Emperor Kangxi: The First Rule of the Palace

Chapter 44
The application for the card was about to pass, seeing the golden crow falling to the west, the burning cloud already dyed red for a long time, and not a single fish entered the net, he felt very depressed, and cursed secretly: "I don't know if what Lao Huang said is true, but he drank and slurred. It makes the master sit on the tree and wait for the rabbit!" Just as he felt uncomfortable all over, suddenly his eyes lit up, and the pearl flickered three times and it really came.Afraid that his eyes might be dazzled, he wiped it off and took a closer look. The person who came was wearing a black lake silk gown, with a fair complexion, and a long glossy black braid stretching back from his head. "A man should be pretty, with a suit of soap", it's true, it's really elegant and suave-it's the pearl and you can't go wrong!Liu Jinbiao secretly said: "Okay!" Staring at Mingzhu entering the door and climbing the stairs, he just waved his hand and asked the congren to go back and move someone.

But it shows that Zhufang went upstairs and listened to someone talking in the room outside the lattice window.When you listen carefully, it sounds like the sound of Hu Gongshan being enshrined in a Taiyuan Hospital.

"Cui Gu, do you know? Gu Huafeng, You Hui'an, and Chen Qinian are impatient with the loneliness in the mountains and forests, so they came to Beijing to travel!"

"A royal decree descends to the nine heavens, and Yi Qi will go down to Shouyang Mountain together!" The room was quiet for a long while before Cui Gu sneered and said, "If you want to go down the mountain, just go down, why bother to drag others?"

"Hey! When you talk, you twist your energy. I didn't say I'm going down the mountain, but I'm going up the mountain!"

Mingzhu couldn't help being stunned when she heard this.He didn't know what these nonsensical words meant, and he felt very important.Hearing that Cui Gu and Hu are so close, I feel a little jealous.Xuan laughed at herself again: "What's the matter with me? Although I bought her property, there is no one who bought her right away. Of course the surname Hu will come too!" When she listened intently again, Cui Gu said: "Go up the mountain, go up the mountain and do it!" Is it?"

"Seeing that things can't be done, and you go up the mountain to be my Taoist priest, will you also become a Taoist nun?"

"You're so pretty!" Cui Gu spat, "Is it so easy for you to look at me and become a Taoist nun?"

When Mingzhu heard this, she didn't have time to think about it, covered her mouth and smiled and said loudly: "Okay! One will be a Taoist priest, and the other will not be a Taoist nun. It's really hard to scare people!"

Hu Gongshan and Cuigu were surprised that someone might be eavesdropping, they hurriedly opened the door and came out to look, they saw that it was Mingzhu, they didn't know when he would come and how much they had heard.Mingzhu didn't mind it, and said with a grin: "It's Yiqi going to Shouyang again, and going up the mountain to be a Taoist priest. ——No one forced you two, so why did you run away?" Saying this, he went into the house Here, he sat down and slapped the fan on the back of his hand to look at the two of them.

Cuigu poured a cup of tea and offered it, and said with a smile, "Master Ming is such a rare visitor, but he hasn't come for a while." Hu Gongshan also laughed and said, "Our brothers and sisters have become Taoist priests and nuns. How about going to Xiaoguan to find a half-day leisure!" After speaking, the three looked at each other and smiled.

After talking for a while, Hu Gongshan stood up and said goodbye.Cui Gu knew that it was inconvenient for him, so she didn't want to stay with him, so she immediately turned around and came back after seeing him out, and said to Ming Zhu with a smile, "Why do you come to my place for a stroll today?"

But Ming Zhu didn't answer, she frowned and asked: "Since you are on good terms with this brother Hu, why don't you want to be good?"

"By him? He would like to, but it must be mutual consent!" Cui Gu said bluntly, seeing Ming Zhu in a daze, she reached out and tapped his forehead, "Are you jealous? Fool, he is my god-brother!"

Mingzhu remained silent, thinking about their conversation just now, and then asked: "What about Gu Huafeng, You Hui'an, and Chen Qinian? It seems to be the names of several people, but I didn't understand it."

Cuigu was stunned for a while, then suddenly burst into giggles, covering her chest with her hands, "You are so smart, where did you hear that! There is a regret temple in Wuhua Peak, where his childhood master Chen Qinian practiced Taoism, and he wants to wear a crown." Go back to the mountain and invite me to go to his master together..." At this point, she was a little out of breath from laughing.

"You have done a good job as an official, why do you suddenly want to retire?"

"That's your men's business, how do I know?" Cui Gu smiled, "I always think the black hat is a little too small (wow left and right)!"

"His surname is Hu, your surname is Wu, why are you brothers and sisters?"

"Well," Cui Gu suppressed her smile, and sighed, "It's a long story, he was infatuated with me, and he saved my life... Later, he recognized his brother and sister--I will read carefully when I have time later." I'll tell you."

Mingzhu felt relieved at the moment, thinking that she had misheard a series of names, and felt funny.Cuigu wanted to divert his mind, went back into the inner room and took out a Yaoqin, put it on the table, lit the incense and said, "Come and play a song, I got some new poems, how about singing them to you?"

