In the blink of an eye, the first month of the month has come out, and on the first day of the next month, Yinzhen set off to the Old Summer Palace again. During this period, because of pity for the frailty of the young son, Ning Concubine Wu was specially ordered to take the emperor's eighth son Fuhui to serve the Old Summer Palace.

It's February, and spring is deepening. At dawn on this day, Huizhu was sleepy, suddenly felt a chill hit, and heard the noise for a while, so she half-opened her eyes and took a look, and saw Su Xin's figure shaking in the room in a daze, and turned over with interest, rubbed her pillow and asked, "What time is it?" The palace is very weak, but it can't wake up. Before he finished speaking, he yawned again and again.

Su Xin said with a smile: "The second dragon of the junior high raised his head, and he had to support the upper fan, but he made a noise with the master." This yesterday to clean up the yard, make it late to rest, although the master slept for a while, the slave maid went to the kitchen to gather some food for the season, thinking that the long live master would come to eat at noon. ”

As soon as she heard this, Huizhu suddenly lost her sleepiness, gritted her teeth and replied fiercely: "If the emperor doesn't come, we shouldn't eat the three of us." Su Xin's face was straight, and he looked around carefully, and saw that there were no outsiders, so he lost his anger and said: "Master, I can't tell others what I said." Huizhu turned her back with a snort and didn't say a word.

At noon, Yinzhen really came, Su Xin smiled happily, and prepared a table of dishes more carefully, in addition to the spring cakes and side dishes for the season, cold dishes, hot dishes, and pastries are also available.

Huizhu glanced at the dining table, summoned Xiao Ranzi to the partition curtain and ordered, "Go to the kitchen and see if there are any other preparations?" The palace ate late at noon, and Hongli and Bao'er didn't come back, so I really couldn't eat at noon. After finishing speaking, he picked up the curtain and went back to the inner room, seeing that Yinzhen's eyes were indifferent, he couldn't hold it anymore, and he was extremely unwilling, so he had to roll the spring cakes while bowing his head and muttering: "In the first month, Prince Fujin and King Fujin of the county all came to Jingren Palace, saying that the draft was pressed for one term, and many boys didn't have any family affairs. I heard that the concubine was in charge of the draft, so she came to take care of it. Therefore, the concubines deal with these things every day, and the meals are naturally used late. ”

Yin Zhen took the spring cake with his hand, took a bite, and said, "What else?" Huizhu was a little panicked in her heart, she could see that she was not used to seeing the culprit and look like an uncle, so she simply let it go, bit her lip and said: "But the good ones can't all be given to the clan, and the ones who have always gained fame are selected and left to the emperor to fill the harem." In the end, seeing that Yinzhen was silent, the more she felt that she had been wronged a lot in recent months, and everyone thought she was begging for a favor, but who knew that she didn't want to stop this at all. No matter what she and Yinzhen are, nominally Yinzhen is always her husband, the biological father of the Hongli brothers and sisters, and she asked herself if she could find a concubine for Yinzhen.

The more I thought about it, the more I was angry, and my face couldn't help but bring out a few points, Yin Zhen saw it clearly, only that women were jealous, and he had other things in his heart, and when he met a piece at both ends, he said impatiently: "At the moment, I don't have that mind, and you are less in that disagreement, if you really can't obey in your heart, just choose a few names in the palace, and the rest of the good ones are all rationed to the clan." ”

Hearing Yinzhen say this, Huizhu's heart was really a lot more comfortable, but after thinking about it, she had to slander her heart, and the words were relaxed, who didn't know that in the Gyeonggi circle, everyone was rushing to the name of the imperial concubine. However, here in Yinzhen, Huizhu knew that he would accept it when he saw it, and saw that Yinzhen frowned deeply, and he guessed that there had been a lot of things recently, so he stopped bothering him and began to prepare for the June draft.

