The land journey from Dezhou to Beijing Post Road is more than 700 miles, and Qianlong's chrysanthemum horse is really good, and Ye Tianshi was sent to Jinghua in less than eight hours. The two guards and Zhao Weisan had nothing to do, just took care of him alone and a horse, went to the post station to eat, fed the horse with egg mixture, and set up people on the horse aisle after eating. Rao is this royal road has been repaired and repaired and mated, flat as a mill, Rao is that thousands of miles of horses are fast and steady, Ye Tianshi is already skinny, and opium addiction, when the old Qihuamen entered the city, he was listening to the three sounds of the Gongchen Taizi night and noon cannons, and the skeleton on Ye Tianshi's body was about to be turned upside down. Zhao Weisan gritted his teeth and led the way, reluctantly dragged his body to the alley deep in the flowers, and stepped north and east, and the black old house in the root of the old imperial city-it was the Shibeile Mansion-brought in to introduce the old man of the door: "This is the Heavenly Doctor Xingye Tianshi, come to relieve the disaster for my brother." Fast! Hurry up and take it in to see Madame......" After speaking, he fell on the spring stool in the concierge, and he was already snoring loudly.

Here, Lao Kou took Ye Tianshi and the three of them in. At this time, the open air street is quiet, and the tall houses of the Ten Baylor Mansion are zigzag and horizontal, but I feel that there are roads everywhere, and I can't distinguish between east and west, north and south without stepping on a few bends. Go around the second courtyard and enter from the side door, the main hall is as high as the temple, and the dust is closed, but the east and west compartments are brightly lit, and you will know that you have arrived at the main courtyard. Lao Kou stood under the east corridor and said, "Old lady, Mr. Ye sent by the emperor is here!" Through the window, I heard an old woman's voice: "I can't say that I am tired, first take my husband to my brother's room to check the pulse, and I will sit here and wait." I just gave Guanyin Niangniang Dou Rash Niangniang incense, and this scroll can be copied. Lao Kou promised "yes", turned around to say hello, and Shan and Ye Tianshi entered the first room in the east wing. Two guards stood on the patio and waited. The two girls in the room were cutting candles, and when they saw Ye Tianshi coming in, they hurriedly stepped aside. A girl said: "Master Wei, brother's savior is here!" The master's dream last year has really come true! Ye Tianshi saw that there was a young woman kneeling in front of the east wall to worship the pox lady hanging on the wall. I saw her pedaling the bottom of a pair of flower pots, combing her hair upright, wearing an egg-green cheongsam rolling on the moon-white plain edge, there was no fat powder on her dignified and beautiful face, muttering something, kowtowing for a long time, getting up and sitting on the table with great strength, and said: "I should have let Mr. rest, Brother, he ......" She choked, "I had to ask Mr. to take a look at it first......"

"Don't panic, let the students take a look first." Ye Tianshi knew that this was the emperor's favorite concubine Wei Jiashi, and he asked Qian'er to get up and go to the bed to see the elder brother.

The little brother has only been three months, and he is asleep at the moment, his little nose is dilated under the shadow of a few lights, his breathing is almost twice as fast as usual, his face is flushed, his fingers are pressed, and the dark rash under the blood is faintly visible, and his hands are hot, and after a while, his limbs twitch vigorously as if he was frightened, and he grinned as if he was about to cry, but he fainted again. Ye Tianshi lightly touched his pulse, opened the child's eyelids again, took out his tongue and examined it carefully, the little brother was tossed like this, he didn't cry or move, he only twitched from time to time.

Ye Tianshi sucked his lips and stood up, the light reflected the sweat on his face, shiny, and he didn't wipe it, just stared at the corner of the wall for a long time, staring at it without moving. Wei Jiashi had never seen the imperial doctor so unattended, and he felt that since he was calm and calm, his son's illness might be saved, and he couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Ye, how is Brother's pulse?" The prescriptions of the imperial doctor are all there, do you want to take them? Ye Tianshi suddenly woke up, hurriedly waved to Wei Jia's family, and said: "Niangniang, I think that your medicines must be angelica, fine spice, grass root, mint, nepeta, fennel, honeycomb, sand cucumber and licorice, I don't know if it?" Wei Jiashi looked at him suspiciously and asked, "How do you know?" And cinnabar—"

"Of course, there are cinnabar and jujube kernels. Presumably, there are also maltose and cicada moults. Ye Tianshi smiled bitterly, "Otherwise, the master can't be so drowsy that he can't get rid of the hot poison!" He seemed a little frustrated, and then lowered his head in contemplation.

Wei Jiashi only came back to her senses for a long time, she suddenly opened her mouth in horror, looked at her son like a sleepwalker, and looked at the "pox mother", the velvet tightly sealed window, and the crabs and pig's trotters hanging on the golden hook next to the bed...... stared at Ye Tianshi, and slowly knelt down on his knees!

