snow ants

In March of the 16th year of Shunzhi, Huzhou.

"The gold medal was transferred to the silver medal announcement, and my old Chen Lin came to Jingyang Palace. I haven't entered the palace for [-] years. What is the reason for the announcement today? Could it be that the mother of the country has news, and I went to the Golden Palace at that time. Just submit it up..."

In the Niantang teahouse, "The Civet Cat for the Prince" was being sung.Today is the private room of Fang Huai, a wealthy businessman from Husi, and all the rich and powerful people are invited, in order to celebrate the fourth young master of the Fang family, Fang Sishui, who has turned ten years old.I am old and have a son, so I am very fond of him.

The role played by Chen Lin, a loyal eunuch on stage, sang touchingly and moved people to tears, and the audience couldn't help applauding repeatedly.The fourth boy, the little birthday star, suddenly asked: "Mother, is this person a master or an old lady?" His mother, the third aunt, was fascinated by watching the play, so she didn't react for a while after hearing his question, and only said: "What?" Sishui then asked loudly: "It looks like a master. The emperor called him Yafu, but he doesn't grow a beard. Is he a man or a woman? It's really strange!"

"Ouch!" As soon as the words came out, the whole audience laughed.

Although Fang Huai was a businessman, he had studied for several years, and felt that his son's questioning was indecent, so he gave him a glare.The third aunt on the side was very knowledgeable, and hurriedly said to her son: "Don't talk too much, children, go to the theater!"

"Hey, isn't that the eunuch?" When the laughter died down, a child's voice suddenly sounded from the corner.The crowd felt quite harsh, and they searched for the sound, only to see a ragged little beggar standing by the side of the stairs, gnawing a few plums in his hand.

Ding Hong, the manager of the Fang family, was the first to react, and hurriedly pulled over the teahouse shopkeeper, and gave some instructions softly.Immediately, two men walked over and carried the little beggar out.

"Really, don't be so stingy! My lords, I'm just hungry..." The little beggar's nagging voice gradually disappeared, and people's attention was drawn back to the stage.

After a while, Fang Sishui whispered to the third aunt: "Mother, I want to relieve myself." "Oh, ask Uncle Ding to accompany you." Sishui jumped off the mahogany chair, pulled Ding Hong and left.

Walking to the corner not far from the back door of the teahouse, Ding Hong said kindly: "Fourth young master, we're here now. Be careful, the old slave is waiting for you outside."

"You don't have to wait, I already know the way. I'll be back in a while."

"But young master, Third Mistress ordered me to..."

"Don't be so wordy, I'm already ten years old, and I have to be accompanied even if I relieve myself? If you don't go, I can't help it!"

Facing Fang Sishui's waywardness, Ding Hong had no choice but to lie to him and say yes.Unexpectedly, as soon as Sishui turned around, he turned back and said, "If I want to see you again when I come out, I won't be happy."

"Oh, this little master is hard to serve!" Ding Hong sighed and walked out.

Surabaya grinned and yelled inwardly: "I'm so suffocated!" Then he quickly squatted into the toilet.At this moment, a voice came from above his head: "Hey! Where's the young master of the Fang family?" Surabaya was startled, and hurriedly raised his trousers and looked up.It turned out that the little beggar from before was lying on the partition board and smiling at him.

"Huh? Why is it you?" Surabaya asked suspiciously, "Didn't you get kicked out?"

The little beggar smiled, propped his chin with one hand and said: "I was kicked out, but I came in again, sir."

Surabaya was curious, and was about to ask again, but felt that Xiaojie couldn't stand it, and hurriedly said: "I'm going to relieve myself, you should avoid it for a while."

"Haha, isn't it just a piss? You still have to avoid it, you are not a girl, why are you ashamed!"

No matter how the little beggar laughed, Surabaya kept holding back.

"Okay, okay." Probably feeling bored, the little beggar finally jumped off the partition, "You really don't look like a man."

After Sishui untied his hands, he came out and saw the little beggar sitting on the steps in a daze, so he stepped forward and asked, "How did you get in?"Surabaya smiled and asked, "Are you hungry? I'll get some food, you wait." Without waiting for a response, he ran out.

