Chapter 49 Section 49

The emperor also knew the temperament of the eunuchs very well, and he could tell them to do anything, but he couldn't kill them.As long as he can not be "beaten to death", Xiao Li will naturally tell the truth.So he said calmly, "Don't cry! Let me ask you something first." "Yes!" Xiao Li wiped away tears and raised his head. "How can you dare to tell the truth?" "The master is sympathetic to the slave. The slave tells the truth, but the master pretends not to know. Only then does the slave dare to speak." The emperor was a little bit hesitant to agree. After thinking about it for a long time, due to the situation, he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! Tell me."

So Xiao Li explained in detail how Gui Lian left the palace. Of course, it was not true. The most important change was that she had been assigned to a Lan Ling guard in Heilongjiang and had already left the customs. .Because if the truth was told, the emperor would cause a lot of trouble if he refused to give up. "Then," the emperor let out a voice from his tightly closed lips, "How did the Empress Dowager know that I gave Guilian a ring? Was it Xiao Anzi's mouth?" "Long live Lord Shengming." "Okay! Keep it for the final account!" The emperor gritted his teeth and asked, "Where's Guilian? Are you crying?"

"I cried all night." "how do you know?" "Guilian's eyes are swollen to the size of a peach. When the slave helped her pick up her luggage, I saw it with my own eyes." "Oh, you also helped her pick up her luggage?" "Yes! The servant thought to himself, Guilian is the beloved of the Long Live Lord, and the servant should do his best." "You still have a little conscience." The emperor asked again, "How was she when she left?" "Don't dare to cry when you leave. The rules in the palace don't allow it."

"Then," the emperor seemed disconcerted, "she just left? She didn't miss it at all, so she just left?" How to answer this question has to be considered.Xiao Li was thinking that if the emperor wanted to die, it would be better to tell Gui Lian how unfeeling, but that was not what the emperor liked to hear. At this moment, he had to find a way to coax him, so as not to cause unexpected troubles. So he said: "Gui Lian is not that kind of heartless person. When she was leaving, she bumped her head in the Suishou Temple far away." "What?" the emperor interrupted him and asked, "Didn't you kowtow to your mother, the empress dowager?"

"Yes!" Xiao Li replied, "My mother, the empress dowager, told Yuzi to tell her that there is no need to go up, so as not to be sad." The emperor was silent.He knew that the Empress Dowager Ci'an had always liked Guilian, so when he said goodbye, it made her feel unbearable.But why don't you say a word and leave her behind, why do you listen to the Empress Dowager Cixi in everything? Thinking of this, he felt a little bit of resentment towards the two queen mothers, but then he condemned himself, thinking of this was unfilial.It's just that a mouthful of resentment can't be swallowed, so this thought can't get rid of in his chest, so he can only ask Xiao Li some more words to dispel it.

"She..." The emperor always felt that Guilian should express something, that he would not be so willing to raise his head out of the palace, but he didn't know how to express this idea?But Xiao Li saw it. "Guilian really has a lot of grievances in her heart, but she can't tell. She also has a competitive temperament. When she left, she refused to shed a tear and raised her head high, as if she didn't care about anything. Actually..., oh !" Xiao Li sighed in front of the emperor, confident that he was favored. There were unfinished words, but the emperor couldn't imagine, so he followed his words and asked: "How about it?"

"Actually, she will never forget the favor of the Long Live Lord in her whole life. Even if her hair turns gray, her teeth fall out, and the house is full of children and grandchildren, she still has the appearance of the Long Live Lord at this moment in her heart." Xiao Li said this passage with "emotion and prose", and the emperor was greatly moved. He remembered many poems at once, and understood what "love", "hate", "infatuation" and "love" are all about. "Lifelong Hate"! So his eyes were a little red, and his heart was sour, sweet, and hot, and he couldn't tell if it was uncomfortable or good?I just thought I wanted to write something, so I captured this wonderful feeling in my heart and said it out.

