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

Chapter 263

On the desk case was a string of Qinan beads, which was the string fourth master always held.

No, it is a bunch that the late emperor often carried.

Gao Wuyong thought that there would be such a day, every eunuch in charge of the palace would have such a day.

Just like the father-in-law who was next to Grandpa Sheng, he and Su Peisheng who were beside Grandpa Yongzheng.

Gao Wuyong and Su Peisheng have been by Si Ye's side since they were in elder brother's office.

Fourth Prince, Fourth Elder Brother, Fourth Master, Fourth Belle, Prince Yong, Yongzheng.

Yinzhen.

Accompanied by the name of the emperor's life.

On the incense table is a gilt-bronze Xuande furnace with auspicious animal writings. The first emperor loved it for its simple shape, ancient color, dignified and gorgeous, as mentioned in the Xuande furnace manual.

The high-quality water agarwood was lit in the furnace, which was also the last incense that Gao Wuyong lit in his life.

Fourth master always asked people to light this kind of incense when sitting in meditation. Usually Su Peisheng was responsible for cleaning up the table, and he would light the incense beside him.

Su Peisheng loves to talk and is tactful, while Gao Wuyong doesn't like to talk, he only does things.

The two of them have been with fourth master for many years. In fact, a long time ago, they didn't believe that they could become great eunuchs.

It snowed heavily that night in Changchun Garden.

The late emperor, who had always been filial to the holy grandfather, finally acquiesced and supported everything that happened.

He was still curious about the Ninth Five-Year Throne.

Every prince is curious and eager.

What does it feel like to be above tens of thousands of people?
Maybe Yinzhen knew about it when Mrs. Zhang's second wife betrayed her master and son.

Taking out a pair of green and white jade incense jars carved with red apricots and spring pictures, Gao Wuyong glanced at Su Peisheng who was lying on the table opposite him, thinking that these rootless slaves couldn't be as comfortable as Mrs. Zhang Er.

But if you think about it carefully, is Mrs. Zhang at ease?
The incense holder takes out the sandalwood wood chips inside and slowly adds them into the incense burner. When the incense charcoal turns red, gently poke the ashes with the incense stick.

The guards outside were guarding, but Gao Wuyong's movements were unhurried.

He seemed to be doing the most important thing in his life.

The current chief eunuch stood outside and urged: "Master, we are on our way."

The eunuchs in the palace are all brought out one by one.

Gao Wuyong also took it, and this little eunuch had some relationship with Gao Wuyong.

But everything in the world is just you coming and going.

He said: "This incense burner in our family, leave after burning."

Surrounded by nothingness, the former emperor was on his way, and weeping could still be faintly heard in other parts of the palace.

Gao Wuyong couldn't help but wonder if the Changchun Garden in the last years of Kangxi was like this.

It's just that at that time, Gao Wuyong was a chicken dog who attained the Tao by himself and then ascended to heaven. Now that the emperor is dead, these slaves should also leave.

Once the emperor has only one courtier, it will be faster for slaves without roots to change.

But when mentioning slaves, Gao Wuyong couldn't help but think of someone.

Before Su Peisheng drank the poisonous wine, he asked: Is that one really with a clear conscience?

What he asked was Gao Wuyong, but how could Gao Wuyong know?

Whether that one has a clear conscience, I can only ask her herself.

In fact, Gao Wuyong faintly felt that he knew the answer.

That was all over 40 years ago.

It's still the fourth master's master, who was traveling with him on a southern tour, and met the prince who pointed his finger at him.

Until he returned to Beijing, Gao Wuyong didn't know what was tricky about it.

Fourth Master suddenly held an important chess piece in his hand, and it was not until the first letter was handed from them to Bai Qiaoniang in Jiangnan that he gradually understood.

It turned out to be the case.

Fourth master didn't like that chess piece, and often scolded her for being disobedient.

Everyone has their own scheming, Gu San didn't dare to bring the wrench, and knew that she couldn't intervene in it, so she always procrastinated as much as she could, and endured the anger from the fourth master. Resentment accumulated, and finally returned to Beijing, and threatened people with a finger.

A jade pendant that was used as a keepsake was smashed by Gu San and put into the bag, and handed back to Fourth Master. Gao Wuyongke still remembered the scene at that time.

But when his grandfather shook the kit, and what came out was broken jade, Su Peisheng was so frightened that he knelt on the ground, fearing that fourth master would get angry.

