89. If you don't let it, you won't let it

Xi Yan is the little eunuch waiting in the third master's study, because he was born in Jiangnan and has a literati temperament, even if he puts on the clothes of a eunuch and goes there, he is also polite.

In fact, he stammered and was not shrewd enough.

The third master was used to him, and felt that the people waiting in the study didn't have to be too smart, stupid and safe, and the stammering wouldn't go out to gossip if he was fine, so he kept him.

How many people said that washing the inkstone burned high incense, and his father and mother left him a good face.

But this morning, he has been scolded twice, once because he was slow to serve tea, and once because he didn't burn the brazier in the house. Everyone else was afraid of being scolded and ran away, so he was left alone outside the door of the study, and the rest of the little eunuchs hid in the tea room, secretly hooking their heads to look at him.

In the house, the third master shouted to him angrily: "Where are all the people dead!" ”

The inkstone shuddered, and the few whoosos that came out of the door of the tea room all shrank back. He hung his head bitterly and went in, and the third master pointed to the brazier in the room and said, "I can't move my brain at all!" In the morning, the lord said that the cold is that the sun did not come out, and the house was cold! Now that the sun is in the sky, you don't know how to take this pot out! It's so hot that your grandfather is sweating! Get lost! Get lost! Get lost! ”

Xiyan was not busy kneeling down and begging for mercy, so he hurriedly brought the brazier out first.

This morning, the third master got up in the early morning and walked around the study, and then shouted that he said that the house was too cold and wanted to freeze to death for your third master, so he immediately raised a brazier and sent it in. And then that's just now.

The people hiding in the tea room heard Xi Yan being scolded again in the study, and they all covered their mouths and snickered.

One said, "Yes! Let him always come to our master! ”

The other followed: "It's stupid, and he still bullies our grandfather and doesn't leave, and he will be scolded to death sooner or later!" ”

The third probe looked out and beckoned: "Look! Look! Xi Yan went to the back of the courtyard with a brazier. He turned to the others and wondered, "Why didn't he take it in and extinguish it?" ”

Several people looked at each other and laughed together: "I'm afraid that we will not be pickled, and I won't be able to get into the eyes of his uncle." ”

"Get the ball out! I'm afraid we'll laugh at him for real! ”

A room full of people snuggled together and whispered.

On the other side, the inkstone carried the brazier to the back well, and first took the fire tongs to remove the red-hot coal, and a gray and white floc flew out from under the charcoal pile.

Washing the inkstone, he took out the ashes, dug a handful of flower mud under the tree from the side, put the ashes in it, and then poured some charcoal ash burned at the bottom of the brazier.

The third master treats him well, he understands it in his heart. People say he's stupid, and he's stupid to show everyone. His loyalty to his master only needs to be understood in his own heart. The ancients said that the scholar died for the one who knew it, although he was a eunuch, he also wanted to be loyal to the third master like a scholar.

He took the lid of the brazier and extinguished the brazier, and then he put his hand in the corner of the wall at will, and then returned to the study. The third master stood in front of the desk, looking a little unhappy. He didn't come closer, but stood in the corner of the room with his head bowed.

After a while, the third master sighed: "Tea." ”

Xi Yan stepped forward and held a bowl of tea and put it in his hand, and then saw that the third master had no more orders, but he didn't push him out, so he had to retract back into the corner.

The third master had long forgotten that there was still a person in the house.

A few days ago, his attendant Chen Menglei brought him a piece of news: the prince colluded with the Cao family in Jiangnan to intercept taxes privately.

Chen Menglei and the others had a good reputation among the Jiangnan literati, and the third master had hinted a few years ago that they could befriend Shilin. Over the years, a lot of money was spent, and Sanbeiler's reputation for being good and good has spread. Originally, he wanted to slowly deepen his impression among the Jiangnan literati, but who knew that Chen Menglei actually threw such a big pie to him.

When he first heard the news, the third master was directly stunned by this huge J□J. After a few days in the study, I managed to gather a shred of reason and think: What is the use of this news?

First of all, if it is true, this is definitely a big case.

Second, how does he derive benefits from this?

For a moment, the third master wanted to pull down the prince. But the ambition that suddenly came out of nowhere didn't excite him much, but the thought of this scared him himself.

Does he actually want to replace the crown prince?

Follow him and think: Can he assume the position of the crown prince?

Thinking of this, the third master immediately calmed down. The crown prince was canonized from infancy, and was taught step by step by the emperor and his ministers from an early age, and there have been no bad deeds such as mediocrity and lack of talent.

