Chapter Twenty-Nine—Good Brothers
The early summer of the twelfth year of Shunzhi came very early, and Xiao Xuanye, who had just turned one year old, began to run around in the palace. If it is said that in the first year since the crossing, Hongyi still has to show his various "abilities" step by step, and overcome the three major language barriers of the "Manchu and Mongolian Dynasties" with great anger, and the results can be said to be very satisfactory after the "first academic year".
Since the inside and outside of the court, the whole court, the officials and the people have recognized that their various anomalies are indeed "auspicious from heaven", then the second son of the emperor, who has reached the age of one year and has entered the order, can then enter the stage of "strategic stalemate" -- according to the continuous changes in the current situation and politics, through the queen mother, the emperor, Su Mala and the concubines of the inner court, and even Tang Ruowang and other ministers, to imperceptibly exert influence on the major affairs of the family and the country.
With a strategic plan in mind, it is naturally much easier to act. Taking advantage of today's bright spring, Hongyi took the initiative to go out to play with his eldest brother!
Fuquan, who is one year old and eight months old, is actually not a qualified playmate of Hongyi. Although Concubine Dong E was afraid of Xiao Xuanye's strange talent and the special care of the Queen Mother and the Queen, she had already begun to give Xiao Fuquan special "devil training", but Hongyi, a person who had been a father in another time and space, the eldest brother was now strengthened to the level of a two-year-old baby in the next generation. Through observation, Hongyi knows that now Xiaofuquan has a certain degree of self-care ability, he can eat by himself, wash his face, undress by himself, run and jump by himself, and even entered the "oral explosion period" in the past month, and can express his meaning in simple sentences, that is to say, the current Fuquan basically has the "eye-mouth coordination ability" (angrily biting Wu Liangfu) on the first day of Xuanye's birth, the "listening and speaking ability" of the full moon (can speak the Manchurian Dynasty), and the "physical behavior ability" of the full hundred days (turning over and sitting by himself), and the "language organization ability" (Mid-Autumn Festival discussion Zheng's) when he was half a year old, as for the political wisdom and scheming that Hongyi crossed over, it is estimated that this kid will not be able to catch up in his life......
As soon as Hongyi entered the gate of the East First House, he saw that the eldest brother was practicing one-legged jumping in the yard, sweating and dirty, but he was tired and persistent. "It's really a big general, and now you're starting physical training?" Hongyi scolded from afar, and then ran over to the little hairy boy with joy. "Ahun, what are you doing?" Hongyi adjusted his mentality in time and asked questions from the perspective of another little hairy child.
"Dou Dou, Ah Hun ...... Train...... Buku [1]. Fuquan glanced at Hongyi, but he didn't stop, he was still jumping there, and he was very attentive.
Buku? Isn't that the trick he used to deal with Ao Bai after thirteen years in the legend? Although Qing history experts have doubts about many details of the wisdom of the Aobai, the "joke" is not necessarily groundless! …… Hongyi was stunned, but was discovered by Fuquan. "Giggles, Dou Dou is afraid, Dou Dou is afraid!" Although the kid's good-natured ridicule did not anger Hongyi, it made Hongyi have an idea: if this big scene is needed in the future, why not start practicing now?
"Who said I was scared? Let's compete! Hongyi rolled up his sleeves, but immediately recognized the reality: his small arms and legs are still only the standard configuration of a one-year-old baby, and the advantage of being eight months longer has been fully reflected in Fuquan...... So far, it's not good to admit defeat, so I have to bite the bullet.
Fuquan stared at it for a long time, because it was the first time he heard the Manchu word "competition", and when he saw his younger brother roll up his sleeves, he understood what it meant. "Okay, okay, let's go together, let's go together!"
But the actions of the two princes completely frightened their two servants! One is one year old, one is one year old and eight months old, and together they are less than three years old, so they want to practice Buku here? Whoever loses and wins must have a crying nose on the ground, and the result is that these two stubble people will lie on the bench and be boarded!
"Second master, second master, shall we go kite flying? …… The two masters, the ice in the back garden has melted, is it okay for the minions to go fish for the master......"
The two little hairy children fully demonstrated the absolute domineering of the royal young master, and they didn't care about the temptations of those subordinates at all, and started the "children's wrestling" competition. said that it was Buku, and it eventually evolved into a brute force competition, two people in the inner circle, you twist and I pull, and a group of palace maids and eunuchs on the outside support left and right, which is also very lively...... After a fierce battle for two minutes, the result was naturally that Fuquan, who had the advantage of age, was "extremely powerful", and suddenly pressed Xiao Xuanye to the ground!
