49. The dark tide is surging

In Yuqing Palace, the prince is writing big characters in the window. Their brothers have been holding a pen since they first knew how to hold chopsticks, and it has become a habit to write large characters every day.

Whenever there is something to think about, the prince, who sits in a daze and has someone to care for him, gradually develops a hobby of writing big characters. He writes more now than he did when he went to the study. At that time, it was homework, and it was very annoying. It's a hobby now, I can't say I like it, but it's inseparable.

The prince has a lot on his mind, the emperor is there, his brother is there, the minister, the crown princess, himself, and so on. All he was thinking about now were his brothers, who he was increasingly at a loss for what to do.

Big Brother is getting more and more irritable. Since the eighth elder brother jumped out, he seems to have gradually been affected. Nalan Mingzhu's Fujin was assassinated, and the emperor seemed to have the intention to compensate him. Recently, he did not forget to take care of Nalan Mingzhu in his will, and the eighth elder brother seems to be really favored by the emperor, maybe his performance in Nalan Mingzhu Mansion is really satisfactory to the emperor, and recently I saw that he always ran to Prince Yu's mansion.

These brothers never dared to get too close to their clan relatives. The eldest brother and Nalan Mingzhu, he and Suo Etu can still have a relationship with the mother family, which is also relying on the emperor's previous indulgence of turning a blind eye.

In fact, he somewhat understands the emperor's methods. At the beginning, the emperor just needed him and the eldest brother to help him condense Liliang. He is the descendant of the Yuan Dynasty and represents the most important inheritance of the Han people. The eldest brother is the Baturu of the Manchurians. He and the eldest brother are full of man, they can become his arms, and they can contain each other.

Nalan Mingzhu and Suo Etu gathered around them for the same reason.

When he and the eldest brother grew up, he was the natural heir to the throne, and the eldest brother was young and brave, more like a mighty Baturu than the emperor. Otherwise, the emperor Weishenme insisted on personally conquering Geldan for three consecutive years? He wants to prove that he is stronger than Big Brother. And for him, Weishenme has always refused to let go and let him get involved in politics?

Because he was afraid that the Han ministers would gather more around him, they would think that this young prince, who had been fed with Sinology since childhood, would be better for the Han people than he, the Manchu emperor.

Therefore, the emperor has become more and more lenient recently.

The crown prince wrote, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. The eunuch standing in front of the table and serving swept the corner of his eyes, probably because His Royal Highness the Crown Prince likes this character very much, right?

…… So, should he, the crown prince, be tyrannical in order to cooperate with the emperor?

After he finished writing a stroke, he directly rubbed the word, and then threw it lightly on the ground, and saw the eunuch who was laying paper and grinding ink on the table with his head hanging his head cautiously, as if he didn't even dare to look at him.

The eunuchs of Yuqing Palace always kill a batch and change a batch, and there are no people who have been waiting around him for more than ten years. And every time, the emperor said that they 'taught the prince bad'.

Hehe......

He understands that this is the imperial palace, every grass and tree here belongs to the emperor, he lives in the emperor's palace, and the people who serve around him are naturally the emperor's subordinates.

The prince watched too much around him as if he were the only one in the room.

He waved his hand not to let the eunuch lay out the paper, re-laid it himself, changed a pen, and concentrated for a long time before leaving the first stroke.

Now, the emperor has found a new job for Nalan Mingzhu and Suo Etu, and he wants to use the two of them as lamps to see how many eyeless moths rush at them. He and the eldest brother are like the bait of fishing, attracting the carrion of maggots, and see how many people will forget that the emperor is sitting on top of their heads, and they are in a hurry to support the new monarch so early.

The eighth elder brother is just a puppy, throw it out and bark wildly to attract more people over.

The prince picked up the pen and tried the tip of the pen with his fingers, always feeling a little bit of a fork. The eunuch on the side hurriedly said: "Your Highness, but this is not good?" ”

"Long-winded." The prince said, put the pen on the table, "I haven't burned the tip, change it." ”

The eunuch opened the pen case, the prince took one out, the eunuch quickly lit a lamp and held it, the prince put the tip of the pen close to the lamp, and a few excessively long bristles on the tip of the pen were quickly curled up without approaching, and turned into ashes.

Old Eight...... You're looking for skin with a tiger......

In November, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Haylason, was gone. And Prince Yu began to complain about his illness as early as half a year ago, and the emperor probably thought that the eighth elder brother was not hot enough, so he ordered him to temporarily take the post of head of the Internal Affairs Office.

Passing over the older elder brothers, the eighth elder brother was appointed at a young age, and he couldn't help but start to get worried.

In the Eighth Elder Brother's Mansion, he sat opposite the Fujin Guo Luoluo clan and was silent.

