Qing Dynasty Chronicle

When the same thing and the same steps are repeated every year, many expectations are eliminated in the repetition year after year, and finally become a kind of inertia.

It's like the Spring Festival Gala on New Year's Eve every year, to the annual banquet and fireworks show of the Qing Dynasty hundreds of years ago.

Yinzhen has a strange habit. When he is watching fireworks, he doesn't like to chat with others and laugh while watching. He likes to hide in the corner alone and watch the colorful blooming in the night sky, watching the men and women standing Talking or laughing in the distance, sometimes, Yinzhen would have a childish and ridiculous idea of ​​overlooking all living beings.

In the past few years, Sun Dongxi has also learned about this little hobby of his master, and he can see the master from a distance, and the master can also see his position, allowing Yinzhen to have a period of time alone.

"I said I searched everywhere and couldn't find you, so you hid here." Yinzhen was squinting his eyes and looking at the fireworks in the sky, when a clear voice rang in his ears, he turned his head and found that it was Yinxiang's side Laughing and walking towards him.

Yinzhen also brought a smile on his lips, "Brother Thirteen, what do you want me to do?"

While talking, Yinxiang had already walked to Yinzhen's side, "It's nothing, but I just found out that you were missing, so I came to look for you." Yinxiang raised his head and looked at the fireworks in the sky. People are hiding here, isn’t it good to talk and laugh with the big guys?”

Yinzhen lowered his head and smiled, "I just got drunk on drinking, now I want to be alone for a while."

"Look at you, every time I tell you to drink less, you just don't listen." Yin Xiang carefully looked at Yin Zhen's face when he heard the words, and felt that there was nothing serious, so he put out his elder brother's spectrum to say to Yin Zhen Zhen, "Does it matter? If you don't feel well, let's apologise to Han Ama and let the imperial doctor come and show you."

"It's just that I drank a lot of wine, so it doesn't matter, just let the wind blow." Yinzhen gathered the cloak on his body, and looked at the sky with Yinxiang, "I see, this year's fireworks are not as good as in previous years It looks good."

Yinxiang looked at it for a while, "It's almost the same every year."

Yinzhen smiled, then sighed.

Yinxiang turned his head to look at Yinzhen, "Why are you sighing so much, you sighed away all this blessing."

Yinzhen couldn't say anything, just felt depressed, and turned his eyes to the brothers on both sides of Kangxi in the branch station, with some expressions in his eyes that Yinxiang couldn't understand, "Brother Thirteen..."

"Huh?" Yinxiang felt that Yinzhen was a little weird, but he couldn't tell exactly why.

"I always feel that in 47 years, it will not be so smooth." Yinzhen said softly, and Yinxiang, who had a soft voice, almost thought he heard it wrong.

"What are you talking about? This is just the beginning, but you are not allowed to say such frustrating words." Yinxiang bluffed and patted Yinzhen angrily, "If Khan Ama hears it, he will be angry."

Yinzhen pursed her lips and smiled, but said nothing.

Yinxiang looked at Yinzhen who was looking more and more picturesque, and felt that the fourteenth younger brother was a bit hard to see through now. Although he was still as thorough as before, people could see clearly at a glance, but in his heart It seemed that there was still something buried, and the buried things always made my fourteenth brother unintentionally show some sense of sadness from time to time, but he couldn't understand it when he looked at it himself.

Standing silently for a while, Yinxiang saw the seventeenth elder brother Yinli waving vigorously at him, so he patted Yinzhen on the shoulder, "Don't think about it all day long, ah, do you understand?"

Yinzhen also saw Yinli's movements, so he nodded, "I'm probably a little dizzy from drinking, Brother Thirteen, don't take it to heart, I'm fine."

Yinxiang squeezed Yinzhen's shoulder, "So I told you not to drink so much wine, and be a good man and show some sentimental temper, really!"

"Hey, I got it." Yinzhen laughed amusedly by Yinxiang, stretched out his hand to push him, "Hurry up, I think Xiao Shiqi is about to jump up."

Yinxiang glared at Yinzhen angrily, "You guys, none of you can make me worry!"

