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Qiu Xue vaguely understood Jiang Heng's meaning, but couldn't help worrying: "What if Zhou promised to jump over the wall in a hurry and think of some sneaky ways to harm the master?"

Jiang Heng asked the two of them to keep a close eye on the items in the Yonghe Palace during this time: "Don't add anything, don't miss anything."

He rubbed the ink again and said: "There are only those who have been thieves for a thousand years, and there is no one who has been guarding against thieves for a thousand years. Zhou promised to look forward and backward and dare not move. You may as well send some hints to Xi Bian'er recently: I only know that Zhou promised to stop the emperor in my heart." It's very unpleasant, and it's okay to pay her back if you want to."

It's just that before Qiu Xue Qiushuang and the others turned their eyebrows coldly on the west side of the house and exerted psychological pressure, the emperor's divine assist arrived.

At noon the next day, Jiang Heng received a basket of Lintong pomegranates from the Palace of Mental Cultivation.

It was Su Peisheng who brought the people here himself.

Jiang Heng: Well, the boss's project has caught up to the door, so I can't do it anymore.

Pomegranate fruit tea is officially on the agenda.

Jiang Heng was about to forget about the relevant pictures in his mind, and concentrate on thinking about several delicious pomegranate drinks he had drunk before.

By the way, I exchanged pleasantries with Su Peisheng, the first secretary of the empire: "It's just a small matter of sending pomegranates, why did Su Adanda come here in person?"

Su Peisheng laughed and said, "It's not just pomegranates, the servants also brought a gardener to look at the soil, and dig a tree hole in advance to move the tree over."

Jiang Heng suddenly had a very ominous premonition, it couldn't be...

Sure enough, Su Peisheng smiled more kindly: "Long Live Lord Jinkoudao is the most fond of pomegranates, and pomegranate trees are a good sign for many children. I specially ordered the gardener of Hengchun Nursery to transplant a pomegranate tree here."

Jiang Heng: ...The pomegranate stalk can't make it through, right?

This time, Su Peisheng still noticed the slightly strange look on Mr. Xin's face, but he pretended not to see it: Lord Long Live and Mr. Xin obviously had their own pomegranate secrets, so he just pretended not to know.

With one look, two Hengchunpu eunuchs stepped forward to salute behind him.

Su Peisheng smiled and said: "Long Live God also ordered that you can't choose old trees. He said that old trees are easy to become fine. I believe that nobles are new to the Forbidden City. I'm afraid that old trees will absorb the earth's energy in the yard, which will be bad for nobles."

Jiang Heng smiled and cheered on the emperor's feudal superstition: "Long live God has seen thousands of miles." No, how can the emperor's feudal superstition be called feudal superstition?

Jiang Heng looked around at the location of the yard, and said to the gardener, "How about the one in the northeast corner?"

Jiang Heng subconsciously chose the land in the east. From her point of view, before Zhou promised to move out, only two-thirds of the apse of the Yonghe Palace belonged to her, and the west still belonged to Zhou promised.

Hearing her say this, Su Peisheng was embarrassed: This nobleman is a kind person.Zhou promised to cut her beard yesterday, and the emperor gave her a special pomegranate tree today, obviously to support her.She took this opportunity, even if she planted the tree at the door of Zhou Xu's house, no one would dare to talk too much.The gardener can only flatter, that's right, that's the only piece of land in the palace that is suitable for planting pomegranate trees.

Such a good opportunity, but the trustees did not retaliate.

Su Peisheng didn't know that the gentle and sweet Xingui in front of him had already made a work plan, planning how to get Zhou Xu to dig his own grave in the near future, and then dig her out.

Eunuch Su also sometimes misses, he just treats Jiang Heng as his face, a soft and sweet girl.

Eunuch Su still sighed in his heart: Sure enough, God loves idiots.Mrs. Xin couldn't think of knocking Zhou to agree, and the emperor thought of it for her.

