The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

And in winter, there is a dilapidated house here that can shelter from the wind and snow, and the bees spend the winter here; in summer, there is no need to worry about it.

In fact, this place is not suitable for people to live in. It was the Fourteenth Prince who sent people to repair it and build a house, so it has such a scale.

Otherwise, it used to be like a ruined temple.

He knew where the dining place was, so he went straight into the small flower hall.

This is a separate room, separated by a latticed door. The decoration is simple, but the details are handled well.

There is a thick silk curtain, tied on both sides, and a round table is exposed in the middle. Elder Brother Thirteen is sitting at the round table. There are meals on the table. up.

"Brother Thirteen, I'm coming!" Elder Fourteen greeted Elder Thirteen in a brisk tone.

But when the thirteenth brother raised his head, the fourteenth brother was startled: "Oh, I'm going! What's wrong with you, thirteenth brother? Someone cooked it?"

I saw Elder Brother Thirteen was very haggard.

The former thirteenth elder brother, not to mention high-spirited, was almost a handsome young man.

In addition, the thirteenth elder brother is fond of martial arts, and he is proficient in bowing and horses. During his first northern tour, he has beaten wolves, while the fourteenth elder brother has only shot rabbits.

Absolutely good figure, absolutely wonderful temperament!

But now?

Elder Brother Thirteen has lost a lot of weight. From September to now, it has only been a month and a half at most. He not only has a sloppy beard, but also has sunken eye sockets, bloodshot eyes, and chapped lips.

The eyes that used to be full of energy and energy are now dull.

Fortunately, when they toured the north, it was February, and they brought clothes for a whole year, thin and thick, but the ancient clothes were all naturally dyed, and the color would fade and turn white after a few washes.

Like princes and brothers, they make new clothes every season, and they make a whole set of clothes.

And once they are made, they start from [-] to [-] sets. The old clothes are either kept or given to the servants, and they can wear them after changing them. The material is good.

There are even special second-hand dealers in the capital, who buy old clothes from rich and noble families, take them back, wash them, and repaint them. They are just like new ones, but they are not resistant to wear. Ordinary normal clothes can be worn for a season. They have reprocessed them like that. It can only pass through the water three or five times, that is, it will rot after three or five times of washing.

It is only suitable for some people to wear when they go out to pretend!

But what about the thirteenth elder brother now?

Wearing a half-new and not old cotton robe, the quality is good, but it is not the clothes that a prince like him should wear. Although he is no longer a beard, he is still a prince!

There is a pair of cotton shoes under my feet, probably [-]% new.

Although the hair is combed, it is also very messy.

"Fourteen...you're here!" Thirteen was stunned for a while, then pinched himself, realizing that it wasn't a dream, and then smiled miserably at Elder Fourteen: "I made you laugh."

"Brother Thirteen, what are you doing? You torment yourself like this." Elder Fourteen stepped forward and glanced at the dining table in front of him.

There are small twists, fried cakes, fried dough sticks, red bean paste rolls, and red bean paste buns.

Soy milk, tofu nao, millet porridge, a plate of shredded salted vegetables with sesame oil, and a plate of salted duck eggs, um, the kind that was cut open, the yolk of the salted duck eggs is all oily.

Shredded potatoes and peanuts mixed in soy sauce.

There are also pickled eight-treasure pickles and sugar garlic.

To be honest, such meals can be regarded as rich in the capital in winter.

But depending on who that person is, a breakfast like this of the prince's elder brother can be said to be simple enough, his own brother's is simple enough, but the breakfast is better than this.

Helplessly, this is the thirteenth elder brother who was stripped of the title of Beizi by Kangxi.

This kind of food can't be said to be bad, and it can't be said to be not bad.

It's just that these things are cold!

It's the end of October, and it will be the fourth brother's birthday soon.

There have been three heavy snowfalls outside, okay?

How do you eat cold things at this time?

