Outside the door of the imperial study room, Cao Yin, who was dusty and wearing a black round-collar robe, was leaning slightly tiredly on the big red pillar next to him. The dim yellow palace lantern diagonally above his head made his shadow elongated.
From a distance, he saw someone dressed in bright yellow striding toward him. Cao Yin stood up straight in an instant, pinched his palms with his nails to wake himself up, and was ready to kneel down and salute the person.
"Thank you for your hard work, Ziqing. No need to salute." Seeing Cao Yin's actions, Kangxi hurriedly stepped forward and helped Cao Yin, who was already squatting down.
Liang Jiugong, who was behind him, opened the door curtain with his left hand, and the three of them followed closely and entered the imperial study.
The room was brightly lit, and Kangxi sat at the top. Cao Yin was specially given a seat to sit on the armchair at the bottom right.
Cao Yin was four years younger than Kangxi. He was Kangxi's nanny and companion, and was one of Kangxi's few confidants.
After receiving the emperor's gift, Cao Yin once again bowed his hands and thanked him, and sat down on the armchair. If you look carefully from the side, you will find that he can only sit one-third of the way.
"Ziqing, what's the situation in the south?" Kangxi couldn't wait to ask after the two sat down.
Cao Yin uneasily took out a thick book wrapped in blood-stained white silk from his arms and handed it to Liang Jiugong. Liang Jiugong took it with both hands and tested it with a silver needle to see if it was poisonous, then carefully bent over and handed it to Liang Jiugong.
Kangxi.
After Kangxi took the folder and opened it, he read the contents recorded on it in ten lines at a glance. It was like a thunder on the ground, and he was so shocked that he didn't know what to say!
Liang Jiugong didn't know what was recorded in the booklet, but it actually made the usually indifferent emperor lose his temper like this, and Cao Yin also kept his head lowered.
Feeling that the atmosphere was a bit tense and sticky, Liang Jiugong quietly retreated and quickly slipped against the wall into the small tea room next door.
The emperor didn't speak, and Cao Yin didn't dare to say a word. He never expected that he would check out the situation in the south and unexpectedly learn such a big secret of the royal family.
His heart was beating hard, and he didn't know what was waiting for him next.
"Is what is written here true?" Kangxi's voice couldn't help but tremble.
"If I get back to my master, all the records above are true."
Cao Yin closed his eyes, then stood up from the chair and knelt down on the ground. His voice trembled slightly and he lowered his head and said to Kangxi: "It's all my fault for my incompetence. I was a step too late to investigate. When I arrived at the scene, the two of them were
Fang's people were already fighting fiercely, so I boldly looked at the portrait and found that the master was indeed that person."
As soon as he finished speaking, Cao Yin buried his head even lower.
The room was extremely quiet for a moment, and only the shallow breathing of the two people could be heard vaguely.
Kangxi quickly twirled the jade ring on his thumb, feeling confused.
After a long while, he asked in a low voice: "Well, do you know if the master is injured?"
He spoke very slowly, but his words were clear. From a perspective that no one could see, the long and drooping eyelashes covered the flash of vulnerability and sadness in the eyes of the young emperor.
Hearing Kangxi's name to the man, Cao Yin couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. He secretly raised his head and glanced at the emperor sitting high above him, then lowered his head again and said in a slightly raised voice: "Master, please don't worry, master.
There are many top royal guards around me, and this blood-stained book was handed to me by the master."
"Master is unscathed, but the secret guards who followed the slave this time all died unfortunately." Cao Yin lowered his head and said with a face of shame.
"Then give them all a grand burial. If you still have family members, take care of them. As long as they are fine, it will be fine. As long as everything is fine."
Kangxi unconsciously touched this book with his hand, which recorded in detail the situation of various forces in the south and Mongolia.
He asked Cao Yin to stand up and sit back on the chair, but his mood was as complicated as a mess and he didn't know what to say.
Liang Jiugong, who was sitting in the small tea room, put his ear against the wall and listened carefully. He found that there seemed to be no voice in the room, so he bent down and picked up the tray with two cups of tea on the table, and walked back gently.
Royal study room.
He first stepped on three short steps, put the tray on the corner of the imperial cabinet, took out one of the fine cups of Taiping Houkui and placed it on Kangxi's right hand, then walked down the steps gently and was about to put the other cup of Lushan
Yunwu placed it on the small table beside Cao Yin.
Unexpectedly, Cao Yin stood up and took the tea from Liang Jiugong in mid-air: "Thank you, Eunuch Liang."
"Young Master Cao, you're welcome." Liang Jiugong put the tea cup firmly in Cao Yin's hand, then walked up the steps from the side with the tray, stood behind Kangxi, looked at his nose and heart, and made a quiet background.
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At this moment, Wei Zhu, who had big dark circles under his eyes, also hurriedly walked into the inner room. After kneeling down to salute and being called by Kangxi, he stood up and said: "Master, we have some clues about what the secret guard is investigating."
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"What should I say?" Kangxi forced himself to calm down from the big secret just now, sat up slightly and asked.
Wei Zhu glanced at Cao Yin out of the corner of his eye. Cao Yin immediately wanted to bow to Kangxi and leave.
Kangxi waved his hand and refused: "Let's just say it, Ziqing is one of our own."
"Yes." After hearing what Kangxi said, Wei Zhu also took out a booklet from his arms.
