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Jia Wu said sorry to everyone, and walked toward the attacker. Attacker whispered in his ear, “Ming Yan said there’s an opera singer looking for you, waiting at the back door of the garden!”

“A playwright?”

Jia Wu is a bit strange, could it be that Jiang Yuxin is here again? Isn’t Yongzheng still going to arrest him? So he said to Tanchun, “I’ll go out for a while and come back.” Along with the attacker went away.

Tanchun a little unhappy, how can you leave before you start making poems? Just to say something, only to see Ying’er ran over and said: “Jenny girl’s brother came to look for her, and said he wanted to see our garden.”

In those days, girls were not supposed to see outsiders. But Jenny was already married to Baoqin, so her brother could be considered a relative. Moreover, she had not yet seen what a foreign man looked like. Thinking of this, Tanchun looked at Baoqin, who nodded, so Tanchun said, “Then invite Jenny’s big brother over.”

Baoqin smiled and said, “Their family name is not Jenny, it’s Fuson. Jenny’s full name is Jennifer Fuson. Fuson, the foreigner’s last name on the back, and we Chinese are not the same.”

Xiang Yun looked at Jenny: “Sister, you must know how to make poems, right?”

Jenny nodded and said, “Yes, I love Chinese poetry. My teacher even praised me for doing it differently!”

The crowd couldn’t help but laugh, the foreign girl was just being honest, she wouldn’t be modest at all.

At that moment, he saw Ying’er approaching with a large Western man, with fiery red hair and a full beard.

Jenny was busy standing up and running over: “Brother, brother.”

The big man took her in his arms: “Little sister, how have you grown taller.”

Jenny pulled the big man to the table: “Sisters, this is my brother Mike.” Mike bowed to the ground: “It’s a pleasure to meet you all.”

Everyone was busy standing up to return the salute. Tangchun saw that Baoyu was not there, and he was the master, so he ordered the little girl to move another sub, looked at Mike with a smile, and reached out his hand to point: “Please sit down.”

Mike had only been in China for a few days, and although he had studied Chinese overseas for a few years, he still didn’t know much about Chinese customs. When he suddenly saw so many beautiful girls, he felt dazzled and his head got big. As soon as he saw Tanchun stretching out his hand, he couldn’t help but pull that hand in, kneel down on one knee, and kiss Tanchun’s hand deeply.

The first time I saw the Marco Polo, I saw the Marco Polo, the Marco Polo, the Marco Polo, and the Marco Polo. The first time I saw him, I was so surprised to see that he was not able to get away with it, but he did not want to go back.

Jenny came over to separate the two men: “Brother, I told you that this is not fashionable in China, so you can’t be as reckless as you were in the West.”

Mike is still gazing at Tangchun: “The body is fast, flying eider, floating like a god, the slightest step, the stockings are dusty.

Can you give me your name, Miss? Who else but you would be the best in the city and the country!”

Tangchun usually always hear people praise Daiyu and Baochai how beautiful, today suddenly someone put themselves above the two of her, can not help but be surprised, happy and shy.

Jenny pressed Mike on the son, said with a smile: “She is the even Tangchun sister, a serious public lady, you do not think nonsense.” And then turned to everyone: “My brother is learning Chinese from an old showman, the speech can be sour!”

Mike’s mouth repeatedly recited: “Tanchun, Tanchun, full of mountains and rivers, empty thoughts of the distant, falling flowers and wind and rain more hurt spring.”

The eyes were still straight on Tanchun.

Tanchun turned her head to try to calm herself down, and said to everyone: “Have you eaten almost all the crabs?

Let’s get started on the poem.”

Yingchun set up the incense burner, Shichun lit a dream sweet incense inserted in it, smiled and said: “As usual, I and the second sister to do the supervision of the community. When this incense burns out, if any of you still can’t make it, you’ll be punished.”

When Jia Wu walked outside the garden, Jiang Yuxin hurried over to salute: “How has the second master been?”

“Good, good,” Jia Wu returned the salute while asking, “Why are you here, doesn’t Prince Yong still need to find you?”

“This is exactly why I came here,” Jiang Yuxin said: “Have you heard of the ‘Divine Thief Zhang Qi’? He is my uncle. Three years ago, he passed from Shichahai, saw a person lying on the side of the road, showing a corner of the red silk in his arms, he took it away. My uncle was a very proud man, but when he thought that he had stolen it from the arms of someone who didn’t know what he was doing, he felt so humiliated that he gave it to me. I saw that it was thin and did not absorb sweat, so I asked someone to add a fabric and made a sweatband. That is, the one given to you.”

“Oh!” Jia Wu grunted, so that’s how the red silk got to him.

“This thing somehow let the Prince of Yong know,” Jiang Yuxin then said: “He told someone to tell my uncle, if the red damask called to him, he will let me off the hook, return my free body.”

“This…” Jia Wu thought to himself, “I don’t want this red silk to fall into Yongzheng’s hands. But he was too embarrassed not to return it to Jiang Yuxin.

Oops, let’s put it off for a while, so I said, “I’ll have to look around and see where the little girls have put it. You come back in a couple days.”

Jia Wu walked back, that dream sweet incense has burned only a quarter of the remaining, rushed to grab a pen and paper, thinking hard. Daiyu came to his ear: “I can be done, not waiting for you.” Jia Wu smiled and said: “good sister, a little wait for me for a while ah, do not tease me panic.”

At that moment, I saw Jenny drop her pen and shouted with a smile, “I’ve done it! I’m done!” Chih Chun took her paper over to Yingchun, said with a smile: “Xiyang sister first to hand in the paper.”

Yingchun took it and read.

Last night the Zhu Lou dream, tonight the water country chanting; island cloud steam sea, arashi gas connected to the jungle; the moon has no present and future, the love affair from the shallow deep; Hanan spring calendar, how can not care.

When the people heard this, they all said, “It is hard for him! He is even stronger than us Chinese.”

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The moon was rising, a mist rose over the water, and a high-pitched flute sounded from afar. An autumn wind blew, and leaves and chrysanthemum petals fell.

Tanchun stretched her back, put her pen down and said, “I’ve got it too.” She handed the scroll to Shichun.

Chichun took over to read: “pounding practice son of the bright moon night, the moon bright mountain, today meet today happy, today drink today drunk, regardless of the wind and rain road three thousand.”

Xiang Yun laughed and attached to Tanshun’s ear, quietly said: “Third girl, you and who ‘meet today today happy’!

What about it? I don’t care if it’s a stormy road, do you want to marry in a foreign country?”

Tangchun’s face flew red and she stepped hard on Xiang Yun’s foot.

Xiang Yun let out an “ouch” and suddenly saw that Dai Yu was whispering with Jia Wu, so she shouted, “Hey, no cheating, no cheating!”

Xichun smiled and snatched the scroll from Daiyu’s hand, reading: “Green jade case cold smoke suddenly rose Xiaoxiang Road, wind full of clothes, flowers full of trees, a song of the pith and song to come where, want to invite the bright moon, the moonlight clear dew, the path is often chasing each other.”

When Jia Wu heard this, he couldn’t help but think of the time when he first came to the Jia House, when he was laughing and chasing with Daiyu in the peach blossom bushes in the evening, and when the evening wind blew, Daiyu’s clothes and belt fluttered, and her body was dotted with falling flowers. The moon followed him, skimming over tree after tree, only to hear Daiyu’s silver-bell-like laughter.

Shichun continued to read: “Rang clothes vegetarian girl angry jade rabbit, things are not the place of hurt, sentimental always by the unattached negative, the soul of the fragrance of a small, who told this love, the fall of countless flowers.”

When we heard the words, “Love is always lost without destiny,” we were all shocked and quieted down, each thinking about their own thoughts.

Who in the world is not affectionate? How many of them are really destined for each other? Jia Wu gently shook his head, listening to my mother often said: the people who love not love, loved not love, is really two love, and family, society, and even sports, war, only tragedy is eternal.

The crowd was silent for a while, suddenly heard someone in the forest sighed and said: “well written is good, just too decadent and miserable, this is also related to the number of people’s qi and have, the will of heaven, the will of heaven ah.”

Everyone followed the voice and saw that it was Miao Yu. Tanchun smiled and said, “I sent someone to invite you a long time ago, why are you only here now?”

Miao Yu also smiled and said: “You just ate a lot of meat, how can I stand, how also have to estimate that you finish eating to come.”

Myrtle met with Jenny and Mike. A small whirlwind leveled the ground, sending falling leaves and flowers all over the sky.

Bao Hairpin said with a smile: “I’m also good,” Xiang Yun pushed her: “I’m better than you first,” said his own read up: “such as the dream order of the moon and the wind in the fall, who is common, after the wine, the eight Immortals returned to the cave, a time will be friends and friends, thousands of miles of sadness heavy! I’m not sure if it’s useful, it’s useless, life is like a dream.”

Daiyu laughed and said, “Yun-ya is really powerful, turning corruption into magic, and grabbing ‘useless’ and using it as well.”

Xiang Yun also laughed: “What’s wrong with that? I’ve heard that the guards of the Yong King’s mansion were so attached to the culture that they even farted…” At this point, she realized that she had gone off on a tangent and sat down with a red face.

Jia Wu secretly laughed in his heart: you do not know, two hundred years later, not only someone used “fart” in poetry, but also afraid that people do not know, want the whole country to learn it!

Baochai stood up and said: “I also have a song, may not be to your liking.” She said and handed it to Shichun.

Shichun read: “Linjiang Xian family banquet in the autumn moonlight night, hate to leave the cinnamon smell, why the country song mess poetry, when the flowers to solve the language, the dream without trace. Or the west wind urges the leaves to fall, I you and his gathering separation, know that the fall with the fate of the points, the wind can borrow strength, the moon does not go out.”

Daiyu nodded and said, “When the flowers are dissolved, the dream is gone without a trace. These two lines are interesting.”

Mya Jade said: “Great knowledge falls with destiny, but Miss Po is a person of wisdom. And…” Myo Yuk’s face suddenly changed.

Baochai strangely went over and took a closer look at her own paper, and was shocked, “Oh my God! How did I write this out.”

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The moonlight shines on Baochai’s roll, and on the snow-white rice paper, the elegant Chinese regular characters are in vertical rows.

But when read horizontally, it becomes a poem with a hidden title: “When will the hatred of the family be over, return me to the Da Shun Dynasty.”

Bao Hairpin was startled, how he unintentionally will be crooked, write out his heart, and hastily snatched his own roll from the hands of Shichun, rubbed it into a ball, and reluctantly smiled and said, “I’m not good at writing, and Gan  has been punished.”

Tang Chun said strangely, “Why not? I think it’s quite good, especially the second half…”

“Brother Bao,” Baochai nonchalantly interrupted the head of Tangchun’s words: “Have you finished writing? The incense is about to burn out.”

“Well, well.” Jia Wu smiled and slammed the pen, Xichun took over and read: “Feel free to make me stand in the cold mountains, looking at the sea and sky a natural piece, the bright moon floating, dry Kun Bi Leak, time flies flow. Don’t wait for the youthful teenagers, wine sacrifice to the sky, all the miles of uncertainty! The water flows eastward, not to return, the lonely boat a leaf, want to throw what side! Watching the waves roll in the giant whale, the clouds through the return of the swallow, the sky and the sea are vast, let the youth. Throw the cup into the sea and fly the golden electricity, the vast song moves across the nine heavens!”

“Good, that’s very impressive! But…” thought Daiyu, “I’ve never heard of a random order.”

Jia Wu smiled and said: “I made it up myself. Ancient people used to fill in their lyrics because they had a score, and then they filled in the lyrics. Now that the scores have been lost, the lyrics are no different than the long and short sentences. Besides, if someone composes the music, I can still sing it!”

“Haha, you troublemaker, making up your own song cards, punish him! Punish him!” Xiang Yun shouted with laughter.

Jia Wu was about to reply when he heard a cacophony of noise in the front yard. Everyone stood up strangely. Only to see Aunt Zhou hurriedly ran over, a snotty nose and tears, a hug Yingchun cried.

Yingchun was so scared that she didn’t know what to do: “Mom, Auntie, what’s wrong?”

Daiyu and Tanchun busy assisted Auntie Zhou to sit down, Auntie Zhou wiped a handful of tears, sniffling said: “Your father, our family grand master, was Shun Tianfu locked away.”

Everyone heard so strange, a small governor, how have so much courage, dare to go to the Rongguo House to take away the hereditary general?

While feeding the parrot, Sister Feng hummed leisurely: “Su San left Hong Tong County and came to the street…”

The parrot flapped its wings and said, “Where is this month’s interest? Why are you late again? I’ll skin you!”

Phoenix and Ping’er couldn’t help but giggle when they heard it.

Ping’er handed Phoenix a hot towel: “Grandma, this thing is a little strange, the stone family sued the Grand Master, that the governor or sent to invite, or sent to pass, how not to use a set of chains on the lock away ah.”

“Hey, hey,” Phoenix sneered, “that’s because I’ve explained to them that we have to fake it, and scare the Grand Master. If not, how could Mrs. Big give us the housekeeper’s key again?”

Ping’er said hesitantly, “After all, he is our father-in-law.”

At this time, suddenly heard Xiao Hong said loudly outside the door: “First Mistress good, please sit inside.”

Phoenix sister heard, busy face full of spring breeze to welcome out: “First Mistress good, today how to have time to come here to sit down?”

Mrs. Xing entered with a gasp and closed the door behind her: “Aiya, Feng Yaou, it’s a big deal, your father-in-law has been locked away by Shuntianfu!”

Phoenix made a look of surprise: “Is there such a thing? A small Shun Tian Fu? It’s really against him, how dare he bully us!”

“Alas, this time the leader is not good ah, I’m afraid that the little governor has someone behind him to poke him!”

“Oh, is there such a thing? Then our family is not something to be messed with!” Phoenix said indignantly.

“Phoenix girl, you have many ways outside, and that governor is your uncle’s protégé, you at least want to think of some ways for him too!” Mrs. Xing said anxiously.

“Alas, according to reason I should also be in charge,” Phoenix made a difficult look: “But I’m a small daughter-in-law family, once I do not manage the house, inside and outside, where all can not say. Not to mention the officials, even the servants in the house don’t take my words seriously.”

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Xing was busy unclipping the keychain from her waist: “Phoenix girl, this family is still in your hands, you should at least think of a way to save your father-in-law.”

Phoenix sighed: “This housekeeping thing is actually a lot of work. Since you trust me so much, and in order to save the eunuch, I’ll have to do it reluctantly.” She said, taking the key from Mrs. Xing’s hand: “Tomorrow I will go with Lian’er to find my uncle.”

“Alas, it would be best if you spoke to the Second Mistress again, so that the Empress can intercede as well.”

“The Queen Mother? Don’t alarm her for such a small matter.” Phoenix said with a smile.

“Not a small matter,” Mrs. Xing lowered her voice: “to lock your father-in-law, there are two Yong Wangfu guards, the ring child has seen them.”

“Really?” Phoenix was flabbergasted: how come Prince Yong also came to get into this mess?

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Wusidao led Jia Yucun into the Yong Wangfu. Jia Yucun apprehensive, he helped the fourteenth brother to engage in reforms are engaged in, look to soar, the cold-faced king and fourteen brother has always been at odds, do not know what is wrong with today to find themselves.

A noble lady walked up to him, accompanied by maids. Wu Sidao was busy going over to salute: “Good day, Fujin.”

