Gao Shiqi also took advantage of the situation and staggered out drunk. After the cold wind blew, Fang regretted that today's move was very inappropriate. Suo Etu is the current minister of power, even if he doesn't expect him to carry him, he can't make a mistake and disappoint him. He was full of remorse, and the wine really came up, and he stumbled away drunk, and as soon as he turned out of the entrance of the Jade Emperor Temple, he collided with a person. When I looked closely, I slammed a blind flower child against the wall, and a big bag bulged out of my head. Gao Shiqi knew that something was wrong, and as soon as he retreated, he was about to slip away, but he was pulled by the blind man and scolded: "You bastard! bumped into me, Wang Lao was blind and wanted to leave without saying a word? ”

Gao Shiqi saw that he was unrelenting, and he knew that he was asking for money to send him, but he was so poor that he didn't pretend to be a copper in his waist, and he watched the idlers around him gradually gather to see the excitement, and he was anxious, and he scolded: "You are a bastard!" I was hit by you, but you didn't follow me, I was blind, are you also blind? ”

The crowd laughed when they saw him so clever. Wang Lao let go of his hand and said in a daze: "You are also blind? Spit! It's really fucking unlucky...... "How dare Gao Shiqi talk about it anymore, take advantage of people's laughter, and go away."

Back at the Xuanwumen Inn, it was already the end of the day. When the shopkeeper saw him coming in with a drunken face, he greeted him with a smile and said, "Master, are you back?" Nowhere to find you! Our store is in the store today, and all the guest officers have rewarded the room money......"

It's really unlucky for people to fart and smash their heels, Gao Shiqi sneered and said, "Ho! Dare to love you are afraid that I will run away, I thought you were thinking about the master! Come, come to my room, settle the bill! The shopkeeper was stunned by him, and hurriedly followed behind with a laugh: "Where do you want to go!" Master Gao is a gentleman, and he can be trusted even if he doesn't settle his accounts for a year! It's just that in this Beijing city, you also know that in the words of the masters, it is called a salary bead and rice is expensive...... I really can't do it......" Gao Shiqi listened to him upside down, ignored it, strode into his room, fell to the bed, glared and said: "Master is dizzy this time, you sit - uh - wait." Don't wait to hang yourself and jump into the river, what's the hurry? Look at that inkstone...... That pot of flowers...... The wrapper...... Isn't it all money? You're going to have to wait impatiently, eh! Just take it ......"

He was full of nonsense, nondescript, saying that he would be accountable, but he just took the words to eliminate the boss, but the boss was angry, and he was thinking about how to deal with this bachelor, but Gao Shiqi jumped up, picked up a post on the table, and asked with bright eyes: "It's Mr. Cha, what time has it been?" ”

"Oh, you mean the poor man?" The shopkeeper saw that he was drunk and woke up, and replied inexplicably, "I came at the right time, I can't wait for you to leave, and I said that I would come to worship later-" Gao Shiqi snorted, threw the post on the table and said, "Poor people? It's really a dog's eye that doesn't know gold and jade-that was the last science to explore flowers and check the prudence, and now it is the sacrificial wine of the Hanlin Academy! Divide half of the third-class slaves of the Cha family with you, and you will not be able to use them for the rest of your life! The owner didn't believe it at all, and he was really angry, so he smiled dryly: "The little one doesn't want to be rich and rich, how many big bowls to eat, as long as the guests pay the bills seriously, life will be passable!" The two were arguing, but they heard someone in the courtyard shouting: "Is Brother Shanren back?" Gao Shiqi looked up, "ouch", walked out of the door to greet him, and said with a smile: "Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao has arrived!" Brother Cha has been absent for a long time - I haven't seen you for three years, and you have been so graceful...... Come in! I invited him today, I thought it was the effect of the two hundred taels of silver, I didn't want the brother to say it for Gao first - I hate this slave, I actually said that you are a poor and sour person! When the shopkeeper saw it, Cha Shenxing was dressed very differently from when he came in the morning, wearing a white fox-style trimmed azure satin shoulder, wearing a dark poplin robe, and a piece of Hanyu tied to the sauce-colored belt around his waist, with beige tassels, greeting and shaking step by step, the shopkeeper was dumbfounded.

