The emperor was not there, and everyone at the banquet was not interested in laughing, only the palace opera actors in front of the banquet added a bit of excitement to the banquet.

The officials who sat outside had a seat on the table, but were not qualified to sit in front of them, and several people talked and chatted in a bunch, and some borrowed wine to cover their faces and stared at the actors in front of the table. Most of the dramas in the palace opera are the family members of the convicted officials. Most of the actors cut off their children and grandchildren at a young age, so that they can not only keep their children's voices from changing their voices, but also add more style to playing the female role.

Standing with the female actor, it is almost impossible to distinguish between men and women.

Unlike the low-ranking officials who enjoyed themselves at the imperial banquet, the lords sitting in front of them and the Baylor and clan relatives who surrounded the throne were much more silent.

Most of them only have an occasional conversation or two with the people around them, talking about the weather or tasting the food and drinks on the table, and more often sit alone and drink alone, holding a small glass that can be sipped for a quarter of an hour.

The three main seats at the front are empty. The emperor got up and said that he would go outside and rest, and told them to take care of themselves. After a while, a eunuch called the king of Zhijun. Wait a little longer, and the prince got up and left the table without saying a word. Tell the Baylor brothers in the back to start playing stupid.

Clan relatives such as Prince Yu, royal relatives such as Tong family Cheng Engong, also sit upright like the Buddha in the temple, immobile like a mountain. Whoever comes to toast and inquire about it.

However, the elder brothers of the emperor's grandchildren are more lively, but there are Amas sitting above, glancing over from time to time, and no one dares to mess around here. The children in the palace grew up fast, Hongyu of the Zhijun Wang family, Hongxi and Hongjin of the prince's family, all sat motionless with their backs straight.

Honghui is surrounded by Hongsheng of the third uncle's family and Hongsheng of the fifth uncle's family. Hongsheng is not very honest, looking around, and loves to watch the dishes on other people's plates. Hongsheng doesn't like to talk, I heard that the fifth uncle didn't speak Mandarin and Chinese well when he was a child, everyone said that Hongsheng was a stupid tongue, and Honghui didn't find any reaction after Hongsheng heard about it.

He didn't think Hongsheng was stupid, on the contrary, he admired his composure.

When he first sat down, he toasted Hongxi with everyone, and he also toasted a glass alone and chatted with Hongxi for a while. This can be regarded as a show of the close relationship between the two. After taking a seat, he was far away from Hongxi, and he also felt much more relaxed. At this time, he didn't think Hongsheng was annoying, Hongsheng was too boring.

It's quite good to be idle by yourself, and you don't have to entertain them.

After the emperor left, the king of Zhijun and the crown prince also left. In front of them, Amma's table seemed to be a little deserted, and even Hongxi and the others no longer talked frequently to others to show their closeness.

Honghui feels comfortable now.

He used chopsticks to arrange a few daylilies in the umbrella in front of him into a tic-tac-toe grid, and filled peanuts into the grid. Hongsheng on the side saw it and smiled secretly. He also felt a little embarrassed, but it was also fun, and exchanged glances with Hongsheng, and the two snickered together.

At this time, Honghui watched a familiar eunuch take the place of others and stand beside Ama with a wine jug. He recognized it as his own eunuch.

What's going on?

Ama turned his head to listen to what the eunuch said, put down the wine glass, as if he wanted to do something, but after a while, he picked up the wine glass again, then put it down again, picked up the chopsticks, but he didn't take the food in his hand for a long time.

When the eunuch stepped back, Amma put down her chopsticks and put her hands into fists on her knees. Honghui followed and raised his heart, probably he looked over there for too long, Hongsheng poked him: "Look at what? ”

"Huh?" Honghui came back to his senses and said busily: "No." Looking at Amma again, she was already relaxed and raised her glass.

He wondered if he should go over and ask Amma, is there something wrong with Eniang?

When he hesitated to get up and ask, a little eunuch came over and said something in Hongxi's ear, and Hongxi immediately booed them and whispered, "All behave!" ”

So those who shook their legs, those who sat upright, those who played with chopsticks, and those who played with cups and plates, all looked at the entrance of the inner sanctum.

