Emperor Kangxi: The First Rule of the Palace

Chapter 37 Searching the house, I saw a pool of water, wandering in a deserted garden, and occasionally got a few poems (1)
Not long after, three cannons sounded like thunder, followed by the sound of drums and bells, and the middle door was opened in an uproar. Suo'etu was wearing a gold robe embroidered with nine pythons and five claws, covered with a brand new golden pheasant patch. Clothes, with a pair of peacock feathers behind the blooming coral crown, it came out with a dignified and solemn expression.

Aobai Jiaozhao visited the Suo Mansion, originally intending to settle the matter quietly.Unexpectedly, before the Suo'etu people came out, they set off cannons and played music, attracting all the neighbors to watch.He gritted his teeth with hatred in his heart, but still had to compliment him with a smile: "Suo Gong, Ao is not an outsider, so why do this!"

Suo'etu bowed his waist respectfully and said: "Master Zhongtang came here by order, and the angels are here, as it should be, please!" After finishing speaking, the two entered hand in hand.When they entered, Namo waved his hand, and the Imperial Forest Army under him suddenly dispersed and surrounded the Suo Mansion airtightly.The common people didn't know what happened to Suofu, and there were more and more people watching.

Aubai followed Suo'etu into the hall with a smile on his face. After he was seated, he still didn't see Aobai proclaiming the decree, so Suo'etu leaned forward and asked, "Master Zhongtang, if you have any sacred orders, please declare them. Students will obey the decree." undertake."

There was no imperial decree in the first place, and he said "sacred decree" and "compliance with the decree", no matter how thick-skinned he was, it was too much for him.Obai was a little flustered, and said with a smile: "It is because two criminals escaped from the prison of the Ministry of Punishment last night. The prisoner received a bribe of 1000 taels of gold and has already captured the law, but the principal criminal has not yet been arrested. The emperor ordered me to be here Check at the homes of all the officials, and relevant officials have been sent elsewhere. Only the Zun's mansion is unusual, and I am afraid that the next person will make mistakes and disturb the treasure family. Special relatives are here to preside over it."

"This is the kindness of the Holy Majesty, Lord Zhongtang's kindness." Suo'etu hurriedly smiled and said: "In that case, please send someone to check."

Seeing that he was very calm, Ao Bai became suspicious: Could it be that something has gone wrong, and the third child is not in the mansion?Looking closely at Suo'etu's expression, he was calm and somewhat frightened.Thinking again, how about relying on the fact that the third child is in the mansion and waiting for me to find it out, can you give me a chance?Thinking of this, he sneered and said, "Forgive me for being presumptuous!"

Then he yelled "Come on!"

Namo, Waihu, etc. had been waiting for this sound, and took advantage of the situation to rush in with a group of people. Hei Yaya stood in the yard.Aobai came out and ordered: "Namo go to the inner courtyard, crooked tiger to go to the garden, open up casually, don't be presumptuous. If you disturb the family members, be careful!" The two of them retreated in response.

Aobai and Suo'etu were drinking tea in the living room.After a while, the cries and screams of the family members came from the backyard, Oboi pretended not to hear, when he turned his head to look at Suo'ertu, he saw that he was calm, as if nothing had happened, secretly admired his self-cultivation.Suddenly a soldier came stumbling over to report, "Fight...the fight started!"

"Who?" Aobai stood up in surprise, and walked towards the back garden with Suo'etu.It turned out that Crooked Tiger and Wei Dongting exchanged hands in front of the garden, and Oboi hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, saying: "Crooked Tiger, don't be rude!" Come down to Wei Dongting to accept the crime!"

Aobai smiled and said to Wei Dongting: "Tiger Minister, he is a fool, you don't need to be as knowledgeable as him." Then he turned his face and gave Waihu a wink, and said: "If you don't go down, do your own business!" Tiger will naturally walk away resentfully.Ao Bai smiled at Wei Dongting again: "It's a coincidence that you are here today!" He thought that Kangxi must be hiding in the back garden.

Wei Dongting replied indifferently: "I heard that there is a very good rockery in Mr. Suo's garden, the emperor asked me to come and have a look."

"Oh?" Obai immediately stood up and said to Suo'etu: "We are sitting anyway, why not go to the garden and have a look." Suo'etu got up and smiled: "I will definitely accompany you. Huchen, you also accompany Zhongtang How about going together?" Wei Dongting said with a smile, "We should obey orders."

The three of them walked to the moon gate of the garden, and saw Crooked Tiger and his men searching the garden.Ao Bai came over and asked: "Have you seen any suspicious people?" Crooked Tiger said: "Not yet. I want to send some more people to check carefully?" Then he gave Wei Dongting a hard look.

