Honghui finally survived until the end of Shen and dispersed his studies, forced to press the palpitation in his heart and paced out of Donghua Gate as calmly as possible, beckoned to the personal eunuch Wang Ying, and said in a low voice: "You will go to Prince Heng's Mansion and Prince Yi's Mansion this time, and ask Hongsheng and Hongchang to come over here immediately, and you will be able to say a few rare edition books, please come and watch the two masters." "Then get on the sedan chair and leave. Along the way, Honghui was just suspicious: "Doing tricks and feet in Yang Mingshi's refreshments was very confidential at that time...... Why did this little ghost say it in one bite? He stroked his feverish brain, and the scene of the day before Yang Mingshi's "stroke" was immediately clearly revealed.

It was the afternoon of the second day after the winter solstice, and Honghui originally said that he would go to the Lifan Yuan and Guanglu Temple to inquire about the annual silver of the banner people, and the distribution of ancestral rewards for the children of meritorious heroes with titles should also be summarized and written to report to Qianlong. When he passed the Donghua Gate, he felt that he was wearing thin, and he felt cold when he sat in the sedan chair, thinking that he always had a Xuanhu Dayu in the study of Yuqing Palace, and other eunuchs couldn't get in, so he had to get off the sedan chair and go in to get it. When he entered the upper study, he saw that none of the students had arrived, only Yang Mingshi sat alone frowning and sitting by the charcoal brazier in contemplation, Honghui took off the big coat on the hanger with one hand, and asked casually: "Master Yang, what are you thinking?" ”

"Huh?" Yang Mingshi trembled, as if he had just woken up from his contemplation, and when he turned around, he saw that it was Honghui, and said, "Is the prince here?" - You've come just in time, I'll show you something. Seeing that his face was gloomy and his tone was heavy, Honghui walked to the desk without being polite, and asked worriedly, "Master Yang, what happened?" Yang Mingshi didn't say a word, took a window lesson and handed it over, and said: "This is an imitation of Hongxi's writing, please take a look." ”

Honghui glanced at Yang Mingshi, took the book and flipped through it, there was nothing out of the ordinary, Yang Mingshi said: "You take out the post and look at the back." Honghui followed his words and pulled out the post book from the gap between the double stacks of paper, but it was the "Stone Drum Song" written by Zhang Zhao, which was not surprising. When I turned it over, it was all the words, the big ones were the size of walnuts, and the small ones were the size of mayflies. Yang Mingshi pointed with his finger in the lower left corner. When Honghui looked carefully, he looked at it with a small fly's head:

Xin Mao Gengwu Ding Si Bingchen how to self-restraint! The reason is difficult to understand, and it should be asked. Jia Shifang hunts demons, interesting and interesting......

There are also several inexplicable talismans drawn in thick ink below. Honghui suddenly felt that his scalp exploded, and a chill appeared in his heart, and he said in a trembling voice: "This is just a child's graffiti and calligraphy...... I don't see what it means......"

"Of course it's interesting." Yang Mingshi said coldly, "These eight heavenly and terrestrial branches are today's birthdays, and some people say that it is a 'phase restraint', Hongyu overheard it and wrote it down, and wanted to ask me." I don't understand the Fu drawn below, go to Baiyun Temple, ask Zhang Zhengyi and I can figure it out, don't look at the words, there is a big article! Yang Mingshi unceremoniously uncovered this layer of paper, Honghui became more and more anxious to the six gods, Lei was stunned for a long time, and stammered: "Yes...... Did Hongxiao come to ask you? Yang Mingshi shook his head and said: "Hongxiao didn't ask, it was my tea that was sprinkled on the notebook, and these rebellious words were revealed." Instead, I called Hongyao to ask, and I listened to a lot of extraneous voices. ”

He ...... What nonsense did he say? ”

