Prince Yinren was having breakfast with the Korean envoy Li Zhongyu at the moment. After breakfast, he spoke for a while, and it was almost dawn. Yinren returned to Yunsongxuan, sat down and approved the music for a while, feeling stuffy, hot and lonely, so he took the steward eunuch He Zhuer and took the fishing rod to the sea to fish under the weeping willows. He is thirty-three years old Chinese New Year's Eve, the year he was born coincided with Wu Sangui's rebellion. According to the ancestral family law of the Qing Dynasty, there was no prince, but in order to set the hearts of the people and consolidate the country, Kangxi made a decisive decision to make him the prince. His mother, Empress Hesheri, had a childhood sweetheart with the young Kangxi Emperor, and she was the niece of the noble minister Suo Etu, presiding over the six palaces in an orderly manner. Later, the third prince of Zhu rebelled in the palace, and the escort of the Hesheri clan was frightened and died in childbirth. With these antecedents, Kangxi has always regarded Yinren as the pearl in his palm. The prince was born benevolent and amiable, and he also worked very hard in reading and practicing martial arts, and he has always been very loved by Kangxi. But by the time he was thirty years old, something happened to Suoetu. This minister, who had helped Kangxi clear the power of the traitorous worship, actually teamed up with Geng E, the secretary of the Ministry of War, to plot against him, and wanted to take advantage of Kangxi's absence in Beijing to imprison Kangxi on the way, and then come to "Lingwu ascend the throne" and help Yinren ascend to the pole, but he was noticed by the shrewd Kangxi, and immediately issued an edict to execute Geng and ban Suo Etu. Although Yinren was not punished for this, he didn't even say a word of seriousness. The eldest son of the emperor, Yinren, who has always had a grudge against Yinren, as well as the self-contained eighth son Yinren, the ninth son of the emperor, and the tenth son of the emperor, are all dragons among people, the most delicate, they have already seen that there is a guard between Kangxi and Yinren, and they all have their own calculations and want to seek the position of the prince. Yinren is not stupid, he has long been aware, but even if he is in this position, it is not easy to deal with these brothers blatantly.

Yinren casually looked at the fish drifters on the water. The fish stocked in the water are very easy to catch, and he caught more than ten of them in a while, but he doesn't kill, and every time he catches one, he lets He Zhu'er change the bait, and after enjoying the game, he still puts it in the water. Just as he was out of his mind, he heard He Zhu'er shouting: "Prince! It's overcast, and there will be heavy rain immediately, let's go back! ”

"Really?" When Yinren looked up, sure enough, there was a large dark cloud floating in the sky, so he smiled and said: "Before the sun is covered, there is rain!" What are you babbling about, you! He Zhu'er said: "The rain of this summer is coming, and gonorrhea is the responsibility of the slaves......"

Before he could finish speaking, a gust of wind blew with a fishy smell, and the sound of rain was approaching, and soon patches of rain bubbles appeared on the water. Yinren was so panicked that he dropped the fishing rod, hugged his head and ran, shouting as he ran: "He Zhu'er, there is a fish on the fishing rod, you let it go, go back to Yun Songxuan to get me an oil coat, I'll go over there to hide from the rain, you come back when the rain is lighter!" ”

Yinren looked left and right, there were no houses and pavilions to shelter from the rain, so he went into a rockery stone cave on the shore of the lake. Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the hole, he stepped on a man's foot. Listening to the coquettish cry of "ouch", the man laughed and scolded:

"Chunhong, you little prodigal hoof! Death doesn't pick a good place! What are you busy with, have you thrown a knife and a stone outside? Look how painful it hurts to step on my foot—ah! It's the Prince! ”

"Well," Yinren said with a smile, "It's me, and I don't choose a good place for 'death', do I?" The girl's face was crimson, and she bowed her head and said, "Slave Zheng Chunhua, I scolded the master by mistake, please punish the master!" Yinren was peaceful, only smiled, and said: "Those who don't know are not guilty!" You're scolding Chunhong, what does it have to do with me? Get up! As he spoke, he looked at it. Only then did I see that Zheng Chunhua was only eighteen or nineteen years old, with a long figure, wearing a homely light green skirt, a water-red armor on his head, a green onion and yellow sweat scarf, with shyness on his cheeks, and his eyes were drous. Yinren couldn't help but be stunned.

Zheng Chunhua straightened up. Seeing the prince looking at himself like this, he became more and more cramped and uneasy, and was about to go out after squatting for a thousand blessings, but was pulled by Yinren and said, "Don't go, it's raining outside!" "Zheng Chunhua is not leaving, not staying; Squatting is not, standing is not, leaning against the narrow stone wall, holding it all over the body.

