The next day, Tang'er took the watch into the palace and handed it over to the queen, she was the one who went in two days to ask the queen mother and the queen to say goodbye. Fu Heng is now the hottest No. 1 believer of the Son of Heaven, she naturally rises to the top, and she is almost speechless, and the guards and eunuchs of the Zuoye Gate bow down with a smile and let her go. All the way in, when I met all the people, I avoided saluting, and Tang'er was proud. Outside the gate of Longzong, Jin saw that there were more and more officials in the court, and there were still a few princes standing outside the door, discussing something in private. When Tang'er lowered her head and walked through the crowd, she felt the eyes around her watching her, and her heart was pounding, until she entered the West Inner Lane of the Heart Cultivation Palace, she breathed a sigh of relief, and fine sweat broke out on the tip of her nose.

"It's Tang'er here!" When the queen saw Tang'er come in to salute, she glanced at the bell and asked in surprise: "It's just this hour, you never came in at this time, is there anything important?" And he gave his seat as he spoke. Lai Nizi is now the queen's maid and the palace man, dressed brightly, seeing that the benefactor housewife is coming, she hurriedly moved the porcelain pier, brushed and whisked with her sleeves, and when Tang'er sat down, she bowed down like a candle. Tang'er said happily in her heart: "You have a different identity now, don't give me this big gift...... Like you, I'm also a slave of my mother...... It's not easy for you to come in, it's also your creation, you can serve Niangniang, your great creation is still to come! Whatever you lack, just go and see me. The mother is weak, don't bother her. The queen remembered that she was sad in the past, and she felt sad when she saw this scene, so she said: "She has changed her name to Lai Niang, you see that she has changed her makeup, and even her voice has changed!" ”

Lai Niang hurriedly wiped away her tears and smiled, and said: "Sixth grandmother, rest assured, I am really satisfied with what I can't dream of now." Niangniang is Guanyin Bodhisattva, you recommended me to be a maid holding a bottle. This great favor can't be repaid in this life, one life after another, I always have to repay this love! After I entered the palace, the Wei family also said evil things, saying that the Mai Bird did not occupy the plum branch to the end, and asked me to go back and apologize. I pushed it back. said that the mother has been safe, you should cut your tongue and gouge out your eyes! They mean that I will leave the palace sooner or later, and I said that I don't want your idea of 'family business' when I leave the palace. Such a good master, I am tired and tired to wait willingly, the master will return to the West and become a Buddha in a hundred years, and I will also learn from the wonderful fragrance of the Empress Dowager [1]

, followed the master to serve the lotus driver! Generously, tears welled up in her eyes. Tang'er said: "What is the Wei family? Old eagle! "They look down on people," Lai Niang said with a smile, "I didn't expect me to be able to get to the master." Tang'er smiled and said to Fucha's: "Niangniang's complexion is really getting stronger day by day." It turned out that there was still a little blue on the forehead and temples, but now I can't see it at all, and my body is a little fatter, why is it that a serious illness has passed, and even the minor illness in the past is gone? ”

"I don't understand that either." Fucha swept his temples, and really looked radiant, and chattered and said: "In the twelfth year of Yongzheng, I was still in the Lama Palace as a blessing, Jia Shifang pushed me to make a life, saying that in another nine years I will have a catastrophe, what kind of glowing star is too old, and he will not return, if there is no nobleman to help, that is, to the place of death, and what do you say that although the bridge is short, it is sad to be alone." Later, I asked Yin Jishan to take my eight characters to see the hundred-year-old abbot of Lingyin Temple, and what he said was similar to what he said before, and said that only good things can make good fate, so that I can release my life every year, fasting every month, chanting scriptures every day, and sure enough, a Ji Yun appeared, and I crossed this single-plank bridge! The emperor gave me amnesty again, my heart is relaxed, just eat, but it's okay! ”

Tang'er saw that Niangniang was happy to talk for a while, so she took out the bag of pocket watches from her sleeves, explained the reason to Fucha's play, handed the bag to Lai Niang, and said: "Kang'er, this evil obstacle is not sensible, I broke a piece of watch, and I also handed it back, and it was good to change it for a piece of glass." Lai Niang took it and untied the bag, only to see that the gold and silver were dazzling, and she hurriedly held it to the queen's side, and said with a smile: "I heard the slave's mother say that she has seen this object, but this is the first time the slave has seen it!" It's so exquisite, it's really a love thing! ”