"Who cooked the food? It's cold, don't you want to heat it up? What do you want?" Elder Fourteen was furious: "Is this how you serve the master?"

"Brother Fourteen, don't blame them, I have no appetite." Elder Thirteen looked dryly at Elder Fourteen: "Why are you here?"

"If I don't come, who will come if I don't come?" Elder Fourteen said angrily, "Okay, go sit on the kang!"

Xiaopanzi came over and said with red eyes: "Master Fourteen, the kang is not too hot. The people here burn the kang once in the morning and once in the evening. At other times, they don't give firewood. They only give black smoky charcoal." , the master hates that smoke and choking, only use it to burn the fire wall to keep warm, don't let the stove..."

The treatment here is too bad, the same treatment as the most ordinary palace people in the palace.

But the thirteenth elder brother was locked in the house and couldn't move, and it was very cold outside. If this goes on, not to mention the slaves can't stand it, even the thirteenth elder brother can't do it.

"You don't need to say it, now, go and put the things that the master brought, together with the small bottle, and throw these cold things out!" Elder Fourteen said angrily: "Let Wood send someone to buy it!" Twenty sheep came back and boiled mutton soup. The big guys drank some to warm their bodies, and then sent people to buy a thousand catties of smokeless silver silk charcoal and two thousand catties of red Luo charcoal. Third elder brother heat up the room for me!"

"Master Fourteen, we brought money, but the people at the door wouldn't let us go out...." One of the powerful eunuchs complained: "Just now the servants were going out to buy some charcoal fire and food for the Lord, but they.... "

"Don't let you go out, didn't you say not to let the people brought by the master go out?" Elder Fourteen became even more angry: "You take good care of Master Thirteen, I remember when the house was built, there was a bathroom next door ?”

"It's useless at all. There is no extra charcoal fire. I can at most soak my feet at night." Xiaopanzi said, "I want to help my master to wash up."

Brother Thirteen is indeed haggard and sloppy.

"Xiao Panzi, you are in charge of overall planning and serving your master well, don't worry about the rest!" Elder Fourteen raised his chin at Elder Thirteen: "Go and clean up, what's the matter, aren't there brothers still here? "

The thirteenth elder brother showed a miserable smile: "I..."

"Come on, why are you talking like this? Go wash and wash. Later, our two brothers said at the dinner table, I brought over the fat-tailed sheep hot pot, a complete set, and your brother personally delivered it to your door and also accompanied it. Only Huang Ma and Huang Ama have this kind of treatment, and Er Niang doesn’t even have it!” Elder Fourteen stepped forward and pulled Thirteenth Elder vigorously up: “I’ve been to the mansion before I came, Thirteenth Elder Brother My sister-in-law and the children are very good, I brought you a change of clothes, I know that you will not take care of yourself without my sister-in-law, and brought you a lot of toiletries, go take a bath!"

Elder Brother Thirteen looked at him, hesitant to speak.

"Okay, brother and I, we have plenty of time to chat, let's go!" Elder Fourteen pushed him: "Brother Thirteen, my younger brother is here, my younger brother is here for everything."

Brother Thirteen had no choice but to wipe his face: "Okay, I'll listen to you!"

He has been imprisoned for so long, this is the first time he has seen outsiders, from that night he was reprimanded by Huang Ama, to being deprived of his title of Beizi, and then he was under house arrest, from the Rehe Palace outside the Great Wall to the beekeeping lane in Beijing. .

The thirteenth elder brother was sent to wash, bathe and change clothes, the fourteenth elder brother looked around the room: "Little bottle, come here!"

The fourteenth elder brother commanded the staff, replaced all the bedding with new ones, and heated up the house, and set up a hot pot to wait for the thirteenth elder brother to come over.

The second is to send people to buy matches and goats to make soup in the big kitchen. In such a broken place in winter, the goat soup can't be broken. Count the number of people, set the price with the people, and deliver it every day. The two cleaned up sheep are specially used to make soup for the people here.