"I remember, you staged "Fengyi Pavilion" in Changyin Pavilion and was Diao Chan!" Yinren suddenly remembered watching the play with his father during the Lantern Festival last year, and asked, "Which palace are you assigned to now!" How come I haven't seen you again? ”

Zheng Chunhua wiped his sweat lightly and said: "Back to the master, I was assigned to wait in front of Kong Sigege in March last year, and I lived in this garden. The prince lives in Yuqing Palace and does not come often...... Which card name are we counting...... How can the master ...... Remember? I don't know whether she was excited or ashamed, she panted slightly, and her speech trembled a little.

"You play the piano well." Yinren took a step closer to her, and a faint fragrance of virginity came over, and he was a little nervous, "Do you know how to play chess?" Calligraphy and painting must also be good? Zheng Chunhua hurriedly stepped back, but there was really no space in it. She peeked at the prince and muttered, "Qin was learned from my father at home." Chess is to look at the four grids and the emperor, and learn a little - we are slaves, how can we have the time to learn to write and draw......" said, moved his body, and his half-naked arm touched Yinren's waist, and immediately flashed away like an electric shock.

Yinren was already steaming at the moment, looked outside, there was a vast white rain, and there was no one, so he laughed and said: "You are hiding from me and peeking at me, why?" ”

“……”

"What do you think I'm doing around this waist? What's there to see here? Do you know what it is? ”

“……”

"Huh?" Yinren smiled in confusion and asked, "You...... Why don't you talk back? Your family didn't teach you before entering the palace, do you have to answer the master's questions? ”

Zheng Chunhua turned his back to his face, picked at the belt of his clothes, and muttered like a mosquito for a while: "Master...... Don't you say serious things......"

"You can't write or draw, how can you do this!" Yinren was emotionally moved to twelve points at the moment, took Zheng Chunhua in his arms, mouth-to-mouth, put his tongue into Zheng Chunhua's mouth and sucked, stirring, and said vaguely, "There are clouds and rain outside this time, I will teach you how to draw clouds and rain...... Catch up with Ming'er, I asked the fourth aunt for you...... Teach you all ......" as he spoke, he reached out to untie Zheng Chunhua's skirt and gently slid it down on her soft and soft belly.

Zheng Chunhua closed her eyes, her whole body was close to Yinren's body, touched by Yinren, and her clothes were covered by the hard top of her waist, she was soft, dazed, and drunk. I couldn't help but roll to the ground with Yinren in the stone cave......

"Prince! Prince! ”

Before the two of them entered the port, they heard He Zhu'er shouting in the rain outside, and they couldn't help but be stunned. Yinren still didn't let go, Zheng Chunhua pushed him away with both hands, and said shyly: "Go quickly!" Someone bumped into it...... What kind of system is it? Eat mooncakes on August 15 – as long as you ...... I can really get me going—and I can't do without you! As he spoke, He Zhu'er got closer and closer, muttering: "Strange thing! The girl also said that she saw the prince running here...... "Yinren had to get up, walked to the entrance of the cave with a little neat clothes, blocked the entrance of the cave with his body, and asked angrily: "What are you howling?" Didn't you say wait for the rain to light up and come back? Because he saw He Zhu'er visiting in a ghostly manner, he came out and put on an oil coat in the rain, stepped on his mud shoes, and walked back with He Zhu'er's shoulder.

"Look at the mud of the master!" He Zhu'er said with a smile as she walked, "I know that the master accidentally slipped and fell, I don't know...... I thought the minions wouldn't wait! The fourth master and the thirteenth master just came over from the Long Live Lord, saying that Li Dequan had passed on the will, urging the slaves to come out and send oil clothes to the master. ”

Yinren took a closer look at his body, the front placket was still clean, only a little messy, the back hem, sleeves, and braids were full of mud and moss, as if he was rolling in the hole, no wonder the slave was full of suspicion, so he covered it up: "The hole is leaking rain, so I have to dodge against the wall, but I don't want to get so dirty." Then, he returned to Yun Songxuan. Seeing that Yinzhen and Yinxiang were standing under the corridor, Yinren froze and said, "I'll go change my clothes and come out." ”

It took a long time for Yinren to change his clothes from the east study. Yinzhen and the two stood still in the south and said Kangxi's will. Yinren knelt down and knocked three times, saying "obey the order". When he stood up, the brothers greeted him, and asked for peace from Yinzhen and Yinxiang, and he didn't need to elaborate on the tea.

