Emperor Qianlong: the beginning of his glory

Chapter 15 Drinking wine ordered Cao Xueqin to show his talent and miss his old love Qianlong Emperor's night visit
Everyone looked at the silver, it was two top-ranking Zhili Jingding, with silver frost on the thin honeycomb side, each worth 20 taels, green and shiny, with an alluring splendor under the setting sun.Fu Heng made such a generous move, and everyone immediately turned their attention to him again.

"Since we have won the lottery, we must establish rules." Qian Du was determined to win the championship, stared at Yin Zi, and said solemnly, "Let Agui supervise the field. Those who make mistakes and those who make mistakes will be counted, who said How about everyone's public evaluation of the best result?" Zhuang Yougong smiled and said, "Old Master is worthy of the surname Qian. My eyes are burning. I'm not here to fight for the money, I'll come to supervise the field. Ah Gui and you guys have a showdown. We Watch the battle with Fu Liuye. The first person will quote a sentence from the Four Books, and the next person will take an ancient name, which must be combined with the meaning of the Four Books." Then he said:
"Mencius sees King Hui of Liang."

Qian Du, who was next to him, immediately replied: "Wei Zheng!" Then He Zhi said: "Zai Ji fight!" Cao Xueqin took a bite of vegetables, poured down a glass of wine, and said calmly: "Zai Ji fights—— 'Complete the battle'." Le Min smiled and said: "Five grains don't grow." Ji Yun took a sip of wine and laughed: "It's a good job——Tian Guang." A Guikang said: "It can be used to cure his Fu."

"—Xu You." Qian Du replied loudly, drank a glass of wine in a "squeaky" manner, and said: "I am so brave——"

He Yi stood up and said, "Okay!—Wang Meng." Cao Xueqin said: "It's still easy to say a sentence—Uncle Qin can be said to be the most virtuous!"

"Yu Rang!" Le Min stretched his neck in response.Ji Yun smiled and said: "Although there are tens of thousands of people, I will go." Ah Gui stared and thought for a while, then said: "Yang Xiong!" Beautiful." Qian Du patted the table and said, "That's naturally 'Shi Xiu'!"

Everyone immediately burst into laughter, Zhuang Yougong said to Qian Du: "Old Master, you are wrong. Desperately Sanlang Shixiu is in "Water Margin", not an ancient name in official history." Qian Du was startled for a moment, and said: "Ah Gui said' Isn't Yang Xiong a character from the Water Margin? You supervisor must enforce the law fairly!"

"Mr. Zhuang is right." Fu Heng said with a smile: "Ah Gui's Yang Xiong is Wang Mang's new dynasty Yang Xiong. This Yang Xiong is not the Yang Xiong in "Water Margin". He has nothing in his hand!"

One sentence made everyone laugh, Qian Du poured a big cup and drank it himself, and said: "Today is not in vain to eat the wine. Now that the order is issued again, I will be the master. Whoever beats me will be the new one." The master. Let me beat the drum and hit it, is it okay?" Fu Heng asked, "What kind of topic is it that you dare to ask, and it is so solemn?" Qian Du laughed and said, "Use poetry as a couplet."

As soon as the words came out, everyone laughed.Fu Heng laughed and said: "Which one of you here is not a well-educated person? How long will it take to decide the winner with the poem as a couplet? This method will not work." Qian Du pointed to the silver and said: "I have a disease, I really want to win this lottery ! The upper and lower couplets of this poem must not only match neatly - but also sing one thing or one thing separately."

"Difficult!" Agui scratched her chin and said, "The couplets can be perfunctory, but the couplets are too much work." Zhuang Yougong also shook his head again and again.Qian Du smiled complacently, and said: "You can't do it alone, you can fight in groups, but I'm the master of the competition. Or if you make the first couplet for me, I can also be the second couplet." Ah Gui thought for a while, and chanted:
Chidi proudly weighs five days-Dragon Boat Festival.