"It's the first time you've paid something to me." The queen looked at it and pushed it aside, "The sixth is the Minister of Military Aircraft, just ask him to hand over the fourth value treasury of the Internal Affairs Office." Tang'er saw that her sister was happy, and said: "He is careful, and he wants to hand it over to the Internal Affairs Office, which is too dazzling, for fear that someone will say that 'the sixth master has received so many treasures at once', and it may become a rumor when it spreads outside!" I want one of these thirteen watches, and he won't give it to me! Think about it or hand it over to your sister, you want to reward people, you want to keep it, it's all counted in the big officials. Fucha said that he was thirsty, and as soon as he turned his arm, Lai Niang hurriedly took two steps forward, poured the residual tea, poured another cup from the silver bottle, and held it with both hands, and said: "This is just brewed, and it is just the right amount of warmth." The master's spleen and stomach are weak, the weather is hot, and the warm tea is not good, how much mixed with wolfberry and jujube juice can raise the stomach...... "She took a sip before holding it to the queen, and then changed the tea for Tang'er."

The queen took a sip for a moment before swallowing, and said, "It's hard for you." If you are so willing to wait in front of me, you will be by my side for a long time in the future, the same monthly routine as Caiyun and Mocui. Tang'er hurriedly congratulated: "This is another step up, you can prevent others from having red eyes!" The queen said: "Since Tang'er likes this thing, choose a piece yourself, and I will reward you." Lai Niang picked out the broken Mengzi, a dedicated watch repairer in the four-value library, and you can make a piece of glass - Caiyun and Mocui also have them, not as small as this, and it can be regarded as flat. "Xide Tang'er and Lai Niangfu knelt on the ground to thank them. The queen said: "I have never been rare with these, and the emperor is not rare, in fact, they are all gold-plated, silver-plated, and iron!" How much is it worth? It's just that the workmanship is excellent, and Long Live Lord is also approveful. He said that China has a vast land and resources, and everything is ready, and we can't expect anything from foreigners. Except for clocks and watches, there is nothing desirable in foreign goods. I said there was also cinchona! Long live the Lord laughed out loud. "She's a very little funny, easy and unsmiling, and she's in a very good spirit, which is really rare. Seeing that she liked it, Tang'er and Lainiang also smiled boldly, and the palace maids on duty inside and outside the gauze drawer also smiled. Just as she was happy, the noble concubine Nala stepped on the "bottom of the flower pot", came in with her waist swinging, and squatted down to salute the queen, got up and said with a smile: "Niangniang is happy today!" The more you look at it, the better! ”

"Greetings to your lord!" When Tang'er saw her come in, she had already stood up, and saluted again: "Your lord is so good-looking, she looks ten years younger, and she inserts this flower, which is fresh and bright, just like the painting painted by Qiu Shizhou!" Before he finished speaking, he saw Qianlong gently shaking the bamboo fan and stepping in, so he closed his mouth. The eunuchs and palace maids inside and outside, and the Nala clan all knelt down when they saw him come in. Tang'er also knelt down, and only the queen stood up.

Qianlong casually glanced around at everyone, and avoided Tang'er's gaze as soon as he touched it. casually sat down and said with a smile: "I was so happy that I didn't say anything when I came - who sent this?" He asked, pointing to the bag of pocket watches. The queen relayed Tang'er's words, and said with a smile: "I rewarded Tang'er with a piece, and Lai Niang." Since the Nala clan is here, it is natural that they will also be rewarded. Nala's didn't want to make an example with Tang'er and Lai Niang, and said with a smile: "The master forgot, last time in Cining Palace, Lafayette rewarded one big and one small two pieces!" Qianlong said: "Lafayette is Lafayette, and Niangniang is Niangniang." The queen has spoken, can she take it back! Nala blushed and said, "It's the slave who wants to be left." Then he hurriedly received the thanks.

