Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Sai Jinhua Imaginative Tour of Prince Gong's Mansion Twenty Scenes of Prince Qing Chanting

Because of Wang Jinting's efforts, Chaoyan only sentenced Liang Zhenpu to life imprisonment.When the news came out, the Yellow Tavern in Shikou of Dongzhu was full of cheers, Li Guotai, Yu Yunniang and others were overjoyed, and Zhang San was naturally relieved to see Liang Zhenpu's life saved. Just half a year after Prince Gong Yisu died, Prince Qing Yikuang occupied his Prince Gong Mansion.At this time, Yikuang was lying on the rattan chair in the living room, smoking a hookah. Yi$ is an insatiable aristocrat, he is the grandson of Yongqi, the seventeenth son of Emperor Qianlong.He has lived a life of Hubainuo, Jinyi and gourmet food since he was a child.There is only one belief in my mind: In this world, only the descendants of Nurhachi are born noble.This unique life and belief made him develop a arrogant, cruel and ambitious character.Fifteen years ago, he placed his bet on Cixi and assisted this evil woman in eradicating the alien party. As a result, he was named the Prince of Qing County and became Cixi's favorite.Yikuang hated foreigners joining the Reform Party very much, because these people he saw were the ones who refused to show their anger and talents, and even openly despised and resisted them.But he was even more disturbed.In his view, the Han people are not terrible, Hong Xiuquan is so powerful, established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and was eventually wiped out?Song Jingshi's Black Banner Army and Nian Army were also wiped out, and reformers such as Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao were also wiped out after a while.Only foreigners are particularly powerful.Since the Opium War, every time foreign soldiers invaded, they almost always won, so foreigners should not be underestimated.But how to use foreigners to keep their status?To keep the status of the Qing Empire?He had no doubts about the martial arts of the Boxer Regiment. He had seen with his own eyes the soldiers of the Boxer Regiment put hundreds of catties of stone slabs on their lower abdomen and smashed them with hammers, but the people were safe. illusion.He thinks that Wang Zaiyi, Minister Gangyi and others have a good idea. Can they use the boxers to help Qing Dynasty and destroy foreign countries?These days, he has been thinking hard.

He was looking at the nude Western female statue on the triangular coffee table in a daze, and the person he was waiting for came out from behind the curtain gracefully.This is a fashionable Europeanized woman. She wears a silver-red organdy Western-style corset and a short silver-red skirt, revealing a pair of white plump thighs. Her duck-egg-shaped face is framed With a pair of wild and charming bright eyes. Yikuang was shaken by her bold attire, and he stretched out his arms to wrap her plump waist tightly.The woman took advantage of the situation and sat on his lap, stretched out her two delicate arms and wrapped them around his neck.With that sweet little mouth, he could not stop kissing Yikuang's face: "My lord, please take me on a tour of this palace. I heard that the Grand View Garden in Cao Xueqin's garden is this palace."

This woman is called Sai Jinhua, and her life experience is legendary.She is from Xiaojiaxiang, Suzhou, and her father is a bearer; her surname is Zhao, and her father lost her when she was young. When she was thirteen, she fell into a brothel and became a prostitute.When she was fourteen years old, she was suddenly spotted by Hong Jun, a local new top scholar, and took her as a concubine.Later, she accompanied Hong to Germany, Russia, Holland and Austria.Sai Jinhua was originally very charming and intelligent, and soon became a social star in the European high society.She is known as an oriental beauty because of her "makeup that follows the customs and changes, and her language is always fond of Wu Guimei," and she has become a guest of honor in the royal and noble salons of European countries.Five years later, she returned to China with her husband. In 1892, Hong Jun was impeached and reprimanded by Yu Shi Yang Yushang because he mistakenly included some Chinese territories into the territory of Tsarist Russia, and soon died of depression.After Hong Jun's death, Sai Jinhua's happy life ended. The Hong family refused to allow her to enter the Hong family tree because she was born as a prostitute and thought it would damage the Hong family's appearance.After that, Sai Jinhua resumed her old business in Shanghai Beach, Shiliyangchang, changed her name to Cao Menglan, and resumed her career of selling jokes.Afterwards, Suzhou gentleman Lu Runitch and others expelled Sai Jinhua from Shanghai on the grounds that she lost face to Suzhou people by working as a prostitute in Shanghai.Sai Jinhua had no choice but to come to Tianjin and change her name to Sai Jinhua.In just a few months, she became a well-known prostitute in Tianjin and a sensation in Gyeonggi.Yikuang is an aristocrat who likes to play with flowers and fold willows. Because he envied Sai Jinhua's reputation, he paid a lot of money to invite her to Beijing, and arranged her in a gorgeous villa on the downhill side of the Dongcheng Temple. In Prince Gong's Mansion, fish and water enjoy each other.