He took a step forward and said to Jiang Heng: "My lord, the northeast corner is certainly good, but when I'm on an errand, Lord Long Live ordered that the wing room where you usually read and write is on the east side, and trees planted on the east side will block your light." Pointing to the west: "The emperor said to plant in front of the west window."

Jiang Heng was startled for a moment, and then realized: It seems that not only is she annoyed by Zhou Xu's peeping through the door, but it is even more annoying to be treated like a foolish emperor.

This is the emperor who will follow his will in the world, and he is an out-and-out workaholic.In fact, Jiang Heng had a slight feeling that the emperor seemed to want to stay yesterday, but he got up and left with great determination, which shows that everything can be thrown away for work.

Jiang Heng understands that he can't completely relax his mind about going out to eat, drink and have fun because there is still a big project in his hand that has not been completed.

And Zhou promised to come and arrange for the emperor, hoping that he would let the emperor put down his work and fall in love with her at first sight.

It can only be said that the plan that Zhou promised was a miscalculation of the leader.

No, the leader is bored and wants to plant trees in your window.

Jiang Heng nodded to Su Peisheng: "Okay, listen to the emperor."

Su Peisheng was very busy and would not be here to watch the craftsmen dig a hole, so he resigned soon.

Jiang Heng thanked the two gardeners for their hard work, gave them a reward, and asked Xiao Luzi to prepare herbal tea for them, and then went into the house—because the two gardeners were very trembling, they just thanked each other, and she was obviously delayed outside. The progress of people's work.

When she entered, Qiu Xue also came in, her face was very like that of an old mother who hoped that her son would become a dragon, and the son finally passed the exam, her eyes lit up: "My lord! Your Majesty really has you in his heart, Zhou promised to come out yesterday." Stopping Shengjia, I don't take you seriously, so the emperor will plant a pomegranate tree in front of her window today!"

Jiang Heng shook his fan: "It's not for me, the emperor is just tired of this kind of unruly behavior."

It is estimated that with the character of the emperor, it is most annoying to play tricks in front of him, not to mention Zhou Xu's very straightforward method of wanting to invite favors and cut off people.

Qiu Xue was on the sidelines cheering for Jiang Heng: "Master just underestimates me."

Jiang Heng stopped Qiu Xue's 'chicken baby' behavior, and said to her: "The gardener is digging soil in the yard to start construction, and the west side must have noticed it. Go and add more firewood."

Qiu Xue let out a "ah": "Master, don't worry, my Custodian Zhou promised to leave us like sitting on a charcoal stove."

People probably have a rebellious mentality. When you want to drive someone away, the other party may choose to stay here as a nail door to block your eyes, but when you make a gesture of wanting to force her to attack, the other party will show subjective initiative. Run away desperately.

Zhou promised to tremble in the room.

In fact, it's summer in her room, and the western sun is very hot, but she can't help but feel cold in her heart.

This state of hers also affected the maids around her, of course, the slap she gave yesterday, and the punishment of ordering the palace man to kneel on the top of the bottle for most of the night, scared the two maids around her into a sense of jitteriness. Master, take another cut.

She frightened the maid, and the frightened expression on the maid's face in turn made her more worried about her situation. It can be said that the west side formed a perfect closed loop of fear, almost like a haunted house.

"My lord..."

"Speak up if you have something to say! Who will see it with a bit stuffed in your mouth like this!" Zhou promised to see the flustered maid who was cautiously waiting for Ai Ai to speak, and couldn't help but angrily reprimanded.

"My lord, the gardeners outside the door are surveying the ground and painting the soil, preparing to move the tree." The maid who had been beaten spoke quickly.

"Moving a tree? What tree? Our room is small and the light is already dark during the day, so why move a tree here?" Zhou promised to frown.

The maid stood quite far away from her, trying her best to organize her words so as not to anger the master.However, she soon discovered that she did not need to organize her own language.