Cha Shenxing smiled, waved a sandalwood fan and said: "It seems that it is not possible to blindly pretend to be cold - seeing Suo Zhongtang, are you still proud?" ”

"See!" Gao Shiqi smiled and gave up his seat, and said to the shopkeeper, "What are you stunned about?" Don't ask someone to make tea for Mr. Cha! The shopkeeper agreed to go as if he had been granted amnesty. A guy had already brought tea respectfully. Gao Shiqi saw that there were no outsiders in the room, Fang sighed, "I went to go, but I didn't get the lottery, and I was ashamed to recommend my brother." Then he said that the situation of the Suofu meeting was long and short.

Cha Shenxing shook his fan and listened quietly, and said with a smile: "Suo Xiang is also a little family, is it worth being so domineering?" So—Ming Xiang asked me if I had any literati to recommend—and I went to his house again in the evening. Gao Shiqi and Cha Shenxing traveled to Jiangsu and Zhejiang together in the past, although it was good, but because of one poor and one rich, Gao Shiqi was unwilling to look up. Unexpectedly, when he entered Beijing, he was expensive and cheap, and Cha Shenxing was still so sincere and helpful, Gao Shiqi couldn't help but be emotional, but he refused to say the word "Xie", because he said with a smile: "Mingzhu seems to be thirsty for talent - I heard that he and Suo Etu are not on good terms - you can go around on both sides!" Cha Shen said: "None of them are seeking talents and talents. The emperor examines them every day and forces them to do their studies, but it is just a last resort - me, sometimes they ask me for some evidence to deal with the emperor, and I can't really say that I have any face. ”

Gao Shiqi's heart moved, the Son of Heaven is so talented, it can really be said that "the book of Hetuluo is out, and the world is prosperous", and the prosperous era is coming. was about to speak, but when he saw the boss come in, he cautiously called Qian'er and said, "Master, the flowers you ordered before were sent by someone from the flower shop." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl came in with a pot of two-color narcissus, the green leaves lined with water-red, snow-white flowers, and the water spirit trembled very energetically, reflecting the girl's eyebrow trimming style, light red armor, and moon-white pleated skirt, just like the picture of Magu sending life cut out on the painting. Gao Shiqi couldn't help but be stunned, in the flower market under the Dashilan Corridor, he saw this girl selling flowers every day, but he didn't notice that she was a stunning beauty! Cha Shenxing glanced at Gao Shiqi, and couldn't help laughing: "Shanren, do you look at human faces, or peach blossoms?" ”

"Oh? Oh! Gao Shiqi came back to his senses and said busily, "Put it on the table - Brother Shen Xing, let's enjoy the flowers!" ”

The girl smiled brightly, put the flowers away, and blessed her hands on her knees. Cha Shenxing teased: "If you talk about this flower, you still hold Mr. Gao to appreciate the color, but unfortunately the pot is too heavy - what is your name?" Only then did the girl hear that the two were praising her appearance, and her face immediately turned red, and she replied in a low voice: "The second master made fun of her, and the slave's name is Fang Lan." ”

"Lan has beautiful chrysanthemums and fragrant, and Huai Jiaren can't forget." Gao Shiqi groaned, and said, "In Emperor Wu's "Autumn Wind Speech", a good name!" Cha Shen said: "If the wine is not drunk, everyone is drunk, and if the flowers are not charming, everyone is obsessed with themselves - two common sayings are all called Jiangcun stalls in one day." He asked Fang Lan again, "Are you from Fengtai?" This flower has been raised to such a good color, and it is good to move into the interior, how can Mr. Gao have a good fate? Gao Shiqi listened to him blindly joking for fun, but felt embarrassed, got up and admired the narcissus, and said: "Brother Cha, has Kong Shangren's "Peach Blossom Fan" been changed? I heard you're looking for someone to rehearse. Shang Ren saw this pot of narcissus, maybe he would make some good sentences-but also, such a good flower, and the tribute was also full, how could it be put on the market, dare you be afraid that the deacon eunuch's New Year's gift will not be sent away? ”

