Changchun Garden, no Yi Zhai.

This is the residence of the sixteenth elder brother in the garden, and now the sixteenth elder brother returned to Beijing with the holy car, and the eunuchs and palace maids who waited here cleaned the courtyard and the outside early.

But now, the courtyard is silent.

Occasionally, the little eunuchs and little palace maids came out and walked around, and they all stood on tiptoe, not daring to make the slightest movement.

The sixteenth elder brother was lying on the kang, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat. His upper body was covered with clothes, and his waist was covered with a silk quilt.

The concubine sat on a chair by the kang and wiped the sweat of the sixteen Ah with a handkerchief, and her tears fell like beads with broken threads.

The rules in the palace are that crying is not allowed without a sound.

The princess only felt panicked in her heart, and really wanted to run to the front of the palace and ask which one, why did she beat her son like this?

Brother Sixteen squinted his eyes, the pain tightened, and he clenched his fists fiercely to prevent himself from moaning.

Thunder, rain and dew are all the grace of the king, and today he received these forty plates, which is also the grace of the imperial father.

Looking at the eyes of the imperial father glaring at him, he wanted to kill him directly.

The board in front of the palace is not the same as that of the yamen outside, it is all made of golden silk nanmu, which is "heaven's grace", which is naturally unusual, and it is heavy.

Even if the guards on the board want to be affectionate, it is not easy.

After the abolition of the crown prince that year, when Kangxi reprimanded the eighth elder brother for plotting wrong, the fourteenth elder brother spoke for the eighth elder brother, and he had received twenty boards and raised them for several months.

Wrong! Injustice!

The sixteenth elder brother secretly hated in his heart, and he couldn't bear to follow his mother's heart, so he pretended to be relaxed and said, "Eniang, my son is fine." It's just that it looks a little stronger, but it doesn't actually hurt the muscles and bones. E-niang has been running all the way, and her body is tired, so let's go back and rest first......"

Seeing that her son had the strength to speak, the princess turned around and waved her hand, and sent the waiting palace maid down, and when only the mother and son were left in the room, she asked in a low voice: "Wasn't it okay yesterday, why did the emperor annoy you today, and only annoy you?" ”

Things in the palace, where are the simple.

Although Wang Concubine is silent, she has been in the palace for nearly 30 years and has never seen anything.

Since the abolition of the crown prince, Kangxi has been very harsh to the elder brothers, but he has also become more and more kind to the younger brothers like the sixteenth and seventeenth elder brothers.

The sixteenth elder brother was in charge of the internal affairs office and listened to errands in front of the emperor, and Kangxi has treated this son very fondly over the years.

Hearing his mother's question, the sixteenth elder brother's heart tightened, and he hurriedly said: "Eniang, it's the son's errand that hasn't been done well, and the emperor Ama just happened to be angry because of other annoyances, and the son was beaten by the board." There is really no side reason, E-Niang doesn't have to scare herself. ”

When the concubine heard this, she frowned, looked at the sixteenth elder brother with doubts, and said, "It's really a business matter, isn't it because of the side?" Even if I want to annoy you, I can't make you suffer so many boards, isn't it something you have committed that can't be taboo? ”

"Oh, is E-Niang a fool to be a son, and even a taboo has come out? It's really okay, if E-Niang really feels sorry for her son, she will go back and rest early. If it is because of his son, he is tired of Eniang, then it is his son's unfilial piety......" The sixteenth elder brother pretended to be relaxed and said.

But he didn't know that his face was pale, and the green tendons at his temples were all visible, and this "relaxed" expression didn't look easy at all, with a little hideous.

When the concubine saw this, she knew that he was in pain, and her heart was in great pain.

Just asked a few words, but she didn't see the sixteenth elder brother loosen his mouth, and she knew that there must be a staker involved.

