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

Chapter 203 Bloody

The new maid is called Bai Lu, she was born thin and small, but her legs and feet are very nimble, the second master and his wife never hesitate to do errands, Qingdai has always liked her.

She yelled outside, Shi Fang inside said "wait", Bai Lu stood there.

After a while, Shi Fang's apprentice came out with a celadon master, which was filled with soup. The soup was bright in color, but there was no oily smell. There were some green onions on it, and the white soup with green onions was really beautiful.

Bai Lu liked the soup when she saw it, and secretly thought that his wife was so delicious, and thanked apprentice Shi Fang repeatedly, and then she took the plate and headed into the main room.

It's just the New Year's Eve, but the New Year's flavor is still strong in the first month, not to mention there are two more dolls in Zhang's house, everyone's face is full of joy.

There were quite a few people congratulating Bai Lu along the way. Seeing that Aunt Qingdai liked her, they knew that after the thrush was gone, the position of another servant girl next to Madam was vacant, and they never got up.At the beginning, everyone was looking forward to it, but Qing Dai and Gu Huaishu kept seeing nothing, so they thought that there would be no more servant girls in charge.

But now seeing that Bai Lu has won the favor of Gu Huaishu and Qing Dai, he understands that it's not that there won't be, there has been no suitable candidate, so he just let it go.

It's just that Bai Lu herself doesn't know, she still works diligently, and even jokes with Aunt Qingdai when she is free.

After Gu Huaixiu gave birth, the second master did a beautiful errand, and the emperor's rewards also came down, such as silk and satin, jade, silver, gold, diorama clocks, dioramas, and even binoculars, and even fashionable ones. Gonghua, the royal wine in the palace...

Grace is growing day by day, so the threshold of the Zhang Mansion is about to be broken.

At the beginning of 47, it was time to select the chief examiners of the provincial examinations. In the morning, the second master's will to be promoted came along with the rewards. A uniform.

Gu Huaixiu was still in confinement and couldn't kneel down to accept it. According to the order, Zhang Tingyu was only asked to take it on his behalf.

As soon as the Chinese New Year came, Bai Lu heard from Aunt Qingdai that the second master's life seemed to go much smoother.

The backyards of all the mansions also came to curry favor, and it is not easy for the princes to give gifts openly. At this time, the family members of the various mansions came in handy. It is rare for the Manchu and Han ministers not to remember Zhang Tingyu.

As for the Hanlin Academy, more than two hundred Hanlins were eagerly looking forward to being released to be examiners studying politics, and they all came to give gifts.

A lot of presents have been collected in the past few days. The original warehouse was too small, and it was changed to a larger one, which is also amazing.

Even Bai Lu couldn't name the things that were delivered.

Now carrying the soup, she arrived in front of the house in a short while, the maid Xiaolan next to her lifted the curtain for her, Bai Lu thanked her, went in and said: "Second master, madam, the soup is here."

Gu Huaishu was still lying down, looking at Zhengyue.

Zhengyue is thinner than her twin brother, with a small face and bright eyes, she spit up milk a while ago, children occasionally have such problems, so they can only be raised, but recently they have improved a lot.Originally, both Shangguanyuan and Sun Lianqiao had said that Gu Huaishu's child was not very stable due to traveling in the south of the Yangtze River. Nanny drinks.

Zhengyue opened her eyes to look at Gu Huaixiu. At this moment, Gu Huaixiu was facing the sky with her face up, and her eyes were also gentle. When she heard the soup was coming, she asked someone to bring it in.

Bai Lu smiled and said, "Today I made light pigeon soup, and I said that you should not eat too strong flavor during your confinement."

Zhang Tingyu saw it too, so he just hugged the newly asleep New Year's Eve to the nanny, and he came up to fill a bowl for Gu Huaxiu, and came up to feed her.

"I thought I could have a good year, but I didn't expect such a thing to happen for nothing, but I have been busy all year and year-end, and there is no end."

