28, Chapter 28

After the disaster expanded, the emperor did not let the prince and others participate. The emperor said: "Now there are natural disasters in various places outside, I have no □ skills, I'm afraid I can't care about staring at them for a while, you are a brother, go and see them more." ”

The emperor refers to a group of little brothers who are still studying in the study. The prince is naturally willing to worry about the king, the Taoist ministers have no slackness, and the emperor Ama takes care of the dragon body. Then he stepped back.

The former dynasty that was placed in Yuqing Palace also moved away.

After the crown prince came back from the emperor, he looked at the half-empty table and was a little stunned. The palace maids and eunuchs waiting next to them all held their breath and did not dare to say anything.

After a while, I heard the prince say calmly: "Go and say to the third elder brother, the fourth elder brother and the eighth elder brother...... Never mind. He went back to the outer room and sat down to drink tea, and after a while, he came in from outside to report: "Your Highness, the third elder brother, the fourth elder brother, and the eighth elder brother have arrived." ”

The prince put down the tea: "Please." ”

The three of them came in and found that the eunuch had not led them to the study, but to the small hall next to it. When I went in, I saw that the prince was sitting in the sun, and there was a bowl of hot tea next to him, and the fragrance of tea was coming. When the prince saw them, he smiled and said, "Come and sit." Today's small dining room is a good bait, you can also try it. ”

The three of them all grew up in the palace, and no one asked, 'Why don't you watch the concert today?', but all sat down obediently, each with a bowl of tea, and ate with tea.

The prince watched as the three younger brothers had finished eating a dumpling, before he stood up and smiled: "Let's go, let's take a look at the group of small ones." ”

Brainless came in and out, and before leaving, the eighth elder brother couldn't help but look back at the study that was close at hand. The door was ajar, and the room was dark, except for half a foot of sunlight cast by the window in front of the door, and dust was still floating in the air under the sun.

The group of four walked up to the study, and on the way, the prince explained: "Now there are many places outside that have been affected, and yesterday it was an eight-hundred-mile rush. Huang Ama didn't sleep all night, and all the adults who went to the study stayed in the palace for several days. If we can't help, don't make a mess, it just so happened that Huang Ama didn't have time to stare at the group of small readers, so I asked for this errand. ”

Listening to the ears of the three people, each of them is naturally interesting.

But no matter what, the three of them followed the prince's words. The third elder brother smiled: "Isn't it? No one was watching, and those little ones were wild horses without halters. ”

The fourth elder brother shook his head and said, "Everyone else is fine, it's the little fourteen Taipi." ”

The prince said with a smile: "Fourth, fourth, no wonder the fourteenth is timid when he sees you." ”

The eighth elder brother also laughed playfully, and said: "It's just right, last time I found a book for Lao Jiuzhengyang, I forgot about it after a long time, and I can't rely on it anymore today." ”

When I arrived at the study, the small group was in the middle of the class and came out to disperse. The ten elder brothers, the thirteenth elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother, who were not afraid of the heat, were playing with spinning tops in the open space in front of the study, and the small whip was whining. They were the first to see this group of big brothers coming, and hurriedly ran over to say hello.

The prince Wen said: "Can you read seriously this morning? Have you ever been scolded by the master? ”

The three little brothers all said: "Seriously! Conscientious! The master still praises it! ”

The prince touched their little heads one by one, rolled up his sleeves and said, "In this case, the second brother will reward you and give you a beautiful game!" He took the whip handed by the eunuch, and with a flick of his wrist somehow, the tip of the whip was dexterously hooked, and the three spinning tops on the ground seemed to be alive and turned, three in horizontal rows for a while, and vertical rows for a while.

The prince will also pump them one by one and fly them into the sky, and then fall down one by one, and will continue to spin.

The three small ones rarely saw such a handsome way to play, all of them applauded desperately, and they also attracted several elder brothers in the house to come out and form a small circle to watch the prince perform spinning tops.

The third elder brother and the fourth elder brother stood aside. The third elder brother said: "The prince's hand is really perfect, the fourth, you can't make it, right?" ”

The fourth elder brother said: "The third brother doesn't have to talk about me, why don't you go up and try it?" ”

The third elder brother laughed, shook his fan and said, "It's hard to kill your third brother." As he spoke, he looked up at the sky, raised a folding fan to cover his head, and said, "It's hot and wicked." ”

From that day on, the prince went to the study at three o'clock in the morning every day, and he sat and listened to the master when he was in class. Those who had just learned calligraphy let him teach him with his wrist, and even the eighth elder brother was caught by him once, and he held his hand in front of a group of little elder brothers and wrote a whole big character. The eighth elder brother handed in fifty big characters seriously the next day, and then he didn't dare to do anything perfunctory.

