Yinxiang seemed to have been hit hard, standing in the empty lobby of the household in a daze, his thoughts were as chaotic as a mess. His face was pale, and he walked out of the hall, a gust of wind blew, Yinxiang felt that his hot head felt a little better, and he saw that the officials and officials in the courtyard were stunned and looked at him. Shi Shilun and You Mingtang were standing under the east corridor, and when they saw him coming over and came up to speak, Yinxiang waved his hand to stop, and said: "You don't need to say anything, the treasury and accounts are sealed and booked, and they are presented to the Holy Emperor." If you have any questions, you can go to my house and ask. What I said, there is no remorse, you believe that the heart of the Thirteenth Master is. After that, I don't know where the spirit came from, Teng Teng walked out of the door quickly, and shouted: "Horse-where is my horse!" ”

Yinxiang beat his horse and whipped for a while, rushed to Xihuamen, and immediately asked to see Kangxi. The little eunuch Wang Gou came out and replied: "Long live Lord left the palace after breakfast, accompanied by Master Wu." Thirteenth Master, please see you tomorrow. Yinxiang turned around and left, but stopped and asked, "Are you waiting in the Heart Cultivation Palace?" Can the prince see you today? ”

"If you haven't seen the prince, please see you!" Wang Gou saw that Yinxiang's expression was wrong, and said in surprise, "I heard that Long Live Lord saw the master, so he went out with Master Wu." ”

Yinxiang already understood that Yinren did not ask for a request at all, and handled the affairs of the household department arbitrarily. After thinking for a long time, Yinxiang sighed and relieved in one breath, so that even Kangxi didn't want to see him again. He drove away his entourage, came to Fengchun Pavilion alone, left a cup, right one, until he was drunk at the end of Shen, even forgot to ride the horse, and walked back with one foot high and one foot low. Fang passed the Xuanwu Gate, and Yinxiang heard a sound of silk and bamboo coming from the root of the inner city wall. When flashing drunken eyes, the pink walls along the street are dazzling, the black plaque on the red lacquer door is golden, the big book "Taibai Wind Festival" is four words, and the couplets on both sides of the door have a neat regular script:

Booze swallowing whales was originally Yan Zhao's generosity

Singing in a shallow and low voice, Wu Yue is elegant and elegant

Yinxiang burped and couldn't help but smile to himself: "I really walked smoothly and ran to the Qixian Mansion where starlings taught Kabuki!" "He was wandering to himself, but he heard someone shouting:

"Isn't that the Thirteenth Master?"

When Yinxiang turned his head to look, it was the original Wang Batouer of the brothel in Xianlou, who came over with a smile on his face, and said while greeting him: "Your old man has not been here for a while, and Sister Lan is going crazy...... Oh, I don't think about tea, I don't want to eat, I just lock my brows and get distracted, I'm afraid I'm not talking about my master! As he spoke, he led Yinxiang upstairs and shouted, "Wu family's!" The thirteenth master came, told the big teapot, prepared some sobering soup, and asked Sister Lan to prepare to sing a song for the master? ”

"How-uh! The eighth master's troupe still picks up guests? Yinxiang suddenly remembered the blank paperwork. Suddenly, I heard the pipa upstairs ringing, the singing was melodious, and Alan was playing and singing, so he sneered and said: "You guys are carrying the eighth master behind your back and using his troupe to solicit business, are you living enough?" "Rest assured!" Wang Ba hurriedly smiled and said, "How dare the villain!" It's our boss Ren who is here. Boss Ren also said last time that since the Thirteenth Master had taken a fancy to Miss Lan, he had to go back to the Eighth Master of Ming, so he simply sent the Thirteenth Master and found another sister to top. Don't worry, Sister Lan is a child, and no one dares to provoke her! Yinxiang sat down with a big grin, the wine was surging, he took off his boots, put his feet on the table support, and scolded with a smile: "You have a lot of words for your mother!" Hurry up and go in and tell the surnamed Ren to call Alan over, I have something important! ”

