Sigege's fiftieth birthday was made a big fuss by Eighteen Gege, which disrupted her happy day. After Qianlong's disposition, everyone was happy. Since they were born, these princesses have been taught "rules" by the eunuchs and Jingqi grandmothers, how to walk, how to sit, and every move must be "well-behaved", the spoon of the meal knocks the dishes, the voice is rough, the teeth are exposed when laughing, or even the rice is eaten too much, and the posture of serving tea is not elegant...... All of them must be "ecstatic" in line with the royal demeanor. Therefore, when they look at them from the outside, they feel miserable, but they have been like this since they were children, and they are used to it, and no one thought that it was a matter of course to live with their husbands. A word of mouth, the foreheads came in one after another, and the husband and wife sat together to watch "Hitting the Golden Branch", which really had a special warmth in my heart.

Qianlong sat on the platform and laughed with his mother, and when he saw that the Nala clan in the audience was looking at him, he suddenly remembered the "rumor", and he couldn't sit still, and he just groaned. The Queen Mother said with a smile while watching the play: "The emperor is better than Tang Suzong today, but he has given our girls a long prestige. There are some things that the golden branches themselves have to do. Do you say the Emperor? ”

"Huh? Yes! Qianlong was stunned for a moment, then came back to his senses, and hurriedly bowed down and smiled: "Yes, how can Tang Suzong be willing?" Chaoli and Inside are uneasy, he can't help but rely on Guo Ziyi, of course, it is a last resort. ”

In a word, the queen and Sigege and Qigege covered their mouths and laughed. The Queen Mother smiled: "Emperor, you are tired." As soon as you come, the face of the four grids will be enough. Leave us alone, if you want to rest, just go back and rest. I'm glad to see the bottom today! Qianlong hurriedly got up and said with a smile: "This is the emperor's compassion for her son." In fact, it's not lacking, there are a few little things that have to be cooked, and I can't watch the play, so I lose my mind. He bowed to the Queen Mother again, and quietly left Sigege Mansion with Gao Wuyong and his colleagues.

Eighteen Gege returned to the front of his mansion outside Chaoyang Gate, and as soon as he got off the sedan chair, he greeted a large group of girls and old women. Zhang said with a smile: "I just came back from the incense of Tianqi Temple, and I drew a good lottery for Gege!" It was said that Gege was the niece and granddaughter of the Jade Emperor, and that Gege would add a noble son next year......" While saying, he accompanied Eighteen Gege into Xiamen, and turned back to Geshanting and said, "Please stay." The master is also tired, Gege is fasting today, tomorrow will go to Tianqi Temple to burn incense, and come in later to ask Gege for peace. "Zhang is the dowry girl of Concubine Ding'an, and she is married to Yin An, the younger brother of the university scholar Yin Tai. Her cousin is Zhang Guangsi, the current emperor's celebrity. From every end, her foundation is very strong. In fact, she is the Son of Allah in this house. Ge Shanting listened to her instructions, so he had to stand on his feet and looked at his wife in confusion. Eighteen Gege smiled: "You can go back to the house first." I just ate big fish and meat at the fourth aunt, and I can't stop fasting. Ming'er, I won't go to Tianqi Temple. You go back and pack up first, and wait for my letter. After that, he entered the courtyard, walked through the hall and entered the upper room, and sat down to eat tea.

Zhang was stunned when he heard this, and he hurriedly followed, sat opposite Gege, and said with a smile: "Dare to go far away?" I'm really confused, that's when I should have brought in to set the table and see off the wine - I heard today that the emperor also went to Sigege Mansion to watch a play? This has never been done before. But you sent my wife to Tianqi Temple, and I didn't see the emperor! Eighteen Gege ignored her without smiling, and shouted with his face up, "Thrush! You come in. ”

"Hey, yes!" Her personal maid came in, stood beside Zhang, and asked with a smile, "Gege, what do you want?" ”

"Don't want anything, you call a few men outside, move the screen between the east wing and the main hall where I live forward, the white marble base, the glass screen, it's dead, it's not what the girls did." Eighteen Gege thought as he said, "Curry also has a bird gun and a sword, take it and hang it here." You see, it's hanging next to that big red porcelain vase. The tea sets, coffee tables, and rattan chairs in the room where I live are old and replaced with new ones—tell the steward's room, and speak my word. Also, invite the jade Guanyin in the west room to the east chamber, and I will recite the Buddha and eat fast nearby—do you understand? ”

