Chapter 226: Lychee
The pomegranates in the backyard are blooming, and the weather is getting hot. *[***** please go to w*w*w.s*i*k*u*s*h*u.c*o*m to see the latest chapter*****]
In the east courtyard, Li Wei stood in the house with a fan and looked out the window, "It's really hot this day." She said.
The jade bottle came in with an iced sour plum soup, "Master use a bowl,"
"Did you send the ice to the fourth master," she asked as she took the sour plum soup.
"Delivered. Zhao Quanbao came back and said that the fourth master didn't have to send it to the household department all the time, and our own family should not be enough. "When the jade bottle went out, it was so hot that the tip of the nose was sweating.
"In this kind of weather, they are crowded with people in a room, and if there is no ice, who can survive it," Li Wei shook her head, sat down and said: "He's not at home, at least the ice in his house will be saved?" It's also good to send it out to him for use. ”
"Zhao Quanbao said that there are already a few officials in the household department who have suffered from heat stroke, and our lord called the imperial doctor, and he will treat it in the household department, and no one is allowed to go home."
When he is sick, he doesn't ask anyone to go home to rest, no wonder outsiders say that he is the living king of Hades.
She drank the sour plum soup and said, "Ask someone to make two large pots of herbal tea and send it over, and send it every day in the future." Let Dr. Bai prescribe a few doses of medicine to relieve heat and plague. Since I couldn't persuade him, I had to try to prevent people from getting sick.
Two large barrels of herbal tea were delivered to the lobby of the household department, and the guards guarding the door had already known Zhao Quanbao, who told him to come almost once a day? It's not to send food to the fourth master, or to drink and use. Now they still send ice here every day, so that their group of gatekeepers under the sun look envious.
At this time, I saw him coming with two mule carts from a distance, one hurriedly went in to pass the word, and the other came up diligently to dust the bench with his sleeve, "Brother Zhao is here?" Come and sit down. Look at your trip on a hot day. ”
Zhao Quanbao glanced at the broken stool with disgust, the sweat on his forehead dripped down his chin, and he shook his head and said, "No, do things for the master, how can we shout tired?" ”
The man wanted to say a few more words, but Su Peisheng trotted over, and when he saw Zhao Quanbao, he beckoned again and again: "Come quickly, the master asked you to go in and talk back." ”
In the lobby, in addition to the fourth and thirteenth masters, there are several people, and Mr. Dai is also impressive. Zhao Quanbao didn't look at anyone when he came in, and knelt down and kowtowed to the fourth master. The fourth master stood next to the iceberg when he was too hot, put down the account book in his hand and asked him, "What's that outside?" ”
Zhao Quanbao: "It's herbal tea, with a recipe to relieve heat and get rid of plague." ”
"Yo, that's good stuff." Thirteen wiped a handful of sweat and said, "Hurry up and bring me a bowl, I'm very thirsty." ”
The herbal tea is said to be cold, and it is still a little hot in the hand, and the faint medicinal fragrance comes to the nose.
The fourth master asked someone to carry a pot of herbal tea from room to room, and said to Zhao Quanbao: "This is good, go back and tell your master to rest assured, just say that I have used it." ”
Zhao Quanbao hurriedly said: "The master said that he would send two barrels every day in the future." ”
The fourth master nodded and asked Su Peisheng to lead him out. Thirteen laughed in his heart, and quietly said to the fourth master: "Look how much my sister-in-law feels sorry for you, right, brother?" ”
was slapped on the back of his head by the fourth master with a smile.
May 5 is the Dragon Boat Festival, and the emperor came back from Jiangnan to enjoy a lot of things. The fourth master received the reward in the lobby of the household department, and he had to go back to the house again for this. The people he saw looked at him with blank eyes, and even thirteen couldn't avoid vulgarity, so he had to smile and say: "Okay, today is the Dragon Boat Festival, go back to meet your family, and come back early tomorrow morning." ”
Everyone was happy, and they all said to the fourth master, 'The fourth master is compassionate', 'You are Shengming' and so on. After running to tell each other, the people in front and behind the lobby came to the lobby to thank each other after they found out. Those who call people home to spread the word, and those who make the little servants go outside to hire a car, call friends and invite companions, and it is very lively.
Looking at this group of chaotic appearances, the fourth master shook his head and sighed. Dai Duo stepped forward and said, "The master doesn't have to mind, they are all happy and confused." ”
The fourth master said: "I know they are scolding me behind my back." ”
"Who dares to scold my fourth brother?" Thirteen confessed that someone went home to pass the word, and when he came over, he just heard it and answered. Dai Duo saluted the Thirteenth Master and withdrew.