In a word, Fang Lan's eyes were red. It turns out that this Jingshi flower line, with Fengtai as the most, is the ancestral family art of the former Ming Palace. The flowers are secretly cultivated with ancestral arts, there are chrysanthemums in spring, and there are plums in summer, and they can reverse the four seasons, but if they don't buy off the eunuchs, no matter how good they are, they are in vain. Fang Lan because her father and brother were sick, and she sold the money for medicine, and the flower could not be sent to the palace, seeing Gao Shiqi and Cha Shenxing open-minded and reasonable, she smiled reluctantly: "What you said is not, flowers and people are the same, and it is difficult to see Long Live Lord without money!" ”

"Don't be upset." Gao Shiqi thought of himself abruptly, and couldn't help but feel like a confidant, and while absentmindedly "appreciating the flowers", he said, "Today will never let you fail." Brother Cha, lend me ten taels of silver to reward her...... Well, Mr. Cha is a flower in the world, today he published a poem, I wrote to praise your flowers, go back to hang in the store, discipline them to squeeze your door to buy flowers! Fang Lan couldn't help but be surprised: "A picture of a word is so godly? Bright eyes glanced at it, and almost missed Gao Shiqi's soul. Cha Shenxing smiled and said, "You called 'Fang Lan' in vain!" Aside from me to check a certain person, Gao Yu people write a word, you take it to the glass factory to sell it! After that, he was full of interest, circled the flowers, and said in his mouth:

The soul was originally ground with ice jade, and the cold pool was always pleasant.

The snow is a scoundrel, and Mr. Po is saved.

Gao Shiqi rubbed his arm and dipped the ink, and the dragon snake walked the pen, while praising loudly: "Good! This is White Narcissus, another one! ”

Cha Shenxing pondered, and then chanted:

Cut the onion roots and plant them by hand, and the tender stamens draw the branches of Qiong Yao.

It's good to warm up with the cold——

"Brother Cha groans slowly, I'll continue the mink!" Gao Shiqi was so excited that he laughed and said, "——A room to see the flowers bloom!" ”

Cha Shenxing applauded and smiled: "What a 'one-room sun'!" It's auspicious and appropriate, Jiangcun is not a machine with a double knock, does it mean something else? With that, he glanced at Fang Lan. Although Fang Lan didn't know much about it, and didn't know that it was not serious, she hurriedly rolled up the paper, thanked the reward, and walked out with a red face and a bowed head.

It wasn't until it was dark that Cha Shenxing left some more silver before he resigned. Gao Shiqi called the shopkeeper in, lazily crossed his legs and said: "Old Liu's family, you said that Gao Ye should pay for your house every day, and there is no good color when you lose the cup." Look, what is this? The shopkeeper took a look, the desk of two Beijing ingots, furnace flower ballast, white glaze on the face, warped edges and square bottoms, authentic ninety-eight color number one ingots, straight eyes for a long time, full of smiles and smiles: "Yetai, why do you care about our villains?" Yes, I'm here to apologize to you! Gao Shiqi smiled and said: "I want to deal with you, this time I will leave as soon as I raise my feet, you just wait for me to clean you up!" Now there is something I want you to do, and if it is done, what is the silver? As he spoke, he threw over an ingot.

"Yetai, your old man will give orders!"

"Do you know the flower seller who just came in?"

"Old neighbors, why don't you know each other?" Shopkeeper Liu smiled with a smile on his face, knowing that it was difficult, and said nonsense with an idea in his heart, "Zhengyangmen Cai Jialian'er, a famous beauty embryo - what, Yetai, you ...... Think so? ”

Gao Shiqi laughed secretly in his heart, but he muttered in his mouth: "She is a woman from a good family, but she is afraid of ......" "A woman from a good family is not." The boss was afraid that the business would be ruined, so he glanced at Gao Shiqi and pretended to ponder, "But the girl who doesn't open her face can't say anything without twenty taels a night." The yellow flower woman always has to be handled, and she is afraid of shame, so there are more rules. ”

"Huh? - Hmm, what rules? ”

"Wake up at night and ask my family to take a walk." Shopkeeper Liu said with a smile, "If the second watch doesn't come, the master will count on it - you can't light the lamp, you can't speak, and you have to let people go if the sky is unknown." You old Mingjian, don't say you know the situation here......" Gao Shiqi has lived in the hotel for a long time, and he has already seen through the tricks of this boss, and when he saw that he was pretentious, he was in the middle of it, and shook Erlang's leg and said slowly: "I know-it's all up to you-let's do it!" Shopkeeper Liu smiled, hit a thousand children, and went like a dog with its tail upside down.