"Get up, all of you." Qianlong looked very relaxed, waved his fan lightly, and said: "The more the queen's body looks, the better she sees, I am going to go to Chengde, so I specially came to ask if you want to go." If you want to go, you can leave on a day in three or five days, and you have to ask Qin Meimei and them to prepare their bags. As he spoke, he sipped tea. The queen said, "Somehow, this year I want to go. I also want to ask for the emperor's grace, can it be delayed for a few days? June 19 is Guanyin Christmas, you know that I made a big wish, to save a life, release 3,000 souls, Guangji Temple has been prepared, the life-saving thing has not been requested, I don't know who to save, but also ask the emperor to help me. After this thing is done, I have no worries to go to Chengde, because I have also prepared some self-reflection, and I want to build a lama temple in the Chengde summer resort, and I will not go to look unreverent. ”

Qianlong was already laughing when he heard "I don't know who to save", and at this time he laughed even more, and said: "You and the Queen Mother Lafayette must have discussed it!" Nala, is that what the Queen Mother said? Kill Lu Zhuo tomorrow, can you save him? Several women have known about this case for a long time, and the queen and Tang'er have also seen Lu Zhuo, and when they heard Qianlong's words, they all trembled from the bottom of their hearts. The queen was silent for a long time and said: "I didn't think about saving Lu Zhuo, it was a major event related to the country's prosperity, and women can't ask about it." I thought that the prisoner who was executed this autumn must have a poor and uncivilized person who had no choice but to commit a crime, or a person who committed a crime to avenge his relatives, I will intercede, and the emperor will not be hooked, and I will save him. Qianlong was moved in his heart when he heard this, and said: "These two kinds of people actually have no intention of killing, but only the law of the country is ruthless. I have always been hesitant to write them. You have a merciful heart, and of course the union must be fulfilled. However, I still hand over a Lu Zhuo to you to save. As he spoke, he had already thought about it, and immediately gave the Fucha clan a favor, "Lu Zhuo has committed a capital crime, and he is also forgivable, you come to save him." At the beginning of tomorrow afternoon, he will go to the Dharma field, you will go to the Qianqing Palace, and say it in public! ”

"Shangqianqing Palace?" The queen was taken aback, then a little excited, her eyes flowed and dimmed, and she shook her head and said, "...... I don't dare...... It's not the same as what is sung in the script and what is said in the drum lyrics...... You are a holy monarch, and he should be killed, what should I say......" Qianlong smiled and said: "I came to teach you, their ministers are all your minions." When you enter the temple, they all have to kneel down honestly, what are you afraid of them? The Holy Monarch also has to be virtuous! You just say that Lu Zhuo can control water and build a weir, but others can't, water control can prevent water, and repairing a weir can irrigate the fields. The Yellow River has been tossed for several years, and there has been a drought in the world on average every four years since history, saving Lu Zhuo is not only for Lu Zhuo, but also for saving the people who suffer from floods and droughts. The queen was excited, glanced at her husband affectionately, and said, "The concubine naturally obeys the order." But after all, this has the flavor of interfering in politics, and I don't want people in the world to say that the emperor listens to the words of women and pardons sinners. In this way, I simply told the queen mother, her old man ordered to keep people under the knife, and I went to the Qianqing Palace to intercede, and it was clear that the emperor had done his filial piety. It seems better that way. ”

Qianlong smiled: "It's up to you!" - Since I have this wish, I will postpone it until after June 20. This time, let's go to the autumn with the queen mother. July, August, and back in September. He said to Tang'er again: "If your relatives are gone, Fu Heng wants to stay in Beijing, so you won't be so cheap." Somehow, Tang'er felt a smell of vinegar in her heart, and said: "The slave heard what the man said, and she will go to Chengde every year after that." Slaves and maids are people who don't think about things, there is a big imperial garden in the west of Changchun Garden, and there are many roe deer, roe deer, deer, elk, tigers, leopards, wolves, and bears in it, why go to those places in Mulan Chengde? Let's talk about the heat, the garden is not too hot, and the royal palace is still hot? And why should you run far away and be tired of the sedan chair? ”