"Do you want to ask me what you did yourself?" Yang Mingshi suddenly raised his voice and slapped the case with a "snap": "Don't forget, I have been a county magistrate for six years!" I usually see you gentle and elegant, why do you have such a thought in your heart? Where did you invite a Taoist priest, or what kind of cult did you believe in, and dared to engage in this set of mysteries? The rut in front of you is still there, Yun Yu's old trick, you actually copied it! No king, no father, no loyalty, no filial piety, what are you! Do you know what this crime is? Take care of it as soon as possible, take down the demon who practiced the magic of charm, and the last one is the way to sin yourself! ”

Listening to this merciless questioning and reprimand, Honghui's heart was broken, her lips trembled violently, and her whole body almost went limp. Yang Mingshi was also so angry that his face turned yellow. Honghui timidly probed: "Master, when you say this, it shows your benevolence. A few days ago, I don't know who it was, but I did invite a Taoist priest, saying that there was a ghost crying at night in the back house of the house, and he was asked to suppress it. I didn't see this person either, and I don't know what they did behind their backs. Really, Master Yang, you forgive me for a few days, let me check the ins and outs...... I'll get back to you......"

"You really don't know?" Yang Mingshi's tone relaxed, "Such a big thing, can they carry you?" "Really!" Honghui's eyes flashed, he lowered his eyelids again, and said sincerely: "I swear!" To be honest, when you first talk about this today, I really feel like a bolt from the blue. When his father was alive, Prince Yunyu of Uncle Zhi did this to him. Although I am a prince and a scholar, I have never used magic to achieve great things since ancient times, I am stupid, and I will not copy my uncle's hand. Now that this matter has come out, I can't tolerate it, so I ask the master to give me a few days, and I will deal with it strictly after finding out! Yang Mingshi listened to his tearful explanation, his heart softened, sighed compassionately, and said: "According to my early temperament, the impeachment chapter has already been handed over at this time. Only now I am your master, and I am lazy if I don't teach. In the past, Prince Lao Li was actually kind to me when he was alive, and I really can't bear to see your generation suffer another catastrophe. What a great sin is this? It's a monarch and a minister, and it's a sibling, so you can't bear to die? ”

Honghui knelt down on his knees in front of Yang Mingshi with a "plop", kowtowed, and said: "Sir's benevolent heart leads to the sky!" Under the nine springs of my father, I really heard and saw it...... Sir, our family really can't withstand such twists and turns anymore......" said tears like rain.

"How can this be done, hurry up!" Yang Mingshi saw that Jin Ziming Zhong was almost upright, and hurriedly picked up Honghui, "Brother will come here in a while and see what's going on?" Honghui looked up at Yang Ming with a straight face, "Ask for grace from Mr.!" Whoever commits iniquity, I will surely put him to death. Please don't alarm the court, there are too many people accused of this crime...... If you don't agree, I'll kneel here. Anyway, the ending is the same, listen to the court's fair treatment......"

Honghui's reed-like tongue finally softened Yang Mingshi, and while holding him up, he sighed: "Not only can the prince's mansion not be able to withstand this catastrophe, but the imperial court should not toss this kind of thing anymore." Lord, I won't play, within three days, you give me a reply, the subordinate who does this thing will be executed, which brother plots, and wants to find another reason to ask for a knight, I will rot this matter in my heart...... Yang Mingshi didn't disobey his heart in his life, and he couldn't think of ......it," he shook his head, as if swallowing a mouthful of bitter wine, and raised his eyebrows.

But Yang Mingshi never expected that he would be poisoned the next day. What even Honghui didn't expect was that Honghui didn't come home from school at noon that day, ate a full snack, curled up on the spring bench next to the smoked cage and pretended to sleep, and listened to their conversation word for word.

The sedan car landed smoothly. Wang Ying opened the sedan curtain, saw Honghui still leaning on the back of the sedan chair with his eyes closed, and said cautiously: "Lord Wang, I'm home." Sheng Ye and Chang Ye arrived first, waiting at the door! ”

"Meet." Honghui slowly opened his eyes, looked through the window in a little confusion, came out with his waist bent, and entered the gate of the inverted building without looking at Hongsheng and Hongchang, and came to the study. Hongsheng and Hongchang glanced at each other, and followed in along the twists and turns of the super hand verandah.