"Master Wei, you are a mother, you are a mother!" Ye Tianshi was stung violently by a wasp, disfigured and jumped back a step, almost knocking down the palace maid who was leaning, he wanted to help him with his hands but didn't dare, and said in a loud voice, "If you have something to say, just command, don't-don't be like this, who will treat my brother if I kill the little one?" ”

"You save my son—" Wei Jiashi's eyes were full of tears, and he said pleadingly, "Now you are the doctor, and I am the child's mother!" If you don't say that the master is not the master, if you save him, you will save me...... I'm kowtowing to you......"

"The doctor has the heart to cut shares, don't talk about you, even if you are farming and raising silkworms, I will do my best - don't be like this, get up quickly, I will save him, I will save him!" Ye Tianshi was sweating profusely in a panic, his hands were raised, and he was shocked when he saw the two maids picking up Wei Jia's family, and said angrily, "The medicine I just said must be accurate." These drugs are not used wrong, but the time of use is not right, smallpox is a congenital heat poison, the initial onset of the disease should be improved and developed, after the flowers are broken, the five are empty, peppermint and astragalus are small diarrhea and small supplements, and the residual poison is scattered to fill the six gods. They forgot that many of them are cold medicines, which have the effect of astringency, and the poison is astringent before it disperses, so what is it? Master Wei, I know your heart, but the matter has come to this point, first, I want to use abnormal therapy, and second, I want to see whether the master's physique is strong or not...... You follow the doctor's instructions, I count on you sixty percent, you don't ......"

"I obey, I obey! If you want my heart to be the introduction, this son will rip it out! ”

Ye Tianshi's yellow face sank, gritted his teeth and groaned slightly, and said, "Open all the doors and windows of this house, and extinguish all the incense." ”

"There's mosquitoes and midges out there—"

"Put out the incense and open the doors and windows." Ye Tianshi said again, "The curtain on the bed is also lifted. There are only two lamps, one is covered with red gauze and placed on the front cabinet above the master's head, and one is white gauze, which is placed on the front case of the bean rash lady statue - don't ask why, hurry up! ”

Like a commander on the front line, he pointed to the east and the west and gave unquestionable orders, and the two palace maids kept picking up Qi Chu with their hands and feet, and in an instant the lights and candles in the room dimmed, and the doors and windows were opened. This is the taboo room for my brother's pox, and the next person, as well as several imperial doctors in the West Chamber, all stretched out their heads to peep here, and they didn't know what was going on. For a while, I heard that I wanted ginseng soup, rice wine, and turtle blood, and the palace people were busy preparing to send them in, and the imperial doctors didn't know what the use of these objects was, so they couldn't help but whisper to each other.

"Niangniang, I'll treat it." Ye Tianshi's hands and feet were constantly busy, poured two spoonfuls of rice wine into the little brother, added two spoonfuls of ginseng soup, chewed a taste of what medicine in his mouth and drank it himself, mixed the turtle blood with hot water, and suddenly raised his fist to hit his nose "bang", the nosebleed flowed into the hot water bowl like an injection, stuffed his nose with cotton wool, gently splashed the blood on the couch, rubbed his hands and said: "There can be no one in this house, even Niangniang, please move to Fujin, you believe in Buddhism, just chant the scriptures." Two guards are guarding at least three feet away from the door, as long as there is no fire, no shouting and talking, no coming in to disturb, hearing the master crying, it is effective! He did Zhang Zuozhi and went to the pox statue to pout for a while, no matter how many scriptures Wei Jiashi read, he didn't hear what he was chanting, but he saw Ye Tianshi standing in the shadow of the lamp and sneezed loudly, let go of his hand, and said, "Please!" ”

Wei Jia's family and the palace maid came out, after all, they were suspicious in their hearts: this set of tricks like tricksters is not like inviting God, if you say "treatment" is unheard of, and all kinds of tricks are unseen. She stood on the patio and looked back at the room, and asked, "He's alone in this room...... It doesn't matter? Ye Tianshi knew very well that this kind of woman was ignorant when she talked about medicine and Taoism with her, and when she talked about Shinto with him, she was honest and obedient, but at this moment she couldn't say anything, and said with a nose: "You know how many gods and Buddhas are protecting in the house, and they use medicine, and people try their best to help!" The most taboo is to commit crimes, especially women! No one is allowed to make noise! Wei Jiashi was busy: "Inform the next person, even if you go out of the water, you are not allowed to shout!" She crept to herself.

Here, Lao Kou took Ye Tianshi into the West Wing study. Several imperial doctors were in this room, and they were still chattering, and they were all sitting in danger at this time, but they saw Ye Tianshi coming in with a gray face, his hair was thin and short and fluffy, and he was dressed in a very elegant Shiqinghu silk that was crumpled and stained with oily vegetable stains, and he also had a button on his collar open, and his dignity was needless to say, the sweat on his forehead and sideburns were dripping together, his tired face was smoky, and there was a ball of white cotton wool stuffed in his nose. Thanks to Qianlong Tete, 100,000 people from Texas were urgently sent back to Beijing to treat Brother! The crowd wanted to laugh, but they all held back. Where is this going to be a disaster?!

