The next day, June 18, is the 60th birthday of Yongzheng's biological mother Wu Yashi. As soon as the morning dawned, Yongzheng drove back to Ouchi from Changchun Garden. He first went to the Shouhuang Palace to give the sitting statues of Kangxi and Wu Ya incense, performed three kneeling and nine bowing gifts, recited the mantra of death three times, and came out and took Gao Wuyong, Qin Dog, Qiao Yindi, and the palace people to the Hongde Hall to meet Yunzhi Yunlu Yunli, who had been waiting here, Hongshi, Hongli, Hongday, Hongzhan, Hongwan, Hongxiao, Hongjiao and other sons and nephews and a large group of close branch royal relatives. Because the military aircraft department was ordered to do business as usual, they had already come in and kowtowed and retreated, leaving only Zhu Shi to wait with him. Because almost all of them are family brothers, sons and nephews, after seeing the ceremony, Yongzheng ordered everyone to do as they pleased. But I saw Chang Ning, who was in charge of the imperial dining room, come in and ask for a decree: "The kitchen is preparing breakfast, please order, is it set up in this palace, or is it sent to the Palace of Nourishing Hearts?" ”

"I've had a snack in the morning." Yongzheng groaned, "It's still early, what's the hurry?" - Well, in this way, first carry a table and send it to the Shouhuang Hall to offer to the holy icon, and the rest are located in the east of the water pavilion of Changyin Pavilion. Seeing that Chang Ning was stunned when he heard this, Yongzheng smiled and said: "I want to give a feast - so many people are watching the play on an empty stomach?" Eating while watching the play, it is bustling and lively, and the queen mother will be happy to see it in the dark. - Yunxiang has a bad stomach, and tells the dim sum made in the big kitchen to be soft and gentle, and it needs to be able to restrain it. Master Zhu, don't go back to duty, sit with me. Zhu Shi hurriedly knelt down to thank him, got up and said, "The old minister has a thousand wishes!" In his early years, he was in the Ministry of Industry, and was fined for three years because of the Yellow River's ruin. The Empress Dowager said to the first emperor: 'Teacher Zhu is so poor that the guests can't even afford to prepare tea, how can they spend three years fined?' The state system cannot be abolished, but I want to reward him with my own body. 'Rewarded the old minister with three hundred taels of gold!' "Talking about old tears. Yongzheng thought about his mother, his heart was sad, and when he looked at Zhu Shi, he felt sad again. Thinking of the recent folk rumors that he was unfilial to kill his mother, he was angry and helpless, and said with a wry smile: "Today, I will give the Queen Mother a dark life, Master Zhu should not be sad." Seeing Fifth Brother Zhang coming in, he asked again, "Is your thirteenth master here?" ”

Fifth Brother Zhang was over sixty years old at this time, with white hair, he was rescued by Yunxiang when he was young, and he was pardoned by Kangxi when he was kidnapped, and he was very loyal and had a deep personal relationship with Yunxiang. Since Yunxiang was sick and lying in Qingfan Temple, he had to go to the bed to greet and wait almost every day when he retired from duty, Yongzheng was used to it, so he asked Yunxiang when he saw it. Fifth Brother Zhang saluted, shook his head and sighed, and said, "The thirteenth master came to be sick at night." This will be unconscious...... The old slave was worried about the master's side and rushed over to say goodbye, which meant that the thirteenth master could not come. The master ......" He shook his head, as if he had a sour fruit in his mouth, and his face was full of sadness.

"Where's Jia Shifang?" Yongzheng also trembled in his heart, frowned and asked, "What did he say?" Fifth Brother Zhang said: "I have already gone to Baiyun Temple to invite." The slave wanted to wait for him to come, but he was afraid that he would miss the envoy from the Long Live Lord, so he came over first. Yongzheng asked again: "What do the doctors say?" ”

Fifth Brother Zhang wiped away his tears and said: "The imperial doctors said that the thirteen masters are peaceful, just like yesterday, but they are unconscious, and they dare not make a judgment. This time I am still discussing the pulse......"

