Chapter Seventy-Six: Where is Fusang Penglai now?
Liu Zhenyuan brought the news of Guangdong's resistance to the Qing Dynasty, there is nothing to be optimistic about, Emperor Yongli basically has no opinions, his mother is a firm woman, but she can only rely on the Portuguese Christian Church to resist the Qing, once found a red hair to borrow 300 cannons, and recovered some lost territory in Guangdong, but at the time of this song, several cousins of the Zhu family ate and drank and had fun, and they had to fight with each other in the same room for orthodoxy, everyone could not see too much hope, and the Ming generals in Jiangsu and Zhejiang basically surrendered.
Baoyu was anxious and hurriedly asked Liu Zhenyuan if he had seen Qingwen in Guangdong. Qingwen is not married to Sumen Sanshao and becomes a pirate.
Liu Zhenyuan said that this Sumen I see that the Qing court has no way to deal with him, his fleet is well equipped, and Zheng Guogong is also generous to him, because he has fought a few tough battles at sea, and the people also believe in him, but recently there is a group of Japanese pirates who are always entangled with him, and he can't spare his hands to help Zheng Guogong, and he is worried about this.
What about Qingwen?
She is now refreshed, she has brought female soldiers to live in a fishing village, trained in fishing, taught others to weave and raise silkworms, and tanned, but she is more beautiful. It's just that I haven't had any children and adopted a few orphans, and she told me that I would bring a message to Sister Lin, if the nursery can't hold on in the north, go to her.
"Did she mention me?" Baoyu is persistent, and must ask again.
Liu Zhenyuan shook his head: "They are husband and wife, and they almost never mentioned the matter of Jiafu." However, I heard that Second Master Lian had settled in him, and later was forced by a group of people to make him emperor, so he was so frightened that he hid at sea, possibly to Japan. ”
Baoyu became sad again for a while, Concubine Yuan couldn't see through him and this love word, and she couldn't care about her child, so she pulled Baoyu down where there was no one, and said softly: "You still have Bao ** milk in your house, and you have Sister Lin in your heart, you are worried about Qingwen, what is it." ”
Who knew that Jia Zhu followed and said: "In the end, it is the same bloodline as your king, both a playboy and a seed of infatuation." ”
Baoyu said: "What kind of dumb riddle does my brother play, it turns out that I heard Ryosuke tell me that my background is strange, and I don't know how to say it, he asked me to ask you, it is rare for my sister and brother to meet again today, but you have to explain it to me." ”
Grabbed Jia Zhu's sleeve and never let go.
Concubine Yuan smiled: "Grandmother used to serve the Queen Mother, and she was the Queen Mother's personal soldier, but later she drank her grandfather and ran away to fight with the Queen Mother's people outside the gate." When the Queen Mother gave birth to a child, it was because her husband was arrested by your grandfather and came to intercede, who knew that in your grandmother's tent, Mr. gave birth to a child, but because of the phlegm, there was no breath, and you gave birth to your brother at that time, because she was in a hurry to save her, your grandfather let ** Hachi and his wife go back to the palace, they were in too much of a hurry, where can they take care of a dead baby. This is the grace of your grandfather to **Hachi. It is also the truth of the Jia family's survival. ”
Concubine Yuan continued: "At that time, there were no good conditions in the army, so I left you aside, and then the Queen Mother and your younger brother were picked up. Everyone forgot that there was still you. I was almost six years old at the time, and I quietly carried you outside, and I didn't go far and accidentally fell down, so that I threw you alive, and also broke your jaw here, I didn't expect to save your life at that time, but I was afraid of being blamed, so I hid behind a grain pile with you, and didn't even get out of your parents. The Queen Mother left with the army, leaving me and my mother, my grandmother didn't care for my mother at that time, and my father had just gotten Aunt Zhao, so he didn't come to my mother's yurt at all. Jia Zhu has also been taken by her grandmother, even if her mother misses it, she can't raise it, and she is very happy to see me hugging you, and after a few days, I gave birth to your younger brother, and I only said that it was a pair of twins with you, and I said that you were born with jade, and you are exceptionally strong. Who knew that the child was taken away just over a year old after birth. Only for you, my grandmother actually allowed my mother to raise her, and since then, I have attached great importance to my mother and you. I think about it every day. It's just that I still don't know where the child who was taken away went, and why they took the child away? ”
Jia Zhu said: "I have been secretly visiting these years, and I have already figured out the reason, the child was also in front of me, it turned out that it was because the two brothers of Ning Guofu only gave birth to Jia Zhen, he was adopted in the past, who knew that the second uncle only likes alchemy, and after giving birth to Jia Zhen, he had no thoughts about this child, it just so happened that Jia Zhen's Jia Rong was wanted to go to the palace by the first emperor, and he was raised as a eunuch by the family. The second uncle was disheartened and only refused to come back in the gym. My brother Jia Zhen ran away from home, and he didn't care whether he could continue the incense of Ningguofu. Grandmother let the child change his name to Jia Qiang, and he became Jia Zhen's eldest son by one generation, just in the war, at that time, one of Ning Rong's two mansions was in Jinling and the other was in the capital, so that Jia Qiang was the eldest son, covering the shame of Ning Guofu sending his only son to be a eunuch, which was considered a public case, and did not let Zhen's eldest brother directly rebel.
