Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 180 Crisis ([-])

On the south bank of Shichahai, Dunjun Palace, inner courtyard.

Xiao Shengzi, brother ten's personal eunuch who was waiting outside the door, patted his heart and heaved a sigh of relief.As soon as he turned around, he saw the two little maids behind him blushing, listening to the sound in a daze, he couldn't help being a little annoyed, and shouted in a low voice with a blushing face: "Why are you so stupid, why don't you hurry up and prepare hot water..."

The two little maids came back to their senses, their faces turned even redder, and they hurriedly ran away with their heads down.

Xiao Shengzi gave them a blank look, cursed a few words in a low voice, put his hands together again, and bowed to the sky devoutly, muttering: "God bless, our master is finally healed. Let's toss for a few more days , I'm afraid my little life will be ruined too..."

Before the prayer was over, I heard Elder Brother Ten yelled inside: "Get out!" Xiao Shengzi trembled in fright, and secretly cried "It's miserable".

Sure enough, the ten elder brothers inside had already cursed: "His grandma's, get lost! Get lost as far as you can!"

The concubine Wang wanted to cry because of her grievance, and she was also a little scared. Many extreme emotions distorted her originally beautiful face and froze into a strange expression.While pumping, she frantically put on clothes on her body.

Seeing her like this, Elder Brother Shi became more and more upset, and ran towards Mrs. Wang waving his fists that smashed the kang: "You fucking cry! Get out! Get out of here!"

With a scream, Wang fell off the kang, ignoring the pain from the place where she was hit by the fist, and even crying, she got up three times and wrapped her clothes tightly, bent over, with her hair disheveled. Just run outside.

"Xiao Shengzi! Xiao Shengzi!" Following the shout of the tenth elder brother, Xiao Shengzi rushed in, accidentally stumbled over the threshold, and crawled into the house.

Seeing Elder Brother Shi standing naked in front of the kang, Xiao Shengzi hastily reached out to get the clothes hanging on the screen, and accompanied him cautiously: "Please calm down...please calm down..."

Elder Brother Ten pulled off the obscene clothes and put them on, frowning and asked, "Where's the medicine?"

Xiao Shengzi was stunned: "Didn't the master say that I won't take it today..." The medicine hadn't boiled at all. Seeing Brother Shi's stare, Xiao Shengzi immediately swallowed the second half of the sentence: "It's on the fire!" ...that's good...that's good..."

"Tell them to hurry up! Master, I'm waiting to drink!" Elder Brother Shi said angrily.

"Yes, yes, I'm going to watch it now, sir, calm down, calm down..." Xiao Shengzi quickly helped Elder Brother Shi put on his clothes, and then trotted out.

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Elder Brother Shi went around the room a hundred times, and Xiao Shengzi finally brought in the medicine trembling.

Elder Brother Ten picked up the bowl, feeling very bored, frowning for a long time before taking a sip with his eyes closed.However, he quickly spit it out on the ground, pointed at Xiao Shengzi, and cursed: "You bastard, how did you boil the medicine? How is it more bitter than the old one?"

Xiao Shengzi really has nowhere to go to seek revenge, it is clearly the same as in the past, the medicine is not bad, how can it be bitter?But the master said it was bitter, so it was bitter.He quietly wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said with a smile: "This... Maybe it's because I'm in a hurry... There's less water in this, and the concoction is thicker, the taste of the master is more bitter than before... Or the slave will start again Make a bowl for Grandpa?"

Elder Brother Shi waved impatiently: "Come on, come on, I don't have time to wait for you to cook." Then, he picked up the bowl again, looked at it for a while and didn't bring it to his mouth, and finally put it on the table: " Grandma’s, I don’t want to drink anymore, go and call the imperial doctor! Let me drink this bitter medicine every day, but my illness has not recovered! How long is this fucking boss?! Call that son of a bitch Come and explain to Grandpa! Hurry up!"

Xiao Shengzi quickly responded and sent someone to the Tai Hospital to ask for someone.

Elder Brother Ten was in the room, the more he thought about it, the more depressed he became, and he dropped a few more decorations angrily.The serving eunuchs and servants were all waiting outside the door or even outside the courtyard, knowing that the master was in a fit of anger, no one dared to come in and touch the bad luck.