The fourth master looked at the broken jade for a long time, and only thought that Gu San was good at it.

I gritted my teeth with hatred in my heart, but I had to give in.

This is the first woman who has let fourth master suffer like this, ah no, slave.

After getting back the finger, this chess piece is useless.

Gao Wuyong remembered that when the fourth master came back from the teahouse that day, he took back his finger and the secret letter inside, and wrote something at his desk, but finally threw it away.

Su Peisheng once said: Fourth master's heart is unpredictable.

She is a good girl, but she has the right eye with the second son of the Zhang family, maybe they are still a good-looking couple, why did the fourth master invite the eldest son of the Zhang family to catch the knife on his behalf?

Pit also?Pit too!
To put it bluntly, their fourth master just couldn't see such a rampant and unruly people who dared to take Joe in front of his master.

This time, Yinzhen definitely wanted to look good to Gu San, even if he tried his best to marry the unknown second son of the Zhang family, so what, he would still be counted as a sieve by the fourth master.

These slaves, although they dare not claim to know everything about their master's mind, they can always grasp every bit of it.

After a long time, you will know when the master is happy, when he is unhappy, when he is pretending to be good, and when he is really uncomfortable...

It's just that their master's attitude towards Gu San, a slave, is a little weird.

Sometimes I feel disgusted, and sometimes I like to tease him a little bit, like a little white dog that Fourth Master once raised in the palace.

But the little white dog was sometimes teased so much that he would bite his master back.

For these little things, Yinzhen has unprecedented tolerance, being bitten is not a serious problem, and he doesn't take it to heart.

Although, in the end the little white dog was beaten to death by the prince.

But no one thought that the eldest son of the Zhang family was also a lazy person, and he actually threw the errand given by the fourth master to the second son of Zhang.

It stands to reason that in this way, Miss Gu San will be even more unlucky.

And the Second Young Master Zhang seemed to be specifically trying to trick her, and later Zhang Tingzan said that the right pair was a bit shocking.

One was talking about Zhang Tingyu, and the other was talking about Gu San.

Later, Fourth Master left Li Guangdi's residence, and when he returned, he only said: "What Zhang Er is right about is generous, what Gu San is right about is mischievous."

Su Peisheng and Gao Wuyong, who were not very literate, couldn't tell what it meant to be naughty, they just felt that they were full of cleverness, and they hadn't fallen into the trap of the fourth master, so they were capable people.

But she can match the match herself, but she wants to pretend to be someone else, so she may not be without her own clumsiness.

With such a slave, it's no wonder that fourth master is worried and wants to beat him from time to time.

In Gao Wuyong's life, he followed Fourth Master around.

Wherever fourth master went, he followed him.

If the fourth master points to the east, he will go to the east; if the fourth master points to the west, he will go to the west.

It is often the things that fourth master pays attention to, and he also pays attention to them, but he has to pay attention to things that fourth master does not pay attention to.

Seeing that the prince was getting worse day by day, Su Peisheng also started to say some strange things to Gao Wuyong, such as when the two of them could get a big eunuch to be their dang.

I really dare not say this kind of thing outside.

Gao Wuyong didn't care about outside affairs, he only served by Si Ye's side.

Su Peisheng was the one who followed fourth master a lot.

Su Peisheng's mouth often has endless words, such as which Fujin's birthday yesterday, what gift was given, which master added an elder brother today, which master in the mansion will come to give things to the master tomorrow... Whenever it happened, there were few things that Su Peisheng didn't know about.

But whenever Su Peisheng encountered something related to Mrs. Zhang, he would always say "I don't know".

I don't know who annoyed fourth master today, and gave Mrs. Zhang a good meal, making people walk away with a cold face.

I don't know what kind of anger Mrs. Zhang was so angry that she whipped the whip under the master's horse. Is that possible?Ouch, look at our master's hand!

I don't know what Mrs. Zhang's mind is, they say it's a needle in the bottom of a woman's heart, and others can catch it, but she can't catch it?

I don't know...

Too many too many do not know.

In fact, it is not necessary to know these "unknown", they are just curious.

Fourth master has a temperamental temperament, few people can maintain the same relationship with him all year round, even the brothers who used to be closer are gradually alienated because of the errands run by fourth master.This is true for brothers, let alone ordinary people, the servants around him are actually coming and going.

However, Mrs. Zhang Er, a servant who often provoked the anger of the master, stayed behind.