"It is not easy to clear up the deficit and arrears." Yinren took a sip of tea, watched the rain outside the courtyard gradually stop, and said for a long time: "Thirteenth brother, this messenger is going to offend people." In fact, the year before last, the emperor deliberately asked the old fourteenth to go to the household department to investigate, and the eighth and ninth went to the emperor to lobby, saying that the Gubeikou Eight Banners Banner Camp was in urgent need of rectification, and there had to be a prince in charge, and he changed the messenger. - How? Do you want me to play another copy and let you go on a long trip to Xining to escape? Yin Zhen smiled: "This family is not the eighth child, of course he is happy to be a good person!" Prince, we won't fight for you, this mess will not be easy to clean up in the future! ”

Yinxiang looked at the prince with flashing eyes and said, "The prince is sympathetic to me, what do I not know?" The fourth brother is right, we are all people under the same tree, and we can't watch the heart of the tree being eaten by insects. One must build on a firm foundation? I'll do it first, with you and the fourth brother sitting down, my heart is steady! With that, he held the bowl in his hand and smiled.

"His ambition is commendable!" Yinren thought about the words of the two of them, they were all loyal and unswerving to protect themselves, and couldn't help but cheer, exclaimed, and said: "In this case, you will go to the household department tomorrow." I asked my subordinates to hurry up 800 miles and transfer Shi Shilun in. Fourth, Zhu Tianbao and Chen Jiayou, who you recommended to Yuqing Palace to do business, although they are young, they are both very brave, and Master Wang Luo once praised me for your great eyesight! I think it would be better to ask the two of them to follow the thirteenth child, first, to have a helper, and second, to make it easier to contact our brother, you see? He was kind and pleasant, very gentle and considerate, and Yinxiang listened to it warmly. But Yinzhen knew that the prince and a few guards, ministers in the court, and a few cronies in the ministry had gathered together several times to eat wine, Zhu Tianbao and Chen Jiayou had spoken bitterly, and there was no shortage of mustard between the monarch and the minister, so he couldn't help frowning and said: "I heard that Zhu Tianbao is very stubborn, and the thirteenth brother is also violent, can he get along?" Yinren smiled and said: "Actually, I am very important to Tianbao, I want to promote him to be a long history, it is difficult to speak in front of Banzai without training!" ”

Yinxiang smiled: "The fourth brother is also too careful!" It's not that I don't know Zhu Tianbao and Chen Jiayou, and that Shi Shilun must also get along with me. The three of them are concentric, and their profits are gold, not to mention that there is the prince and you behind the back! ”

"That's it!" Yinren also said, "Among the brothers, I think the thirteenth and fourteenth brothers are real men and husbands!" Fourth, you are deep and practical, and your spirit is inferior! Yinren said and pursed his lips and smiled. Among the brothers, there are many people who covet the crown prince's position. He knew very well that although the eldest elder brother, the ninth elder brother, the tenth elder brother, and the fourteenth elder brother all had their own ambitions, they were probably the wings of the eighth elder brother. The third elder brother didn't hum or ha, but he was confident, and he devoted himself to his father's favor, and took a cadre to learn the history of Confucianism and compile books. Only these four elder brothers and thirteenth elder brothers, he is confident and has no ambitions, and his father has always only regarded them as complementary talents. So Yinren never doubted his loyalty to the two of them. He sent Zhu and Chen on an errand with Yinxiang, and he still wanted Yinxiang to do a good job, his face was bright, and he could also block the mouth of the eighth president muttering about the prince's "lack of courage".

Where did Yinxiang know that in a moment, the two elder brothers had turned so many thoughts. Yinren saw He Zhu'er take out a stack of folded books from the West House, so he said: "Put it here, I'll read it after talking to the fourth master and the thirteenth master." Watching He Zhu'er withdraw, he stroked the manuscript with his hand, and asked Yinzhen with a smile: "I heard that the eighth child went to see you last night?" ”

"The prince is so well-informed!" Yin Zhen smiled, "As soon as we returned to Beijing, we met the eighth child, what a clever person!" So he reported the situation of seeing Yinxi to the prince. Yinren listened attentively, and when Yinzhen finished speaking, he asked, "Do you think Fang Bao can be saved?" ”

"There were so many people at the time that I didn't think about it, so I had to answer like that." Yin Zhen leaned over and said, "I don't know what the situation in Beijing is, I don't know what the charter of this case is, it depends on the situation." "You have a point!" Yinren sighed and glanced at the paperwork. Seeing the top one, it is the book of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to select the female palace to enter the seal in accordance with the decree, and the first place on the top is "Zheng Chunhua", and I can't help but feel a sudden jump in my heart. After a while, he said incoherently, "Hmm...... This and this...... The emperor's side...... It seems that I regret that Dai Mingshi's case was handled heavily. The eighth is that I heard that the third child wants to protect Fang Bao, if you want to protect it, you have to take the lead. What if you don't insure...... Well, that's fine. To protect or not to protect, according to what you said, this and this...... I'll do it when I've thought about it. ”