"Yes!" The thrush stood on the ground, and recited Gege's words word for word, and went out to make arrangements. Zhang has watched her grow up since she was a child, and has never seen her like this, so she was surprised and said with a smile: "I should worry about this, but Gege personally commanded it." But you don't wield guns and sticks, and those birds and knives hang in the house, strange people. What do you want those things to do? Eighteen Gege smiled and said: "Mama, I want to ask my forehead to move in, I often have nightmares at night, and I wake up scared and my heart is beating with a tom, there is a man to calm down, maybe it will be better." ”

Zhang was stunned, opened his mouth wide, and stared at the golden branch and jade leaf who ate her milk and was raised by her teachings as if he didn't know him. Eighteen Gege sneered: "What, can't it be? I'll give you money, give a little more. ”

"This is a big rule, the Ministry of Internal Affairs knows, and it won't collapse the sky?" Zhang said: "You are the king, and the forehead is the minister." You call him in, and he comes in. If you don't recruit him, he can't come in. Once in luck, you have to file with the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The number of tricks is too many to make people laugh, making people point behind their backs and say unpleasant things, as if they can't live without a man! You have met quietly in a small way, and I will take it. Asking him to enter Gege Mansion so blatantly, my wife can't afford it! ”

After listening to it with a smile, Eighteen Gege got up and went into the inner room without saying a word, took out a silver ticket from the dowry box, and came out to see the clothed slave Zhang Da standing in the courtyard with a group of male servants, so he stepped to the door and ordered: "I am talking to Mama, and I will come in later." He turned back to Zhang's side, silently pushed the silver ticket over, and said after a long time: "Mama Zhang, since I was a child, I have been with you, what do I not know?" The 10,000 silver reward when he got married had already been spent, and the moon silver was also eaten by Yin. This is the last time I went back to the palace, and the noble lord of Nala saw that the mink fur I was wearing had lost his hair, and he gave me this idea to give me his own money. It's not easy to make it - just take it! Zhang peeked at it, and it was a big silver ticket with a thousand taels. She is a rich person, where can she look down on this little money? Busy said: "The master didn't dare to give up the silver, but this is not a trivial matter for one night or two nights." He moved in, how dare I call the shots? As he was talking, Thrush came in and said, "The steward's room said that there are rattan chairs and tea sets in the back of the storehouse, and they have always been in the care of Mama Zhang's nephew." Steward Zhang said that he had to have his sister's words to take it out! ”

"You're so wide!" Eighteen Gege squinted and sneered, "The housekeeper is your cousin, the one who manages the treasury is your nephew, and the one who manages the door is your nephew." No wonder even the girls in my room are afraid of you! Before Mama Zhang came back to her senses, she "snapped" the table and stood up, scolding: "Bastard thing!" ”

Zhang was startled, hurriedly stood up, stared at Eighteen Gege with his eyes, and said, "What's wrong with you?" Buddha, what is this offense? Isn't the old minion worrying about you! ”

"You fart!" Eighteen Gege was furious, "This is my Gege Mansion, not your Mama's Mansion!" She took a few steps to the door and said to the thrush: "You take the girl out of the house, inform the whole house, whether it is faceless or faceless, everyone comes, whoever does not obey the order will report it immediately, and say that I am promoted to Princess Heshuo, and I will take care of family affairs today." Only then did he turn around and smile at Zhang, who was scared and yellow-faced: "You must be thinking in your heart, I am the princess of Heshuo, the tide is rising, and you will naturally rise one step higher, and you will still be the queen mother in this mansion, right?" You know the rules, too—you're still standing tall in front of me! Mama Zhang knelt down with a thud, her eyes were full of tears, and she choked up: "The old slave is not rude, but frightened." If you think about it, you haven't done anything wrong today! You are a princess of Jin Feng and Shuo, why do you have such a big liver fire at the slave? ”

Eighteen Gege's years of depression and resentment suddenly surged into his heart. But she was a deep person, with a sinister glint in her eyes, and only a sneer. "I grew up eating your milk as a child, and I have always respected you as a grandmother, how do you treat me?"

Zhang kowtowed again and again and said, "The master's kindness is as heavy as a mountain, how can the old woman afford it?" The conscience of heaven and earth is above, I really love my master more than I love my daughter......"

