Chapter 163

When Zhang Tingyu went to the other courtyard, he only saw Gu Huaishu watching Liao Fengyuan playing with the fat brother in the courtyard, fanning the two children, as if talking about something.

He walked in step by step, Gu Huaishu didn't see him at first, but stood up in surprise when he saw him.

he……

came back?
Gu Huaishu froze in place, not knowing what to say.

His face was full of dust and dust, obviously he was tired a lot on the road.

"I... haven't you received my second letter?"

She asked suddenly, but immediately caught a glimpse of Ade from the corner of her eyes.

Zhang Tingyu said warmly: "I received it and saw it, so I came back."

She wrote in the letter that it is useless to run around, and the future is important.

This meant that he wanted Zhang Tingyu not to come back, but how did he think that Zhang Tingyu insisted on coming back?

He said: "Don't rush for a while..."

If he doesn't come back and take a look, he won't be at ease.

Gu Huaishu had adjusted his emotions back a long time ago, but now he was moved to tears by his words "not in a hurry".

God knows what an official career means to Zhang Tingyu. After so many years of forbearance, once he has accumulated a lot of money, every day that passes, he is one step closer to being a supreme minister.

Now Kangxi's southern tour is an excellent opportunity.

But he put aside the matter over there and came back directly.

Gu Huaishu didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only stand there and laugh.

She went into the room with him, asked someone to bring water for him to take a bath, and changed into a clean robe, only then did she look like a man.

Zhang Tingyu didn't speak, just sat in the room with her, and then played a game of chess, the whole day seemed to slow down.

Gu Huaixiu's chess skills still haven't made much progress. Ever since Zhang Tingzan disappeared, Zhang Tingyu never played the so-called "siege" game, and slowly talked with Gu Huai, one by one. .She didn't bother to ask Zhang Tingyu how to deal with this matter, at least not now.

Kangxi will return to Luan soon, and they won't be able to stay in Jiangning for long.

Zhang Tingyu went to Shen Yuan to look for Zhang Wangxian once, and when he came back, he seemed a little bit disappointed.What exactly did he ask, but Gu Huaishu didn't ask, and Li Wei didn't come. I heard that Shen Qi didn't pursue him, but just asked him to manage the business in Yangzhou.

This year's new tea hadn't been served yet, and Shen Chao's boat had been detained for no reason. Song Luo, who thought she had a close friendship with Shen Chao, turned to Zhang Tingyu, which dealt a heavy blow to the entire Wanqing Clubhouse.

It was Liao Fengyuan who found it difficult to be a man in the middle.

Boss Liao didn't want to care about what happened between Shen Yang and Zhang Tingyu now that he was old.

He took care of his son, so at least his business didn't suffer much damage.

Originally, Liao Fengyuan and Shen Chao were bound together forcibly, but now Song Luo made it clear that they were targeting Shen Chao alone, and Liao Fengyuan didn't have the guts to wade into this muddy water.

Zhang Tingyu stayed in Jiangning for ten days. He handled many things and met many Jiangnan scholars who came to visit.

After all, Zhang Tingyu was Jiangning's Xieyuan back then, and he was also the number one scholar. Although he is now an official in the court, there are still many people who come to talk to Zhang Tingyu without avoiding suspicion.

The literati recite poems and fight against each other, which makes this other courtyard a lot more elegant.

Zhang Tingyu just treated these people with courtesy, and never gave anyone a bad look.

They were all called Mr. Zhang Tingyu, Mr. Zhang, and Zhang Tingyu accepted it calmly.

Among these people this year, there are quite a few talented people who have a good chance of winning the Jiangning Township Examination. Some are older than Zhang Tingyu, while others are younger...

These people are just like Zhang Tingyu back then.

Gu Huaishu sat at the back fanning himself, looking a little lazy.

Shi Fang was free today, so he brought a bowl of lotus leaf soup and put it down for her, only to see Qing Dai beside him.

