Chapter 37: Ten Thousands of Leisure

After lunch, Liufu used Kangxi five-colored bowl to serve new tea: "Long live, this is the new Hunan Junshan tea. Long live, try it, is it delicious?"

The emperor used a bowl cover to push the floating tea leaves aside. After a while, he suddenly asked, "Liufu? How long have you been by my side?"

"By the 14th day of the first lunar month next year, it will be five years."

"It's so fast. It's been five years in a flash."

"The emperor is strong in a strong body, and I can calculate that he can serve the emperor for about 9,995 years!"

"Ha!" The emperor chuckled for his good songs and prayer: "You slave, you really know how to talk." Putting down the teacup, he asked again: "When is it?"

"If you go back to Master Long Live, it's not yet time."

"You go to the old concubine and see who is there?"

After staying with the emperor for many years, Liu Fu has become agile and fully understood the master's preferences. This time he sent himself to "see", and the profound meaning is naturally understood. He immediately agreed and left.

Soon, Liufu turned back: "When you come to Master Wansui, in addition to Master Jin, Master Zhen, Master Lan, and Master Yu, there are also a few life-going wives who come with you."

The emperor glared at him: "You lazy boy, how dare you keep me in touch?"

Liufu smiled and said, "I haven't finished talking yet! Among the wifes is the concubine Jin Jia, who is with the prince."

"I'm going to greet the old concubine."

"twitter."

The emperor waved his hand, drove away the prepared chariot, walked slowly, and walked slowly along the Huajian Road to Yanxun Mountain Pavilion. The guards hurriedly followed him. Only one Xijinga followed closely behind him.

It was mid-July, and the weather in Rehe River was high and gentle. At this time, it seemed like the golden wind was blowing. Along the way, the ginseng, platycodon, mountain elixir, lilies, etc. planted in the medicine garden, as well as the layers of yellow wild chrysanthemums beside the cypress trees, which were filled with clear fragrance and drifted in the night wind that was so cool that it was so cool that it was so tempting.

It was surrounded by the shadow wall behind Yanbo Zhishuang Hall, but it was another courtyard next to the Buddhist temple. The pool water rockery in the middle crossed a stream, and the living water walked around the corridor. The surrounding houses were surrounded by corridors, with large glass windows inside the red railings, and cicada wing gauze hanging inside. The concubines who accompanied them lived in this courtyard. The east wing was the Concubine Jin Arut, and the main hall in the north was hung with a plaque of "Qingyun Deep". It was supposed to be the main hall where the empress lived. However, the Emperor Yuan died early and there was no official presidency. The emperor personally ordered the imperial concubine Zhen to live in.

There are more than a dozen rooms in the west wing, living with Concubine Lan Yehenara, Concubine Yu Feimo and Concubine Xun Wangcha. These people usually love to be lively and keep countless birds, cats and dogs in the palace of Danei, Beijing. They don’t forget to take them with them when they arrive at Rehe, chattering and making trouble.

Walking southward, there is Yunfan Yuefang, the Buddhist temple where the old concubine lives. Today, the people came very neatly. In addition to the emperor's concubine, there was also the fifth concubine, and Jin Jia, the concubine of the prince, who was sitting around. Some were teasing the Ye Zi card with the old concubine, and some were using a jigsaw puzzle to coax the eldest prince to play.

Yehenara saw someone passing by at the door. As soon as he thought the time was about to be right, he stood up first, and the emperor stepped in: "Slave, please pay tribute to your master."

The emperor did not expect her to be so agile. He almost hit her in one step and looked back a little. Concubine Lan dressed up, with a lotus-colored vest on her upper body, a jade-white shirt with a green onion and yellow pleated skirt on her lower body, and a half-dewed red embroidered plum blossom shoes. She removed her toe, scattered in a bun, tied with red velvet knots, and her thick hair was combed to make her look bright, with a knife-cut sideburns paired with an oval face and a water-almond eyes. She really looked a little clear and graceful. The face, which was originally a little long, was pink and full of pure and delicate luster. It was even more confusing.

Yehenara showed her husband a pink face and smiled shyly: "Master?"

"Oh?" The emperor smiled bitterly: "Are you all here today?"

Hearing the two people's words, Concubine Zhen Niu Hulu and others hurriedly threw away the card and walked out of the kang, shining their hair and moving out, and quickly walked to Jingyou Hall to kneel down, and greeted him with a voice of oriole and swallows: "Master, good luck!"