"You can scold me a lot." The fourth master smiled happily, "But they don't know, the more they scold me, the happier I am." ”
The two walked out together, and at this time, the people here in the household department had already walked seventy-seven or eighty-eight, and there were two steps slower to see the two elder brothers coming, or avoiding or saluting, and so on.
"They scolded me, which means that they are afraid of me. I was so scared that I had no choice but to use my tongue. The fourth master said proudly.
Thirteen didn't expect the fourth master to be so happy, and said, "It has to be the fourth brother." If the younger brother is in the position of the fourth brother, I am afraid that he will not be able to hold on for a long time. "Thinking of the pressure from the emperor, the crown prince, and the king of Zhijun before, he really lived like a year.
The fourth master patted him on the shoulder and comforted his younger brother: "How old are you?" I'm not as good as you at your age. In those years, I had nothing to do, I could only watch the scenery of the eighth child, and my heart was not much better than yours. But without the sediment of those years, he would not be in his current state of mind.
Look at the present, think about the past, even the fourth master had to sigh when he was lucky, and his life was also.
"A drink and a peck, it is not predetermined. Back then, I never imagined that I would be today. The fourth master sighed twice and said to the thirteen: "Things in the world have their own cause and effect. How do you know that what you suffer now will not be your wisdom in the future? ”
These heart-to-heart words made Thirteen and One also think about it.
Since Eniang went, he hadn't had a good day, and he had been trembling and didn't dare to relax. If it is really as the fourth brother said, he can have a day in the future, then the suffering of these years is not in vain.
Thinking of thirteen moments of joy, one moment of sorrow, one moment of sighing, zuihou only squeezed out one sentence: "...... The fourth brother's Buddhism has become more and more sophisticated. ”
When they arrived at the car of the two, the emperor's reward was placed on the fourth master's car. There were also two baskets of lychees tied to the back of the car. The fourth master pointed and said, "Take off a basket for your thirteenth master." ”
Thirteen hurriedly excused himself and said, "No, fourth brother, this is the emperor's reward for you." ”
"How much appetite do you have when you are the fourth brother? Can you eat two baskets of fruit? ”
Su Peisheng took someone to unload it and carried it to the car of the thirteenth master, and the words of the thirteenth prevarication were even more unspeakable.
"Go back and give food to my little nephew, and don't be polite to your fourth brother." The fourth master smiled.
Thirteen had no choice but to say, "Then the younger brother will take advantage of the elder brother." ”
Back in the house, the fourth master asked someone to unload the lychee to check if it was too bad or small. After picking it up again, he asked Su Peisheng again: "Which families in this capital have been rewarded?" ”
As early as when someone came to give the award, Su Peisheng inquired about this.
There are not many people in Beijing who have been rewarded, especially this lychee. The emperor's reward was first sent to the palace, and the queen mother, Yuqing Palace, Chengqian Palace, Changchun Palace, Yikun Palace, Yonghe Palace, Zhongcui Palace, etc. were all rewarded.
Among their brothers, the Zhijun Wangfu is a must, and he is the only one among the remaining brothers.
Hearing this, it was inevitable that the fourth master felt comfortable. It can be seen that what he has done during these days has reached the ears of the emperor, and the emperor has remembered his loyalty.
In the family of the ministers outside the palace, the first-class mansion of the Tong family and the Cheng'en palace are all there. The Niu Co Lu clan that has been out of the queen is only rewarded by Ah Ling. The most embarrassing thing is that after Suo Etu's death, the emperor seemed to forget that there was still this one.
The fourth master asked Su Peisheng to divide the lychee into several parts, and send one to Yonghe Palace. Even if there is a reward from the mother, he should not be less filial. Another one was sent to Soetu's house.
“…… said that it was sent by the prince. The fourth master said.
Su Peisheng took the order and left, he had to do this kind of thing personally. With the face of the fourth master's personal eunuch, he must ask Suo Etu's family and the prince to receive the love of the fourth master.
No matter how much lychee there is in a basket, it can't stand such a division. There is only half a basket left. The fourth master left a plate for Honghui and a few others, and then sent a plate to his daughters. Fujin got another plate there.
"I'll also send it to your master Li." The fourth master said, Wang Yicheng answered, carefully put the two plates of lychees into the dining box, and carried them out.
