Fortune Orb [Qing]

At the end of February, Yinzhen moved.

Baozhu got busy half a month in advance, so she had a lot to make up her mind about.She didn't bother, she arranged everything properly, carefully counted the dowry and the valuables, and brought all the maidservants, servants, and maids to use, and took the opportunity to remove the ones that were worrying.

The palace is a little big, and there are not too many people serving, even if they are all taken away, it is still not enough to handle, and some extra must be added.Simply because there are few people in the backyard of Yinzhen, apart from Baozhu, there are only two Gege, both of whom are grounded all the year round. The more troublesome thing is the little elder brother, because Baozhu personally breastfeeds, the nannies prepared earlier are useless, so all of them are given away. Gone, on weekdays are looked after by two nuns.

Baozhu's dowry mother is one of them, and the person Yifei sent to take care of her after she became pregnant. After thinking about it, she thinks it's better to add another one, so that the three sons can correspond to one person, which looks more refined and convenient. Rewards and punishments.Baozhu talked to Yinzhen, and then went to Yikun Palace to beg Erniang, Yifei wanted to kick her out after hearing her words: "There are only a few people who are in line with Erniang, how can I reward you all? Instead, go to the Queen Mother and cry, or ask Yinzhen to ask the Emperor to take a look, how can I make Emiang worry about everything?"

Hearing these words, Baozhu still didn't give up, she glanced at the round-faced nanny next to her several times, Yifei made her amused, and said she was going to kick him out with a stick, and told Baozhu to go to the Palace of Compassion and Peace.

For the son, go and go.

She went to make a fuss with the Empress Dowager, pretending to be pitiful and coquettish, saying that she might be busy for a while after leaving the palace, lest she neglect the three younger ones, and make the Empress Dowager take pity on her.

The queen mother joked: "It's a big deal for Ai's family. It's okay to be short of manpower. Ask Zhong Nanny to go with you, and send it back to Ai's family when the work is done."

This Nanny Zhong was not married to the Empress Dowager, but was made up by the Ministry of Internal Affairs after entering the palace. She is a thoughtful and law-abiding person.Even if she wasn't the most respectable one in front of the Empress Dowager, she was also the most down-to-earth and willing to work. She never spoke much and did things very safely.

It would be nice to be able to take Nanny Zhong back, but if I want to return it, how can it be done?

"Huang Mama, you love me the most, so just give me Zhongmao, and why do you send it back?"

The queen mother looked at her amusedly: "How old is he? He's still acting coquettish."

"If you don't agree with your granddaughter-in-law, you will bring Ayuan, Aman, and Ashou to trouble you, and you will tell them to go back after you agree."

The Queen Mother reached out and tapped her forehead: "You! They are both forehead mothers, and you still have such a delicate temper."

Hearing these words, Baozhu was very proud: "Before getting married, there was Amah Erniang who was hurt, then our father was hurt, and then Erniang and Huang Mama were hurt! It's because you got used to it!"

The Empress Dowager wanted to laugh when she saw her, and she couldn't stop smiling when she heard her talking. Whenever Baozhu came to the Palace of Compassion and Peace, she would be happy, and she could eat more food, and the good mood could last for a long time.

For example, now, seeing her deliberately acting arrogant, the Queen Mother wanted to love her more, so she hugged her arm and said lovingly: "You are smart, and your life is prosperous, unlike them who can't see clearly and scheming all day long." It's positive to come to pay respects to Ai's family, but I don't want to see them at all. This person, once he is blinded by power, even if he wins the battle, he will not be able to live a peaceful life. Calculating for a lifetime will only make you live a bad life , can't sleep well at night, what's the use?"

Empress Dowager Renxian lived in the harem for decades, even if she still had obsessions in her early years, she let go of them after a long time, and there is nothing that cannot be seen through.

There are few concubines in the harem who can please her. As for the granddaughter-in-law, she only prefers Baozhu. She often tells the emperor that Lao Jiu Fujin is a rare pure person, like a clear pond, which is comfortable to look at.He also said that earlier, he was afraid that he would make a mistake in ordering the mandarin ducks, but now it seems that there are indeed some people who have entered the big dyeing vat and can come out clean, which is really cheap.

After chatting for a while, the queen mother asked Baozhu to take Nanny Zhong back. Before leaving, she also asked Nanny Zhong to take good care of the little elder brother.

Nanny Zhong knelt down and kowtowed to the Queen Mother to reassure her, and then walked out of the Palace of Compassion and Ning with Baozhu.