Although she had a thousand doubts in her heart, she didn't want to embarrass her son. She stroked her chest, calmed herself, and said, "Since it's okay, E-Niang is relieved." You drank the medicine and squinted earlier. After two days, the body is cheaper, and it is better to go back to the palace to raise. In another month, your daughter-in-law will give birth, if this baby can give birth to a little brother, everyone will be happy. ”

"Borrowing the auspicious words of Eniang, my son is also looking forward to her giving birth to a little brother." At the mention of his wife, the sixteenth elder brother's expression softened.

Before going to Rehe in April, Sixteen Fujin found out that she was pregnant, so she stayed in the palace to raise the fetus, and did not go to Rehe with the sixteenth elder brother.

The husband and wife haven't seen each other for half a year, and the sixteenth elder brother has been thinking about it for a long time. Yesterday, he also sent someone back to Beijing to deliver a letter one step ahead of schedule, thinking that he would be able to go back to the city today and reunite with his wife and children, but he didn't expect to encounter another accident.

Wang Concubine glanced at her son, sighed in her heart, and said two more words, and summoned Zhao Feng to give careful instructions before getting up and leaving.

When the concubine left the house, the sixteenth elder brother couldn't hold back any longer, lowered his head, bit the corner of the pillow, and felt that he was covered in cold sweat, and the clothes on his body were already soaked.

Zhao Feng took his master to send the concubine out, and he was still worried in his heart, afraid that she would ask him why the sixteenth elder brother was beaten.

Unexpectedly, when he was sent out of the yard, Wang Concubine didn't say anything, so he was relieved.

Speaking of which, the master was beaten inexplicably, and he didn't understand why. I only know that before the master was beaten, Brother Honghui came down from the front of the palace, and I am afraid that most of it has something to do with the master's board.

He remembered that the master had not sent anyone into Beijing to deliver a letter to Fujin, so he hurriedly turned around and entered the house: "Master, ......"

As soon as he opened his mouth to call people, he saw the sixteenth elder brother biting the pillow fiercely, and the corners of his mouth were already oozing blood...... What are you...... Slaves, this makes people ask for a doctor......"

"Okay, let me be quiet!" The sixteenth elder brother only felt that his head was confused, and he waved his hand impatiently, and said, "Go and see what the seventeenth master is busy with, let him be free, and invite him to come over and talk." ”

Zhao Feng looked at the sixteenth elder brother carefully, and saw that the blood that had only oothed from his lip had bitten his lip, and it was not vomited, so he breathed a sigh of relief, answered, and went out to find the seventeenth elder brother.

The sixteenth elder brother finally couldn't help it, groaned, and scolded fiercely twice before closing his eyes in a daze.

The body is getting hotter and hotter, and the eyelids are already sinking, but because the buttocks are really painful, the sixteenth elder brother can't sleep, so he can only hang his head weakly.

After a long while, I heard Zhao Feng's voice: "Master, the seventeenth master is here." ”

Before the sixteenth elder brother opened his eyes, he felt cold on his forehead, and then he heard the seventeenth elder brother say, "The sixteenth elder brother has a fever...... Go and pass on the Imperial Doctor......"

The latter sentence was instructed by Zhao Feng.

"Huh!" Zhao Feng answered, and quickly turned around and went out.

When the sixteenth elder brother opened his eyes, there was only one seventeenth elder brother in front of him.

The seventeenth elder brother's face was full of worry, and there was anger that he didn't have time to put away.

The sixteenth elder brother smiled bitterly: "Look at you like this, it's because you heard it." There's nothing to be angry about, Huang Ama may not really annoy me, but he just wants to give an explanation to Honghui, and the big things are small and the small things are turned into small things. ”

"Those people are not happy, but they are tired of the sixteenth brother. Brother Sixteen has been hiding tightly enough over the years, and he has to carry the black pot for them. It's really alive and dead. "Seventeen elder brother squeezed his feet and gritted his teeth.

