Emperor Kangxi: The First Rule of the Palace

Chapter 43
Xiao Maozi followed Zhang Wanqiang to see Aunt Su Ma with a ghost.After Cairen left, he checked the tea set and utensils, and saw that the Jun porcelain tureen was still in the tea set cabinet, but it was piled up with other tea sets for some reason.This shows that Aunt Su Ma saw the gaiwan.He touched this thing, but he couldn't figure out why she didn't expose it face to face.Aunt Su Ma is a famous person whom the emperor and the queen dowager say are indistinguishable, why should she protect him?

He carefully reviewed the situation at that time and concluded that Lagu Su Ma had a rift with Namo.Ah San had already had an attack before the search, and after the search, if he yelled again, wouldn't he be sweeping his own face?Thinking of this, he secretly took a breath, but when he looked at Zhang Wanqiang, he was expressionless.

Aunt Su Ma was waiting in the East Pavilion of the Hall of Mental Cultivation.The little boy came here for the first time, and he felt that everything was golden and shining everywhere in his eyes, and a few tall and thick candles were burning with high flames in the cover. In the middle, Lagu Su Ma was sitting and eating. Tea.Xiao Maozi hurriedly slapped Qian'er and said: "The younger one is guilty, the older sister is blessed with great blessings, please forgive this time!" He didn't get up after speaking, and knelt down with the other leg.

"It's easy for you." Aunt Su Ma didn't seem to care much, and asked slowly while drinking tea, "You just tell the truth, what are you stealing that bowl for?"

"I think..." he murmured, and suddenly laughed, "I saw that bowl was really pretty, so I took it to have a look, and then secretly sent it back. I didn't want to use it as a thief. I want a smaller one to look better!"

Aunt Su Ma didn't expect that this little devil would drag her into it, she felt angry and funny, and said with a sneer: "You are too smart, look at my good nature, can't you get rid of you little brat?"

Xiao Maozi rolled his eyes around, and said with a bitter smile: "I dare not bully you even if I have the courage! I really want to see it, so I send it back. They said stealing, I How can you recognize the thief's name..."

"Zhang Wanqiang!" Aunt Su Ma called out without waiting for him to finish speaking, "Take him to the respect room to find Lao Zhao, I'm too lazy to listen to his nonsense!"

"Hey, don't, don't, tell the truth..." Xiao Maozi panicked now, and hurriedly kowtowed, "It's the little one who is very poor and helpless. He took this bowl and wanted to go out and change some money to pay off the debt..." He raised his head Seeing Aunt Su Ma's face, she didn't seem to believe it, so she hurriedly continued, "...my little mother is a blind woman, and she doesn't even have money for medicine every day. My elder brother married a sister-in-law who is so cruel-hearted. I don’t even care about my family. People are poor and short-sighted, and horses are thin and long-haired, so I have no choice but to do this kind of shit.” As he spoke, he felt a dull pain, and his eye circles turned red, and he wiped his tears with his sleeves, “Su Da My sister refused to forgive me, and I admit it too, whoever told us that our fate is cheap, I only have pity on my mother..." He choked up at this point and didn't continue talking.

"This is a matter of course, if we talk about it, it will be over!" Aunt Su Ma is a Buddhist believer and kind-hearted person. Hearing his sad words, she couldn't feel moved.After thinking about it, he changed his smiling face again, "You have difficulties, go to Xiao Weizi, he won't help you?"

"Master Wei has helped me a lot," Xiao Maozi said with a sad face, "It's just that I have spoken too many times, and I feel embarrassed."

"Take it!" Aunt Su Ma picked out a piece of silver from the drawer of the table and threw it to Xiao Maozi, "Take this, because you are still a dutiful son, and I didn't know it! Give this silver to your mother for medical treatment. Buying some food and stuff, isn’t it better than being a thief? ——I heard that you are a good material for gambling, so don’t use it to gamble and lose!”

Xiao Maozi never expected such a result, so he couldn't help being stunned, holding the money in a daze, kowtowed for a long time, and said in a sobbing voice: "The small gambling is true, but it's just out of helplessness. What's the use of it? It's just a little bit of cleverness, winning a few people to subsidize the family, but a horse stumbled and even got into it. Since my sister loves me so much, she has a conscience, I dare to do it again Is it?"