"Forgive the little presumptuous, I'm really tired-" Ye Tianshi knew that this person had no good intentions for himself, but he refused to be rude, and smiled at everyone, "The little one still has a cheap addiction to Furong, I'm sorry." He took out a bag in his bosom and shook it open, and the prepared cigarette bubbles were rolled into paper coals and swallowed the cigarette in one gulp, followed by two, and he was already in good spirits. The crowd was stunned. Ye Tianshi smiled: "This object is really harmful! I wanted to try to find an antidote on my own, but so far I have had little effect, and I can't quit even myself, let alone others. Everyone smiled...... "After that, he picked up the seat facing the door and sat down, looking at Brother's room from afar through the door and was silent.

Everyone thought that this man was a little inexplicable, saying that he was crazy and stupid, and that his words were not reversed, and that he was polite and courteous; said that he was arrogant, and he was a "small" one, and he was so humble that he was undecency; said that he was sunny and autumn, but he didn't seem to be a person who had a secret in his heart. When I got off the horse, I went into the room to see the patient, and a bunch of imperial doctors here treated it as if they were nothing, and it was unbelievable that it was treated like that. Seeing his description at this moment, everyone thought: This is a monster! The head of the imperial doctor is a doctor, called Liang Yousheng, seeing this hillbilly ugly monster sitting beside him, although he wiped his face, he still looked obscene, his body was covered with sweat and sourness, and he smoked a few feet away, his body moved into the distance, and he coughed lightly and said: "Mr. Jiumu's demeanor, when I saw it today, it was really famous, and my generation has seen it!" I heard that Mr. rescued a dead man in Nanjing, but is it true? ”

Ye Tianshi stared at the door with round eyes, focused like a child watching ants drag flies, listening to this question, "ah" a few times before saying, "That's phlegm syncope and fake death." No one can save the dead! ”

"Please!" Liang Yousheng smiled and said, "What is the function of the two lights, one red and one white?" ”

"The red one is calm, in case my brother wakes up and palpitates. The white one is what I use to attract mosquitoes and midges into the house. ”

Several imperial doctors looked at each other in surprise, they originally thought that Ye Tianshi was playing tricks on witchcraft, but who knew that it would work like this! A doctor in his thirties leaned over and asked, "Which medical book says about recruiting mosquitoes into the room?" What is the medical theory? Another middle-aged doctor next to him smiled and said, "Presumably, the turtle blood, as well as the nosebleed, are all used to attract mosquitoes?" As soon as the words fell, several imperial doctors were already snickering in strange voices, but Wei Jia's family, as the imperial concubine, had a "purpose", and they all covered their mouths and did not dare to make a sound. There was also a little imperial doctor who spoke: "If mosquitoes can cure diseases, the emperor will make a nosebleed pool and turtle blood pool to raise mosquitoes, what do you want us to do?" I've heard that mosquitoes can transmit malaria......"

"Ladies and gentlemen, I don't want to say anything to you, I came by order, take care of Grandpa Grandpa's illness, and return to my Jiangnan." Ye Tianshi listened to these indiscreet words, and felt that he couldn't help but suppress them, "So we are not enemies, so we don't need to be tense like this." Brother Ah is only four months old, and it is already difficult for smallpox to spread internal poison, so you still dare to use restrained medicine? What does it mean to use cinnabar and jujube kernels? He fell asleep and was drowsy, and did not make noise, so he hid his illness? I have used medicine to force him to develop inside, and the heavenly things outside are George, that is the blessing of my brother, do you understand? Malaria is contagious, and even if you are infected with malaria, how is it better than the current smallpox, do you understand? ”

He was still asking "do you understand", and the little brother in the room over there cried "wow". Several of the Imperial Doctors jumped up as if they had a spring. Ye Tianshi grabbed it and said, "Don't go out of this house, I'll take care of it in the courtyard!" After saying that, I saw Wei Jiashi and an old woman standing at the door of the north room of the West Wing, hurriedly stepped forward to make an arch, and said in a low voice: "It's the piety of the mother and the lady who has arrived." Don't make a noise, just chant silently, the more energetic the child cries, the better! ”

