Kangxi Nan toured to Beijing, it was already Qixi Festival, it rained several times in a row, the autumn wind gradually rose, and the five grains appeared. At this time of the year, the imperial court has two major things to do: one is to urge the provinces to collect grain payments in a timely manner; The second is to arrest the detainees. These days, Zhang Tingyu is so busy that he doesn't have time to think about his father's health condition, which is thousands of miles away.

is the emperor, who also drove back to the Forbidden City from Changchun Garden and lived in the Palace of Nourishing Hearts. Rushed to the Temple of Heaven in a hurry, worshiped the Ming Palace, met with the ministers during the day, and consulted with the prince and the minister of the study from time to time, and had to carefully read the torture and prison recitals with candles at night, so he was also very busy.

After all, human life is not as good as anything else, it is not sloppy!

By the beginning of August, the backlog of copywriting on the southern tour in the middle of summer was almost done. On the morning before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Kangxi called Zhang Tingyu to the Warm Pavilion of the Yangxin Palace and dictated an edict. The edict said:

Due to the drought in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, tax cuts, shells, and interceptions were carried out as needed. The two provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang should be next year

If you pay for it, you will be exempted. Where the disaster is suffered, it will not be exempted. Within a year, the small people were extinct

Court, excellent travel and rest, vice I love Li Yuan to the will.

Kangxi took the draft from Zhang Tingyu's hand, and admired with satisfaction the meticulous and neat face and body, and admired in his heart that his book was like a person, just like the old Zhang Ying, which could be carved and engraved. He is in a good mood today, and the work has been done, so he has the leisure to appreciate the calligraphy of the ministers who are by his side every day. He didn't show his praise for calligraphy, he slipped through the manuscript, and the wording was in line with his original intention of "Hui Ai Li Yuan", nodded and said:

"Take it and send it!"

"Yes." Zhang Tingyu took the edict and wanted to leave, but Kangxi said again:

"You don't have to come in the afternoon, tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, you are at home to reunite with your wives and concubines, these days have also made you tired."

"Thank you for your grace."

After Zhang Tingyu left, Kangxi relaxed and wandered alone in the Heart Cultivation Palace, recuperating his body and mind. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are precedents to follow every year, so naturally there is no need to worry about it. The Ministry of Rites obeyed the decree to amnesty the world, and all the elderly over 50 years old could get a piece of moon cakes, plus wine and rice rewards. In the palace, the lights are lit up early, and the streets are full of moon cakes and longevity peaches, and a cage of red-topped steamed buns is steamed. More than 2,000 eunuchs and palace maids in the six palaces shuttled in and out, and they were busy for several days with joy.

On this day, Kangxi got up early in the morning, and the palace maids waited for him to dress neatly, so he brought Oro Dai and Liu Tiecheng to serve as guards, and the deputy chief eunuch Xing Nian drank in front of him. After breakfast, he went to the Qianqing Palace to receive congratulations from hundreds of officials.

Kangxi was not interested in this. It is nothing more than a toothache to sing praises of virtue, the impossible "longevity without borders", the old-fashioned "Hehai Qinghai Banquet", "Huang Tong Baisuo Forever Enjoy the Blessing of Prosperity and Peace", etc., and the last "Gift Banquet" is enough to toss until the afternoon Shenshi.

After dinner, Kangxi took a break and took a nap on the warm kang. At the time of the unitary card, Li Dequan led more than 60 Sula eunuchs and palace maids in the Yangxin Palace, and knelt down in a large area.

Li Dequan kowtowed and said with a smile:

"Blessed as the saint, this month is full of thieves, there is no cloud in nine days, the prince, the elder brothers and the noble lords are waiting in the imperial garden. Just now, the prince asked the slave to ask for an order: some elder brothers want to bring the emperor's grandson in," he peeked at the emperor's expression, "I don't know what the Lord of Long Live means......"

"No need!" Kangxi grinded down from the warm kang, stretched out his arms to let the eunuch serve and change his robes, and said, "More than 30 princes, hundreds of royal grandchildren, plus princesses, county lords, Gege, nurses, girls, and old women also followed, not to mention thousands of people, do you want me to go to admire the moon, or to listen to their noise?" He probably remembered that in Cao Yin's house in Jiangning, there was a grandson named "Xueqin", and the whole family was happy. This time, that "Xueqin'er" is two years old, and she looks chubby and cute, and she is babbling "ahh It is really rare and expensive, and the Cao family has two or three grandchildren, of course, they all regard it as a pearl in the palm of their hands. But among his hundreds of grandchildren, who does he love? If you kiss this or not, you might get into a lot of trouble. Really, heaven's love is unbeatable!