The king Banuo went in a loud voice. Yinxiang was the only one in the huge elegant seat, and his heart was suddenly beating with wine, and because he was too hot, he got up and pushed open the window. Seeing the bamboo trees swaying outside the window, the wind tail is forested, and the green is green, I can't help but sigh deeply. Just when he was helpless, the music next door started again, and it was Alain who was still playing and singing:

…… I can't hope that the bright moon will step on the moss at the same time, and I can't hear the soft words to relieve my boredom. Jiao Tong'er is out of tune, the jade mirror falls into the dust, and the soft intestines are difficult to open! Ask God, when will the sun rise? and only Solo Silk was covered with patience......

I faintly heard someone clapping and laughing. Yinxiang was anxious, and he was about to break through with his boots, but there was no sound. After a while, only footsteps were heard, the curtain moved, Alan had already moved into the house with the pipa in his arms, and squatted deeply to Yinxiang from afar, saying:

“…… Yejian ......"[1]

When Yinxiang looked up and down, Alan stood out more and more smartly, wearing a stone green Luokaner, a lotus-colored pleated skirt covering his little feet, cutting sideburns with a knife, and picturesque eyebrows under fluffy bangs, but his face looked a little pale.

"It's nothing if you just say it's auspicious. It should be auspicious, naturally auspicious, and it should not be auspicious, but it is still unlucky. Yinxiang somehow, every time he saw Alain, he always felt comfortable, and he had already put aside his thoughts, pulled her to sit down next to her, and said with a smile: "Your face is so bad, are you tired?" - I'm not here to listen to the tune today. After a lot of effort, I was able to get my wish. Look—"

"Master!" Alan cut off Yinxiang's words, glanced at the door, and said softly: "You're afraid that you're tired of me, I'm in good spirits—you just don't want to hear it, I have to sing to you today...... The best - you have to be careful, you are so drunk, I am afraid you will not listen to your heart......"

Yinxiang laughed and said: "Born with injustice, I love to eat your merry sugarcane sticks, so it doesn't matter if you pour me a head of water, let alone listen to music?" Sing if you want, I'll listen! ”

"Yes." Alain replied softly, lowered his head, tuned the strings, and shaved his five fingers like shallots, and the cold and quiet sound of the pipa rang out, and sang in his mouth:

When the king and grandson return, you can't stay in the mountains for a long time! Don't say that the ruined color, the devastated wine, the red pink skull, the dream of the green building - only this sunset mountain maple, the wild vine realm is secluded, and the blood is sucking more than the jackal! Zhang Luo catches birds, the tooth machine is faint, and he treats the rats! …… Go back, go back! When Sanyang opens Thailand in spring next year, please brush the Guangling willow again, and upload Mo Chou on Yanbo Lake......

After singing, I bowed down and buried my head a few times, and I trembled all over!

Yinxiang couldn't hear the sound, he only felt that Alain's voice was trembling, his face was different, and he thought he was really sick, so he stepped forward and touched her forehead, which was not hot, and only after a long time did he groan: "Could it be that you are frightened?" Ming'er, I'll call a doctor to show you. I'm going to tell you today—I've got you the paperwork! From today on, you will let go of your feet and learn to be your aunt and grandmother! Unexpectedly, Alan listened, pushed Yinxiang away, and said with a cold face: "I'm not sick, you don't have to bother so much!" Thirteenth Master, you are a person with status, if you want to listen to a song or something, I dare not disobey. What does it mean to speak of something else? Yinxiang couldn't help but be stunned, and hurriedly said, "You're not joking, are you?" ”

"Who dares to joke with Ye?" Alan Zhengse said, "I already have a family, and I joined the Eighth Master Opera Troupe, just to pay off my debts, and I will be let go south in two years." Isn't it possible that any prince is good at taking people's wives? ”