Once Jia Yucun heard that it was Prince Yong’s wife, he didn’t dare to be slow, and also went forward to salute: “My humble servant, Jia Yucun, has met Fujin.”

Prince Yong Fujin waved her hand : “That’s all, get up.” She carefully sized up Jia Yucun and asked with a smile : “Are you the Jia Yucun who taught at Lin Ruhai’s house?”

“Yes.” Jia Yucun said respectfully.

“I hear that girl student of yours is pretty smart.”

“Back to Fujin,” Jia Yucun said: “The female student named Lin Daiyu, talent is very high, intelligent, and looks very good,” he peeked at Fujin, how and Lin Daiyu look a little similar to it, and said: “If Fujin wants to adopt a goddaughter, that Lin Daiyu is more than suitable. “If Fujin wants to accept a goddaughter, then Lin Daiyu is more than suitable.”

“Me? Receive a goddaughter?” Fujin was flabbergasted, and could not help but smile: “Good, good idea, I have long wanted to accept a goddaughter,” and turned to Wu Si said: “Old Wu ah, go to the Jia residence to the Lin Daiyu picture to come to me to see, if good we will accept her as a goddaughter.”

Wu Sidao agreed in a loud voice. Fujin thought for a moment and then asked Jia Yucun, “I heard that before you went to the Lin family, a Xiucai was teaching Lin Daiyu’s schoolwork?”

“Yes, that Xiucai’s surname is Lu, I don’t know for what reason he resigned from the pavilion.” Jia Yucun said.

Fujin was just about to say something else, when she saw a little schoolboy run out from inside, saluted Fujin, and said, “His Highness told Master Jia to hurry up and go in!”

Yongzheng leaned back on the kang and waved his hand at Jia Yucun and Wu Sidao: “Sit down.”

The two of them sat down on a small stool, Jia Yucun said unassumingly, “The king called me to come here, I don’t know what instructions?”

Yongzheng haha a smile: “I heard you give the old fourteen out of  strategy, change the law to engage in quite hot.”

Jia Yucun smiled faintly: “That is all due to the Emperor’s good, honorable, great and correct leadership. All the achievements are attributed to the Emperor, to the support of the Sovereign House.”

Yongzheng frowned: “the emperor is affected by the old fourteen of the monumental. The emperor again, can still be bigger than the ancestral family law is not? I put forward four unchanged: the way of the ancestors can not be changed, Confucius and Mencius can not be changed, the leadership of the Manchurian eight banners can not be changed, under the sky is not the king’s land of the state system can not be changed. Have you heard of them?”

“Your Highness,” Jia Yucun raised his head: “Heaven’s ways are unpredictable, and so are current events. Confucius even said ‘honor the king and resist the barbarians’, is not to drive my Qing Dynasty out of the country?”

“Hey, that’s the old dogmatic Confucius and Mencius way,” interjected Wu Sidao: “Our king combined the Confucius and Mencius way and the concrete practice of China, wrote the ‘Da Yi Jue fan discourse’, you haven’t read it, right? You haven’t read it yet, have you?”

Yongzheng made a gesture to stop Wu Si said: “China’s history has never been a good change of law, from the Shang Yang change of law, to Wang Mang change of law, to Wang Anshi change of law, that became? You are not afraid of losing your reputation?”

“We changed the law for the benefit of the people.” Jia Yucun said firmly, “To die for the interests of the people is heavier than Mount Tai.”

“Oh?” Yongzheng slanted a glance at Jia Yucun: “It seems you don’t shed a tear until you see the coffin.”

“Reform the sad song of a song, the wild soars for me from the sky down.” Jia Yucun said: “The top band on my head is the blood of millions of martyrs of the Eight Banners. In order to my Qing dynasty will never change color, my humble servant is to throw his head, sprinkle blood also no longer hesitate.”

“Good, you really will do theater,” Yongzheng sneered: “with the door.”

The guards lifted the curtains and in came a dark, thin man.

Jia Yucun was flabbergasted: “You…”

The man hemmed and hawed, “Master Jia, I’m a doorkeeper, have you forgotten? Of course you acquitted Xue Pan of murder and sent me to Yunnan. It’s really a wonderful time in life.”

Jia Yucun remembered the scene of the chaotic judgment of the gourd case back then, and his face changed instantly.

Yongzheng to Wu Sidao make a wink, Wu Sidao from the drawer out of a dossier, without expression read: “Jiangxi governor Hu Qing, embezzlement of silver three million taels, which bribed the Ministry of Justice Secretary Jia Yucun half a million taels. Governor Cheng Ke, embezzlement of 10 million taels of silver, of which bribe Jia Yucun, the official secretary of the Ministry of Justice, one million taels.”

“Haha,” Yongzheng laughed and said: “really can not see, you are still a big money!”

The sweat on Jia Yucun’s face brushed off, and he couldn’t say a word.

Yongzheng nodded to Usidao, who shouted toward the door, “Bring Jia Pian.”

The guards pushed a man covered in blood in, and the man stumbled and crawled to Yongzheng: “Your Majesty, spare me, my humble servant will never dare again.”

Jia Yucun fixed his eyes, black and thin, only a bone, really can not recognize this is fat and fat pampered Jia Pian.

When Jia Pi saw Jia Yucun, he pointed his hand at him with a deadpan, “Your Highness, that stone fool was sent by him to be captured and beaten to death alive in the prison, not my business, not my business!”

The guards dragged Jia Pi down, and Yongzheng sank his face: “Favoring the law, embezzling and accepting bribes, forcing people to die, what else do you have to say?”

Jia Yucun knees soft, kneeling in front of Yongzheng: “small person knows the crime, please the king open grace.”

Yongzheng drank a mouthful of tea, slowly and leisurely said: “that the old fourteen is a hateful person, I put you this material to his hands so a send, he will kill you with his own hands is not known.”

Jia Yucun did not dare to say a word, but just kowtowed like garlic.

Ushido made a wink to Yongzheng. Yongzheng sighed: “Who let our family love talent. Well, I will give you this secret. However, in the future, you have to faithfully serve the king. Old fourteen there what wind blowing grass, immediately come to report.”

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Three days later, the small study of the Yong King’s residence.

On the mahogany table placed a small rosewood shelf, the shelf hanging a golden bell. Yongzheng hand holding a small jade mortar and pestle in the golden bell gently knocking, “clang ~ ~ clang ~ ~” crisp and melodious sound of the bell echoed in the house.

Yongzheng laughed, this is his favorite putdown, called “Yu Zhen Jin voice”.

Wu Sidao hurriedly came in: “Your Majesty, Jia Yucun just sent someone to say that the Emperor has decided to pass the throne to the 14th Argo three months from now and be the Supreme Emperor himself.”

Yongzheng’s face immediately changed: “Is the news reliable?”

“Reliable,” said Wusidao: “Qin Liu said that the Emperor talks to the Fourteenth Ahgor in secret almost every night, and Zhao Chang also reported that the Emperor asked him to start preparing new dragon robes, made according to the Fourteenth Ahgor’s measurements.”

Yongzheng stood up, face green, walking around the room: “Nian Juan Yao there is no news?”

“General Nian wrote to say that Abutan has hunkered down in the Kunlun Mountains and that there is no battle ahead.”

“Idiot!” Yongzheng slapped the table: “There is no war, won’t he make something out of himself? Tell him, I need the front line is tight, the old fourteen transfer back! How tight, told him to look at it, can’t do it on the head to see me!”

The little book boy timidly walked in: “Your Majesty, University Scholar Zhang Tingyu is here.”

Yongzheng straightened his clothes and sat down on the eunuch: “Well, you tell him to come in.”

Zhang Tingyu came in to give Yongzheng salute, asked: “The king called students, I do not know what instruction?”

Yongzheng pulled a handful of people, affectionately said: “Tingyu ah, sit, sit down and talk.”

Zhang Tingyu sat down expressionlessly: “Thank you, Your Majesty.”

Yongzheng crossed his legs, said slowly: “Tingyu ah, I want to hear your views on the change of law reform.”

“Back to His Majesty, the change of law and reform is the established policy of the Emperor, and in favor of the people of my Qing Dynasty, the student has no opinion.”

“Hey,” Yongzheng sneered: “in the small people is favorable, but on our Manchurian eight banners are favorable? To you by reading the eight shares up to the readers are favorable? To the full ministers are favorable?”

“Back to His Majesty, when the fish and the bear’s paw cannot be combined, one has to give up the fish and take the bear’s paw.”

“You’re a bookworm, and the way of Confucius and Mencius is about to be reformed out of existence, so why are you talking about Mencius’ fish and bear’s paw?”

“The student is a cold Confucian, by the grace of the Emperor’s knowledge, only today. Since the emperor has said that he wants to reform, the student has only to serve the emperor, saddle up and get rid of death.”

Yongzheng nose grunted: “it seems that you are full of morality, no wonder the emperor last year to give you the inscription: ‘a generation of teachers table’ it!”

“That’s extra grace from His Majesty, the student doesn’t dare to take credit for it.”

Yongzheng let out another sneer: “I have a story, listen to it.” Said to Wu Si Dao made a wink.

Wusidao pulled out a dossier and read: “Chang’an governor Li En, has a son named Peng, known as Li Nga Nei. Mrs. Li taught her son very strictly, and only allowed her son to go out of the house once a month, Li Nga Nei must go to the brothel to fool around, and people in Chang’an called it “Bird of the Month.”

“How come it’s called the Moon Moon Bird?” Yongzheng asked snidely.

“Wonderful here,” said Ushido with a smile: “Bird, is not a man’s dick, as a verb, is to use that dick to do that thing. He is not once a month to do it, and it just happens to be called Peng.”

Zhang Tingyu’s face changed drastically when he heard this.

Wusidao then read: “One day, Li Nai in the iron threshold temple to see the incense burning Zhang Jin brother girl, she snatched her into the house to be married. The Zhang Jingo was originally promised to the son of the Chang’an guard, the guard was not convinced, a lawsuit to the governor of Shaanxi. A high official in the court heard about it, and they are not convenient to come forward, so they secretly sent people through the Rongguo House of Wang Xifeng, to buy the governor, the Jin brother sentenced to the Li family. As a result, Jin and the governor’s son both killed themselves in martyrdom and died.”

“Well, bribe officials, forcing people to die,” Yongzheng said with a smile: “Tingyu ah, you say that the official bold or not?”

“This, this…” stammered Zhang Tingyu, “was done wrong, was done wrong.”

“Oh, you guess why he did that?” Yongzheng pretended to be mysterious and said: “Because ah, that Li Nga Nei is his and Mrs. Li’s illegitimate son.”

Zhang Tingyu’s face was red for a while, and his legs began to tremble.

Yongzheng also picked up a dossier: “Li Wei tried two corrupt officials in the south, Hu Qing and Cheng Ke. They explained that there are two large sums of money, adding up to a total of more than one million taels, through the Ministry of Public Works Minister Jia Zheng handed over to a certain university professor, hey, by the way, I heard that your wife in the spirit of the realm of the hutong children bought a mansion, beautiful, worth millions of silver it.”

Zhang Tingyu could not say a word, bean-sized beads of sweat fell to the ground. The room is quiet, even the sound of three people breathing can be heard clearly.

After a long time, Yongzheng laughed: “A loud drum does not need to be hammered. You are the saint’s disciples, now they change the law to revolutionize the way of Confucius and Mencius, how can you not rise up to defend the master Confucius?”

Zhang Tingyu wiped a handful of sweat from his head: “Yes, yes, Your Majesty is right. The student is confused, the student thanks the king for the guidance, the student in the future must only the king’s head.”

Yongzheng made a serious look said: “Tingyu ah, countless eight banners martyrs in order to my Qing dynasty sacrificed their lives, so that we living people think of them on the heart sad. We have what personal gains and losses can not abandon it?”

Zhang Tingyu only bowed to exit. Yongzheng to the Wu Si Dao laughed: “old Wu ah, really have you, a black material, better than a thousand troops!”

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It’s been more than twenty days since Jia Pardon was arrested.

Mrs. Xing was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, urging Phoenix and Jia Lian every day to think of a way to find a way to bail Jia Pi out. Phoenix began to think nothing of it, who knows and Jia Lian ran a few trips to Shuntianfu, that the governor fumbled, just refused to let go, and later, simply a brain pushed to the Prince of Yong, said he could not manage this matter. In the past two days, not even allowed to visit the prison. Gave the prison a lot of silver, only to hear that Jia Amnesty has been tortured to look like. Sister Feng was shocked and afraid, this leak is all out of their own, provoked the stone fool’s nephew to sue Jia Pardon, if the word spread to Mrs. Xing and mother’s ears, how can it go on. If Jia Lian knew that he had framed the eunuch himself, he was afraid he would not be able to forgive himself. The strange thing was that Jia Lian didn’t care.

Sister Phoenix is thinking nonsense, only to see Jia Lian drunkenly walked in. Phoenix spat: “Where did you go again to get the yellow soup?” Jia Lian didn’t answer, but just rummaged around in the drawers and cabinets.

After rummaging around for a while, Jia Lian turned to Sister Feng: “Where did the two hundred taels of silver I put away go?”

Phoenix sister heard, turned up and said: “I have three thousand five hundred thousand, not earned your. Now inside and outside up and down the back of my chewing said I’m a lot, just you to say, you know no family relatives attracted not out of the ghost. We Wang family can where the money, are you Jia family earned. Don’t make me sick. You look at your family what Shi Chong Deng Tong, sweep my Wang family’s cracks, enough for you to live a lifetime. I’m not afraid to speak out of shame! Existing evidence, the wife and my dowry look carefully, compared to your, which is not worthy of you?”

Jia Lian laughed and said: ”Saying something naughty makes me anxious. What is this, to make one or two hundred taels of silver worth what, more no, there is this. I’m not afraid of being laughed at for quarrelling over a few pennies.”

Phoenix sister heard, and since the smile up, “not I am anxious, you said the words poke people’s heart, I because I think of the day after tomorrow is the forty-nine day anniversary of the second sister of the You, we are good for a, although can not be other, in the end to give him a grave burn a paper, but also a sister. Although she did not leave a man and woman, but also to the former people scattered soil fascinated the eyes of future generations is.”

Jia Lian let out a sneer, “You all take me for a fool. Let me ask you, how did Second Sister die?”

Phoenix was flabbergasted: “Didn’t she have a miscarriage and kill herself because she was heartbroken about her child?”

Jia Lian snorted, “Suicide? For an unborn child? Are you trying to fool children?

Let me ask you, what did you say to Qiu Tong? And how did you tell the maids to give Second Sister a hard time?”

Phoenix was startled, dare to say that the playboy looked confused, the heart with a mirror, but on the basis of the power of her mother’s family, the mother and favor themselves, said with a big grin: “between women, quarrels and quarrels is not a common thing, she is not guilty of suicide ah?”

Jia Lian came up to Phoenix, almost touching her nose: “I’ll ask you again, who instigated Zhang Hua to sue me for forcing him to withdraw from the marriage with Sister You? You’re addicted to suing, and you’ve actually sued your own father-in-law again.”

The alcohol inside of Jia Lian’s mouth was so intoxicating that Phoenix could barely breathe, and Phoenix took a step back, unable to say a word.

Jia Lian had a murderous aura in his eyes: “I said at Second Sister’s memorial that I would avenge her death! You still remember that, don’t you?”

Phoenix was so frightened that she leaned tightly against the wall and said pleadingly, “It wasn’t me, it really wasn’t me.”

