Xiao Maozi not only knew that Baozhu was sent into the palace late at night, but he also had wine with Wu Yingxiong at Ehuang Mansion, waiting for Huangfu Baozhu to come back. Since Wu Yingxiong personally visited Drum Tower West, Yang Qilong sent Xiao Maozi to be responsible for liaison with Wu Yingxiong.
.This is exactly what Xiao Maozi and Wu Yingxiong both wanted, so they hit it off immediately.
As soon as he heard that Huangfu Baozhu had entered the palace, Xiao Maozi's face changed color. Wu Yingxiong saw that he was so unworldly, he stroked his shoulder and giggled: "Thank you for seeing the world, you are so scared by such a trivial matter."
Hun'er? Don't worry! His ability is not as good as that of Hu Gongshan you mentioned. Even if he can't steal anything, he will definitely not get into trouble!"
Xiao Maozi heard that it was not an assassination. Although he felt slightly relieved, he was still uneasy. He could not sit or stand steadily. He wanted to walk away but was afraid that Wu Yingxiong would become suspicious. He forced himself to stay with him, but he was also afraid that he would be exposed in a trance.
After having a few glasses of wine, he reasoned that if he ate too much, he would get itchy blisters on his body. Although Wu Yingxiong was an adulterer, he was a double-edged hozen, and he had really deceived him.
When Baozhu returned to his house, it was already the second time. Wu Yingxiong was still drinking alone uneasily. Xiao Maozi couldn't stand it, so he sat aside and squinted his eyes "fishing". Hearing a sound in the courtyard, the two of them started talking at the same time.
Startled, Wu Yingxiong stood up, walked out of the outer hall in three or two steps, and bumped into Baozhu, who was covered in ice and snow. When Xiao Maozi saw that Baozhu had no murderous intent on his face and no blood on his body, the stone in his heart fell to the ground.
He looked for a seat, twisted a hot towel, and was busy looking for dry clothes for him to change. As soon as Baozhu wiped his face, a cup of hot rice wine was handed to his hand. Wu Yingxiong couldn't help laughing and said: "You monkey cub
Really good at flattering people!"
"We are supposed to be serving people!" Xiao Maozi said with a smile as he was busy serving food and wine to the two of them, "How can we be a errand if we don't have these two!"
"Your Majesty, I've been waiting for you for a long time!" After a few glasses of hot wine, Baozhu felt better mentally and physically, and said with a smile, "I almost didn't lose my life there. The Qianqing Palace was guarded like an iron barrel, and there was no way I could do anything!"
Wu Yingxiong was startled and said hurriedly: "If you can't do it, don't do it. Then think of other ways - it's just that you have been there for too long, which makes people worried!" Xiao Maozi also said: "I know all the people there.
, very powerful! Wei Dongting, Lang Ling and the others are all reborn as night owls! If you can come back safely, you have to recite Namo Amitabha three thousand times!"
"Joke!" Baozhu's heart was pounding and he said with a sullen face, "If I am willing to come back empty-handed, why have I delayed it until this hour?" As he said this, he took out the command arrow from his body and handed it to Wu Yingxiong, "This is the crown prince's.
With great blessing, God will allow the crown prince to return smoothly!"
Wu Yingxiong's eyes shone with joy, just like a hungry cat pounced on a silver carp that jumped to the shore. He snatched the arrow and examined it carefully under the lamp. He stroked it repeatedly and suddenly burst out in a voice that sounded like crying but not laughing: "Really?"
, Really! Hahaha... Really -" He smiled, but suddenly stopped, turned around and asked Baozhu: "Didn't you say that the Qianqing palace was incapable of doing anything? This is -"
"I got this at the Yangxin Palace." Baozhu was holding the ginseng soup and replied with a smile, "People say that the emperor is diligent in his work. I saw it with my own eyes tonight. After the third watch, when he went to Yikun Palace,
I just went in and touched it out..."
Wu Yingxiong played with the command arrow, turned around absently and asked Xiao Maozi again: "Didn't you say that these objects are all in Qianqing Palace?"
"Did you say that the place was changed?" Xiao Maozi asked in surprise, "Why didn't He Guizhu tell me where it was taken out?"
"It feels like you're in a small box when you touch it in the dark," Baozhu guessed at Wu Yingxiong's thoughts and asked, "Why, it doesn't work?"
"I know!" Xiao Maozi suddenly clapped his hands and said with a smile, "The real prince is so blessed! This one was handed over by Kong Sizhen. I'm afraid he forgot it and didn't even record it."
