this my family Qinglian?

He was just about to go upstairs with a wave of his shirt and sleeves, when he suddenly saw a ruffian with a gang of ruffians squeezing his eyebrows upstairs, secretly discussing something. Then the ruffians screamed and swarmed upstairs, dropped the guqin, lifted the green lotus and ran.

Shunzhi panicked, he stomped his feet and shouted: "Suide, hurry, save Qinglian." But there was no trace of Suide.

Shunzhi was in a hurry, and he called out in a dumb voice: "Suide, Suide, you are a killer, where did you go at this time?"

Suddenly, I heard someone calling in my ear: "Master, you call me"?

Shunzhi woke up suddenly, he wiped the dense sweat on his forehead, and realized that it was Nan Ke's dream.

Looking at Suide again, holding the iron pipa in his hand, he looked around vigilantly, and saw that there was no other movement, so he was relieved.