"Just hiding it from my mother. The more my mother thinks about that child, the more she hates her grandmother, and the more she loves you, if you want to say why your grandmother did this, now there are only three of my sisters, I might as well say it, and I don't shy away from the names of my uncles" Concubine Yuan said: "You chased when the country was broken."
"Ordinary people don't understand why my mother entered the Rongguo Mansion, thinking that she had robbed Jia Lian's mother's power over there, but in fact, my mother is indeed the grandmother who is in charge of the Rongguo Mansion, and for this reason, how could my grandmother be willing to hand over all the Rongguo Mansion to the Wang family. But my grandmother is a cheerful person, and she feels sorry for everyone, and it is because of my mother's temperament. Your sister Lin also had something very important at that time, so she had to leave you temporarily. ”
Baoyu said: "It turns out that I have been humiliated up and down Sister Lin all these years, and this net was originally arranged by my mother. Let Sister Xue live in Rongguo Mansion on the grounds of the draft, it was all arranged. ”
Concubine Yuan said: "Mother also told me about this matter, I also participated in the separation of you and Sister Lin, just because your Sister Lin saved me, and in the past few years, our food and clothing have been all helped by her income from Zhuangzi, I really can't bear not to tell you the truth." Your brother is trying his best to match you and Sister Lin. We tell you these things, not to let you blame your mother, but to make you understand that a qiē love and dislike are not for nothing. ”
Jia Zhu said: "You were careless, it's normal not to see it, you see that Jia Qiang can always get something to borrow from your grandmother, but why, you are not a member of the Jia family now, why we have always treated you as brothers, human emotions are not completely determined by blood." We think more about you than we do about Jia Qiang. ”
Baoyu paused: "Her life and death are unknown now, I don't believe that she is dead, but she is in front of me, my filthy body has become someone else's husband, what to match my sister Lin Bingqing Yujie." ”
Thinking that the bitter wind and rain that Sister Lin had been experiencing in Rongguo Mansion turned out to be a long-planned conspiracy, and he was actually confused and became an accomplice, he grabbed Jia Zhu's hands: "Brother, whether you live or die, you have to let me meet her, as long as she is alive, my heart is always hers, if she dies, I will follow you as a monk." Concubine Yuan wiped away her tears for Baoyu, "Now that your life experience is clear, you don't want to be the prince of the Qing Dynasty, and you will earn a profit in the future, so you can think about the little girl in our family." Your brother doesn't have your affection. ”
Baoyu said: "How do you know that the child who took away is not me, this Hanyu child is me." ”
Jia Zhu saw that he was suffering from dementia again, and said, "Could it be that a mother will be wrong when she gives birth to a child?" You were born a few days earlier, and besides, if you look at Jia Qiang's appearance, not everyone says that she looks like my mother. “
Baoyu said: "I don't want to do anything to Qing Wangye, my brother knows that Sister Lin only likes Han people, how to let me stay, I must be mistaken." "Then are you willing to be Jia Qiang," Jia Zhu laughed. Thinking of Jia Qiang's appearance of eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling everything, and being hollowed out by wine, Baoyu had to sigh that it was his father's strictness and grandmother's mother's kindness that made him who he is today, especially thinking that because he was Jia Baoyu, he could not help but be happy again when he could get along with Sister Lin for a few years.
