Qianlong was stunned and asked, "Which mother?" ”

"Queen Mother!"

"This is the place to meet the foreign ministers, what are you doing here?"

"Back to ...... Back to the emperor, the slave didn't dare to ask. ”

"You tell her that I'm having breakfast, and I have to meet someone to do errands after dinner." Qianlong said, there was no smile on his face, "What's the matter, I went to Kunning Palace to talk at night." ”

Wang Lian cried and pouted, and said with a finger out of the window: "It's late...... That's not the mother has already come in! Qianlong turned his face to look, and outside the window glass, he saw that the Nala clan had come in with seven or eight female officials, and they had already bypassed the glazed wall, and seemed to have commanded something, and the female officials stood still with their hands down, dozens of female eunuchs in the palace, and even a few third-class guards guarding the door of the stone hall knelt down to greet each other. He reluctantly put down the chopstick, asked for a towel to wipe his hands and face, and saw that the queen had entered the inner hall, so he sat up straight, and said with a reluctant smile: "Have you eaten?" I think I just came down from Lafayette, Wang's good porridge, just use a little bit, right? He looked at it again, "Why don't you look good?" ”

The queen really had a bad complexion, with tears on her pale face, obviously when she was angry, her extremely positive facial features were a little crooked, and there was a trace of messy hair hanging from her half-pale sideburns. She didn't look at Qianlong's face, she sat on the kang chair stupidly, and said: "Someone bullies me, the emperor, you have to call the shots for me!" ”

"Who? Which one? ”

"Liu Yong - Liu Luo pot!"

"Liu Yong?"

"He took the people from the Criminal Department to the Internal Affairs Office, named the people around me, said that he wanted to interrogate, and passed the Zhang's nurse away. I asked someone to ask him, and he said that it was about Yu Minzhong's case, and he would call me back after finding out! The Zhang family has been with me for decades, and I don't know if it's a good guy or a bad guy? What can't I ask? I don't care what royal law Yu Minzhong committed, I am in charge of the Internal Affairs Office, and there is no holy decree, and I will take my people in the daytime, isn't this bullying? ”

Qianlong also seemed surprised, and he couldn't understand it for a while, so he frowned and asked, "Who is the Zhang family in Yu Min?" "Look, you don't know that either, do you?" Nala's eyes were blurred with tears, and he clapped his knees and said, "There are rules for investigating cases, and what a big deal it is to ask people in the palace, even if you are a donkey and a peg, you have to nail a pile!" He is like this, not to mention me, the queen, and the ancestral family law can't get around. This wild Liu Luo pot, how do I treat him? is a Cao Cao, a white-faced traitor! Qianlong just said that Yu Minzhong was Cao Cao, but in a blink of an eye, the queen returned Liu Yong as it was, angry and funny, and said: "It's not good like this, how many people in the hall and outside the palace don't look like it, dignity and honor are important." Liu Yong is indeed something that I asked him to inquire about Yu Minzhong, and if you are not happy, you can only tell me. Liu Yong is a loyal minister, and he has been with me for decades, don't make a mistake. ”

"I'm confused!" Seeing that Qianlong refused to make decisions for himself, Nala was trembling with anger, and the corners of his mouth were a little crooked, and he said loudly, "How many days have I endured it!" You keep saying that I am the lord of the six palaces, but in fact, my queen is not even worth a single hair of the previous queen! When you were on the southern tour, you wanted to kill Wang Yi and spare Wang Yi, and later you took Wang Basha, **, Wang Li, and Wang Lian, and you didn't say a reason, and you didn't know me! I don't know which horn dog licks the corner of the butt and picks up a wildfire, and simply asks the foreign official to come in and get people - who is in the way of Zhang's good thing? As far as Yu Minzhong is concerned, I don't think he is a bad person! ”

Her seizure had already aroused Qianlong's anger, and she slammed the dinner table, Huo Ran stood up, and the leftovers, dishes and bowls of rice all jumped high. There are dozens of eunuchs and palace maids waiting in the outer hall of the warm pavilion, and they have already been stunned by the queen who suddenly became a shrew, seeing Qianlong's sudden burst of anger, like a child who was suddenly frightened by thunder and lightning, collapsed on the ground and trembled, I don't know which eunuch has heart disease, his eyes are black and he fell to the ground and fainted.

"You know the rules? Do you know ancestral family law? Qianlong's eyes flashed with a terrifying light, "Emperor Taizu has been counted for five generations, and there are more than 100 concubines, there are people like you?" This is your mother's demeanor? He said viciously, "The market jumped to scold the street shrew" was about to blurt out, Qianlong was not the emperor immediately after all, the noble court tutor with a good bloodline identity had melted into his skin, flesh, mind, and soul, and he was furious, and this little aura in his heart was still not there, but his tone became sharp and sharp, and his sentences were like swords: "The rules in the palace are in a mess, the eunuchs and palace maids are filthy, and some palace concubines are not clean. You're all gone! I dispose of all the top ones, and I don't make any publicity, but I look at Lafayette's face and fulfill the dignity of some people. I wonder who is doing this! Yu Minzhong is a good person, how did you know in the deep palace? It can be seen that Liu Yong did this, what hurt you? Punish Ji Yun and Li Shiyao in front, why don't you speak? ”

He questioned again and again, forcing his eyes on Nala. Unexpectedly, Nala was not frightened, and said with a snort: "I'm too lazy to say!" They have nothing to do with me, I'm not sick in my heart, and I don't know how to contribute a few rotten women to you to play with. I don't want you, I know, I have all the sins, there are many empty houses and cold palaces here! ”

"You're jealous!"

"I'm not jealous! I am an upright and honest media who is marrying and canonizing, not stealing a man's wife, nor a prisoner of war offered by others! ”

"You're in politics!"

"I'm not in politics! It was Liu Yong who took me, and I came to ask you. ”

"Liu Yong didn't enter the interior, he was the minister of the interior, and he went to the internal affairs office to check people by name, and he served my will."

"Just pampered for you, he dares to be so bold!"

