Chapter 949 Ming Mei

Haidian, Caoyuan.

Just stir-fried eggs with Chinese toon, shredded pork ribs, dried fried yellow croaker, and mixed with almonds. The sixteenth prince drank several bowls of millet porridge before putting down the chopsticks.

"Look at your little life, it's so enviable." The Sixteenth Prince looked at Cao Yong and felt enlightened.

Cao Yong leaned comfortably on the vine-wood rocking chair, touched his stomach, and said, "Thirteenth Master is easy to deal with, and I am envious of Qingzhu and Shoucai."

The sixteenth prince snorted, and sat down on the rocking chair next to him as Cao Yong.

"What do you think today?" said the Sixteenth Prince.

"Every step by step" These four words flashed out in Cao Yong's mind, but what he said was another word: "The storm and clouds!"

"Governor Nian, I'm afraid I'll be in vain!" The sixteenth prince narrowed his eyes, unable to hide his sarcasm in his words.

Cao Yong was thinking about the twelve-year-old Xiao Hongli, the future Emperor Qianlong, who was determined to imitate his grandfather Kangxi, but he ended up making an inappropriate "Ten-Full Old Man".

Seeing that Cao Yong stopped answering, the sixteenth prince knew his concerns and just sighed in his heart. Although he knew since he was a child that both princes and princes were divided into different levels, but now that the emperor's father is in his old age and the emperor's brothers are in a turmoil, he watched coldly, and it was not pleasant to feel.

"The Emperor Ama can treat his brothers and sisters well, because he ascended the throne and had fewer brothers and sisters... Now, the Emperor Ama has many sons, and he can still get a baby with his son as a prince. If he is granted the title of the Emperor's brother, he will have the Duke. If he is really a short life, Furuo would have to help me. I still hope to open a mansion one day and take care of his mother." The sixteenth prince sighed and said.

The Sixteenth Prince is usually careless and rarely talks about this. Now when it comes to it, it is obvious that Kangxi has begun to choose heirs.

This time, it was no longer the princes who entered the battle, but Kangxi really wanted to choose one from it.

"Didn't I say that? The Sixteenth Master's Heaven is full and the square pavilion is a fate of both wealth and honor. I'm still waiting for the Sixteenth Master to take care of him. No matter how high the threshold of the Sixteenth Master is, I will be shameless and seek protection." Cao Yong said with a smile.

The Sixteenth Prince was not the first time he heard this. He rolled his eyes and said, "It doesn't matter how you say this from your mouth. If it comes out of the mouth of Blind Luo, then he will have to set firecrackers for three days!"

When Cao Yong heard the blind man Luo, he felt familiar: "It's the one who died after Nian Gengyao came back last year?"

The Sixteenth Prince nodded and said, "Everyone said he is a real master. If I weren't afraid of taboos, I would have wanted to find him."

Cao Yong did not believe in the theory of theology and fate in his previous life.

In this life, I even had to revive the soul by borrowing corpses, and I became afraid of metaphysics.

Cao Yong's heart moved. If this blind man Luo was really proficient in metaphysics, if someone used Kangxi's eight characters to calculate Kangxi's death, wouldn't he be able to seize the opportunity?

But if you don’t know, unless you don’t do it yourself, the risk will be huge. Anyone who leaks it is “rebellion”. Even if you are a prince, it is difficult to save your life.

He only knew that Kangxi died this year, but he didn't know the specific month.

Just by Kangxi taking Hongli back to the palace for half a year to raise it, it should be the second half of the year; because he died in Changchun Garden, it would not be ten months ago, because the Holy Lord was in Rehe ten months ago.

In this way, that is, October, November, December, and those ninety days.

Thinking of Kangxi's reprimand and the old spots on his hands, Cao Yong felt heavy in his heart.

No matter how others judge this emperor, no matter what kind of merits and demerits he has, he is indeed worthy of the Cao family.

Only when he was there was the Cao family standing among the powerful people in the capital; his departure made the Cao family lose its foundation.