In the harem, Hui Zhu has never taken over the draft, so it is difficult to get her mind on it, and she has no side to worry about it for a while, and she doesn't know that there is another storm in the court. In the middle of the same month, there was a vision in the sky, and "the sun and the moon are combined, and the five stars are aligned", and the Qintian monitor is auspicious. According to the usual practice, the important ministers of the imperial court are congratulated by internal and external ministers.

Among them, after Nian Qianyao made meritorious contributions to pacification a year ago, he was left in the capital by Yinzhen and appointed as the Minister of Prime Minister's Affairs, that is, with the Minister of Prime Minister's Affairs, Ma Qi and Long Keduo, to deal with military affairs; In the sky auspicious, Nian Qianyao had to write a fold to congratulate, but unexpectedly the year will be "Chao Qian" language written: "Sunset Chao Qian". Yinzhen was immediately furious, changed his previous attitude, and stubbornly bit this matter, pestering Su Ri.

There are impermeable walls in the world, and Yinzhen has borrowed the word "sunset" for days, and it has spread to the harem over time. One day, Huizhu returned to the back room after dealing with official business, and saw that Yinzhen was reviewing the folds, and the book on it was "Sunset Chaoqian", thinking that Yinzhen was taboo about this, so he secretly considered what to say, and said with relief that the "emperor" sun and moon are combined, and the five-star beads are naturally auspicious from the sky, but only because the old man has a deviation on the table, and the emperor is angry, and he can't draw it. After speaking, he stared at the fold of cinnabar again, and said lightly, "Huh", "Someone played, saying that the Nian adults were writing incorrectly, and mistook the pen of "Chao Qian Xi Ti" for "Sunset Chao Qian", which is also reasonable.

With a "snap", Yinzhen re-ensembled and sneered, "General Nian is famous, but people forget that he was born as a Jinshi and was on duty in the Hanlin Academy. The words were cold and glamorous, chilling and Li Huizhu was stunned, and then she knew that although Yinzhen's move was a big fuss, it was a solid intention to deal with Nian Qianyao, and she couldn't help but wonder: Although the clerical error is a mistake, it is difficult to hide the mouth after all, and it is difficult to gain anything if there is any other empirical evidence.

Yin Zhen's eyes were full of light, and he said: If the water is clear, there is no fish, how can the Qing official be an official in the court, and the evidence will be less. When Huizhu heard this, she muttered in her heart, since Yinzhen knew that if the water was clear, there would be no fish, so the matter of severely punishing the household department would make people turn over on their backs, and where did it come from.

But after this talk, Huizhu faintly noticed that Yinzhen had made a plan to open the Nian family. If Huizhu continued to carry out the draft at hand, she also ordered Xiao Ranzi to pay attention to the affairs of the court, and if it affected the harem, they would have a good heart.

After a month like this, the limelight of Nian Qianyao's pen mistake gradually faded, and the eighth brother of the emperor, Yun Zhen, was demoted three times in a month, coupled with the succession of Hongshi, the cultural relics of the Manchu Dynasty thought that Yinzhen would continue to hit Yun Zhen's party. Unexpectedly, the wind direction changed at this time, and in late March, Shanxi tamed Yi Duli, Dutong Fan Shijie, Sichuan and Shaanxi Governor Yue Zhongqi, Henan tamed Tian Wenjing and others successively participated in Nian Qianyao.

In April, seeing that the human and material evidence was substantial, Yin Zhen ordered Nian Qianyao to hand over the seal of General Fuyuan, and transferred from Beijing to Hangzhou General, which was temporarily over.

As the turmoil in the court gradually subsided, the draft prepared by Huizhu gradually came to an end, just waiting for the ladies to enter Beijing, and she left to return to the Forbidden City. If so, this day also slipped to May, after the fifth day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the sun is hot and can't be, even if you stay in a ventilated and cool place, you are covered in sweat and wet clothes, and the summer heat is better than in previous years.

Fortunately, the unusually high temperature weather did not last for a few days, and one afternoon, on a sunny day, suddenly cloudy, lightning and thunder, and in an instant, it was pouring rain.

