But Wu Yashi already felt that Qianlong was serious, but he couldn't find anything, so he pursed his lips and smiled: "What serious words does the old woman have to chew her tongue Huang Dada and Hei Dada?" This is not Fukangan entering the duke and going out on a business trip, the Fu family is still scorching, and those words are not accurate......" She rolled her eyes and thought, and said: "By the way, there are also rumors that the cult outside is evil, outside the Dongzhi Gate, Zuojiazhuang North, it is said that there is a barefoot immortal possessed, and the four birds are hit on the body together, and the iron sand hits the body and falls, so you can't hurt him!" He gave up the medicine to give people no money, saying that he was an apprentice from the old Taoist temple of Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing to help the world. The commander of the Nine Gates Admiral Yamen went to get it, he resisted arrest, cut off one of his arms with a knife, and turned into a cloud of black smoke on the spot and disappeared! There was only a section of lotus root in the ground...... The believers sent the lotus to the Dajue Temple as if they were worshipping, and the crowds crowded into the sea to see the rare children...... "Qianlong heard her say that he was very serious, swallowed a laugh, and said: "I have heard this rumor, it is not a Taoist priest but a monk, and now I am detained in Shuntian Mansion." If he is really a barefoot immortal, then he won't escape? Are you going to Dajue Temple? "Nope. The twenty-four princes don't allow me to go......" Wu Yashi sighed and said: "The fluttering Taoist priest caught in front of him was sentenced to death by the twenty-four princes, saying that this person came and went in the fog, he was a half-immortal body, and the execution ground also prepared a talisman of a real person, which did not come in handy, and a basin of women's urine splashed high and choked, and there was nothing strange about cutting from his feet to his head." Religious believers spread rumors that Piao Gao wore a big red robe and drove away at the execution ground, and the twenty-fourth master said that it was all ...... It's some fart, the cults that can't afford to soak a soak of urine are all cults, and no one in my family believes in them. Last time, the fifth elder brother went to my house and said that half of the old peach tree in the back garden was dead, and that "if there is a dead tree in the house, it must be a hindrance", and asked me to cut it down, and the peach wood sword can also suppress the evil. The twenty-fourth prince also threw him back and told him to go back and 'read the books of Confucius'! ”

"Fifth Elder Brother - Qi Qi?"

"Yes, aren't we just this one fifth elder brother today?" Wu Yashi smiled, "I still said to the twenty-fourth master, although the fifth elder brother is a grandchild, the fifth elder brother is the same as you. Long live the six elder brothers under his knees, and the fifth elder brother is the boss! A dead tree is worth robbing a white man's house so much, and it doesn't give people dignity. The twenty-fourth master said that I was a woman's knowledge, and a gentleman was beaten by the great reason of virtue or something. ”

The six elder brothers, the five elder brothers, and the first row of the first row have not grown, in fact, they are the big brothers. Qianlong immediately heard the meaning of the off-topic, and said: "You don't have to use no obstacles, I naturally want to choose a virtuous, quantitative and capable son to succeed the unification, and Uncle Twenty-Four has trained him well!" Wu Yashi originally came out of his mouth, but at this time, he took out the weight, and said with a busy smile: "Master, you said that you will not be investigated, you want to admonish the fifth elder brother again, isn't it a complaint that I came to sue?" The fifth elder brother is a peaceful person, and he has a lot of illnesses, and it is common to believe in these. I can't stammer or offend Qiqi. Some days it is rumored that this brother and that brother want to establish a prince, no one has ever said anything about Qiqi...... "She was flustered, anxious to tear up the innocence of Qi, and unexpectedly came out of the matter of "establishing a prince", Chen saw that she was talking more and more, and hurriedly got up to change the tea for the two of them, and said: "The weather is cold, this tea is uneatable for a while, Aunt Twenty-four lives in the West Chamber tonight, I asked them to add a tea hanger to the stove, and the house is warm and not dry......"