Seeing Wei Zhu's actions, Kangxi couldn't help but pause.
He had just been shocked by the contents of that booklet, but he didn't expect that there would be another one right after.
He held his forehead with a headache. Liang Jiugong walked a few steps quickly and tested the poison in the same way, then bent down and presented it to Kangxi.
After Kangxi took a slight breath, he opened the folding book, and the densely packed square characters came into view. The contents of the black characters on the white paper made his eyes look darker and darker.
"Are you sure the contents of this fold are true?" Kangxi quickly browsed through the contents of the fold, and then he was so angry that he threw the fold to the ground heavily, scaring the other three people to kneel down on the spot.
Kangxi lowered his head and rubbed his brow with his right hand. He felt that he had been stimulated too much today and had a severe headache.
He knew that the Qing Dynasty was unstable due to the turmoil in San Francisco.
There were extremely complex forces hidden behind every disaster that happened in the palace. He had already been mentally prepared for this, but he never expected that the reality was far more absurd than the imagined "truth". These differences
The forces actually associate with each other because of the same goal, to the point where they are like a spider web.
Seeing the young emperor's extremely troubled look, Wei Zhu felt deep sympathy for Kangxi at this moment.
After staying up for such a long night, he was able to sort out most of the clues to these things. There were still some things that he had not been able to find out, and he was afraid that he would have to investigate in detail for a while.
"When I return to the master, the things in the brochure have been simplified. You may seem a little unclear. I'd better explain to you the current situation in detail."
Wei Zhu raised his head and glanced at Kangxi who was sitting high above him, and suggested carefully.
Kangxi waved his hand for the three of them to get up, then closed his eyes and leaned back on the chair.
Liang Jiugong, who was standing diagonally behind, cleverly picked up a wet white sweat towel from the side. After carefully wiping his hands clean, he turned around and picked up the large bookshelf behind him, which was about three meters high and four meters wide.
For the soothing medicated oil in the huanghuali wood box on the far right of the fourth row, remove the cork and pour an amount about the size of your thumb nail into the palm of your left hand. Then put the medicated oil back to its original position, with the two palms facing each other.
After rubbing it, he moved behind Kangxi and gently pressed Kangxi's temples with his thumb.
Standing alone in the center of the room, Wei Zhu went through the draft in his mind again and decided to follow the timeline.
"Master, on the first anniversary of his death last year," Wei Zhu raised his eyelids and saw Kangxi's expressionless face. He was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head, swallowed his saliva, and continued speaking faster: "Gabula's direct descendant Shu Mulu
I once went to Longquan Temple to offer incense and when I was about to go to the fasting room to rest, I happened to see a strong woman in gorgeous clothes beating a child in the middle of the road."
"The child hurriedly bumped into Mrs. Shumulu's leg. Before Mrs. Gabra's servants could step forward to pull the child away, the child knelt on the ground pitifully, kowtowing to the lady, and said something
He kept shouting that his stepmother was ruthlessly abusing him, the legitimate son of his first wife, and before Shumulu could react, the young boy was dragged away by the muscular woman, his ears twisted and cursed."
"We found out all this from the servants who were closely following Shumulu at that time. Mrs. Gabra had nightmares for several days after she returned home."
"Perhaps because she was frightened by this incident, when Concubine Hesheli just entered the palace in mid-August, Mrs. Gabra used her connections to give the concubine the Juezi Pill, fearing that in order to avoid
In the future, Concubine Hesheli will treat His Highness badly when she has a son."
When Wei Zhu found out about this, he couldn't express his feelings about Shu Mulu's stupidity.
Kangxi opened his eyes, signaled Liang Jiugong to stop, and said playfully: "Then which force set this up for my timid and stupid mother-in-law?"
"Master Shengming, the secret guard has found out that the woman beating the child was indeed a show specially performed for Mrs. Gabra."
"The shadow behind this force is more the work of people in the harem, and it also implies the power of the Mongolian Chahar tribe."
"Chahar tribe?" Kangxi suddenly thought of a person in his mind, and then knocked on the table with his hand, indicating to Wei Zhu to continue.
"The power of the people in the harem is not small and it is quite hidden. Not only does it collude with the remnants of the White Lotus Sect, it is also deeply involved with the Three Feuds in the south." Wei Zhu gradually slowed down and continued.
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"The secret guards in the Criminal Punishment Department used severe torture to interrogate the maid in Prince Yu's palace. In the end, she really couldn't survive it. In order to seek a quick death, she let go and said that she was a follower of the White Lotus Sect and had been hiding in Yu.
The Prince's Mansion has been here for nearly eight years."
"Ha~ eight years ago, wouldn't it be that right after my second brother Fuquan was canonized as a prince and moved to the palace, the eldest maid entered the palace?" Kangxi calculated the time in his mind before speaking.
"What the master said is that the eldest maid indeed entered the palace in the sixth year of Kangxi's reign. Because she was careful and quick in handling affairs and never made any mistakes during her time, she was gradually relied on by Prince Yu, Fujin Xiluke.
After the daughter was born, she was specially placed next to the prince’s beloved daughter as a steward maid.”
"Besides, she is the little eunuch who deceived Brother Baoqing in the Cining Garden and said, 'Water has no taste, but ice is salty.'"
After Wei Zhu finished speaking these words, the whole place was silent for a few seconds, and Liang Jiugong looked at Wei Zhu who was standing next to him in surprise.