“Not you?” Jia Lian let out another cold laugh, fished out the bottle of wine from his arms, and gulped a large mouthful: “Of course it wasn’t you, you had your sins, but it wasn’t you who killed Second Sister.”

Phoenix’s eyes widened, hardly believing her ears.

Jia Lian turned around and sat down on the table: “Let me ask you, why did Jia Pi not want to pass on the inheritance to my son, but rather to Huan’er? Why was my mother so afraid of him that she took the initiative to marry him a concubine?”

“You mean,” Phoenix asked curiously, “you’re not the Grand Master–“

“Hey, when I married You Er Sister home, you remember, Jia Amnesty was overjoyed, praising me for my work. I was muttering in my heart, how can you call marrying a concubine a good job. Later he rewarded me with his concubine Qiutong. The second master was furious to hear, the old man’s concubine to the son, not just call people scolded poly moose it? I was not able to say anything, and Qiu Tong was pretty, so I brought it back.”

Phoenix secretly nodded in her heart, this thing relatives are as a joke to tell.

“After a few days, the Jia Pi called me to drink, through the strength of alcohol, said: ‘my concubine for you to play, your new wife should also be for me to play is, we drink a pot of chowder,'” I was startled and said: ‘We are father and daughter-in-law, how can we do this thing? I was startled and said: ‘We are father and son, how can we do the things that a father-in-law and daughter-in-law do?’ He was infuriated, sneered and said: ‘Do you think you are really my son? Go back and ask your mother! I went to ask my mother, but she cried and cried and refused to say a word.”

Sister Feng was surprised that Mrs. Xing also had this affair.

Jia Lian again poured a few mouthfuls of wine, and then said: “That Jia Pi always home and a flat head and face of the girl are not willing to let go, in the yuanyang there after the nail, on the coveted on the beauty of the You family sisters. Now since pull down the face of the child, every day to see me to ask about the second sister, I have no choice but to excuse that the second sister is pregnant to keep the fetus, wait for the child to be born later. Who knows, he colluded with the doctor, an abortion pill to abort the fetus. After that, he asked me to go to Ping’an State to do business, and he touched the second sister’s room at night. Poor second sister’s body was already weak, and had just had a miscarriage, how could she resist.”

Speaking here, Jia Lian was already in tears. He wiped a handful of tears and went on to say: “I came back, the second sister told me one by one. I had no choice but to tell her that I had to put up with it. Second sister was insulted, sad and angry, swallowed gold and committed suicide. I’ve always wanted to avenge my sister, but I didn’t have the chance. Hey, hey, hey! Who knows you have helped me a big favor, let the Yong Wangfu arrested him.”

Phoenix listened, dumbfounded, unable to say a word.

Jia Lian raised the bottle of wine to the sky: “Second sister, revenge is about to be avenged, let’s drink up, haha!” After a burst of laughter, there were a few more big gulps.

Jia Lian wiped his mouth and turned to Sister Feng with a smile, “By the way, I just heard on the street that your uncle Prince Clothes was killed in action in Qinghai.”

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Sister Feng was shocked to hear this, she actually doesn’t care much about Jia Pi’s life and death, if she dies, wouldn’t it be better to pass the inheritance to Jia Lian? But the prince’s suit is different, it is the backbone of her own family. If a married woman’s mother’s family is not powerful, she will be bullied even if she is capable, and Qin Keqing is a living example of this. Thinking of this, she anxiously asked: “Where did you hear it? Is the news reliable?”

Jia Lian raised the bottle and took a few gulps: “I can’t say whether it’s reliable or not, but that’s what they all say on the street.” He said, “I can’t say whether it’s reliable or not, but that’s what they say on the street anyway.” He then collapsed on the bed and fell asleep.

The more Phoenix thought about it, the more scared she became, and her face became more and more ugly. Ping’er was startled when she entered and asked her what had happened. Phoenix told her all about her conversation with Jia Lian, and when she said that her uncle Prince Clothes might be dead, her tears fell: “Ping’er, you know that the Second Master has always disliked me for being too ostentatious, and doesn’t take him seriously. Now, if the backing of my mother’s family falls, he will still try to take revenge on me.”

Ping’er threw the towel in the hot water wet, wringing dry, handed to Phoenix: “Grandma don’t worry, our second master and Xue big fools they are not the same, although lust, but also have love and justice, you look at the way he misses the second sister will know. Besides, one day husband and wife, the second master is the most nostalgic person, you and his so many years of husband and wife, don’t you know it?”

Phoenix took the towel and wiped her face: “Is he affectionate? Why can’t I see it?”

Ping’er laughed and said, “You’re so busy reading the books. I’ll tell you one thing, the woman in Bao’s family died, and the second master was sad for a few days.”

“Bao Er’s family? The one who hanged herself? The promiscuous woman who slept with everyone?”

“That’s why the second master is righteous, so many people slept with her, only our second master is sad.” Ping’er exclaimed, “That Bao Er’s family also died in a strange way, some say she was assassinated!”

Phoenix handed the towel back to Ping’er: “Alas, let’s not talk about this, we need to first inquire about whether the news of my uncle’s death in battle is indeed true. I’ll go into the palace to see the Queen.”

“If you’re going to see the Empress, you’d better bring Baoyu with you, so the Empress will be happy.” Ping’er said with a smile.

An autumn wind blew by, and the last few leaves at the head of the tree slightly leafed down. “Falling leaves are still gathering and scattering, cold crows roosting and startling again, when will we know when we will see each other.” Jia Wu sighed, he was homesick again. Always feel like a dream, but also feel like a play, in front of people they are that sissy Bao Er Master, only when a person is alone, only feel is himself. Sometimes he felt so afraid, want to go back to the 20th century, but if people can have the opportunity to change history, to save China 160 years of suffering, is the possibility of success is small, but also worth a try.

Jia Wu in the gravel paved path stopped, heart messy, there is always a sense of foreboding. After talking to Mike a few times, I felt that this guy was really not simple, knowing the ins and outs of the British constitutional monarchy, much more vividly and in detail than I had learned in history class. In particular, he suggested that the British constitution was made possible by a powerful merchant class, while Chinese merchants have been in a state of suppression for thousands of years, the power of the small pitiful. A change of law without a social base could easily be aborted. Mack should be recommended to Kang Xi and the 14th Aristocrats for counseling.

There was a crisp giggle from the other side of the bamboo forest. Jia Wu looked up and it was Dai Yu and Jenny. Daiyu seemed to be asking Jenny something, and Jenny smiled and refused to say. Dai Yu took Jenny in her arms before Jenny whispered something in Dai Yu’s ear, and Dai Yu seemed to be flabbergasted for a moment.

Jia Wu walked through the small bamboo forest: “Hey, what are you two doing?” When Daiyu saw Jia Wu, she turned her head and walked away. Jia Wu felt strange and was about to chase after her, when Zhen Ni stepped forward and stopped him: “Baoyu.”

Jia Wu looked at Jenny, Jenny blue eyes are looking at him fondly, like the blue sky, transparent and deep. Jia Wu felt a burst of heartbeat, and asked sardonically, “What were you two talking about?”

“Just now,” Jenny said with a smile, “Sister Lin asked me what I meant by ‘love spicy oil’.”

Jia Wu was shocked: “Huh? So you told her?”

“Of course I told her, even and Sister Lin are the best.”

Jia Wu said bad, Lin sister must be jealous again, just do not know how to do good, only to hear Zhen Ni asked him: “Baoyu, how come you did not come to see even a few days?”

Jia Wu fixed his mind: “It’s like this, your brother and I are talking about the court, tomorrow I’ll take you to the palace to play, okay?”

“Yeah, I’ve been wanting to visit the palace for a long time,” Jennie said, clapping her hands and laughing.

“Jenni~~Jenni~~Come on~~,” cried Poongin from the distance.

Jenny came up to Ja5: “You’re so nice!” She kissed him gently on the cheek, turned and shouted into the distance, “Here we go, here we go, here we go,” and ran off happily.

Jia Wu flinched for a moment before hurrying toward the Xiaoxiang Pavilion.

Daiyu is in her own tears, see Jia Wu, more and more sobbing and crying. Jia five heartache is too much, folding up a thousand kinds of warm words to persuade. Unexpectedly, he did not open his mouth. Only to see Daiyu first said: “What are you doing again? Anyway, now there are people and you stubborn, than I can read, and will make, and will write, and will joke, and will speak foreign languages, what are you doing to come? It’s just up to me!”

Jia Wu heard busy up quietly said: “You are such an understanding person, do not even ‘pro not between the sparse, first not unauthorized after’ do not know? Although I am confused, but I understand these two words. The first is that we are cousins, and Jenny is a foreigner; the second is that you came here first, and we both ate at the same table and slept in the same bed, and have grown up to be so big. She is the only one who has come here, and how can anyone alienate you for him?”

Daiyu spat: “Do I ask you to sparse him? Then I became a what person it! I for is my heart.”

Jia Wu said: “I also for my heart, do you know your heart, do not know my heart is not?” Said with a hand to pull Daiyu.

Dai Yu dodged, and Jia Wu’s feet slipped, his shoulder hitting the bookshelf squarely. The bookshelf shook, and the celadon vase on top of the shelf fell down, hitting Jia Wu on the head. Jia Wu let out an “ouch” and lay still on the ground.

This time, Daiyu was shocked, she hurriedly knelt down and lifted Jia Wu’s head: ”Baoyu, Baoyu!

Wake up, I don’t blame you anymore.” Tears fell on Jia Wu’s face like drops of broken pearls.

Jia Wu opened his eyes and smiled, “You really don’t blame me anymore?”

Daiyu broke into tears and laughed: “Bah! You’re such a devil!” Seeing Jia Wu’s face was cut by the broken porcelain, blood flowing, busy from the drawer took out a handkerchief for him to wipe, Jia Wu obediently held Daiyu’s hand.

The two looked at each other, neither knowing what to say. After a long time, Daiyu softly sighed: “Baoyu, Zijuan has a relative who is going to Suzhou, I want to ask him to bring back Fifth Child’s coffin for burial. But want a thousand taels of silver, you help me pawn a few pieces of jewelry okay?”

Thinking of the five children, Jia Wu can not help but also sad up: “Well, the matter of silver I can think of ways, jewelry do not pawn.”

“It’s better to pawn it, it’s useless for me to keep it.” Daiyu assisted Jia Wu up to sit on the child. The blood stopped flowing, Daiyu put the handkerchief that drained the blood on the table and said, “You wait, I’ll go fetch some water to wash you.”

Jia Wu looked at the blood leakage of the handkerchief seems to be vaguely through the handwriting, turn it over and see, written on it is a poem: eyes empty storage tears tears empty drooping, dark sprinkled idle throw but to whom;

I’m so happy to see you, and I’m so happy to see you.

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Mrs. Xing spent five thousand taels of white silver, and it was with great difficulty that she was able to bribe the jailer to promise her a meeting with Jia Pi.

In the dead of night, Mrs. Xing disguised herself as a granny washing clothes and blended into the Yong Wangfu’s cell.

Once they saw that Jia Pian had been tortured, the two hugged and cried.

After crying for a while, Jia Pi gritted his teeth and said, “I don’t know which antagonist I’ve offended, and it seems that I’m afraid it’s going to be fatal.”

Mrs. Xing comforted him, saying, “Don’t be anxious, we’ll beg the Queen again.”

Jia Amnesty smiled bitterly and shook his head. Mrs. Xing suddenly remembered that she had heard the lackeys say behind her back that Jia Pai was obsessed with lust and even dared to hit on her own niece, could it be that he had molested the Niang Niang back then as well? Her Highness wanted all the girls in the family to live in the Grand View Garden, could it be to prevent Jia Pi?

Jia Amnesty looked around to see no one, before whispering to Mrs. Xing said: “Now, we have to beg Prince Yong.

I know a big secret, that Hongli is not Prince Yong’s son.”

Mrs. Xing was startled: “Don’t mix it up, this is a matter of losing one’s head.”

“This is what my sister told me herself,” said Jia Yi: “That Hongli was born to her, and that Lin Daiyu is the child of the Prince of Yong’s family.”

“Where’s the evidence? Do you have proof?”

“My sister wrote me a letter before she died, detailing the matter of Prince Yong Fujin concealing her daughter for her son from the King. I see that letter is afraid of a seedling of trouble, but I can’t say that it will be useful in the future, so I found a proper place to hide it. You entrust someone to tell Prince Yong to release me, and I will give him that letter.”

“Oh, where did you hide that letter?”

“This…” Jia Yi hesitated: “It’s not that I don’t trust you, there are ears on the other side of the wall, so it’s better to be careful.”

Speaking here, suddenly heard a “pop” sound, a piece of tile from the roof fell down and shattered. Mrs. Xing was startled, panicked, said goodbye to the Jia Pi home to think of ways to go.

A shadow of a man slid down the wall of the cell, none other than Hiroshi.

Hongli yesterday heard the servants chatting that Jia Amnesty is shut in the Yong Wangfu cell, can not help but care about it, after all, is his own uncle. That night came to secretly visit the prison, want to find an opportunity to save him out. Just in time to hear him and Mrs. Xing said that paragraph.

Hongli back to his room, the more you think the more angry: good you a Jia Yi, I look at the relatives on the part of the still want to go to save you, who knows you still want to backstab me, hey, the amount of small is not a gentleman, no poison is not a husband, the matter as it is, only the first to take him out, and also to do it without a trace.

Just thinking, just see a shadow outside the window flashed, Hongli shouted: “What people!” A lift window jumped out, according to the back of the heart there, ruthlessly is a palm.

The man reached out to trick Hong Li’s wrist, twisted outward, Hong Li “ouch” on the ground on his knees, the heart was horrified, just want to shout to someone, the man reached out and covered his mouth: “Do not scream, it’s me.”

Hongli smelled a kind of déjà vu fragrance, immediately stopped resisting, and asked in a low voice: “Are you Sister Miaoyu?”

Miao Yu smiled and released him: “Let’s talk in the house.”

Hong Li lit the candle, Miao Yu wearing a black bodysuit, snow-white face, by the cold wind in late fall, frozen out of the two red halos. Hong Li only see red heartbeat, said sardonically: “good sister, how do you just come to see me ah? May want to die me.”

Miao Yu smiled and said: “You guy, you are just sweet-talking. I’m looking for you for a reason. My brother, Liu Xianglian, has been missing for several months. You have a lot of eyes and ears in your residence, so help me find out where he has gone.”

“Do not worry,” Hongli said with a smile: “Big brother’s martial arts is so high, who dares to count him?”

“Alas, I am not worried about this,” Miao Yu sighed: “You do not know, he did not see a few years, like a different person, on the anti-Qing Dynasty to restore the Ming Dynasty is not interested at all. If he left his hand, only a few children left, alas ~ ~” Hongli eyes turn: “Sister, this restoration of the Ming Dynasty to rely on wisdom and not by force. Right now there is a perfect opportunity.”

“Oh?” Miao Yu’s eyes widened: “Tell me.”

“This is the case”, Hongli moved a hand to invite Miaoyu to sit down: “If Prince Yong can be the emperor, he will probably establish me as the crown prince. Then we find a way to get rid of him, I became the emperor, the world is not back in our hands of Zhu?”

“Good is good, however, I heard that the Emperor wanted to pass the throne to the 14th Argosy,” Miao Yu shook her head : “And they all said that the 4th Argosy had beat his chest in front of the Emperor and supported the 14th Argosy as the Emperor.”

