Even the wind is very different from the palace, gently hitting people's faces, refreshing and warm. When the sunset is shining, the half-boiled egg yolk hangs in the sky, and the ears of wheat like waves in the blue sea are endless, making people feel calm. The emperor stood between the ridges, twisted two clusters of ears with his hands, and rubbed them with his palms.

Hongtian drove half a mile with him, he was fat, and he was already sweating profusely, so he said: "Your Majesty, it's not early, do you want to go further or go back?" He laughed in a low voice: "It is difficult for a pure master to get out of the palace, with golden branches and jade leaves, why don't the emperor take her to the city for a walk, the night market in the Daimyo's Mansion is prosperous, and it is just right to go back at this time." ”

He is the fifth son of Yongzheng Ye, and now he is valued by the emperor.

The emperor glanced at him, saw that his face was full of meat, showed disdain, and said: "Look at you, look at you, there is meat all over your body, if the ancestor is still there, he will not scold you to death!" We love the prince and grandson of the Xinjue Luo family, and since childhood, he has practiced riding and archery Buku, and the emperor Ama often taught you when he was a child, I really don't know how your flesh grows! After a pause, he joked again: "If you can lose a body of fat, I will grant you the title of Manchurian Commander of the White Flag!" ”

Fu Heng listened in horror on the side, patted Hongday's shoulder, and pretended to be relaxed: "Congratulations to the prince, and you have received the holy oracle, it is better to quit eating from today!" Hongday snatched the pu fan from Zhang Tingyu's hand, fanned it with a bang, and said: "The loss of festival is small, and eating is big!" I don't have much to think about fame and fortune, I just eat, drink and have fun! ”

The emperor stretched out his hand and pointed at him again and again, gritted his teeth and said: "You, you..." But it was also because of his confusion that the emperor was relieved and was able to preserve the friendship between brothers and avoid fighting. They stopped all the way, watching the harvest and water conservancy, Qingcheng accompanied her, and another eunuch gave her shade and umbrella. Usually in the palace, the emperor never meets his courtiers in front of his concubines, let alone talk about political affairs, and now let Qingcheng see his side of worrying about the country and the people, and he must bow to his family, he feels very strange, and he is in awe from the bottom of his heart.

The night market in the Daimyo's Mansion is full of people and is very lively. Fu Heng had already chartered the third floor of a large restaurant, standing on the street, pushing the window to enjoy the moonlight night view and the bustling wine shop. The emperor looked at the traffic on the street and the bright lanterns, and said with a smile: "The people live and work in peace and contentment, and the country is strong and prosperous. The courtiers hurriedly echoed: "It is the emperor's sage." ”

The emperor smiled and said: "Don't leave the emperor, and the emperor, since you come out, you don't have to follow the old reason, just sit down." Hongyang sat beside the emperor with a big sting, and Fu Heng pondered for a moment before sitting down carefully. Hongday is the prince, he doesn't take care of things, and the emperor can't do anything with him. And Fu Heng is the queen's brother-in-law, and the emperor has always valued this brother-in-law. Only suffered Zhang Tingyu and Ortai, what kind of Laoshzi are they, in the end, one day the emperor is unhappy, and he kicks his feet, but he just dies two dog slaves.

Qingcheng looked at it in his eyes, and saw that the faces of the two ministers of the Military Aircraft Department were purple like pig's liver, and he couldn't help but sneer. The emperor turned to look at her and said, "What are you laughing at?" The green orange warbler said tactfully: "How can there be servants and masters who sit together to drink and eat, don't you embarrass them?" Fu Heng heard it in his ears, like thunder, when his sister was still in the boudoir, her heart was extremely hot, but she never dared to talk to the emperor like this. Hongtian expected that the emperor would not be angry, and echoed: "This is true. ”

The emperor glared at Hongyang and said, "You will be an afterthought!" Then he said to Zhang Tingyu and Ortai: "You can open another seat next to you." If Zhang Tingyu received amnesty, he thanked Ortai and sat down at the side table. He peeked at Qingcheng's face, saw her look calm, lowered her eyebrows and smiled lightly to pour wine for the emperor, and unconsciously smacked her tongue.

The banquet was dispersed, and the moon was already hanging. The street gradually deserted, and the emperor deliberately took the green orange to go shopping, so he looked east and west, and deliberately slowed down his pace. The green oranges feel fresh everywhere, and when they see snacks to eat, they can't help but taste them. Zhang Tingyu was not at ease, and he couldn't dissuade him, so he had to ask the disguised imperial doctor to carefully inspect it before he dared to let the green orange taste it.