Kangxi's rider carried him into the imperial garden. Because it belongs to the six palaces of the conference, the eunuchs and palace maids of each palace except for half of them left on duty, and the rest followed their sons to meet them early. Looking around, the east is headed by the noble concubine of the Niu Hulu clan, followed by the Hui Concubine Nalan Clan, the Rong Concubine Ma Jia Clan, the De Concubine Wu Ya Clan, the Yi Concubine Guo Luo Luo Clan, the Cheng Concubine Dai Jia Clan, the Ding Concubine Wan Liuha Clan, the Mi Concubine Wang Clan, the Qin Concubine Chen Clan, the Xiang Concubine Gao Clan, and dozens of people who have not yet given birth, such as the Chen family, the Zheng family, the Liu family, the Sehetu family, the Shi family, and the promised and often in ...... Each of them stands with their hands down according to the color of their grades. The twenty-one princesses who had not yet left the cabinet were all standing behind Niu Hulu. In the west, the prince Yinren is the leader, and there are Yinzhen, Yinzhi, Yinzhen, Yinqi, Yinzuo, Yinyou, Yinzhen, Yinzhen, Yinzhen, ......Yinzhen, down to the smallest of the Yinli. The eldest was thirty-seven or eighteen years old, and the youngest was still in his mother's arms. The concubines are all dressed up in fancy manners, as if they are flattering Kangxi alone. Seeing his father come in, the crown prince Yinren stepped forward, led the elder brother to kneel and salute, and kowtowed:

"Erchen Yinren led all the royal brothers and brothers, and the mothers and concubines of the harem, I wish the emperor good health and happiness!"

The princes, princesses, Gege, the palace concubines, and all the eunuchs and palace maids knelt down like a hurricane blowing down the wheat field. Kangxi raised his arm slightly, and said with a smile:

"It's all forgiven! Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, I asked the ministers to go home to reunite with their families, but our royal family is no more than ordinary people, there are too many people, and thousands of grandchildren have come, so I let them stay in the palace. Now let's have two generations together, have a reunion dinner, and gather together. ”

After speaking, Kangxi stepped onto the platform. At that moment, a breeze blew, and he saw a bright moon in the sky, and his face suddenly became solemn and serious. He took his hand in the silver plate, took a stick of incense, put his hands together, looked up at Haotian Haiyue, and prayed sincerely: "Fu Tianyu is far away, if my heart is vast." Xuan Ye has been half a generation, but he is still young when he ascends the throne, and the Empress Dowager Lai Yide, produces Ao Bai, Ping Sangui, and has also been a golden iron horse, fighting the battlefield, in exchange for a peaceful and prosperous world. However, it is easy to succeed, but it is difficult to keep merit; Those who are good at the beginning must be cautious about the end. Since ancient times, there is no gold and no one is perfect, Xuan Ye is willing to reduce his life to fill the gap, and the jade will become complete for all generations, so as to live up to the trust of the first emperor. Begging on the heavens to silently observe my painstaking efforts, shelter them, and enjoy them! ”

Everyone was silent, and the prince Yinren and several wild princes such as Yinren, Yinzhi, Yinzhen, Yinzhen, Yinyu, Yinxiang, Yinyu, etc., were chewing and experiencing Kangxi's prayers. Kangxi took a step back, and then turned around, waved his hand and said, "The moon has been worshipped, everyone can sit at the table!" ”

Thirty tables were set up for the meal, and they were spread out in a staggered manner in the imperial garden. At that time, the bright moon is shining, the shadow of the flowers is Fusu, and the dark fragrance is overflowing. Kangxi and the crown prince, Niu Hulu's concubine and others sat down under the platform, and the elder brothers and concubines sat down in turn. In the five blessing plates on the table, there are all kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas, as well as eight cold dishes and the indispensable osmanthus sugar stuffed moon cakes, as well as dried and fresh fruits such as watermelon, cantaloupe, and lychee.

Kangxi ate a small piece of moon cake, probably remembered the joy of family in Cao Yin's house in Jiangning, in order to create a happy atmosphere of royal reunion, he said to Prince Yinren cordially and kindly:

"In the past two years, although the affairs of the household department have not been satisfactory, after all, tens of millions of debts have been recovered. Although the main things are done by the fourth and thirteenth children, thanks to your supervision, it is not as tired as before. I'm so pleased! ”

"What can the son-in-law do, it all depends on the support of his father." When Yinren was desperate and gave up on himself, when he heard his father's praise, he was so excited that he burst into tears. But the tears suddenly disappeared again, and he remembered what happened to Liu Guiren, and then Liu Guiren sat on the seat in the distance, glancing at him with his eyes. He had a sense of blasphemy guilt.