Zhang Desheng stood outside the door, looking at Wang Yicheng with envy. Although he was Su Peisheng's apprentice, he was not qualified to enter the house. Even if he has been waiting by the fourth master's side for more than ten years, it will be the same. Compared with Wang Yicheng and Wang Chaoqing, the two brothers, he is really not as good as these two boys who just came.
He saw Wang Yicheng walking out, and he was at the door and met two little eunuchs who had just come back, all of them with very sweet mouths.
"Brother Wang, are you doing an errand for your master?"
"Brother Wang works hard, my brother will send you two pots of hot water in the evening, you can soak your feet and wash your clothes."
"Brother Wang......"
Along the way, there are almost countless sets called 'brother'.
Wang Yicheng has been mixed with 'brother' for less than two years since he came in, and he Zhang Desheng followed Su Peisheng as a grandson and was about to vomit blood, and he was just scolded 'brother'.
People are really angry compared to people.
Wang Yicheng carried the lychee to the east courtyard, and when he entered the courtyard, he saw a large grape shelf, covered with dense green shade, which made people feel cool when they saw it.
I heard that Master Li was able to get three sons in a row, because there were grapes in front of the house and pomegranates in the back of the house.
Wang Yicheng thought to himself that his parents had no grapes in front of the house and no pomegranates behind the house, didn't they give birth to seven of their brothers and sisters? It's just that they can't be fed, the girls are all thrown away, and the boys are dying, and they don't have to die. He and his brother were the only ones left in the family, and they were all cut to be eunuchs.
Without waiting for the gatekeeper to call someone, Cheng Xian saw Wang Yicheng and hurriedly greeted him, and opened his mouth to shout: "Where is my brother from?" ”
Wang Yicheng didn't come to the East Courtyard often, thinking that his face was not big enough, and said: "Don't dare to be, little Wang Yicheng, come to give something to Master Li according to the words of the master." ”
Cheng Xian made a fool of himself that night, not only was he rewarded by Master Li, but his brothers and sisters in the courtyard were also willing to take care of him. Now he's running around excitedly, trying to get a foot in the middle of nowhere. He led Wang Yicheng to the tea room and stood outside the door calling his sister.
Yuyan came out and saw Cheng Xian first, and said with a smile: "What are you doing here with me again?" I don't have a job for you here. ”
Cheng Xian grabbed the words and said: "Where, this brother Wang is here from the front, and the master asked him to send something to our master." ”
Wang Yicheng's words were all robbed by Cheng first, but he was not angry, and followed his words and responded: "Exactly." ”
Yuyan is afraid that Cheng Xian will offend people again if he doesn't know the severity, and the one next to the master has to be carried and held. Turned around and came out of the house with an empty pot: "It's just right, I have no water here, you go to the dining room and ask for a pot of boiling water." ”
Cheng took it first and said, "Sister, don't worry, I'll go." ”
He turned around and left, and Yuyan told him repeatedly: "You slow down!" I'm not in a hurry, don't burn you! ”
Looking at Wang Yicheng again, he still stood there with a smile, and he didn't have the temper of being snubbed at all. Yuyan's heart is worthy of being waiting in front, and this concentration is not ordinary. She took the box in Wang Yicheng's hand, invited him in, and poured him a bowl of tea.
When I opened the suitcase, I saw that it was actually two plates of lychees.
"Brother, wait a minute, I'll send this to the master to see, maybe the master will ask you to talk." Yuyan quickly brought him two plates of melon seeds and told him to swallow them, and when he saw Xiao Xizi outside, he called in to sit with Wang Yicheng, and she took the lychee and sent it into the house.
Li Wei heard that the fourth master was back, and he had just changed his clothes and was combing his hair again. Seeing Yuyan coming in with a lychee, she smiled when she saw it: "Ye sent it in?" ”
Yuyan said with a smile: "It was sent by Wang Yicheng, do you want to see it?" ”
Li Wei tasted one, clapped her hands and said, "No need, you reward him for me." Said he had worked hard. ”
Yuyan was a little pity, and said, "The master sent two plates, don't you ask?" ”
The jade bottle stepped forward and pulled her, "What is the master, go and send someone back, people still have to reply." ”
Yuyan had no choice but to take out a purse from the cabinet, put a few silver horns in it, and showed it to the jade bottle before returning to the tea room. Over there, Xiao Xizi and Wang Yicheng were talking lively, Yuyan handed over the purse, did not mention Master Li's words, and only said: "The master said that you have worked hard, and asked me to reward you." ”
Wang Yicheng took the purse, Xiao Xizi wanted to hook his head to look, but was pushed by Yuyan: "Okay, tell people to go back and talk back quickly, don't miss the errand." ”
Wang Yicheng got up and said with a smile: "It's still my sister who loves me." Then he said to Xiao Xizi, "I will definitely come to see my brother when I have time in the future." ”
Xiao Xizi waved his hand and said, "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." ”
After Wang Yicheng went out, he respectfully knelt down and kowtowed to Master Li's main house, and then got up and went out. Yuyan, who was left behind, said to Xiao Xizi: "Look at the rules of others, how thoughtful they are." When he kneels down like this, I have to go and say something to my master. It's better not to see than to see. ”
In the house, Li Wei was eating lychees, and asked someone to ask if there was one over there, and the person who came back said that there was, but the three of them only had one plate.
