A Chronicle of the Growth of the General Manager in the Qing Dynasty

Since the fourth master learned about the investigation of Niu Hulu's family, he thought about it a lot, and finally said: "Su Peisheng, let the people in the palace take care of the draft. Do you understand what I mean?"

Su Peisheng immediately replied: "I understand, I will do it now."

After Su Peisheng went out, the fourth master sat down again, looked at Su Wen who was trying hard to be an invisible person, with a hint of a smile in his eyes, but as if remembering something, he said coldly: "Su Wen, why don't you move?" It will take some time to go back to my father's side."

As soon as Su Wen heard fourth master calling his name, his heart trembled, and he replied: "If you go back to the master, the slave has been transferred back to the master's side to serve for nearly three months."

The fourth master was beating on the desk with his left hand, and the rhythm of each stroke was extraordinarily loud at night. Su Wen knew that every time the fourth master was seriously thinking about something, his left hand would always move. When I called my name, I was really worried.

At this time, the fourth master said: "Su Wen, the six years you have been with the master are not counted as being punished. It must have been many years. You should know a lot of things, right?!"

"Returning to the master, the slave is only serving the master wholeheartedly, and doesn't know anything else."

"Huh? I don't know? That's fine. I have something important to do in a while, so just follow along."

Su Wen hurriedly responded, but his back was covered with cold sweat. What important thing is Fourth Master going to do in the middle of the night?

After the fourth master finished speaking, he picked up the books on the table and read them again. After another hour or so, the fourth master put down the book and stood up. Su Wen hurriedly went to the back of the door to get a coat for the fourth master to put on.

Following Si Ye out of the study room, he walked directly to the edge of the front yard of Si Ye's mansion. Because of the night and the lights in the mansion, it was not very dark. Su Wen felt a little dizzy looking at this route Oh, it's still in the front yard of the fourth master's mansion, how could it change places in a blink of an eye? After turning around a lot, I saw a guard coming from a distance.

"master?"

The fourth master didn't answer, but just made a gesture, so the guard walked in front and led them to a rockery. Su Wen had never noticed this rockery. It looked very tall and big from the outside. The guard I don't know which place was touched, and a small door was opened behind the rockery, and I saw stars in Su Wen's eyes. Could this be the legendary mechanism?

Su Wen had always thought that after the mechanism was opened, it would not be too big to go in. After all, it was in the rockery, but after he actually went in, he realized that he was completely wrong. The door of the secret room was on the rockery. But the extension of the inner tunnel completely changed its route. The inside of the tunnel was not dark, but brighter than the outside. The roads on both sides were guarded by guards. After walking a short distance, they really entered the secret room.

As soon as he entered, Su Wen could clearly feel the smell of blood. This time he was really scared. Could it be that Fourth Master brought himself here just to kill people?But it doesn't need to be so troublesome?

When Su Wen was fully alert, the guard who led them had already left, and a guard in the secret room came up to meet him. The guard knelt down and said, "The slave has seen the master."

Fourth Master said, "Get up, how's it going?"

The guard named Yi stood up and led them into one of the small rooms in the secret room, saying, "The slaves have been interrogating for a long time, and one of them is dead, but the other two's statements are completely different."

Fourth Master sat down and said, "Why is it different?"

Yi said: "Brother Honghui's typhoid fever this time involved a total of three traitors in the mansion. The one who died was followed by the master when he left the palace to build the mansion. According to investigations, it was the elder brother's man. , and the other two alive, one named Liu San, he also followed the master out of the palace, at first he served by the side of the concubine Yi, but because of a mistake, he was rescued by the concubine De, and later The concubine de concubine saw that he was smarter, so she gave him to the master, and the servants interrogated him severely, and he confessed that it was..."

Seeing his hesitation, Fourth Master asked, "Who are you talking about?"

One had no choice but to say: "He confessed that he is the person of the Concubine De, and the matter was ordered by the Concubine De."

Fourth master didn't show any expression on his face, but Su Wen knew that fourth master was really angry. Thinking about the matter of Yi's investigation, it seems that someone deliberately messed up Honghui's matter, but one of them said during the investigation Fourth master's mother-in-law sent someone to do it. This is really not good.

"What about the other person's speech?"

"The other servant girl is by side Fujin, but according to the servant's repeated confirmation, it is found that this servant girl has had contact with both Wanyan Gege and Luyi Gege in the mansion."

After Yi finished the report, there was a moment of silence in the room. Su Wen felt that the result of this matter was the same as that of no result. This maid belonged to Mrs. Li, so Mrs. Li might have intentionally harmed Honghui because of her son. But the other two that this servant girl came into contact with in the mansion can't get rid of the suspicion. The most important thing is that this servant girl came into contact with people who belonged to the concubine Defei. Yes, and the Wanyan family is the niece of Concubine De, and Lu Yi has served Concubine De, but the results of this investigation all point to Concubine De, the fourth master's mother, which is really surprising...

Fourth Master got up and said, "Go, go and see these two slaves."

Su Wen then followed Fourth Master into another place. In fact, this secret room is not a secret room. It is a bit like a prison cell. It is very spacious and has many rooms. After he led them in, he saw that there were people inside. The two guards were interrogating, and their eyes were filled with all kinds of instruments of torture. With a cold feeling, Su Wen touched his cold hands and felt that his body was covered with cold sweat.

These two people who were lucky enough to survive but were unfortunately tortured, their mouths were stuffed and they wanted to scream but they couldn't. After a cup of tea, they stopped, and the fourth master asked: "Who is your master?" Who? It's not too late to tell."

