Emperor Kangxi: The First Rule of the Palace

Chapter 39: Wu Ciyou Moves to Baiyun Temple
Hearing Wei Dongting tell it again, Wu Ciyou was startled and angry, as if he had knocked over a bottle of five flavors in his heart, full of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty.After a long time, Fang sneered and said, "I never imagined that I, Wu Ciyou, a scholar, has no strength to restrain a chicken, and an article has won such favor from Mr. Ao!" With a "bang", all the soup dishes on the table jumped up. "I'm going to be the leader myself. What kind of crime should I face? One person will be punished!"

As he said that, he pulled away and left, but was grabbed by Wei Dongting. Aunt Su Ma shouted anxiously: "Sir, I can't go!" Wu Ciyou earns two bucks, how can he move?

Seeing that Aunt Su Ma's face changed drastically in anxiety, half angry and half affectionate, and being held back by Wei Dongting, Wu Ciyou had no choice but to let out a long sigh, and sat down angrily and bowed his head in silence.Wei Dongting said with a smile: "Mr. Wu, why are you in such a hurry! Didn't Oboi make a fool of himself? This chess is at a critical moment, so why be impatient?"

"I won't show up," Wu Ciyou sighed, "Oboi will never give up, if something happens in the future, you will always be implicated!" He said and looked up at Wanniang.

Aunt Su Ma's heart became hot, and her eye circles turned red. She endured tears and persuaded: "The "Liu Hou Lun" that Mr. told Long Er last time, there is a brave man in the world. Surprised, not angry for no reason'. At that time, we didn't mind it too much - we thought it was for others to hear, but now that something happened, thinking about it, we thought it was for ourselves If sir is using his will now, how can it help?" Wei Dongting also said: "Oboi searched the house and said that he wanted to take two people, why do you want one to surrender? If you want another person, where do you go to find it? "

"who's that person?"

"How do we know, you asked a good question!" Aunt Su Ma smiled, "Just settle down in this place, Long Er will come to school every day as usual, and return to the city after the weather calms down, wouldn't it be very good ?”

"It has to be like this." Wu Ciyou said dejectedly, "It's just that this restaurant is full of people; how can it be easy to study?"

"Second Lord looks down on the young one too much." He Guizhu laughed hurriedly, "If Second Master teaches here, why should I open a shop? - You say it's not good here, please move to the back with me to have a look. "

Wu Ciyou dubiously followed He Guizhu into the backyard, followed by Lagu Su Ma, Ming Zhu and Wei Dongting.At first glance, there is nothing unusual, passing the firewood house and two huts, and passing through an inconspicuous small door, ah!It's not a world inside!
This is a depression, with a large pool of five acres in the middle, and a stone bridge leading to the island in the center of the pool.The water in the pool is clear and clean, but there are no goldfishes in stock, only some green silver carps that are more than a foot long, flying into the pool from time to time, making a splashing sound.There are many weeping willows and dragon-necked willows planted on the surrounding cliffs. With the breeze, there are thousands of them whirling and dancing.Ripples and sparkles on the water surface are clear to the eyes.Along the bridge and across the pond, there are seven or eight reed sheds and huts scattered in different places on the opposite bank. Only the three thatched eaves and brackets in the middle are hung with three characters of "Shanguzhai" in black and black paint.The house is full of simple and unclumsy bamboo and wood utensils.From the outside, this Shangu store looks very vulgar and unremarkable, but it is a masterpiece of a master, with its beauty hidden inside.In contrast, it may even make people feel that Suofu Garden is suspected of being chiseled.Wu Ciyou blurted out, "A good place to go!" Then he turned to He Guizhu and smiled, "If you don't read Zhuangzi, you can't comprehend the magic of this fast."

"That's right!" Zhu'er hurriedly apologized with a smile, "I know that the second master will definitely like it. There is still a rockery on Chixin Island that has not been repaired. Those Taihu Lake stones piled up will look good when they are piled up!"

"I'm here," Wu Ciyou said. "There's no need to repair the rockery. Put melon sheds and bean trellises, and then plant grape vines. It's good to be green and shaded. Why do you need to make artificial decorations?"

As they were talking, they saw an old man with a long beard and a fluttering chest, leading a few young people out of the hut. Although they were dressed in brown clothes and hemp shoes, they were all extremely strong and strong.

Wu Ciyoudao is a clerk in the store, so he doesn't care.But Mingzhu knew that it was the three Mu Zixu brothers led by Shi Longbiao, and more than a dozen relatives and noble children selected from Da Nei to serve as guards here, and twenty personal soldiers were placed in Baiyun Temple to pretend to be Taoists, secretly. Guard this little store. ——This is another villa that Xiong Cilu arranged for Kangxi, exclusively for him to study. "Shangu" is a homonym of the "three caves" of the cunning rabbit-how could Wu Ciyou think of these things even though he is knowledgeable from ancient to modern times!
Wu Ciyou stood in front of Shangu Zhai for a while, when a gust of autumn wind blew in, and the pool water was vast. Thinking of his own life experience, he couldn't help feeling sad.

He glanced at the person in front of him, it seemed that he was much stranger.Even including Wanniang, he vaguely felt that everyone was hiding something important from him, but he couldn't think of what it was, and he couldn't open his mouth to ask.Immediately said with a smile: "It's good here, Long Er is afraid that he will have to run a lot of distance every day!"