"Chen, don't interrupt." Qianlong smiled on his face and said unhurriedly, "I want to ask about the establishment of the crown prince - Twenty-four Fujin, who have you heard that I have established the prince, and which elder brother is the one who has been established?" - Ah, don't be afraid...... I've heard what others have said, and I just want to confirm it. It's just Chen and you tonight, no matter how big it is, you just say it, and I won't even do anything to you, okay? ”

As soon as he called out the "Twenty-four Blessings", he brought out the meaning of "edict", and all family and private feelings were only hidden. Wu Yashi was frightened stupidly, Chen's face was also pale, they were a little at a loss, sitting cross-legged was not solemn, and it was too solemn to get up to greet him, and he didn't know what to do, Qianlong smiled: "It's still a common saying, the inside is not out, the outside is not inside, it is a matter of the country, so naturally you have to ask, you are so uneasy, it seems that you can't believe it." ”

"It's from the eunuchs in my palace who are chattering their teeth......" Wu Yashi finally spoke, his voice timid, and peeked at Qianlong's face as he spoke, "It is said that the fifth master and the twelfth master are not in good health, and the eighth master and the eleventh master are 'Xiucai princes', who don't take care of mundane affairs, and they have never produced flowers...... said that the seventeenth master chosen by the long-lived lord has been named in the golden book......"

As she spoke, she glanced at the palace maids and eunuchs in the room, coughing with a handkerchief covering her mouth, Qianlong already felt it, and waved her hand sideways: "You all quit!" The crowd bent down like a row of small trees hit by a sudden wind, and tiptoed out. Wu Yashi no longer "coughed", and said after considering the words: "The fifteenth master and the seventeenth master were both born to the children of the noble lord Wei, and they both had flowers, but there is a difference, the seventeenth master looks at the instrument a lot, the fifteenth master is like a pragmatic prince, and the seventeenth master is the youngest...... The master is now in his prime, his body and bones are better than those of the prime, his spirit is like that of a young man, and he can live more than a hundred years old......" She also searched for sentences to find good words to add auspiciousness to it, Qianlong had already laughed, and pointed his finger Wu Yashi said to Chen: "Listen to Aunt Twenty-four, more than 100 years old, more than 'more'!" I can't live a monster anymore! - I understand what you mean, I still have a long reign, so naturally I have to choose a young one to inherit the lineage. Wu Yashi was a little more relaxed after his teasing, and hurriedly said, "Yes...... The slave is stupid, and the master understands it as soon as he says it...... said that someone also saw the emperor's proposed edict on the throne, which was half pressed on the paperweight, and the last stroke was written vertically and was long and exposed, but it was not a '璘' word? After speaking, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Well, that's the case...... Qianlong looked at the dancing candle flame with blazing eyes, and asked again after a long time, "You naturally want to ask, who passed the word?" Wu Yashi lowered his head and thought for a while, and said: "I am a heartless person, I was very panicked at the time, and I called the deacon to take the message of the eunuch and beat him, and forced him to ask who was the rumor-Twenty-fourth Master, ah no, Yun Ji later blamed me, saying, 'Can you figure out the housework in the palace?' You're going to cause trouble...... 'But I already know it, so what's the solution?' ”

"Who?"

Qianlong stared at Wu Yashi and asked. Chen's eyes widened as well.

"Yes...... It's a eunuch named Zhao Xuehui, who waits for the messenger in the Heart Cultivation Palace......"

Qianlong frowned, but there were more than 100 eunuchs on duty in the Heart Cultivation Palace, and he usually had no time to pay attention to their names, so where could he think of this person for a while? After pondering for a while, Qianlong had already made up his mind, and shouted with a light cough: "Wang Lian come in!" When Chen and Wu Ya saw that he was going to ask the case on the spot that night, they knew that Qianlong was ruthless in dealing with eunuchs, never soft-hearted, and did things even to himself, so they were all bluffed and turned white, and they couldn't sit still anymore, and they all knelt down and were silent. Wang Lian also seemed to feel that the atmosphere here was not right, and he didn't dare to come out, so he tiptoed in with the corner of his robe, knelt silently, kowtowed and asked, "The master is called a slave?" Qianlong was in a normal spirit, sipped a piece of tea and chewed it in his mouth, and asked, "Is there anyone named Zhao Xuehui in the Heart Cultivation Palace?" ”

"Back to the emperor, there is. It's the one waiting in the Imperial Tea Room—"

"Is he here tonight?"

"He's coming."

"Call him in!"

"Wow!"

"Slow!"