"It's over, after a while, the second elder brother will cry, and a few of us will be ironclad in this meal......" The people closed their eyes in annoyance at the moment when the second elder brother lay on the ground, and secretly complained to themselves, but why did they wait for a long time and didn't hear the earth-shaking cry? When I opened my eyes again, I saw the second elder brother lying there laughing!
"Ahn is a good skill! Xuan Ye is convinced! Although the one-year-old Xuan Ye was pressed to the ground and couldn't move, he was happy and had no grievances. Fuquan also likes this younger brother, and when he saw him admitting defeat, he got off Xuan Ye's back, stretched out his hand to pull him up, and was ready to praise himself...... At this moment, the cheers of their emperor Ama came from outside the crowd:
"Good! My two princes are really the bloodline of my love Xinjueluo family, and I know how to fight at such a young age! Manchurian athletes must have this momentum! ”
The palace maid and eunuch hurriedly flashed out of the circle, knelt on the ground, and shouted "The slave asks for peace to the master". Fu Lin ignored them, walked straight to the center of Buku's "arena", and ignored the dust of the two boys, fished one on the ground, clamped the other, hugged them together, and said happily: "Huang Ama really didn't expect that you two, the big brave, the small strong, the winning courtesy, the defeated, good, great!" haha! It seems that in a few moments, I will find you a Manchurian Baturu[2] to be your master[3]! haha……”
It turns out that Fulin is in a very good mood today. Just now, I got a report from the reigning Yugong that in early May, Liu Wenxiu, one of the "four generals" of the Daxi Thief Army, led 60,000 soldiers and horses including General Lu Mingchen to attack Huguang in the east. When Hong Chengchou learned that Liu Wenxiu's army was coming to Hunan, he transferred troops from all over the country to defend Changsha, and sent a large number of troops, including the Eight Banners of Jingzhou, to Changde to strengthen the defense.
The thief army wanted to take Changde, Liu Wenxiu divided the water and land routes, sent the general Lu Mingchen to lead an army to advance by boat from the Yuan River, and led the army to advance by land, but due to the continuous rain caused the road to collapse, the land troops marched very slowly, and it was impossible to realize the principle of advancing by land and water. As a result, Lu Mingchen's troops were ambushed by the superior forces of the Qing army under the city of Changde and failed, and Lu Mingchen was killed in battle. Liu Wenxiu also had to withdraw from the army.
This is very useful for Forlin, who has often heard of defeats in recent years and does not ask about victory, and he is very satisfied with his insistence on reusing the "second minister" Hong Chengchou, and then he is more concerned about Xiao Xuanye's Rakshasa tactics, after all, his own Qing Dynasty needs the encouragement and deterrence brought by the triumph of the soldiers! So, on a whim, he drove the Qiandong Five Institutes for the second time (the last time he came in person was when he heard that Xiao Xuanye could speak). I didn't think that as soon as I entered the Xianhe Zuomen, I heard that the east house was noisy, and when I came in, I happened to see the Buku scene of the two princes, so I stopped Wu Liangfu's interference plan early until the dust settled on the two of them.
After rewarding the two princes and getting close to them for a while, Fulin returned to the palace without punishing any palace people. Perhaps as he grew older, Fulin, who was already nineteen, had a deeper understanding of the relationship between father and son at this time, and until the time of the meal, he was still reminiscing about the Buku of the East Family: The eldest brother is older, and it is not a problem to win the second brother, but it is rare that he wins without being arrogant; What's even more rare is that Xiao Xuanye, who is only one year old, is actually defeated but not discouraged, and there is no hysteria, which shows that his strength is extraordinary. These two sons seem to be happy and get along very well now, and I hope that they can continue like this for a long time in the future......
After eating the imperial meal, as usual, the delicacies of the mountains and seas that most of them have never touched a chopstick from beginning to end are to be rewarded. Fulin specially arranged to send some dishes that are beneficial to the lower abdomen of young children to the five institutes in Qiandong, and arranged for Wu Liangfu to go in person to reflect his love as the emperor.
