[Qing wear] Harem promotion expert

As soon as Jiang Heng got up, he felt that his mind was still not clear, so he stood in front of the desk and practiced calligraphy to wake up his mind.

Hearing Qiu Xue come in and repeat what Imperial Physician Liu had said, she still shook her head lazily and said, "We have something in the palace, so it's strange that there is no movement at Concubine Xi's place. It's just that she was late after all, and accepted the concubine's concubine." It's useless to go to the pulse case, the Empress Dowager just said today that she will finish the affairs of the concubine from now on, so can it be possible for Concubine Xi to let people keep an eye on the Empress Dowager?"

Qiu Xue couldn't help enjoying herself: "It's good if Jingren Palace is really so confused."

Jiang Heng couldn't help laughing: Just like Qiu Xue thinking about the pie falling from the sky, Concubine Xi got dizzy and made a big mistake for a while, Concubine Xi must also hope that her brain will go out one day, and it is best to treat herself like Nianshi It would be better to go to live in Xiyuan, and then look at her with a good eye.

In the past few years, she has simply regarded Concubine Xi as a kind of extremely strict supervision department, to urge herself not to slack off, and to continue to improve.

After dinner, Qiuxue asked Lida's inner eunuch to move a stove to the courtyard, and boiled a copper pot of boiling water for boiling the boxes of silver cups brought back from the manufacturing office today.

Qiu Xue deliberately moved to the courtyard, just to let the empress feel at ease when she saw it with her own eyes.

Jiang Heng stood in front of the window, facing the cool autumn wind, listening to the sound of gurgling boiling water, thinking about his daughter a little bit: the grassland is always much colder than the capital city, and it is possible to snow now .Although he knew that the emperor was careful with the children, Jiang Heng still couldn't help thinking again whether the clothes he packed for his daughter were enough to wear, and whether Minmin would be uncomfortable in the paddock.

When Nanny Yu saw her, she found some homely words to distract her.

So he said softly at the side: "Your Majesty lived in a deep house when I was young. I don't know if you have eaten the fried chestnuts with black sand that are sold in dried fruit shops in the capital every autumn. I ate them before entering the palace. Sugar was very expensive at that time. Stir-fried chestnuts I can’t wait to sell it by the piece.”

She originally wanted to lure the empress to eat snacks, after all, the empress hardly had a serious meal that day, and autumn and winter are the seasons for eating chestnuts.

"The small kitchen has newly made chestnut cakes today..."

Before Mammy Yu finished speaking, she saw the empress's eyes brighten and turned her head: "Stir-fried chestnuts in sugar, I forgot that there are chestnuts in sugar!" I don't know what she is busy with every year in late autumn, but six years have passed , I never thought of fried chestnuts in sugar!

Stir-fried chestnuts in sugar are not a food that can be made at home. Jiang Heng only remembers to buy a pack when the season is on and the streets are full of fragrance. It is a unique satisfaction in autumn and winter.

Because the palace has never had the aroma of roasted chestnuts in the street, Jiang Heng never thought of it.

"Just to support the pot, let's make sugar-fried chestnuts by ourselves."

Qiuxue looked at the stove under the window, agreed to this, and then called Xiuxiu: "You also recognized the door of the manufacturing office today, and ran to get some clean black iron sand while it was still early , said that our palace wants to fry candied chestnuts, they must know."

After finishing speaking, he smiled and said: "The building office keeps them. When I went today, I could smell the smell of candied chestnuts. It must be that the Long Live Lord is not in the palace. The rules everywhere are looser, so I fried chestnuts in private. Go! That being the case, their black iron sand must be ready."

Qiu Lu and Xiao Luzi, who were in charge of the small kitchen, heard that the empress wanted fried chestnuts with sugar, so they hurriedly opened the cupboard to get brown sugar and white sugar.In addition, honey water was adjusted, and it was prepared to be fried until the end, and the chestnuts fried in sugar would be oily and sweet.

Qiu Lu deliberately came over and said: "Madam, why don't I go to Nanguofang to get some Taihang Mountain chestnuts! A bag of chestnuts in our small kitchen is used to make chestnut cakes. The fruit is soft and can be eaten as cakes. The powder is finer and finer, but if you want to fry chestnuts with sugar, the hard chestnuts from Taihang Mountain are the best.”

Jiang Heng looked at the palace people who were busy preparing candied chestnuts: Well, the palace has cultivated many foodies over the years.

It's really not a palace person, don't enter the gate of a palace.

The sky was getting darker and earlier, and Jiang Heng sat under the window, watching the late autumn sky glow with glow.

