Chapter 218: The Emperor Ran Away
The busy and 'simple' New Year has finally come to an end.
Compared with the previous New Year, Li Wei actually felt that the plain version of the New Year was more relaxed. Many invitations sent by people can be replied to with one reason, but my grandfather won't let me.
Tian's Hongjing often came to the house to play after fifteen, and only Hongshi could play with him. What she didn't expect was that Hongjing was actually a very naΓ―ve character, and he could say to her without scruples on the first day, "Auntie, I want to pee." β
It turned out that Hongjing was squatting and urinating when he was young, and he would pee on his pants when he was standing, and then he would cry. But squatting on him is ugly, and he often suffocates his pants. When he and Hiroshi were running wildly in the garden, Hiroshi was anxious to urinate and asked his subordinates to form a circle, take out his chickens and chickens, and put water on the spot.
But Hongjing couldn't, he also knew that it would be even more embarrassing if he peed his pants at someone else's house, so he was so anxious to run back to the East Courtyard to find her.
Why? Because when Tian coaxed him to squat obediently to pee, he always held his hand and accompanied him.
He doesn't even want a nurse, just Tian's.
After Li Wei found out the truth of the matter, she couldn't help but smile and peed with him once. The next day, Tian probably heard what the next person said last night, so he asked someone to send a gift from Daoqian.
In fact, this made her feel that Tian's was not so bad. Although her personality is a little mean, she really loves Hongjing. After receiving Tian's gift, she said that she welcomed Hongjing to come and play often in the future.
Within two days, Tian actually came to the door to thank him in person.
"It's all because I asked you to pee with you once at home, and he has to learn to pee standing up after he goes back." Tian's face was red with joy, and said: "If you can't learn, you won't dare to come to Hongshi to play again, it's really a blessing for your family!" β
Originally, there was no snow this winter, and the fact that he couldn't build a snowman to play with the snow made Hiroshi very unhappy, but now that he has a new partner, Hiroshi is happy.
So Li Wei also said to Tian: "Hongshi is also very happy to have Hongjing as a companion, so that Hongjing often comes, and he will not suffer a loss in my place." β
In addition to Hongjing, Hongyun also has Honghui from the Five Masters' Mansion coming to the door.
Compared with Ergege, who could only play alone at home for a long time, Hongyun and Hongshi already had a lot of friends who came to the door.
Li Wei had thought before that because of her discord with Fujin, Ergege and Hongyi had to have estrangement from their brothers and sisters in the same house. She felt very sorry for the children.
Now that feng shui is turning, she is still worried. It's just that this time I'm worried about whether the parents behind these children who come to the door have bad intentions.
But even so, she didn't restrict Hongyun and Hongshi from making friends. There are many kinds of friends, just like her and Tian and Nala, the reason why everyone came together is definitely not so pure, but being friends is fate, and when there are no major differences, you might as well turn a blind eye.
In addition, there is another major event, after fifteen, the emperor quickly ordered the fourth master to lead the errand of the household department. This is one. The second is that the emperor followed him and went on a southern tour.
The first month of the new year left without any delay, and also took the king of Zhijun and the crown prince with him.
Li Wei, who was fast, didn't react. But after seeing that the fourth master was so busy that her feet didn't touch the ground, she felt that the emperor was ...... This is an escape, right?
She can also see the fourth master's errand so far, that is, to clean up the arrears of the household. After the emperor ordered the emperor to go out on patrol again, there were more people asking for help, and many gifts were piled up into a mountain, until one day she saw a golden Buddha with a foot high! was so frightened that after she asked the fourth master, she refused to accept all gifts from then on!
In the east courtyard, the fourth master comforted her and said: "The emperor also knows in his heart, and he deliberately took away the king of Zhijun and the crown prince, but he was afraid but he was not embarrassed." None of them are in Beijing, so I can show it. β
It is the uncle who owes the silver, and this truth has been in the Qing Dynasty.
She was very worried and said, "But this is a job that offends people, right?" "Fourth Master, you are really the Emperor of the Cup.
He shook his head with a smile, took her hand and said, "You're wrong." β
The fourth master, who was very happy, gave her a big lesson on borrowing and repaying silver.
