Chapter 244: Loyalty and Filial Piety
(~Small~Say~Net~Look~Most~New~Chapter~****** He breathed a sigh of relief, and the little eunuch guarding the door of the torture hall hurriedly stepped forward to help him, and said attentively, "The fourth master is slow, look at you so tired." ”
He waved his hand and walked past the little eunuch to the lobby of the Internal Affairs Office. The little eunuch followed behind and said, "Third Master Tong has been here for a while, just waiting for you." ”
Long Keduo,
The fourth master was tired of it, but he couldn't help but accept him. Entering the lobby, sure enough, Long Keduo sat there, surrounded by two or three little eunuchs, holding tea, pinching shoulders, and flattering.
As soon as I saw him enter, some of the people in the lobby stepped forward to ask Haode, and some hurriedly avoided it.
Long Keduo put down the tea cup in his hand with a smile, got up and pulled him out: "Hurry up, fourth, I've been waiting for you for a long time." ”
When he got outside, Long Keduo said: "I asked someone to keep an eye on the Dongnuan Pavilion, long live you are free at this time." ”
The fourth master asked someone to bring the confession fold copied by the master, and followed Long Keduo to the Qianqing Palace in his arms. As soon as he got there, he asked the eunuch to lead him to the outside of the Dongnuan Pavilion.
The little eunuch went in to report, and they stood at the door waiting to see them.
After a short time, Chen Fu came out, and after meeting Long Keduo and the fourth master, he led the two of them in. Long Keduo greeted Chen Fu with a smile: "Your kid is also shaking now, wait for long live, maybe you can get mixed up with your Grandpa Liang in the future." ”
Chen Fu said with a smile: "Cheng Sanye's auspicious words." ”
Several large windows in the East Warm Pavilion were closed tightly, and a mountain and river screen was placed in front of the door. Chen Fu whispered: "The door is open for ventilation, so as not to have too strong a fragrance in the house." The imperial doctor was afraid that Banzai would catch a cold, so he added a screen in front of the door. ”
Both of them nodded, and Long Keduo said knowingly: "I'm here to hand over the excerpt to Banzai, and I don't dare to delay Banzai's rest." ”
Kangxi leaned on the pillow, and a young palace maid knelt on the couch to rub his back, and his little hands were clenched into fists against Kangxi's back and slowly pushed in circles.
Long Keduo and the fourth master went in and glanced at it, and immediately bowed their heads and knelt down.
Kangxi gasped for a while, as if he wanted to cough but couldn't cough it out, and he didn't bother to speak, so he waved his hand at Chen Fu.
Chen Fu stepped forward and took the fold and gently placed it on the side of the kang table.
Kangxi nodded, and said weakly for a long time: "...... Let's go down. Do your errands. ”
The fourth master and Long Keduo kowtowed in unison before withdrawing. Chen Fu followed him out of the door, and Long Keduo breathed a sigh of relief when he came out, and said, "Long live this really worries me." ”
Chen Fu said: "Long live that Third Master Tong is so loyal, and it is also a blessing for the minions. ”
The fourth master was too lazy to listen to them flattering me here, and I flattered you, and said, "Uncle take a step slowly, I'll go first." ”
Long Keduo was reluctant to let the fourth master go, and wanted to say a few words to Chen Fuduo, so he took out a jade carved ingots from his arms and stuffed it into Chen Fu's hand, and said, "By the way, why don't you see your Grandpa Liang?" And what about Wei Zhu's kid? ”
Chen Fu smiled so much that he couldn't worry about it, just like Liang Jiugong was really his grandfather: "Grandpa Liang was not very well a few days ago, and now he is still resting in the house." Brother Wei just went to see Grandpa Liang. ”
Liang Jiugong was the first in the emperor's body, and he was asked to follow when he came out and went in. This time, the emperor came back and didn't see Liang Jiugong, and rumors slowly spread about the prince, and Long Keduo still thought that Liang Jiugong was dead. It seems that this old boy's life is quite hard, he should have seen everything in his eyes with the emperor, the emperor still left him a life, and he didn't ask anyone to reward him with a glass of wine, so it can be seen that he still believes in him.