In order to stagger the time with the prince, the third and fourth elder brothers changed it to ten o'clock every day before entering the palace, accompanying their younger brothers to read, pulling the bow, and using a snack.

It's busy. The emperor has begun to reduce his diet, and the harem has also reduced the degree. Naturally, the residence of the minister in Beijing should also be on par with his boss.

On the fourth elder brother's mansion, Fu Jin also said that he wanted to reduce the degree, and this year's summer clothes will not be done first, but Xiao Gege and Li are still doing it, one of them is the only child in the mansion and can't be saved, and the other can't be saved with a belly.

Li Wei waited for almost half a month, but she waited for a reduction in meals and consumption. That's it?

This is too superficial, isn't it!!

The jade bottle saw that she hadn't dispelled her thoughts, and persuaded her to go to burn incense every day, and everyone in the backyard went, so of course it was not appropriate for her not to go. She persuaded Li Wei to burn incense, chant Buddha, and do her best.

it!

Li Wei doesn't accept this kind of vain thing!

The jade bottle said: "Master, my good master." You don't care about anything else, you have to see what Brother and Fujin do, right? You are usually a person who is more sensible and understands things, why are you embarrassed now? ”

Is it really only possible to burn incense? Don't you even give porridge in the house?

Li Wei's eyes were red. For the first time, she clearly felt that she had been locked up. Not only personal, but also thoughtful. In modern times, she is also at home, but with the Internet, she is not out of touch with the times, and no one **her. It's been more than ten years since she went to the ancient house, and she didn't feel ** when she was in the Li family, but now she feels it.

When she got married, she became a thing. Everything must be done according to the requirements of others, even if you want to do something good, you have to listen to others.

The jade bottle saw that she was no longer reluctant, and as soon as she put her mind at ease, she found that Gege had become depressed. How does this work? I'm pregnant with a baby! Besides, if the fourth elder brother came to see it, he would have to charge Gege with resentment.

But the fourth elder brother has been very busy recently, so he shouldn't come, right?

As soon as the jade bottle prayed to the fourth elder brother not to come, the idle fourth elder brother came. As soon as I entered the door, I saw that Li Wei's face was wrong, as if she was sullen.

He glanced at the jade bottle waiting in the house, and saw that the palace maid also had a panicked look on her face, and looked at Li with concern.

The two sat down hand in hand, and he glanced at Su Peisheng. He ripped the jade bottle out.

Su Peisheng kept pulling the jade bottle outside the house and said, "I usually look at you with good eyes, why are you standing stupidly in the house today?" Didn't you see that the fourth master wants to talk to you Master Li? ”

The jade bottle stomped his feet anxiously, and he didn't dare to say half a word, so he had to bow his head and admit his mistake.

Su Peisheng also saw that this girl was only afraid that she was hiding something for Li Gege, but Brother should know that she could hide it?

In the house, the fourth elder brother and Li Wei sat together, and the two did not lean against each other because of the heat, but just held hands. Li Wei let tea and snacks, and brought the black plum cake and red bean paste cake sent by the dining room, which were delicious. Then there was no silence.

What she was like in the past, the fourth elder brother knew best. He didn't ask directly, he held her hand and rubbed it gently, pulled it to his mouth and kissed it gently. After a while, Li Wei couldn't hold back herself, and looked at him with some grievances.

Is there something you want to ask him?

The fourth elder brother couldn't help but think about what happened to her recently, and then she thought that she had mentioned to Fu Jin before that she wanted to let a few Gege's family members come in to take a look, but she was too busy during this time, and it seemed that Fu Jin had not taken care of it.

He said, "Want to see your family?" ”

Li Wei was stunned for a moment, he looked at it and guessed wrong, what was that?

Here, Li Wei had already said according to his words: "It's a little thought, but there have been so many things recently, and the weather is hot, so let's wait for it to cool off." "She really doesn't think much about the people of the Li family. It's probably because she used to be used to not seeing her family for half a year when she was in school, and she wasn't really a child, so she didn't love her family so much. Adults are inherently more self-reliant.

The fourth elder brother hummed and pinched her little chin: "I finally took the time to come and see you, and you just treat you like this?" "Look at this little face.