Prince Li's Mansion is the largest and largest residence of all the royal palaces in Beijing. It was the twelfth year of Kangxi, and it took more than ten years to build the prince's mansion, and in the past 70 years, with the rise and fall of the owner, the palace has been repaired several times and broken several times, and now it is old, but the structural regulation still retains the appearance of the heyday of Yunren. The area around Zhengzhong Yin'an Palace has been sealed since Yunren was abolished for the second time, and Yunren in the early years of Yongzheng was released and lived in a small courtyard after the current Honghui study. Only this study is still the same as it was back then, looking east from the large glass window, there is the tall and gray Yin'an Treasure Hall and the palace wall that has been covered with dark red moss. The walls and corners of the temple were covered with withered yellow grass, shivering desolate in the wind, as if to tell people something. Hongsheng and Hongchang came in, and when they saw Honghui looking outside without saying a word, for a long time, they took a heavy breath, and Hongsheng asked, "Second brother, how many rare books did you get?" ”

"It's the same as the imitation post that Master Yang saw last time." Hong Hui turned around, his back to the light, his face was blue and dark, "If you don't get it right, it's even more difficult to deal with than Yang Mingshi." ”

Hongsheng and Hongchang's legs were weak, and they were sitting on the carved porcelain pier, and the room was as silent as death for a while! Hongsheng's face was pale, his thin white fingers were crossed and kneaded, and he gasped and said: "The medicine is prepared by the imperial physician Ruan Anshun, and the secret recipe of Annan is my own hand...... At that time, I looked carefully inside and outside the house, and there was indeed no idler! He said and looked at Hongchang. Hongchang was stunned by his cold gaze, and hurriedly said: "What kind of thing is this, I dare to tell the idler." If you want to tell the truth, I won't go to see my relatives in person? ”

"I don't doubt you either. If you had changed your mind, something would have happened a long time ago. I'm afraid that I'm drunk and talking about my dreams will leak out, and I don't look like it now. It didn't reach Hongsheng's ears all at once. He muttered to himself, thought about it for a while, and then returned to normal, and slowly said about the matter of the elder brothers of Yuqing Palace fighting for oranges today, and said, "My brain hurts when I think about it, and I don't have a clue." I don't think there's a need to bother with that, the most important thing is what to do now. Hongsheng looked up and thought, and said, "Second brother, how do you comfort him in private?" What did he say? "I didn't dare to say it directly, and I didn't dare to give more money." Honghui said: "Giving him a few golden melon seeds is not to compensate him on behalf of Honghui, and he is allowed to give him a golden silk grasshopper cage." He was only eight years old, so he burst into tears and laughed, saying that he didn't know how to speak, and whether he was up or down. I didn't dare to talk about anything else. ”

Hongchang is the youngest of the three Agers, just in his early twenties, with a black satin lambskin robe and a stone blue horse-style hair shoulders, and a pair of bright little eyes embedded in a delicate face, very energetic. He was the son-in-law of Prince Yi Yunxiang, just the year of Yunxiang's death, Prince Cheng Yunzhi's son Hongsheng on behalf of his father, Hongsheng was only ten years old at the time, and his affection for this thirteenth uncle was originally weak, and the filial piety hat fell under the spiritual table when kowtowing, and it was also a child's playful nature, he didn't need to pick it up with his hands, and his head arched under the table to put on the filial piety hat. Hongchang, who was guarding the spirit next to him, saw it at a glance, and couldn't help but laugh out loud. Yunzhi rushed to run for his brother's funeral, and when he saw this situation, he also smiled faintly. For this reason, Yunlu Guben participated in the impeachment, Yongzheng was furious, imprisoned Hongsheng Jiaozongrenfu, removed the title of Prince Yunzhi, and almost made a ghost under the knife together by father and son; Hongchang also stripped off Viscount Pei because of "bereavement", and inherited the title of Prince Yi from his eldest brother Hongxiao. Therefore, Hongchang also hated Yunlu and Hongxiao, and hit it off with Hongsheng, who was cut off from the title of Prince Heng's son in order to protect Yunzhi, and got on the ship of the "old master" Prince Li Honghui. After listening to Honghui's words, seeing that Hongsheng was still pondering, Hongchang said: "It's right for the second brother to deal with it like this, Hongsheng's family is now poor." He was a child, and he took back a lot of silver at once, but he was suspicious. In my opinion, the longer this kind of thing drags on, the more likely it is to have an accident. I can't think of a mess, and now I must extinguish my mouth: one is Yang Mingshi, and the other is Hongsheng. When the interruption continues, there will always be a day when the East Window incident happens, and we will at least be permanently banned! He was a famous thief, and when such a murderous word came out, his face was as calm as a child who had just woken up, and both Honghui and Hongsheng couldn't help but shudder.