After seeing the gift to the old concubine, she sat down on the side of the coffee table. When the emperor arrived, everyone could no longer fight cards. They sat or stood around and listened to them talking, "Last time, I heard the emperor tell jokes with the ministers and it was passed inside, and my mothers were laughing like a few of us. This time, should the emperor tell us a few more?"

The emperor blinked in confusion and immediately remembered: "Oh, are you talking about this? Well, I'll tell you one more today."

Gan Ziyi asked himself that there were many jokes in his stomach, but many of them were not suitable for saying them on such occasions. He had to choose one to say, "Today I will tell the old concubine about the incident during the Qianlong period: There was an official who donated money. When he first came to office, he wanted to contact his colleagues, but he was not convenient to come forward, so he called his nickname Xiao Sier's wife to set up a table to treat him. The wife of the magistrate, Mrs. Dianshi and Mrs. Chief. The four women sat together, and Xiao Sier asked each person for his noble surname. The wife of the magistrate was Wu, the wife of the magistrate was Qi, and the wife of the magistrate was Lu."

"Before I raised my chopsticks, Xiao Sier was already furious, and she put the wine bottle on the table and said, "I'm in my mother's house. Your surname is "Wu" (Wu), her surname is "Liu" (Lu), and her surname is "Qi", so good, they are all older than me! If there is another one, will you be the last one? "Eight"?" He got angry and left the guest and went back to the back room to sulk alone!"

The old concubine and the girls laughed! The concubine, who had only one prince Dun, blinked her big eyes, which were clearly black and white, and did not laugh at all, and seemed to be unable to understand the interestingness of the joke. So the old concubine said again: "This is not counting. Your fifth brother and sister didn't laugh. You have to say something that everyone can laugh before counting."

"Okay. Let's talk about one more." The emperor followed the invitation and thought for a while and said, "Let's say it's funny. There are two friends, one named Zhang San and the other named Li Si..."

As soon as he heard the names of these two people, the old concubine immediately laughed: "This sounds nice, just by hearing this name, you will know it's fun."

"Zhang San and Li Si are illiterate and have to be polite. They live in their neighbors, but they never go to each other's houses easily. If you have any questions, just ask the servants to pass on messages. One day, Zhang San drew a picture of a little boy holding a bowl of rice in one hand, smiling, and covering his butt with the other hand."

When the emperor spoke in such a vulgar way, the girls blushed at the same time, but they didn't dare to spit out: "The servant didn't know what this meant, so he asked the master. Zhang San said: 'You take it over and Master Li Si will know."

"So the servant took the painting to the Li Mansion. When Li Si looked at it, he immediately understood: 'Your master invited me to have a meal.' The servant was very surprised: 'Master Li Si, how did you know?' Li Si said: 'Look, the painting is clearly stated, and treat me to a meal in the afternoon (after covering it)?"

This time, everyone in the hall immediately understood why there was such a reminder in his initial speech. At the same time, he chuckled and heard the emperor continue, "The servant asked again: 'Then, can the Fourth Master go?'"

"Li Si said, 'I'll draw a painting for your master, and he will understand if you take it back.' Then, he also drew a painting: The painting is a bird cage with an open door, there are no birds inside, only a turtle, his body inside the bird cage, and his head is exposed. The servant still didn't understand, so he took the painting home."

"After seeing the painting, Zhang San sighed: 'I can only invite you another day.' The servant asked: 'How do you know that the Fourth Master cannot come today?' Zhang San said: 'Didn't you see this painting? He said, maybe (Da Gaier), you can't come out'."

After saying this, the women laughed and made a ball. The old concubine sitting on the edge of the kang was smoking. She didn't breathe evenly and was so angry that she couldn't breathe. She coughed and laughed, and even tears flowed out! The palace maid who was serving her hurriedly stepped forward and patted her chest and stroked her back. After a while, she calmed down: "This is good, Emperor, this is much better than the one just now!"

There was a burst of laughter in the room, and the eldest prince who was sitting alone on the bed fiddling with the tangram was shocked. The little baby looked around and saw no one beside him. He turned over and crawled up, stretched out his arms, and looked at the nurse standing aside: "Hug!"

A nurse hurriedly picked it up and coaxed it in a low voice. The emperor waved his hand and asked the nurse to hold the child close to him. He never paid attention to the old example of the father's Taoist body master. He stretched out his arms and took the child over. His black eyes and the child's eyes looked at each other. The father and son laughed at the same time: "Ama, Ama?"

"So good." Looking at his son's pink little face, wearing a pocket made of rags, his little arms and legs like tender lotus roots half stretched and half curled up. The little Nezha in the New Year painting was really cute. The emperor leaned over and kissed his son's face: "Call Ama? Call me again?"