As soon as he said this, Li Wei's brows furrowed, and she snorted angrily: "Master, there is a disaster outside, I want to take some silver out and buy something to send over." ”

"Oh." The fourth elder brother didn't expect her to mention this, and said, "Your little bit of silver should be kept at the bottom of the box." There are people outside who take care of this, so if you have the heart, go to the small Buddha hall to put a few pillars of incense. ”

After thinking about it again, the fourth elder brother was slightly stunned and asked her, "Why do you think about this?" "Donate money to the victims? It's kind of whimsical.

When the women in the boudoir met the little girl and cried for a □ lifetime, they cried twice and gave a few taels of silver and half a piece of cloth. Tens of thousands of victims can only make them scared and unable to sleep, and it is enough to burn incense and pray for blessings. Donate silver? Unheard.

Li Wei said that in the past, on the first and fifteenth days of the Lunar New Year, the Buddha's birthday, and in disaster years, their family would make some steamed buns and send them to the temple gate for almsgiving.

"I see, the Li family style is good." The fourth elder brother nodded with satisfaction, Li Wei hurriedly said that she thought that she would definitely have to do more when she encountered this kind of thing in the palace, and she was small and weak, and donated dozens of taels of silver to show her heart.

The fourth elder brother sank in his heart, what? Is this what Lee wants to have a good reputation for?

He heard Li Wei continue: "But, yes...... Say no. The concubines and mothers in the palace are all reduced, and our family is also reduced, and they don't give porridge or donate silver...... I don't want to just burn incense and forget it. ”

What she said was stumbling, and the fourth elder brother understood, and after being relieved, he felt embarrassed. This is a rare pure heart, but the emperor has already made a statement.

He sighed secretly in his heart, recently, a minister proposed that the opening of official warehouses for disaster relief should be allowed in places where the disaster was serious, but the emperor rejected it. The official warehouse, the official treasury, and the official grain cannot be easily opened, and if the displaced people are attracted to attack the official warehouse, robbing the official grain and treasury silver is a major crime of robbing the house and killing the head. At that point, the stakes will be great.

Once the convection of civilian soldiers**, the reputation of the imperial court is ruined. The emperor was also undecided, and the people below naturally didn't dare to pat their chests and pack tickets and say that nothing would happen.

In a disaster year, the third prince of Zhu should come out to bewitch the ignorant and foolish people. Therefore, now the people are not allowed to set up porridge sheds in wealthy households and temples outside the government to help the victims of the disaster and gather the hearts of the people.

In addition, the emperor's sudden request to the prince to lead the little elder brothers to study also made the fourth elder brother dare not think deeply. Did the crown prince accidentally anger the emperor? Still is......

Whenever he thought of this, the fourth elder brother shuddered.

He hugged Li Wei tightly, and a woman who was pregnant with his child sat in his arms in the hot day, although he was sweating, the fourth elder brother seemed to be holding a heavy center of gravity, and he was much more down-to-earth all of a sudden.

He said gently: "You have this heart is haode, why don't you do this, I'll donate it to you?" Where do you want to use it? ”

Li Wei was immediately happy, combined with the strategies she had read on the modern Internet, the most lacking in the disaster area should be food, water and basic medicines. She has little silver, so it doesn't matter what she buys, how the fourth elder brother uses his own silver, just put it into one piece.

She called the jade bottle and took out the small box that had been prepared for a long time, and handed it to the fourth elder brother. Although the box is small, it is quite a hand, and it is a sinking when it is taken.

The fourth elder brother didn't give it to Su Peisheng, and put it aside. sat down and chatted with Li Wei for a while before returning to the study, and before leaving, he held the small box with his own hands and said, "I'll come over to accompany you in the evening." ”

Li Wei sent it to the door and waved a handkerchief at him with a smile on her face. When the box is handed over, she has no worries. The sulking is gone, aren't you in the mood to laugh?

Seeing that the fourth elder brother had gone without a shadow, she turned to the jade bottle who was still bitter and said, "It's all right, why are you still suffering from a bitter face?" I was hungry and asked the dining room to see if there was the persimmon cake I had last time, the one with goat's milk. Let them watch the previous plate. ”

The fourth elder brother returned to the study and put down the box. With a bang, the box rested on the table, Su Peisheng glanced at it, and said with a smile: "Listening to the voice, it is heavy, why did Brother take it himself?" What do you want the little ones to do? ”

After serving tea, the fourth elder brother sat down and opened the box, with broken gold nuggets below, silver nuggets and silver horns on top. Most of the gold and silver that the women in the backyard get are beaten into peanuts and gourds, so that they can play with them, and they look good when they are appreciative. Most of the broken gold and silver pieces are used to melt the gold and silver slots that have been saved, and then put them as private rooms.