"There you go." When Yongzheng heard that the pulse was peaceful, he was suspicious, but he didn't know that it was very dangerous, because he said: "There are still few people waiting on my side?" You are here to worry about the two ends, it is better to stay in front of him, and I can rest assured. ”

Fifth Brother Zhang hurriedly went. Yongzheng looked at his back in a daze, sighed, and said softly, "Master Zhu." ”

"The minister is here!"

"You say," Yongzheng tilted his head and said, "Yunxiang's symptoms, is someone behind his back to make him bad?" ”

Zhu Shi originally didn't believe that there was any "nightmare town" in the world at all, but he had been reading the world for a long time, this kind of thing happened in the Xi Dynasty in the prince, and he had witnessed Jia Shifang's methods, and he didn't dare to deny it categorically. Thinking about it, he said: "If the saint doesn't say it, the minister doesn't dare to talk about it." However, a skimming of the historical books shows that there is indeed such an evil art, but there have been no such evil arts since ancient times. The gentleman is just respectfully avoiding the matter of ghosts and gods. But the Thirteenth Master doesn't have any personal enemies who don't share the sky, and several political enemies are in prison, how could anyone do this? The minister is also incomprehensible. ”

"Let's not talk about that now." Yongzheng took out his pocket watch and looked at it, and said, "It's not yet the hour, it's still early before the hour." Master Zhu, accompany me out of the palace for a walk. "Yes!" Zhu Shi bowed and said, "Please, where is the master going?" ”

"Go see Roncodo." Yongzheng stuffed the watch into his arms and said lightly.

Yongzheng and Zhu Shi only took a few guards to ride out of Shenwu Gate, to the west, trotting all the way, passing through the alley after the Ministry of Courtyard Street and then north to the Longkeduo Mansion. This is a large courtyard that sits west and faces east, and the same five wings as the palace regulations hug the top of Xiamen, the green glazed tiles of one color are painted with black lacquer, and the mottled yellow paint is exposed on the wooden stalls in some places, as if it is still showing off the glory of the master. A high convex wall was built along the stone steps outside the gate, and the gloom blocked the locked copper nail and vermilion lacquer gate. The summer sun illuminated the wall as gray and white as a dead man's face, and green dog-tail grass had grown on the wall. Yongzheng got off the horse and saw Zhu Shi standing in front of the wall in a daze, so he asked, "Master Zhu, what's wrong with you?" ”

"I came once in the second year of Yongzheng and asked Long Keduo to allocate funds to repair the Imperial Palace. I was stopped in front of this door, saying that Lord Long was busy, and asked me to go directly to the household department to contact. Zhu Shi's face seemed to be happy and sad, "I haven't been on this door since then." When I came here today, I couldn't help but sigh with emotion...... "Yongzheng didn't have time to speak, and the guard Sauron had already come from the north gate and said, "I've already told the eunuch in charge here, let's go in from the north." Yongzheng nodded, and followed Sauron half a stone's throw to the north, and sure enough, there was a hole more than four feet wide in the wall, and an iron gate was installed. The door was open, and more than a dozen eunuchs were neatly dressed, prostrated on the scorching brick floor, all of them sweating profusely. Yongzheng entered the courtyard without looking at them. The guards inside are the people of the Internal Affairs Office, who have learned that the emperor is coming, and a group of shirtless officials are busy wearing and changing official uniforms, and the first one is a pen post, trotting over, kneeling down and kowtowing, and said: "Master, Long Keduo is not over there, please go this way!" ”

Yongzheng, who was about to enter the Yimen, stopped and asked in surprise, "Is he not in the main courtyard?" Who lives in the main courtyard? Which yamen are you from? The pen post quickly knelt down on his knees again and said, "The slave is the pen post style Huang Quanfa of the Internal Affairs Office." Roncodo himself in the backyard stables. "The stables?" Yongzheng was stabbed and said with a biased face: "Why do you live there?" Whose order is this? ”

"I used to live in the main courtyard." Huang Quanfa saw that Yongzheng's face was not good, and hurriedly said: "Later, someone from the Shen Criminal Division came to see it, saying that he was a criminal, and it would be cheap not to kill him, and he would be an old lady to pay up?" ——I moved to the stable, and the small one was only in charge of the courtyard, and the stable prison was under the control of the Taifu Temple. This place of confinement is jointly managed by three yamen. ”

"Where's the chief?"