After a while, Sishui came back with a bag of cakes.

"So fast?" asked the little beggar.

"Of course. I said I was going out, and I secretly took a bag before I left."

"You are quite loyal." The little beggar said after taking the bag.

Surabaya saw him pour the cakes in the bag into a piece of cloth and put them away, and asked, "Aren't you going to eat now?"

"Oh, this has to be saved and eaten slowly. We beggars can't fill our stomachs every day. As for this beautiful bag, maybe we can exchange some money in an emergency."

The pampered Sishui didn't quite understand what he meant, so he asked instead: "My name is Fang Sishui, and I'm ten years old, what about you?" The little beggar scratched the back of his head and said, "I don't have a name, and I don't know who I am. How old are you, but others call me "Come on Minger."

"You're about the same age as me...how come you don't have a name? What does it mean to catch up?"

"If you don't have parents, you don't have a name. What's so strange about that? Because when someone asks me for gambling debts, I always reply to them, 'I must pay it back tomorrow!', so I was called out like that."

"So you must be very pitiful?"

After hearing this, Gan Ming'er pouted and thought for a while, then said with a smile, "Yes! I'm really pitiful! Young master, would you like to give me some money?"

Surabaya nodded without hesitation and said, "You wait."

When he was about to leave, Ming'er shouted: "Come back! What's the hurry? It's not too late to leave after chatting with me!" He thought to himself: "Young Master is eating happily, if you accidentally attract someone No trouble." So Sishui walked over and sat down again, and Minger unconsciously looked at Sishui's side face, and suddenly noticed something red behind his earlobe, and said, "There is something stuck behind your ear."

Surabaya touched the back of the ear, and said in relief: "You mean this mole? The fortune teller said that it is a sign of short life. It means that I will not live long. Mother said today is a good day, so she put rouge on it Avoid evil..." Sishui suddenly laughed when he said this, "However, the fortune teller also said that if I meet a noble person in my destiny, I can turn evil into good luck."

"Then I'll be this noble person!" Gan Ming'er half-jokingly said.

"Really? Will you save me?"

"Hey?" The little beggar who didn't expect the other party to be serious was stunned for a moment, and then smiled slightly, "That's good. If we have a chance to meet again in the future, I will save you."

"Then it's settled!"

"It's really easy to trust others..." Gan Ming'er thought, and said, "Ah, can you give me money now?"

"Oh, yes."

Surabaya ran to the teahouse hall, looked at the guests, and thought, "Where can I get money?" He always stretches out his hands when he comes to clothes, opens his mouth when he comes to eat, and needs to be accompanied when he relieves his hands. He has never used a copper coin himself Son?So he went straight to Ding Hong and said, "Uncle Ding, I want money."

"Ah? Young master, what do you want money for?"

"I want..." Surabaya instinctively felt that he couldn't say anything about the little beggar, and couldn't help being speechless for a while.Ding Hong saw that he looked flustered and peeked towards the back door from time to time, so he pulled him towards it and asked, "Did you meet something at the back door?"

Surabaya was at a loss and was very nervous.But when they reached the open space by the back door, the little beggar had disappeared.

"Huh—" Sishui secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but a sense of loss hit her heart.

It is said that Fang Huai, the father of Surabaya, is 53 years old this year. Ten years ago, although he was wealthy from running an ancestral silk shop and had three daughters, he suffered from having no heirs, so he had to travel to various temples to seek a child. Wishing, his favorite third concubine, Yizhen, was pregnant.He wanted to stay in the capital and wait for his son to be born, but he couldn't help negotiating a big deal, which required him to go to Huzhou in the west of Zhejiang, but he really wanted to see his child born, so he had to bring his third aunt who was pregnant for eight months. Too on the road.While passing Sishui in Shandong Province on a chartered boat, the stern of the boat suddenly caught fire. Fortunately, they were rescued in time and did not suffer any damage.Surprisingly, the son Fang Huai had been waiting for was born early along with the fire.When naming his son, Fang Huai decided to use the word "Shui" to seek good luck and avoid evil because of an open flame, and the boat happened to be crossing Surabaya, so he said happily, "Si Yin is the same as four, counting the three older sisters. It's the fourth son, let's call him Fang Sishui!"