If such a prince will fall, the third master doesn't believe that no one will criticize him if he goes up. Thinking about it carefully, he felt that he was sick, and the shaved head that caused him to be cut off in front of him poked the bright 'unfilial piety' on the door of his head.

No dynasty or generation has ever set up a prince who was denounced by the emperor as unfilial.

The third master shook his head with a smile and let out a sigh of relief. After resting his heart that he was expected to be the prince, he became more calm.

But knowing such a big handle, he was reluctant to use it.

can threaten the prince to bully the king with his ministers, and the following is superior. With the prince's scheming city, the third master thinks that he is invincible, so he won't daydream. In other words, the crown prince didn't know that a few years ago, he began to secretly dig into the corners of the emperor's walls and coerce important ministers, this courage!

He's better to fix his own books......

Turning his head, it is better for the Cao family to bully, that is, to sit on the sake of the governor of Jiangnan, and he is also a slave of the Aixin Jueluo family. The third master twisted the freshly raised beard on his chin, thinking if he could ask the Cao family to find some convenience for him in Jiangnan? Chen Menglei and others also added some help to their actions?

But I remembered that the Cao family was the emperor's domestic slave...... He hesitated again.

After being embarrassed for a few days, the third master couldn't help it today. This news is not like a big pie now, but more like a nuisance! He is holding his hands and is afraid of burning his mouth when he eats, and it is a pity to throw it away!

He took a so-called 'new work of Jiangnan genius' sent back by Chen Menglei, and held it in his hand and didn't know what to do.

"Someone! Want to freeze to death? ”

……

A foot-high flame burned in the brazier, gradually burning the dozen pages of the new book into a cloud of ashes.

The third master kept watching, but his heart gradually calmed down, and the whole person relaxed.

A big stone in my heart fell to the ground, and I finally don't have to worry about it. The third master drank a bowl of tea quietly, got up and prepared to change his mood, when he turned his head and saw Xi Yan cowering and hiding behind a large vase in the corner of the house, remembering that he had scolded him several times in the past few days, and the third master also felt a little embarrassed.

has always called himself a literati, and it's so good to be angry when he takes down people.

The third master cleared his throat and frowned, "What are you hiding there for?" ”

Xi Yan's heart tightened, and he hurriedly came over.

The third master didn't look at him either, and said, "It's really not a little blind!" Look at the master who is in a bad mood, don't be smart! ”

He has been waiting for the third master for more than ten years, and he knows that this is the third master's 'compensation' to him, although he even scolded and abused, he can understand.

Xi Yan smiled innocently, bowed his head and said yes, his heart was so moved, his third master is such a master, soft and kind.

The third master thought he was stupid again, so he didn't bother to scold him anymore, so he raised his legs and went to Tian's yard.

As soon as he entered the door, Tian came out of the house with a soft waist and careful steps, glared at him, and said angrily: "I think of our mother!" ”

The third master used to be in the mood to coax her, these days I can't sleep well, I don't know the taste of food, I came here to enjoy the warm fragrance of nephrite, relax and relax. As a result, it is a complaint.

Are you the master or am I the master?

The third master stood still, glanced at Tian with disgust, and turned to leave. Xi Yan followed closely and asked in a low voice, "Master, where are we going?" ”

He scolded, "Stupid thing! Lord's good mood has been ruined by you! Lead the horse! Go out and yo-yo! ”

Behind him, Tian didn't want him to come for a long time, so he turned around at the door and left, chasing a few steps and couldn't catch up, and he bit his lip with red eyes and watched the third master stride away.

In the Fourth Master's Mansion, in late spring and early summer, all courtyards are tossing and sweeping spring. The winter clothes are put away, and everyone changes out of their heavy cotton robes and puts on jackets.

The study is drying books over there, Honghui and Hongyu have a lot of their own books, and the fourth master takes them to the bright places in the front yard and garden, while drying books and testing their knowledge.

It's time for the third elder brother to move to the front yard. The fourth master had already picked out a yard for him, the furniture was all newly made, and the tables, chairs, and bookshelves were all seen by him personally. Four other little eunuchs played with him, and four big eunuchs took care of his daily life.

Because since Hongyu, Li Wei has raised the nurse's young son with the elder brother, and the third elder brother has played well with Tongming, the youngest son of one of the nurses, and has long pestered her to ask Tongming to accompany him in the front yard.

His nurses were all selected by the fourth master from the white coating, this family is loyal to the fourth master, and the nurse also expressed her loyalty to Li Wei and said that she was willing to let her son come in to wait for the third elder brother, and he could be an errand runner.

