The winter of the sixty-first year of Kangxi was cold and wet, and after the self-reliance winter, the heavy snow almost never stopped. With Jingshi Zhili as the center, from Fengtian in the east, to Rehe in the north, from Shandong Henan to the west, until Shanxi Gansu and other places, sometimes the feather flowers are confused, sometimes the light Luo shakes the powder, or the pieces fall, or the collapse and fall, white, confused, no head and no brain. Far away from the village, up and down the Changlin Frozen River, the wind rolls up thousands of feet of snow and dust, whirling wildly under the dark and faint clouds, stirring up the world colorfully, muddy, all the ditches, canals, ponds, and ridges are flattened, and even the wellhead is sealed tightly. Occasionally, the snow stopped, and the bleak and pale sun moved slowly like a grain of ice in the frozen clouds, and the sky was translucent, as if it was about to clear, but after half a day, a large thick and dark lead cloud pressed again, and everything was back to the same state, still a chaotic snow world.

In the evening, a group of more than 30 horses rode in front of a snowy mountain temple in Niangziguan, Shanxi. These more than 30 people are dressed in different colors, and the ten palace guards are all worn by fourth-grade military attachés, with white bright glazed tops, eight pythons and five-clawed snow geese supplements, and white fox style lambskin coats on the outside. There are also two six-grade pen post styles, but they are dressed by the Internal Affairs Office, with twenty personal soldiers guarding the back of the team. The leader was a young man in his thirties, wearing a rose and purple hanging face Xuanhu Baturu vest, a lynx monkey skin cloak, two thick sword eyebrows on his delicate melon seed face raised slightly, and the corners of his mouth hanging slightly next to his tight lips, as if he was ready to show his arrogance and contempt to others. Seeing that the horse team in front of him stopped, the young man reined in his horse, pressed the cold hilt of his sword with his hand, looked at the guard next to him without saying a word, looked up at the dim sky with indifferent eyes, and let out a long breath. One of the guards hurriedly said, "It's about to be sharpened, so let's go over and take a look." As soon as the words fell, the guards at the gate of the temple had already strode over, and said in the snow in front of the young son's horse: "Fourteenth master, this is a broken mountain temple, and there is no incense for a long time." This heavy snow, there is not even a post station in the first fifty or sixty miles ahead, please show me, why don't you stop here tonight? ”

"Hmm." The young man bowed slightly, turned his head and said to the two pen posts, "Qian Yundou, Cai Huaixi, you were sent by Emperor Yongzheng to escort me back to Beijing, you make a charter, and I will obey it!" ”

The pen post named Qian Yundou was forced by his coercive eyes and didn't dare to raise his head, so he hurriedly lost his smile, knelt down and said, "How can a slave be worthy of this, Lord Wang?" Gone of the fodder for the minions! The master said okay, let's go; Ye said stop, let's stop. Long live the Lord only said that the minions should wait for the fourteenth master, and enter Beijing to run for the funeral of the first emperor, and there is no limit to the number of days. The slave obeys the order of the Fourteenth Master! Yin sneered and nodded. There was already a guard kneeling down, Yin stepped on his back, moved his legs and feet, rubbed his hands that were red from the cold and said, "The emperor is my fourth brother and a fellow mother." When it comes to family affection, we are siblings, and when it comes to fame, we are kings and ministers. You have come by commandment, and how dare I not pay homage? This way you have to go and stop, the rule is to live in a post house, and you have the final say. Living here today, it's up to you to decide, I don't want you to pretend to be good people! This place is not a village in front of Buba, and I am going to rebel here, or run away, it is all your responsibility. Qian Yundou and Cai Huaixi just smiled and agreed. After waiting for Yin's seizure to finish, Qian Yundou said: "Ye Shengming, the minions are just on errands, and the two of us are both pen posts, with divisions, mansions, capital supervisors, and ministers of the guards, and there are eighteen layers of heaven and earth from the emperor!" The good master is sympathetic to the minions, and when he arrives in Beijing safely, the minions wait for the master in the back, and there is a time when the master is in the light! ”

"It's still a human saying." Yin snorted and turned his face, and ordered, "Take out the venison sent by the Yangquan County Order, and I will treat the brothers tonight!" As he spoke, the deerskin boots creaked and led everyone into the mountain temple.

