Emperor Kangxi: The First Rule of the Palace

Chapter 74
"Who wants you to give what order?" Kangxi pretended to be angry and said, "I want to ask for the forehead to give the order! You just spread a word, and you don't have to make a fuss so that everyone knows!" After saying that, he waved his hand and said: "Kneel Be safe!" Xiong Cilu had no choice but to kowtow and thank him.

After this farce, Kangxi felt a little relieved, and turned to Xiangge to look for Aunt Su Ma.Although he was joking about Suo'etu, he had a new idea at this time—Lagu Su Ma couldn't give it to Wu Ciyou, let alone Suo'etu, so I asked for it myself, so what's wrong?
Stepping into the West Pavilion, Kangxi couldn't help being taken aback, he couldn't believe his eyes. ——Aunt Su Ma has cut off a head of black hair.

She just came out of the shower, and she was changing into black clothes completely naked!
"you--"

"I..." Aunt Su Ma saw him coming in at this time, she was not ashamed, she slowly put on her clothes, and said with a sad smile: "Your slave is already an outsider, so why not be afraid!"

"Mangu, Wanniang!" Kangxi cried out in pain, "You can't do this, isn't it good to be my concubine? I also... like you too!"

La Aunt Su Ma put on her robes and stared blankly at the banner on the wall: "The soul of Xia Naiyun, the bee is the spirit of flowers"—this was after La Aunt Su Ma came out as a maidservant in Suofu to test Wu Ciyou. A couplet written by Wu Ciyou.Now that things have changed, only the soul and spirit are really left.Think about what is the meaning of life?Seeing that Kangxi was sad, Aunt Su Ma turned her face away and said word by word: "I have committed sins in my previous life, and I have committed serious crimes again in this life. May I be with you forever in front of the ancient Qingdeng Buddha, and pray for the safety of my master and everyone. Spend the rest of your life in order to cultivate the next life. —— I beg the master to pass this word on to that infatuated man!"

Seeing her like this, Kangxi knew that persuasion was useless, so he wiped away his tears and said, "Wanniang's ambition to be born is already strong, so I will help you. I'll go see Lafayette right away, and you can practice in the palace!"

Three days later, Xiong Cilu brought only a little servant boy, wearing a cloth robe, and came to Suofu to "deliver the decree".He felt very embarrassed about this mission. Suo'etu is very honorable now, and he will soon become the uncle of the imperial concubine. To pass such an imperial decree is tantamount to planting disasters. What can he reap in the future?But Taoists have the cunning of Taoists. He came to visit as a commoner and a personal friend, as long as he tactfully revealed Kangxi's meaning to him, it would be fine.

It was June day at that time, and the heat was steaming, and I knew Chirp, but there was no wind at all.Several servants at Suofu Gate sat on benches, drank tea, played fans, and set up a dragon gate array to pass the summer.Seeing Xiong Cilu coming, they all got up to salute and greeted him, and said, "Master came at the right time, Mr. Wei and Mr. Wu are inside!" Xiong Cilu nodded with a smile and said, "I'm going to disturb them now." A fight!" While preventing the person at the door from announcing, leaving little Xitong on the door to play, he walked in with a fan.

He turned around the back hall and turned towards the garden of the west courtyard.On the water pavilion, Suo'etu, Wei Dongting, and Tie Gai were sitting and eating melons and drinking ice water, talking happily, but they didn't see Xiong Cilu coming.Xiong Cilu saw that the stone bench under the willow tree was clean and cool, and the goldfish in the pond seemed to be swimming, so he sat down on the stone bench and watched the fish.The breeze was blowing from the water, and the voices of the three talking on the pavilion could be heard clearly.

"Brother Huchen," this is the voice of Tie Beggar, "I heard that my good brother is going to abandon the martial arts scriptures. Your wife belongs to martial arts. You husband and wife are all talented in both civil and military affairs."

"How can this be done by the brothers themselves!" Wei Dongting said, "The sage met me a few days ago and said that Nanjing is a land of gold and powder in the Six Dynasties, where there are many scholars and scholars, and the scenery is attractive. Your Majesty, if you want, you will keep your ministers in Nanjing, and you will not ask for an official position, but you can learn more about the customs of the southern lands."

"How about Long live?" This was Suo'etu asking, he was eating cantaloupe, and his speech was a little unclear.

Wei Dongting chuckled and said, "Long Live Lord didn't say anything, he just nodded, which seems to be quite agreeable."

Hearing this, Xiong Cilu smiled slightly, got up and went to the pavilion to talk.But I heard Suo'etu say: "Speaking of the emperor's sage, I really can't finish it for three days and three nights. The day before yesterday, my mother went to the harem to meet the empress dowager. Lafayette told my mother that the emperor has been busier than before since Oboi was imprisoned. It's-"

Wu Liuyi hurriedly asked, "Is there anything else important right now?"

Suo'etu lowered his voice, Xiong Cilu couldn't hear it clearly, and after a while he heard Wu Liuyi shouting: "What is he! The emperor gave me one hundred thousand soldiers, and I can kill this ugly guy!" Xiong Cilu couldn't help being stunned. up.

