Chapter 44: The Little Angel

"Okay, as long as Brother Wu dares to marry me, I will definitely marry him!" Hui'er's answer surprised Wu Yuanming and Li Yuliang, who knew the true identity of this little girl, but none of the other officials present had seen Hui'er, seeing that the little girl had a kind attitude towards Wu Yuanming, and she was born so beautiful and cute, although she claimed to be Wu Yuanming's cousin, and her age was relatively immature, but at this time, it was only common for her brother to marry her cousin, and the age difference was not a problem - who in the family of the officials present did not have a thirteen or fourteen-year-old concubine? The officials mistakenly thought that it was really cousins and sisters who were in love, and they also said joy to Wu Yuanming one after another.

"Congratulations to the son, congratulations to the son, to marry such a cousin who is like a flower, I really envy others." The initiator Ne Mo congratulated Wu Yuanming the loudest, and scolded regretfully, "Mother, why don't I have such a beautiful little cousin?" Kill me! ”

"Don't talk nonsense, Lord Ne." Wu Yuanming saw that everyone had misunderstood the relationship between him and Hui'er, and was afraid that it would affect the reputation of this cute little girl, so he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Actually, this little girl ...... Ouch! Before Wu Yuanming's explanation was finished, he suddenly screamed, it turned out that Hui'er saw that Wu Yuanming was going to tell her identity, so she hurriedly pinched Wu Yuanming's waist, her big watery eyes glared, stretched Wu Yuanming's body short, and leaned into Wu Yuanming's ear and whispered a threat: "Don't tell my identity, otherwise I will sue me Amma, saying that you deceived me." ”

"Oh my God, what kind of world is this? A half-sized girl dares to threaten me Wu Yuanming? At the beginning on the 320 National Highway, the driver saw me Wu Yuanming's legs without trembling? Wu Yuanming screamed in his heart. But Hui'er didn't care how depressed Wu Yuanming was in her heart, she pulled Wu Yuanming and ran out, shouting: "Big brother, hurry up, I see that the stage has been set up, I want to listen to martial arts, listen to "Dingjun Mountain", Brother Wu, you ask the troupe to sing to me." ”

Because Mu Lima also called the troupe for his 50th birthday a few days ago, the vacated space in the garden is still there, and the stage and the theater are still in place, and it is too late to dismantle them, which is also convenient for Wu Yuanming to invite guests to call the troupe at Mu Lima's house this time. So when Wu Yuanming and Hui'er arrived at the back garden, the semi-sealed theater was already full of wine tables and stoves, Hui'er, the little girl, played with **, pulled Wu Yuanming to sit closest to the stage, and sat beside Wu Yuanming generously.

"Hui'er, why did you run out? Do you know that you are here? Until this moment, Wu Yuanming had the opportunity to ask about Hui'er's situation, the little girl pouted, and seemed to be very angry and answered the question, "Hmph, bad big brother, you don't go to see me these days, you promised to invite me to listen to the play last time, and this time you called the drama troupe and didn't inform me, I was angry." ”

"I promised to invite you to the play?" Wu Yuanming thought about it carefully, it was on the day when Wu Yuanming made a big fuss in Suofu, when Suo Etu invited Wu Yuanming to dinner, at the banquet, Hui'er, the girl, did quietly ask Wu Yuanming to invite her to listen to the play, and Wu Yuanming also agreed at that time. Thinking of this, Wu Yuanming hurriedly apologized to Hui'er: "Sister Hui'er, don't be angry, the eldest brother really forgot, fortunately, you have already come, it can be regarded as the eldest brother has fulfilled his promise." ”

"Hmph, you Laipi, don't count!" Hui'er's face sank, and she said in a low voice viciously: "This is what I found myself, not for you to ask, you have to invite me once to fulfill your promise." Wu Yuanming smiled, touched Hui'er's little face, and said casually: "That's good, if you have the chance, the big brother will definitely invite you again." Hui'er turned her anger into joy, and said coquettishly with a smile: "It's almost the same, if you lie to me again, see how I clean you up." Saying that, because of the cold weather, this little girl took the initiative to snuggle into Wu Yuanming's arms and wait for the show to start.