Qianlong stopped Wang Lian with a sinister smile, and then ordered: "Drive the pigs and dogs who are with me to Zhaobi, you make a name for me, and you also come in." Tonight's incident, who dares to leak a word and send Liu Yong there to cut him off! Hum! His voice was not high, and his dantian nasal voice was a "hum", and Wu Yashi and Chen both had goosebumps, and their hairs stood upside down. Wang Lian was also so frightened that his body fell and went out with his legs weak. Only then did Qianlong say to the Chen family: "The rumors outside can not be investigated." The root is in the palace, and this kind of thing can't be put away. Now that I've taken care of it myself, you're safer, you know? Seeing that the two of them were still silent, Qianlong smiled slightly and said softly: "What is a woman...... Are you so afraid? …… Go to the West Chamber, and leave this side alone. Chen said in a trembling voice: "This is the master's compassion for us...... I'm so scared! Twenty-four aunts, let's avoid it according to the order...... Qianlong smiled and wanted to soothe, heard the footsteps outside the window, smiled and waved his hand, and the two of them squatted on the kang Fu'er bowed their heads and walked out. Zhao Xuehui had already come in, his face was also white, like an exhausted duck, he stepped in front of Qianlong step by step with his legs, and fell to the ground with a plop, Wang Lian followed behind him, holding the written roster in both hands and handing it to Qianlong, and stood back like a shrimp. Qianlong only glanced at the roster, sat on the kang table with one arm, and asked, "Zhao Xuehui, are you guilty?" ”

"Slaves and slaves know their sins...... Ah, no, I don't know what the sin is......"

"You are guilty! But only to tell the truth, I forgive you. Half a sentence of falsehood is blinded, so that you should not be called heaven and cry without a soul! ”

"Yes, yes...... How many lives do slaves have? Don't dare to be blinded ......"

Qianlong was silent for a while, like a cat that had eaten enough fish, and looked down on the old rat in the corner, serving tea, playing with tea leaves with a bowl, glancing at Zhao Xuehui on the ground, and asked with a snort: "Which elder brother are you rumored to be the prince in the outside world, and some are you?!" ”

"Yes...... Some...... Around October last year, it was rumored in (the palace) that it was ...... The slaves have also heard and preached...... This is sin—"

"I don't ask you outside, only inside. Who do you listen to? ”

“……”

"Huh?"

Qianlong laughed cruelly and said: "I am very busy, I don't have time to listen to your fart!" Pointing it out is your way out! Seeing Zhao Xuehui peeking at Wang Lian timidly, Qianlong turned his face and asked, "Is it you Wang Lian?" ”

Wang Lian was already bent with his head and waist level, but when he heard this sound, he "pounced" on all fours as if he had been struck by lightning, and his tone was so loose that he couldn't even form a sentence, and said, "It's not a slave...... The minions weren't able to enter the warm pavilion at that time...... You can't make up this rumor...... However, the minions have also passed on this word...... I heard Wang Basha say that this incident came from Buyi...... The slave told Zhao Xuehui that it was true, this is the ...... of sin, "He wants to kowtow, but he can't."

"Buyi!" Qianlong was stunned for a moment, and Gege smiled, "This is really a good slave - pass him on!" ”

Bu Yi almost crawled in, stumbling on the flat ground, like a drunken idiot, he fell to the ground at once, and his clothes were sifting through chaff. But after listening to Qianlong's question, he seemed to be a little bolder, looked at Qianlong with both hands, and said, "Master, it's not me!" It was Wang Bashame who framed him! This incident came out in October last year, and rumors came out that the master had set up the seventeenth prince. I said that only Wang Bashame could see the edict, and no one else had the courage - later the master investigated, and he and a few people planted the slave's head! At that time, the slave ran to the inner and the Old Summer Palace to supervise the envoys, and he couldn't enter the Dongnuan Pavilion, and the Internal Affairs Office had a file to check - the slave dared to confront Wang Basha face to face! After that, he kowtowed again and again: "The slave passed the wrong will with the master's southern tour, and the master's grace from heaven and earth spared him immortally, and he still went into the interior on an errand." How dare you do such a thing? The master just checks, and the slave is willing to find out the innocence! ”

This time, Qianlong hesitated - pass on the king's eight shames again? Who else will Wang Bashi pull out, and will it be passed on? The investigation made the people in the palace panic, even if they found out, can they openly issue a decree to punish them? What should the foreign minister do if he knows about the rise of the prison? This glorious center of the world, under the plaque of "Zhengda Guangming", there is so much dirt and dirt, what is going on with the common people? …… At the end of the day, he realized that he was a collision tonight, and Liu Yong was an expert in solving cases, so it would be nice to have a discussion with him beforehand...... He frowned, and the more he thought about it, the more inappropriate he felt, but in front of the eunuch, there was no reason to be afraid to withdraw the troops, and he thought about it, and asked in a hard tone: "You said it well, you are waiting in front of me on an errand, why don't you play me?" ”

"Master......" Bu Yi didn't know whether he was angry, sad, afraid or helpless, his head hit the ground and banged, "The slave is the one you have a will to discipline the king...... He's so red, do you dare to say it? …… There are thousands of people in this Forbidden City, and I don't know how many of them are hiding from the master! The slave is such a little wagging his tail, and he is a criminal person, and the old and the young in the family are supported by the slaves, how dare he talk nonsense......" He touched the sore spot in his heart, tears poured out, and the ground in front of him was already wet.

