Chapter 368: Don’t Burn the Hot Stove (Second Update)
The third day of the first lunar month, the fourth watch.
It was still dark outside, and I couldn't see my fingers.
The two houses are already brightly lit.
Aunt Qi tied Shu Shu's cloak and said, "Don't worry, Fujin, there are old slaves at home keeping an eye on you."
Shu Shu said: "There is nothing to worry about, but don't forget what I told you to eat an egg every morning..."
The eggs that are laid today, if they are not fertilized, are regarded as vegetarian, and eating them does not count as meat.
Shu Shu was worried that Grandma Qi would be a vegetarian and suffer from nutritional deficiencies, so she gave this special instruction.
Aunt Qi listened and nodded in agreement.
There was a movement outside, Shu Shu didn't delay, took Walnut, Xiaoyu, and Xiaotang with him and left his elder brother's house.
The luggage was packed yesterday and sent to the garden to decorate in advance. Zhou Song, Xiao Chun, and Xiao Song escorted the car together.
According to half a month of preparation, eight boxes were packed to contain daily necessities, and six boxes were packed to contain the New Year vegetables prepared previously.
Shu Shu did not ask people to streamline things. It would be better to spend some time now than to send people back to the palace for convenience when things are not enough.
The ninth elder brother was not here, so at the third watch, he and the tenth elder brother went to the imperial palace to listen to the orders.
Before the eldest elder brother and the others did not open the palace, serving as footmen was the privilege of the older princes. Now it is the turn of the ninth elder brother and the tenth elder brother.
It is a big deal for a holy driver to travel, even if he is not traveling far away, or even to a garden dozens of miles away, there are no rules for traveling lightly and simply.
Besides, there are indeed a lot of people accompanying us this time.
The Queen Mother of Ningshou Palace, the concubines and princesses, the family of Prince Yuqing Palace, the elder brother Suo Zhu, Fujin, Hui Fei, Yi Fei, De Fei, Rong Fei, Zhang Concubine, Wei Concubine, Zhaojia nobleman, Nala
When others look at this list, they probably still don’t have a clue.
Shu Shu heard Brother Jiu mention it yesterday and roughly understood.
This division method is very simple and crude.
Almost all the concubines with children are here.
Only Concubine Liu, who gave birth to a princess in the middle of the twelfth lunar month, was still in confinement and had not moved.
Those who have given birth to royal heirs but have not yet established themselves are not among them.
Those who have never given birth, whether it is their cousin Concubine Tong or their new favorite nobleman Guarja, are not on the list.
At the door of the second house, the twelfth elder brother and the thirteenth elder brother were already there.
Both of them follow the garden every year. They have already made arrangements. They are surrounded by four nuns who serve and live with them, and four eunuchs who follow their orders.
The twelfth elder brother was as taciturn as ever, while the thirteenth elder brother said to Shu Shu: "Every year I used to live in the south of the West Garden. There was the Fourth Prince's Residence, also called the Fourth Residence of Hechi. Most of the time I still lived there. To the north was the lotus.
Pond, in the middle of the lotus pond is the Tuoyuan Bookstore, where the prince lived a few years ago when he began to live in the garden; further north is the Queen Mother's Palace, the main hall is called Danbo Weide Palace, and there are many side halls..."
Shu Shu listened and had a general impression in her mind.
Although Kangxi moved to the garden and "served his kindness personally", in fact only the emperor and his concubines lived in the main garden, while the queen mother, prince and other princes and princesses all lived in the attached garden.
It should be for the convenience of the emperor's concubine's daily life and walking.
The various scenery in the garden are less restricted by rules than in the palace.
Brother Thirteen said, and he became happy.
It's the same thing as reading. Reading in the study room is different from reading in the garden.
"We are next to the palace gate. It is convenient to come out..."
Brother Thirteen said with a smile.
Shu Shu listened, but remembered something.
Almost forgot.
It is now the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi’s reign, and my fifteenth elder brother is about to enter school!
Xiaoliu, who was selected in April last year, as the fifteenth elder brother's hahazhu, has to follow him into the study room.