Little Brother's crying is really getting higher and higher. Internally take rice wine ginseng soup with Fujian ginger, the monarch and the minister attack the smallpox heat poison, the doors and windows are wide open, the smell of blood in the house attracts the mosquitoes to rush into the room and bite around, the little brother is so dry that he is sweating, his little arms and legs are dancing and hissing, and he is more impatient when he opens his eyes to see that no one takes care of him, and the cry is sometimes hoarse, sometimes loud, sometimes like a long note like singing, sometimes intermittent, as if he can't breathe, and he coughs and chokes, and howls in a whine. One moment tight, one moment slow, as if he had torn his throat, and in the end he was already a dumb howl, not to mention Wei Jia's biological mother, the people in the hospital listened to him crying, this strange doctor stayed in the hospital and was not allowed to coax, and he was unbearable to hear. …… Gradually, the crying was subdued, and the little guy seemed to cry with all his strength, and then stopped for a while, and was silent. Ye Tianshi hesitated, stepped into the house in three steps and two steps, and heard him shout in surprise for a while: "Niangniang, Fujin!" Brother's pimple is broken, brother's pimple is broken! ”

"Amitabha!" An old man and a young woman saluted the Buddha in unison, and the strength under their feet did not know where to come, and they ran to the east chamber until the bed, and when they looked at the brother, their faces were full of stripes, and the bean-sized pulp bubbles were broken, and the glue-like pulp juice flowed out, and the hands and feet were stretched and their eyebrows were stretched, and they were already asleep. At this point, everyone knows that the little brother's life is over the dangerous and difficult time. Wei Jiashi pounced and knelt down and kowtowed to the pox lady. The old lady called out, "God......" and fell soft in the chair and fainted.

Ye Tianshi also breathed a sigh of relief, and while writing a prescription called catching medicine, he gave a doctor's order: "Wash my brother with warm salt water cotton balls, don't wipe it, dip it a little bit, and the scar will be small in the future." Give him a salt and a sugar and water...... Weaning for half a day...... Ginseng soup should never be used again, and wet nurses are not allowed to eat hot food...... After half a day, you can feed mint syrup......" he said while saying that Wei Jiashi had no mouth to order someone to do it! "I also ordered to take the twenty taels of platinum that I made jewelry and give it to Mr. Ye to press and wrap...... This night, the Ten Baylor Mansion was busy waiting for this little brother. Seeing that the matter was safe, Ye Tianshi put his mind at ease, turned around and said a few good words for a few imperial doctors, Lao Kou took him into the morning, and then stared at him in confusion.

The little brother escaped, but the old lady of Fuguo fell ill. Although she lives in the "Ten Baylor Mansion", but the old Ten Baylor Yun has been unwilling to participate in the "Eight Masters Party" since the Kangxi period, and Yongzheng is studying his political enemies in the world, and almost killed the "Ten Brothers", and he was not released until the second year of Qianlong and became the Duke of Fuguo. Therefore, the official name of this mansion should be "Gongfu", but people are used to calling it, but they can't change it. Hongday originally sent Lai Niang here because it was a crime, and he didn't dare to accidentally serve her to live and produce; The second is Aunt Qianlong, except for the two Gege who went out, there is no male relatives in the family, and there is no suspicion. didn't expect that this old lady who was close to old age couldn't help but forbid a big matter - she was going to offend the concubine Niu Hulu first when she lived in the mansion; Brother has a favor in the safe driving of the mansion, in case of a fall, the mansion will not be able to bear this responsibility even if it is ground into powder. Therefore, as soon as this "Wei master" entered the house, she immediately called her two daughters back to the door to wait. Invite the Guanyin shrine to his west wing bedroom, and kowtow nine times a day, and make a fuss in the morning and evening. When "Elder Brother" had smallpox, she actually made a "fasting wish", did not eat grains of rice, closed the door to chant and copy scriptures to pray for her brother, and kept Guanyin for five days and five nights to purify her heart and repay her wishes, which seemed to be deeper than Wei Jia's piety. At first glance, when I heard the words "pulp pox and broken flowers", I was already boiling out of oil, and I was pleasantly surprised, and I fell ill with a sigh of relief.

This time, Wei Jia's family was more and more busy, and more than a dozen temples in Dajue Temple, Lama Temple, Sheng'an Temple, Fayuan Temple, Yunju Temple, and Tanzhe Temple repaid their vows. He went to Baiyun Temple to ask for a name talisman to his brother, and sent someone to send a letter to Qianlong Huiluan's royal driving line, and rewarded the eunuchs who were brought out to wait. Nine wet nurses and three Jingqi grandmothers work shifts day and night to take care of the little elder brother, and she herself is immersed in her son's side wholeheartedly in addition to Buddhist affairs, and she has to ask the old lady from time to time and arrange for the imperial doctor to take care of her honor. Seeing that his brother broke the pulp, smallpox, dried pox, and scabbed over day by day, and the old lady's illness stabilized, Wei Jia's body lost a circle. She was born in a humble and bumpy background, and now she is rich and rich, and she is afraid that she will be underestimated, and the big gifts and small gifts are the most meticulous. The queen died in the outside world to mourn, she lived in Baylor Mansion, and did not receive the will, since the palace was moved, she consciously had a relationship with Niu Hulu and the concubine, and there was no contact. The old man Wei Qingtai of his mother's family is also a dying person, and he has always been very suspicious. In case someone is bad for Elder Brother, after the palace was moved, a few brothers of the Wei family who didn't care about it came to send a post, and they were also indifferent, rewarding the silver and leaving-I didn't care about many faux pas, but now that the holy car is about to return to Beijing, Brother is safe and sound, and when the middle palace is empty, people are disturbed, and they can't help but try to make up for it. Thinking that the old lady was a somersault, she came to the north room of the West Wing to ask for ideas.