Long Keduo caught up with the fourth master, and said leisurely: "Long live there are too few people who can be trusted now, and those like Liang Jiugong have to stay and make it slowly." ”
The fourth master didn't say a word, and he didn't see Liang Jiugong after King Zhijun came back, and he thought he was killed, but he didn't expect that people were still in the palace now.
Long Ke sighed twice and whispered to the fourth master: "Fourth master, let me tell you a sincere word, now is the time for you and me to come out." ”
The two looked at each other, and they both had the same idea in their hearts.
The crown prince is now abolished, but the emperor's heart to abolish the prince is not dead. Now what they are doing is to slowly grind the prince to death, and when the prince loses the hearts of the people and his reputation is finished, it will be logical to abolish it.
In the afternoon, the fourth master went to the Zongren Mansion. Although the emperor meant that he would not implicate too much and only ask about the first evil, there were not a few people who were caught and asked a clear understanding.
It is also difficult for those who come in and want to get out.
The crown prince has been a prince since he was a child, and there are not a few relatives and nobles of the clan who come and go. And it has been thirty-five years since the crown prince was canonized. To put it mildly, in the group of clans that first intersected with the prince, they even had grandchildren.
The fourth master entered the Zongren Mansion but didn't want to see outsiders, so as not to let someone stop him and leave. He waited in Fu Cheng's house, took a confession and left. When he went, he only brought two eunuchs, but he didn't expect that there were too many confessions, so Fu Cheng had to call a few more people to help carry all the confessions to the car.
“…… So much? The fourth master asked unhappily.
It's not a big deal to watch the excitement! If there are many confessions, he will list many crimes for the prince, and he will flip through a book at random, and even a non-existent outsider can say that the prince once sent someone to his house and coerced and lured him.
What kind of idle does the prince have to be so that he can even look at the outsiders of the Ministry of Rites?!
Fu Cheng wasn't sure what he meant, so he wiped his sweat and whimpered: "This...... Slaves and others are also faithful errands......"
Be faithful.
The fourth master had nothing to say, and waved off the mansion and sent the confession of this car into the palace.
The emperor must not be able to read so many confessions, he has to find someone to transcribe them first, and then summarize and write them into an excerpt before handing them to the emperor. At first, he thought about trying to find some credible people, but he didn't expect this trial, there were too many ghosts, snakes, and gods, and he and Long Keduo had to take the excerpt to see the emperor every day, and there was not enough time, so he had to send more people.
Thinking that there are so many people here, Long Keduo doesn't know what to do outside......
When I returned to the lobby of the Internal Affairs Office, I saw that the people in the hall were busy, but they were all busy with the words 'unnecessary'. When he was in the household department, at least he was doing the right thing.
What is this?
As soon as the fourth master is exposed, what can he do? Didn't you understand it a long time ago? It is an honor to be a slave of the emperor, and it is an honor for the emperor to be willing to use it, where do you need to manage the slaves?
Thirteen knelt in the beekeeping road for two months, and the emperor asked him to ask him the word 'loyalty and filial piety', didn't he think that as a slave, he was unfaithful to the emperor, and as a son, he was not filial to his father?
If he is loyal, he should serve the emperor wholeheartedly, and the prince will not be happy with the emperor, so he should remove this hidden danger for the emperor. If he is filial, he should listen to Huang Ama's words, how can he still make quibbles?
So Thirteen is already a disloyal and unfilial person in the emperor's heart.
The fourth master Zuihou still went into the lobby to look at it, stood in front of everyone's table, and then went to the torture hall to read the confession, and only after coming out could he go back to the back room to rest.