Due to premature birth, Surabaya was weak and sickly since he was a child. Fang Huai was always worried that he would not be able to grow up, but he finally recovered day by day, and he was already ten years old before he knew it.Because of the business deal ten years ago, the Fang family had a good relationship with the Huzhou banker.Fang Huai was deeply impressed by the outstanding people in Huzhou, so he spent money to buy a courtyard there. This time, to celebrate his son's birthday, he specially hosted a banquet at the most prestigious Niantang Teahouse in Huzhou to entertain his friends.

"I heard that Ting Long is compiling a history book, how is the situation?"

Hearing Fang Huai's question, Zhuang Yuncheng replied humbly: "The dog is blind, has nothing to do when he is idle, and his clumsy pen for entertainment, it is really not worth mentioning." Even so, Zhuang Yuncheng still showed a proud expression on his face .

Fang Huai smiled and said, "You don't have to be too modest, I don't know Ting Long's talents? In short, if you need Fang to work hard on publishing books in the future, just ask."

"How dare you do that?"

"Hey~, why bother seeing outsiders? The first teacher in Surabaya is still Ting Long."

"If there is a day when the book will be published, I will be grateful to have the help of old friends... Sigh, I'm afraid that Ting Long's body will not wait until then."

"What? Is Ting Long still recovering from his illness?"

"It's so good, but it's getting heavier day by day."

"Ugh……"

"Father, Uncle Zhuang, why are you sighing?" Sishui suddenly approached from the side.Zhuang Yuncheng scratched Surabaya's nose and said with a smile: "It's just right! Surabaya, go and see Ting Long later! He's been talking about you all the time."

"Okay!" Surabaya agreed.Zhuang Tinglong is knowledgeable and talented, but physically weak. He once taught the lessons of Surabaya, and even discussed ancient and modern history and politics with him.Surabaya also learned some of the current court situation from him.Although the Qing Dynasty has been stable for several generations of emperors, the voices of anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty can still be heard, and the new emperor is still young, and the four assistant ministers hold great power, so the domestic situation is not peaceful.

In the first year of Kangxi, Zhuang Tinglong died of illness.Zhuang Yuncheng, who lost his beloved son, was depressed, so he decided to publish "History of Ming Dynasty" written by his son as a book to comfort his spirit in heaven.His friends from all walks of life, including Fang Huai, worked together on this matter for him, and many well-known scholars also participated in the revision work.Finally, Zhuang Tinglong's book was published, titled "Compilation of Ming History".This book aroused strong repercussions everywhere, and also set off a catastrophe.

In the second year of Kangxi, Wu Zhirong, the magistrate of Gui'an County, Huzhou, saw that the current situation was unstable and villains were easy to succeed.So he flipped through the "Compilation of Ming History" repeatedly, carefully looking for the disrespect to the Qing Dynasty in the book, and using a Chinese ink pen to highlight it, he went to Beijing to falsely accuse the Zhuang family of inciting the people, and his heart can be punished.This move was in line with the intention of Obai, a minister who hated the Han people, so he ordered Zhuang Yuncheng's family to be escorted to the capital.

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Fang Sishui, who had just turned 14, was sitting in the study reading at night with the lamp on, when his mother Yizhen knocked on the door and came in. "Sishui, it's late at night, don't study too hard, you have to pay attention to your body. You should drink this bird's nest." Sishui rubbed her sore eyes and sighed: "Mom, it's not that I don't want to sleep. You have heard about the Zhuang family, brother Tinglong clearly has no objection to his book, yet they actually..."

"If you don't drink it, it will be cold." Yizhen suddenly brought a spoonful of bird's nest to Sishui. "Mother..." Sishui was stunned, and reached out to take the bird's nest.Yizhen sat down sideways, and said with a smile: "Your father will handle the outside affairs, I don't know anything about it. You are still young, as long as you study hard, you don't need to think about anything else, let alone worry about it."