The emperor has always been indifferent to the desire for tongue, and when he saw that Qingcheng was eating happily, he stopped and waited beside him. Sometimes Qingcheng handed him a piece of something, and he would open his mouth to eat. The two of them were tender and sweet, Hongli and Fu Heng knew their faces, and they had already retreated ten steps away and followed quietly. The night was dark, and the lights on the street were gradually extinguished, Zhang Tingyu was afraid of chaos, so he stepped forward and said, "Master, it's late, it's time to go back to the inn." The emperor walked for most of the day, and felt tired, so he said: "Let's go home." ”

Qingcheng was still unsatisfied, and picked up a lotus pattern hairpin from the stall on his side, and said with a smile: "Master, what do you think of this hairpin?" The emperor said: "The rough workmanship is not as good as the ones you use every day." Qingcheng raised his head in front of him and said, "Master, can you give it to me?" It's rare to think about it. The emperor raised his eyebrows, asked the old man who set up the stall, and said, "How much?" ”

The old man's face was wrinkled, and he was still carving a hairpin in his hand, and he smiled: "Just one or two pieces of silver." ”

The emperor never bought anything, and he did not know how expensive or cheap. When Zhang Tingyu heard this, he shouted loudly: "It's just a robbery, it's just something made of wood, at most ten cents." The old man was not in a hurry or impatient, his eyes were shining, and he smiled: "Look at this old man, he must be a rich and noble person." It's rare for a lady to like it, whether it's ten cents of silver or one or two pieces of silver, what's the difference between it and the lord? ”

Qingcheng said deliberately: "I'm not a lady, I'm a little girl!" As he spoke, he secretly glared at the emperor with a smile, and the emperor raised his hand to pinch her face, thinking about the situation, and unnaturally withdrew his hand, and said meaningfully: "Even if it is a little girl, it is also a bold little girl!" The old man was still not frightened, and said with a smile: "Although I am an old man, I am quite neat when I look at people, according to me, in the future, the old man and his wife will be a pair of children and daughters, and they will be rich and rich!" ”

The Emperor said, "Good! He also said: "With your two sentences, it is also worth a tael of silver, Zhang Tingyu, give money!" ”

Zhang Tingyu took out the money and silver from his cuffs and handed it to the old man, saying, "Today, you have obeyed my master's heart, which is a blessing that has been cultivated for several lifetimes." In the future, when you do business honestly, how much silver should be, how much silver you have, and Sister-in-law Tong is a serious businessman without deception. The old man took the money, smiled with joy, and said yes to anyone who said anything.

Back at the inn, Qingcheng waited for the emperor to finish washing, and it was late at night. There were two oil lamps left in the house, and the bean-sized fire flickered and flickered, as if it were going to be extinguished at any moment. Qingcheng sat in front of the window and combed her hair, the moonlight was extremely bright, and a faint mist was around her, like a layer of silver light. The Emperor bent down, hugged her from behind, and whispered in her ear, "Do you remember the first time you saw me?" You stand in the moonlight by the pond, singing a tune... It's beautiful..."

Qingcheng put down the comb and said with a smile: "The first time I saw the emperor, it was not in the imperial pool. ”

The emperor affectionately rested his chin on her neck, and said in a low voice: "Tell me, when and where was the first time you saw me?" Qingcheng took his hand and turned to look up at him, the moonlight happened to fall on his face, shining clearly and gently. He lowered his face, his gaze deep, fixed, and held her face with both hands.

Qingcheng said: "I entered the diving mansion in the same year as Yu Guiren, and I couldn't sleep for half a year because I had two time sores on my neck. The first time I saw the emperor was on the birthday of Master Gao. I still remember that the emperor wore a vermilion fur gown that day, and ordered the people of the Internal Affairs Office to cultivate jade-colored begonias all over the yard as a birthday gift. The house was set up for three days of flowing water seats, and the Fujin in all the prefectures in Beijing came to celebrate the birthday, and I handed two purses forward, but you didn't look at me. ”

Speaking of Concubine Gao, the emperor seemed to remember the past, but he was confused. He leaned over and kissed her on the lips, and smiled, "Have you ever held a grudge against me?" Tell the truth, I want to listen to the truth! Qingcheng shook his head and said with a smile: "We have never been masked, and we have no wishful thinking, so how can we say resentment?" The Emperor clasped her hand on his chest and said, "Don't worry, I will not fail you." ”