When Su Peisheng saw him coming back, he hurriedly took Zhang Desheng to bring up the hot water, waited for the fourth master to wash and change clothes, and then carefully reminded: "Master, it's this hour, it's time for you to eat......" Seeing that the fourth master was still leaning on the chair and not moving, he added: "Master Li has instructed the slaves several times to tell the servants to stare at you for dinner." If Master Li knew that the slave had not done a good job, he was afraid that he would have punished the slave......"
He said as he knelt down with a sad face.
The fourth master smiled, got up and said, "Your master Li hasn't even beaten the people around him, and he will come to beat you?" ”
Su Peisheng said with a smile: "Master Li is kind, it's a slave's nonsense. Master, call for dinner, right? ”
"Call it." The fourth master nodded.
The meal box was brought up quickly, and it was all hot dishes and stir-fried. In the past, when the fourth master was in the south study, he used to send food from Jingyunmen to the minister's dining room, and it was not a place to wait for the master, not to mention the good or bad of waiting, it was definitely not intimate enough.
Now the Ministry of Internal Affairs is in charge of the imperial dining room in the palace, although each has its own affairs, but the money and things in the imperial dining room are all in the hands of the Internal Affairs Office, not to mention how attentive this waiting.
So even if you go to pick up food at this point in the afternoon, the master of the dining room is willing to wait.
The fourth master didn't love the delicacies of the mountains and seas, and he also liked home-cooked stir-fry brought by Master Li. Su Peisheng went to pick up food several times, and the master said that he was not welcome, he also had a small warehouse, as long as it was ordered by the fourth master, he could do it. also quietly gave Su Peisheng benefits, asking him to reveal the taste of the first, second and fourth masters.
Su Peisheng sternly refused, and still fried celery and clear water tofu to the fourth master.
This time, it was also a dish of clear soup cabbage, a dish of clear soup with tofu, a dish of dried pepper beef tongue, a dish of stir-fried spring bamboo shoots, a dish of fried river fresh, and fried spinach with shrimp and black fungus. The fourth master didn't touch the cow's tongue, but tasted the fried river, and said to Su Peisheng: "You Master Li must like this, ask them to make another one and send it to the Old Summer Palace." ”
Su Peisheng said in his heart that he couldn't eat it if he sent it over, master, you are thinking about Master Li, right?
He joked: "There are many mountains and scenery in the garden, and Master Li doesn't know how much he likes it." The master also asked someone to send the boat over, maybe Master Li will row and play every day. ”
The fourth master remembered the good landscape of the Old Summer Palace, Su Su and the children didn't know how happy they were playing in it, they couldn't help laughing, and suddenly remembered: "Call someone to tell you Master Li that you can't take her to Zhuangzi this year, and you are not allowed to play in the water when you get to the garden." Tell Zhang Qilin to follow and watch, if you Master Li is strong, persuade him. ”
In the Old Summer Palace, Li Wei received a plate of fried black fungus with shrimp from Su Peisheng, her face was embarrassed, and after calling the jade bottle to take it, she was not sure if she wanted to be like Concubine De, and immediately ate it respectfully?
It's cold, and it's not a meal.
The jade bottle also hesitated, holding the plate and not knowing whether to put it on the table.
"I'll taste it." Li Wei beckoned. Anyway, it was specially sent by the fourth master, and he still remembered that she liked to eat shrimp. She also thought that last year, the fourth master said that he would raise eels in Zhuangzi for her to eat, and this year she just moved to the garden, and Zhuangzi sent them, saying that the eels should be born in two months, and they will be more delicious when the time comes.
…… Then Zhuangzi can send a bucket every day.
A bucket of one hundred and eighty. She couldn't finish it all at once.
There is another dining room in the Old Summer Palace, but because the fourth master is not in the house, Li Wei brought all the children again, so even a group of people from the dining room in the front yard have also brought over. Eunuch Liu came in and kowtowed, and soon invented dozens of ways to eat eel, and recently even dried eel was made, and it tasted quite chewy.
