Emperor Kangxi: The First Rule of the Palace

Chapter 60 Jade Pot Bingxin Doesn't Talk About Love
Aunt Su Ma came upstairs and saw several women making paper horses and palanquins in the east room, arranging sacrificial items and other items. Seeing her come in, a middle-aged woman came over, gave her a blessing, and asked in a low voice "Are you here to see Aunt Cui?" Aunt Su Ma nodded stiffly.The woman said: "She... has become a fairy, and we are all her redeemed people, helping to cook..." She gave up her hand.

La Aunt Su Ma opened the door and was stunned. Her feet seemed to be nailed to the ground, and she couldn’t move. The room was filled with plain curtains and white curtains, surrounded by cigarettes. There was a memorial tablet on the table in the middle, which read:

〖Wu Shiqiuyue's spirit seat of the river martyrdom〗

On the side are two pictures of Su Lian, with bloodstains all over them.
〖Being disloyal, Anke is not filial?Dreaming back to Yuntai to be kind and strict. 〗

——The next couplet:

〖It's hard to be strict, which one is hard to beat?The soul returns to the underworld to hope for Chang'an! 〗

There is a small line next to it, the book:
〖Cuigu weeps her own blood〗

What's more shocking is that Aunt Cui is wearing a fine attire, with dark eyebrows and a rouge face, her eyes are slightly closed, and she is smiling, still sitting on the chair behind the memorial tablet!When La Aunt Su Ma looked forward tremblingly, her color was not diminished, but her six veins were gone, and her breath was cut off. It is just like "a body like five drums carrying a mountain and a moon, and a life like a three-shift oil lamp"!
For a while, Aunt Su Ma was in a nightmare.In any case, she couldn't believe that the corpse of a woman in a palace dress who had swallowed mercury and had an ethereal fragrance in front of her was the young woman who stopped the car half a month ago to rescue her. She spoke hard and was alive. Why did she have to die?

Staying in this quiet upstairs, facing this strange sacrifice, Aunt Su Ma suddenly felt a chilling sense of terror in her heart, and she wanted to step back, but there was also a strange force that attracted her to refuse to leave.

"Elder Sister," the middle-aged woman saw her expression of solemn awe, and asked, kneeling down and saluting, "Who are you from Cui Gu?"

Aunt Su Ma had an idea, and said: "Mingzhu is my elder brother. He was too sick to come, so he asked me to come and have a look. This kind of thing happened..." The woman said: "Since the elder sister is here, I will ask the elder sister Pass this letter to Master Ming." After speaking, she shook her hands, took out a letter from her bosom and said, "Miss Cui asked me to give this to Master Ming before she died..." Aunt Su Ma answered When I looked at it, it was a general-purpose letter commonly seen in the market, with only one line in the middle in running script, and it was written: Brother Mingzhu, and the next paragraph is: Cuiguzhui Xinshu.He asked in a trembling voice: "This is too unexpected, how can we just..."

The woman took out a Supa from her waist to wipe her tears and said: "I don't quite understand. The old woman downstairs said that Master Hu was dressed as a Taoist priest last night. The two quarreled for half the night, and Master Hu went off in a fit of anger. Cui Gu cried for half the night , this morning I sent invitations to some of our sisters who used to sing, but they took mercury and sat on their chairs and couldn’t move....Just handed this letter to me, and said with a smile: 'Here Mingzhu—'I can't say a word..." At this point, the woman was sobbing.

Aunt Su Ma left Jiaxing Building with a heart full of sorrow and returned to Da Nei. It was time to apply for a license.Under the blood-red sunset, she entered the palace from the Long Zongmen and went straight to the Hall of Mental Cultivation in a trance.Seeing her coming back, the maid on duty rushed up to greet her and said, "Long Live Lord went to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to pay his respects, and left a few packets of vegetables for my sister, saying that my sister doesn't eat oily meat, so I specially asked my sister to change the taste! "La Aunt Su Ma was startled, and then realized that she had returned to the Forbidden City, so she forced a smile and said, "Let's leave it there, I'll eat later." Then she lifted the curtain and went back to her room, her body seemed to be falling apart. fell on the couch.

She carefully took out the letter. Seeing that it was unsealed, she was obviously not afraid of people looking at it, so she turned inside, and under the dim candlelight, she took out the plain note inside, and saw that it read:

〖Mingzhu Xiongtai Jian: Juansheng Yumeng, from now on, I will travel with my brother for a lifetime!The way home is vague, and things are unknown.But the autumn flowers of Pingcao grass, willows with broken souls, and the waning moon on the roof of the building can always send beautiful shadows under your feet.Slaves are not lighter than the living but more important than the dead. Gai is struggling to advance and retreat, and there is no room for wandering.Exhausted physically and mentally, how worthy of blood and tears to flow in vain!Neither can he stick to his father's will, nor can he share hatred with his brother. He sighs and sighs for a long time, wandering around without a plan, and decides to repay the first monarch and later the lord by self-mutilation.Attached are four humble poems, all of which are slaves to my life's thoughts, and I obtained it alone under the moonlight.The voice of the dying person also mourns.Moaning for no reason, to repay the king's nostalgia.

Sister Cuigu cried blood in Jiaxing Building〗

Attached to the letter was a piece of Xue Tao's note, on which four quatrains were written in the same color of Zhong Wang's teeny lowercase on the thin paper, and the sentiment was moving.

