Chapter 53 Chapter 52

Before the Lantern Festival, I put the bracelet on my body, but it took a long time until the Lantern Festival was over, and it seemed that it was already April.The eighth elder brother is still at home.I thought about it secretly for a while, and thought that his emotional and physical reasons were the most important reasons for him to do this, but there should be other reasons.One is to avoid suspicion. After all, he suffered a lot when the prince was abolished. This time, he carefully arranged for the prince to be abolished. In order to avoid a careless move and causing disaster, he might as well stay at home and avoid everything.Second, the Qing Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, and the eighth elder brother did this to gain a good name for himself and to gain the favor of scholars.

That being the case, I'm afraid he still won't enter the palace in a short time.After thinking about it, I had to bother Brother Fourteen.One day, he noticed that only the tenth elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother were together, and hurriedly chased after him to say hello. After paying my respects, the three laughed and talked, and I gestured to Fourteen to let Elder Brother Ten go first, but Fourteen frowned at me, expressing his helplessness.I had no choice but to look at the tenth elder brother flatteringly, and said with a smile: "Can you go out of the palace by yourself first, I have something to say to the fourteenth elder brother." The tenth elder brother said angrily: "When you need me, just If you have something to say to me, when you don't need me, you rush me away. Is there anything you can't let me listen to?" He said and glared at Brother Fourteen angrily.

Fourteen hurriedly said: "It has nothing to do with me! I don't know what she is going to say. If you want to stare, just stare at her." Brother Ten stared at me, who is afraid of whom?I stared at him and said: "Before the Lantern Festival, I watched you and Shi Fujin from a distance, and before I could go up to say hello, you slipped away with Fujin, you said, why are you hiding from me? You have to settle accounts , then make it clear.” Elder Brother Ten looked embarrassed and said discouragedly: "I won't mess with you, I can't talk to you anyway, so you can say whatever you like!" As he spoke, he turned around and left quickly.

I looked at his back and laughed.Elder Fourteen asked with a smile: "I saw Ten Fujin from afar, why would I go up to say hello if I didn't hide?" I laughed and said, "I'm bluffing! I was trying to avoid him at the time, but Elder Ten also saw me , busy blocking Shi Fujin's sight, the two walked away." Fourteen smiled and shook his head and said, "I don't know when Shi Fujin's knot will be solved? You and I already understand Brother Ten's thoughts, but they still don't understand." The outsider will know. But when the time comes, you will understand."

I took out the wrapped bracelet from my pocket and handed it to him. After Shisi took it, he touched it casually and asked, "It looks like a bracelet, what do you mean?" I said: "Give it back to him for me, but there is no rush, you can give it to him when he is in a better mood." Fourteen said: "Why do you ask me to do such a thankless job? Go by yourself!" Handing the bracelet back, I hurriedly jumped two steps away and begged: "Since my mother passed away last year, he has been sick at home, where am I going to go? Besides, you don't need to say anything, he will see the bracelet. understand everything."

He was thinking quietly with hesitation, and suddenly smiled, looked behind me and said in a low voice: "The fourth brother and the thirteenth brother are here." I said angrily: "Stop playing! This trick doesn't work for me. "Fourteen put away the bracelet, leaned over to beg, and said, "Fourth brother is auspicious, thirteenth brother is auspicious!" Only then did I realize that something was wrong, and hurriedly turned around to ask for peace.Thirteen raised his eyebrows and looked at me and Fourteen with a half-smile, and the fourth elder brother said, "Get up!" I felt uneasy, so I just stood there with my head bowed.Fourteen smiled and looked at the fourth elder brother and asked, "Going out of the palace?"

The fourth elder brother said: "It will be later, and I have to go to greet my mother." Fourteen smiled and said: "Then I will go first." After finishing speaking, he saluted the fourth elder brother and Thirteen, and then smiled at me in a low voice : "It's disrespectful, thank you!" Then he left. I lamented in my heart, Fourteen, fourteen, just go away, why do you still pretend to be like this, and put the misunderstanding into reality? As soon as he left, he immediately turned cold, Thirteen suppressed his smile, turned and walked away.I hesitated for a while, not knowing how to explain it to him.Looking at his expression, his face was pale, and his eyes looked at the distance casually.