"Sun Lianqiao came and walked around yesterday, and accidentally talked about Zhou Daoxin with me." Gu Huaishu took a couple of sips by himself, and didn't bother to move, but he really didn't like drinking like this, so he took his hands from the warm bed He took it out of his mouth and took the soup from Zhang Tingyu's hand, "Don't worry about me, you can drink it by yourself. You just came back from the palace, don't you feel cold?"

Zhang Tingyu smiled, went to the table, took a small bowl of soup, and asked, "What did Mrs. Sun tell you?"

Gu Huaishu paused with his fingers, looked at the soup in the spoon, and only sighed: "There is a quarrel between you and Zhou Daoxin because of this matter?"

"……perhaps."

Zhang Tingyu swallowed the soup in small mouthfuls, only looking at the swaying bead curtain, with a deep voice.

Originally, Zhang Tingyu and Zhou Daoxin were old acquaintances, and they shared the same interests, but they did not expect that today's Zhang Tingyu is willing to handle unjust cases for the sake of high-ranking officials, fame, fortune and power.Zhou Daoxin himself was helpless about this, but after all, he was two close friends. When thinking of the case they jointly handled, he would always think of the time when each of them had their own conscience.It won't take long, but now I don't want to see it anymore. Before Zhou Daoxin was fifteen, he asked the emperor to send him abroad to fill the vacancy in Anhui.

The case of the third prince Zhu of the Nanming rebellious party was handled just now, which is considered a great achievement. As a result, before the third prince Zhu was late yesterday, Zhou Daoxin had already handed over the paper, saying that he would be sent abroad.

Officials from other places are at ease, but how can they have the style of Beijing officials?

It's just that this is Zhou Daoxin's own choice. After leaving the capital, he might not bother to think about it.

It was said that Li Zhen'er had a quarrel with Zhou Daoxin because of this incident, and even sent someone to Zhang Tingyu's house, wanting to ask what happened, but unexpectedly, he was stopped halfway.After all, no one in Zhou Daoxin's house came to Zhang Tingyu's place.

He had a knot in his heart that he couldn't get over this hurdle, so he chose to go by himself.

Sometimes literati are not suitable to be officials, and the real officials are not literati in essence, but politicians.

Zhang Tingyu is the latter, not the former.

Hearing Gu Huaixiu say this today, Zhang Tingyu closed his eyes, and opened them after a long time: "My father told me that the way to be an official lies in loyalty, virtuousness, and stupidity... Now that I think about it, it seems to me It's not very suitable. It's hard to say what to do as an official."

Gu Huaixiu had already drank half a bowl of soup, was silent for a while, and only said: "In the ordinary world, people in the world are not thick-faced, and their hearts are not dark, so those who are thick and dark have something to do; Those who are thick and black in heart can do something, but those who are not thick in face and dark in heart will be hard to beat.”

"You mean, I did something wrong?"

Zhang Tingyu put down the bowl, and only asked this question back.

Gu Huaixiu only said: "You already have the answer in your heart, why bother to ask me again?"

When everyone is thick-skinned and dark-hearted, of course the one with the thickest skin and the darkest heart can achieve great things, but only those with good conduct can achieve great things.

Thick black and thick black also change randomly.

How could Zhang Tingyu not know this truth?

It's just that this world, is it an ordinary world or an extraordinary world?
Zhang Tingyu didn't understand either.

He saw that the nanny had put the New Year's Eve back on the crib, so he sat over and reached out to touch his child's forehead, but when he saw his hand, he slowly retracted it.

The hand that never retreats, it's better not to bring evil spirits to the child.

Zhang Tingyu's thoughts were a little confused, he turned around and saw that Gu Huaishu was still holding the soup bowl, so he asked her, "Do you still drink?"

"I don't drink anymore, there is no taste in my mouth."

Gu Huaishu handed him the soup bowl, and said, "Did you let it go at the Imperial Academy?"

"Let it go, let Ba Ye be happy."

Now Ba Ye has just regained the control of the Imperial Academy, and he is at his happiest moment. Unfortunately, he doesn't know that this is just Zhang Tingyu driving the tigers and wolves to fight each other.