New stoves, braziers, etc., including incense, were also brought in from Baylor House.

Brother Fourteen didn't think so much at first, he thought that no matter how miserable Shisan is here, he should be in a lot of mood, mentally miserable, not physically, but only found out when he got here that he was rejected by the emperor People who are rich, even if they are noble, will be secretly neglected.

Brother Thirteen is an example.

It seems that both history and unofficial history have kept this secret.

The fourteenth elder brother was busy commanding the staff, and the forbidden army outside was miserable. All the people who came in and out were brought by the fourteenth baylor.

Fourteen Baylor was injured twice for the sake of Long Live.

There are bandages on his hands now, okay, who dares to embarrass him?

Just watching people come in and out like this, the originally deserted beekeeping lanes were arranged into a fairly luxurious courtyard.

The fourteenth elder brother bought a lot of things in the house. There are seven or eight antiques on the bare Duobaoge, and three or five sets of calligraphy and paintings are placed in the painting jar in the study.

Light incense was burning in the censer.

On the kang table are tribute fruits, apples from Shandong, oranges from Huainan, and red dates from Xinjiang.

The room was cleaned cleanly. On the dining table in the small flower hall, there was a large copper hot pot in the middle. Under the hot pot was a glowing red charcoal fire. The milky white broth in the pot exuded a long aroma.

On the table, there is a plate of spinach, a plate of rapeseed, a plate of coriander, and a plate of chrysanthemum chrysanthemum.

Just these four plates of fresh green leafy vegetables are enough to make people's eyes warm.

Then there is a plate of potato slices, a plate of radish slices, a plate of fresh mushrooms, a plate of patted cucumbers, and a plate of red tomatoes mixed with sugar.

Four plates of hand-cut mutton slices and one plate of duck intestines.

There are two large plates of hand-cut mutton next to it, and a large bowl of sesame paste, a large bowl of fermented bean curd, a large bowl of leek flowers, a large bowl of chili oil, a large bowl of chopped green onion and a large bowl of mutton on the coffee table next door. A bowl of chopped coriander and a small bowl of oil.

Elder Brother Fourteen prepared everything in a grand manner. He even took out the sour plum soup and chilled it. In fact, it’s good to put it outside, and it will be cold after a while. There is also a hot wine pot, which contains the Yuquan Baijiu he brought.

Old Bai Gan'er can't do it, he can't drink, he's afraid he'll talk nonsense when he's drunk, he's here to comfort Brother Thirteen, by the way, what's going on?

So it is necessary to let the thirteenth elder brother feel how much he attaches to this trip.

The thirteenth elder brother took two hours to wash up, during which someone brought in some pastries to pad the thirteenth elder brother.

In case the thirteenth elder brother is halfway through washing, he will have hypoglycemia again.

This is what Fourteen Baylor ordered, although no one knows what hypoglycemia is?

Brother Thirteen took a bath, shaved his face, and shaved his head. After the hair was dried, he recombed it into a braid, put on a melon hat, and put on new clean clothes from inside to outside, from top to bottom. Clothes, including boots, before he was put on a ermine cloak by Xiaopan and walked out of the corner room.

It was not only the thirteenth brother who had a new look, but also the beekeeper. All the guards were driven to the door by the fourteenth brother, and they looked like they were standing guard.

And the other eight powerful eunuchs also changed into new clothes and tidied themselves up a bit. From master to slave, they all had new faces and the posture of new clothes.

The spirit is different.

A corner of the courtyard was piled up with charcoal and other things, and the warehouse was full of various ingredients.

There are everything from seasonings to mutton, and there is also a cart of green vegetables that is delivered here every day. Although there are not many, maybe only two baskets, it also means that some people still miss the Thirteenth Lord.

After the thirteenth elder brother came out, he went to the main house, and he also woke up, only to realize that this is a newly built house, at least not more than three years old.