In the blink of an eye, it was June, and it was as hot as coals, and there was more and more water in the palace. On this day, Xiao Maozi got up early as usual, filled the three large water tanks, added water to the tea stove, and sat by the stove to burn the fire silently. After eating breakfast, Fang saw Huang Sicun wandering around with a quail cage, and while laughing with Ah San, he asked, "Xiao Maozi, the water is not boiling at this time?" I'm dying of thirst, and I want to take a bath! ”

"Let's wash it again on June 6 tomorrow!" Xiao Maozi threw a piece of chopping wood to the ground, and said with a sneer, "Are you enough to support the corpse, or are you holding on to the yellow soup?" As soon as you come back, you will put on the posture of the master - 'die of thirst', you deserve it! Xiao Maozi is your minion? Ah San got along with Xiao Maozi recently, and when he saw that he was tired and angry, he smiled and said nothing, so he went to find an axe to chop wood.

"Ho!" June 6 is the Pig Bath Festival, listening to Xiao Maozi scolding so skillfully, Huangsi Village is also on fire, "What do you put with me?" You've thought that Master Ming has bought your account, haven't you? You're still a little hairyman! Burning fire, chopping wood, and carrying water is a messenger! I'm small, but I'm still a head. Just ask you, and you'll have a car! "He was eating and drinking in Wu's mansion last night, and Wu Yingxiong scolded him with his little hair, and he had a seizure at this time.

Xiao Maozi listened, brushed the fire scissors, and said with a forked hand: "Dick Mao Ash, Uncle is not waiting for you, what should you do?" ”

"Alright, alright!" Ah San hugged the firewood and put it on the ground, pushed Xiao Maozi and said, "Don't make any noise, just spread the word, the Heart Cultivation Hall will use water for a while, Huang Jing is sick, call to send it over - you are tired and go over there to rest, I will burn it." Xiao Maozi had already thrown his hands away, and went into the house to lie down and pretend to sulk, but his eyes were wide and round to peep at Huang Sicun's movements.

In a moment the water was boiling. Ah San was busy pumping the fire and bringing back the remaining firewood. Huang Sicun entered the house and opened his face, seeing that Xiao Maozi was looking at the ceiling, he didn't provoke again, he was messing behind the door for a long time, he let out a sigh of relief, and went out with a big teapot.

"It's happened!" Xiao Maozi was excited, bounced up with a "bang", and looked at the dozen pots underground, but the one he paid attention to every day was gone. came out to see the back of Huang Si Village, took a few steps into the house and picked up a rope, went to the stove and blackened his hands, wiped his face, and then walked behind Huang Si Village unhurriedly.

"Stop!" The donkey guarding in front of the door of the weeping flowers, when he saw the little hairy man sneaking over, suddenly shouted, "What are you doing?" Then I saw that Xiao Maozi's face was covered with dirt, as if he had crawled out of the ash pit, and he almost laughed out loud.

"Uncle Qiang!" Xiao Maozi screamed and pounced, leaned into the donkey's ear and muttered a few words. The donkey was like seeing the little ghost on the Yama Hall in the middle of the night, and shouted in fright: "Someone wants to murder the emperor, hurry, hurry, hurry...... Yikes! ”

Xiao Maozi was like a corpse, jumping around and drilling into the hanging flower door. But the donkey didn't know where he came from, where he would let him in, and held him tightly.

"Knife ghost! Backwards corpse! Bastard! A shell man who can't step on a fart! Huang Sicun wants to murder the emperor, you stop the master! "Xiao Maozi was so anxious that he tore and struggled, kicked and bitten, but where could he get out!

Kangxi was asking Aunt Su Mala for advice on how to open the calculation in the Xinuan Pavilion, and when he heard the noisy noise outside the courtyard, he left Aunt Su Mala and paced out, and asked Wei Dongting, who was guarding the door: "What's wrong?" Wei Dongting had already seen it clearly, and saw that Huang Sicun was carrying a big teapot, and he was stunned as if he was struck by lightning, and large beads of sweat were dripping down his cheeks, and he heard Xiao Maozi, who was blocked out of the door, screaming and scolding to break in, and knew that something was wrong, so he blocked his body sideways between Kangxi and Huang Sicun and asked: "The slave still doesn't understand this matter." Kangxi's face raised and he commanded sharply:

"Don't get in the way of the door, tell him to come in!"