"King Su went to me in 2000—Kong Lin." Qian Du calmly met him.Ah Gui said again:
Once the color pen dry bullfight - Kuixing.

After hearing this, Fang Zi pondered, and Le Min smiled, and answered:

Not allowed to drop swallow mud on empty beams-top canopy grid.

Le Min wrote another couplet: "Don't look down at the sky!" Qian Du smiled and asked: "This chant is 'look in the mirror'?" The corresponding word should be:
It's always been a fool's errand—drunk commander.

He turned his face and asked, "Ah Gui, how are you?" Ah Gui smiled, shook his head and remained silent, and Qian Du went out again: "There are thousands of holes in public and private troubles! ——Toad".So far, it has become more and more difficult, and everyone has felt that it is difficult to cope.The candlelight was flickering, there was a moment of silence, and it was still Le Min who said, "Hold a bottle of wine in the wind and rain - send autumn." The interface came out again:

Fanglang Zhijieer Cao Opera——Story of Concubine Yang.

Qian Du was also stumped at this time, frowning and asked: "Where is this classic? Don't make it up?" Le Min laughed and said: "You also have a time when you are at the end of your wits! Have you read "Golden Myrobalan"?" Qian Du held his chin and pinched his teeth, just searching.Cao Xueqin said with a smile: "This is just a joke, why take it seriously? I'm here to answer the couplet on behalf of the ringleader—the whole country forgets to worry about prostitutes, you know?——Mochou Lake."

"Good!" Zhuang Yougong and Fu Heng applauded almost at the same time.According to the statistics, Qian Dude still has more bargaining chips.Fu Heng wanted Cao Xueqin to show off his talents, and seeing that he was just eating wine one after another, he laughed and said, "This order is too difficult, what is the purpose of drinking, isn't it just for fun? It was Mr. Qian who took the lead just now. I think there are Sanqus, everyone can sing them as they like, and they are the real celebrities!" As soon as the words fell, everyone applauded, and Fu Heng took the lead in singing with chopsticks:

Forget the lonely boudoir reflecting the green moss, and forget the flowers falling like rain and dust.But seeing the head of this beautiful girl with red makeup gradually turning white, it just seems that a river of spring water will flow away and never come back again!ah!Facing the Golden Terrace of King Yan's Recruitment, where can I find the Penglai Realm, and go to collect the longevity medicine...

The singing continued, and the whole audience burst into applause.Cao Xueqin was aroused, and was about to sing when He Zhiji, who was next to her, sang:

But I'm afraid I won't be able to meet him, and it will be hard to get rid of him when I meet him.There is much concern in Menghun, but she is afraid of going back to her mother's house.The deer bumped in my heart, and Fangqing was only secretly surprised.I hated my old friend on the Sansheng Stone, but said timidly, "I want to see the pillow flowers embroidered by my sister-in-law"...

Cao Xueqin listened obsessively, and said: "These songs are good. I always feel that I can't see through them, and I can't see through the world. If things in the world are too real, I won't be able to live." Dance side song:
If you see through those three springs, what about the pink willows and greens?Destroy this shaohua and find that light and peaceful sky.What do you say that the sky is full of peaches, and there are many apricots in the clouds?In the end, who would have survived the autumn?Then look at that, the people in Baiyang Village are sobbing, and the ghosts are singing under the Qingfeng Forest.What's more, the tomb is covered with decaying grass.This is: Yesterday was poor and today the rich are toiling, and the spring is prosperous and the autumn is tormented by the flower fade.Like this, who can hide from life and death?It is said that the precious tree in the west is whirling, with long-lived fruits on it.

After the singing fell, the four seats were silent.He Zhi looked at the unattractive Cao Xueqin in surprise, and sighed after a long time: "The wind throws catkins, and the water sends duckweed. It's really not a phenomenon in the world!" Fu Heng tasted the lyrics, and Man chanted: "The end of the song, no one sees you!" , there are several peaks on the river..." Still wanting to speak, a man dressed in long suits hurried up downstairs and whispered something to him. "Liu Tongxun?" Fu Heng said, "What's the matter with him?" The long attendant leaned closer and muttered a few more words.