"Then I don't know." Eighteen Gege shook his head gloomily, "I knew that if I asked my man to come in for a night's stay, he would have to stuff you with silver first, and sneak in through the back door like a thief." Or you dare to persuade me to my face that I am ashamed!" She was suddenly so angry that her eyes were on fire, she pointed at Zhang's with her hand, gritted her teeth and said, "Didn't you just say that I 'can't live without a man'?" By the way, I just can't live without a man! Even the saints say 'lust-eating', you have been widowed for many years, so you also call me a widow! ”

"Princess—"

"Clamp your stinky mouth!" Eighteen Gege assumed her identity today, she arched her hands, "I have served the will of the Son of Heaven today to dispose of this business - thrush, parrot!" ”

"In!"

Thrush and Parrot Brother are the two big girls in the upper room who are usually beaten by the Zhang family, and at this moment they are really radiant, exhaling and raising their eyebrows, and they stepped forward and responded: "What is the decree of the master Chitose?" The other girls also woke up at this moment, and one by one they folded their arms and sleeves to prepare for Shi Wei.

"My words are not 'will'." Eighteen Gege raised his face and said, "But in this house, from today onwards, I will say a word." Tell the two of you men to go to the Ebu Mansion, and please come over at this time. In the future, you will worry about the things inside, and you men will take care of the things outside! For those who only know how to look at Zhang's face, open the leather in one piece! Ask some people to clean up the house according to my instructions, prepare a table of dishes, and give you a good night to catch the wind!" ”

"Yes, understood!"

"Make a list of girls over the age of seventeen. I'm afraid there are one or two hundred, right? The one who should be matched is the one who is in the outer door - the one who asks the woman to pick the man! ”

"Yes!"

More than a dozen girls in the upper room listened shyly and happily, their hearts were hot, and they just pursed their lips and smiled. The princess blushed, turned her eyes to look at Zhang's face, suddenly smiled, and said, "Mother Zhang, this is a last resort." Actually, you know, I'm the kindest. I would have searched your house to see if there were any of my things. Why bother if you don't kill people and don't fall to the ground? You took this thousand taels of silver and took the people of your Zhang family back, so that they could serve you and really be an old feudal king. It's a hundred times better than worrying about Zhang Luo in my house. She let out a long breath, as if overwhelmed, "Don't think about this or that. Feel swept face. You're still my nurse! How well did you treat me when I was a child...... I'll never forget it! Let's go back, and come and ......sit down in our spare time," he said, and a few tears spilled out.

"Thank you for your grace." Zhang was suspicious and then shocked, but at this moment he turned sour again, and he had already cried and collapsed on the ground, choking up and saying, "...... It's all minions who don't understand ......."

"Don't talk about it." Eighteen Gege wiped away his tears and waved his hand decisively, "Go ahead!" ”

Here, Mama Zhang and her relatives rolled up their luggage and prepared to leave, and over there, Thrush and others excitedly took people to clean the living room for the princess and the princess. Those who handed over accounts, vacated houses, and counted warehouses in the mansion were busy in a mess. There are those who cry, those who laugh, those who speak coldly, those who murmur and scold, those who make a lot of noise, those who are gloomy and silent, and those who are full of smugness and pretending to be reserved...... It's like a nest blown up, and everyone is involved in this farce. Eighteen Gege saw that the west living room was cleaned up, and took the two girls out of the upper room, and when he saw Geshan Pavilion coming in from outside the second gate, he stood still.

Ge Shanting walked a few steps in front of Gege, knocked on the horse's hoof sleeve with a "poof", and said, "Say hello to the princess Chitose!" After saying that, he stood up and looked at Eighteen Gege with emotion. Gegerton felt that his cheeks were hot, and in front of the people in the courtyard, he couldn't say anything, so he just said lightly: "Come in!" ”

"Meet privately in the future, don't be so polite." Eighteen Gege sat down, and when he saw that his husband was following the rules and touching his knees with his hands, he was still the same as before, and he couldn't help but smile, "What I'm fighting for today is the word 'husband and wife'." You look like a slave, what do you do? Ge Shanting also smiled, put down his hands, and said, "It's hard to return, and my heart is palpitating!" The princess smiled and said: "I am bitter, I know that you are also bitter, and unlike ordinary eunuchs, you can ask for three wives and four concubines, and you are also some people placed by Mama Zhang." Pick and choose, and drive out a few of the useless ones, and don't go too far, as if we can't tolerate people. ”