"It seems like it's been a little too late." Honghui sighed helplessly: "Yang Mingshi is a last resort, Honghui is flesh and blood, and he is still ...... young."

Hongsheng smiled gloomily and said: "This is a major event for the return of the Great Qing Society to its master, and it is not a matter of personal affection. It depends on whether it should be done and whether it can be done. When we got rid of a Yang Ming, our hands and feet were so clean, and there was a Hongyu. How sure is it to start to get Hongsheng again? Yang Mingshi's side is easy to do, Ruan Anshun took the first step, and the second step is not good if he doesn't listen to us. Hongsheng's side, listening to what the second brother just said, this hairy boy doesn't seem to have any handle on us. It was inconvenient for the second brother to come forward, so Hongchang and I walked around his house a lot. He is two orphans and widows, and all he lacks is silver, and he is not poor in almsgiving, and he is estimated that he will not offend us with such rootless words. If you kill Hongsheng, Yunyu's family will be cut off, and if there is another mistake, you will move Jinshan to Hongsheng's mother, and you won't be able to stop her! ”

"That's what Hongsheng said." Honghui was originally in chaos, listening to Hongsheng's explanation, the more he felt that Hongchang's words were not advisable, "Hongsheng's brother died early, and his nephew is also an idle clan, originally a poor man with short ambitions, thin horses and long hair, and then she got rid of her son, and she was extremely poor and desperate, and she had to give birth to something if she had nothing to do, dare to add a little shadow?" Hongsheng is very clever, in case it doesn't work, we really can't even find a way out, that's really called boiling soup and pouring mice! I think it's enough to get rid of Yang Ming. It is also a warning to Hongsheng's mother and son, and also tells them that 'there is no proof of death', plus the silver to fill in, so that nothing will happen. Besides, it is unkind to kill an innocent person and win the world, and it is really difficult for me to poison this younger brother. Hongchang smiled and said: "Which one who wins the world does not kill the blood of the river, and the dead are all 'innocent'?" - This is the kindness of a woman. I admired my Ama and the fourteenth uncle back then, who never muttered anything when they said - if it weren't for the truth of what you said, I would still have the same word: 'kill'! ”

A cold wind swept under the eaves, and the iron horse beside Fu Qi shook uneasily, making a cold and desolate crashing sound, and the three brothers looked at the gradually darkening sky outside, and did not squeak for a while. Honghui's eyes shone with a dark light, like two ghostly fires that were bright and dark. After a long time, he muttered: "As soon as I saw this Yin'an Palace, I remembered the ...... back then. Amma, what a merciful prince, who was plotted alive! Yongzheng is just a servant under Amma, tampering with the edict and plotting to seize the country, he himself died violently in the palace, who knows that it is not retribution in this world! Why did Hongli (Qianlong) sit on the ninefold, didn't he rely on Yongzheng? Alas, providence...... Providence is so hard to know! ”

On the dark and windy night of this month, after Zizheng, Yang Mingshi was poured a bowl of soup and medicine.