Zai Li rolled his eyes and suddenly said, "Long live the emperor!"

The child was so singing and said that he didn't hear clearly, but the emperor still understood it. He was overjoyed and threw the child away and caught it. He laughed happily: "Good boy! Do you even understand the great gifts of the monarch and ministers? Hum?"

He turned his head and looked at the mother Jingqi who was responsible for holding the child on weekdays and asked her, "Did you teach him?"

"I dare not take credit for my fellow servants. This is all the time when the eldest prince is born smart and can learn it."

"It is your responsibility to do a good job. In addition to maintaining your little master, you can train more, which shows that you are serious about doing things. You are rewarded with twenty taels of silver and a piece of big flower serge that the British offer."

"Yes, the servant thanks the grace of the Lord."

Leave the child to the nanny and carry it away. The emperor turned his face to look at his concubines. Concubine Zhen Niu Hulu was pregnant almost term. Her lower abdomen was bulging high, adding a bit of soft color to the motherhood. Seeing it, the young emperor really loved it and even more stirred up the spring feelings in his heart: "Is your body better?"

Since the imperial physician asked for a pulse and confirmed that he was pregnant, Niu Hulu's reaction has become stronger and stronger every day. He often vomited darkly, making himself haggard. His originally plump and rosy face became thin and pale. Because of this, the emperor wanted to visit her several times, but she refused her on the grounds that she was not dressed and could not meet her. This time she saw her in the concubine's room. This time, it was the first time that the couple met in more than two days. When the emperor asked, Niu Hulu was about to get up and stopped him: "You are a person with a body, don't work."

"Yes." Niu Hulu agreed, but he still squatted down the ground and then sat down: "I thank my master and asked, my body is much better."

"If you want to eat or want, go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Pregnant people often suddenly have some special requests. I have issued an order to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In the future, everything you need in your palace - in fact, not only you, but you sisters will be pregnant in the future, but if you need it, the Ministry of Internal Affairs must serve you wholeheartedly - these people are old chores, and as long as you say a word, they will do it properly." He said: "I know you are a loyal person and can't bear to cause trouble for others, but it doesn't matter."

Listening to the emperor's gentle words, Niu Hulu's eyes were red with emotion, and he left the kang again and knelt down: "I am so scared and trepidated, thank the emperor for his grace."

"Get up." Ask Concubine Zhen to stand up again, the emperor said to the concubine sitting on the edge of the kang: "There is one thing to reply to the concubine: Originally, I wanted to move to the car in May, and then I would go back to Beijing in September and October. Later, I thought about it and finally came to come once. I might as well stay for a while and wait until the flowers bloom next year. I accidentally left Beijing once. The local governor was filial and always had to do it. The silver was spent too much--the official report from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Works reported that this time, I spent more than 1.2 million taels of silver. So I planned that since I had already spent it, I didn't have to rush back and forth. What about the concubine?"

"Since the emperor intends to stay in Rehe for a while, I also like the quiet environment on Rehe. However, in winter, it is outside the border, so won't it be very cold?"

"No. Rehe is a place that is warm in winter and cool in summer, which is most suitable for health preservation. Even if there are a few days and a few days in winter, it is not a problem."

"Since that's the case, then follow the emperor. Let's wait until we spend the New Year at Rehe and go back."

"Okay, wait until tomorrow, I ask them to draft an order and change the date of return to Beijing to March of the next year." After talking about the political affairs, the emperor stood up, "I will go back first, and I will come to pay my respects to the concubine tomorrow."

Jin Jia came out of Yunfanyue Boat and was about to step out with his maid. When he saw Liu Fu approaching with two little eunuchs, he said: "If you have the will, let Jin Jia listen."

There was no way, Jin Jia was supported by his maid and fell to his knees on the bluestone slab: "Slave Jin Jia, here."

The edict only said: "Go to the smoke of Jin Jia to visit Shuang Palace, I'm here." After the announcement of the edict, Liu Fu waved his hand with a smile, and the maid stepped forward and helped the young lady up: "Jin Jia, come with me. I dare not let the emperor wait for a long time."

Jin Jia was panicked and anxious, and there was a hint of excitement. She randomly thought about following the eunuch and stepped onto the Zhulanqu Bridge. When she arrived at the entrance of the hall, Liufu turned around and said to the maids accompanying him, the eunuch said, "Several sisters go to the small room next to have a drink of tea and take a break?"

As a result, the master and servant separated. Jin Jia felt even more lonely and panicked, so she had to bite the bullet and follow Liu Fu and enter the hall.