"The chief leader is Wang Yi, the prison officer of Taifu Temple. He's not here, he's only going to come and see before leaving. ”

Yongzheng stopped talking, and went to the door of the stable in the north courtyard with Zhu Shi one after another, and the guards inside had already knelt on the ground - there were eunuchs guarding again. As soon as the two entered the hospital, they smelled a bad smell, but it was not like the smell of horse manure, like a smell of stinky fish mixed with vomited thin matter, and there was also the "fragrant" smell of some food. Yongzheng immediately wrinkled his eyebrows, nose and mouth, covered his nose with his hands, and followed the eunuch to a large iron fence. It was a stable, two mangers wide, the mangues had long been removed and replaced with iron grilles, and a piece of tarpaulin was rolled up along the eaves, which seemed to be used to protect it from the wind and rain when it rained. Inside, there was a low table, on which were placed a clay pot, a large bowl, and a pair of chopsticks, and a small grasshopper stool beside it, which was white wood, unpainted, and stained with a layer of dirt like oil and ash. There was also a piece of watermelon rind on the table, which had been gnawed to the point of only green skin. There was a small rope bed against the inner wall, and there was a large urine jar at the head of the bed, and the can was covered with a piece of paper—the stench was about from this—and on the bed was a collar table, a pillow, a bamboo lady, and a thin quilt, which were all the belongings in this "house". Yongzheng walked to the front, a smell came to his face, but this time it was extremely "thick", he calmed down to suppress his stomach, and when he came to the iron grille to look, Long Keduo was lying face inside on the bed, as if he couldn't sleep shaking a broken thin fan. Yongzheng shouted softly: "Long Keduo." ”

Roncodo did not respond.

"Roncodo!" The guardian eunuch shouted, "Are you deaf? The emperor is here! ”

Roncodo shuddered and sat up with trembling hands. At a glance, he saw Yongzheng and Zhu Shi standing in the shadow of the trees outside the fence, and he was stunned for a moment. Staring at the dull gaze, the unkempt beard and hair shook with the head, staring at Yongzheng as if looking at a stranger, and his lips moved, as if he was babbling something. In the middle of the night, he suddenly came to his senses, and shouted, "Master—" and got out of bed barefoot like a madman, threw himself on the edge of the fence and crawled to his knees, holding the iron bars tightly with both hands, and howled: "The old slave sees you again!" His frightened gaze didn't blink, it seemed that as long as he saw it, this supreme who could decide his life and death would suddenly disappear!

"I've come to see you." Yongzheng looked at this "uncle" who was once in power, and the prime minister who stomped his feet in the mansion and trembled in Jiucheng, hatred, pity, pity, pain, and sorrow all came to his heart, and he poured a five-flavor bottle like a taste. He didn't dare to meet Long Kedo's gaze, nor could he smell the stench in the house, so he breathed a sigh of relief and ordered: "Open this Raushzi iron gate for him—set up a seat for me and Master Zhu under the cypress tree in the courtyard outside the stable." The eunuch in charge of the key hesitated for a moment, and said: "He sometimes commits madness, for fear of hurting his master when he has a seizure......" "You are a madman!" Long Keduo shook his head and trembled, and roared angrily: "I don't pretend to be crazy, I would have killed you a long time ago!" Yongzheng was stunned for a moment, only looked forward to it slightly, and then hurried out of the stable and sat on a chair under the old cypress tree.

Roncodo had recovered his senses from his great excitement, and his nephew, the Emperor, had come to his senses, and though there was nothing detrimental to him, he could not expect much grace: for whether he was to be given death or to be released, it was only necessary to send a little eunuch Sula to carry the order. He stretched out his dirty and wrinkled green cloth robe, brushed back the unkempt hair on his forehead, lifted the heel of the wooden slippers and put them on, paced as steadily as he could until he knelt down in front of Yongzheng, and said: "The criminal minister Long Keduo knocks on the emperor, and wishes the emperor long live and bow peacefully!" ”

"There's a stone over there, you can sit down." Leaving the stinky and hot stable, Yongzheng's complexion looked a little better, and he said to Long Keduo with a bow: "I have come to see you, Sauron, and tell all the people in this courtyard to leave!" - I didn't expect you to be in this situation now, you should have taken care of it......" "Slaves are innocent people, and it is the emperor's grace to endure this little hardship, how dare you have more extravagant hopes?" Long Ke said, "It's just that the slave still has words, there are confidential important things to play Emperor Chen, the emperor is here, although the minister is dead Jiuquan, he also smiles and eyes......" said Tears rained down.