She handed over a sentence to fight with Qianlong, "stealing a man" pointed at Tang'er, and "prisoner of war" directly reprimanded He Shen Liu Yong, this is an old account for decades, the old vinegar and the new vinegar jar are turned over, and every sentence is like a knife piercing Qianlong's heart. Qianlong trembled, looked at the unrelenting Nala clan, took a step forward, but was blocked by the dining table, and kicked over the table, and the warm pavilion of the Good Heart Palace was suddenly in a mess, plates, cups, spoons, vegetable cakes, and steamed buns were all over the ground, several food boxes were also knocked over and rolled, and the gruel was so sticky and splashed everywhere that it couldn't be inserted...... Nara said, "Good...... You're in a good position...... Do you remember that you were 'canonized'...... Since I can canonize you, it won't be difficult to remove this canonization! Nala immediately sneered: "That is, you were originally golden, and I was just a grass." ”

"Call Liu Yong in, call Ah Gui and Shen in, and call the people from the Ministry of Rites to come in!" Qianlong roared angrily, and his hoarse voice shook the temple, "Call the people from Dali Temple...... Bang Jingyang Zhong summoned hundreds of officials to the Taihe Hall to wait! He was so angry that he was a little dazed, and he stood on the ground with his arms folded and roaring. His face turned crimson, the green muscles between the necks were tense, and he made a decree one by one, Wang Lian and several eunuchs were so frightened that they didn't dare to accept the order and didn't dare to refuse, they looked at each other and only agreed. Wang Lian is the leader here, and he has already reported that the Queen Mother knows, so he had to rub and whisper: "Liu Yong has been here for a while, and he is kneeling in the courtyard......" As he spoke, he saw Liu Yong crawling and kneeling in, and he didn't care about the dirt on the ground, and in front of Qianlong, he held his knees with both hands, and sobbed and pleaded: "Your Majesty...... The emperor temporarily suppressed the wrath of thunder and listened to the words of his ministers...... Parents are sad about their children and nephews. The emperor is the mother of heaven and the earth...... Heaven and earth are not in harmony, and the world is unhappy. The matter is that the minister should be guilty, and the minister should be guilty of a thousand crimes. It is the minister who does not understand the rules, the minister is guilty and should be killed, and the minister cannot be blamed for his death...... May the emperor's mother be harmonious and harmonious as ever, and it is a great blessing for the people of the world......" Speaking of which, it was completely difficult to suppress the agitated mood, crying and kowtowing to the mud, and kowtowing to the Nala clan, trembling and crying: "Long live is already over the ear, and the mother is also looking forward to fifty people...... The minister is only a mustard scholar, why bother to divide the minister, just punish the guilty minister......"

Nala got up and twisted his face and turned his face away, but was woken up by Liu Yong's crying, seeing that everyone was panicked in the palace of nourishing the heart, Qianlong was furious and held the windowsill with one hand and gasped, only then did he realize that he had made a big disaster, and the grievances, resentment, fear, and panic hit his heart together, and he slipped down and sat down softly and cried loudly: "Lafayette Bodhisattva...... What kind of sin have I done so much...... I can't raise two sons...... When you reach this status, you have to be angry with the villain...... My royal sister who left early! You have a spirit in the sky, you know my heart, only eat fasting and chant the Buddha and be careful to respect, how many times have you dared to cross the law and be rude? Now that it's mixed up with this, it's the queen, no one pays attention to it, no one hurts, and I still look at it in three days...... Sister...... How much bitterness do I have to complain to? Ah......h

She cried miserably and mournfully, muttering and complaining, how many unspeakable secrets were vented in the pain, and there was no anger, but no more complaints. Qianlong also gradually woke up from extreme excitement and anger, thinking that this person followed him at the age of thirteen, the third brother of Hongshi chased and killed him for thousands of miles, and he didn't hear from him for more than a month, so she actually promised to "fast" and go on a hunger strike to pray for blessings. When she was young and beautiful, she didn't think she was jealous, but I thought she had another charm and cuteness. Looking at the current situation, there is no luck in the house after the old and decrepit, two of the three sons died, and only one of them was also sick, and he saw that his flesh and blood were broken and his life was like a hanging thread. She was originally a violent child, and she was used to the pearl in her palm, and she was appointed as the queen, but in fact, Qianlong was uneasy after falling out of favor, and gave her a comforting "name...... At this time, he introspected himself, Qianlong also had a guilty conscience, and remembered that the Fucha clan was in harmony with his husband and wife, Ci and Frugal Gong and the Six Palaces, if she was still in the world, how could she use herself to worry so much about the affairs of the harem? Thinking of the various benefits of Queen Fucha, and thinking of the Nala clan being snubbed by herself and being isolated and desolate, how could the Nala clan cry with a "royal sister"? Turning to his own ancient times, the state and family affairs are restless, a burst of sadness welled up in his heart, Qianlong sighed deeply, and he was already in tears...... All the evil fires were extinguished by these tears. It's only difficult for Liu Yong here - knowing that the queen came to see the emperor and knew that she had hit the moldy head, she rushed to explain, and she was in a big hurry with the couple, and she couldn't be as silent as the eunuchs, and she couldn't explain it based on reason, seeing that the anger of the two of them was gone, her heart relaxed, thinking that the queen's anger and the emperor's anger were all caused by herself, she was shocked and frightened, stroked her bruised forehead, and was about to add further comfort, when she heard Qin Meimei shouting outside: "The Queen Mother Lafayette has arrived!" "My heart throbbed again. I saw two eunuchs holding the queen mother and trembling in. Qianlong hurriedly wiped away his tears and smiled, called "mother" and knelt down on his knees. Nala also knelt down, covering his face with a handkerchief and just sobbing.