Xiao Maozi stumbled and crawled in, and his clothes were torn by the guards. Kangxi saw that the shrewd and pungent little Maozi was trying to do the messenger he sent, and now he looked like this, with black and white, red and purple on his face and mouth, his heart sank unconsciously, and he asked with a wooden face: "Are you crazy?" Dare to come here and go wild! ”

"My good master, woo-" Xiao Maozi "plopped" knelt down and cried, the great grievances and grievances of Haishen were not as sad as him, while pulling his nose and wiping his tears, he pointed to Huang Sicun, "This man doesn't know what kind of medicine to get into the water and bring it to the master...... I saw that something was wrong, so I came after me, and they didn't call the donkeys in...... My lord, it's really a phoenix that is not as good as a chicken......"

Kangxi shrank abruptly in shock, turned his face and looked at Huang Sicun, Huang Sicun's face was already like ashes, and he said in a hurry: "What is this...... How so? Little Maozi, we ...... Brother is good, it's just a few words, how can you hurt people like this? ”

"Shut up!" Wei Dongting roared in a low voice, "Long live Lord didn't ask you!" ”

"Your name is Huang Sicun?"

"Minions...... Be. Huang Sicun knelt down on his knees and replied.

"Xiao Maozi said that you put medicine in the water!"

"No, no...... No! Huang Sicun replied in a trembling voice like a leaf in the autumn wind.

"I saw it with my own eyes!" Xiao Maozi stared at each other.

"Hooray!" Huang Sicun screamed with a bitter face, "The blue sky is a big day, how dare the minions dare to throw medicine into the water?" Besides, this water must be tried with silver, and people have tasted it before entering it, and the slave has been on an errand for many years, don't you know? Xiao Maozi has a grudge against the minions and has the intention to falsely accuse the minions...... Long live the Lord if you don't believe it, ask someone to taste it and know ......"

"Amitabha, why do you ask others to taste it?" Su Malagu had already come out, clasped her palms together and said, "The Buddha said that the bell must be tied to the bell - how about you taste it?" ”

Huang Sicun was silent.

"Huh?" Kangxi's eyes swept over like lightning.

"Back to the words of the Long Live Lord," Huang Sicun said, "The slave tastes immortality, and he can't make a credential." ”

"Fill him!" Wei Dongting shouted beside him, and the donkey strode forward, pulling Huang Sicun's ear with one hand and pinching his nose with the other, Huang Sicun had to open his mouth, Xiao Maozi skillfully lifted the pot, and said: "The surname Huang, know each other, so as not to irrigate too much." As soon as he said that, he poured the spout into his mouth, and Huang Sicun couldn't help but swallow it with a "grunt", and then another mouthful.

"If you pour it again, you won't burn him!" Seeing that Xiao Maozi's hands were trembling, the donkey stared at the strange eyes and shouted, and Xiao Maozi poured four or five mouthfuls into Huangsi Village one after another before putting down the kettle.

Huang Sicun knew that he had used the poison, but the poison would only attack after Sunday, so he knelt straight and straight, looked at Xiao Maozi with his eyes, and gritted his teeth and thought: "If the master doesn't die today, the third prince won't spare you tomorrow!" "Where did he expect that Xiao Maozi added another ingredient of arsenic!

About half of the meal, everyone saw that Huangsi Village was fine, and their hearts gradually slackened. Kangxi thought it was Xiao Maozi's prank, and was thinking about how to deal with this matter, but he heard Huang Sicun grit his teeth and say: "Long live Lord, you have seen it - how poisonous this little Maozi's heart is, such a thing, don't let him ...... it" Fang said this, and suddenly felt a cramp in his heart, his face suddenly turned white, and his mouth, nose and eyes were distorted.