"I'm really sorry, I have to run away first." Fu Heng stood up with a smile, took Cao Xueqin's hand and said, "Xueqin, I already said it on the way, so forget it if you don't want to take the exam. You can recommend a private school, or go to the Imperial College to teach religion. I am really busy, so don’t turn me down, don’t let me run away again and again, okay?” After saying that, he went straight.

When Fu Heng left Gaojin Restaurant, it was already dark. He saw a short black middle-aged man, wearing a six-in-one blue satin melon skin hat and a green bamboo cloth gown, standing at the door waiting.This person was Liu Tongxun who was recently transferred from Zhan Shifu to be a cabinet bachelor, so he patted Liu Tongxun on the shoulder with his fan bone and said with a smile, "Is there something urgent for Li Wei to see me?"

"Hush——" Liu Tongxun whispered, "Sixth Master, you will understand later." After saying that, he pouted at the tofu burden at the opposite door.When Fu Hengshun looked at it, he couldn't help being surprised. It turned out that Emperor Qianlong was sitting on a small wooden pole under the horn lamp, stirring the tofu nao in the bowl with a spoon, and chatting with the middle-aged woman who was washing the bowl.The woman is very talkative.The bowl was being washed in the bucket, and he said in his mouth: "This is a small business. Two liters of beans a day can earn four or five cents of silver. Usually, it only costs ten or twenty coppers. My family's killer The man with the knife is a man with no skills. Ask him to borrow a ten-dollar from his cousin’s house to open a tofu noodle shop, but he refuses to live and die, saying that he can’t borrow loan sharks, and he can’t afford the famine. You have learned from me ——" She picked up some sugar with a spoon and put it in the Qianlong bowl, and continued, "Nowadays, beans are getting more and more expensive, and you can't buy a bucket for four and a half dollars. Rich people stock up when the price of beans is cheap in autumn. You have to go to the market as you go. Tofu nao costs two yuan a bowl, and if you increase it to three yuan, who will eat half of it?——It’s always just a matter of money.” Qianlong drank tofu nao and asked with a smile: “Would you like to buy it? Do beans still use silver? Isn’t Qianlong not good at making money?”

The woman turned around with a smile and said: "It's easy to use, why not? It's too easy to use. There is a lot of copper in it, and the coppersmith's shop is used to make copperware. It's dozens of times the profit. The official price is two A thousand cash is exchanged for one tael, and you go to the bank, and at most you can exchange one thousand two hundred cash. Small households have no silver, and money is so expensive. If you pay the tax, you will suffer a lot!" Qianlong listened with a smile at first, but gradually lost his mind. With a smile, he pushed the bowl and stood up, and said to Liu Tongxun, "Reward her!" Liu Tongxun went over without saying a word, and gently put 15 taels of Jingqi on the lid of the urn. Qianlong glanced at the stunned woman, and smiled left.A few guards dressed as idlers also followed secretly.

"Master is very interested." Fu Heng smiled as he followed Qianlong, "It's too late to come out for a walk. If Lafayette knows about it, he should say that the slaves are not." I will leave Beijing early tomorrow, and I will stay at Li Wei's house tonight!" Fu Heng couldn't help but stand still, "Going to Henan? Didn't you say the Dragon Boat Festival?"

Qianlong laughed and said: "What's the fuss about this? Soldiers never tire of cheating. It's been a long time, and the rumors have gone, and when you go to Bianliang, you can only go to Xiangguo Temple to play tricks-you don't know about their tricks?" Fu Heng After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Go to Li Wei's house and walk to the side of Qipan Street. In front of this is the alley deep in flowers." Qianlong whispered, "Go and see Fourteenth Uncle..."