When the night was dark and cloudy, after the second watch, the lights in the store went out. Half an hour, Shopkeeper Liu knocked lightly on the window, pushed the door open, and whispered: "Don't be ashamed, Mr. Gao is a Sven person, and he is a talented woman!" You've met in the daytime......" said the black man, and he pushed a man in. Gao Shiqi didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, he pounced on it and hugged his mouth, and hugged him to the bed, which was really warm for a while......

In the middle of the night, when he was sleeping deeply, the charcoal stove in Gao Shiqi's room suddenly burst into flames, first burning a piece of paper, and then lighting the table legs, and the fire climbed upward, and then burned the window paper and window lattice...... After a while, he went up to the eaves with a "Teng" sound. Gao Shiqi shouted: "It's on fire!" He jumped out of bed, picked up a bunch of clothes and jumped out of the room, shouting as he dressed:

"Firefighting! Are all people dead? - My house is out of water! ”

In an instant, a shop was boiling. There were more than a dozen guys and dozens of tenants in the front and back yards, some of them packed up their things, some yelled, some looked for buckets and pots, and some lit wax. Gao Shiqi was so anxious that he stomped his feet and shouted: "Save people!" Dead animals, save people first—there are still people in there! ”

The guys swarmed in and came out with a naked woman. When people took a closer look by candlelight, it turned out to be the shopkeeper's lady Wang - one hand to protect the breast, the other hand to cover the ugly place, the cat waist squatting on the ground and ashamed of herself. The guys couldn't help but look at each other in amazement, where can the guests endure? All laughed.

Gao Shiqi was full of breath, jumped to his feet and scolded for a while, seeing that the sky was about to brighten, he rolled up the package and walked away.

During the time he returned from Kaifeng, although Kangxi was extremely busy, his heart was quite steady. summoned Jin Fu several times in succession, and he had a plan in his heart, but he ordered Jin Fu not to rush to his post, to walk around the yamen of the Beijing Division, to be familiar with personnel, and to go to Qingjiang to take up his post after the erudite Hongru had opened. All the cooking stopped, and they had Mingzhu, Xiong Cixu, Suo Etu, Li Guangdi and others preparing for the ceremony day and night, but Kangxi was busy and leisurely, going to Ziguang Pavilion every day to watch the guards practice bows, sabers and arrows, or calling Tang Bin, Zhang Cheng, Chen Houyao and other Wenchen, speaking the Book of Changes, reading calligraphy and painting, learning Spanish, what astronomical mathematics, sound, optic electricity, geometric surveying and mapping, but also very busy. Chen Houyao has a deep mathematical attainment, and he lectures every day, and his knowledge gradually shakes off cleanly, and he still can't satisfy Kangxi's desire for knowledge, while the Westerner Zhang Cheng exclaims when he goes out of the palace and meets people: "My emperor is really a genius!" He can master the knowledge that a European can't figure out in half a year, and I am no longer qualified to teach him astronomy! ”

After talking about this day, I had breakfast, because I saw that the sky was cloudy and the wind was blowing a little chilly, Kangxi changed into Shi Qingjiang's silk coat, and brought Mu Zixu and Li Dequan to walk out of the Qianqing Gate to eat. Because he saw He Guizhu, the head of the study, coming from Longzongmen with a stack of papers. Seeing that it was Kangxi, He Guizhu hurriedly stopped, bowed down and said with a smile: "Master Jin An, forgive the slave holding the important documents, and he can't kneel down......"

"What are they?" Kangxi looked up at the workers who came and went to repair the temple on the side of the Taihe Palace, and asked casually, "Why is there so much?" Ask the ministry to hand it over in an abridgement, isn't there a rule for a long time? ”

He Guizhu smiled and said: "Back to Long Live Lord's words, the excerpt has already been sent to Xiong Cixu." These chapters, one is Shi Lang's invitation to bring a sailor, one is Feiyanggu's training in Gubeikou, and there are also tribute sheets of Ryukyu, Siam, and the Netherlands...... The stack below is all the window textbooks of officials above the Shangshu level......"

Kangxi took the top one and read it, but it was a tribute list from the Netherlands, and it read:

A string of large coral beads, two sides of the mirror, 24 pieces of Qixiu amber, 15 large Doro velvet, 10 medium Doro velvet, four collars of woven gold blanket......