"Miss, pay attention to your image, pay attention to your words and deeds! You're ....... Influenced by his senior brother Hu Gongshan, Li Yuliang was also loyal to the court and Kangxi, and when he saw that Kangxi's future queen was so intimate with Wu Yuanming, she was naturally furious, and rushed over to pull the shameless Hui'er and Wu Yuanming. But as soon as her footsteps moved, the Huangfu Baozhu, who was close to Wu Yuanming, had already stopped in front of her silently, and the Huangfu Baozhu's vinegar jar fist shook and sneered: "Do you still want to be beaten?" ”

"Huangfu Baozhu, I don't want to fight you today." Li Yuliang knew that he was not the opponent of Huangfu Baozhu, so he stopped and forcibly suppressed his anger and shouted: "You also know the identity of Miss Zhaohui, if you don't want to be cut by the emperor with a thousand knives, just quickly dodge and let me pull Miss Zhaohui away, otherwise the emperor will know...... Hum! ”

"Fuck the bullshit emperor!" Huangfu Baozhu sneered, and said in a low voice: "Here in Huangfu Baozhu, there are only orders from the prince and the military advisor, and there is no Tartar Emperor!" The military advisor ordered me to protect the prince, and you don't want to get one step closer to the prince! ”

"Huangfu Baozhu, you dare to insult Long Live Today, you are really tired of it." Like many Han people of the same era, Li Yuliang, who was born after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, received a slavery education since he was a child, and he couldn't help but be furious when he heard Huangfu Baozhu insulting Kangxi. At this time, Hui'er, who was nestled in Wu Yuanming's arms, saw that Li Yuliang had already followed, and hurriedly said to Wu Yuanming: "Brother Wu, you sent me this maid and have been looking for the whereabouts of the hypocrite surnamed Wu, do you know?" ”

"The hypocrite surnamed Wu is ......." Wu Yuanming casually wanted to say that Wu Ciyou was in Baiyun Temple in western Beijing, but after thinking about it, if Li Yuliang found there, Wu Ciyou, a hypocrite who was greedy for life and afraid of death, knew that he knew where he was, and would definitely hide in another place, and it would be difficult for him to find him. So Wu Yuanming changed his words in time: "He lives in the Yingchun Courtyard in Goolan Hutong (Note 1), and he will go there to find a quasi." ”

"Yun Niang, do you hear that?" Hui'er knew what Goolan Hutong was, and shouted loudly to Li Yuliang: "You like that hypocrite who lives in the Yingchun Courtyard of Goolan Hutong, you go to him, Brother Wu and I are here to listen to the play, and you come to pick me up at night." ”

"The Spring Courtyard of Goolan Hutong?" Li Yuliang muttered and repeated. Wu Yuanming originally wanted to make a joke with Li Yuliang, but who knew that Li Yuliang had just arrived in Beijing and didn't know what Goolan Hutong was, although he felt that the name of Yingchun Courtyard was a bit strange, but he was also very happy. Li Yuliang thought about it and was still reluctant to let go of the opportunity to meet Wu Ciyou, and waved his fist at Wu Yuanming and said: "The surname is Wu, Miss Hui'er will be taken care of by you temporarily, if you dare to be bad to her, be careful that I will pull your tendons and peel your skin!" After that, Li Yuliang quickly discharged from the hospital to find Wu Ciyou, Wu Yuanming wanted to stop her and explain, but seeing that she was so affectionate to Wu Ciyou, he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, so he let her be embarrassed and betrayed.

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"Zhuge Liang is laughing behind his back, he says that the old man is young and strong. Although he is old and refreshed, killing people is like slaughtering chickens and sheep...... Listening to the old students' singing on the stage, eating the delicious food that Wu Yuanming personally picked up in her mouth, and humming a few words along with the singing from time to time, Hui'er little girl is quite good at enjoying it. It's just that Wu Yuanming, who took care of her, had to be polite and hypocritical with the officials of the Ao Bai lineage, and on the other hand, he had to serve the future little queen, so busy that Wu Yuanming didn't even have time to eat, let alone find an opportunity to mention the matter of military salary.

"No, I have to find a way to get this little girl apart, or I won't be able to win these guys together." Wu Yuanming was secretly thinking about the trick of deceiving the innocent little girl, but who knew that Hui'er suddenly turned back to Wu Yuanming and asked, "Brother Wu, there is something I almost forgot to ask you." I heard that now the officials in the court are going to unite against you, and the officials under the Ao Xiangye are going to get involved and force you to make concessions on the amount of military salaries you demand, is there really such a thing? ”

"Who did you listen to?" Wu Yuanming's surprise was not trivial, and he said that this news was given to him by Xiao Maozi at the risk of his life, how did this little girl know that she didn't go out of the door and didn't step out of the second door? Hui'er showed a smile unique to a little fox on her face, and pouted: "Of course, I stole to listen to what my Ama said, and my Ama also said that in order to unite the officials under the command of Ao Xiangye to deal with you, they also made concessions to them, and many officials who have found out the evidence to dismiss and kill their heads, in order to let them unite against you, I will not pursue them for the time being, and I will settle accounts with them later." ”