The Hanlin Academy was finally held by Zhang Tingyu, how could it be easily thrown away?

It's only strange that Ba Ye is too confident in himself, and he is someone who once controlled the Hanlin Academy, so he didn't take any precautions.

Zhang Tingyu smiled slightly, put the bowl in his hand back on the table, and asked Bai Lu to come back and serve it.

Bai Lu came in with a bow, picked up the soup and soup bowls and took them away.

Following the familiar route, she took the dishes in her hand back to the kitchen, saw Shi Fang standing by the stove, and didn't bother her, if Master Shi Fang wanted a recipe, she would be scolded later.

Bai Lu walked away lightly, and Shi Fang didn't even move his eyes from the beginning to the end.

There were 45 copper coins spread out in his hand, and he exchanged them with both hands. He pushed five copper coins to his right hand with the thumb of his right hand, and held five copper coins in his left hand, and then threw them into the stove that was still burning.

Copper money falls into the fire, but it does not burn like paper money.

One toss, two toss...

Five copper coins and five copper coins until the last five.

Shi Fang gently flipped the copper coins in his palm, listening to the different voice, but felt a great sadness in his heart.

The number of ninety-five is ruined in his hands.

The Zhu family's world has long been exhausted, and it is also a delusion to live in peace and stability.

He curled his lips mockingly, but threw the copper coin in his hand into the fire, as if throwing out all the most important things in his life.

Shi Fang's hands are empty, nothing.

The temple is so high, but what is the difference between a person living in the temple and him being in this small world?
Shi Fang looked at the fire in his chest, but his heart was already ashes at the bottom of the fire.

Two little apprentices rubbed their hands and came in from the outside, one of them smiled and said, "The snow outside has piled up again, but it's falling heavily, hey, Miss Bailu put the dishes back?"

The other one also said happily: "Speaking of which, I got a lot of rewards this year...Hey, master, why are you standing in front of the fire chamber?"

"It's okay, it's just that it's very cold, so I have a warm fire."

Shi Fang clapped his hands and walked back, he said: "Clean up the things on the chopping board, and make something else for dinner."

"Hey!"

The two apprentices had to be as convinced as Shi Fang was, and they would do whatever Shi Fang said.

So the two got busy, but Shi Fang walked out of the house.

"Hurry up and pick up the pot on the stove, the soup inside is boiled dry."

"Ouch, my grandma, what's going on today?"

"You also think it's strange?"

"Usually when a pot of soup is boiled until the hour, the master brings it down, but this pot is still standing..."

"It's a strange thing, the bowl at the bottom is the same. The soup is obviously already filled, but it is said to be salty and thrown away. I have never said that it is not well seasoned before."

"You also know that Master is afraid of the cold in winter, and sometimes it's so cold that you have to warm it up before cutting vegetables."

"It will be great when I can be like Master."

"Go ahead and dream, our master is someone who will cook for my wife for the rest of my life."

"Sooner or later?"

"Pull it down..."

The two of them were talking, only looking at the hogwash?The bowl of white soup that was poured out just now, and the large bowl of fine porcelain and white jade just now were washed in the water, and then they were neatly stacked back.

Shifang has gone far away. There are apricot and locust trees in front of the kitchen, which are bare in winter.

He didn't know where he was going, but he suddenly wanted to take a walk like this.

Shi Fang thought, he hasn't been sick this winter, but he didn't expect to be sick once in the tail of winter and the treetops in spring.

He was a little dizzy before his eyes, but he still moved forward, going to the side door along the garden path.

Sun Lianqiao came to see Gu Huaishu only once in the afternoon and brought Gu Zhenguan's words, so she was about to leave.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he reached the side door, he saw Shi Fang's shadow, and he was a little curious: "Isn't this Shi Fang's master in your house? It's such a cold day, what are you doing outside?"

"Maybe it's for a walk." The maids didn't understand, so they replied casually.

Sun Lianqiao smiled: "The vegetable market is eloquent, so what's there to take for a walk?"

As she thought about it, she had already left the mansion and got into the sedan chair.