"Spread the order to the imperial dining room, carry a table to Yuqing Palace, and reward the crown princess Shi! ……”

Hearing this, Yinren's heart shook suddenly, and he cried "wow". Kangxi thought that he was too strict with the prince on weekdays, and a few gentle words made him a soft egg. Although his heart was displeased, he forced a smile on his face, and owed his body to the princes:

"If I knew that you were so stubborn, it would be better to be comfortable and happy with the ministers. Whoever has a joke, tell it and listen to it, whoever makes me amused, will be rewarded! ”

The garden is full of clear light, only cups and plates are staggered, but you can't hear laughter. At this time, the emperor's eldest son, Yinchu, stood up from the adjacent table and said, "Erchen will come to have a fun." People say that chickens have five virtues, and I think the emperor's snow lion cat also has five virtues: if you don't catch mice, you are benevolent; To be able to share the rag in the plate with the rat is also the predicate; But when I saw the feast, I heard the wind and came, which was a courtesy; The delicious ones can be found in the most secret secrets, which is called wisdom; As soon as winter comes, you will go to the hot kang head to sleep day and night, which is a letter ......"

Before the words were finished, everyone was already laughing. The concubines laughed so much that they covered their mouths with handkerchiefs, Gege smiled and leaned back, Kangxi also laughed so much that he couldn't stop coughing, and said again and again:

"Good, good, reward! Li Dequan, take a Suzhou embroidered fan with my inscription and give it to the boss! ”

At this time, the tenth elder brother Yinyi and I hurriedly walked in, and Kangxi scolded him unhappily at first sight: "Old ten, the family is reunited, why did you come this night, you are too lazy!" ”

"Huang Ama," Yinzhen called me a thousand, and said seriously, "My son has no clothes to wear, so I went to borrow pants." ”

Kangxi was stunned, and everyone laughed again. This old man is reckless by nature, does not hide his thoughts, and is quite loved by Kangxi, so he is used to being idle and wandering, and he is the best at spending money among the elder brothers, and he is in high debt.

Kangxi only took the joke he said, and smiled and said: "Since it's too late to borrow pants, then punish you for telling another joke, amuse me, and I will reward you with pants." ”

Yinyu I sat down at the third table, glanced at Yinyu, Yinyu, Yinxiang, and Yinyu at the same table, and said with a big grin to my father's side:

"Erchen is an old coarse, and the jokes are only afraid of being too vulgar. It is said that Fan Li dedicated the beauty of Yue Shi to Wu Wangfucha, of course King Wu is happy, Xi Shi is the first beauty in the world! However, at night, King Wu hugged Xi Shi to sleep, but found that this beauty's buttocks were not beautiful, and her round buttocks were scarred in the east and scarred in the west. What is the origin of your word? It turns out that the customs of the place in Yueshan are not good, shit and shave the buttocks, and use a kind of bamboo skewer, which is called "toilet chips". You think, Xi Shi's tender buttocks, how can there be no scars! ”

Everyone listened in a daze at first, but later, no one frowned, such a lewd joke could be said by Lao Shi. Kangxi wrinkled his eyebrows and looked at the table full of delicacies, shook his head and said:

"Indecent, indecent, change to a funny one!"

"Piercing!" Yinzhen patted the back of my head, and I was energetic again, "This is the story told in the later biography of "Mirror Flowers", which is elegant enough. It is said that Duo Jiugong and Tang Ao and Lin Zhiyang drifted abroad, bought a boatload of sandalwood, and was about to return, but was robbed by thirteen robbers. This robber was originally a barbarian, robbing gold and silver, and when he saw that it was a dry firewood, he was not angry, and he burned it, and it was immediately fragrant. The Jade Emperor smelled it and asked Tianding to check, and Tianding came back and replied: 'Master, there is nothing else, it is the thirteen robbers who are burning incense, and they are stammering you!' ’”

After he finished talking about yin and yang, no one laughed, and the elder brother who understood the matter smelled the ** smell. What a "joke" this is! It was clearly the fourth and thirteenth who had been praised by their father just now, and they all looked over there. Some are worried, some are gloating, and some are watching the fire from the other side. The fourth Yinzhen is restless, he can endure the attack of the old ten, and he is afraid that Yinxiang's bullish temper will explode, stirring up the reunion atmosphere created by his father's painstaking loneliness. Yinzhen went over with the wine jug, and wanted to give Yinxiang a few words, but when he saw Kangxi's face change, he didn't dare to speak, only poured a glass of wine for Yinxiang, blinked, and returned to the seat without saying anything.