At that time, Huizhu was half-squinting and leaning on the cool kang to take a nap, holding a fan in her hand and fanning Yinzhen with a match, and she heard the noise outside, and she was busy opening her eyes to see that it was raining heavily, and her eyes were full of surprise; With a fan in his hand, he went to push Yinzhen, and his voice could not hide his joy: "Your Majesty, it's raining, this summer heat must be able to fall, and you can have a meal in peace." ”

Since Yinzhen came in May, he didn't sleep peacefully at night, so he had to squint in Huizhu in the afternoon, and his spirit was very poor. At this time, he had just fallen asleep, and he was displeased when he was disturbed by Huizhu, but when he heard that it was raining, he immediately opened his eyes and stared out of the window intently for a long time. Gradually. The frowns that had been tight for many days were relaxed, a smile crossed his eyes, and he sighed and said, "It's good to see the rain, otherwise if the momentum of the previous days continues, I am a little worried that there will be a drought." ”

Listening to Yinzhen's tone of relief. Huizhu couldn't help but be stunned, until she caught a glimpse of the almost imperceptible joy in Yinzhen's eyes, she smiled and said softly: "The emperor doesn't have to worry, looking at the rain, he knows that this year's rain will be abundant, and the crops will grow well, but he is waiting for a bumper harvest." The extra grain can also be transported to the shanty people for relief. ”

Shanty dwellers refer to migrant farmers living in mountainous or hilly areas in Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places. Because they are forced by life, they go to other places to make a living, or open mountains and farms, or open furnaces and cast iron, or work as hired laborers, because they live in sheds, so they are called "shanty people". The livelihood of the shantytowns is not secure, so migration is infrequent, and there have been uprisings of shantytowns in some places.

The shantytowns have been rioting recently, and Yinzhen is not very annoyed about this, but at this time, Huizhu said, as if the shantytown uprising had been resolved, and said with a smile on his face: "The fields around Gyeonggi are all good fields, and the harvest is good. At that time, the grain from Zhili, Baoding and other places was transferred, thinking that it could solve the problem of resettlement of most of the shantytowns. After speaking, his face sank, and he glanced at Huizhu unnaturally, and coughed slightly to cover up: "Concubine Xi, I have some appetite." Not...... You have some food in the kitchen. ”

After a month like this, the limelight of Nian Qianyao's pen mistake gradually faded, and the eighth brother of the emperor, Yun Zhen, was demoted three times in a month, coupled with the succession of Hongshi, the cultural relics of the Manchu Dynasty thought that Yinzhen would continue to hit Yun Zhen's party. Unexpectedly, the wind direction changed at this time, and in late March, Shanxi tamed Yi Duli, Dutong Fan Shijie, Sichuan and Shaanxi Governor Yue Zhongqi, Henan tamed Tian Wenjing and others successively participated in Nian Qianyao. In April, seeing that the human and material evidence was substantial, Yin Zhen ordered Nian Qianyao to hand over the seal of General Fuyuan, and transferred from Beijing to Hangzhou General, which was temporarily over.

Huizhu was overjoyed when she heard this, but she didn't pay attention to Yinzhen's awkwardness, and she was thinking about the past seven or eight days, Yinzhen ate a few mouthfuls of white porridge every day to barely satisfy her stomach, and she couldn't sleep at night, and she was very thin. At this time, she finally took the initiative to ask for some food, and Huizhu swept away her worries for many days, and hurriedly went to the kitchen to eat in person.

However, things in the world are often unpredictable, as soon as the urgent need is relieved, the timely rain has not stopped, until half a month later, the land of Gyeonggi has a disaster, and the flood in Zhili has become a disaster, resulting in the flooding of fertile fields around the capital, the destruction of homes, and the starvation of people in 72 prefectures and counties such as Bazhou and Baoding are everywhere, and they began to turn to the capital to beg.

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