It's like pouring a basin of cold water on his head, and Yinxiang is cold from head to heel. The muscles on his face twitched sharply a few times, and he was about to speak, when Ren Bo'an came in with a smile, glanced at Alan, bowed down and kowtowed to Yinxiang, and said, "The villain Ren Bo'an knocks on the thirteenth master!" ”

"Hmm." Yinxiang sat still and didn't move, Alan suddenly turned his face, and he was still a little unable to come back to his senses. He has been in the household department for two years, and he often talks about this "old man" in his spare time, which has long been familiar, but it is the first time he has met. When I looked up and down, I saw Ren Bo'an in his fifties, with a fat and round face, kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and only a single bubble eye slightly swollen. Yinxiang didn't understand a little, how could such a piece of material have such great magical powers, and the six yamen could enter and exit freely, and what to do! Thinking about it, he asked: "Are you the famous 'pinching can't die' Ren Bo'an?" How much money should Alan be worth, you name it, I want this person! ”

"See where you go?" Ren Bo'an got up and said with a smile, "A noble person like Ye hasn't stammered yet!" You dare not ask for silver. people, even if the villain is filial to the thirteenth master. You will take her away this time, Bo Anruo frowned, he is not a man! Yinxiang leaned back and said, "Who in Beijing City doesn't know the Thirteenth Master?" I never touch anyone's favor, and others don't want to touch my light. Public buy and sell, you name it! Ren Bo'an hurriedly bowed down and said with a smile: "When the master talks about this, the villain doesn't dare to reply." Alan is worth twenty taels, plus the cost of teaching, meals, and makeup, the master will reward one hundred taels......"

While the two of them were talking, Alan interjected and said, "The surname is Ren!" If you think about it, did I sell it to you? The deed is still in my house! Teaching and singing are our business, and we have our rules! Can you sell it if you want to? - Thirteenth Master, I'll tell you the truth, if you want to listen to the song, when will you come, when will I wait, you want to buy me into your house, no! I'm still singing for two years and going home! "If you can't do it, you have to do it!" Ren Bo'an's face darkened sharply. At this moment, Yinxiang saw the true face of this person, "Don't say that this is in Beijing, that is, in Suzhou, there are one hundred and forty-seven Lehu, who dares not to buy Lao Ren's account?" Alan snorted and said, "I dare! I won't let you sell me!" Aunt and grandmother don't want to, what's wrong with you? I'll listen to the rules! ”

"Let's go!" Yinxiang got up suddenly, pushed the chair away, and said viciously, "Don't be ashamed!" No wonder the second brother said that those goblins can't be messed with by prostitutes - I'm blind, and I recognize you in vain! With that, he lifted the curtain and went down the stairs. I heard a crisp slap from above, and then I heard a person fall on the floor. Yin Xiang secretly gritted his teeth and said: "Cheap bones - deserve it!" When he saw the housekeeper Zhao Fuxing coming in, he asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Good thing!" Zhao Fuxing smiled and said, "The seventh master has a treat in Chunxiangju, and he asked the slave to send the post!" said that the cook who was called from Yangzhou was very happy! ”

"Happy bullshit!"

Yinxiang slapped him and stunned Zhao Fuxing.

Kangxi didn't know about the entanglement of his sons in the household department, so after breakfast, he called Wu Dan, and the master and servant changed into civilian clothes to go out of the palace for a tour. As soon as he came out of Xihuamen, he saw Tong Guowei and Ma Qi follow, because they were also dressed in civilian clothes, Kangxi smiled and said: "Wu Dan, it's bad!" Let these two minions target us, it's really impossible for a free man to do it for a moment. I have always heard that Zhang Deming, the new abbot of Baiyun Temple, is very Taoist, let's go to the tour as a pilgrim to see what kind of way he is, how about it? ”