"This alone is not enough." Wu Yingxiong stared at the light for a while, lost in thought, breathed a sigh of relief, picked up a chopstick and chewed the dish slowly, and said, "Yang Qilong and others want to frame me, why can't I
How can one's body be cured by one's way?"
"Kill the emperor!" Huangfu Baozhu and Xiao Maozi exclaimed at the same time.
"Shhhhhhh!" Wu Yingxiong looked around and said softly, "This is Azi's business. I have made arrangements. I'm not like these stupid donkeys!"
"What should you do?" Huangfu Baozhu couldn't help asking.
Wu Yingxiong just smiled and did not answer. He turned to Xiao Maozi and asked, "Are you still lighting the fire in the tea room?"
"Yeah." Xiao Maozi only focused on picking up the vegetables and replied without raising his head, but he was thinking about the meaning of Wu Yingxiong's question.
"It's hard, isn't it?"
"They're all here too." Xiao Maozi said, his eye circles a little red. He thought of his mother. Since he was beaten, he has only gone back to see him twice. The old man was afraid that something would happen to him again. He had stopped eating meat and vegetarian food, and his hair was all white.
Already.
"Do you want to go back to Yangxin Palace?" Wu Yingxiong suddenly asked.
"It's useless even if you think about it." Xiao Maozi was startled, put down his chopsticks and asked, "What a weird question I asked, who wants to be Yang Paifeng all the time?"
Wu Yingxiong nodded confidently and said firmly: "I can ask you to return to the Yangxin Palace, but you can't half believe me, Wu Yingxiong, and half believe Zhong Sanlang. Zhong Sanlang was fabricated by them to deceive people. He can make your family rich for generations."
It's me!" There was a cold light in his eyes, and even Baozhu's palms broke out in cold sweat. I don't know what tricks he was playing.
"How can my brother-in-law tell Xiao Maozi to return to Yangxin Hall?" Baozhu asked after hearing this. Wu Yingxiong smiled mysteriously and said, "I heard that Yang Qilong has secretly ordered Huang Sicun to poison Kangxi, so that he can force the prince to do so.
If you raise an army, you can also use your sword to kill me - hum, that's not a bad idea! You only keep an eye on the man named Huang, and when the time comes, you expose his identity in person. Isn't this credit enough for you to return to Yangxin Palace?"
"Oh my God!" Xiao Maozi's lips turned white with shock. This news was so shocking! But he immediately changed his mind and said, "If I expose him, if the third prince finds out, he won't skin my little Maozi alive!"
Wu Yingxiong sneered and said: "He dares! I am on his side. If he dares to kill my people, I will tell him to pour soup on the rats and kill them all - Yang Qilong, a rogue in the capital, has so many methods.
How much ability do you have?"
"Then -" Baozhu only said one word and swallowed it.
"You're asking about Huang Sicun, aren't you? They were pulled over by Li Zhu and the others a long time ago!" Wu Yingxiong had no expression on his face. "I miss him and I will give him a bigger pension when the time comes." He said.
Yawning, he looked out the window and said, "It's dawning soon - I didn't even call Lang Tingshu tonight. Since the emperor came last time, I saw that he was in a trance and a little distracted - I want to see this again
people."
The season is gradually getting warmer, and the tender grass in the cracks of the bricks on the palace walls has turned from yellow to green. Kangxi quietly planted half of the rice field last spring, thinking that it would be ripe in the autumn, so he summoned all the civil and military officials to have a look, and then in
He was promoted to a county government north of the Yellow River where paddy fields could be opened. Unexpectedly, there were three consecutive early frosts in August, resulting in no harvest, which made him very disappointed. This year, he asked the queen to raise a large plate of seedlings early.
When it was time to plant the rice seedlings, he went alone to the paddy field behind Jingshan Mountain to plant them, and ordered the eunuchs to take good care of them before returning to the palace.
Kangxi stood in front of the palace, letting the gentle spring breeze blow. He looked up at the swallows that were cooing under the eaves. No one would harm this beloved bird in the world, whether in a hut in the countryside or in a magnificent palace.
How comfortable it is! After standing for a while, he felt a little tired. Just as Kangxi was about to return to the palace, he saw Huang Jinggong standing respectfully at the foot of Danqi, so he smiled and said: "Huang Jing, where is Zhang Wanqiang?"
"In reply to my master," Huang Jing said with a respectful smile, "Old Buddha went to Dajue Temple to burn incense and forgot something there - I asked him to help find it!"