For more than 40 years, I thought I would live like this for the rest of my life, but I never thought I could change places.

Serving the Empress Dowager is very good, and following Jiufu Jin is also a great blessing. She has seen many things in the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and knows that Baozhu is a kind master.

There are few things in this palace that Kangxi doesn't know. Hearing that the old Jiufu Jin asked the Queen Mother to beg Nanny Zhong, Kangxi said in his heart that the Queen Mother really loved her.After thinking about it, among so many princes and Fujins, the Fucha family is exceptionally different, it is indeed painful.

After the big marriage, Yinzhen also changed a lot. She naturally cared about the dispatch from the Ministry of Industry. Other than that, she didn't get involved in other things. She only circled around Fujin's son, and she had quite a lot of dealings with her brothers. .

It's just that the love between children has grown a little bit, but it doesn't matter.

Kangxi had high hopes for the crown prince, as long as his son can do practical things, it is not good if his ambition is too high, but it is good for Yinzhen to do so, and he can rest assured that he can do whatever he arranges.

Hearing the Empress Dowager praise Lao Jiufu Jin, Kangxi also echoed it twice, and the Empress Dowager said that she was full of reluctance to let her leave the palace. After moving out, it would not be so easy to come to the Palace of Compassion and Peace. She will always come over, unlike those careless ones, no matter how close they are, they will never see her stepping over the threshold.

That's right, the queen mother is happy now.

Kangxi counted the days and said that Concubine Shuhui would soon return to the palace, and she hadn't seen Laojiu Fujin yet.

Concubine Shuhui is also from Horqin, and she is the sister of Empress Dowager Renxian, so she naturally has deep feelings.That is, in the first month of the first year, the concubine was in poor health, and the concubines in the harem rushed to pay her respects, which annoyed her and said that she would move to the imperial courtyard to recuperate.The empress dowager was reluctant, the concubine was afraid of getting sick, so she insisted, and she left the palace in February.

The concubine had been raised earlier, she said she was eating fast and reciting Buddha's name, and she would go back to the palace after she had finished her recitation, this has been delayed for a whole year, and finally something happened recently.

When Kangxi mentioned this, the Empress Dowager laughed and said, "I must tell her to take a good look at the old Jiu Fujin, the old ten Fujin is also very likable."

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After coming out of the Compassionate Palace, Baozhu became more and more busy. She had been preparing for quite a long time, but on the day she left the palace, she had nothing to do. She just went to greet Kangxi and concubine Yi, and when the time came, she followed Yinzhen out of the palace. Door.

Although all the older brothers had long been looking forward to making trouble with him, Yinzhen did not intend to have a banquet that day. He planned to take Baozhu around first to see if she liked it, and then choose a day to clean up the two tables and invite the brothers to have a feast. government.

It is a big event for the prince to go out of the palace to build a mansion, but it is not as lively as getting married, and the whole journey is full of gongs and drums.Gain brought three sons, Baozhu didn't sit in the sedan chair, she and the mother were in the same carriage, Yinzhen was not in it, after he helped Baozhu into the carriage, he rode on the tall horse.

There was enough movement on this road, and there were quite a few people watching the excitement on the street. After all, the sons could not sleep calmly in this environment. They all turned their heads and looked at the place where the movement came from. What?The three little ancestors looked at Baozhu at the same time, and said "ahhh" twice.

Ah Shou again made a fuss about rushing towards Baozhu, Baozhu knew that the boy was delicate, so she asked the nanny to hug him, and after hugging him, she kissed his chubby face, Ah Shou grinned.

A-Man looked at his third brother with disgust, while A-Yuan let the drum music attract her attention, and flung herself in Mammy's arms.

Going out of the palace gate to Iron Lion Alley, I didn't walk for too long, when the carriage stopped and the carriage door opened, the three nuns went down one by one, and finally Yinzhen helped Baozhu down.After she stood firmly, she saw the plaque in front of her. The gold letters on the black background were very impressive, and there were quite a few people around to join in the fun.

Yinzhen asked Zhao Baifu to set off a few firecrackers, and Baozhu also ordered Feng Quan to give out some candy to those who came to watch the fun.

After going through a few more procedures, she was able to look at her own mansion. The front yard is decent and grand, nothing unusual, but the back is full of holes.

Before taking Baozhu to Zhuyu Pavilion, Yinzhen first asked someone to take the two concubines to Tinglan Courtyard, and told them to stay in peace, and if there was anything missing, send someone to tell Feng Quan, and don't come out for a walk if there is nothing wrong.It means that as long as there is no trouble, the ban will be lifted.

Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Lang are happy, finally they don't have to chant Buddhist scriptures every day, the previous year was so miserable that they don't know who to blame.

Blame Fujin for being intolerant?Or blame Ba Fujin for doing nothing to implicate them?Or blame the Lord for being ruthless?

In the first few days of confinement, the two of them were arguing every day. After a long period of confinement, they became more calm. No one knew what they were thinking in their hearts. They seemed to be obedient.

When they were far away, Yinzhen said: "Tinglan Courtyard is located in a remote location, no matter how noisy they are, they can't disturb Fujin, and it doesn't matter if they make a lot of noise and close it."

Baozhu nodded, not wanting to talk about the two concubines, so she asked Yinzhen to lead the way, saying that she wanted to take a good look at the main courtyard.

The name of the main courtyard is Zhuyu Pavilion, and the plaque was inscribed by Yinzhen himself. This is a spacious and magnificent secondary courtyard.The front one is slightly smaller and is mainly used for entertaining guests. The Baozhu house is in the back. There is a vigorous pomegranate tree in the yard with a tall trunk and luxuriant branches. There is a wooden swing under the pomegranate tree. With a backrest, two people can sit side by side.

Baozhu was overjoyed when she saw it, and thought that if she pushed it higher, she could pick pomegranates and eat them while sitting down.

How could Yinzhen fail to see what she meant?

Laughed right away.

"I heard that the fruit of this pomegranate tree is mediocre, but it is very good at blooming. The craftsmen below asked me if I would keep it, or flatten the one beside it... I thought that this yard was changed to Zhuyu Pavilion, and the pomegranate flowers were sunburnt. Lie Ruhuo matches the name, so I stayed."

Asking him to say this, Baozhu couldn't wait to see the durian blossoms in full bloom, and said happily: "If it can bear fruit, it will be successful. If we raise it carefully, it will always change its taste."

After looking at the yard, she followed up the steps and entered the wing room.

As soon as I entered, I saw the blood emerald bead curtain as a partition. There was a couch outside, covered with soft fur. On the couch was a kang table, a low cabinet, and several ornaments.The floor was covered with woolen carpets from a small country, with auspicious patterns and festive colors. There were also clocks and incense burners after a rough sweep. The pearl curtains attracted all the attention, and they didn't look carefully at anything beside them.

Looking at it from a distance, it is breathtaking, but when you look closer, it is even more scorching like fire, shining like the sunset.

She stretched out her hand to touch it, and when she had seen enough, she opened it and went into the inner room. The furnishings inside were all treasures, and they were all made according to her liking. Yinzhen took everything into consideration, and couldn't pick out even the slightest thorn. Just like it, just like it.

Baozhu watched from the front, and Yinzhen followed silently, watching her touch in front of the dressing table, and then sat down on the Huaxinger chair.This is an invention of foreigners. It is said that springs are added to the chair and then lined with cushions. The whole chair is stretched with fabric with repeated patterns, and some are lined with cowhide. Look at it, and it is comfortable to sit on.

Hearing someone mention it earlier, Yinzhen inquired carefully, and heard that most of the chairs are single-seater, and he even asked someone to make a double-seater one.

While listening to him, Baozhu stretched out her hand to draw the man over and told him to sit down too.

"What's a spring?"

Yinzhen has it in the clock outside her house, you can make it retract when you apply force, and it will spring back when you release it.But the small one in the clock, the big one in the chair.

Baozhu asked him again: "Why is there no such comfortable chair in the palace?"

Yinzhen put his arms around her waist and said, "I'm afraid it hasn't been passed on yet. I just heard about it by accident and took a lot of effort to get it. After reading it, I can see what's going on. I ordered someone to give it away later." It is not difficult to enter the palace."

Just as he was talking, he heard his son's ahhh, he was called by the decorations in the room to attract him, and he forgot him outside, but he was asked by the mother to hold him, and the mother did not dare to follow without the master's permission.

Baozhu quickly stood up and went out to meet her. Before she could stretch out her hand, she asked Yinzhen to hug the brat and patted her buttocks.

"It's really a living ancestor. If you can't lose it, you will make trouble in a blink of an eye."

As if knowing that she was being teased, Ah Yuan stared and turned around to look for the orb.

Yinzhen was even more displeased, and pinched the tip of his nose with her hand, and said, "I told you to make a fuss, and when you can walk and run, pack up the bedding and move around, don't be an eyesore in front of me, Fujin."