Concubine Yuan worried: "I look at Baoyu's situation, it's really a little crazy, I must take good care of my child, it turns out that I was born with such a pity." "She made up her mind in her heart that no matter how difficult it is, she must be with her children, teach them carefully, and comfort them well."
Liu'er said that the meal was ready, and invited them to eat together to discuss the future.
Jia Zhu laughed: Liu'er, how did you come with your mother.
Liu'er Dao: Wu Sangui arrested a friend of ours, and we are following him, trying to save this person. I have saved a few times, and I have already been startled, this time I met Miss Xue's dart flag team, and I got help, and Xue Baoqin box Liu'er fell in love, so I went to find Dr. Hu together. A few people came over and asked about Mrs. You.
You Lao Niang sighed, it turned out that Liu Zhenyuan said that Yongle's mother, the Queen Mother, had written a letter to Portuguese Tart two years ago, wanting to borrow soldiers and weapons, but there has been no news so far. Let Liu Zhenyuan find the person who delivered the letter on his behalf. In fact, they knew that this letter was in Wu Sangui's army at this time, and they had not been to Portugal at all, and the person who sent the letter was besieged by the Qing soldiers before they left Guangdong, and they had been arrested. But the content of this letter is clear because they eavesdropped on the conversation of the Qing generals. Now listening to Liu Zhenyuan, it must be this letter. The man was taken all the way north, and the letter was searched by the Qing soldiers, who followed him along the way. The child was rescued by Xue Baoqin once, Xue Baoqin and Imperial Physician Hu were familiar with each other, and knew that Imperial Physician Hu and the righteous army had a connection, so they came to find Imperial Physician Hu together.
You Lao Niang said: "It seems that Wu Sangui intends to hand over this letter to the prince of Zhongshun. Since this letter is so important, should we discuss how to steal this letter? ”
The second sister didn't open her mouth, but she was born and died today, especially the death of Dr. Xiao Hu, so that she had no concern for Jia Lian at all, and her original personality was finally reborn, and she said loudly: "Let the Queen Mother write another letter, we don't have to work hard for the Zhu family who is happy to be lewd and shameless, say something from my heart, I don't have any heart for the child now, raising him is nothing more than letting countless people sacrifice their lives for him, the body is skinned, and the parents who receive it, everyone should be equal, for the life of the mother, it shouldn't be, who should be the Son of Heaven, I think whoever can live in peace for the common people can be the emperor. ”
Jia Zhu nodded: "The second sister has excellent knowledge now, but if the Qing court is not too harsh on the Han people, abolish their slave hierarchy, and be able to spare the women and children in our nursery, it doesn't matter if we die, it's just that at present, the prince of Zhongshun and Wu Sangui are really tough, and they don't treat the Han people as human beings at all, Wu Sangui is such a traitor, so naturally he can't let it go." ”
At this time, a cold moon is bent, the long river is long, and the mountains can't hide their beauty in the night. Jia Zhu looked at these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, thinking that these mountains and rivers had fallen into the hands of foreigners, and his eyes were full of tears. Liu Zhenyuan and his confidant are naturally not without emotion.
The slanting moon child took the crane in the mountains, trying to find Xue Baoqin who walked away with the child, the flying kite and the vulture were coming up from the ladder, they went out to find Xue Baoqin again, Liu Xianglian poured: Miss Xue is a person with liver and gall, Zhao Guanren also said that Miss Xue's dart flag team found them at that time, and there would be no danger in the future. You don't have to worry too much, let's drink the bar first.
So everyone drank, and there was the scene in front of Liu'er dancing Liu Xianglian missing the third sister, and Jia Baoyu was concerned about Daiyu.