"Get up!" The Queen Mother looked at the messy Warm Pavilion, sighed silently, did not come in, Wang Lian hurriedly moved a chair and put it next to the throne in the main hall and invited her to sit, seeing Qianlong Nala frowning out, Liu Yong knelt on the side in embarrassment, and the Queen Mother said: "Set up a seat for the emperor and queen." Liu Yongye, who is old with us, is the same as his own family, and he sits on the pestle over there. At this time, Liu Yong knew that he was trapped in the emperor's housework, and he insisted on resigning, but he saw even more signs, endured the pain and kowtowed: "Queen Mother Lafayette, this disaster is caused by the minister." Just now in the warm pavilion, the ministers thought, after all, it is not appropriate for the ministers to meddle in the palace affairs too deeply. If it is requested in advance, and the emperor will hand over the queen's mother to check the cause of the case, where will this turmoil come from? If you don't move quietly, you will directly check Su Songliangdao with the household department of the Criminal Department, and when the case has an eyebrow and there is evidence for implication, you will not have this matter. Thinking that this was a big misunderstanding, he sent someone from the palace to the Internal Affairs Office to ask, although the minister did not exceed his authority, but if Zhang Yue'e refused to admit it, he could not be tortured, and it was not easy to detain and interrogate, and the queen's suspicion of unauthorized power was not for no reason. Things start from the minister, and they should rest from the minister. The emperor is wise and virtuous, only seeking the heart of the minister, not asking for forgiveness for the minister's mistakes, and the minister will die without regrets. Qianlong said: "Old Liu Tongxun was tired to death in the sedan chair, and Liu Yongyuan was also well-looking, and he was tired of staying up late for decades and became a hunchback." He knows that the traitorous minister and eunuch are most afraid of him, how can you take a 'Liu Luo pot', and say that it is a 'white-faced traitor'? Liu Yong apologized vigorously and said: "Liu Luo's pot is the truth, and the storytellers in the teahouse are also called so, and the mother is not bad." But the minister is a black pockmarked face, because the face is black, the pockmarks can't be seen clearly, where does the 'white face' come from? With such a ridicule, the Queen Mother Qianlong laughed, and the weeping Nala clan was also a broken tear.

This brought the topic from the housework of the palace to the case. Qianlong asked: "The matter is involved in Zhang Pangui, what does he have to do with Yu Minzhong on the Susong Grain Road?" Liu Yong froze his shock and said: "It was Gao Yuncong who sent it and built it in Fushan Ziye on the same day [1]

In the list of supervisors, the garden section is marked with the words 'Zhang Pangui Construction'. Zhang Pangui is the younger brother of Zhang Yue'e, who was the wet nurse of the late Brother Haoqi and has retired. The minister didn't know that she was still on an errand in the Niangniang Palace. Yu Minzhong has a wide range of ears and eyes in the palace and the clan of the outer mansion, and he is afraid that there will be collusion to communicate the news, so he hurriedly came to ask questions. The Queen Mother asked: "Yu Minzhong is the champion!" You always said that he was a good learner, and he was also in charge of some government affairs in the study, and later entered the military machine, and also said that he was capable, why did he take it all of a sudden? ”

"Yu Minzhong didn't take it, it's to be investigated." Qianlong saw that the Nala clan was crying and described as haggard, pitiful Chu Chu looked at himself, and felt discouraged, he shouldn't be so angry, and said to his mother with a smile, "He bought a eunuch to eavesdrop on his son's footing, and drilled to find out what books his son reads, and there are many courtiers outside who have private traffic with him to avoid the military aircraft." No one told him, but every time his son read a book, he could speak to him, which led his son to suspicion: His knowledge is greater than Ji Yun's? I gave him two words temporarily, which stumped him, and he showed his feet. The Queen Mother nodded and sighed: "There are few gentlemen and many villains, and the first emperor often sighs when he is alive." I couldn't see Tian Wenjing, who he trusted, and later found out that he was lying and fooling. The queen is sick and irritable these days, and since she was a girl, she has followed you since she was a child, and you don't know her yet? People are in a hurry to speak without concealment, she is a woman, you can't take it seriously. If you care, even you will be small, right? I'm going to erase the cards about this today. It's getting late, Liu Yong should do your business. I will treat you as my own, and you will never go out and publicize it. I'll use it at Cining Palace for dinner, and I'll explain to you a good life and rest. ”

Liu Yong breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, his heart was already bright, and he bowed and knelt down and said: "It's like parents have a disagreement, how can children and nephews be publicized?" Not only the ministers themselves, but also the ministers will summon the eunuchs, who dare to spread rumors on the pretext, and immediately beat them to death with a big stick! ”

"Liu Yong's analogy is interesting, and so is it." The Queen Mother got up with a smile, and Qianlong and the Queen hurriedly came over and went one by one. Liu Yong watched them out of the courtyard of the Heart Cultivation Hall before he stood up, relieved in one breath, his legs and knees were weak, he almost collapsed, and he was busy struggling to lift his strength and walked out of the Heart Cultivation Palace......