Yinxiang also seemed to be calm. Eating a large piece of food as if no one was around, buttoned the robe on his chest, stood up with the wine jug, and toasted the brothers one by one. When I came to Yinzhen and me, I smiled calmly:

"Tenth brother!"

"Huh?"

"The master didn't laugh at the joke you said, we didn't laugh, and you couldn't laugh yourself. Should I give you a drink? ”

"Huh! Who's toasting you? ”

"If you don't do it, you have to do it!"

"Ah, what's wrong?" I stood up.

"I ask you!" Yinxiang grabbed Yinxiang's corset, stared at the bloodshot cow egg and said, "Who are the thirteen robbers you just talked about, what is the point of a boatload of sandalwood, what is the robbery of gold and silver, the fart has been released, if you don't make it clear, I will make your face a Shih Tzu ass!" ”

Although Yinxiang is also tall and big, but he is a useless pendant meat, in front of Yinxiang, who is as strong as a cow and half a head taller than him, it is definitely not possible to come to Wu. However, he also has his strengths, relying on Yinyu, Yinyu, and Yinyu have discussed in advance that he is a strong backing, and he is a good player, and he is a step ahead. Immediately took a step back, and scolded with his finger Yinxiang foaming at the mouth:

"The robber is you, and the fourth, the flood washed the Dragon King Temple, and you robbed your own brothers. Just now, Long Live Lord asked me why I was late, and I said that I borrowed my pants, and you all thought I was talking about a joke-" He turned to his brothers and sisters and his mother, and complained in a hoarse voice, "You go to Xuanwumen, Zhengyangmen, Dashilar, and more than a dozen pawnshops, antique shops, and old clothes shops to have a look, and all the belongings sold in them are your tenth brother's belongings!" Now your sister-in-law and nephew are at home, eating without food, wearing or wearing, guarding the four walls and crying......"

Kangxi understood so far, cleared up the arrears of the household, and actually got to the point where the prince sold his property. But I saw Yinzhen stand up, walked coldly in front of Yinzhen and me, pulled Yinxiang away, and said to the tenth brother:

"Didn't the emperor give you Fenglu? Who told you to spend all your days drinking and borrowing money everywhere? The ministers sold their real estate to pay off their debts, and shared their worries for the emperor and the country, can you pay it back as a prince? Still using swear words**, a good and decent moon worship will be yellow, what are your intentions? You ......"

Yinxiang sang and harmonized in the back:

"That's what the fourth brother said!"

With a swish, there was a bang, and I had already punched Yinxiang in the cheek and scolded:

"You ** mother-in-law gave birth to a wild seed! If the dog fights the human power, he knows that he will follow the prince and pat himself on the back! Lao Tzu is out of the box today! ……”

"Papapa", Yinxiang wiped the blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, like an angry lion, and his fist rained down on Yinxiang's shoulders and back. What he couldn't bear the most was this: after his mother gave birth to him, he became a nun, and the motherless cub was abused and bullied by his brothers, and he was a big step worse than the seventh and eighteenth who died of his mother. According to the ancestral family rules, no matter how much the prince is out of the house, there are eight nannies, eight nurses, six needles and threads, six pulp washes, six lights, and six pots and stoves, with a total of 48 people serving. He was the only one of eighteen. The prince went to school at the age of six, and the tuition fee was eight taels per person, and he only had five taels. All the brothers in the school palace bullied him, and only the fourth brother secretly protected him. Thinking about the grievances and abuses he received since he was a child, he burst into tears and got carried away, as if he wanted to sprinkle all his anger on Lao Shi. Lao Shi had no ability to fight back, but he had the power to parry, he stopped his waist and hugged Lao Thirteen, and the two scuffled in front of the table.

The brothers suddenly made a commotion at the table, shouting and screaming, which frightened the little brother on the concubine's table to cry. Li Dequan, Xing Nian and other eunuchs rushed up to pull the rack; Prince Yinren stepped forward and stomped his feet and clapped his hands to stop; The third child waved his fan and persuaded this to say that; Yinyu, Yinyu, Yinyu persuaded Mingli, in fact, secretly helped Yinyu I shouted the most:

"Stop fighting! Don't fight......"

"Get out of here!" Kangxi roared suddenly, "Let the two little beasts fight, fight to the death!" ”

Kangxi's eyes were on fire, but tears flowed into his cavity. I originally thought that there was some discord between the princes, but the rewards were different, the trust was different, some were sent poorly, and some were not. Now it seems that this is far from the case, Lao Shi is just a stupid bird, and there is a fan behind him, the front line is clear, and the momentum is incompatible. The spearhead was actually aimed at me and the crown prince, and they wished that I would die sooner rather than later, so that they could snatch the bones and fight for the throne. Thinking of this, Kangxi only felt a cramp in his heart and almost fell down.