Only by slacking off and working hard can the Cao family be stable...

*

Baiyun Temple, outside the West Corner Gate, paying for the room.

Here, it was originally the gatekeeper of the Taoist priest in the middle of the temple. Later, the west gate was opened, and the corner gate was sealed here, and these two guest rooms were idle and became the place where Taoist priests You Fang were settled.

The famous Luo Zhenren in the capital is here.

According to legend, this Luo Zhenren is knowledgeable about metaphysics and knows life and death. He has a hexagram every day, which is extremely effective. Moreover, he also has no hexagrams. He regards himself as an outsider, and does not accept gold and silver, but only receives food. No matter what food others give, he eats all the meal. I heard that he has a great appetite, and he has to eat rice in one meal, and eats 300 eggs in one meal.

Someone once had a prank, and after the hexagram, he gave him two dou of ginger, and he took a clean meal in a moment.

In short, in the eyes of the world, this person with great powers is called "Liao Zaizi" behind his back because his eyes were closed and he had never opened his eyes in front of others; but he was called "Shenxian Luo" and "Zhenren Luo" in front of him.

That night, there was a person sitting opposite him.

However, Xia Zi Luo did not have the interest in counting one hexagram, because his hexagram today was finished, in the early morning.

"Zhengren Luo, the villain is on order, so please don't make things difficult for the villain." The man opposite him was grinding for a long time. Seeing that the blind Luo was not in trouble, he obviously lost his patience. He pulled out the steel knife from his waist and threw it hard on the table, and said viciously.

"There are seven in the east, three in the south, six in the north, four in the west, fifteen in the south, four in the south, four in the north, four in the north, four in the north, eighteen in the south, and three in the north," said Luo Xiazi slowly.

"What?" the man opposite said annoyed.

"Chasing, the calamity of lay people!" Blind Luo said these words and stopped talking.

The man looked at the candle shadow swaying on the table, his body trembled, and finally understood what Luo blind man meant.

He could not complete the task assigned by his master, and did not have the final killing order to Luo Xiaozi, so he was helpless against Luo Xiaozi.

Blind Luo is a "blind man". How do you light the lights in this room? Obviously, he had been watching the fire for half a night, and he had been watching the fire for half a night.

The total number of people reported by Blind Luo just now was eighty. That was the number of people who were ambushing around him?

How to break through and not involve the master? What is this not a disaster?

The man slowly picked up the steel knife on the table, looked at the dirty Taoist priest in front of him, leaving with some regret, and quickly disappeared in the night...

The candles on the table suddenly disappeared, and the room immediately became dark.

Blind Luo got up and lay on the kang, with his left hand and right hand flying with his fingers.

If he cannot escape within nine days, it will be his death disaster...

Before the ninth day, Blind Luo waited for the person he was about to wait for.

This is a birth date, please tell the fortune of blind people.

The person who came was considered a regular customer. He had come a few days ago. Obviously, he knew the rules of Luo Xiaozi, "the common people have no two hexagrams", so he asked a young man who came with him to come forward to ask for the hexagrams.

Blind Luo didn't open his eyes, so he asked people to recite the eight characters, pinched his fingers for a while, and said, "Bi Mo."

The visitor was obviously ready, and prepared the paper and pen, and placed it on Luo Xiazi's right hand.

Luo Xiazi picked up his pen and wrote several sheets of paper in succession. He also dipped ink in the inkstone several times, which made the young man among the visitors very surprised.

After he finished writing, the visitor Lao Cheng carefully packed up the writings of the blind Luo, and even put them in the bag with the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and said, "Shenxian Luo, I have paid the money in Guixiang Village, and someone will send the buns to him later."

Blind Luo didn't say anything, nodded slightly, as if he was answering.

When the visitor left, there was already a blue carriage waiting outside. When the two of them got into the carriage, the young man couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "Grandpa, don't you usually like 'Guixiang Village', 'Couple Flower Village' and so on?"