"Then there's no need," Aobai said, "I'll check it with Lord Suo and Lord Wei."

At the entrance to the park, there is a rockery falling into the pool.A white marble railing of one color twists and turns to lead to the water-pressing pavilion in the pool. On the opposite bank of the pavilion, there are three thatched huts.Aobai paid attention to the rockery, so he came to the pool, but saw the water sparkling, a few goldfish floating up and down leisurely, there was nothing unusual about it.

It's just that the rockery is very eye-catching-it's a whole piece of natural turmeric stone.In the lower middle part, there is a table-sized stone surface that is polished as smooth as a mirror, and the word "Ling□" is engraved on it.The second word has been illegible due to age.Aobai didn't have the heart to study the origin of this strange rock at this time, pointing to the three thatched huts, he said, "It's a good place to study there!"

The three walked around the rockery along the curved bridge, passed through the gazebo and came to the front of the hut.I heard someone talking in the room, and there was a "beep" sound from time to time.Aobai suddenly became tense, but he pretended to be elegant: "Looking at the water and bamboo, the wooden windows of the hut, you can wash away the atmosphere of wealth and nobility. It's really a place where dragons and tigers are hidden!" There.

Where is there any Kangxi!It's just a black man in his thirties and a young man in his fifteenth or sixteen years old who are concentrating on playing chess.

Seeing Aobai's regretful and disappointed expression, Suo'etu laughed inwardly, and hurriedly said: "Mintai, come and see Old Aoboi!" Then he turned and introduced to Aobai, "This is my nephew Suo Min Tai, this is Mr. Hu from the Imperial Hospital, he often comes here to play chess. Mr. Hu is a master of chess, and no one in the capital can surpass him. I heard that Ao Gong is also very good at this skill, why not play a game?" Said: "Please enlighten me, my lord!" Then he bowed down.When Oboi stretched out his hand, he felt a gust of wind blowing against his clothes, he knew that this person possessed martial arts, and when he was busy using his strength to support him, how could he stop him.Hu Gongshan bowed to the ground calmly, and then sat down carelessly.Aobai couldn't help being shocked, there was such a person in the Suo'etu mansion!

At this time, Ao Bai knew that he was in vain, and his heart was like a cow's hair. He also saw that Hu Gongshan had a unique skill, so he didn't want to get entangled. He didn't even hear what Suo'etu and the others said, so he just nodded with a blank smile: "Ah... ah ——Where, the old man only has a little knowledge of big chess (chess), and in this case, Go, in fact, is very superficial. ——Let's go to Huchen!"

While talking, Namo and Waihu came in from the outside, Aobai saw their expressions and knew that something was wrong, he hurriedly said: "You don't need to talk about it. - Mr. Suo, I really offended you very much today, Rong Ao Pray for another day!" He told Nemo, "Remove the warning, and then go to another house to see." Suo'etu pretended to want to stay, and Aobai didn't even want to stay here for a moment, so he waved his sleeve and said, "Farewell !" Suo'etu still fired cannons to send him out.

Mingzhu invites Wu Ciyou to visit Feng's Garden for a long time.This is an "errand" ordered, - if Oboi doesn't come to search the mansion, he will still go back to the mansion after the tour, if he comes to search, he will make another arrangement. ——Mingzhu is not very interested in this.But Wu Ciyou seemed to be particularly interested in this decadent garden, walking back and forth among the ruined walls, bushes and thorns.Mingzhu couldn't help asking strangely: "Brother, I can't see any good things here, why don't you see enough?"

"Brother, you don't know." Wu Ciyou said proudly, "The more ruined the place, the more victorious and thought-provoking you can find. Come and see!" He wiped off a piece of floating dirt on the wall with his hand, and there was a faint trace of dust on it. Some handwriting.Mingzhu took off her shoes and wiped them vigorously with the soles a few times.When I read it, there were two poems, one of which read:
〖Humanity says winter night is cold, and I say winter night is good.

The embroidered quilt is as warm as spring, without worrying about the unknown. 〗

Wu Ciyou shook his head in disappointment and said, "It's not a good work." When he went on to read the second poem, it was a six-character poem:
〖The wet firefly flies to the sky, and the moon is faint and the son is silent.

Where is the red makeup leaning on the railing, hearing the cold wind of Xuanye from the side. 〗

Mingzhu laughed and said, "That's all right, I feel uncomfortable reading it." Wu Ciyou's face darkened and said, "That's so strange, there is a ghost in the poem." Mingzhu said nothing.

(End of this chapter)