There was a roar, and everyone fell silent. Yinzhen stroked my swollen face, still a dead pig not afraid of boiling water, wrapped around his clothes. Yinxiang turned pale and convulsed, "Wow-" screamed, fell to the ground, and cried intermittently:

"Son, the son is rude in front of his father...... Just ask for long live today, say clearly, son dear, dear mother...... Is it a **village woman......"

With the support of Li Dequan and Xing Nian, Kangxi stood up tremblingly, stretched out his hand towards Yinxiang, but couldn't reach it, and said with a sigh:

"Rise up - your mother is the princess of Tushetu Khan, and her status is honorable. You do things for me, and they hate you, and I know in my heart. Whoever wants to speak ill of your mother in the future will kill him! He suddenly pushed Li Dequan and Xing Nian away, raised one arm high, and slashed into the air, "You all listen, I'm not dead yet, and I don't want to die for the time being, you all stay honestly - come on!" ”

"The minions are here!" Li Dequan trembled and agreed.

"Take Yinzhen and me to the Zongren Mansion! Ten rods first, and then imprisoned! After saying that, he flicked the sleeves of his robe and walked away.

After this incident, Kangxi has always had a heart disease. Except for occasionally revealing a little bit of this kind of heart disease to Zhang Tingyu, he never told anyone about it, even with the closest concubine Niu Hulu, and other concubines, he didn't feel good about it. The old emperor, who is fifty-five or sixteen years old, looks like he is in the age of sixties, how can he tell his concubines that he is old?

Maybe after the age of thirty, Jian Jing has been decided, and Kangxi has indulged his private life too much. At that time, no matter how far north and south you were hunting, you couldn't leave women by your side. First, he traveled with a noble concubine or his favorite concubine, and later, every time he visited a province or a government, those close ministers and nobles who had deep contacts, and those local officials who flattered and flattered, and it was too late to tie up, all sent young beauties selected from the people to his palace. The beauties sent are younger than the other, and each is more beautiful and affectionate than the other. When a woman is fifteen or sixteen years old, she is like a budding bud, her skin is watery, ruddy and moist like a pearl agate reflecting the sun, as if she is fragrant when she pinches it gently. Having sex with such a girl naturally has a different flavor. Especially those girls selected from the mountains and from the water villages, they have both the purity and wild interest of the breeze and the moon, and they are incomparable to the concubines of the three palaces and six courtyards. In his infinite happiness, he often thinks of Bai Juyi's poems:

The Han Emperor re-colored the country,

Yuyu has been asking for it for many years.

The Yang family has a girl who has just grown up,

Raised in the deep boudoir people do not know.

It's hard to give up on being born beautiful,

Once chosen on the king's side.

Looking back and smiling,

The six palaces have no color.

Spring cold bath Huaqing pool,

Hot spring water slippery wash cream.

The waiter lifted up the delicate and weak,

The beginning is the time of new grace.

Cloud sideburns and flowers and golden steps,

Hibiscus tent to warm the spring night;

The spring night is bitter and the day is short,

From then on, the king did not come to an early dynasty.

……

Kangxi also had a time when he couldn't think about it and didn't want to go to the early dynasty. It was in Jiangning's Cao Yin's family, the ancestor of the Cao family was the palace internal affairs office, served the former emperor Shunzhiye, and later became a family with Kangxi's cousin King Fuping, that is, Xiao Xueqin's aunt now, married to Prince Fuping and made Fujin. With this layer of "slaves" and relatives, it is not surprising that Cao Yin built the Daxing Palace so magnificently, the mountains and rivers are exquisite, and the buildings are clear. There are really beautiful women in the "Grand View Garden", and there are all kinds of delicate babies selected from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. What Shih Tzu's ass was scraped with a bamboo skewer, shit!

Kangxi was close to the age of the sixtieth year, and he realized a truth: you can't indulge in lust when you're young. It's like a pot of wine, drink it slowly, its flavor is strong, and it can be poured all the way on; If you overeat, the largest and fullest pot of wine will be poured quickly. Now his flask had a hollow feeling. No wonder the brothers thought that he was old and could spy on the throne, and he had a chance. Due to his excessive youth and indulgence, he is indeed a little "premature", his kidneys are weak and his waist is swollen, and he is unable to do so.

This is something that the doctor can't make up for no matter how much tonic he takes, and he can't start it with any kind of ** he eats. However, he refuses to accept old age! In order to succeed smoothly and arrange the successor to the crown, he cannot serve the old.