Qianlong suppressed his smile, slowly got up and paced, and said: "What you said is not bad, today I have taken a notebook, which was written by the Imperial History Congdong of the Supervision of the Imperial Procuratorate of the Imperial Procuratorate, and it is the same as what you said, and I also gave a link to 'hunting entertainment', I have issued an order, saying that he is a woman's opinion, short-sighted, and has been refuted." "Tang'er and Nala were stunned when they heard it, Qiu Qiu hunting, not for fun, why? Tang Er saw that Qianlong was not unhappy, and said with a smile: "Fu Heng also often says, 'A woman's view'. I'm a woman, so it's not a big mistake. But there are many men in the world who have this woman's opinion, so you have to make a sense! So the hole is touching the mold again. Qianlong smiled and said: "He is a speech official, how can I be punished for his words?" refutes him, and it is precisely to let the ministers and the whole world know the truth of this autumn. He took out his pocket watch and looked at it, and said, "It has been nearly a hundred years since the founding of the Qing Dynasty. The days of peace have been long, the Eight Banners and flags are deserted, the generals are afraid of leading soldiers, and the soldiers are afraid of the sound of artillery, and they have all become old soldiers! The defeat in the battle of Jinchuan also had something to do with the lack of courage of the soldiers. The Manchurians entered the pass with less than 130,000 soldiers, and Li Zicheng lost his armor with 1 million iron cavalry; The Holy Grandfather leveled the three feudal domains, the eleven provinces opposed the imperial court, and the black water flowed against the waves all over the world, and it was peaceful in a few years. In the hands of the first emperor and me, one changed the land and returned to the stream, and the other was a big and small Jinchuan, and I lost four or five generals! Therefore, Qiu Qiu was just borrowing the field hunt to talk about martial arts, and transferred troops from all over the country to practice the style. Don't get the emperor to be powerless, the three armies will not be able to march in battle, and if there is a mess, it will be too late when the sedan chair is now entangled in the sedan chair. There are no saints below three generations who don't pay attention to field hunting. If you don't read history, how do you know this layer? The queen never said that. There is also a case, to the autumn outside the Guan, the Mongolian princes naturally also come to the Hajj, so that everyone can meet, and the central government and the feudal relations will not be unfamiliar. That's why autumn hunting is going to take place every year. You women also know that if you don't come to the door for three years, you can't kiss or kiss! That's what you just said, if you play, I'm in the palace, can't I play with new tricks? Tang'er suddenly remembered that Qianlong had also said "fresh tricks" with Qianlong, and couldn't help blushing, wanting to spit, but didn't dare.

The second day was the day of execution, and Lu Zhuo ate a full meal of the death banquet alone, and then was kidnapped by the ox cart of the Criminal Department to the entrance of the Western Vegetable Market. When the weather is hot, there are very few people in the middle of summer, and Lu Zhuo is a famous feudal official, who immediately caused a sensation in the city of Beijing, and people from all over the world flocked to him, and surrounded the law field in an airtight air before the hour. Because the secret of pardoning Lu Zhuo was not leaked, Liu Tongxun, the supervisor and beheader, handled it very seriously, personally arranged for the officials of Shuntian Mansion to maintain the law field, and designated the location of the family members to collect the corpses. Because Lu Zhuo made a lot of friends in the officialdom, he built a shed with a special reed mat, and people set up wine memorials at will...... Busy with your feet on the ground.

One day, it was reported that "Lu Zhuo has arrived", and the atmosphere immediately became tense. Liu Tongxun was greeting a few ministers in the shed, and rushed out without saying a word, only to see dozens of officials holding hands to open the way for the torture car, squeezing forward and backward, and then ordered his follower Goshha: "Give me a whip to whip me!" It took a lot of effort to bring Lu Zhuo to the execution pile. The noisy crowd immediately stopped the commotion. In the sporadic coughing sound in the field, Liu Tongxun walked up to Lu Zhuo with steps, waved at Lu Zhuo, who was silent, and said:

"Lu Gong, I'm here to see you off."

"It's Yanqing, I understand."

"It doesn't hurt, does it?"

"Nope."

"It's the will, and I can't help it."

"I understand, I understand."

"What else do you have to say?"

"Nope."

Liu Tongxun waved again and said: "It's still early, and there are still a lot of you in the tent to see you off, please go over first." Stay for a while, Tongxun also has a glass of water and wine to give him - untie him! - Do you want to help? Seeing Lu Zhuo shaking his head, he waved his hand and ordered someone to escort Lu Zhuo into the shed. He strode onto the prison platform, glanced around at the crowd that began to stir again, knocked the police hall wood in his hand with a "snap", and shouted: "Now announce the holy decree and the cause of Lu Zhuo's case." Those who commit fouls in the court will be arrested on the spot by Shuntianfu! In the silence, Liu Tongxun recited aloud:

The edict of the emperor of Fengtian said: I rule the world to the public, treat my subordinates with sincerity, but there are still people like Lu Zhuo among the ministers, who are despicable, greedy for ink and dance methods, take bribes of tens of thousands, and extort people's wealth to fill their pockets, and their thoughts are very hateful! Yizhi's sincerity can't be felt by everyone's ears, and I am ashamed and angry. The matter of the former Sahaliang and Khalqin is known to the world, but Lu Zhuo does not know Yin Jian, and blatantly violates the criminal law. He doesn't care about the people's livelihood and the people's livelihood, so why don't I care about the three-foot king? On the day of the decree, one of Lu Zhuoren's prisoners was tied up and taken to the execution ground, and the law was enacted, and Liu Tongxun supervised the execution. Chin this!

