In September, with a slight coolness in the breeze, Qi Su Niang walked into the study of the Qianqing Palace with tea, and heard Kangxi's order: "...... The Yellow River enters the sea from the Qingkou, and Gaojiayan is unharmed,...... There was no major disaster in Jiangnan. The river work is successful, I am very relieved, appreciate the three eyes of Zhang Pengxi, the governor of the river, and raise the Jiayan River Cheng Chen Yan as the magistrate of Qinghe County, "paused, and said with a slight smile: "I am on a southern tour this month." ”

The imperial boat passed through Tongzhou all the way, and Qi Suniang waited for Kangxi to have breakfast, and finally got free for a while and went out of the cabin. The river breeze blew the willows planted by Emperor Yang of Sui on the side of the Cao River in nine provinces, and the huge imperial fleet went down the wind, passing through Tianjin, Cangzhou, and entering the Shandong boundary. The humid air came to the face, which made Qi Su Niang, who had been dry in Beijing for a long time, very comfortable.

got on the boat, and the accompanying fourth elder brother and thirteenth elder brother discussed river work with Kangxi every day, and there was less time to talk to the prince. Qi Su Niang was a little puzzled, although the fourth elder brother usually fell to the eldest elder brother, he also became friendly with the prince, far less than the eighth elder brother, they have clear barriers, and it is really not normal to behave like this. However, thinking of Kangxi's increasingly cold face towards the prince in recent days, Qi Su Niang seems to have realized something.

However, her impression of the prince has changed greatly in the past few days, the prince is driving, and there is Aunt Rui among the female officials with her. When the prince left the boat and waited in front of Kangxi, Qi Su Niang and Rui Gu often talked together. Qi Su Niang was guilty in her heart, but she didn't expect Aunt Rui to seem to know her thoughts, and bluntly said that she was originally the palace maid of Concubine Rong's Yanxi Palace, and the prince was raised by Concubine Rong, the third elder brother's mother, when she was young, and she went over to ask for peace from time to time.

Qi Su Niang was stunned, and looked at Aunt Rui's face carefully, it didn't seem to be lying, and it was not good to ask again. Inquire about Shuanghong again, although it is not favored, it is safe, and I have doubts in my heart, and I can't help but accept a few copies of my disgust for the prince.

The sky is getting dark, Qi Su Niang went to change shifts after freshening up, and when she went out, the Qianqing Palace people could not all bring it out, she used to just stand at the door as a pose, but now she is serving tea, pouring water, passing food, and grinding ink, although she is a little unaccustomed, but seeing Li Dequan, Liang Jiugong, and Xiao Wei eunuchs busy with their feet not touching the ground, they are only happy.

Tonight, Kangxi only recruited thirteen elder brothers to accompany him on the boat, first talking about river work, and then talking about Cao Yun, he couldn't help but recall the Ping San Domain, the expedition to Galdan, the father and son said very deed, one person made three or four poems, so that Qi Su Niang dozed off.

Seeing that the moon was in the middle of the sky, the two of them were in high spirits, Qi Su Niang had to change the tea again and again, and when she walked to the front cabin from the pantry with the tea case in her hand for the fifth time, she met the fourth elder brother on board. Before she could salute, she suddenly heard a half-sharp woman's scream, which suddenly came to an abrupt halt, and without a trace, it came from the prince's boat.

Qi Su Niang was startled by the scream, her hands were unstable, the tea case was crooked, and she knocked a cup of tea to the ground, and with a crisp sound, splashed the upper of the fourth elder brother's shoes. Qi Su Niang hurriedly pleaded guilty, but before she could make a sound, another vague scream came out, although the voice was small, but it made her hair stand on end!

Qi Su Niang didn't care about anything else, took three steps and made two steps, ran into the brightly lit front cabin, took a few breaths, looked at Kangxi's angry face, was startled again, and stammered: "The emperor...... The Emperor ......"

Kangxi said with a cold face: "You go and take a look." Let him be more restrained. Qi Su Niang was stunned for a moment, but she heard the fourth elder brother behind her respond respectfully, turned around and got off the boat.