"Don't worry about your mother's family, that end can't be offended......" The old lady listened to Wei Jia's tactful words, a smile flashed on her withered face, half lying on the big pillow, holding Wei Jia's arm with one hand, and said in a slow voice, "I also know a little about the Wei family, it turns out that they are sorry for the mother and daughter for their family business." Since you entered the concubine position, it is a different way of thinking, now that you have a brother, the family has to be promoted and made rich safely, and it is too late to stammer! You can rest assured! Wei Jiashi sat beside this kind old woman, with a sense of stability and steadiness in her heart, rubbing her quilt and sighing: "I also understand this layer in my heart." When my brother's difficulties passed, they were even more anxious to serve me. I just feel that my life is miserable, and other sisters still have a mother's family who knows how to hurt and heat, but I don't have it! It's not a grudge, it's just that the two skins can't stick together, and I don't know how to cook to iron it......"

Hearing her say "life is hard", the wife of the old Baylor County King couldn't help but smile, paused and said: "Old man Wei can't move, the family will definitely come to ask for peace, the eldest lady and wife, you can see it, and a few thoughtful words will be ironed." Niangniang always thinks about the bitterness of them driving you out of the house back then, and they are uneasy. I didn't accept them as gifts first, because of my brother's illness, and I was afraid that I couldn't bear it. Send it again, just purse, handkerchief, fan, lantern or something, I have it in my house, reward them some, and go happily. However, the Fu family can't be slow, one is to die in the new mother, and the other is to protect the mother when the mother is dusty. Niangniang is a free person outside the palace, and she will go to Fu Xiang's Mansion to pay tribute, and no one can find fault with the ceremony......"

"So, what about the button master? I'm really a little afraid to see her again......" Wei Jiashi said, "If you say it, it's the fifth master's idea that I move out, but the fifth master hurt her dignity after all." The old lady didn't answer immediately after hearing this, and stroked her hand for a while before sighing: "That's only after returning to the palace, I will slowly turn around." Things in the palace are actually more difficult than in the officialdom outside! Fortunately, the owner of the button is not happy now. When the emperor comes back, you can say a few good words for her, and she will only be grateful. Tell Niangniang a word, I see that you are kind in your heart, and you have suffered hardships, you are considerate of others' difficulties, and you are in an ordinary family, so I didn't say it again. According to my thoughts, how many things are not clear and confused, my brother has grown up safely, and a prince will be stable in the future. It's too serious, and now some people can't get along with you, draw ladders, sprinkle thistles, secretly make stumbling blocks, and get you some nightmare towns or something, if you are not safe, my brother will not be safe. Look at the pond in my garden, if you don't stir it, it's clear water, I think there is nothing mysterious in it, the year before last, the mud was cleared, the water was muddy with a pot of ink soup, an old black-headed fish was more than 300 catties, and there was a bowl to a thick water snake, scary or not? Wei Jiashi was stunned when he heard it, he was fortunate to enter the palace, waiting for the queen, running at both ends of the Kunning Palace Cining Palace, everyone was affectionate, they were all "serving the master well", and they didn't hold hands to say such a reason, it sounded like an olive in his mouth, the more he sucked it, the more he felt the aftertaste, but he smiled in his mouth: "The old man's words can't be wrong." It's just that if you don't clear the pond silt, won't the pond dry up? ”

The old lady sighed, "Woman...... We women can't go to clear the mud...... I'm just an analogy, for example, the owner of the button, Anfu is honored to be a noble concubine, don't move the palace for you, don't break into the military aircraft, who dares to disrespect her? You said you were afraid to see her, but in fact, I thought in a foolish mind, she was even more afraid to see you! It's my brother, and it's hard to get involved in housework. My dead ghost man, how did he persuade him to come back then, but he didn't go in! and Yongzheng Ye had a quarrel, and it was too late to regret anything......" Wei Jiashi lowered his head and sighed for a long time, sighing: "I remember what my aunt said." Since I came to this house, my brother has suffered something here, this is the fate of our mothers. From now on, I have a bride's family, and my brother wants you to take care of it more......" Duchess shook her head and smiled: "This is a good thing that I can't think of...... It's just that at my age, people's words are 'candles in the wind, frost on the tiles', what hope is there? Brother looks at this appearance and voice, and looks at his chances, he is a blessed and powerful person. Good is good, just like a pine tree on a high mountain, it is easy to attract wind and rain...... Since you've said this, I'll try a way, it's only good for my brother, and it's good for you—"