Ge Shanting smiled, pondered and replied, "Yes!" Just now I went there five or six foreheads, and everyone praised you as a heroine among women, and the old rules were broken by you all of a sudden. I'm afraid that the princesses and Gege are all making a big fuss in the house! ”

"This is all the emperor's sage!" The princess smiled, "The body is reasonable! Don't look at this as a trivial matter, some of these grandmothers are relatives and family slaves, and some are nobles and cronies in the palace. The emperor's 'Golden Branch' offended a sea of people! ”

The young couple, who were close to the end of the world and reunited, talked heart-to-heart until dark. The family banquet was put on, the wine bottle was moved and the red candles were lit, and the young couple seemed to be "newlyweds drinking". Na Geshan Pavilion had two glasses of wine, and he had forgotten his form, shook his head and sighed: "Speaking of the emperor's grace, it is really true. The emperor is really a benevolent monarch! Alas...... That's it, go out and listen, there are many maggots chewing on them! We are a group of foreheads, we will talk about everything in one place, I heard-" He looked outside the door, and said, "I heard that Prince Li is still fighting the emperor's idea!" ”

"Really?" The princess was taken aback for a moment, and urged her husband, "What is his idea, what bad water to put in?" Ge Shanting was stunned for a moment, sobered up from the warm tenderness and sweetness, and said: "This is just a matter of idle teeth after tea and drinking, why should the princess be serious?" What does it have to do with us when they release bad water? Eighteen Gege sank his face, thought for a while, and said, "Of course there are related ones. That's what you said, the emperor's benevolent government has also offended many people. If they want to fight the emperor's bad idea, they will add a crime of 'contempt for the family law of the ancestors' to the emperor. I have been given all the shares of death, how can I say 'irrelevant'? I ordered this scene today, in fact, I saw the noble lord of Nala first, and I cried a lot. Master Nala said, 'You want to make trouble, and I approve of it in my heart.' However, there are some rumors outside these days, the emperor is on fire in his heart today, beware of him losing his temper, and treat you in public, how can that be good? 'Thinking about your words, one is to repay the kindness, and the other is to worry about your own body, and you can't stand on the shore with your hands open! ”

Ge Shanting sat in a daze for a long time, and said: "This is what He Ying of Princess Qigulun's family and Legsai Efu of Thirteen Gege and I are eating wine together. Lesegg was the bodyguard of the Sixteenth Prince. The road is smoother than ours. During the meal, I said, 'If you talk about it, we are also royal relatives, but it is difficult for me to even look at the emperor.' Even we can't see each other every day. One day, I would dare to come to the door and make a big fuss and pull my mother-in-law's house. This is good, you can't prostitute outside, you don't dare to touch a finger of the girl inside, the wife is a living widow, we are a group of live widows! Legse said: 'What about seeing the emperor?' I entered the palace with the prince, and I can see it every day. It's just standing on duty to listen to the greetings, what kind of identity do you have? But the emperor has already gone to Henan with Fu Liuye, do you know? - It's not a rumor outside! ’……

"Only then did He Ying and I know that the emperor was not in Beijing. Nalegse, who was already half drunk and blushing like pig's liver, came up to our faces and sprayed wine and said, 'There's a play here...... Only the emperor himself is in the dark! Prince Li and Sheng Beile played with sticks and mallets in Beijing, saying that the flag affairs were all deserted. In a few years, it will be difficult to determine who will be the master and who will be the slave among the Manchurians. They went to find our prince, and said that they had to ask the lord of the Eight Banners, who was retired in Fengtian, to come to Beijing and hold a meeting to discuss flag affairs. When Prince Yi heard this, he stumbled and complained: 'They came to me first, I blocked it tightly, why did Uncle Sixteen respond?' This is absolutely unacceptable! ’

"Our prince squinted his eyes and said: 'Rectify the flag affairs, the first emperor and the emperor have had a will. What's the matter, there are two of us who are sitting on the throne, plus Zhang Tingyu and Ortai are in Beijing, and they can't do it? ’

