"If the two of you carefully select Muldenge in the capital and find a well-off and well-matched noble family, after she gets married, although her living conditions in the capital will be better, she will still be far away from you on weekdays.
I am much closer to my second sister-in-law, but in the end I am still trapped in the backyard of a deep house."
"Your Majesty, isn't it good to have a deep house in the capital with a backyard? It's close to Prince Yu's palace. If Muldenge is wronged at her parents-in-law's house, there will be servants and Fujin to support her. Isn't this the life that all women dream of?
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The more Fuquan listened to Kangxi's words, the more confused he became. He couldn't help but take a step forward and murmured.
Kangxi saw that the snow in the sky was getting bigger. He paused, stretched out his arm and patted Fuquan's shoulder again, and said with a smile:
"Second brother, let's go, let's talk as we walk."
Fuquan was now determined to ask for an order for his daughter to "no need to care for her", so he hurriedly followed her.
Kangxi rubbed his chin with his right hand and organized his words:
"Second brother, I didn't say that it's not good for a woman to stay in the house and be a good mistress, but I think this is offensive."
"I used to think that women should stay at home and be virtuous housewives, but the facts have proven that I was wrong."
Fuquan listened to Kangxi's sigh and said nothing. The emperor could laugh at himself that he was wrong on a whim, but as a minister, he would never dare to say that the emperor was wrong.
The two brothers turned a corner, passed through a hanging flower door, and walked along three steps to a winding corridor.
Kangxi put his hands behind his back and looked leisurely at the many white snowflakes piled on the holly trees planted on both sides of the verandah. Several chubby little sparrows with brown feathers were "chirping" flying from the treetops.
The dark green leaves also trembled, and a lot of snowflakes fell.
He strolled forward, looking at the evergreen plants in the snow, and sighed with emotion:
"Over the years, I can say that I have seen all kinds of women in the harem. Some are delicate and delicate, like my cousin. Their best destination is to live in the harem, but there are also many like this holly tree.
In general, if you don’t pursue a greenhouse environment, you can enjoy yourself and grow well even if it’s extremely cold.”
"In my opinion, Madam Huang, Fang'er, Xiaozhao, Yan'er, and Concubine An are all very strong in heart. If they are given a chance, their achievements may be no worse than those of ordinary men."
"If it weren't for the fact that there is a princess academy in the Fifth North School now, giving Muldenge, Kejing and others the opportunity to show their talents, I would never have noticed that these little girls would have so many fantastic ideas.
.Perhaps the second brother and the second sister-in-law only saw how the eldest niece behaved as a good girl at home, and never understood how she confidently talked about her views on the Manchu-Mongolia marriage in class at the college."
"In my opinion, a girl like Muldenge who has a great ambition may be more willing to be like a man, holding real power in her hands and speaking out, rather than being the matron of a noble family who manages the back house.
A man of weight."
"Your Majesty, what you said makes me feel that you don't feel like your daughter anymore."
After Fuquan patiently listened to Kangxi's words, he couldn't help but pursed his lips. A faint feeling of melancholy arose in his heart for no reason. He felt that his daughter was no longer close to him, and he no longer understood his daughter's thoughts.
Kangxi, who was walking in front, could hear the obvious sadness in Fuquan's tone, and couldn't help but smile and comfort him:
"Second brother, you don't need to feel sorry. When the girls grow up, they will always have their own worries, and everyone is different in front of outsiders and at home. This is normal. I'm thinking, since you
I don’t know if Muldenge is willing to stay in the capital, so why not give my eldest niece a promise of freedom of marriage today."
"Freedom of marriage?"
When Fuquan heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up. As long as his daughter was not forcibly sent to be a nurse as soon as she graduated, he felt that his long-cherished wish had come true.
Kangxi nodded and said with a smile:
"That's right, after we return to the capital, you and the second sister-in-law can chat more with Muldenge while she is at home. If she has someone she likes, and you and the second sister-in-law think she is a good match, then
I will decree to secure a match for her and promise her a dowry for my eldest niece, Princess Heshuo of the Qing Dynasty. How about this?"