Baozhu glared at him, stretched out her hand to take A Yuan over, coaxed her in a low voice, and then asked, "Master also prepared a courtyard for our son? Call it Siyouju? For reconciliation?"

Yinzhen said it was taken from Mencius.

Everyone has the heart of compassion; everyone has the heart of shame; everyone has the heart of respect; everyone has the heart of right and wrong.The heart of compassion is benevolence; the heart of shame is righteousness; the heart of respect is propriety; the heart of right and wrong is wisdom. '

The four haves are benevolence, righteousness, propriety and wisdom, the foundation of being a human being.

Baozhu almost fainted after listening to him read a long passage, but Yinzhen didn't think it was enough, saying that he had set up a study room and named it Mingde Courtyard.This is taken from the opening chapter of "University", the way of the university, in Ming Mingde.

Yinzhen feels particularly good about herself, and thinks that the ability to choose a name is much better than that of other families. The brothers also have a branch of Zhaomei, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum, and they are not too old-fashioned.

Baozhu listened to him enough to show off, and said to herself that the Four Gentlemen's Courtyard is also good, and being able to live in it is a commendation of noble character.She didn't say a word, and even boasted a few words along the way: "Where is the master's name? It is clear that he can do anything. My husband is both civil and military. He can draw a pen and draw a bow as well as shoot a vulture!"

There is really no more sincere compliment than this, and Yinzhen felt very comfortable listening to it. He sat aside and watched Baozhu tease Ah Yuan, and joked, "I didn't expect my master to be so tall and stalwart in Fujin's heart."

The three little ones were still alive just now, but after a while they couldn't keep their eyes open, and they all dozed off. Just then Baozhu saw that there was a small bed in the middle, so she walked inside with her arms, and asked the mother to come in too.After arranging her sons and covering them with a quilt, she had only had two sips of tea when Yinzhen asked her if she wanted to go around the garden.

Before they could have a good time shopping, Feng Quan came to report that there was a housewarming gift.Yinzhen said earlier that he will entertain guests later, all elder brothers have the same plan, they will come to the door empty-handed, and today they will deliver the gifts first, how many people are staring at them, how can they come to the door without any gifts?

Yinzhen asked who had come, and Feng Quan replied: "The crown prince came first, and then the chief stewards from various mansions came over one after another. Chief Zhao is waiting for the guests, so he asked the servant to report to the Lord."

Yinzhen made him retreat, what to do.

Since it's not the master, just ask Zhao Baifu to register and put it in the warehouse.

After making arrangements, he saw that Feng Quan had retreated, so he took Baozhu and said that he was going to go for a walk, and told the three nuns to watch over Brother Gu carefully, so that others should do what they should do, and they don't need to follow.

The Jiubeile Mansion that Yinzhen oversaw to rebuild is very different, you can't see it in the house, that is, it is more elaborately furnished, and there are some foreign gadgets that are easy to see.From the main courtyard, there is a red maple road that extends all the way to the landscape lake.

Yinzhen turned around and found that the house had been idle for a long time, but the water in the pool was clean and clean.He asked the craftsman to look carefully and found that it turned out to be a pool of running water coming down from the ground.Yinzhen made a decisive decision, moved all the flowers and plants in the garden to the Zhuangzi, and turned the tired garden into a landscape lake. A winding corridor was built on the surface of the lake, connecting several glazed tile four-corner pavilions, large and small.

He thought about raising fish and shrimps in the lake, and fishing in leisure time is also interesting, like lotus flowers, there are no lotuses at all.After the plan was drawn up, it looked a little bald no matter how you looked at it, so I wanted to plant a circle of trees around the scenic lake, extending all the way to Zhuyu Pavilion directly, so it would be convenient for Fujin to go out for a walk.

It is the tree that should be planted, but what kind of tree should be planted?

Yinzhen first said the request, that there must be something worth seeing in all seasons.

Originally, the craftsman wanted to suggest that the ginkgo biloba should be rooted and moved from the outside, and there is no need for new species.But ginkgo will lose its leaves. It’s only in autumn that it looks good. In winter, it’s all bald. What’s there to see in a bare tree?

Some people say that the maple tree, this one is also good, the maple leaves are burning like fire, planting a red maple road, and even a red maple lake, it is beautiful to think about.

This picture is beautiful, isn't the maple tree about to lose its leaves?