Yikuang said to Sai Jinhua: "Luozhong, I have let the guard house decorate, and I will show you the garden in a while. People say that you are a very good dancer. You socialize every day in Europe and dance every night. Is this true? Let's go together How about a waltz dance?" It turned out that Yikuang was a relatively European prince among the Manchu nobles. He often met with foreign envoys in China, and sometimes danced with the envoy's wife or young lady.When Sai Jinhua saw Yikuang inviting her to dance, she raised her left foot playfully: "Look at my little foot, can it dance?" Yikuang couldn't help being dumbfounded: "I forgot, you are also a beauty with bound feet. Sai Jinhua said: "Once I visited the German emperor and queen with my husband, and the German emperor wanted to dance with me. I also showed him my little feet and said I couldn't dance. Guess what he said?" Sai Jinhua couldn't stop giggling. "He held up my foot frantically, and praised, ah, how cute this little foot is, a foot that doesn't even have the Virgin Mary, and rubbed his mouth on my foot as he spoke. I think he's going to bite my foot , raised his foot, and actually slapped him, ha, ha, ha!" Yi Qiang was also amused and burst into laughter.

At this time, a guard came in, and he prostrated himself in the tunnel and said, "My lord, the garden has been arranged." Yikuang said: "Ma Gui, go and rest." The man said: "Cha!" and went out of the house. Yikuang said: "The servant who just went out is the guardian of the palace. I like his calm personality, he doesn't talk much, but his martial arts are very good. He is the disciple of Chief Yin in the Qing Palace. People call it 'crab horse'. After a while in the garden, I'll ask him to perform Baguazhang for you." The two walked towards the garden while talking.

Prince Gong's Mansion was originally the mansion of the famous scholar He Kun during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.In the fourth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1799), Hekun was convicted and the mansion entered the palace. Emperor Jiaqing bestowed the mansion on his younger brother Yongqi as Qingwang Mansion.Afterwards, Emperor Xianfeng took back Prince Qing's Mansion and gave it to Bei Yixi as Prince Gong's Mansion.Prince Gong's Mansion is divided into two parts: the mansion and the garden. The west courtyard of the mansion is dominated by the "Tianxiang Garden", which enters through the vertical flower gate.A courtyard on the central axis has four entrances, with the Jiale Hall in the middle as the main part, and the palace is imposing.A group of courtyards in the east is also a five-entry hall, with towers such as Zhanji Tower and Baoyue Tower.

The two came to the garden of Prince Gong's Mansion. This garden is to the north of the mansion. There are winding corridors, pavilions, mountains, rocks, flowers and trees. There is a theater building in the northeast and a water pavilion in the northwest. Surrounded by clear water and willows, the scenery is beautiful.Yikuang said to Sai Jinhua: "There are twenty sceneries in this mansion garden. I will show you around them." When they came to the southeast corner of the garden, they saw Cuiping facing each other. , vaguely long pines and sparse willows, interspersed with old trees and thousands of clouds, and the sound of birds is heard from time to time, which is fascinating.Yikuang sighed: "This is called the first scene, 'the winding path leads to seclusion'; it is really the object that is afraid of being misunderstood, and it is not the same as Taoyuan. Don't call it a secluded place, the real fun lies in it."

They walked slowly, and took dozens of steps, but saw several locust trees planted on the frame, with branches and branches, like a shed;Yikuang said: "It's really full of green clouds, with thousands of strands hanging down; the green cover is a shed, and the layer of shade is suitable for summer afternoons. This is called 'Changing Qingyue', and it won't look good until summer!" There is a tree on the right side of Qingyue. The pavilion is surrounded by rockery and strange rocks, and stones are chiseled in the pavilion to form a canal.The water from the well behind the mountain is injected into it, and it spins with the trend, with a clear and elegant sound.Yikuang said: "This pavilion is called Qinqiu Pavilion, and it has the charm of flowing water playing the piano." Sai Jinhua said: "I have seen such a strange pavilion in Wuxi, it is really strange."