The two of them were grinding their ears and temples, whispering intimate words, and suddenly there was a sound of chanting, like crying and complaining. Qingcheng looked out the window, and it turned out to be a little lady in the courtyard playing the piano and singing. On a whim, she said, "I can't sleep anyway, let's go for a walk in the yard." At this time, the emperor's heart was full of guilt, how could there be any reason for disobedience, and said: "It's okay to go." ”

When Zhang Tingyu heard that the emperor had gone to the courtyard, he was in a hurry, and his face turned white with fright. Fu Heng shook his head at him and said, "Don't get in the way, I've arranged everything, and I have sent twenty elite soldiers from the cavalry battalion to deploy defenses around, and it should be fine." Hongyang looked at the movement, came out of the house, and saw the two muttering, so he asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Fu Heng hurriedly returned.

Hongtian said: "Don't be afraid of being like this, we are hidden, few people know, besides, the emperor's riding and archery martial arts belong to the upper class, and he has to practice Kubu every day, and no one can get close to him without four or five strong men." Zhang Tingyu replied "yes" again and again.

There were dozens of people standing and sitting in the courtyard, men wearing gray cloth short coats and women wearing linen skirts, chatting under the moon. The little lady who sang the song was usually sold and sang in the inn tavern, and a guest officer gave her two hangs of money to play the piano, and she didn't care about being tired for a day, so she played and sang on the stone table and wooden bench.

The emperor said: "The piano skills are clumsy. ”

Qingcheng smiled and said: "The piano skills are not enough to worry about the teeth, but it is better to speak softly, and the aftermath is lingering." After a pause, he said: "I studied the piano with my mother for two or three days when I was a child, and then my father sent me to a private school, and it was abandoned. ”

The emperor said: "If you like it, when you return to the palace, I will teach you personally." ”

Qingcheng pursed his lips and said, "You have always had a lot of government affairs, and you often don't even have the time to eat, so why do you care about me playing the piano." The emperor pinched her cheek and said, "If I remember it in my heart, I will naturally have free time." The two of them stood under the tree and looked at the moon, and the sky was full of stars, like pearls scattered in their hands. The night breeze was slightly cold, and Qingcheng clung to the emperor and sighed: "It would be nice if I lived here forever." The emperor hugged Wen Xiang Nuan Yu and laughed deeply: "Silly girl! ”

Suddenly, there was a commotion outside, the sound of the piano broke, and the little lady who sang suddenly stopped, and ran into the house with the strings in her arms.

In a few moments, the little lady helped a silver-haired old woman out of the house and ran straight to the back door. But seven or eight big men came up to greet them, and the four or five people who entered the front door gathered the little lady and the two in the courtyard. The old woman was old and sick, her legs were weak, she sat paralyzed like mud, and cried: "What did I do in my last life, I lost my son when I was old, no one ate zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, no one tasted moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I have to sweep the graves of my family every year during the Qingming Festival, why is my life so bitter..."

Her voice was hoarse, crying and singing, without tone, but it made people cry. The little lady straightened up, and said: "It's useless for you to arrest me back, it's useless to force me, after all, there is no money at home, and you can't get any of them." But if you are willing to spare me to sing outside to make money, I will be able to pay back by the end of the year. ”

The leader was a short and thin man, his jaw bones were high and convex, his gums were exposed, and he bared his teeth and said: "Good daughter, Daddy has found you a good family, and if you marry and wear gold and silver, you will not suffer from the slightest idea, you can go back with Daddy!" ”

There were many onlookers, and when they saw more than a dozen strong men surrounding the weak woman, they wanted to help them, but they heard the thin man say that they were fathers, and they thought that the little lady was running away from marriage and couldn't care about other people's family affairs, so they had to disperse. Seeing that the crowd was about to disperse, the little lady became more and more helpless, and hurriedly said: "He is not my father, but my stepfather." He sent my mother to work in the fields every day, as a cow and a horse, and she was not allowed to rest for a day when she was sick, and she died of exhaustion in the field. After my mother died, he didn't allow me to enter the house because he thought I was spending on rations. I had to go back to my father's house in Huanghe East Town, and my grandmother was the only one left in my father's house. My grandmother and I lived together, and last year there was a famine, and I really didn't have anything to eat, so I went to my stepfather's house and borrowed two buckets of grain. It's only been half a year, and since he wants me back ten taels of silver, that's it, he still wants to marry me to the old man in Beizhen, and the granddaughters of the old man are older than me..."