"It's strange for you to say that." Yongzheng remembered Long Ke's "crazy words", frowned and said, "You are a person who has been imprisoned forever, and both the Holy Ancestor and I have given you an oath to avoid death, why are you so afraid of death?" What do you have to do? ”

"The guards here are going to harm the minions!"

"Who dares? - They beat you? ”

"Long live the golden and precious body, where do you know that there is no light under the raspberry! Minion...... The minions had been carrying the homespun bag for two nights in a row. Long live if you don't come, sooner will be tomorrow, and later the day after tomorrow the slave will definitely die! ”

Yongzheng glanced at Zhu Shi, he really didn't know what it meant to be a "back dirt bag". Zhu Shi hurriedly said: "The minister read Fang Bao's "Miscellaneous Notes in Prison", carrying a cloth bag is a lynching, tying up the prisoner at night, pressing a cloth bag full of soil on his back, his body is a little weaker, and he died overnight, and there is no injury to be tested. Yongzheng was furious and asked, "Who?" These killings are really lawless! ”

"I don't know......," Roncodo trembled with grief, stretching out his two wrists with rope marks, "They blindfolded me and tied them to the legs of the bed, and it was night...... The minions slept day and night, just to survive the night's suffering—that was the ...... that they did not dare to close their eyes."

"What's the matter with you?"

"There are traitors in the court!"

"Who?"

"Prince Lian!"

"Akina?" Yongzheng smiled, and then remembered that Long Keduo had lost his freedom before the arrest of Yun Xi, because he said: "You probably don't know, he is the same as you now." ”

"There is someone else behind Prince Lian!" Long Keduo was a little surprised, glanced at Yongzheng and said, "Since he was arrested, didn't he confess?" ”

Yongzheng stood up, fanned around under the tree, looked at the dense and opaque canopy, and said with a sneer: "This cypress tree is eight hundred years old, and there was a Qin juniper at that time. Do you want to be the Qin Hui of this dynasty? You are in prison because of your bad mind, and you have to be evil and hurt others when you are in prison, have you lived enough? "How dare a criminal minister?" Long Ke did not change his face, and said: "When the first empress dowager died, Prince Lian asked his ministers Chen Bing to cause chaos. Because Zhang Tingyu held the military aircraft department, the transfer of troops and tiger talismans was unsuccessful. At that time, the sinner said that this thing was a crime of destroying the door, and it must not be allowed. The eighth master, Yun Xu, said, "Even if the door is destroyed, there are other people." You think I want to be emperor? You're wrong! He paused for a moment, and then said, "The criminal thief stealing the jade is also on the order of Yun Xi. At the time he said, 'Somebody wants to use it.'" He also said, 'I do not believe in such things, nor do I use them in this way.' Also, Long Live Lord went out to patrol Henan and did not return, Yun Yu called the guilty minister, saying, "This opportunity is once in a lifetime." The criminal minister was ordered to use his authority to lead troops into Changchun Garden. The criminal said at the time, 'The world has been decided, I will occupy Changchun Garden, can you sit firmly in this country?' He said, "As long as it's not Yongzheng, it's the same for anyone who sits." ’…… Your Majesty, the slaves should have been cut piecemeal, and the innocent people who died were already in this desperate situation, and there were still people who wanted to cause harm! If there are no traitors, how can they exercise power and do evil within the walls at this time? Yongzheng didn't know anything about these things, and he couldn't help but be shocked, and when he looked at Zhu Shi, his face was also shocked, because he asked, "Master Zhu, what do you think ......?" ”

