Emperor Kangxi: Yuyu Chengxiang

Chapter 49
In the spring and February of the first quarter, the flowers in the south of the Yangtze River are already blooming like a brocade. Even along the banks of the Yellow River, the apricot pistils are also white.

On the second day after leaving Gubeikou, the sky really changed. Snow particles and flakes were wrapped in white hair wind, sometimes rushing wildly like sudden sand, sometimes like a jade dragon pillar in the sky. This is what the so-called "Yan Er Pao" looks like.Kangxi rushed on the road due to greed, and was careless in his daily life. If he didn't think about it, he caught the wind and cold, became dizzy and hot, and was too lazy to move.Although Gao Shiqi was by his side to take good care of him, he had no choice but to cross Heishan County, where there were barren villages and small shops all the way, food and medicine were not well prepared, and the high fever on his body could not be relieved.It made several subordinate ministers anxious like ants.Seeing that they were about to arrive at Longhua Town, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Gao Shiqi put his palms together and recited the Buddha: "Amitabha, at least there will be a raw medicine shop in the town!" Mingzhu smiled, and Suo'etu teased: "You are not Confucius Is it a direct disciple? Why did you suddenly convert to Sakyamuni?" Wei Dongting also laughed and said, "Don't worry, I have been to Longhua Town, there are two herbal medicine shops!"

"It's human nature to go to the doctor in a hurry." Gao Shiqi was relieved, and said to Suo'etu with a smile on his horse, "I'm afraid that the master has contracted typhoid fever, and when he arrives in Fengtian, he will visit the ancestral mausoleum and see Mongolia again. Prince, I'm afraid I won't be able to bear it, and another handicap will fall, but if I don't depose me, where will I put my face?" Suo'etu complained: "After passing the camp of the Karaqin Left Banner, how can the wolf keep the master? You guys just keep silent, let the emperor do it!" While speaking, Wei Dongting pouted his lips and said with a smile: "Don't gossip, no, Longhua Town has arrived!"

There are more than 1000 households in Longhua Town. Due to the heavy snow, there are few pedestrians on the streets and alleys. The ground is full of sledge marks, and the sledges on the street are stacked neatly, one pile after another.Because it was already dusk, there were only a few shopkeepers along the street, each of whom stood with a watermelon lantern in his hand, stomping his neck and stomping his feet to welcome the guests.According to Wu Dan's intention, just find an inn on the edge of the town to live in first, but Wei Dongting met an assassin because he stayed with Kangxi in an inn, so he was very careful and picked again and again. The century-old shop of "Xinglong" rested at the top.Gao Shiqi prescribes prescriptions, picks up medicines, tastes them well, and serves Kangxi to sleep. Seeing that Kangxi has taken the medicines and puts them to sleep, he is relieved to leave the room.

Seeing Wei Dongting standing upright under the eaves, he smiled and said, "What can happen now? You are too careful! After walking for a day, you should change your wet boots after all! Third Suo, Lao Ming and Wu Dan is eating in the front hall, you should go too!"

"Be careful not to overdo it, master can't live without us playing with knives." Wei Dongting said with a smile, "Wu Dan and I have negotiated, we will take turns guarding here, you just eat your food - master's illness Irrelevant?"

Gao Shiqi was moved in his heart, if talking about loyalty, this Wei Dongting is indeed the first one, no wonder Kangxi loves him.Yin said: "This dose of published medicine is sure to keep the emperor fine. The master's body is strong, how can he really fall ill?" After talking, he went to the front of the store.

This is a shop with three facades, the front sells food, and the back is a store.There were more than 30 civil and military attendants, eunuchs, and palace servants brought by Kangxi, and six tables were set up.Because of the snow, the boss was not afraid that so many guests came all at once. Although they were all dressed in casual clothes, they were all dignified and up and down, so they knew they were not ordinary guests. After leaving all the rooms in the store, he ordered the clerk to close the store door and put a board on it, so as not to pick up any customers.When Gao Shiqi came in, he ignored the eunuch, just nodded to Wudan's table, and went to Shangshou Mingzhu and Suo'etu's table, and sat down.Seeing some people in the store, Mingzhu asked in a low voice, "Master, have you used the medicine?"

