Chapter 149: Night Talk
Su Peisheng saw that the fourth master got up and walked out, and hurriedly took the cloak and waited for the master to put it on, and asked, "The master is going to ...... at this time."
The fourth master stood and asked him to tie his cloak, and said, "Go and see your Master Li." ”
Su Peisheng: "Then the master will come back to rest for a while?" ”
"Hmm." The fourth master went out, and Su Peisheng called Zhang Desheng while asking someone to carry a lantern to follow: "Ask someone to prepare hot water and wait for the master to come back and use it." ”
Zhang Desheng trotted after him for a while and asked, "Master, ...... this supper?"
Su Peisheng scolded in a low voice: "This is all going to Master Li's side, where do you say you are using supper?" A man who doesn't have a brain! ”
Zhang Desheng nodded: "Yes, yes." He sent Su Peisheng away, and when he turned around, he scolded the others: "Go, tell the dining room to keep an eye on the hot water, and when the master comes back, he will make it." ”
A little eunuch reminded him: "Brother Zhang, are you going to tell Grandpa Liu?" The master's supper will be sent when Master Li calls it? ”
Zhang Desheng lowered his teeth and said, "Come on, I'll run it myself." ”
It's in full swing in the dining room. The big and small masters have all returned, and they have worked hard outside for a long day, soaking their feet, washing, and wanting to use something, all pointing at them.
When Zhang Desheng came over, Eunuch Liu was in the stove room, and people came and went. As soon as Eunuch Tu left, the dining room in the front yard was really his own. In the past, there was a eunuch Tu, and everyone had another stove door to add firewood, but now there is no need to bother, Liu Baoquan is outstanding.
This made Zhang Desheng feel very uncomfortable. He has been a grandson in front of Su Peisheng since he was seven or eight years old, from calling him brother at the beginning, to calling him master now, and he is also waiting for the master. But Eunuch Liu, who came to wait in the middle of the half, has ascended to the sky in one step, and there is Su Peisheng above him.
stayed up until Su Peisheng stepped down, and he estimated that he was almost really a 'grandfather'.
What's more, he flattered him in front of Su Peisheng, it was his little apprentice, but the master didn't treat him as a person. In the eyes of the master, there is his master and Zhang Bao, but there is no him.
Zhang Desheng's heart was so sour that he drank an urn of old vinegar, standing at the door of the stove and waiting. When Eunuch Liu came out, he hurriedly called a thousand, and said with a smile on his face: "Hello Grandpa Liu, are you always busy?" My master asked me to come and talk to you, the master is going to see our master Li, this supper will wait for the east courtyard to call, and you can send it again. ”
Eunuch Liu took two red bean buns that had just come out of the cage and gave them to him, and said, "Good boy, it's hard for you to remember to tell me on such a cold day, your master has taught me well." Take the sweet mouth. ”
Eunuch Liu's hand even dared to touch the stove, his hand was hot, Zhang Desheng took the two red bean buns, so hot that he smoked the cold air, and returned to the tea room with both hands and hurriedly put it in the tea tray, and then saw that the palms of his hands were hot, he scolded while blowing: "This old bastard is angry with me, you have the ability to find the right master!" ”
The little eunuch in the teahouse said attentively: "Brother Zhang, why don't I break an ice skate under the eaves for you?" ”
Zhang Desheng scolded: "Don't go yet!" ”
The little eunuch went quickly, happily returned, his frozen hands were red, holding three big ice skates, not to mention, he circled around Zhang Desheng intimately, one brother at a time, and finally smoothed Zhang Desheng's hair.
Zhang Desheng was beautiful, and asked him with a smile: "You kid is clever, what's your name?" Go back and brother to promote you. ”
The little eunuch smiled and narrowed his eyes: "Little Wang Yicheng, there is an elder brother named Wang Chaoqing, who is also waiting in our front yard, the one who is in charge of cutting paper in the master's study." ”
Zhang Desheng was a little impressed, and then looked at the little eunuch, who was really a bit similar to that Wang Chaoqing, and said happily: "It's my brother, isn't it?" You two brothers have cut it, don't you want this incense in your house? ”
Wang Yicheng smiled very sincerely, and said: "My father and mother are all dead, and our brothers can't even earn a stutter, so how can we care about the incense?" ”
Zhang Desheng saw that the two Wang brothers were more unlucky than him, and his heart was much more comfortable, and he was not in vain by Wang Yicheng's courtesy, and said: "Don't say that my brother doesn't take care of you, I will send supper to the East Courtyard in a while, and you will follow." ”
Wang Yicheng was so happy that he almost didn't know what was good, took out his purse from his arms, poured out the broken silver inside, counted it, and gave it all to Zhang Desheng with a gritted tooth.