When the candles and the sky glowed together, the sugar-fried chestnut assembly line in the open hall had been built: some people were in charge of cleaning the chestnuts, and some were in charge of drying the washed chestnuts, and then handed them to the autumn chestnuts who specialize in making chestnuts. Lu was the last to be put into the pot, and Xiao Luzi, who was very strong, was in charge of frying it himself.

After being in charge of the small kitchen for many years, Xiao Luzi has become Daluzi. How round is his face? Even if viewed from the front, it looks like a round cake, which prevents his two ears from being seen at the same time. The genuine 'one ear' of the Yonghe Palace.

The entire hall is full of human voices and fireworks and the sweet aroma of roasted chestnuts in sugar.

When Jiang Heng pushed aside the first sugar-fried chestnuts, Brother Six came back.

"Er Niang!" The toddler's voice still couldn't distinguish between boys and girls, Jiang Heng was in a daze, and almost called "Minmin, come in and eat chestnuts."

It was only later that I realized that it was my son who had returned.

Jiang Heng didn't have time to teach his son to read today, and the reason why he wasn't urged by his son was precisely because the sixth brother was not at home today, so he went excitedly to visit his exclusive small study in Qingyan, Kyushu.

The enlightenment master invited by the emperor is a man, so it is naturally impossible to come to the harem to teach elder brother.

And the sixth elder brother was not yet old enough to live independently from Eniang, the emperor chose a quiet small room for his son in the Qingyan Houdian in Kyushu as the youngest son's enlightenment study, and let him study during the day , After school in the afternoon, I still come back to live.

Before the emperor went to Mulan, he took Jiang Heng to see it once, and asked her to see if there was anything that needed to be added or subtracted.

Jiang Heng said that he has no objection: Emperor Yongzheng's aesthetics is really excellent, even if it is a room where children learn to read (equivalent to a kindergarten classroom), he can decorate it into an impeccable, quiet and atmospheric study.

The emperor even personally inscribed on his youngest son "Study with reason first" as an admonition, and hung it in the most conspicuous place in the study.

Equally conspicuous as the emperor's imperial brush is a bookcase full of piles. The emperor took one out of the shelf with nostalgia, pointed to the lower half of Jiang Heng and said: "This is the book that the princes must know before they are ten years old." Books memorized." Pointing to the upper half: "These are the knowledge that should be mastered before the age of 15."

Jiang Heng looked at the collection of scriptures and history in the cabinet, and the "Memorials of Famous Officials (Song)" held in the emperor's hand, as well as the remaining memorial documents written and handed down by famous officials of various dynasties, and felt that it was no wonder that the princes wanted three or four points. Just get up.

Today Jiang Hengyuan planned to visit Concubine Liang, so he arranged for his son to visit his small study in advance.

After all, this child is very similar to the emperor in that he has many things to do.

Sometimes Jiang Heng set out playing equipment or cups and saucers for him, and he would look at it for a while, and he would probably do it all over again by himself.Even the nurses put the toys on the kang into the cabinet every day, and he had to watch the nurses put them, where the Jiulianhuan must be placed, and where the diorama must be placed. He had his own plan.

The only person he accepts who can mess with his things is his sister.

Sometimes Jiang Heng would quietly ask his daughter to mess with him, lest the little child develop an obsessive-compulsive temperament.

Seeing his son come back, Jiang Heng invited him in to eat candied chestnuts.

Brother Six held a book in his hand, and greeted him when he entered the door, but he didn't eat chestnuts first, but stood on the footrest, trying to get closer to Jiang Heng's height, and then asked with a small face while holding the book board: "Er Niang, I met Uncle Thirteen today. I said Er Niang is not free today, so he taught me how to read."

"But why are the characters taught by Uncle Thirteen so difficult, while those taught by Er Niang are so simple!"

Jiang Heng: ...the day is still here.

She took the book in her son's hand, which was an enlightenment book for the prince "Thousand Characters".

Jiang Heng once wanted to use this book to enlighten her children, but later she gave up because she felt that this book is not suitable for teaching young children to read.

Three-year-old children have just started to recognize characters. Is it suitable for them to recognize complex characters such as "donkey, mule, calf, leap and leap"?

On weekdays, when Jiang Heng read poems and articles to his son, he didn't care about the depth.She deeply feels that many poems are natural, even if the child does not understand it, it is good to just listen to the charm.

However, when Jiang Heng taught his son how to read and write, he adopted the new-age recognition method starting from the simple, and all he taught were "one, two, three, four, five, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth", which did not exceed a few strokes.