Qianlong looked at the person in front of him and didn't squeak, there was a decree to arrest Wang Kanwang during the southern tour, but he passed it on wrongly. He was supposed to be put to death, but on the way on the boat, he pleaded that "there is an old mother at home", forgave him, and indeed handed over the words to the king's shame, no matter what, this man is still a filial son...... At this moment, somehow, he suddenly remembered the story he had told the Zhuo family about Yang Jinying and his palace people plotting to kill Ming Wuzong, but did he know that the emperor forced the palace people too much, resulting in the disaster of killing? He was suddenly vigilant in his heart: it was close at hand, the enemy country was exhausted, the husband was angry, and the blood was shed in five steps, such a small truth, he had never thought of it!

A gust of howling wind swept over the top of the palace, the Xianfu Palace in the next courtyard did not know what birds were frightened, quacked and flew up, the hazel grass in the gloomy and gloomy deserted hall swayed and collided, emitting the sound of the turbulent water in the valley, occasionally sandwiched with the chirping sound of unknown small animals like cats and mice, the palace wall was shallow and the night was deep and the night was faintly misty, and it was so strange and gloomy that it made people feel silent...... Qianlong shuddered from the bottom of his heart, and then realized that he was a little out of shape, and he was busy with timidity, but waved his hand to Wang Lian and said, "You also retreat!" Only then did he sigh at Bu Yi who was lying on the ground, and said: "You are really a bad year!" I remember that you are a dutiful son...... The family is poor, and the old mother is afraid that she is over 80 years old, right? Counting on you to feed ...... If you pass on the wrong will and be dealt with, naturally anyone can do something against you, and the king is ashamed to bully you with human power, and I can trust it......"

As he spoke, Bu Yi was already crying like a tearful person, his body twisted and suppressed his crying, so that the tendons on his neck swelled high, kowtowed and wept silently: "Long live the slave who said this, I haven't heard it...... No one has ever said this with such compassion...... The slave himself was bitter and couldn't think of these words...... Master, you are benevolent and virtuous, treat the slave like this, the slave is death, and you are also willing...... There is a saying to the master, if you say it, it is a capital crime, and if you don't say that you are sorry for the master. I just want the slave to die, someone to feed my old lady......" Qianlong listened, his heart was shocked, and after a while, he said: "You just say it, how to deal with my own charter." If I kill you, who will save you? If I want to protect you, who can harm you? ”

"The first lady is too virtuous, she shouldn't have been so early!" Bu Yi kowtowed and said, as if he didn't know how to express his intentions, he paused and said: "The first lady is too virtuous." ”

When Qianlong heard these two sentences, he sneered and said, "I see! You want to tell me this? Her original nickname was 'Xiaoxian'! You-" He suddenly realized the cliché in Buyi's words, and his tone changed and became extremely sharp: "You mean that the current queen is not virtuous?" ”

“……”

"Huh?!"

“……”

Qianlong's "bang" hit the case, staring at Bu Yi to death, the candle flame on the case was carried by the wind to flicker, reflected under him, the facial features were hideous and terrifying, and said gloomily: "You really lived to the end - she is the queen and the mother of the world!" ”

Bu Yi's body trembled, the catastrophe was unavoidable, but he calmed down, he raised his head, his white face was still stained with tears, and he kowtowed to the ground again, and said: "Long live the words of the lord, it is the words of Wang Ba Yan who intimidated the slaves behind his back - Wang Ba Yan is now in Zhong Cui Palace, and the emperor can go to see how he serves his master!" At the beginning, the emperor selected thirteen great eunuchs, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith, filial piety, loyalty, courtesy, righteousness, honesty and shame - Wang Basha was the last, how did he get to the number one eunuch? And who recommended it? I remember that the emperor once laughed and said, 'Originally, it was filial piety, what good is it for Wang Bashi, but he climbed to the top position!' ’”

He said, Qianlong thought nervously, although Wang Bayan was clever, but not very old, it was indeed the Nala clan who recommended him several times to enter the Yangxin Palace as the chief eunuch, and then promoted to the deputy eunuch of the sixth palace. Thinking of Bu Yi's "waiting", and then thinking of the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace marrying each other as "vegetable households", it is disgusting to have all kinds of affairs that are disgusting, is it ...... He didn't dare to think about it anymore, and he didn't want to think about it anymore, so he only gritted his teeth and said: "You-" gasped twice: "You dare to slander the queen and destroy your nine clans!" ”