"Good aunt, just say-" Wei Jia's eyes lit up, "I can't forget your kindness!" ”

"Even with you, there are eighteen concubines waiting in front of the Long Live Lord." The old lady bloomed her wrinkled face and stroked Wei Jia's hair kindly, "If you don't say a word, a woman's color will be worthless as soon as it falls, and men in the world treat women like an epiphany, and they will be ruined in a moment." But it's another thing to treat a son, a son will not fall out of favor, and it is because of this that the women in the palace make housework, and they all beat the elder brother to quarrel, saying that they are jealous, what can they do if they are not 'jealous'? There are a few concubines who don't have a brother, although they are not allowed to recognize their godmothers, they might as well let go and let their brothers live in the palaces, with this three months, with that half a year, Brother Ah will also have a few relatives in the palace, because of the respect for the mother, you must not be alone. This can only be done by Brother Ah when he is young, and he went to school in Yuqing Palace at the age of six, and even you are not seen much. Just if you want to find a reliable nurse, then everything will be fine. ”

Wei Jiashi thought about it carefully, this old lady was really considerate and caring, and her consideration was not only thorough but also long-term, and she was moved to take her hand and said, "I know everything you said, and I have written it down in my heart...... From now on, even if my brother has a grandmother, he will definitely repay you when he grows up. I have a low position in the palace, so I can't say that I can take care of you, and I still have to speak for you in front of my master when I am a child, and I can't just give you a 'madam' phoenix crown after all......" She got up with a smile with tears in her eyes, "I'll go to Fu Heng's Mansion and come back to see you." The old lady leaned back and said, "Forgive me for not being able to send my mother...... The chariot in the palace is too eye-catching, so I will take my pannier to ...... You're here, don't be there for too long......"

After sitting in the sedan chair in the Liangzhu box of the Duchess of the Duchess, Wei Jiashi rushed to the Fu Mansion in half an hour, took out his pocket watch and saw that it was not yet the beginning of the afternoon. On the one hand, he ordered someone to enter the house to report, sat in the bamboo window and looked out, only to see that the courtyard of the Fu Mansion was much more spectacular than when he left, the original Guangliang door has been demolished, replaced with a new cluster of three hanging flowers and a thick door, a female wall built up of green bricks, the palm planted outside, the inside along the wall is a green pomegranate tree, and the layers of it are holly magnolia sycamores. The door god has long been pasted, the spirit banner curtain at the door is covered with a white water, and the palm along the wall is also hung up continuously, and the green trees are misty in the flowers under the sun, and the green manman is steaming. When the Fu family was scorching in Guisheng, dozens of sedan chairs were parked at the door, from the small bamboo grid carried by two people to the official pavilion sedan chair carried by eight people, a large empty field in front of the door was stuffed, all of which were in the Fujin of the royal palaces in Beijing, the wives of officials and the families of officials who walked around in the Fu Mansion on weekdays, came to worship. The family members brought filial hats and filial piety to greet and send off, and the officials and relatives bowed in and resigned, but Wei Jia's family didn't recognize any of them. Just as he was dazzled, an old family member with pale hair ran out tremblingly, followed by a servant woman with crutches and little feet tightly twisted. Wei Jia's eyes lit up: Although the relationship here is awkward, it is clear that this woman is the daughter-in-law of her brother's wet nurse, who is waiting for Fukang'an to wash water in the Fu Mansion, and when she was not surprised to enter the palace earlier, she and her mother Huang often came to her house to avoid the hustle and bustle, and it was of course very suitable to send her to welcome her. The old Wei Jiashi also recognized that it was the old king, the retired housekeeper of Fu Heng's Mansion, who was already seventy years old, but he was still full of red light and spirits. The old man gasped slightly and saluted outside the pannier, and said through the curtain: "The housewife obeys the will of the mother, and does not dare to come out to greet her. Just ask the lady to stoop down and enter through the side door from this side. No, the women in the courtyard, if one person recognizes it, they have to see the courtesy, and it is not good to see any of them...... "After that, I beat a thousand children, and the daughter-in-law came to pick Wei Jia's sedan chair in the morning.

