He Guizhu took Su Malagu to the back hall, there were three large rooms, there was not even a bed, only a strip table, a few wooden chairs were arranged on both sides, and there was a painting of the middle hall of the tiger roaring dragon spring hanging on the wall. Su Malagu was about to ask, He Guizhu had already lifted the painting in the middle hall, what kind of mechanism had been pulled, and half of the north wall of the west chamber had slid out of a door. - It turned out to be a wooden wall of fake pink and white, and there was a passage inside. He Guizhu went in first, and Su Malagu stepped in after him.

The roads inside are even more complicated, with twists and turns, and roads everywhere. According to He Guizhu, except for one that can be passed, the rest of the rules are not passable. Aunt Su Mala became more and more surprised, and asked as she followed: "Originally, it was said that Xiao Weizi's house was very shallow, why not?" ”

"This is only available for the first ten days," He Guizhu said, "Wei Ye bought the half of the street behind him, I heard that this road is still Wu Erye's original alley changed from what kind of 'gossip ecstasy array'." - This is where the second master lives! He Guizhu said, he had arrived in front of a small courtyard, patted the ring on the door, and called softly: "Second master, please open the door, I am Zhu'er!" ”

The door opened with a "bang". Wu Ciyou wore a bronze shirt scattered around his body, only a leather vest with black satin plate and butterfly buckles, and he came out and opened the door without a hat.

Seeing that it was Aunt Su Mala, Wu Ciyou's eyebrows trembled, the sparks of excitement in his eyes flickered, and then he smiled heartily: "Ha! It's Wan Niang! Please come in! He called to a twelve or thirteen-year-old servant standing under the eaves: "Moxiang, here are the guests, fan stove to make tea!" The servant said yes and went to the side room. Here He Guizhu smiled: "The two of you sit widely, and the pillar takes care of it." ”

"Wei Ye come back, tell me!" Su Malagu said another word of advice to He Guizhu, and then turned her face to Wu Ciyou and said, "I heard that Mr. Qingxiao, what medicine do you take?" Can you look for Lang Zhong? ”

"I don't need to find a doctor for this little illness." Wu Ciyou smiled bitterly, "Although my own medical skills are not very good, I can barely take care of myself." ”

Speaking of this, Aunt Su Mala wanted to speak and stopped, feeling that there were still many things to ask, but she just couldn't say it. Wu Ciyou also noticed it, and felt even more cramped and uneasy. The two sat in relative silence, unable to find a new topic for a while. But I also feel that this is the case, and I am reluctant to spoil this atmosphere.

After a while, Aunt Su Mala suddenly remembered and said with a smile: "Long'er has always been really worried about Mr. It's cold, let me send a piece of clothing. In a few moments, Mr. Disaster has passed, and he will invite you back to teaching! As he spoke, he unwrapped a soft gauze wrap. When I shook it open, it was a jade-colored fox fur, inlaid with sable's fur edges, and when Wu Ciyou paced over to see, it was light, soft, slippery, and dense, and it was indeed very precious, so he smiled and said: "I'm a lifter, a scholar in cloth, wear this thing, don't let people take it as a thief, and it will be stolen by a thief!" Su Malagu couldn't help but laugh, and she also smiled lightly. At this time, the maid came in with tea, and Wu Ciyou personally served a cup to Wan Niang, and sat down to talk.

"Wan Niang," Wu Ciyou said suddenly, "Now there are only you and me here, what kind of identity is this 'Long'er', can you tell me directly?" ”

"What's not to say about this?" Su Malagu was shocked, took a sip of tea to cover up the past, and said with a smile, "The old son of Mrs. Suo, who is in his fifties, is so old, he is so pampered that he is afraid of melting in his mouth, and he is afraid of breaking it in his palm." Why, I haven't come to school for three days, and I'm in a hurry when I am a gentleman? ”

"No," Wu Ciyou pondered, "I've been thinking these days, it's really strange to have a situation like mine. I am a scholar, and I am a teacher in Beijing, why is Master Suo so polite and virtuous? is welcome to the house, but after arriving at the house, why do they meet so rarely? Even if I offend Ao Bai by writing an article, why would I mobilize the teacher and mobilize the public, and not hesitate to break my face with Master Suo and copy it from me? Why didn't you send me out of Beijing, and why did so many people fight to protect me? ”