"It's a seizure!" Xiao Maozi pointed at Huang Sicun and shouted.

Kangxi had already stood up, took a step back, and nervously grabbed the frightened Aunt Su Mala...... When looking at Huang Sicun, he arched up like a cat holding his stomach, his head against the ground, coughing in his mouth, and said intermittently: "It's the order of the king of Pingxi...... I'll kill you...... You Tartar ......" he shook like a bridge, and never moved again. This scene came and went quickly, from beginning to end it was only half a bag of cigarettes, and the guards and eunuchs and palace maids in the courtyard were all shocked.

"Call the people of the Punishment Division!" Kangxi couldn't help but be furious, "Skinned him, cramped all over the palace eunuchs, and took the meat for the dogs to eat!" The wolf copied his house, regardless of the old and the young, and sent it to Heilongjiang to be enslaved by the armored people! ”

"Wow!" The wolf standing below turned around and left.

"Wait!" Aunt Su Mala turned around and whispered to Kangxi again, "His mother is the nurse of the former imperial aunt, and the matter involves the three feudatories. ”

Kangxi was so angry that his lips trembled, Wu Sangui didn't get rid of it, and he couldn't even deal with such a case! After closing his eyes and thinking for a while, he waved his hand and said, "Alas! Report a sudden illness and sudden death! "Turn around and call again," Zhang Wanqiang! ”

"The minions are here!"

"The people in the imperial tea dining room should be carefully checked one by one, and all the unreliable ones should be replaced; The Empress Dowager, the Imperial Concubine, the Empress and I should be doubly careful with the water used for their meals! Kangxi said, unbuttoning the neckline, he was obviously too hot, and pondered for a long time before saying, "Xiao Maozi went back to the Heart Palace to wait." ”

An uproar subsided. Xiao Maozi returned to the long-lost Heart Cultivation Hall according to the "Wu Eyu's plan". Returning from the smoky hearth to the golden hall, he seemed a little like in a dream, everything was familiar and a little strange. Kangxi issued an edict the next day to promote Zhang Wanqiang to be the eunuch of the Six Palaces, and Xiao Maozi became the head of the Heart Cultivation Palace. In addition to a six-grade blue feather top, the highest reward a eunuch can get, he also got an admirable yellow coat, which is really a bit ambitious. When Kangxi asked Xiao Maozi in detail about the spies in the Wu Mansion and the Zhou Mansion in the inner hall, he couldn't help laughing: "Good, good! If you weren't a eunuch, I would really let you be the governor of Yungui and treat Wu Sangui with poison! However, you should be informed of this in advance. ”

"I can't figure out when he will make a move, and it's not good to pounce on the air." Xiao Maozi blinked and smiled, "The second is to play the master first, and the slave will not be afraid of this yellow coat!" Kangxi smiled when he heard this: "Go back and tell your mother, just say what I said, ask your second nephew to come to your room, and reward someone first." ”

These words are worth more than gold, and Xiao Maozi, who is no longer short of gold, smiled with joy.

But he only laughed for half a month. Riding home that night, Jiao Shan, the "shoulder-to-shoulder king", suddenly appeared on the road and beckoned to him: "You come down." ”

"It's Uncle Jiao!" Xiao Maozi rolled the saddle and dismounted, tugged on the reins, and a sense of foreboding hit his heart, and he asked with a smile, "Have you had dinner all night?" ”

"The young master called you!"

"Hmm......" Xiao Maozi pouted his teeth and smiled, "What's so urgent?" Let's go, go to our house to eat a cup of wine, and then go to see the young master together? He has always been afraid of Jiao Shan, who has never smiled, but at this time, when he looked at his face was not good, his heart was pounding. When Jiao Shan heard this, he only said with a gloomy face: "Excuse me, the young master is waiting!" Xiao Maozi's heart couldn't help but be cold, and while walking, he peeked at Jiao Shan, thinking about how to get through this hurdle, and there was gossip in his mouth to test his tone, but Jiao Shan only blindly supported him.