"Your Majesty, I'm not the only one who knows about this. Bu Xin, Wang Li, Bu Lian, the maids of the Rakshasa Moscow Hall over there in the Old Summer Palace - they all know the details better than me! Bu Yi knelt upright, not avoiding Qianlong's vicious gaze at all, "The slave is dead, skinning is also dead, frying is also dead, just say it, kill it with the master!" The old madman you saw in the Imperial Garden this morning was the old man in the palace of Empress Fucha, the first lady, and the brother of Prince Duanhui's grandmother. The prince who is so upright and lively is carefully guarded, and he dyes smallpox after changing into a hundred clothes! Long live this matter has been checked, and the nurse has a stroke and is dumb, and his brother is also crazy! He suddenly fell to the ground and cried, and his head was touched on the ground, "...... Hooray! You are wise, and you have never heard anyone say 'the light is dark'...... It's so dark that there is no bottom, so black that you can't see your fingers......"

Qianlong "Hu Teng" sat back in the chair, a burst of dizziness followed by anxious tinnitus. He tried to stand up again, his legs were so weak that he had no strength at all, he reached out to take the cup, his fingers and arms were shaking violently, and the tea was spilled all over the placket. The tea was already cold, and he had never drunk herbal tea, but he took a big sip, and the cool tea calmed his heart before he came to his senses: Oh my God...... Is this all true? The harem concubines gave birth to more than 20 sons to him, except for those who died after giving birth, there were seventeen with names and surnames, and only six survived! Most of the eleven elder brothers were "out of smallpox", and they died silently in the Forbidden City one by one! There was someone plotting here, he had already vaguely felt it, but he never thought that the Nala clan would do this...... This is what the woman who looks like a flower did it? Nala is jealous, he knows that it is human nature to compete for favor and house, but this is his love for Xinjueluo Hongli's Ziyin, the root and seedling of the foundation of the world, and the Mianxu of the Jizong Temple of the Zhaoshe Temple...... He suddenly remembered the paintings drawn by the high madman, there were palaces and figures, there were cages, beds and tables, and there were clothes—there were hundreds of clothes! A picture of lightning leaped, Qianlong's eyes darkened, and he felt that the hair all over his body was full of trees, he was really a fox spirit, sleeping beside him for decades! He grabbed the edge of the table with both hands, his ten fingers were pinched white, Yongzheng in his later years, his brother Hongshi secretly arranged, chased and killed him for thousands of miles on the way out, and the monstrous Yellow River was robbed and killed by water thieves, he did not have such a penetrating horror now...... Such a dilemma: Nala is now the queen of the six palaces, what should she do if she commits such a crime of rebellion? If you continue to investigate and turn over other cases, or even chase down to the Chen case of the previous dynasty, what should these people do? And how to explain it to the subjects of the world? It would be easy to kill this Bu Yi and kill his mouth, but can he still be "husband and wife" with this evil and fierce queen again? turned his face and there was no evidence, the queen mother came out to intervene, and the courtiers knocked on the door to appeal, what is the right word? Qianlong pondered section by section, and because he thought too deeply, his eyes shone with a faint light like a cat. Bu Yi had never seen Qianlong describe it like this, and he was waiting for death with his neck straight, but he showed timidity.

"Whether it's true or not, it's not innocent yet. You are an obscene eunuch who slanders the queen, and it is already an unforgivable crime. Qianlong finally made up his mind, he pressed himself hard, his chin was retracted, as if he was spitting out words between his teeth, and said after considering his words, "But I have the virtue of a good life, and I will leave you a dog's life for the time being." Tomorrow, you take your old lady to the Karaqin Left Banner Huangzhuang to settle down, Bu Xin Bu Lian Wang Li, and all the palace eunuchs in the Rakshasa Palace have other whereabouts. You went there to be the deputy capital of Huangzhuang, but I just raised you, and I went to General Tu Lichen to report something. Listen—" he lowered his already low voice, with the slightest hint of metal scraping in his tone, "life and death are only on your mouth. Emperor Hongwu Zhu of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the nine clans, there is another clan, even relatives and friends are counted, and I Zhu pen shook lightly, and he was wiped out! Without waiting for Buyi to speak, Qianlong waved his hand and said, "Get out of here - call Wang Lian in!" ”

Bu Yi wandered out like a sleepwalker. Wang Lian lowered his hands, pouted his ass and bowed down, his shoulders twitched like a convulsion, and he stammered: "Slave - slave is here - slave is in ......"