But Sun Lianqiao didn't go back, she just went to wait at the side gate of Sibeile's mansion. Today, when I went to see Gu Huaishu, one was Gu Zhenguan thinking about it, and the other was Sun Lianqiao dropped by.

Lin Jia's medicine should be used up, and Sun Lianqiao didn't dare to let her father know that she had done such a thing, so she just secretly prepared the medicine and handed it to the fourth master.

Sun Lianqiao didn't dare to ask more about matters in the palace, and she never told Gu Huaixiu about it.

If you tell someone who shouldn't be told and leak the news later, no one can afford it.

Although fourth master trusted Gu Huaishu, fourth master was very cautious after all.

Thinking in her heart, Lin Jiashi waited quietly with a box of lip balm and two medicine bottles in her hand.

The princes in the palace just came back from enjoying the snow with Kangxi, and the old thirteen drank Shaoxing wine in the garden. Come to my palace, I will give you as much as you want to drink."

The Eighth Master, Ninth Master, Tenth Master, and Fourteenth Master all watched coldly.

Yinxiang loves wine, and Huang Ama also likes it, so he didn't care so much, and followed Yinreng to Yuqing Palace to get wine, and the fourth prince Yinzhen naturally followed.

Yinfeng and Yinxiang went to get wine, and Yinzhen was standing outside, looking at the white snow outside, and the dusk was getting late.

When Lin Jia heard that the prince was back, she went to see her. The life in the palace still needs the prince's love to survive, otherwise, even if there is a pain of bereavement, she can't keep her safe and sound.

She didn't expect that, with a flash of light from the corner of her eye, she saw Yinzhen.

In recent days, Fourth Master had rarely entered Yuqing Palace, but now when he suddenly saw Lin Jiashi was shocked at first, then his eyes changed slightly.

She glanced around, but no one saw her, she just lifted the corner of her robe, and walked towards Yinzhen, and then she bowed her body gracefully: "My concubine pays my respects to fourth master."

Yinzhen was looking at the snow, but he didn't expect something unpleasant.

He looked back and saw that Lin Jiashi looked good and was well dressed, looking at him at the moment, with a pitiful look in his eyes.

Laughing from the bottom of his heart, Yinzhen just threw the string of Buddhist beads in his hand towards his palm and said, "Okay."

Those who say that fourth master is easy to get along with must be people who don't understand fourth master; those who say that fourth master is easy to get along with must only know half of fourth master.

Lin Jiashi has never been able to figure out Yinzhen, and she always speaks cautiously.

She didn't dare to have any more presumptuous thoughts, so she just whispered: "The mouth cream and medicine...are all used up, and I have been following Si Ye's orders these days."

It sounds very obedient.

However, Yinzhen still remembered the incident when Lin Jiashi urged Shishi to give Gu Huaishu a gift, and then secretly sent someone to Dutong Mansion to give him an anti-fetal medicine.

Unusual, Yin Zhen smiled.

He stared at Lin Jiashi and said, "Just be obedient."

After finishing speaking, he turned his eyes away and walked towards the corridor.

Unexpectedly, Lin Jiashi suddenly knelt down to Yinzhen, and said in a trembling voice: "Fourth master, my concubine has something to ask."

Yinzhen only said: "Do your part well and you'll be done."

After finishing speaking, he didn't want to listen to Lin Jiashi's words at all, so he wanted to leave.

But Lin Jiashi was so bold that he suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed the corner of Yinzhen's robe: "Fourth master, I really want to ask for something."

She looked at Yinzhen tenderly and pitifully. Most men liked her appearance, so Lin Jiashi burst into tears instantly, which made people feel pity.

The subtlety in Yinzhen's heart suddenly rose, his eyes fell on Lin Jiashi's fingers holding the corner of his robe, Lin Jiashi felt as if his hand was burned by something, and immediately retracted his hand.

"Fourth Master..."

Yinzhen put the beads back on his wrist, squeezed them, and asked, "What's the matter?"

Seeing that Yinzhen was finally willing to ask, Lin Jia even wept with joy: "I am a concubine, I want to be a concubine...after the matter is completed..."