Fu Heng said nothing more, and followed Qianlong slowly. "Fourteen Uncles" is Kangxi's No. 14 son, Yun, and the only younger brother of Emperor Yongzheng.In the later years of Kangxi, Prince Yun lost his throne in confusion, and the kings took the opportunity to fight for the throne.Yun mixed with the eighth elder brother Yun, the ninth elder brother Yun, and the tenth elder brother Yun, and became the backbone of the "Ba Ye Party".There are even rumors among the people that Kangxi's original intention was to be succeeded by Yun, and it was Longkodo, the former minister of the study, who privately changed the "fourteenth sons who passed on the throne" in the edict to "the fourteenth sons who passed on the throne" in the edict, and Yongzheng ascended to the throne.After Qianlong ascended the throne, on the day when he promulgated the "government is lenient" edict, he issued a decree to "remove the high-walled enclosures in the residences of the [-]th and [-]th uncles, and allow them to walk around the house."

Liu Tongxun led the way and said with his finger: "Long live, the front is Fourteen Baylor Mansion."

"Well," Qianlong glanced in a daze, and saw that the black courtyard wall was five feet high. Although the original five couplets were still preserved in Xiamen, a high wall was built in an arc to welcome the gate, and even the big stone in front of the gate The lion was also included, leaving only a small opening four feet wide beside the Yimen, which was jointly guarded by the House of Internal Affairs and the House of Clan.Once the gate was closed, it was as tight as an iron bucket.

As soon as a few people approached the watermelon lantern, the gatekeeper over there had already seen it, and shouted sharply: "Who is it? Stop!" Then two people dressed in pen and paper style came over, squinted their eyes, and smiled immediately on their faces: "Yo—Master Fu Liu! The villain greets you! I don't think it's dark, so I just walked here!" "What is the rich sixth master and the poor seventh master!" Fu Heng said: "Hurry up and open the door!" The emperor's royal driver is here, and I want to see Yun!" The two strokes were taken aback, they opened their eyes and looked at Qianlong behind Fu Heng, they hurriedly kowtowed countless heads on the ground, and ran a few steps, a while. The key jingled, and with a bang, the iron gate was pulled open.As soon as Qianlong entered the door, he asked, "Did the Fourteenth Master not sleep?" The two of them bowed again and again and said, "Returning to the emperor, the Fourteenth Master always falls asleep at four o'clock when he sees the sky. His health is not good these days, I'm afraid Lying on the kang to recuperate now!"

"You lead the way ahead." Qianlong walked in as he spoke, then turned around and said, "Liu Tongxun stay at the door." Two pens led the way with lamps.After entering the second gate with peeling vermilion paint, the courtyard was even darker and difficult to walk through.Artemisia annua and wild wormwood grow half a person's height in the courtyard, shaking in the night wind in late spring.In the distance stood a few old eunuchs under the dim watermelon lamp, and a green oil lamp in the room shone with a cold and gloomy light.Seeing this scene, Qianlong suddenly remembered that he had been here when he was a child, and his Fourteenth Uncle squatted in front of the steps, blindfolded, and played with himself.Feeling desolate, he walked a few steps into the room and called softly, "Uncle Fourteen."

Yun fell asleep with his face inward and didn't respond.

Fu Heng said softly beside him, "Master Fourteen, the emperor has come to see you."

"Your Majesty?...Look at me?" Yun groaned, turning over and sitting up.Fu Heng has never seen this prince before, looking under the lamp, he is in his early fifties, with disheveled hair, pale and haggard face, like the deceased Prince Yi Yunxiang, only more rigid, with piercing eyes hidden Under the brush-like eyebrows, there is a faint light in the shadow of the lamp.The reigning princes of the third generation were always terrified when they saw Qianlong, but this sinner actually sat still, with a numb and indifferent expression on his face, Fu Heng couldn't help being shocked.After a while, I heard Yun say: "Your Majesty, are you here to give the Dharani Sutra?"?
Qianlong took a step forward, bowed and gave a half-respect, and said, "Uncle Fourteen, you have misunderstood deeply. I will go out to Beijing tomorrow for inspection, and Uncle Fourteen will also get out of this cage. I am afraid that it will be too late to invite An to come to see you." Look at Fourteenth Uncle. Are you in good health?"