"Don't be too busy," Mingzhu said with a smile, "Today I also got a poem by Mr. Wu, take a look at it, do you think it is good?"

Cuigu came over with a smile and said, "It must be good." When she took it, it turned out to be a palindrome:

〖Leaning on the mountain pavilion looking at the wild geese, and sending my thoughts to the sky.

Going out in the green and worrying about scratching the white head, crows and autumns are cold and cicadas. 〗

Then he laughed and said, "I'm reading Nostalgia for Hometown Pass and Nostalgia for Hometown Pass backwards. It's really well written!"

Mingzhu washed her hands, straightened her clothes, sat down holding her breath, and wiped the strings.Cuigu heard that it was "Deep Night", and she had passed through the door, so she suddenly opened her voice and sang along with Wu Ciyou's poem.At the end of the song, the two looked at each other and smiled.Mingzhu suddenly pressed the strings and laughed, "It's time to listen to you." Then she changed the tune of "Moon on the Reed", and Cuigu said, "Okay!" and sang softly:

〖The new green grows at the beginning and the residual red is sparse, and the beauty's tears are stained on Luoyi.

No matter whether the butterfly returns in spring or not, it only flies to the depths of the yellow flower...〗

Mingzhu couldn't help being stunned, stopped and asked: "What are you singing?"

"You just play yours, there are four more!" Cui Gufang wanted to continue singing, but seeing Mingzhu's strange expression, she hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

"I've seen this poem before, and I also know the other four." Mingzhu said, "Where did you get it?"

"Pfft!" Cui Gu laughed, "Who would believe you?"

Mingzhu sneered and said, "Don't believe me? Listen—every year the swallows of the Six Dynasties, the flowers beside the Zhuque Bridge don't bloom. You don't have to ask Wang Xie sadly, did Liu Lang come back once he left—but didn't he?"

Cui Gu's expression changed drastically immediately, as if her body had been hit hard, she staggered a step, sat back in her chair and said, "You know everything, why are you asking?"

"What do I know?" Mingzhu smiled, "If I knew, why would I ask you?"

Cui Gu didn't answer, just asked: "Where did you see this poem?"

At the beginning, Mingzhu was just joking, but when she saw that her face suddenly became stern and her eyes were different, she expected to have a serious secret, so she fell in love with her.Then he laughed and said, "Cui Gu, you know what I do, I know everything!"

"This is my father's poem!" Cui Gu shouted, "Aren't you the emperor's bodyguard? Where did you get my father? Tell me, tell me!" Cui Gu couldn't control herself at all. His face was pale, he was twitching nervously, his voice became sharp and hoarse, he rushed over like a tiger and wolf and grabbed Mingzhu's collar, gnashing his teeth and said: "I still think you are a good person! I gave you my innocent body, You, you came to amuse me..."

A delicate young girl, because of a few lines of poems, suddenly became terrifying, frightened Mingzhu into a fool—as long as he lives, he will probably never forget this scene—he made a fortune, Cuigu’s The five fingers are like iron hooks, and I feel even more frightened.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a loud voice downstairs, and the servants, boys and maids cried together.Before the two could think about it, the attic door opened with a "bang", and the one-eyed dragon Liu Jinbiao appeared at the door with a few people grinning.Footsteps were chaotic upstairs and downstairs, Mingzhu knew she couldn't get out.

"What's the matter?" Liu Jinbiao smiled with one eye sideways, "It's really rare for a whore in a brothel to beat a client! Hehe..."

"Keep your mouth clean, your mother is a whore!" Cui Gu slowly let go of her hand in astonishment, she was a little slow, after being shocked, her hysterical emotions were buffered, and she began to become rational again Get up, "I have a family and a family with a name and a surname here. At the feet of the emperor of the Taiping world, what do you think? Which yamen are you from, and you are so wild?"

"It's nothing, it has nothing to do with you." Liu Jinbiao didn't dare to be frivolous when he saw her speaking concisely and stiffly, and said, "Master Bumbleshan has something to ask Master Mingzhu, please come to the house and talk about it." A big man in Tsing Yi came up and set up the pearl and left.When Cuigu went up to stop her, she was blocked by Liu Jinbiao's arm. She staggered at the time, and then she came back to her senses and shouted loudly: "You can't take him away! - Mingzhu, you heartless, quickly say, Who can save you, tell me!"

"Your Majesty!" Ming Zhu had been dragged down the stairs, and when she heard her question, she answered loudly.

"Quickly tell me, my father—" Just as the question came to this point, Cui Gu suddenly felt that the question was inappropriate, so she covered it up.At this moment, Mingzhu only agreed with "I don't—"... Then she slapped her face twice, as if her mouth was covered by something.

For a while, when people went to the quiet building, Cui Gu sat down slumped, like having a nightmare.A gust of wind blew, the red candles flickered a few times, and then went out. At this time, only the cold moon in the sky silently illuminated the Jiaxing Tower, and the iron horses under the eaves sounded desolately.

(End of this chapter)