To sum up, borrowing silver is for face, but not everyone can hold on to the silver with peace of mind and not pay it back. As for now, everyone is just looking for a suitable time to repay the money.
The fourth master made an analogy: "For example, two people owe silver, one is one hundred taels, and the other is ten thousand taels." If he can speak, find the right time, and return a hundred taels will make the emperor happy, remember that he is a loyal minister, and he will be loyal to the emperor wholeheartedly. But if he doesn't find the right time, he will pay back 10,000 taels, which is also a sinful body. β
That's easy to understand.
Naturally, he hoped that the emperor would be happy. Even she understands that there are many things to make friends happy with 100 yuan and 10,000 yuan to make friends resentful. The former is still good friends, and the latter may turn against each other.
The fourth master said with a smile: "Everyone is waiting for this opportunity. At this time, the first one to return the money is the target of the public. β
"That's what I understand. If the amount is not enough, I don't dare to pay it back first, and if there are people above, it depends on the meaning of the people above, and if there are factions, it depends on everyone's thoughts. So......" She was talking happily when she suddenly realized that something wasn't quite right down there.
"So no one pays back the money now?!"
Facing her shocked expression, the fourth master nodded deeply, and then smiled: "Isn't it?" A group of people are looking around with their necks stretched, afraid that they will jump out at the wrong time and sink themselves into the pit. β
Therefore, it is not difficult to collect cash, but how to create an opportunity for everyone to take out the silver with confidence is the problem?
"The money in our house hasn't been touched yet, so let's wait and see." He sighed.
Even the fourth master said that he would have to wait to repay the silver, which shows what other people in the capital think.
This kind of complex political struggle is not her strong point, just listen to it. The big question before her is this: this is a draft year.
When Li Cang's daughter-in-law, Tong Jiashi, came to visit her, she said: "The street is now crowded with people, and some people come to our house to ask if they can rent two rooms to live in." I heard that many of them set off from home last year and spent the New Year on the road. β
In the year of the draft, the capital was stuffed with show girls.
Li Wei also heard about it, but she heard it from her two uncles.
She said: "I heard from my uncle that they haven't had a day off since the beginning of the year. First, the emperor went out, and then followed by the show girl entering Beijing. β
Tong Jiashi also knew that during the Chinese New Year, she also specially asked someone to send New Year's goods to her two uncles' houses, afraid that they would not be able to take care of eating, and there was no woman at home to help them, so she specially sent a family to help watch the door and cook and clean up the house.
"There are also quite a few people who are quite pitiful. Thousands of miles away, coinciding with the Chinese New Year, the capital is wide and strict, and many people want to come to rent a house early for the New Year, and they are all called to the suburbs of Beijing. As soon as Tong Jiashi said this, Li Wei heard the voice.
Let's start by saying that someone asked about renting, and then it's pitiful that the people in the draft didn't get a rented house.
Speaking of which, the Li family now has a small population and many empty houses, so it doesn't matter how many rooms you rent. But what worries Li Wei is that it is possible that the Li family is short of silver? She herself has a golden and noble life, not to mention that the Li family's previous days were also well-off, and Li Wenbi rose all the way to become an official.
The Li family shouldn't be short of silver.
Li Wei turned many thoughts in an instant, and asked Tong Jiashi: "The family wants to rent a house for the show girl?" Short of silver? β
Tong Jiashi thought about it for a while, and still whispered to her: "A letter came from Ama the year before last, and Eniang said that Amma's money was spent, so she didn't send silver to her home, and told us to hurry up." β
Li Wei's eyes immediately widened. The year before last! She only knows now!
Tong Jiashi hurriedly said: "We don't tell my aunt and grandmother, and we don't want to worry about you." Outside, Amma, Eniang, and your brother all mean this. It's not easy for you to be in the house, so let's not make a mess for you. β
Li Wei took a few deep breaths and said, "I won't talk about it before, what is going on, tell me about it." β
In short, Li Wenbi is relatively sparse, in other words, he is a good person. He was an official outside, liked to make friends with literati and scholars, and also liked to sponsor students from poor families. This is all a good thing, not to mention that there is a daughter of Dangbeile Ye Fujin in Beijing, and he receives three festivals and two birthdays every year, and Bing Jing and Tan Jing are not decimals, which is enough for his family to live outside, and he can also send some to his family.