“Hey!” Hongli sneered: “His stomach that little bit of the 1999 I do not know, mouth said the sky is falling, what to be open and aboveboard, do not engage in intrigue, his own stomach is intrigue, the emperor and the old fourteen are all in the dark by him.” Said he stood up, walked to Miao Yu in front of: “Sister, when I became the emperor, then Hou, you will marry me, okay?”

Myriad Jade’s face swished red: “No, no, how can I, I’m a monk!”

“In order to restore the Great Ming ah, you think, after I become the emperor, I have to reuse the Han people, slowly take away the power of the Manchus, restore the Han people’s clothes, and finally restore the name of my Great Ming. It’s a heavy task and a long way to go, sister, you can only help me when you become the imperial concubine!”

Myrtle lowered her head and silently toyed with the corners of her coat.

Hongli looked at Miao Yu and said pleadingly, “Sister, I’m in trouble right now, you have to help me.” So he told the conversation he heard between Jia Pi and Mrs. Xing originally.

“Jia Pardon?” Miao Yu was furious when she heard this, back then sister Keqing had said that Jia Pardon was the nastiest, always bullying her. After she entered the Jia Mansion, when Jia Pardon came to the nunnery for incense, he also always molested her and said nasty things. Thinking of this, she raised her head: ”Brother, where is he? I’ll make him for you!”

Hongli took out a map of the Yong Wangfu and pointed out the location of the cell to Miao Yu. He also took out three Bagua Flyers from the drawer: “Sister, I quenched these with the most poisonous snakes in the forests of Yunnan, to seal the throat at the sight of blood!”

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Myriad Jade came out of the Yong Wang Mansion with her heart beating hard. This was the first time in her life that she had killed someone. Even though Jia Pardon was said to have deserved to die, it was still a life. Jia Pardon’s agonized expression after being hit by the poisoned dart kept dangling in front of Miao Yu’s eyes.

“Ugh, I really didn’t realize that killing a bad guy would be so painful for myself.” Miao Yu sighed, but there was no telling how many people she would have to kill to restore the Great Ming.

A gust of night wind blew, and Miao Yu winced, wrapping her black cloak around her with force as she walked along the back waterfront toward the Rongguo Mansion.

Fourteenth Argo could not sleep, so he changed into civilian clothes and went out for a walk. He read the emperor transferred to him Li Wei about the emperor’s embezzlement of huge sums of money into the two and Hu Qing, do not kill enough to civilian indignation of the sonata, which mentioned the two of them to bribe the dynasty in the pro-royal ministers of the list, actually more than half of them are on their own side, support for the change of the law. Their own hard work to cultivate talent, how are all see money eye open Lord? When I think of this, I feel very bored in my heart. The dynasty’s own people only Zhang Tingyu and Jia Yucun was not involved. Zhang Tingyu is a courteous gentleman look, just Jia Yucun, plainly heard that he was greedy, how this time was not involved? Could it be that his own enlightenment really played a role?

Fourteenth Argo walked to the back of the sea, the water reflected a hook of the remnant of the moon at the top of the willow. “Willow bank, dawn wind and broken moon”, back then, he and Chun’er were set under such a moon, if not for the fact that he led the troops out of the army, alas.

Thinking of the expedition, fourteenth Argo suddenly remembered, these days there are rumors, the Qinghai front is not good, the prince suit killed in action. However, Fu Er Dan, Nian Juan Yao, Yue Zhongqi and other people these days have no military report. According to reason, the end of autumn and early winter, Qinghai is already dripping ice, is not the season of large-scale combat. The prince service person courage is not enough, cautious is more, will not easily killed in action. However, the military is ever-changing, Fu Erdan, Nian Juan Yao, Yue Zhongqi and each other unconvinced, pulling each other’s strings, non-self can not be subdued to them.

Just thinking, suddenly saw a black silhouette on the roadside flashed, light body, seems to be a woman. Fourteenth Argo heart big wonder, a woman, how dare a single walk at night? Then quietly followed.

Just saw the woman walked to the back street of Rongguo Fu, a flash and disappeared. Fourteenth Brother walked over, look at the appearance of a nunnery, suddenly remembered, Baoyu told him, Jiafu’s family nunnery there is a beautiful nun called Miaoyu, martial arts is quite high, is a descendant of the former Ming, looking for a piece of red silk with a secret treasure map.

Fourteenth Arhats sighed, the Chinese have just been killing and killing for thousands of years. If the constitutional monarchy fails to work, won’t future generations still have to roll back and forth in bloody politics? He turned around and walked back along the wall of Rong Guo Fu.

Baochai suddenly woke up and could no longer sleep. She got up and came to look at the moon silently in the small courtyard of Li Xiang Yuan. These past few months had messed with her own head. She was actually a descendant of Li Zicheng, had a brother who was more than forty years older than herself, and had to help Lan’er become the emperor. The whole thing was like a legend, along with that piece of red silk. Thinking of this, she took out the red damask from her sleeve again and looked at it through the moonlight.

The blood-dipped handwriting glistened green in the moonlight, and a cloudy wind rattled the branches of the trees.

This red silk is still only half? Where can I find the other half? I saw something in Baoyu’s house the other day that looked like it, but where could it be so coincidental?

The moon gradually set behind the small building. This small building is facing the street, the girls like to go up and open the window to see the pedestrians passing by. I’m a lady, I can’t do that, but it’s late at night, why not go up and take a look?

Baochai went up to the small building while thinking. Opening the window, the moonlight shone on her body, she suddenly remembered her dream, the dream of going to assassinate the 14th Aristocrat, the 14th Aristocrat grabbed her wrist. Thinking of this, she handed over the red silk to her left hand, looked carefully at her right wrist, and suddenly gently kissed herself on her right wrist.

Baochai was startled by her own actions, Could it be that I am in love with him? With this thought, her thoughts were like an open tidal wave. The scenes of Fourteenth Brother beating Jia Zheng, hammering the pine tree, taking himself into his arms in his dream… all just made me blush with the thought.

The sky gradually brightened, the east rose a reddish haze. Hutong that far away from the end of a person, stout body, the pace of healthy, as if it is the fourteenth brother. Can’t be? How can it be so coincidental.

People are getting closer and closer, square face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, not the fourteenth brother, but which one? Baochai a moment of panic, can not help but “ah” gently screamed.

Fourteenth Argo heard the sound, raised his head, and at first saw a stunning beauty upstairs, pouting and not triumphantly looking at him, so he smiled and made a face at her. Baochai’s gaze just met the fourteenth Argo’s gaze. She was even more flustered, only to feel at a loss, her hands were loose, and the red silk in her hand fluttered down.

Fourteenth Ajax snatched up the red silk and grabbed it. Baochai was ashamed and anxious, how did such an important thing fall?

But how to ask for it back from him?

Fourteenth Arhats is originally a sentimental son, see Baochai’s embarrassed look, heart, put the red silk into his bosom, and from his own bosom took out a jade pendant, flung it up.

A bell sounded faintly in the distance. Fourteenth Argo snapped to mind that he still had to introduce Mike to the Emperor today, so he had to hurry back. He smiled and waved his hand upstairs, and continued on his way.

That jade pendant fell right into the hands of Baochai, Baochai did not know what to do, staring blankly at the figure of fourteenth Aggie gradually disappeared in the morning sun.

Baochai red-faced scrutinized the jade pendant in his hand, sheep fat white jade, gentle and soft, above also engraved with eight words: “such as complaints such as adoration, where the fate of the return”. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. The first time I saw the guy, he was in the middle of a flight, and he was in the middle of a flight, and he was in the middle of a flight.

A voice rang in her ears : “Golden jade marriage, golden jade marriage.”

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Sent away Myuyu, Hongli tossed and turned and couldn’t sleep. Miao Yu martial arts although high, but has not killed, jianghu experience is also less pathetic. There are a few masters in the house, don’t make a mess, she can’t kill Jia Pardon, and then be caught. If caught, according to say Miao Yu will not betray their own, but I’m afraid that she did not pay attention to say away mouth, to bring themselves out of the piggyback. When he thought of this, he regretted that he should not ask Miaoyu to go by herself.

Dazed and confused to dawn, Hongli just a little sleepy, was again woken up by the little boy, said the Prince of Yong looking for him. Hongli heart sank, is not Miao Yu to mess things up? There is nothing to do, messy wash his face, to the small study to see Yongzheng.

Yongzheng is practicing brushwork, a see Hongli, strange asked: “How do you look so tired? Did not sleep well last night?”

Hongli see Yongzheng no difference, only to rest assured that: “children last night has been thinking of you to the eight banners of the children’s speech put forward by the pro-principal children hereditary succession of the five basic conditions, there are a few places do not understand, has been thinking of late at night, sleep late.”

“Oh,” Yongzheng said with interest: “what do not understand ah? Tell me.”

Hongli on Yongzheng’s teaching is able to recite backwards, smoothly answered: “the first: they must have pure Manchu blood,” just finished, the heart a shock, look at Yongzheng did not have any difference, only to rest assured to continue to say: “and the second: they must be wholeheartedly for the eight banners of the Manchus And the second: they must be wholeheartedly serve the interests of the Manchurian eight banners warriors; these two are nothing to say. But the third: they must be able to enlist the Han Chinese; this is difficult. The fourth rule: they must be good at fighting their opponents; this is even more difficult. The last one: they must be good at enlisting people who disagree with them; isn’t that recruiting and accepting rebels?”

Yongzheng haha laugh: “child ah, you begin to understand the power of the three flavors. Political struggle without honesty, between people is to use each other. You have seen the Three Kingdoms, right? Who are the heroes in it?”

“When it comes to martial arts, no one can beat Lu Bu, and when it comes to scheming, no one can count on Chu Ge Liang. But how come everyone says only of course Liu Bei and Cao Cao are considered heroes?”

Yongzheng made a gesture to Hongli to sit down: “As the saying goes: a fence three stakes, a good man three help, their own and then have the ability, are all iron, can hit a few nails it? To be able to coax others to sell their lives for themselves, is the real hero.”

As he was talking, Wu Sidao came in with a smile: “Your Majesty, we just received Li Wei’s eight hundred miles of urgency, and according to your command, he invited the upper sword and put both Cheng Ke and Hu Qing in Guangzhou on the spot.”

“Ah?” Hongli was startled: “That Chengke is a first-ranking officer it, the emperor also said to personally try him, how to kill it all of a sudden? Not afraid of the emperor blame it?”

“Beilei, you don’t know, that Chengke and Hu Qing can have a way, the dynasty’s pro-government ministers, there is almost no one who has not received their benefits.” Wu Sidao explained: “Li Wei organized their confessions, and the one that was handed over to the Emperor was all about the people under the 14th Arhats taking bribes. The bribes taken by the people on our side were only handed over to the king and could not be made known to the emperor. If you leave the two of them alive, I’m afraid that sooner or later there will be a time to reveal. So it was said that they were not killed enough to be punished, and they were executed on the spot.”

Yongzheng stroked his beard and said with a smile, “Well, that Li Wei dares to do something, a good seedling.”

Hongli suddenly realized: “Father, the day you said: anti-corruption must be tactical, the insurance must be insured, the approval must be approved, the kill must be killed. The original is the meaning of this ah.”

Yongzheng nodded: “children ah, politics this class, you this is also even the first glimpse of the threshold. You have to know, anti-corruption this thing, seems to be the end, in fact, is only a means. There is only one true purpose, which is to seize power and consolidate it. With power, you have everything, and with the loss of power, you lose everything.”

Suddenly, a guard ran in in a panic: “Your Majesty, that Jia Pardon hanged himself in the cell behind him.”

“What?” Yongzheng so strange, that Jia Amnesty is better to die than to live, how can suddenly commit suicide? He just killed Hu Qing and Cheng Ke, although it is a corrupt official, I’m afraid that the emperor will have to scold his own widowed and good to kill again.

Jia Pi died at this time, or died in his own house. Three things stirred together, if Jia Fei again the emperor’s ear muttered a few bad words about himself, things will not be trouble? Thinking of this, he frowned and said to Hongli and Wu Sidao, “Let’s go, let’s go to the cell and take a look.”

Hongli’s heart rejoiced, this Miao Yu not only high martial arts, the mind is also powerful, not only killed Jia Pardon, but also can be arranged as a suicide. People and beautiful, if you can marry over in the future, it is really a good helper for yourself!

Three people walked to the backyard, the jailer panicked over to kowtow to apologize. Yongzheng sternly shouted: “How do you this guard! Stealing to sleep again, is not it?”

The jailer was trembling with fear: “Your Highness, I’m innocent! I do not intend to sleep, last night and the little three children borrowed a set of pictures of the Spring Palace, ready to read it at night when nothing. Who knows that by the fourth night, suddenly saw a shadow in front of me a flash, I will not know.”

“Oh?” Yongzheng heart searching, as if it is a master point acupuncture point.

Walked into the cell to see, Jia Amnesty’s body lying on a straw mat, a red road on the neck, the beam of the room on a red pants belt.

The jailer followed him in and cried out, “As soon as I woke up and saw him hanging, I hurriedly put him down, who knew that he still couldn’t be saved.”

Yongzheng squatted down, carefully surveyed Jia Amnesty’s body, found his lips bright red, like a cherry. And turn his body over, undo the clothes, found that there is a small triangular mouth in the back.

Wusidao came over to see: “Huh, seems to have been poisoned dart.”

Yongzheng also did not answer, the more he thought the more puzzled: “This is also strange, to kill Jia Pardon, usually go to the Jiafu kill easy, why run to me here to kill, take this risk? This cell and the surrounding houses are exactly the same, students simply can not be found, is it and the thieves conspired?”

Thinking of this, Yongzheng face sank: “Old Wu, you notify the whole house, blocking the news of Jia Amnesty suicide, a little wind is not allowed to leak!”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (Ninety-one)

In the Forbidden City, the Hall of Bohol.

Kangxi sat in the dragon chair, surveying the blonde-haired Jenny with interest. Fourteenth Brother stood next to him, and Jia Wu, Mike and Jenny stood at the bottom.

Jenny was a little embarrassed by the look, tilted her head and said: “Your Majesty, you China is really big, I disembarked from Guangzhou, traveled for more than a month to Beijing.”

Kangxi laughed: “you only walked a small part of it, we China east to the Kuril Islands, north to Lake Baikal, the Tangnu Ulianghai, west to Lake Balkhash, you can not finish a year.”

Jia Wu sighed secretly when he heard this, not knowing that a hundred years later, the Kuril Islands, Lake Baikal, the Tangnouuliang Sea, Lake Balkhash, all of these places have been snatched by the old Russian Maoist.

Jenny clapped her hands and laughed, saying, “Yes, Your Majesty, then allow me to play the whole of China again, okay?”

Kangxi smiled and nodded his head: “Well, you girl is straightforward and fast-talking, just like our Manchurian girls.”

“Manchurian girls are much the same as even,” Jenny replied casually, “but the Han Chinese girls are so strange, how can their feet be so small?”

“Alas,” Kang Xi sighed: “their bad habits, girls at the age of five or six years old have to wrap their feet, painful, destroying people ah!”

“I heard that didn’t Grandpa Shunzhi forbid the wrapping of small feet back then?” Fourteenth Brother interjected.

“Yes, but it’s been banned time and time again, and it’s not like we can go door to door to check on people’s girls’ feet is it.”

