Emperor Kangxi: The First Rule of the Palace

Chapter 40: Wu Ciyou Moves to Baiyun Temple
He took the box, closed it again with a bang, and handed it to Mrs. Rong.Mrs. Rong handed over the hookah to Juxiu, took the box and looked at it repeatedly, buttoned it for a long time, followed Jianmei's example and pressed the gold button fiercely, but the box still remained motionless.A few girls passed it on, and they all blushed, but no one really could open the box.Aobai said with a smile: "What's the use among you, it takes effort! If you don't have internal strength, you will know what news is, and you can't break it!"

"I used to be a performer in the Jianghu," Jianmei regretted her recklessness, and replied in a low voice, "Although I don't have any 'internal strength', I count on this food to support my mouth, but I still have a little bit of strength?"

Aobai didn't seem to hear, he opened the box again, took out the paper bag, shook it open, poured all the medicine into the teapot, and said, "Suqiu, pour your wife and everyone a cup, mine is my cup." The tea was also changed."

Jianmei was almost stunned, she couldn't tell what was going on in her mind, she just felt buzzing.With trembling hands, he poured everyone a cup.Because of inner nervousness, when he poured Oboi's cup of residual tea, he almost gave up the cup.Obai saw it with his eyes, and thought to himself: "Bumble has good eyesight, this bitch really has a ghost in his heart!"

He picked up the cup and drank it down, smiled and said to Rong: "You all have a taste, isn't it bad?" Then he turned to the girls and said: "Everyone have a taste!" Rong smiled and drank it. , The girls also finished their drinks.Only Shi Jianmei was holding a cup and staring blankly at everyone.

"Jianmei," Oboi stopped calling "Suqiu" suddenly, his expression was like a cat that has caught a mouse, it wants to admire the struggling state of its prey enough before it is willing to catch and kill it. "You have a bad complexion! Well, why are you shaking? You should pretend to have hit the teacup by mistake! —— If you can't hold your breath, you must have revealed your stuffing too early!" Ao Bai Xixi smiled, "All of us can't survive, you should be happy and happy, why are you lost?"

As soon as the words came out, not only the whole room changed color, even Rong Shi was startled, seeing "Su Qiu"'s gaffe.At this point, Jianmei settled down and said, "What is the master talking about, the slave doesn't understand."

"Don't understand?" Aobai said coldly, "You tried to steal my medicine but failed, you didn't expect me to change the medicine myself, did you?"

This sentence gave Jianmei an opportunity to take advantage of.She fell to her knees with a thud, and said: "Master is the first rank in the dynasty, so it's not easy to kill me as a slave? Why do you have to set up such a circle for others to jump around?" As she spoke, she sobbed and cried.

The Rong family always sympathized with Suqiu's miserable life experience and treated her very kindly.Seeing her strange today, I was also surprised, her face changed color and said: "You stupid hoof, what did you do wrong, why don't you say quickly: What's the matter with howling like a jerk now!"

"What's wrong with a slave?" Jianmei cried and said, "The master took the poison and drank it himself, and even asked the whole family to drink it, so I don't want the slave to be afraid!"

The more people listened, the more surprised they became.Rong asked: "What poison, you are really going to die!" Jianmei just covered her face and cried, but said nothing, Rong lost her opinion.

Just as there was no opening, Oboi suddenly asked coldly, "How do you know that this box contains poison?"

"I heard people say it."

"Who?"

"Master Ben!"

When Rong heard this, he suddenly asked: "This is strange, why did Mr. Ban send poison to the master?"

"I don't know either," Jianmei choked up, "Master Ban came that day and brought this paper bag to him. He said it was a 'spirit-chasing pill'. I heard it when I was delivering tea, and said that I would- —”

"Shut up!" Aobai remembered the scene of that day, it was true, fearing that she would say something "old three" again, he hurriedly stopped her.After a long time, Fang smiled awkwardly: "Didn't you hear clearly! Master Ban's medicine was originally used for hunting foxes, but you, a slave, have taken care of it!"

Kangxi went to the Palace of Compassion and Peace to say good night to the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, and when he returned to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, it was time to light the lamps. He saw Aunt Su Ma sitting crookedly on the pedals and burying her head in a piece of writing paper, but she didn't notice him Having already entered, she tiptoed around behind Aunt Su Ma to have a look, only to realize that it was a poem "picked up" by Wu Ciyou and Mingzhu between the broken walls of Feng's Garden, and said with a smile: "Although this poem is well written, it is not It's a sign of good fortune, you'd better watch it less."

Aunt Su Mala was very attentive. When she first heard someone speak, she was startled. When she looked up and saw that it was Kangxi, she quickly put down the poem and said with a smile, "When did the Lord Long Live come? Why didn't I hear a single sound?" ?——Speaking of this poem, with the blessing of Lord Long Live, even Li Changji’s Su Xiaoxiao dare not pester me!”

"I've read this poem before." Kangxi sat down and sipped his tea, "For some reason, the more I read it, the more creepy I feel."