Zhang Desheng couldn't pull it out when he saw the broken silver piece in his eyes, he liked the filial piety of the little eunuchs more than the master's reward. How does this also seem that he has an identity, doesn't it?
After receiving Wang Yicheng's silver, he was satisfied and mentioned him again: "You kid doesn't often go to the back, my brother will teach you another sentence: Master Li of this East Courtyard, that's this." He gave a thumbs up, "If you can always walk around her, it will be better than waiting in this tearoom!" ”
It's okay outside, Zhang Desheng is in the tearoom listening to Wang Yicheng's flattery. Wang Yicheng's tongue was sweet and smooth, and he was like a fairy. After a while, someone came from outside, called Zhang Desheng: "Brother Zhang, the people from the East Courtyard have come to order dinner, look ......?"
Wang Yicheng's eyes lit up immediately, Zhang Desheng got up and patted him: "Let's go, boy." ”
When I got outside, the people in the dining room had already prepared the food box. Four boxes, two of which contain small charcoal stoves, each with a watermelon-sized clay pot with a big belly and a small mouth. The mouth of the tank was sealed, leaving only a few holes on it to vent out, and hot gas was sprayed outward.
Eunuch Liu's senior disciple Xiaoluzi said: "Only half of the charcoal is added to prevent the soup from becoming cold along the way." When you get to the east courtyard, put the tea stove on the hot one, and you can serve it when you see it rolling. ”
Zhang Desheng nodded, Xiao Luzi looked at Wang Yicheng, who was almost clinging to him, and said happily: "Brother Zhang, where is this person?" Why does it stick to you like goldfish? ”
Wang Yicheng is thick-skinned, as if Xiao Luzi was joking with him.
Zhang Desheng scolded with a smile: "Your kid's mouth is really dirty!" ”
Su Peisheng and Liu Baoquan don't deal with each other, but Zhang Desheng and Xiao Luzi are in the same disease, they both have a master to wait for, they are the master when they go out, and they are the grandsons when they come back. The two occasionally sat together to drink a little wine and scolded the master, both of which were quite comfortable.
Xiao Luzi felt that Wang Yicheng was a talent, so Brother Lu called him.
Zhang Desheng also wanted to see the stall, so he asked Wang Yicheng and the eunuch in the other study to follow, Zhao Quanbao in the East Courtyard, plus the small road in the dining room, and the three groups of people stared at the four meal boxes together, and brought the food to the East Courtyard.
Stepping back into the east courtyard, Wang Yicheng didn't dare to look up and look around. The snow on the ground was swept clean, and a huge snow sculpture rooster was piled up in the yard, which was as tall as a man. There was also a little eunuch next to him who was gently watering it so that it could freeze.
The east and west wings were lit up, and there were many people inside, and the sound of talking could be vaguely heard.
Even the side room next to the main house in front of him was lit up, and Zhao Quanbao lightened his feet when he saw it. The curtain in the teahouse poked out and beckoned to them, and Zhao Quanbao took the lead to go there. The people in the tea room raised the curtains so that they could come in, and Xiao Luzi brought out all the meals in the lunch box, and whispered: "There is a small charcoal stove, and the dishes will not be cold, sister try it?" ”
Yuyan smiled: "You are a monkey, you will be embarrassed, how can you tell me to try?" As he spoke, he glanced at the people who came, and saw that there was a new-eyed Wang Yicheng, so he deliberately smiled at him.
Zhao Quanbao went out to find Su Peisheng and asked the eunuch to come in.
When Su Peisheng brought someone and inspected the food in person, Xiao Luzi and the others could retire. Wang Yicheng deliberately left a step to ask Su Peisheng for peace.
Su Peisheng had an impression of him, and he brought the Wang brothers back. Seeing that he could ask Zhang Desheng to send him over today, he knew that this kid still had some eyes-if he didn't feed his apprentice, he wouldn't be willing to give this good errand to others.
He nodded and signaled, 'I know you', and Wang Yicheng stepped back gratefully.
Yuyan went to find the jade bottle, the meal is ready, will the masters use it here or later?
No matter how angry Su Peisheng is, at this time, he has to listen to other people's orders. After a while, the jade bottle opened the curtain and came in, and he said politely: "Miss Jade bottle, are the master and Master Li having dinner now?" Why don't you ask? ”
The jade bottle said with a smile: "The master and our master Li are talking, I think it will be better in a while." ”
Su Peisheng nodded: "Then it's a while." ”
And a room full of people went to their own way. Only Yuyan is guarding the lunch box here.