Kang Xi shook his head and said: “There are a few Han Chinese old man wrote a petition saying: our Han men have surrendered to you Manchus, shaved head to stay defense. Why still prohibit our women to wrap their feet? Give us a little face, women wrapped small feet is our characteristics, we men surrender women do not surrender. Emperor Shunzhi saw the tears and laughter, women’s feet have become a symbol of their patriotism. Later, Aobay said: women wrapped feet or good, the road are not walking well, it is less likely to rebel. This matter is shelved.”

“Father, let’s change the law and reform this time, we must get rid of this wrapping of small feet.” Fourteenth Argo said.

“The change of law to grasp too many things, this foot-wrapping things last to mention it.” Kang Xi head turned to Mike: “I heard that you are familiar with the British constitutional monarchy, how do our reforms compare with them?”

“Your Majesty,” Mike bowed to Kang Xi: “I said: ‘Everything you want is established, do not want is not established’.

Your Majesty, your country loves its people as much as the sages of old. The constitution of England in those years depended on a strong merchant class, which had a vested interest in forcing the monarch to implement the constitution. The merchant class was the main beneficiary of the constitutional monarchy. The peasants did not benefit much, and the aristocrats and the powerful were the victims of the reform. Today’s China is based on agriculture, and the number of merchants is small, and their influence is even smaller. Reform is afraid to become a fish without water, no wood, I am deeply worried.”

Fourteenth Ahgor smiled: ”Although Mike has a point, we also have favorable conditions over Britain.

The fact that the King of England was opposed to constitutionalism, while our Qing Emperor was in favor of constitutionalism, was enough to offset the weakness of the merchant class. If we wait a few more decades, a hundred years, two hundred years, after the formation of the merchant class, the Emperor may not have the courage to reform at that time. Moreover, if China’s reforms lag behind those of other countries, it is not certain that it will be bullied by others.”

Kangxi picked up the bowl of tea and took a sip: “Good! Times make heroes, and heroes can also make times. While I’m still strong, let’s join hands with father and son to build a foundation for China for the ages.”

Fourteenth Argo respectfully replied: “Yes. The child has already convened the eight banners of the king to open a meeting, your determination to change the law to tell them.”

“Oh? What’s the reaction?”

“There’s not much in favor of it, and quite a bit against it. I’ve heard that someone is lighting fires and conspiring behind the scenes, and there might be some kind of plot being planned.” Fourteenth Argo said seriously.

“Father, Father…” Yongzheng stumbled in: “Emergency report from Qinghai, something bad has happened, 50,000 men have been wiped out, and the prince has been killed in battle.”

Kangxi’s face was stern: “Is there such a thing? Bring it to me.”

Yongzheng busy a stack of war reports and frontline folders to Kang Xi. Kang Xi looked at, his face became more and more gloomy. After reading it, without saying a word, he handed it over to the fourteenth Argo.

Fourteenth Argo looked carefully and suddenly said, “Father, there seems to be something fishy here.”

Kang Xi revealed a bitter smile: “Tell me.”

“Fu Er Dan, Nian Jiao Yao and Yue Zhong Qi accused each other and contradicted each other. Nian Yao Yao blamed Fu Er Dan and Yue Zhong Qi for keeping their troops still, resulting in the total destruction of the prince’s army; Fu Er Dan and Yue Zhong Qi blamed Nian Yao for neglecting his duties and letting the Abutan cavalry cross the border to attack the prince’s army. Nian Juan Yao has always been known for his rigorous management of the army, how could he have failed in his duty?”

“Hey!” Kang Xi sneered: “Perhaps it’s an intentional water release is not known.”

Yongzheng flabbergasted, accompanied by a smile and said: “that year Jiyuan Yao is a little conceited, and the prince service has been the face and the heart and not, but it will not be so confused, right?”

“Not also, not also,” Kangxi shook his head and said: “Nian Jieyao this person is ambitious, and there is a backbone in the back of the head, this matter is not simple, I’m afraid.”

Fourteenth Argo stepped forward: “Father, or I go to Qinghai again, otherwise Fu Er Dan is not Nian Juan Yao’s opponent, Yue Zhong Qi and seniority is not enough.”

“Right right right,” Yongzheng followed: “the front soldiers and generals, in addition to fourteenth brother who can not be suppressed, fourteenth brother is really the pillars of our Qing dynasty.”

Kang Xi thought for a moment, looked at Fourteenth Argo and said, “With you gone, what about the reform?”

“There I am,” Yongzheng busy then said: “you out of ideas, I go to do, to ensure a smooth and stable transition to the fourteenth brother back.”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (ninety-two)

At the hour of the first watch. The East Study of the Great General’s Royal Mansion.

The room was empty, with a huge table in the center, with a map of Qinghai spread out on it.

Fourteenth Argo’s left foot was on the sub, holding a few chess pieces in his hand and comparing them on the map, from time to time silently chanting something.

Jia Wu stood and looked around, seeing a bottle of Fen wine on the windowsill, and couldn’t help but want to try it.

Of course he couldn’t drink it alone, so he poured a cup for 14th Argosy.

Fourteenth Argo looked up: “Oh, Baoyu, you haven’t gone back yet?” Said, took the cup of wine and drank it all in one go.

Jia Wu also poured himself a cup: “I thought about it, you’d better not go to Qinghai. There are many crises in Beijing, and the anti-reform forces are always on the move. You don’t want to be caught in someone else’s plan to move the tiger away from the mountain.”

Fourteenth Argo let out a long sigh: “I also know that the Qinghai war is suspicious. But a man has to do something, something not to do. That Qinghai Abutan is scabies and eclampsia disease, but he colluded with several tribes in Xinjiang, and collusion with Russia. If the front generals centrifugal, once defeated, the Russians will take advantage of the situation, beyond the Yumen Pass, will not be my China’s all. My safety is not enough to worry about, if the great mountains and rivers fall into the hands of the Russians, I am a thousand years of sinners.”

Jia Wu was holding his wine glass, dumbfounded and didn’t know what to say. Fourteenth Argo came over and patted him on the shoulder, “Don’t worry about me, I am blessed with a great life and great fortune. By the way, how’s your martial arts training going, fight all the way to show me.”

Jia Wu put down his glass of wine and punched the Four Image Fist. Fourteenth Brother nodded his head as he watched, “Well, the progress isn’t too slow, you can maneuver around with second and third-rate martial arts masters. I got a good dagger the other day, it cuts gold and jade, I’ll give it to you.”

Fourteenth Argo pulled open the drawer to look for the dagger. Jia Wu wiped his sweat while coming over, and suddenly saw a flash of red light in the drawer, so he curiously reached for it: “What is this?”

Fourteenth Brother said awkwardly, “Nothing…” and just as he was about to stop him, Jia Wu had already pulled out the object, and he took a closer look at it and was shocked, “This, isn’t this the red silk half of the treasure map? The handwriting is similar.”

Fourteenth Ahgor was also taken aback: what that girl gave him was actually a treasure map? Why did she give it to him?

It seems that the Jia Mansion is really a place of hidden dragons and crouching tigers.

Jia Wu put the red damask into his arms: “First let me take it back and compare it to see if it can match, how did it get into your hands?”

Fourteenth Ahgor was just about to say something when he suddenly heard light footsteps outside and shouted, “What kind of person!”

A ghostly voice came from the courtyard: “Can’t you even hear me?”

Fourteenth Argo scurried out and grabbed the man’s hand: “You? It’s you? Chun’er, why are you here?”

A slim figure flashed out behind Concubine Jia: “Great General Wang is good, I’m the one who brought her here.”

This time it was Jia Wu’s turn to be pleasantly surprised, and he hurriedly ran up: “Qingwen, Sister Qingwen, ah ah ah, but wanted to kill me!”

Half a year has not seen, Qingwen seems to be thinner, eyes also look bigger, she smiled and nodded Jia Wu’s forehead: “You ah, is sweet-talking!”

Fourteenth Argo and Consort Jia looked at each other in dismay, it had been a long time since they had been this close together, and were a bit at a loss as to what to do, especially with such a large son watching from the sidelines. Fourteenth Argo snapped and let go of Consort Jia’s hand: “Please sit inside.”

Jia Wu was just about to follow suit and head in, when Haruhi pulled him back, “Don’t go in, fool!”

Inside the room, Fourteenth Brother flicked his finger and the candle went out. Princess Jia fell limply into his arms.

After a long time, she whispered, “Brother, we’re not dreaming, are we?”

Fourteenth Arhats hugged Jia Fei tightly, large tears dripping down her face.

Outside the house, Qingwen looked up and down Jia five, people seem to grow taller and stronger, the corners of the mouth is also hidden now beard to, her heart jumped, pretending to be calm and said: “My master is sick, I have to go to the Changbai Mountain to her to go to collect medicine, passing through Beijing, make up as a showman to go to the house of Jia to see you. I heard that you into the palace, and then pretend to be a courtesan to find the palace. I didn’t see you, but saw the Queen sighing. I saw her in the palace, so I asked her where Baoyu had gone. She recognized me and told me that you had come to Fourteenth Brother’s residence, and asked me to bring her along.”

Jia Wu stroked the hair on Qingwen’s temples up: “Good sister, when will you come back to Yihongyuan again?”

Haruhi glanced at her: “Hmph, you think about your sister Lin all day long, where is me in your heart?”

Jia Wu was flabbergasted and didn’t know what to say. Haruhi nudged him on the nose: “You, womanizer. Alas, as long as a part of your heart belongs to me, I am satisfied.”

“Of course, of course,” Jia Wu said hurriedly, “I treat you the same as I do Sister Lin, and that day, Wu’er even said…” At the mention of Wu’er, his heart sank, and tears fell from his eyes, “Sister Ching Wen, I’m so sorry… Sister Wu’er is dead.”

“Stop it, I know, I know it all.” Haruna’s tears fell as well.

Inside the room, Concubine Jia sighed: “Ah Brother, how I want to die in your arms just like this.”

Fourteenth Argo gently kissed her hair: “Chun’er, insist on living, we will be fine, we will be fine.”

Three clappers sounded in the distance, it was the third watch.

Concubine Jia struggled out of Fourteenth Argo’s arms: ”It’s late, I have to ask Qingwen to send me back. I came here because I heard Qin Liu and Zhao Chang muttering together about how the Fourteenth Brother would do it as soon as he left, and about the Emperor’s medicine, and how the Fourth Brother had nodded his head. I think they’re brewing a big plot, and once you’re gone, I’m afraid something big is going to happen, and even the Emperor is in danger.”

Fourteenth Argo smiled: “I have received the decree, how can I not go? Although the fourth brother’s heart is not right, but also not to do to kill his father’s treacherous things to. This way, just in case, I and the eighth brother there to explain, want him to pay attention to the movement of the dynasty.”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (Ninety-three)

“Old Eight?” Concubine Jia shook her head contemptuously, “He overstates his case and is too ambitious, where is he a match for Oldest Four?”

“But there is still the emperor,” fourteenth brother comforted her, said: “the emperor is wise and decisive, kill ao bai, flat three feuds, the fourth brother is afraid of the emperor is afraid of death, how dare to have bad intentions.”

“Alas,” Concubine Jia sighed: “His Majesty’s spirit is also not as good as it used to be, especially after drinking Old Four’s medicinal wine, I always suspected that there was something odd in there, and I didn’t dare to tell His Majesty about it.”

Fourteenth Argo’s heart sank and he didn’t know what to say.

Jia Fei leaned her head on his shoulder: “I also heard Qin Liu and Zhao Chang say: General Nian’s place is also ready, could it be that they want to count on you?”

“Nian Juan Yao?” Fourteenth Argo sneered, “I’m afraid he doesn’t have the guts!”

“Why not? His heart is black,” Princess Jia said indignantly, “Why don’t you just kill him as soon as you return to Qinghai?”

Fourteenth Argo laughed: “As a marshal, there is no conclusive evidence, how can kill it, to be everything in the right place, in order to return the soldiers to the heart.”

“What?” Concubine Jia said disgruntledly, “You just can’t be bothered to move him for the sake of his sister!”

“Look at you, what kind of flying jealousy,” Fourteenth Argo took Jia Fei in his arms and gently kissed her neck, remembering violently the girl who had thrown him the red damask from upstairs that night, and a wave of uneasiness welled up in his heart.

Moonlight shone through the window, and when Princess Jia moved, a green light flashed on her neck. Fourteenth Brother grabbed, is a jasper Buddha elephant, tied to the gold chain, hanging in Jia Fei’s chest. Fourteenth Argo knew that Jia Fei believed in Taoism, so he asked strangely, “Why are you also wearing a Buddhist elephant?”

Jia Fei looked down: “Ao, this ah, is Baoyu gave me, he said it is a jianghu foreigner gave him, said can ward off evil spirits.”

Fourteenth Argo kissed Jia Fei’s ear: “Thank you for giving me Baoyu, he’s such a good boy.”

Concubine Jia sighed: “Sometimes, I think my life is really bitter, but then again, compared to the other people in the palace, I have you to think about me, and have Baoyu, much better than them.”

Outside the house, in the moonlight.

Jia Wu stared blankly at Qingwen out of his mind. Half a year had passed since he had not seen her, Qingwen was even more beautiful, especially in her tights, her body ena concave and convex, her curves showing, he could not help but think of the time he had just come to the Jia residence and kissed Qingwen under the moonlight, and he only felt a burst of heat in his heart.

“Hey, what are you thinking?” Haruna laughed and tugged on his ear.

“I,” said Jia Wu, a little embarrassed, interrupting: “In the past few months, there have been a lot of things going on in the house. You’ve seen that pretty nun in our House Nunnery, right? The one called Miaoyu, she is a descendant of the former Ming Dynasty, want to fight against the Qing Dynasty to restore the Ming Dynasty.”

Jia Wu told Qingwen how he overheard the conversation between Miao Yu and Liu Xianglian, and when he said that King Fu’s three sons had changed their names to Lin Ruhai, Liu Ruhai, and Lv Ruhai, Qingwen nodded her head, “That’s right, my father’s name is Lv Ruhai.”

“Huh? In that case, is it possible that you are also…” Ja V was taken aback: “Well, how come you never told me that you are a descendant of the former Ming?” Jia Wu’s heart was a little sour.

“Don’t be angry,” Qingwen took his hand affectionately, “I only learned about it from my father when I met him in Jiangnan this time. Alas, my father has been repeating to me that he wants me to help them fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.”

Jia Wu sighed, not knowing what to say.

Qingwen went on to say: “I told him that the Ming Dynasty lost the kingdom because the court was corrupt and the people were not happy. Nowadays, the emperor is much clearer than the Ming Dynasty, and the people’s life is much better, especially at present, we are carrying out a change of law, to return the government to the people. We can’t be letting China bleed to death for the sake of our own selfishness of one name. He then scolded me, saying that I forgot my ancestors and wanted to be a traitor.” Saying this, he shed tears.

Jia Wu was busy helping Qingwen wipe away her tears: “Good sister, I’ve wronged you.”

“Alas, you don’t know yet, they’ve organized a Heaven and Earth Society in Jiangnan, and have already colluded with the Fourth Arhats and the others.”

Jia Wu was shocked and asked, “How did they get together?”

“The people of the Fourth Argo are in Jiangnan stringing together people who oppose reforms, and Tiandi would like to take the opportunity to assist the Fourth Argo to become the Emperor, create their own power, and then put Hongli, that is, that cousin of mine, and then help him to the throne, and will not it be the world of the Zhu family again.”

Jia Wu held onto Qingwen tightly: “Good sister, you can’t get involved with them.”