There's a big list below, and it's too late to look closely. Kangxi smiled: "There are not many things, it is a meaning." In the past few days, the nations have come to congratulate me, but I can't meet them - the window textbooks are sent in, and I want to read them one by one. Li Dequan remembered that these objects of the Dutch national tribute were taken in and shown to Lafayette, and those who liked were kept. I just need a candlestick to read. Twenty gold-inlaid bird guns were given to each of the first and second class guards; gave Wei Dongting a barrel of wine and a sprig of birds; Xiong Cixu, Jieshu, Mingzhu, Suo Etu, Feiyanggu, Shi Lang, Bahai, Tuhai - as well as Zhou Peigong and Zhao Liangdong, each with a flowering saber, a glass cup, and ten fine soft cloths. The rest can't be moved, and I still have to appreciate the erudite and Confucian people in the exam—remember? Li Dequan hurriedly agreed: "Remember." Unexpectedly, he repeated Kangxi's will word for word on the spot. This eunuch has such a good memory, He Guizhu couldn't help but glance at him with admiration, and said to Kangxi with a smile: "Master, Hongfu Qitian, this is called all countries to come to the court, and the time will come!" When the 'Three Feudatories' made a fuss, the father of the civil and military officials died, and the mother's illness became a problem, and they all had to ask for leave! - and they are all some courtiers and servants who have been greatly grateful! Things in the world are really exactly the same as opening a store......" Kangxi listened to He Guizhu's long-winded words, tasted the taste, and unconsciously moved in his heart, and said with a smile: "You will also think about things, and you will grow a lot." Send these things to the Heart Cultivation Palace, and go to the Qianqing Gate to ask Xiong Cixu and a few ministers to go over, I want to check their window classes, and also ask them to rest by the way. With that, he waved his hand.

Fang arrived at the mouth of Yongxiang, Kangxi caught a glimpse of two show girls coming from Jingyunmen with a second-grade wife, and said with a smile: "This must have been to the fasting palace to see Lafayette, whose wife is this, her legs and feet seem to be inflexible - I look a little familiar." Mu Zixu looked at it with a smile: "The master has a good memory, this is not the personal palace maid of the master who passed away in front of the immortal, what is the name of the chrysanthemum, and now it is equipped with a flying ancient ......."

"It's Mo Ju!" Kangxi suddenly remembered, "Call her over!" ”

In fact, without waiting for the call, Mo Ju had already seen Kangxi, and when he saw Kangxi beckoning, he quickened his steps and bowed. Kangxi smiled and said, "That's it, you have a problem with your leg, you don't need to salute." ”

Mo Ju was originally the maid of the dead queen Hesheri. In the twelfth year of Kangxi, Yang Qi uplifted, the people in the palace rebelled, because of the protection of the queen was injured by a knife, her leg was lame, she finished the salute, Fang smiled and said: "The slave is our Qing Dynasty's female Li Tiegui, this leg is thought of." In a word, the slave man has been back in Beijing for three days, and he wants to see the master! ”

Kangxi laughed and said: "It's not bad to have a female Li Tiegui in the Qing Dynasty!" I haven't seen you in the past few years, you are still the same - Feiyanggu will not come back, you are also diligent to come in and relieve the boredom of Lafayette, and besides, the prince was sealed in your arms, so you don't want him? ”

"Master, this is called understanding human affection, that's it!" Tears welled up in Mo Ju's eyes, but he clapped his hands and sighed: "It's just that the rules have become bigger and bigger in the past two years, and the new eunuchs of Sula have dog eyes these days, and they have no personal taste!" The slave maid wanted to enter Yuqing Palace to meet the little master several times, but they all shouted to stop it, what is the way? Kangxi smiled: "Others can't do it, can't you come in too?" Mo Ju said: "The master doesn't know, the old people in the palace have been almost thrown away." Now the few Sula eunuchs around the little master are not entrusted by people, I heard that even the honest people like the color screen have been thrown into the pulp washing room, Zhang Wanqiang came out to intercede and asked the respectful room to go back......"

Mo Ju was easy to see Kangxi, she had always been straightforward, and she couldn't hold back and came out. After Kangxi handed over the authority of Ouchi to Mingzhu, he thought that everything was in order, but unexpectedly, his face couldn't help but change color.