In a blink of an eye, it’s the end of the month, the day of rest.
After a busy month, I thought of sister Ruoxi, whom I haven't seen for many days.
Su Mingzhe sent someone to invite the two sisters to walk their horses in Beiyuan.
There are four royal gardens in the capital.
Among them, Nanyuan is the farthest from the capital and also covers the largest area.
It covers the smallest area and is the closest to the Forbidden City.
The area of Dongyuan is relatively general, from the original Prince Rui's Mansion to the Changpu River area.
The owner of Prince Rui's Mansion is the former regent Dorgon.
The earliest owner of Prince Rui's Palace should be Zhu Zhanji, the "good saint grandson" of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, it was still called Hongqing Palace.
Later, the "Tumubao Incident" occurred.
Zhu Qizhen, Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, was redeemed and lived here when he became the Supreme Emperor. At that time, he changed the name to "Nangong".
Later, after Li Zicheng invaded the capital, he burned it into ruins.
After the Manchus entered the customs, Dorgon lived here and it was converted into the "Prince Rui's Mansion".
After Dorgon died, Emperor Shunzhi banned outsiders from coming here again, and this area gradually became deserted.
Xiyuan is the Changchun Garden where Kangxi loved to stay.
Rumor has it that during one year of Kangxi's reign, half of the time he was out patrolling and the other half lived in Changchun Garden, turning the Forbidden City into a display.
Compared with Nanyuan, which occupies a large area, Dongyuan and Xiyuan have pleasant scenery, while Beiyuan is located in the Jingshan and Beihai areas.
This is the residence of the banner people and the vegetable garden for the civil and military officials of the Forbidden City.
According to the traditional layout of the capital: the east city is rich, the west city is expensive, the north city is poor, and the south city is cheap.
Beiyuan is home to a large number of down-and-out bannermen, as well as descendants of old eunuchs and old palace maids.
Yes, old eunuchs and old palace maids also have descendants.
These descendants may have been purchased or adopted. In short, from the perspective of outsiders, most of the people living here are descendants of eunuchs and palace maids.
When sisters Ruo Lan and Ruo Xi arrived at Beiyuan Jingshan in a carriage, they saw that Su Mingzhe had already chosen the horses.
"Your Majesty, good luck!"
"No need!"
Su Mingzhe watched his sisters get off the carriage, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
Ruoxi, dressed in a red cheongsam, is still as charming and cute as ever, pure and beautiful.
And Ruolan is also wearing a pink cheongsam. Compared with the calm and quiet temperament of the past, she is a little more bright and light.
Seeing such beautiful girls, some thoughts suddenly came to Su Mingzhe's mind.
"Hey, if you look around again, I'll dig out your eyeballs!"
Ruoxi saw the man's unscrupulous eyes constantly scanning her and her sister's body, and she felt a little happy and resentful in her heart.
Sure enough, this man doesn’t have any good qualities!
She obviously wants to possess her, but she still dares to covet her sister.
"sorry!"
Su Mingzhe first expressed his humility to Ruolan, and then joked to Ruoxi:
"Guan Guan Jujiu, in Hezhizhou, a graceful lady, a gentleman is so good! Your sister Ruolan is so beautiful, I can't help but look at it twice, is it wrong? Of course, in two years, I will wait for your facial features. If you grow longer, maybe you will be more beautiful than your sister. Then, I will look at you every day and bore you to death!"
"Hmph! Shameless!"
Ruo Xi looked at the man's confident expression and really wanted to kick him thousands of miles away.
However, this is just a thought.
She knew how powerful the man in front of her was.
After a few quarrels, Su Mingzhe returned to his usual cold expression and asked the two women to choose horses.
Ruolan picked a tall horse, jumped lightly, and sat firmly on the horse's back.
Ruoxi picked a young mare, and with the help of a man, she got on the horse.
Following that, Su Mingzhe took the lead,
Ride towards the North Sea.
Ruolan took care of Ruoxi, and the two sisters slowly trotted behind.
The three of them ran from Jingshan to Beihai. Su Mingzhe felt like he couldn't move at all, but Ruo Xi was so tired that her palms were sweating.
The three of them dismounted and took a rest.
Ruo Xi looked at Su Mingzhe's snow-white horse, Zhao Yebai, without a trace of color, and said with envy:
"Prince, let's switch horses, okay?"
Compared with Su Mingzhe's Zhao Yebai, her little mare is simply unsightly!
[This beautiful Dawan horse, in modern times, would be worth at least several million, right?]