"But..." When Sishui wanted to say more, Yizhen stood up and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Sishui. It will be fine." Then, she slowly walked out of the room and closed the door.Looking at the stars in the sky, Yizhen frowned slightly, and said to herself: "It will be fine, it will be fine..."

Seeing that Confucian scholars who participated in compiling books were arrested and imprisoned one by one, Fang Huai was really on pins and needles.As early as the day before yesterday, he had gone to the Grand Master Bumbleshan.Fang Huai and this person are life-and-death friends, although because of the current disparity in status, the two of them have separated a lot in life, but they still have feelings.Bumbleshan is Shaobao Oboi's confidant now, asking him for help is the best way.But in the past few days, they haven't heard any reply. Fang Huai's heart is up and down all day long, without stopping for a moment.

Sure enough, the case of Ming History was quickly tracked down to the people who published and sold the book.At this point, Fang Huai's heart was ashamed, and he didn't expect the Grand Scholar to come to rescue him.Fang's silk shop has long been closed, and all the servants in the courtyard have been dismissed.Now only the youngest and the youngest of the Fang family and the butler Ding Hong, who is unwilling to betray the master, are left in the huge Fang Mansion.

"I thought that the two daughters would be fine once they were married, but I didn't expect the company to be so involved! Oh my God! My Fang family is going to die!" Looking at the sealed door, Fang Huai burst into tears. Vertically and horizontally, the women shed tears.Fang Sishui didn't cry, he just looked at his family sadly.He doesn't understand, why?Why do they all have to die?Is it because of those baseless slanders?This is so ridiculous, so ridiculous...

After interrogation, Fang Huai's family was sent to death row and will be beheaded three days later.

Leaning against the cold wall of the death cell, Fang Huai heard the footsteps of the guards delivering food, but he didn't intend to move at all.The jailer put down the food, but didn't leave, calling softly: "Master Fang, Master Fang...Fang Huai!" Fang Huai rolled his eyes and walked over numbly, dragging his shackles on his knees.The jailer lowered his voice and said, "The young one is a member of the University of Ban." Hearing this, Fang Huai got strength from somewhere, grabbed the railing of the cell and asked in a trembling voice, "Ban, the University of Ban, what did he do?" explain?"

"He asked the younger one to tell you that as soon as he received your request, he ran around trying to intercede for your family, but the case is too big to handle."

"This, so... there is no help?"

"The bachelor said he has a way to root for the Fang family. I don't know if you..."

"any solution?"

"Hey, this is also the next step. It's okay for the Grand Scholar to be fooled by talking about a person. He can arrange to switch the identities of Young Master Ling and a prisoner of the same age, but..."

"Just what?"

"That prisoner is also a son of an official. His father offended Mr. Ao... Oh! Don't mention this. Anyway, this prisoner was sentenced to a palace sentence, do you understand?"

"... Castration? Ah! Could it be, could it be that Surabaya... this, this, this is absolutely impossible!"

"Hush—Master Fang, this is the only way now. As a father-in-law, you can adopt a godson, and you can still pass on the incense."

"This... let me think about it, let me think about it..."

"There's no time to think about it, Master Fang. It's better than losing your life, isn't it?"

Fang Huai was dumbfounded for a while. He knew that his only son, Sishui, was being imprisoned in the cell next door. destiny.he is so young...

"No matter what, Surabaya, it's always good to be alive." As a father, Fang Huai nodded heavily.

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The weather is very abnormal, it is already March, but the snow in Beijing city still refuses to stop.The landscape of chariots, horses and people submerged in white seems to be sleeping.However, this is only an illusion, the world of mortals remains the same, and the wheel of fortune never stops turning.

"Damn it! The weather is terrible!" Even though he was hurrying on his way, Jia Yuelai, the low-ranking eunuch in the fruit room of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, did not stop talking.The weather was extremely cold, but he was only wearing a thin navy blue cloth robe, with his arms stretched into the sleeves, but his neck was still shrunk from the cold.He knew that there was no room for delay in this matter at the moment. Not long after he entered the palace, he managed to win the jackpot and worship Master Guofang Xin Danian as the trainee master. If the first two things go wrong, the future Where is the hope of making a fortune?Xin Da Nian has been in the palace for more than 20 years. He has a lot of status and a wide range of contacts. This time, he seems to have mastered the source of the horse somewhere. He wants to communicate with the Yuma Supervisor in private to earn some extra money.Jia Yuelai was going to deliver a message to the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

The fruit room of the Silijian is located in the north of the Wuying Hall, close to the Xihua Gate. It is really separated from the Imperial Horse Supervisor in the Donghua Gate by the Forbidden City. Yue Lai, who was turning all corners, was already full of resentment.

