The Biography of Concubine Xi of Yongzheng

Chapter 198 Reserved
Yinzhen frowned and said nothing more.All the way back to the study in silence, he saw Shisan's letter lying quietly on the table, he shaved the letter a little annoyed and wanted to open it for reading.

But he hesitated again for the piece of letter paper he had just pinched inside.

Seeing his expression, Shisan sighed, and sat down on the chair next to him: "Fourth Brother, that's all I said in my letter. It's cryptic, so you should ask me."

Yinzhen put down the letter in his hand, and pondered for a while: "Thirteenth Brother, do you still remember the scene you and Chanchan saw in Changchun Garden?"

Thirteen frowned and muttered: "Fourth brother is talking about the prince and the man... I can't see the girl very clearly, so I'm not sure it's that person."

Yinzhen looked at him with certainty: "Not long afterward, Li Baolai, the prince's attendant eunuch, and a court lady were fined, because they thought they were brothers and sisters and were accused of eating each other. Do you know Li Baolai What did Bora do?"

Thirteen shook his head blankly: "Emperor Ama had clearly banned it earlier, and he would be punished if he behaved like this. How could fourth brother care about this kind of thing? Because Li Baolai is the prince's attendant?"

Yinzhen shook his head: "I asked my mother-in-law to find out. On the day Huang Ama held a family banquet in Changchun Garden, Li Baolai entered and exited with a maid of Yanxi Palace. Yanxi Palace It's close to Cangzhen Gate, and there are always many people coming and going there, and he was reported for just going in and out with the maid, which shows how arrogant he is in his daily life to make him so unpopular."

He slowed down, and then continued: "My mother-in-law asked someone to investigate. The court lady who was rumored to have sex with him was the one Su promised. That day Su promised to sneak out of the palace disguised as a court lady, and Li Baolai was in charge of meeting her, that's why the two of them were accidentally seen mingling together."

"Well," Thirteen pondered for a moment, then nodded, "There were a lot of people going in and out that day, so it's not impossible that Su promised to get out with the palace maid's jade badge. Hey... I was just skeptical that day, I didn't think about it... what does the prince want to do? It's really getting more and more reckless, if Huang Ama knows about this, it's no wonder she doesn't get angry!"

Yinzhen glanced at him with a half-smile: "Nasu promised to be thrown into limbo last year and starved to death."

"Ah?" Shisan gave him a surprised look. His biological mother had passed away long ago. Since he moved out of elder brother's house, he knew very little about the affairs in the harem. "Does Huang Ama know?"

He had a secretive expression on his face, and the word "Chuan" was twisted out of his brows.

Yinzhen sighed heavily, shook his head and said: "I don't know either. The palace only said that Su promised to resist the decree, but I don't know what decree he resisted. It is said that it is the oral order of Huang Ama, and it is not allowed to give She will eat."

Thirteen took a deep breath, the emperor has always been kind, if that promise hadn't committed some serious crime, why would the emperor torture her like this.Reward her with a three-foot white silk or a cup of poisonous wine directly, and she will die happily.How desperate is it to feel so hungry that you can't even eat half a mouthful of food even though you are in the magnificent Forbidden City?

"So, even if Huang Ama didn't know the truth, she must have heard some rumors. Su promised that he was not a favored person in the first place. Huang Ama's move must be a wake-up call for the second brother, but it's a pity... hey... "Thirteen sighed, his eyes were full of worry, and the helplessness in his heart was beyond words.

"The thirteenth brother should not get so close to the crown prince in the future. If he continues like this, it will only be within a year or two before something happens. I'm afraid that the eighth brother already knows about these things, and I'm afraid they are doing it now." Be absolutely prepared, waiting to bring down the prince in one fell swoop."

Shisan's eyes flickered over: "Fourth brother, Huang Ama often tells me to assist the prince well in the future, do I think I have nothing to do with him? Even if I don't participate in his affairs, he will be recognized in the eyes of others." I participated in the work." He lowered his eyes helplessly, and smiled self-deprecatingly, "I only blame me for not being able to persuade the prince, so he went further and further away. Fourth brother, I will not come to you often in the future Now, you have to intervene in the prince's affairs..."

"What are you talking about!" Yinzhen raised his head and scolded, and glared at him displeasedly, "I know that you have no relationship with the prince, so why should I? I just want you to keep him as little as possible After all, the paper can't cover the fire, and the matter will be revealed one day. As long as Huang Ama is in power, everyone will stare at the throne for a day. There are so many people, you think they are all as loyal and filial as they appear on the surface ?"

Shisan looked at Yinzhen faintly, with turbulent waves hidden in his eyes, his deep look was totally different from his usual cheerfulness.He looked at Yinzhen for a while, then suddenly said softly: "Fourth Brother, what about you?"

Yin Zhen's body trembled, his eyes suddenly narrowed, and his hand on the table clenched tightly into a fist.