The jade bottle returned to the house lightly, and listened to the curtain between the west side, and the master inside was talking: "...... Actually, it's nothing, but when I came back, the two children were trying to persuade me. ”
In the house, the fourth master took her hand and sat together, and she said slowly: "Hongyu and Erhe both know it in their hearts, and I can't coax them with words now." ”
She sighed softly, looked at the fourth master, and saw him leaning on the pillow with his eyes slightly closed. The two of them held hands together, warm. The fourth master's hands are blacker than hers, and the palms are white, and it doesn't seem to have much blood.
Li Wei looked at his nails and asked for beef soup today to replenish his blood qi. After that, I asked him to drink a bowl every day, and his blood and qi were insufficient at this age, which was not a sign of longevity.
The fourth master's hand tightened, the two looked at each other, he smiled, patted his side and said, "Come up and crooked." ”
took off their shoes and went to bed, and the two leaned together for a long time without speaking, both quietly pondering.
After a while, he said softly: "I know about this, don't worry, Fujin has made a mistake." ”
Li Wei sat up, the fourth master's eyes looked at her without avoidance, and said: "She just wants to use this to pinch you, after all, Erhe is a girl's family, no more than Hongyu is a boy." The big Gege of the Zhijun royal family caressed Mongolia, and the girls in the clan couldn't escape. ”
He had thought about this for a long time, and now he could say it with ease.
He looked at the roof beams of the black hole and said, "My ranking is high, and in the past, there were only more girls from the Wang family of Zhijun. Down, there is only one three-grid zhanzhu born to the crown princess in the prince's family, and the child was born in the thirty-sixth year of Kangxi. The third brother's family can now count one, the second Gege born by the third sister-in-law, who is only four years old this year. ”
Li Wei's heart fluttered, and the fourth master still looked at him calmly, and continued: "Our children were born early, and they are all zhanzhu. That's where I suffered......"
"Master!" She squeezed his hand nervously, interrupting his words.
Further down, she was afraid that she would not dare to listen to it.
The fourth master smiled lightly, got up and hugged her and said, "Fool, is it just to scare you by saying so much?" Yierha and Erhe are not in good health, and the master has thought about what to do a few years ago, you are like you, and you will burn incense and kowtow when the matter is coming? ”
He touched her heart, his heart beat very fast, and said softly: "Don't panic, everything is there." I had already thought about what to do on the emperor's side, Fu Jin was a little cautious, but her thoughts couldn't be realized. ”
"How?" Li Wei's hands were shaking, and her fingers were cold.
He held her hand warmly, put it to her ear and said, "She saw the wrong mother." ”
The fourth master sighed and said: "She just praised Erhe a hundred times in front of Niangniang, at most, she asked Niangniang to reward Erhe with more things." Empress...... It is a person who eats the rules into his stomach, and his mind is clear. Whoever stands in front of Niangniang, he doesn't even have to say anything, Niangniang can see him in his bones. ”
Li Wei didn't understand yet, he said: "With the temperament of a mother, even if you see the emperor, you won't talk nonsense." ”
"The rest of the people can't see the emperor. Cheng Concubine gave birth to a seventh brother, and the seventh brother's eldest brother was born in thirty-five years, although he is close to our Erhe, but Cheng Concubine has long been out of favor, the seventh brother ...... With his two guts, he didn't dare to take our family's Erhe to the top. ”
"Thirteen or fourteen don't have daughters at home, so don't worry. Besides, although Fourteen is good friends with the eighth child, he can still distinguish between relatives and relatives, and this matter is in Yonghe Palace, and he will not dismantle Niangniang's platform. ”
"The only one who can open her mouth is Niangniang, but Niangniang won't open this mouth."
After dinner, the two of them lay down after washing, and in the bed tent, the fourth master continued: "Niangniang is cautious, she is from the palace, and her status in front of the emperor is not enough. Other mothers say that children, that is a mother's heart. Niangniang said that it was arrogance, that is, the heart was big, and the emperor would not be happy in his heart, Niangniang knew this. ”
Li Wei listened to some grievances for Concubine De, and remembered that he was also from a Gege, could he think the same way?
She said: "Isn't that lady wronged?" ”
He smiled when he heard this, Su Su was soft-hearted, and he saw that everyone was wronged.
"Niangniang herself doesn't feel wronged. She serves the emperor with all her loyalty, and the emperor also likes such a lady. In Niangniang's place, it is wishful thinking to call Niangniang with a little trick. ”
Fujin's hand actually makes it good. If it weren't a mother, but a concubine, maybe it would have been. Sell it well for your son in front of the emperor, but it's just a granddaughter, didn't the four princesses from the nobles of Concubine Yi's clan soothe the Borzichite clan?
