319 The proud fourth master
It's still dark, and the fourth master has already gotten up.
Li Wei lay with her back to him, listened to him slowly lift the quilt, sat up and got out of bed, opened the bed net and sewed it out and then quickly closed it, then put on her shoes, picked up the clothes on the smoker cage and went out.
The fourth master didn't want her to get up early too, and when she got up early, it was like doing underground work.
She once deliberately pretended to sleep to scare him, and then she just wanted to feel his love (so sour).
But now she was really satisfied, as if he had been so careful to let her sleep a little longer, not to disturb her actions, and to make her happier than to receive his reward.
When she heard the sound of him washing in the outhouse, she got up and put on her clothes and went out.
The fourth master spit out mouthwash, looked up and saw Su Su coming out with his hair draped, and said, "Woke you up again?" Looking at the sky outside, he said, "Let's go back and go back to sleep, it's still early." ”
"I'm not sleepy." She went over to untie his braids for him, and then braided them when she passed them. The fourth master's hair is very good, and he hasn't used a wig until now (...... )。
Wigs were quite common in the Qing Dynasty and were used by both men and women. It is especially used by men.
Li Wei remembers that only men have Mediterranean genes, and even if women carry this gene, they are not dominant (if she gives birth to a son, then the son may be unlucky). So at a glance, even the prince is bald on the British side, but the queen has thick white hair.
The Qing Dynasty was more cunning for men, and there was not much hair in the first place, and half of it had to be shaved off, so the braids on the back of many people's heads were very thin like rat's tails when they were braided.
It is human nature to love beauty, and dark and thick hair is the standard of appreciation.
What should I do if my hair is too little and too thin? Wigs save you.
Generally speaking, there are two ways, either you can bring a fake braid directly, which is usually tied behind the hat. But then you can't take off your hat. The other is only for those who still have hair, and that is to use a wig to braid their hair a little thicker.
For a man of the age of the fourth master, the hair does not need to be wigs, which definitely means that he is still very young and beautiful.
Therefore, after Li Wei finished braiding him, she touched his long braid appreciatively and said, "Master's hair is so black and shiny!" The braids are so thick! ”
The fourth master turned around, revealing a half-pulled blue scalp.
Li Wei was somewhat stuck. 100 days without shaving her head means three months, generally speaking, her hair can be pierced in three months, and Liuhai can pierce her eyes. But here in the fourth master, it is probably because it is shaved and grows slowly? Three months down is the level of the average position. Then there will be some slight rolling.
The fourth master still pays attention to appearance, most of the head shaving and trimming are in the front yard study, and she has never seen him shave his head and face. As soon as I came back, my scalp was shaved clean.
So she has only seen it a few times, such as the death of Concubine Min, the death of Prince Yu Fuquan, etc.
After breakfast, he was about to go to the front, staring at her After drinking Yangrong soup, he got up and said, "It's nothing to do today, I will come back early, if Yikun Palace is fine, you don't have to go back." ”
With that, he put on his hat and went out.
After he left, Li Wei still went back to Yikun Palace to take a look. Erhe and Hongyun are in Yikun Palace, and she is still a little worried. However, Erhe took good care of herself and Hongyun. Li Wei found that Erhe had become more confident since she moved back to her.
may know that there is a mother behind her, so she has confidence.
As soon as Hongyun saw her come in, he stretched out his hand on the couch and shouted: "Eniang! He can finally call Eniang fluently now, just learned this new word makes him particularly fond of showing off, and when he sees her, he can't stop shouting.
Li Wei took off her cloak first, then touched her hands and face to see if it was cold, and only after she was warm did she go to hug Hongyu.
The children didn't go to the Lantern Festival lantern last night, most of the reason was that there were many outsiders entering the palace, and it was too cold in the imperial garden, and she didn't know what time the lantern would be appreciated, so she let people hang the lantern in the Yikun Palace, and let Erhe and Hongyu play in the palace and don't go out.
Erhe called Yilha, Zalafen, and Duanhui here.
After Li Wei sat down, she asked first, "Did you have fun yesterday?" "She came back too late with the fourth master, and she didn't come in when she passed Yikun Palace. Moreover, the lights in Yikun Palace had been extinguished at that time, and it was estimated that Erhe and they had already slept.