On a section of the road near the side gate of the Meridian Gate, Yuelai saw a small group of people coming from a distance. "Oh, no, I have to avoid it again!" I thought in my heart, and I couldn't help but leaned sideways and retreated against the wall.I saw the small group of people, led by an old eunuch, walking slowly.Yuelai took a sneak peek and recognized the old eunuch as Eunuch Fu Sanyou Fu, who was in charge of the House of Internal Affairs.From this point of view, the four people who followed him with their heads so low that they couldn't see their faces must be young eunuchs who had just entered the palace.

Yuelai was also brought in by this master Fu at the beginning, remembering what his master taught him: "Looking at people and things is the same reason, smart." With this thought, Yuelai deeply felt when Fu Sanyou passed by him. He bowed his waist and called out: "Grandpa Fu is auspicious!" I thought it would be over like this, but Fu Sanyou seems to be in a particularly good mood today.He bared his yellow teeth and said with a smile: "Yo, I still recognize you. It's called...Jia Yue?"

The procession stopped, and all the eunuchs raised their faces to look at Yuelai, except for the last one. Not only did he not raise his head, he didn't even seem to move his eyelids.Yue Lai thought: "Damn! Old Huangya! Let your young master go!" But he could only raise his head and show a bright smile, and said: "Master Fu has always had a good memory, even things like me that are not as good as pigs and dogs It's really frustrating to be famous!" Fu Sanyou couldn't help laughing when he heard the words, he reached out and patted Yuelai's shoulder, and said: "You have a sweet mouth, you will definitely be promising in the future! Haha!" As he said, With a wave of his hand, the team began to move towards the Hall of Mental Cultivation in the distance.

Yue Lai bowed down again, and waited until the end of the line before he straightened up. Just as he was about to take a step, the little eunuch who was at the end of the line passed right in front of him.

"Ah!" Yuelai opened his mouth wide, but he didn't really shout out.This person is...

"Are you talking about this mole? The fortune teller said that it is a sign of short life. It means that I will not live long..." The young master of the Fang family sitting on the steps touched the mole behind his ear and said, smiled.

Yuelai remembered this mole, and also remembered its owner.He is... how is it possible?Definitely Not!The majestic rich young master with his head down, wearing a ridiculous eunuch suit, followed behind those old yellow teeth?

Yue Lai shook his head, it's impossible for this kind of thing to happen... But, is it really him?

It's so similar, it's chilling.

Xin Da Nian has been very busy recently. The Spring Festival celebration that he had worked so hard at the beginning of the year was canceled due to the deterioration of Empress Dowager Cihe's condition.Immediately after the death of the Empress Dowager, Qin Tianjian even made a statement that the posthumous posthumous title of the Empress Dowager Cihe and the removal of the mausoleum of the ancestor Zigong, these sloppy things had to be completed within this month.

The Superintendent of Rituals is an institution that manages court etiquette, and the fruit room is an important subordinate branch of it. It just so happens that the position of the head of the fruit room is vacant, and Xin Da Nian, as a master, naturally has a lot of chores.On this day, when he returned to his place, his newly recruited apprentice Jia Yuelai hurriedly served him tea and stepped aside.Xin Da Nian picked up the tea and was about to put it in his mouth, but put it down again.He glanced at Jia Yuelai who was at the side, and asked unhurriedly: "Did you hear anything about the incident last time?" Yuelai immediately understood that he was asking about the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and quickly replied: "After I asked the question last time, it was said that it might take a while..."

"After a while? You said that, and you didn't ask again later?" Xin Da Nian whispered softly, but raised his hand and gave him a big slap, which made Yuelai's left face turn red immediately.