The fourth master is a little complicated in his heart, Fu Jin is gradually maturing, and her methods are really different from when she first entered the elder brother's office. But she didn't go with him. His snub not only did not make her think about flattering him, but instead moved her brains to other places.
This made him quite disappointed and a little frustrated. From Niangniang to Su Su, the women he met were all single-minded about the men who owned them. For example, Niangniang to the emperor, Su Su to him. It's just that Fujin is different.
Her bones were too hard. In the past, it was easy to say that her methods were inferior, but now that her methods and city government have been trained, the trouble she can cause will become bigger and bigger.
This time she didn't have the pulse of the mother, and she may not be so lucky next time.
wants to completely snub Fujin, but take care of Honghui and let him throw a mouse. The child is pure-hearted, sensitive and thoughtful, and he is a half-adult at this age, and in two years he will arrange a girl for him, teach him personnel, and marry a wife in a blink of an eye.
He pondered for a moment and said, "Niangniang likes Erhe, ask her to enter the palace to accompany her, and then you can follow in." The emperor now goes to Niangniang less often, and occasionally goes to sit and sit with tea, you also have to avoid it. ”
When he said this, Li Wei's heart was temporarily put back in her stomach.
The fourth master has a point. According to what he said, Concubine De really wouldn't talk much about Fumeng's affairs, let alone recommend Erhe.
As soon as she relaxed, she hung her heart for another day today, yawned and fell asleep, thinking before going to bed that she would remember to give Erhe a relief tomorrow, and today Fujin asked her to play cards with her mother, and the child's courage was about to be broken.
The fourth master wanted to confess two more words, but as soon as she turned her head, she began to snore. smiled helplessly, put her hand back into the quilt for her, and then tucked the corner of the quilt.
The next time they enter the palace, ask the big mama to follow. The eldest grandmother is familiar with the heads of the palace, and it is really too late to tell him something, and there is a big grandmother who can turn around.
Thinking of Fujin again, he wondered if he should find something to do for Fujin? Draw her gaze away from Su Su?
In his ears was the sound of Su Su's long, soft and soft breathing, and gradually his eyelids were heavy, and he fell asleep unconsciously.
Outside, the jade bottle asked someone to lock the courtyard door, turned to the tea room and asked, "Grandpa Su, do you want to add another brazier?" How nice it would be for you to go to their house and squint for a while. ”
Su Peisheng yawned with his hands and said, "No, no, why bother me to disturb their sleep?" I'll just rely on it. "It's not disgusting enough to sleep in the bunnies' nest.
The jade bottle didn't persuade much, anyway, she was going to take a rest, and said, "Then Grandpa Su, I'll go down first?" There's hot water here, and if you're thirsty, call someone, and leave someone outside. ”
Su Peisheng waved his hand and said, "Go, go, you're tired for a day, go and rest." ”
After the jade bottle left, Su Peisheng took out a fist-sized roasted sweet potato from the hearth, pinched it and buried it back, it was not ripe yet. He suddenly remembered Zhang Desheng in the front yard, and forgot to ask someone to go to the front to say something.
In the front yard, Zhang Desheng saw that Zhao Quanbao didn't come back, and Su Peisheng didn't come back, it was almost ten o'clock, and the master couldn't come back?
A little eunuch in the dining room came to him and asked, "Brother Zhang, there is still water on this stove, and if you burn it again, it will dry, does the master still need it?" ”
Zhang Desheng said angrily: "How do I know? The master's affairs are also what you can ask? ”
The little eunuch turned his back and said, "What's the spirit?" ”
When I went back to the dining room, I saw that only Xiaoluzi was extinguishing the stove, so I hurriedly went over and asked, "Is this closed?" Grandpa Liu didn't say what to do with this water? ”
Xiao Luzi hooked the iron lid and iron hook to the stove and covered it, and said, "Hold it aside, we won't need well water to wash tomorrow morning, how good!" ”
The little eunuch thought about it, and he was happy.
Xiaoluzi checked all the stoves, and it was indeed good, and there was enough firewood left on the haode seal, so that it would not go out after people left. After finishing the matter, he clapped his hands and said, "Then I'll go back to the house and rest, are you here to watch the stove tonight?" ”
The little eunuch nodded, chased after him and asked uneasily: "If the master comes back, then can I call Grandpa Liu again?" ”
Xiao Luzi said: "Don't worry, the East Courtyard is going to wash things, and the master will definitely rest over there and won't come back." ”
This is what his master said, and he is absolutely right!