Wu Liangfu doesn't have to serve dishes and bowls by himself, he is just the chief food eunuch who led the two inner thirteen yamen Shang Shan Supervisors, and he came to the five offices of Qiandong. As he walked, he pondered:
I have followed the emperor for twelve or three years, and I have been serving carefully and welcoming him for many years, although I finally sat in the position of the head of the thirteen yamen, I have also offended many people, especially the queen mother. The old immortal has been staring at himself behind his back, so that our family is cautious even if he wants to do some private things, for fear of falling into the truth. And now these two princes are still young, and it is unknown whether they can avoid natural disasters such as pox and grow into adulthood.
It's easy to say that the big one doesn't seem to have any scheming, his biological mother, Concubine Dong E, is also a filial piety to himself who often rewards him with silver, and our family is also good to their mother and son, after all, he is the eldest son of the emperor, and his status is critical.
But how does that little one look at how it is not pleasing to the eye, saying that it is auspicious from the sky, in our family's opinion, it is an outlier to get rid of it, and I want to remind the emperor several times that this is "unpredictable", but I still dare not after all, after all, this is still his own flesh and blood! Today, the emperor also specially gave food, it seems that our family held back and did not say that it was prudent and appropriate. However, as soon as I remembered that day, as soon as this little hairy child was born, he bit himself in Concubine Kang's arms, which ruined our family's romantic and good deeds, so I didn't fight anywhere! Also, for more than a year, he has been a frequent heresy, and he has brought together the queen mother so intimately, the old and the young are timid! If you don't do something powerful now, let him be afraid of our family, once he grows up in the future, it will be more bad luck for our family......
Seeing that the gate of the East One House was about to arrive, Wu Liangfu also had some plans in his heart: first hold on to the eldest brother! So he led a few little eunuchs into the gate of the East One. But when I got in, I found that the two elder brothers were still playing in the yard! I had to say loudly: "Two masters, the emperor has given you food!" ”
It turned out that the Qing Dynasty emperor only ate two imperial meals a day, one in the morning and one at about two o'clock in the afternoon, and only used some meals in the evening, that is, to eat casually. So when Wu Liangfu came to deliver the meal, the two little hairy children just got up from a nap and had a good time together.
When Fuquan and Xiao Xuanye heard the "food", they knelt down to thank the emperor in a good way, and then happily prepared to feast. Wu Liangfu frowned, and said to Liang Gong and the others next to him: "You guys are just doing this errand, why don't you take the two young masters to wash up and then come back to eat?" ”
"Nope! No! Over here! It's a pity that Wu Liangfu encountered a two-year-old child's language rebellion, and Fuquan resolutely denied the old eunuch's request, and after speaking, he reached out to catch the plate held by the little eunuch. How dare the eunuch offend the emperor's eldest son, and hurriedly bowed down to serve.
"Wait!" Wu Liangfu stopped sharply, walked to Fuquan's side, glanced back at Xiao Xuanye again, pursed his lips, but turned his head and said to Fuquan gently: "Uncle, you slow down, these foods are good and bad, you see, this black chicken soup is the best, you eat a long body, aren't those ordinary people still have a second master?" Just give it to him......"
Hongyi heard it clearly, and he didn't care about this little thing, but as soon as he saw Wu Liangfu's eyes looking at him just now, he immediately recalled the obscene face he saw when he was lying in Concubine Kang's arms last year, which was exactly the same! This time, Hongyi couldn't hold back anymore, but instead of going up and adding his fists and kicks, he counted it in his heart!
"Ahun, Ahun! You can beat me, but you can't beat the adults! Hongyi tiptoed, a defiant expression.
"No, Fu Almighty, Fu Almighty!" The eldest son of the emperor immediately turned around and voluntarily cooperated.
"You can't, you're a child, you can't beat an adult!" Hongyi continued to add fuel and vinegar.
"I can! That's it! Fuquan probably didn't expect that his younger brother, who had always been very close to him, would look down on him so suddenly, his little face was flushed, and he was ready to go.
"Do you dare to try it?"
"Dare!"
"The adult here is the oldest and the largest official! If you beat him, I'll obey you! Hongyi pointed his little hand at Wu Liangfu as he wished. The old slave's face changed in an instant, and he wanted to turn around and run. Who let these two children be princes, although the little fist is not big, it doesn't matter how many times they take it, but if they are happy for a while and order themselves to beat themselves, then it will be even more useless to take their own beatings!
"Okay, you, come here!" Fuquan turned around angrily.