"Oh." Kangxi responded lightly, then smiled and said, "Last time you said there were some interesting places, how about taking me out for a walk?" After hearing this, Huang Jing hurriedly said: "This, I don't dare—"
- Eunuch Zhang had already informed him that it was Lafayette's order -" Before he finished speaking, Kangxi stopped him and said: "This is my idea, and you didn't instigate me to go there. What are you afraid of? Zhang Wanqiang
Do you still care about me? Call-" He wanted to call Xiao Weizi, but after thinking about it, he changed his mind and said, "Ask Mu Zixu and Jianluzi to follow us, let's go for a walk." Huang Jing then agreed.
Kangxi and his party all changed into private clothes, but they slipped out through the side door of Shenwu Gate instead of Xihua Gate.
The streets of Beijing are very lively. There are more and more restaurants and teahouses built one after another, each one more beautiful than the other. There are two rows on one street, such as silk and satin cloth shops, flower gauze shops, old shops, jade and jewelry shops, stationery supplies shops, and flower and fruit shops.
, a blacksmith shop, a bamboo and wood furniture shop, a wine and rice workshop, a cobbler's shop, an embroidery shop, a fresh fish and seafood shop... There are all kinds of things in front of you, and you can get whatever you want. Kangxi walked among the crowd and looked at it, and he felt very at ease: all of this.
They were all given by Him, and He was among them, but none of them knew that He was "now"!
After walking around the downtown area in the west of the city, they came to the Qianmen area again. Here was another pattern, with theaters, guild halls, and restaurants everywhere. In front of the theater, there was a huge pink sign hanging on it.
In addition to posters for dramas and other genres, some also had poems about bamboo branches written by celebrities from the fighting party. These words aroused Kangxi's interest:
On a certain day, a certain class was performed in a certain park, and red and yellow stickers were posted to pass the test.
Kangxi couldn't help but laugh and said: "It's so vulgar and interesting, but the word 'someone' is used very enchantingly." Looking at the next family, he saw:
I would like to print a thousand copies of this post, Ci Lu Qing Tang, Shaoxiang, Zhejiang
When he looked up, he saw a plaque hanging across the lintel, which read "Luqingtang" in three large gold characters. Kangxi laughed and said, "I don't believe it. His plays are only for Shaoxing people to watch!"
Go in. Huang Jing hurriedly smiled and said: "The master didn't realize that he doesn't do dramas here, but is specifically called Tanghui. If you want to hear it, go to Liuheju, eat, play and order some dramas, then you will have a great time!"
"Let's go and take a look!" Kangxi waved his fan and said enthusiastically.
Liuheju is a large hotel, which is close to the theater. The theater on one side is called Yanqingtang, which is okay;
On the play card, it is written: "Miss Ziyun performs "Qin Tiao"." The tone of the Zhuzhi Ci on it is even louder:
Every taste is praised endlessly, but it’s still Qingyuntang!
After looking at it, they squeezed out. Huang Jing and the other three were already waiting in front of Liuheju's door. Kangxi didn't say anything, and stepped in with a flick of his sleeves.
"What do you want, sir?" There were many people in the banquet hall downstairs. A waiter, sweating profusely from work, came up to him with a smile and asked, "If you don't like the noise downstairs, there are private seats with partitions upstairs.
, quiet and elegant, it is convenient for drinking and eating, ordering operas and singing, and watching sideshows..."
Kangxi was a little confused, he didn't understand anything about this. Huang Jing replied: "Our master is a distinguished man, and nothing you say is applicable. We ordered the main hall of the big house at the back and served a table of sea vegetables and eight delicacies. What do you think?
Go to Qingyuntang. After Miss Ziyun's performance is over, ask her to come over and sing a cappella!"
"It's easy to tell," the waiter in the shop knew he was a rich man by looking at this posture, and said with a smile, "Miss Ziyun's twenty taels of silver have to be sent over first. She is becoming popular and there are many people calling her.
I'm afraid he may not be able to come yet!" Huang Jing couldn't help but smile, pulled the waiter aside, handed him twenty taels of silver, and said in a low voice: "Go over and whisper to Ziyun, it was Lao Huang who called her, maybe this
I've rewarded you with money!" The waiter left happily.
