The daily life of the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, thick black

Chapter 143 Goodbye Sisters
Suddenly he said that he wanted Zhang Tingyu to accompany him. At first, Gu Huaixiu thought that it might be that the old man Kangxi remembered Zhang Ying, and also remembered that Zhang Ying had helped the emperor for so many years, so he treated his son extra favorably.

But when Gu Huaixiu saw the eunuchs coming down from the palace and rewarded them with gifts, he made a special inquiry and said that since Young Master Zhang is going to the south of the Yangtze River, Gu Huaixiu must take the children with him and prepare a boat for them alone. .But since you brought the child and your wife, let's bring the cook along.

This time, Gu Huaixiu was really speechless.

She finally understood that Lord Kangxi acted like he was doing big things when he was doing big things, and he also had his own way when he was being petty.The emperor is also a human being. After this incident, she completely eliminated the feeling of fear of the emperor.

Thinking that the fourth elder brother who was going to be the emperor in the future is just like this now.

To put it bluntly, even Zhang Tingyu's ability is enough to be an emperor in that position.

Cough, after all, it's a big treason.

But think about it carefully, isn't that the same thing?

She totally regarded this as an outing, and stopped by the kitchen to look at the stone work.

Things have been busy recently, and Shi Fang is getting older, but he said that he believes in Huang Lao's teachings, and he still doesn't want to marry a wife.

Gu Huaixiu thought, Qing Dai and Shi Fang were the same age, Qing Dai also said that she would not marry, if these two people were released, they would not be able to get married long ago.It's not that she hasn't been forced, it's just that Qing Dai refuses to marry no matter what, she only wants to work by Gu Huaishu's side, even if she doesn't marry, it's okay.There is no movement at Shi Fang's side, except for cooking and reading recipes every day, he hardly does anything else.

Between these two people, her idea was to get together, but every time she opened her mouth, Shi Fang would divert the topic.

Today, he bypassed the garden directly and walked towards the kitchen with the thrush.

Shi Fang now has two young apprentices by his side to help Shi Fang. There is a small tree outside the small kitchen, a bird cage is hung on the branch, and there is a beautiful thrush in the bird cage.

Just as Gu Huaishu came over to take a look, he stopped under the tree and said, "Is this the one you brought back from Tongcheng?"

Shi Fang happened to be standing outside, and smiled when he heard the words: "Madam has a good memory, that's right."

"The maid next to me is also called Huamei, but you want to put the thrush next to me in a bird cage." Gu Huaixiu joked casually, and turned to look at Huamei, only to see that Huamei blushed from being teased by her words up.

"The madam made fun of it."

Shi Fang glanced at Huamei, but said nothing, he didn't like to talk to other people.

"Madam, you are here, but what's the matter?"

Normally, Gu Huaixiu would not come back, and would only say a few words when seeing her occasionally. Shi Fang felt that he was getting farther and farther away from the Gu San girl who saved him back then.

Gu Huaishu hadn't felt this way yet, and she didn't know how complicated Shi Fang's heart was. She called him "Little Shi Fang" as before, "Do you still remember that greedy Long Live Lord? This time the emperor gave me a favor, Let us all go down to meet the master, Brother Jiang is going too. You... you are going too, the emperor has called your name, you must be waiting to board the boat, and you still have to cook food for the Long Live Lord."

These are unavoidable.

The emperor didn't ask Gu Huaixiu for a cook, so Gu Huaixiu couldn't say anything, he couldn't say "I won't give you the emperor's old man to eat the food made by the minister's wife"?If he really said that, Gu Huaishu thought that his head would not be on his neck.

She didn't come here to inform Shi Fang, lest he think too much.

Watching Shi Fang look up at her, as if he wanted to say a thousand words, but he couldn't open his mouth no matter what.

Gu Huaishu laughed: "I know what you're going to ask, but I can only say that you definitely can't enter the palace to be a cook, or else I'll have three mouths, and I'll starve to death in the future."

Shi Fang was afraid that he was going to enter the palace, so he smiled shyly: "Then Shi Fang pack up and go with you when the time comes."

"Well, then you should be busy. I want to eat something light at noon. There are a lot of things going on with the second master recently, and I'm a little angry. Let's find something to calm down."

She mentioned something, and finally returned to Zhang Tingyu.

Shi Fang was startled, and then said: "Shi Fang understands."

Only then did Gu Huaishu nod, and left with the thrush.

Shi Fang stood on the steps and looked at the back of Gu Huaishu leaving with the maid, his eyes fell on the thrush bird that sang beautifully, thinking about the matter of letting him marry a wife that Gu Huaishu had mentioned several times before , suddenly frowned.

Fortunately, he is not Gu Huaishu's domestic servant, he just follows her all the time, his marriage is his own decision.

No matter how much Madam thinks about it, it's useless.