After a while, the emperor really came in with the company of the king of Zhijun, and everyone got up to greet him. After the emperor sat down, he pressed his hands and said, "All sit, all sit." He turned his head and asked Hongxi, "Who won the dice just now?" ”

Hongxi said smartly: "Grandson didn't play with him, he looks like a ......" His gaze swept over the faces of the uncles on the table, and as a result, the king of Zhijun glanced at him, and Hongxi said: "It looks like Hongyu...... When they lost, they asked a few of them to press and pour two cups. Everyone has been classmates for a few years, but he knows that Hongyu's luck in betting dice is not very good.

Hongyu immediately got up and begged the emperor for mercy: "Huangma Fa save me!" Amma won't let me drink! ”

The rest of the royal grandchildren all booed, and the laughter of haha suddenly spread from the front to the back, causing the officials behind them to stretch their necks and look ahead, wondering what was the matter.

The emperor also smiled, turned his head to see that the king of Zhijun was really staring at Hongyu, and seeing Hongyu's scared face, he said: "Don't leave the child alone, he is not too young, what are you afraid of drinking two cups during the New Year?" ”

King Zhijun hurriedly said: "It's not that his son cares about him, it's that this kid has been greedy for cups since he was a child, how can he be productive when he grows up?" ”

The emperor beckoned Hongyu to come to him and said, "I see that you are worrying blindly, and our children are very promising." Isn't it, Hongyu? ”

Hongyu only dares to laugh, how dare to answer?

Waiting for the emperor to let him go back, after sitting down, he poured a glass of wine and saluted Hongxi, and said, "I owe you once." ”

Hongxi accompanied him for a cup and said, "My brother, don't say this." ”

When the emperor returned to the table, everyone continued to be lively, guessing boxing, betting on dice, and wrenching wrists, all of them had a great time. Even the fourth master gambled on the dice with the fifth master next to him, and he won a few handfuls in a row, and asked the fifth master to drink several cups.

The fifth master didn't drink much when he sat alone just now, but after a while, he blushed, wiped his mouth and said, "I have the ability to wrestle with my brother!" ”

The fourth master raised his glass to accompany the drink, and said profoundly: "You are not convinced by losing." ”

The fifth master said happily: "I'm not convinced? Come! Come! Come! Let's wrestle our wrists to see who is not convinced? ”

As they were talking, the Tenth Master in front of them suddenly jumped out and said, "Huang Ama, my son asks for a competition with the Fourteenth!" ”

Everyone at the banquet laughed, only the fourth master saw Fourteen jump out, and there was no smile on his face. The fifth master also sat back and laughed with everyone.

The emperor said happily at the table: "Okay! What do you compare to? ”

The Tenth Master and the Fourteenth Master both took off their outer robes, exposed one arm and said, "Bibuku!" ”

The emperor smiled happily and said, "Someone! Fence them off! ”

The actors retreated, and the eunuchs came up and put a thick layer of cushion on them again. The tenth master and the fourteenth went up, after greeting each other, they stared at each other in a circle like a fighting, and after turning back and forth a few times, the fourteenth pounced first, hugged the tenth master's waist and threw it to the ground, the tenth master gritted his teeth and pounced on the fourteenth back, grabbed his belt and lifted him up with his head down!

On the stage, the emperor cheered!

The people at the table hurriedly applauded one after another, and the slapping was endless. The fourth master held his breath and put down the wine glass, squeezed out a smile and applauded. On the opposite seat, the eighth and ninth were talking head-to-head, and the two looked at the middle ten and fourteen laughing together.

This idiot! I don't know if I call someone to be a gun!

Everyone thought that Fourteen would lose this time, but he made a trick and took out the bird of the Tenth Master from below. King Zhijun could see it clearly above, and he squirted a sip of wine.

The emperor didn't see it clearly at first, squinted his eyes and was watching, and saw that the king of Zhijun sprayed wine, and then the tenth master in front of him sighed, put down the fourteen and covered his crotch and shrunk into shrimp, the emperor knew that the fourteen were cheap, pointed at him daxiao and said: "You ...... You bastard! Dare to play this trick in front of me! ”

The tenth master told him to make him angry this time, and before Fourteen got up from the ground, he pounced on him, grabbed his arm and pressed it in reverse, and Fourteen wailed.