Aunt Su Ma laughed and said: "The "Multi-Heart Sutra" says: 'According to Prajna Paramita, there will be no hindrance to the heart; no hindrance, no terror; stay away from upside-down dreams...' This is why Long Live Lord is too worried. .”

"Okay!" Kangxi laughed, "The Empress Dowager believed in God. In her early years, she talked about 'forgive my sins' and 'forgive my sins' every day; Hua Jing; add another Wu Ciyou, who must be called Confucius and Mencius, and what is "it is better to drag the tail in the mud than to present it to the disabled people". In this three-party attack, there is a lack of a Taoist priest. Even Confucianism is not the same , Xiong Cilu and Wu Ciyou can hardly get along, who should I listen to?" After speaking, he laughed.Aunt Su Ma smiled and said: "I look at that little Weizi and believe it. In fact, saints, Buddhas, and Gods only persuade people to be kind and bless the country and the people, and people will believe it. Listen to his blunt deceit!"

Kangxi interjected: "Actually, Mr. Wu made this very clear. Confucianism is based on self-cultivation and used to govern others; Taoism is based on the cultivation of tranquility and softness is used; Use.——Although the purpose is different, they all teach people to be good, but the principles are the same. For example, Confucianism is like five grains. It is like medicine and medicine. It is used to eliminate guilt. It is more effective than Confucianism to explain depression. "Heretic religion", I did not follow him, and this is not only because the Queen Mother believes in God-since there are three religions and nine schools, we can live in harmony, why can't we not four schools and ten schools? I thought that as long as it is beneficial to the education of the people, all kinds of schools It might as well be a little more."

This long speech was delivered by Kangxi, and Aunt Su Ma was both surprised and delighted: "It's not in vain that he has taught for so many years, but this master is really successful in his studies!"

The two talked happily, and the topic turned back to the few poems copied by Wu Ciyou during the day.Kangxi asked, "What do Mr. Wu think of these poems?"

Seeing Kangxi's solemn expression, Aunt Su Ma said seriously, "Mr. Wu thinks that these poems are all written by old people from the Ming Dynasty. They don't follow the people's sentiments, they don't understand reason, and they don't understand that it's caused by fate, so we can't say how to persuade them right now."

Kangxi was silent after hearing this.These words were right on his heart: Lord Shunzhi will win the world immediately, I can't cure him immediately.The old elders and Confucians of the Ming Dynasty refused to be used by me, and I couldn't kill them all. They were scattered in Linquan, reciting the wind and the moon, and criticizing the current affairs. It's a pity that the talents are second.Thinking of this, he suddenly turned around and asked, "Mr. Wu, did you say any good strategies for these people?"

"No," Aunt Su Mala said, "he doesn't agree with these people, but everyone has their own ambitions, and there are not many of them, so why worry about it! Besides, isn't it time to think about these things! "

"Think farther away," Kangxi sighed, "You should know that the talents here are very useful. I can't bear to abandon the mountains and fields, and if the righteous way is not right, evil will arise."

Seeing that Aunt Su Ma was listening intently, Kangxi continued: "Sister Man, have you heard the story of Hong Chengchou's banquet in the south of the Yangtze River?"

Aunt Su Ma shook her head.

"That happened in the seventh year of Shunzhi," Kangxi said. "Dorgon took Jiangning, and Jiangnan belonged to our court. The overall situation of the rivers and mountains has been settled, so he came to Beijing to report on his duties. It is also because of Hong Chengchou's troubles. On the third day, reward the army and commemorate the fallen soldiers of the Southern Expedition." He paused for a moment, then thought deeply, "on the third day of the banquet, a notice came from the door saying that a former student of his surnamed Wu came to congratulate him. Wine, please come in."

"This man is so boring," La Aunt Su Ma said with a smile, "Is this also a good way to break into the banquet to beg for wine?"

"No." Kangxi continued.Rather than saying that he is telling a story, it is better to say that he is describing the scene at that time. "The meeting was over when we came in, but the man didn't drink. He just said: 'The teacher is exhausted on the pommel horse, the students have gone through wars and chaos, and the literature is also neglected. I would like to share a wonderful article with the teacher!'

"Hong Chengchou has been in the army for a long time, and he hated listening to literature, so he said with a smile: "The past few years have been suffering from eye diseases, and I can't read articles."

"The man said with a smile: "It's okay, the teacher sits still and listens to the students to read it!" After finishing speaking, he took out a volume of documents from his sleeve, and recited it aloud in cadence in front of the banquet. What is your way? article?"

Aunt Su Ma shook her head and said, "I don't know."

"Emperor Chongzhen made the "Mourning Hong Jinglue Sacrifice"!"

"Ah!" Aunt Su Ma couldn't help exclaiming softly, "This man is bold!"

"He has backbone!" Kangxi corrected excitedly, "If it happened today, I would never allow him to kill this Wu!"

Aunt Su Ma was startled at first, and soon she knew Kangxi's mood, and she sighed after a while: "Long live is very worrying. This is a big event, and my slaves dare not make unreasonable comments, but Long live's own dragon position is for today's No. One important thing. Only when this end is taken care of can we think about other things!"

(End of this chapter)