As he spoke, he hid his face and wept.

The short and thin man shouted, "Hugh listens to her nonsense! Although Hu Yuanwai in Beizhen is old, his family is quite rich, and his son has a high school jinshi, and he works as an errand in the government office, and he eats official salaries. The old lady outside Hu Yuanwai died, and wanted to find a partial house, and there was a matchmaker in front of her to kiss her, and gave a meeting gift of forty taels of silver, this dead girl took the silver away, and the people ran away, how can I afford to offend them, and naturally I have to arrest and pay back! ”

The two of them talked about their own reasoning, pulled and tugged, and made a fuss in the yard.

Zhang Tingyu couldn't stand it for a long time, and there were more and more people gathering, who knew where the basket would be poked, so he stepped forward and persuaded: "Master, it's late at night, go back to the room." ”

Qingcheng never knew that there was such a foolish thing in the world, and said: "It's ridiculous that a few big men bullied two women and children!" Isn't Lord Zhang going to uphold justice? Zhang Tingyu was scheming, he didn't dare to underestimate Qingcheng, and said respectfully: "Which is right and which is wrong, we outsiders are not easy to judge, and we are going to set off tomorrow, it is better to be less involved in right and wrong, and the safety of the master is more important than anything else." ”

The emperor said: "It's all my world, it's all my people, since you have bumped into it, how can you ignore it?" As he spoke, he strode over and reprimanded, "Stop!" "He has clear eyebrows, is dignified, and has the demeanor of a king. Everyone was stunned, and they all stopped unconsciously, and the thin old man said, "Who are you?!" ”

If the little lady met a savior, she knelt down in front of the emperor, cried so much that the pear blossoms brought rain, and said: "Please save me, if I go back with them, I will be beaten half to death, and I will marry a bad old man..."

Someone shouted, "It's going to kill someone!" ”

When the big men looked at it, they muttered a few words to each other, ignoring the thin old man's shouting, and ran away. The thin old man was weak and weak, and he was afraid of getting into a lawsuit, so he was timid, and took advantage of the crowd to run away secretly.

The emperor shouted at the onlookers and said, "Spread out, don't block her breathe." The little lady was already frightened, and sat next to her, at a loss. The emperor instructed Zhang Tingyu to call the imperial doctor who was with him, and said to Qingcheng: "Put the person flat, then unbutton the clothes under the neck, and pinch the person hard." Qingcheng did as he said, and everyone in the courtyard saw that the two of them were behaving extraordinarily, and they all watched curiously and silently. From time to time, the imperial doctor came, and first shook his fist at the emperor, and then stretched out his hand to diagnose the pulse.

The imperial doctor pricked a silver needle into the old woman's body, but after a while, he saw the old woman wake up slowly. There was a sudden sigh of "shhhhh I don't know who applauded, and immediately the whole courtyard applauded, and the little lady knelt down to kowtow to the emperor and Qingcheng, and said, "Thank you, master, thank you, madam." The two looked at each other and smiled, quite pleased.

At noon the next day, we set off on the official road, the loess was flying, and the green orange had to ride with the emperor, and the emperor smiled: "How can you be such an arrogant girl?" I'm afraid your face will be blown dry by the wind. When out of the palace, he sometimes refers to himself as "I". Qingcheng was wrapped in a towel on his face, leaning on the emperor's arms, surrounded by wilderness, and the setting sun hung low as if within reach.

She said, "If you hide in the carriage, you won't see such a beautiful view." ”

The sound of horses' hooves, the flying dust behind several horses, and the people on both sides of the official road are also passing and passing, all wrapping their heads and bowing their heads. The emperor remembered what happened last night and said with a smile: "You are obviously pretending to be a girl, why does everyone call you "Madame"? It can be seen that you are not good enough. Qingcheng said: "I'm not a girl in the first place, of course I don't act like it." He turned his head and said, "What, you want a little girl?" Before the words fell, there was a faint shout behind him, saying, "Master, madam, wait a minute." ”

The emperor grabbed the reins and turned the horse's head to see that it was the little lady and her grandmother who were singing in the courtyard last night. Zhang Tingyu was about to step forward to stop him, but when he saw the emperor waving his hand, he had no choice but to retreat to the side.