In the early morning of the second day, Yang Feng'er came over to wait for him to turn over and relieve his hands, and found that he was silent with his eyelids down, lying quietly motionless, not quite the same as usual, when he reached out to touch it, there was no snort. Yang Feng'er was full of excitement, her legs were weak, and she almost collapsed to the ground. Yang Feng'er waited on the side of Yang Mingshi's couch all day long, faintly feeling that Yang Mingshi was very sick, but here to visit Guangai Ruyun, they are all the elders in power in the DPRK, and the doctor Ruan Anshun from the Tai Hospital is the one who diagnoses the pulse and sees the doctor, and the medicine is fed to Yang Ming after tasting it himself, even though he is suspicious in his heart, he does not dare to confide in half a sentence of gossip in his mouth. His heart sank for a moment, remembering that Yang Mingshi was a high-ranking official all his life, and he actually left like this, and he couldn't help but cry loudly from it, pounced on Yang Mingshi, pulled his shoulders and cried, "Uncle...... Wake up...... You can't just go for it...... Poor son and brother, how can they live, ah? Wake up, wake up...... Ho ho ......"

The cry immediately alarmed Mrs. Yang in the middle room, she was asleep in her clothes, she turned over with a bone, rubbed her bruised eyes and hurried out, and was colliding with the imperial doctor Ruan Anshun who had just rushed in. Mrs. Yang didn't care about this, so she just asked repeatedly, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? Ruan Anshun said irritably: "Don't cry! A few steps to Yang Mingshi, one hand to check the pulse, the other hand to open Yang Mingshi's eyelids to look at it, very agile to take out the silver needle bag from his arms, Yang Mingshi's head, ears, temples, front chest needles, densely pierced dozens of them. Yang and Yang Feng'er stood aside like fools and watched, seeing Ruan Anshun calling the pulse, he looked nervous for a while, shook his head and groaned for a while, and after a long time, he exclaimed in surprise: "There is a pulse!" Madame, please take a look! ”

"Really?" Mrs. Yang hurriedly held her husband's right vein, held her breath and concentrated, and sure enough, she slowly felt like still water, pulsating slightly like a gossamer. Mrs. Yang was pleasantly surprised, and was about to speak, when she saw Yang Mingshi's whole body tremble, as if she was about to spit out her endless sorrow, and she took a long breath, and suddenly there was no pulse! She glanced at Ruan Anshun in horror, but Ruan Anshun didn't say anything, she took the needle in a daze, and said for a long time: "Madam, I have done my best." Lord Yang has already ......" He seemed to be struggling to burst out three words: "Return to heaven......" Mrs. Yang was dizzy for a while, and suddenly fell in front of her husband's couch.

All the murderers are afraid of seeing the results of their own evil, Ruan Anshun's face was gloomy, and he was busy helping his wife up, and when he saw Yang Feng'er beating his chest and crying in the dark, he himself closed his eyes. Ruan Anshun folded his hands and muttered the Sanskrit scriptures for a while before he calmed himself down, and said: "Bring all the prescriptions of Lord Yang's pulse case, ask Mrs. Yang to take a look at it, and send it to the Tai Hospital......" Mrs. Yang just woke up, and suddenly rushed over like crazy, startling Ruan Anshun in a hurry, almost grabbed by her braids: "Madam, you, what's wrong with you?" ”

"You Annankee!" Mrs. Yang exclaimed bitterly: "Didn't you say that you can't speak and write when you're famous, and your life doesn't matter?" Yesterday he was still steady, and he returned overnight...... How did you cure him......" She sat down on the ground with a weak body, and cried out to the sky: "When you are famous...... Why are you doing this...... As soon as you came back from Yunnan, you promised me not to be an official...... I'm so miserable-" Yang Feng'er said sadly next to him: "Uncle...... Why didn't you go without saying a word when you were not old...... The two children, who had been hiding in the back room, also ran out, and the family immediately cried into a mess.

At this time, Hongsheng and Hongchang entered the hospital with a box of **. When they stopped and listened, they understood everything. Hongchang stepped into the house in a few steps, first stunned, lost the snack bag and exclaimed bitterly, "Master! ......" rushed to Yang Mingshi's side. Then Hongsheng also followed, kneeling in front of Yang Mingshi, beating the bed and kowtowing. It's also thanks to this brother that he has such anxious tears, and he said eloquently: "Master Yang...... You are the most precious to us in Yuqing Palace...... Why did you just let it go! Who is willing to take my handwriting and teach us to draw and play the piano? You're not yet fifty years old, and the court has a lot of places for you! Why don't you open your eyes so much......"