Yikuang pointed to the grassland in the north and counted the lilac trees: "This fourth scene is called 'Yin Xiang Drunken Moon', but unfortunately the time has not yet arrived, and the lilacs have not yet bloomed. The people are quiet, the shadows are chaotic and the fragrance is clear, one chant and one cup, don't add to the fun." The two came to the art and vegetable garden again, where trees were planted with short fences and miscellaneous vegetables were grown.Sai Jinhua sighed: "This is probably the Daoxiang Village in China. Jia Baoyu's sister-in-law Li Wan lived here." There's no one there!"

The two came to the Duhe Bridge through the "Qiaoxiang Path". The bridge was in the center of the garden.Yikuang chanted: "The rainbow light reflects the cold green, and the floating beam crosses the feather fairy. Li She guides the secluded deer, how graceful the steps are!" Sai Jinhua said happily: "My lord, look, that white crane is really dignified, like entering a fairyland It's gone." Said Lianbu staggered, Yikuang hurriedly supported her with his hands, and Sai Jinhua snuggled into Yikuang's arms... After passing Dicui Rock and Miyun Cave, the two of them circled up and saw three couplets of houses on the top of the heavy rock. Afterwards, the hidden forest was lush and covered with green vines. This scene is called "Green Sky Xiaoyin". "I saw the peaks piled up with stones facing you, and there was actually a green peak. There was a white pine tree between the stones in the middle, with a pavilion and a green cover.Yikuang became very popular with poetry, and then chanted: "Taihu Lake is a piece of rock, lying horizontally like a screen. The lone pine leans against it, and Shi Yi nods his head. Clouds and air surround the Cangwu, and the shadows cover the mountain courtyard. The lonely mountain is accompanied by sea guests, and drunks often sleep. drunk."

The two passed Yisongping and Yanqinglai again, and came to Shihuafang.But you can see the green embankment promenade, the clear and bright mirror, the shadows of the fish, the ripples between the lintels.Here is the meaning of the ancients painting a boat, using land as a boat, and sitting as a boat.Yikuang said: "There is a Huanyunju in front, and there is fruit tea in it, you may be tired, let's go to the front to rest." Sai Jinhua nodded. The two passed "Huayue Linglong" and "Yin Qingmai" and came to "Huanyunju".This is a small village, with tea smoke in the forest and mist, and the reeds and grasses from time to time, which has the flavor of a mountain village.On the north bank of Fangtang, there are several begonias, with mountain flowers and old pines in between.Yikuang brought Sai Jinhua in, and several handsome maidservants came out, bringing pineapples, oranges, bananas, lychees, and coconuts.The two sat down, and the maid peeled the lychees for them.Sai Jinhua took the lychee, handed it to Yikuang and said, "My lord, use it first." Yikuang picked up the hot tea and said, "I don't like to eat these mixed fruits, I just drink some Longjing tea." There were four more The maid stepped forward to beat Yikuang and Sai Jinhua's legs and waist respectively to relieve their fatigue.After a while, another maid served a plate of small steamed buns with chestnut noodles, which were shiny, yellow and lovely.Sai Jinhua picked one and stuffed it in her mouth, chewed it, it was sweet and delicious.Yikuang said: "Lafayette likes to eat this little Wotou with chestnut noodles in Gongyan the most. Today I want you to try it too." At this time, another maid brought a plate of steaming coffee and a stack of chocolate candies.Yikuang said: "I know you like to drink these foreign soups, so I sent someone to buy it." Sai Jinhua was flattered, kissed Yikuang with a smack, and said coquettishly, "My lord is really careful, and he knows how to love others. I met you I've seen so many men, but none like you." After drinking tea, the two visited "Pine Fengshuiyue", "Ling Daojing" and "Yangyun Jingshe". Wei, there are ancient books and Dingrui counts listed in the pavilion, which is deep and quiet, with an ancient fragrance.Yikuang said: "This is my study building. It's really a house full of clouds, and the clouds keep the house quiet; the smoke cage, the piano and the books are moist, and the forest is silent and the green clothes are cold. Yi Xiaoxiao, Tong Yin sleeps day and night forever." The two came to the last scene of the twenty scenes, "Yuxiang Ridge".After Yangyun Jingshe, Yuxiang Ridge is surrounded by mountains and mountains, surrounded by steep rocks, resting on strange peaks in the west, and adjacent to water pavilions in the east; green trees and bamboos on the left and right, green and green; looking at it from the window, it towers into the clouds and falls into red. After a while, the green window is fragrant, and it is pleasant and tame. At this moment, hearing the sound of chaotic footsteps, two maidservants ran into the door, and one of them said: "My lord, there is a person outside asking to see him, and he said he has something important to tell!" Yi Qiang said: "Tell him to stay in the guest room wait for me."