After more than a dozen New Year's Eve times, this year is the hardest.

This year, the emperor still toasted first by him, and all the ministers toasted together. But last year, the crown prince and the eldest brother lined up behind the emperor to toast, but this year, the eighth elder brother led a group of little elder brothers.

The emperor's words are to let the children come this year, and the clan relatives at the banquet also hahadaxiao said that the younger son is more painful. Just when everyone thought that the emperor was really disgusted with the prince and the eldest brother, the emperor suddenly mentioned the eldest son of the prince. This child will be ten years old this year, but he still only calls Brother Yuqing Palace.

The emperor specially called him to the banquet, let him stand beside his throne and speak for a long time, and let him hold a toast before letting him go down.

This is brainless, which makes many people at the table a little confused. Lost their eyes at each other, didn't the emperor dislike the prince? Why did you suddenly love the prince's eldest brother so much?

The crown prince looked indifferent, and the emperor admired his son so much, and he didn't see him move in the slightest. The kid came down from the table to greet him, but he was also coldly thrown back.

After the emperor praised the prince's son, he turned his head and remembered that the eldest brother's eldest son was four years old this year, so he asked him to get up and asked, "Is this child here today?" ”

The eldest brother was more applauded, and said with a smile: "Follow him." ”

"Good, good. Call me over in a moment. "The emperor said.

No brother was specifically mentioned in the back. The third elder brother was ready to tell the emperor how to reply, and he still thought in his heart that he forgot to tell his son two sentences before going out, his eldest son is also four years old, and the poem he taught a few days ago I don't know if I can recite it smoothly now.

didn't expect the emperor to be gone, and seeing that the emperor had turned his head to ask about the sons and grandsons of the ministers' families, he suddenly felt very lost.

The fourth elder brother saw that the third elder brother was drinking wine tastelessly, and raised his glass to him sympathetically. The third elder brother and his younger brother looked at each other, and the two brothers sighed lightly with the same illness.

The fourth elder brother was also thinking about his eldest brother just now, and he was also worried that the eldest elder brother was born in a small month, and he was born in Layue, saying that he was four years old, which was really a year younger than a few cousins. And this kid is a little more serious, if he is really called, he can't compare to a few cousins in the same year, I'm afraid he will feel uncomfortable.

Who knows that the emperor is not called. Not only was he disappointed, but he also comforted himself that fortunately he didn't call, and the eldest brother was not prepared for fear that he would make a fool of himself. I don't call it just right. But I felt uncomfortable for a while and kept stirring, and I poured several glasses of cold wine without paying attention, and was stopped by the fifth elder brother next to me.

"Fourth brother, take it easy. And that's not even half the table. "Fifth Brother said.

The fourth elder brother came back to his senses, thanked his younger brother, and suddenly thought that his child seemed to be four years old? I couldn't help asking, "Did you come to your house today?" ”

The fifth elder brother smiled: "It's here, it's in Yikun Palace." "He wasn't interested in the emperor calling his son over to come and see, not to mention that his son must be very popular with Concubine Yi, so what happened just now didn't affect him.

The seventh elder brother came to toast, and specially drank three glasses with the fourth elder brother, he and the fourth elder brother were not so affectionate before, it was this time to go out of the palace to build a mansion, the fourth elder brother specially took care of him twice, and he remembered the affection, just now I saw that the fourth elder brother looked wrong, so he came over to make a mistake.

The fourth elder brother also remembers the seventh elder brother, because this younger brother has been pitiful recently, which makes him feel like an elder brother, and after taking care of him a few times, he seems to have a sense of responsibility. ”

"It's all pretty haode." The seventh elder brother said, "My eldest elder brother didn't bring it in this year. "Where can I bring it in? Even Dai Jia's concubine had to go to Concubine De's palace to have a New Year's banquet. "Bring it another day for the fourth brother to see." His eldest brother is three years old.