Anyway, you can't eat charcoal-grilled mullet feet here, and you can eat dried eel.
Li Wei thought of this very sweetly, the fourth master was still thinking about her when he was on an errand, and he also felt sorry for him when he was out alone.
She said to Su Peisheng: "My lord is inconvenient outside, and my father-in-law has worked hard." "Give him something again, and ask him to bring something to the fourth master.
Su Peisheng hurried back, left Zhang Qilin behind, and left.
In the internal affairs house, the fourth master went to the torture hall again, and said a few words to Long Keduo when he came back, and saw that there was a bunch of lotus flowers in the room, all of which were small buds, pink and white, the petals were tightly wrapped, fragrant and faint, and a few small lotus leaves were held underneath, which was somewhat interesting.
Su Peisheng said with a smile: "Master Li said that this is the first bud in the garden this year, and the slave went just now, and Master Li took all the people back and said that he would give him a reward." ”
The fourth master touched the little bud with a smile, and couldn't help laughing: "This kind of reward is really the first time." ”
Su Peisheng laughed, and then felt that Master Li was chewing peonies, as long as the fourth master was happy, it would be a credit. When he came out, Zhang Desheng hooked his head and glanced into the room, and saw that the fourth master was still looking at the bottle of lotus buds, and asked worriedly: "Master, the master likes it so much, what can I do in the future?" Can this be raised until the flowers bloom? ”
The fourth master likes it, then it must be raised until the flowers bloom, and the fourth master is unhappy if he can't raise it to death.
Su Peisheng said: "Can you raise it?" Anyway, your master and I don't have that ability. After speaking, he slapped him, "No brains!" Hurry up and look for it in the palace, see where there are lotus flowers, it looks almost like we can change it every day? ”
The excerpt of the confession was handed to the emperor day by day, and the emperor sent it down for the ministers to see. The upward wind and waves have not subsided, and they have risen again and again.
The fourth master hasn't seen the eighth master for a long time, one is that the two of them can't catch up on their errands now, he originally thought that the eighth master suddenly took over the errand of the household, and there might be a time when he couldn't get started, so he was ready for a long time, and he also ordered someone to tell him immediately if the eighth master came to him.
Second, the personal relationship between the two is really not good. He looks down on the actions of the eighth master, and the people who hang up with the eighth master may not look down on him. If you look at each other and hate each other, why bother yourself?
He, who is an elder brother, can't he go and bow down to his younger brother in person, right?
As a result, the eighth master never came, and occasionally inquired a few words, and it was said that the eighth master's silver was collected quite smoothly. This is called the fourth master, and it is not a taste. He has been busy for two years and has become infamous, and now that Thirteen is closed, it is difficult to say when the emperor will be angry, if the emperor has not been angry, the thirteenth brother will be considered a waste.
The eighth master was transferred from the Internal Affairs Office to the household department, but the more mixed it became, the more prosperous it became.
On this day, as soon as he came out of the torture hall, Su Peisheng followed suit, and cautiously said that the eighth master was waiting to see him in the lobby of the Internal Affairs Mansion, and he had been waiting for an hour.
The fourth master was heading to the lobby of the Internal Affairs Mansion.
Su Peisheng was also embarrassed, the fourth master had told him before, if the eighth master came, he would report it quickly. But later, the eighth master never came, and he also noticed that the fourth master had a bad face when he heard the news of the eighth master, which showed that he was impatient to see the eighth master.
As a result, the eighth master finally came today, and he didn't know whether to report it or not.
The fourth master turned around and went back to the room where he was temporarily staying, Su Peisheng saw him go behind the screen, and immediately took a change of clothes and sent them in. Waiting for the fourth master to change his clothes again, and then rinse his mouth and comb his hair, it took two quarters of an hour for the fourth master to go to see the eighth master.
In the lobby, the eighth master was sitting and greeting people, and some people came over to say goodbye to the eighth master.