I lowered my head and thought, what should I say?While hesitating, he asked, "Is there no explanation?" I hesitated for a while, and said decisively: "Whether the prince believes it or not, the servants only say a word, it is definitely not what the prince thinks." He mocked: "I haven't tried it yet, so you recruited so quickly. It turns out that you really have an affair with the fourteenth brother." I said 'ah', and he continued: "I thought, you and the tenth brother , The fourteenth brother has always been close, and it is normal to exchange things with each other, but you categorically rejected my idea. It is really rare to be so frank and straightforward!"

I was angry and laughed, and said angrily, "Why do you keep teasing me? Brother Fourteen just said that you are here, but I still didn't believe it. I thought he was lying to me too!" The fourth elder brother said: "I can't control my fourteenth brother's thoughts, and I don't want to. You can communicate with each other, and you can send things as you like. But I don't want to see the scene of talking and crying before." This request is normal.I pursed my lips and said, "Got it!" The two were silent for a while, I bowed to him and asked, "Is there any order? No, I can go." He waved and said, "Go!"

Turning around and walking away, he sighed and thought, he is much more generous than I imagined.Didn't say don't do this, don't do that.Thinking of Elder Fourteen again, I couldn't help but hate, what on earth does he want to do? In October last year, we began to investigate the "Torzi et al. Partying and Drinking Case". When everyone was waiting for a long time, the investigation finally came to the result after six months.Everything is just like Jingxi, Duke of Zhenguo, there are indeed words of conspiracy, especially Qi Shiwu and Tuo Heqi, there are quite a lot of words to encourage everyone to support the crown prince.Kangxi scolded angrily: "What's the hindrance to meeting friends with wine and food? It's nothing to say. Yi and others don't care about it." Forming cronies for the crown prince endangered his safety and the throne.