Followed by Shi Fang's disciple Liu Xi, he probed his head and asked, "Master, does even the emperor like to eat your dishes?"

Another apprentice, Zhao Feng, also squeezed over curiously: "I heard that the emperor likes to eat your cooking, will you enter the palace in the future? Can you take us with you then?"

Shi Fang sighed, walked into the room, took the kitchen knife, dropped it, and hummed: "Thinking too much..."

He will never enter the palace, probably wherever Gu Huaishu goes, he will go there, right?

But he has been thinking, now that Zhang Tingyu is with the king like a tiger, if such a catastrophe happens suddenly, what kind of scene will it be...

The sharp light of the knife came into Xiao Shifang's eyes, but he didn't think about it any further.

He was just a cook, the cook of Miss Gu San back then.

The mansion is already busy with the matter of following the emperor's southern tour and reuniting with the master, this one needs to be brought, and that one needs to be brought along.

As a result, Gu Huaishu ordered them to go on, and don’t take anything except what they have to bring. After all, they traveled with the most powerful and wealthiest people in the whole Qing Dynasty. Even if the emperor’s fleet is poor, they will not be short expense.

In this way, after a little tidying up, on the eighth day of February, they had already received relevant news about the southern tour, and they set off from the capital on the ninth day of the lunar month.

This time, only the prince Yinreng and the thirteenth elder brother Yinxiang are the attendants.

When Gu Huaishu thought of the prince, he was filled with nausea, and his expression changed for a while.

The eunuch who came to take care of related matters in the palace was San Dezi's young apprentice named Xiao Shanzi. Seeing that Gu Huaishu's expression was not right at the moment, he felt that Zhang Tingyu should have a bright future in the future, so he treated Zhang Tingyu as the only wife He was much more humble: "Madam, do you think there is something wrong?"

Gu Huaishu came back to his senses, smiled, asked someone to give the money to Xiao Shanzi, and said: "Our family here has never seen the world much, and has never gone out with the emperor's fleet. Or go to the south of the Yangtze River. Just now you said that the crown prince and the thirteenth master are also going, isn't that frightening? Speaking of which, the crown prince and the thirteenth master are also going to bring their families, right?"

When Xiao Shanzi heard it, he immediately understood.

At this time, it is a good time to establish a good relationship with the prince's concubines.

This second Mrs. Zhang, is it? ?shrewd person.

You need to know after getting on the boat, Xiao Shanzi said at this time, and he also sold Gu Huaishu's favor, so he said with a smile: "The crown prince brought a side Fu Jin Lin Jia, Shu Fu Jin Fan Jia; thirteen There are only the Fucha family of the side Fujin here, and there are not many people. However, the concubine and empress are waiting on the side of our Long Live Lord, and there are also the concubine, the young master of Chen Guiren, and the young master of the new nobleman. It is better for you to remember these .”

He thought he was clever and added a sentence later.

Gu Huaixiu said that the life of Kangxi's southern tour was really quite rich, but he said: "The Zhang family has remembered the good intentions of the good father-in-law. You have just passed the decree here, so I won't delay you."

"The servant is also preparing to leave here, so I'm leaving."

Xiao Shanzi flicked his whisk, bowed and backed away.

When the person left, Gu Huaishu looked back and thought about it, but found it extremely ironic.

The crown prince side Fujin Lin Jiashi...

Now, she is quite favored.

Thinking about being in the Prince Yuqing Palace, you have suffered a lot, and you have finally honed it gradually, right?

I really don't know what it will be like when my sisters meet again.

She is the wife of the emperor's close ministers, and she is for life; and Gu Yaofang is the concubine of the prince, and she is for the side Fujin.

It's so interesting...

I thought this journey might not be very interesting, and it was just the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, but now it suddenly became interesting because of the appearance of this list of entourages.

In the end we will meet again.

Lin Jiashi...

If Gu Huaishu guessed correctly that day, she has already become the fourth master's person.

There were chess pieces on the chessboard, Gu Huaishu walked over, lightly picked up a black piece, picked it up with his middle finger and index finger, then lightly bumped into a white piece, but knocked the white piece onto the chess table.

"Clap."

Only then did Gu Huaishu slowly place a sunspot in his hand on the chessboard.

A live game turned into a dead game in an instant.

Get things ready, the ministers will go to Kangxi's boat to meet first, if there are family members, they will board the boat first and wait until the emperor boards the boat, and everyone can set off directly.

It was still dark when we came out, and Gu Huaishu had already boarded the boat. A long fleet of boats was docked in front of the pier of the capital, just waiting to set off.She only brought Qingdai and Thrush, Ade Aping, Shi Fang and his two apprentices were on another boat, and Zhang Tingyu was still on the emperor's boat.