There is intrigue in the Forbidden City, and people are still talking about Ji Yun, but Ji Yun doesn't know anything about these things. Although he also took the military department to investigate, it was written on the top that "I was ordered to send one exile official Ji Yun, and I was allowed to bring four family members to serve in the Dihua camp, and all the guards and sentry posts along the way were not allowed to stay in difficulty, and so on." Such an identity is not accepted by the post stations along the way. Passing through Zhili, Henan, Shaanxi is okay, the Central Plains his protégés and former officials, these officials are also well-informed, know the inside story, expect him to have a day of recovery, that enthusiasm is even more than his incumbent surveillance, some do not know the inside story and do not know the reason, see that he is more than half a hundred years away thousands of miles, see that "the strong man is gone", who is willing to care about the former teachers and students friendship is a love rubbing mildew stained black bag? Those who claim to be sick and don't see it, send two taels of silver to "send the plague god", pretend to be angry and refuse guests, and "hate sticks and beat people" in front of their families...... All kinds of world conditions are ugly and renovated. Ji Yun is a well-read person, and he has also seen some of the hot and cold worlds, but this is the first time he has experienced it on the ground. Sometimes forced to laugh, sometimes to avoid fun, to deal with the scene one by one, the sigh in the heart but feel strange and real, just like that, suddenly met with a "heat wave", and was attacked by the "cold wind", Baiwei is not a master and servant with the dog called "Si'er" to the west, sometimes living in the Huatang official house, and sometimes taking advantage of the chicken feather shop to sharpen. The four family members who came with him were called Yubao, who was the little servant waiting in his study, and the rest of Yun'an, Ma Si, and Song Baozhu were all born slaves and seedlings, and they were originally separated from each other to live outside the business, and they chose to travel with him because they were young and strong. I have neither experienced anything nor suffered hardship. At this time, Ji Yun lost power, neither can the fox fake tiger might, nor the extra money to fish, are full of reluctance, there is a smiling face in the good season, the treatment is desolate and embarrassing, living in the village shop and the temple, spreading grass and building a shop by himself, picking up firewood for fire, drawing wells for cooking, all kinds of trivial and troublesome travel, first reluctant, muttering and muttering resentment, strange face twisting all kinds of trouble. Ji Yun has always ignored his family, and he has never been in charge of people in the court, nor will he intimidate and scold his subordinates, but he just blindly allows and asks for peace, and he wants to help each other through the difficulties in the same boat, but everyone endures hardships with an iron abacus, who is willing to "help" with him? When he was not in his heart, he stroked the dog and read, and the moonlit night and the breeze chanted poetry**, and the four of them saw through him that "it's just that" became more and more arrogant, and pretending to be deaf and dumb was even more unorthodox. Ji Yun only wanted to admit that he was unlucky, and he didn't open his mouth if he didn't call them, and the five masters and servants were becoming more and more divided along the way, and it was already a pattern of different hearts and minds.

When Ji Yun left Beijing, it was already the spring weather, the green waves of the beans and wheat were swaying along the way, the spring flowers were falling like snow, and the wind in the Central Plains was not singing, and the rain was not broken. Stay in northern Shaanxi, the land is high and the air is scarce, you will feel that it is very different from the plain, the grass and trees on the vast and boundless loess plateau are lonely, reversed and returned to the barren cold, the ditch and the slope are thousands of hills and ravines as far as the eye can see, or the solitary trees of the poplar jungle stand steeply, or the thorns and barren grasses are undulating, and the endless remote ground is very rare to see the village houses, only a piece of grass beach, spring wheat, etc., the oats are new green and yellow, and the dysentery head is like lying on the field. The wind swept across the plains, rolling up the dry sand, last year's withered grass and leaves swirled and swirled and chased and frolicked, pounced on the body still with the chill of early spring, the old Han village children who herded cattle and sheep were shirtless, but they wore old sheepskin jackets, and sang Xintianyou with shouting and shouting, which was more obvious that the wilderness was vast and the sky was clear. Along the Hexi Corridor again, through Gansu into Qinghai, the more you go, the more desolate it becomes.

Cross the Mongolian desert along the northern foot of the Qilian Mountains, cross the Shule River in the vast wilderness of the sky, enter Hami, enter Turpan and then go northwest for 500 miles to Urumqi. I have seen all the high and distant geese in the sky, flying north and white clouds and green grass, sometimes the Qiang flute and the beard and the mountains are continuous, and the wind and sand are all over the wild stones, and the sand flies, and when it is hot, it is anxious to die, and when it is cold, it is thorough. If you don't go west out of Yangguan, you can't appreciate 10,000 songs of "Spring Breeze is not Yumen Pass". When he was in the Central Plains, because Ji Yun had been in phase for a long time, he had his own hot and cold state, and the officials and monks did not kiss each other, and there was still a little bit of fireworks in the world. After passing through Yulin from Yan'an, Ningxia has suppressed the Hui people, and the officers and soldiers cut down in a bold row regardless of the good and the bad, killing the road and sparsely populated, and the people's livelihood and industry are withered. Who of these "masters" knows that he is "Ji someone"? doesn't take him seriously, lives in the store and fights for firewood, water, and pots, wants to turn his face as soon as he speaks, and wants to "beat up the corrupt officials on dog days" with red eyes at every turn, and sometimes sleeps until midnight and knocks on the door and rushes in and shouts, "You fucking official also has this one?" Make room for the lord - sleep in the horse pen! "Ji Yun's guilty person, and he is only a soldier, where can he still be the master of the servant, and he can only endure blackmail under the low eaves. When he arrived in Urumqi, the healthy mule who "walked 600 a day" gave the uncle a "military requisition", and only a thin and small one of the four donkeys was left for him to carry the luggage, and Ji Yun's big black man also lost a lot of weight, so he finally arrived safely.

"Urumqi" means "beautiful pasture" according to the Uygur language, there is only one mosque, a few dilapidated houses, and the market town is also lively during trade, and it is no different from ordinary grasslands. Since the Kangxi period with soldiers in Junggar, here is the place where the troops are transported to transport grain and grass, and gradually built a stone house and brick house, in fact, all the people who live are soldiers, it is a city, but the name does not match the real can only be regarded as a "soldier city", with Hurd's "Tianshan Battalion" Xingyuan is located here, Ji Yun found a small shop to live in the nearby Xingyuan Yamen, and ordered Yubao to go to Xingyuan to present a diploma to investigate, he himself drank a bowl of cheese, dried radish and cooked mutton vegetables, and ate a piece of steamed bun to be full, and then paced out of the store for a walk.

There is nothing to see in the city, all of them are barracks and warehouses, all of them are made of stone foundations to build the walls, and some are made of grass knots and mud, all of which are flat roofs sealed with three-fold soil, which look rough and unbearable up close, and look like a column of soldiers standing neatly from a distance, and it is not ugly. About two arrows to the west along the dirt alley is the city wall, which is also built of earth, the battlements of the city wall are all protected with turf, and the wall is full of green grass, like a green dragon winding on the meadow, a bit of "the city spring grass and trees are deep" taste. At that time, it was just after noon, and the soldiers in the city were changing shifts to eat, and the soldiers defending the city were also a little lazy, and they said a few good words and allowed him to go to the city to look.