This box is probably the Li family's background. Although she was born in the general election, the Li family is not rich, and the silver she can bring into the palace is limited. He usually rewards her, and he also rewards more clothes and playthings.

The fourth elder brother sighed deeply, closed the box and pushed it to Su Peisheng, and said, "Okay, put it away." ”

This money is destined to be undonated.

In the evening, when the fourth elder brother came to the courtyard, he saw Li Wei's smiling face as before. Her mind went quickly. The fourth elder brother, who was a little envious, sat down, he spent a day in the study, he didn't read a few pages of the book, he didn't write a few words, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that his head was wooden.

When I came to the backyard, I didn't want to think about anything, and I listened to Li's words.

Li Wei is pregnant here, so the supply has not changed. The meal reduction did not come to her, and the dishes were still ordered by her. But when she thought that the fourth elder brother would come over for dinner at night, she didn't dare to ask for much.

A dish of white-cut chicken, which is not hot to eat cold, a dish of magnolia cucumber and shrimp, which is also considered light, a sweet and sour pork ribs, which is sweet and sour and very suitable for summer eating, and two cold dishes, one mixed with pork skin, the pork skin is fried into a honeycomb shape and marinated, and then cold dressed, and a salted peanut.

The fourth elder brother saw that there were no spicy dishes on this table, thinking that he was taking care of his taste, so he said, "Order a few of your favorite foods." ”

Li Wei smiled and let the jade bottle serve a bowl of fried chili, she recently fell in love with the way of eating fried chili mixed with rice. A bowl of rice was mixed into a bright red, with a light dish, she quickly finished the bowl, and when the second bowl was served, she found that the fourth elder brother didn't even go down half a bowl.

Seeing the fourth elder brother eating peanuts one by one as if taking medicine, it doesn't look like he has no appetite, but it seems that he has something on his mind.

The eyelids of Su Peisheng's eyes next to him were about to twitch, and this master didn't notice it. He was thinking about whether to let the jade bottle go up to remind him, and he was worried about being noticed by the fourth elder brother, so he saw Li Wei reach out and pick up the half bowl of rice in front of the fourth elder brother.

His eyeballs almost fell, and the fourth elder brother was also stunned, "What's wrong?" His hand covered the bowl.

Li Wei said: "I'll eat another bowl, I don't think you will eat it, so I'll just eat your half bowl, and then I'll give you noodles." ”

The fourth elder brother realized that she was persuading him to eat, shook his head and said, "No." "Look at the jade bottle," give your master a bowl with less. He followed him and swallowed the rest of the rice in two or three bites.

After finishing the meal, the fourth elder brother didn't plan to leave. Called the bath bucket to take a bath, and while he was soaking, Su Peisheng was signaling Li Wei that it would be best to order another snack after an hour. It's six o'clock, eight o'clock.

What he meant was to let Li Wei coax the fourth elder brother to eat something again. Li Wei understands and understands, and she also has to ask the reason, she can't say anything to a eunuch, she has to do it. Even if he is the personal eunuch of the fourth elder brother, he can't do it.

She said: "Manager Su, it's not that I don't listen to you, it's just that you have to give me an account." ”

Su Peisheng was embarrassed for a long time, but he still didn't say anything.

He didn't say it, and Li Wei didn't ask in detail. She has a lot of snacks here anyway. Wait for the fourth elder brother to come out of the bath, one writes, and the other reads the scriptures. It was eight o'clock, and Li Wei was really hungry, so she made a fresh move to eat fresh meat Lantern Festival. It's the same as the average Lantern Festival, but it's stuffed with pork.

Su Peisheng stopped the jade bottle and asked someone to go back to the front yard to deliver the message and let the dining room over there do it.

Soon the fresh meat Lantern Festival came up, not big, six in a bowl. Eating Lantern Festival in the summer made the fourth elder brother cry and laugh in his heart. The palace concubine in the palace is pregnant, and she has to listen to her grandmother when she eats, and it is impossible for them to eat indiscriminately. That is, in the mansion, he connived at her again, and Fujin didn't care about her, so she came up with fresh ideas.

Thinking of this, the fourth elder brother felt a little more relaxed, he didn't eat much today, so he also brought a bowl to eat. The main thing is to see that Li Wei is eating too fragrant next to him, which makes him hungry. Take a bite, fortunately it is fresh meat, salty, fragrant and tender, if it is really sweet, he really can't eat it.

Su Peisheng watched the fourth elder brother eat a bowl from the side before he was relieved.