Qingwen sighed and said: “I know, you change the law is for the benefit of the country and the people, but on that side are my relatives, I have to secretly help you. If my father found out, he would be furious.”

Jia Wu frowned and said, “This is also a coincidence, how come Prince Yong’s Fujin just happened to replace your Zhu family’s child?”

“What a coincidence,” shook her head: “They had all planned it out: the Chen family were all members of the Tiandi Society. As soon as the child of the Lin family was born, someone immediately went to the Yong Wang Mansion to report, calling Fujin to replace the child, hoping that one day this child, Hongli, would become the crown prince.”

Jia Wu secretly pondered in his heart: this is also quite a coincidence, how did Tiandi know that Fujin wanted to change the child?

Could it be that Fujin has also joined the Tien-Di Association?

At this moment, the door of the room opened, the fourteenth elder brother and Jia Fei came out, the four of them reluctantly said goodbye. Fourteenth Argo pulled over his own jade buckskin: “Baoyu, you take them on a horseback ride, so that Qingwen can save her strength as well.”

Jia Wu helped Jia Fei onto the horse, himself and Qingwen sat back and forth, gently loosening the rope, a horse and three people disappeared into the night.

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (Ninety-four)

Kang Xi tossed and turned, unable to sleep. Since Dr. Shi told him to take care of his health and not to get close to women, he has been sleeping alone for more than a year. Today, during the day and Mike talked to the day, Mike told him Newton’s three laws, but also with ice chipped a three mirrors to give him a demonstration of spectroscopy: they hid in a dark room, open the window a small slit, when the sunlight on the three mirrors, divided into a rainbow of colors, Kang Xi was excited like a child.

Mike also told him the story of the three equations competition: two hundred years ago or so, there is an Italian mathematician called Phil, he found a special three equations of the solution to another mathematician Tartanella jump war: in a public place, each person to the other side to ask 30 questions, within 50 days, who can first solve the other side of the answer, who will win. Tatanya has long heard that Phil has found some kind of cubic equation solution, after receiving the letter of war to lock themselves in the study, meditating on cubic equations. As a result, he found a general solution to the cubic equation. On the day of the match, he received Phil’s questions and saw that all 30 questions were all about cubic equations. Tatanya laughed up at the sky and answered Phil’s 30 questions in one hour, winning the match.

Kang Xi listened to the leisurely fascination, in the math field to kill each other to the ground, to be more enjoyable than in the martial arts practice.

Mike then told him the solution to the cubic equation. Primary and secondary equations are very easy to solve, Kang Xi himself will be, and South Huairen learn, but three equations, South Huairen will not be, when Kang Xi himself painstakingly studied for three days, there is no result. Now know to understand the law, simply happy to dance and mourn, and immediately found a number of topics to try, and it is true. He said with emotion to Mike: Now I know what Confucius said “heard the Tao, death can be carried out overnight” is what it means.

Thinking of “death”, Kang Xi could not help but be shocked. Originally he and most heroes and great men, do not believe that they will die. However, this year, feel the spirit is not as good as before, even a little tired of life.

He himself assumed the throne at less than ten years of age, and it has been 61 years since then, more than any other emperor in history.

Own tackle Aobay, flat three clans, everyone says he was born God, wise and decisive, only their own hearts understand, is trembling with fear and trembling, such as walking on thin ice, if it is not their own good luck, long ago, I do not know how many times to die. Their own in recent years, some of the soft heart, immediately is corrupt officials all over the world. Hard ah. Own these sons, talent has no one compared to their own, only the old fourteen and their own as if, but he can have their own luck so good?

The imperial case on the autoharp clock when the local rang twice, is the ugly time. Western manpower is really clever, can make bells, guns, math, science is also much ahead of China. Fortunately, there is an ocean apart, otherwise if the foreigners hit over, how to resist it? Ministers in the court will only drop the bag of books, know nothing about science and technology, it seems that this law is not changed can not be. Own change of law, that is for the country for the people, but also stored a selfishness in it, if the implementation of the constitutional monarchy, the emperor’s power is small, others will not try to murder the emperor, are going to compete for the strength of the prime minister to go, so that we can protect our children and grandchildren from the tea poison ah.

However, the change of law will touch the eight banners nobles and the dynasty of the immediate interests of the big players, the old fourteen also feel that it is a step by step thorns. This time to send him to Qinghai is not appropriate? Recently, I always feel overwhelmed, if Lao XIV went, will someone take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble? Jiangning weaver Cao Yin’s secret folding said: the old four using the anti-corruption opportunity, party camping, he killed Cheng Ke and Hu Qing are to silence. The old fourteen scheduled to leave the capital tomorrow at noon, why not let his brother and sister swap, told the old four to go to Qinghai to lead the troops, leaving the old fourteen to rectify the rule of law.

In a daze, Kang Xi suddenly felt a flash of red light in front of him, he opened his eyes and a young girl in red was sitting in front of him with a smile. “Xiaochuan, it’s you!” Kang Xi was shocked and delighted. The girl ran her finger across her face: “Cheap bastard! No shame, cheap bastard!” Kang Xi was busy reaching out to grab her, the girl floated towards the door and flew away.

Kang Xi hurriedly chased him to the door, which was a wilderness. A kui enlightened man carrying his own hair toward him, suddenly shouted: “Give me back my head!” KangXi fixed his eyes, it is AoBai. The ao bai laughed and pulled his head out of the cavity, threw to kang xi, kang xi was caught off guard, can not help but to catch the head in the hands. The head suddenly turned into Wu Sangui again, winked at Kang Xi: “Why does your majesty want to withdraw the clan? The old minister had to rebel.” Kang Xi threw the head, turned to run, a sneaky figure flashed over, it is Qin Liu: “Your Majesty, I found that Yuan Fei and 14th A-Go have an affair.” Kang Xi was furious, a foot Qin Liu kicked away. Behind him turned out fourteenth brother: “Father, I will go to Qinghai, say goodbye to you.” Kang Xi was just about to reach out to pull Fourteenth Brother, when a masked man suddenly flashed out, holding a dagger and stabbing at the back of Fourteenth Brother’s heart.

Kang Xi yelled and woke up. His heart was still beating wildly. Thinking about the old fourteen’s martial arts, no one should be able to assassinate him. But the most powerful martial arts in the world is not martial arts, but plotting and scheming, Lao XIV is kind-hearted, I am afraid that it is very easy to fall into other people’s traps.

Little eunuch came to help Kang Xi put on his clothes, the palace maids called the water to him to freshen up. Kang Xi fixed his mind, said to the little eunuch: “you to the South Study Room to say, I do not go to court today. And then asked Zhang Tingyu draft an edict, told the old four to go to Qinghai town, the old fourteen to stay to rectify the rule of law. After the edict is written, bring it to Changchun Palace for me to see.”

The sky is cloudy, drifting light snow, the ground has accumulated a thin layer. Kangxi put on a sable cloak, stepping on the snow toward the Changchun Palace.

Jia Fei came back in the early morning, just went to sleep, heard that Kang Xi came, but also too late to dress up, scrambled to get up to receive the driver. See Jia Fei lazy and confused, hair scattered appearance, Kang Xi heart, Yuan Chun without cosmetics look like Yang Xiaochuan, he suddenly understood, he so loved Yuan Chun, the original is to take her as Yang Xiaochuan’s shadow. Thinking of this, he sighed deeply.

Concubine Jia served Kang Xi a cup of Pu’er tea: “Your Majesty, why did you get up so early today?”

Kangxi smiled: “I thought about it, the change of law in the dynasty is at a critical moment, why don’t we leave the old fourteenth behind and let the old fourth go to Qinghai for him.”

Concubine Jia was overjoyed, pounced forward, pulling Kang Xi’s hand: “Your Majesty is wise, then you will quickly give the decree!”

A familiar aroma rushed into Kang Xi’s nose. It was the scent of the dragon meander incense that had been imported from France, which he had only rewarded Old Fourteen with, so how could he smell it on Yuanchun? Could it be that they really had something? His ears resounded again with Qin Liu’s words in his dream: “Your Majesty, I found out that Consort Yuan had an affair with the 14th Argo.”

Kang Xi sneered: “Why do you care so much about 14th Argo ah?”

Concubine Jia was startled and fell to her knees with a thud: “I wouldn’t dare! I don’t dare!”

Kang Xi only felt jealousy, and his temples throbbed with pain. He squinted his eyes and looked out, a row of footprints on the snowy ground led all the way to the root of the wall. He knew that this wall would not be able to stop Old Fourteen at all, could it be that he had been here?

Jia Fei’s maid picks the qin and timidly walks over, “Hurray, university scholar Zhang Tingyu seeks an audience.”

Kang Xi hummed: “Tell him to come in.” And said to Princess Jia: “You first retire.”

Zhang Tingyu was scared when he heard the eunuch’s message. His wife’s embezzlement has been discovered, but fortunately, the Fourth Argo has covered up. If changed into the fourteenth brother to the trial, their own non-degenerate reputation can not be. Think about it, or have to persuade the emperor not to change his mind.

Zhang Tingyu to Kangxi, stood up and said: “Your Majesty, the Qinghai war loss of the country shook, Jiangnan’s Tien-Di Association, the Saffron Society, the North of the White Lotus Sect, the Martyrs Sect all want to move. The Fourth Brother has never fought a war before, if you send him to Qinghai, I am afraid that it is difficult to be sure of victory. If there is a great defeat ahead, the unruly people in the north and south of the river will then rebel together, and my Ching’s kingdom will be in bad shape.”

Kang Xi, on the one hand, his own headache is terrible, on the other hand, he is annoyed that the old fourteenth seduced Yuanchun, on the third hand, he heard Zhang Tingyu said seems to have a reason, he is too lazy to think too much, so he said: “Well then, everything remains unchanged. I’m not feeling well today, you go send Old Fourteen for me.”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (Ninety-five)

In front of Tiananmen Square, by the Jinshui Bridge.

Wu Sidao saw Yongzheng walk out from Tian’anmen and hurriedly led his horse to welcome him: “Your Majesty, why are you out so early?”

Yongzheng hemmed and hawed: “The old man is sick again today, not on the court.”

Wu Sidao pulled out a letter from his bosom: “Li Wei sent the news that the 14th Arhats have already crossed the Yellow River.”

“Good, good,” Yongzheng nodded happily, he looked at the sky full of cloudy clouds, slowly read: “sunset clouds at the beginning of the sun sinking pavilion, the mountain rain wants to be full of buildings, is about to change the sky.”

Of course, Wu Sidao could hear something in his words, so he stepped forward and said, “You are right. Qin Liu just came to report that he did what you told him to do, and the Emperor has been giving Lady Jia a hard time these past few days.”

Yongzheng smiled and stroked his beard. It was ten days ago, a monk from India taught him a hypnotic suggestion method. So he ordered Qin Liu, whenever Kang Xi fell asleep, in his ear repeatedly recited: “Emperor, slave found that Yuan Fei and fourteenth A brother had an affair. Emperor, I found that Yuan Fei and fourteenth brother had an affair.” I hope that Kangxi can receive hints, on the old fourteen and Jia Fei have bad feelings. It seems that this monk’s tricks are quite effective.

Hongli hurriedly ran over: “Father, according to your command, the eight banners of the general soldier above the military officials are in Zhongnanhai Huairen Hall waiting for your lecture.”

Yongzheng flew onto his horse and beckoned to Wu Sidao: “Let’s go.”

Zhongnanhai, Huai Ren Hall.

The house set up a lot of charcoal pots, the eight banners military officers three pile, five a group around the charcoal pots to chat. The military people get together, of course, is to curse, talk about fighting, talk about women.

A black thin man took out a piece of jade pendant from his bosom: “Broken shoes old hair, you come to see me with a piece of jade, is used by Wu Zetian, only cost 800 taels of silver.”

Lao Mao is the military generals love to dance in one of the ink, looks tall and fat, but gave birth to a woman’s face, a beard is not long. He always wore a pair of worn-out and old boots, which earned him the nickname “Broken Shoes”. He was originally the son of a bandit in western Hunan, and then his father was recruited to level the Sanfan when he made a merit. When he was about to be rewarded, his father suddenly died. So the emperor remembered the meritorious officials, so he was authorized to join the flag, and was appointed as a general soldier. Some people also say that it was Lao Mao and his father’s little wife fornication, was found by the old man, scolded. He had a grudge and gave Pops a pair of fine leather boots and put poison in the lining of the soles of the boots. When he first wore them, he was fine, but after a long time, the sweat on his feet soaked the soles of the boots, and the poison seeped up, poisoning him to death. From then on, Lao Mao himself fell heart disease, afraid of poisoning, do not dare to wear new shoes. Bought new shoes have to servants to wear old, they dare to wear.

Old Mao took over and looked carefully: “Well, Zetian Da Sheng Emperor special, the Tang Kaiyuan three years imperial.” He couldn’t help but laugh out loud: “Lao Fu ah, you’ve been fooled, this is a fake, Kaiyuan is the year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, several decades later than Wu Zetian.”

The crowd laughed loudly, the old pay face a bit hanging: “Hey, you have what good things ah, take out let us open eyes.”

“Haha, look at this,” Old Mao took out a fan from his waist and opened it proudly: “Qiu Jiuzhou painted the Spring Palace.”

The fan depicts a mountain with white clouds and a white-bearded general on the mountain holding a naked beauty shouting something down the mountain. Under the mountain, weapons, wine, chopsticks, cups and lanterns were thrown all over the place, and each soldier was holding a woman in love. On the right side of the fan, it was written: “Flying General Li Guang Dang Feasts on Baiyun Mountain”.

The military officials looked at the heart of the hot, could not stop shouting good. The old pay doubtfully asked: “You have what allusion? How I have not heard of.”

Old Mao smiled and said: “This is our Hunan legend, Li Guang love soldiers like sons, before the last expedition to the Xiong Nu, dumped the whole family’s property, under the Baiyun Mountain to recruit prostitutes 3,000, hospitality to their own soldiers.”

Wu Sidao walked to the door of Huai Ren Hall, was about to push the door in, Yongzheng pulled him: “Let’s listen to it first.”

Lao Fu carefully looked at the fan: “Lao Mao, you are not quite fucking elegant, why don’t you write a poem on it?”

Old Mao hemmed and hawed: “Well, how hard can it be for me? Bring me a pen and ink.” The attendants brought over a table and arranged the ink and pen. Old Mao licked the tip of the pen with his tongue: “Okay, let’s write him a song, let’s call it ‘Fisherman’s Pride’.”

With that, he wrote on his fan: “The clouds at the top of Baiyun Mountain want to stand”, and the crowd burst into laughter. Although they were military officials, they all knew what “cloud” meant here.

Lao Mao then wrote: “White Cloud Mountain under the call rush”, we look at the fan on the soldiers and prostitutes shouting, laughing even more cheerfully.

Old Mao also wrote: “withered wood and rotten plants and efforts”, to here suddenly stuck shell, he rested his fat chin in deep thought.

A fat red man squeezed over: “Old pay, you kid said to go to the ransom jade pear garden of the young boy, how the fuck no following it?”

“Bah!” Old pay a stomp: “Grandma, I have no money! Old fourteen reforms, called for the abolition of the eight banners privileges, we have no one to support the field, no one to send gifts, net a few salaries, even the northwest wind can not drink enough na!”

This resonated with everyone who complained.

“I can’t collect my rent either, and they who are working on the change of law say the rent can’t be more than 40%.”