Outside the window came the voice of Qiuxue, a court lady who believed in the nobleman, talking to the gardener: "We need to cultivate some good soil before we can transplant it, right? Thank you, father-in-law. Hey, this is the pomegranate tree that the emperor specially asked us to transplant to our nobleman." , the two of you sat down to have a sip of tea after you finished your work, and told us how to grow a tree so that we can learn from it so that we can take care of this imperial tree in the future."

The court lady Zhou promised took another step back, because the promised face was too ugly.

This time Zhou promised to tremble besides fear and anger, gritted his teeth and whispered: "Since it was rewarded by the emperor to the nobleman, what's the point of planting it under my window!"

This is not over yet. After the gardeners have marked out the area for transplanting and cultivated the soil and left, Qiu Xue brought Qiu Shuang and others to watch the pit together: "It was ordered by the Lord Long Live, and the people brought by Mr. Su himself dug it." The pit is beautiful, look at the soil, how fresh it is!"

Qiu Shuang followed with a smile and said: "It will be better when the pomegranate tree is moved, our master likes to be clean, and doesn't like to be surrounded by people who stare at him through the windows and doors, which shows that the emperor is wise no matter how good he is. "

Zhou promised to feel that his blood pressure was high: This Yonghe Palace is unbearable!

Zhou promised to be panicked: Looking around the harem, the only one who can suppress the trustworthy nobleman and has this kind of thought is probably the only Concubine Nian.

The empress only cared about manners, while the other concubines only had sons in their eyes, and they didn't care much about the favor: Originally, they hadn't had the favor since the concubine Nian appeared five years ago, so now anyone who gets the favor will follow them It doesn't matter.

Zhou promised to make up his mind after thinking about it all night, and he still had to take refuge in Concubine Nian.

However, she soon discovered the problem: she had to rely on someone, no, at least she had to talk to the imperial concubine.

First of all, Yonghe Palace and Yikun Palace are divided into east and west palaces, Zhou promised that he would not have the chance to meet the noble concubine on the palace road.And in the hot summer, the concubines all love their looks, and no one goes out to visit the garden, so don't think about "encounter".

As for taking the opportunity to come up and talk when asking for peace, it seems reliable but it is difficult to implement.

The space in the main hall of the Queen's Chengqian Palace is limited, and the promises are arranged in shifts, and they only need to enter the hall once every few days to greet the Queen.The rest of the people left after saluting outside the door. It is not every day that they are qualified to enter the house to meet the queen's concubines.

Especially in summer, the number of shifts of promises is reduced, because there are too many people, the smell of powder and spices is too strong, and the queen is not used to smelling it, so three promises are arranged to stand guard every day.

This is simply the Milky Way between the imperial concubine and Zhou Xuying.

After all, the day after tomorrow is the day when Zhou promised to go to Chengqian Palace, but during the process of paying his respects, how could she talk to Concubine Nian?She stood by the door, a long distance away from the imperial concubine in a main hall.

When the concubines retire, they are also based on their status. The imperial concubine is the first to go out, and the imperial concubine still has a sedan chair to sit on. Now that it has grown a pair of wings, it can't keep up.

Zhou promised that he was in a hurry: the gardeners came to cultivate the soil again, and even poured some strange-smelling flowers in front of his window.

But I just can't talk to the imperial concubine!

Zhou promised to be anxious, and Jiang Heng was also worried for her.From the time Zhou promised to pay his respects, Jiang Heng had been following the noble concubine like a 'light chaser', and Jiang Heng knew the thigh target Zhou promised to embrace.

Then she looked at Concubine Nian with eyes that she couldn't ask for, especially like poor scholars and young ladies who were blocked because of their family background.

Jiang Heng encouraged her in his heart: Zhou promised, please bravely pursue love, and don't be afraid of the class gap.