Before she finished speaking, Aunt Su Mala was already coughing and laughing: "You, what a fool...... You're all nonsense! If you want to be fair, turn it upside down! - Think about yourself for others, what is not the right thing to do? Shouldn't Lord Suo be a corporal? Shouldn't Ao Bai come to get you? Shouldn't the people save you? Then I shouldn't ...... Come and see you! ”

"No, no, that's not what I meant!" Whenever Wu Ciyou heard Aunt Su Mala's mean and sharp words, he was always a little clumsy in coping, "I wonder if the son of a prince is entrusted to study at Suo's house, which seems to be in line with Long'er's identity." ”

When Aunt Su Mala was about to argue, she suddenly heard a knock on the door outside the courtyard, and it was He Guizhu's voice: "Miss Wan, Master Wei, they are back, waiting in front!" Wu Ciyou hurriedly said: "Please come over and talk together!" But he didn't listen to Zhu'er's answer, and he thought he was gone. Aunt Su Mala hurriedly said: "No need, it's not early, go ahead and make a fancy whistle, I should go too." Saying that, he got up lazily, blessed a blessing, and said in a low voice: "Mr. cherishes." Wu Ciyou was not gloomy, and smiled reluctantly: "How about asking Long'er...... Goodbye! ”

The "front" that Zhu'er said was actually "back", and in a small courtyard not far from Wu Ciyou, Wei Dongting, Mu Zixu, and Hao Laosi were waiting for Aunt Su Mala. They had just returned from Wu Liuyi, the commander of the Nine Gates.

Here are people who know the details, and they don't need to beat around the bush, and they can make it clear in a few words.

Wei Dongting got the news of the impeachment of Feng Mingjun from the inside line of the Ao Mansion, earlier than Kangxi knew. This morning, Wei Dongting took Mu Zixu and Hao Laosi to meet Wu Liuyi. Since the release of Cha Yihuang, the two have made friends, and they have always been speculative, and some words can be talked quite thoroughly, but they are always separated by a piece of paper. Wei Dongting took great pains to lure him with topics several times, hoping that the iron beggar could expose it first, and the asking price would be lower. But the iron beggar has his own charter, and every time he comes here, he has no "iron" energy, and it becomes a cloud of fog, either he laughs and stops, or Wang Gu talks about him left and right - Wei Dongting knows that he can't be treated recklessly and heroically, but he also laughs and scolds this person for being cunning in his heart.

The two chatted for a while, Wei Dongting planned again and again, and decided to break through head-on, as if smiling, he used the lid of the bowl to play with the tea leaves floating on it and said:

"Brother Iron Beggar, you have a chance to get ahead. You know both of these brothers, so I might as well say it directly. - You're going to be relocated to the patrol yamen hall official! ”

"Don't be kidding, I'm half a powerful and half a king, how can I be bullied?" The iron beggar leaned back in the chair and laughed loudly, "Huchen actually thinks this is a promotion!" ”

Wei Dongting said: "Your Excellency has moved from the third grade to the third grade, how can you say that it is not a promotion?" ”

"yes!" The iron beggar suddenly changed his tone, "It's not bad to sit at the patrol yamen." Besides, that is the love of the Holy One, and I will not be lifted up! ”

The iron beggar pretended to be confused, suddenly talking about the east, and suddenly talking about the west, Wei Dongting dealt with him, and this was the most headache. Now I heard him say this again, and said with a smile:

"It's a pity that this is not the emperor's grace. It's a pity that you can't see the mystery of it! ”

"How?" The iron beggar leaned forward and asked, the green tendons on his forehead twitching.

"It's not good, Zhongtang will repair with you and treat you as a national soldier, of course you will repay him with a national soldier!" Wei Dongting saw that he was angry, and his strength was a little more restrained, and he also lay down on the back of the chair relaxedly, admiring the Ruyao bowl in his hand.