"Hooray, this is no small matter. Rong Chen pondered and then played again. A person flashed in Zhu Shi's heart, and he shivered for no reason, turned his face and asked Long Keduo, "Are you still a personal minister?" Who have you been held hostage to do evil? When you were not arrested, the emperor can be seen day and night, why didn't you turn yourself in and confess your guilt? ”

Long Keduo didn't dare to look at this teacher with angry eyes. He bowed down, buried his head between his arms, kowtowed and sobbed, and said intermittently: "The sinner is mad...... Zhu Xiang's words really made the minister Jiuquan shameless! At the beginning, the crown prince was undecided, the kings competed for succession, and Long Live was the loneliest force. At first, it was Yunren, and later it was Yunren who was the most powerful. Our Tong family is friendly with the eight kings, after the first emperor reused the guilty ministers, my uncle Tong Guo's peacekeeping ministers secretly discussed, and I will protect the emperor. Make a pact that whoever wins will defend the clan...... The contract fell into the hands of Yun Yu for some reason. They...... With this threat, they forced their servants to get on the thief ship, so that they fell deeper and deeper and could not extricate themselves...... The minister has followed the Holy Ancestor since he was a child, and was entrusted with the important task of protecting the emperor, and he should have been determined to sacrifice his life for the emperor. Who knows that he is willing to fall into the use of bandits, and he will fall into hell forever, it is difficult to see the sun in life, and it is difficult to see the spirit of the Holy Ancestor in death...... Today, I saw the master's heartfelt song. Pray that the master will hand over the slave to Yousi Ming for canonical punishment, and set a precept for the traitors and ministers who will bring disaster to the country in the future! After saying this, Roncodo cried bitterly and collapsed to the ground like mud.

After all, Long Keduo is a person who has read the world very deeply, and he realized from the sudden change in the attitude of guarding his guardian eunuch that Hongshi was going to poison his mouth, so he took the opportunity to sue this trick, but he hid Hongshi's name, in case he couldn't bring down this hot brother, but instead suffered a bigger accident, and in this way, he also put himself in a second-class role position in the "Yunxi Party". Although there is still a sense of deceit, but the sadness and invincibility of people in a desperate situation is true, Yongzheng can't help but cry when he sees him like this. After a long time, he slowly said: "When it comes to your evils, I still have a sin in hanging your head on the country!" I still have a thought of you on the monarch's father, and I won't pursue it. Go back and give you pen and paper, and write down everything you know. Seal me, you know the law, this kind of thing leaked into the six parts, although I have the virtue of a good life, I can't save it, you have to be cautious. Ansheng obeys the law and obeys orders, don't have delusions, I can give you a long life. After speaking, he stood up, looked at his watch, and called Sauron and ordered, "You stay to clean up the aftermath." Long Keduo doesn't want to live in the stable, he can go back to live in his original courtyard, and he is not restricted from moving in the courtyard. All the people guarding here are replaced, and they are sent to-" He hesitated for a moment and looked at Zhu Shi with an inquiring gaze.

"Your Majesty," Zhu Shi listened to it, and he had already weighed it repeatedly in his heart, because he said: "What Long Keduo said today is not only a huge matter, but also not something that can be taken care of in a moment. There are two kinds of dispositions for the people guarding here, one is to send all the people under direct care to Miyun, find a Huangzhuang and lock them up to report each other, and the other is quiet, and each of them will return to the yamen as usual. Only the eunuchs should be guarded by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Yan Yan plotted to kill Long's murderer and mastermind, and secretly played the emperor and then discussed the punishment. ”

"Okay." Yongzheng pursed his lips with satisfaction, "Give Long Keduo a change of outfit, what it looks like!" - Master Zhu, let's go! ”

So the two of them went out and got on the horse, Yongzheng held the bridle and muttered: "Master Zhu, you think about it for me, who is 'someone', let's talk about it later." ”

"Yes!"