"Master! Father! The minion can't beat you, the minion loses! "Wu Liangfu is an old slave in the end, so quickly admit defeat.
"If you don't fight, you lose, they adults look down on us children!" Hony adjusted countermeasures in a timely manner.
"If you don't fight, you don't count! You, come! "Fu Quan will not be forgiven.
"The minions don't dare, the minions really can't beat you!" Wu Liangfu was about to cry.
"He looks down on you, big brother!" Hongyi admires his viciousness at this moment.
"Ahh This is not Hongyi's idea, but who made today's Fu Quan just a little bigger, waving his fists at each other, highly matching!
"Oh......" Wu Liangfu didn't expect this trick "monkey poke peaches (if the peaches are not picked)", one hurts, two scares and three are shy, and he really covered his lower ~ body and squatted down.
"Yes, yes, Ahn Baturu! Ahunbaturu! "Once there is a beautiful cheerleader on the sidelines of the modern game, the players on the field are all playing hard, and Hongyi has a deep understanding at this time.
Fuquan was worshipped, continued to strengthen the offensive, and was stunned to push Wu Liangfu and knocked him to the ground!
At this time, Fuquan did not have the generosity of Xiao Xuanye last time, and in Hongyi's very hard-working "drum cheering", he perfectly demonstrated what it was to beat the water dog. A small fist may not be too much of a threat to the adult Wu Liangfu, but a child less than two years old has not yet learned to "comprehensively beat" a person, but he is very persistent in continuing to build repeatedly at the position where his first punch fell.
"Huh-" He only felt a long-lost shortness of breath, chest tightness, and incomparably painful, like a dying old dog, subconsciously kicked his legs, but brought a monstrous disaster to himself!
Wu Liangfu's unconscious kick happened to kick Xiao Fuquan's thigh, Fuquan took a big step back, turned around, and put his head on the silver plate held by the eunuch behind him. Originally, the eunuch who was the chief chef saw the chief manager of Wu howling like a dog, and subconsciously came to help, but he forgot that he had a full plate of food in his hand...... The most unfortunate thing is that Fuquan was kicked defenselessly, turned around for no reason, fell face down, and threw himself on the hot wreckage of the bowl of black chicken soup just now! When everyone rushed over and picked him up, their faces were like ashes - a sharp shard of blue and white porcelain pierced into the socket of Xiao Fuquan's left eye, and a stream of blood trickled out along the edge of the porcelain piece......
In the howling of Fuquan and Hongyi, the queen mother and the emperor hurried over, the concubine Dong E and Concubine Kang came, the queen and a group of concubines came, and the palace of the Tai Hospital also came one by one......
After the queen mother listened to Liang Gong's trembling report, she immediately issued an order to tie up the chief eunuch Wu Liangfu, the eunuch Liang Gong, the eunuch Liang Gong, the eunuch in charge of the first assistant in the east, and the eunuch who was responsible for delivering the meal, as well as all the palace people present, and waited for the fate! When she began to look for Xiao Xuanye, the only grandson who is now the only one, she found that the second elder brother had already taken the initiative to kneel at the scene of the crime! The Empress Dowager looked at him carefully, and after confirming that he was unscathed, she opened her mouth, but she still didn't make a sound, and let Xiao Xuanye kneel there......
It was not that Hongyi Gao Feng Liangjie took the initiative to admit the crime of fanning the flames, but he noticed the complicated expression on Emperor Fulin's face - the worry about the injured son, the anger towards the subordinates, the anxiety about the treatment of the injured doctor, the helplessness of the initiator, and the unbearable patience for the old slave who caused the trouble! That's right, it's zuihou who can't bear it at all, and Hongyi can see it clearly! It turned out that this dead eunuch Wu Liangfu was still indestructible in the heart of Emperor Fulin at this time! Thinking that there is still a long time between the twelfth year of Shunzhi and the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, Hongyi made a bold decision -
[1] The Manchu word for "wrestling" is Buku.
[2] Manchu "warrior".
[3] Manchu. It means partner, friend. Zhao Lian of the Qing Dynasty wrote "Xiaoting Continuation and Wisdom": "When the sixth age of the prince Fan entered the school, he selected several people who were skilled in the eight banners and martial arts and Chinese, and even entered the guard, teaching the prince to ride and shoot, known as 'Zhida', and the system was slightly killed by the master, and the responsibility of the Gaigu Bao clan. ”