"'I don't know if it's against me or not,' Wang Ye Yi's face was gloomy, and he said: "I only know that in the fourth year of Yongzheng, the eighth, ninth, and tenth uncles also got this, saying that it was to rectify the flag affairs and convene a meeting of the iron hat prince - in fact, he wanted to abolish the first emperor at the meeting and return to the ancestral family law of the Eight Banners!" At that time, you were in the Xining Labor Army, and you didn't know about Beijing. The first emperor ordered General Fengtian to stand by as a whole army, and the eight hereditary princes who were replaced by him had to make a change, first cut and then play! When it comes to the flag affairs, it is necessary to say that the first emperor lost his power, and then he accused the first emperor of being incorrect, and then he was abolished. You must know that at that time, the owners of the Eight Banners had military power in their hands! The eighth, ninth, and tenth uncles turned over for this matter, and never got up again! When our prince heard this, he laughed and said, 'I only know that they have no military power, so I dare to call them here.' King Yi said: "They have no soldiers, they have prestige, and how many noble ministers in the court who hold great power are their clothed servants." Who can control the situation when it comes to it? I'll put my words here, if you dare, you can tell them to toss around, and if something happens, Uncle Sixteen, you'll be the boss! ’

"Our prince has no idea when he hears it, he wants to ask Zhang Tingyu to discuss with them, but he is afraid that it will become a serious matter to go to the study, and he wants to talk back, and he is afraid that people will say that he is incompetent. It was still King Yi who was smart and said, 'You call them teacher Yang Mingshi, they are afraid of Yang Mingshi.' When Yang Ming was called, he persuaded them to study and leave nothing else, and this matter was quietly gone. ’

"Yang Mingshi is really powerful, after listening to the words of our prince, he went back to Yuqing Palace, took out the first emperor's "Shengwu Ji" and read it, all the princes, Baylor, and Beizi knelt down to listen, and read it for three hours, and they knelt dizzy and dizzy, and they all wilted, and then they said that you violated the holy precepts of the first emperor, interfered in government affairs in vain, and wanted to be punished. Prince Li's throne is difficult, and he was punished for copying the "Shengwu Ji" again, and the other Baylor and Beizi were punished to kneel for three days with the "Shengwu Ji" on their heads. However, Yang Mingshi did not participate in this matter anymore and was tolerant. If Yang Mingshi is here in this matter, he must apply for the imperial court and impeach the princess, if there are really rumors, I don't think others will dare. Maybe it's this group of old and young brothers who are turning over old accounts and want to make some waves. ”

Princess Heshuo listened quietly, her face became more and more pale, and she neither drank nor put down the wine glass in her hand, and said for a long time: "How much wind and waves can you enjoy?" What's the point of turning over the old accounts of several lifetimes? Prince Tali is still not satisfied? If it weren't for the benevolence of the first emperor and the current emperor, he would have been deposed as a concubine and circled in the courtyard to watch the four heavens! ”

"The princess is really a good person, and she hasn't walked around the world, these people in the world are bad!" Ge Shanting said with a smile: "Shengmien, fighting Mi Qiu, it has always been like this. If you don't let the prince come out, you will be imprisoned; When he was released to live idle, he didn't think about it; When he was promoted to the prince again, and he was just one step away from the throne, then he might think: You got this throne from your Amma, and you Ama got it from my Amana—this should have been my Sumeru seat, and I let you sit on it! - This breath is nested, can you get out? The princess asked, "What do you mean by 'Shengmien, Doumi'?" Ge Shanting said: "You give him a liter of rice to save the emergency, that's kindness." If you give him a bucket, he will have a new idea, and he will have to think about it: you can give a stone, why only give a bucket - that's what it means. ”

The princess's eyes flashed, this saying is really a wise saying! Isn't this the case with my grandmother? While pondering, the self-striking bell "Dangdang" rang nine times in a row, and it was already the beginning of the morning. She stood up, hesitated for a moment as if she couldn't make up her mind, and shouted, "Orchid! A little girl immediately trotted in and asked, "The master called me?" ”

"I and I will go into the palace to greet Lafayette," said the princess, "and call the thrush and the parrot, and tell them to get up and follow." ”

"Yes."

Ge Shanting looked at this wife he was not familiar with a little puzzled. Although she is gentle, she is unquestionably tough. Ge Shanting snorted, "This ...... This will be the key to the door...... I'm a foreign minister......"

"Prepare the car!"