The scenery outside the city is really very interesting, standing in the grass city and looking around, the sky is blue and blue, and there is no trace of clouds on the dome where the slanting sun is scorching and spilling down, looking at the east, the flat grass is like felt and then the towering Bogda Mountain, the clouds are across the mountains and mountains, the thousand-year-old snow peaks are straight into the blue sky, the south of the Wuken Mountain, the southwest of the Ehabut Mountain and the west of the Brahconu Mountain are also thousands of years of white heads, like three proud old men sitting on the ground, arguing about an eternal mysterious topic, looking at Urumqi at the foot of the feet. The slanting sunlight shone through their heads and shoulders, enveloping them in clusters of bright and wonderful halos of holy light. Ice and snow, green pines, grass trees, and the large grassland that stretches down, and the snow that flows down merges into countless small rivers and vertical and horizontal paintings, which are spread out on the boundless prairie in the north of the city, or into canals or ponds or connected into patches, into swamps, and the blue and shiny light is inlaid on the felt velvet-like grassland. About the moistened by the water source of this snow-capped mountain, the grassland in this area is also extraordinarily rich and vigorous, the high can cover the waist of the horse, the low one is more than a foot high, the spring breeze is long, the green waves are swaying, the yellow flowers are red, the flowers are purple...... There are many flowers that can't see the color faintly blooming, the grass breath reveals such a lot of lush and faint floral fragrance, Shu arm for breathing, clear into the abdomen, but feel the spirit of the soul and the heart of the color, many mundane troubles in the world, the ups and downs of the world, honor and humiliation can be blown to the Wuhe Township. The hardships and annoyances along the way were all dissipated in a deep sigh. At this moment, I thought that Jingshi was offended three times a day, the crown was hot and cold like a shadow, and I thought of the Luhe Changting Farewell, Liu Baoqi, Cao Xibao and a few dozen other protégés shed tears in the suburbs, all of them were in a trance, and they were all in a trance, and they were separated by a thousand heavy rivers and thousands of miles of clouds and mountains.

Passing across the mountains and rivers, the music and books look forward to the time.

Feel this golden stone heart, not rising and changing.

What does affection pay for? Give it to be diligent and tireless.

Ding Yi ascends the temple corridor and traces the craftsmanship.

He has been passed down for many years, and he has been honored by Shi Wan.

Work hard to be the deputy of the office, why bother to see each other from time to time.

I was still looking for another chapter, and I heard someone shouting under the city behind me: "Master Ji...... Master! Turning around, he saw that Yubao was trotting from the street, thinking that he had already returned from the general's line, so he walked down the stairs of the city and asked, "Do you see the military gate?" ”

"The commander of Fengtian was transferred by order with the military gate, and the new general was called Jidu, and the Hailancha military gate counselor invited him to Changji." Yubao smiled bitterly, looked a little depressed, and spread his hands and said, "The people in the military flow said that the Changji city wall has collapsed, and all the people who have come to serve in the army will go over to repair the city wall. said that this was the order of the Zhaohui Military Gate, and the original garrison of Dihua drove over. Why are we all bad luck! And he said, "They've got a bookstore and are waiting for you in the store." As he spoke, he walked forward and took Ji Yun back to the store.

Ji Yun suddenly felt empty in his heart. He knew Hurd, and with a letter written to him by Ah Gui, this person was powerful and powerful, a rough man, and he used to get along well, but Jidu was a stranger, and I heard that he was a "Confucian general". I am a "Confucian", ,—— I have been interacting with people all my life, and what I am most afraid of is the scheming of civil officials - how to deal with this high-ranking Confucian general? Zhaohui is in Heishui River, Hailancha is in Jinji Fort - so down-and-out, and he also met "can't kiss"! Thinking of sending Changji to repair the city again, carrying soil and bags as coolies, this son was scolded by people like a slave, and his heart was sad, but seeing Yubao's gloomy face, the stalk neck twisted and rushed away, as if he wanted to quarrel with his mouth, he snorted silently and said nothing.

The general's military flow office and the clerk's office are waiting in the store. This is a capable man in his thirties, with a white and clean face, two locks of tadpole-like mustaches, sitting on the stone table with single bubble eyes and stilts and eating melon seeds, the Lingbao red dates on the plate, and the Longjing tea in the bowl - the objects that were not willing to be used all the way were taken out by the minions to honor the steward. ”

"Yes," Ji Yun bowed slightly, and said, "Prisoner Ji Yun." The secretary quickly swapped his left and right legs, and it was still Erlang's legs, spitting melon seed skin and smiling: "There is fate!" I went to school when I was 12 years old, and I ate cold pork head meat a few times. If you don't get along with others, you will be able to get your life out of the way, and you will be able to go to this far away military state. What about you? People also say that he entered school at the age of twelve, and even ascended to the Huangjia official fortune Tengda to occupy the laurel branches. This is really a heaven and earth[2]

- Isn't this fate? Only then did Ji Yun know that he was also a prisoner who had committed a crime, and he knew about a few words, so he was transferred out of the army. Listening to the sarcastic and sarcastic mouth, I was angry in my heart, but I knew that the management was greater than the official life hanging in the hands of this person, so I had to smile and laugh: "Heaven and earth are not bad, I will be guilty of you with fate-Mr. Cheng gave advice." Dare to ask your surname Taifu, and call it up and down. ”

The clerk said "ho", slapped his thigh fingers, and Ji Yun smiled: "I really still have yours!" The words are all pairs, full of rhymes - hey, you talk to the emperor every day, that's it? No wonder, it's a good stutter! My surname is Luo, the second line, you can call me Luo Erye! This guy drank wine at noon, and he also took advantage of the excitement to find fun, because he was close, full of wine and fart smell, dead onions and rotten garlic sandwiched with mutton and slamming straight into people's noses, Ji Yun saw him patting his chest on his shoulders and putting his head and face up, disgusted in his heart, and couldn't bear the smell, he flashed his body and stepped back, sat on the stool with his hands on his knees, took a sip of tea, and asked: "Second Master Luo, I have already submitted to report, so I will ask the chief of the military flow department to know the military gate, and I also want to ask him to see the Zhaojun Gate and the Navy Gate, these are all my friends, and there are letters to bring to them in Beijing." ”