"Slave, thank you for your grace."
With the reliable oracle, Fuquan's heart that was hanging high in his throat fell back into his stomach in an instant, and all the slight melancholy lingering in his heart was left behind, and he smiled happily.
He bowed to Kangxi and saluted.
At the same time, he began to pick up the ministers in the court with his fingers in his mind, wondering which family had a good son who matched the age of his good daughter.
Kangxi turned his head and saw that his second brother seemed to have changed his face. In an instant, his face became overjoyed. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, shook his head and smiled, and then changed the topic.
The two brothers were chatting and laughing all the way through the corridor. When they just reached the door of the backyard, they saw Liang Jiugong in a dark brown winter robe leading the palace servants from a distance. The guards were standing under the long eaves of the corridor, sorting out Tsarist Russia's clothes.
goods.
Holding a slender silver needle in his hand, Liang Jiugong was bending over to test the poisons of the goods one by one. From the corner of his eye, he caught sight of a black figure with gold edges standing behind him.
Realizing that the emperor had finished his work in the front yard, he hurriedly put down the things in his hands, turned around and ran back a few steps quickly, leaning towards the brothers happily and saying respectfully:
"My servant goes to express my regards to the emperor and to Prince Yu."
"Eunuch Liang, why is your face so red?"
After completely resolving a matter that had been bothering him for many years, Fuquan's energy returned and he felt happy when he saw everything. He saw that Liang Jiugong's cheeks seemed to be stained with plateau red, and there were two bright red spots on his body, and he even had a touch of red on his body.
The smell of alcohol wafted out, and he couldn't help but asked in confusion.
When Kangxi saw Liang Jiugong's strange behavior, he couldn't help but frown slightly. He felt that Liang Jiugong was always cautious in his behavior, so how could he drink while on duty?
After Liang Jiugong caught a glimpse of Kangxi's frown, he leaned over hurriedly and respectfully, and explained to himself with some embarrassment:
"Your Majesty, I did not drink alcohol on purpose. The main reason is that I stayed in the backyard with the guards in accordance with your instructions in the morning. When the palace officials were sorting out the goods from the Tsarist Russian caravan, they accidentally discovered some novel food. After checking it, the imperial doctor said that it contained
The food was non-poisonous. The slave was worried that the young masters would eat it by mistake, so he took out a small portion one by one and tasted it. He thought that Tsarist wine was extremely strong and had great stamina. It looked dark and unattractive.
The snacks actually contain wine."
"You also know that I am very drunk, and the alcohol will get on my face. I have just washed my face with cold water, but I still can't get rid of the drunkenness. I have behaved disrespectfully before you, Your Majesty."
Forgive me."
"Something new to eat?"
After listening to Liang Jiugong's explanation, Kangxi immediately grasped the key point. He and Fuquan looked at each other, and the two brothers raised their legs and walked around Liang Jiugong and strode to the eaves of the corridor.
Liang Jiugong also hurriedly patted his winter robe a few times with his hands, opened his mouth and breathed a few more times. He felt that the smell of alcohol on his body was no longer smellable, so he quickened his pace and chased after him.
The goods brought by Peter's caravan were all wrapped in pine boxes and fine tarpaulins. Kangxi and Fuquan stood together, scanning the wooden boxes piled on the ground one by one.
The goods found were mainly various leather, pottery and wooden matryoshka dolls, as well as some jewelry made of purple gold and gemstones.
Fu Quan glanced around and saw a guard bending down to pick up a small pine box. Several wine bottles were carved on the side of the small box, and a long string of Russian characters were embroidered on the back of the wine bottles.
The mellow smell of wine was faintly wafting out from inside. Fuquan knew it was good wine when he smelled the aroma. He hurriedly shouted to stop the guard who was about to leave. He stepped forward and stared at the crooked Russian writing on the small wooden box for a long time.
I didn’t know what it said, so I had to point to the wooden box and ask Kangxi for help:
"Your Majesty, what does it mean?"
