Dressed as Su Peisheng

Kangxi 42 years

Gyeongin Palace

In the empty palace room, the huge incense burner ignited wisps of smoke, and at dusk, the room was already dark.

A figure in a white robe followed Liang Jiugong into the main hall, "I greet Huang Ama," Yinfeng knelt down.

In the middle of the room, one person sat alone on the dragon chair. After a moment of silence, he said in a hoarse voice, "Get up, stand a little further, I can't see you clearly..."

"Yes," Yinfeng took two steps forward, Liang Jiugong slightly opened the side window, and a ray of light lay between the two of them.

"The deceased is dead, please take care of the dragon's body," Yinfeng said with his head bowed.

Lord Kangxi sighed, and raised his eyes to look into the distance, "Prince Yu is my elder brother. He has been close to me since childhood and has been with him for many years. Now that he is leaving, I am really sad."

"My condolences to Huang Ama," Yinfeng bowed, "Brotherhood is precious, and the friendship between monarchs and ministers is rare. The relationship between Huang Ama and the emperor's uncle is enviable. I think Prince Yu Xideng Jiyue will also be the emperor. Father prays."

Hearing the words, Lord Kangxi narrowed his eyes slightly, and leaned back on the chair, "The late emperor passed away early, and I don't have many brothers, you are still blessed..."

Yinreng pursed the corners of his lips, and spoke with a sense of desolation, "Brothers depend on Huang Ama's well-being. It's just that my son has been with the emperor's father since he was a child, and he has always been estranged from his younger brothers. During these days of recuperating in Yuqing Palace , only Yinzhen handed over a post to greet him, feeling somewhat disappointed... My son still remembers that Huang Ama bestowed on his uncle the "Old Picture of Tong Tong", implying that brothers grow old together. At that time, my son was next to me, and I really envy him. Now that my son is young I'm not too young, I don't know if there is any brother in this life who would like to grow old with his son..."

"How old are you, why do you speak like an old man in old age?" Master Kangxi tightened his hand on the handle of the dragon.

"It's my son's fault." Yinreng glanced at Lord Kangxi, and hurriedly lowered his body, "My son came to persuade Huang Ama to mourn, but he said that some of these things made Huang Ama worry about it, so please ask Huang Ama Forgive me."

Lord Kangxi shook his head lightly, "You and my father and son haven't talked properly for a long time, what's the fault? Renxiao left early, leaving behind you as a baby. I am responsible for state affairs, and no matter how hard I try, I will inevitably be negligent. You grew up alone in the huge palace, now that you think about it, it's hard for you..."

"Huang Ama..." Yinreng raised his head, his eyes filled with tears, and after a while, he knelt down and walked to the side of Lord Kangxi, "Huang Ama, Bao Cheng is guilty, Bao Cheng is cowardly, I am afraid that I have failed Huang Ama." After more than [-] years of careful teaching by Ma, Huang Ama, please let me go..."

"Baocheng," Lord Kangxi was a little astonished, looking at the crown prince who was crying like a child in front of him. The first son was born many years ago, established the reserve position, announced to the world, and the scenes of offering sacrifices to the Taimiao appeared before his eyes again, "Baocheng, My son..." Lord Kangxi stretched out his hand and hugged Yinrong to his front.

"Huang Ama," Yinreng lay on Lord Kangxi's lap, weeping and sobbing, "my son is scared, really scared..."

"Don't be afraid, Baocheng is not afraid, I'm here," Lord Kangxi patted Yinreng's back, time seems to have returned to 25 years ago, Yinreng, who was nearly five years old, had acne and a high fever, and there were San Francisco in the hall The young Lord Kangxi held his son in his arms all night, comforting and taking care of him, while correcting the memorials.

When the moon was in the sky, Yinfeng came out of Jingren Palace. Liang Jiugong personally lit a lantern and sent the crown prince all the way to the gate of Jingren Palace.

"Thank you, Eunuch Liang," said Xiao Chuzi, who had been waiting at the door early in the morning, and took the lantern.

"Don't dare, dare not, the prince, go slowly," Liang Jiugong lowered his body, burying his expression in the shadow.

"Serve Huang Ama well," Yinfeng said with a hoarse voice.

"Yes, rest assured, Your Highness," Liang Jiugong leaned over, "Respectfully send the prince off..."