It is a newly abandoned temple, the empty compound is covered with more than a foot of deep snow, and according to the mountain, there are two slippery rooms lined up on both sides of the main hall, and two or three feet long skates hang under the eaves. The half-worn doors were wide open, and the window paper was not broken; The vermilion patent leather on the pillar has not peeled off, it is only slightly old; Only the large iron dome that was one person tall in the courtyard was thickly wrapped in a layer of snow, and it stood cold and gloomy in the snow, as if to tell people something. This group of people broke into the main hall, only to hear the sound of "sigh", fluttering and startling a large group of stone chickens, crows, pheasants who were avoiding the snow in the hall, and a roe deer rushed to the door to escape, and was caught off guard, Qian Yundou was so frightened that he sat in the snow. However, Cai Huaixi was quick with his eyes and hands, and he caught one with one hand, but when he looked at it, it was two pheasants, and he said with a smile: "The fourteenth master is so happy." ”

"Hmm." A smile flashed in Yin's eyes, and then he stepped up the stairs, stomping the snow on his feet, and ordered, "Clear the snow in the yard, and remove the railing under the porch to make a fire." The two Bi Ti Shi and I live in the main hall, my guards live in the west side hall, and the brothers who are good at fishing camp live in the east side hall. After that, he took off his cloak and handed it to the servant who walked into the main hall alone, bowed to the mountain god who was blackened by smoke in the shrine, muttered a few words in his mouth, and turned back to Qian Yundou and said: "This is not like a dilapidated temple, why is there no incense, I am afraid that the Taoist priest and the temple Zhu have escaped with the temple property?" Qian Yundou smiled: "Yes, the slave also feels strange." Cai Huaixi lit a fire next to him and said: "I don't know, there was a big drought in Shanxi last year, and there was no grass growing in the grass, and there were no people here for dozens of miles, and I was not afraid to go out because of the cold, there was coal here." People are hungry and run away, and the people in the temple naturally can't raise it, where will there be incense? Before Yin could answer, he suddenly heard a shout of "Mom" in the courtyard, followed by a shout:

"Get this stinky corpse out!"

"Find the door panel!"

"Wow, bad luck!"

Only then did Yin know that it was the soldiers who cleaned up the room and found the freeze. Because the fire had just been lit in the room, and the smoke was heavy, he didn't mind pacing out of the hall, and when he saw a group of people in the east side hall carrying the corpses, he said, "What are you yelling about? A pro-soldier hurriedly came over and said: "There is a corpse in the east room, it has been frozen, it is a woman's ......" Yin came to the east side room without squeaking and came to the east room with his hands behind his back, and saw a young woman, about fourteen or fifteen years old, with her hair scattered, wearing a blue line of green cloth cloth shirt, bare-footed, with a footcloth to tie the two shoes to the front and back of the heart, sitting with both hands against the corner of the wall, her face was blue, as ugly as burnt incense ash. A few soldiers who were good at hunting camps were scolding, probably because they were afraid of bad luck and dirty, but no one moved the corpses. Yin said coldly: "You are also the children of the Eight Banners? I am the king of the generals, and I led the troops to fight Alabutan in the West Datong, and the corpses piled up like a mountain of blood after a battle! You don't deserve my soldiers' shoes! - Come, where are my guards? ”

"In!"

"Drag her out of the temple gate!"

"Piercing!"

A guard agreed, grabbed the woman's armpit with both hands, and left without dragging it out, and just when he arrived at the door, he suddenly stopped and said, "Fourteenth master, her armpit is still warm!" ”

"Huh?" Yin was stunned for a moment, stepped forward to help the girl's arm, held the pulse and groaned for a long time, and said, "She is not desperate." Fast! Get warm by the fire in the temple, and maybe you can still live! ”

So everyone carried the female corpse to the fire in the main hall, and hurriedly burned the hot rice wine, pried open the clenched teeth and poured it down, and then felt the pulse, and felt it slowly and slowly, as if it was beating slowly, the nose was one by one, and the face gradually turned back, but it was extremely pale, and she lay on the mat of the horse coat next to the fire and fell unconscious.