After Yinxiang left, the smile on Yinzhen's face gradually faded. After standing alone for a while, Yinzhen felt that the wind seemed to pick up, making his eyes a little dazzled, so he took a deep breath, Sun Dongxi said, "I feel a little headache, let's go out of the palace first, and I'll go and talk to Ama Khan."

Sun Dongxi saw that Yinzhen's face was indeed a little unhappy, so he replied in a low voice, "Your servant is going to prepare the carriage."

"Yeah." Yinzhen nodded, turned around and walked towards Kangxi.

Before he had gone far, Yinzhen saw Yinzhen walking towards him, and he was ready to stop and say hello, but he saw Yinzhen just brushing past him .

Yinzhen turned around and said, "Ninth brother."

Yinzhen stopped, but didn't look back, "Is something wrong with my fourteenth brother?"

Yinzhen looked at Yinzhen's silver fox fur cloak, and felt that the white color hurt his eyes, "Do you still remember the words engraved on the seal that my brother gave you?"

Yinzhen still stood there motionless, "So what?"

Yinzhen sniffed, "to this day, the wish in my brother's heart has not changed, even in the future, it will be the same as before. If you take a step back, the sea and the sky will be brighter, and if you go further, I don't know whether it is a cliff or a fire. "Ninth brother, have you ever understood my brother's heart?"

After Yinzhen said this, he stopped talking. After a while, Yinzhen turned his face away, his peach blossom eyes slightly raised, looked straight at Yinzhen and said casually, "Does the fourteenth brother remember nine What did my brother tell you?"

Yinzhen didn't answer, maybe Yinzhen didn't think to ask Yinzhen to answer, he said to himself, "I said, I hope the fourteenth brother will sweep the snow in front of the door, and don't care about others. If you don't remember , then now Brother Nine said it again, it will always impress the Fourteenth Brother in his mind. If he remembers, then the Fourteenth Brother needs to understand it carefully, don’t swallow the jujube and don’t understand what it means.” After finishing speaking, Yinzhen chuckled lightly. With a cry, he turned his head and continued walking forward.

Yinzhen looked at Yinzhen's back as he walked farther and farther away, and after a long time, he gave a wry smile, bowed his head and turned to leave.If the allure of the power over ten thousand people can be easily given up, then there will be no change in Xuanwumen, and there will be no dispute between Huang Taiji and Dorgon.His own persuasion in a few words seemed so pale and powerless in front of the emperor.

Walking to Kangxi's place, Yinzhen said that he had a headache and wanted to take a leave of absence and leave the palace first.

Kangxi looked at Yinzhen, and indeed his complexion was not very good, "You were fine just now, why are you feeling uncomfortable now?"

Yinzhen smiled, "Xu just got a bit of a headache from the wind blowing."

"Should I call the imperial physician to show you?" Kangxi asked with concern.

Yinzhen made a salute, "Ama Xiehan is concerned, my son is fine, just go back and drink a bowl of ginger soup to drive away the cold."

"Well." Kangxi nodded, and then warned, "If you feel unwell again, you still need to ask the imperial doctor to take a look at it. It's not okay to hide your illness and avoid medical treatment."

"My son knows." Yinzhen slapped thousands, "Then my son will retire first."

Kangxi agreed, it was agreed.

When Yinzhen left, Sun Dongxi hadn't come over yet, and Yinzhen didn't stay where he was waiting for him, but walked slowly towards the place where he left the palace. After a while, there was a voice calling him from behind, just turning his head, that The person who called him had already come to his side, "Fourteenth brother."

"Prince?" It was the prince Yinreng and his personal eunuch who came, Yinzhen was a little surprised, "The prince has something to do with his younger brother?"

"It's nothing." Yinfeng shook his head, "Where's the eunuch beside you?"

"Chendi asked him to prepare the carriage." Yinzhen pointed to the front, "Anyway, it doesn't take much for me to walk there by myself."

"How can I do that? Aren't you feeling uncomfortable right now?" Yinfeng said as he lightly supported Yinzhen's shoulder, "I'll take you there."

When Yinzhen heard this, he refused without much thought, "Don't bother the prince, my brother can do it alone."

"I'll send you off when I say I'll send you off. Why, don't you even listen to what the second brother said?" Yinfeng made a serious face to show Yinzhen.