A group of people went down the steps, Xiao Chuzi put a cloak on the prince, "Your Highness, it's a bit cold tonight."

"Really?" Yinfeng raised his head to look at the night sky, his weeping and terrified eyes were now calm like a deep pool of stagnant water, "Maybe it will be a good weather tomorrow..."

Prince Yu's funeral was held, and several adult princes who built the mansion all wore filial piety to attend the funeral. The Empress Dowager and Lord Kangxi visited Prince Yu's mansion in person, and all the officials mourned during the mourning.The prince who had lived in the deep palace for a long time finally showed up, but he was thin and pale, and he was very similar to the overly sad Lord Kangxi.

During the intermission of the funeral, the prince went to rest alone in the inner court.Su Wei brought tea to the fourth elder brother and told him that he saw the eldest elder brother go to the inner court just now.The fourth elder brother thought for a moment, got up and followed.

"Second brother is not in good health, so I should take care of him more, and to go out of the palace so bravely, just to make Huang Ama worry..." King Zhijun stood by the stone table with his hands behind his back, looking at the half-withered old pine tree not far away. , leaving only a back view for others.

"What the elder brother taught me is," the prince put on a cloak, sat on the stone bench, and coughed softly twice, "seeing the heat getting stronger, my younger brother always feels that the air is piercingly cold, and there is no cold wind. It's time to come out...but, after all, Prince Yu is our real uncle, and we will always give him a gift on this last journey."

King Zhijun chuckled, and turned around slowly, "The dead are the most important. It is said that the second brother's filial piety is good. But I heard that when the emperor's uncle helped the old man to renovate the Dongyue Temple, the second brother was quite critical." , even embarrassing Prince Yu face to face. Thinking about it now, the emperor's uncle passed away, and he probably wouldn't be very willing to see his second brother come to see him off..."

The fourth elder brother and Su Wei, who walked not far away, were taken aback when they heard the elder brother's words.

The fourth elder brother paused, then walked towards the courtyard again, bowed to the prince and said, "My brother greets His Highness the prince."

"Xinzhen doesn't need to be too polite," the prince's eyes were a little dazed, and he turned his head and smiled at the fourth elder brother, "You are tired too, come and have a cup of tea."

"Yes," the fourth elder brother straightened up, and slightly bowed his hands to the eldest elder brother, "I have met the king of Zhijun."

"Fourth brother, you're being polite," the elder brother lowered his head and rolled up his sleeves, "You can sit with the prince, I'm going ahead..."

The funeral on the first day went into the evening, Su Wei stood with the fourth elder brother for a whole day, his legs trembling a little, and finally reached the gate of the palace, but was stopped by the third elder brother again.

"I thought the fourth brother would be sick at home." The third elder brother waved his fan and curled the corners of his mouth. "Now it seems that the fourth brother looks quite good."

Su Wei secretly rolled his eyes, and stretched out his hands to straighten the hem of the fourth elder brother's clothes. In fact, he was tired and wanted to find something to rest for a while.

The fourth elder brother is not in a good mood today, when he picked the third elder brother, he also wanted him to stay away from the battle and not block Huang Ama's way.Now that Suo'etu was arrested, there was no movement in the East Palace for a while, and he didn't want to mention Xu Menglei's matter again, but the third elder brother would not let him go.

"I'm sorry, third brother is concerned," fourth elder brother turned cold, "if it wasn't for third elder brother's politeness—" just as the choking words came to his lips, fourth elder brother suddenly felt a pulling force behind him, turned his head slightly, and saw their family Eunuch Su squatted behind him, tugging at the hem of his clothes left and right, with an expression of "I'm busy, don't bother me".

"I still have something to do in my younger brother's house, so I won't catch up with my third brother today, so I'm leaving," the fourth elder brother cupped his hands slightly, ignoring the third elder brother's surprise, turned around and dragged his tail away.

Prince Yu went to the funeral, and Lord Kangxi grieved for a few days, and finally resumed his political affairs.At this time, the most important thing discussed by the ministers in the court is to eliminate Suo'etu's party members and find out Suo'etu's crimes.