The little lady said: "Please, master, my grandmother and I want to go back to our hometown, we really can't walk, can you give us a ride." You are all well-wishers, and when we get to the town ahead, we will leave. The emperor was silent, and even Hongtian didn't dare to squeak, but Qingcheng really felt pitiful, so he said: "It's better to take them a ride, anyway, the carriage is empty." ”

Zhang Tingyu didn't care about the etiquette of the monarch and the minister, and said hurriedly: "No! Stay for 10,000... If the master is tired, won't he have nowhere to stay? The little lady hurriedly said: "We don't have to take a carriage, we just need to squat on the cart." She said with a cart full of luggage. Qingcheng glanced at it and said, "How can that happen?" ”

The little lady said: "It's okay, it's better than walking." She looked at the emperor with a pleading face, she already knew that the man in front of her was either rich or noble, and anyone would obey his orders if he said it. The emperor whispered in Qingcheng's ear: "You will be in charge, it is the carriage I sit in, and you can ask for someone casually." ”

Qingcheng said: "Who said yesterday, the world is the emperor's world, and the people are the emperor's people, since you bumped into it, how can you ignore it?" And said mischievously: "Just a little girl!" ”

The emperor is funny and angry, there is really no way.

Zhang Tingyu heard the two muttering, and his heart and eyes trembled to the door of his throat. In the middle of the ring, the emperor ordered, "Just put them on the cart." "The people are his people, but they don't have the status to ride in his chariot. Besides, if the little thing on your chest is tired, where do you lie down?

It was not until midnight that I arrived at the nearby town of Hukou. It was dark everywhere, Zhang Tingyu was afraid of being entangled by the little lady, so he secretly gave her fifty taels of silver, and found an inn on the side for her to live in, and advised: "With this silver, it is enough for you to pay off your debts, you can rent a carriage and go back, don't follow us." ”

The little lady had never seen so much money in her life, so she was grateful to Dade for helping her grandmother away.

Qingcheng fell asleep in the carriage, and the emperor carried her all the way to the guest room. The two eunuchs who served with him waited for the emperor to wash, and then fetched water again to serve the green oranges. The emperor waved his hand and said, "Forget it, don't trouble her, let her rest." The eunuch whispered "yes" and quietly exited the door. The emperor lightly took the hairpin on Qingcheng's sideburns, took off his shoes and coat, put a quilt on his armpits, and picked an oil lamp to see the folds.

Qingcheng slept until dawn, pushed open the window and looked, only to see the pine forests everywhere, the morning sun sprinkled on the treetops like gold, the chickens and dogs barked, the air was moist and fresh, and the world gradually woke up. The inn they stayed at was the only one in town, except for a two-story wooden building with low wooden houses next to it. There were few guests in the town, and Fu Heng gave a lot of silver, so the boss didn't think about it, so he agreed to sell the entire inn.

The emperor had already gotten up and practiced Buku with Fu Heng in the courtyard. When Qingcheng went downstairs, the two came back sweating profusely, and Fu Heng saluted respectfully and said, "Madame Wanfu." The emperor hammered him on the chest and said, "It's a girl, what kind of salute do you do?" Fu Heng hurriedly said with a smile: "Even if you are outside, you can't be completely unrespected." The emperor smiled, raised his face towards Qingcheng, and said, "I'm thirsty, go and bring two bowls of tea, it's just right to be warm and cool." ”

Qingcheng asked, "Have you had breakfast?" ”

The emperor said, "Let's use it together." Qingcheng understood, and went upstairs to make tea for the two. When they talked about the court, Qingcheng didn't dare to listen, so he retreated to the kitchen and watched the cook make breakfast. The cook came out of the palace, thinking a lot, doing a lot, and there were all kinds of dim sum fruits prepared earlier from the palace, and the green oranges looked at them at random, and there were dozens of them.

Qingcheng said: "You don't have to cook so much, cook a pot of thick white porridge, serve a few plates of sour pickles, and fry a few golden fritters, and you're done." The cook had never made such a simple breakfast, for fear of causing trouble, so he said: "The slave is afraid, it's too light, and the master doesn't like it." Qingcheng's eyes widened, and he said, "You are the right-hand man next to the master, how can you only care about whether the master likes it or not?" The boat is tired, the food eaten on the road is messy and not fresh, no matter how big the meat of big fish and meat, how can the stomach stand it? A good slave must not only keep his duty, but also admonish his master at all times! ”

The cook usually felt that Qingcheng was gentle and quiet, and he was very good at talking, so he didn't pay much attention to it, and when he suddenly saw her Liwei, he was immediately frightened, and hurriedly said: "Madame is right, the slave obeys the order." ”