The craftsmen were worried for two days before they found out.In the past, when the imperial court was at war with Tsarist Russia, some ministers went north for peace talks, saying that the maple trees on the other side are hardy, and the snowflakes fall on them in winter.I really don't know if this statement is true, Yinzhen asked the foreigners in the capital to inquire, and they said that there were, he dug a hole and reported the number, asked the foreign merchants to find it, and exchanged it with porcelain tea.

These foreigners are engaged in similar business. The price of pocket clocks and pocket watches in the West is still reasonable, but in the Qing Dynasty it was ridiculously high.The same principle applies to porcelain tea leaves, which are bought at local prices and sold at exorbitant prices when sailing out to sea.

In the early years, Yinzhen was in a coma with a high fever due to an ear infection. At that time, he was in a critical condition and was rescued by Italian missionaries. Since then, he has been very interested in Western things, and has contacts with missionaries and foreign businessmen.When we get closer, many things will be easier to handle.

There is no way for Yinzhen to look for some things by himself, and he can find anything he wants from foreign merchants, as long as the price is right.

It's true that these foreigners are going to sea for profit, and they also know who can and can't be cheated.

Yinzhen asked them to root up the hardy maple trees and send them to the capital wrapped in mud. The quantity he wanted was quite a lot, so he didn't have much hope at first, so he thought of other countermeasures.But if it is for profit, nothing is impossible. Foreigners got things to the Qing Dynasty a few months ago. Yinzhen has just been dispatched for a short time, and there are not many people who can use it. I still call my brother-in-law Chen Taidi In other words, I asked my father-in-law to help, so that the idle children of the family went to escort Fengshu to Beijing, and directly took him to Jiubeile Mansion.

The maple tree itself is not unusual, but the varieties that can be easily found are either evergreen all year round or not hardy.This kind of winter can also face the wind and snow, this is the first time he has seen it.

Seeing the maple trees being sent to Jiubeile's mansion one by one, others felt that Master Jiu's taste was really different, and all the flowers and plants were shoveled away and trees were planted.

At that time, it was not too cold, so there was nothing wrong with it, but Baozhu heard about it, thinking about the maple trees, autumn is really beautiful, and today she just opened her eyes.It's the end of February, it's early spring, and it should be the time when the green trees sprout new buds, but my house is full of red.These rooted up transplanted maples are not wobbly, they are growing well and have made their home around the landscaped lake.

Going out from Zhuyu Pavilion to the scenic lake, Baozhu looked amazing and walked comfortably.

This maple tree is not very big. If it grows a few more years to make the trunk thicker, taller and denser, it will look even better.Baozhu couldn't imagine how Yinzhen dug it up, she looked up, and the early spring sunshine was scattered through the maple leaves, which was very comfortable.

Baozhu looked at Yinzhen with bright eyes, and the first day she moved out of the palace, she felt full of heart, and she couldn't imagine how much thought it took.

Yinzhen squeezed the tender hand he was holding, her ears were slightly red, she wanted to tell Baozhu not to look at him with such hot eyes, but she was also full of pride, her mansion was neither the largest nor the most luxurious among her brothers , but it is the most exquisite, the most beautiful and the most distinctive.

The gardens of other houses are not worth seeing. They are all rockery, ponds, corridors, arches, and there is a lake pavilion in the backyard where women rush to go.It's not like my own Hongfeng Lake, although it's not very big, there are several pavilions on it, all connected by double arches, well arranged.

You can also take a walk, drink wine and tea, and recite poems and paint pictures in the middle of the lake and go fishing...it's very beautiful just thinking about it.

Baozhu was happy walking on the Red Maple Road, seeing the quiet and clear lake water, she was so moved that she was about to overflow.She let Yinzhen lead her around, the clear lake water was under her feet, and she looked around fiery red, it was very comfortable.

"After I'm done, I'll invite my family to come and have a look. I have to ask my fourth sister-in-law and fifth sister-in-law to join me, so that they all envy me."

Yinzhen sat down in the pavilion. It was early spring, and the stone bench was not covered with leather and it was still a little cold. He spread his legs, asked Baozhu to sit up, put his arms around her, stared at her and said, "I have ordered you to call Liu Shi." Lang's is not allowed to come over, this is specially made for Fujin, as long as Fujin likes it."

Seeing that there was no one around, Baozhu was so bold, she wrapped her arms around Yinzhen's neck, met his eyebrows and eyes, and gently touched the tip of her nose.

Baozhu could feel that Yinzhen's breathing became slow and long, and he was tense.

After having this thought, she shed her embarrassment and smiled a little.

She repeated seriously: "I like it, I like it very much, it's so kind."