As soon as the fourth master came in, he saw a group of people around the eighth master in the lobby, he cleared his throat and passed, everyone was silent, and hurriedly came over to say goodbye to the fourth master, and then dispersed.
The eighth master was very complicated in his heart. He is a virtuous corporal, and he can only get everyone's favor by handing over the knots, but as long as the fourth brother puts out the master's score, no one dares not to buy his account.
The eighth master got up and smiled and said hello to the fourth master: "Fourth brother." ”
"Hmm." The fourth master nodded, and didn't say much nonsense: "Sit, are you here for something?" ”
The eighth master doesn't talk nonsense, he used to be in charge of the Internal Affairs Office, and almost all of them were his people. But it's only been a month since the fourth brother came in, and he has subdued it up and down. Although he guessed that the emperor was planning to send another errand to the fourth brother, he would give his work to others. Moreover, the emperor can trust him when he hands over the household department.
But as soon as the prince's matter came out, the three places of the Internal Affairs Office, the Zongren Mansion, and the Criminal Department were called the King of Zhijun, the Fourth Master and Long Keduo.
What is the person who the emperor really trusts, this moment can be regarded as a clear understanding.
I won't say what it's like to be the eighth master.
The Internal Affairs Office is no longer a place where he can come and go at will, and there is indeed something wrong with coming today.
After the fourth master led him back, he could smell the fragrance of lotus flowers as soon as he entered the house, and the eighth master didn't expect the fourth brother to do such a big errand, and he still had the heart to put a bottle of lotus flowers in the house, and see that the buds had not yet opened.
"Fourth brother Yaxing." The eighth master teased, and his heart was indeed a little relaxed. In the past few years, the fourth brother has looked inconspicuous, but he has become more and more difficult to speak. Seeing this vase of flowers, it seems that the fourth brother is not such a serious person.
The fourth master hung his face, waited for Su Peisheng to serve tea, and asked him directly: "What's the matter, just the two of us brothers here, it doesn't hurt to say it straight." ”
The eighth master sighed secretly, I don't know how difficult it is to think of a good face for the fourth brother in this life. It would be interesting if he had the same face for his wife and children. Thinking about the fourth sister-in-law, it seems to be the same as the fourth brother. Husbands and wives are generally the same.
He took out the fold, and the fourth master took it and looked at it, and it turned out to be the silver borrowed by the thirteenth and fourteenth people in the household department.
The eighth master pondered and said: "Now all the provinces are in difficulty, but long live I am afraid that I will have to go on patrol, and it will not look good on the account." It's not good for me to go there at Thirteen, if the fourth brother can talk about it for his younger brother, my brother will be grateful. ”
What's not to go to? Isn't it because Thirteen has provoked the emperor's taboo?
The fourth master threw the fold on the table, and the snap was terrifying.
The eighth master didn't tell a lie, he really didn't plan to go over there, although he didn't know how the prince got involved in this incident this time, anyway, he didn't even have relatives in his house now.
Last month, Marhan passed his birthday, and he lived a year less at this age. As soon as the matter of the thirteenth master came out this year, he went up to beg for a break, and the emperor was also happy. As a result, I didn't call Thirteen Fujin back for my birthday this year.
I don't know if the Thirteen Fujin is afraid of causing trouble for his mother's family, or if Malhan doesn't plan to gamble on the emperor's measurements with the whole family, anyway, it's true that the two families are estranged.
At this time, why should he be a good person? It is always easy to put icing on the cake in the world, but it is difficult to send charcoal in the snow.
"My brother is not a person who falls into the ground." The eighth master thought that he was not a cool one, and said: "It is difficult in the thirteen mansions, and the fourth brother told him to ask him to pay back three or five thousand taels first, and after a year and a half, I will give him the silver back." ”
The fourth master suddenly realized. No wonder the money was collected so quickly, it turned out to be like this. If you only want to look good on the books, this is indeed a solution.
"Eighth child," the fourth master said with a smile, "Gao Ming." ”l3l4