"Report to Your Majesty," Nalan Kuixu bowed and said, "Suo'etu formed a party and acted recklessly. He has a lot of influence in Beijing. Except for Ekuli, Wendai, Shao Gan and others, I found out that the minister of Guanglu Temple Fu Kang'an, Minister of Rites Zhou Jin and others also often travel to and from Suo Xiangfu."

"Your Majesty, Suo'etu's influence in the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia should not be underestimated," Wang Hongxu, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, stepped forward and said, "Achang'a, the governor of the Manchuria with the red banner, and Bugeju, the deputy governor of the Mongolian capital of the Zhenghong Banner, used to be in Suoetu. Walk under the door."

"Your Majesty, I also have the opportunity to play..."

Lord Kangxi sat high on the throne, his expression was unclear, the princes were quite calm, but the fourth elder brother looked at His Royal Highness the prince who was in charge of the government from time to time, with mixed emotions in his heart.

"Your Majesty," Zhang Yushu, a scholar of the Wenhua Palace and the Minister of the Household Department, stepped forward, "I think that dealing with Suo'etu's party members should not be rushed. Suo'etu has been in the court for more than [-] years, and the clansmen who have worked with and interacted with him The ministers are afraid that there are as many sands in the Ganges River, if we want to investigate and deal with them one by one, it will definitely shake the foundation of our dynasty."

"Zhang Qing's words are reasonable," Kangxi turned to look at Tong Guowei and said, "What does Mr. Tong think?"

"Report to the emperor," Tong Guowei bowed his body slowly, "The old minister thinks that Suo'etu's crimes should be sorted out first, the ministers involved in the incident should be found out, and then punished according to the crimes. As for those who usually have contacts , As long as it is within the scope of human feelings, if you make your own statement, you can not be held accountable. It also saves you a lot of investigation, killing one thousand enemies, and self-defeating eight hundred."

"Well," Lord Kangxi nodded, "this method won my heart. I didn't want to get too involved in the case of Suo'etu at the beginning, and it is the same now. As long as all the ministers understand the righteousness, they will not fight with Suo'etu. I will not pursue any conspiracy or human relationship. As for the investigation of Suo'etu's crime—"

"Huang Ama," the king of Zhijun took a step forward, the fourth elder brother tightened his body, and looked at the eldest brother's back, "I am willing to share the worries of Huang Ama, find out the crimes committed by Suo'etu, and wipe out the relevant gangsters." .”

Among the ministers, Nalan Mingzhu, who had been silent all this time, secretly shook his head.

"It's great that big brother has such a heart." Kangxi said indifferently, "It's just that in a few days, since I'm going to go on a northern tour outside the Great Wall, you have to go with me. The Suo'etu matter should be dealt with after I return to Beijing." For good."

There was a moment of silence in the hall, and the fourth elder brother breathed a sigh of relief slowly.

After several days of constant verbal confrontation, with the imminent departure of Lord Kangxi's northern tour, he finally calmed down temporarily.

During this tour outside the Great Wall, the crown prince, elder brother, thirteenth elder brother, fourteenth elder brother, fifteenth elder brother, and sixteenth elder brother accompanied the prince.This is the first time for such an accompanying team.

Although he was a little worried about his master's failure in the election, on the whole, Eunuch Su was more happy than disappointed that he was able to stay at home safely after the three-month southern tour.

However, what Su Wei didn't know was that after this year, their fourth master had never been to Saibei in his whole life.

It was hot in July, and the capital was getting hotter and hotter. Fourth master stayed behind and couldn't relax completely.

Before the fourteenth elder brother left, he specially went to his brother's mansion to give instructions, and handed over the two pregnant women who were expecting to give birth to his elder brother.Brother Ren's face was as cold as ice, Master Fourteen took it for granted, hummed a little tune and galloped away.

Gege Guerjia of the thirteenth elder brother and Gege Shujue Luo of the fourteenth elder brother were pregnant successively. Counting the days, Shu Shujue Luo would get September, but Guarjia would give birth immediately.The fourth elder brother sent someone to consult the noble concubine and the concubine De, let Fujin and Li Shi enter the palace to take care of them, and also specially instructed the imperial hospital, the midwife and medicinal materials were all ready early in the morning.Guarjia's family was also doing well, without any mistakes, and gave birth to a baby girl on the ninth day of August.