At the same time as the 'Party Formation and Drinking Case' was prosecuted, Shen Tiansheng, the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and others took over the Hutan Heshuo case to extort money. Qi Shiwu, Tuo Heqi, Geng E and others were all involved in this case. The amount of bribes varies. The ministers involved have been imprisoned one after another. Kangxi has always been lenient to his ministers, but he only imprisoned Oboi, and did not impose the death penalty on Suo'etu who rebelled. Wu tortured him and ordered his five bodies to be nailed to the wall with iron nails. Qi Shiwu died after a few days.Kangxi's attitude caused the prince's followers to be in a state of panic all day long, and the hearts of the courtiers fluctuated for a while, and the wind was jittery.The crown prince was gradually isolated, and he was in doubt and fear all day long. His behavior became more violent and violent, and he often beat the servants around him with a cane.When it got to Kangxi's ears, Kangxi hated it even more. The people in the palace dared not say much to the crown prince, and secretly discussed Qi Shiwu's death all day long. Obviously no one witnessed it, but when they talked about it, they seemed to have seen it with their own eyes. The audience didn't question it, but instead cheered and laughed in agreement, and everyone was overjoyed.It wasn't until Wang Xi ordered his staff to beat a few eunuchs that the people in the palace stopped talking about it. I heard it twice now and then, walking away quickly.Crazy, all crazy!This has become entertainment and talking material.It is normal to think about it, the six sense organs are incomplete, the mind is already unhealthy, and the daily life is depressed, so it is strange if it is not abnormal.His heart was already heavy, and thinking about living with such perverts every day, his face was even more froze, without even a trace of a smile. The sun in April is the most attractive, just the right warmth.Jade Tan and I were drying the dried flowers and leaves accumulated in previous years and the newly picked lilacs in the sun. When Wang Xi passed by, he came over to greet me, went to the bamboo radish and looked through the dried chrysanthemums, and said to me with a smile: "I heard people say that using dried chrysanthemums for pillows is the best way to put out fires. My sister asked someone to help me." Let's make one!" Without looking up, I swept the bamboo stool with a feather duster, and asked casually, "Where do you get so much fire to extinguish? Is it not enough to drink chrysanthemum tea?" Wang Xi sighed: "Sister, don't you know that I got angry with those bastards just two days ago? I ordered someone to beat them hard." I said absent-mindedly: "It should be beaten, but it's too inappropriate. Talk! But people are beating you, why are you angry?" Wang Xi smiled and said, "My sister doesn't care if she sees it, but I don't care about it. It's terrible that things get worse and the slave will be in trouble. Now my sister is a sage in everyone's mouth. , I have taken on the notoriety." You think I want the name of the 'sage'?Am I willing to live in depression all day long?Thinking about it, he became angry, took a feather duster and flicked him twice, cursing: "Hurry up and go to your work, and talk to me here, as if I took advantage of you. Looking back, I will I need to ask Li Adada to clarify whether you should take care of it or not." Wang Xi jumped and avoided, while laughing: "My good sister, I was wrong! It's just that I was scolded behind my back, and my heart was not going well, so I just asked my sister to complain." I scolded: "You are so good, learn more from Li Wenda! If you don't learn it, you don't know where you learned it. Be careful, I will tell you master!" As he said, he hurried two steps, He waved the feather duster in his hand again. He hurriedly trot sideways while bowing in a hurry, suddenly his face was startled, his steps stopped abruptly, but his figure didn't stop, he staggered and fell to the ground with his feet on his back, before I had time to laugh, he hurriedly got up again, Hui didn't bother to slap and greeted us behind us.Yutan and I hurriedly turned around to say hello, it turned out that the fourth elder brother, the thirteenth elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother were standing under the porch. The fourth elder brother looked cold, raised his hand, and asked us to stand up. Behind him, Thirteen and Fourteen were all smiling. Wang Xi left after paying his respects.After he disappeared, the thirteenth and fourteenth elder brothers burst into laughter. I said, "Laugh quickly! But I can't hold it anymore!" I saw them both staring at the feather duster in my hand, and hurriedly threw it on the ground. On the mat beside him.They laughed louder and louder, and I looked at them with tight lips. After a while, I couldn't hold back anymore and started laughing. Brother Fourteen smiled and asked: "What happened to you today? You have exposed your true colors by being so careless, and you will not be able to pretend to be gentle and virtuous in the future." I suppressed my smile and said lightly: "You haven't heard of it" Is it the truth that things must be reversed at extremes?" Both he and the thirteenth elder brother were stunned for a moment, then they both smiled slightly and didn't speak any more.The fourth elder brother who had been quietly watching us from the sidelines said, "Let's go!" and walked away.The thirteenth elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother hurriedly followed, and the three of them walked towards the palace of the Empress Defei. I plucked the lilacs casually, and told Yutan, "If it doesn't take too much trouble, help Wang Xi make a pillow!" Yutan smiled and said, "It's not too much trouble, the pillowcases are ready-made, stuff them well, and put them on the side. Just sew." I went back to the house at night, took the rope to jump rope, but always got caught, it was difficult to concentrate, so I had to throw the rope, and went into the house to lie in a daze, when someone knocked on the door, I hurriedly got up and opened the courtyard door.Xiao Shunzi flashed in, greeted me, and handed me a letter. After I took it, he left in a hurry. Holding the letter and posting it in the courtyard for a while, I went into the house and read it under the lamp. "Walk to the poor water, sit and watch the clouds rise", extremely clean, beautiful and firm characters, is this his character?I thought Brother Fourteen's handwriting was excellent, but I didn't expect his handwriting to be as good as it is. Looking at each word carefully, unconsciously, his words seemed to have his unique calmness, which slowly infected my mood, and the anxiety and depression accumulated in my heart gradually dissipated.With a smile on the corner of his mouth, he sighed softly, spread paper and ink, and began to practice calligraphy. Looking at his handwriting, I couldn't help imitating his handwriting, writing over and over again, "Walk to the poor water, sit and watch the clouds rise".Before I knew it, my mind was immersed in black and white, and everything else was forgotten. When I felt a sore neck and raised my head, the night was already dark.I hurriedly collected my pen and ink, washed and rested in a hurry, and fell into a deep sleep after a short meeting.A long time hard to find good sleep!