The fat guy was right next to Gu Huaishu, shouting excitedly when he saw the water surface, maybe it was the first time he saw such a wide water surface and a magnificent fleet?
Gu Huaixiu only pulled him and said, "We agreed before we came out that you are not allowed to wander around on the boat, and if you fall into the water, no one will be able to pick you up. Remember what I told you?"

"Xiao Pang remembers that Xiao Pang only watches and doesn't wander around. He will tell Aunt Qingdai and Aunt Huamei first if he wants to do anything."

At this moment, the little fat man looked very sensible, holding his mother's hand, excited and nervous at the same time.

But Gu Huaixiu didn't feel any joy.

She only stood on the boat here, looking at the boats ahead, wondering which one had Lin Jiashi on it, Zhang Tingyu should have boarded the boat now, right?
Gu Huaixiu was thinking in his heart, when he heard rituals and music opening the way, someone yelled "Let's patrol" against the still cold river wind, and the fleet pulled anchor, left the capital, and headed south all the way.

There are only three or two maids on board, helping to take care of some things.

On the contrary, Gu Huaishu found out that the rules of these court ladies are extremely strict. Presumably the court ladies who can be brought out are all smart people, right?
As a result, Gu Huaixiu couldn't help but think of Bai Qiaoniang again, the one who gave fourth elder brother a purpose.

Entered the territory of Shandong Province on the 22nd.Entered Jiangnan on the [-]th of March and arrived in Yangzhou on the [-]th.

I have been inspecting the river engineering work all the way, and stayed in Shandong for a while, but soon arrived in the south of the Yangtze River and did not continue. When I arrived in Yangzhou, the fleet finally stopped, and everyone had a period of time to go ashore.

Yangzhou is a bustling place. A section of the canal in Gaoyou is dangerous. The journey is in a hurry and busy with affairs. Everyone on the emperor's side is exhausted.

In the end, when I arrived in Yangzhou, there was nothing to do, I just came down to rest in the palace.

The Zhang family's Gu Huaixiu got rich because of the emperor, so they also lived in the palace.

Sitting on the boat for nearly two months, Gu Huaishu really felt that his waist was going to be sore, and he dared not do anything while walking with the emperor. Anyway, now that he got off the boat, he finally thought about loosening his muscles and bones.

Even the fat guy let out a hearty cry when he stepped on the ground.Thinking about it, Fat Brother was also suffocated. In the first period of time, the boat was full of shouts, thinking that everything on the river was good, but unfortunately there was nothing for him to play with for a month, so he could only play chess with Gu Huaishu. The skill of backgammon has improved a lot.

Sitting in the sedan chair, he walked all the way into the palace, and was led into the garden by Ling'er, the lady in front of him. The fat guy ran away, "I'm so happy, is this Jiangnan? Mom, look at this garden, it's so beautiful." !"

The fat man yelled, and pointed to a rockery and fish pond in front of him. The gardens in Yangzhou were exquisite because of the trickery of those salt merchants. Gu Huaishu had seen similar ones before, so he was not surprised.

The fat guy was happy, but he didn't even think about turning a corner ahead, and pretended to be someone.

"Where did the little beast dare to hit Fujin sideways! Don't you have eyes?!" A court lady supported the beauty in palace costume with two heads upright, and glared at the fat man.

The fat guy took two steps back, startled by the sudden scolding, his face turned pale.

Knowing that something was wrong, Gu Huaixiu hurriedly took two steps forward, just after passing through the round door, he saw the sick beauty standing aside, frowning.

It wasn't a beautiful face, because the faint trace of sickness made it even more sad, giving people a feeling of weakness.

She stood there like a cloud of smoke, squinted her eyes and slightly raised her chin, looking at Gu Huaishu: "Second Madam Zhang, long time no see."

haven't seen you for a long time?

Gu Huaishu raised his hand, grabbed the fat man back, squinted his eyes and smiled: "My wife greeted Fujin."

The crown prince is side Fujin, Lin Jiashi, she has another identity.

Gu Huaixiu knew it, and Lin Jiashi knew it too.

Gu Yaofang.

It's been a long time since I've seen you, a lake-blue Suzhou embroidered cheongsam, with jade bracelets on the wrists, coral beads hanging from the earlobes, and two Hetian jade inlaid Bu Yao on the hair...

Her attire is not very ostentatious, maybe she is quite the plain one among the prince's concubines, she is so gentle and weak that she is cute.

Lin Jiashi didn't speak, just supported the maid's hand, and looked at her with one corner of her lips curled up.

"Hey, isn't this Mr. Zhang's wife?"

Suddenly a voice came from outside, Gu Huaixiu turned sideways, and saw the crown prince glanced at Lin Jiashi, but his eyes quickly returned to Gu Huaixiu's face.

The prince originally looked at Wen Runruyu, but now he looked at Gu Huaixiu with ambiguity.

(End of this chapter)