“I can’t collect on my debts either, and the Reform Party has ruled that the annual interest rate can’t exceed fifty percent.”

“My sons are refusing to study, saying that the imperial examinations are being abolished.”

“What elections are being practiced! There are so many Han Chinese, won’t it make us Manchus second-class people!”

“Fourth Ahgor said he would help us speak, why don’t we even see him fart!”

Lao Fu slammed the table: “What the fuck Lao Si, just fucking play with people!”

Yongzheng’s face immediately sank. Wusidao pulled the corner of his coat: “Your Highness, they are all rough people, you can’t afford to get angry with them.”

Yongzheng shook his hand: “Let’s go! Let’s go in!”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (Ninety-six)

As soon as the three Yongzheng people came in, the room was quiet. All the people have to give Yongzheng a good day, only the old pay desperately shrink back.

Yongzheng did not move, walked to the table in front of, picked up the fan read: “white cloud mountain head clouds want to stand, white cloud mountain under the call of the rapid, withered wood and rotten plants all efforts. Hey, hey! You this Spring Palace words spring is not enough well.”

Old Mao panderingly came up and said, “I am not knowledgeable, please correct me, Your Majesty.”

Yongzheng big prickly sitting on the son: “good, then I’m not polite.” Said to lift the pen, wrote heavily: “the gun is forcing,” Usidao and Hongli saw a big surprise, Prince Yong has always been a dignified, how to write such a vulgar and nasty thing?

The military officials present are all big old men, most of them hate the sour literati poetry. Now see the Prince of Yong to everyone commonly used to curse foul language written into poetry, can not help but feel that the Prince of Yong and their own proximity to a lot of, the whole scene of a laughter, applauded, applauded, there are people whistling loudly.

Laughing, Yongzheng then wrote: “Flying General from the heavy sky into.”

“Good poem, good poem,” Old Mao loudly applauded: “Your Majesty, this fan can be my family’s heirloom, my Mao family must be passed on from generation to generation!” Two hundred years later, his descendants renewed the second half of the poem and counted it as their own masterpiece.

Yongzheng wrote, the pen slammed, jumped on the table: “Eight banners brothers, you good ah!”

The crowd replied in unison: “Good day, Prince Yong!”

Yongzheng stroked his beard: “Long time no see, I really miss you guys, you also miss me, right? Just now I also heard someone chanting me: what a dick old four!”

The room immediately became silent. Old Pay’s face turned pale and his legs began to shiver.

Yongzheng looked around the crowd, a slight smile: “We Manchurian eight banners, are all life brothers. If I’m a dick, you guys are all fucking dick hairs around me. Plucked that one of you I have pain, you bunch of bastard son of a bitch!”

The crowd heard the first stunned, immediately back to the flavor. The atmosphere in the room immediately eased down, some people began to eat and laugh, laughing more and more people, gradually turned into a laughter.

Wu Sido can not help but admire Yongzheng. Don’t look at his usual unsmiling, dare to see what people say what words, foul language can actually say so slippery whoosh, really a world of lords ah!

Yongzheng waved his hand to let everyone quiet down: “brothers, I know you suffer these days. The old fourteen that bastard boy, follow the foreigners to learn, engage in what reform, pure number of fucking a traitor! Although he is my own brother, I can’t spare him. He is the emperor, what Manchu and Han equality, this world is our Manchurian eight banners throw our heads and blood to fight down, how can we give back to the Han people! His old fourteen reform fucked our mother for forty days, now, we also want to fuck his mother!”

Wu Sidao couldn’t help but laugh at this: “You and Old Fourteen were raised by the same mother, isn’t this clearly cursing yourself?”

The gang of military officials heard cursing, immediately came to the spirit. The old pay also slowed down the spirit, led the shouting: “Fuck his fourteenth brother’s mother!”

Hongli glared fiercely at Lao Fu, Lao Fu only realized the taste, busy changing his tone and shouted: “Resolutely support Prince Yong! Down with the 14th Argo!”

Yongzheng smiled and nodded to the old pay, and then said : “Now that his old fourteenth left the capital, we have to persuade the emperor, for the sake of the Qing dynasty, must adhere to the law of the ancestors, abolish the reform.”

“But what if the Emperor doesn’t listen?” Old Mao asked timidly.

“Hey, history is not a military admonition?” Yongzheng made a righteous look: “For the interests of the eight banners and die, is to die well. I give you this lead. Beginning to do the commissioner, it does not have after? I do not have a descendant!”

Hongli was shocked to hear that, how do you say there is no more queen? Could it be that he knows that I am not his biological son? Thinking of this, the face is like death.

Yongzheng consciously said away from the mouth, coughed staff, and then said: “Today I brought you all here, just want to make a heart with you, for the sake of my eight banners of the interests of my old four resolutely against the reform!”

The presence of the eight banners of the generals were dissatisfied with the reform, a see the fourth brother out of the leader, all feel the spirit of the spirit, and shouted. The old pay is particularly active, leading the leader to shout slogans: “resolutely opposed to reform!”

“Swear to follow Prince Yong to the death!”

“Kill 200,000 of his people and keep it stable for 200 years!”

Yongzheng proudly shouted to the door: “Bring wine!”

A team of guards walked in carrying a dozen or so wine jars. Opening the seals, a fragrance of wine immediately filled the room.

Yongzheng ordered the guards to pour a bowl of wine for each person. He himself raised the bowl high: “From today onwards, I, Lao Si, and all of you share the same blessings and misfortunes. If you can trust me, drink to me!”

Most of the military officials are drunkards, see the wine like hungry wolves see meat, immediately drink up. While drinking, they shouted: “Fortunes and misfortunes together! Fortunes and misfortunes are in common! Fortunes and misfortunes together!”

Yongzheng quietly pulled the old pay to one side: “You go to the Guanwai trip, pass my order, transfer the 38th Army into the capital overnight!”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (Ninety-seven)

The sky was overcast and a light snow was slowly drifting.

Hongli’s face was so gloomy that it was scary, and his heart was so irritated: “What does father mean by ‘I will have no queen’? Could it be that he has realized that I am not his son? Alas, if I had killed Lin Daiyu earlier, it would have been better.” He pulled open the drawer, took out the portrait of Lin Daiyu that Jia Huan gave him, scrutinized it carefully: “Lin Daiyu this little girl is really beautiful, and there is a kind of unearthly fairy atmosphere, I always felt that I couldn’t do it before, but now I can’t care about that much. However, Jia Baoyu that boy martial arts is not inferior to himself, and then go to kill Lin Daiyu have to call on a helper, might as well coax Myuyu to come to give himself a hand.” Hongli thought here, two eyes through a burst of fierce light.

Prince Yong Fujin walked past the door and saw Hongli sitting dumbly with a murderous look on his face through the half-covered doorway, so he strangely pushed the door and walked in: “Child, what are you doing?”

Hiroshi jolted awake: “No, nothing.”

Fujin came over and picked up the portrait on the table: “Oh, you’re old enough to know that you want a woman. Who is this chick? So pretty.”

Fujin’s eyes fell to a column of small letters in the lower left corner: Lin Ruhai’s daughter, Lin Daiyu. She was suddenly flabbergasted, her eyes staring blankly at the portrait.

After a long time, her face gradually clouded down, turned to Hiroshi: “It seems that you know all the secrets here, is not it?”

Hiroshi was so embarrassed that he didn’t know what to say.

Fujin pointed at Hongli’s nose: “I tell you, I don’t care what you do, but if you dare to touch a hair on Lin Daiyu’s head, I’ll chop you alive!” Said, put Daiyu’s portrait in his arms, angry away.

It was getting dark, and the snow outside was getting heavier and heavier.

Daiyu sat in front of the window, opened it and looked at the snowflakes flying in the sky. “Snow is not cold to melt snow cold”, with the window drifting in the snow flakes fall on the face itchy. When I was a child in Suzhou, there was also such a big snow, but the snowflakes melted as soon as they touched the ground, and only a thin layer could be built up on the lawn. She wore brand-new tiger shoes, go to the snow on the squeaky sound. Seeing no one around, she took off one of her shoes and her socks, and carefully stepped on the snow with her bare feet. A cool, marring feeling, itchy to their own laughter. Grandma Li rushed over, picked her up, and despite her protests, scratched her feet a few times, dried them, put on her shoes and socks, and then led her in a song: “Such a beautiful day, with snowflakes, and such a nice girl’s bare feet…” (Mar.)

In the blink of an eye, he came to Jiafu has been almost ten years, from a small girl who does not know the world has grown into a big girl. When a man is old enough to get married, when a woman is old enough to get married, will she marry Baoyu in the future? Thinking of this, Daiyu could not help but blush for a while. She had just met Bao Yu in the Jia residence, she had quarreled with him over the Baochai, he had killed the python, he had been beaten up, he had studied the red damask with her, and… scenes and images had swept through her mind. Bao Yu had also told Zi Juan that Fourteenth Brother had agreed to Bao Yu’s marriage to himself.

The corner of Dai Yu’s mouth floated up a smile: it was really a case of fate and fortune, Baoyu was actually the son of the 14th Ajusshi and the Niangniang, while she herself was the daughter of the 4th Ajusshi. Originally cousins, now cousins. But, aren’t cousins not allowed to get married? Daiyu’s brow furrowed: in fact, aunt cousin siblings and cousin siblings, in terms of blood distance are the same, so why can’t they get married just because they share the same surname? However, this is a Han Chinese rule, the 14th and 4th Aggies are Manchus, so maybe they don’t care about that?

Daiyu sighed, she always found it so hard to believe that she was the daughter of the Fourth Brother, he was so insidious and poisonous, scheming and murderous, how could she have his blood in her body?

The snow has stopped. The moonlight reflected on the snow, like the daytime. A few crows flew down from the trees, jumping on the snow, flap claw marks on the white snow, and then suddenly jumped to the plum branches, snow powder rustling down.

A little red light flashed, and Dai Yu then noticed that the plum blossoms had already bloomed, having been covered by snow.

Plum blossoms as red as blood, clad in crystalline snowflakes, flickered with a jump. Daiyu could not help but think of her own spring burial of flowers, and then it was almost another year. Alas, why do plum blossoms bloom in winter? So cold, lonely, not even leaves, so poor.

Eyes feel dry and astringent, how these days the tears seem to be less? Daiyu sighed, opened the ink cartridge, dipped the pen, wrote: “Winged Plum not meet the spring wind hair a branch, the flower bloom why wait for the flower time,” alas, born at the wrong time, the flower is still so, how can people be embarrassed? Daiyu suddenly felt that this plum blossom is so kind, and wrote: “the wind and the silver pot of fire, with the snow incense urging poetry under the moon.”

The beauty of the plum blossom is in the beauty of a proud, do not flatter the world’s proud, not for the world to tolerate the arrogance. A light fragrance of plum blossoms floated over, the fragrance seems to have infinite tenderness. Daiyu raised her head to look, the snow on the plum petals has begun to melt, a little crystal water droplets. Daiyu continued to write: “proud bone frost thousands of miles of dreams, tenderness into the water a few years of thought,” the distance suddenly drifted a lingering flute sound, as if it is the Jiangnan lotus picking song, they want to go back to suzhou to see, “who is the jade flute dark sound, scattered into the spring breeze full of luocheng, the night in the song heard the folded willow, why do not the people do not feel the love of his hometown! “. Daiyu’s eyes filled with tears again. Low chanting: “no reason is the most hometown song, suddenly up in front of the hall people half crazy.”

Suddenly there was a burst of laughter from behind her: “Sister Lin, are you writing poems again?”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (98)

Daiyu turned to look, it was Baochai, busy getting up to give way: “sister how to brave the snow to come?” Suddenly remembered: “Just now you called me what? How did you change your name?”

Baochai used her hand to pinch Daiyu’s nose: “Called you Lin sister ah, how, Baoyu can call, I can not call?”

Daiyu blushed and opened Baochai’s hand with a “bah”.

Baochai smiled and picked up the poetry manuscript on the table: “Well, knitting, your poetry is getting better and better.”

Daiyu also smiled and said, “You, you want to make fun of me again, don’t you?”

“Where, where, good is good,” Baochai said while reading: “your first two lines ‘before the spring breeze hair a branch, flowers bloom why wait for the time of flowers’, easy to use, natural and smooth. The most important thing in starting a poem is to start it off on a high note. Like Li Shangyin’s ‘It’s hard to say goodbye when you meet each other, the east wind is powerless and hundreds of flowers are left in ruins’; Han Yu’s ‘A letter was sent to the nine heavens in the morning, and was relegated to the Chaozhou road at the end of the day, 8,000’; and Wei Yingwu’s ‘Last year I met you in the flowers to bid you goodbye, but the flowers bloomed again today’, they are all excellent poems. These are all excellent works. If they are far-fetched, they will be inferior. Like Huang Tingjian’s ‘festive Qingming peach and plum smile, wild fields and barren graves only sorrow’, smile word used in the raw tight, seemingly tricky in fact clumsy. There is also that who’s come, what ‘a high city ten thousand miles of sadness’.”

At that, Jia Wu walked in: “Sister Lin, Sister Bao, what are you talking about so happily?”

Baochai laughed and said, “Your sister Lin is writing poems again, don’t come over to take a look.”

Jia Wu took over the poem and applauded: “The wind is angry with the silver basin fire, with the snow fragrance urges the poem under the moon; what a beautiful realm, the bright moon, the snow, the red plums are like fire, the dark fragrance is floating, urging people to put down their pen.”

Bao Hairpin said: “I still like the following sentence: the proud bone frost thousands of miles of dreams, tenderness into the water a few years of thought.

The pairing is also neat: pride against tenderness, frost against water, thousands of miles against years, dreams against thoughts.”

“Yes, the mood is also beautiful,” Jia Wu nodded: “several years of love, thousands of miles of ghostly dreams, clanking proud bones, watery tenderness, just like you two.”

Daiyu was listening to her thoughts, and when she heard Jia Wu say this, she couldn’t help but blush again: “Bah! Nonsense!”

Baochai put her hand on Daiyu’s shoulder: “Baoyu, have you written any poems? Bring it to us.”

Jia Wu thought for a moment and said, “Writing poetry is all about the mood. If you have a good line, you can ignore the level, the number of words, and the rhyme scheme. In fact, poetry changes with the times, and the form and style of each era is different.”

“That’s true,” said Baochai, nodding: “In the Poetry Scriptures handed down from the ancient times, there is something like ‘Kankanvatan Ruoxi’, and the style of Chu Rhetoric is also similar, something like ‘Qing Yun clothes are white neon dresses, lifting long The style is similar in the Chu Quotes, ‘The green clouds are dressed in white neon garments, the long yards are raised to shoot the wolves of the sky’, and Liu Bang’s song of the great winds, ‘The great wind rises and the clouds fly, the might of the sea returns to the homeland’, all of which have the elongated ‘Ruoxi’.

character. But by the end of the Han Dynasty, this ‘Ruoxi’ character began to disappear from the poems. Like Cao Cao’s ‘Sing to the Wine, What is the Geometry of Life,’ and Cao Fang’s ‘The Sharp Sword is not in the palm of your hand, why do you need many friends’.”

“This, probably so,” Daiyu interjected: “that year we took a boat to the capital, heard the people on both sides of the canal talking across the river: ‘You Ke (go) that point some – ‘ ‘Ke city selling Fish–‘that ‘something’!

