Emperor Kangxi: The First Rule of the Palace

Chapter 41 Xiao Maozi Frustrated the Great Guard Emperor Kangxi's Night Banquet of Heroes (1)
What La Aunt Su Ma said was right, the external aggression was not settled, internal worries were mounting day by day, and her own throne was also in jeopardy. ——Those long-term considerations are all things that the Taiping Emperor thinks about, and I have more important things to do now!Kangxi closed his eyes in pain.Seeing him sitting upright with eyes closed, Lagu Su Ma thought he was sleepy, so she quickly lit up the incense and put it in the incense burner, and then ordered the maids to remove the big lamp, leaving only a crimson gauze candle lamp on the table, Only then did he approach and ask for instructions: "Long Live Lord, it's time for you to rest."

"Tell them to go down," Kangxi said with a wave of his hand, "It's enough to have you here to serve. If you're sleepy, just keep your head tilted on the smoke cage below. I'm not sleepy, I have to think about something."

Aunt Su Ma had no choice but to dismiss the servants as she said, and she only slept by the smoked cage.

Kangxi sat for a while, but he felt that all kinds of worries gathered, and all kinds of thoughts came: Oboi's arrogance and lawlessness have reached such a level, he dared to openly pretend to be rebellious, searched the minister's residence, and plotted to kill the king!Although there are many personal guards in Ouchi, but the real strength in his hands is very few.

At first glance, people are suspicious. Although I still accept the worship of internal and external ministers every day in Qianqing Palace, but as the supreme emperor, I feel like an "outsider"-this is all a false excitement to fool myself.In such a huge inner city, the emperor doesn't know where his own safe place is. It's really chilling to think about it.

He suddenly thought that if he wanted to kill Oboi, he had to be in Da Nei.Because Oboi's fierce generals are like clouds outside, and counselors are like rain, how can he succeed!Of course the third hall is not possible, so it should be Jiaotai Hall, Fengxian Hall, Yangxin Hall, Tiyuan Hall, Qin'an Hall, Wenhua Hall, Wuying Hall, Shangshufang... Which one is the best?He thought about it one by one, in addition to analyzing the personnel there, he also had to take into account the terrain, security and even retreat.Suddenly his mind flashed, and he thought of Yuqing Palace.He opened his eyes and stared at the red light on the desk.The forbidden palace here is deep, but not too remote, and the road loops around, where dragons and tigers can be hidden.Moreover, Sun Dianchen, the general manager and guard of Yuqing Palace, is his confidant, and all the guards of Lang Su are friends of Wo He who was punished by Oboi, so it can work here!

But Sun Dianchen and others are different from Wei Dongting after all.If you want someone to do such an extremely confidential matter, you have to buy him to be like Wei Dongting who only knows me!
Thinking of this, Kangxi suddenly got up and walked to Lagu Su Ma.Just as he was about to call her, he heard her quiet voice, and knew that he had fallen asleep, so he turned back and took a robe and gently covered her.Unexpectedly, Aunt Su Ma suddenly opened her eyes, turned over and sat up and asked, "What's the matter, master?" "Tomorrow night," Kangxi lowered his voice, "I want to see Sun Dianchen and Lang Su."

"Sun Dianchen!"

Kangxi only nodded firmly.

Aunt Su Ma pondered for a while, her eyes sparkled, and she said, "I understand,——where can I meet you?"

"Go to Xiao Weizi's house," Kangxi said calmly, "You arrange this matter, keep it a secret!"

Aunt Su Ma's eyes jumped suddenly, she stood up and said: "Master, don't worry about this matter!"

Xiao Maozi lost money in gambling, and sent all the money to buy medicine for his mother into the casino, and there was nothing left to do.