"After the emperor set up the Examination Mansion, he still asked Prince Yi to be a consul. Even the eunuchs in the palace knew that the emperor trusted Prince Yi the most." Qiu Xue chatted with Jiang Heng while doing needlework.

She came from the Shangyi Supervisor, and everyone in the palace knew everyone well, and her needlework was as good as the news.

In fact, as a court lady, she didn't know what Huikaofu was at all, and she only heard what other palace eunuchs said.But as a "chicken mother" type of court lady, Qiu Xue felt that her master should know what other concubines could know.So no matter what news you heard outside, if you don't understand it, you should write it down first, and tell your nobles the truth when you come back.

The harem is not unrelated to officialdom.

At least something happened in the previous dynasty that made the emperor angry, and the people in the harem gasped less.

And Jiang Heng was willing to listen to these things.

She knows a lot about the historical events of the Qing Dynasty. Sometimes Qiu Xue and the others just chatted about the events of the previous dynasty, which was enough for her to infer what stage the court is in now, and whether there will be any major events happening recently. .

"Huai Kao Fu." Jiang Heng knew about this institution.This is an original institution created by Emperor Yongzheng. In modern times, it is the Audit Bureau, which can be regarded as a very genius creation of the emperor.

In terms of managing finances and people's livelihood, Emperor Yongzheng was really a master figure. He not only knew the hidden rules of the government and the opposition, but also created his own organization.Just like the master of martial arts in martial arts novels, not only can he learn the existing martial arts secrets, but he can also master his own set of unique skills to pass down from generation to generation.

"The emperor should be in a good mood recently." Jiang Heng thought about it. With Emperor Yongzheng's character, he established an audit office, which is more convenient to track and audit accounts. No one can dig money from his treasury for nothing. It must be a happy thing.

Qiuxue stopped her needlework when she heard what her master said, and she was a little confused: "But I heard from Xiao Luzi and the eunuchs who said that every day there are ministers kneeling at the gate of the Hall of Mental Cultivation to ask for punishment."

"If Lord Long Live is in a good mood, he shouldn't punish the ministers." Qiuxue thought of something again, and sat closer and said quietly: "I heard from an aunt of the Shangyi Supervisor that her godson said that she has been incorruptible for two days. The prince has been scolded by the emperor, and he is said to be kneeling outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation against the sun."

Jiang Heng put down his pen to turn the page, took a paperweight to hold it down, and continued to copy the book: Alas, people say that you can't become a father and son without worries, but when you come to Emperor Yongzheng, you really can't become brothers without worries... Wait, Jiang Heng suddenly remembered that Emperor Yongzheng and His son didn't seem to have a good relationship, so Hongshi was personally expelled from his son's quota.

In terms of popularity, Emperor Yongzheng seemed to be a bit of a lone star.

Just as she was thinking, Qiushuang came in from outside: "Master, Master, Zhou promised to go out. This servant asked the little eunuch on the long street to take a look, and said that she was going straight to the East Sixth Palace." The tone was cheerful, as if it was a New Year's Eve.

Jiang Heng lifted his spirits.

"Brother Huang, let Prince Lian get up."

The emperor raised his head and frowned: "Thirteenth brother, even you think I'm too harsh on the old eight?"

Prince Yi quickly shook his head and denied: "My brother is not for Prince Lian, but for you, brother." The Thirteenth Master made it clear what he called relatives, and then stated his point of view like the emperor: "Prince Lian made mistakes and should be punished, but he Yesterday, I knelt in front of the Hall of Mental Cultivation for three hours, and today I knelt again, and the courtiers came and went to watch... and everyone knows that Prince Lian has been ill recently..."

The emperor's voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth: "Pretend!"

Emperor Yongzheng was really angry: he had experienced life and death, but he still made Lao Baqi dizzy.

There are people in this world who are born to be so irritating.