"You are willing to come out for a walk today. You have been in the kitchen for the past few days, wondering what to eat?" Gu Huaishu laughed and asked him casually.

Shi Fang only said: "I just thought about leaving Jiangning, so I wrote down the recipes I've been pondering over the past few days, so as not to forget it when I return to Beijing. The weather is good today, so I thought of going out for a walk. By the way, I'll bring you a bowl of lotus leaf soup."

Gu Huaishu turned around, took a look at the lotus leaf soup, and said with a smile: "It's also because of your intentions, the lotus leaf just showed its horns this year, where did you get it?"

"The ones picked from the lotus pond outside are all the tips of the lotus leaves that just emerged this year. The small lotus just showed its sharp corners, but it fell into the stone ash pot"

Shi Fang joked casually, watched Gu Huaisu adjust the lotus leaf soup, and heard the commotion in the front yard, so he took a look.

Gu Huaixiu said: "I am a common man, but I ate very elegantly... In front of me are scholars from the south of the Yangtze River, all of whom came to talk to the second master. At the moment, the second master has nothing to do, so he just stays with others in the front yard. The emperor squeezed his forehead and is coming back soon, we are ready to go north, it is time to go."

Shi Fang then said: "Then I'll go back and continue cleaning."

"Ah."

Gu Huaishu took a look at him, drank the soup and saw him leave, he felt a fresh aftertaste in his mouth.

The food made by Shi Fang was still delicious, she narrowed her eyes, the sun fell on her sleeves spread on the railing, and she became lazy...

Walking back with a wooden plate in one hand, Shi Fang put one hand behind his back, just turning the corner, he suddenly heard a person laughing: "Monk Yi Nian is a capable person, you don't know. Buddhism and Zen principles are too proficient... "

"Oh, I'm starting to go crazy again."

"Speaking of which, Long Live the Emperor has just paid homage to the Taizu Mausoleum, why haven't you heard any other news?"

Someone lowered his voice and said, "It's not that the granddaughter of Third Prince Zhu...has..."

"Don't talk nonsense, don't talk nonsense..."

"Mr. Zhang, this is really a good handwriting..."

"...that's absurd."

When Shi Fang heard these voices, he felt that everything was a mess.

Jiangnan Shilin is the most complicated. They have everything, but the emperor dare not make public anger.

Thinking about it, Shi Fang went all the way into the kitchen and put down the wooden plate.

Soup was simmering on the stove, and the lid on it danced.

He seemed to be in a daze, and raised his hand to lift the lid, but his hand was scalded unexpectedly, and even the stone lid of the stone pot in his hand fell to the ground, torn apart.

Hearing the sound, he seemed to wake up.

Shi Fang looked at his scalded hand, and then looked at a piece of rag that he usually used to cover his hand to remove the cover. He used the rag to cover his hand, only picked up the hot pieces and threw them away. step aside.

It was quiet inside and out, Shi Fang was the only person in the kitchen.

He untied the sleeves tied around his wrists, and a broken knife and a copper coin were stuck in the cowhide outside, which Gu Huaixiu had casually pressed on his forehead.

However, Shi Fang didn't look at these for the first time, he just turned his wrist over gently, revealing a shallow brand mark on the inner side of the wrist bone.

Shi Fang looked at it for a long time, and heard footsteps outside, and slowly put the cowhide straps back on, and took a spoon to stir the soup in the pot.

Huamei came in from the outside and returned the bowl of lotus leaf soup that Shi Fang had brought before.

"Master Shi Fang is still busy."

"This is the soup for dinner, let's cook it first."

Shi Fang smiled, said a few words, Hua Mei didn't ask any more questions, and returned to Gu Huaixiu's side briskly.

Gu Huaishu was dozing off, there was a cool breeze in the stone pavilion, and the sky had darkened at some point.

Zhang Tingyu saw off a large group of guests, and finally got some leisure time. When he entered the stone pavilion, he saw that she was sleepy, and hurriedly told her to get up, so that she did not fall asleep.