Yuelai knew that when dealing with the master's beating and scolding, as an apprentice, firstly, he couldn't hide, secondly, he couldn't stop him.Yue Lai knelt down on his knees, kowtowed and said, "This disciple is lazy, but the master beat me justly. If the master is willing, this disciple will immediately run to the horse guard..."

"Slap!" Another slap, still on the left cheek.I only heard Xin Da Nian spit in a strange way: "Things that don't have a long memory! Who told you to go there? You have learned too little!" Yue Lai was startled, this old thing had already confessed: "I told you to go Where, you just go! Where is it, what is its name, and what is it for? You don’t have to worry about it, and you are not allowed to mention it casually.” So he kowtowed and admitted his mistake, until Xin Da Nian annoyed him and shouted: “Hurry up! !” Yue Lai backed out.

Keeping pace all the way, it will be much easier to walk without snow on the ground.Yuelai cursed in her stomach, but she didn't dare to be sloppy with her steps, and finally reached the Yumajian.The guard at the gate recognized him as Eunuch Xin's man, and he had accepted money from him before, so he let him go immediately.Yuelai wanted to go directly to Wang Fugui, the old eunuch who had spoken to the horse last time, but he couldn't find it anywhere. He asked someone and said that he was away on an errand, and he would come in a while.

That's it, Yue Lai thought to himself that he had to walk around first, as long as he didn't trespass on the place where the horses were raised, it shouldn't matter.The Royal Horse Supervisor has always been deserted, and the Royal Ranch is set far away, so it is only a little lively when it comes to things like accompanying the royal family or riding a test.Yuelai saw that there was no one around, so he walked in the depths curiously, unknowingly became lonely, walked to a courtyard, looked up to see that there was no plaque, thought it was not an important place, then stepped in .

The courtyard was very quiet, a single room exuded a decadent atmosphere, the sunshine in May was not too hot, and it was even more desolate when it was shaded by trees.Who lives here?Yue Lai stood in front of the house, feeling a little dazed outside the palace, when he suddenly heard the cracking sound of "Pa Cha", he couldn't help asking, "Who!?"

A man came out from behind the locust tree in the corner.He was wearing a blue robe, tied with the belt of an inferior eunuch, holding a broken branch in his hand, and standing under the shadow of the tree, leaning on the trunk.

The young master's meaningless smile and the mole behind the young eunuch's ear, the memories of far and near suddenly came to life.

Fang Surabaya.The name was tumbling in Yuelai's mind...

"You..." Although he opened his mouth, Yuelai didn't know what to say.The little eunuch ignored him, just gently dropped the broken branch in his hand, and walked towards the room behind Yuelai.

"Are you Fang Sishui?" Hearing Yuelai's question, the little eunuch's back trembled visibly.He slowly turned his face to the side, and said coldly, "You've got the wrong person."

But this action made the ominous mole more conspicuous.Yue Lai was taken aback for a moment, then smiled slyly: "I didn't admit my mistake! I saw it, the mole behind your ear..."

Unexpectedly, as soon as Yuelai's words came out, the little eunuch covered his left ear with his hand reflexively, and quickly put it down again, shooting a hostile look from his eyes, and then he pushed away the eyes in front of him angrily and embarrassingly. The door, stepped inside and bolted the door.

Yue Lai stayed where he was for a while.He was startled by the little eunuch's reaction. "Uh..." He lowered his head, then raised his head abruptly, "Could it be true! Really..." Although Yuelai had doubts in his heart, he never thought that his joking guess would turn out to be reality. Now He was so shocked he couldn't believe it.Yuelai thought of those eyes that were hostile to her, and began to regret her reckless behavior.

So he glanced at the closed door and left silently.

Surabaya heard Yuelai's footsteps gradually going away.He leaned slightly on the door frame, a tide of melancholy came flying in, and then stopped suddenly.He was afraid to recall, to recall the pain, all the pain, mental, physical...

"Don't come close! Don't recognize me! Anyone who knows that I exist! Don't appear again..." Surabaya shouted in her heart.