"Huchen," the iron beggar's tone softened suddenly, "you're such a good character. No wonder Mr. Cha praises you. I don't want to go around in circles anymore, 'I'd rather be the head of the chicken than the queen of the ox', what should I do to be that bird hall official? ”

Wei Dongting smiled dumbly: "Brother Tie Beggar, if you don't transfer your position, it may not be to demote you, and if you are promoted, you may not love you, you are smart, but you have to think clearly!" ”

"I know that!" Wu Liuyi waved his hand and said, "If you want to take it, you must first take it!" I'll be my Admiral of the Nine Gates! ”

This is a satisfactory answer. Aunt Su Mala listened, thought for a while and said: "The matter is a little bit over, but you don't have a yard in your hand, so you can't make a bid." ——This is easy to do, and if you make this contribution, you should also wear it with a new product. Go back and ask the emperor to issue a secret edict, and you will send it when the time comes. At this time, he might as well be a little more obscure, and drag it out first. Look at this formation, it's going to be launched quickly! ”

If Aunt Su Mala didn't go to Wei Dongting first, but came to Jiaxing Building to see Aunt Cui first, maybe it would be another result. But now it's too late. When she got out of the car, she felt that something was wrong, there was a group of people around the door, whispering something at the same time, and the owner of the hotel downstairs, the female shopkeeper of the Jiaxing building, was crying, and she couldn't hear what she was talking about.

Su Malagu had already heard that it was a dead person, and suddenly her head "buzzed", and she didn't care about the crowd, so she lined up and squeezed into the store, and went upstairs in three steps and two steps to find Cuigu. The little eunuch who was driving the car here even said to scare everyone away: "Master, Prince Heshuo Gege has come to see Miss Cui, our prince will come in a while, you have nothing to do!" "Beijing people originally love to watch a lively, as soon as they heard that the prince's family was coming, and they were afraid that they really had any relationship with the prince, so they fell to the second place with the whip, and they went to the prison temple to squat all night. After listening to it for a while, there was no news, so they walked away boringly.

Su Malagu came upstairs, saw several women in the east room to tie paper horses, paste paper sedan chairs, decorate memorial and other items, saw her come in, a middle-aged woman came over, blessed, and asked in a low voice: "Are you here to see Aunt Cui?" Su Malagu nodded stiffly. The woman said, "She...... has become an immortal, we are all the people who redeemed her body, helping to cook the ......" and let her hand go.

Su Malagu pushed open the door and looked at it, and was immediately stunned, her feet seemed to be nailed to the ground, and she couldn't move - the room was covered with white curtains, cigarette smoke, and there was a tablet on the middle table, which read:

The spirit of the autumn moon of the river stream martyr Wu clan

The two paintings next to it are plain practice, and the spots on the top are all bloodstains, and the upper joint book:

If you are not loyal, Anke is not filial? Dream back to Yuntai Feng Ciyan.

- The following joint book:

It's hard to be thrifty, who is embarrassed? The soul returns to the underworld and looks at Chang'an!

Next to a line of small print, the book:

Cui Gu wept blood

What's even more shocking is that Na Cui Gu is dressed in a costume, with eyebrows and rouge face, her eyes slightly closed, and she is smiling, and she is still sitting on the chair behind the tablet! When Su Malagu looked at it tremblingly, when the color was not reduced, but there were no six pulses, and her breath was broken, it was "the body is like five drums and the mountain and the moon, and the life is like the end of the three oil lamps"!

For a while, Aunt Su Mala felt as if she was in a nightmare. She couldn't believe it anyway, the female corpse in palace clothes in front of her who had swallowed mercury and had an ethereal fragrance was the young woman who stopped the car half a month ago and had a hard speech, why did she die?

Staying upstairs in this silence, in the face of this strange sacrifice, a chilling sense of terror suddenly rose in Su Malagu's heart, and she wanted to move out, but there was a strange force that attracted her to be reluctant to leave.

"Eldest sister," the middle-aged woman saw her with a solemn and awe-inspiring expression, and squatted down to salute and asked, "May I ask who you are from Cuigu?" ”

Su Malagu had an idea, and said: "Mingzhu is my brother, he is too sick to come, ask me to come and take a look, I don't want this kind of thing to happen......" The woman said: "Since the eldest sister is here, I will ask the eldest sister to transfer this letter to Master Ming." After speaking, he shook his hands, took out a letter from his bosom and said, "Before Miss Cui died, she asked me to give this to Master Ming...... "When Aunt Su Mala took it, it was a common general book in the market, with only a line in the middle, and it was written uprightly: Brother Mingzhu opened it, and the next paragraph is: Cui Gu's heart book. Trembling asked: "This thing is too unexpected, how can I ...... it well?"