"Happy, I had people cut a lot of steamed bread slices to roast and eat, and I also asked people to take sweet potatoes and chestnuts." Erhe said she was worried that Yierha and Zalafen would get angry when she moved out of Xisan, but both quietly comforted her. Ilha told her not to mind: "What is there not haode that you can lighten up?" We were also able to move around in multiple places. ”
Zarafin was very envious and said: "Second sister, you can stay with Li Eniang for a few days, you can live for a few days, you can't ask for this kind of thing." ”
Li Wei heard her say this and asked, "Zalafen wants to recognize Concubine Ke?" ”
He said this as if Zalaffin could not recognize it. But in fact, she hadn't seen Concubine Ke since she was sensible, and when she began to yearn for Eniang, she began to quietly inquire about Concubine Ke. But later the children all moved to the Old Summer Palace, but Concubine Ke still lived in the mansion.
When I entered the palace, the two sides were still too far away. There are all kinds of inconveniences to move around, and Li Wei was forced to move Erhe to Yikun Palace, just to make it convenient to meet. It can be seen that it will only be more difficult for Zalafen to see Concubine Ke now than before.
Erhe nodded and whispered, "Zalafen told me. She said that in the past, it was because the status of concubines was not enough, so she couldn't support them. Now that she and her sister have an identity, she wants to pull Concubine Ke. ”
This pull does not mean to help Ke Concubine compete for favor, but before the son was more expensive than the mother, and now Zalafen wants to make the mother of Ke Concubine more expensive than the son.
"Zalafen discussed it with the eldest sister, and although the eldest sister did not support it, she did not oppose it. Zalafen told me. Erhe also thought that if he could, shouldn't he help Zalafen and Concubine Ke? She doesn't want anything else, she just wants Eniang to have a helper in this palace.
Although Concubine Ke is inconspicuous, sometimes there are one or two people who can speak. In terms of identity, Concubine Ke is not enough, but in terms of seniority, she is more useful than Erhe. Erhe's speech is a matter for children to intervene in adults, and it is different for Concubine Ke to speak.
The eldest sister and Zalafen are both likely to be princesses of Heshuo, and there are two daughters of princesses of Heshuo, and they will both marry in Beijing in the future, and it is not bad for Concubine Ke to have no sons in the second half of her life.
Li Wei heard what Erhe meant, but didn't answer. It's not something that can be decided with a pat on the head, she has to think about it. Ke Concubine, that is, the Song family was suddenly snubbed by the fourth master at the beginning, which is not as simple as these children think. At that time, not long after Zalafen landed, the Song family was removed from the queen's main courtyard, and the two daughters were also raised by the queen.
This kind of approach is almost equivalent to cutting off the back road of the Song family, which shows that the fourth master was quite disgusted with her at the beginning.
Erhe didn't mention it again, although Eniang didn't say anything, but this means not to look at haode. She wanted Concubine Ke to help her mother again, but now she just thought about it. What's more, Eniang wants to use people, except for the queen in the West Sixth Palace, who doesn't want to hug the thighs of Yikun Palace? How long Wang Guiren has been sitting on the cold bench, she still comes to report every day, even if it is just to let people stay for a cup of tea, she is willing.
If E-Niang does not form a gang, there must be E-Niang's own considerations.
Erkh put down this thought, and the next time Zalafen tried her again, he reversed the words, and Zalafen understood what she meant.
Li Wei returned to the Heart Nourishing Hall with a lot of worries, but she didn't expect that the fourth master hadn't come back yet. Let Zhao Quanbao go to the front hall to see if the fourth master is done, his face turned white when he went back, and he whispered back to her: "Master, long live scolding in front." And he stood at the entrance of the temple, and heard the voice of the former temple echoing in the temple.
He was so frightened that he didn't dare to stay longer, and as soon as he turned his head, he slipped back.
Li Wei asked him to go down to suppress the shock, and then let the people in the apse be more vigilant, so as not to go ahead and get in the way of Banzai's eyes. In addition, she was also a little curious, when the fourth master left in the morning, he said that he was okay today, which meant that today's incident was an accident.
Who?
Within two quarters of an hour, she would know.
Because the fourth master blew in like a whirlwind, Li Wei saw that the eunuchs and palace maids waiting in the house were almost half short in an instant.
However, he was not in the habit of being angry with her, so she just calmly stepped forward to wait for him to change his clothes.