"There's only one plate in each house. The master has two plates here, but I am afraid that the master will specially reward them. The jade bottle also inquired.
Li Wei thought of the children, and was reluctant to eat, so she asked the jade bottle to bring a few more plates. Divide it into portions, and when the children come, one for each person. When the fourth master came in, he saw six small plates on the kang table, and the lychees in each plate were the same number
"Is this dividing the fruit?" The fourth master had already taken a shower and changed his clothes in front of him, sat down and said, "Which plate is the master's?" ”
"Not at all. I was asked to eat my plate earlier. ”
"And which plate are you?"
Li Wei pointed at it, and the fourth master reached out and took one.
After eating two and washing his hands, he stopped eating. Li Wei asked someone to take down all the lychees, leaving only two plates, and she peeled them for him to eat.
"The herbal tea you asked someone to send is just right, and no one will suffer from heat stroke in the future." He opened his mouth to eat what she had fed to his mouth.
Li Wei deliberately put her fingers peeling lychees into his mouth, "Boom, it's all sweet juice." ”
He took a light bite, tickling and crispy.
"When is it going to be a head?" She asked curiously. Listening to what Zhao Quanbao said when he came back, the fourth master was simply tortured in the household lobby. But looking at his expression, he seems to be enjoying and having fun.
She didn't know whether to worry about him or not.
"It's still early. This year is the beginning, and there will be trouble when the emperor comes back in September. The fourth master said with a smile and took a lychee: "Just for this lychee, I'm afraid that there will be another turmoil." ”
She wanted to hear more news, so he peeled the lychee and stuffed it in her mouth.
In the afternoon, she knew what the fourth master was talking about. The Fourteenth Master and the Fourteenth Fujin came to the door, saying that they were here to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.
I heard that when the fourteenth master came over, the fourth master was enjoying the shade in the house, and she was telling him about a play she had watched in the past two days.
This is written by the master of the Fu Opera again, talking about a family with two beautiful young ladies. The big one is gentle and virtuous, and the small one is lively and cute. A scholar came and begged for marriage, and his parents begged him for the big one, and he himself bumped into the small one in the garden. When waiting for the candles in the cave room, he lifted the hijab, and when he saw that it was the big one, the scholar first sighed, he had no fate with the small one, and then it was a surprise, the big one was more beautiful than the small one!
zuihou, what he thinks is that if he can marry the little one again, he will have no regrets in his life.
At that time, there will be a virtuous wife who will be filial to his parents for him, and he will also have concubines by his side, and his life will be very happy. The most important thing is that they are a pair of sisters, that is, they are born to ask men to marry together. Neither quarrel nor jealousy.
There is also a saying that all women in the world should have a virtuous eldest sister and a delicate sister, which is the right thing in the world.
After Li Wei finished the play, she said with a smile: "That woman should say that men in this world must have wealth, good looks, family background, talent, no parents, no brothers." This is what is right in the world. ”
The fourth master made her laugh and said, "There is no haode in your mouth." Whether it is a sister or a brother, they are all a family, which is the right principle in the world. ”
When a sister has the same husband, she can no longer be a sister. Brothers can't be brothers anymore for the same property.
Li Wei didn't dare to say such rebellious words, but said: "Everyone in the world has their own righteous principles in the world, who is willing to admit that other people's righteous principles are righteous principles?" ”
"Crooked." He knocked her on the head with a fan.
"Fallacy is also reason."
"You are full of crooked reasoning, I can't talk about you." He sat up, and Su Peisheng came in and said that the Fourteenth Master had arrived. It's a post and a direct door. At best, it's called intimacy, and at worst, it's not polite.
Li Wei looked at the fourth master's expression, and said in her heart that the fourteenth master didn't know how to be polite.