Kangxi was looking at the box with Russian inscriptions on it with his hands behind his back. When he heard Prince Yu's voice, he turned to glance at the box in the guard's arms and explained aloud:
"Second brother, that is a kind of strong liquor called 'vodka'."
"Hey, the strong liquor smells really strong."
Fuquan, who was making vodka, couldn't help but reach out from the box and take out a small bottle of vodka in a glass bottle. He lowered his head to the mouth of the bottle and smelled it twice before commenting with a smile.
Liang Jiugong, who was standing next to the brothers, also answered with a smile on his face:
"The prince is right, the taste of this wine is really strong. At that time, the slave drank the wine without being mentally prepared. The aftertaste of the wine was so strong that the slave almost fainted from the spicy taste, but it was only a small sip.
After drinking the wine, my whole body warmed up."
"The temperature in Tsarist Russia is even colder than that in Shengjing. Their people can keep out the cold by drinking alcohol."
Kangxi waved his hand and said, and the guards hurriedly picked up the box and quickly put it into the room.
"Then what is this black thing?"
The wine box was moved away. Although Fuquan felt a little pity, he also knew that they were out and it was not appropriate to drink. He moved his eyes to the side and caught a glimpse of several rows of items neatly placed in the small box beside him, like silver ingots.
Small snacks wrapped in transparent oil paper, curiosity comes again.
"Your Majesty, this snack is the kind of thing that contains wine that the slave just mentioned. It is dark and tastes a bit bitter, but the aftertaste is slightly sweet. I feel quite refreshing after eating one."
Liang Jiugong explained again.
Kangxi's sharp eyes caught a glimpse of a rolled piece of kraft paper placed in the box. He stretched out his right hand and took it out. After opening the kraft paper, he discovered that there was a long string of Russian characters written densely on it, which turned out to be instructions for eating this black thing.
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He quickly scanned the ten lines at a glance and concluded concisely:
"Second brother, judging from what is written on this paper, this is a food made from cocoa beans, called 'chocolate' or 'chocolate'. It can be eaten directly or melted to make milk tea. It has a wide range of uses.
After drinking it, it can quickly replenish physical strength and relieve emotions and stress. Some chocolates contain alcoholic contents and are not suitable for children to eat."
"Then this sounds like a good thing."
Fuquan stretched his neck and looked around, and found that the amount of chocolate was very small. There were only three small boxes of chocolates. He couldn't help but shook his head and said:
"Things are rare and valuable. It seems that Peter's caravan sold the chocolate and vodka as treasures."
Kangxi nodded in agreement.
As soon as he entered the backyard, Kangxi felt a faint sense of indescribable dissonance. After seeing "wine-filled chocolate" written on the brown paper in his hand, he suddenly understood that something was wrong.
On weekdays, a group of naughty children like to join in the fun. If there is no fun to watch, they will actively "create" fun for him to watch.
It stands to reason that it is such an interesting thing for the guards and palace people to sort out Tsarist Russia's goods. Now he has been standing in the yard for a long time, and he can't even see a little carrot head. He can't help but turn sideways and face the person standing behind.
The confidant eunuch asked in confusion:
"Liang Jiugong, seeing as it's time for lunch, where did those little bastards go crazy?"
Liang Jiugong, who was wondering who the "Peter" mentioned by Prince Yu was, heard Kangxi's voice and quickly came to his senses, raised his right hand and pointed to the south and said:
"Your Majesty, are the Imperial Concubine and the young masters playing in the snow on the racecourse at the back?"
"Are you still playing now? The imperial concubine is here too?"
When Kangxi heard this, he couldn't help being a little stunned.
He knew that his group of children were all smart, so the night before he decided to go to the front yard to talk to Peter, he made a plan to use the dog sled to trick the little beans into playing by themselves. He never thought that he was just
Just for any reason, the children were just having fun, and even the imperial concubine, an adult, went to play in the snow?