Because of Bumbleshan's power, none of the eunuchs came to embarrass him, and the old eunuch Wang Fugui even offered to be his trainee master, and even let him live in a courtyard alone, and didn't ask him to work.But Surabaya doesn't care about it, because he doesn't care about everything anymore.

"Why am I still alive?" he asked, then remembered his father's tears and closed his eyes.

Life is probably like this, when you are too quiet, there will be uninvited guests knocking on your door.

In the evening, the movement outside the door caught Surabaya's attention.Someone outside the house whispered: "Fang Sishui, are you there? I'm in the daytime...to catch up tomorrow! Do you still remember that you gave me a bag of cakes on your tenth birthday, and I was that little beggar... Oh, don't tell me It's all nonsense! Anyway, open the door!" Sishui wanted to ignore it, but Yuelai stood outside and hummed a little tune.Surabaya was so annoyed and had no choice but to open the door and asked, "I already told you that you misidentified the person..."

"Let me go in and talk!" Surabaya had no time to stop him, he had already slipped into the room.

Yuelai sat casually on the stool, took out a paper bag from his clothes, and unwrapped it, it turned out that there were dried fruit pulps of various colors inside.Seeing that Sishui was still standing at the door, looking at him blankly, Yue Lai smacked his lips and said with a smile, "I'm sorry, but these gifts were stolen from the offerings. You gave me a bag of cakes before, I will return you a pack of dried fruit now. Hehe..." Just as Sishui was about to speak, Yuelai laughed again: "Don't say that I misidentified you! I have already asked someone, your name is Wang Min now, In the past, his identity was the son of Wang Shikang, the material officer of the Construction Office. However, I happened to have met Mr. Wang's son, he is a big fat pig!"

Surabaya shifted his gaze to other places, and said with a sneer, "It's nonsense, I am Wang Min."

"Then you are a big fat pig?"

"You...!" Sishui blushed suddenly.

Yue Lai picked up a raisin and put it in his mouth, sighed with infinite emotion: "Speaking of which, you are really pitiful..."

"What are you talking about! You don't need to pity me!"

"Oh, then you are not pitiful at all."

"you!"

"Then what do you want me to say?"

Looking at Yuelai's rascal's smiling face, Sishui felt that he had been fooled, turned his head away in annoyance, and said, "If you're fine, please go!"

"Then what if I have something else to do? Can I continue to sit?" Yue Lai had a ruffian look on his face.

However, he stood up tactfully.Slowly walked to the door, then turned his head and smiled: "By the way, I forgot to tell you, my name is Jia Yuelai, and I work in the fruit room of the Supervisor of Ceremonies. If there is something...you won't come to me, will you?" ? Anyway, I will come in the future. Goodbye, Fang Sishui!" He left after speaking, as if he was in a hurry.

"Damn guy, it's best not to show up again!" Surabaya closed the door heavily, thinking to herself.Inadvertently, he saw the dried fruit spread out on the table, and murmured, "Why are you calling Jia Yue again?"

After that, Yuelai would come and go every now and then, sometimes lingering on for a long time with a playful smile on her face, and sometimes leaving after just saying a word.Even Yuelai himself felt strange, why do you always love to provoke others?But he just couldn't let it go, ever since he knew that person was Fang Sishui, he couldn't let it go.

By the way, he still remembers that agreement.If we meet again, we will save his promise.

when?When will I see that pure, meaningless smile again?

"You must not understand. I used to be called Minger, why am I called Jia Yuelai now? Hehe, when I signed up to be a eunuch, they asked me what my name was. Can't be called Minger, so I thought of Yuelai Inn The sign must be auspicious, so I reported it. As for this Jia, because I don’t really want to be a husband! Who the hell would really want to be a husband! It’s true to look forward to prosperity..." Yuelai found it with great difficulty. The topic began to chatter.

"Flying to the top?" Although it was noisy, Sishui still had a question when he heard this.He couldn't understand Yue Lai's thoughts, being a eunuch would only be humiliating, how could he be successful?

Yue Lai was interested in seeing him, and felt relieved, and smiled confidently: "With my ability, I will definitely be able to do it. Those Wei Zhongxian and Liu Jin, didn't they all become eunuchs voluntarily and hold great power?"