The emperor hurriedly said: "Old ten! You're the one who is the older brother! How can you be serious with Fourteen! Let go! ”

The fourth master was about to get up, and he saw that the eighth and ninth had already gone up, and the ninth pulled the tenth from behind and pulled the collar apart, and the eighth helped up the fourteenth. Lao Shi also jumped to his feet and scolded: "You rabbit ......" The one behind was covered by Lao Jiu's hand back to his mouth.

Fourteen rubbed his shoulders, turned around and knelt down and said to the emperor: "Huang Ama, my son is not convinced!" Brother Ten is so much older than me! Buku I can't beat him, I'm definitely better than him else! ”

Lao Shi pushed Lao Jiu who was pulling him away, stepped forward and said hatefully: "You come!" See if I don't convince you to lose today! ”

At this time, everyone at the banquet had already seen that the fight was fake, and the competition in front of the emperor was real. In fact, when the tenth master jumped out, they also understood that he wanted to show his face in front of the emperor. It's just that Buku was too childish just now, one of the two was put down by a monkey stealing a peach, and the other was a trick when he lost. made everyone look at the joke, but forgot the true meaning of these two people.

Now I remember it all. So I felt bored.

Above, Kangxi understood what these little guys were thinking, but they were just thinking that the right path would not work, and they would find another way. Because of the prince's affairs, he is not good at using them, lest the front door lead the tiger and the back door lead the wolf. Even if they are asked to enter the court to practice, they will never let one person be in charge of one alone, and if they do a good job, they will let it go.

After all, compared to these big-hearted sons, it is better to use the minions who are not surnamed Aixin Jueluo.

The eighth is not good, he also uses him to promote his identity, after all, when he was a child in the palace, the palace concubines and palace people gave the eighth child's face, and when he was older, he had to ask his son to see the face of the slave? With errands and holy grace, everyone can respect him with a 'eighth master'. His origins can't be mentioned there.

It's just that looking at it now, the eighth thinks that he can't do it, and pulls up the ninth and tenth? One is Concubine Yi's youngest son, and there is a Wubeile standing, the other is the widow of the concubine, and behind him stands Guo Yigong and Niu Colu's first concubine.

The eighth child is smart enough to pull the tiger skin to make a banner. It's the ninth and tenth, the two of them were born there, but they were driven by the son of a palace man? At this age, all of them have lived to dogs?

Fourteen, a clever ghost, still has a knot with the fourth child, and his own brother doesn't rely on it, because he thinks the fourth Baylor is not enough to see? squeezed to the side of the eighth child as an echo worm, and I don't know which of them is calculating whom?

The emperor shook his head in his heart, and said with a smile on his face: "Good, good, good, it can be regarded as not forgetting the brave and martial arts of the people!" Who else to compare? I have a big reward for those who win! Then he told them to bring two hundred taels of gold and put them underneath.

The gold is not enough, the main thing is to be able to show his face in front of the emperor, and to say that the full people are to be brave and able to fight, so that there will be more people in the end, and there are guards who come forward to join in the fun.

Seeing more and more people, the emperor smiled and asked the king of Zhijun: "The boss doesn't want to go down to play with his younger brothers?" ”

The king of Zhijun was a big character of Concubine Hui, so he didn't bother to care about this competition, and when he heard the emperor ask, he just smiled and said: "My son won't go down to bully them, and then call Fourteen to say that one is a big bully, at his age, call me Ama also make!" ”

Kangxi was amused by his words, pointed at him and smiled: "It's not big, it's not small!" You're sitting here, Amma! It's full of nonsense! ”

The king of Zhijun hurriedly pleaded guilty and punished himself with three cups.

The fourth master didn't squeeze forward, and avoided going out early. Honghui followed Hongxi, and Hongyu and the others watched the excitement, but he saw Ama leave the table, walked to the corner and called the eunuch from home to explain something.

Honghui wanted to go over and ask, but Hongxi looked at him twice, and he sat back down.

Seeing that he couldn't sit still, Hongxi turned his head and asked him in a low voice, "Do you want to be convenient?" Why don't I come with you? ”

Honghui nodded hesitantly. Hongxi called Hongjin, and the three of them went together to make it convenient. After coming back, Honghui saw that Ama had already sat back, as if he was talking to the fifth uncle.

