Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 637

Tu Er couldn't survive the punishment, so he said everything he could say.

In addition to confessing to killing Guo's family, he also said the reason for going north because of the bounty offered.

This news made Qi Min terrified. Who would have thought that under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, someone would dare to offer rewards to the emperor and his ministers?At the same time, he also understood the reason why sixteenth elder brother came to Rehe suddenly.

In my heart, apart from horror, there was only regret.

Even a fool can see that Elder Sixteen came here to escort Cao Yong.Can't complain about the place where Elder Sixteen was attacked outside the city, it's vague here.I went out of the city to investigate, but I couldn't find anything.

Feelings, Brother Sixteen is pulling the flag, the purpose is still for Cao Yong's safety.

Although it is a yellow belt, Qi Min dare not underestimate Cao Yong any more.Even the prince elder brother has come, if Cao Yong really had an accident in Rehe, then he can't get away with it.

On the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, when Tu Er made an appointment with his boss, Qi Min sent people to set up an ambush there, but found nothing.

Thinking of the fish that slipped through the net, Qi Min was very anxious.

The atmosphere in Rehe City is much stricter than usual.As long as you see someone dressed as a traveler with a foreign accent, soldiers will come forward to ask.

All the inns and restaurants have also received orders from the yamen not to shelter foreigners in private, otherwise they will be punished as gangsters.

After the commotion, even if there were foreigners who had received a note, few hotels dared to keep guests.

In the past few days, Cao Yong has only been out of the palace garden once, to see his wife and daughter in the palace.

Although it also meant to lure the snake out of the hole, but the mighty guard team surrounded his car tightly.Unless the other party wanted to commit suicide, who would attack at this time?
With Qi Min bothering him, Elder Sixteen was getting more and more bored.

There was nothing to do, so he took Cao Yong to fish by the lake in the garden, and he didn't see any fish hooked for a long time.Brother Sixteen lost his patience, threw his fishing rod over the side, and said, "Fu Ruo, I'm really bored, even if I can't find anything, I still want to have some fun."

"Didn't it be said that by the end of March, the Mongolian kings would come to Rehe to attend the temple fair and wait for the court meeting? Lord Sixteen, wait a few more days!" Cao Yong looked at the lake and admired those fishing enthusiasts in his heart. This is really self-cultivation. of.

This is a lot of work, not to mention Brother Sixteen, even he finds it extremely boring.

"Temple fair, it will be on the eighth day of April, and it will be March this year, so there are still two months left!" Elder Sixteen looked at Cao Yong disdainfully, and said, "Look at your life, you are so confused, you can't Think of something to do." At this point, his eyes rolled and he said, "Are you in your teens today?"

"Thirteen!" Cao Yong also put down his fishing rod and got up to exercise his muscles.

"The next one is the fifteenth, let's go to Puren Temple!" Elder Sixteen smiled, glanced at Cao Yong and said, "Fu Ruo, let's fast for three days and pray for Huang Ama's Longevity Day. "

"Fasting and praying for blessings?" Cao Yong felt a little familiar, as if the governor from other places, if he could not return to Beijing on the Longevity Festival, he would use this to express his loyalty to the emperor.

"Yeah, I have to do something. Let's go to the study room. I'll write the notebook, and you just follow the joint name." Elder Sixteen said with a smile: "Qi Min has performed well these days, if someone hadn't had to watch him Looking outside, I really want to pull him in."

On the sixteenth elder brother said that the wind is the rain. On the fifteenth day, a group of people went to Puren Temple in a mighty way.

When Cao Yong first arrived in Rehe, he visited Chuyu once.

The presiding lama here is appointed by the Imperial Court Lifanyuan, and all of them can get a salary.Compared with ordinary monks, they mostly come into contact with powerful officials, so the fasting room here is clean and the fasting food is very delicious.

Hearing that Elder Sixteen and Consort He Shuo are going to fast in the monastery to pray for the emperor, the Lama is naturally very happy.

Cao Yong was fasting for the first time, and he didn't know the rules.

Before coming, I made a special trip to ask Zhiran.

Fasting in Buddhism, fasting means not eating anything after noon, and precepts are to observe the precepts.

However, Elder Sixteen said that it is rare to show loyalty and filial piety, so naturally he cannot learn ordinary fasting.

No, the two of them finished their bath and went to the Buddhist hall to sit quietly together.

There are only Buddha statues, futons, Diamond Sutras in the room, unlit candlesticks, and pens, inks, papers and inkstones.

"Bathing, fasting, and copying scriptures, who can be as devout as us?" Elder Sixteen looked proud, looked at Cao Yong and said, "I told you yesterday, didn't you have breakfast?"

Cao Yong nodded, looking at the sixteenth elder brother with a bit of excitement, he really didn't know what to say.

Why is this in front of him, so that he can't see filial piety, he just thinks that Brother Sixteen just wants to show it.