All the scoundrels are tired of being dignified, once Ji Yun is solemn and upright, Luo Erye will feel bored, but he feels that Ji Yun is still holding an official shelf and filling his head, because of his face, the tea bowl is on the table, and he said: "Jidu Dajunmen went to Changji, and this city will transport 100,000 stone grain to support the military of Yingzhaojunmen." Master Ji, since you have committed a crime to this one-third of an acre, you must not restrain your official spirit. What is the Trillion Army Gate Navy Gate? There are many prisoners who come, and they are all using this set to scare people, and Second Master Luo doesn't recognize this pot of wine money - even the prisoners from all over the Guannei, there are 6,000 in Dihua alone, the grain has to be transported, the city has to be repaired, and they are all related to the Jijunmen and the Navy Gate, what should we do with our envoys? He stood up and pointed to the north, "—the west of the mosque in the north of the city is the Guandi Temple, and the north of the temple is the newly built City God Temple." You stand on the ground and prepare, move into the Chenghuang Temple to live, and the team of 200 people there will carry grain to Changji before dawn tomorrow, with 50 catties of military rations per person, and 10 catties of dry food, and transport them to Changji to receive the slivers and come back to transport them again. Just such an errand, pack your bags and go, I'll be waiting for you at the City God Temple! With that, he snorted and walked away.

He walked away with bad intentions, and the four elders couldn't help but look at each other: they had just offended the head snake as soon as they stepped into the "one acre and three points of land". Yun An complained: "The master is really true!" He has a lot of prisoners in charge here, and they all ask for him, but he doesn't ask for help. We have fallen to this point, what kind of big wax do we have with this kind of person? Song Baozhu said: "Seeing that we are here to ask for money, we just hold the gourd and don't open the scoop!" This is good, 400 miles to Changji, 50 catties of grain to carry and bring their own dry food. Ma Sidao: "It's all because of Yubao, when you report to the office, you will be handed over the filial piety silver, which is convenient and good-looking." What's going on here? Yubao was not angry, and sneered: "You can!" Those who dare to love don't know the price of firewood and rice! After Xi'an, which way does the mountain god land not burn incense? There are only more than two hundred taels left, all of which are sent out, and we drink the northwest wind? I sealed him a bag of five taels, and he looked at our lord as a big official, too little, and he strangled our necks to blackmail us! ”

"I said earlier that I would exchange silver into silver bills in Xi'an," Ma Si said, "There are more than 2,000 people in the city, like carrying a money Zhuangzi down the aisle, who doesn't strip us when they see it?" ”

"Redeem it for a silver ticket? There is no money here, is it good to rub your ass with a pile of waste paper? Yubao said with a glare.

"Whew! It's really fucking life...... I don't know when I can go back. Ma Si sighed and said.

"Go back? Eight out of ten of the ten that were put here couldn't go back. Song Baozhu grinned like a smile and a cry, "Don't look at those old men who say that they are going to see them off, and they are acting on the scene to sell their popularity." The lord has vacated a position for them as the Minister of Military Aircraft, and I wish we had put these bones in the desert and the sea! ”

"Maybe the emperor will think about the benefits of our lord one day......"

"Your Majesty? The emperor really feels sorry for the master, how did he send it to this place where ghosts don't lay eggs? ”

"That's right! Isn't it that the villain has made the emperor not want to see him? There was that day when the ghost spirit and Shen were not good in front of the emperor. ”

"There are also stinky fish (Yu Minzhong) rotten shrimp."

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gossiping, talking and arguing, and saying that he can't say anything with resentment. Ji Yun was upset by them, and some of his words were not unreasonable, and some of the officials and emperors who were sent out "forgot" were also forgiven, unless he personally remembered them or someone recommended them to "remind". He knows his own situation, and it is a matter of chance that he will return to Beijing with amnesty, but he is also really worried about playing tricks with Shen, and he is even more afraid of Minzhong - take advantage of this opportunity to find out a few more "things" of himself, and it is easy to find the donkey's hoof prints in the mill. With the sage of Zengzi, the mother and son know each other deeply, three words "kill", his mother escaped over the wall, and he is better than Zengzi? Qianlong's love is heavier than his great-mother? And he didn't dare to think about the deeper worries, Qianlong was already a sixty-six-year-old old man in Ershun, his great-grandfather Shunzhi was twenty-four years old, his grandfather Kangxi was sixty-nine years old Bintian, and his father Yongzheng was fifty-eight years old...... For a while, there was a loss of flash, two short and three long, once a son of heaven and a courtier, if that kind of thing happened, maybe he would really cut himself off here. A few minions are unwilling to wait for their own martyrdom, and they also have their own troubles. He is not good at mundane housework, and he will not reprimand people, although he hears that he complains about himself, but for the sake of his subordinates, he frowns and says, "What's the use of saying this? I was sent here by order, and what does he dare to do to me? I'm not going anywhere, just waiting here for Jidu to come back and see how he goes. ”

"You're a nerd, aren't you?" Yubao said with a smile, "I have to find a way - one is to hurry to send some silver, and the other is that I see that there are many horses here, five or five two hundred and fifty pounds, and one horse will be carried, and then buy a little donkey for you to ride, the four of us will follow you empty-handed, no matter which military gate you see in Changji, if you have burned incense in a furnace, there will always be a little bit of care......" Ji Yun was angry in his heart, and said angrily: "Buy a horse!" I was sent here to serve the emperor, and I don't have the money to send this scoundrel! ”

Yubao and Baozhu bought horses, Ji Yun begged for water to wash his feet, poured his clothes on the felt bunk, bent his humerus pillow with one hand, and read a copy of "Chu Ci" silently with the other. He was originally a bold scholar, able to eat, sleep and boil, since the mourning and lack of sleep, he has insomnia, his eyelids are sleepy, but he only can't sleep, he said poetry with Qianlong in the Palace of Nourishing Heart for a while, and went to Luqing Hall to watch a play with Liu Yong for a while, and then saw Yu Minzhong passing in front of him with a scroll without saying a word, and when he turned his face, he Shen's forever smiling expression was looking at himself, and in a trance, Hu Meng turned upside down and saw that "Second Master Luo" walking with a horse whip There was a loud sound on the table, and he shouted with a crooked face:

"Get up! What lord? All of them are prisoners here! ”

Ji Yun woke up in shock, it was really Luo Erye who came, and brought more than a dozen prisoners, all of whom were standing outside the door with dirt and ragged clothes, Luo Erye didn't have a horse whip in his hand, it was two black and shiny iron galls, knocked on the door frame, and was still shouting: "Call him up!" Seeing Ji Yun rubbing his worried eyes, he tilted his waist and said, "Ji Yun, who let you sleep?" Ji Yun was stunned for a moment and said, "I have paid for the house." ”

"I told you to go to the City God Temple, didn't you hear?"