"It doesn't matter if it's good or not." Yun said coldly, "The emperor really cares too much. It's a pity! There is nothing more sad than heartbreak. I am now a dead tree and ashes. It doesn't matter if I don't let it go. It was your father who sealed this yard back then. He also told me in this room that I committed the crime of treason and was imprisoned lightly. I said that since treason is a ten heinous crimes that cannot be pardoned, I would rather be late. The reputation of killing brothers'! This is the last sentence he left, and our brothers will be separated from each other..." His tone became serious, "...now that the new emperor is here again, Uncle Fourteen is still the same sentence , according to the law of the country, I will frown, I am not a real man!"

Qianlong stared at the stubborn and arrogant emperor uncle, and sighed after a long time: "I am not responsible for the matter between father and uncles. I neither intend to win over uncle, nor can I say that father is wrong. You must have had the responsibility at that time." Situation. After 11 years of Yongzheng, my father mentioned fourteenth uncle several times, as well as eighth, ninth, and tenth uncles. Uncle. The tenth uncle will also be let go. If the uncles still think about the old relationship with their nephew when they were children, and are willing to come out to do things for the country, then they must rely on it. If they are so careless, they have no choice but to let the uncles . " After speaking, there was a burst of sadness, and I burst into tears!Yun Jing also wailed loudly, and the original reserved and arrogant air was swept away, and he cried while beating his chest and stamping his feet: "God...how did you arrange this royal family? The eldest brother died, the second brother died, the eighth brother died, nine My brother also died quietly...after death, he got a 'good name' called Ajina, Seth Hei... woo woo woo... ho ho..." The depression and resentment that had accumulated for more than ten years were like a flood of floodgates Generally, it is poured out in a miserable cry.Just after Fu Heng came out of Gaojin Restaurant, he suddenly fell into such a huge emotional vortex, as if he was in a nightmare.Hearing Yun's hoarse and desperate cries, he wanted to run away from here!

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..." Yunpu turned over and knelt down, and continued to cry, "Do you know what it's like to be in this Sifangtian living coffin? You have seven uncles and uncles buried in it, buried... "Qianlong thought about it, his heart tightened for a while, he just shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said: "Uncle got up, I feel uneasy kneeling like this... This is all God's will! Huang Nieshi's song said that your brothers are "Wagtail Plains make people Worry'! The old life is over, don't think about it anymore. Take care of yourself, and your nephew will grow up when he borrows from you!"

Yun cried bitterly for a while, and seemed to be in better spirits. After sobbing for a while, Fang said: "I am disrespectful to the emperor. It is really better to die here, and I am not afraid of angering you. Thinking about it, it is indeed the emperor who said this. It's all fate, and there is nothing to blame. Since Enzhao, I can go out for two hours during the day. I am very content... The last time I met Yun, I went up and said a few words. He has become half a wooden man, Full of Huayan and Shurangama Sutras..."

"Uncle Huang, don't worry." Qianlong saw Yun proclaiming himself a minister, and then changed his address, "Tomorrow, the high wall will be completely demolished, and you can go wherever you think. Just to prevent the villain from making rumors-of course I don't believe it. But when the report comes up, I have to investigate. Why bother? According to me, my fourteenth uncle led troops to win battles in the west. He has nothing to do in his spare time. He writes down the pros and cons of using troops and makes a list. See here Due to the situation, there will be accidents in Xijiang in the future."

Qianlong earnestly ordered a few more words before he took Fu Heng out, walked to the big iron gate, called the consul eunuch and said, "Go in and smell the smell in your fourteenth master's house! I really don't know how you are on duty. Yes! It's you people who stay here to wait on Yun, and it's the same with Yun."

"Your Majesty," Liu Tongxun reported after he finished speaking, "It's a while to go to Li Wei's Mansion. The guards have brought horses. Let's ride horses?"

Qianlong nodded.

(End of this chapter)