If it weren't for the fear of getting stuck in a timeline bug, Jiang Heng actually wanted to teach his son the poem "One piece, two pieces, three pieces, four pieces" that was the only one included in elementary school textbooks.

Who would have thought that his son would meet Prince Yi today and eagerly invite Uncle Thirteen to teach him how to read, and Lord Thirteen would of course take the thousand-character prose to teach him. This is Li Gui meeting Li Kui.

Brother Six expressed his dissatisfaction with Er Niang's use of particularly simple words to teach himself numbers.

Fortunately, he told Uncle Thirteen today that he already knows a lot of characters.As a result, Uncle Thirteen took out a thousand-character essay and asked him to point out where he had learned it, only to find that he didn't know the whole article!The book Erniang taught him to read was not this one at all!

Fortunately, the sixth elder brother didn't keep looking at her with condemnation, but sighed like a little adult: "Forget it, Uncle Thirteen said, the master Huang Ama picked for me will arrive in Yuanmingyuan soon." It seems It's about to fire Er Niang.

Jiang Heng raised his forehead and said in his heart: Master, come quickly, I don't want to teach this child anymore.

As for the sixth elder brother who had completed today's literacy from Master Thirteen, he didn't mention it anymore, but just sat aside and waited to eat chestnuts.

He also smelled the sweet fragrance in the room, and his stomach was already growling.

Jiang Heng peeled one for him, and told him to bite slowly, and said that he could only eat three, as it was not easy to digest.

Sixth elder brother only ate one, and thought it was delicious, he raised his head and said, "Emiang, I'll give one to Thirteenth Uncle."

Jiang Heng asked someone to fetch oiled paper and wrapped two packs of warm ones, and found a small bamboo basket for his son to carry on his shoulders.Seeing that the wet nurse was putting on the sixth elder brother a sweater with red satin, Jiang Heng stretched out his hand to close the hood for his son, and said with a smile, "Little Red Riding Hood, let's go."

She looked at the small figure of her son going out surrounded by nuns and eunuchs.

Little Red Riding Hood jumped and went out the gate.

Now that he went to study in Qingyan's small study in Kyushu, he had another identity: he was no longer just a young son whose father liked to tease him in his spare time, but he had also started to be a prince to accept the scrutiny of the emperor.

When the sixth elder brother finished delivering the fried chestnuts to Prince Yi, Jiang Heng originally thought that he was exhausted, but who would have imagined that he would go to deliver them to the queen mother and queen again.

Just as Jiang Heng wanted to decline, he saw his son staring at the Thousand-Character Essay on the couch. Jiang Heng had no choice but to get up and said, "Okay, Er Niang will accompany you."

As he said that, he first took a chestnut and peeled it for his son to eat: "I went out for a run again, and I will eat another chestnut to fill my stomach before we go."

Afterwards, Jiang Heng regretted feeding his son the chestnut.The sixth elder brother realized that the chestnuts that have been cooled are not as delicious as when they are hot, so he pulled her and said, "Emiang, let's take the pot and fry it for Huangmam Huangeriang."

Jiang Heng: I was wrong.

Fortunately, he was still young, and Jiang Heng used a charcoal stove to heat the chestnuts before coaxing him.

After accompanying the sixth elder brother to go to Yuetan Yunju and Tongleyuan, and gave each a chestnut, Jiang Heng's long day was finally over.

The Empress Dowager and Empress Dowager liked such a rare and simple gift.

Especially the empress, who was still in the embarrassment of catching the noble concubine to top the vat today, was very kind to the sixth elder brother. After accepting the chestnuts, she gave him the fine inkstone she had just obtained.

He said again: "When Sixth Brother goes to study, Queen Mother will give you a whole set of the Four Treasures of the Study."

A few days later, Jiang Heng completed the naming assignment assigned by the Queen Mother, and brought ten spare nicknames to the Queen Mother to choose.

The Empress Dowager put on the glasses and asked about the meaning of these words from time to time while looking at them.

The last two finalists were Jiang Heng's two favorites: Juan'er and Shumi.

The queen mother took a comparison: "The curly ear grass Ai family knows that it is written in the "Book of Songs". There are small flowers blooming all over the mountains and fields, which are very good for feeding. Others can afford it." Jiang Heng only found out after asking the imperial hospital that Juan Er can not only cure wind and cold but also treat trauma, and it is also readily available. It is one of the most commonly used herbs in the countryside as a gift from nature.

If the Queen Mother chooses this Juaner, she will call her son Ajuan or Juanbao, which is a secret language that she only knows.

As for the scorpion, it is an extremely tenacious aquatic plant. The scorpion rice produced by it can be used as disaster rice in a catastrophe year, instead of rice flour to satisfy hunger, and countless people live.