"Master!" Ma Qi has always hated Buddhism and Taoism, and he doesn't want the emperor to mess with these people, and besides, Baiyun Temple is outside the Xibian Gate, sparsely populated, he is weak, and Wudan is old, how can he make a mistake? Because of the smile: "The road is long, walking is too tiring, and riding a horse and sitting in a sedan chair is eye-catching." You're just trying to get out for a change of taste, and you'll have to go somewhere lively. It's better to go outside the Zhengyang Gate, come back early in the afternoon, rest in the middle of the sleep, and the prince's case will be turned around. Wu Dan smiled: "Lively is lively." When I entered the palace just now, I saw a notice posted over there that I was going to kill people today. I'm afraid of ruining the master's good interest. ”

"What are you afraid of when you kill someone!" Kangxi laughed, "You horse thief leader, you don't know how many you have killed if you are not guilty!" Now that he is the governor of Guangdong, are you afraid of killing people? Kill these wicked people, and you don't dare to look at it? Let's go, go to Zhengyangmen! With that, he walked away, and a few people had to follow. Kangxi said as he walked: "It's been too peaceful for a long time, and people are afraid of seeing blood - there is also a joke, last time Changyin Pavilion performed "Uncle Quanguo". As soon as it went down, the red water flowed all over the stage, and the Yinren concubine Shi was so frightened that she fainted at that time. Yinren was also so frightened that his soul did not possess his body. I reprimanded him right then! I killed people at the age of eight, and at the age of fifteen I cut them again; The Western Expedition opened a killing ring, and people's heads rolled all over the ground, so that there is today's peaceful world. is as timid as him, if he comes out of someone like Ao Zhongtang again, what can he do? ”

The group was talking and laughing, and they had arrived at Zhengyangmen South. This is very different from the early years of Kangxi. The streets and alleys are crisscrossed, and there are many people everywhere, and if you are not careful, you will step on other people's shoes. The main corridor temple is lined with new shops. There are old clothes, pawnshops, silk, porcelain, flour mills, oil mills, dyeing mills, coffin shops, tea houses, hotels, and everything that is provoked by bamboo poles to the street. Those who sell vegetables on the side of the street, and the snack burdens selling oil cakes, siu mai, wontons, flatbreads, and dumplings are densely arranged. The already small street is even more crowded. The shouts of high and low voices from far and near, and the laughter and scolding of people...... Compared with the Forbidden City of the Jingruo Ancient Temple, it is indeed a unique cave.

Several people guarded Kangxi tightly step by step. Kangxi watched for a while and played a hundred operas, and then stood by the Sifutang teahouse next to the Guandi Temple to listen to Chen Tiezui tell the story, ate a string of rock sugar gourds, bought a rubbing of "Poetry and Bamboo Map", and said with great interest: "This is not far from the glaze factory, let's go to the book market to see if we can get Dong Xiangguang's calligraphy and paintings." "Let's squeeze out of the crowd. As soon as I came out of the Sifu Hall, I saw a group of white people in the distance, holding spiritual flags and carrying coffins. Ma Qi looked at the pergola with his hand, and said in surprise: "This family is out of the funeral, why is it useless to even have a ringer - it doesn't look like a small family!" ”

"Of course it's not a small household!" Kangxi looked at the spirit banner and said with a smile, "Ma Qi is also a nerd. This is Qiu Yunsheng's family, who is going to be killed today, and is preparing to collect his body. This man is not dead. Naturally don't sound the instrument - hum! A sixty-year-old coffin scoop ruined the sixteen-year-old yellow flower girl of a tenant family, forcing the girl to commit suicide with scissors - if it weren't for his wife's jealousy and scolding, this case might not have been solved so far! Tong Guowei then remembered that Qiu Yunsheng was convicted of the crime of beheading, and it was still Ma Qi's vote, so he sighed: "It's a pity that this woman committed suicide because she was ruined, otherwise the Ministry of Rites would have been qualified to report a martyr." ”