Before he could speak, Thirteen opened his mouth softly: "I told you before the wedding that I wanted to ask you for a big gift. You said I was drunk at that time, so I didn't say anything again. Fourth brother, I I have been your brother for many years, and I know your talent. If you really want to hand over the Qing Dynasty to the crown prince, the first one who is worried is Huang Ama. Now I still say that if the fourth brother is willing to nod, I will fight hard. I will do my best to keep you in the position..."

"Thirteenth brother..." Yinzhen interrupted him in a deep voice, the veins on his forehead were bulging, and there was a look of struggle on his face.

"Fourth brother, it's not that I want to push you out, it's just that second brother's character is getting more and more deviated from his original lofty ambitions. If I want to assist him in the future, I'm afraid I will be powerless. He won't listen to me right now. A word of persuasion, I'm afraid it will be harder to listen to advice when I sit on the throne in the future..."

There was a look of forbearance on Yinzhen's face, he raised his hand to signal Thirteen not to say any more: "Brother Thirteen don't say any more."

Shisan seemed to have never heard of it, paused, and continued: "Fourth brother, if you are asked to assist the crown prince, you will be disappointed. The decision to kill and attack is in his hands. I am afraid that the foundation of the ancestors will ...will be ruined by him."

Yinzhen sighed heavily: "Thirteenth brother, stop talking."

"Fourth brother, I know it's not that you don't want to, but you're still hesitating. Myna and the others took it away from you. Why don't you fight for it? I know it's difficult to sit in that position, but compared to myna and the others, I'm more willing to assist fourth brother." You." Thirteen did not vomit quickly, and said all the words that had been buried in his heart for a long time.It wasn't that he was rebellious, but that the prince disappointed him too much.

The prince's talent has never belonged to other princes. Over the years, the emperor deliberately cultivated him more than once or twice?Every time I took the prince on the southern tour, it was just to let him inspect the people's sentiments, but since Suo'etu was executed, the ministers who supported the prince were no longer as fierce as before.And the behavior of the prince is becoming more and more incomprehensible. Apart from being lustful for women, he secretly started to form cliques without restraint.

Why did he accept everyone's invitation to donate an official?In addition to accumulating wealth in private pockets, he naturally cultivated his cronies more.

It's just that he doesn't know how to restrain himself, and his courage is getting bigger and bigger.

On this southern tour, he passed through Suzhou. Seeing the beautiful women in Suzhou, he secretly instructed the local officials to buy beautiful women and send them to the capital for his enjoyment.He did it in a secret way, but he didn't know who knew it, and he secretly participated in the performance to the emperor. Shisan only found out about it after the emperor got angry. At that time, he didn't know that it was related to the prince.

As soon as he returned to Beijing, he saw that the prince did not return to the palace, but went to another courtyard in the suburbs.I stopped the prince and asked, only to hear him say that he hadn't touched a woman in the past few months, he was very hungry, and he was about to go to Wenrou Township to get drunk, and he took him with him, saying that there were many women, so he would share one or two It doesn't matter.

Thirteen was stunned at the time, and thinking about the emperor's anger over the matter of buying and selling women, he immediately linked these two matters together.

It's just that this time the conversation ended without a problem, because Yinzhen didn't nod or shake his head, but Thirteen had more or less captured Yinzhen's mind.

When he walked out of the study, Yanhua ran over with a cloak in his hands, it was the one that he promised to embroider for him at the beginning, and it took more than a year for her to embroider it completely.

When Shisan took the cloak, he sneered: "Hey, my sister-in-law is really a busy person. I forgot that there is such a cloak, but my sister-in-law finally embroidered it. How long have you been embroidering this cloak?" What? Let me figure it out..."

Yanhua felt sorry, and hurriedly fished out two sachets from the basket in Huaying's hand and handed them to Shisan: "Brother Shisan has a lot of cloaks, this one is not bad. I am really busy too, you don't know It's so annoying that Lord Belle tells me to do this and that every day, don't look at me as if I'm idle all day long, I just sneaked out of my busy schedule just to be seen by you..."

She spoke seriously. Shisan looked funny, squeezed the two sachets tightly, and shook her head helplessly: "Xiao Qi is about to give birth, but you still want to express it? Don't you want to give me anything?" For precious things, you can just make two small clothes for the child or embroider tiger-head shoes."

Yanhua's face was deliberately downcast, and she immediately laughed: "Naturally, this is necessary. Brother Thirteen, don't worry, Lord Belle will not miss the big gift. My heart has long been sent to Sister Xiaoqi , I don’t need Brother Thirteen to remind me.”

Thirteen nodded and glanced at the study.Yinzhen was still sitting in it, meditating, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Thirteen raised his finger and pointed to the study room: "The fourth brother is in there, he is not in a good mood, you go in and persuade him."

Yanhua looked at Shisan's face, and saw that the worry on his brows had not disappeared, so she nodded, and stopped pushing her back hypocritically: "Understood, Brother Shisan, don't worry. Go back and stay with Sister Xiaoqi , when sister Xiaoqi is born, I will definitely ask Lord Belle to take me to have a cup of wedding wine."

(End of this chapter)