"Used it, An Sheng went to sleep, sweated all night, half of the illness will go away tomorrow!" Gao Shiqi picked up a bowl of hot rice wine, and drank half of it. Seeing that the dish was very greasy, he just picked a piece of jellyfish and chewed it. He laughed and said, "My master won't see you tomorrow, so you can just spit on me!" Said: "Don't talk big, the doctor has to die suddenly and go to the patient's house, I have seen this kind of thing!"

Gao Shiqi crossed Erlang's legs and trembled, and said with a smile, "What's so rare! I've seen midwives give birth to the mother's house!" The whole shop roared with laughter, but Gao Shiqi said again, "The doctor brother mentioned by Lao Suo is no stranger to him. I even made a sacrificial oration after he died!"

"Oh?" Suo'etu sipped the rice wine and said, "There must be a wonderful speech, why not recite it and let us have a feast for our ears?" Recite the sacrificial oration.

Gao Shiqi was overwhelmed, and pondered for a long time, Fang said: "The article is not good enough, it's just a young man's study, and he refuses to make a fool of himself. Since you are so devout, you choose to recite a passage and ask for advice." He thought about it again.Fang Lang recited:

The young master failed in his studies, and his teacher called him a rotten wood that could not be carved; he learned fencing, but was unable to cut chickens for five years; he turned to medicine, and no one cared for him for ten years.Public indignation, public illness, public self-medication, if it doesn't work, public dies.hoot!The death of the Duke is in vain, the city is young and the sick ghosts are killed unjustly, and the medicine of the tiger and wolf has no place to wreak havoc, so even if the Duke dies, it will benefit the sick families a lot...

This strange article has not been "recited", everyone is already laughing, Gao Shiqi is waiting for the end, but he hears the sound of the door outside the store. "I'm sorry, but the store is full. Please go to the west end. There are still vacant rooms in the old Cai's store over there." Cai’s old store, there’s no fire over there, so come here to buy food, understand? I’ve never seen a guy like you, who blocks people outside the door to talk in heavy snow!” Saying this, he squeezed his body and walked in , dragged another young man in, knocked off the snowballs on his body, and sat down at Mingzhu's table generously, causing everyone to look this way in silence.The young man was very shy, and sat with his head bowed without saying a word. The old lady put two taels of silver on the table and said loudly: "Make a catty of rice wine, heat it up a bit, one yellow stewed chicken, two bowls of mushroom soup , Two bowls of water over rice—what are you doing, we don’t have enough money?”

The guy wanted to make things difficult, so he picked up the silver and took a closer look.It is a "true round" silver cake of [-] or [-] fineness, half of which has been clipped, and the cut feet are still slightly white. It’s broken, how about you exchange it for money?” “I don’t want you to give it back!” The young man who was sitting silently next to him couldn’t help it, suddenly raised his head and said loudly.Turning his face around, his eyes met Gao Shiqi's, and he was shocked.

"You—" the young man stared at Gao Shiqi, and said in a whisper, "Oh, your surname is Gao?"

Gao Shiqi was taken aback, then looked at him carefully, and saw that he was wearing a crimson red silk sheepskin cloak, a pair of high-waisted cowhide boots under his feet, and a big wind-fur lambskin hat that was pulled down low, with fine eyes and fine eyebrows. The corners of the mouth hang slightly, and there are a pair of deep dimples on the cheeks. Although the faces are somewhat familiar, I can't think where I met them.When she was frowning and thinking, the old lady suddenly said: "Mr. Gao, you are such a noble person who forgets things too much. Don't you remember the old lady of Huangliangmeng?"