Prince Lian is a very capable person, which is recognized by the government and the public, even the emperor.But since the emperor came to the throne, Prince Lian has repeatedly made mistakes, and the mistakes he made are all just right--neither big enough to hurt a muscle, nor small enough to be ignored.

When the emperor questioned the courtiers, or the emperor didn't blame, but just asked, Prince Lian knelt first, lowered his eyebrows and said, "my brother is guilty, and I will die."

Speaking of which, the princes are all like dragons and phoenixes, especially in "Xinfeilu".Not to mention Prince Lian's appearance, he was born very gentle and handsome, and looked very amiable - otherwise, given his background, courtiers would not have kept approaching him since he was a teenager.

Therefore, every time he bowed his head in obedience and admitted his mistakes too humbly, in the eyes of the courtiers, he couldn't help feeling: Alas, Prince Lian is really pitiful, the emperor is scolding him again for a trivial matter.

Even if the emperor didn't say anything, but the emperor's icy and boundless aura of purgatory, compared with the pale, handsome, amiable and gentle face of Prince Lian, it is more ironclad than the emperor directly scolding him.

The emperor had his own source of information, and it was soon rumored that the government and the public were very sympathetic to Prince Lian, and felt that he was indifferent to his siblings.

If Jiang Heng were to describe the emperor's mood, it would be the grievance of the heroine meeting the green tea girl.

The emperor is the kind of tough heroine who relies on herself in everything, insists that the green hills will not let go, bites her teeth and swallows herself, even if it is uncomfortable, she has to carry everyone behind her back, and she is willing to vomit blood in the dark; but Prince Lian It's the kind of green tea girl who looks weak and amiable, and obviously made a mistake, but as long as he preemptively blames himself too much, others will give birth to sympathy.

The courtiers are just stupid straight men who can't tell the difference between green tea.

Yesterday, Prince Lian made another mistake, missing two procedures in writing the emperor's ceremonies for offering sacrifices to heaven during the autumn harvest. If the emperor hadn't read it once, he would have almost sent it to the Ministry of Rites to follow. .

The emperor was naturally angry, and threw the booklet to Prince Lian: "You have been on errands since you got married at the age of 14. You have been in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for ten years, and the Ministry of Rites for five years. You can do things like this wrong, which shows that you are disrespectful. !"

Prince Lian didn't say a word, and his face, which had become thinner and thinner recently, turned pale, and immediately knelt down: "I'm guilty, I deserve to die. But I don't dare to disrespect my master again, please forgive me for my negligence!" said He was so anxious that he seemed to be choking, coughing and panting again and again, his face flushed again.

The old nine and ten next to him immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, and stared at each other: "Your Majesty, the starling is not in good health these days, and it is inevitable that he will make mistakes if he is mentally weak. Please forgive me."

A yin and yang strangeness followed and interceded, "If the emperor punishes me again, my younger brother is willing to replace me."

To anger Emperor Yongzheng, it is really the first time in a lifetime, Lao Ba and the others still hate him so much!

The old nine and the ten wanted to replace him, but he refused to let him go. The courtiers said that he was harsh on Prince Lian, and he was not going to take the blame, so what if I was harsh, you are willing to pretend to be respectful, to accept the punishment. , just respectfully go to the entrance of the Hall of Mental Cultivation and kneel down!

And this kneeling, the emperor asked Prince Lian to persevere, knelt for three days in a row, and only let him go back every time the sun went down.

Seeing the emperor's obscenity, Zhang Tingyu and others looked at each other with bad thoughts: the emperor punished his ministers, and those who committed crimes should be punished, but if this continues for several days, it is not good to spread the word.

They didn't dare to persuade them, and still launched the almighty Prince Yi.

The Thirteenth Lord had no choice but to persuade him. He knew like a mirror in his heart. He also knew that the starling was deliberately pissing people off, and that the fourth brother was screwed with him. He would risk his reputation and make Prince Lian suffer. Cure his green tea problem.

But...he couldn't stand the emperor using his reputation to defy him.