"Little girl, I actually eavesdropped on your Amma's secret conversation ......." Wu Yuanming just laughed at Hui'er a few words, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his heart, stood up, and pretended to be angry and shouted to Hui'er: "Hui'er, you are not allowed to talk nonsense!" Wu Yuanming's sudden roar was very loud, which immediately attracted the attention of all the officials present, almost everyone stopped their false and hypocritical politeness, and turned their eyes to Wu Yuanming, even the old students who sang Huang Zhong on the stage were so frightened that they stopped singing. And Hui'er was yelled at by Wu Yuanming for a moment, and then replied with a face full of grievances: "I didn't talk nonsense, I did hear my Ama say that." ”

"Nonsense, you said that there are many officials under Ao Xiangye who are going to be dismissed and killed, how can there be such a thing?" Wu Yuanming's face was full of anger, and he shouted angrily: "The Qing officials under Xiangye Ao, which one is not honest and self-controlled? Which one isn't a diligent and loving name? And who one is not loyal and patriotic? But you said that the imperial court found out that the officials under Ao Xiangye were corrupt and bribery, and when the officials under Ao Xiangye were deceived and united to force me to make concessions on the amount of military salaries, and then find the officials under Ao Xiangye to settle accounts, what are you not talking nonsense? Speaking of this, Wu Yuanming waved his hand to Hui'er angrily and shouted: "You go home for me, don't talk nonsense here!" ”

"I'm not talking nonsense!" Hui'er was reprimanded by Wu Yuanming to tears, her father Suo Etu was Kangxi's first confidant in the court, and he had the most information about the Aobai faction, so in order to prove her innocence, the little girl wiped her tears and choked up: "I have evidence, I remember it very clearly." Cao Yin's guards in the palace told me that Ao Xiangye's righteous son, the chief of the inner guard, Lord Ne Mona, stole a pair of Ru kiln pens in the palace and washed them to an antique shop in Liulichang and sold them for 8,000 taels of silver. When Hui'er said this, everyone's eyes had already turned to Ne Mo's face, and Ne Mo was sweating profusely, shocked and afraid.

"There is also the official department Shangshu Jishi, when he appointed Jiangsu Yandao, he received 25,000 taels of silver for filial piety." When Hui'er said this, Jishi's face suddenly became whiter than a dead man, but Hui'er's next words made his heart almost stop beating, "In fact, the silver ticket given to him by the salt road was issued by the relatives of Lord Tong Guowei, so the silver ticket in the hands of Lord Jishi became the evidence of the imperial court, and it was also after Lord Jishi dealt with you, the imperial court will clean him up!" ”

"And Lord Bambleshan, whose butler was actually sent by the imperial court, and who caught him with a lot of evidence; There is also the lord of the criminal department, who took the money of the condemned prisoner and used other people's names to die; There are also Sai people from the Ministry of War, who eat empty quotas in the Zhenghongqi garrison, and Asiha from the Ministry of Industry, who is corrupt and governs the Yellow River...... And also....... Hui'er's little girl has an excellent memory, and she actually remembered the names of more than ten officials of the Ao Bai family and the evidence of corruption and bribery mentioned by her father Suo Etu and Kangxi's henchmen, and they were all talking endlessly, and the officials whose names she mentioned were all as earthy, and they all said in their hearts: "After the autumn, it turns out that this emperor is really not a good thing." ”

"In addition to these, there are many, many more, all because the imperial court didn't settle accounts with them immediately in order to let them deal with you." In the end, the little girl wiped her tears and said, "If you still don't believe it, I can listen to more conversations between my Ama and Cao Yin in the future and tell you that I didn't lie to you." ”

"Hui'er, big brother knows that you are good for me." Wu Yuanming's heart was about to jump up with joy at this moment, and under the excitement, Wu Yuanming half-squatted down to wipe away her tears for Hui'er, and kissed her white and red little cheek fiercely, saying in his heart that your little girl is really a little angel given to me by God. was so ashamed that Hui'er hit Wu Yuanming with her little fist, "Bad big brother, I won't allow you to kiss me without my permission." ”

"Okay, okay, without Hui'er's permission in the future, the big brother won't kiss you indiscriminately." Wu Yuanming touched Hui'er's tear-stained face, stood up and said to the officials of the Aobai family: "Ladies and gentlemen, what my little sister said, I think you all heard it. Wu Yingxiong thought, adults shouldn't be so easy to be fooled, right? When you get to the court, you adults shouldn't target your good friend Wu Yingxiong, right? ”

"Of course, of course." All the officials of the Ao Bai family nodded one after another, all thinking about how to destroy the evidence, and at the same time saying in their hearts that it was too dangerous to join forces with such an emperor? Maybe it would be safer to join forces with Wu Sangui's family......

Note 1: The Goolan Hutong in the Ming and Qing dynasties was deduced by ** and artists holding on to the railing and singing. Later, "Goolan" became another name for brothels. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, when officials and rich people drank and feasted, they had to accompany the wine, play music, and sing, which was called "called a strip", and on the first side, it was called "out of a strip".