The two people were paralyzed on the ground when they were put down, and the things in their mouths were taken out, one of them said: "The fourth master spared the servant, the servant was really sent by the concubine De, the servant dare not mess around." explain."

Fourth Master stood up and kicked this person, angrily said: "You dog slave, Empress Defei is my mother-in-law, how dare you provoke me here."

Blood spit out from the man's mouth, it can be seen that the fourth master really used his strength in this kick, he got up, and said with a smile: "Fourth master, everything the slave said is true, it was the empress de concubine who ordered the slave to replace Hong Hong. Brother Hui’s things are also the ones that Empress Defei ordered the servant to replace Brother Honghui’s medicine, what the servant said is true.”

Su Wen and the other guards didn't dare to breathe, he himself would believe this man's words now.

When everyone was deadlocked, Fourth Master said: "Su Wen, you and one or two people go and make this dog slave."

Hearing this, Su Wen's whole body became stiff. He looked up at Fourth Master, and was so shocked by the coldness and murderous look in Fourth Master's eyes that he couldn't speak a word.

"What are you doing in a daze? Didn't you hear my master's order? Su Wen, do you want to die for him?"

Su Wen was startled awake by the words from Fourth Master's mouth, yes, this is Fourth Master's secret base, if he can't hold on, he might die here tonight.

He approached the man stiffly, and the man was tied to a frame, shouting: "Master, please forgive me, I have told you everything, please forgive me..."

Su Wen stood beside him blankly, his whole body numb. At this moment, Yi handed him a piece of white cloth to compare with the man's neck, then spread the white cloth around the man's neck twice, and then put the white cloth on the man's neck Give him both ends and watch him at the end.

Su Wen held the white cloth in his hand, trembling, he knew what Yi meant, but how could he take it, this is a living human life, just when he was hesitating, he heard Si Ye's cough, So he woke up completely, looked at the eyes of this man seeking to survive, thought of his own future and his own life, so he could only pull the white cloth tightly with both hands.

The white cloth became tighter and tighter, the people under him struggled violently, their faces began to turn red, and the veins on their heads also swelled up, their eyes kept wide open looking at Su Wen, Su Wen didn't dare to look at anything, Just closing his eyes, the strength in his hands increased a little bit. After an unknown period of time, just when Su Wen felt that he was going to collapse, he pulled him once, and he opened his eyes.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the pair of eyes that did not rest in peace. Su Wen was so frightened that he took two steps back and almost fell to the ground. cry.

Fourth Master seemed to be very satisfied with his decision, and looked at the maid on the other side who was scared out of her wits, and said, "Now it's your turn, tell me, who are you."

The servant girl was restored to some sanity by the words of the fourth master, but it seemed that the blow was a bit severe, and she just said: "It's Fang Fujin, it's Fang Fujin..."

Yi stepped forward and touched the maidservant's neck and said, "Master, this person seems to have been overly scared."

Fourth Master looked at the maid who kept saying 'Fan Fujin', and said, "You and Su Wen should deal with her too."

Yi swiftly tied the maid to the bench, and then took a basin of water and a stack of papers. Before Su Wen recovered, he heard the order from the fourth master, and walked to him slowly.

At first, I didn't understand what it meant, but after watching Yi's demonstration, I completely understood. Yi put a piece of paper in the water to completely wet it, and then covered the maid's face, and The maid was also breathing heavily on the only air she had, and handed the paper to Su Wen after doing it once.

There is nothing in Su Wen's mind now, he just repeats Yi's movements in a daze, and with the increase of paper, the maid's breathing gradually weakens until she has no breathing at all...

He didn't even remember when he left the secret room, and when he was fully awake, he had already returned to the fourth master's study. The fourth master looked at Su Wen who was a little sluggish, and suddenly felt a little unbearable. For the first time, he thought Is my decision tonight right or wrong? Although Su Wen used to be very neat when he served by his side, he was indeed very simple. Sometimes he felt very comfortable looking at Su Wen. After all, he is now a pure slave It was almost gone. After punishing him, I knew that I had finally abandoned this simple person. After I promoted Su Wen to my side again, I found that Su Wen had changed, and his behavior was very standard. A slight mistake made him feel satisfied and at the same time a little disappointed.

Su Wen has changed, but the fourth master also knows that Su Wen's change is only superficial. The eighth elder brother is gradually being reused. He knows that he is becoming more and more dangerous, and the people around him can't go on like this, so there is a test tonight. Seeing Su Wen's appearance now, his heart Still somewhat satisfied.

"Although your performance tonight was a bit lacking, the Lord is still basically satisfied. The reason why you are called tonight is to let you understand that the fate of betraying the Lord is beyond your imagination, understand?"

Su Wen replied: "The slave understands, the slave swears to be loyal to the master to the death!"

Fourth master nodded and said: "Well, an important person will arrive tomorrow, and you have to tidy up the room next to the study room tomorrow morning, without any negligence."

After Su Wen answered, he returned to his room. His whole body was already soaked, but he just sat on the bed blankly. The tears he had held back for a long time finally fell down. He raised his hands, and the first time The second time I hated my own hands very much, it was these hands that killed two people tonight and ended two lives.

He lay down in the quilt and cried loudly. He couldn't remember how he got to the current land. When he was serving the fourth master, he was very serious. On the one hand, it was because the fourth master was the future Yongzheng. For the sake of his own life, he has to serve well. On the other hand, because he, a modern person, has admiration for many deeds of Emperor Yongzheng, but now, he really knows that the fourth master is indeed the fourth master. Li Jue, and he was finally forced to truly enter this period of history...