She didn't want to walk, so she reached out for Zhang Tingyu's back.

Zhang Tingyu laughed and said, "I'm the boss, so I'm ashamed to let the second master carry you."

"No?" She looked at him with a half-smile.

Zhang Tingyu had no choice but to squat down and let her come up, and carried her back to the house.

On the way, Zhang Tingyu said: "I asked Song Luo to detain many of his boats. On the pier where the boats were moored this morning, there was a conflict between the Cao Gang and the government... Several boats were snatched back. Yes, but half the money. I'm very happy..."

"I'm pretty happy too."

Gu Huaishu smiled, this time Shen Qi may have suffered a heavy loss, right?
She put her arms around Zhang Tingyu's neck and said: "It's a pity, no matter how ruthless you are now, you have to let him go. You always owe favors..."

"……let's discuss it later."

Zhang Tingyu only had one sentence.

Gu Huaixiu watched him go up the steps, and only looked up at the sky high in the south of the Yangtze River: "Karma retribution, the cycle is not good..."

Zhang Tingyu paused for a moment, but said: "Those who are thick are the foundation of the world; those who are black are the Dao of the world."

She listened, but laughed out loud, "It's up to you."

There is actually not much difference between keeping promises and breaking promises, after all, the word "death" is left to Shen Chao.

There was a sudden turmoil in the Cao Gang, what Zhang Tingyu thought of was that when Gu Huaixiu disappeared, Shen Chao had the ability to make people search Jiang.

At that time, those people were all from the Cao Gang.

That is to say, Shen Chao's influence is not only in the Yanbang tea shop Mibu line, the most important thing is that he still has people in the Caobang.It's no wonder that he has been able to stand in the south of the Yangtze River for more than ten years. This network and means alone are enough to make up for it.

Now Zhang Tingyu only has one Song Luo in his hands, which is not enough, but this situation will change soon.

The last person he expected was Wangxian.

First, a series of things happened during the southern tour, and they have not had time to deal with them.

The matter with the prince was put on hold by the emperor, but the prince was not allowed to come out, and he didn't mean to ask questions. Zhang Tingyu pondered, maybe there would be no results until he returned to Beijing;
On the other side is Zhu Cihuan, the granddaughter of the deceased third prince Zhu and the third prince Zhu who is still fleeing.He rejected the emperor that day, only saying that Zhu Cihuan could not be caught and raised his head to see him. Now Zhu Cihuan has no whereabouts. Zhang Tingyu has had a lot of contact with Jiangnan Shilin in the past few days, and he also got to know some people. After all, the Qing court came from the north. Come on, here in the south of the Yangtze River, there is a theory of "Southern Ming Dynasty", and there are even more anti-Qing and Ming-ming forces making noise from time to time, but it is a pity that there is still nothing to gain;
Song Luo has now opened up Zhang Tingyu's eyes, and there will be endless troubles after Shen Chao's incident with the Cao Gang.

On the other hand, Wu Sidao is now traveling around again, and he wrote a few days ago that he was with the household member Wailang Tian Wenjing, and he has long since ceased to work for Liao Fengyuan.

Zhang Tingyu calculated these things one by one, and after a while, he put the matter of the prince at the top, followed by the case of the third prince Zhu.

As for Shen Chi, take your time...

Kangxi Luan didn't return until April, and returned to Beijing in the middle of the year. Zhang Tingyu and Gu Huaixiu accompanied him all the way up the canal. The capital was already scorching in midsummer.

The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty went to the city gate to pick them up, and there were countless people on Kangxi's southern tour, and Zhang Tingyu rode behind him.

Everyone shouted long live, but a group of people who followed the emperor could sit on their horses.

Zhang Tingyu only lowered his eyes when he looked at the people who were prostrate around him.

He looked back at the long car behind him.

No one would have imagined that when returning to the palace today, the prince's Luanjia would be moved to the back.