About, fourth master still thinks this slave is interesting, right?

It's like raising a gadget, and when I think of it, I go to tease it for a while.

Gao Wuyong likes to stand behind Fourth Master, with his head half raised, while Su Peisheng is in front, always with his head down.

But Su Peisheng saw more, but Gao Wuyong also felt that he had seen a lot.

The fourth master practiced Buddhism and Zen, and he didn't like to go into the backyard, and he was often persuaded by Fujin. Since he entered the mansion when he was young, he didn't seem to feel so pure and ascetic.

Gao Wuyong calmed down as the scent wafted up.

He is a rough man. Although he does fine work, he cannot live a fine life.

Only by closing the lid of the incense burner slowly, the original fragrance will become more intense.

The red sandalwood painted gold screen is next to it, and the big vermilion pillars outside reveal the majesty and solemnity of the Forbidden City.

However, for a while, Fourth Master asked him to hide behind a screen, holding a knife, and only listened to Shen Qi, who came from the south of the Yangtze River, talking to Mrs. Zhang Er.

To be honest, Gao Wuyong felt for the first time that Mrs. Zhang Er was right.

Although she worked for the fourth master, she never really took her heart out. She was just doing things, and she was not loyal to the fourth master.

The slaves below them thought that Fourth Master was very kind to Mrs. Zhang Er, and tolerated her, endured her and indulged her. Those who knew something said that Gu San didn't know what to do.But when she thought about it, if she didn't have the skills, she wouldn't dare to choke Gu Huaishu in front of Fourth Master. Who among them servants who are loyal to Fourth Master has the scheming tricks of that woman?
Gao Wuyong now still remembers a sentence that Long Kedo, who died unjustly, once said.

It was when the fourth master was grounded, and Longkoduo came back with blood on his hands, and said, "It's strange that this woman is so arrogant. It turns out that she has some vicious skills, and the fourth master is better at controlling a troublesome people into obedience."

Hey.

Longkodo's words were off the rails.

Gu San is only obedient in front of outsiders, but in private he shows his teeth and claws when he should. He just knows how to save face for Fourth Master outside and not let himself be too conspicuous.

If you really want to say who fourth master is good to, you really can't tell.

At least, Gao Wuyong can't say that the fourth master treats Gu San well, because the fourth master always manipulates Gu San, telling her to walk or sit down.

Su Peisheng said that Mrs. Zhang was in pain when she met our master.

Said, pointing to his temple.

Gao Wuyong understood, so he smiled lightly.

Fourth master had never been nice to others.

Because fourth master had never been nice to himself, he got through it day by day.

Who knew he was suffering?
If he doesn't say it, no one will feel that he is suffering.

So the bitterness was contained in his own mouth, choked in his throat, unable to swallow or spit it out, until he suffocated himself into a coptis.

Just like the conditions that Shen Qi asked for back then, the fourth master agreed and told him to go behind the screen. If Shen Qi really dared to do anything, his head would fall to the ground.

At that time, Gao Wuyongke was very nervous, and worried that he was watching something he shouldn't have seen, which annoyed people.

Fortunately, there was no danger, Shen Qi saved his life, but Mrs. Zhang might have misunderstood Fourth Master.

But what kind of misunderstanding?
Their fourth master, yes!
No matter how important Gu San is, he is nothing but a slave.

maybe...

There are some special ones.

Su Peisheng's favorite complaint is: I always feel that my father treats Mrs. Zhang differently. Where do you think I put Mrs. Zhang?
He compared a finger and said, "It's Mr. Nian and Mr. Longkodo..."

She gestured with another finger and said, "It's still in the mansion..."

"Shut up."

At this time, Fourth Master happened to come in from outside the house, and there was a little bit of chill in his eyes, which scared Su Peisheng to the ground.

Gao Wuyong listened, but he didn't dare to say that he was right, so he knelt down.

Yinzhen just coldly asked Su Peisheng to slap his mouth.

Even if it was the first time in many years that Su Peisheng did something wrong, said something wrong, and was punished by his master.

The slaps were loud, and one slap after another fell on Su Peisheng's face. Gao Wuyong wanted to plead for mercy, but Su Peisheng gave him a wink, but he didn't speak after all.

After about a dozen times, Fourth Master took out a volume of scriptures from the altar and opened them. He seemed to think he was noisy, so he said, "Get out."

This time, Su Peisheng confessed his crime.