"Old man Wang, sister-in-law Xiwang, I haven't seen you for a few days. The body is still strong when it looks like it's still strong! Wei Jia's got off the sedan chair, entered from the west side door, stepped on the down-like grass in the dense woods, zigzagged and twisted to the west flower hall, and talked to the two subordinates: "Although I don't come out in the palace, I have been thinking about you...... Uncle Seven heard that he sent troops with Fu Xiangye to release the horse? Last time the sixth grandmother went in, I also asked about the jade girl, has she grown taller? Still that skinny? Xiwang's daughter-in-law replied: "Uncle Seventh has made meritorious contributions to protecting his master in Liangfeng Town, and he has already protected the president. Now the eighth uncle is in charge of the house, and Ji Bao is outside with Brother Kang, and he went out again after returning to Beijing for a day. My jade girl is now waiting in Brother Ling'er's study...... Mother, we can't afford it! It's just that I can't let it go day and night, I heard that I added a brother, and we also asked me to go to the Jietai Temple and put three incense sticks for my brother. Niangniang walked here, that road was repaired last year, and the thorn rose was woven into the fence. Our wife is even more pious, from the mother to get out of trouble and enter the palace, every day to go to the Bodhisattva to give you a burner of incense...... "Yes, no, Su Su often said, listening to Wei Jia's heart for a while. As soon as I looked up, I saw the old bamboo in front of me, and a few girls in Tsing Yi stood in front of the room with their hands down, and they knew that the study had arrived. Stepping over and then to the west, a woman with three or four girls surrounded her, and bowed down like a candle under the front steps of the flower hall, but it was Xiangguo Fu Heng and his wife Wulanala - Tang'er came to greet him, and said with his head bowed: "Slave Tang'er knocks on Niangniang!" ”

Wei Jiashi suddenly felt a sense of pride in his heart: the woman kneeling below was the wife of the "First Xuanli Minister" of the dynasty under one person and ten thousand people, when she came to hide in the lower room of Xiwang's house, begging for a piece of soup and clothes, she could only look at this noble lady from a distance across the door from her mother, and now she is a "monarch and minister", Tang'er instead bowed respectfully to "knock" herself, the word "reputation" is really incredible! There is no substitute for the taste of high and low! …… sighed in his heart, he hurriedly stepped forward to help Tang'er with both hands, and said, "You must not do this with me!" Even if I wait in front of the emperor, I still treat you as a benefactor in my heart. Without you, I can't be decent among the people, and the Wei family who entered the palace to be elected blocked me out, what is the description now? Come on, let's go inside. Niang Niang, I live outside, there is this convenience to come and see, you have a lot of things to do here, I don't dare to disturb the ...... for a long time" said, took Tang'er's hand into the flower hall, and looked carefully, only to see Tang'er wearing a moon-white silk coat, a dark skirt tied with a filial piety belt, and a filial piety on the top of the head, although she is already a middle-aged woman, and the jewelry is not used to remove lead, she is naturally beautiful, and she is still beautiful, but the traces of time in front of the forehead at the corners of her eyes are inevitable, and there are fine scales. Wei Jiashi said: "The sixth grandmother has the body and spirit. I'm afraid that I'm tired from staying up late, and I look a little tired. It's so sympathetic to yourself, and some things teach people to be busy. ”

"It's not surprising that the queen's affairs came out." Tang'er listened to Wei Jia's words, and had already brought out the tone of "command", and hurriedly said "yes" in her clothes, and sighed, "She has been sick and dying for many years, and she has been in several disasters. It's just that the master is not at home, and I am busy with everything inside and out. Kang'er, the evil obstacle, didn't listen to me, he went to the south of the Yangtze River by himself, he always came and went, and he caused trouble all the way, I was angry, laughed and worried, and couldn't sleep night after night. Niangniang looked at me well, but in fact, I was pretending, such a big scene, it was not good to be socialized in that place......" Wei Jiashi nodded slightly and said: "Now that I have Brother, I can also be considerate of your heart." The child is by his side, and when he cries, he tugs at my heart, let alone thousands of miles away? However, people in our family have talked about it, Brother Kang is very angry with you, and he has done a few big errands outside, and the whole world has been alarmed, and the emperor has issued a commendation! With such a promising brother, grandma should be happy. As he spoke, he took out a silk bag from his arms, gently put it on the table and said, "You know, I have only been in the position for a short time, I have not saved myself, and I am in a hurry when I leave the palace...... Don't take it lightly...... This is the emperor's reward for my golden melon seeds, you do great things here, and reward outsiders in the future, where don't you use money? It's a little bit of my heart......"

This is a reward, Tang'er is still thinking about her son, she is busy collecting her eyes and wiping her tears, squatting down to give Wei Jia's two blessings, and said: "Niangniang's reward, this is the great dignity of my Fu family, I have ten thousand taels of gold, where can I get this glory?" However, if you should say something, the mother is not rich, and she rewards the eunuchs inside and outside the palace, and the use is not small; Now that I have added my brother and live in someone else's house, this is even more so. Brother Ye has had a big catastrophe out of flowers, and when I heard it yesterday, Tang'er was very happy, and he was thinking about paying a little filial piety! If the mother is willing to receive, my face will be bright! As he spoke, he hurriedly squatted down to give a salute. Seeing that she was so respectful and humble, Wei Jiashi was moved in his heart, and he actually got up to return the blessing, and said with his hand: "Sixth grandmother is polite." Do I have any reason not to accept what you give? I can't repay your affection, my brother is older, let him repay it. This is exactly what Tang'er wanted to hear, she was happy in her heart, but she didn't bring it out on her face, smiled respectfully, and said: "My lord wrote a letter, now I have insomnia, dizziness and palpitations, and I am sick one mile at a time, and it is time for the next generation to contribute to the heavenly family." Niangniang said that the slaves and maids would never dare to take it, only to teach a few sons a good lesson, and really repay the emperor's kindness. As he spoke, he exited the flower hall and beckoned a girl to the bottom of the stairs, "Li'er, what you were asked to do, is it okay?" ”