Liu Zhenyuan and Jia Zhu spoke: "Many Han people have illusions about Wu Sangui, thinking that he is lying on his salary and trying his courage, but I think he is a repeater. It's just that Yongli has been building a dynasty for many years, although it has not made achievements, it can be regarded as a banner of resistance to the Qing Dynasty. We always have to do our best and die. Now Portugal has long since ceased to help China, and even if this letter is delivered, it will be useless. But the person who sent the letter must be saved, and this letter cannot be handed over to the Manchurians, so let's fight for a little face for our Han people. ”
Liu'er said with tears in her eyes: "The person who delivered the letter is indeed a hero, and everyone knows him. ”
Baoyu hurriedly asked who it was. Liu'er said, "He's Nie Qing." ”
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and Baoyu cried. He gets along with Nie Qing day and night in the drug-free valley, and knows his kindness very well, this young man who has always been smiling has an unknown background, and he has outstanding achievements, he originally had no heart to resist the Qing Dynasty, and he could get married and have children quietly, but he was imprisoned only for justice and kindness, and he was completely an uncrowned and nameless hero. He forgot his identity for a while, and was bent on rescuing Nie Qing.
Liu Zhenyuan said: "The peasant army that lost a few of Li Dingguo is relatively determined, and if we really want to drive the Manchus out of China in the future, it is still our own business for the Han people." ”
Jia Zhu glanced at Baoyu and said: We don't talk about state affairs in Xi'an today.
In the evening, he told Liu Zhenyuan about Baoyu's life experience, saying that he didn't want to talk about it, but Baoyu was not a member of the righteous army, and he was afraid that it would be unfavorable to the righteous army.
Liu Zhenyuan nodded, "I was negligent, but I always thought he was Aunt Lin in my heart, so I didn't shy away from it." ”
Jia Zhu said: "It's my sister Concubine Yuan, who is also a concubine of the Manchurians, in the future, the mother will be expensive by her son, maybe she will also enter the palace, Liu'er and You Lao Niang used to be under the command of the prince of Beijing, and now they have been influenced by Li Zicheng, but these characters are together, how can they safely escape the pursuit of the Qing soldiers, and not expose the secrets of the righteous army, it is really a lot of difficulties." ”
Liu Zhenyuan nodded: "King Xiaochuang is worried about the safety of your team, whether there are supplies to maintain, some of the military salaries hidden in Sichuan a while ago were taken away by Zhang Xianzhong, this guy himself was wiped out by the Qing soldiers, those treasures are not known where they are lost, King Chuang is now well, and he plans to go to Shu by himself to see if he can find it." ”
"I don't know how to be good with this team, now by the dispatch of Li Laiheng, the king of Xiaochuang, all the people who resist the Qing Dynasty, only King Chuang and King Xiaochuang have a resolute heart to resist the Qing, and they can only follow to the end for the safety of 20,000 people, but now, there are too many old people, children, women and children in this team, and it is inconvenient to follow the transfer, and now I hide them in the area of Jiangxi and Hunan, buy the local government, and settle a fake household registration, and Tuntian by himself, but some Han officials surrendered, exposed one or two villages, and the whole village was extinct. I organized a purging team to deal with traitors, and the killing was very strict, as long as they dared to go to the informant, there was no mercy. The eyes and ears of the Qing court have been staring at us for a long time, knowing that the emperor's feet are extremely dangerous, but they can only support it reluctantly, or when these children are older, they will slowly infiltrate and preserve their strength, and they can always keep our people from dying. ”
Liu Zhenyuan nodded: What did the Manchus say to subdue us with the surrendered Han Chinese, it is indeed too poisonous. We are now under control step by step, and there is a great shortage of food and medicine. Imperial Physician Hu has a lot of connections in the army and the DPRK, so you let Duan Chuanxiu protect him well.
Liu Zhenyuan said: "The prince of Beijing is a friend and foe, the emperor has been suspicious of him a lot recently, and he relies on his father to be the emperor's favorite person, for the sake of his cousin's death because of Concubine Dong E, and the emperor has a lot of trouble, his situation is very dangerous, we still have to pay attention to protect him." The old King of Beijing is still powerful, and the King of Beijing is of great benefit to us in preserving our strength. ”
This night, everyone finally had a good night's sleep, Jia Zhu and Duan Chuanxiu took the initiative to ask to be on duty, after all, it was a vicious battle, and the younger brother was so hard, everyone couldn't guess why Wu Sangui would appear in the capital, they knew that Wu Sangui's return would only make their situation in the capital more risky.