Then read the case again. At this time, thousands of heads were crowded, and there was a lot of disturbance, buzzing, and exclamation. Liu Tongxun barely finished reading, so he went down to the prison to cut the stage, but saw Dun Min and Dun Cheng coming in with wet braids, so he smiled and said, "When will you return to Beijing?" What's the point of killing Lu Zhuo, it's such a hot day, it's better to find that Qin will meet your poems. ”

"Lu Zhuo has always been a very popular official, and we also know each other, so we should come and take a look at this step. You're a man who treats murder as a daily meal, and you can laugh at it! One day I'll be on my turn, and you'll laugh too? Duncheng and Liu Tongxun are very familiar, and they even said with a smile, "-I also told you that you are right, my brother and I are just going to see Xueqin, and we have just come back from Shanhaiguan." Liu Tongxun said as he walked: "The hour has come, hand Lu Zhuo a glass of wine-" Before he finished speaking, he heard the sound of cannons, and a Goshha chased after him and said: "The time has come, please give an order!" Liu Tongxun said: "Wait, it's not too late to three o'clock - I looked at your book "Dream of Red Mansions" and dozed off, and the "Jigong Biography" I bought in the workshop is still a little interesting." The emperor is asking Ji Yun to collect books, you see, it's better to send it to Ji Yun first. You boast that the words in "Dream of Red Mansions" are well written, and I don't see it surprising when I look at it like a wind and snow. The Dun brothers all grinned, and when they saw that they were approaching the edge of the shed, they all stopped.

Before the three of them entered the shed, the crowd suddenly surged like a tidal wave, and Huang Tianba, who was guarding the prison and cutting the platform, trotted up to catch up, his voice trembled with excitement, and he said hurriedly: "Lord Yanqing!" Gonggong Cai of the inner court is here-" I saw a eunuch with a sweaty face, and shouted loudly: "The queen mother has a decree, and the mother has a decree!" Order Liu Tongxun to keep people under the knife! Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, there have been countless killings here, and there are also orders to keep people under the knife when they are about to be executed, but it is still unheard of from the order of the Queen Mother and Niang Niangyi, and even Lu Zhuo, who was eating a toast in the shed, was stunned on the ground, and the cup in his hand fell to the ground.

People suddenly seemed to be drunk, and they were all red with excitement, as if they were afraid that Liu Tongxun would not hear it, and shouted: "Keep people under the knife!" Keep people under the knife! Some shouted: "Long live the emperor, long live!" Some called: "Queen Mother, Niang Niang Chitose, Chitose!" Some said, "Amitabha! Some secretly recited "Nan Wu Guanyin Bodhisattva"...... Like boiling water, it resounded. Some people folded their hands, some knelt on their knees, and shouted holy songs with their voices raised. Liu Tongxun also became dizzy. After asking the eunuch for Ci'an, he came to his senses and said: "Father-in-law, please go back, the Empress Dowager Lafayette, the master Niangniang, Tongxun respectfully obeys Yi's will!" Tongxun is on standby on the spot and waits for the orders of the imperial court! He also ordered someone to inform Lu Zhuo that he would no longer enter the shed, but stood by himself under the big locust tree outside the shed. Dun Min and Dun Cheng are both very lively and restless people, squeezing inside and out, looking at the direction of the Forbidden City for a while, looking at Liu Tongxun for a while, hearing that Lu Zhuo fainted, and squeezed into the shed - at this time, there were more and more officials in the shed, crowded the tables and chairs to the ground, the smell of wine and meat and the smell of stinky sweat were mixed together, and I saw that at this time the East Street had cleared out of the personal alley, and even the Nine Commander's Yamen was empty, and the Imperial Forest Army personally maintained order. Suddenly, there was another uproar, a team of fast horses galloped over from afar, Fu Heng was under the guardian of the Yangxin Palace, until he came to the front of the prison platform, Fu Heng calmly dismounted, stood in the south, and said slowly: "There is a will, Liu Tongxun kneels and listens!" ”