After changing his clothes and sitting down, he picked up a book on the kang table, which was still half of what he had read before. She saw that he meant to continue to read calmly, but she held the book and stared at the book with straight eyes, and at a glance she knew that she was still thinking about what had just happened.
Bang!
He threw the book out.
The wire-bound book is actually very sturdy, but when it falls out and slides all the way to the outside of the house, the pages are all scattered. A little wind blew, and a few pages of the book flew lightly. Su Peisheng didn't come in at all just now, and now he asked the little eunuchs to hurry up and chase the books lightly, and they wanted to pick up all the scattered pages.
He's actually quite out of shape like this.
Li Wei asked herself, she had never seen him drop things in the past ten years.
After smashing the book, his anger seemed to settle down. But she knew that he was so angry that he began to endure it.
He can get angry, which means that this is not a big deal, but at the beginning of the patience and silence and pretending that it was okay, she wanted to wax the person who provoked him. She didn't know what happened to the person who was hated by the fourth master before, but now he is the emperor.
Will the person who is hated by the emperor end well?
The fourth master sat for a while, as if his whole body was relaxed, but his back was straight.
"Bring pen and paper." He said.
Wang Chaoqing immediately stepped up with extremely fast and neat, but also incredibly light steps, and then stepped back after sending pen and ink.
Li Wei wanted to step forward to help him grind the ink, but he waved his hand, added water with an inkstone, picked up the ink ingot and grinded it slowly, as if he was thinking about something.
The posture of the fourth master grinding ink is very good-looking, with a Taijiquan-like slow, but murderous taste. It's like a punch, even if it's slow, it's thunderous, and one hit kills.
After he finished inking, he laid out the paper and took the pen, and sat on the desk in one go.
She only saw that he seemed to be writing extremely fast, but he was writing three long pages. After writing, he put it aside to dry, and shouted Su Peisheng: "Go and pass on Ortai, Zhang Tingyu, and Long Keduo." ”
After the person came, he didn't see it, and only sealed the things he wrote down and asked Su Peisheng to take them out. After finishing it, his whole person exuded a momentum of 'hehe, I'm waiting to see the Tianliang King break'.
It's like seeing the enemy's death.
A few days later, in the Eighth Master's Mansion, the Eighth Master and He Zuo sat silently. He Zhuo smiled bitterly: "...... I really can't imagine that there is such a means today. ”
The household department owes money to all big officials, and everyone is still in harmony before the Chinese New Year, thinking that the new monarch will not give face to the old ministers of the first emperor so soon. And the law doesn't blame the public, everyone owes money, the Cao family is the big one, what are they anxious about?
Who knew that just after the New Year, the emperor began to make drastic efforts to clean up the arrears. The eighth master wants to pretend to be dead, but he doesn't know how to end the white strip he played before. Who knows who Shun Anyan of the Tong family is? There are many Tong families, does he seem to come out? What about Princess Wen Xian's forehead? Princess Wen Xian has been dead for a few years.
Shun Anyan is also perfunctory. He's not stupid, Long came too big and too fast, too unprepared. He was afraid of being filled.
The two supervisors are weak, and the emperor, who holds the IOU of the household department, does not seem to be so smooth in clearing the arrears.
Then, the emperor issued a decree and asked people to go directly to the man's house to clean up. Aren't they all officials? When you get there, you will first suspend the people from their jobs, and then talk about when you will return the money. You say that this official office can't be unmanned? Rest assured, the emperor let the alternate officials accompany him.
Therefore, the emperor doesn't have to worry about the Qin messengers sent down to be bribed again, and the alternate officer can't wait for these people to die and not pay back the silver. Isn't this official position theirs?
They quietly entered the village, went straight to the official office, and after finding the official who owed the silver, they didn't care about you shouting injustice, facing the saint, talking and paying back the silver (what kind of silver), and after being dismissed on the spot, find a person of the same level in the alternate to put on an official robe and be promoted.
Life couldn't be happier.
In the Heart Cultivation Palace, the fourth master's good mood lasted for many days. It's so beautiful that it's bubbling, he took his brothers to Xiyuan to farm more energetically, and the most popular book in the palace recently is the book on how to farm.
In the new books just sent by the Imperial Library, they also followed the emperor's footsteps. Li Wei saw a thunderous name: Pu Songling's "Nongsang Sutra".