Since the year before last, there has been a matter of the Jingli Society clearing the arrears of the household department. Li Wenbi was in the officialdom, of course, he couldn't avoid vulgarity, so he borrowed 500 taels from the crowd. When he heard the news, he had the silver ready early.
There are also those who don't want to owe silver like him, but there are a few who have already prepared the silver. Someone came to the door to borrow money.
After discussing with the two masters sent by the fourth master, Li Wenbi quietly checked the silver owed by the local officials. If you want to investigate other people's private affairs, you naturally have to deal with them as friends. Therefore when there were merchants who came to borrow money, he borrowed most of them.
Naturally, I didn't plan to get it back.
After the word spread about his righteousness and squandering wealth, more people came to borrow money. Slowly, even Li Wenbi's side began to be stretched.
After Brother Li Cang found out, he sent the family's silver over to help his father solve his urgent needs.
Having said this, Li Wei already understood Tong Jia's intention. Asking if he could rent a house for the show girl was an excuse, the point was to ask her when Li Wenbi's predicament outside would be resolved.
Sending Tong Jia's family away, Li Wei waited intently for the fourth master to come, and kept thinking about how to ask when he said this.
After two or three days, the fourth master came to the backyard again. Seeing that his face looked like he had been touched by a ghost, she swallowed back the words that came to her mouth. Before Tong Jiashi left, she gave her a silver ticket of 1,000 taels, which could probably help Li Wenbi support her outside for a while.
Quietly waited for him to eat, wash, change clothes and rest.
Seeing that he seemed to be distracted all the time, she didn't bother, just quietly chattered on the side. He said she was the best looking when she sat sideways under the lamp.
She kept her face to him.
It took him a long time before he sat up. She hurriedly put down the things in her hand and served him tea, and looked at him drinking tea with a gentle smile, as if she had melted away with happiness.
Her hard performance was not disappointed, he put down the tea and breathed a sigh of relief, held her hand and said lightly: "If the Fourteenth Fujin comes tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, you will see you." β
has no head and no brain, the Fourteenth Fujin will come, that is, the Fourteenth Master has made his brother angry.
She rubbed his hand and gently squeezed it in his palm: "Fourteenth Master made you angry?" β
The fourth master snorted heavily, his expression was like an angry King Kong. She hurriedly smoothed the hair again, and finally smoothed the master's hair. In fact, he is not very angry, and if he is really angry, he will not come back.
So, is this actually his little pleasure? I'm angry, so you're going to coax me or something?
Li Wei thought with a big brain.
The next day, the Fourteenth Fujin really came. I went to see Fu Jin first, and then I came to see her.
asked Li Wei, who originally wanted to go to the main courtyard, to save trouble.
The Fourteenth Fujin gave a gift, calling it his sister-in-law, saying that the Fourteenth Master would regret it when he went back, but he didn't dare to come to the door to ask the fourth brother for forgiveness.
Li Wei didn't believe what she said. Although she hadn't seen Fourteen more times, it could be seen from the words of the fourth master that Fourteen would never 'regret it so much', and it might be true that she didn't dare to come to the door.
"I've written down everything you said, and I'll mention it to him as soon as our master comes back." Li Wei said politely.
Fourteen Fujin didn't stay long, it seemed that her task would be completed after saying the words, as for whether the fourth master would forgive Fourteen, she didn't care at all.
After she left, Li Wei asked someone to send some of the gifts from the Fourteen Fujin to the front, which looked like they were prepared for the fourth master. Probably the Fourteenth Master borrowed the hand of the Fourteenth Fujin and gave it to the Fourth Master as a daoqian.
In the front yard, Su Peisheng took something from Zhao Quanbao's hand, and he didn't dare to open it to look at it and held it to the study.
In the study, the fourth master was playing chess with Dai Duo. As soon as Su Peisheng came in, Dai Duo got up and said, "The students go out for a walk." β
The fourth master nodded, Dai Duo bowed and retreated, and the two nodded to each other when they passed by Su Peisheng's side.