"Minion Liu Tongxun!" Liu Tongxun hurriedly shook his slightly looped legs over, and quickly knelt down with the horse's hooves sleeves, "-Listen to the holy oracle!" Fu Heng glanced at him with a smile and said: "The emperor said that the queen mother is in accordance with the decree of the Queen Mother at the fourth moment of today's Chen Pai, and the Holy Decree of the Qing Palace: Although Lu Zhuo's sin is not tolerated by national law, when he was in office, he mostly operated water conservancy, and it is still a useful material to control water and build weirs. The queen is willing to personally protect Lu Zhuo from his sentence, hoping that he will be guilty of meritorious service in the future. I think of the words of the queen, but also fist in the Li Yuan sentient beings, I rule the world with filial piety, especially do not want to brush the queen mother's holy virtue and benevolence, because of the use of amnesty, exempted Lu Zhuo from the death penalty, sent back to Dali Temple to be imprisoned, to wait for the posterity. However, national law has its own precedents, and pervasiveness cannot be broken. I would like to warn the ministers and the people that they will never be an example. Lu Zhuo himself should also feel ashamed and repentant, change his mind, and live up to his extrajudicial kindness! Chin this! Liu Tongxun immediately kowtowed and shouted: "Long live, long live!" - The minions immediately did as they were told! At this time, the family members of the Lu family who came to collect the corpse had already lit 10,000 firecrackers. In the sound of firecrackers, the paper man and paper horse spirit banner brought by it were burned, and it became more and more lively. Liu Tongxun knew that there were still words to admonish Lu Zhuo, so he led someone to hug Fu Heng into the shed. The officials in the shed had already happily withdrawn from the outside and stood with their hands down, watching them enter.

Lu Zhuo's lawsuit was raging for more than a year, and the turbulent waves were repeated several times, and finally ended up like this. Dun Min and Dun Cheng seemed surprised, but they didn't feel very surprised. The people dispersed, and the two brothers continued to go out of Beijing, immediately still talking and laughing. Duncheng's eyes were sharp, and he pointed at the door of Xizhi with a whip and said: "Second brother, that woman, how can the back look like the jade of the original Zhang butcher's family, Le Min has been looking for her!" Duncheng looked at it, and sure enough, it looked like it. So the two of them whipped together, and in an instant they rushed to Xizhimen and dismounted, and saw that the woman was still carrying a dozing child on her back, so Duncheng had the courage to shout: "Yu'er! ”

"It's the second master of the Dun family!" Yu'er was looking at something, and when she turned around, she saw that it was Dun Min and Dun Cheng, avoiding the eyes of the two, and said embarrassedly: "Do you also come to see the excitement?" ”

Dun Min looked at her, frowned, and let out a sigh of relief before asking:

"Is this your son? What is his last name? ”

"Also surnamed Zhang...... It's called Boa. ”

"Where's your father?"

"I died last year......"

"What do you do as a man?" Duncheng asked, "Are you still living?" ”

"The ...... who farms" Yu'er somehow had red eyes, her toes touched the ground, and she didn't look at the two, "Others are still sincere, guarding more than a dozen acres of land, and they will pass by." It's just that the mother-in-law has a bad temper...... It's all fate......"

The three of them were speechless for a while, and they didn't know what to say. Dun Min asked again: "Where did you move, last time I talked about your pork liver at Xueqin's place, and Le Min came back and asked, we don't know." Yu'er's face was so white that there was no blood, she lowered her head, and said reluctantly: "We moved to Zhangjiawan, and we don't want to enter the city easily...... This is to grab the medicine, and the child's grandmother is also about to ......" Duncheng said: "It's not that I blame your father, he has a problem with reading - it's useless to say this, tell you, Lemin is now in a lawsuit!" Yu'er raised her head suddenly, there were already fine lines of fish scales on the corners of her forehead and eyes, and for a moment, she could still vaguely see the graceful demeanor of the past, and asked, "He-is the lawsuit important?" Where is it now? Dun Min said angrily: "Why are you scaring her? - It doesn't matter, he is there in Qiandu, Yunnan, and he will return to Beijing in a while. His lawsuit is sure to win, don't worry! ”

"Look, you're having a hard time." Duncheng looked at her neatly mended gown, and sighed, "This little money can buy some food for the child!" It's really difficult, so I'll ask your man to come into the city and come to my house, so that we can all get along. We have always regarded you as big, big in our hearts - sister! As she spoke, she took out three taels of silver and stuffed it into her hand, and saw a tall thin man in the distance with a hitchhiker on his shoulders and a medicine bag in his hand. Neither of them spoke again along the way.