Yongzheng Junchen and the two returned to Da Nei just at the beginning of the afternoon, Prince Cheng Yunzhi was the leader, and the following Yunqi, Yunzuo, Yunyu, Yunyu, Yunlu, Yunli and other royal brothers and brothers, the following Hongshi Hongli Hongli Hongzhan Hongwan more than 70 sons and nephews, as well as three or four old princes of the same generation as Kangxi have gathered on the platform opposite the water pavilion of Changyin Pavilion, next to the platform is a large group of foreheads, the old ones are in their sixties and bowed their waists, and the few are just and crowned, and there are also seventy or eighty people. These brothers and sons-in-law rarely get together in one place, and they all look for their own friends to say hello. Laughing, whispering, pointing fingers, messing up the voices. Behind the curtain are the queen, the concubine and a few old concubines, as well as dozens of princesses and princesses of Heshuo and Gulun, but they are very peaceful, only listening to the jingle of the ring, the sound of coughing, and occasionally a few jokes. Listen to Gao Wuyong shouting in his throat, "The emperor has arrived"! Everyone immediately held their breath, and the black crow knelt down. The actors on the stage have already put on their makeup, and even the drum board band and the eunuchs worshiped in Changyin Pavilion have all knelt down and kowtowed, shouting long live in unison.

"Only Master Zhu is a guest today, so let's feel free." Yongzheng saw that Zhu Shi seemed to be a little overwhelmed, pulled his hand with a smile, and said: "Actually, Master Zhu has often accompanied the Holy Grandfather to watch the play back then, and most of these princes are your students, and they are not uneasy-let-get up-Third brother, come, I will sit at the head table with you, Lao Sixteen, Lao Seventeen, and Lao Twenty-four, and Master Zhu." The rest of them had already been arranged—and they were told to pass the meal! ”

"Old Twenty-Four" is called Yun Ji, the youngest son of Kangxi, who is only eleven years old this year. In less than six days after Yongzheng ascended to the pole, he sealed Baylor, and today he was originally sitting in the fifth seat. Yongzheng crossed a dozen brothers and ordered him to sit in the chief, and immediately attracted countless pairs of eyes. Everyone watched him, only to see him standing up and dressing up and coming over the table, kneeling down in front of Yongzheng and saying: "Your Majesty, the courtiers don't dare - there are so many uncles and uncles here, and a few old princes." I don't dare to say goodbye to the emperor's love, can I just ask my courtiers to hold a pot along the table to persuade wine? ”

"Good brother, sensible!" Yongzheng's eyes were full of loving eyes, "When the Holy Ancestor was here, you sat in the chief, you are a few years younger than Hongyang." I'm in a hurry, but I've always been worried about you. I've read all the homework I've written, and I've made a lot of progress. If you say so, it's up to you. The table persuaded me to drink, and when it was over, I came to sit beside me. At this time, the crowd looked at Yun Ji's handsome and dignified character, and his words were courteous, and they couldn't help but admire. Only Yunzhi understood in his heart that when Kangxi passed on the throne on his deathbed in Changchun Garden, when he was about to make a decision, he was angry because his words were not clear, and this six-year-old "good brother" had no taboos, and the first one called out "The emperor said that it is called the fourth brother", and he bit it and said "I hear it clearly" - now Yongzheng is about to repay this affection. Yun Zhi was thinking wildly, and the water and land fruit treasures on the table had already been handed over. Between the forty tables, the eunuchs shuttled back and forth to arrange grapes, lychees, watermelons, and apples in order...... There are only eight main dishes: a large plate of shredded pork, a plate of sheep black fork, a plate of pork and eggplant stuffed buns, a plate of shredded fat chicken, a plate of vinegared cabbage, a plate of bad chicken elbows, a plate of hot and sour lamb tripe, a plate of smoked deer elbows, plus four silver plate side dishes, two silver snail lion box side dishes, a bowl of barnyard rice dry meal and a plate of elephant eye steamed buns per person...... It also made the table colorful and dazzling. There is another table dedicated to the queen mother's soul on the stage, but it is a thousand fist-sized June white shou peaches, which are bright and bright. Yongzheng saw that the dishes were ready, slowly stood up, bowed three times to the spiritual seat of the "Queen Ren" behind him, prayed silently for a while, turned back to the seat, nodded to Gao Wuyong, Gao Wuyong immediately said loudly: "Start the feast - it's time to play!" ”

In the sound of gongs and drums, the hat play begins. Ge Shichang, who pretended to be a Magu, held a huge and friendless peach in both hands to offer birthday to the queen mother. The head of the troupe, Fei, also seemed to kneel down and hold the play list with both hands. Gao Wuyong hurriedly took it and transferred it to Yongzheng.