The queen mother was in a dilemma.

Juan Er is a kind of medicinal herb, which reminded the queen mother that a good doctor is like a good general, which seems to be a metaphor for a general.And Juan Er is rarely used as the main medicine, often as an auxiliary medicinal material, which is more reminiscent of courtiers.But rice is the emergency food used by the previous dynasties to relieve disasters and relieve the people, but the relief of the people is reminiscent of the king.

This is just a nickname, maybe she thinks too much, but the queen mother just can't make up her mind to make up her mind at this time.

The queen mother decided to give these two names to the emperor according to her intuition, and let the emperor choose.

Therefore, the sixth elder brother still spent his birthday without a nickname.

On October [-]nd of the eighth year of Yongzheng, Sixth Prince had eaten a bowl of Longevity Noodles and officially passed his third birthday.

Giving gifts to the little prince is the easiest thing both inside and outside the palace: the youngest children value blessings and must not give them heavy gifts. Outside the palace, only a plate of birthday peaches and bundles of birthday noodles are enough.The clan ordered women to add another set of clothes, shoes and socks, but the clothes could not be inlaid with gold and jade, and they were not allowed to be luxurious, so it was very easy to prepare.

The only inappropriate gift came from Prince Yi's mansion, which was a copy of "Thousand Characters" handwritten by Prince Yi.

Jiang Heng: ...Although I try my best not to be wrong, it still seems to imply me.

The next day, Thirteen Fujin entered the palace to greet the Queen Mother, and explained the matter to Jiang Heng, and said with a helpless smile: "I have prepared the gifts for the sixth elder brother one by one, but the prince who was born suddenly stuffed them in. A book, it is said that it was promised to Sixth Brother that day, so it is not good to miss the appointment with the child."

Thirteen Fujin was speechless, and continued to tell Jiang Heng tactfully: It turned out that when the thirteenth master taught the sixth elder brother to write, the sixth elder brother liked the calligraphy of the thirteenth uncle very much, and wanted a copy of "Thousand Characters" written by the thirteenth uncle. "Wen", Thirteenth Lord has always liked children, and he liked the children of the emperor's brother even more. He was a good uncle who was always responsive to the princes, so he agreed immediately.

The thirteenth Fujin who was called to give the gift was speechless: that is the emperor's son!What's the matter with practicing your handwriting!

Jiang Heng and Thirteen Fujin had no choice but to smile awkwardly at each other.

Thirteen Fujin hurriedly said in order to ease the embarrassment: "However, the prince insisted that Brother Liu's writing will not follow him, and it will be fine when the master arrives."

Jiang Heng became more and more curious: "I really don't know which bachelor the emperor invited to teach the sixth elder brother, but the thirteenth master is so optimistic about it."

The master arrived just in time.

On October [-]rd, the day after Brother Six's birthday, Tan Tan Tang received a name card from Cui Jin.

At first Jiang Heng saw Ergenjue Luoshi and didn't realize who it was, but when he opened it and saw the Chinese name, he was immediately shocked.

Gu Badai!

It was him!

Jiang Heng knew that Xu Yuanmeng had been the fourth master's teacher, but there was a reason why he became the fourth master's teacher after teaching the prince halfway.

Because Fourth Master's first master was Gu Badai.

The relationship between master and apprentice is very good.

As we all know, when the emperor was young, he was judged by Lord Kangxi as a person with "unsettled emotions". To put it bluntly, he was more straightforward, which coincided with Gu Badai's temper.This Mr. Gu was once half criticized and half praised by the old academics of the Imperial Academy, saying that he was quite "chivalrous".

But the prince Kangxi expected was not like this.He was a loving father in the early years, and he saw that his sons could do no wrong. It was all because others taught his son badly, so he fired Mr. Gu, and he was not even allowed to continue to be an official, and he was sent back to Jilin directly. In my hometown, the panel is completely cleared.

This Mr. Gu is also a person with two sleeves, and the teacher who has been a prince has no money. It is said that he has had a difficult life for many years, and even fell ill for a time.But when Teacher Gu fell ill, great joy fell from heaven, no, great mourning, the late emperor passed away.

His former student, the Fourth Prince Yinzhen, has ascended the throne!

Most of Mr. Gu's illness was caused by his lack of ambition. As soon as he ascended the throne, his illness recovered immediately.And the emperor didn't forget about this teacher after he ascended the throne, and soon ordered someone to reuse the teacher. The official with the imperial edict hadn't gone to Jilin yet, the old man got up from the bed, and he didn't need anyone to help him when he received the edict. I went out to pick it up by myself.