Aunt Su Ma was sobbing after finishing the poem, when she suddenly heard the sound of boots behind her, she hurriedly wiped away her tears and got up, but Kangxi approached with a smile: "You must be tired today! If you are tired, you should go out for a walk Take it easy, if you lie down blindly, you will get sick—what is in your hand, isn’t it written by Mr. Wu?”

Only then did La Aunt Su Ma realize that Cui Gu's suicide note was still in her hand, she quickly covered it up with a smile, "It's nothing, it's something written by someone else, I happened to see it and took it for a look."

"Since Mr. Wu didn't give it to you," Kangxi stretched out his hand and said, "Why don't you let me come and have a look." Aunt Su Ma had no choice but to hold the letter with both hands, and said in a low voice: "Long live, Aunt Cui Dead!"

Kangxi's complexion suddenly changed, he hurriedly snatched the letter, looked at it hastily, his complexion became paler, and returned the suicide note to Aunt Su Ma with trembling hands, asking: "She...how is she now?"

Aunt Su Ma sobbed and recounted to Kangxi the scenes she had just seen.Kangxi listened silently, nodded and sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity—do you know? 'First Lord' means the former Ming, and 'Later Lord' means me. I can't choose between the two, and the trouble of love makes it difficult I am restless, and my internal organs are all broken, so I have no choice but to go this way."

"That shouldn't be the way to go!" Aunt Su Ma wiped away her tears and said, "Is it possible to become a monk? Long live Lord pointed out a temple for her to practice, isn't it good?"

Kangxi smiled wryly and said: "Thank you for being a Buddhist disciple! Only when the four things are empty, can you be a monk who is empty and clear. She is in a mess and can't get rid of it now! ——I'm afraid that Hu Gongshan will go the way you said. It’s too late, it’s a pity that I can’t use this person.” At this point, he paused, and then said again after a long time, “I also know a little about Hu Gongshan, he is different from Cuigu. It is the former Ming Dynasty, but it is relying on Yunnan, and I can’t do anything in front of me. ——Both of these two people have contributed to me, and they wanted to be kind, but now... alas!"

Seeing that Kangxi looked sad and sad, Aunt Su Ma had no choice but to cheer him up and comfort him: "It's only because she is unlucky and can't bear the grace of Lord Long Live." Let's not talk about this, let's talk about our own business Mr. Wu's place, if the Lord Long Live doesn't go, I'm afraid he will reveal his secrets!"

"I must go." Kangxi said, "Did you see him today?"

"He has become suspicious, wondering which prince's heir is Long Live Lord!" Aunt Su Ma thought of Wu Ciyou's innocent face, a smile appeared on her face, and she hurriedly said, "Xiao Weizi and the others said, Wu Liuyi has to ask Long Live's grace to write a secret letter to him."

Only then did Kangxi realize that he was tired of standing, so he sat down on a chair and said, "That's good! The position surnamed Wu has wronged him a bit. I originally wanted to give him the position of governor of Guangdong. —— Now that the court has something to do, Tell Wu Liuyi to stay calm and not to be impatient.——I don’t want to explain this clearly, but I know it in my heart. Go and serve the pen and ink!”

Aunt Su Ma returned to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, took out a blank copy of the imperial edict that was ready-made there, and brought a pen, ink and cinnabar, and spread it with both hands.Kangxi rolled up his sleeves, picked up a pen and moistened the ink to write:

〖Wu Liuyi led the change of the position of admiral of the Nine Gates in Beijing, and I will not obey the order without my own handwritten order. 〗

Think about it, and add another sentence:
〖Responsible for Ru Wu's six one and five city patrol departments to control together, and the third rank of the hall official is below the vacancy, and the official will be dismissed temporarily, and the order will be issued later.This! 〗

After finishing writing, he took out a jade seal from his bosom, which was a jade seal he had recently activated, specially for secret edicts.The four characters "Master of Tiyuan" are engraved on it - using cinnabar mud, which is heavily engraved, and the end is very bright.Aunt Su Ma hurriedly stretched out her hands to catch it.

"Slow down!" Kangxi's tone suddenly became very grave.Aunt Su Ma watched him grow up, and never heard him speak in such a tone, "If this edict is in his hands, it will belong to Wu Liuyi inside and outside the palace! My wealth and life, the emperor The fate of the Queen Mother and you depends on this person, so don't be careless!"

La Aunt Su Ma was startled at first, but she suddenly realized that she couldn't help admiring Kangxi's hard work, so she said in a low voice: "Long Live Lord is very worried! It's just...how to do it?"

"That's it," Kangxi pondered for a moment, then lowered his voice, "Wanniang, just give him this edict. I will give Xiao Weizi another personal edict, telling him to act according to Wu Liuyi's movements, so as to prevent changes. A change in the middle. Little Wei Zi has always been loyal and filial, and he will never have second thoughts, and Sun Amu..." He suddenly stopped and stopped talking.

Without going any further, Aunt Su Ma also fully understands that Aunt Sun is under the control of Kangxi.This is indeed foolproof, but Lagu Su Ma never expected that this emperor who had been playing hide-and-seek with a jiggle around her, this sensible, straightforward and amiable young emperor, was so suspicious that she couldn't help but slapped her. shiver.He forced a smile and said, "Xiao Weizi is just a third-class shrimp, I'm afraid Pin Zhi won't be able to hold him back..."

"What's so difficult about this!" Kangxi said coldly, "I will issue an order tomorrow to promote him as a first-class guard!"

(End of this chapter)