Hongyu came back and said: "It's a bet over there, let's go and place two bets?" ”

Hongxi smiled: "Who are you betting on?" ”

Hongyu sat down and said: "There are several piles over there now, I bet on the thirteenth uncle and the fourteenth uncle, the stinky foot of the fourteenth uncle just now, bet on him to lose!" ”

Hongxi smiled and took out his purse and said, "Needless to say, you must be the fourteenth uncle." I bet on Uncle Thirteen to win. ”

Hongyu rolled his eyes, picked up a peanut from the plate, threw it in his mouth and chewed it, and said, "You are the ghostest." ”

Hongxi said: "You still can't guess what you're thinking? Uncle Fourteen must have lost a lot, you like to crush the upset the most. You won't lose anything back. ”

Honghui also took his purse and said: "I will also press a bet, which side is it?" ”

Hongyu pointed and said, "Over there, Uncle Jiu opened the plate." ”

Honghui got up and looked at Hongxi inquiringly, Hongxi pushed the purse to him and said, "Help me next." ”

Honghui responded and walked over with the purses of the two.

There are not many people around the ninth master, but there are a lot of gold and silver slots and purses, wrenches, jade pendants, etc. in front of him. When he saw Honghui coming, he waved at him.

Honghui put down his purse and added notes for him and Hongxi. The ninth master smiled and poured out the gold and silver horns in his purse, and said: "Honghui, it's not that my uncle said you, you are also a grandson, how can you do this errand job?" ”

Honghui's face was red, followed by white.

The eighth master pushed the ninth master next to him, and said to Honghui with a smile: "Your ninth uncle has wine, don't worry, he owes it." At the same time, he took out a rhinoceros horn wrench from his body that looked like a child, and stuffed it to Honghui and said: "When the eighth uncle makes amends for your ninth uncle, take it and play." ”

The Ninth Master smiled: "How can I use you to make amends for me?" Isn't it significant that I don't even have a gadget for my nephew? As he spoke, he also took out a longan-sized gold exquisite ball, threw it to Honghui and said, "Take it, don't tell you Ama when you go back, your ninth uncle bullied you." ”

How dare Honghui say anything more? I hurriedly saluted with something in my hand and ran away.

When he left, the eighth master said to the ninth master: "You don't have a door?" He's a little kid, is it interesting for you to run on him? Turn around and let the fourth brother know, do you think he can give you a good face? ”

The ninth master also regretted it a little, and said, "I filled too much horse urine." cough, the fourth child is such an upright person, if he wants to shoot the prince's ass, he has to find a chance to lose his face, how can he think that the son raised by him doesn't even have any hard bones for him. ”

The eighth master said: "Little child, he is studying in the palace, and the fourth child can't go into the palace every day to see him, at the beginning, he asked Mr. to rectify, he didn't learn by himself, did he make people bully to death and not bow his head?" ”

Seeing Honghui reminded him of what happened back then.

Seeing that it would be dangerous to talk about it, the ninth master hurriedly changed the subject: "What are you doing with so many children's things?" You've delivered two rounds of things a day today, haven't you? If you want to have a child, hurry up and give birth to one, no matter how tough the eighth sister-in-law is, can she still be harder than a man? ”

The eighth master didn't say a word, and sighed deeply.

Jiu Ye said: "If you don't think it's good in the house now, the draft will be held in two years, and then you can pick haode into the house?" If it's inconvenient for Zhong Cui Palace, I'll give me a message? ”

The eighth master hurriedly said, "No, no." Don't bother the mother, I know it. ”

Honghui bet back and didn't come here again, the ninth master also thought about sorry for his nephew, until Xi San helped Honghui bet, he was a banker, all the way to ensure that Honghui has been betting on the winner's side, to the end of the Xi, he looked for the eighth master to redeem two gold ingots of ten taels to find Honghui.

The eighth master grabbed him and said worriedly: "Are you drunk and confused? Take these twenty taels of gold to Honghui, you think the fourth brother is blind and won't ask, right? ”

The ninth master said: "Then I can't change it to something else as a gift to Honghui?" I've given him two gifts tonight, and if I send it a third time, the fourth brother will still see it. "Besides, where to find a gift at this moment?