Cao Xueqin's new home is in Baijiatuan, and it is very lively here today. Not only are there terata wat suo, but also Yan Zhai, Dun Min and Dun Cheng dismounted at the door, and as soon as they entered the courtyard, they heard Liu Xiaolin telling stories loudly. Fang Qing was cooking under the kitchen, and when she saw her youngest son lying on the window of the east wing, she shouted: "East Fence! Your brother is studying in it, and you go play under the big elm tree—don't bother with it! Seeing them in a blink of an eye, he hurriedly patted his apron and came out and shouted to the upper house: "Qinpu! The second and third masters are here! - Sit inside, I'll make you food. Dun Min smiled: "The more my sister-in-law's fried dishes smell now, the more fragrant they become." Duncheng said: "Last time I read the poem, the poem was also written very well, the people who followed Cao Xueqin!" With that, Cao Xueqin had already come out. He was reconciled by Dunmin and Duncheng, and re-entered the sect as a teacher. It turned out that the long-term officials who couldn't get along with him have been transferred to other places to become officials and make a fortune. The personnel department is good, and there are rated monthly items, and Fu Heng's Mansion, Prince Yi's Mansion, and Zhuang's Mansion also often have a small response. Moved to the yard sent by the Dun family, the housing is much better, and the mood is naturally relaxed. Dun Cheng saw that his shaved head was shaved blue, wearing a moon-white cloth robe and half-old mille-feuille shoes, which made Yuanting Yuezhi even more radiant, and couldn't help but applaud: "Shave off your beard, and then be thinner, white spots, you can compare with Pan Yue!" As he spoke, a group of people rushed up, laughing and drinking. Duncheng avoided the wine and said: "Mr. Liu continued to tell your story, we are all empty stomachs, and we have to pad the food - we can't admit punishment after all?" ”

"I'm talking to them about Lin Siniang. You are too late, so I have to briefly describe what has come before. Liu Xiaolin sat cross-legged by the window on the kang, holding the cup in one hand and the windowsill in the other, and said slowly: "It's about the second year of Kangxi, when Chen Luya, a Fujianese, was appointed to Qingzhou Daotai. At that time, just after the war, the government office was barren, and the wild garcinia cambogia was full of courtyards. One day sitting alone and drinking until dusk, suddenly came a gorgeous palace woman, brute hair and red clothes, embroidered arms and phoenixes, and wearing double swords at the waist. Chen thought she was a swordsman, so he asked to sit down, and the woman introduced herself, her name was Lin Siniang. It is the palace concubine of Qingzhou Hengwang, unfortunately died early, buried in the palace, this Taoist Yamen is the original site. Within a few years, the country was shattered, and the royal palace was reduced to rubble. The night platform is lonely, the wind is bleak and the moon is cold, and Mu Chen Gongfeng Yate comes to accompany him. Green Cliff carefully checked that she had no malicious intentions, and she talked well, so she said some wind words during the banquet, and pulled her sleeves and brushed her hands, Siniang did not resist very much, so one person and one ghost were fine. Suddenly, one day, Siniang had a sad parting color, and said: "The concubine and the king have ended, and this is going to Zhongnan Mountain, and I will say goodbye. After saying that, he was dying. When Duncheng saw him eating wine, he thought that the good thing was still to come, so he didn't listen to him for a long time, so he asked, "Is it gone?" Liu Xiaolin said with a smile: "Lin Siniang has been 'dying', where is the story?" ”

Everyone couldn't help laughing, Dun Min was honest, and also said: "This is an ordinary ghost fox story." Not surprising at all. One of our family's clothed servants made a fortune selling porcelain in Hangzhou, brought a few hundred taels of silver into Beijing to operate, lived in the red orchard, and also met a woman who came at night, came late and went early. This bag is bold and lustful, and he holds a wine banquet for her all day long. One day the woman said, 'Our fate is over.' I am the fox fairy of this plot, and now my family is about to move away......' The two cried, and the fox fairy disappeared in Artemisia - the silver is gone, and the people are gone, come to beg our old lady. The old lady rewarded him with two ingots, he went to the money number to exchange money, and when he entered the door, he bumped into the woman, and she also came to exchange money! Everyone couldn't help laughing when they heard this, and Tera Wat Suo laughed and coughed, and said: "Master Min is stuffy, and he can make trouble!" Don't Chen Luya have no money, right? ”

"Blasphemy!" Liu Xiaolin waved his hand again and again in laughter, "I haven't finished talking yet!" I'll recite a poem by Lin Siniang for you! When they heard him say this, they immediately fell silent and listened to him sing:

Jingsuo Shengong recalls the past years, and the floor is full of smoke.