In addition to the buns in the imperial kitchen and the buns outside the palace, the most popular eunuchs in the palace are the southern dot in Daoxiang Village.

However, the palace access is strictly controlled, and this external food is a taboo. These eunuchs can only eat a few pieces after leaving the palace. As for the later shops, they don’t seem to be authentic.

"Son, I'm talking too much..." the mature man whispered.

In the carriage, it is quiet immediately...

*

In a blink of an eye, it is March 18th, the Birthday Day.

Since the "Thousand Old Banquet" was held on the sixth day of the first lunar month, the Wannian Festival seemed much deserted. In addition, starting from March 16th, the Ministry of Rites prayed for rain and stopped slaughtering animals in the capital for three days, and the market was much quieter.

Although Kangxi ordered the banquet to be stopped, the princes, ministers, civil and military officials still got up early and went to Changchun Garden to congratulate the Holy Birthday.

After Kangxi was promoted to the palace and accepted the congratulations of all officials, he dispersed the court.

This is the first time Cao Yong has met Dai Duo, the newly promoted governor of Sichuan. This is said to be the confidant counselor of the Fourth Prince and the prototype of the later Eryuehe novel Zhongwu Sidao.

But if this guy is really so important, why doesn’t the Fourth Prince keep him by his side and instead let him go?

His brother is an official in the royal palace and often shows up in public.

Cao Yong thought that Dai Duo was a counselor, so he regarded it as a character like Zhuge Liang and Liu Bowen. Unexpectedly, when he saw people, his feelings were very different.

Dai Duo did not have an unfathomable air and talked about elegance. He occasionally brought a scholarly spirit. If he hadn't known his identity, he would be more like a highly educated Hanlin.

He came to Cao Yong for the account of the Sichuan Branch, but just to prepare for his own mission.

He was an old man from the Yong Palace and had his own means to treat others. He did not have Nian Gengyao's arrogance, and his words made people feel like they were bathed in spring breeze.

Originally, with Dai Duo's relationship with the Fourth Prince, even if he didn't manage the Ministry of Revenue, no one would choose him; but after he spent the few thousand taels of silver, he sold it, which made Nian Gengyao not able to do anything.

Cao Yong did not keep all the money he had to arrange for the Sichuan Department of the Ministry of Revenue. The officials of Xiaojingtang and those who were assigned to the officials of the Ministry of Revenue were all handled according to the rules agreed upon by the Ministry of Revenue.

In his heart, he was extremely curious about Dai Duo, but he was very concerned, so he looked far away.

The governor of Shaanxi and Sichuan was Nian Gengyao, but he also transferred the old man from Prince Yong's Mansion to Sichuan. Just after the twelfth day of March, the third prince and the fourth prince would be terrified.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, the Third Prince and the Fourteenth Prince had no movement yet, and the Emperor Kangxi was lucky to Wangyuan again.

This time, Cao Yong failed to catch up.

I heard that Prince Hongli, the prince of Prince Yong’s house, danced with swords and received the emperor’s praise, and then brought his grandson back to Changchun Garden. Then, with the order, Hongli raised the palace and entered the study room.

The Sixteenth Prince was not surprised when he heard this news. He was arranging the April 1990s with several chief executives of the Interior Affairs Office to leave Beijing. This year, there are more lists of escorts than last year, and the supply of cars and horses along the way is not something to play.

However, I didn't expect that Hongli was not raised by his grandmother Concubine De, but by Concubine He.

Among the concubines in the harem, Concubine He was considered young, a few years younger than Concubine Wang, and this year he was only in his forties. The sixteenth prince had only seen this concubine's mother once, and it was in the 57th year of Kangxi when Concubine He was elected as Concubine He.

In his early years, he was as fond as a concubine, and he could not compare with Wangpin at all. It was because he was born in a Manchu surname and his name was always higher than Wangpin.

It was not until in recent years that there were few new people in the harem, and other favorite concubines grew older one after another, so their favored concubines became increasingly favored.
To be continued...