"Han Liushi!" Gao Shiqi's eyes lit up, and suddenly he smelled a faint fragrance. This young man must be the daughter of Tuxie Tuhan, Axiu who is better than Chen Huang!He stood up abruptly, and said to the bewildered fellow, "Get lost! These two are with us—old lady, why did you come here? Where's Chunhe? "

"It's a ghost!" Han Liu said with a smug smile, "Chunhe went to his uncle's house to study business in Hangzhou. He was really thinking about you, the savior. The child you saved is now over five years old." , the name is Han Mugao!"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, Gao Shiqi saw that everyone was surprised, so he gave a general account of how he rescued Han Chunhe on his way to Beijing, and only concealed his life experience of rescuing Miss Zhou and Axiu in a sedan chair .These two matters, one related to his own reputation, and the other related to state affairs, are inconvenient to talk about.At the moment when everyone was talking and laughing and eating, Gao Shiqi ordered someone to clean up his inner room and let Han and Liu's "mother and son" live in it, but he himself lived in the outer room. He went to the upper room to visit Kangxi again, because he saw that Kangxi was sweating profusely. , fell into a deep sleep, and came back to see Han Liushi and Axiu.

"Mr. Gao, people say that my wife has a lot of thoughts, but she is actually a fool!" Mrs. Han Liu sat on the warm kang, and heard the people outside have become quiet, only the whistling wind blowing the rustle of heavy snow falling to the ground, Fang said slowly, "Did you know that the golden monk who lives in Tianwang Temple is actually a thief monk!"

Gao Shiqi looked at Han Liushi's and Axiu's distraught faces, recalling the scene of him living in the temple, his body shuddered, and a layer of goose bumps appeared on his body.

"Shortly after you went, it rained continuously," Han Liushi sipped his tea, sinking into deep memories.At this moment, Gao Shiqi suddenly felt that this Han Liu must have been a beautiful girl when she was young.He nodded, poked the charcoal basin with fire chopsticks, and heard the old lady continue, "There is a lonely grave in the backyard of my house. You know it. I moved to Shandong. It is also a sin to expose the body and bones of the Lord's wild tomb. Because of the rain, the tomb collapsed a big hole, and the rain kept pouring in. I saw that the water was not full, and I became suspicious. I asked someone to bring down the big poplar tree on the grave, and wanted to dig it up to see if there was something there, if it was really a dead person, I would have to move him to a place to avoid suffering in the water."

"Did you dig it out?" Gao Shiqi asked, "What's buried inside?"

Axiu didn't say a word, she took out something the size of a stick from her sleeve, Gao Shiqi saw it was an emerald.Under the illumination of the candlelight, Axiu's tender palms emitted a faint green light!
"That's it, cat's eyes, rubies, and a box." Han Liu sighed, "The rest of the boxes are so heavy that they can't be moved, and I didn't dare to move them. They are probably gold bricks and silver ingots... Gao Shiqi was so excited that he couldn't breathe, he stared and asked, "What happened next?"

"It was only later that I found out that once the big tree was sawed, it reported to Monk Jin." Han Liu said, "Although I didn't know it, I also knew that there was a pool of gold and silver buried behind the garden, which was the source of trouble. I didn't dare to inquire about this kind of thing, and I couldn't let it out. The next morning, I took Axiu, my son and daughter-in-law with my grandson and went out. I only told my family that I was going to the Golden Summit of Wudang Mountain to offer incense to the patriarch. After taking a big detour, I quietly hid in Huangliang Mengzhou's in-laws' house at night, wanting to see the scenery before making plans.

"There was no movement for half a month. I thought to myself that this must be buried by some rich man in the Ming Dynasty during the chaos of war. Later, when he died, it became ownerless property. I was thinking about going back. In the middle of the night that night, my The housekeeper, Ma Gui, ran to Zhou's house in a panic, saying that Monk Jin and Yu Yishi had brought a hundred men with them, all of whom spoke with a Shandong accent. Please in-laws take the initiative.

"My in-laws, you know, are very hot-tempered. They got angry as soon as they heard it, and immediately the family members wanted to go to fight. I heard something wrong from behind the screen, so I came out. Ma Gui was startled, and said :'Boss...you...you went to Hubei, didn't you?'

"I said: 'Ma Gui, go back and tell the surname Jin that everyone knows that I went to Wudang, and I took the casket with me. If you want the casket, you will die!
Let him move and take the rest. 'There are only dozens of selected soldiers in Linming Pass, and it is far away from Handan. With the idea of ​​the in-laws, isn't it a moth to the fire?