Li Wei guessed that she said this at this time, all because Hongyu turned six years old this year, and the fourth master gave him haodehaha beads.

Although Hongyu does not go to the study, haha beads are also a must-have. Otherwise, when he goes out in the future, it will not be appropriate for him to have only eunuchs with him. If haha beads are a small servant, compared to a homeless eunuch, haha beads usually have family support behind them, which can be regarded as the team of the elder brothers since childhood.

So the haha beads around Honghui are his mother's family, the people of the Ulanala family.

The Li family is not prosperous, and the fourth master can't look down on it, thinking that he will miss the future of Hongyu and the third elder brother. Although he was already optimistic about a position and was ready to push Li Wenbi up, but Mr. Li Wenbi's husband and master and others also said that Mr. Li can go out to bluff people, he looks like a scholar at first glance, and his family background is not bad, and there is a daughter in the family who is Fujin on the side of Baylor Mansion. But this man really can't be mentioned. Pointing to him for the benefit of one party can only be regarded as a neutral person.

There are too few people around the fourth master who can get their hands on it, Li Wenbi's Zhongping is not bad to think about, and it is not bad to be able to accept a loyal person. So I still plan to send him out to be a governor first.

He was in Beijing, and after a few years, he was only a scholar of the Hanlin Academy. went out and the fourth master got him a fifth grade in one go.

Li Wenbi's background is actually very pleasing to literati. Han surname, Han military banner, non-slave origin, marrying a wife is a Manchurian. One hand is full, and the other is stepping on the man. He came out of the imperial examination and stayed in the Hanlin Academy for several years. He is plain, not rich and noble, not utilitarian.

As long as he can stay in Zhao County for three years, without merit or fault, the fourth master can slowly push him up. It's hard to say how far it will go.

Therefore, the haha beads on Hongyu's side are all children of the slaves under the fourth master, and it is better to use no one than to use their own slaves.

Now that Hongyu has his own little friends, he has almost forgotten about Honghui entering the palace and no one to play with him, and he is still happy to know that the third elder brother is going to move over. No matter how good a slave is, it's not as good as a brother.

After the third elder brother's nurse saw the people around Hongyu, she had the heart to be close to the water. She encouraged her son to get close to the third elder brother, and she also kept flattering Li Wei here, and was even willing to stay in the house as a grandmother. Li Wei will agree, it is also up to the nurse who has an idea with her, and there are three other people, but the only one who can successfully impress the third elder brother is the son of this nurse.

There is no shortage of smart minions around her, the third elder brother is a boy in the house, and his future will naturally be much better than that of her mother, and the person who wants to hold him will not be the only one. It's better to block than to be sparse, she teaches the second Gege to use power to suppress it, and the third elder brother naturally can't copy it as it is.

Li Wei wanted to take advantage of the fact that the third elder brother was still in his own house at a young age, and first ate all the losses he could eat, and he would naturally be prepared when he went out. He's a boy, and she can't protect him for the rest of his life.

The meaning of the fourth master is also that people will follow when they come, and they will distinguish whether they are loyal or traitorous in the future.

He was surprised by her thoughts, and said, "You are ruthless." ”

She explains it as a modern saying: "A lion and an eagle will push a child off a cliff." I don't expect the third elder brother to really become a talent in the future, I just want him to take fewer detours. "When you are a child, you may only be deceived by a piece of candy or a toy, but when you are older, you may be deceived and lose your life.

Of course, the friendship when I was a child was relatively pure, and the big thing was probably 'she said bad things ......about me behind her back', and it was easy to comfort my mother, 'then let's not play with her and don't cry'.

When I become an adult, 'that grandson made rumors about me behind his back, so that I can't stay in the unit', at this time, the adults in the family can probably only comfort him to see the point/It's too troublesome to change jobs, it's not easy for you to find this job/You also make rumors about him!

In short, make mistakes as soon as possible.

When you feel that you can't afford to make a mistake or lose money, it's too late for most people to regret it. Li Wei felt that she was at this stage now.

Even if the fourth master listens to her 'amazing words' and appreciates it now, she has to say that Su Qi is not as happy as before.

Now that he was holding her and stroking her back from hand to hand, she knew that he was thinking about things at this time, and she could only keep quiet obediently, it was best to think of herself as a hundred blessings, and she would be happy to be touched by her master.

She used to think, 'I just need to comfort him at this time,' but now she thinks, 'If only I could relieve him.'"

She was no longer satisfied with just being a decoration, and began to want to express her thoughts in front of him, and participate more deeply in his life.