When I entered Gulou West Street, it was already dark. Stepping into the main hall of the Zhou Mansion, Xiao Maozi couldn't help but gasp, dozens of candles were lit in the hall, illuminating like day, the "Third Prince Zhu" on the top was blushing, Li Zhu, Zhou Quanbin, Zhu Shangxian, Shi Guobin, Wang Zhenbang were all wrinkling their eyebrows, their faces were flushed, and they stared at Xiao Maozi without saying a word, which was gloomy and hideous. After a long time, Xiao Maozi froze down, smiled and stepped forward to say goodbye: "Xiao Maozi has asked the young master to say goodbye!" ”

"Do you know what's the matter with calling you?" There was tremendous pressure in Zhu Shangxian's voice. He has always distrusted Xiao Maozi, and Xiao Maozi is most afraid of dealing with him, so as soon as he speaks, Xiao Maozi's heart tightens. Xiao Maozi had already made up his mind, straightened up his waist and replied proudly: "I know—either to receive death or to receive a reward!" ”

When this sentence came out, not only Yang Qilong was surprised, but Li Zhu, who was sitting next to him, was also stunned, and asked sharply: "What does this mean?" ”

"What's so hard about that?" Xiao Maozi replied, "If the young master is a Ming Jun, I will receive the reward; If you are faint, I will die! As soon as the words fell, Wang Zhenbang next to him sneered and said, "Don't be sloppy, that's not helpful!" Who told you to denounce Huang Si Village? Xiao Maozi stared at Wang Zhenbang, feeling a little inexplicable, he is not deeply involved in the world, and he can't see through the characteristics of this "double spy" - this Wang Zhenbang is not yin and yang, Wu Yingxiong said that it was Wu Yingxiong's person, Yang Qilong said it was Yang Qilong's person, what the hell is going on? Thinking about it, he replied straightforwardly: "Huang Sicun poisoned me because Wu Elu told me and told me to denounce it, so I sued." ”

"So, you're Wu's person?" Yang Qilong only interjected at this time to ask, although his voice was not high, but with a murderous aura.

Xiao Maozi knew that if he said a wrong word at this time, he would encounter the disaster of killing, so he pondered for a moment, raised his head and smiled helplessly: "Isn't there a sentence in Zhong Sanlang's book of heaven, 'There is no shadow when you come, and there is no form when you go, before the Holy Lord, you only obey your orders'?" It doesn't matter who I am, it depends on who I do, and I am the person of whom. I only do what I am told, according to the book of heaven! ”

"What kind of heart are you?" Yang Qilong leaned forward, his gaze becoming aggressive.

"Only the stupidest person would think of putting poison in the water. Didn't the third prince say that he wanted to 'plant a false accusation'? - As soon as I reported it, I asked Huang Sicun inside, and it was done! ”

"You have a hard mouth, there is something wrong with your words!" Li Zhuge smiled, "Let me ask you, what benefits did the surnamed Wu give you, and where did the young master treat you badly, you worked so hard for the surnamed Wu?" ”

Xiao Maozi didn't turn his face, and said with a smile: "Great military division, tell me the truth, the king of Pingxi is not opposed, can we do it alone?" ”

"Of course not, but Kangxi is dead, King Pingxi must be opposed!"

"You've ruined my big deal!" The more Yang Qilong listened, the more annoyed he became, and gritted his teeth fiercely and said, "According to the rules of the hall, come-tie it up and fill it in the old place behind!" A few red-clothed guards guarding the side agreed with a thunderous bang, viciously twisted Xiao Maozi and tied it and pushed it out.