Or give gold the most convenient.

The eighth master is also out of line. As a result, the fifth master came to say goodbye, and was dragged by the ninth master with a smile: "My good fifth brother, help my younger brother, my younger brother just poured horse urine, and the nonsense made the little nephew sad, no, he bet on me, and I just guaranteed him a big win." The fifth brother helped me send this money to my nephew, I really don't have the face to see my little nephew. ”

The fifth master took the gold and checked it, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, your nephew will definitely not blame you, the ninth uncle, after reading this." ”

The ninth master knew that his fifth brother had misunderstood, so he slipped away without saying anything. The remaining eighth master said to the fifth master funny: "Fifth brother, the little nephew that Lao Jiu said belongs to the fourth brother's family." ”

The fifth master's face darkened, and he couldn't see anyone anymore when he looked for the ninth master. He and the eighth master looked at each other, and the eighth master couldn't bear to leave the black pot on the top of the fifth master, and said, "Why don't I go with the fifth brother?" ”

The fifth master shook his head and sighed: "No, I'll just go." Let's go, it's cold. ”

The eighth master gave his hand to leave, and the fifth master held two gold ingots to find the fourth master, first gave the gold ingots to Honghui in his hand, and then said to the fourth master seriously: "The children just bet on Buku, this is Honghui won, don't scold him when you go back." With that, he left.

Although the fourth master felt that the two ingots of gold were a bit much, he also patted Honghui and said: "Win well, if you have this good fortune on the first day of the new year, you will have good luck throughout the year." Go back and put it away as pocket money, and it's convenient to see what you want to buy. ”

Honghui responded in a low voice, and hurriedly put the gold in his sleeve, his heart was stirred up by Uncle Jiu's words, but he didn't dare to mention it to Amma.

He was nervous all the way back to the house, and was about to go back to the courtyard with Hongyu, but Ama called Hongyu and said, "Hongyu will go back to the east courtyard to live today." ”

Honghui turned around in surprise, only to see a side face of Honghui bowing and saluting. He had the heart to ask the reason, but Hongyu turned around and saluted him and left directly.

Honghui intuitively felt that this had something to do with what he had discovered in the palace. Could it be that it was Hongyu who had the accident?

He saw Amma's unpredictable expression, and his heart was even more confused.

The fourth master came back to his senses, looked down and saw Honghui puzzled, patted him and said, "In the future, you brothers will have a lot of time to play together, go back and rest." ”

Honghui saw that Ama misunderstood, and he couldn't explain it, he couldn't say that he didn't miss Honghui so much, right? It's okay to ask Amma to misunderstand like this.

When he returned to the house, he took out the gold and told it to be put away at the bottom of the box. He didn't want to see these two ingots of gold in his life.

When his personal eunuch brought him hot water to wash, he whispered: "Master, I heard that Fang Fujin came back early in the morning today. ”

Honghui didn't even bother to wash his face for a while, and asked, "Do you know it's weishenme?" ”

This is the reason why Hongyu returned to the East Courtyard.

The eunuch shook his head and said, "I only know that there is Da Gege who came back with Fang Fujin, and Fang Fujin has been guarding the main courtyard before, and after we come back, she saw Fu Jin before returning to the East Courtyard." ”

Honghui didn't understand at all, sat down and thought about it, "You find someone to go to the main courtyard tomorrow to find a way to ask, see what's going on?" ”

If it weren't for the inconvenience, he would have wanted to go to the main courtyard to see it himself. There is a big sister again, and there is a side Fujin, Eniang doesn't know what's going on? What the hell is going on?

He looked in the direction of the main courtyard, but heard Su Peisheng's voice outside, and he motioned for the eunuch to prop up the window and take a look. After seeing it, the eunuch came over and said cautiously: "The master has gone out with Grandpa Su." ”

Honghui said calmly: "Where to go?" ”

The eunuch muttered for a long time and whispered, "Look in the direction of the small gate." ”

On the other side of the small gate is the east courtyard.

The author has something to say: make it up, good night everyone, see you tomorrow