"It's no wonder you," Aunt Su Mala sighed, "it's not easy to be a human being. I don't raise your monthly bill. If you have difficulties, just come to me to get them. I will fulfill your filial piety." Xiao Maozi was overjoyed by a blessing in disguise, so he kowtowed and said, "What are you trying to do to me by treating me like this? From now on, I will call you aunt!"

La Aunt Su Ma had nothing to answer, she just smiled as a promise.Zhang Wanqiang saw that this monkey cub was so good at climbing poles, he couldn't help laughing and said: "You are so lucky, I didn't lure you here, you can get this lottery! What can I thank you for?" : "You don't care about money, I will kowtow to you to thank you!" Lagu Su Ma and Zhang Wanqiang couldn't help laughing again.

Xiao Maozi resigned and walked to the hanging flower gate at the entrance of the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Seeing Kangxi coming in in casual clothes, he hurriedly stood beside the road with his hands down and his head bowed.But Kangxi didn't know him, so he waved his hand and went into the East Pavilion to look for Aunt Su Ma.Then Xiao Maozi went back to the teahouse warehouse to dispose of the tureen.Aunt Su Ma had already left her seat and bowed to meet her.

As soon as Kangxi stepped into the door, he said with a smile: "Today, I missed you, and I missed a small group of heroes meeting! I don't want to listen to Xiao Weizi's singing!"

Aunt Su Ma apologized and said with a smile: "Which god am I, can I go on stage with my master? What song will I sing?"

"I'll recite it for you!" Kangxi complacently recited the song Wei Dongting sang just now.

Aunt Su Ma pondered: "I don't know how about that surnamed Sun?"

"They all showed their loyalty," Kangxi said excitedly, "I didn't expect them to be so united. It's just that I can't discuss with them in person at this time, so let Suo'etu and the others do the work. Let me tell you, there is another one called Liu Hua’s also went tonight, it’s Goshha from the Ao Mansion, and it’s still in the form of a written post, I don’t know much about it, Xiao Weizi works hard on his errands.”

La Aunt Su Ma was speechless after hearing this, and laughed for a while and said: "Long Live Lord went out to recite poems tonight, I don't know there is news in the palace! I also missed Long Live Lord!"

Kangxi smiled and asked: "What news, so happy?"

"The eunuch Xiaomaozi in the tea room—the one that Long Live God came in and bumped into just now—made the big guard of Namo very embarrassed." Lagu Su Ma smiled and gesticulated, telling the story of the imperial tea library. Tell Kangxi.Kangxi laughed so much that he stumbled and said: "People who have been victimized by Oboi should take care of them. You are good, you have concealed the stolen goods for others, and you have become an aunt again!" The two chatted and laughed for a while, and Aunt Su Ma served Kangxi to rest.

Liu Jinbiao, under the order of Bumbleshan, has been watching the stalk of Mingzhu in the area of ​​Jiaxing Tower for more than a month.When He Guizhu was kidnapped, he met Wei Dongting in Weizi Alley, and one of his eyes was gouged out by a stubborn donkey.From then on, he refused to take his own orders, and walked around the street with his followers every day, hoping to find He Guizhu or Mingzhu. No matter which one he caught, he would speak out first, but these two people disappeared like ghosts.Wei Dongting is quite common, but he is a close minister of the emperor, he enters the palace as a third-class prawn, and when he leaves the palace, he sits on a high horse. Liu Jinbiao watches helplessly but cannot make provocations for no reason.I thought to myself that my martial arts were inferior to him, so if I really tried to do it, I would definitely suffer.This risk cannot be taken.

It was a coincidence that I had a drink at Lao Huang's house in the Ministry of Internal Affairs a while ago, and I heard that although Jiaxing Tower never received guests, Cuigu there had recently made friends with a pretty boy, and someone said that someone had seen this boy in front of the emperor in the palace Son, he fell in love.Bumbleshan had told him that no matter it was Wu Ciyou, Mingzhu, Mu Zixu, etc., as long as he could quietly capture one, he would be considered a meritorious service, so he personally went to watch near Jiaxing Building. Ying'er was nowhere to be seen either.

(End of this chapter)