Heir of the Red Chamber

Forbidden Palace, Taihe Hall.

The third prince, Chu Ronghua, guarded a gourd-shaped alchemy furnace with gold-plated powder inlaid with cat's eyes tourmaline and respectfully.On the other side, Xia Bingzhong, the chief eunuch of Bingbi, knelt in front of the couch, and reported the news he had just inquired to today.

After a long while, the Son of Heaven, dressed in bright yellow clothes and white beard and hair, snorted softly, raised his eyelids slightly, but instead of looking down at Xia Bingzhong, who was pleasing to the eye, he glanced at Chu Ronghua, who was standing beside the alchemy stove, and saw that he was really diligent and diligent. Without the slightest slack, his face softened a little today.

"I can get this potion of elixir today." Maybe it's because I've been lying on my side for too long, and I can't use any strength in my arms now, so I had to give up the idea of ​​calling Chu Ronghua to come to my side, although the voice It sounds very kind, but the eyes are already a lot colder.

Xia Bingzhong has served the present for many years, and now he knows something is wrong when he hears it, but what he has believed in for so many years is not to see, not to hear, or to speak, so naturally he just bows his head to avoid disaster at this moment.As for what happened to His Highness the Third Highness, he couldn't control it.

Chu Ronghua didn't seem to notice the fleeting unwillingness and jealousy of today. He handed the cattail leaf fan to the Taoist priest kneeling on one side before getting up, kneeling respectfully in front of the couch and replying: "Go back to the emperor, my son is lucky, the elixir It can be achieved in a short time."

His movements were coherent without stagnation, and it was not at all obvious that he had knelt motionless in front of the alchemy furnace for more than half an hour, and his legs were aching like needle pricks.He has endured it for many years, and how to deal with this aloof father who regards his own son as worthless has almost become an instinct.

Sure enough, today he nodded in satisfaction: "Since that's the case, I will reward you with an extra elixir this time."

Of course, the emperor of a country cannot take medicine indiscriminately.Therefore, since he first took the pill ten years ago, people have been trying it for him.If it were a different person, maybe a certain courtier would be chosen to test the medicine, but this one is different, he thinks that the courtier is no more than an ordinary person and cannot take on this important task, and insists on taking it from the clan with royal blood.

Before, the second prince, who was determined to compete for the throne, was the one who did this job. After the second prince died, the fourth prince wanted to push the sixth prince to take over. However, the sixth prince was very unwilling. The two brothers had been fighting secretly for a long time, but now suddenly Jinkou Yuyan ordered the third child Chu Ronghua.

As soon as the decree came out, Chu Ronghua had to eat it, not to mention a pill with the name of elixir, even a poison, and he had to eat it with joy and gratitude.Today, if you say that you are rewarded with an extra elixir, Chu Ronghua still needs to test the medicine to put it bluntly.And now that his health is deteriorating, he is even more afraid of being murdered by his own son. Chu Ronghua can't rest assured after taking one pill, and he has to eat two pills in a row.

Chu Ronghua kowtowed to thank him, without much expression on his face.In fact, since his biological mother passed away, Chu Ronghua seldom showed any emotions, always silent and depressed, more like a dying person than the old man today.Of course, the other side that Chu Ronghua occasionally reveals cannot be discovered by today at least.

After finishing talking about the elixir, Jinjin coughed lightly, Xia Bingzhong knew the trick, and went over lightly to hold Jinjin's shoulders.Whoever makes other people's lives mean nothing in today's eyes.Even though he grew up with the present from a young age, everyone respects him outside, but if he is made to feel that he can no longer serve him, he will end up being inferior to even an old dog.

"Lin Ruhai really came to the palace?" Now that he finished coughing, he asked about serious matters. Seeing Xia Bingzhong nodded, he couldn't help laughing: "He's quite temperamental, and the fourth wife is also ignorant. Dai Quan Is everything settled over there?"

Xia Bingzhong and Dai Quan can be regarded as the two most respectable chief eunuchs around today, but their temperaments are completely opposite.Xia Bingzhong is cautious, while Dai Quan prefers to use power to make money.In fact, Dai Quan's private activities with Concubine Zhen have been reported in secret, but it has never happened.

Until a few days ago, I felt that my body was in serious trouble. While stepping up refining the life-sustaining elixir, I secretly punished and beat the servants around me.Originally, Xia Bingzhong and others thought that Dai Quan would definitely die this time, and Dai Quan himself was so scared that he peed his pants, but he didn't expect to be lenient and still keep Dai Quan by his side to serve, and ordered Dai Quan to "do everything as usual".

This time the Fourth Prince Chu Rongqi listened to the urging of the subordinates to attack the Lin family. As soon as Dai Quan got the news, he hurriedly reported it to the present.Xia Bingzhong vaguely guessed that this is going to attack the fourth prince, and he didn't dare to say a word.

"Yes, everything is according to the saint's order." Xia Bingzhong replied in a low voice.

Although Dai Quan is now under the imperial order to deal with His Highness the Fourth Highness, there is still an order nowadays that as long as Dai Quan does one thing for His Highness the Fourth Highness, he will slap himself ten times when he comes back.

"If it could have been like this earlier, everyone would have saved a lot of worry." Now that he was pinched all over, the murderous intent in his tone finally faded: "Let your newly recruited apprentice go to meet Lin Ruhai, take him to the side hall, and then go Tell that Nizi, let him roll to his mother's palace and kneel, and don't dirty my place."