This kind of thinking is dangerous. But what was even more dangerous was that it didn't just pop up once in a while, but when he came to her, she became more and more eager to do so.

It's like a glass of water poured full and it will definitely overflow, if she used to control her feelings and expectations for the fourth master at eight points full, now it is almost unfilled.

Or, the fourth master will give her a big cup so that she can continue to pour her feelings into it. Or, her feelings overflowed, and the fourth master didn't accept it and wasted it. After a long time, the fourth master will be annoyed by her. It's like a table top that's been sprinkled with water, and no one thinks it's cute.

She was struggling with her own ambition that was running like grass and mud, and the reins of reason were almost gone. She wished something had hit her at this point, and maybe she'd retracted.

"Master, what are you thinking?" This mouth certainly didn't grow on her!

Li Wei regretted her death after asking, and buried her in the arms of the fourth master and pretended to be dead.

No matter how curious you are, you should control yourself, sharing the fourth master's mind sounds like you're looking for death!

The fourth master was interrupted by her, but he was not angry, and said: "It's nothing ......" It's just that the king of Zhijun has been very strange recently, and when he saw him, he looked like 'Fourth, you are not kind', but he didn't say it.

The third master has a temper of yin and yang recently. Although he was originally more sour, his words were annoying. But now I love to sting. Last time he borrowed a horse from Lao Qi, Lao Qi was reluctant to borrow it, and he opened his mouth: "I know that you can't do without a horse, and you have to ride when you go out, if it weren't for the fact that the house is not big enough to toss and open, it is estimated that you can't ride in the house." ”

Lao Qi's face was black at that time, and he threw down the sentence This is also considered to be a brother? Shake up your sleeves and leave.

After he left, the third child regretted it as soon as he saw the words, but his face turned red and white, and he said to those of them who didn't leave: "I don't think the seventh brother is like this." ”

Now he can't even stand the fifth child and leaves, so he still stays.

Before he could speak, the third child said, "Fourth, if you want to persuade me, shut up." ”

So the fourth master didn't speak. But the appearance of the third master is really incomprehensible. Recently, the emperor is in a good mood, and he is looking for the king of Zhijun one by one, and the rest of the prince doesn't even pay attention to the prince, let alone a few of them?

said that he was jealous of the emperor's favor of the king of Zhijun, and I had never seen him compete for the favor of the saint so badly before.

I haven't heard of any accidents in the third master's mansion recently.

After thinking about it, he couldn't find a reason, so the fourth master had to write it down first. If something really happens, sooner or later you will be able to see the clues.

None of this can be mentioned to Su Su, she doesn't understand anything in the house, and she told her that she has to explain for a long time. The fourth master was too lazy to bother with his tongue, patted her and said, "It's nothing." ”

Li Wei felt relieved and disappointed.

After two days, the fourth master went to Yonghe Palace. Concubine De mentioned this year's draft and said: "The emperor has already set a tour in May, and who to take has not yet been decided." I don't think there are many top ones in your house, so I just took advantage of this time to pick one for you, what do you think? ”

The fourth master didn't care, and said: "It's all up to the mother." ”

When he returned home, he told Fu Jin, "Let's clean up the house first." Go back and look at Niangniang and ask what kind of charter it is. ”

Fu Jin should be down.

The fourth master turned his head and came to the east courtyard, mentioning that there were new people in the house.

Li Wei was holding his clothes, and when she heard this, she kneaded them into dried pickles. The jade bottle was in a hurry to watch from the side, and hurriedly went to open the box and get a new one to replace.

The fourth master originally looked up and waited for a change of clothes, and said in his mouth: "Well, in this year's draft, Niangniang said to point me one." After waiting for a long time to change him, when he opened his eyes and looked down, the dress in Li Wei's hand was no longer worn, and it was even more ugly than the one he had changed. When you take it down, you not only have to wash it, but you also have to iron it flat.

He looked at her helplessly, "Su Su ......"

Li Wei was in a burst of nameless fire just now, and finally came back to her senses, looked at his eyes, and then looked at the clothes on her hands, and suddenly felt so embarrassed!

The fourth master chuckled, took the clothes in the hand of the jade bottle and changed them, pulled out the clothes she was holding in her hand and threw them into the arms of the jade bottle, and after letting everyone else go down, he hugged her and said, "Is this vinegar again?" No one has come in yet. ”

Li Wei hugged his waist tightly, and said ruthlessly in her heart: I won't let another platoon sister come!

Thinking about her, I thought that a stimulus would make her retract, but this is good, the stimulus is there, but it arouses her fighting spirit.

Life is full of surprises.