"Well, that's good." Yongzheng browsed casually, casually clicked on "The Heavenly Concubine Helping the World" and "The Legend of the Cursed Jujube", and said to Yunzhi with a smile: "The queen mother loved to watch these gods and demons when she was born, but in fact, I don't care. Third brother, you can also order it. Yunzhi took the play list and looked at it, but ordered "Mulian Saves Mother", and there is also a "Jindan Avenue". "Jindan Avenue" is also okay, but Mulian's play is written about her mother's life of eating people and drinking blood, full of bad karma, falling into reincarnation hell after death and not being able to be reborn, Mulian went to nine hells and eighteen prisons to rescue her mother. Although it is very good, the word "bad karma" is really a bit nondescript when placed on Wu Ya's body. A trace of unhappiness flashed across Yongzheng's face, and he said, "Master Zhu, you order, you don't have to be restrained by gods and demons." Zhu Shi also doesn't like to watch dramas, so he randomly ordered a play "The Story of the Treasure Knife" and said with a smile: "The minister never watches the play, and I don't know what this 'The Legend of the Treasure Knife' plays, so Ying Jinger will serve the Queen Mother." Then Yunlu and the others also ordered.

At the beginning of the main play, Yongzheng seemed a little absent-minded. He glanced at the table of his sons, and a thought arose sharply: Could it be that these three evil seeds are now ghosts and ghosts, and they are performing a scandalous drama below? Long Keduo is already a superb person, and the eighth elder brother dares to blackmail him into the ship, where is this "thief ship" going? Who is "someone"? I thought of the rumors of the palace among the people in other provinces, and said that I was as unbearable as Emperor Yang of Sui, and fabricated it with a nose and eyes, and my heart was suddenly confused. Look at the Xun Qi who are eating, drinking, laughing and watching the play below, and then look at the group of eunuchs behind Gao Wuyong who are watching the play with their necks straight, Yongzheng suddenly has a feeling of disgust, and only eats and drinks according to his temperament, and accostes Yunzhi Yunlu's words. On the stage, I only saw colorful figures dangling around, and the lines were deaf. Yunzhi and Yunlu watched it with relish, and sometimes interspersed a few words about the good team in Jingli, the team was defeated, which class leader made it bad, and used earwax to break the throat of Luo Sifang of Qingyou Hall...... From time to time, he explained to Zhu Shi the origin of the excerpt in front of the play, and even Zhu Shi gradually saw it into the play.

"You sit and laugh and watch the show." Yongzheng was so irritable that he couldn't sit still, and while thinking about getting up and leaving the table, he said, "A few old uncles and old aunts, I want to persuade a glass of wine." With that, he walked to the first two seats on the left. Prince Zheng, Prince Jane, and Prince Lao Guo all got up to greet each other.

At this time, "Mixed Yuan Box" is being performed on stage, which is the story of "Fengshen", and the ghosts and gods are running around, and the smoke is filled, and it is getting hotter and hotter. The Marshal Zhao Gong, played by Ge Shichang, went straight from the top of the two-zhang high ladder, turned around and turned three or four somersaults in a row, landed in the center of the platform, appeared steadily, and shouted at the top of his voice: "I'm so annoyed!" ”

"Good!" More than 200 people shouted loudly, and Yongzheng, who had just returned to the table for toasting, trembled. At this time, it was just past the Hongshi Hongli table, and the three brothers had already stood up and bowed. Hongli said with a smile: "This actor surnamed Ge is really working hard today, and he doesn't look too old?" - I don't dare to play this trick without thirty years of work! Hongyang smiled and said: "I have watched dramas for half my life in vain, and how many churches have I called, but I have never seen a good character like Ge Shichang, and he is so good at being ugly and ugly ......" I have to go down, seeing Yongzheng glaring at himself, I remembered that Yongzheng reprimanded himself many times, "Calling the hall to play dramas, not doing business!" With his tongue stretched out, he swallowed back the words he said.