Kangxi walked into the main hall and took a look. It was very elegantly decorated, with bonsai flowers, a mirror stand, a chiming clock, bookshelves, and a couch for sitting on the Kang. A picture of Erqiao watching the army was hung in the middle hall, and a banner next to it read:
Xiao banished to three thousand years old
Traveling in the world
Kangxi couldn't help shouting: "Okay!" Donkey was a rough guy, and he just looked around curiously. Mu Zixu was very careful. He didn't look like a serious place, so he smiled and said: "Old Huang, why does this place look like a businessman?"
Like a courtyard?" As he said this, he saw that the table had been laid out and the dishes were being served one after another.
Huang Jing hurriedly smiled and said: "This is exactly the shopkeeper's businessman's trick. How could the court come here?"
"It seems that you are a frequent visitor here!" Kangxi sat down comfortably. As he spoke, he looked at the eight delicacies on the table: shark's fin, white fungus, anchovy, broad tripe, civet cat, hash ant,
Fish lips, skirt, a phoenix nest in the middle, a cold plate with a peacock in full bloom, and then a bowl of cherry rabbit meat and sea cucumber soup.
"Which of the eunuchs in the palace doesn't visit restaurants?" Huang Jing said with a smile, "If the master doesn't like it, the servant will change it." Just as he was talking, a silver bell-like laughter sounded outside: "Where are the distinguished guests? What?
Is the wind blowing to Liuheju?" After saying that, he lifted the curtain and walked in lightly.
It was Ziyun who came in. When Kangxi saw the visitor, his eyes suddenly lit up: he saw that she was wearing a light red armor, with a square of apricot embroidered silk nested in the butterfly plate button, and a half-high moon-white collar.
Two plum blossoms were embroidered sparsely and elegantly, and her lower body was in a flowing long skirt like newly dyed pond lotuses, with pleats. She had a smile on her eyebrows and almond-shaped eyes. She held a pipa in her arms and squatted in front of the door with a smile on her face.
, said in a soft voice: "Good luck to you gentlemen!" Kangxi was stunned for a while before he remembered to reply, and said: "Get up!" He felt that these words were too emperor-like, so he hurriedly said warmly: "Just come here.
Sit here with me—and you three too!”
"Men just have wine," Ziyun pursed his lips and said with a smile, "I'm just an actor, so let's sing songs to cheer up men!" When Kangxi looked at Kangxi furtively, he was wearing a blue silk robe with floral patterns.
There is a maroon satin Wolong bag hanging around her waist, a red velvet knotted hat on her head, and a pair of foundation boots with double beams on her feet. There are a few fine white pockmarks on Guazi's face. You can't see them unless you sit down and take a closer look.
——I couldn't help but secretly laugh: This pretty boy is the emperor? Kangxi felt uncomfortable looking at her, so he smiled and said: "If you have any good music, play it for me to listen to." Ziyun smiled sweetly, and tapped her five fingers.
Shu, the pipa sounded louder and clearer. First a piece of "Music before the Banquet" was played, and then the main tune was "Farewell My Concubine". The sound of the music was sometimes like cracking rocks piercing the clouds, sometimes like flowing water flowing back, and sometimes like thousands of horses.
Galloping, and sometimes like sobbing. Kangxi couldn't swallow a mouthful of delicious food, so he drank one cup at a time and listened to music.
"This song is too sad." After playing "Farewell My Concubine", Ziyun said with a smile, "Let's sing a homely song to cheer up the fun!" As he said that, he waved the five strings, looked at the eyes, and sang softly:
How many palace wallflowers and willows in Guangling cover the sorrow of wanderers every year? How much fame and fame have exhausted the love of spring, and only this little is left, but they still have to search for a feudal lord for thousands of miles... How deep is the cloud in the eagle ridge? , Yaoyao, at the end of Caoxi Road, where can I go to find my old friends? It is better to return to my hometown where there are high-rise buildings, where I can have red makeup and wine, and I can write about the Spring and Autumn Period!
Before the song was finished, Kangxi was already drunk. He waved his hand and said, "Well done! I am so good! Huang Jing, you three, go out. I - I want to be alone. I want to be alone." and……"
"Master, you can't do it!" Donkeyzi frowned and said coldly, "The madam and the master's grandma ask the master to go back quickly. The heads of the Xiong family and the Wei family are here. There are important things waiting!"
A good day's work was completely wasted by this stubborn donkey with crooked facial features and deaf tone.
Kangxi rested in the Yangxin Hall that night, still thinking about Ziyun in his heart. He called Huang Jing over in the middle of the night and said quietly: "Arrange a place for Ziyun to go and be quiet, do you understand?" (To be continued)