Liang Jiugong saw the astonishment on Kangxi's face and added with a smile:
"Your Majesty does not know. I think that the four sled dogs brought by the Tsarist Russian businessman are intended to be sold at a high price. They happen to be two males and two females. They have been trained to be extremely well-behaved, and they are indeed very understanding of human nature. Young masters
As long as a hand is put in front of them, they will raise their paws and shake hands with the little masters. The sled is also pulled very well. The slave took the time to run behind and take a look in the morning. The dog ran very fast on the snow, as fast as the horse.
We have to fight hard.”
“After the little masters knew about the two kinds of dogs, one named ‘Alaska’ and the other ‘Samoyed’, they gave them four good names when they first met.”
"What's your name?"
With "Bao Mo" and "Yin Ha" in front of him, Kangxi couldn't help but have an ominous premonition in his heart.
Sure enough, the next moment I heard Liang Jiugong grit his teeth and said:
"Back to the emperor, the four of them are now called 'Zhen Ye', 'Oye', 'Xiang La', and 'Zhen Ye La'."
"Hahahahahaha, oh, '禟ye', 'Oye', 'Xiangla', 'Zhenyela', this is Xiaojiu, Xiaoten, Thirteen, and Fourteen are all divided into one.
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When Fuquan heard these four weird dog names, he couldn't hold it back and burst out laughing.
The corners of Kangxi's mouth couldn't help but twitch. "Zhenye" and "Oye" are homophones, so it's okay to use them. "Xiangla" and "Zhenyela" are what the hell?
Brother, you open your mouth and say "Pull or not", do you know what elegance is?
Thinking that his imperial concubine was also a loser in naming, and that the maids serving around her all had "solar terms" names, he immediately turned around and walked towards the racecourse to the south, saying with disgust:
"The four of them gave the dog this name. Didn't the imperial concubine stop them?"
Fuquan caught a glimpse of the dark look on the face of his third brother, the emperor, and knew that he thought his sons were embarrassed. He hurriedly covered his mouth with his hands, swallowed the laughter back into his stomach, and followed him up.
Liang Jiugong also cried out in his heart that he was unlucky. He chased forward and said:
"Your Majesty, the Imperial Concubine probably doesn't know these four names yet. The Imperial Concubine got up late in the morning, and the young masters picked up the names after seeing the four sled dogs on the racecourse."
"When the imperial concubine woke up, she realized that the young masters had not had a good breakfast, so she ran to the racecourse to call them back. After breakfast, a large group of people swarmed over to play, even to play.
They are all a little bit drunk, and the fourth brother said that when we set off back to Beijing, he will put all four dogs on the big carriage and take them away. He can sleep with the dogs in his arms at night without even covering them with quilts."
Fuquan, who had used all his strength to hold back his laughter, suddenly lost his temper again after listening to Liang Jiugong's words. He touched the blue-black warm hat on his head and said with a simple smile:
"Oh, Your Majesty, Xiaosi is really interesting. He is probably the most dog-loving person I have ever seen. I guarantee that he will have his own mansion in the future. I guarantee that they will build a racecourse in their own mansion."
, they raise horses, but Xiaosi raises a dog in a mansion and builds a dog walking park, hahahaha."
Kangxi was embarrassed when he heard this, and wanted to refute his second brother, but he felt that this was really something his fourth son could do. After all, he was the first person in the royal family who could give his own name to a dog.
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After many years, Kangxi finally felt a little regretful.
If he had come up with the name "Bao Mo" as early as possible, it would not have caused the younger sons to name their pets in a more skewed direction.
When the three people walked quickly to the moon gate on the north wall of the racecourse, they heard laughter and laughter coming from inside, as well as loud "woof, woof, woof" sounds mixed in. It was really a mixture of humans and dogs, and they were so happy.
ah.
The word "Zhenbula" popped up in his mind again. Kangxi couldn't help but raise his hand and wipe his face, pointing to the moon gate in front of him and saying:
"Second brother, Liang Jiugong, you two come with me to take a look. I want to see how happy this group of people is having fun, and they don't even care about lunch."