Although Guo Luoluo grew up in King An's mansion when she was a child, she Ama was beheaded, and she already remembered when Eniang died of illness, and the whole family died overnight. Besides, there are not flowers in King An's mansion, and her life is much better after being pointed out to the eighth elder brother, so the eighth elder brother is no less than the driftwood of a drowning person to her, and she will never let go of her hand if she hugs it.

The eighth elder brother just doesn't hate her kind of character, and her biological mother Wei has beauty but no matching family background. Concubine Hui didn't hide anything from him, since he was sensible, Concubine Hui let him see Wei's, and asked people to tell him everything about Wei's. Including her origins and what the palace thinks of her.

Concubine Hui did this to tell him, 'Know where you stand, and then you will know where to go.'"

Everything about his biological mother has since become a big rock in his heart that he can't move, and it is also where his courage lies in the non-stop xiangshang. He knew that his biological mother was still very favored by the emperor after giving birth to him, but she never gave birth to a child. He knew that after serving the emperor, his biological mother had to drink a bowl of bitter medicine every time.

The emperor's favor and coldness to her made him unable to accept it for a long time. Sometimes he even wonders, could the emperor have hoped that he was a character at the beginning? If he was Gege, would Wei's be able to be promoted by one place? You don't have to be just a concubine with no grade so far. Perhaps, she will be allowed to have another child?

Taking that medicine for a long time made Wei's suffer a lot, and every time he had menstruation, he would die of pain. Later, she became ill with a woman's disease. The menstrual event will either not come once in three or five months, or it will come once for half a month, and every time at that time, Concubine Hui will give her a blood-tonic medicine for people to boil for her to drink.

When the emperor finally stopped coming, even he breathed a sigh of relief. This kind of pampering might as well not be. Concubine Hui couldn't help but say comforting words to Wei, "Now that there is a young servant, you can also relax and relax." The smile on Wei's face at that time was still fresh in his memory.

When he was not very sensible, he once thought that Wei's expression at that time was because she was still missing the emperor. But Wei told him, "Although I still cherish the emperor's favor, but ......" She didn't say the next words, but he understood.

But they don't want to be treated like playthings anymore.

Thinking of the past, cold anger rose in the heart of the eighth elder brother again. This sense of powerlessness is more directed at himself, even if it is clear that the emperor wants to use him now, he has to jump down without hesitation.

Guo Luo Luo looked at him and silently pushed a bowl of hot tea in front of him.

Eighth Elder Brother came back to his senses, removed the tea bowl and held her hand and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine." ”

Guo Luo Luo said: "I'm not worried. Even the Han people say that wealth is in danger, and we are full of people who want to go hunting and be careful what to do if they encounter wolves, which shows that there is nothing in this world that can make people safe and secure. What's more, even if you are sensible, you may not be able to end well. For example, my Ama Eniang, is she unjustly dead? It's only two thousand taels of silver, which is not worth as much as a painting in the emperor's study. ”

"Shut up." The eighth elder brother gently patted the back of her hand.

Guo Luo Luo glanced at him, "In front of you, what am I afraid of." ”

Eighth Elder Brother smiled helplessly, held her hand and kissed it, Guo Luoluo's anger instantly dissipated, and she looked at him gently, "You treat me so well, I won't give you to others." You who love the Xinjueluo family are afraid that your wife is scared to death, you can't do this. ”

The eighth elder brother played with her soft little hands and said with a smile: "Then what should I do?" I'm scared of you to death right now. ”

"What a poor-mouthed boy!" Guo Luoluo smiled and twisted his hand on his face.

"Seriously, you didn't think about what you're going to do now? I think the emperor likes to play this set the most, the prince and the eldest brother used to be more beautiful than you now, and their current appearance is your future fate. Guo Luoluo said. Since Ama Eniang died, she has been thinking about this every day, and all kinds of news in King An's mansion are also well-informed.

The eighth elder brother said casually: "The emperor has 'gracious' me to form a gang, so I naturally want to be 'good and good'." ”

"Lao Jiu's little ones are clamoring to leave the palace every day, tomorrow I will pick them up and come to the house to play for a day, you can arrange how to entertain them." He said.

Guo Luo Luo smiled: "What's so difficult about this? A group of half-grown buddies, what do you like to play? ”

The next day, the fourth elder brother heard in the mansion that the eighth elder brother had taken the ninth, tenth, thirteenth, and fourteenth people to his mansion to play with great fanfare. The twelfth elder brother went to the queen mother and didn't catch up.

Since the eighth elder brother took the Internal Affairs Office, he is the most embarrassing one among the older elder brothers. In order to get a few elder brothers' mansions before, he soaked in the internal affairs mansion for two years, and now the seventh elder brother and the eighth elder brother have built a mansion, and the eldest elder brother and the third elder brother have expanded the mansion.

Hehe...... He doesn't want to be a slave yet, so he doesn't even have to be a minion?

Even if the brotherly relationship was okay before, the fourth elder brother also had a feeling of being always missed by the eighth elder brother.