"Okay." The fourth elder brother was happy, this was the first time that the younger brother took the initiative to show him the family. He was interested, and simply said, "Pick a time, let's come out and get together." ”

The fifth elder brother was also interested, and came over and said, "How do you get together?" I'll bring my family with me. A group of little brothers, watching them play ball? ”

Helplessly, the fourth elder brother and the seventh elder brother were not good at ball games, and shook their heads when they heard the words. The fourth elder brother thought for a while and said, "I have a few good dogs in my house, why don't you take them for a run?" Hunt some pheasants and rabbits. ”

The seventh elder brother likes to ride a horse very much, his legs and feet are not dexterous, and it is not easy to see it when he gets on the horse, so he nodded and said, "This is good." I'm planning to get a pony for my eldest brother to keep from an early age. ”

The three of them were talking too lively, and the third elder brother hooked his head and shouted to them: "What are you talking about?" As soon as he heard that he was going to take the sons of each family out for a walk, he hurriedly said, "Count me as one." ”

When the brothers talked about it, they mixed it up behind the banquet. When he left the palace, he still had a smile on his face.

The New Year passed quickly, thinking about taking the eldest brother out with his cousins, and the fourth elder brother took the eldest brother to ride a horse every day in the past few days. I'm afraid that he won't be interested alone, so I brought Da Gege and Er Gege with me.

Who knows that when it comes to horseback riding, the most haode is a big grid, and the least haode is actually a second grid. This made the fourth elder brother very surprised. Ergege is not afraid of horses or dare not ride, she is very energetic every time she goes up, and the horse slave waiting next to her has to repeatedly remind her not to grasp the reins too tightly, Zuihou has to quietly grab a reins in his hand, and find that she tightens his side and loosens it a little.

The problem is that Ergege will stumble every time she gets on and off the horse, and the first time she tripped her foot, she almost fell face down on the ground, which scared the people around her into a cold sweat. Manu and the eunuch who followed the horse threw themselves on the ground to cushion her, and the other dared to rush up and hug her. When the fourth elder brother jumped down from the horse and ran over to take Ergege into his arms, Manu and the eunuch who followed the horse had already knelt on the ground and broke their heads.

The fourth elder brother's eyes were about to burst into flames: "Drag it down and fight." ”

Because of their young age, the little masters were afraid that they would not be skilled, so after they got on the horses, the manu and the eunuchs had to check whether they were sitting firmly, whether there was anything wrong with the saddle and bridles, and so on.

This was obviously the negligence of Manu and the eunuch who followed the horse.

When Ergege got on the horse for the second time, the fourth elder brother didn't want to be bystanding, and stood in front of her horse and stared, and then he found the problem.

Ergege seems to be in a hurry, when she gets on the horse, she will not wait for the first foot to step up, the second foot will jump up, and when she gets off the horse, she will not wait for the first foot to hit the ground, and the person will jump on the ground in a hurry, and the result is that the person is planted downward.

It took the fourth elder brother a day to teach Ergege to get on and off the horse correctly and safely, but he was not annoyed at all, he just thought that it was time for Ergege to practice his temperament. Who is this acute son like?

In the evening, he mentioned this to Li Wei, and said, 'This is all like you, right?' 's expression.

How can it be? Li Wei said in her heart, she has a standard procrastination, acute? The distance between this word and her is like her and Fujin, don't look at everyone who knows each other, but they can't get together in this life.

She secretly looked at the fourth elder brother, isn't this just a standard acute child? Ask someone else.

The fourth elder brother put his arm around her and said, "I think Ergege is like you, and you probably didn't know how to ride horses when you were a child." After talking about looking at her, she was not angry just now, what about this time?

Li Wei is stuck, she really can't pack a ticket and say that she is very good at horseback riding. From the age of six when she learned to ride a horse until she was ten years old, she let her family lead the horse on the grange, and never ran a horse herself.

Seeing that she had no confidence, the fourth elder brother smiled proudly, patted her comfortingly, and said, "Don't worry, Ergege will have you and me in the future, and it's okay if you can't ride a horse." ”

The next day, he assigned two tall horseback eunuchs to Ergege, who were in charge of getting on and off the horse with Ergege. Even when the horse is running, someone must run with the horse to prevent her from having problems at all times.

Back in the small courtyard, Ergege was also detained by Li Wei to draw embroidery patterns, a very simple-looking magpie Dengmei picture, it would take her at least two days to draw it, enough to grind her temperament, right?

After solving the second grid, Li Wei's rest of the matter is all about raising the fetus. Although the doctor said that she and the child were fine, because of the premature birth of Ergege for no reason, Mama Liu and Yuhua were very nervous.

At the beginning of the first month, the child was already four months old, and she was still asked to lie in bed.