He said and did it, and immediately began to conceive unconsciously, fidgeting and walking around in the hall, staring straight at his eyes, holding the tea bowl with his hand and calling "take tea", but he refused to drink the hot tea.Seeing this look, Xiao Li panicked: "Long Live Lord, don't you think that you have lost your mind and become obsessed?" He kept asking himself in his heart like this, but he didn't dare to speak. In the evening, when it was time to settle down, the emperor suddenly said: "I will make a poem!" "What are you afraid of? I won't be going to the study tomorrow." The emperor said, "I've been thinking about it for a long time, and I already have the manuscript."

It turned out that the emperor was thinking about poetry just now, no wonder he looked like a bookworm, Xiao Li felt relieved now.Anyway, writing poetry is also doing homework, and you are not afraid of reprimands from "superior".So I am happy to serve the book case. The emperor's poems, at his age, can be regarded as passable.In the "window class" not long ago, Woren gave a topic of "pine wind", and the emperor's concluding sentence was: "Nan Xun can relieve anger, and grows in Shun Qin", which is combined with the "south wind" in "Historical Records". The fragrance of the sun can relieve the anger of our people", and the two allusions in "Book of Rites" "Shun made a five-stringed qin and sang the south wind".The masters were all delighted, and went to tell the audience. Wo Ren said it was the words of a benevolent and benevolent monarch; Moreover, speaking of words can be seen as the status of an emperor, and his reading has indeed improved; and the most proud is Weng Tonghe, because the homework of poetry is his "inheritance".And the poems of this "Son of Disciples" have already been enlightened, and they talk about "Taoist words", but there is no "Taoist spirit" in the words. Be smart.

The five-character quatrains have been learned, and the emperor is now learning the seven quatrains.According to his original idea, it is best to do two Qilu poems on this topic, and the topic is called "Untitled".But verses have to talk about antithesis and use allusions, but the masters have never taught romantic allusions and lingering allusions, and I secretly read some in my stomach, after all, there are not many.Therefore, with self-knowledge, it is not yet time to do Qilu, so I decided to imitate the Gongci in Tang poems and make four or six poems and Qijue. I just thought about it for a long time, and I have a general idea, but telling Xiao Li that there is a "constant draft", it is a lie.