When he arrived at the entrance of the hall, Liufu pushed open the red lacquer gate first and said to her: "The emperor is inside, you go in."

"Is this a hint?" Jin Jia thought to herself, stepping on the bottom of the flower pot under her feet, the princess entered inside loudly, and the palace gate closed heavily behind her again.

From the bright outdoor to the dark, my eyes were open as if blind. After a while, I gradually adapted. The light in the hall was not very bright, but I could clearly distinguish the road. At the end of Jin Jia, I walked to the end, and there was a bright yellow satin curtain hanging down. I timidly lifted the curtain, and inside it was the emperor's study.

This was the first time she came in here. Seeing that there was no one around, she felt curious. She walked forward and looked around while walking. She couldn't care about her feet even if she could not take care of her feet when she got above the flower pot. The bottom of the flower pot was unevenly under pressure and the person couldn't stand steadily. Only by exerting force on her waist could she maintain balance. When she walked, she was like the wind swaying willows, graceful and graceful.

The emperor looked quietly in the dark: "Her waist is so flexible?" He said to himself in his heart.

He saw almost the same sight in the dark before he flashed out, stood behind Jin Jia and shouted: "Jin Jia?"

A sudden shout from the tranquility scared Jin Jiashi very much. When she turned around and saw the emperor, her little hand gently patted her chest to shock herself: "I'm sorry," the emperor chuckled and walked up to her: "But was it scared?"

Jin Jia blinked in confusion, suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly knelt down: "Slave Jin Jia, please pay attention to the emperor."

"Get up, get up."

He knelt down in a cheongsam and held his body tightened his clothes. It was very difficult to stand up, but the emperor deliberately made a prank, just stretched out one hand and didn't speak.

Jin Jia tried hard to get up without the help of foreign aid, but finally couldn't do it. She had to hold the helping hand that the emperor extended, and then he pulled himself up: "I'm thanking the emperor for help."

The emperor held her hand tightly, refused to let go, and led her to the front of the embroidery puzzle that had been prepared long ago and then released: "Sit."

"Yes." Jin Jiashi rubbed her hands, thanked her, and then sat down.

"How old are you this year?"

Jin Jia didn't know why the emperor asked, and answered honestly: "The slave is twenty-one years old this year."

"If you say this, how many years are you younger than me!" The emperor sat on the imperial throne and pulled the bell bell next to him. He heard the ringing ringing sound. Soon, Liu Fu appeared at the door and "Pour tea."

"yes."

Liufu retreated, and the emperor continued to say about the topic that had not been finished just now: "The old concubine likes you very much. I talked about it several times in front of me. I am very happy that you can understand the general, regardless of the illness and recover, follow your entourage and fulfill your filial piety in front of the old concubine."

"Yes, the slave dare not be the emperor's praise. It is the slave's duty to fulfill his filial piety in front of the old concubine, and it is also a good deed to accumulate virtue for my master."

These words were said vaguely, but I finally got to deal with it: "Although the concubine is not my biological mother, I lost my mother since childhood and was raised by the old concubine. Sometimes the state is busy and I cannot be filial to her. It depends on the concubines and you in the harem to salute me. I want to thank you very much."

"I dare not!" Jin Jiashi hurriedly stood up, acted to kneel down and salute, stopping the emperor: "What is your boudoir name?"

Jin Jia's face blushed and smiled childishly: "The slave is called a bell."

The emperor burst into laughter, "Why do you call such a name?"

"The slave family is poor, and even the elder brothers and sisters in front of him cannot be kept. When the slave is about to be born, the slave's father went to the temple to ask for a visa. He heard that the first person or thing he saw after leaving the temple can be used to name the child, so he can guarantee a hundred years of life. The slave's father dare not disobey it. After coming out, he happened to meet a peddler who was shaking the bell. After coming back, he named the slave's name Lingling."

The emperor was overjoyed and said, "Although it is a bit vulgar, it is also the parents' desire to love their children! It is more pleasant than the name of Jin Jia, and it has more meaning." He asked again, "Can there be children?"

"The servant is blessed. After Yu Gui, the master's health has been in poor health and no descendants are left."

As the two of them were talking, Liu Fu brought two little eunuchs in and put the teacup on the imperial desk. "Long live the emperor, Lord Zhao of the Ministry of Justice and Lord Su have handed in the sign."

Upon hearing this, Jin Jia quickly stood up, "Emperor, Rong Nucai sued his leave."

The emperor sighed and regretfully put down the teacup he had just picked up again: "Okay, let Liu Fu take you out through the side door."
Chapter completed!