It doesn’t make any sense. But as you know, it’s so far away, and you can hear it in a blur, so if two people grab the lead, no one will need to hear it. The meaning of this ‘some’ is to tell the other person that I have finished speaking and it is your turn to speak. In ancient times, when people were sparsely populated, they had to shout from afar, and the word ‘Ruoxi’ later became the word for ‘some’ in the countryside.”

“Heh heh, interesting,” Baochai said with a smile, “So you mean to say that since the Han Dynasty, China’s population has grown tremendously, and many cities have appeared, so people can speak in close proximity, and so ‘Ruoxi’ isn’t necessary? “

“It makes sense,” Jia Wu also said with a smile: “The ancients were literally chewing on words, probably for the same reason. Auxiliary words, is to help shouting only used. We are now speaking in the vernacular, but the official shouting is not the same to use what ‘ah’, ‘ah’, ‘what’, ‘this’, ‘that’, ‘this’, ‘that’, ‘that’. ‘ and ‘that’.

Well.”

“That’s true, poetry changes with language.” Debbie said.

Jia Wu nodded: “Later on, from Tang poetry to Song lyrics, to Yuan songs, the rules of this poetry are getting looser and looser. The ancients spoke in ancient languages, while we now speak in the vernacular, in fact, the vernacular can also become poetry.”

“Oh, have you seen any vernacular poetry?” Baochai asked curiously.

“Of course, I can write it, let me show you.” Jia Wu said, sat down, put pen to paper and wrote: “Do you love the sea? Do you love the blue sky?” Daiyu and Baochai laughed out together: “This is called poetry?”

Without answering, Jia Wu wrote again, “Can you own the sea? Can you have the blue sky?” Daiyu nodded: “Well, a little interesting.” Baochai smiled and looked at Jia Wu, he is really a smart child, I would like to have such a child in the future. Her heart suddenly surprised, why do I think of him as my own child? Could it be that in her heart she is still thinking of the 14th A-Go?

Jia Wu raised his head and smiled at Dai Yu, continuing to write: “Not being able to have, is not the same as not being able to love; on the contrary, sometimes, it will love more deeply.”

Baochai see here flabbergasted, how is like to say themselves? They are the descendants of Li Zicheng, and the fourteenth brother and have killed his father, it is impossible to marry him, but how can you always put him in your heart? She subconsciously pressed her chest, is the gold lock, the gold lock below is still chained to the night fourteenth brother gave her jade pendant.

“Injustice, injustice,” she said, feeling a blur before her eyes.

Daiyu repeatedly chewed these words: “can not have, is not the same as can not love; on the contrary, sometimes, will love more deeply.”

Can not help but sigh deeply. She turned her head to look at Baochai, and was about to say something when she saw Baochai’s face pale and trembling, so she reached out to help her: “Sister Bao, what’s wrong with you?”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (99)

Baochai tried to calm herself down, barely showing a hint of a smile: “No, nothing, I forgot to take the cold incense pills today, and I have a bit of a headache. I have to go back quickly to take my medicine.” Saying that, she hurriedly left.

Jia Wu just reached out to stay, Baochai has curled and went. Looking at the back of the hairpin, Jia five heart a move, sister Bao seems to have lost weight, since the copy of the Grand View Garden, she always seems to be preoccupied, as if they are also distant.

Dai Yu looked at the dazed Jia Wu, angry and amused, and pulled him a bit: “What’s wrong with you?”

Jia Wu as if waking up from a dream, stammered: “No ah, nothing happened.” He was embarrassed to put his hand back into the sleeve, touched a soft thing, suddenly remembered, and said: “Sister, you look at this.”

A red light flashed, Daiyu smiled and said: “Oh, isn’t it the piece of red damask that the two of us looked at the other day? Huh, how did it become two pieces? Where did you find that other piece?”

Jia Wu told Daiyu the original story of the day he saw the red damask from the Fourteenth Brother, and then he laid both pieces of red damask flat on the table.

“Well, this side should be right there, all right.” Daiyu helped Jia Wu put the two pieces of red damask together.

Two pieces of red damask came together to synthesize a map. A tall mountain peak with a small temple on top, and a large pine tree behind the temple. Under the pine tree, a path full of white flowers led straight to a small stream at the bottom of the mountain. There was a yellow cow lying in the stream and a big pine tree on the bank of the stream. Below the map was a poem: “After the old temple of Omei Golden Peak, the big pine tree was one zhang six in the east, a path of green stones and white flowers was thin, the yellow ox was lying in the water and the news came through, this Omei is not the other Omei, the water of the Nujiang River passed away and the colorful clouds were in the air.”

Daiyu attached her head and looked carefully: “Baoyu, look at this mark on this yellow cow, it seems like that piece of jade of yours.”

Jia Wu took off the jade from his neck and placed it next to the yellow ox on the painting: “Yes, it looks like it was made according to this mold.”

The two looked for a long time, Daiyu said: “Baoyu, you see ‘this Emei is not another Emei, the Nujiang River water passes by colorful clouds,’ as if to say that this is not the Emei Mountain in Sichuan, but an Emei Mountain by the Nujiang River.”

Jia Wu nodded and said, “Yes, but I haven’t heard of an Emei Mountain on the Nu River. And the Nu River is so long, which section should it be in?”

Daiyu thought: “This has to find a map later to carefully refer to the good only. However, the fourteenth brother is not finalized to be the crown prince, you still want this dry?”

“That being said, I always have an ominous feeling. I’m only afraid that Prince Yong is up to some plot.” Jia Wu suddenly remembered that Daiyu was Yongzheng’s daughter and busily stopped.

Daiyu was already in tears: “Alas, I know even if you don’t say it, he’s not a good person.”

Jia Wu didn’t know what to say, and reached out and pulled out his own handkerchief, gently wiping away Dai Yu’s tears.

Daiyu picked up the two pieces of red damask on the table: “This is a priceless treasure, don’t just put it around and lose it.

Well, how about this,” she stood up, opened the cabinet, and took out a needle and thread colander made of Xiangfei bamboo, “I’ll sew you a sweat scarf, and then sew them in it, and you tie it around you.”

Jia Wu nodded. Daiyu pulled a fuchsia-red wrought belt from the side of the pillow, compared it to Jia Wu’s waist, cut it with small silver scissors, laid it flat on the table, picked up a fine needle, threaded it with red silk thread, folded the two pieces of red damask into a long strip, smoothed it out, placed it on the wrought belt, and sewed it up, stitch by stitch.

The flickering candlelight reflected Daiyu’s face red, curved eyebrows below, a pair of deep big eyes flashing playful light. Jia Wu’s heart is hot, can not help but think of a Russian poet wrote a poem: “her eyes big? I don’t know, when a cannon is aimed at you and is about to shoot a shell, can you tell the size of its caliber?”

When Daiyu realized that Bao Yu was staring at her, she couldn’t help but feel her face heat up and the thread in her hand began to tremble slightly. She remembered that summer when she had taken a boat into Beijing and saw a little girl in a red dress embroidering under a willow tree by the side of the canal, singing, “A needle in a flower leads to a needle in a thread… a man doesn’t know the heart of a woman… “

A few tiny beads of sweat seeped out from Dai Yu’s forehead, and Jia Wu couldn’t help but feel a pang of heartache. Sister Lin’s body is too weak. He suddenly remembered “tears and died”, his heart was cold.

Perhaps only love and death are eternal in the world, and perhaps only by truly falling in love can one realize the true meaning of death. Jia Wu felt that something slowly floated out of his body and gently floated towards Daiyu. Was it his own soul? I don’t know, it’s just…

Daiyu finished the last stitch, picked up the scissors to cut the thread and said with a smile, “Oops, finally it’s done.” Said only felt a black eye, fell backward.

Jia Wu was startled and hurriedly grabbed a step forward, holding Dai Yu’s back with his left hand and pulling Dai Yu’s hand with his right hand: “Sister, sister, what’s wrong with you?”

Daiyu tiredly opened her eyes: “Nothing, just rest for a while. Oops! Look at your hand!”

Only then did Jia Wu feel a fiery pain in his right hand, and he was busy loosening it, only to see blood dripping down, dripping onto the piece of jade on the table. It turned out that he had just grabbed onto the clippers and punctured his hand.

But if the blood dripped onto the jade, would he not be… thinking of this, Jia Wu was horrified and grabbed Daiyu’s hand with a firm grip: “I don’t want to go back! I won’t leave Sister Lin!”

Jia Wu closed his eyes in fear. One minute, two minutes, five minutes, ten minutes… His grip got tighter and tighter, and Daiyu screamed in pain.

Jia Wu opened his eyes, Sister Lin’s hand was still in his hand, and he was overjoyed: “Sister Lin, let’s go back together!”

Daiyu broke her hand free: “What are you talking about, where are you going back to?”

Jia Wu looked around, why, still in Xiaoxiang Hall? He was in a state of panic: why didn’t the method of applying blood work? Is he going to stay in the Qing Dynasty forever?

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (100)

The Fourteenth Aristocrat’s center army tent was located on the shore of Qinghai Lake. After a night of gale force winds, a thick layer of yellow sand and gravel was accumulated on the ground.

Fourteenth Argo and Lao Na walked out of the center army. The old man shook his head and read: “Luntai September wind night roar, a river of broken stone as big as a bucket, together with the wind full of stone chaotic walk. The ancients really do not deceive me.”

The sky is purple blue. Fourteenth A brother looked at the distant Tal Temple, white tower body, the top of the tower of gold, in the flaming red sunrise reflected in the splendor. He thoughtfully said: “old that, that prince suit death seems to be a little suspicious.”

The old man nodded and said: “That Abutan to rob the camp of Prince Clothes, have to pass through dozens of miles of Nian Juan Yao’s defense line. That Abutan is an old fox, how would he make such a dangerous move? Nian Juan Yao has always claimed to be good at military maneuvering, and how could he not be aware of it at all? After the defeat of that prince suit, how not to close to the residence of Nian Juan Yao and Fu Er Dan, but instead run to the big field to get ambushed again, and send his own life?”

Fourteenth Ahgor’s brows were locked: “Do you mean to say, could it be that Nian Yaojian and Abutan have colluded?”

The old man sighed: “This matter is of great importance, and I don’t dare to jump to conclusions. However, there are too many suspicious points to worry about.”

The book boy brought over the date-red horse. Fourteenth Brother flew onto the horse, “Lao Na, let’s go out for a walk.” Saying this, he lifted the rope and flew out of the camp gate. Lao Na and ten black-clothed guards rode closely behind.

After going over a small hill, Lao Na pointed ahead and said, “Your Majesty, that Prince Teng was killed in battle here.”

Fourteenth Argo raised his eyes and looked, the left side is the vast waves of Qinghai Lake, the right side is a hundred feet high cliffs, in front of a piece of grass, the sky is pale, the field is vast, the wind blows the grass low to see cattle and sheep. Nearly one person high pasture grass, that is, ambushed thousands of troops and horses can not be seen at all. From afar came the herdsman’s song: “Don’t you see, the head of the green sea, the ancient white bones no one collects, the new ghosts complain about the old ghosts cry, the sky is cloudy and the rain is wet and the sound is chirping.”

The song is so high and sad, 14th Argosy sighed: “Prince Clothing is also a veteran general, after losing the battle, how can he still run to such a dangerous place?”

“Yes,” said Lao Na in agreement, “there is the sea on one side and a high cliff on the other, so if the enemy ambushes us in front and then outflanks us from the back, it will be hard to get away.”

Fourteenth Argo thought for a moment: “Let’s go over and take a closer look.”

The old man was busy blocking the way: “Your Majesty, this place is too dangerous, it’s better to come back with a large group of people some other day.”

Fourteenth Argo laughed: “You overthink it, the prince service that time is a lone army, and now this place is only forty miles away from our camp, and less than ten miles away from Nian Juan Yao’s camp, that Abutan is eating leopard’s guts, also dare not to come, and moreover, how would he know that I am coming out today?” Said a horse rushed down first.

In the chaotic rocks, broken swords and spears, faded flag remnants, pieces of raw  armor, skeletons and white bones can be seen everywhere. The wild dogs that ate human flesh and ate red eyes barked furiously at them.

The lake slowly floated over a large boat, snow-white sails, in the blue sky and blue water between the dazzling.

The ship suddenly sounded a flute, a quiet female voice sang: “just met the Western Rong, and met the Southern Barbarians, the Western Rong is still okay, the Southern Barbarians brutalized me.” The voice sang in a mournful manner, like a sob. A few guards could not help but shed tears. Fourteenth Brother sighed, Qinghai in recent years, the people have suffered a lot.

Suddenly a clapper was heard, and rolling logs and stones rolled down from the cliff on the right. The crowd hastily dodged out of the way, only to see that the way in had been blocked by the high ringing of wooden stones.

Fourteenth Argo was shocked in his heart, what kind of trap was set up? This Abutan really can foretell? On one side is water, on the other side is a cliff, and the back road is blocked, I’m afraid that there will be an ambush in the bushes in front of me as well. However, even if there is an ambush, it does not matter.

Thinking of this, fourteenth Argo was just about to give the order, only to hear a gong sound, the grass, carved plume arrows like rain flying. He hastily drew out his sword to dial, under the seat of the date red horse has been hit by several arrows, a scream, fell to the ground. He stood up a vertical, not yet stood firm, the feather arrow again like flying locusts to fly to him.

“Continuous crossbow!” Fourteenth Argo’s heart was cold, this was newly researched in his camp, ten times faster than the firing speed of ordinary crossbows, how could it appear here? He dialed the arrows while looking back, ten guards had already fallen to the ground, being shot like thorns. Only himself and Lao Na were still dialing.

An hour had passed, and 14th Argo gradually felt his arms getting heavy. Even the best martial arts, in front of a thousand ball crossbows can not help. If it was a normal crossbow one could still consider rushing over, he floated a bitter smile, the continuous crossbow of his own making was really powerful, the moment it came out it was going to kill himself first.

Lao Na gasped and came over, and suddenly grabbed down Fourteenth Argosy’s golden helmet with one hand, put it on his own head, and shouted, “Get down!” And stumbled toward the lake.

Fourteenth Argo was startled, his hands slowed down, and an arrow shot into his thigh. His legs weakened, and he rolled on his heels, hiding under the horse’s corpse.

The old man ran to the edge of the lake, drew his arrows and shouted to the sailboat. The boat slowly sailed over, getting closer and closer, and suddenly there was a volley of cold arrows from the barn, and the old man was hit by many arrows, and only grunted, and fell face down.

The rain of arrows stopped. The boat came to the shore and a group of people came down. In the haze, I only heard someone say, “Great General, you are really Chu Liang who can predict things like God!”

Fourteenth Argo was startled: Great General, could it be Nian Juan Yao? How dare he attack himself?

There was a wild laugh from the wind, it was Nian Juan Yao. That Nian Juan Yao said proudly: “good boy, you also have credit ah, if not you stole out of the ball crossbow drawings, how can be so smooth. Prince Yong praised the old 14th kung fu is the best in the world, who knows actually died in his own manufacture of crossbow, God’s will ah!”

Only to see Nian Juan Yao walked to the side of Lao Na, smilingly bowed to the ground: “Great General King ah, you are not invincible in the world, how to fall into the hands of my old age, I salute you.” He drew his own sword and stabbed the old man in the back of his heart.

The old that cried out, jumped up a foot or so, and fell heavily to the ground again, dying of breath. The golden helmet also tumbled down.

Nian Juan Yao took a closer look and was shocked: “Ah? This is not Old Fourteen!”

(to be continued)