Qi Su Niang's face turned pale, thinking of the several women that the prince got on the boat from Cangzhou, and then thinking of Aunt Rui's words, her mind was in chaos, and she didn't know who was true and who was false.

Kangxi seemed to be swept away, and ordered the thirteenth elder brother to retreat, walking around the cabin alone, his face became more and more angry, and Li Dequan and Qi Su Niang were silent. On the fourth watch, Kangxi went to bed, sighed before going to bed, and asked Qi Su Niang to go to the imperial dining room to make an order, stew more tonic soup for the prince, and let Li Dequan go to the Dezhou Palace in a few days, and select some women from good families to fill the prince's harem.

Qi Su Niang returned to the room, tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep steadily, and from the second day, she still tried to avoid the prince. The screams of the night were not heard again, but a few days later, after Kangxi went to bed, when she was on duty at night, she could still faintly hear the crying of the woman on the prince's boat.

The prince tossed and turned night and night, and when he arrived at the Texas Palace, he was sick. Kangxi was stationed in the Dezhou Palace.

Although the Texas Palace is not large, the palace room is also exquisite. Qi Su Niang paid attention to the two twelve heavy brocade inlaid snail screens on the hall, which were embroidered with the prosperous scenery of Texas Caoyun, and Kangxi personally inscribed a poem on the screen, "Come out of the Cao, go into the Caozhong." The connection is tight, and I have nowhere to go. And he gave one to the west hall of the prince, so that he could watch it in his illness. Unexpectedly, the prince's illness became more and more serious, and Kangxi summoned Suo Etu to come to Texas to serve the sick.

Qi Su Niang looked at the prosperity of the screen on the hall every day, and saw that Li Mingming, the prefect of Texas, led the wealthy businessmen who were always responsible for the business, and they paid tribute every day, and presented a banquet every day, all of which were rare treasures in the north and south of the world, and she ******** all inquired about what local products were in Texas, and which of them were the most profitable, and she didn't care much about the turbulent dark tide in the palace. Even so, when Kangxi summoned Suo Etu to Texas, he couldn't help but be surprised.

Suo Etu has already been begging, although he is a relative of the prince, there is really no need to invite him to come, Qi Su Niang secretly peeked at the face of the fourth elder brother, but it was Gujing Wubo. But when Qi Su Niang saw him squeezing the Buddha beads in his hand tightly, she knew that his heart was very chaotic.

After Suo Etu came from Beijing, the prince was really happy, and even though he was bedridden, he called him to accompany him every day. Kangxi's face became more and more gloomy, Qi Suniang heard more and more rumors in the palace, saying that the prince cried to Suo Etu, saying that he had been poisoned by drugs, and he was worried and uneasy every day. After half a month like this, the prince was still not healed, and Kangxi issued an order to summon the governor of the river to come to Texas to see His Majesty.

One day, Kangxi went to bed in the palace of the secret nobleman Wang, and Qi Su Niang went back to the room to sleep, and heard a mess outside, with torches shaking, "Take it and commit it!" The voices came and went, Qi Su Niang got up from the bed, and the sound of the voice went more and more towards Tai*, as if she was chasing the assassin, and she couldn't help but sit up in her clothes. Unexpectedly, when she got out of bed, she was strodged and pushed back to the bed.

Qi Su Niang was taken aback, her left hand touched the copper hairpin under the pillow, her fingers touched the frozen copper hairpin, and her heart was stable, and she noticed that the person next to her was obviously a man, breathing heavily, pumping from time to time, it must be injured, and as soon as the man spoke, Qi Su Niang heard that this person was Liu San'er next to the prince.

"Miss Qi, don't make a sound, otherwise we'll all be finished." Liu San'er gasped and said in a low voice.

Qi Su Niang knew that if she couldn't stabilize him, she was afraid that her life would be in danger, so she had to nod, Liu San'er lowered her voice and said: "Miss Qi is the person of the fourteenth elder brother, and the slave is the person of the eldest brother, and she also begged Miss Qi to let the slave hide for one night, and tomorrow the slave will have his own way to leave, and he will not take the girl with him." ”