The woman took out a Supa from her waist and wiped her tears and said, "I don't understand, the old woman downstairs said that last night Master Hu was dressed as a Taoist priest, and the two quarreled for half the night, and Master Hu was angry." Cui Gu cried for half the night, and this morning sent an invitation to a few of our sisters who used to sing, but they took mercury and fell in their chairs and couldn't move. …… He handed me the letter, and said with a smile, 'To Mingzhu—'I can't say a word again......" At this point, the woman could not stop crying.

Su Malagu left Jiaxing Building and returned to Da Nei with a sad heart, when it was already Shenpai. Under the blood-red sunset, she entered the palace from the Long Sect in a trance and went straight to the Palace of Nourishing Hearts. When the palace maid on duty saw her coming back, she hurriedly greeted her and said: "Long live the lord went to Cining Palace to ask for peace, and left a few boxing vegetable packets for my sister, saying that my sister doesn't eat oil and meat, so I specially asked my sister to change her taste!" Su Malagu was stunned for a moment, and then realized that she had returned to the Forbidden City, so she reluctantly smiled: "Let's leave it there, I'll eat it later." Then he lifted the curtain and went back to his room, and fell on the couch as if he had fallen apart.

She carefully took out the book, and when she saw that it was not sealed, she was obviously not afraid of being seen, so she turned inward, and in the dim candlelight, pulled out the plain note inside, and saw that it was written:

Mingzhu Brother Taijian: The dream of the sound of the cuckoo and the rain, from now on with my brother for a lifetime of travel! The way back is bleak, and things are unknowable. However, the autumn flowers of the grass and the willow of the broken soul, and the waning moon at the head of the building can be sent to the shadow under the feet. The slave is not lighter than the born but heavier than the dead, and it is difficult to move in and out, and there is no room to move. Exhausted, blood and tears can be empty! Neither can keep the father's will, but also can not share the enemy with his brother, sigh for a long night, wander without a plan, and decide to self-harm and repay the monarch and then the lord, the vast sky or visible pity for the slave, and then repay the brother's kindness in the next life! Four ugly poems are attached, all of which are slaves' life and hearts, and they are obtained alone under the moon. The voice of the dying is mourned. Not for no reason**, in order to repay the feelings of the king's affection.

Sister Cui Gu cried blood in Jiaxing Building

A piece of Xue Tao's note was attached to the letter, and on the thin paper, four quatrains were written in the small block letters of the one-color Zhongwang flyhead, and his feelings were sad and moving.

After reading the poem, Aunt Su Mala was sobbing in a low voice, and suddenly heard the sound of boots behind her, so she hurriedly wiped her tears and got up, but Kangxi had already approached with a smile and said, "I'm tired today!" If you are tired, you should go out for a walk, and if you lie down blindly, you will get sick - what are you holding in your hand, it shouldn't have been written by Mr. Wu, right? ”

Only then did Su Malagu think that Cuigu's desperate book was still in her hand, and she smiled and covered it up: "It's nothing, it's a thing written by someone, I happened to see it and take a look." ”

"Since it wasn't given to you by Mr. Wu," Kangxi stretched out his hand and said, "why don't you let me take a look." Aunt Su Mala had no choice but to hold the letter with both hands, and said in a low voice: "Long live Lord, Aunt Cui is dead!" ”

Kangxi's face changed immediately, he hurriedly grabbed the letter, looked at it hurriedly, his face became more and more pale, and he returned the suicide note to Aunt Su Mala with trembling hands, and asked, "Does she ...... How is she now? ”

Aunt Su Mala sobbed and recounted the scenes she had just seen to Kangxi in detail. Kangxi listened silently, nodded and sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity—do you know?" 'The first king' is the former Ming, and the 'latter master' is me, and there is no choice between the two, coupled with the troubles of the relationship, which makes the soul uneasy, and the five internal collapses, so I have to take this road. ”