Su Mingzhe ignored the girl's suggestion at all. After getting on his horse, he approached the girl, stretched out his hand and held her in his arms.
As for Ruoxi's little mare, a guard will come and take it back soon.
"Let's go!"
Su Mingzhe waited for Ruoxi to sit firmly, then smiled at Ruolan next to him.
If we could hold these two sisters in our arms together, that would be perfect!
Seeing that Su Mingzhe and her sister were in an intimate posture, Ruolan just smiled faintly, slightly tucked her legs into the horse's belly, and rushed towards the loop first.
This was not the first time Ruoxi rode with a man, and the two were engaged, so she had no worries at all.
The feeling of riding a tall horse is completely different from riding a small mare.
Excitedly, Ruoxi would get close to her from time to time, reaching out to touch the horse's mane and hug the horse's head.
Looking at the graceful figure and the attractive two-petal peach, Su Mingzhe could only keep reciting [Bing Xin Jue] to avoid making a fool of himself.
Ruo Xi didn't know that she almost made the man angry, so she turned around and said coquettishly with joy on her face:
"Prince, can you give me this horse?"
When Su Mingzhe faced a girl asking for a gift for the first time, he naturally would not refuse, but he did not forget to warn:
"I can give it to you, but your riding skills are not very good, so you can't ride on the street!"
"Don't worry, I'm not like you, riding a horse in the city and being lawless!"
After coming to this world for more than a year, Ruoxi no longer knows anything about the laws of the Qing Dynasty.
The Dashilan area where she was almost hit was in a downtown area and horse riding was not allowed at all.
Of course, this regulation is only for ordinary people.
No one dares to control princes and dignitaries like Su Mingzhe, except riding horses in the Forbidden City and military camps, and having fun in other places.
Not long after.
The three of them rode back to the Jingshan stables in pairs, and Su Mingzhe invited the two sisters to have dinner at a nearby teahouse.
Tianhuixuan outside Di'anmen is one of the largest teahouses in the capital.
An internal official had already called to the front station and asked for a private room.
The three of them entered through a small secluded door. As soon as they reached the second floor, they heard the storyteller talking about "The Case of Guillotine Beauty".
During the Kangxi period, the control over writing style was not too strict.
In the sixty-first year of Kangxi's reign, only a dozen massacres occurred. Compared with the Tang and Song Dynasties, this number was also very rare.
It is precisely because of the loose government management that most of the teahouse storytellers dare to comment on current events.
The three of them had just sat down and ordered their food when they heard the storyteller say angrily:
"There is Bao Qingtian in Kaifeng Mansion, and I also have Shi Qingtian in Shuntian Mansion."
"But Master Bao Qingtian has a dragon-headed guillotine, a tiger-headed guillotine, and a dog-headed guillotine to kill all the evildoers in the world!"
"But I, Shi Qingtian, am only full of knowledge and passionate. I want to benefit the people, but I am framed by female officials..."
In the box, when sisters Ruoxi and Ruolan heard this, they couldn't help but look at the man, and secretly felt a cold sweat for the storyteller.
The so-called "Shi Qingtian" refers to Shi Shilun, Yin of Shuntian Prefecture.
Two days ago, the nine admirals asked him to impeach Shi Shilun, saying that he "invited to buy people's hearts" and had "ulterior motives"
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Words like "inviting to buy people's hearts" and "with ulterior motives" are very dangerous to a courtier. If not, it may even implicate the Nine Clans.
Naturally, Su Mingzhe would not listen to Tong Heqi's one-sided words. Instead, in accordance with the court's practice, he asked Shi Shilun to explain himself.
It stands to reason that if Shi Shilun defended himself in the previous episode and explained the whole story clearly, the matter would be settled.
After all, Su Mingzhe also knew that Shi Shilun was an honest official, and even with some minor flaws, he could still be considered a capable minister.
Who would have expected that Shi Shilun did not follow common sense and not only failed to defend himself, but yesterday, he impeached Tuo Heqi on seven counts including "buying and selling by force" and "robbing civilian girls".
As soon as the two got into a fight, Prime Minister Zhang Yushu suspended the two of them according to the rules and asked them to reflect at home.
In addition, Dali Temple was sent to investigate the cause of the mutual impeachment between the two.
Now, only one day has passed.
Unexpectedly, some storytellers began to fight against Shi Shilun.
I don’t know if this storyteller is really ‘taking revenge’ or if he has ‘some intention’.