"There's no need, right?" Li Wei discussed with the fourth elder brother and said, "It's been four months, you can get up and move a long time ago, and if you lie down, the child will grow too big." ”

The fourth elder brother took a persimmon and stuffed it into her mouth, and asked her, "It's so cold outside, what are you doing going out?" ”

"Look at the scenery, let's take a walk. The snow scene is also very beautiful. Li Wei ate persimmons angrily.

With her words, in the afternoon, the fourth elder brother asked people to move in four pots of plums, red plums, white plums, yellow plums, and green calyx plums. Among them, Huang Lamei was one person tall, planted in a pot the size of a millstone, carried in by three eunuchs, and placed in the middle of the hall, as if a tree had been planted in the house.

Li Wei asked people to remove all the incense in the house, and the aroma of four pots of plum blossoms almost covered the entire house, not remote at all, but very explosive and shocking.

The next day, the fourth elder brother actually asked someone to send a pot of fog.

Zhang Desheng, who came in with a flower pot, said with a smile: "It took people to spray water overnight to freeze like this, but it was not long before it was placed in the house." ”

Li Wei was looking at the half-human-tall dwarf pine, its thick green branches all covered with ice crystals. Yushu Qiongzhi, there is no other description. But as Zhang Desheng said, vaguely by noon, the ice crystals gradually melted. Li Wei was worried that such a sudden cold and heat would hurt the pine tree and make people carry it outside.

As a result, Zhang Desheng brought another pot in the afternoon, "There are several pots that are frozen, Gege doesn't have to worry, there is a gardener to take care of it, and the tree will not be injured." ”

At night, the small courtyard was actually lit with ice lanterns, jade rabbit Qiongyao, flower treasure pots, carp unicorns, and so on. All of them were placed in the small courtyard, and the jade bottle opened the window, but let people put up a screen in front of the kang to block the wind blowing in from the window, and said: "Ge Ge slightly appreciates it, it's not fun to be frozen." ”

Sure enough, she only watched for half an hour before closing the window.

When the fourth elder brother came and asked her if she looked good, she first nodded and said that it was good-looking, and then said that it was too troublesome to only watch it for such a short time.

"What's the fuss about this?" He took off his cotton robe, sat on the kang with only a single coat, and said, "I can let you see them at a glance." ”

What she meant was that it wouldn't be too exciting. Forget it, he definitely doesn't understand what it means to tell Brother Huang that he will move the people.

The fourth elder brother ate a bowl of cheese, asked people to remove the kang table, and after waving everyone away, only the two of them were in the room with her, and after thinking about how to phrase it for a long time, Zuihou still lowered his head and squeezed her hand and said lightly: "When you give birth to this child, I will ask people to make your share of the side blessing." ”

He met her gaze and sighed, "What I thought before was that no matter whether your child is male or female, I will ask you to be sealed when he is born." But looking at it now, you may have to be wronged for a few years in name. I just want you to remember that in my heart I don't want to wronged you. ”

To say that Li Wei is not disappointed, it is a bit hypocritical. Side Fujin and Fujin are almost the same. Huang Taiji has five great blessings, all of whom are wives. The Han people say that the Manchurians have no rules, except for the brother and the younger brother, that is, there is no distinction between this concubine. But except for the emperor's harem, which has to set an example for the day, the rest of the clan mansions are almost all large.

has the opportunity to be a side Fujin, of course she is not willing to continue to be a Gege. It's just that this treatment has been raised, and the reputation has not kept up, which makes people feel weak and lacking confidence.

However, if the fourth elder brother didn't tell her this, she wouldn't feel that she should become a side Fujin. When he said it, she suddenly realized: Oh, it turns out that I can be a side Fujin.

But he seemed to have changed his mind on the spur of the moment, which made her both curious and worried.

She guessed that there would be no objection in the mansion, and that Fujin's character and authority were there. That's what happened out there?

She couldn't help but ask, "Is there something going on outside?" ”

The fourth elder brother had a sense of novelty, this was the first time that Su Su took the initiative to ask him about him outside. was reminded of the things outside the house that made him afraid and worried, he subconsciously hugged her hard, and said gently: "It's nothing, you don't have to worry about that." ”

Yes, you don't need to know that. As long as it's like this.