He is a dutiful son, because his father passed away early, his widowed mother took him and his elder brother to suffer for 12 years.Later, the elder brother married his sister-in-law and separated, leaving him and his mother aside.The old lady had to sew and wash clothes for others to live.Unexpectedly, as my mother got older, her body was failing, and her hands were damaged by the cold from washing clothes in the twelfth lunar month. In autumn, her joints were swollen and thick, and the pain penetrated into the bone marrow.My sister-in-law is not virtuous, and my brother steals a little help, how can I support two people!
Just at this time, there was a dignitary in the palace, Xiao Maozi had nowhere to go, so he felt so angry that he secretly cleaned himself up and earned two and a half monthly allowances to support his wife.After the old lady heard about it, her eyes dimmed in a panic, and she became blind from then on.In order to treat his mother's illness, Xiao Maozi couldn't stop stealing some small things from the palace to change money in the ghost market, or relying on his cleverness to win some money from gambling to treat his mother's illness.Fortunately, there are many such things in the palace, and everyone doesn't care.This winter was very cold early this year, and my mother couldn't make it through, and she lost her bet again.
Cousin Wen didn't dare to ask for it. Although he said that he would never fail, but he would be scolded every time he asked for it, and he was a big family.Wei Dongting responded to every request, but he asked too many times, and his family couldn't open their mouths.He had no choice but to sneak into the imperial kitchen to find Ah San, the cook, who was the godson of Nemo, and he had a way.

"Xiao Maozi!" Ah San sneered after hearing the intention, "I'm going to sweep your face today, and I'll lend you money, not to mention the capital, and if you don't even pay the interest, I don't even have money on hand." Tight! Your mother is sick, you are filial piety, you should give it, but you can't ask me to fill this bottomless pit for you?"

Looking at Ah San's tense face, Xiao Maozi cursed in his heart: "Your mother! Relying on the fact that he recognized a godfather and it was convenient for him to come and go, he stole a lot of porcelain from the kitchen. Now, it's my turn to borrow two, so I'll show this face!" But he said with a grin in his mouth, "I still owe third brother 14 taels, what is this worth on you! You keep lending us two, I have to pay off the principal and profit when I sell the pants next month, how about it?"

"Monkey bastard, it's yours!" Ah San laughed, "I shouldn't have lent you, poor boy. I still have four dollars here, and you can use it to buy medicine. The next month's principal and interest will not be clear, so pay attention." Then I will sue the big guard of Namo, and I will beat you to death!"

Xiao Maozi had no choice but to accept it.When I came out of the large kitchen, I saw a small Jun kiln tureen on the ledge, Ke Keer's was about the size of a fist, and two large green water wing cicadas were burned on the mouth of the bowl, as if drinking wine on the mouth of the bowl. I don't know which courtier from outside paid tribute.He looked at it and no one paid attention, picked it up, put it in his arms, and left.Ah San could see clearly through the glass of the door, but said nothing.

In the evening, Xiao Maozi waited for the water in the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and heard that Ah San brought four little cooks to send the unused imperial food to the gate of Qianqing to reward the guards on duty at night, waiting for the eunuch of the Palace of Mental Cultivation to carry it away Water, tidy up and go back to the room to rest.Suddenly seeing Nemo striding forward, he hurriedly stood up with his hands down, and said with an apologetic smile, "Master Nemo, have you eaten?"

Namo let out a "hum" with a livid face, stepped into the tea set and tea storehouse without looking back, and stood in the center to search around.Xiao Maozi knew something was wrong, but he didn't know why he came, so he smiled anxiously, picked up a chair and said, "Sit down, and I'll make you some tea—the fresh Longjing tea from just here. , or Pu'er?" Namo waved his hand and sneered, "Don't do this with me! Let me ask you, what did you find in the big kitchen today?"

"Big kitchen?" Xiaomaozi's head exploded, his face immediately turned pale, and he forced a smile, "I went to the third brother to borrow money. How dare I lose something? How dare I touch the belongings there?"

"I'll make you hard-headed in a while!" Namo raised his hand and wanted to hit him, but stopped after thinking about it, opened the tea cabinet, and rummaged inside.

Although the gaiwan was not in the tea cabinet, Xiao Maozi knew something was wrong, if he rummaged around like this, he would definitely be found out.The bachelor doesn't want to suffer from the immediate disadvantages, so Xiao Maozi stepped forward with a smile and stopped him boldly: "This imperial tea cabinet cannot be turned over. There are some tribute teas in it that haven't even been sealed. If they are messed up, Lao Zhao will not obey."