The elder brothers stood in front, the eldest elder brother already had a beard, the third elder brother also had two small beards, but the fourth elder brother stood calmly by the side, not surprising...

They paid homage to Kangxi, but Kangxi waved his hand to let Luanjia go on.

The princes and ministers didn't dare to move, they only dared to follow after Kangxi's Luanjia left.

Yinzhen counted the carriages carefully, and he was about to enter the palace, but he never saw the prince's carriage.On the surface, Yinzhen is close to the prince, and now he has not seen the prince driving, so it is understandable for him to stand here and wait.

Yinxiang looked ahead, but didn't dare to stop, only glanced at his fourth brother, but didn't say anything after all.

Behind Gu Huaixiu's car was the prince's group of people who were revered in the past, but now the emperor seems to be indifferent to him.

Yinfeng sat in the car, feeling a bit unbearable.

Seeing that he was about to return to the palace, he became even more anxious, and said: "What are you doing, why are you still not entering the palace?!"

"His Royal Highness, we can't leave without the car in front of us."

The little eunuch felt a little aggrieved.

The prince raised his hand and slapped him: "Who is in front, let the prince drive away!"

Now that the crown prince looks fierce, how dare the eunuchs speak too much.

They were also suffocating in their hearts, the prince had suffered a lot of grievances along the way, and whoever drove ahead dared to block the way of the prince!
Thinking about it, the four eunuchs walked over with sullen faces, and shouted at the driver in front: "Why are you blocking the road, why don't you go quickly?"

The driver of the car frowned: "Isn't this turning around? We are going to change lanes."

"Then you should be faster! Slow-moving bastard!" The eunuchs in the palace were used to bossing around, and when they saw that this was just an ordinary handlebar style, they immediately drank.

The handlebars became angry: "Who are you talking about!"

"Hey, you still dare to challenge our family?" The eunuch almost laughed out of anger, and raised his hand and said, "You even dare to block the way of the prince, and pushed their car!"

As soon as the words fell, Gu Huaishu laughed while sitting in the car.

She lifted the curtain and came in, directly took off the long horse whip hanging beside the driver, stood tall on the driver, and sneered.

With a flick of her delicate wrist, she swung the whip fiercely!
"Snapped!"

A whip!
There was a blood-red scar on the face and neck of the brazen servant, it looked as if his face had been disfigured, it was terrifying.

Gu Huaixiu was merciless, and after throwing the whip out, he wrapped his wrist around the whip and said with a smile: "You dog slave, open your dog eyes wide, I want to ask, who gave you the courage to make you even a fourth-rank wife?" Dare to push the car?"

The eunuch was originally very angry, and he relied on the Crown Prince's backing, so he was arrogant and domineering, but now seeing that it was Gu Huaishu, who knew something about the Crown Prince, he was silent like a cicada, he didn't even dare to call out.

Yinzhen just saw the prince's chariot and rode over, and saw Gu Huaishu savagely swinging his whip.

I always only thought that Gu Sanwen was angry, but I didn't want to pick up a whip to beat people now, it would be even more glamorous.

Yinzhen didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement, so he just rode his horse slowly to this side.

The crown prince also saw what happened here, the two cars were already close to side by side, Gu Huaishu's car was about to turn around, and Gu Huaishu met the crown prince face to face.

Seeing that it was the prince, Gu Huaixiu rubbed the rough lines on the whip with his fingertips, and stood firmly, "Who should I be, it turns out to be the prince. Your dog is disobedient, you should kill it as soon as possible." It's good, so as not to come out and bite people everywhere, if it brings some trouble to the crown prince, it will be difficult to do things."

As she spoke, she looked meaningfully at a figure behind the curtain of the car.

Who is this talking about, who is referring to, everyone knows in their stomachs.

Yinfeng immediately wanted to get angry, but he suddenly met Gu Huaishu's icy eyes, and remembered that he was looking for the eunuch to fall in love with Gu Huaishu, and finally fell in love with Zhu Jiangxin...