The fourth elder brother personally wrote a letter to the thirteenth elder brother to announce the good news. Su Wei watched the words like "My younger brother is happy to receive a daughter, and my brother is so happy that he burst into tears", and his skin became numb.

The summer in the capital has always been difficult, but this year's summer seems to be particularly hot. Before August, the sky seems to be on fire.Eunuch Su slept with his arms around ice cubes almost every day, and several times he kicked the fourth elder brother far away who was leaning over in his sleep with a look of disgust.

Seeing that August is going to be even more difficult, the fourth elder brother decided to move his family to Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing to escape the summer heat. The mansion and Zhuangzi began to prepare. Honghui elder brother and the two little Gege were also very excited, but they didn't want to leave before leaving. One day something went wrong.

The chief consultant of the Respect Room passed down the imperial decree from generation to generation, bestowing the four-rank dignified Lingzhu daughter Niu Hulu on the residence of the fourth son of the emperor, Yinzhen.

It should be said that apart from Shiyue, all the princesses in the backyard of the fourth elder brother belonged to the emperor to the fourth elder brother, but it was the first time that such an imperial edict was bestowed on him.

The consultant was about to hand the imperial decree to the fourth elder brother, and immediately recovered his easy-going face. He bent down and said to the fourth elder brother who got up, "The emperor heard that the thirteenth master had a daughter, and he is thinking about you. It's not a delay. I also ordered that the Niu Hulu family has been drafted for a while, so you can be accepted to the mansion as soon as possible, so that you can have a son and a half daughter as soon as possible, so that the emperor can feel at ease."

The fourth elder brother pursed his lips lightly, and nodded, "I've made Huang Ama worry about it, and there is also Mr. Gu who has traveled all the way here."

"Don't dare, don't dare," the advisor bowed his head slightly, but raised his head again and said, "I'm taking the liberty to come all the way on horseback. I'm very thirsty. I really want to ask Sibeile for a bowl of tea."

The fourth elder brother was taken aback for a moment, then nodded, "It should."

Su Wei was still a little dazed, he was poked by Xiao Yingzi from behind before he realized it, he hurried forward and said, "Mr. Gu, please!"

"Ouch, Eunuch Su, we haven't seen each other for many years..." Consultant Xing smiled.

Su Wei was a little embarrassed, "Thanks to Mr. Gu for taking care of me back then, I never had the chance to repay you properly."

"It's just a little effort, what's the repayment?" The consultant said casually, and followed Su Wei and the fourth brother all the way into the East Courtyard.

Seeing that everyone else dispersed at the gate of the courtyard, only the fourth elder brother and Su Peisheng were left, the consultant line stopped, suppressed the smile on his face, stood up straight and said, "The fourth son of the emperor, Dorobeile Yinzhen, Accept my emperor's secret decree!"

Su Wei panicked and knelt down with the fourth elder brother, and the consultant took out a roll of yellow silk from his sleeve, "...before, because of Suo'er's plan, I was uneasy... Now, Si Bei Le Yinzhen will secretly interrogate Suo'er Tu family, find out about the people and things involved, and report to me..."

After the advisor issued the imperial decree, he helped the fourth elder brother up, and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty has a heavy responsibility, the fourth master must complete it, and don't disturb others."

The fourth elder brother nodded, and the consultant bowed down to leave.

Su Wei sent Mr. Gu out of the house in a daze. The successive changes made him a little confused, and he also felt something strange for no reason, but he couldn't think of anything strange for a while.When the consultant was sent to the door, Manager Gu turned around and patted Su Wei on the shoulder and said, "Little Suzi, being a slave is the same as being a human being. Duty and love are indispensable. No matter what you do today, It's really inappropriate. However, Eunuch Gu would like to remind you that people value self-examination, even if they walk on a broad road, they should always check whether there are cliffs or traps in front of them."

Su Wei was taken aback, then slowly lowered his head, "Thank you, Eunuch Gu, for your suggestion."

Consultant Xing smiled, "You're a smart one...stay here, our family will go first."

Su Wei raised his head and watched the back of Consultant Xing leave. The strangeness in his mind, together with the words of Consultant Xing, finally exploded like a thunderbolt in the clear sky—since it was the secret decree of Emperor Kangxi, why didn't he avoid him? A eunuch?