When Ma Gui went back, the people here also went out, playing gongs, beating drums and shouting in the dark far away, to scare them away!

"That's it, it didn't take half an hour. Monk Jin and Yu Yishi hurriedly got rid of the boxes of gold and silver, and they didn't kill any more people. Before leaving, they lit a fire, but it rained again, and the fire didn't start. .” After Han Liushi finished speaking, she felt relieved for a long day.

Gao Shiqi also breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "I don't know what to do if you have caused such a big problem and put it on someone else! You really can't afford to suffer at all! Didn't you go back later?" Axiu Said: "I said I went back. Mom said that this home is no longer her safe place, so she gave the house to Yuanwai Zhou."

"Monk Jin is not dead, and it is rare for me to be safe in this life." Han Liu said with a smile, "I am so stupid, waiting for him to kill me at home? Thinking about it, I took the whole family to Hangzhou by boat. With his second uncle. His second uncle is a businessman, and the second sister-in-law is not tolerant of others, thinking that I lost my family property and joined them. I have nothing to do. I threw the spoon and knocked on the pot. I am not poor. He is rich and avoids enmity, so how can he bear it? So he bought the original plate of his uncle's silk shop in Luomahu Town, and asked his son and daughter-in-law to have a safe place. Seeing her come out together, it's like breaking into the rivers and lakes!" After saying that, he pursed his lips and smiled.

Gao Shiqi laughed when he heard Gege, and said: "It's also because you are a wise man. I don't know what to do if I want to change to another woman! Although you are understating it, as far as I think, it is really thrilling. Xiu Gege, you are in a hurry Seeing the emperor, do you still want to avenge the soldiers?"

"Where is the emperor now?" Axiu asked with a flash of her eyes.

"It's far away in the sky, but it's close in front of us!" Gao Shiqi said, looking at the lights in the upper room outside, and then said in a low voice, "The emperor's visit to the heaven this time, on the face of it, is to visit the ancestral mausoleum, but in fact it's more The most important thing is the meeting of Mongolian princes, the articles here are difficult for women and girls to understand! Xiugege, forgive me, the princes who came to the meeting this time include Chechen Khan and Geldan's envoys. You have many enemies Well, the emperor wants to win over you now, I'm afraid it's not good for you to show up in public!"

Axiu sneered after hearing this, and said: "There are enemies and relatives! My uncle Wendur Khan is also coming. If the emperor really doesn't care about us, I, Axiu, don't want to live anymore. I will try my best to come here when we meet." It’s such a lively scene, I’m afraid you won’t regret it!” Gao Shiqi was stunned for a moment, then said in astonishment: “How do you know everything? It’s amazing, I didn’t even know that Wendur Khan was coming! No wonder Chen Huang didn’t Fate, you are a god!" Seeing his frivolous speech, Axiu sat up straight and said, "Mr. Gao respects himself, don't forget our identities."

"Yes, what Ge Ge taught me!" Gao Shiqi blushed, leaned over, and said with a sneering smile, "Because Shi Qi and Tian Yi are old friends, he forgot their love when they talked—I don't know if you saw Tian Yi again later. Seeing that Axiu turned her face away and didn't answer, Han Liu sighed, "This is an injustice from the previous life, there is nothing people can do about it! From Hangzhou to Luoma Lake by boat, I passed by the Qingjiang River. I looked at my daughter. Her face was as white as paper, and she tried to persuade her not to get off the boat to meet Mr. Chen. I don't know what she was thinking, but she shook her head with tears, but she refused. Later in Luoma Lake, I heard that Mr. Jin had a murder because of the Xiao family crossing. After being imprisoned, the imperial court sent imperial envoys to lock Mr. Jin and Mr. Chen to Beijing. Ah Xiucai panicked and was in a hurry to go to Beijing. Whoever thought of Beijing knew that it was a rumor... Sigh..." At this point, the expressions of the three of them were all sad , Axiu held back her tears for a long time, but still shed tears silently.Gao Shiqi had nothing to comfort him, so he left.The candlelight outside was brilliant that night, and no one fell asleep.

(End of this chapter)