When he was in Elder Brother's office, he only felt that Eighth Elder Brother was a sensible and motivated younger brother, but now he was beaten by Eighth Elder Brother several times, in addition to making him realize that Eighth Elder Brother had grown up overnight, in addition, ...... But I felt that I really couldn't see that this younger brother was so powerful before.

Although the emperor handed him the ladder, he can climb it quickly and well, which is also a skill.

At least if the emperor handed him this ladder, the fourth elder brother was not sure if he could do as well as the eighth elder brother. He will definitely hesitate, and between the crown prince, the eldest brother, Prince Yu, Nalan Mingzhu and others, he will not be able to do everything.

The fourth elder brother has to admit that sometimes he feels that his arrogance is a little in the way.

When arrogance is needed, he is proud. But when he doesn't need to be arrogant, he really shouldn't be arrogant.

The eighth elder brother's toss about the reception is not evasive at all, and the fourth elder brother doesn't know what to do for a while, so he can only plan to wait and see what the other brothers do.

But to his surprise, the brothers were all playing dumb.

The eldest brother even sent a live deer over to add vegetables to the group of little brothers. The third elder brother sent two storytellers, and the fourth elder brother saw it and asked people to go to the street to find some haode folk dim sum bags. The fifth elder brother carried over two loads of dry cane, and the seventh elder brother had no choice but to follow and send two baskets of oranges.

After the eighth elder brother finished inviting guests, the fourth elder brother thought about it in the mansion for a few days, and finally entered the palace to find the fourteenth elder brother.

After all, it is a brother, and the eighth elder brother is obviously a fire pit, and he doesn't want the fourteenth elder brother to jump in. But the two brothers quarreled without saying a few words.

"I'm for your good!! You don't know anything and follow him, have you ever thought about Eniang? The fourth elder brother slapped the table angrily.

"I don't need you for my good!" The fourteenth elder brother's little face was flushed, he jumped three feet high, and he stammered angrily: "You, you, you...... Do you still know about the mother? Do you know how many times E-Niang has cried for you? ”

As soon as Concubine De was mentioned, the fourth elder brother was not confident, "You don't understand these things, don't say it again." ”

"What don't you understand? You know? So how do you look like a turtle with a shrunken head? Starling, this is called atmosphere! People dare to fight better than you! Do you dare? Do you dare? "It's not that the fourteenth elder brother really doesn't understand at all, it's just that the scenery of the eighth elder brother is on the bright side, and the depression of the fourth elder brother is also on the bright side.

The fourth elder brother's face turned white with anger, and he shook his sleeves and left with a snort.

It was rare for the fourteenth elder brother to see such an ungraceful side of his brother, and he didn't know whether to stop him when he stood at the door, so hesitating, the fourth elder brother walked quickly, and he had already disappeared.

"Hmph." The fourteenth elder brother sat down angrily. But the words that the fourth elder brother specially came to remind him were still planted in his heart, and he said in his heart: Then I will be good with them in person, why don't you really do it with them?

The thirteenth elder brother only went with the crowd last time, and he couldn't call it the second time. The fifth elder brother wanted to persuade the ninth elder brother, but he could ask Concubine Yi, and Concubine Yi said: "You and I can't interfere in this matter." She called him closer and whispered, "I don't like Lao Jiu like this, but because of this, you and I can't care." ”

"Could it be that he is just messing around with the eighth child?" The fifth elder brother's face turned white.

Concubine Yi said coldly: "He doesn't have a head less than others, if he is willing to jump into the fire, can I still fight to pull him if I don't want to do it with you and you?" People have their own lives, I give birth to him and raise him, but I can't care what path he takes in the future. ”

The fifth elder brother muttered, "E-niang......"

Concubine Yi looked at him and said heavily: "You were taken away when you were so young, and you couldn't even speak a word of Chinese when you were ten years old, and you went back to the bottom in the upper study...... Can you see that I said that? ”

No. Because of this, he also complained about Concubine Yi's partiality with Brother Jiu when he was a child.

"And how are you now?"

Right now? The fifth elder brother didn't understand.

Concubine Yi leaned back and said lightly: "The emperor is like this, the more you are insufficient, the more he will remember you." The eighth elder brother now looks like he is pulling Lao Jiu and them to give him a strong momentum, but you wait and see, no matter how bad the eighth elder brother falls in the future, the emperor will not move Lao Jiuyi's fingers. ”

The fifth elder brother instantly understood.

"However, if you run with me to drag Lao Jiu, that's a different matter." A palace concubine with a phoenix seal, an adult elder brother, go to Lao Jiu together? Hehe, I'm afraid that by then, there will be no need for the eighth elder brother, and the emperor will be able to swallow Lao Jiu alive.

Who doesn't know the people in the palace?

In Yonghe Palace, Concubine De heard that the fourth elder brother went to quarrel with the fourteenth elder brother, and sighed: "This group of children will not save me worry."