Yinzhen pursed his lips and laughed when he saw Yinreng's pretending to be angry, "Then can you bother the second brother?"

"Come on, let's go." Yinreng helped Yinzhen's elbow and led him forward.

"Since you came back from Jiangnan, the two of us haven't been able to have a good conversation!" Yinfeng said with some emotion.

"Really." Yinzhen thought for a while, then nodded, "Second brother is also busy these days!"

Yinreng didn't know what Yinzhen's words thought of, he shook his head with some sarcasm in his tone, "It's all fuss."

After hearing this, Yin Zhen turned his head to look at Yin Reng's side face, and asked for a long time, "These days... how is the second brother?"

"Huh?" Yinreng turned his face to meet Yinzhen's eyes, "What?"

Yinzhen stretched out his finger and pointed at Yinreng, "Look, the second brother's complexion is not very good, is it because he didn't rest well?"

Yinfeng subconsciously reached out to touch his face, but stopped halfway, "Obviously?"

When Yinreng asked, Yinzhen didn't know how to answer the question. After a long time, he said softly, "Second brother, what's on your mind? Can you talk to my younger brother? Maybe my younger brother can help? "

Yinzhen's words made Yinreng laugh, and Yinreng smiled, but Yinzhen was a little puzzled by the monk, "What are you laughing at, brother?"

"It's nothing." Yinreng shook his head while laughing, and reached out to pat Yinzhen's shoulder, "Our fourteenth master has grown up too, and wants to share the worries for the second brother."

Yinfeng's words made Yinzhen wrinkle his face, "My second brother, I'm 21 this year anyway, why do you think I'm still a child?"

"Aren't you just a child?" Yinfeng raised his hand and pinched Yinzhen's nose, and said before Yinzhen puffed up his eyes and wanted to protest, "Don't think about it, what can I have on my mind, I But..." At this point, the smile on Yinreng's face faded, and he finished the rest of the sentence in a low tone, "Where is the prince."

Seeing Yinreng's expression, Yinzhen felt panicked for a while, then remembered something, lowered his head while looking for something from his body, and said to Yinreng, "By the way, there is something here for the second brother , I forget every time."

"Huh? What?" Yinreng asked curiously, and then he was put on the palm of his hand. What Yinzhen found was stunned, "Buddhist beads?"

"Ah, I went to Putuo Temple to ask for it when I was in Fujian years ago." Yinzhen nodded and explained, "Speaking of it, it is also a fate arrangement in the dark. It happened to be raining when I walked to Putuo Temple that day. When I was hiding from the rain, I heard the master there say a sutra, and the impetuous noise in my heart seemed to be blown away. Before I left, I got a string of bodhi seed prayer beads that had been blessed. At that time, I thought about giving it to my second brother. Carrying it on my body for so many days, I always forget it.”

Yinfeng clenched the string of beads in his hand, rubbed his fingers, and laughed again.

Yinzhen looked at Yinfeng who was laughing again for some reason, and felt a little depressed in his heart. Could it be that the brain waves are not on the same frequency, why can't they always match up?

Xu Shi saw Yinzhen's depressed expression, and Yinreng raised his hand to smooth Yinzhen's unconscious frown, "Now I don't know whether we brothers have a good understanding or something else."

"?" Yinzhen's eyes were full of question marks.

Yinfeng smiled and took out a string of Buddhist beads from his sleeve, took Yinzhen's hand and put it on for him, "A few days ago, the people below sent it up, and the top-quality agarwood wood Buddhist beads were also blessed by the master." I thought it would be your birthday in a few days. Seeing how busy you have been since last year, I don’t know if I can meet you on your birthday, so I took advantage of today to take advantage of this The Buddha beads are for your birthday gift, I hope these beads can keep you safe and successful. Who knows," Yinfeng said with a chuckle, "I haven't taken it out yet, but I got a bunch from you first. Let's go, this matter is really..."

Yinzhen looked at the string of precious Buddhist beads in his hand, and felt a little embarrassed. He thought of going together, really, ha, I don't know what to say.

After looking down at the polished string of delicate and warm beads for a while, Yinzhen felt a little embarrassed, "Second brother, these beads are much more expensive than the gold my brother gave you."