Gao Wuyong stayed in the room to serve, but he found that the fourth master's fingers were just on the top of the sentence, and he didn't move.

Going back that night, Gao Wuyong brought Ouchi's secret ointment to see Su Peisheng, and said: "If you don't know what to say all day, something bad happened at last?"

Unexpectedly, Su Peisheng didn't take it seriously, instead he laughed and said, "You don't understand, right? I made a mistake today, but I can't make mistakes in what I do in the future."

"how do I say this?"

Gao Wuyong rarely finds it interesting.

But in a blink of an eye, he knew that he had asked too much.

It's too simple.

Su Peisheng was wearing a white jacket, and his boots were still under his feet. He just stretched out his left and right fingers, and said: "It's not this, it's not this, it's these two."

Su Peisheng has always been an obedient and clever person, and he hasn't made any mistakes since then, especially when dealing with Gu Huaishu, as if he was dealing with his own half-master.

Gao Wuyong was also very clear about it, but the fourth master never expressed it like this, Su Peisheng was too bold.

Sometimes, Gao Wuyong felt that he was stepping on the iron chain.

However, nothing happened to Su Peisheng.

The young master in the mansion was very clear about Gu San's identity. She had no child that year, and the fourth master went to Yuanmingyuan, bringing Gege Niu Hulu, who had been in the mansion for many years, along with his fourth elder brother Hongli.When Master Nian asked about it, when he knew that Fourth Master was going to see Mrs. Zhang Er, he sneered a little strangely, but he became sad again after a while.

After all, she just waved her hand and told them to go away.

In the Yuanmingyuan, it hadn't been built at that time, and it was a bit rudimentary.

Fourth master sent someone to deliver the message early in the morning, asking Gu San to come to see him, but he didn't expect to wait for someone while handling official business, but he waited all morning in vain.

Throwing a few memorials on the desk, everything was over, and she, Gu San, was still lingering, Fourth Master's heart got angry, and when he got angry, he had to vent his anger.

After eating at Niu Hulu's place, I stopped at Gege's place by the way.

The servants have good ears, but this kind of thing in the palace has never been taboo, and everyone pretended not to hear it. The master in the backyard was favored, and he wished that the whole world knew about it and would not cover it up.

The fourth master was playing with Niu Hulu's mandarin ducks in the tent, half of his robes were taken off, just in the middle of the fun, another fool came outside to report that someone had come.

Those who don't know only know that "people" have come, but they don't know who is here.

Fourth master cursed twice in the tent at that time, scolding this man for not being able to see, the slave has a bigger temper than the master, so he turned his head tighter.

But Mrs. Zhang was about to come in, she didn't care too much, she said it was an important matter, and she was busy asking people to put on clothes, and the outer robe was put on while walking.

When he arrived in the living room, seeing Gu San standing with lowered eyebrows and narrowed eyes, Fourth Master's face darkened by half, he stretched out his hands to ask the servants to fasten their clothes, and closed their arrow sleeves, then he sat down and asked her to answer.

Gao Wuyong thought about that scene, it was really funny, and suddenly remembered that Cao Cao was seeing someone barefoot.

However, the current emperor, who was afraid of Mrs. Zhang Er at that time, also began to understand the direction of the wind, right?
Niu Hulu was a smart person, he didn't say anything, and left with the fourth elder brother, now she should be the Queen Mother.

Gao Wuyong picked up the incense ash again, and looked at the dagger, poisonous wine, and white silk that were put aside.

A furnace of incense was almost burnt out, and the ashes were stuck inside, just like that night in Prince Yong's Mansion.

That was the night Mrs. Zhang Er's cook was beheaded.

The fourth master was with Master Nian, and it was just a rainy day. He only asked Master Nian to recite Buddhist scriptures, and there was still something to be done, and the unlucky Second Mrs. Zhang waited outside.

Fourth master only said one word: Tell her to get out.

Master Nian still couldn't bear it, but in a blink of an eye, he could only make out with fourth master.

Sometimes I feel that Master Nian is cruel, but sometimes I feel that she is not black enough, so she can only die in Yikun Palace in the end.

Before his death, Master Nian also met Mrs. Zhang Er.

At that time, people were sent away by Su Peisheng.

But Su Peisheng came back and said that he had committed the crime of deceiving the emperor.

Master Nian did not end well, but he didn't know that tonight.