The fire in the temple crackled, and the venison boiled in the hanging pot on the iron shelves gave off a mouth-watering aroma. Yin was full of worries, looking at the dark night outside, listening to the rustle of the heavy snow, he sighed for a long time, and said to Qian Yundou who was guarding the side: "I'm not hungry at all, you and Cai Huaixi can eat." If you want to be constrained here, do you listen to how lively they are eating and drinking, just have fun, and are you afraid that I will run away? I'm not going to kill myself either! ”

"Fourteenth Master, don't be too sad," Qian Yundou reluctantly smiled, "The first emperor has reigned for sixty-one years, and the people who look at seventy, we ordinary people look at it, this is a joy and mourning." The fourteenth master is a golden branch and jade leaf, so you have to take care of your own family, people die like lights going out, no matter how sad you are, it will be useless. Yin sighed: "Don't blame the fourteenth master for his bad temper, I have taken a closer look along the way, you and Cai Huaixi are both good people." One I feel sad in my heart, the first emperor Kangxi fifty-seven years called me to be this general king, sent troops to Qinghai, when parting, he took my hand in Qianqingmen, and said: 'Ama is old, and his body is not good, I know that you don't want to go far away, but the prince Age, only you can still lead the troops, you don't share my worries, who can fulfill this filial piety?' At that time, the emperor Ama was in tears, and he said goodbye, who would have thought that I would become a permanent secret? As he spoke, he burst into tears. Cai Huaixi hurriedly persuaded: "Today's master is very grand to do the aftermath of the first emperor, in the mausoleum of Zunhua Xiu, the slave has also gone to pay homage, not only spectacular, but also very good feng shui." Long live the Lord was afraid that the Fourteenth Master would be too sad, so he asked the minions to go to Xidatong to pick up the Lord and return to Beijing under the stars. There are many things to do at the funeral when you go back, don't be too sad about your precious body, your body is tighter than anything else. ”

Yin flicked the fire with a wooden stick, looked at the girl sleeping next to him, and said, "The fourth brother is a clever person, what does he say as an emperor?" The second one I'm going to say is this. Today, this place does not touch the sky, and I have a few words I want to ask you. If you want to think that you are a slave under the Zhenghuang banner, I will ask; If you want to think that it was the emperor who was ordered to escort me, the unlucky prince, back to Beijing, I didn't say it, and I was dumb from now on! Qian Yundou glanced at Cai Huaixi and said with a smile: "Where is the doubt!" The emperor wants to suspect that the prince has other thoughts, how can he only send twenty personal soldiers to escort the prince? If you have anything to say, just ask, whatever the slave knows, and he will not dare to deceive. Yin was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, which scared Qian and Cai. But seeing that Yin lost the fire stick in his hand, he got up and said, "Are you pretending to be stupid or confused?" Since the current emperor 'trusts' me so much, why did the first holy decree be passed to the governor of Ganshan and Shaanxi, Nian Qianyao, ordering the two provinces of Ganxi to be under martial law? He also ordered Cai Ting, the governor of Sichuan, to gather 20,000 horses and horses to wait at the mouth of the old river? ”

"The slave only knew about this," Qian Yundou looked at the aggressive Yin in amazement, and said, "The first emperor died, and the matter was sudden, and he was afraid that something would happen, so he ordered all soldiers and horses in the world to be under martial law." Not only Ganshan Sichuan, but even Zhili is the same, Beijing Nine Cities are closed! Yin Gege smiled: "Even so, let me ask you again, Li Wei, the political envoy of Shaanxi, is the little rabbit cub who waited for pen and ink in the fourth brother's study before, who was in charge of supplying the food and straw of the army on the West Road. ”

"This ......" Qian Yundou was speechless for a moment, and was thinking about how to answer, Cai Huaixi said beside him: "It may have snowed for days, and there is no supply of grain for a while." ”

Yin sneered: "Cai Huaixi, you can give me this set." I am the biological son of the Holy Ancestor Emperor Daxing, a noble Tianhuang! was ordered to go to the funeral, and only ten guards were allowed to be brought, which was not as good as the honor guard of a prefect! You have to play this trick for a three-year-old child - think I don't know? Thirty of you followed me around me, and after thirty miles, you followed and monitored by three thousand green battalion soldiers, and sent me back to Beijing with the word 'Ping'an' from station to station - what are you afraid of? Think I'm in the dark? Staying here tonight, the people at the front post station are sure to be in a hurry like ants in a hot pot! Lo and behold, someone will come to 'greet' me in the morning! I-" The more Yin spoke, the more excited he became, his face flushed blood-red, and he paced back and forth like a trapped beast; Suddenly he threw himself by the window lattice and frantically tore off the window paper, his blazing eyes as if he was about to penetrate the boundless darkness outside. After a long time, he turned around, his face was full of tears, and he muttered, "God...... How do you arrange it like this? Starling, Ninth Brother, Ten Brothers...... And the Oro Dai who should be killed, you are in Beijing...... What do you eat? You wine bags...... These rice buckets! He sat down beside the fire in a dejected manner, the crimson flames reflecting his handsome face, and for a long time he stopped talking.