As he spoke, the ox cart carrying the cage had already arrived. Suncheon Prefecture Yin Long Keduo is a prison officer, riding a horse with his head held high. Later, the famous master held the vermilion arrow. Two lines of soldiers pushed the crowd of onlookers in front of them, clearing the way for the execution procession. The two executioners in front of the cart were drunk and black-faced, one with a ghost-headed knife on his back, and the other with a death flag, slowly walked with the ox cart. There was a burst of excitement and then a whisper, and the atmosphere became tense, and many people rushed to the west to take up a place. Kangxi glanced at the execution team indifferently, and was about to squeeze out the flow of people to go to Liulichang, but was stopped by Wu Dan and said: "Master, wait a while, wait for a while and then leave." Tong Guowei next to him exclaimed: "Ah! Why is the prisoner so young? ”

"Really!" When Kangxi saw it, he couldn't help but be surprised: How does this prisoner look like a sixty-year-old "coffin"? At most, he was a man in his thirties, with his head and hands sandwiched outside the prisoner car, a thick and black braid dragged behind him, his face was not afraid, his eyes were closed, and he looked resigned to fate. Kangxi was afraid that there was a mistake, and looked at the death card again, it was true, and it was written: "Kill Qiu Yunsheng, who plotted to commit adultery and murder in Shuntianfu!" Kangxi was speechless, and Leng Sensen's gaze swept towards Ma Qi and Tong Guowei.

Ma Qi and Tong Guowei were already frightened, and their faces were like earth. Long Keduo, who was beheaded by the prison, was Tong Guowei's distant nephew, and he knew that he had a great stake, so Tong Guowei said after a while: "God, what's going on?" Wan-Master, wait a minute, I'll ask! ”

"Huh?" Kangxi's face was grim, like a stone peak, he gritted his teeth and said softly, "What are you busy with?" Let's go to the vegetable market to have a look. ”

The entrance of the vegetable market has long been crowded with people, with three layers inside and three layers outside, surrounded by an iron bucket from the execution ground. Several shops in the execution ground are all buildings, and the asking price is extremely high at this hour, and two taels of silver can only enter the door. The four of them hugged each other and sweated all over the body before they brought Kangxi to the door of the store. Wu Dan took out ten taels of silver before he had to go in, and he breathed a sigh of relief. Kangxi went upstairs with a gloomy face, sat down in front of the street window in a private seat, and said nothing. Ma Qi, Tong and Wu stood opposite. looked at the execution ground for a while, and looked at Kangxi with a blue face for a while, but he didn't dare to speak, and his heart was pounding.

When the prisoners arrived, the soap servants drove the prisoner cart with a "click", put the prisoner out, dragged him to the stake, and tied him firmly. The prison officer, Long Keduo, paced out of the reed shed, ascended to his seat, and read aloud the guilty Qiu Yunsheng's guilty statement. When Kangxi listened patiently, the plot was correct, and he only changed his age from 60 to 29 years old. There is no doubt that someone in this case has done a lot of tricks! Tong Guowei and Ma Qi were like ants on a hot pot in their hearts, seeing that Kangxi didn't speak, they didn't dare to speak out a few times. Just as he didn't pay attention to it, he saw that Long Keduo ordered someone to reward the prisoner with a death wine. Listen to the audience shouting:

"Hey! You pus, why don't you say a word? ”

"Sing one to us!"

"Whew," someone said, "tasteless, dumb!" ”

The prisoner drank the wine, his face flushed with excitement, and he threw his neck on the stake and shouted, "Your father is dumb!" Lao Tzu is too lazy to speak! ”

"Good!" The crowd immediately burst into laughter and cheered, "One more sentence!" ”

"One more sentence, one more sentence!" The prisoner cried out, "Twenty years of reincarnation, a hundred years is also death." Early death early and early care, late death without filial piety! ”

There was another uproar of applause.

It was nearly noon, and the early autumn sun was slowly and weakly creeping up to the south, and the soft sunlight was shining on the murderous execution ground. Long Keduo took out the watch in his arms and looked at it, stood up and made a false salute to the royal pen, took the death card, and without hesitation painted it with a cinnabar red pen, and shouted: "Noon has come, executioner!" ”

"In!"

"Execution!"

"Wow!"

[1]

"Peace" avoids "auspiciousness".