"I wasn't paying attention."

"Are you deaf?"

The blood on Ji Yun's body surged up all of a sudden, once the phoenix fell to the shelf, it was really not as good as a chicken! This "nothing" little official with a knife and pen, who sits on a red bench and throws goods in a lifetime, and a scoundrel who comes out of the cage, wants to taste the taste of "enslaving the Minister of Military Aircraft"! His face flushed, his eyes flashed with anger, and at a glance he saw Yubao leading the horse into the patio, and with a wave of his hand, he shouted angrily, "Lead the horse to the stable." I was ordered to see Zhaohui Hailancha, and without them, I won't go anywhere! When he was angry, Yubao and a few people suddenly became angry, and Ma Si said: "The surname is Luo, what are you doing?" Don't talk about you, even when General Tianshan sees our master, he doesn't dare to stand up! Baozhu said: "The two mountain characters are stacked, you go out for me!" Yun An also said: "What to tell him?" See them take it - see them take it! Si'er lay down, and stood up with bared teeth and grinning.

"Yo-ho?" Second Master Luo was startled by everyone's sudden attack at first, took a step back, looked at the five masters and servants vigilantly, and when he moved, he grinned, and said angrily, "I thought there was something hard to support the waist!" It turns out that the adults eat melons and make trouble with me! You said that you were ordered to see Zhaojunmen, so wow, take out the will and show it to you. Ji Yun stiffly replied and said, "That's a face-to-face message, and it won't be your turn to pick it up if you have a will." "There are only lamb bones, beef jerky, bran radish, brown rice, no noodles, no fish." Second Master Luo laughed, and ordered the dozen or so prisoners with a swing of his chin: "Tie them up and escort them to the City God Temple - the horse is led, the donkey is led, there is silver in the bookcase, wait carefully!" ”

When a group of prisoners heard "there is silver", they shouted excitedly, and they rushed in a swarm of bees, but they didn't care about tying up people, so they ran to the kang first, some dragged the luggage and bedding, and some smashed the lock and opened the box. The crowd shouted for joy, carrying the silver, picking up what could be eaten, and stuffing it into their mouths, and shouting, "This is fucking enough for the men to sacrifice their teeth!" Some called: "Big silver for the second master, big silver for the second master!" Others shouted: "Lao Tzu wants that inkstone, that's the inkstone!" The four of Yubao also pounced on it and tore at the silver, and also took the opportunity to stuff it into their waists. Seventeen or eighteen people on the small kang squeezed and fought back and forth, and some of them rolled into a ball and fell to the ground at the same time. Ji Yun was so angry that he stood aside, gritting his teeth and not saying a word, and Second Master Luo just smiled with his chin in his hand. Si'er is a haba'er, seeing that his master is being bullied, he only whines and barks sadly, helplessly spinning around the ground anxiously, but he won't bite, he won't be trampled on, and he timidly fell to Ji Yun's feet and shrank his head and screamed. The house was in a chaotic manner for a while, and the miasma of smoke and shouting and scolding was stirred up, which had already alarmed the people in the store, and the guests were all military officers who had come from other places on a business trip, standing on the patio and gossiping and watching the excitement. The shopkeeper is a local, and he pulled Luo Erye with a smile on his face, and he didn't know if it was Mongolian or Hui, and he didn't know anything about persuasion. Ji Yun was already stunned.

was in chaos, and someone outside the store said in an old-fashioned voice: "Is there something wrong in this store?" Why is it so disturbing? Then an old man came in with a sound of footsteps. When everyone looked at it, it was a fat old man of about seventy years old, with a black silk gown with 10,000 characters on his gray poplin jacket, with bright pleated mille-feuille shoes under his feet, a snow-white Hao hair pressed against a six-in-one melon skin hat, and his heavy broom eyebrows were all white, but his face was full of red light, and his voice was like Hong Zhong, and he asked: "Who is the shopkeeper here?" Well? "He's dressed like an old tea shopkeeper no matter how he looks at it. Another body of wind and dust is expected to be in a hurry. The shopkeeper wants to come out to respond, and he is worried that this group of people will steal things from the store. Seeing that everyone was stunned, Second Master Luo shouted: "What are you selling? Ignore this old thing - take someone with you! The officers who were watching the bustle outside seemed to recognize the old man, muttered and whispered a few steps, and then retreated into the distance to see the bustle.