"After it's done, it will be your favor."

Yinzhen's eyes seemed to be a little gentler: "I always treat people with clear rewards and punishments. You can ask for what you want."

Lin Jia's smile brightened, she knelt on the ground, bowed her head for a while, and said: "I don't dare to ask for too much, I just want to be able to do things for the fourth master for the rest of my life, and be a slave for the rest of my life... I also ask the fourth master to take pity on me." The concubine, the concubine has an enemy, presumably also the fourth master's enemy..."

"Oh?"

Yinzhen didn't know that he had any enemies, so he just motioned to Lin Jiashi to say.

The expression on Lin Jiashi's face instantly twisted viciously, but then she remembered that she was still in front of Fourth Master, and said: "Master, when I was in Gu's residence, I had a third younger sister, who is now Zhang Tingyu's wife. Zhang Tingyu's collusion with the Eighth Master in the Hanlin Academy is really a serious problem for the Fourth Master, your confidant..."

Gao Wuyong and Su Peisheng looked at each other, but didn't speak.

Yinzhen seemed to be interested, so he asked her: "Why don't I let these two people die without a place to bury them, how about splitting the corpses by five horses?"

Lin Jiashi was a little nervous at first, but now she was almost ecstatic, with a blush on her face: "Si Ye has his own decision, so it's naturally good!"

Yinzhen turned his head, straightened his collar, stepped on his soapy boots and returned to the corridor without saying a word.

Lin Jiashi got up behind her, her hands were shaking with excitement.

Her third sister, the retribution is finally coming!

After she has done this thing for fourth master, she will become fourth master's person, and she will be fourth master's slave for the rest of her life. How can this slave have someone to rest assured?
Lin Jiashi was very happy, took Bixiu's hand beside her, and asked her, "Do you know who is in the fourth master's courtyard?"

Bixiu remained calm and whispered to Lin Jiashi, but her eyes fell on the fourth master who had already left the gate of Yuqing Palace.

Yinzhen walked back quickly all the way, just turned around the palace gate, stopped, and called out: "Xiao Shengzi."

Su Peisheng immediately bowed down, took out a handkerchief and vigorously wiped the corner of Yinzhen's robe that Lin Jiashi had pulled over just now.

Waiting until the piece of material was about to wrinkle, Yinzhen said: "Forget it, go back to the house and change. It's really bad luck!"

So Su Peisheng withdrew without daring to say anything, Gao Wuyong followed behind and left the palace together.

As soon as he returned to the mansion, someone came to report that Sun Lianqiao had arrived, and the fourth master went to see him, while Su Peisheng and Gao Wuyong just went to decorate the house.

Gao Wuyong saw that Su Peisheng was still holding the handkerchief, and said, "Hurry up and throw it away, the master will scold you again when he comes out."

Only then did Su Peisheng come to his senses, he was so frightened that he quickly threw the handkerchief out, and when he came back, he said, "Hey, this little girl has big eyes, and she can look up to anything. I don't even look at her honor. What about a slave for a lifetime, is our master a random slave?"

"Don't accept slaves casually, our master raises dogs casually." Gao Wuyong answered.

Su Peisheng snorted coldly: "Then we have to see who is the one with bright fur, beautiful and obedient, what kind of a thing is she! Pooh!"

Gao Wuyong smiled, and said: "It doesn't take long for this kind of person to be so high-minded that she wants to bite the puppy raised by Fourth Master... It's a pity that she doesn't know anything, and she is still self-satisfied. But you, you still don't shut up Mouth, wait a while for the master to come back and train you?"

"You know as much as you do!"

Su Peisheng's eyes were sharp, and when he saw Fourth Master coming in again, he immediately shut up.

When Yinzhen came in, he just sat behind the desk and remained silent for a long time.

The two personal eunuchs did not speak, and stood aside.

About half an hour passed before Yinzhen pulled out a box from under the desk.

Lying inside was the blood-stained envelope from Kangxi's 42nd year, and he said, "Send it to Gu San and pass it on to Zhang Tingyu."

(End of this chapter)