Dai Duo often came and went in the study, and Su Peisheng was a little more casual with him. People look like 'themselves' anymore.
Su Peisheng put the gift on the table in front of the fourth master and said, "This is what Master Li asked someone to send it, and it was said that the Fourteenth Fujin had just sent it." β
The fourth master took a deep breath and opened the gift box, which contained a Mongolian waist knife. The handle of the knife is a horn, because it has been used for a long time, the handle of the knife is as warm as jade when the hand is rubbed, as if it is wrapped in a layer of pulp.
This was rewarded by the emperor when he was fourteen years old, and he carried it every day for a while.
The fourth master just looked at it coldly.
Su Peisheng wondered why the fourth master didn't pick it up and take it out to try the knife? Although their grandfather is not good at martial arts, he also likes these bows, arrows, and knives, and there are a lot of them in the warehouse.
"Put it away." The fourth master said.
Su Peisheng hurriedly responded, put the lid on the box and went out. It seems that this thing is not pleasing to the master, and it probably will never see the light of day. When they arrived at the warehouse, the eunuch guarding the warehouse hurriedly greeted: "Grandpa Su, why did you come in person?" The little one for you to hold? β
The waist knife and box were also very heavy, and Su Peisheng shook his head and said, "Okay, hurry up and open the door." β
"Yes, yes." The eunuch hurriedly opened the door and asked, "Grandpa Su, where do you put this thing?" β
Su Peisheng thought for a moment and said, "Is there any vacancy for the number seventeen?" Just put it in that camphor box. β
The eunuch opened a half-human-high box placed in the corner of the wall, Su Peisheng put the box in, didn't pay attention to the dust, took out a picture embroidered with a galloping horse from the box, wiped his hands, and threw it back.
The eunuch didn't dare to talk about him, so he had to laugh all the time.
In the study, the fourth master remembered what he said yesterday, and he was still gritting his teeth in anger.
He had been blocking Fourteen since the New Year's feast, and he hadn't blocked his people, and he felt that something was wrong at that time. Yesterday, I finally caught him, and when I talked about the errand of the household, I didn't wait for him to say any more, and Fourteen said: "Fourth brother, why can't you remember me for a good thing, this kind of thing knows that I am your brother?" β
The fourth master was choked by his words, and his face was not good-looking, and he frowned: "Thirteen came to me early, I can't wait for you here, what's the matter?" Do you have to ask me, who is my brother, to invite me? β
Fourteen exploded: "You take thirteen less to talk about things!" The emperor wants to tour the south, and the thirteenth has already gone. From before, you have been desperately pushing the thirteenth up, and you used to be able to say that you have to help with the thirteenth princess, and I won't say anything, but now that the thirteenth princess is married, you still push him up, why don't you want to think about me? β
The fourth master knew that he wanted to squeeze into the team of the emperor's southern tour before the fourteenth.
"Then why don't you want to think about it, the emperor just wants you to help me if he keeps you?" The fourth master said, it is clear that the emperor will keep fourteen and take away thirteen, that is, let their brothers of the same mother and compatriots do this errand together.
Fourteen: "You don't hold chicken feathers as arrows!" The emperor didn't say that he would ask me to help you. Don't look for me for this errand that offends! β
was so angry that the fourth master wanted to beat him on the spot, if it weren't for the scruples that he was outside, the two emperors would fight too ugly, and he would definitely not be able to spare him!
In the evening, the fourth master returned to the East Courtyard with a black face.
Li Wei knew that the fourteenth master and the fourth master were definitely incompatible. If he doesn't come to daoqian, the fourth master will still be angry. Now it looks like I'm even more angry.
She continues to be sweet and sweet, caring for every detail.
The fourth master ate the food she coerced, drank the soup she served, and when she changed clothes, she stripped him naked first, and then put them on one by one. She also spread his hair out when he was washing, and then combed it down.
Then laugh while combing.
The depression in his chest had already been rubbed away by her, and when she heard her laugh, he also smiled: "What are you laughing at?" β
Li Wei held back a smile behind her back: "It's nothing, I'm happy to see you." β
The moon head and then spread out the hair is a big killer (cashew nut eyes laugh).