"You're in the palace, have you heard the wind before?" The sixteenth elder brother thought for a moment and asked.

"Things in the Xian'an Palace have always been taboo, and it's too late to avoid them, who will inquire over there. I really didn't expect Honghui to be in trouble at this time. This kid is afraid that he also has the intention of testing the emperor Amma. Brother Seventeen replied.

In addition to being wronged, the sixteenth elder brother is only left with atmosphere and helplessness.

The waste prince imprisoned in the Xian'an Palace, a good person, is now addicted to opium and has become insane.

Opium is medicine, why did it end up in Xian'an Palace? You know, this thing, if you swallow it, you can directly send your surname.

The most taboo thing in the palace is to deliver medicines privately, not to mention the Xian'an Palace under the heavy control.

The second elder brother is the concubine of the Empress Yuan, the bloodline of the heavenly family, even if the crown prince is deposed, Kangxi also wants to protect this son, how can he allow people to calculate and assassinate?

Honghui asked for his father's life and asked Kangxi to "thoroughly investigate" the matter, which is also the responsibility of a son, but he can't say anything wrong.

However, now is the time when hundreds of officials are waiting and watching, and the storage position is still hanging, and if this matter is really "thoroughly investigated", it will inevitably cause turmoil in the government and the opposition.

After all, in Confucian orthodoxy, the second elder brother, the concubine of the Empress Yuan, should be the royal orthodoxy.

With Kangxi's temper in his early years, he couldn't stand his sons' private outpouring the most, and he didn't know how to get angry; The current Kangxi is in his twilight years, and he doesn't want to make any more noise.

As a result, Kangxi quickly cut through the mess, directly positioned the second elder brother's "discomfort" as an "negligence" on the side of the Internal Affairs Office, replaced all the guards guarding the second elder brother, and beat the sixteenth elder brother who was in charge of the Internal Affairs Office with forty boards.

Can the sixteenth elder brother not be wronged?

This Xian'an Palace, although it is in the palace, is also supplied by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but if it is said that "the guards are not strict" and "the things forbidden in the palace" are not to blame, it is really not on the sixteenth elder brother.

The guards of the Internal Affairs Office are the guards of the Guards Office, and the people who take the lead are the few clan relatives on the side of the Zongren Mansion.

Although in Kangxi's eyes, the Han people are his subjects, and the banner people are his minions, but these subjects and minions are not something that can be sent casually, who asked him to be a "benevolent monarch".

Like Dong Dianbang and Yi Duli, the heads of the Internal Affairs Office, the weight is insufficient, and the unlucky ones are only the sixteenth elder brother who is heavy enough.

"According to the seventeenth brother, which one is it?" Sixteenth elder brother asked.

"Who knows, it's not one or two who are looking forward to him in the Xian'an Palace. Even Honghui can't get rid of suspicion. The seventeenth elder brother sneered and said, "If you are deliberately tired of being beaten this time, maybe you also have a heart of revenge." In the past few years, he has been in the elder brother's office, and he has put on the shelf of his grandson. As soon as his tiger body is shaken, we people will be taken under his disciples, and we will dream in vain! ”

"You also take a break, Huang Ama is not old and confused, and he has no choice but to beat me, maybe there will be a reward in two days. It is said that to suffer a loss is to take advantage, so think about everything. Brother Sixteen sighed and said.

"By the way, I sent someone back to the city to Cao's house to get alcohol. The sixteenth brother has such a serious injury, he must have a fever, and the fever reduction prescription here in the hospital is slow. The seventeenth elder brother remembered something and said: "In two months, Cao Hao will be filial piety." Now that there is a lot of commotion everywhere, I would rather he take a break for another two years and avoid all this filth. ”

"If you are in the game, how can you say that you can avoid it?" The sixteenth elder brother shook his head and said, "Huang Ama mentioned this matter in July, waiting for Cao Hao to be summoned, how can he be idle?" ”

Speaking of this, he also had a sad look on his face.