At this time, the boy on the second door came in to spread the word, and saw a few people standing at the gate of the courtyard stretching their necks listening to the sound inside, he stopped quickly, pulled one of them, and said, "Brother, what are you doing? There is a message from inside that a housekeeper in Jiuye's mansion is asking to see our master."

The one who was being pulled pouted inside: "I don't have the guts, but if you are brave, you go back."

"Don't tell me, brother," the boy said with a smile, "Look at the sweat on the butler's brow, it must be something urgent. Hurry up, it's going to be delayed, and Master Qi will lose his temper even more! Besides, that's the mansion of Lord Jiu." housekeeper!"

"You kid, let's just talk nonsense. The butlers in Jiuye's mansion were at least accompanied by Butler Tan. Is it your turn to report?" The man curled his lips.

"It's not the few in the past, it's from another courtyard..." Before he could finish speaking, he saw Xiao Shengzi coming over there, he was in a hurry to greet Qian Jian, and then talked about Jiu Ye's housekeeper asking to see him.

Xiao Shengzi opened his eyes, raised his hand and gave a mouthful to the person at the door who refused to pass on the word: "You bastard, do you dare to delay about Master Jiu?"The beaten boy was left crying and cursing "castration" behind his back.

When the tenth elder brother heard about the housekeeper from Jiuye's other courtyard, he knew that it was Fuliu and Ma Duo who started the matter.In the first place, two groups of people reported that the dishes were clean, but Fu Liu and the others didn't believe it for a long time, so they called the housekeeper in immediately.

The butler came in, knelt down and kowtowed to Elder Brother Ten.

Seeing this scene, Elder Brother Shi felt a "thump" in his heart, frowned and waved Xiao Shengzi to go down, then said in a deep voice, "Old Zhao, what's the matter?"

Butler Zhao kowtowed and said, "If you go back to the tenth master, the slave should die! Among the 11 people over there, nine are finished, and two... and two... ran away..."

Elder Brother Shi jumped up against the crime, walked to Butler Zhao in two steps, raised his leg and wanted to kick him, but because he belonged to Brother Nine, he stopped his feet and said angrily: "A bunch of trash! How many of you are over there, Huh? You have dozens of people, and even eleven of you can’t clean up? What do you do to raise you?!”

Steward Zhao kowtowed like garlic: "Damn the servants, damn the servants! It's the servants who are careless. It's also... also a member of Master Shi, really amazing..."

He was more or less flattering and dodging by the way, but this flattering was on the horse's feet.Elder Brother Shi is not in a good mood today, but he felt harsh after hearing this: "Baby bastard, 'careless'? How dare you be 'careless' about what the Lord told you? You are so courageous! What's the matter? Grandpa? Grandpa is amazing, thank you for fucking saying it!"

Butler Zhao didn't dare to answer any more, and just kowtowed.

Elder Brother Shi cursed a few more words to vent his anger, returned to the table and took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and then asked, "Who ran away? Fu Liu?"

Housekeeper Zhao said: "No, Fu Liu is dead. It was Ma Duo and Dai Lin who ran away."

Elder Brother Shi threw the teacup to Steward Zhao's side with his hands, and scolded: "It's out of order! There are so many trash snacks, just a poor mouth! Dai Lin is still a brat with half-grown hair! Can you put this Did the two escape?"

Steward Zhao said with a wry smile: "Don't dare to lie to Master Shi, these two people really ran away." Immediately, he told Brother Shi in detail about the escape of the eleven people.

When the guards in the other courtyard were the most relaxed during the meal, those people suddenly jumped out of the wall from the roof and tried to escape. Because the courtyard only had the front door, and the courtyard wall was high, most of the guards were lying at the front door, and there were a few people patrolling behind. , When I heard the movement, it was too late to run back.

Those people ran separately, and dispersed their pursuers. Fuliu was not only tall and powerful, but also the most vicious and fierce. He injured seven or eight guards in the other courtyard, and finally he was pierced into a hedgehog with several arrows in his body. , This is absolutely outrageous, this is what Butler Zhao saw with his own eyes.As for how Ma Duo and Dai Lin escaped, no one knew. In short, when sorting out the bodies, they found nine of them.Called the steward who brought people into the yard before to count, but Ma Duo and Dai Lin were not among them.