"Busy with what?" Xiao Maozi was furious, and the jumping foot monster screamed, "I saw that you were all dazed!" Kangxi is alive, King Pingxi is still opposed, kill him now, don't wait for Wu Sangui to rebel, this place will be finished first! They will definitely suspect that Huangsi Village was sent from here. Hey! You stabbed the big leak, and Xiao Maozi made up for it, this will kill me? ”

Yang Qilong waved his hand for the guards to stand back for the time being. Xiao Maozi's words are equivalent to overturning what everyone agreed on before, which is really worth pondering. Li Zhu held the fan and kept tapping the back of his hand, groaning and asking, "How can you see that we will finish first?" ”

"There are a lot of people here, I can't say, who knows what some people have in their hearts!" Xiao Maozi already had a prejudice, and wanted to plant a false accusation for Wu Yingxiong, so he only said vaguely, "This is the same as the Three Kingdoms, they all want to eat others, and they have to be prevented from being eaten." ”

"Untie it!" Yang Qilong already understood that as soon as Kangxi died, Wu Yingxiong would immediately reveal the secret of Gulou West Street, so he could take advantage of the chaos to escape, and couldn't help but sigh, "Why don't you come and tell me first!" ”

Xiao Maozi felt that he had passed the danger, cried with joy, stroked his shoulder that was strangled by the rope and cried, as if he had been wronged: "Young master, don't complain, do you know about this first?" …… I was in a temporary hurry, so I broke into the Heart Palace! As he cried, he wiped his tears with his sleeve.

"I'm in the Wenhua Palace, why don't you tell me?" Wang Zhenbang asked.

Xiao Maozi was already crying, and when he heard Wang Zhenbang ask, he sneered: "Just for this, you will step me into the mud today?" You are already the head of the Wenhua Palace, and you are not greedy enough, and you want to climb up? Do you think I should drill in the firewood pile for the rest of my life, and suffer from the filth of Huang Sicun and you? These words were heart-wrenching, Wang Zhenbang's face turned yellow, and he had nothing to say.

This time Kangxi caused chaos to Wu Yingxiong, and Xiao Maozi defended it well, and it turned out that Zhong Sanlang, who was bent on killing Xiao Maozi, had nothing to say. Yang Qilong told everyone to disperse, leaving Xiao Maozi, Li Zhu and Jiao Shan to discuss the matter.

"According to the military division." Yang Qilong shook the folding fan that never left his body for five winters and six summers, frowned and said, "We have to wait for Wu Sangui to raise troops?" ”

Li Zhu shook his head and said, "Last time, we really didn't think about it well!" It's very mysterious to do this in the palace, don't say that Wu Yingxiong is a traitor, and he can't tolerate me, even if Wang Zhenbang and them miss, it will be terrible to catch up with the roots. ”

"This makes sense," Jiao Shan said, "instead of us doing it, let's let Wu Yingxiong do it." Wu Yingxiong has been in Beijing for so many years, and he is more anxious than us. ”

"Wu Yingxiong is already doing it." Yang Qilong smiled, "Qianmen Street Xiangtang reported that he used a soft knife this time!" ”

Li Zhu and Jiao Shan both knew about this matter, and nodded while listening. Xiao Maozi didn't dare to ask no matter how anxious he was at this time. After a long time, I heard Li Zhu sigh: "Wu Yingxiong is so treacherous, he will be our big enemy in the future!" Yang Qilong nodded: "Well, you can't let him go back to Yunnan, or you want to ask the court to get rid of him!" Xiao Maozi's heart moved, and he stepped forward and said: "Wu Yingxiong has recently won the gold medal order arrow from the imperial court, and he is ready to return to Yunnan!" ”

"Xiao Maozi," Yang Qilong's gaze was unfathomable, "Wu Sangui is an old man, Wu Yingxiong is trapped in Beijing again, and he will never become a big climate!" You're going to have to get it right! ”

"Needless to say!" Xiao Maozi said, "Otherwise, how could my little Maozi be willing to work so hard for the young master?" ”

Li Zhuyin smiled and suppressed his voice and said, "Xiao Maozi, about Jin Lingjian, you go back and tell Kangxi!" ”

"Hmm." Xiao Maozi agreed, but he was pondering in his heart: "Soft knife? How do soft knives kill? He muttered a little.

No smart person can be omniscient! But on the second day, he heard Zhong Saburo Xiangtang's message that he was already the "messenger of the gods" in the hall.