Not to mention anything else, the emperor's father is about to be old, and now the number of small court meetings is getting less and less, and most of the time, just a few courtiers are summoned alone.

Although he can't see anything in front of people, the sixteenth elder brother has been serving in front of the emperor all the year round, and he naturally knows more than others.

Since last winter, the emperor's father has been unable to write, and all the twists and turns have been written by Zhang Tingyu, a cabinet scholar.

Outsiders don't know that it's because Zhang Tingyu copied the imperial pen, to the point of vividness.

The sixteenth elder brother had no intention of learning about this, and every time he saw Zhang Tingyu, he was a little uncomfortable.

Even if he was ordered to do it, Zhang Tingyu's move also had hidden dangers. If he has other thoughts, it will be a great harm to the country...... * Changping, Caojia Zhuangzi.

The people sent to the Cao family by the seventeenth elder brother could not know the details, but they only knew that the sixteenth elder brother had been beaten in front of the royal palace and wanted to take some alcohol from the Cao family to reduce fever.

The people of the Cao family, who doesn't know, the sixteenth elder brother has always been friendly with his own head of the family, so he has to ask a few questions.

The man was hesitant, and he also explained it, only saying that the emperor was angry, severely fined the sixteenth elder brother, and beat forty boards.

The stakes were so high that Zheng Hu didn't dare to hide it, so he quickly reported to Changping.

Cao Hao had already heard the reason and sent Zheng Hu down to rest. He paced the study by himself, and his heart was also amazed.

The sixteenth elder brother has always been astute, why did he suffer from the board?

This year, the holy car postponed his return to Beijing, although it was not explicitly stated in the newspaper, but there were rumors that it was "the dragon's body is not safe".

Many people are ready to move, waiting for the opportunity, and want to seek a great credit for the protection of the sky.

At this time, the sixteenth elder brother was punished, wouldn't he be involved in the turmoil of seizing the reserve?

After thinking about it, Cao Hao was finally not at ease, so he called Wu Sheng over and asked him to go to Haidian to see if he could find out one or two ...... * Andingmen, Prince Yong's mansion, and study.

Looking at the brown and black opium on the white paper in front of him, the fourth elder brother sat behind the bookcase, his face like water.

The thirteenth elder brother stood in front of the bookcase, picked up a piece, took a closer look at it in front of him, and said, "I heard Cao Hao say that he is addicted to opium, but I didn't expect this Laoshizi to be so harmful." Pity the ignorance of the world, many powerful people, still think this is a good thing, thinking that this will prolong the happiness and make a big joke in the world! ”

Hearing Cao Hao's name, the fourth elder brother raised his eyebrows and said, "Didn't you say that the sixteenth brother had smoked this in his early years, and it took a lot of time to quit drug addiction?" Why is there still Cao Hao's business? ”

"The fourth brother forgot, I mentioned it to the fourth brother in the early years. The harm of opium, Cao Hao talked about it many years ago. He was familiar with the market, and he didn't know how to notice it. This year, because I was busy raising salaries, I didn't bother to mention this with my fourth brother. The thirteenth elder brother said: "I thought that this thing came in a lot of customs every year, and it was in the pharmacy, and it couldn't harm the people, but I didn't expect someone to use this to calculate the ...... in Xian'an Palace."

"Really crazy, or fake crazy?" The fourth elder brother seemed to ask the thirteenth elder brother, and it seemed to be talking to himself.

"Who knows, it is tightly surrounded over there, except for Honghui who can ask for peace through the door once a month, only the people sent by Huang Ama can see it...... If it's really crazy, it's also his blessing......" In the end, the thirteenth elder brother's voice was a little cold.

The fourth elder brother raised his head and looked at him for a long time, and then said slowly: "Thirteenth brother, don't worry, I will never let you suffer so many years of grievances in vain, and the day when you have to settle the balance......"

(To be continued)