However, Cao Yong did not object to the sixteenth elder brother's suggestion of "not eating for three days".

Doesn’t this Taoist school still talk about bigu?Fasting for a few days is all about keeping in good health.

As for the heart of praying for Kangxi, Cao Yong can't speak in the same breath as Brother Sixteen.Looking at the majestic Buddha statue above, Cao Yong still misses his parents and family in his heart.

Regarding Kangxi, I hope that he will think about it in the past few years and his temper will stabilize, otherwise it will be really difficult for him to be a close minister of the emperor.

Cao Yong followed the sixteenth elder brother and lived a life of "keep your ears off the window and write only the Diamond Sutra" in the Buddhist hall, but Qi Min was worried. I really don't know why the two masters didn't Xingting stayed in the garden of the palace.

This Puren Temple is not big, and the soldiers who can be stationed there are limited.Fortunately, there are mostly open spaces around the temple, so it is convenient for people to guard it.

If the ordinary life is fine, he, the chief executive, will continue to explain, so there is no need to worry.

Now, even if he knows that there are thieves who slipped through the net to hide in Rehe, how dare he ignore it, so he naturally stays at the temple every day.

In his heart, he has already begun to complain that Brother Sixteen and Cao Yong are not authentic.Whether it is really praying for the emperor, or "using your body as bait" here, there is no benefit for him.

Only he and a few confidants knew the truth. How could ordinary soldiers know the meaning of the task of guarding the temple?
If it's something like searching for shops in the whole city, everyone is still looking forward to it. Among them, it is not difficult for a few taels of silver to be dropped every day.What's the point of guarding the gate of the temple?
Where Qi Min can see is good, no one dares to slack off; where he can't see, everyone is relaxed.Even if they knew that there was a prince elder brother in the temple, not many people were nervous.

Unless it's a lunatic, would anyone really dare to assassinate the prince?

After half a day of Cao Yong's leisurely life, he couldn't sit still, his legs were sore, and he was too hungry.

This Buddhist hall is empty, except for the things in front of you, there is only a toilet in the dark room that is convenient for getting out, and there is nothing else.

Speaking of this, Elder Sixteen is admirable. Not to mention the standard of sitting posture than Cao Yong, the "Diamond Sutra" is also copied faster than Cao Yong.

Cao Yong stood up, squeezed his wrist, took out his pocket watch and looked, it was not yet Shenchu ​​(three o'clock in the afternoon).He looked around Elder Sixteen, but he didn't see anything like a purse, so he couldn't help but twitch his lips.

Although Elder Sixteen loves to talk and laugh, he is also a person who does what he says. It seems that there is really nothing to eat in the past three days.

What are you doing?Cao Yong sat down again, looked up at the compassionate Buddha statue, and slowly calmed down.

"'Subhuti! Let me tell you the truth: If there are good men and good women who fill all three thousand worlds with the sands of the Ganges River with the seven treasures, will they receive many blessings?" Subhuti said: "Many, World Honored One !'... The Buddha said to Subhuti: "If good men and good women, in this sutra, even accept and uphold the four-line verse, etc., and explain it to others, this merit is better than the previous merit.'"

When he was in Qingliang Temple in the early years, although he had also read the "Diamond Sutra", it was the first time he had calmed down and copied it like this.

Before he knew it, Cao Yong entered the state, and he didn't realize that Brother Sixteen was putting down his pen to look at him.

The sixteenth elder brother saw that Cao Yong was copying with care and did not make a sound. He listened to the outside and saw that there was no abnormality, so he turned lightly and went to the dark room in the corner.

When Cao Yong heard the movement, he raised his head, only to see that Brother Sixteen had already woken up.He lowered his head and wrote the next sentence...

At night, there is no bedding and so on.

Although it was already mid-March, the room was still chilly, and the ground was a bit shady.

The sixteenth brother pulled the futon aside early, and separated half a foot away from Cao Yong.

Cao Yong looked at it, raised his eyebrows, and said, "This is Master Sixteen?"

Elder Sixteen rubbed his cheeks and said: "The last time I was arranged with you, I fell down. Don't play tricks and kick me this time. Wouldn't that be wronged? Tsk tsk, why are you with me?" In this house..."

He originally wanted to say a few nasty words, but he looked at the Buddha statue above and stopped his words.

Cao Yong thought for a while, threw the futon over, and said, "I wear one more vest than Master Sixteen, and Master Sixteen is still cushioning this one."

Brother Sixteen curled his lips, threw the futon back, and said, "Are you a fool? I'm also wearing three layers of clothes. It's already past Qingming, so it's not too cold."

As Brother Thirteen said, although the ground is a bit hard and the room is a bit cold, Cao Yong doesn't feel cold because he wears a lot of clothes.

It's just that I'm hungry, "people are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you'll be hungry." Cao Yong got up early and hasn't had any rice or water yet.