"That's not the way to go!" Aunt Su Mala wiped away her tears and said, "Is it possible to become a monk!" Long live the Lord pointed to a temple for her to practice, isn't it? ”

Kangxi smiled bitterly: "You are a Buddhist disciple!" Only when the four major are empty, and the discouraged and discouraged are the monks who are empty and pure. She is now in turmoil and cannot be freed! - I'm afraid that Hu Gongshan will follow the path you said, and it's a pity that this person can't use it. Speaking of this, he paused, and then said after a long time, "I also know a little about the details of Hugong Mountain, he is different from Cuigu, he is remembering the former Ming, but he is relying on Yunnan, and he can't do anything in front of me." - These two people are all thanks to me, and they originally wanted to be grateful, but now they ...... Alas! ”

Seeing Kangxi's sad expression and very sad, Su Malagu had no choice but to cheer up and comfort him: "It's only to blame her for not being blessed, and she can't bear the grace of the Lord of Long Live Lord." - Let's not talk about this, let's talk about our own business. Mr. Wu, if you don't go again, I'm afraid I'm going to show my stuffing! ”

"You have to go." Kangxi said, "Have you seen him today?" ”

"He was already suspicious, thinking about which prince the Lord of Long Live was!" Su Malagu thought about Wu Ciyou's humble appearance, a smile appeared on her face, and she hurriedly said, "Xiao Weizi, they said, Wu Liuyi has to ask for the grace of Long Live and write a secret message to him." ”

Kangxi thought that he was tired of standing, so he sat down on the chair and said, "That's good!" The position surnamed Wu wronged him a little. I wanted to give him the lack of the governor of Guangdong. - Now that there is something in the imperial court, let Wu Liuyi Shao'an not be impatient. - I don't make this clear, but I know it in my heart. Let's wait for the pen and ink! ”

Su Malagu turned back to the ,—— of the Yang Xin Palace, where there was a ready-made edict, took out a blank copy from the envelope, brought pen and ink cinnabar, and spread it with both hands. Kangxi rolled up his sleeves and picked up the pen and ink:

Wu Liuyi led the change of the post of Admiral of the Nine Gates of Beijing, and Wu Zhen's handwritten edict was not obeyed.

Think about it, and add one more sentence:

The patrol department of the six and five cities of Ru Wu was ordered to control together, and the three officials below the rank of the three rank were appointed to vacant, and the officer was temporarily deposed, and the edict was served. Chin this!

After writing, he took out a jade seal from his bosom, which was the jade he had recently used with him, and was used exclusively for secret edicts. The four words "Tiyuan Master" are engraved on it - cinnabar mud is used, and the end is very bright. Su Malagu hurriedly stretched out her hands to take it.

"Slow!" Kangxi's tone suddenly became very turbid. Aunt Su Mala watched him grow up, and never heard him have such a tone, "This edict is in his hands, and it will be all Wu Liuyi's outside the inside!" My net worth and life, the fate of the Empress Dowager and you are all related to this person, don't be careless! ”

Aunt Su Mala was stunned at first, and suddenly she had already realized, and she couldn't help but admire Kangxi's hard work, so she said in a low voice: "Long live what the Lord is worried about!" It's just that...... How? ”

"In this way," Kangxi pondered for a moment, lowered his voice and said, "Wanniang, this edict is given to him like this." I gave Xiao Weizi another personal edict, telling him to act according to Wu Liu's momentum, so as to prevent changes in the midst of changes. Xiao Wei Zi is loyal and filial, and he will never have two hearts, besides, Sun Amu ......" He suddenly paused and stopped talking.

Without further ado, Su Malagu has also fully understood that Sun Amu is in Kangxi's hands. This is indeed foolproof, but Su Malagu never expected that this emperor, who had been playing hide and seek around him, this reasonable, hearty and amiable young man, was so suspicious that he couldn't help but shudder. He smiled reluctantly: "Xiao Weizi is just a third-class shrimp, and I am afraid that I can't hold it down......."

"What's so hard about that!" Kangxi said coldly, "I will issue an edict tomorrow and promote him to a first-class guard!" ”