"But they are all treacherous eunuchs who harm the country and the people!" After all, Sishui is a scholar, and when it comes to this matter, he can't help but get serious.

Yue Lai saw that he was blushing to refute herself, and said with a smile: "Don't talk about this, let's eat! The old man has something to do today, I can stay a little longer."

"Hmm..." Seeing that Surabaya's reaction was cold, Yuelai stood up awkwardly, and said, "I think I'd better go back early..."

"Wait!" Surabaya yelled, then realized her gaffe, and turned her head away again.Yue Lai didn't know what to do for a moment, so he had to stand where he was.

I only heard Sishui gently ask: "What's wrong with your face?" Yue Lai touched his cheek, and suddenly said: "It's nothing, I was beaten by that old thing. Only one side of the face was slapped, and the other side was left to see others." , this is the rule..."

"This kind of thing!" Sishui still turned his head away, but he could clearly feel the change in his tone, "At the feet of the emperor, he beat people so casually!"

Yue Lai was taken aback, and couldn't help laughing: "You...you really are a young master! Wang Min, there are many such things!"

"Wang Min?" Because Yuelai always called himself Fang Sishui, he suddenly changed his name so that Sishui was not used to it.

Yuelai smiled and said, "Don't you like big fat pigs? Then when there is no one else, I will call you Sishui."

Surabaya was stunned and acquiesced.Over the past few days, Yuelai, who appeared from time to time, added a lot of vitality to the already dead life in Surabaya. At first, he was bored, but now he even looked forward to his arrival a little bit.

As the days passed, Yuelai, who was getting more and more busy, still tried to find time to chat with Surabaya, and the relationship between the two became better and better.

In the spring of the third year of Kangxi, when the peach blossoms and the willows were green, Sishui sat alone under the tree in the courtyard and watched the birds in the sky.Suddenly a person walked in, it was the old eunuch Wang Fugui.Sishui stood up and said, "Eunuch." Wang Fugui waved his hands, and said very anxiously: "Wang Min, hurry up and get ready, the royal guard, Mr. Wohe, is coming soon."

"The Imperial Guard? What's the matter?"

"It is said that the emperor sent to inspect the situation of the Yumajian. You have to come out this time to put on a show, and don't let him see the gap."

"I understand."

Wohe has followed Emperor Shunzhi since he was a child, and his martial arts are outstanding.When Shunzhi was critically ill, he asked him to serve the young Kangxi as he had served himself.Wohe obeyed the last emperor's last order and devoted himself to protecting the little emperor till now.He doesn't buy into anyone's account, he only listens to the emperor's order, so his popularity is not good, and the last time he scolded the increasingly arrogant minister Aobai face to face, and formed a relationship with him.This time I was ordered to inspect the Imperial Horse Supervisor for the hunting in Nanyuan next year, and urged the officials to ensure the quality of the horses from now on.

In fact, Wohe's main responsibility is to inspect the ranch, but he has always paid attention to everything, so he insisted on visiting the Yumajian.When he turned around and saw the officials following behind him, he felt troublesome, and frowned, "You don't have to follow, I can do it alone." Before the officials could say anything, he had already walked away quickly.

"This Bohe is really domineering."

"Hey, he is the emperor's personal bodyguard and the son of Minister Fei Yanggu. He even dares to contradict Mr. Ao. How can it be your turn to talk too much?" The officials whispered.

Wang Fugui and Surabaya had already been waiting in front of the imperial stables.Seeing Wohe approaching from afar, Wang Fugui hastily pulled Sishui's sleeve and said softly, "I have to salute later." But Sishui didn't answer him.

Seeing Wohe come up to him, Wang Fugui bowed his knees and kowtowed, while Surabaya just bowed slightly.Wohe glanced at Surabaya twice, and said, "Grandpa Wang, isn't your salute too big?" "It's not too big..." Wang Fugui stood up with a charming smile.Uohyuk approached the stable and began to look carefully at the royal horse.

After a while, he turned around to leave, Wang Fugui said in a loud voice: "Congratulations, my lord!" Wuhe walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, then stopped and turned around and said, "Grandpa, you are much better at managing horses than people."