Wanniang smiled and said, "You teach your books yourself. If he wants to come, you can tell the book. If he doesn't come, it's also elegant to sit on the shore and fish." Wu Ciyou nodded with a smile.At this moment, Zhu'er suddenly turned around and said: "Second Lord, look, isn't that Longer here?"

Aobai fled to nothing, and returned disappointed, angry and annoyed, on the way he told Crooked Tiger, "You don't have to go back to the mansion, you fly a horse and report to Master Ban first, saying that I will visit him right away." Crooked Tiger agreed , Hit the horse and gallop away.So when Oboi arrived at Bumbleshan's mansion, the left side door had already been opened, and Liu Jinbiao was waiting for him.The big sedan chair was carried all the way to the second hall and stopped.Aobai sat down on the grand teacher's chair in the middle hall, and before Bumbleshan could speak, he smiled and said, "What's going on, I didn't even find out the hair of a person, thanks to you, a wise man, you sent someone to investigate beforehand!"

Bumbleshan was wearing a purple velvet embroidered robe without a belt around his waist. With one hand he was gently twisting the braids behind his back, and the other hand was stroking his shaved forehead, deep in thought.The search of the mansion failed, and he had already heard the general idea from the crooked tiger, so he couldn't help being surprised.It's just that his city mansion is quite deep, so he didn't show his face.After a long time, he sighed and said: "Grand Ao, I wonder if you have thought about it? Before that, you can still retreat as a hermit. Now that this move has come to this point, there is really no way out."

"What retreat do you want?" Obai laughed suddenly, "Cao Cao is also a hero! Now that there is no Liu Xuande and Sun Zhongmou, what is there to be afraid of!" Bumbleshan also laughed: "Although there is no grandson Liu, there is no Han Xiandi, you Can you be careless?"

This is true.Aobai immediately changed his face and said: "That's a good statement. In your opinion, where is the third child today?" Bumble said, "There is no need to investigate this matter. It is obvious that the third child goes to Suofu every day. Today Another person saw the sedan chair go in with his own eyes, but he was all in vain. It seems that the wind is certain! The important thing is how the wind comes out and who makes the wind come out. From last night to this time, there are still less than twelve people. The time is so fast! This is the most terrifying."

"There must be a spy in the mansion, who is this spy?" Aobai pondered for a while and asked, "Do you want to discuss it with Ji Shi?"

"It's good to learn about the world." Bumble said kindly, "you can find him by looking for chapters and excerpts, quoting scriptures and allusions, but for this kind of thing, can he be eloquent? - In fact, you don't have to look far away, just in the middle hall Just look it up among the people around you."

"You mean Suqiu?" Aobai was the first to suspect her.But there is no clue, and it is still uncertain.Then he shook his head and said to himself, "It's hard for her to even get out of the second door."

Bumbleshan smiled coldly: "Gong Ao probably loves her beauty and doesn't know her evil! Although I don't know anything about martial arts, I still remember Ao Gong once said that she walks silently, and it seems that she is very good at light work. If she is a martial arts girl Jie, how can it be impossible to get out of your second school?"

A casual word on weekdays, Bumbleshan remembered it so vividly, Aobai had to admire his deep intentions.Immediately nodded and said: "Don't worry, no matter whether she is beautiful or not, we have to prove her truth!" Bumble said kindly: "Just now what Gong Ao said about 'Where is the third one going' is not the most important thing, but it should not be ignored. .The foolish and cunning rabbit still has three caves, who can guarantee that he only has one in Suofu?"

"When it comes to battling minds and wits," Obai laughed, "No one around me can compare to you, so I have to ask you to do this." After speaking, he drove back to his residence in sedan chair.

It was already the solar terms in early October, and the weather in Beijing was already cold.After dinner, Oboi and Mrs. Rong wentssiping and eating in the back hall and bedroom.Over the past few days, Oboi was exhausted physically and mentally, so he stretched his legs lazily on the reclining chair, thumped by the orange embroidered and colored screen, and said to Jianmei, "Suqiu, go to the Crane Shouting Hall and put the one on top of the cabinet behind the screen." Here comes the golden leather case."

Jianmei's heart tightened suddenly, seeing Oboi's eyelids opened slightly, she hastily agreed "yes", and left.Rong said with a smile, "What do you think of that laoshizi now?" Aobai laughed and said, "It's the top-grade ginseng essence borneol powder! Disinfect dryness, invigorate qi, and disinfect it. It's all my family at the moment, so bring it to everyone Try them all!"

Just as she was talking, Jianmei came back with the box in her hands, but her heart was beating violently, as if the devil was locked inside. ——I don't know why Oboi suddenly thought of it, and why he appointed himself to fetch it. —— She tried her best to calm herself down, and said calmly, "Master, let's put it here?"

"Open it!" Oboi's eyelids did not move.

Jianmei fiddled with the box in her hand, pretending that she couldn't find the key to open the lock, turned it over and looked at it for a long time, then lightly pressed the gold-plated copper nail on the bottom of the box, and the box bounced back with a bang. , she was so startled that she almost dropped the box on the ground.Aobai laughed loudly, and said to the girls Rong and Caiping: "With this ability, who of you can match up to Miss Suqiu?"

(End of this chapter)