Every time I go to this small courtyard, it's like going to Taoyuan Township. There are no worries and sorrows, only laughter. Here, he is the heaven above the heads of his wife and daughter, and he can do anything.

After going out, he was the fourth elder brother who trembled in front of the emperor, the fourth elder brother who felt complicated in the face of the prince and the eldest elder brother, and the fourth elder brother who hesitated and lacked confidence in front of the eighth elder brother and other junior elder brothers. It's the son who doesn't know what to do with Yonghegong. It is a master who is not confident enough for the minions.

He stroked her already undulating belly, and said with tenderness: "You just give birth to this child with peace of mind, there is a master outside." The master will earn you and the child a decent return. ”

In the first month, the emperor ordered the southern tour, but said that it would not increase the taxes in various places, and all the expenses of the southern tour would be borne by the capital. The fourth elder brother didn't hear the news in advance, and now he enters the palace less and less, and his connection with the palace is no longer close. In the past, I could still get news from the prince, but after he sealed Baylor, there was less contact with the prince.

He didn't know about it until the emperor's decree came down.

To tell the truth, when he heard that the emperor was going to tour the south, and the edict also said not to disturb the people, he felt annoyed for a while. The emperor first conquered Geerdan, and after three years of fighting, the treasury was at least half empty, not to mention that there was no son. In the second year after the conquest of Geldan, that is, last year, he went on a tour of the east with the empress dowager, and he was still surrounded by outsiders. This year, I will go on a southern tour again.

In addition, in the past two years, there have been expenses such as the opening of the mansion by the elder brother, the wedding, and the knighthood. Does the treasury really have the money to support this southern tour?

But the emperor obviously didn't plan to care about this, he said that he was going to tour south in the first month, and he would go on the road in February. It is equivalent to patrolling and asking the treasury to raise money for him.

The prince was anxious, and now this matter is all on him. The emperor is walking happily, if he doesn't raise the money as soon as possible, let the emperor swim halfway to become the commander of the light pole? The emperor can save no matter how he wants, but he can protect the army, the honor guard, and the large group of people who are waiting with him can't be saved. Thousands of people, just the carriages and horses can spend the treasury.

The eighth elder brother led the Internal Affairs Office, and his busy feet did not touch the ground, and he lost weight in less than ten days. Even he couldn't imagine that the emperor would leave when he said he would go, and he would tour the south when he said that he would tour south. Where does the money come from? I had to move money from other places first. But that's not going to work.

As a last resort, he begged to see the prince.

Since he jumped out, he used to be able to gossip with the prince, but now he doesn't deal with it at all. But the emperor's side spends money like running water, he can't do it alone, and the prince definitely can't do it alone. The two of them must breathe: how can this money be spent to satisfy the emperor, but not to trap the two of them as a back-up?

In fact, the prince has already counted, but this word cannot come from him. Seeing that the eighth elder brother was coming, he also had a sad face, and the eighth elder brother asked for a plan, but he just shook his head.

Several times were fruitless, and the two sat down to drink stuffy tea. Just after the holy car passed Mount Tai, the various supplies sent from Beijing were finally unable to be received. Although the food and drink of the accompanying ministers of the escort army can be purchased locally, it is impossible to purchase all the things used by the emperor locally.

Every time Jingzhong sent it, in addition to the music, the most of them were what the emperor was accustomed to eating, drinking, and wearing. So as soon as this side was broken, the emperor immediately found out.

Immediately after, the prince and the eighth elder brother's plea was handed over urgently for 800 miles, and the excerpt was sent with a detailed list of the embarrassment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the national treasury. No money, no things, nothing.

The eighth elder brother really can't help it, he lost ten pounds when he wrote this guilty excerpt. If there is a way, he will not lose the emperor. The crown prince knew that the emperor would not be angry, and he would continue to patrol the south. He just threw this problem back to the emperor and let him solve it.

The holy car stopped in Shandong for half a month before continuing to go down, and the eighth elder brother and the prince also received news that the Chen family, the Cao family, and the Sun family in Jiangnan gathered the strength of the three families, and they were talking about serving the emperor's grace, in short, they took out the money.

Although the eighth elder brother was relieved, what was even more surprising was how could these three families in Jiangnan have so much money?

After the prince heard the news, he stood in the study and smiled for a long time at a picture of spring rain in the south of the Yangtze River. These families should be using Jiangnan's taxes next year

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