How Gu Huaishu escaped from danger, the prince still doesn't understand.

But afterwards, Gu Huaishu must know what happened that day, and now the father has not dealt with his matter, if Gu Huaishu reveals this matter...

He was wondering why this woman suddenly dared to be so arrogant, but when he looked back and thought about the things he had done, the prince broke out in cold sweat instantly.

It can be said that now Gu Huaishu holds the crown prince's handle.

If this woman is offended, fight to the death with him, and risk being silenced by Kangxi, to sue for an imperial court. There are so many brothers who are eyeing him, and the prince will be pushed down by everyone in the blink of an eye. .

Only then did he realize that he didn't dare to argue with Gu Huaishu.

The little eunuchs below saw that the prince was listless, so naturally they didn't dare to say anything.

Only then did Gu Huaishu sneer, with the whip on his fingernails, "Prince, sit your car firmly, today I will push your wife's car, and tomorrow I don't know who is going to push your car. Want to come?" You are the only one who wants to push your wife's chariot, and you can't count on ten fingers the people who are ambitious to push your chariot!"

After finishing speaking, she was going to tell the cart to turn the horse's head and go, not wanting to see Yinzhen just by looking up.

Presumably what she said had already been heard by Yinzhen.

This master didn't tell Thirteenth Master at all that she was his half-slave, which almost made her a poison for plotting against the prince. When Gu Huaishu saw this master, his teeth itch with hatred.

Seeing that the car driver was about to brush past Si elder brother's tall steed, Gu Huaishu lowered his voice at that moment, and said to the expressionless Yin Zhen, "Si Ye is thick-skinned and dark-hearted enough, Such a ruthless and vicious person is enough to kill all his brothers and sisters... In the future, the fourth master will become a great treasure alone, please remember the hard work of the minister's wife when she was a cow and a horse for the fourth elder brother, carrying the scapegoat, and wading in the muddy water. Let me live, and I will serve you as a slave."

These words contained sarcasm, but when he saw Gu Huaixiu's expression suddenly brightened.

The expression in her eyes sank slightly, and she raised her hand and whipped forcefully, and it landed on the buttocks of Si Age's tall horse!
The horse was just walking slowly on the road, how could it have imagined that it would suddenly be frightened by such a great pain, it would immediately spread its hooves and rush forward under the severe pain, but the prince's carriage was in front of it!
How can Yinzhen allow this beast to be presumptuous?

He was also horrified in his heart, assuming that Gu San was mad with anger, he grabbed the rein with both hands facing forward, gritted his teeth and reined in the horse's head.

This horse was so mad that Yinzhen was almost thrown off the saddle by this crazy horse.

Gu Huaishu glanced back, only to see that one person and one horse were all raised up high, then suddenly fell down, and turned a few steps gently on the spot before stabilizing.

Yinzhen's face sank like water, he just followed the horse and glanced at Gu Huaishu.

Gu Huaishu only felt that the fourth prince's eyes were extremely beautiful, she unhurriedly rolled up the riding whip, bent her lips and smiled, and finally let out a bad breath, very happy.

She lifted the curtain of the car and went in, only said: "Go home."

The car drove away immediately, and it was far away in a while.

There were bleeding marks on the palm of Yinzhen's hand, and the blood that flowed out wet the reins and stained his python robe.

"Is fourth brother all right?"

Yinfeng thought to himself that Gu Huaixiu was really cunning and vicious, even daring to startle the prince's horse. He hated her in his heart, but he didn't dare to say anything, he was extremely aggrieved.

Yinzhen, who was asked, naturally knew why Gu Huaishu was so angry, but he shook his palm, looked at the blood pouring out, took the handkerchief handed over by the eunuch and held it down, and said slowly: "It's nothing serious, I'm afraid the prince should restrain himself in the near future, you can't afford to make trouble now."

(End of this chapter)

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