But Wei Dongting said with a "hush": "Shut up! This matter is now top-secret. I'm afraid Brother Tie Beggar will be released to the governor, and Fan Chengmo, the emperor also intends to use him as the governor of Fujian. ——The emperor The second big chess game is about to start!" He took a sip of ice water, and said, "Last time, Ye Bilong said in Xie En Zhe that the emperor's meritorious deeds were worse than the three emperors and the five emperors of Dechao, and he was reprimanded by the emperor. It is said that he has the intention of flattery. According to my brother, the emperor's ambition is probably much higher than Tang Taizong's!"

The three people in the pavilion were silent so far, Xiong Cilu felt terrified, thinking that Wei Dongting had told about Kangxi writing the word "San Francisco" on the pillar of the palace.At this moment, he was not in a hurry to meet each other in the pavilion, and simply sat down, he had to think about it.

"Go, all of you! A man who lives in the world and makes a name for himself, comforts his life!" This was Suo'etu's voice again.

The iron beggar laughed and said: "The last time Mr. Wu saw me, he gave me a piece of calligraphy, which was Cai Shigong's "Luojiang Complaint", and it was very good." Then he began to recite:

〖Remembrance of fame, romantic love, two kinds of things, daily camp.After repeated disturbances, the heart is hard to settle. If you want to wait, you want to lean on the emerald green and nestle in the red, but you can't bear the yellow scroll and green lantern, and the people in the Yutang Jinma admire you;How can it be both?According to fame and kindness, three cups of royal wine are shared by Chang'e! 〗

After singing, he said again, "Suo Gong is not just two successes. The appointment of a bachelor is about to be awarded, and he will become the head of the country. Isn't this two successes? Yesterday, Sun Dianchen told me that the Empress Dowager is going to make Su Ma La I promise you, this is really 'three cups of royal wine together with Chang'e'! Us martial arts, we always lose money in front of you!" After speaking, he laughed, and Suo'etu humbly thanked him.

But when Xiong Cilu heard a sound of "clang", when Xiong Cilu was looking at it, it was Wei Dongting who accidentally knocked over the cup.Suo and Wu saw that his expression was abnormal, and hurriedly asked: "Huchen, what's wrong with you?"

"Aunt Su Mala promised me?" Wei Dongting asked.Xiong Cilu was about to come out to speak, but when he heard Wei Dongting's trembling voice, he knew something was wrong, so he stopped again.

"The appointment has not yet been made, but the Empress Dowager has already agreed to my mother." Suo'etu said, "Why, is there anything wrong with this?"

"It's not just inappropriate!" Xiong Cilu heard this, and seeing that the time to speak had come, he said loudly: "Whether Wu Ciyou or you Suo'etu, whoever marries Lagu Su Ma will be in trouble one day!"

The three of them were chatting on the pavilion, never expecting that "talks on the shore, there are fish in the water", they were all taken aback, looked up, Xiong Ci was standing on the other side in a green cloth robe, holding a folding fan, quite a way Gu Xianfeng's posture - Suo'etu hurriedly bowed across the water and said, "Please come over and talk!" Xiong Cilu quickly returned the gift, and then walked along the Quqiao step by step.

After the lecture, Suo'etu hurriedly asked: "Dongyuan Gong just said it, and I would like to hear it in detail!" Xiong Cilu said with a smile: "If you don't use dangerous words, how can you scare me! But what I said below is indeed true. " Then he told a few people the detailed process of Kangxi's summoning to several people, and finally said to Suo'etu: "You are married to Lagu Su Ma, and the emperor is hindering the empress dowager's affection, so naturally he will not say anything. On that day, no one will dare to save you even if you save him!"

What he said made Suo'etu terrified, he only complained that Mingzhu shouldn't come up with such a bad idea, and was afraid that Wei Dongting and Mingzhu would be close, and the word would spread, so he had to admit that it was bad luck.Said: "It's also my fault that I lost my head, but the matter has come to this point, how can I deal with it?" Wei Dongting was also shocked, but more strange.Because of the relationship between Kangxi, Lagu Su Ma and Wu Ciyou, he knew about it.I didn't expect Kangxi's attitude to change so quickly, it became too outrageous!

"You should drink a few more glasses of ice water when you're dizzy," Xiong Cilu held a glass of ice water in his hand, and said coldly, "You have to tie the bell to untie it. Go see the Empress Dowager and the Emperor yourself. I blamed myself, and said that my deceased wife had just lost her life, and I couldn't bear to remarry, and I didn't plan to remarry, so that even the Empress Dowager would be able to step down."

"What about Mr. Wu?" Wei Dongting couldn't help asking, "He has a deep relationship with Aunt Su Ma, I'm afraid it's hard to talk about it!"

"It's up to you, Brother Huchen." Xiong Cilu said.He didn't agree with Wu Ciyou's studies, and the emperor had used Wu Ciyou to attack him many times, which made him even more displeased, but Wu Ciyou was being favored, so there was nothing he could do.He casually said, "Why does a man have to worry about not having a wife? If he is obsessed with this, no matter how good his knowledge is, he will fall into the low class."

When Xiong Cilu said Wu Ciyou's words, Wei Dongting didn't accept it.But there is really no other way, and I can only persuade him from now on, so I stood up and said, "Thank you for taking care of me!"

(End of this chapter)