The first sentence was ready-made, and the emperor wrote it with a pen: "One farewell, the sound and appearance are both vague." While writing and reading, the syllables are still clear, but there is something like an elegy, and I feel discouraged, and the word "don't" is wrong, I never said goodbye to Guilian, so I picked up a pen and crossed out the word "bie" and changed it to "go", but I felt that the word "yiqu" was silent, so I got impatient and simply crossed out the whole sentence. "It's a good word," Xiao Li said beside him, "Why don't you want it?" "You don't understand!" the emperor scolded, "Don't talk about me next to me!" Xiao Li, who hit a wall, stepped back a little.The emperor flipped through the book and looked up the rhyme by himself. Before finishing a poem, Zhang Wenliang hurried in and shouted, "Long live!" "What?" asked the emperor without raising his head. "Mother, Empress Dowager, came to see Lord Long Live." This statement immediately interrupted the emperor's enthusiasm for poetry, and his first thought was not to let the Empress Dowager Ci'an see his poems, so he grabbed the manuscript and stuffed it in a drawer, and shouted to Xiao Li: "Quick, Quick, put away the books." "Long Live Lord," Xiao Li hurried forward and said in a low voice, "My mother, the Empress Dowager, will definitely praise me for doing my homework so late." What Xiao Li meant was that the books do not need to be put away.Because as soon as the book is collected, the Empress Dowager Ci'an will definitely ask: It's so late, why haven't you asked the emperor to arrange it?At that time, there was no reason to explain that those who served the emperor would definitely be scolded. The emperor was reminded: "Okay, I won't accept it." Not only did he not accept it, but he also took a few books and spread them out on the table, and then followed Zhang Wenliang out of the hall to greet him. West One Long Street, two rows of palace lanterns, coming from the north and the south, the emperor greeted him from a distance, greeted the soft sedan chair, and then supported the sedan chair with his right hand and asked: "It's so late, the emperor Mother still coming?" "I sleep a lot during the day." The Empress Dowager Ci'an said, "I'm worried that you haven't slept yet. Let's take a look. What are you doing?" "I'm reading." The emperor said with a smile, "I also sleep a lot during the day. I won't go to the study tomorrow, so I can't bear to sleep." When they arrived at the East Nuan Pavilion of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the Empress Dowager Ci'an first went to see the emperor's bedroom, and asked Zhang Wenliang and the eunuch who was sitting on watch to ask about the emperor's daily life. admonition.After playing the match, all the eunuchs retreated, and all the maids waited on the porch. Only the queen mother, the emperor and Yuzi were left in the room. The three of them felt that it was time to say something private. Empress Dowager Ci'an originally came here for something.She had discussed with Yuzi that sooner or later the matter of Guilian would not be concealed from the emperor, rather than coaxing the emperor to say good things when the matter broke out, it would be better to comfort him in advance.Yuzi thinks that her idea is very good, saying that the emperor is filial, if he can do this, the emperor will feel wronged, and he will definitely look up to his heart and forbear it, so he strongly encourages this trip.But at this moment, seeing the emperor's demeanor as usual, he is not unhappy, so one thing more is worse than one thing less. The Empress Dowager Ci'an was silent, and the emperor was worried that Xiao Li would be "beaten to death", so naturally he didn't dare to ask first.But thinking of An Dehai, he couldn't calm down, so he was gossiping with the Empress Dowager Ci'an, but he kept thinking in his heart, should he take this opportunity to sue An Dehai, and if so, what should he do? Tell Empress Dowager Ci'an to punish An Dehai according to her wish? After making up his mind, when the gossip came to an end, he suddenly asked: "Mother Huang, what do you do when you are the emperor?" One sentence made the Empress Dowager Ci'an in a daze, "Really!" She was very displeased, "Where have you read all your books? Didn't the master teach you?" "Taught it. The masters said that when you are an emperor, you have to rule the world, and you can teach the people to live and work in peace and contentment. But who will rule it? Rely on the governor outside, rely on military aircraft, various ministries and institutes inside, and the most important thing is the sixth uncle.Queen Mother, is it like this? " "Why not? Don't you understand everything?" "I don't understand a little bit." The emperor asked, "Does it mean that what Sixth Uncle says is what you have to listen to?" This was a strange question, and the Empress Dowager Ci'an felt that the implication was very serious, so she asked with a straight face: "What did you hear? Your sixth uncle is a virtuous king, and it is all thanks to him these few years! I'm listening to the villain. Who is instigating behind the scenes? Absolutely no!" The emperor heard that the Empress Dowager Ci'an had misunderstood, and this misunderstanding was no small matter!If you want to pursue it, you must be suspicious of Xiao Li. That innocent disaster can kill his head, so I panicked, and hurriedly argued: "No one provoked me, and I'm not saying that Uncle Six is ​​not good. I'm too soft-hearted, I dare not offend anyone." "What do you mean by that?" The Empress Dowager Ci'an reprimanded lovingly, "You just said things that I don't understand today." Seeing that the Empress Dowager Ci'an's expression tended to ease, the emperor was half relieved, calmed down, and replied cautiously: "If I go on, the Empress Dowager will understand. The masters said that the most important thing to govern the world is To employ people, you must be close to the virtuous and far away, but who should be employed and who should not be employed must be asked by the sixth uncle. There are villains who should not be employed, and the sixth uncle is a good person and does not speak, so what should we do?" This question is still reasonable, but there must be something to point to, Empress Dowager Ci'an asked: "Who are you talking about?" "Emperor Niang, you don't care who it is. Even if there is such a person, even the sixth uncle is a little bit jealous of him, so he knows he is bad and dare not touch him..." The Empress Dowager Ci'an suddenly understood, and softly shouted: "Stop talking!" "Emperor Niang understands!" The emperor forcefully asked, "What should I do?" Empress Dowager Ci'an doesn't know what to do?Nor can she say.At the same time, she also hoped that the emperor would talk less about this matter, but such a warning would not please the emperor, so she just grabbed her son's hand and squeezed it tightly. This grip received great comfort and encouragement from the emperor.Not only did the warmth in the loving mother's hands spread to his heart, but it also made him feel the strength and support of a queen mother!He was relieved, he knew that he would take some severe measures against An Dehairu, and Empress Dowager Ci'an was on his side.