"Back to Mrs. Hui's words," Huang Li'er bowed down and said, "I went to the account room to ask Wang Huaizheng to check the gift list, and the gifts sent by the various mansions were in accordance with the master's words, and more than one hundred and sixty taels were not accepted." Although there are many lists, they are all too thin, but the gift called Ma Erzi, who came back from Jiangnan, is still made, I am going to pass the list, please look at the decision. Although she came to Fufu not long ago, because she was clever and well-behaved, she was already very popular with Tang'er. When Tang'er took the list and looked at it, it was written:

Twenty catties of Biluo spring tea, eight taels of Dahongpao tea, thirty catties of Longjing tea, fifty catties of Hequ yellow potato, ten boxes of purple gold pills, six boxes of cinchona frost pills, twenty branches of Korean ginseng (twenty batches of leaves), three catties of ginseng, and one catty of ginseng ointment. Twenty pairs of squirrels, two pairs of live deer, two pairs of Tianlan Lix rabbits, and one pair of Persian cats. 100 sandalwood fans, 10 orders of rice paper, 20 branches of lake pens (refined), 30 boxes of Hui ink, five sides of inkstone, two pairs of gold and jade Ruyi, two pairs of jade bracelets, two strings of agate prayer beads, two Western pocket watches, a gold-plated self-striking bell, and a large glass mirror. There are ten pairs of silver ingots in Taizhou, and two hundred and fifty pieces of gold and silver bills. Fifty horses of big doro, forty horses of middle doro, sixty horses of lake silk and silk and river silk, thirty pots of bonsai of Huangshan, a pair of root carved rattan chairs, a picture of Guanyin of natural wood planing, sixty colors of Jingmu root carving, ten pots of evergreen flowers.

In the very inconspicuous place in the lower left corner of the last page is written Huang Li'er's own handwriting:

Concubine Tang'er dedicated

After thinking about it for a while, he carefully tore it off, and said to Huang Li'er: "You go and bring the pair of gold silk soft bamboo cool seat cushions from my house yesterday, and spread them on the sedan chair seat of the mother." After that, he came in and presented the gift list to Wei Jiashi with both hands. Wei Jiashi didn't shirk or look at it, took it with a smile and said, "Just send it to Shibeile Mansion." The emperor will come back the day after tomorrow, and he will definitely take me to live in the Old Summer Palace. Sixth grandma, I'm sorry for you, I'm busy here, I'm also worried about my brother, I have to go back. After that, he resigned the way he came.

Tang'er sent straight out, watching a group of eunuchs and palace maids huddle around the sedan chair before stepping back, enduring fatigue and talking to the lady who was full of condolences, and saw that Ding E'er and He Qiaoyun were there, so he stood up and smiled: "Yun'er and E'er are here?" I sat in the main room, I haven't seen you for a long time, and my heart is empty and no one can speak. Ladies, labor, you have come to visit me. Originally, our lord had an order, except for the small gifts sent by the prince's clan, the rest would not be accepted. Since I came, I Tang'er didn't dare to sweep the faces of the sisters, and considered the return gift, you also have to give me dignity, and sit in the chamber and rejoice, just I have dinner, let's talk while eating......" Saying, and Ding E'er and He Qiaoyun entered the west room, half leaned on the spring bench, and ordered: "Xiuge, Li'er, bring two plates of fresh peaches and yellow apricots from their village." E'er, Yun'er, did you two come together? Yun'er's body, if she didn't open her face, I thought that the little girl from a relative was here, and E'er was also radiant, the more she looked at it, the more she looked at it, the more she looked at it, the more she looked at it, the more she looked at it! ”

"I'm twenty-seven years old, I'm getting old, and my wife is still boasting about it, it's embarrassing!" Ding E'er smiled, "If you really want to talk about beauty, who can compare with you?" Yun'er and I went to Guifu together, Guizhongtang to Shijiazhuang, halfway to the order not to go to Texas, called back to Beijing to arrange the funeral etiquette of the mother. I just rushed back this morning, and it was a little windy, and Mrs. Gui couldn't come, so we came. Grandma Yun, do you remember that cloud, I also came to Beijing, Gui Zhongtang meant, let the three of us go to the beekeeping road to meet her! ”