Yin ranked fourteenth among the twenty-four sons of Emperor Kangxi, so he was called the "Fourteenth Master", light on wealth and charity, and chivalrous and righteous; knows the soldiers and is good at martial arts, and is a well-known "chivalrous king" in the Xi Dynasty. In Kangxi's later years, government affairs were lax, the law was lenient, and the crown prince Yinren was mediocre and incompetent, and was abolished twice in 47 and 51 years, which started the ambition of his sons to covet the throne. The crown prince was deposed for the first time, and the eldest son of the emperor competed for the throne with the third elder brother Cheng Prince Yinzhi. Yinhe exposed the "insincerity of the king of sincerity", and sent Meng Guangzu to travel around the provinces outside, make friends with the feudal officials, and hope to be a blessing. Yinzhi cited Yinren's secret evil deeds of burying the "Qiankun Hell Map" to the prince of Weizhen, causing Yinren to be confused and immoral. Kangxi was furious, immediately imprisoned Yinzhi, reprimanded Yinzhi, and issued an edict ordering hundreds of civil and military officials to elect the prince. According to Kangxi's thoughts, the prince lost his morality and messed up the palace, since it was the eldest brother's hands and feet, now the truth is revealed, and Yinren, who has been the prince for 30 years, should be Zhaoxue and re-ascend to the throne. Unexpectedly, the results of the election were unexpected, the six ministries and nine secretaries, and the eighteen provincial governors Fu Ti Zhen resigned, and the one who was recommended was the "eighth master" Yinxi, who had never handled government affairs alone. After careful investigation, I found that the eighth elder brother is a great character, and he has already secretly formed people's hearts, contacting the ninth elder brother Yinyu and the tenth elder brother Yin, not only in the courtiers, but also the eldest elder brother Yinyu and the fourteenth elder brother Yin are also the same party, and they will meet the wind and clouds, both civil and military, and stomp on the eighth master's mansion outside the Chaoyang Gate, and the nine cities are shocked! Establishing Yinxi as the crown prince, Kangxi also had this idea, but after thinking about it, Yinxi, a prince who has no real power, can actually control the court situation, call the wind and the wind, call the rain and rain, and toss the prince to death. The fourth elder brother Yinzhen and the thirteenth elder brother in the princelings cleaned up the arrears of officials and the unjust imprisonment of the criminal department, and these crucial national policies were all because of the "Eight Wise Kings" who shot a horizontal cannon from it, and they couldn't get rid of it. If you really want to establish Yinxi as the crown prince, not only will the rest of the sons inevitably change their flesh and blood, but even Kangxi himself may not be forced to abdicate. In desperation, Kangxi had no choice but to re-crown Yinren as the crown prince, and ordered the fourth elder brother to be the prince of Yong. In order to appease Yinyu and his people, Jin named Yinyu as Prince Lian, and Yinyu and Yinyu were promoted to Baylor. I didn't expect things to get worse, after the reset, Yinren was afraid that Kangxi would change his mind again, and secondly, he was deeply jealous that the eighth elder brother was very difficult to control, so he actually carried the fourth elder brother Yinzhen behind his back and plotted to launch a mutiny, in a vain attempt to force Kangxi to retreat to the emperor, and wipe out the "Eight Masters Party"! The incident was not secret, and was noticed again by the shrewd Kangxi, and even issued an edict to imprison Yinren forever, imprisoned the prince's confidant Thirteen Elder Brother Yinxiang, and told the world that the emperor would never establish a prince again after one day of reign. In the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi, the Zungar Department of Alabutan was stupid, and sent troops to invade Qinghai-Tibet without authorization, Kangxi was determined to raise troops to fight, and ordered 100,000 elite soldiers to go out of the Guanxi expedition, Yinxiang and Yinxiang were known as "two heroes" because they knew the soldiers and were good at martial arts in the prince, and since Yinxiang was imprisoned, Yinxiang was naturally named the general Wang and led the troops out of Beijing.