"Bah!" Xiao Maozi's voice fell silent, he had already been slapped on the left side of his face, causing stares to pop out of his eyes, and immediately swelled up.He was a naughty rascal, so where would he eat this? He came back to his senses and shouted loudly: "Dung beetle crawls on the broom, what are you doing cocooning here! Didn't you see that this is your territory? But look at Aozhongtang, call you Say 'Master', and you'll put on airs—you get out of here, Grandpa is going out!"

Namo was furious: "Little bastard, don't talk about your hair, I'll shave the head no matter how difficult it is to deal with!"Turning around, he picked up a bunch of keys on the table, opened seven or eight cabinet doors, and searched the cabinets.

Xiao Maozi sat down on the ground, and Sapoer cried loudly: "Men, this is Mr. Zhao's command, is it your turn? Do you deserve it!" Seeing that Namo ignored him, he kept flipping through , He was really anxious, got up with an idea, snatched the key and ran out. Before Namo could figure out what was going on, he locked the imperial teahouse with a bang, jumped and shouted in the yard: "You all come and see! Something new has happened in the Qing Dynasty. Master Namo has searched the imperial tea storehouse of Lord Long Live. You all have a quick look! Huangsi Village, you are dead? Hurry up and find Master Zhao!"

The guards of the Qianqing Gate who were eating, and the eunuchs who had eaten and had nothing to do, heard the crying and shouting, roaring and cursing, making a commotion, and they didn't know what happened, so they all gathered to watch the commotion.

Namo, who was locked in the room, panicked and rushed over to pull the door—the door was locked like cast iron, so there was no way to pull it!Then he turned back and hurried to close the doors of the tea cabinets.Incidentally, those locks were tributed by the Netherlands, and they contained special messages, which could neither be opened nor locked without a key.Xiao Maozi left with the key, how can it be closed?In the fuss, I almost broke the little finger of my left hand, and I gritted my teeth and stomped my feet in pain.Accidentally, he knocked over an unopened jar on the case to the ground, and with a bang, the tea leaves were scattered all over the floor.Those who watched the bustle outside didn't know how he was tossing around inside, and they were startled when they heard this sound.

Just as they were making a noise, someone suddenly heard shouting: "What's the matter with shouting, what kind of dignity?" When everyone looked back, it was Zhang Wanqiang, the chief eunuch of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, who came and stepped out of the way.Little Maozi refused to let go, stepped forward and cried: "Grandpa Zhang is here, just take a look, what kind of rules do we still have in the big house!" He opened the door with a clatter.

When everyone looked at it, they couldn't help laughing secretly, Nanamo was really in a mess, the doors of the cabinets were all ajar, and the large and small bags of tea on the ground were trampled to pieces.He also pinched the little finger of his left hand with his right hand, kneading it hard, gritted his teeth in pain.Seeing the door open, he leaped out with a stride, lifted the little boy in the air as his chest, and was about to kill him fiercely.Zhang Wanqiang hurriedly shouted: "Don't be rude! Speak slowly, what's the matter?"

How could Namo think highly of Zhang Wanqiang!Frowning his eyebrows, he scolded viciously: "There are no good people in the eunuchs since ancient times, and you are not a good thing—" When he was about to scold, he saw La Aunt Su Ma coming from behind, staring at him with a frosty face, so he let Xiao Mao go son.

Aunt Su Ma just sent Kangxi away.At that time, people were so chaotic that no one cared.After finishing the errand, Aunt Su Ma came over to see what was going on.Seeing her coming, Xiao Maozi hurriedly stopped his tears, went up to say hello, and sobbed, "Sister Su, the guards of Namo pointed out that I stole something from the imperial kitchen, so I came to search it myself. Look at this room. What does it look like inside out!"

La Aunt Su Ma remained calm and asked slowly, "What is missing?"

"I don't know, you ask him!" Xiao Maozi pointed at Nemo.

Namo's face was black with anger, and he said, "He stole a Jun kiln covered bowl!"

"Who saw it?" Aunt Su Ma asked sternly.

"I," Ah San who was standing at the side said flauntingly, "I saw it with my own eyes!"

(End of this chapter)