Fu Quan, who also wanted to see the joyful scene of dog sledding, nodded in agreement and followed with his legs up.
Liang Jiugong, who was standing next to him, felt a slight chill on the back of his neck. Before he could figure out why, he heard an exclamation coming from the racecourse.
He hurriedly raised his head and looked forward, and saw a big, pinched, solid snowball, like a shell fired from a red cannon, spinning in the air and flying straight towards the three of them.
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Kangxi, who was at the forefront, bore the brunt.
When he saw the snowball flying towards his door, he couldn't help but shrink his pupils. The physical reaction caused by years of martial arts training made him subconsciously want to hide to the left, but there was a wall next to him and he couldn't hide, so he had to
Raise your hands to catch the ball in front of your face.
Fuquan wanted to step forward to "protect" him, but it was too late.
There was only a muffled sound of "pop", and the two groups of people inside and outside the courtyard watched helplessly as the big snowball shattered into snow foam between Kangxi's palms. When the cold wind blew, the snow foam covered Kangxi's face.
A face that originally looked quite handsome was instantly covered with snow on its eyebrows, eyelashes, bridge of nose, cheeks, and lips, as if someone had pressed the back of the head and buried the entire face in the snow.
The same thing a few times, as funny as you want.
As if someone pressed the pause button, the originally bustling racecourse fell silent instantly.
The imperial concubine, who was wearing a rose-red high-collared winter coat and skate shoes on her feet, looked at Kangxi as if she had been stunned by a snowball. She stood stupidly at the Moon Gate, with both hands not protecting her face.
Know how to let it go.
She touched the bridge of her nose with her finger in a rare guilty conscience, and looked at each other with Yinti, Yinreng, Bendi, Fulana, Moyaqi and others standing together, not knowing what to say.
Yinti looked at his mother-in-law with admiration in her eyes. Look at the strength of his mother-in-law's hands. She swung out a snowball and beat his mother into wooden pegs.
Qingyan also felt that she was unlucky. They had a good snowball fight here. Who knew that Kangxi would suddenly stand at the north gate. If he had made a warning sound, this matter would not have happened.
She was just thinking about how to apologize when the awkward silence was broken by Yinzhen's loud voice.
"Ah! Khan Ama, why are you standing on the snowy road? Please give way, I won't be able to stop the car."
Everyone followed the sound and looked east, and saw Yinzhen sitting in the middle of the big wooden box like a coachman, holding a four-in-one dog leash in his hand and trying to steer the direction, pulling a carriage of small breast dumplings along the road that had been crushed.
The porcelain snow track slides quickly towards the front.
The group of them had already skied in large circles along the racecourse many times. The snow path was clearly cleared out, and even the guards who were following on both sides were sent to the back.
The four sled dogs pulling the cart were already familiar with the snow track and had run out of inertia. Who would have thought that when they slid to the north gate again this time, there would be three big men with unfamiliar smells blocking the snow track.
The three sledding idiots are all stupid, and most of the time their brain speed cannot keep up with the speed of body movement.
Alaska and Samoyed shouted "woof, woof, woof" in unison at Kangxi. They scratched the snow path several times with their paws, but they couldn't stop their feet.
Yinzhen estimated that if their dog cart directly hit his own horse, he would be knocked upside down into their dog cart. Then they would be miserable and the dog would be dead.
The little breasted dumplings, who were standing with their hands on the carriage wall facing the wind, their warm hats almost blown off by the cold wind, were so shocked that their eyes widened.
The imperial concubine, eldest brother, the prince and others who were about six meters away from them also panicked when they saw this, and hurriedly glided forward. The guards who were following the big wooden box also chased forward in panic.
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Kangxi, who had just recovered from the shock of being almost hit in the face by a snowball, which might have turned him black-eyed and bleeding from the nose, heard the sound coming from the right side of his body and turned his head to the right.
Look, before he could react, Liang Jiugong and Fuquan, who were standing behind, each took an arm and pulled him back a step.