Shu Shu felt a little worried when she thought of what Brother Nine had said the day before yesterday about repairing Shun Anyan when he was a child.
She feels that her identity can be changed repeatedly, and she can be a good sister-in-law now.
Especially in front of my fifteenth brother.
It should be closer.
When the time comes, the fifteenth elder brother's love for the house and the crow will also make Xiaoliu's situation better.
Although it is somewhat utilitarian, it does not benefit oneself at the expense of others, so it is not a hindrance.
As for whether Xiaoliu will be domineering and offend the prince's elder brother?
Shu Shu was not worried at all.
Although Xiaoliu is the youngest son, the Dong E family does not have the habit of pampering their youngest son.
In addition to daughters, the eldest son is more valued.
This eldest son is Zhuliang and Fusong.
The twins below are also favored by their parents because of their poor health.
Shu Shu originally didn't like to change her living conditions, but now she actually started to look forward to living in a garden.
Not for the exquisiteness of the garden, but for the intimacy between flesh and blood.
There is a nine-year age difference between the siblings, and she also watched Xiao Liu grow up.
In order not to disturb the people, the holy driver had to leave the city in front of the city gate.
Therefore, after Shu Shu and the three girls got into the carriage, they did not wait for long before the convoy moved slowly.
I estimate that after walking for two quarters of an hour, the speed of the car was slightly faster than before, but there was only a slight bump and it was not very obvious.
It should be the royal road leading to Changchun Garden.
It was bright and bright outside, so Shu Shu lifted the curtain of the car window and took a look outside.
Through the escorts accompanying them on both sides, winter fields can be seen on both sides of the road.
In later generations, this was the boundary of Haidian.
A place where parents roll rolls for their children.
Now there is only vegetation.
Shu Shu lowered the curtain, leaned on Walnut, closed her eyes and dozed off.
When the carriage stopped, Shu Shu opened her eyes.
Several girls also breathed a sigh of relief.
The journey is not far, but it takes an hour and a half in total.
There was a voice outside, and it was Sun Jin's voice.
"Fu Jin, I sent my servant to lead the way..."
Shu Shu opened the curtain and found that the carriage had left the large army and stopped in front of a palace gate.
She said nothing and nodded.
I feel more comfortable outside the palace than inside, and there is no need to change cars or anything.
The carriage entered the palace gate directly, then turned west and stopped after a few steps.
Shu Shu's waist was already sore, and he got out of the carriage while holding on to the hand of Walnut.
In front of us is the Fourth Prince's Residence mentioned by Thirteenth Brother just now, also known as the Fourth Residence of Hechi.
It is not a side-by-side structure, but four small courtyards.
The southernmost one is Nansuo, a two-story building with three rooms and several lower rooms, totaling 22 rooms. This is the residence of Shushu and Jiu Age in the garden.
To the north of Nansuo, there are three courtyards side by side.
Xisuo is the smallest. In addition to the two-story building, there are only five lower rooms, a total of eleven rooms. There are already many people there.
It turns out that the fifteenth elder brother moved here to live here, and this small courtyard is where the fifteenth elder brother lives temporarily.
There are twenty rooms in the middle house, which is also a two-story building, and several lower rooms. There are twenty rooms in total, which are the residences of the thirteenth and fourteenth elders.
There is one more room in the east room than in the middle room, where the tenth elder brother and the twelve elder brother live.
Shu Shu entered the small building and looked around.
There are Kangs in the east and west rooms, and there are stairs in the northwest corner of the middle hall to go upstairs.
There are beds in the east and west rooms upstairs.
Shu Shu's bedroom is arranged in the east room downstairs.
Although it has been the beginning of spring in the past two days, there is still a late spring cold. Xiaochun knows the habit of comfort, and the fire kang is more comfortable.
Shu Shu stood at the door and glanced at Xisuo a few feet away.
The fifteenth elder brother is here, where will his accompanying student live in the garden?
What about the five servant rooms? The eunuchs who are accompanying them are being accommodated. Grandma is very nervous. There should be no place to accompany the eunuchs.