Yin roasted on fire, and fell into deep thought. On the eve of being appointed as the general king, he had a long conversation with Yinxi. What was that like? The sick Yin's head was wrapped in a black handkerchief, and he looked more and more haggard under the faint flickering candle shadow, and his hand holding Yin's eyes were full of tears, and he gasped and said: "Good brother, you, you are going to travel far away." One of me is afraid, and the other is joy...... I don't know what sins I created in my previous life, I was born in the royal family, and great disasters did not come, not only did I lose my love to the emperor, but even my brother could not tolerate me! I originally just wanted to be a virtuous king, help the weak and help the weak, and do good things in my life, but I didn't expect that because of my good popularity, I was elected as the prince, but I was not tolerated by heaven and earth! I...... You plant flowers, but you get thorns...... Now that I'm so sick, I don't want to think about anything, I'm afraid that if you go, you and I will be separated, and there will be no time to see each other! On the other hand, Beijing is now a den of tigers and wolves, a nest of right and wrong. To tell the truth, Ama is old, the prince is undecided, and who of the brothers doesn't have an abacus? The fourth brother is not the material to be the emperor, he just acts blindly mean, and he is eager to invite him to buy Wan Sui's heart, and I don't think he may have any unusual thoughts. The third brother saw the heart of Amma's love of reading, and skillfully flattered him, and seemed to take Chen Menglei and his colleagues to write books and talk every day, but in fact, it was also a shortcut to the dragon climbing technique! It's your ninth brother and tenth brother, everyone says it's a hardcore 'Eight Masters Party', and I don't see it! In the past, the Jin Kingdom was engaged in housework, Prince Shensheng was in danger inside, and the prince was at peace outside, so although I was reluctant to do so, I was relieved that you went to lead the troops! You just have to rest assured, my grandmother Yabuqi is in Xidatong, and he is waiting for you, just like me. Once the situation changes, you bring 100,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners to the city, and I will maintain it inside, who will sit if you don't sit on this emperor's throne? Yin was so crying by him that he choked up and said: "Brother Starling said everything, but as the emperor, I didn't think about it and didn't dare to think about it...... I can only lead soldiers, I only love to practice martial arts, I don't have that mind, and I don't have that virtue and hope. In my opinion, the emperor loves you deeply, so he hone you. Otherwise, why do you say that you are rebellious, but instead you are crowned prince? How much work the fourth brother has done and how much effort he has made, he is just like you...... Starling is relieved to recuperate, I'm outside, what's going on in Beijing, so it's better to bring me a letter as soon as possible...... I have troops outside, and the urgency is what the starling can use......"

The chopping wood exploded in the fire, Yin's eyes flashed, and when he came to his senses, he realized where he was. There are too many unexpected things in the world, and the number of creations in the dark is just unsatisfactory. Although the two of them have tearful eyes to tearful eyes, hurt lovers to hurt lovers, and their words are serious, they are both wishful thinking. As soon as Yin arrived in the west, he bought the nail first-class guard Oro Dai who Yin Xi had placed beside him, and ordered him to return to Beijing to "help the fourth master and watch the eighth master". Thinking that since the emperor did not set up a prince, as soon as he heard the news of Kangxi's death, he immediately led his troops back to Beijing to compete for the throne, but he didn't expect that Oro Dai would enter Beijing like a mud cow into the sea, and he didn't even have a letter, and he didn't even think that the emperor would have an edict. The authoritarian Eighth Elder Brother actually bowed his head to the courtiers, and he was constrained by Nian Qianyao Yue Zhongqi, not only could not "enter the 100,000 troops into the customs", but was sent to the Beijing Division by 20 Yulin sergeants in the form of two pen posts and half escorts...... He glanced at Qian Yundou Cai Huaixi, who was eating venison and drinking, and sighed silently, indignation, doubt, anxiety, melancholy, and a trace of inexplicable terror suddenly hit his heart, and with a "boom" he tore off the buckle in front of his neck, wanted to stand up, and gritted his teeth and sat firmly.

"Fourteenth Master," Qian Yundou's mouth was full of oil, and he turned his face to stare at Yin in surprise, "What do you always command?" Yin said viciously: "Hot! Untie the buttons! Cai Huaixi hurriedly said: "This fire is burning too strong; The minions will smoke a few sticks of firewood, right? Yin frantically dialed the fire, gritted his teeth and said, "I still don't think it's prosperous!" I rejoice that there will be a fire that burns this bastard world and burns me to ashes! Cai Huaixi and Qian Yundou realized that Yin was so burned by the anger in his heart that he couldn't sit still, and he swallowed everything he wanted to say. At this moment, the frozen woman twitched and said, "Water...... Water ......"