It is difficult to be embarrassed by the weak face of the red face, and the black sea is sad and only learns Zen.

Read the lotus thousands and read two or three articles.

The pear garden sang the song of Shengping, and you were stunned when you tried it.

This time, no one could laugh, and Yan Zhai smiled: "It was you last time, it was really a failure, so good, another ghostly mourning poem - I don't dare to ask you again next time!" ”

Cao Xueqin saw Fang Qing serving the food, and hurriedly took the table to change the plate, and said with a smile: "This song of seven laws is very important." Yan Zhai is also yes, how can you say that you are defeated? I'm going to write this story in a book! was prosperous back then and now Suomo, is Siniang wrong? Duncheng said the matter of today's amnesty for Lu Zhuo, and said: "You didn't see that people, they were all crazy and drunk, and they were there shouting holy songs. Now we not only have a good emperor, but also a good queen mother and a good mother. I'm only a little strange, Niangniang lives in the deep palace and doesn't ask about government affairs, why did she suddenly think of saving Lu Zhuo! ”

"What is going on in the curtain of the deep palace, how can outsiders know?" Fat Yan Zhai whiskered, invited everyone to clink glasses, and said: "It is true to say that it is prosperous today. I came from Nanjing, and Jishan Gong took me to see the Jinling Academy he built, which was really majestic, and Songyang and Yuelu were less than half the size of it! I said, 'Jishan Gong is really a meritorious person', Jishan only smiled, and took me to see the palace for Qianlong Ye Xiu - there was more than one hectare of land, and I hadn't finished half of it after walking for two hours. The silver was really the same as mud and sand, and Jishan said, "Now there is really money, not only the government is rich, but the people are also rich. I don't shave from the people, and I don't get into myself, so I'm not afraid of tossing! What he said is true, the north is still poor, the south of the Yangtze River is really rich, a few big monasteries into the incense people crowded into piles, a little slower to give, money can't be stuffed into the merit box! The monks are also purple clothes and satin shoes, and the big lama refuses to pay attention to people, I want to come up with a couplet to ridicule them, but I can't think of it! ”

"So to say - ask the monk why he is so big, and he looks up and doesn't pay attention to people? Answer: The layman is only full of money boxes, and sitting on the ground can turn fate! - Can it be done? Xue Qin poured wine and said: "I can also feel in Beijing that now it is really a prosperous world of cooking oil and flowers in brocade." Our generation is catching up. But what about the next generation? The prosperity is extremely difficult to continue, and from prosperity to decline, I am afraid that it may not be happy. After Wenjing's reign, it was Wang Mang's rebellion, and after Zhenguan Kaiyuan, it was Tianbao's rebellion - I would rather this extremely prosperous world be a little later, maybe there will be less sadness in the future! Besides, those emperors and heroes will make great achievements, all camp and compete there, and a few pay attention to the dark weeping sound in the streets and alleys, such as it is now a summer day, green shade the sky, grass paving the ground, how many days are there before the fallen leaves wither? Lu Zhuo was rescued, Ah Gui and Le Min are still fighting in the ring, no matter who wins or loses, there will always be defeat and bad luck. is the so-called coaxing you to sing and stop me from appearing, and I think that another country is my hometown! ”

His words made everyone's hearts awe-inspiring, and they all meditated on wine. Duncheng said about meeting Yu'er, and said: "Personnel and the world are impermanent, and Xueqin is not badly informed." It's hard to make sense about Yu'er and Le Min. What point of Le Min is not worthy of Yu'er? That bad old man won't want to! Dun Min smiled: "Tomorrow the sky will fall, and I will eat prawns today!" Brother Xueqin still wrote "Dream of Red Mansions" quickly, which is serious. Fu Liuye can't care about studying now, and he is still thinking about it. The day before yesterday, he said that Ji Yun wanted to revise the "Siku Quanshu" and also look for talents, and asked me if Xueqin was okay? I said that it can't be done, Xueqin is a little more comfortable now, and she is just writing a book, so that he can make a pile of old papers? Everyone talked and laughed until it was dark, and then they quit.

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Miao Xiang: The maid of the Yongzheng Emperor's mother, Concubine De.