What Nizi was talking about was the Fourth Highness Chu Rongqi.Just now, Chu Rongqi ran to Taihe Hall to file a complaint with an appearance of worrying about the country and the people. She originally wanted to kill Lin Ruhai and the entire Lin family at once, but she didn't expect that before he finished speaking, he was splashed with tea all over his face. , holding a few pieces of tea leaves, Xia Bingzhong led the servants to carry them out, and sent them directly to the open space in front of the hall to kneel.

As soon as the words were spoken, one of the servants who were standing next to him like a wooden stake came out more and more, kowtowed and saluted, and went out backwards.The current context was finally pinched smoothly, and he immediately raised his hand and called Chu Ronghua to his side.

"The boss and the second child have both gone. Now that you are the oldest, the fourth child has done such a foolish thing. How do you deal with it?"

The expression on the face was very kind, but the string in Chu Ronghua's heart suddenly tightened, and his face even showed a bit of cowardice: "Thunder, rain and dew are all due to the grace of the king, how the father and the emperor will deal with it, the four younger brothers will not be ashamed." There will be no complaints."

Congratulations, brothers and sisters?This kind of thing might be wanted to see ten years ago, but now, the princes are full-fledged, and they always think that they are comparable to Yao and Shun. Today, he is afraid of the fact that his sons will join hands to usurp the throne.

If it weren't for a cowardly prince who didn't even dare to take care of his brothers' business, Chu Ronghua might not be able to reach the edge of the alchemy furnace.

As expected, the attack happened immediately, and he scolded Chu Ronghua: "Don't you think about the relationship between flesh and blood?"

After scolding, it's over. He has no intention of dealing with Chu Ronghua at all. Instead, he asked Xia Bingzhong to go over and help Chu Ronghua up. Said the treatment of the fourth child Chu Rongqi.

"Since his ears and eyes can't be idle, he dismissed the prince, and studied behind closed doors at home to raise his temper, and the slave in his house..." Today's beard moved, eyes half-closed: "This Diao slave, instigating master to do crooked things every day, don't bring me into the place where the palace is dirty, just stick to death outside the palace gate."

The birth of the fourth prince Chu Rongqi was the starting point for Concubine Zhen to favor the harem. Compared with Chu Ronghua who struggled to survive in the palace since she was a child, when was Chu Rongqi punished to kneel in full view like today?At this moment in Concubine Zhen's palace, he still doesn't know how to be wronged and depressed.But when he received the news of the cut, the previous punishment was nothing.

As soon as the decree of cutting the title comes out, Chu Rongqi will become the only one among the adult princes who does not have a title. Except for the two who have passed away, even Chu Ronghua is a head taller than him.Looking at His Highness the Sixth Highness, the younger brother of the same mother who enjoys the salary of the two princes, it seems that he has already made a choice between Zhen Guifei's two sons.

Ever since His Highness the Second Highness committed suicide, the April [-]th Dispute has swept almost the entire court. If news of today's incident spreads, it will inevitably cause a great shock.Maybe it won't be long before the fourth and sixth princes will meet each other.

Chu Ronghua stood respectfully by the side, his hands in the wide sleeves trembling with excitement.

Today, he moved his neck slightly, glanced at Xia Bingzhong, and saw that he had memorized all the actions just now, and the corners of his mouth curled up: "The one who messed around with the fourth child, and the kid from the Jia family? What a hero Jia Gong Daishan was back then. But the descendants are so incomprehensible. Pass the decree, enlighten him to fifty bosses, and give me all the fame and positions on him. It is rumored that he is following his second uncle? By the way, Jia Zheng is also demoted one level. Boss Jia Thank you for your hard work, a set of the Four Treasures of the Study Room."

Xia Bingzhong's ears moved.Most households in Beijing and China have heard about the squabble between the two families of the Jia family in Rongguo Mansion, but they didn't expect to know it so clearly now.Now the only son of the first house was beaten, the master of the second house was demoted, and all the saint's expenses were just piles of moldy pens, ink, papers and inkstones in the storeroom. The Jia family didn't know what the trouble would be.

Seeing that both Xia Bingzhong and Chu Ronghua were silent, they smiled coldly and closed their eyes to rest their minds.

He has basically figured out who is behind the fourth child, and he will stay with them for a few more days to see what kind of tricks the fourth child can play, and then we will clean up together at that time.But Wang Ziteng's duplicitous thing has failed his trust, so it's not bad to find something to do with him first.

Xia Bingzhong saw that today seemed to be the end of his speech. After thinking for a moment, he dared to ask again: "Then Master Lin?"

The fourth prince and the others were dealt with, but Lin Ruhai, the sufferer, was still on his way. The sage would always give a word when he saw or didn't see him, so that the subordinates could do things better.

"See, Lin Qing is the pillar of the country and my humerus. This time, that bastard, the fourth son, made Lin Qing suffer a great injustice. If I don't make the decision for Lin Qing, wouldn't the hearts of loyal people in the world be chilled? "Today's eyes are not open, and the voice can't hear happiness or anger.

Chu Ronghua's heart moved, guessing that his good father didn't want him to meet Lin Ruhai face to face, so he hurriedly resigned in the name of preparing pills, and now he agreed immediately.

Not long after, Xia Bingzhong personally led Lin Ruhai in, and the servant who passed the decree also arrived at the Rongguo Mansion arrogantly, and announced the current oral decree in front of brothers Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng, who prostrated themselves on the ground, and squinted at his brothers. Two people, tell them to pick up Jia Lian, who was tortured in the palace, back to his house.