But Shu Shu didn't ask in a hurry.
You'll know where you live when you come back in, or you can tell by looking at where Brother Thirteen and his companions live.
Shu Shu simply freshened up and sat down.
Xiaochun was already talking about the surrounding houses.
Three of them are dining rooms.
Three rooms are warehouses, and the remaining ten rooms are arranged in two rows and can be used as dormitories for palace residents or value rooms.
More spacious than expected.
Even when I was staying at my elder brother's place, there were only thirty-one courtyards in total, with three courtyards in the front and back.
Among them, the nine rooms in the backyard were used to house two princesses and palace servants.
The place where Shu Shu and Brother Jiu lived was the twenty-two rooms in the front.
Shu Shu was satisfied, but she also told Xiao Chun: "I've told the people below that I'm right here, don't go anywhere else..."
When you leave your own courtyard, there are gardens outside, which are not as tightly guarded as in the palace.
But the more this happens, the more careful you need to be.
Because separated by water, there is the prince and his family.
The palace people around Shu Shu also respect her, so they naturally have to abide by the rules and act cautiously.
Otherwise, it would be frivolous and disrespectful to make people picky.
Xiaochun responded carefully.
It was estimated that around noon, Brother Jiu came back.
The food in the dining room is already hot.
They are all ready-made and very convenient to use.
When she woke up in the middle of the night, her breakfast was just a few pieces of Shaqima on the road. Shushu was already hungry.
One portion of Sixi meatballs, one portion of pickled cabbage and mutton soup, and a plate of gold and silver steamed buns, the two of them ate them up.
When the dining table was removed, Brother Jiu raised his eyebrows at Shu Shu and said, "Suo'etu, Aling'a, and Orundai were all left on duty in the garden by Khan's Ama..."
Ask for the picture and lead the minister of bodyguard.
Aling'a, Interior Minister.
Orundai has dismissed the ministers from the bodyguard and lost the ministers.
The three of them are also representatives of the three families.
Shu Shu nodded and said: "There was a mistake in the cards before, so the people on duty in the palace will probably have to check their identities one by one..."
When the time came, those whose identities did not match or whose identities were doubtful were not allowed to run away.
Brother Ninth came over and whispered: "If there is something wrong with the Hesheli family, will it be implicated in the crown prince? Which one's reserve position?"
Shu Shu thought for a while, shook her head and said: "It has some influence, but it cannot shake the foundation."
It was the Hesheli family's fault, not the fault of Queen Yuan.
As a young couple, they share weal and woe, and that is the cinnabar mole, which no one can compare to.
The prince was born after the Yuan Dynasty struggled for his life, and he was raised by Kangxi himself. It was different after all.
Brother Jiu said with disappointment: "It's a pity, I think the boss is more like an older brother..."
After hearing this, Shu Shu's face became more serious and reminded: "Please don't get involved in this! I also said that honor comes from the prince, not from others. The emperor's will should be the main one.
This is the principle of being a son of man..."
Brother Ninth frowned and said: "But in that case, won't the Hesheli family be reborn again? It will be like the Tong family now, the first family of relatives!"
Shu Shu whispered: "My husband and I are looking forward to a long life, doesn't the Emperor? I'm not talking about others, just Grandma Su Ma who raised the twelfth brother. She is eighty-eight this year, and she is still strong.
…”
At the end of the sentence, she almost couldn't help but want to mention "old things about Han and Wu", but swallowed it down.
Forget it.
If Brother Jiu heard this and brought it out in front of Kangxi and the prince, he would be looking for trouble.
After hearing this, Brother Jiu thought for a while and said: "Emperor Taizu lived sixty-eight years, the Empress Dowager lived seventy-six years, and now the Queen Mother has not aged at all..."
His heart immediately felt at ease, and he whispered: "Young master, I still have two or thirty years of being a prince. It will be a good thing for us, but it may not be a good thing for that person! Just wait, the chairs on the left and right are with us
It’s irrelevant, let’s just watch the fun and not burn up the heat of the ‘Chitose Party’…”