"I said, why didn't anyone answer?" Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, the old man was a little angry, and single-handedly designated Second Master Luo, "You-I said you, what do you see?" You brought the prisoners to rob the store? Is this Dihua a place without a king's law? ”

Second Master Luo greeted him, and finally came out, but he was worried about which copywriter in the camp it was, so he asked carefully: "Old man, Dihua is such a big place, and his eyes are very raw." Which business are you from, or are you from the mainland doing the tea and horse business? The old man said, "I'm here to sell tea bricks." What are you doing here? Half the street was a sensation, robbing and grabbing, bandits or soldiers? Hearing that it was a tea merchant, Second Master Luo shook his spirit again, turned around and said, "Don't pay attention to him, tie people up!" It's a bad old man who sells tea bricks. ”

"What did you say?" The old man looked a little hard of hearing, covered his ears with his hands and asked, "What's your name?" Is it from the battalion? Second Master Luo said: "I am Second Master Luo in the military flow of the Tianshan Battalion, I am doing an errand, so I tell you not to be nosy." The old man didn't listen to it anymore, put down his hand and said with a smile: "I also ran an errand for the Tianshan Battalion, and this has become a troublemaker." Your name is Second Master Luo, and you were born with this name? Your father and grandfather also call you 'second master'? ”

Second Master Luo looked at the old man strangely, and scolded with a smile: "This old immortal dares to pretend to be behind his ears!" Dare to slam me! The old man said: "The son said that being old and not dying is a thief - there is a saying in Shaoling, 'Abuse of people and harmful things is jackals, why hook claws and saw teeth to eat human flesh' - how can the officials in the military flow take you in, the king and the eight lambs, and dare to be tyrannical in this city!" Second Master Luo gritted his teeth and laughed at his "Zi Yue Shiyun", and unexpectedly pounced on him and came to the heart of a black tiger with one hand, shouting in his mouth: "Beat you old show to climb the lampstand - come here to sell literature!" ”

"it! How dare you hit my old man? The old man suddenly let go, stared at him in front of him, and without waiting for his fist to hit him, he only slashed it with one palm, and his body flashed with his hand, and he kicked his buttocks again, and he hit him very quickly. Second Master Luo couldn't hold his feet at all, and a horse fell six or seven feet away, hit his head on the stone at the door of the store, and fainted. He rubbed the bulging big bag and was stunned, and the old man still said freely: "A gentleman can be bullied, but only women and villains are difficult to raise......" He was rude like a pig killer for a while, and he was like a teacher for a while, which made a group of military schools in the distance laugh. Ji Yun has never seen such a character, old and vigorous, literary and muddy, funny and serious, want to laugh and think he is cute, and worried that he will suffer, and came out with a dry brow and was about to speak, Luo Erye jumped Lao Gao and pointed at the old man and said: "This old guy is the White Lotus Sect, he knows evil arts, give me a reward!" ”

A group of prisoners in the house saw that Second Master Luo was at a loss, and the old man seemed to have defeated him without much effort. When the old man saw them coming around, he stepped out of his T-step with his feet and stared at them as they approached. Before he could make a move, a young officer outside ran in out of breath, stopped him with both hands and shouted: "This is the Tianshan General Ji Dajun Gate, which of you dare!" Jijunmen, look at you, all the military management belts are waiting for you outside the gate! I asked the person who was with you, "You peed, why did you get here?" ”

This is the Tianshan General Jidu. The courtyard was full of prisoners, and even Second Master Luo was stupid, standing in a daze like a wood carving clay sculpture.

"Mom, pull a, sweep Lao Tzu's fun!" Jidu clapped his hands, flicked the dust on the corner of his robe, reprimanded the young officer with a straight face, turned around happily, and pointed to the people: "You can't teach me—take them all down, damn it—cast them into the jackal!" ”

"Wow!"

The young man said yes, got up and made a gesture, and more than thirty Goshkha outside the door of the store rushed in, and the spurs and swords clanged. Ji Du said "take them all", this group of people will be arrested regardless of whether they are good or bad, Ji Yun saw that the two lieutenants pounced on him and wanted to do it, he was really anxious, and shouted: "Ji Du, I am Ji Yun!" ”

"Ji-Yun?" Jidu stood up with one foot in front and one foot behind.

"Ji Xiaolan - you didn't ask Third Master Le to ask for my word?"

"Oh-oh!" Jidu suddenly came to his senses, turned around and waved away Goshha, his face was full of smiles, he walked over quickly, walked one end and said with a smile: "I said this morning's 'Chaimen bird noise'!" It turned out that Master Ji was here...... Three days ago, Touhai also said that your estimate of the contract has arrived, and he also said it when he handed over the seal with Hurd, why didn't you tell the Chinese army? ”

Ji Yun didn't expect him to be so warm and courteous, and put it down with a hanging heart, seeing that he was going to bow deeply, he hurriedly supported him, and said with a smile: "You are also an old-timer in terms of age, this decision can't be made!" About they only remembered that my name was Xiaolan, and no one knew my real name, so they had a misunderstanding - this is looking for me! Seeing this battle, Second Master Luo's group of people had already been bluffed, crawling on the ground and trembling, and when they saw Ji Yun talking about themselves, they hurriedly kowtowed and said: "Master Ji, Master Ji is super born...... The little people live here in a bitter cold, they are very bored and dizzy, and they are playing with the gentlemen and asking for a few wine money......"

"Mother's cunt, dare to be a poor and boring master? Dare to rob when you are poor? Ji Du glared and said, "You're just a villain who is afraid of punishment, and it's too late to regret it - drag them out of the gate to correct the Fa!" Seeing that the Goshha people went up to drag people, and a group of people smashed garlic and kowtowed to beg for their lives, Ji Yun was a gentleman who was not close to the kitchen and was afraid of hearing the wailing of cattle and sheep, so he couldn't help but soften his heart, but begged for them: "Ji Yun just arrived, and he is also guilty, and it is my fate to have this calamity, the hand of the fake villain, so the misfortune of the gentleman and the blessing of the gentleman." Otherwise, I will not be allowed to meet here at the military gate. The battle ahead, how many major things need to be handled by the general, the military gate does not need to care too much about them. Just tell them to wrap my books back in the coils. Ji Du smiled: "Only the upper wisdom and the lower foolishness are unswerving, and the Chinese can speak, the brother is too merciful." That being said, the death penalty is forgiven, and each person has forty military sticks, and he will be in the yoke outside the gate for three days, and he will be punished until Changji repairs the city and pulls it down! As he spoke, he let his hand go, "Go to our Chinese army, Zhao Huihai will come to the meeting tonight, you can also get a share, there are fresh vegetables!" - Bring my horse to Xiaolan Gong to sit on! ”

[1]

Shan Ziye, a master craftsman who is good at building garden pavilions, is similar to today's "engineers".

[2]

The Qing Dynasty magistrate in Urumqi was called "Dihua Mansion".