Yinreng himself put the Buddhist beads that Yinzhen gave him on his left wrist, then pulled Yinzhen's hand backhand and continued to walk forward, "I don't care about gold or gold. So many brothers and brothers go out to run errands. I really miss me." Seeing Yin Zhen opened his mouth to say something, Yin Reng shook his head to stop him, and changed the subject, "Besides, I think I'm taking advantage of you, you know, the beads I gave you There are only 36 pieces, but you gave me [-] pieces! Look, it’s twice as many!”

Yinzhen was amused by Yinfeng's exaggerated words, "How can you compare like this, your one agarwood bead is worth my one hundred and eight."

"No, no." Yinfeng shook his head and said, "You don't know the truth that gold is no match for one heart? It's vulgar, it's vulgar!"

Yinzhen looked at Yinreng's old pedantic appearance and couldn't help lowering his head and laughing. Yinreng looked at Yinzhen's slightly flushed side face and laughed too.

After walking more than half of the way, Sun Dongxi hurried up to greet him, "My servant greets His Highness the Crown Prince, and His Highness the Crown Prince is auspicious."

"Yeah." Seeing Sun Dongxi coming, Yinreng let go of Yinzhen's hand, "Take good care of your master, it's dark and slippery, be careful on the road, I'd rather be slow than fast."

"Hey." Sun Dongxi bowed cleanly in response.

Seeing Sun Dongxi's answer, Yinreng turned to Yinzhen, "I've sent you here over there, and I still need to call the doctor to have a look at it when I get back to the mansion. If you want to drink two doses of divergent medicine, drink it over there, don't be afraid of suffering." ,do you know?"

Yinzhen talked with Yinreng all the way, and the unhappiness in his heart dissipated a lot, and now he returned to his previous appearance, covered his face and said, "Look at your energy to tell ignorant dolls , I have lost all my face."

"You must be poor!" Yinreng looked at Yinzhen's sloppy face, couldn't help reaching out to pat him, and then re-tied his cloak strap and adjusted his hat, "Don't talk to me here It's over, go back."

"Hey..." Yinzhen murmured for a while, nodded and said goodbye to Yinreng, and then walked outside with Sun Dongxi.

After walking two steps, Yinzhen stopped again, turned around and found that Yinreng was still standing where he was, looking at him.Yinreng saw that Yinzhen had stopped again, so he stepped forward, "What's the matter? Is there anything else?"

Yinzhen looked at Yinreng, who was gradually approaching him, who was handsome but couldn't hide the gloomy and ruthless look between his brows, and called out, "Second brother..."

"Huh?" Yinfeng waited for Yinzhen to say the following.

But Yinzhen still shook his head for a while, and then took a breath with a smile on his face, "It's a big Chinese New Year, my younger brother hasn't said auspicious words to my second brother yet, I wish my second brother a smooth new year, peace and happiness, Laughing all the time, Gong Xi Fa Cai..."

At first Yinfeng sounded like that, but the more he listened to it later, the more he felt that his younger brother was going to throw all the auspicious words on him, so he raised his hand dumbfounded, just now Wanting to stop Yinzhen's fountain-like auspicious words, Yinzhen over there stopped first, "In short, I hope the second brother will be safe and successful this year!" He turned around angrily and left quickly, as fast as someone was chasing him.

Yinfeng looked at the back of Yinzhen who was walking fast, and shook his head dumbfounded, "This fourteen..."

The little eunuch who followed Yinfeng saw that the fourteenth elder brother was about to disappear, so he stepped forward and whispered, "Master, let's go back too."

"Well, let's go." Yinfeng nodded, turned around and walked towards the way he came. While walking, his fingers unconsciously rubbed the round bodhi beads on his wrist, and there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

Over there Yinzhen was served by Sun Dongxi and got into the carriage. As soon as he sat on the soft cushion, Yinzhen leaned against the wall of the carriage as if he had exhausted all his strength, tightly holding the one that Yinfeng gave him. A string of agarwood beads that exude a delicate fragrance, the joints are white, and the tears are streaming down from the corners of the eyes - just a little bit, Yinzhen almost shed tears in front of Yinfeng.