After returning to Beijing, the old man has been teaching in the Imperial College.

It was not until last year that he wrote a letter to become an official due to old age. The emperor personally bestowed two houses (one in the capital city and one near the Old Summer Palace) for the teacher to take care of him.

Jiang Heng was certainly surprised that this person was so powerful.

But she didn't expect that the reason for this person's coming out of the mountain was his age-this teacher Gu just passed his [-]th birthday last year!He was the one who watched the first emperor capture Ao Baiping and Ping San Francisco with his own eyes. It can be said that he is half a living history book of the Qing Dynasty.

Not to mention the rare age of seventy, even in modern times, even in the introverted era when the retirement age is delayed, seventy should not be the working age.

Your majesty, you are treating the labor law as nothing...

Jiang Heng originally thought that his son would become a teacher in the future, but now he feels compelled to tell his son, respecting the elderly, respecting the elderly is the first priority, don't put pressure on the old man, okay?You can wait another two years, you go to the upper study room, and go to roll the young Hanlin scholar.

However, the sixth elder brother didn't know Er Niang's inner feelings. When he heard that his master was Ama's master back then, he happily ran around the house several times, and then cleaned up the four treasures of the study for a day. I have to move directly to the study and never come back.

In fact, the emperor was afraid of spoiling the seedlings (yes, the palace that started school at the age of three actually considered the issue of seedlings), although he set up a small study for his son, but he was only allowed to read for an hour at noon and half an hour in the afternoon, so as not to be too early. Excessive effort hurts the body.

Jiang Heng looked at his dizzy son, and thought about the 71-year-old teacher Gu Badai. He could only believe that the emperor's teacher was not an ordinary person who could accept his youngest son.

When Jiang Heng was surprised by his son's master, there were also people in the Mulan paddock who were also shocked.

When the victorious army went back to the court, the generals arrived at the Mulan paddock after calculating the auspicious days in advance.In the morning, he first pays homage to the emperor, and then presents the captives.Because I met the Mongolian prince in the paddock, we had to exchange friendly greetings with each other.

This is how the morning passed.

The emperor didn't have time to talk to his brother whom he hadn't seen for a few years, he just patted him on the shoulder vigorously, telling him to go back in the next afternoon so that he could have a rest: "I'll serve you a celebration wine tonight!"

In the afternoon, the emperor received a letter from the palace and began to carefully choose his son's baby name.

Queen Mother can't make up her mind, so why isn't he?

So I simply brought my daughter and let her choose.

Minmin looked at it for a while: "Choose this melon rice, my brother likes melons."

The emperor smiled and said, "Minmin, this word is pronounced 苽." The emperor wrote "孤孤孤" to his daughter: "Both these two characters are pronounced '孤', which shows that words with melons do not necessarily pronounce melons, right?"

While teaching his daughter not to read half a word, the emperor felt that it was right for him to invite his son back to his master to enlighten him: the imperial concubine does not spoil children in life, but this is not the case in education.I am only willing to teach the children the common characters first, not according to the sage books, and I don’t keep up with the progress. I only teach a few words every day and then urge the children to play—the daughter just follows her miscellaneous learning side by side, happy and happy , but the son should teach himself.

Just as he was talking, Su Peisheng went back and forth to the Fourteenth Lord to see him.

The emperor thought, the fourteenth brother must have a lot of things to say to him, so he couldn't sleep at noon.

The emperor saw that he was a big leader this time, and his whole body became more mature and tense, but he missed his lively and unrestrained appearance back then, so he had a sudden idea and said to his daughter: "Minmin, you go back from behind the tent and replace yourself with the emperor." Ma Xin made you the prince's clothes, come back and cheat your Fourteenth Uncle."

Minmin smiled and ran away: "Okay, I won't say I'm a princess, let Fourteenth Uncle wonder!"

In the imperial tent, the Fourteenth Lord had confessed his love to the emperor alone, and then he resigned.

Not far from the door, I saw a five or six-year-old boy standing within the imperial tent, calling him softly, "Uncle Fourteen."

The Fourteenth Master wondered and stood still: Although he was on the battlefield, he didn't know anything about Yu Jingzhong.Moreover, the emperor has so few sons, so he will never remember wrongly.

The fourteenth master has long been familiar with the three elder brothers.In the past few years, Brother Huang has only added a sixth elder brother, counting days, but he is only three years old.

So the Fourteenth Lord was shocked: where did the five or six-year-old boy in front of him, who was wearing the prince's uniform and looked like he was carved out of the emperor's brother, come from!