As the days ticked into November, the weather was getting cooler day by day.

On the second day of November, a severe earthquake struck Pingyang Province in Shanxi Province, causing houses to collapse, injuring people and displacing many people for a time.

The court also attached great importance to it, and after Kangxi received the report from the governor of Shanxi, he immediately sent officials to Shanxi.

In addition, the head of the household, the eldest brother and the fourth elder brother also passed.

After going to the disaster area, the report sent to the imperial court said that the houses in the disaster area were completely destroyed, and the disaster situation was much more serious than that in the imperial court's letter, and it could almost be regarded as mourning.

When Kangxi received the report, he immediately made an order - the collection of money and grain in the affected areas would be stopped within three years, and for the people who could not afford to repair their houses, each household would be given silver, and the government would help solve the accommodation problem.

In the Sibeile Mansion, Fujin is worried - the earthquake is not more than anything else, there may be aftershocks, the fourth elder brother in the past, although there must be a magistrate carefully protected, but the natural disaster is not long-sighted, and no one can say that it is 100% safe.

She spoke out her worries when everyone said goodbye.

Ning Ying was nervous when she followed.

Li Fangfujin was silent, looking thoughtful.

The fourth elder brother who is far away in Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi Province is very safe, but after witnessing the tragic situation of the people, he is very heavy.

The disaster was serious, and the governor of Shanxi did not dare to report the matter to the public, and the wording was vague.

Not to mention that in the aftermath of this catastrophe, many children were orphaned and displaced overnight.

But this is a natural disaster, and there is always no way to do it.

Huang Ama asked him to follow the eldest brother out, and the meaning was also very clear - he was in charge of the affairs of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang's mausoleum just now, and he came to Shanxi again at this time to train them.

The eldest brother thinks the same way-it's the end of Kangxi's thirty-fifth year in a flash, and the fourth elder brother is young, and he is not yet twenty years old, so it's nothing.

But he is the eldest brother, he is not young, and he must do something practical.

During the Chinese New Year, Huang Ama asked in front of the hundreds of officials in the imperial court and the foreign ministers of Fanbang, and his face looked better, didn't he?

So in addition to disaster relief, the eldest brother asked the local gentry to come out and donate.

As soon as this decree was made, the local officials and gentry were all worried-the world had not been very good in the past few years, and there were many people whose business was based on God.

As a result, such an earthquake is almost an unwarranted disaster, and it is difficult to even maintain the family business, let alone make any donations.

But the eldest brother didn't comply, and the government got the orders of the imperial court, so they could only do it and go down.

So at noon on the tenth day of the first month of November, the local squires all gathered, and some of them were bold, only saying that they were sick and it was inconvenient to come.

When the eldest brother heard this, he sneered, stretched out his hand to hold the corner of the table, and said coldly: "This disaster relief is different from the past, all those who cheat and resist passively must not only double their donations, but also get rid of their fame and reputation, and they will not be hired!" ”

The people present all looked at each other, and some were unconvinced, but knowing that it was the eldest brother sitting above, who dared to say one more word?

The eldest brother looked at the silence of the people in the circle below, and his heart was very comfortable.

In the Forbidden City, although he is the eldest son of Kangxi, he is always pressed by the prince everywhere, and he already has all kinds of grievances in his heart.

It was only here that he felt the thrill of truly holding absolute power.

The fourth elder brother was beside him, but he was always serious and said little.

But not speaking doesn't mean that he doesn't think about it in his heart.

The fourth elder brother has a scale in his heart, which is very bright, and he is not in a hurry to cooperate with the eldest brother to do this donation - when he comes back, he asks people to submit the account book of the tax silver.

The first thing he did in private when he came here these days was to carefully inspect the tax money.

Even if someone did something in the middle, he didn't believe that with his eyesight, he wouldn't be able to see the flaw.

It's just that the cat in this tax silver is too big - if you check it carefully, you will know that it has an inextricable relationship with the capital.

While the fourth elder brother was checking, he made people quickly spread the news to the capital.

He can't be left behind.

Sure enough, in the capital, someone just heard that Shanxi Pingyang Mansion was launching donations, and it was involved in the investigation of Shanxi's tax and silver, so he couldn't sit still.

There are also people who took advantage of the time to hand over the fold to the emperor, and brought a message, saying that the eldest brother and the fourth elder brother were below, and when they were using the disaster relief, they falsely preached the holy decree, which scared the local officials a lot.

While listening, Kangxi silently pinched the secret report sent by the fourth elder brother into a paper ball and held it tightly in his hand.

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At the end of November, the fourth elder brother finally returned to the capital.

At this time, it was close to the end of the year, and when Fu Jin saw him come back, a big stone in his heart fell to the ground.

At this time, it was already the end of the year, and the fourth elder brother came back from such a long trip, and the Long Live Lord would definitely not let him go out again.

Even if you want to do anything for the imperial court, it will be after the beginning of spring.

Finally, we can be reunited, and the family has a good year.

Although the fourth elder brother has no feelings for her, Fu Jin always feels: as long as she is still this fourth Fu Jin, close the door of Baylor Mansion, this is considered a "home".

She thought that after the fourth elder brother came back, if she didn't go to Ning's place, she would definitely have to go to Li Fangfujin.

Because after all, they just added a son to the fourth elder brother.

But unexpectedly, the fourth elder brother came to her.

Fu Jinle is bad - I don't know why, she thought that after giving birth to a son, the Li family would definitely be more favored than before, but now it seems that the fourth elder brother does not like this son as much as she imagined.

It's really unpredictable!

Thinking like this, Fu Jin's demeanor became more and more supple, and after eating a meal, she served the fourth elder brother with her own hands, and she didn't even eat a few bites of rice, but kept serving the fourth elder brother.

It's just that the work of robbing the minions is done.

The fourth elder brother didn't want to go to Li's place, for fear of seeing her crying face.

Lee's tears and the child's wide-eyed gaze at him always made him feel like a wicked person and a sinner.

When I arrived at Fujin, I looked at Fujin's smiling face, which was much more comfortable than Li's.

So the fourth elder brother ran out of food, and as soon as he was in a happy mood, he asked Su Peisheng to go and bring some of the special things he brought back from this trip to Shanxi and give them to Fujin.

Fu Jin also held back her excitement, and tried her best to pretend to be casual and thanked her - she was a dignified Fu Jin, if she showed the happy look of Gege and the concubines being rewarded, wouldn't it be too childish!

But the fourth elder brother saw that she had accepted the reward, and his expression was a little dull.

He remembered every time...... No matter what he gives Sakura, Sakura is always happy.

Yinzhen understands: What Sakura is happy about is not the value of the gift, but these things are given by him Yinzhen.

From him – that's all that matters.

When the fourth elder brother thought of Ning Ying, he only felt warm in his heart.

As he got up, he wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and prepared to go outside.

I didn't plan to stay here at the Ulanala clan.