"Did you hear what Fang Cai said?" Qianlong asked.

"Nope." Wang Lian said tremblingly, "The slave is also over there." It is a capital crime to eavesdrop on the master, and the slave understands the rules. ”

Qianlong looked out through the glass window, the night was already deep, except for the two rooms in the west chamber with the hall still lit, the rest of the hall was dark and dreary, only the yellow watermelon lamp shining on the high wall in the distance was shining in the Taiping jar, and the shadow was swaying in the wind, flickering uncertainly. He sighed and asked, "Did the Chen family and the Twenty-Four Fujin sleep with them?" Wang Lian didn't dare to raise his head, and said: "No, Master Chen asked someone to play cards over the wall, and they opened the cards[1]

Let's play! ”

"It's good to know the rules." Qianlong said coldly, "From now on, you are the head of the Heart Cultivation Palace, and Gao Yun is the deputy chief eunuch from entering the palace. Good students wait carefully, the seats of the eunuchs of the six palaces and the deputy eunuchs are vacant! ”

Wang Lian raised his head suddenly, only glanced at Qianlong with a panicked gaze, and hurriedly lowered his head again. When he came in, he was ready for Qianlong to kick himself or slap himself, but he didn't expect to promote himself without a word! The eunuch of the six palaces is more than eighty years old, who has served for three generations of masters, and the deputy eunuch has always been the head of the heart palace, because he is close to the emperor, he is commonly known as "the first eunuch in the world". He secretly twisted it his leg, only to know that it was not a dream, but after all, he was in a trance, and he was stunned for a long time and said: "This is the master's grace and trust, and it is the slave's ancestral grave that is angry......" Only then did he remember that he didn't kneel, and hurriedly kowtowed: "Although the slave is a sauce corpse, he also knows how to serve the country loyally——"

"Sauce corpse?" Qianlong asked in surprise.

"Ahhh ”

Qianlong was originally smoldering, but he was amused by him, waved his hand and said, "Don't be verbose." Well-tomorrow morning the palace door opens the key, you send an edict to the Department of Prudence and Punishment of the Internal Affairs Office, Wang Bashi, as the deputy eunuch of the Sixth Palace, is ridiculous and ineffective in his daily travel, and spreads rumors for the first letter, and sends it to the Forbidden City of Fengtianfu to listen to discipline; Bu Yi, Bu Xin, Bu Lian, Wang Li, and Wang Lian sent the Karaqin Left Banner to listen to Tu Lichen's constraints; The people of Buckingham Palace, Turkish Palace, Moscow Palace, and Portuguese Palace in the Old Summer Palace are all on errand in the Kuhuanyi Bureau, and they will be sent down after the survey and selection! ”

"Chirp ......"

"The Ministry of Internal Affairs will immediately escort and send it after receiving the order, and shall not be stranded!"

"Wow!"

"You go to Cining Palace in the morning, tell Lafayette, I want to go to the prince's mansion to visit your fifth master, come down to discuss with the courtiers outside, and then go over to say goodbye in the evening. When it's over, you go to the prince's mansion to reply to the decree. ”

"Wow!"

Qianlong stood up suddenly, sighed silently, and then ordered: "Go and see the Chen family and Aunt Twenty-four, I am very upset, if I haven't slept, come over and talk - the rest of the people are gone!" ”

Because of the cold weather, Hongtian, who had been ill for a long time, hadn't gotten up for nearly a month. Heard Wang Bao'er whisper in her ear: "Fifth master, the emperor looks at you here." When he woke up, he couldn't point to Chenchu from the self-striking bell in the corner of the door, and scolded: "I'll fuck your mother!" Urge me to take medicine and use this method! In the blink of an eye, when he saw Qianlong coming in with the curtain, he couldn't help but shake his eyelashes, and said, "Bastard!" Help me up - why didn't you report earlier? He struggled to sit up in the quilt, but he fell down again, and Wang Bao'er hurriedly came over and gently struck him from behind.

"Don't move, just lie down!" Qianlong took a step forward, Fu Hongtian lay down, Wang Bao'er used a big pillow to raise him a little higher, Qianlong covered the quilt for him, and said with a smile, "I don't allow them to be gifted." Our own brother, you are so sick, what are you doing when you get up and sit down? As he spoke, he sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Hongtian with a melancholy gaze.