The fourth master was very annoyed, and guessed that it was the matter of lychees. He sent a basket to Thirteen, but didn't send him a plate, which was to complain. In fact, after dividing the lychees, the fourth master also found that the lychees were not enough, but he had already given thirteen and one baskets, and if it was less for the fourteenth, he would definitely complain.
But he can't give the only remaining basket to Fourteen, can he?
He's going to complain anyway, so he just doesn't give it.
Li Wei saw that he didn't move for a long time, Su Peisheng was still standing outside the screen, and gently pushed the fourth master, "Master, will I change your clothes for you?" ”
The fourth master got up slowly, changed his clothes and left reluctantly, and said before leaving: "I'll come over for dinner in the evening and wait for me." ”
Li Wei looked at the sky, looked at the watch, and said in her heart It's past five o'clock, the fourteenth master came at this hour with the idea of rubbing rice, can you really leave no one to eat?
As a result, after a quarter of six, the fourth master came back like the wind under his feet. When he came in, his face was black, and she rushed in to help him change his clothes, and saw that the two layers of clothes he had taken off were soaked.
He changed his clothes and did not go out to eat, but sat on the couch and closed his eyes as if he were recuperating. She asked someone to remove the dining table first, so that the smell of food kept wafting into the house, and it didn't smell good.
She leaned over lightly and took a fan to fan him slowly, hoping to lower his anger.
It took a while to see him leaning on the pillow and taking the fan in her hand and fanning himself.
"Master, did the Fourteenth Master make you angry again?" She asked cautiously.
The fourth master closed his eyes and was silent, and asked her for a long time: "Is the lychee delicious?" ”
"It's delicious." She immediately said, "I'll leave all the nuclei and see if I can grow them." ”
"Fool, we can't grow it here." He smiled and said, "If you like it, I asked someone to go to the south to buy it." Two months later, there are still lychees coming down. Then buy a few more baskets so that you can eat enough. ”
Li Wei smiled, he continued: "Ye remembers that you still like to eat cherries, and when you came back just now, you saw that there were already them on the street, so I will ask someone to buy them and bring them back to you tomorrow." ”
"There are also strawberries, we will also plant them in the Zhuangzi in the future, and then we will ask them to send them to you every day."
He babbled for a long time, and when he looked at it, he was angry, and took her out for dinner, and the night passed peacefully.
The next day, he went to the household department again early in the morning. At noon, Su Peisheng really sent back two baskets of cherries. Delivered directly to the East Courtyard. She hurriedly asked someone to divide it into several portions and send them everywhere in the house.
Remembering the events of last night, he made a wish for a cart to her. told her to listen to sweetness and sweetness, but she felt that he had a kind of anger.
called Zhao Quanbao and asked him if he knew what the fourteenth master said to the fourth master when he came last night.
Zhao Quanbao shook his head and said: "What the master and the fourteenth master said in the house, the slave couldn't get by, and I didn't hear what was said. ”
Li Wei didn't have much hope, and just nodded when she heard the words. Instead, Yuyan came in and said, "I've heard people say that it seems that Yonghe Palace rewarded the Fourteenth Master with something." ”
"Who did you listen to?" Li Weiqi said.
"Listen to what the Fourteenth Fujin said. Last night, the fourteenth master's family came, and the fourteenth Fujin went to ask our Fujin to say goodbye, and I heard that I would invite you over. But it seems that Fu Jin said that you are waiting for the master, so he didn't come to invite you. Yuyan looked afraid that she would be angry.
This is not uncommon, she is half a cut shorter after seeing the Fourteenth Fujin.
Li Wei intuitively felt that this matter was only afraid that it would have nothing to do with Yonghe Palace, "Do you know what Yonghe Palace has rewarded?" ”
"I don't know anything else, I heard that there is half a basket of lychees." Yuyan said, "Fourteen Fujin specially brought a basket, and the people in the backyard dining room saw it, and they cleaned it up." ”
There are only two words left in Li Wei's heart:.
She didn't know anything else, only that the lychee that the fourth master got was given by the emperor. And yesterday day, Yonghe Palace didn't reward anything.
No wonder the fourth master is like that. Called the fourteenth master, he is about to become a little cabbage.
Little cabbage, yellow in the ground, two or three years old, without a mother.
There's no mother.
Poor Fourth Master, his enthusiasm can only be sprinkled on her. The wise shoujo manga said that a girl who can't find a prince can only become a prince herself. The fourth master is not favored, so he desperately spoils others.
Although it was a good thing for her, she knew that he was so pitiful, or ...... She spoiled him for Concubine De?
Li Wei fell into the thought of whether to try another mother's love skill. l3l4