Elder Brother Shi frowned when he heard this, this matter is really tricky, the two dead people on the roster are now running all over the street, if someone falls into his hands...Damn it, Brother Ninth has already left, there is no need to discuss it people!

Elder Brother Shi slammed his fist on the table, scaring Butler Zhao to tremble.

Elder Brother Ten said in a deep voice: "Get up first, go back to the yard and search carefully, maybe you are hiding somewhere and didn't run out."

Housekeeper Zhao responded, but he was complaining in his heart. Naturally, he searched and failed to find the man who dared to report it.But now there is no other way.

Elder Brother Shi ignored what he was thinking, and immediately called Xiao Shengzi in, and ordered: "Send someone to guard the door of Ma Duo and Dai Lin's mother's house immediately, and bring me back if you see someone."

Xiao Shengzi nodded in agreement, and was just about to leave when he was stopped by Elder Brother Shi again.

Elder Brother Shi hesitated for a moment, as if he had made up his mind, he gritted his teeth and said, "Send someone who understands there, with clean hands. You need to see people when you are alive, and you need to see corpses when you die."

Xiao Shengzi held his breath for a moment, but soon lowered his eyelids, responded, and retreated.Butler Zhao also left.

Elder Brother Ten leaned his head back on the chair back, rubbing his temples with his hands, thinking about what to do next, but he heard footsteps in front of the door again, it was Xiao Shengzi who left and returned.

"Master, we've made arrangements." Xiao Shengzi replied.

"Understood." Elder Brother Shi waved his hand impatiently.

Xiao Shengzi said again: "Also, just now Master Cai asked someone to go to the imperial hospital to ask for an imperial doctor..."

Only then did Brother Ten sit up straight and said, "Tell him to come in."

Xiao Shengzi said: "No, lord, the imperial doctor... was not invited... The people in the imperial hospital said that he had been sick for a few days, but when he went to his house, no one was there. The neighbors said that their family left the city a few days ago. It's..."

Elder Brother Shi stared blankly at Xiao Shengzi, lost his mind for half an hour, and squeezed out a sentence through his teeth: "Go to Niu Hulu's mansion... Please ask my uncle Yin De to recommend a trustworthy person." The old lady doctor is here..."

After Xiao Shengzi withdrew for a long time, Elder Brother Shi still hadn't recovered from his stupefaction.You know, the former imperial doctor used to treat the eighth and ninth elder brothers, but now he ran away...

Elder Brother Ten turned his mind a few times. The relationship between him and Elder Brothers Eighth and Elder Ninth is not an ordinary brotherhood. There's no reason to kill him at this time.

Did someone step in to join them?Imperial physician?Or did the people around me change their medicine?Brother Jiu is right, it is time to tidy up the mansion.Elder Brother Ten slowly closed his eyes, sifting through suspicious people in his mind, but he didn't have any clue.

In the end, he still decided to wait for Brother Nine to come back. The most urgent thing now is to know what is wrong with his failure to lift. Don't worry about nothing, but he was hurt by this doctor!

The old doctor came, checked the pulse of Elder Brother Shi repeatedly, looked at the residue of the previous prescription, thought for a while, and then said cautiously: "If you go back to Master Shi, this medicine is not changed by others, nor is it Prescribing the wrong prescription to deceive the tenth master. It’s just that the method of nourishing yang taken by the previous master is correct, but it is too much, and it hurts the kidney water. It is said that there is always excess yang and insufficient yin..."

Elder Brother Ten interrupted his long-winded analysis of the condition and only asked about the result.

The old doctor hesitated for a moment before hesitatingly said: "It's not a problem at all, it's just that the kidneys have been injured, I'm afraid it will be more difficult for the tenth master's heir in the future."

Elder Brother Ten was stunned immediately, and did not speak for a long time.

The old doctor's palms were also sweaty, and he couldn't help complaining in his heart that he was too talkative. After being a bad job all his life, he didn't know what he said and what he couldn't say?Just thinking about the close relationship between Shi Ye and Niu Hulu's mansion, he lost his sense of propriety, which might lead to death.

The old doctor has lived for more than 70 years, and is used to seeing life and death. She is not too afraid, but she is afraid of hurting her children and grandchildren. She secretly glanced at Elder Brother Shi. Killing intent.The old doctor sighed in his heart, thinking about how to die cheaply, thinking about ways to save his children and grandchildren.
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