Yinzhen and Yinxiang couldn't help but look at each other when they heard this. What does this mean? Although Yinren is cowardly, he has never been gentle and elegant, and he has never spoken incoherently like this. Just thinking about himself, Yinren spoke coherently again: "Fourth, don't let the eighth child fish out this favor, since the third child has come to me, you might as well fold with him to protect it, if the eighth one's fold arrives first, I can press one day and present it to you first!" ”

"The eighth man is too shrewd!" Yin Zhen said coldly, "How many people has he saved in the past few years!" In the forty-second year of Kangxi, he was a matter of Suo Zhongtang, and he received 141 officials from Zhulian Beijing, and he kept more than 90 members. Shuntianfu tried bribery case, and he protected more than 30 people! What kind of idea is in your heart, who doesn't know! The reason why he acted so recklessly was because he saw that the emperor didn't want to make more trouble! But where is the country's social system located? Yin Xiang smiled and said: "The 'idea' of this starling brother is very clear. It is said that it is not a party, it is not a faction, and the party is bigger than anyone else! It's ridiculous that some people think that only eating and drinking, talking about their hearts, and setting up a party for personal gain, but they don't know that such a guarantee, the person who is protected is more powerful than anything else! This time I'll go to the household to pick thorns, you see, he is going to protect people, he wants to do this again, and this bit of brotherhood between me and him is enough. Don't worry, prince, I'll show you a sample soon! ”

Yinren was a little upset when he heard this, stood up and paced around for a long time before he said: "How many times have I told you, don't think about the bad things for the old eight." There are so many brothers, one person has one temper, and you can't force uniformity. From the perspective of mind, I think the fourth child and you still have to learn the eighth point. If people can invite people's hearts, why can't I? Yin Zhen nodded silently and sighed: "Although what the prince said is true, I am a person who is easy to change, and my temperament is difficult to change. After the pearl was copied, there was a couplet pasted at the door of the study, saying, "Penetrate the human feelings and break the courage, read the world and cold the heart", although it is not enough to be a person, but this is a mantra after a glory and a withering. I am a person who does not believe in the right and is beware of benevolence. If the eighth elder brother has no selfish intentions, he shouldn't ask Zhang Deming to show him his face, he is already a prince, what else can he ask for? The old eight people are called 'eight Buddhas', don't dare to say anything else, in the essence of Buddhism, I am about slightly stronger than him, the Buddha thinks of all beings, and the old eight thinks of all officials, and has entered the evil way! Is it possible to distinguish between good and bad, blindly embrace the wicked, and only recite Amitabha Buddha twice to be reborn? ”

"What Zhang Deming?" Yinxiang and Yinzhen went on patrol together for several months, and never heard him mention this matter, so he asked in surprise, "What does Zhang Deming do?" ”

Yinren was also stunned, and Yinzhen's well-informed information also surprised him. Sitting in Beijing, he was not as smart as Yinzhen outside, which made him a little uneasy.

"Of course you don't know." Yin Zhen said, "With the identity of the prince, it is also inappropriate to inquire about this kind of thing. But if even I don't know, or if I know but don't say it, then I'm losing my way. ”

It turned out that this Zhang Deming was a wandering Taoist, who claimed to be the junior brother of Zhang Sanfeng in the Yuan Dynasty when he came to Beijing three years ago, and had lived in Emei for more than 300 years. Yin Zhen said with a smile: "A Ling'a, a member of the household department, once recommended to me, saying that this Deming Taoist skills are exquisite, not only can you guess the partition, but also can judge people's life and death." Yinxiang smiled: "When you say that, even I want to give it a try!" Alinga was originally a starling's person. I probably wanted to worship your doorman, but I didn't succeed, and I changed the door again, right? ”

"That's right." Yin Zhen said, "Alinga's talent and conduct are not obscene, I think I am too keen on eunuchs, so I ignore it." I'm a nobleman, why do I have to ask for my life? What's more, the emperor has repeatedly decreed that the elder brothers are not allowed to marry foreign ministers privately, and I don't dare to violate this decree. ”

Yinren looked out of the courtyard with his eyes intently, for a long time, took a breath, and said: "My brother has extraordinary knowledge, but he is not without extremes. If the country does not select talents based on one character, how can it abolish people because of things? In the future, there must be such a person, who cannot be rejected, and can be recommended for trial, and do not let the villains use it to make changes. With that, he got up and said, "It's almost noon, why don't you have dinner here before you leave?" The two of them were willing to eat here, and they got up and quit.