Li Wei looked at it deliberately, and it was indeed me. This "Nongsang Sutra" seems to be only the first draft, because the Imperial Archives has not planned to publish it in the world, but only sent it to the emperor for review.
There is also a choice in the delivery of books at the Imperial Library, just like there are many contributors, but the publishing house will select the manuscript according to the market. Every year, or every day, a lot of books are delivered to them, and their own captive writers are constantly producing.
Their readers are not only the emperor, but they only need to impress the emperor.
Since the fourth master's hobby of Taoism was exposed, I heard him say that at first he asked the imperial library to find more Taoist books to come in, but now he doesn't need to say it, and even the books sent to Yikun Palace have a lot of books on cultivating immortals.
This kind of tyrant feeling who can circle a publishing house to publish the books he loves to read is really chicken-belligerent.
Now that the fourth master is in love with farming, the Imperial Bookstore has begun to specialize in this kind of books.
When the fourth master came back, Li Wei was holding Pu Songling's book and reading. She mainly looks at this as a picture author, just like the great god is willing to look at whatever he writes. Pu Songling wrote, even if it is an agricultural book, it is worth reading.
"What are you looking at?" He changed his clothes and came over.
She handed him the book, leaned over and said, "I think it makes sense." ”
The "Mulberry Sutra" mentions boiling grain with arsenic to get rid of pests. Isn't that just a pesticide? Pesticides are highly toxic.
But when the fourth master saw this, he shook his head: "No, what if someone eats it and is poisoned?" ”
Li Wei said, "You can try it." ”
The fourth master still shook his head: "You don't know, in the countryside, if there is a handful of grain on the ground, not only voles or sparrows will come to eat, but also hungry children will come to pick up and eat." ”
"Then why don't you try sprinkling arsenic water directly into the ground." She said, "If nothing else, you can kill the crop-gnawing insects in the field." ”
The fourth master didn't speak, but just put the book down.
Li Wei was afraid that she had made a mistake of taking it for granted, so she didn't insist.
It's just that she thinks it's a direction. It is better to give up blindly thinking that it is not feasible, but it is better to talk about whether it can be used after practice. Even if Zuihou finds out that it really can't be used, then in the words of a great man (who forgot): at least we know that this thing is useless and can rule it out. (Roughly that means).
Anyway, no effort will be wasted. Even if you go to the opposite path, you can know that the road will go farther and farther (it can be used to trap people).
In short, things are dripping in many ways.
So she quietly put the book where he could see it as soon as he looked up. After going back and forth several times, when he went to the front hall the next day, the "Nongsang Sutra" was gone.
She thinks her efforts are working.
In the front hall, the fourth master held the book in his hand, and as soon as he entered the front hall, he put it on the shelf. Su Peisheng was curious, where was his heart placed, did he plan to see it?
After a busy morning, the fourth master got up to move and take a sip of tea to rest. Then he casually took a book from the shelf, and saw that it was the "Nongsang Sutra". He took it in the morning, so as not to worry about it again. It has been a custom since ancient times for people to poison insects, and arsenic poison rats are often bought in the countryside.
He also can't do anything about Susu.
The fourth master smiled, sat down with the "Nongsang Sutra", and opened it.
Su Su is worried about him. With her temperament, being able to read this kind of book can be regarded as a waste of a lot of effort, right? These days have wronged her.
He said in his heart, although he couldn't let people sing to her for a while, he could also ask people to write some drama books first. In this way, she can also relieve her boredom and not have to be bored every day.
Thinking of this, he got up and took a piece of paper, and thought as he wrote, Su Su's favorite drama books are mostly talented and beautiful, so let them write more of this. and the Queen Mother, I don't know what I like to watch, so I added it. In addition, there are often banquets in the palace, and palace dramas cannot be missing, these are conventional, but it is not difficult.
Thinking about writing, he wrote an entire sheet of paper.
After writing, he called Su Peisheng: "Send it to the Shengping Bureau." ”
Su Peisheng glanced at it, and saw that 'it is advisable for young men and women, garden engagement, talented and beautiful people', and saw that it was marked 'as soon as possible'.
Looking at the back, it is much more normal, "Shengping Treasure Raft", "Zhongyi Xuantu" and so on.
He also understood when he looked at the first place.
This is obviously used by the concubine to pass the time.
The author has something to say: good night everyone, see you tomorrow