Except for being hungry when he was kidnapped when he first came to this world, Cao Yong was starving for the first time.

I tossed and turned, couldn't sleep, and my mind was full of food.The more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable it became. I just felt that my lips were already dry.

"Is this a pancake?" Elder Sixteen asked when he heard him turning over.

Cao Yong glanced at Elder Sixteen and said, "Master Sixteen isn't hungry?"

"It's only a day's work, what is it? When I was sick when I was young, the imperial doctor asked me to eliminate the fire, and I was hungry for three or five days. But at that time, I could still drink a few sips of water." Elder Sixteen replied.

Cao Yong felt fresh after hearing this, and said: "The adults are so hungry, how can the children bear it?"

"If I can't stand it, I will try my best to say that I am fine. No matter how uncomfortable it is, I dare not lie down." Elder Sixteen said this, a little indignant, and said: "His uncle, when he talked about this, he remembered something wrong. Yes. When I get back to the capital, I have to ask those imperial physicians..."

This speech distracted her attention, but she didn't feel so hungry.

Do not know when, Cao Yong fell asleep.

The sixteenth elder brother opened his eyes, glanced at Cao Yong, and said in a low voice: "I really envy you, Jiao Er Ai Zi, the darling of my parents, I am just a little elder brother in the palace..."

*
Capital City, Changchun Garden, Qingxi Bookstore.

Shengjia was stationed in Changchun Garden on the ninth day of the lunar new year. Since the spring was fine, Prince Cheng, the third elder brother, wrote a booklet and asked his father to visit the garden.

As the Longevity Day was approaching, Kangxi also wanted to get closer to his children and grandchildren, so he was accompanied by several young elder brothers and went to the third elder brother's garden together.

Because of walking a few extra steps during the day, Kangxi felt a little sore in his legs.

But before the break, there are still many memorials that have not been read.Therefore, after dinner, he sat on the kang and began to review the papers.

Like the previous few days, today he did not lift the sign.

Really exhausted, I don't even bother to speak, let alone move impatiently.

Originally thought that collecting some money would be beneficial to the Northwest War.The news he got now made Kangxi very annoyed.

Because the front line is too long and the supply is inconvenient, the current situation is that the army rations are insufficient.In addition, the problem of lack of horses has not been resolved, and the two armies can only be wasted in the northwest.

The imperial court needs to gain face. It cannot be said that there is no food in the front line and the soldiers have no horses, so they cannot move.

Undoubtedly, Kangxi once again sent envoy Cewang Allah Butan, declaring that "don't let the evil go forever", otherwise "Kertai, Balkur, and the two soldiers are all ready", and so on.

On the front side of the army, Kangxi couldn't let them waste their time.After all, with tens of thousands of troops on the front line and 10,000+ supply lines, the money is like water.So he also issued an edict, telling them to attack at the beginning of next year.

Although according to the officials below, it is said that the two routes of reserve army rations are very abundant, but they have not been transported to the front of the army.

But Kangxi has been the emperor for 55 years, and he also knows that there is water in what he said inside and outside.Otherwise, no matter how far away the road is, it should be shipped in half a year.

It's just that if we go deeper into this, it will only lose the court's face, and it will be of no benefit to the frontline war.

Kangxi could only allow them to send troops another year at night, that is, to wait for this year's new food.

Today, Cewang Allabh writes about Hutuktu and the kings of Khalkha, which also shows the intention of showing weakness and seeking favor.Kangxi could only be vague on this side, and ordered the great lama and the kings to write back to Tserwang Allahab, and also wanted to stabilize him so that he would not make any changes.

Thinking of this, Kangxi felt a headache, rubbed his temples, and then picked up a booklet.

It was the brochure of the sixteenth elder brother. Kangxi opened it, and saw that apart from saying hello and celebrating the Longevity Festival, the rest was mentioning that he planned to "fast and pray for blessings" with Cao Yong.

"Nonsense!" Kangxi said in his mouth, but his face was a little more loving.

"Today is the [-]th!" Kangxi was quite moved when he thought that Brother Sixteen and Cao Yong were fasting in Puren Temple.

Due to a disease in his right arm, he has been using his left hand to reply to posts since last year.

He picked up the problem, and commented on Brother Sixteen's booklet: "Understood, I'm so relieved that you will try your best to handle the errand."

Putting down his pen, he pondered for a while, then ordered Wei Zhu who was beside him: "Call the concubine Wang to sleep."

"Hey!" Wei Zhu bowed in response, and withdrew to deliver the decree...

*
In Puren Temple, the figure shakes.

A few people in monk's robes hid in the dark, looking at the Buddhist hall not far away with lights shining through.

"That's over there? Why is there no one guarding it?" One of them asked in a low voice.

"The guards are all on the outskirts, there is no one left here, only a little novice who brings water and food." Another person replied.

"I was afraid that he wouldn't come out, but I didn't expect to be so eager to find death... go..."

(End of this chapter)