Hongshi smiled and said, "Hongshi is the best at watching dramas." Today, the Queen Mother is sixty years old, and the surname Ge deserves to be effective! ”

The father and son were talking, and the audience suddenly burst into laughter. When Yongzheng looked back, "Zheng Dan Beating" had been changed on stage. Ge Shichang, who pretended to be an ugly child, hurriedly dodged under the raindrop-like board, but he pretended to be desperately struggling. As soon as the old student stopped, he rubbed his butt and wiped his mouth and grimaced, making the audience lean forward and close. The old student was so tired that he was panting, blowing his beard and glaring: "You disobedient and unfilial thing, you can't beat you with a board, it's really angry Dad!" Just ask for a rope and kill yourself! ”

"Don't, don't—don't do that, old man!" Ge Shichang hugged the board, and said: "Yongzheng Ye refreshed the rule of officials, such a good peaceful life, we have to live well!" Besides, Long Live Lord will hold a thousand feasts in the future, why don't you go to ask for a cup of wine to eat? You can't beat me, that's because you're in Changzhou Mansion, Ge Shichang is in Beijing, and the board is too short. Beat me to death, who still watches our guys' plays? ”

Rao is Yongzheng is strict temperament and his mood is not smooth, and he was also amused by Ge Shichang, and said: "This dog cub's things are good, reward him with two hundred taels of silver!" He added: "Don't thank you for this, and come back after the dinner is over." Gao Wuyong hurriedly bowed down and came to the stage to announce the decree, and the troupe of actors became more and more energetic, and even the drum board was particularly energetic.

For a while, when the card was not at the end of the application, Yongzheng was called the end. He got up and said to Zhu Shi with a smile: "Teacher Zhu is old, you don't need to go back to the military aircraft department, go home and rest for a while, and Ming'er will send a sign into Changchun Garden." The Hongshi brothers accompanied me to the Guanyin Hall to worship the Buddha. The three brothers of Hongshi were receiving Ge Shichang to distribute the reward, and several guests were busy helping them to scatter the blessing peach, receiving the thanksgiving fold, and when they heard the call to accompany the driver, they hurriedly left everyone and rushed over, and followed Yongzheng to the Changyin Pavilion to worship Guanyin.

When they went, a group of people here were immediately relieved, and the prince, eunuchs, and actors were mixed together, and they were not busy cleaning up the remnants, just laughing and laughing, discussing today's drama. Yunzhi beckoned to Ge Shichang and said, "Hey, Ge's family!" Your relative's ticket from Changzhou Mansion has been approved, shouldn't you thank you? "Yes, yes!" Ge Shichang trotted over, and said with a smile: "This is all the fulfillment of the prince and the sixteenth prince, and the three kings have also given the little one a good time, and the little one "Zheng Dan Beats" is so refreshing?" Yunlu saw that Li Hansan was also on the table over there, smiled and said, "Li Hansan is also here today?" ”

"Yes," Li Hansan was also busy, bowed, and said to Ge Shichang with a smile: "The backyard flowers are in the limelight today!" Long live our lord, it's rare to laugh like this! Yunlu wore a big jade wrench in his hand, threw it to Li Hansan, and said, "This reward you!" Li Hansan pretended to take a step back in surprise and said, "This is a taboo object, how can the prince reward me with this?" ”

Several people couldn't help but be surprised, Yunlu said: "This is often worn, I have worn it since I was a child, and I have never heard of any taboos." ”

"I've heard people say since I entered Beijing that Beijingers are now exactly the same as Fujianese - they love male pets." Li Hansan said seriously: "The woman's moon is taboo - sexual affairs, but the man has hemorrhoids, and those who have hemorrhoids wear a big wrench, which also means avoiding being kind." I don't have this habit to wear this thing, and what I don't know is that I also have the good ...... of Longyang" He didn't finish speaking, and everyone was already a big gimmick. Yunzhi smiled and held his stomach and said: "Hongli raised such a wild killer, even our prince made a joke......" Li Hansan pointed to the big gem-embedded wrench in Ge Shichang's hand, bent over with a smile and said: "Be careful, the Ge family has hemorrhoids!" ”

Everyone laughed again, and when they saw Yongzheng bringing Hongshi and others over, they hurriedly stopped and stood up to greet them.