Yinfeng doesn't know what this 47 years means to him, but Yinzhen knows!Yinzhen doesn't know what kind of ecstasy he will experience in these 47 years, Yinzhen knows!But this pain of knowing everything gnawed at Yinzhen's heart day and night during the 47 years.He wanted to stop everything, but there was nothing he could do.As long as he thinks that father and son will turn against each other, and brothers will fight against each other, Yinzhen wants to wrap himself in a hard crust, neither to see nor to listen, and then imagine whether he can avoid all that?

After 47 years, to be exact, since the new year, Yinxiang's eyes on Yinzhen are not quite right.In fact, Yinxiang can't be blamed for this, Yinzhen may be the one who said it unintentionally, but after all, he is the younger brother he cares for wholeheartedly, and sometimes Yinxiang will remember a word that Yinzhen said casually in his heart.

So when the price of rice rose in the rainy south and the case of the Third Prince Zhu happened, Yinxiang inexplicably thought of the words Yinzhen said that "47 years will not be so smooth", but these words were only in Yinxiang's place. After thinking about it for a while, he felt that he might be a little too sensitive.

However, when Nalan Mingzhu, who once dominated the world, died in April, and Kangxi's dissatisfaction was aroused by Yinzhen's mournful appearance, Yinxiang looked at Yinzhen with a little bewildered look in his eyes.

After thinking about it for a while, Yinxiang still caught up with Yinzhen after a meeting with Kangxi, "Fourteenth brother."

"Brother Thirteen? What's the matter?" Yinzhen stopped and turned to look at Yinxiang.

"That...that..." Stopping Yinzhen, Yinxiang didn't know how to ask, he couldn't ask directly, 'fourteenth brother, are you a psychic?How about a little bit of that kind of predictability like a god? ', so I talked about that for a long time, but didn't say a complete sentence.

Yinzhen looked at Yinxiang who was babbling, and thought he had something to hide, so he asked intimately, "Brother Shisan, my brother happens to be free at the moment, if Brother Shisan also has time, why don't you sit at my brother's house?" Sit? Hongchun Hongming is also thinking about their thirteen uncles!"

Yinxiang looked at Yinzhen with a calm face, his expression was tangled for a long time, but he still shook his head, "No, I have something else to do for my brother, I'd better go and see Hongchun Hongming when I have time!" Just left.

Yinzhen looked at Yinxiang's leaving back and shook his head doubtfully, "How weird."

However, Yinzhen just chanted such a sentence and then went to busy with his own affairs. Although those things about the future made Yinzhen feel overwhelmed, life will continue to go on after all. Yinzhen is very pretending to be an ostrich In fact, Tsukuru didn't know these things, and bet all his experience on Westernization.

After Kangxi led Yinzhen to discuss with the ministers several times, he finally made a decision-select some people to teach foreign languages ​​and foreign common sense, and then pass the assessment and finally decide to send candidates to study abroad.

As for how to teach, how to choose, and what those people should do abroad in the future, you can figure it out gradually. After all, there is no precedent. Everyone is crossing the river by feeling the stones.Yinzhen is not in a hurry, and this matter is not in a hurry. Now it is just a stage of laying the foundation.However, after all, this step was taken. Yinzhen felt that in the past ten years, at least he could carve out an outline. He only hoped that the tree he planted now would let future generations enjoy the shade in the future.

No matter how ostrich mentality Yinzhen avoids, the 47-year tour outside the Great Wall still came in May. Yinzhen looked at Kangxi who was in high spirits, and the brothers who were joking and laughing felt like they had taken too much Botox The plastic surgery madman can't laugh even if he wants to.

So, Yinzhen embarked on a trip outside the Great Wall with a group of elder brothers with such a dull face. Sitting on a tall horse, Yinzhen turned his head and glanced at the majestic court that was getting farther and farther away, with mixed feelings in his heart. I don't know what it will be like when I come back again.

Turning around, Yinzhen subconsciously lowered his head and touched the string of Buddhist beads on his wrist, and a thought came to his mind - if, if he intervenes, how much can it be changed?

Thinking so, Yinzhen raised his head and looked forward with firm eyes. He wanted to see how much he, a butterfly, could deviate from the original track of history.