In the eyes of Prince Yi, the emperor is the best emperor and the best brother.He couldn't stand the rumor that the emperor treated his siblings harshly.

So Prince Yi rushed to the rescue.

In fact, before here, Longkodo also came to persuade the emperor.

The emperor only said in a cold voice: "Could it be that the courtiers only saw that I punished him, but didn't see the mistakes he made?" Longkodo thought he was the emperor's good uncle at this time, so he said bluntly: "Probably only the courtiers are here. Dare to say that, many people privately said that the reason why Prince Lian made a mistake was because the emperor frequently picked on him and frightened him like this."

emperor:……

Longkodo is still chattering: "I see, the emperor treats the eight kings a little bit stricter. In fact, the eight kings are an honest and modest person. If the emperor is kinder, he will not be afraid of being out of his wits every day and making mistakes at every turn It's up."

The emperor, who once again experienced the power of green tea, really almost spat blood on Longkodo's face.

So the Thirteenth Master came to persuade him today, and the emperor was very annoyed: "What's the reason? The person who made a mistake became a good man, but the one who suffered from me became a tyrant——if I am negligent and don't see the omission of etiquette, They kept it and laughed and mocked behind their backs!"

Thirteen wry smile: That's right, but there are so many unreasonable things in this world.The emperor won the throne, and in the eyes of others, he is the supreme vested interest. No one will sympathize with him and see his troubles and grievances.

After Thirteenth Master's hard persuasion, the emperor finally let go, "Tell him to get out!"

Prince Yi heaved a sigh of relief, and hurried to the outside of the hall, and personally reached out to help Prince Lian: "Brother, Brother Huang has calmed down, you can go back and rest."

Prince Lian's lips were so pale that they were somewhat transparent, like a person carved from ice, and because of the sun, his cheeks were morbidly flushed, making him look very pitiful.Hearing this, he refused to get up, and raised his eyes to look at Prince Yi: "Mynah has received your kindness. If the emperor is willing to forgive me, he will definitely give you a golden word. Without an imperial decree, I dare not get up on my own."

The Thirteenth Master almost knelt down to him: What the hell, I have to wait for a golden word.

He wished to take Prince Lian away, but he was afraid that he would force him to do it. Prince Lian performed for him a kneeling on the spot until he became ill, and fell to the ground at the entrance of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, so he had to say earnestly: "Does my brother dare to falsely preach the imperial decree?" ? The emperor really calmed down and spared you from kneeling."

Prince Lian blinked: "Really? I don't believe it."

Prince Yi experienced the emperor's feeling of wanting to vomit blood: starling is so good at arousing people's emotions, it is easy for him to make people like him, but it is even easier for him to make people hate him.

To put it bluntly, Prince Lian finally got up following Prince Yi's strength.The Thirteenth Master immediately made the decision again, called a small sedan chair, and stuffed his 'weak' starling into it.You can't let him just knelt down and staggered to describe walking in the imperial city. You must know that the courtiers go out through the front door, and they have to pass through many places before the court, such as Dengwenyuan, Qianbulang and Liubu.

The Thirteenth Master gave Su Peisheng a look, and Su Peisheng immediately said that he had accepted it: the little eunuch would carry the Eighth Master along the most secluded path until he was carried out of the palace.

Of course Ba Ye understood, he lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, looked at Prince Yi with a smile and said, "Thirteen, you are really the emperor's good brother."

The Thirteenth Master smiled brightly at him: "Myna, I'm honored. We are all younger brothers, but we are all courtiers. Huang Ama taught loyalty to the emperor, and I dare not forget it for a day."

Hearing this, Ba Ye did not continue to chat with him, but smiled a little weakly, and rubbed his forehead: "I feel like I have a heat stroke..."

Thirteen immediately waved his hands: "Hurry up, send Prince Lian out of the palace." Send this great god away quickly, he can't stand such a high-ranking patient.