For a long time, the two brothers collected tears to comfort the mother and son of the Yang family who were mourning and crying. Hongsheng said: "People cannot be resurrected after death. Now is not the time to cry. Let's go to the sixteen princes, we have to immediately show that today, Imperial Doctor Ruan sorted out the pulse case and handed it over to the Tai Hospital, and here the master and wife will remove the fire in the house, don't mourn first, the emperor will definitely have a will later. Hongchang was ingenious and said, "I have met more than a dozen teachers in my life, but I have never been able to meet Master Yang." Our brothers all know that Master Yang is honest and honest, and he doesn't have much money behind him. Rest assured, my brother, my brothers will be blessed, and when they grow up, they will definitely make great achievements and shine on the lintel. Uh-I pledge 1,000 taels here, don't be too thin. There are many students, and you don't have to worry about it in the second half of your life...... "The two brothers, you talk and I persuade you eloquently, and it took a while for Mrs. Yang to stop crying, and reluctantly got up to take care of Yang Mingshi's funeral. Hongsheng's mind was much more detailed than Hongchang's, he had already walked a few steps, and then turned around and said to Mrs. Yang: "There is such a big event at home, how can these people be busy?" If Madame doesn't dislike it, I'll bring some family members over to help with the cooking. I also have some gifts to send over. Because I saw that Hongchang had written a pledge booklet and put it on the coffee table, I also came over and wrote "Hongsheng Recognition Ceremony One Thousand Taels" after Hongchang's name.

"It's all up to you." Mrs. Yang has been married to her husband for many years, and Yang Mingshi is mostly in trouble, and rarely accepts her to the post. She was actually a woman who couldn't live and had no experience, and she was already in turmoil at this time, and she didn't know what to do. Thanks to Hongsheng Hongchang's point, she slowly calmed down, and said with a bow, "After the incident, I will ask Feng'er to take the two children over and kowtow." "Hongchang thinks that Hongsheng is overzealous, how many powerful elder brothers are placed on it, is it your turn to cook? Before he could speak, Hongsheng said again: "This is what a disciple should do, what is the point of thanks?" Master Yang's manuscript before his death is important, please Mrs. tidy it up and I will bring it. I funded the publication of the master's books and articles all over the world. Yang Feng'er was very sad when he saw Yang Mingshi, the two elder brothers came so "timely", and they were so affectionate, seeing Hongsheng's handwriting of the manuscript, doubts arose in his heart, and he said: "If you go back to your master, our master's manuscripts are stored in my box, this will be so messy, I'm afraid I won't be able to spare time." After a few days, I will send it to the house in person. ”

Hongsheng stared at Yang Feng'er with dead eyes, but Yang Feng'er's words were too reasonable. He thought for a while before he said, "It's okay." I just want to edit it, and I have a little light. It's okay for you to figure it out for me. I won't ask for the master's manuscript in vain. Hongchang saw that Ruan Anshun had come out with a large bag of medical cases, and stood aside in a daze, so he said, "Brother Sheng, let's go with the imperial doctor." ”

"Two masters," at the gate of Yang Mingshi, the three of them each led the horse, and the imperial physician Ruan Anshun was not in a hurry to get on the horse, and turned his face to Hongsheng and said: "The three thousand taels of silver I gave me are not enough, please reward you with another two thousand." Because, because I'm going back home. Hongsheng looked at this Annan man with excellent medical skills, and said: "Two thousand taels of silver is not difficult, you have become a famous doctor in China, wouldn't it be a pity to go back to your wild land?" ”

Ruan An Shun put on the reins of Mahler, looked into the distance, and said, "I studied to be a good doctor, but I became a bad person, my mother will be disappointed." Moreover, no one can guarantee that I will become the second Yang Mingshi! With that, he shook the reins and rode away. Hongsheng looked at his back and said with a cruel smile: "Hold his wife, he can't go." Hongchang said: "Let him go, it's a disaster to stay here, and we have to think of something to kill us." If you are not careful, you will bury yourself! As the two spoke, they stopped when they saw Qian Du riding a horse and came over.