Hongtian was already thin, not seen for more than two months, has been dried up like a skeleton, eye sockets, cheeks are terrible collapse, dark skin is ginger, loosely "sticked" on the face, arms, wrists, hands and ten finger joints as if stretched out of the quilt, also reed firewood stick like all muscles and bones, no meat, only a pair of triangular eyes are still shining, keep blinking to look at Qianlong, for a long time, "sigh" sighed, said: "Your Majesty, this time the brother is going to take a long road, can't play......" He gasped and said: " The day before yesterday, Lao Ji came to see me and told me that people's lives are natural and natural, and they don't sigh until the end of their lives. Don't look at you so much, you think about things far away - the wind is bleak and the city is cold, let's go to the countryside to ...... hot kang"

He has reached the view of his fate, his body has come to this point, his life is like a morning dew gossamer, and he can still be so ridiculous and witty, Qianlong is relieved and sad, and he can't find a better word to soothe, and only after a while does he say: "Having said that, the first emperor left my two brothers, and I still hope that you will recover Kangtai as soon as possible." If you have a good one, I really don't even have someone to talk to. Hongtian smiled strangely and said, "Your Majesty...... Look at your complexion, you didn't sleep all night last night. In such a big world, the people in the mountains and rivers outside, the deep pools and dense forests in the Forbidden City, what is there to do, who is not? It's not the right time for the begonia flowers to bloom in "Dream of Red Mansions", and Jia Mu said, "It's not strange to blame itself for self-defeat." You are the wisest, and the Holy Ancestor of Renzhi Heaven can't compare to you, so you might as well be confused about some small things...... You are also a person who is over the age of the ear, as long as it is not Chen Sheng and Wu Guang to reveal the rod, everything is not in a hurry, not angry, not happy or sad, it is the blessing of the subjects......" Qianlong nodded when he heard it, his eyes wandered, and he glanced at the stacks of Buddhist scriptures, "Taoist Collection", "Ancient and Modern Books Collection", and a stack of half-human-high manuscripts, all of which were hand-copied by Hongday, "Diamond Sutra" and the like, got up and flipped through a few books, what "Mai" and "Liuzhuang" photo books, "Jade Box" and other folk books have everything, I can't help but smile, But he said to Wang Bao'er: "You take people to avoid it, and I will say a few words to your fifth master." Wang Bao'er agreed, and as soon as her mouth was full, all the eunuchs, wives, and girls retreated solemnly.

"Your Majesty," Hong Tian stared at Qianlong intently, and asked Nene, "What's wrong?" Qianlong nodded heavily, still sat on the edge of the bed, and was silent for a long time before saying, "It's not a small matter." hasn't sat down to verify it yet-if it is verified, this queen will have to be abolished. I am full of distress, and I can only complain to my brother......" and wiped away tears. Hongtian trembled in horror and said, "...... Your Majesty, you are well versed in the history of the Twenty-Four Years...... This is really no small feat! Among the four major cases of the former Ming Dynasty, there was the 'palace transfer case'. Hundreds of courtiers knelt down to the Qianqing Palace, please take back your will, how should you cook? The canonization and dethronement of the queen is a major event that shakes the world, and there are some things in the palace that are not clear, and they want to gossip about people......"

Qianlong nodded and sighed: "I thought of all this, I didn't sleep all night last night." I don't see you, and I don't have the heart to see people doing things. That year, I toured the south, you broke into the palace in Beijing to save the mother of Yanyan, I still suspect that you are making a fuss, who knows that you are right! Because he told the story of the eunuch who tried the eunuch at night in Jianfu Palace last night, he said: "The ugliness of the family should not be publicized." But if you think about it, if there is such a thing, can she, the queen, still do it? I...... I'm in my sixties, and I can't stand it when such a detached person accompanies me day and night, and I have to be buried in the mausoleum together? However, if you want to shake it out, you really don't dare to say the word 'aftermath'......"

"Hearing these things, the roots of this hair are blowing ......up," Hongday's eyes were already blazing, and his emaciated head trembled nervously, and he was silent for a long time, "It's all terrifying." I still advise you to calm down, don't be in a hurry......" He gasped weakly for a while, and then said: "It is difficult for a Qing official to decide family affairs, not to mention that this is the Forbidden City, it is a heavenly home!" Alas...... Your Majesty, if you can't bear it, you have to endure it, and if you can endure it, you are the husband...... I still think it's okay to hook up with eunuchs; If you harm my imperial nephew, I will have the same anger in my heart as you...... But the emperor, this shaking out is harmful to the overall situation. You did the right thing to punish the eunuch in front of you to find out the reason...... To abolish her, first, there must be no wrongdoing, and second, it depends on the timing - don't use the crime of 'filthy middle palace'. This is to wait, wait for her to make another mistake, and change the charge to rectify the ......"