Mrs. Zhang stood outside for an hour, not outside the mansion, but outside the yard, in front of the steps, not far from the house.

This is also Su Peisheng's proposition, letting people in.

Mrs. Zhang Er didn't say what she was doing here, as if she waited there and Fourth Master knew what she was asking for.

In fact, fourth master seemed to know it too.

One hour, two hours...

It was raining outside, and Master Nian had already slept through it. When Master got up, it was still in the middle of the night. Holding the stove, he asked, "Is she still waiting?"

Gao Wuyong went up cautiously and said, "Still waiting, it's raining outside and it's very cold."

Fourth Master then raised his eyebrows: "Freeze her."

The room was warm and quiet, no one dared to speak.

Mrs. Zhang Er is still outside.

Therefore, Yinzhen said again: "Didn't Master Cai just tell her to go away?"

Su Peisheng knelt down again: "Second Madam Zhang, she..."

"That's just a stubborn temper. Let's see how long she can last. She wants a corpse even after she's dead!"

Fourth master didn't even move his face, and asked someone to bring a bowl of tea to eat.

Gao Wuyong glanced outside, there were lanterns hanging, the shadows were vague in the rain curtain, he couldn't see clearly, there was indeed a shadow sticking outside without moving a bit.

Holding the tea, Yinzhen went to watch it under the eaves next to the corridor, seeming quite interesting.

After a while, the fourth master asked someone to put on a cloak and an umbrella for him, and walked towards the courtyard. Standing on the steps, he looked down at Mrs. Zhang and said, "I beg you to do something, and there should be a request." The appearance of the master, isn't it?"

Mrs. Zhang's second wife seemed to tremble, and the palace lantern Gao Wuyong was carrying also flickered.

The raindrops fell in a patter, and the ground splashed in groups of water.

Gu Huaishu's whole body was wet, his lips trembled, and he said in a shy voice, "Slave..."

"Kneel down."

Yinzhen interrupted her, only these two words.

kneel down.

For Gao Wuyong and Su Peisheng, this is an extremely common word.

But what was the expression on Mrs. Zhang's face at that time?
Su Peisheng said he didn't remember again.

Gao Wuyong thought about it, but he didn't remember it, but he didn't know whether he didn't want to think about it, or he really didn't remember it.

Seeing that she didn't move, fourth master repeated slowly: "Kneel down."

I don't know how long it took, but Mrs. Zhang finally knelt down.

She seemed to have been drained of all her strength, even her spine, and fell in front of Prince Yong.

Fourth master held his hand, which was still warm, he stretched out and pinched her chin, expressionlessly said: "Be a slave, be obedient."

Mrs. Zhang Er did not speak.

Yin Zhen seemed bored, so he let it go again, and just threw the stove in front of Gu Huaixiu, saying the same thing: "Go away."

When there was a clatter, it was hidden in the night by the sound of rain falling.

The incense burner fell to the ground, and all the incense ash fell out, just like the string of beads fell to the ground at the last moment of Yinzhen's life.

The pale and still warm incense ash fell into the rain, and was soon soaked by the dirty water, sticking to the ground like a few ugly bugs.

At that time, fourth master didn't have an attack, and he got very angry when he returned home.

Su Peisheng was speechless, and said again, thinking that the fourth master was going to drag Mrs. Zhang to the couch.

Gao Wuyong pretended he didn't hear it.

Only now, everything comes to mind.

Gao Wuyong drew out the dagger and carefully wiped it clean with his sleeve.

The last wisp of sandalwood in the censer faded away, leaving only ash full of ashes.

He cut his own neck with a knife, and saw his own blood pouring out to fill the entire incense table, and he fell on the table after a while.

The incense burner was knocked down.

In the end, Fourth Master and Mrs. Zhang, who was wronged by whom, who betrayed whom, and who was cruel and cruel, deserved what they deserved...

It seems that it doesn't matter anymore.

Su Peisheng often thinks about what kind of existence Mrs. Zhang is, but it doesn't matter now.

Can't tell.

Why bother to explain?
But I'm afraid that the fourth master, who has never had a heart, met the ruthless Gu San. At the moment he was betrayed, their master would know what it means to cut one's heart out, right?
Maybe at that time, fourth master knew that he had intentions.

The moment he closed his eyes, Gao Wuyong saw the pale ashes, which were gradually dyed red by the blood from his neck.

In fact, he always felt that...

It was never Zhang Tingyu who killed the king.

(End of this chapter)