Qianlong didn't speak, what Hongtian said was what he had decided, and he drove to Prince He's mansion early in the morning, not so much to ask for advice, but to "ask for comfort". The loneliness, frustration and resentment in his stomach are like a flood that is too full, and the sea that is about to overflow will collapse and not overflow, and the fragile and thin embankment will collapse and burst into a flood, and everything will be washed into a mess...... After Hongday's example, it was in line with what he thought, he was not only happy that he was "able to endure", but also felt that this younger brother was smart and could exchange his life with his confidant. Seeing that Hongyang's body was weak and his life was in danger, he was not sure when he would let go, and he couldn't help but feel sad and couldn't help himself. After being sentimental for a while, Qianlong said: "Tell you, I'm much better this time." If this kind of thing happens to a small family, you can still cry, make a fuss, smash furniture, fight, write a letter of resignation, and forget it, what about me? You have to pretend that you're okay, and pretend to be someone who doesn't know anything - a big fool, and you have to let people look at the 'British Tomorrow'! "That's the fourth brother, you are too serious......" Hongtian used too much strength, became extremely unenergetic, and said with a single bubble eyelid, "This is all because you have never been bullied in your life." There is a paper crotch in the iron threshold, which dynasty and which generation did not have such a thing? Alas...... I'm going to get my body and go to the swill tank again, and I can help you. It's a pity that it can't be ...... I will be satisfied if I can spend another fifteenth day of the first month in the world......" Qianlong hurriedly soothed: "Don't say such short words. I also heard that you were seriously ill, and I came to see that it was irrelevant. Hit six or nine heads in spring, hit the spring grass tree and sprout, and get up one mile and one mile. Don't forget that you are the fire life, the wood is prosperous, the fire will be prosperous, the important thing is not to suffer from cold and cold, to believe in the imperial doctor, don't just move the gods and ghosts...... If you want something, as long as Ouchi has it, just send someone to fetch it......" After that, he got up with tears, "I'll go back to the Heart Cultivation Hall to do business......"

"Don't mess around, don't toss, don't toss, toss to the end......" Hongtian muttered as if he was awake like a dream, his face became strangely gray and gloomy, and when he heard that Qianlong was leaving, he suddenly opened his eyes wide again and shouted: "Your Majesty—"

Qianlong turned around.

"Ban opium!" Hongtian always seemed to have a clear mind, and said in a loud voice, "I will be incured by this disease, Uncle Sixteen, Prince Laoguo, if you smoke it, there will be no help...... Ye Tianshi was a miracle doctor, and he also died here...... This object is too poisonous...... It's amazing......" he said, falling into a deep sleep.

…… For several days, Qianlong did not leave the Heart Cultivation Palace. Really put aside his hand and ignored the affairs of the harem, a period of irritability in the past but lifted his spirits, and urged Li Shuyao to prepare for the Lantern Festival Empress Dowager Lantern Festival, and ordered Ji Yun Yu Minzhong Li Shuyao to convene the military department, the criminal department, the ritual department, and the household department of the imperial meeting, and directly listened to the official report on the military in the west and the situation of the White Lotus Sect in the interior. Even the idle cases and unurgent matters that had accumulated a few feet of high pressure in the Heart Cultivation Hall were approved. He also pushed the "old and the old", and ordered the world to be drunk, and the elderly over 60 years old had a pound of meat, a pound of wine, and a string of money per person during the Lantern Festival, and all the widows, widows, loneliness, and the sick were distributed a bucket of rations, in order to show Mencius's righteousness of "rejoicing with the people". Qianlong was diligent in government affairs all his life, but it was the first time that he sat in the palace of nourishing his heart day and night, without distractions, and was not tired of seeing people. The two ministers of military aircraft were in a hurry, and the six departments were also turned over on their backs, and Qianlong used official duties to relieve his depression, and he was so busy that he forgot the distress in his heart.

At noon on the 14th day of the first lunar month, Gui returned to Beijing. Hearing that he handed over a sign to ask for a meeting, Qianlong couldn't help but take off the kang, pointed outside and said, "Call in!" In a moment, his face lit up with joy, he took two steps, felt that he was a little out of shape, took the teacup and sat back on the chair by the kang, sipping tea and waiting quietly.

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Kai Ka, a card game, is commonly used for divination.